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

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the Home Economics Department put on a successful Home Economics Dance. The Home Economics girls also organized another Boston Club this year. Besides being active in all the extra- curricular activities, some of our class attended a meeting of the Legislature at Concord, while others in the class edited the UEagle', for one day. We really went in Hheavyu for drama this year, as some of the class resurrected 4'Sock and Buskinf' Our class play was a comedy in three acts, entitled HSpring Greenf' Under the capable leadership of lWrs. Bucko and with the line performance of the stu- dent actors, the play was one of the most successful senior plays ever given at Stevens. We also had two splendid concerts given this year by the seniors and members of the other classes. These were the band concert, given by the members of the band, and the choral concert, given by the chorus with the accompaniment of the orchestra. But now with our graduation We come to the parting of the Ways. Stevens and its faculty will stay to teach oncoming students, while we will step out into the world to try to do our part in cleaning up and return- ing the world to its normal peaceful standards. The Class of '45 has been what you might call a War babyf, Our start at Stevens saw the begin- ning of our countryis participation in the war. lVIay our last days at Stevens see our inevitable victory imminent. 2

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goes to show that Hmiracles never ceasef' It seems that, since leaving school, Ray had been taking Atlas treatments and was now commonly known as i'Brody the Brutef, I next visited the agriculture de- partment of the fair. This was super- vised by Clyde Cossingham and Ken- neth Cram, who explained that they merited their position because they were the inventors of a radio-con- trolled robot that did all the work of a farm. They also told me about a football game to bc held in the afternoon. I arrived at the field just in time to see the players run out on the field. Among them I recognized John Pin- ette, who, having retired from the Navy, was now playing professional football. The class of '45 was also rep- resented by other such famous All- Americans as Bill Scott, alias f'The Player Without a Weakness,', and Flash,' Fortin. Next, I visited the winter part of the fair. There I recognized Donald Bartlett on the skating rinks, who, having graduated from figure eights, was writing his name in hieroglyphics. I also noticed Frank VVadleigh and Jacqueline lNIcKenzie, King and Queen of Iceland, brushing up on their act. The ski-jump was just a step away, so I watched the contest. Gordon Holmes and James hIcCusker got the prize when they jumped 214 feet, arm in arm. Louis LaVaude and Lyle Chandler got honorable mention by a jump of 159 feet with their skis on backwards. After that performance the fair closed for the day, so I visited a near- by night chrb. I was conducted to a table by Chester Richards, headwaiter of the establishment. He told me that the club was owned by Charles Cur- rier and that the food and drink were of the best, being prepared by such able cooks as lNIarilyn Pullen, Rose Obymako, Gail Hancock, and Rachel Blanchard. After a few preliminaries, Barney lVIcCusker appeared on the stage and sang his version of f'Bar- nacle Bill, the Sailor? Naturally, the women all immediately swooned, but it was interesting to note the trend toward manly singers, rather than the undergrown, skinny type. As I was sipping my orange juice, who should arrive but Donald Green- wood? He 'told me that he was out of a job right now, but he had been a tight-wire performer and had special- ized in a backward somersault until one night the wire let him down. That ended his career as a tight-wire artist. Next on the program was a number by Dick Bush and his band. It seems that Dick had interested himself in the education of the poor and had organized his own band, which he called f'The East-Side Pepper Potsf' It was really quite a racket. The assist- ant director of the band was Joan Lord. Her instrument was a combina- tion piano and trombone. She played the piano with her hands and blew on the trombone with her mouth. This eliminated the need for one of the trombone players, who were hard to get. As the band started to play, I no- ticed several couples dancing at the other end of the room. Among them, I saw several of my old high school pals, namely, Edward Balch and Lee Nault, Dahl Hansen and Nancy Kuz- mich, Rebecca Jacobs and Alfred Hoidahl, and John Batchelder and Blanche Fontaine. I left the club and went to my hotel. When I got to my room, the maid, Jean Pinkham, told me that Nfarshall Gelfand had called and left an invita- tion for me to visit his movie industry. The next day when I arrived at the studios, his secretary, Sylvia Edwards, informed me that he was in conference with several of his best actresses about the parts in a new movie. These act- resses included Barbara Wilmarth, Alice Schriber, Claire Rouillard, Mar- garet Perry, Beryl Isham, Bette Gold-