Sutton Memorial High School - Exitus Yearbook (Sutton, MA)

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16 ' 48 Class Prophecy On April 17, I960, we started out from Sutton Municipal Airways on a rocket-ship, bound for New York to attend our class reunion. After we arrived in New York, we walked past a famous theatre and saw the glittering words: Bloomer Girl— starring Claire Pechie. Why, that was the girl we had known in school. The two Claires were the only ones of the class of ' 48 that liked A1 folson! We read farther down the list and saw: Pauline Gribouski, cos- tume adviser. It seems that Pauline had been working at Filene ' s Store in Worcester but had decided to move to bigger prospects. Growing weary of the big, glaring lights, we walked to the docks. There it was a bit foggy, and for a time only the old fog horn could be heard. Then a sailor called: All ' s well, Skipper Chouinard! Well, if it isn ' t Ray Chouinard up there on that bridge! we ex- claimed. Ray had done very well in the navy, having joined, right after graduation. We then decided to visit the ship that was in Ray ' s charge. What did we find, but Doris Carter sitting on his lap. Doris is his per- sonal secretary. After a pleasant visit, we started for the center of town again. We should have our hair done, we said to one another. Let ' s stop at the next beauty shop that we find. Entering a beauty par- lor, we were very surprised to find Barb Champagny the owner. We had a tete-a-tete about everything in general and learned that she was to be married the following week to a very handsome Irish- man. While we were in mud-packs, Nancy Smith and Ruth King walked in for services. Not noticing us, they started a conversation, and we learned by eavesdropping that Nancy was head of the personnel de- partment in Macy ' s, a new store in Sutton. In her spare time she was giving free violin lessons at the Sutton Auditorium. Ruth had formed her own trade school in Worcester and was an instructor in the use of atomic tractors. Across the street from the beauty parlor was a sign which read — ' Art School, Adelle Smith, famous artist, instructor and owner.

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' 48 15 Our Seniors C arefree — Reini L oveable — Barbara A rtistic — Adelle S ilent — Dot S tudious — Pauline O rderly — The Senior Class F riendly — Claire B. F unny — Joe Pouliot 0 bservant — Louise R eligious — Virginia T iny — Ruth Y outhful — Betty E nergetic — Claire P. 1 ntelligent — Raymond G raceful — Nancy H appy — Billy T alkative — Lucille Adelle Smith

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' 48 17 After leaving the parlor, we walked a little further up the avenue and were attracted by children ' s voices coming from a large building. A bit puzzled, we decided to investigate and found the voices came from an exclusive kindergarten school under the leadership of Louise Freeland. Tired of the confusion of the kindergarten, we once again pro- ceeded on our sight-seeing tour. Read all about it. Missionary civilizes tribe of wild natives to Christian views of life, ' ' called a newsboy. We bought a paper and read the story. The name of the missionary, Virginia Viets, had a special meaning to us. She was in the Class of 1948. In the sport section of the paper we read, New York Giants win over the Chicago White Sox — 19 to 0! Manager of the N. Y. G. was that capable leader, Bill Baker, who is celebrating his fifty-fifth vic- tory of the season. Of course he would do all his celebrating at our class reunion. We learned that Reini Born and Bob Pouliot had gone into part- nership operating chain garages throughout the United States. Reini is the head of the mechanical department while Bob keeps the work- ers entertained by singing Mammy. They find that this keeps up the morale of the men while they are working. We decided to walk to the hotel and recognized Lucille Currier typing out menus in her office. Lucille is the head dietician of the hotel. The glass windows of the hotel ' s office also revealed Betty Horne, busy as a bee, working the electric typewriter and the streamlined mathematical machines. She was figuring out our complicated bills. That night, we all went into the dining room of the hotel and there autograph hounds just begged Claire Brisson for her signa- ture. She was such a tremendous hit in her latest show that she was acclaimed the second Bergman . As the night lengthened into the early hours of the morning, Bob sang our class song accompanied by Nancy and the rest of the class. Ray rose to bid a hearty welcome to the wonderful class of ' 48. Claire Brisson Adelle Smith