St Johnsbury Academy - Lamp Yearbook (St Johnsbury, VT)

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JUNK 1945 Obituary Of Forty-five Or Hardly A Student Is Now Alive INTRODUCTION Four years are past and done. We have survived The attacks of time and the faculty. And now Our catch words, our favorite jokes, Our special friends and places Pass with us into the uncertain future. Who shall remember us? Not we ourselves; life moves too swiftly, Friends are lost and forgotten in the hurrying years. Time changes and transmutes, The alchemist of eternity. We shall go forth most valiantly, In shining armor of the unquenched spirit. Success and failure are our destiny. The inevitable Siamese twins of life. The long scythe of time will strike us down, one by one. Forgive us our follies; we are still young, And untried swords weigh lightly on our spirits. And this is not as other years; No new world lies ready to our feet. 1941 — FRESHMEN Pallid, and green, and hectic red, We stumbled into high school. Gosh! we said. Lookit the seniors. Upperclassmen! Study hall confused us, Teachers abused us, (Or so we thought.) We slicked our hair and shined our shoes, And advanced cautiously Toward Education. Once in a while we got up courage And went into Moulton’s for a coke. We got a warning, that first little one. We struggled through Midyears. And we fell violently in love That first spring in high school. It impressed us. We decided running a perpetual fever

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Class Of 1945 First Row: Joan Tillotson, Ellen Curtis, Marilyn Amidon, Barbara Rodgers, Herman Hoyt, Lorette Carreau, Donald Craig, William Julian, Nano Barney, Harry Clark, Joanne Hamilton, Clarence Dana, Miriam Tutino, Neal Ayer Second Row: Betty Shepard, Erma Stetson, Anita Langlois, Frances Shattuck, Ann Montgomery, Doris Morse, Annabelle Heath, Rita Lamere, Norma Colby, Barbara Revoir, Shirley Brody, Dorine Widger, Beryl Webb, Rosemary Garfield, Barbara Lumbra. Third Row: Sylvia Hewitt, Margaret Willey, Charlotte Kimball, Marilyn Fitch, Janice Lonegren, Charlotte Trafton, Beverly Clough, Cecelia Brown, Priscilla Priest, Ruth Montgomery, Barbara Moore, Lorraine Miles, Helenor Montgomery, Gloria MaGill, Mr. Newell. Fourth Row: Maybelle Pillsbury, Sandra de Bottari, Wilma Blake, Dorothy Lowell, Geraldine Grade, Richard Drown, Richard Warren, Franklin La-mont, Jack Allen, Raymond Dimick, Robert Bennett, George Lowrey, John Cunavelis, Everett Fitzgerald, David Dodge. Back Row: Harold Simonds.

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT Was being very, very adult. The boys raked Hazen Field, And muttered they’d rather Have more hazin’ and less field. Finals rolled round And we were further impressed To find ourselves (well, most of ourselves) SOPHOMORES And now as Sophs We leered at Frosh. only hoping They’d think us Seniors. Nobody did. W’e rolled up a terrific total of warnings. We even got used to Public Speaking. We sat far enough front in Chapel So that we could almost hear what went on. We discovered where the Bulletin Boards were, all three of them. Once in a while we even found something of ours In the Lost and Found. Seniors spoke to us. We elected Reg Rolfe class president. A few started going steady. Cosmetics started changing familiar faces. Gosh! we said. W’e’re really growing up. JUNIORS So now we were juniors. Upperclassmen, aha! Finally we found out what Chapel notices sounded like. Steady couples were all over the place. Senior boys were drooled over By certain junior girls. The Dramatic Club play’s success W’as due. naturally, to the juniors (all three of them) in it. Certain people didn’t find out that they were juniors Till after Midyears. We haunted the Snack Shop now. We sat on the stone benches on the front walk, leering at freshmen and sophomores. Great stuff! we assured each other. The man shortage began to affect us. Girls watched the diminishing rows 8