Stoneham High School - Wildlife Yearbook (Stoneham, MA)

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Most Popular Boy . . . . Most Popular Girl Most Athletic Boy . . . Most Athletic Girl . . . Most Versatile Boy . . . Most Versatile Girl Most Likely to Succeed, Boy Most Likely to Succeed, Girl Most Temperamental Most Personality .... Most Studious Most Talented Most School Spirited . . . Most Bashful Most Admirable Most Independent .... Best Looking Boy . Best Looking Girl . Best Dressed Boy .... Best Dressed Girl .... Best Boy Dancer Best Girl Dancer .... Biggest Time Killer . . Biggest Line Biggest Story Teller . . Class Good Egg Class Heartbreaker . . . Class Comedian Class Cutie Class Sweetheart . . . . Class Flirt Class Blusher Class Actor Favorite Teacher .... Favorite Orchestra . Favorite Song Favorite Sport Favorite Subject Favorite Comic Strip . . . Favorite Singer .... Favorite Comedian . . . . Book of the Year . . . . Ralph Truesdale Constance Shaw Ernest Angelo Marjorie MacLennan . Don Murphy Hermione Stoumbelis . Norman Peacor . . Marion Jenkins Marilyn Crafts Constance Shaw . . Marion Jenkins . . . Ruth Grant . Themis Stoumbelis . . Muriel Austin . . . Mr. Holyoke . . Dorothy Dunnan Lloyd Martin . . Joanna Waite . Arthur Finnegan . . Florence Pezzole . . Donald Murphy . Eileen Hanseil . Charles Bradshaw Kenneth MacKenzie . Robert Donahoe Malcolm Washburn . John MacCarthy . Raymond Sorenson . Constance Shaw Margaret Thompson Muriel Fullford Donald Monson . . Robert Towse Mr. Thibodeau . Glenn Miller . . . “I’ll Get By” . Basketball Gym . Li’l Abner . . . Bing Crosby . . . . Bob Hope Yearbook “44” CLASS BALLOT

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History Class “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” won much acclaim for the Dramatic Club. Bob Towse and many others in our class are to be congratulated on their parts in making it such a success. Do you remember “Conky” in the coat-room? It was disappointing not to have had a carnival ball to complete the big sports program in our junior year, but the B. C. Freshmen hockey game made up for it. In high spirits after clearing the rink of the snow that covered everything, we walloped them, winning 7 to 0. Besides, we were third in the league that year, winning six out of ten games. Some record, I’d say! As juniors, if we had voted on the subject of the year, I’m sure chemistry would have been near the top. Its influence was certainly widely spread at times. I quess Grace Chase won’t for- get in a hurry how to sweep a floor. You must recall our poised ushers, and Marilyn Crafts and Ralph Truesdale as marshals at the graduation of the class of 1943. I can clearly remember what a jolt it gave me when I realized that we became seniors with their graduation. It didn’t seem quite right not to have a class older than ourselves in the fall of 1943. Now we were to lead the school activities as well as to participate in them. In football the most note- worthy games were those with Lexington, Howe High, and Somerville Trade. While our sc ; res weren’t always tops throughout the season, our spirit was. Bill Lawson, Ernie Mingheila, and the Co-Captains, John Rotundi and Ernest Angelo, contributed their all to the games, didn t they? And the Stoneham cheerleaders outshone all others that year. Didn’t you and the others ever tire of yelling “Yes, Bob, Moriera, Yea, Yea, Bob Moriera?” Our senior class officers were elected early in the fall and when the returns had been made, Ralph Truesdale, Bob Donahoe, Marilyn Crafts, Donald Monson, and Lloyd Martin had come out on top. How grieved we were to hear one morning of the sudden death of Mr. Watson. We knew we had lost a kind friend upon whom we had come to depend. Soon afterwards we attended a memorial service for him, and as further recog- nition of his efforts the Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation renamed their scholarship the Howard W. Watson Memorial Scholarship. It was good to be able to turn to Mr. Nadeau at such a time and to know later that he would carry on as our principal. How I wish I had seen either the Medford or Melrose hockey games ! Our blue and white •certainly upset the league that season. Melrose never has got over that I to 0 victory, and as for Medford — what a lively beehive of angry players we stirred up when we tied them ! W’hat a carnival we had in “44” ! With the Home Front and our Blue and White Club work- ing together, it had to be a success. The hockey game, a varied sports program, and of course, the ball, with the crowning of our ever popular Marilyn Crafts and Ralph Truesdale were the highlights. That was some weekend, wasn’t it? Do 1 need to ask you if you remember our basketball team in our senior year? I can re- member the Melrose game very- clearly still. How angry they were that night was evident when we played them the next time. Our team put up a real fight, cheered on by our many Stoneham rooters who had hiked over to Melrose. Didn’t Martin, Murphy, MacLennan, Truesdale, and Angelo give our opponents a headache? Again we came out victorious from the girls’ basketball tournament. With such a swell team, we couldn’t help winning. I can remember Chase, MacLennan, Morrell, Crafts, Hawes, the Stoum- belis sisters, and you. In field hockey, too, the girls were a credit to the class, winning seven out of eight games. As seniors we beat Reading and tied Melrose. One more victory over Mel- rose that year and we would have had a war on our hands. The Dramatic Club didn’t get started until late that year, remember? They made a good start the next year, though, thanks to the ground work done by the 1944 members. In April the class honors were announced. It wasn’t surprising when Hermie and Themie Stoumbelis and Russell Parker were awarded tire MacDonald medals, for we knew all along of their contribution to our class. We were happy, too, that Bob Towse was to give the class address. My, what a sad bunch left the assembly hall, for we knew that in a short while we would graduate. How long we waited for our prom and ban quet, wishing for them to come, yet realizing that they would end all too soon. I wpnder if we didn ' t have lumps in our throats. How we laughed at those cute pictures Jean Rollins drew for the class history. Then it was June 15, 194d — the night of nights. Receiving our diplomas seemed to me like getting passports to our destinies. How bright those destinies looked to us ! I wonder if now many have realized theirs. This has been a long letter hasn’t it, Connie? Yet it seems so brief for reviewing four happy years in high school. Wouldn’t it be fun to have a class reunion? Maybe we will, who knows? As ever, MARION JENKINS

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CLASS OFFICERS President NEIL GLYNN Secretary MARJORIE COLES Vice President RICHARD MERCER Treasurer ROBERT MURPHY Chairman Social Committee RICHARD HAYDEN JUNIOR