Stoneham High School - Wildlife Yearbook (Stoneham, MA)

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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

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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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30 THE STONEHAM HIGH SCHOOL AUTHENTIC Again the bus was under way and this time head- ed toward New York. Just before entering the hilly section of this country, we stopped at a filling sta- tion owned and operated by “Mac” McKinnon who always was a good hand at spreading oil. A short distance down the highway a huge sign on Dougherty’s Dog Cart advised the motoring pub- lic that an excellent job of rug beating was done at this establishment. Through a little questioning it was found that Howard Truesdale and Rita Dougherty had taken the great plunge, and that Howie’s home run swing was now put to work beat- ing rugs. Still the truth lies in the statement made by an old rooter of the Stoneham team, “Even Mc- Kinnon could hit a rug — maybe”. The next day the omnibus pulled into New York City. Our attention was immediately called to a rather large man dressed in a brown checkered suit like those used in the gay ’90’s, with a dark brown derby, and sky-blue-pink stockings. Upon a closer scrutiny we remembered the face as that one be- longing to Samuel E. Smith. Sam, a promoter of wrestling and boxing, asked us to come to Joe Bruce’s gym as his guests. This seemed to be a new line for Sam since in his high school days he used to be a promoter of good cheer and fun. Among the various artists were Charles Campbell, the well- known wrestler; John McPartland, a city detective, who was in the gym nursing a pair of flat feet, and Harold Nelson, world’s middle-weight boxer. Ralph MacDonald, the ward boss, and his right hand man, Frank Geremonte, were in looking for a couple of bodyguards for use during the coming election. It looked as if trouble would start between Mayor Donald Lawson and his henchmen, Joseph Wainwright and Robert Casey. Ralph told us that we would undoubtedly find quite a few of our fellow grads of ’36 at the Madi- son Square Garden Circus, so we left immediately for the show. At the box office tickets were obtained from Lloyd Wilson who had graduated from the paper business to the pasteboard business. Inside were Ted Arnold, the strong man, going through his rou- tine; Joe Pinciaro, the man on the flying trapeze; Harold Pickens, with all the ferocious animals cap- tured by himself in the wilds of East Woburn; bare- back rider number one, Miss Iola Lane, and last but not least, the ring master, Carl Tolman. The peanut concession for the Garden was owned by Anne Corcoran. Getting money out of peanuts was nothing for Anne, who could get money out of Ben Moody. Mr. Moody was cutting beef steaks at the meat market owned by Paul Junkins, who al- ways was a rather meaty fellow. At the hotel where we stayed that evening every- thing was perfect for a comfortable night’s rest. This comfort was designed by General Manager George Downes, a master at the art of sleep. At the hotel was a girl for whom great things were ex- pected back in high school days because she was al- ways making things up — Marcia Stevens. She was now making up the beds. In the morning paper was an advertisement en- couraging anybody who had the money and was crazy enough to want to lose it, to send five dollars to Alexander Wallace, Inc., for racing tips. There were several attractions that the party might have gone to on that particular day. A race between an auto and an airplane was scheduled. Melvin Wyman, professional driver, was in the auto- mobile while Clifford Hupper was in the airplane. Nobody in the party would bet against Mel. Anoth- er attraction was the Radio City Theatre where we finally decided to go. On the stage, as members of the famous Radio City chorus, were Harriet Russell, Virginia Holden, Ellen Quincy, and Vera Leeman. Featured on the screen was a musical production directed by Harold Grant Schumann. The music was arranged by Ben Maxwell. The singing was ably handled by Miss Linda DiCicco while the acting was well done by Anna Murray and Louis Goetz. From the theatre the party went to the city’s largest department store to do some shopping. The store, under the direction of John Janigian, was crowded to capacity for there was a gigantic sale which had been well advertised by Publicity Manag- er Robert Covin and Artist Robert Brown. The ladies’ section was presenting a unique fash- ion show. Among the models were Erma Eldridge, Lillian Flannigan, Dorothy May and Ruth Howard. All of the gowns shown on that afternoon were de- signed by Rose Madison and Catherine Dougherty. At this time, in the store, Mr. Janigian’s secre- tary, Miss Marion Donahue, was giving Fred Gross, the store detective, a bawling out because he let someone get out of the store with a large Morris chair. Some detective! We left the store and went back ,to our hotel where, with the newspaper as a medium, we found that the musical members of our class, Helen Sheri- dan and Stuart Craigie were featured artists at Carnegie Hall, while Dorothy Spear and Gordon Lis- ter were members of a prominent orchestra. The next day the bus continued on its trip to Washington where we found that all the people in that city are not engaged in political work. One of the first persons we met was Anthony Antetomaso, the old baseball fan, who now was manager of the Senators. He said that Phil Savelo was doing great work on his ball club. After a little chat with Tony we started for the