Stoneham High School - Wildlife Yearbook (Stoneham, MA)

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THE STONEHAM HIGH SCHOOL AUTHENTIC 27 Compliments of DR. HENRY E. LEAVITT Osteopath LET ' S FOLLOW THE CROWD TO the STONEHAM SPA where you get the best of everything 385 Main Street Stoneham READ WHITE MEN’S FORMAL CLOTHES RENTED FOR ALL OCCASIONS 1 1 1 Summer Street, Boston Woolworth Building, Providence, R. I. The people of this country spend over $10,000, 000,000 a year on amusement. During the summer months Uncle Sam ' s For- est Service crews have been fighting an average of 28 fires a day. FEARER’S For Good SHOES and HOSIERY 419 Main Street Stoneham W. W. FISKE CO. Coal, Oil and Coke Telephone 0264 42 Pleasant Street Stoneham The printed English bible was 400 years old on October 4, 1935. During the 1934 drought the government bought 8,279,000 head of cattle and 3,608,700 sheep. Compliments of DR. R. M. SHUKLE Compliments of MYRON P. PEFFERS Compliments of AL HOLMAN Socony Service Station Main and South Streets Stoneham ROSA TODD Teacher of Dancing Tap, Acrobatic, Toe, Ballet 567 Main Street Telephone 0306-J Compliments of STILES SONS MANUFACTURERS OF QUALITY CANDIES

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26 THE STONEHAM HIGH SCHOOL AUTHENTIC PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS Parents, Teachers, and Friends: It is indeed a great pleasure for me to welcome you in behalf of the Class of 1936 to our graduation exercises. Your presence here adds to the signifi- cance of the occasion. From year to year you have watched and helped us develop. We hope that you saw in us a growth of our faculties that will enable us to be of service to mankind. We realize that a few words can in no way describe the gratitude we feel for you, our friends. To our faculty, we can only say that we hope our lives from now on will serve as proof of the char- acter and manliness taught us by you. Your com- bined efforts and patience will aid us in becoming better men and women. To our parents whose sacrifice and ambitions have been great but unseen by others, no words or thoughts can equal them. Through our deeds alone may the day come when we shall repay in part that which you have given us in full. The years of our student days in Stoneham High School will always be those of joyous remembrances and happy friendships. As we go out into the world it is with cheerful courage that we greet the unseen. Courage is the important thing. All goes if courage goes. Johnson says, Unless a man has that virtue lie has no security for preserving any other.” There will be many times in our lives when cour- age only will enable us to overcome the obstacles that confront us. Much easier would it be to follow the exploits of the people than blaze a new trail to a higher stan- dard. Our elders gave us the post war problems, unemployment, social unrest, economic depression and political disorder, as an inheritance. Great courage will be necessary to free this country from such evils. There are teeming years lying ahead of this graduating class if we but help to fill them with glorious deeds. The sternest crisis always brings forth the great- est courage. To us, classmates, is hurled the chal- lenge of making America a better place in which to live. We shall not fail that challenge. With these incompetent but sincere words of ap- preciation and hope, we welcome you to our gradua- tion exercises. Samuel Smith. CLASS HISTORY Wings! Who has not desired them? Who has not dreamed of this eventful day when we would receive our insignia and realize our soaring ambi- tions? We are now licensed pilots ready for our first solo flights. Using our training ship, the Spirit of 1936,” as a model, we have spent four years in study and practical experience preparing for our journey upward. Now with our newly acquired wings we are ready to take off, but first let us try to review some of those happy hours that we have spent in our beloved plane. With pilot, John Diamond; co-pilot, Anne Corco- ran; stewardess, Dorothy May; and chief mechanic, George Downes, as a crew, we took off for our first short flight. Mrs. Barnes, Miss Collins, Miss Fitz- gerald, and Mr. Miller were the watchful instructors who showed us the mechanism of the “Spirit of 1936”. Anna Murray took us on our first practice flight in our social career. After a two months’ rest the “Spirit of 1936” started once more, in September 1933, for another trial flight. Pilot John Diamond was again at the controls assisted by co-pilot, John O’Neil; steward, William Burns; and chief mechanic, George Downes. For this trip, Miss Garland, Miss Smith, Miss Wright, and Mrs. Milton were our ever watchful guides. This was a banner year for us, for now we were allowed to participate in varsity sports. We were represented on every athletic squad. Florence Or- sillo brought home the honors for field hockey, while Ronald McKinnon was our outstanding repre- sentative on the varsity football team. Our social life during this flight covered a great circle of events. First, with Anne Corcoran at the controls, we held our second successful social. We equaled the record of our lofty upper-classmen when our talented classmates helped present the never-to- be-forgotten Mock Trial” and the first annual Ath- letic Association Circus. These were new ventures for us, but we came through with flying colors, thus earning our promotion as Juniors for the coming year. After a summer of much needed rest, the sturdy “Spirit of 1936” took off once more for an uncharted flight over the hills and valleys of the Junior year. Pilot John Diamond still kept the controls in hand with co-pilot, Albert Pigon; stewardess, Rose Madi- son; chief mechanic, George Downes; and chairman of the Social Committee, Frank Geremonte. Our ship was steadied this year by Miss Spinney, Miss Johnson, Miss Eastman, and Mr. Reed. Once again the “Spirit of 1936” sent many out- standing representatives to the athletic teams. Our real social debut was made when, with John O’Neil at the controls, we presented our first formal dance — the Junior Prom. This was both a social

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28 THE STONEHAM HIGH SCHOOL AUTHENTIC and financial success, which proved our ability to pilot our own ship. This year our ever willing class contributed to the success of the Athletic Association in its various activities — the Theatre Night, the Minstrel Show, and the Circus. The class decided to purchase our class rings this year instead of in our Senior year and elected Rose Madison as chairman of the ring committee. The Junior Marshals at graduation were Virginia Holden and John Diamond. The head ushers were Anna Murray and Samuel Smith. Because we had had a long, hard flight, we were more than ready to rest when June 1935 came around. In September we were prepared to take off on our last flight together. Pilot, Samuel Smith; co-pilot, John O’Neil; stew- ardess, Dorothy May; chief mechanic, George Downes; and chairman of the social committee, Frank Geremonte, started the “Spirit of 1936” with a perfect take-off. Our helpful instructors were Mrs. Coy, Mr. Hoyt, Mr. Davis, and Mr. Thibodeau. This year we became editors of the “Authentic” and chose Harriett Tidd, editor-in-chief; Natalie Patten and John Janigian, assistant editors. The Athletic Association was also directed by the Senior Class. We elected as officers: President, Ronald McKinnon; Vice President, Mary Keating; Treasurer, Benjamin Moody; and Secretary, Rose Madison, whose duties were later taken over by Vir- ginia Holden. This year the glory of our athletic teams was widely known. The football team was captained by Ronald McKinnon; the field hockey team by Flor- ence Orsillo; the cross country team by Robert Saunders; the championship hockey team by George Downes, and the baseball team by Howard Trues- dale. The Seniors lent their support to the Athletic As- sociation in its three outstanding activities this year — the Musical Revue, the Football Dance, and the Victory Dance. With John O’Neil as chairman, the Senior Hop reached an altitude far above our highest expecta- tions. The Senior Banquet was held at the Andover Country Club with Clifton McCaleb as our genial toastmaster. So our four years of preliminary training have been completed and now we are ready to try our wings in solo flights. And on we fly A gleam of sunlight round us prophesying Our soaring strength. Across the ripening field We rise, and lift above the wood — on — on — until We flash beyond the hill — And we are gone.” Anne Corcoran. CLASS PROPHECY The other day I was listening to a radio program called “Buck Rogers in the Twenty-fifth Century” and during this program it occurred to me that an excellent prophecy of the Class of 1936 might be ob- tained from the authors of that broadcast. With that in mind I immediately cut the top off six packages of Little Willie Cornflakes and sent them, al ong with my request for a prophecy of the class, to the Cornflake Manufacturers. A few days later I received the following: In the year 1946, with Albert Pigon, George Poa- lella, Robert Cutter, William Burns and Allen Bek- kenhuis, the only grads who had stayed in the town of Stoneham, I went on a long bus ride. The pur- pose of this ride was to locate all of our schoolmates of the Class of ’36. After leaving Stoneham, our first stop was made in Boston so that we might attend the Teachers’ Convention to see if we could recognize any of our colleagues as prominent professors or teachers, those people who go to school but never get out. With the aid of the list of names and the program we discovered that the chairman of the convention was none other than Mr. James Rush who had rush- ed to the top of his profession. Scattered some- where among the convention, according to our list, were Ethel Powers, a geologist (one who studies about Cliffs), Natalie Patten, Phyllis Robinson, and Dorothy Hill, a calm, sedate grade school teacher, from West Overshoez. At that time she was writ- ing home to her husband, Winslow Blanchard, who was, according to her, a honey. Upon leaving the convention we were met by a Mr. Chester Cleveland, another of our classmates, who was now selling gilt edged bonds with a guar- anteed 18% interest. He had just had this new batch of bonds printed at the city’s leading estab- lishment owned by Russell Morrison and Robert Patten who worked their way up from The Inde- pendent. Later on that day we went to the Schubert Thea- tre to witness a new play. Here, too, we located a few more of our classmates, for the play was writ- ten by none other than John O’Neil and dedicated to his wife. It was called “It Might Rain; But It Looks All Haley”. The leading roles were taken by Barbara Stanley, who would rather have played at Keith’s, and Bryce Blanchard, who also starred in “Lady Cowles”.