Stoneham High School - Wildlife Yearbook (Stoneham, MA)

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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”.

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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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THE STONEHAM HIGH SCHOOL AUTHENTIC 29 EVERYBODY READS THE STONEHAM PRESS BECAUSE IT IS AN OUTSTANDING NEWSPAPER AND ONE OF STONEHAM’S BEST ASSETS THE STONEHAM PRESS Telephone 0642 21 Central Street, Stoneham ARCHIE G. WILLS Stoneham Headquarters for Armstrong’s Linoleums and Rugs, Congoleum, Nairn Linoleums and Rugs, Leonard Electric Refrigerators, Zenith and Atwater Kent Radios Free Service Prompt Delivery Compliments of STONEHAM MOTOR COMPANY Sales — FORD V-8 — Service 45 Franklin Street Telephone 0490 MARCH BROTHERS RANGE AND FUEL OILS Telephones Malden 7298 Home Phone Stoneham 0932- J CURTAIN AND NOVELTY SHOP Florence Helen Hunt 378 Main Street Opposite 5 and 10 HELENS BEAUTY SHOPPE Specializing in PERMANENT WAVING Frederick’s and New Ray Machineless Method 485 Main Street Telephone 0260 Little David — Mother, what is a fictitious char- acter ? Mother — One that is made up, my darling. Little David — Then you are a fictitious char- acter, aren’t you? There are only 71,000 dentists in the United States. Crabshaw — I see where a Western woman is able to shoot a coin right out of her husband’s fingers. Dingus — Well, isn’t that the limit? They’re bound to get it one way or another, aren’t they? There are more than 4,000,000 lepers in the world today. Compliments of STONEHAM TRUST COMPANY YOUR COMMUNITY BANK Harry R. Dockam, Pres. 377 MAIN STREET TELEPHONE 0105