Tantasqua Regional High School - Tantasquan Yearbook (Sturbridge, MA)

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SEATED, left to right: Wafter Luce, Irene Lopata, William Emrich, Elizabeth Tite, and Paul O’Brien. STANDING: Richard Erban, Ted Steensen, Chris Nasse, Edward Ahern, Vernon Smith, Edward Shumate, John Lynch, and Peter Lewis. “Nancy!!” “Debby, I haven’t seen you since we graduated from Tantasqua. Let’s go someplace and talk.” ‘Remember all the good times we had?” “Remember all of our teachers?” “I remember in Jr. High.” “In Mr. Ahern’s class we had ‘towns,’.” “Everybody else made money with their businesses except us.” “Mr. Arthur Lewis, Mr. Damon, and Mr. Allen tried to teach us the right way to speak English. They also taught us History.” “So did Mrs. Hodgkinson and Mrs. Showman.” “Mr. Nasse, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Steenson, Miss Lopata, and Mr. Norton taught us the fundamentals of Math and Science. If they hadn’t we would have never gotten through the rest of the years.” “We sure weren't angels then, were we?” “Did you know that Mrs. Bzdula had a girl in her class that could take dictation at 180 words per minute.” “I didn’t think that Mr. Bzdula would find anyone to replace us as football program sellers.” “Did he?” “No.” “I don’t see how Mr. Toepfer ever had the patience that he did with out bookkeeping.” “I remember I was treasurer of something and was always getting my books mixed up. He sure had trouble straightening them up.” “Oh, the way the food turned out in Home Ec.” “It’s a wonder we didn’t poison Miss Kennedy, Mrs. Stellato, Mrs. Sherris, and Miss Dowling.” “They always had to tell somebody to rip out the zipper on the skirt or dress.” “The lamps and bookshelves that the boys made, remember them?” “Mr. Moge, Mr. Rainka, and Mr. Plante were responsible for those.” “Oh, those beautiful master- pieces we did in art.” “Mr. Pothul and Mrs. Ladinig had courage allowing some of us to use the paints. We could have wrecked the place.” “Mr. Emrich made the general science class interesting. And it was great the way he managed the winning baseball and ninth grade football teams.” “Remember how

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ABS | Mr. MacArthur and Mr. Emrich used to brag about the Marines and how good they were.” “Mr. MacArthur’s illustrated Psychology classes were fun.” “I’m still sore when I think of the exercises Mrs. Duquette used to have us do.” “Energetic Mrs. Chase loved field hockey.” “Mr. O’Brien and Mr. Shumate dissected the first elephant to come back from outer space.” “Mr. Luce’s x’s and y’s still confuse me.” “I still don’t see how Miss Tite ever mixed CuNO, and H.SO, and got HNO; and CuSO,.” “(Remember all the experiments we did with H.S and smelled up the whole school.” “Remember our foreign language teachers, Mrs. Bolshaw, Mrs. James, and Miss Dennison. They must have had a hard time teaching us because we had a hard time with English.” “We had Mr. Kelly to thank for our newspaper and debating team.” “Remember Mr. Charette when he took over our Latin II class, hmmm?” “I wonder if Mr. Peter Lewis’ Geometry class ever understood the Pythagorean Theorem?” “Thanks to Mr. Julian we had a planned future.” “I wonder if Mr. Woodcock ever got back the chairs that the psychology class is always borrowing?” “Rememer Mr. Florin?” “Remember all. the books that Miss Johnson used to assign us to read and Mrs. Campbell found in the library?” “Wouldn’t it have been a riot if we had had a beatnik band? I’m afraid Mr. Podgorski couldn’t have tolerated it.” “And those wonderful Choraleers of Mr. Corson’s?” “Remember the job that Mr. Smith had in training the faculty for the basketball game. Dick Erban sure looked funny hanging from the rim after George dropped him into the basket.” “Mr. O’Connor was a slight worry to the Varsity. Oh, ‘Steam- boat’ Wilson and his hassle with Alan.” “Our Varsity basketball team sure was great, thanks to Mr. Bansfield and the boys.” “Mr. Pauli was the one to thank for the good job the football team did.” SEATED, left to right: Mary Bzdula, Joyce Ladinig, Helen Duquette, and Evelyn Chase. STANDING: Donald Pothul, Edward Bzdula, Floyd Corson, and Stephen Podgorski.