Somerville High School - Radiator Yearbook (Somerville, MA)

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To the Football team: The eternol hope of beotir g Medford. To the Entertainment Group: A large group of Tenors. To oil those who ore young ot heart: A trip to Disncylond. To the Bond: A new Glockenspiel and an audition for a TV Talent Scout progrom. To the entering Sophomores: Because they are so young, a Mickey Mouse hot ond membership card for each. To whomever was responsible for the terrible fire that kept us out of school for two days: A gold medal and a citation from the student body. To the custodions: Vacuum cleaners to replace their old brooms. To the closses of '57, '58, 59, '60, we leave: A new modern and super deluxe cofetcrio, with fobulous meals, beautiful waitresses, ond fast service. To Mr. T. F. O'Brien: A life subscription to Mod Comics—requested by his English closses. To the Girls' Bowling Team. A crote of bawling ball wax. To the Music Groups: A new stoge on which they con sing ond entertoin. To every homeroom teocher: An electric eye to detect pupils who try to leove school without books. Our delightful ond scholarly habits, we cannot part with; we toke them with us. Signed and witnessed, this day in June, on the happiest day of this year, 1956, by: JOHN KNIGHT PATRICIA GRIFFIN DON DiBONA JUDY PETERS NATALIE MORRISSEY Twenty-five

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VLCL On leoving the holls of our beloved Somerville High School, We, the closs of 1956, hove decided to leove end bequeath, os gifts and remembrances, some of our most treosured possessions. To Mr. Giroux: A geiger counter to aid in the detection of hidden bombs in the event of o bomb score. To Dr. Morrissey: Happiness and contentment in his retirement. To every homeroom teocher: A lie detector for students who are inclined to tell toll stories. To the Boston Gorden: Sixty tons of torn paper that we didn't get to use. To room 106: A set of Venetian blinds to replace the decrepit shades which ore honging in tot- ters there. To the building mosters: Help from Joe Fridoy in tracking down missing pupils. To the traffic squad: A barrel of white point to mork off white lones in the corridors. To the typewriting closses: Automatic word counters ond mistoke subtroctors. To some of the more unfortunote students: A bottle of red ink eradicotor. To the CDD: A simulated Air Raid so thot they con goin actual experience with First Aid procedures ond use some of their paraphernalia. To the teachers who would hove the most use for it: A personalized rubber stamp with a red D attachment. To the girls' badminton team: An infinite number of new birdies to replace the ones which hove flown to the rafters of the Gym. To the Hockey Team: A smoller net ond o bigger goalie. To those who will use them os we did: Our books. Treat them the woy we treoted them. Twenty-four

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