Stetson High School - Oracle Yearbook (Randolph, MA)

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1946 '75 Gfuzcfe Page Twenty bfbfbx f X XD f Jxy e X fwaxf bffwfx XQQ1 CLASS HI TORY l-reshmen Year N the fall of 1947, somethrng occured rn Randolph that would change the hrstory of the entrre world Cor so we thought 9 , the class of 1946 entered the portals of the famed rn strtute of knowledge Stetson Hrgh School Wrthout the shyness and aweness of our pre decessors, we of the freshman class came wrth much self confrdence, stormrng the grounds of S H S and takrng the haughty upper classmen by complete surprrse Soon all thrs Brg Stuff left us, due marnly to the huge two by four plank wrelded by many senrors whrch made many wonder why the freshmen boys preferred to st 1nd whrle consumrng therr lunch The trrbe w rs scattered over the three courses offered at Stetson, wrth a few attemptrng to major the college course, more rn the com mercral and most rn the general, frndrng the rtmosphere rn that category most pleasrng to our type of student As freshmen we were looked down upon as dumbfbells and rnfants The upper class men should have remembered that they were once Freshmen They say that you can al w ays drstrngursh 1 freshman by the rnqursrtrve look on hrs face Well that rs probably so because the rooms and system at Stetson were new to us and once we got on to rt we owned the place Cor so we thoughtj Ah' Were we brg shots' We went to the polls and elected to lerd us through our rn augural year Hrs Honor Robert Hurley Presr dent Mrss Thelmr Frrth Vrce Presrdent rnd Art Mann takrng c1re of the corn After one meetrng of our class rn whrch drsorder con fusron and chaos rergned the freshmen drd not meet agarn all year Yes 1 wrld class hrd entered Stetson when they could not hold an orderly meetrng for forty frve mrnutes Houghton s Pond was the scene of our Fresh men outrng whrch most of the gang attend ed It was our last get together as fresh men and a good trme was enjoyed by all and we returned home vorcrng our approx al of such excursrons Already our future Stars were showrng them how to do rt on both court and dramond, n the form of Stan Ferrrs Ken Stewart, Frank Dockendorff Larry Mason, and Brng Corey Ah what 11 class' l ' ' By the end of june 1943, we were rejorcrng bec11use were not we now Noble Sophomores and rn 11 posrtron to boss a sub class' But that rs another story BrllLeav1tt 46 Sophomore Year INETY shVhN per cent of the class put rn 1 sunburnt rppetrance rt Stetson rn Sep tember 1nd prep1red to endure mother semes ter rn the school We were escorted to our home rooms Q17 76 etcj and from there dr ected ourselves to our respectrve frrst perrod rooms to begrn our second year of studres Around the end of thrs month of September the school began to drsplay srgns of lrfe as the electron of class offrcers wrs now at hand George Connelly well known shaper was chosen to the honorary offrce of Class Presr dent whrle Thelmr Frrth Mary Norton and Art Mann were elected as Vrce Presrdent Sec retary 1nd 'lrersurer rn thlt order A few sophomores represented our clrss on the frrst team rn football a team that put forth rts best efforts to wrn glory Coach Zapustus c1llecl for brsketbrll crndrdates on November I9 1nd mrny sophomores were on hand to dns pl ry therr wrres One of our classmates made the frrst term rs the number srx man and the second term WIS mrde up of almost ll sophomores An rntcrruptron of short vrcatrons two suc tessful mrnstrel shows and a couple of class dances 1nd btsebrll and the sprrng season frntlly arrrved Our hrstorrc class was agarn reoresented on the frrst team rn each of the three sports as no less than four sophs made the frrst term A medrocre season followed 1nd rn no trme at 1ll the senror boys of the school were prcyrng on rnnocent grrls rn rm 1 X fc , ,ar H , a , 1 Y XXX xlfxf X1 1 2' S11 Sec, X, lv- X, -scfx- L 1 1 1 , . , , 1 .... Y ' ar 1 v 7 ' -1 - 1 Y . 1 I 1 U . 1 '1 - A 1 . as ar at . 1 - , 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 . . W 1 1 1 - 1 . I , ' 1 . 1 1 . W .. ., Y W u N L , 1, 1 2 1 , , I A . , . ' 9 1 . ' . 1 1 1 . L L , . 1 - ' 1 1 1 , . . 1 1 , 1 1 1 . . , ' , 1 ' 1 1 1 1 1 ' ', 1 1 f 1 - L 1 5 7 . ' 1 K 1 Y A . . , ' , - 1 1 ' 1 . 1 . - ' ' ' 1 , 1 1 '1, 1 1 L1 1 H I Y . ,1 1 1 , . - ' 1 V I 1 1 4 . 1 1, 1 1 1

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Page Twenty two 1945 xyfgfx petuous attempts to lure them to the prom A talr large number of sophomore dam els were asked Followlng the prom the graduatlon neared and those sophs whe were lucky enouga to fCCClXC an IHVIIC attended the occaslon Our class was now ready to spend a most cn1oyal'le umnaer xacatlon before returnlng to tlae dru ery of school work once more Dock 4K Junlor Year N September 5 of the year 1944 our two months of freedom explred and leavlng all memorle of b ache mountalns etc IH our hope chest we returned to our conflnement and had the head warden ln the head OfflLC adjust the ball and chaln and lock the key up ln the offlce safe for another ten months But our school year of 1944 45 was altogether dlf ferent from what we had antlclpated lmmedlately our future all Amerlcans name ly Georgle Connolly Arnold Makara Bln Corey Larry Mason and oe Lombardl plunged wlth fevent zeal lnto the ordeals of P1gSklD practlse and each Saturday helped to break more bones and mangle a few more llmbs whlle havlng some mangled themselves for the Blue and Whlte After a hectlc season whlch we took prlde ln the work of our stars a strange mama seemed to grlp some of the members of our honorable class Suddenly fall lng ln love wlth all types of bawllng bables and trottlng around lavlshlng klsses Cllpstlck terbacky JUICE etc J on each bundle of trouble ln the VICIUIIY the reason for the dlsplay vs as traced to the annual electlon of class offlcers Chosen to lead for mlsleadj our loyal elghty and one through the ensulng year was the gangster from the Swamps oe Lombardl Barbara H1SIlDgS took over her old yob as Vlce presldent and oan Doherty made vxlth the notebook Fabulous Larry Mason a future professor of math was plcked to guard our class mlnt Delegates to the Student Councll lncluded Bows Brennan Lorralne Klely and MHIIOH Wade Wlth such offlcers nothlng could go wrong After grumbllng over what we dldnt get from Santa Claus the famlllar sound of an ln flated ball belng bounced around the boards of our assembly hall and the neck cr aners who annually hang over the S1dCS of the hall saw that basketball practlse was on Swlshlng them for the weaker sex was found some of the lald den talent of the class IH the persons of jean Deadeye Arsenault Shorty Herman Bones Klely Flash HHSklHS Bobby Flsh er Lll Hasklns and Suga Fllnn As for the shapers on the boys team we found the ace shapers of the class rxennv Stew art Stan Ferrls Frank Doclcendortf and joc Lombardl And boy dld they really shape ll p' But they dld okay ID the vxln columa too The cheerleaders were SIVCH the servlce of one of our talented belle Thelma Flrth Af ter a heavy season of peppy leadlng she was awarded the captaln s job for the next year About half way through the year SIX or seven of cur men were glven stlff terms by the front offlce for nearly causlng MISS Smlth to have a nervou condltlon by thelr contlnual tom foolery 10 the Typlng room The name ne d not be mentloned as SIULC then the lads haxe reformed now leadlng qulet llves ln peace We were very proud to contrlbute to the chool band what we thought to be the most talented muslclans ID the school Drummlng IlllI'lg5 up were BIDS Corey jack Warner md Porky Slmmons Art Htshem slmply had a grand UIIIC on hls bass drum and Bob Fernald and DIS laorn were lndespenslble Larry Mason of course carrlcd the clarlnet sec tlon and gave out wlth the rlght notes at thc rlght tlme Curllng thelr llps over some metal were jean Norrls versatlle Barb Hastlngs and Vllma Benyamlno Lendlng thelr ald to the A A were WOSIC Meaney and Barbara DeMott and we are sure that all the good done by the HSSOCIHIIOD was brought on by the work of these two young lr s g In the cold cold month of February our un comparable class gave the school and townfolk 1 treat by puttlng on tlaelr play The Flghtlng Llttles TDOIHQ., all the lalghtlng was Randolps glfts to Hollywood and Selznlck ln short the followlng Thelma Goodle Flrth Bows Fllmer Brennan Bob GCISI Lover Mason loan Doherty MHFIOU Wfade Lorralne LoScux to Irene Klley Georgla Meaney Flo Rlnaldl Lorralne Klely Maureen Mahoney and a beau tlful refugee from Hollywood that looked llke Barb Hastlngs but Im not sure And of course there was that allen from the Sophs Purcell who we grumbllng admlt dld a swell If b Holdlng thlngs up were Art Hashem and Harold Wells the latter spotted by Samuells Spartzberger famous Hollywood scout slgned ro play a flll ID for Frank Slnatra wlaen The VOICE has to do somethlng strenuous ln has plLILl1'CS Swlnglng lnto tlae sprlng tlme we found that many members of our class were sufferlng from 7 ' 5 Q, fbfliff-3---is 1 ' 1 Qs -ef:-X.,-.5--1 es, Fwff-Syj-'Tlwffffa uv uv I 4: H ' V' ' ' 7 3 - , - 11 Q .. 11 - ll .a , - 4 ' Y 7 1 1- l K a . - V ..- . ,, , Y V ' 3 ! , U 1 1 6 4 f C 1 -, ' ' ' ' ' . 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