Springfield Trade High School - Beaver Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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f£10NoOr pociety ee ————E—————== SC rr — The Honor Society is composed of those students who have achieved a scholastic average of B or above, who have a fine attendance record, and who are above average in citizenship ratings. These students have also made contributions to the various extra-curricular activities at Trade High. Membership in the Honor Society is approved by a committee of teachers on a yearly basis. The members of the society meet from time to time throughout the year for the purpose of will benefit the school. Honor pins are awarded each September based on a student’s record for the previous year. Eligible seniors, however, receive their pins at their Class Day exercises. promoting activities which Front row, left to right: Dr. William J. Sanders, superintendent of the Springfield schools; Marie Cato, Beauty Culture, receiving her honor society pin from Dr. Sanders; Dona Cote, Power Stitching; Sandra Heineman, Beauty Culture; Doris Col- lins, Trade Dressmaking; Dorothy Collins, Beauty Culture; Mary Thompson, Bakery; and James Cowles, Drafting. Back row, left to right: Ronald Rogers, ‘Cabinetmaking; Victor Artioli, Printing; Thaddeus Wnek, Drafting; Richard Pie- chota, Machine; Andrew Lind, Commercial Art; William Kneeland, a post-graduate, Cabinetmaking; Stephen Kowal, Printing; Jos- eph Loglisci, Bakery; and David Chandler, Patternmaking. Thomas Sheehan, Drafting, is not in the picture. He is in the army at Fort Dix.

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1955 Class Have you ever heard about the town called Trades- ville? It is an average sized town, not too large, not too small, but just about the right size for its inhab- itants, many of whom graduated from Springfield Trade High School with the Class of 1955. Tradesville, located on an island not far from the Hawaiian Islands, started, developed, and grew because of a group of the 1955 Eager Beavers who found life dull and work slow in 1962. This energetic group — Richard Decker, an architect always ready to try some-- thing new; James Bernardo, head of a construction company anxious for bigger and better building jobs; Francis LaCroix, a banker with what it takes to finance a new project; and Leonard Patrie, champion talker and seller of any idea — persuaded most of their Trade classmates to leave the U.S.A., to go to the Pacific, and to start a brand new town where the prevailing slogan was, of course, “Doult. Y ourselt.” Now, just thirteen years later, in this year 1975, Tradesville is a booming town which is attracting many newcomers and arousing much interest here in Spring- field. Especially interested are the administrators and syaff members of Trade High. Yes, Trade is still in existence with Neil Degon as principal, Ronnie Rogers as assistant principal of the Boy’s Division. Sandra Heineman as assistant principal directing the Girls’ Division, and Kenneth Burns in charge of attendance and detention problems. The Guidance Counselors, Roger Tessier and Patricia Blanchard, have just re- ceived a glowing account of Tradesville, the town which Trade built, from Richard Gregoire, newspaper report- er and his wife, the former Pat Freeman, who vacationed with their most contented classmates. Victor Artioli, head instructor of the Printing Department, has pre- pared several copies of the newsy letter which is being read in an administrative conference. Shall we join this group of 1975 Trade officials and hear all about Tradesvilie? Sunewlowl oto This spring when Pat and I were due for a vaca- tion, naturally our thoughts turned to Tradesville. And now we are glad we went ahead and planned a trip to this beautiful island town where so many of our classmates have made good. We thought you would like to hear about them, too, and perhaps have the latest information for your Placement Follow-up File. The Pacific Islands Travel Service in Los Angeles, California, has a Tradesville representative, Eileen Cote. Knowing how thoroughly she would arrange all details for our trip, we relaxed and let her make our plane and hotel reservations. Eugene Baker greeted us at the airport, handed over our tickets, and made sure that Philip Risley loaded our bags onto the Super Pacific Plane which was piloted by the Terzi boys, Peter and George. The Navigator, Benny Contrino, seemed to have checked everything carefully. Our stewardess for the flight, Patricia Martin, seated us, made us comfortable, gave us the necessary instructions (she came back later Prophesy to really talk), and we were ready for the great take- off. Phillip Drumheller, looking rather pleased but full of business, boarded the plane at the last moment. Later he told us he had just completed plans for his own T.V. Studio. The flight. was pleasant, but Pat and I anxiously waited to land at Tradesville Island Airport. The day was warm, the sky and ocean were very blue, and we knew we were to be treated to a pleasurable two weeks. The first person we saw at the airport was Anthony Messina, the official greeter, who quickly escorted us to one of Martone’s Taxi Cabs. We were amazed to find two drivers, Carmino Longhi and Stanley Grabowski, for the one cab. Later we learned that Leonard wants to be sure of one wide awake driver at all times for each of his taxis. We were driven along Dreyer’s Drive to King Avenue where we soon saw the Maloof Hotel which proved to have very deluxe and swanky accom- modations. William Flanders, the manager, made us feel most welcome, and the desk clerk, Patrick San- taniello, checked our reservations while the bell-hops clicked under the directive eyes of Raymond Hayward. We have a delightful view of the ocean from our room, and the head housekeeper, Hazel Baidy, certainally sees to it that her staff give us all the comforts of home and with a smile. Ruth Lyon is the hotel hostess, and at the head of the bakery staff is good natured Joseph Loglisci whose baking specialty is Hawaiian Coconut Cake. The Chamber of Commerce, under the able direction of Robert Berselli, maintains an Information Booth of which Margaret Lambert is in charge. John Harrington assists in answering questions, gives out maps of the town which Asial Burgess prepares, makes sure each tourist has a copy of Russell’s Preview, Charlie’s week- ly publication of coming events, and suggests a tour in Richard Stolpinski’s Sight Seeing Special with running comments by Richard Nelson. When we stopped at the booth, Vin Del Negro was giving out free passes for the Tarr Community House Concert featuring the Island’s Symphony Orchestra directed by Robert Wright. At the concert, we were delighted to find several of our musical classmates included on the program. Verna Cod- erre and Priscilla Stahovich had important clarinet selections, Bernard Yarmitzky played the violin superbly, James O’Neil made himself heard in the percussion section, and, of course, Mabel Hewson was the soloist of the evening. Elva Stronberg was in charge of the usherettes, and Edward Benson made sure that all who entered had tickets. We saw and talked with former friends who were in the audience. Seated in the front row were Superintendent of Schools, Robert Ferris with his blonde wife, Lucille Kratochvil; Jack Moriarty, who jetted right into the Town Water Department as direc- tor; and Philip Del Negro, who serves as Tax Collector for the community. Naturally a trip to Town Hall Center gave us a chance to see several ’55ers in action. The mayor is Robert Hersey and with his most efficient, political-