Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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Row I: Beryl Wortman, Ann MePhee. Row 2: Jock Lourendeou, John Regon, Bob Allen. Senior Night Senior Night! A golo event, in the already exciting existence of every Senior, wos held much earlier than usuol this year on January 19. Red and white, our class colors, predominated in the carefully planned decorations. Old- fashioned silhouettes gliding across the walls, stars glit- tering brightly, and goy streamers converted our gym into o beautiful yet spacious bollroom. The committee: Chairman Robert Allen, John Lourendeou, John Regan, Ann MacPhee, Beryl Wort- man, and Miss Helen O'Brien, odvisor, worked ond plonned to make this prom the success it was. There wos much speculation and suspense about the choice for Prom Queen. From the many lovely nominated, Virginia O'Keefe won the coveted honor and was crowned by Mr. Seors amid the applause of her classmates. The smooth music, the soft shadowy lights, and ;omy atmosphere will long linger in the memory of Senior.

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Row I: Joe Brunctto, Horold Glcnzel, John MacCallum. Row 2: Virginio Lee, Solly Mockcy, Vilmo Sonesi, Gus Shorry, Ooltic Von Iderstine, Bill Hanley, Eloine Bonoportc, Josephine D'Acconc. Row 3: Mory Lounsbury, Edith Small, Morie Gcrothcou, Mary Nordonc, Ruth Sherman, Eunice Newell, Sophie Hagigeorges, Miss MacPhcrson, (adviser). Row 4: Vernon Welch, Pot Soccorso, Borbaro Knickles, Rosemarie Tarabelli, Notalie Correia, Fred Clemens, Joseph Hillson. Yearbook Staff After producing on annuol for the Closs of 1945, we hove great respect for the profes- sion of journalism. This book was our. project, ond we confess that it required foresight in planning os well os strategy in performance by o well-organized, hard-working, enthusiastic staff. Mr. Richard Obear helped us with finances ond we ore groteful to him for his willing, amiable, ond efficient co-operation. Everybody on the stoff has the satisfaction of having given much time ond effort in putting the book together. We mention with particular pride our artist. Bill Hanley, who did practicolly all the sketches. In our opinion, he has a most promising career ahead of him. Gus Shorry and Fred Clemens did an omazing job os business managers, handling subscriptions for the monthly and the yeorbook, getting ads, and super- vising the circulation. Sophie Hagigeorges and Rosemarie Tarbelli deserve honorable mention for their capable performance in the unspectacular but exceedingly important role of typists. The teamwork was unusual, according to our advisor Miss MacPherson who has the highest praise for the dependability and initiative of the Yeorbook Staff of 1945.

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Class Oration We, the closs of 1945, ore on unusuol closs in thot our entire high school troining hos been completed during wor yeors. We live in extroordinory days. At first wor touched us lightly and perhaps inconvenient- ly in restrictions, scarcities, ond rationing. War come even closer when our brothers and our other relatives ond our friends went off to fight. Finally come the full realization of war when we sow our clossmotes leove in increasing numbers to join those already gone. What of the rest of us? We ore here now, but when the time comes, we shall go os others hove before us. We know what we ore fighting for. The task before us is not easy! Our lives will be disrupted. For a time we must put aside our plans ond dreams. To put aside is not to obandon. For now we appreciate even more the opportunities ond advantages that would normally be ours in peacetime. We know very clearly how important ore training and education. This information comes to us from oil sides. We osk, Whot ore our prospects of education? Are we to be allowed compensa- tion for this interruption in our lives? Yes, o provident government owore of the welfare of its citizens hos provided for us. For a true democracy must be concerned with the welfare of all its citizens. When it became necessary to draft 18 yeor-olds, the President stated thot by low the educotion of young men should be guaranteed. This low we speok of is the G. I.'s Bill ond its provisions should be o hope and o promise for our future lives. We ore offered opportunities for college ond vocotionol training commensurate with our abilities and our interests. We shall be older than the usuol college and technical school students. Even so, we sholl be more moture. The time intervening will not have been lost. We shall have learned vhe value of discipline, the need of teamwork, the sobering influence of fatigue of mind ond soul and muscle. We shall come to our studies with a finer sense of the need of refreshment for our minds ond heorts. For some of us, the wor may develop o realization of our latent talents ond our skills thot o grateful government will be happy to develop for our welfare. The op- portunities ore here. That is the important thing. They will provide us with the tools for our future accomplishments. More than that they should provide us with the knowledge and the understanding thot will moke us useful citizens. We must be intelligent voters aware of problems thot foce us. We must feel o responsibility in our duties os citizens. We must be ever vigilant thot the wor will not hove been fought in vain. We must be willing to work os hard to maintoin peace as we were to end the wor. Finally we must reolize that these goals con be achieved chiefly by educotion. The op- portunity for educotion awaits us. Let us welcome the opportunity, enjoy its advantages, ond accept its responsibilities thot once more the dignity of the humon spirit may be acknowledged before free men. George Oberbeck