Staples High School - Stapleite Yearbook (Westport, CT)

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far ,J XJ , - Y - A-f - --f ' '-- - - '-'v Ode To Staples Though we re standmg on the threshold Of a future brxght wlth fame And each longs to hurry forward And make hlmself a name Yet at thls tlme theres sadness For the end of h1gh school joys For all the many thmgs we knew As Staples glrls and boys The walls of mellowed brlck and stone The floors made smooth by feet The texts worn out from handlmg The green grass chped and neat The sunllt halls the Honor Roll Of boys and glrls at war The old tradxtxons handed down A gxft from those before When 1n the Book of L1fe we wrxte From Youth to anclent Age The t1me we spent m Staples Hngh W1l1 be the brlghtest page JANE ELLIS his

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Class Hlstory Three short years ago 1n September of 1941 approxxmately 160 of Bedfords most promxsmg young genulses declded to honor Staples by the1r presence W1th Chester Eskey as class presldent B111 Garrlety as v1ce presxdent CChad Hall took over 1n th1s capaclty when B111 Garrlety leftj Bob Lanehart as secretary and Col1n Blrchwood as treasurer we were fa1rly launched 1n the year Henry Coley Bob Lane hart Dugald Roy Chad Hall George Prevo B111 Jones Henry Colby and Leo M1les helped to uphold our honor on the football field It was a very successful season 1nasmuch as we won the County B champlonshlp for both foot ball and basketball Louls Dorsey Donald Reld Henry Coley James Drlscoll Walter Kakaszka Chester Eskey Robert Marlm Peter Reynolds and B111 Jones went out for baseball Lo1s St John James McNally and Chester Eskey d1d their b1t for us 1n the Student Coun c1l the latter as secretary Carol Baker Joyce and Renette M1ller were Inkl1ngs contr1butors. Mar1lyn McMahon Frances Ortowskl and Dare Baxley were members of the Hockey team Despxte ammun1t1on shortages the rlfle clubs had quxte a good season wxth Leona OConnor Robert Ulmer Leo M1les Douglas Young Lynn Ell1s Nancy Jones Joyce Walsh Ruth Nevms Dorls DeLon Jane Ell1s Chad Hall represent 1ng us The Student Councrl sponsored a dance whxch took the place of the Sophomore Hop and the Semors Song Txtle Dance Holdmg a p1cn1c at Compo Beach 1n June w1th swlmmmg games and lunch completed our first year at Staples We left her happy wlth the prospect of return 1ng as Jumors 1n the fall E1ect1ng Dugald Roy to be at the controls as presldent Clllford McGee as v1ce presldent Lols St John as secretary and Bob Lanehart as treas urer the JUDIOTS began the1r second year here Bob Lanehart Henry Coley Henry Colby Jack Legxer Dugald Roy Chad Hall George Prevo and Leo M1les agam were out there pull1ng for the success of Staples gr1d1ron Supportmg the basketball team were Lou1s Dorsey Alex Klsh Robert Qulgley B111 Jones and James Drlscoll On the Student Councll were Henry Colby as v1ce presxdent Anna Arcudl and Henry Coley 1V any students agam wrote for Inklmgs Edlth Ma1n Mar1lyn McMahon Henry Colby George Prevo Cl1fford McGee were members of the band We were unable to g1ve a play because of d1Hicu1t1es presented by gasolxne rat1on1ng The J umor and Semor Proms were therefore held together at Longshore wxth many 1n attendance from each class Return1ng to Staples for our last year resulted ln electlon of Henry Coley as class presldent P1err Johnson as v1ce presldent Frances Ortow skl as secretary and Joyce Walsh as treasurer One xmportant event of thls year was the Thxrd War Bond dr1ve m whxch Staples students sold Bond dr1ve almost doubled th1S totaL Frances Ortowskx and Anna Lucxano sold the most bonds Captamed by Henry Coley the football team had an excellent season wmnmg the County B Conference T1tle In the Red Cross Club were May W1lcox Lora M1lls Catherme Saunders Inklmgs w1th Carol Baker as ed1tor ass1sted by many of the class went 1ts unmter rupted way The Semors voted to present You Cant Take lt wlth You for the1r play Wlth Loxs St John and Dugald Roy 1n the lead plus Renette M1ller Glona Manere George Prevo Joyce Walsh P1err Johnson Stanley Gregory Jean MBCKIDHOD Jerry Hall Harry Wood Leo M1les Carol Baker Joan Kramer Douglas Young Rrchard Rode Jack Mohr and Henry Coley the play was a grand success Ed1tor of the yearbook Loxs St John and about thxrty others worked on the 1944 ed1t1on The prom at Longshore and the rece1v1ng of dlplomas of fic1a1ly ended our hxgh school careers. l I , A 1 1 1 7 , , . . ' ' ' - 1 I ' ' . a . s ' , . , 4 , u u 1 - - ' , ' , . . , , . - . , ., . . . , . i . . ' g , ' 7 l 7 1 1 1 1 ' D 1 1 ' sc 71 ' ' - ' ' . . , ' I I l . I . 1 1 1 l ' ' , , . . . - . , - ' l . 0 ' , . , 4 v n Walsh, Glona Manere, Chad Hall, Jane Ellis bgnds to the amount of 517,500 The Fourth 1 1 ' D - , . . ' ' 7 cc 11 ' , l 1 1 1 I , Q , . 1 1 1 I 7 . l , Q l 7 , - . , . . - . l . , u - , . . ,, . . v D 1 1 l 1 U 1 1 ' 7 Y Y ' 1 1 1 ' 1 1 I 1 Y Y 9 ' 1 U Q ' . 1 . 1 l - ' , . . . . . . - , , , . .

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Our Natzons Future Is Ours By CHAD HALL In a few weeks the graduatlng class wlll begln to take up the actlve dutles of cltlzenshlp wlll bulld upon our lnherltance of thls natlons tra dltlons obllgatlons prlvlleges, democracy Ours IS her future It wlll be our trust to guard her lnstltutlons as the most valued treasure w possess regardless of prevalllng clrcumstances reallzlng that lf one Cltllen loses hls legltlmate llbertles all are lmmedlately endangered It IS an Amerlcan tradltlon the cltlzens rlght the cltlzen s duty to be constructlvely crltlcal of hls government to form hls own oplnlons from known facts and not accept second hand Judg ments It must be reallzed that wlth PHSSIVS cltlzenshlp a peoples government no longer exlsts We must actlvely partlclpate ln rurmlng our natlons affalrs But we wlll lnherlt too a false sense of na tlOH3l securlty Not that we have held many llluslons ln the past about allen threats but we have been slngularly unaware of the lnternal threat to the tradltlonal Amerlcan way of llv lng As the post war years come thlS democ racy wlll contlnue to have lts demagogues the Amerlcan system of economy wlll stlll be under the supervlslon of a small group of lndustrlal lsts Wlth llmlted reservatlons th1S set up has lts parallel Germany 1933 Economlc control gave polltlcal rule too much power was left to too few Ours IS the lnherltance of a controlled press natlve fasclsts an uncontrolled capltallstlc econ omy whlch guarantees profits to the few The followlng quotatlons are presented wlth no thought of coverlng present or post war condl tlons but to glV6 some suggestlons of perlls and problems whlch must be combatted wlth the utmost VlgllaHC6 and vlgor by all who are en trusted wlth the task of preservlng Amerlcan democracy I belleve ln palace revolutlons fa coup detatj the leaders Cof whlchj wlll have to make terms wlth the lndustrlallsts leavlng them to functlon under a reglme of almost complete government control whlch IS fasclsm I don t glve hls fRoosevelt sj set up or hls type of mlnd more than ten years more Then the lndus trlallsts wlll get somebodv llke Huey Long to run thlngs If he could get up before five hundred of our blg lndustrlallsts ln a secret meetlng he could EIVS them a proposltlon they would prefer He fLongj needed to take a :food look at Hltler and Mussollnl Lawrence Dennls If full employment means a Job for every man and woman who IS wllllng and able to work then lt IS not deslrable or necessary ln a fine functlonlng economy Lets stop uslng the words full productlon full employment and jobs for all Paul G Hoffman of Studebaker Corp Labor has kept ltS no Stflke pledge 99 94 to 9996 percent A F of L and C I O natlonal conventlons It s all very well to say Damn john L Lewls If there had been good wlll on both sldes a wage agreement could have been worked out Secretary Ickes I belleve the menace of cartels IS the greatest cloud whlch hangs on the Unlted Natlons to day Congressman John M Coffee from the Congresslonal Record The real danger Cof cartels hes ln thelr lnfluence over the peace that IS to come I the words of the Unlted States Attorney Gen eral The danger arlses from the fact these cartels have not been termlnated they have only been suspended durlng the war They expect to begln the game all over agaln after the war Aneurln Bevan MP The fI'8dlOJ lndustry wlll sell tlme to cor poratlons for almost anythlng yet refuse to sell tlme to the UDIOHS on the grounds any labor program IS controverslal De Caux, before the FCC You dont have to keep mentlonlng that S25 000 a year story You ought to feallle that lf lt goes through It wlll affect the people who pay your salary Go easy on Standard Oll You know we carry plenty of thelr busl ness Read to the Over Seas Press Club by Walter Wlnchell from extract from a tran scrlpt of correspondence between a news scrlpt wrlter the FCC and the news department of COIUmbl8 Broadcastlng Company These are but a few ltems concernlng prob- lems whlch the publlc can elther merely brush aslde and suffer the consequences or tackle aggresslvely to make sure that the solutlons wlll favor the best lnterests of the most people Ours IS the cholce of two to llve PSSSIVCIY lgnorlng our trust for the generatlons to come lettlng evlls sllp lnto our system and then laylng the blame on the government or to llve 3CtlV8 ly and by crltlcal thlnklng, dlscusslng and vot lng to meet and break our natlonal problems as they arlse For lf we WlSh ours IS the klngdom, the power and the glory for as long as we are Wllllfl2 to llve up to our responslbllltles as Amerl can cltlzens. 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