Stevens High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Claremont, NH)

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'wt Buswell, who knew more about it than they did, being their secretary, came back from Jim Emanuel's Bar and Grill across the way with some lunch for the boys. She waved at me, taking one hand off the tray, and dropped it with a crash. Spargo, a policeman now so he could boss somebody around for a change, came over to investigate, and Mary Fecteau, smelling a law case, came out to see what was going on. A crowd gathered. June Blish and Phyllis Matthews came out of their tailor shop. Beverly Lawrence, who was passing by, stopped on the way to her office. Shirley Porter ran across the street to help Helene, and Loretta Lewis also hurried out of the telephone office. Wes told me that this was natural because there was so little excite- ment here. When it was all over and the crowd gone, only Alan Marek and his secretary, Marvin Lindsay, remained. Alan was running the numbers racket and the polar bear races, and l gave him a quarter to bet for me. Then, quite wearied from my sight-seeing, l returned to the hotel diner, where the girls were on their thirteenth cup of coffee. l had just time for one more with them before returning to the plane which would take me back to the States and my job as Special Investigator in charge of the U. N. Committee-to-figure-out-how-to-get-things-done-with-the-least-work. l was considered an expert at that. C169

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manned schools in the country. In the yard Charlotte Mathews was giving some boys and girls stiff physical workouts, beyond them ThelmaTardiff and Theresa Fleury, the Home Ec teachers, were showing some eager youngsters how to make ice pies that hold together when you flop them. In the building the headmaster, Donald Morrison Cwho also taught mathe- maticsl invited us to go through the school. As we wandered down the halls, I saw many familiar faces. Here was Irene Pinkham with a kindergarten class, there Ruth Purinton with a group of art students, then Barb King trying to get some students to say that awful French U . Don told us that other members of the staff included Pat Kling, Lois-Ann LaFrank, and Dorothy Zekos. Conditions were different from l947, for now teachers were well paid and schools well staffed. On the way from the school to the town's industrial and business section we passed a palace set back on a hill. This was Jae Brooks'. He had started a flower shop, and since this was the Lake City's only connection between Nature and the Land of Ice, people bought at any price. Joe found himself prospering, so he lowered the price of flowers and then people just bought more. He couldn't help getting rich, so he built the palace and made it a public social center. As receptionists there he had Mary Osgood and Bern Cahalan, and in his flower shop, which was always busy, since flowers froze instantly outside, he had Newvart Vosgershian, Virginia Rix, Gwen Knowlton, Dot Laramie, and Marceline Melcher, all working as full-time clerks. His business manager was Irv Pullen, and the office staff included Carmelita LeClair, Elizabeth Ostrowski, Jean Miles, Margaret Carpenter, and Ruth Pesarik, who ran the switchboards. As far as I could see, Joe did nothing but flirt with the clerks and get rich, 55 'fl It took quite a while for Wes to tell me about Joe, and while we walked along I noticed many other little enterprises on the main street. There was Ola Brown's jewelry shop across the street, and Melissa Irwin was outside window shopping. Beverly Donovan, was running a bookstore, and outside this Lillianne Obymako-was painting a sign-something about Bev's Better Books, and she had four people hanging on to the ladder she was on because it was so slippery there. The four were Vince Leahy, whose big ski boots gave him solid footing, Maurice Menard, Ted Perras, and Phil Reynolds-all big boys. Havering around them, Hannabelle Heller was making sure that everything was being done right. As we passed on, we stopped to read a billboard which announced a concert and dance to be given that night by an orchestra high-lighted by the names of Donald Chamberlain and Dick Kennell. I was considering this when a neon sign arrested my gaze- Polar Bear Ski Club fit saidl Henry Jasinski and Bernard Kaminsky, Managers-WELCOME-Walk inski. Next we saw the Page Radio Repair Shop and Paul Potter trying to convince Lloyd that his buggy would hold a radio. Right beside the radio shop was a large garage and machine shop where Bob Nelson, Paul Potter, Tommy Gray, and Phil Balch were working on a rocket-powered ice boat. Just then Helene C153 J' 1

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X, ff 74k X hz, 'l 13 CLASS WILL We, the Seniors of Stevens High School, in the town of Claremont, the county of Sullivan, the State of New Hampshire, in the United States of America, on the planet Earth, in this atomic age, on this serious day in June in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, do hereby publish and declare this to be our last will and testament, hereby revoking and annulling all wills and testaments we may have heretofore drawn up. CLASS BEQUESTS l, We bequeath to Mr. Doody and Mr. Lord, whom we admire and respect, our deepest gratitude and sincere appreciation for their undying efforts in making our four years at Stevens happy and successful ones. 2. To our class advisers, Mrs. Bucko, Miss Willey, and Mr. McGrath, we leave our heartfelt thanks for all the work and time which they have contributed in assisting us in our extracurricular activities. 3. To the faculty we leave our sincere thanks for their dauntless efforts in guiding us to the road of success. 4. To the class of '48 we bequeath our teachers, who have had their patience sorely tried but are in better spirits because of a recent well- earned raise, all of our unfinished homework, our gum, which you will find under the desks-our favorite parking place, and last but not least, we leave the miracle that happened to us-becoming sophisticated and dignified seniors. 5. To the sophomores we leave the profits of our Junior Prom, with the hope that they will come out fifteen dollars to the good instead of in the red 6. To the green incoming freshmen we leave anything they want that's left. C i7 l ,.--:iv