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

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Fantasia - 1966 As I sit here among all my old friends, listening to the lively conversation and watching the light from the huge fireplace reflected on their faces, I think how wonderful it is that everyone from our original graduating class has managed to come here to Jim Brigham’s ski lodge in the White Mountains for our first reunion. Most of our paths have not crossed for fifteen years; but as a result of much inquiry as to whereabouts, plus long distance telephone calls and telegrams, here we are, discussing what Fate has brought us and reliving old times. From what I have gathered, we represent an interesting assortment of careers and lives: Jim Brigham owns and manages a truck farm here in New Hampshire and this mountain ski-lodge in the winter. He is also skiing instructor and is now suffering from his second broken leg in two years. In high school it was glasses and now it’s legs, but he’s still his old good-humored self . . . Ed Plante has succeeded Mr, Place as physical education instructor and sports coach at S. H. S. Mr. P. retired because of ulcers de- veloped in nineteen fifty-one. Ed played major baseball for twelve years but quit because his wife and lil Ed missed him too much during spring training and playing season. Pay day won’t ever be quite the same; but Sutton has grown by leaps and bounds and so have the teachers ' salaries . . . Janie Bates is the wife of a successful contractor in Miami, Florida, and does therapeutic work in a hospital there. She received her training when she was drafted into the Women’s Medical Corps at the outbreak of World War III. Bob Gustafson is a construction engineer and was in the Seabees during the war. He was awarded the D. S. C. for the rush construction of bridges in Indo-China, In a few days he goes to Alaska to supervise the building of a radiant-heated highway to occupied Moscow. He will make the trip up there with Carol Howard, who, became interested in politics and is now a representative from the newly admitted state of Alaska. The latter territory is thriving under forward minded leaders like Carol . . . Norma Minor graduated with honors from Holy Cross College and since serving with the Marines for the duration,

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I, Cynthia Fisher, will my ability to argue with “Doc” to Johanne Potter and my powerful soprano voice to Bette Chausse. I, Robert Gustafson, will my curly locks to Murray Andrews and my love for cemeteries to Lanny Goodwin. I, Carol Howard, will my height to Donald Moore and my position as Mr. M’s secre- tary to anyone who can take the kidding. I, Grant Johnson, will my ability to get to school on time to Raymond Smith. I, Arthur LaFleur, will my bow-ties to William Keeler, my punctuality to Norman LaFleur and my jokes to Paul Bjork. I, Norman Minor, will my crew-cut to Robert Craw and my debating opponent, Mr. Place, to Lynwood Eaton. I, David Moore, will my quietness to John Peterson. I, Ruth Patterson, will my basketball position to Loretta Amour and my love for “Blue Grass” to Connie Crosier. I, Edward Plante, will my basketball ability to Donald Moore and my basketball student to Franklin Smith. I, Carol Ross, will my sandwiches to Theresa Minor and my fair-complexion to Sylvia Besjourdy. I, Philip Smith, will my witticisms to Connie Crosier and my place in the Glee Club to Mr. Donald G. Schwab. I, Janice Swindell, will my brown eyes to Diane Naster and my height to Roddy Lavallee. I, Nancy Taft, will my ability to play the piano to Carol Maranda and my mythical glass of beer to Carol Johnson.

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has taught math and sciences at Wellesley College. The environment has proved to be too nerve-wracking and dangerous for a sworn bachelor, so he intends to transfer to a men’s college. Despite all, rumor has it that a cute little Senior will accompany him as his bride . . . Bill Bullard married a widowed farmer’s wife whose chickens he had stolen, and who gave him his choice between the joys of wedlock or jail. To save others from his fate, he has founded the Bullard Detective Agency for the apprehension of chicken thieves. His home and headquarters is an abandoned toll booth on the Brooklyn Bridge. Why shouldn ' t Bill live there. He bought the bridge the first day he was in New York. While trying to collect his tolls, he was grazed by twenty cars in one day. But persistence pays. He told us proudly of the day when an organ-grinder’s monkey threw him a penny . . . Ronnie Pacquin and Art LaFleur run a commercial airline from Boston to Rio De Janeiro. Ronnie was a jet pilot in the war so he handles the flying end of it while Art does the selling and accounting. They also operate a protection agency on the side with Art selling and Ronnie as chief muscle-man. For people who must be forcibly persuaded, they call in David (“Two-Gun Moore’’) and his boys from David’s cattle ranch outside of San Antonio, Texas. He worked there as a cowhand after leaving S. H. S. and later inherit- ed it from his uncle. They found that imported stampedes were an effective means of con- vincing those hesitant about buying protection . . . Before flying up for the reunion, Ronnie and Art picked up Philip Smith in White Sands, New Mexico, where he is an atomic re- searcher for the government. He is at present engaged in a project for launching the first rocket to Mars which will surpass the speed of these flying saucers which are seen more and more. He himself will be a member of the rocket crew and if he gets to Mars and back, he promised to tell us what Martians really look like . . . Grant Johnson has found a place in the sun as a set designer and builder for MGM Studios in Hollywood but fears for his job because movies are rapidly going bankrupt as a result of the widespread patronage of colored and two-way television and of radio, which 18