Topsfield High School - Shenewemedy Yearbook (Topsfield, MA)

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PROPHECY was also champron sk1er m the last O1ymp1cs Flash! We have Just recelved a message that one of our guests will be late Crursrng up the IDSW1Ch Rrver Kay Galloway s submarine motor has conked out and she w1ll be sltghtly delayed Kay has the only submar1ne wrth Thunderbrrd stylrng Our next guest was almost unable to attend the reunron Pr1sc1l1a Owen and her husband operate .1 large arrplane hanger 1n San Antonro Texas I her spare trme she manages the grrls d1v1s1on of the San Antonto CGIIICS As C1lla steps asrde, we see appeaung that cele brated wr1ter of passronate love stones Carole Pet erson Besrdes her much pubhcrzed novels Carole IS also co owner of a large Cham of gas SIHIIODS Walkmg 1n now rs a handsome young man Wlfll a baldrng crew cut It s B111 Ingraham, rn the o-we green unrform of the Mar1nes B111 w11l long be re membercd as the only Mar1ne ever to try to s1nk B111 s art1st1c ab1.l1ty serves h1m only as a hobby but our next two guestshave put therrs to professron al use Joan Potter IS a well known cartoonlst on a large metropol1tan newspaper and although Joan 1S short 111 stature she IS tall 1n success Susan God frey 15 an execuuve fashron desrgner for Chrrsuan D1or Sus1e s exper1ence at Topsfleld Hlgll School served her well for she IS also chatrwomanofdec oratrons for ever, D1or fash1on show A well known harrdo 1n an f fashron show rs the abbrevrated pony ta1l, des1g ed b, Madame Carolyn Schott who 15 arrrvlng now Carolrn has a salon rn every large crty 1n the country and 15 partrcular ly noted for her revolutronary style the short Schott A battered old Studebaker pulls to the curb and out steps prornrnent SOCIBI worker Janet MacNulty Janet turned down many offers from professlonal basketball and freld hockey teams to accept her under pard SOCl81 servlce Job But Janet 1S happy for although she IS short on money she IS long on frrends Screechrne up behlnd Janet s Studebaker 1S prnk 1 motorcy cle w1th Deac rn red letters on the Slde It s that terror of the raceways John Clark Deac IS the only cyclrst to make a cross country run tow1ng a cart of fert1l1zer One of the last cars to arr1ve 1S a long black lrmousrne Out steps that br1ll1ant young G II ex ecut1ve Ted Gaskell In hrs spare trme 1 ed lets down hrs harr and g1VCS Gene lxrupa some co 1pet1 Everyone 1S seated and we are about to begm when there 15 a flurry at the door and 1n comes S1dney llurlburt hrs pa Jer and penc1l 1n hand and press card stuck rn b1s hat Remember the boy who lrved one m1nute's walk fron t e school but was late every morn1ng'7 rlell rd hasn t changed much Xltnough he 1S a top notch sportcaster and radro announcer he usually comes hurry 1ng 1n Just as the startrng gun goes off or tl e umpue yells play Dalll As we look down the table, we see that the year have been good to our members Class of 1957 S Sponsored by ARMSTRONG'S SPORTING GOODS SUNBEAM CLEANSERS . . . . I . , . 1 . . - ' ' ' n I I ' . II . . , I u . . , , V . , , ' ' ' , . n O. ' , ' . . , . . . , - - I , O . , . a ' ' ' , ' E I ' n n ' . , . - , , a . t , . ' ,,, ' ' n n - - - ' Y ' I ' ' Il ' ll . . . . , 4 ' - I 1 - t I l M . , A M .- Parris Island. tion, ' 1 . - - U. I g D .Q I . . 1 l ' I Ai.. . ' . 1 I ' I 1 - . S L ll A , , . . A . . 1 H , V I . , c 0 , 1 ' r A A - - , . , 7 Y. . . . U . . . , E . ' - v ' ' A ' ' vu! , ' n x ' ' Q rv - . . . ., I , . , . . , Danvers, Mass. Topsfield, Mass

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We the Graduatrng Class of 1957, of Topsfreld I-lrgh School, Topsfreld County of Essex Common wealth of Massachusetts, havrng gradually lost our mrnds durrng the past fou. years do hereby declare thrs to be our last Wrll and Testament, all other pre vrous wrlls and testaments to be hereby drsrecfarded bequeath the followrng To Mrss Barry we leave a trcketfora tour of Eu rope and a dumb warter fone that speaks French fluentlyj To Mrs Blanchard we leave a book contarnrng the answers to all the questrons her future Famrly classes may ask To Mrs Couhrg we leave an elevator to speed her many trrps between the rhrrd floor and the gym To Mr Crowell goes all ofour respect and ap precratron for gurdrng us through hrgh school A our partrng grft we leave hrm an electronrc com the answers To Mr Dresser we leave an X rav machrne be used rn frndrng students rllegally detarned from school To Mr McLaughlrn our class advrsor, goes our deepest gratrtude rn helprng us to achreve our goals as Senrors We should also lrke to leave an edrtron of our most popular book l-low to Stay Marrred and Lrke It To Mr Soule we leave an Englrsh room wrth a portable stage so that he may re enact hrs rm mortal Macbeth for future senrors To Mr Tobey goes a S1 O00 check whrch rs to be used to remodel the shop and a two way radro to ard hrm when Mr Dresser rs absent from school CLASS To Mrs Varney we leave a specral agent in an armed car as her escort for her frequent trrps to the bank The Junror Hrgh teachers are fortunate rn being the recrprents of gold plated detentron books to in troduce new seventh graders to the mysterres of the happy hour Carole P leaves her partres to Farth Ralph hop mg that she can get away w1th rt, but she s takrng all her telephone connectrons wrth her Joe leaves hrs football abrlrty to Barbara Marcrano and hrs Job at the drner to the Home Ec class to teach them about drshpan hands Janet leaves her love of Chemrstry to Davrd Dr Francesco and her car she rs takrng wrth her be cause she thrnks that rt strll has a few years of use fulness left Ianrce leaves her Marrne fatrgues to Jrmmy her hockey strck to no one as she wrll need rt rn the Olymprcs Sol leaves hrs car to anyone who can keep rt runnrng and hrs rnexhaustrble supply of excuses for be1ng late each mornrng to some poor under classman who frndshrmself rn the same predrca ment Phvllrs leaves her Ivy League outfrts to the on comrng collegrans and her bargarnrng abrlrty to Brlly Welch Art Ieroburg leaves hrs spare krdney to the next unfortunate member of the football squad, and hr abrlrty to get hrs homework papers rn on trme to John Watson Prrscrlla leaves her Job as basketball manager to Sponsored by MEREDITH FARM COUNTRY GAS SERVICE Topsfreld Mass Danvers, M355 ' . . ' . I 1 ' n . . l , . . . . . U Y . O , . . . Q - . . . , I. . . . . , . puter for use when future Trig. students ask for Belkus, her love of French to Chris Anderson, and . - 1 ' to ' . l l . . . - vv ' . 'S , .

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CLASS HISTORY A fateful day for Topsfreld I-llghl September 1953 marked the appearance of a new Freshman class destrned after a four year struggle to gradu ate as the Class of 1957 The Sophomores had the dublous honor of 1n1t1 atrng us to hrgh school l1fe one day 1n October The grrls were resplendent 1n football umforms whlle the boys were arrayed rn the grrls gym surts After much fun we survrved the day fjust barelyj Durrng the football and basketball seasons rt was our proJect to sell refreshments Our treasury was so low at thrs pornt that we guarded each penny zeal ously The frrst project of the year was a bean supper ln the school cafeterla We qurckly found out one of the drawbacks of act1v1t1es lnvolvlng food was that the class ate most of the profits In March Bob Clayton of Wl-IDI-I was featured at a Sprrng Roundup record hop Agam we turned Wow! A whole year had rolled around and now we were Sophomores havmg moved up one round of the ladder Mr George Retalrs was our new class advrsor replaclng Mr Maynard Perkms Also Carole Peterson came from Beverly to Jo1n us We trred showmg movles after school m the gym but 1I was debatable whether the crowd came to see the film or to run around ln the gym This was drscontrnued after slx weeks Another bean supper added to our coffers but by thrs trme the class Qand the townspeoplej were slck of beans and the attendance was smaller than the year before Symphony S1d of WBMS came to a record hop 1n the Spring Th1s was almost the shortest hop 1n school hrstory but the Sophomores prevalled and rt contlnued Art Heard Sol Katz and Joan Potter Jorned us at the begrnnrng of the Jumor year and Mr Retalis fbrave many remamed as our advrsor That fall we sponsored a record hop w1th Joe Smlth of WVDA It was Mr Smlth s f1ISI and next to last dance at Topslleld Hlgh At lastl The brg soclal event of the year arrrved and thrs trme lt was ours the Junror Prom Manuel s Black and whlte Orchestra entertalned at Woodbury Audrtorlum whrch was decorated ID a garden theme W e borrowed nearly every flower ln the town to beaut1fy the hall Stephana Broderlck class presr dent was chosen Queen It couldn t be sol But It was! Flnally we were Semors In September of 1956 we were Jorned by Janet MacNulty and Carolyn Schott brrngmg the total to twenty seven Mr Neal McLaugh11n was ap pornted class advrsor replacrng Mr Retalrs who went rnto rndustry Manuel s Black and Whlte Orchestra agam sup plrcd the musrc for our Senlor Prom 1n November A cold nrght blended wrth the skatmg decoratlons but rt was so well attended that the dance floor was lrkened to the desert wastes of Sahara of the Student Councll and Etleen was chosen Vrce Presrdent of that body and Edrtor of Topsr news ln sports durlng therr hlgh school days the boys who elther played or managed for at least one se son were John Clark Art Froburg Ted Gaskell John Goggm Srd Hurlburt B111 lngraham Sol Katz War ren Rockwell Joe Swrndell and B111 Van Tassell Also the gtrls who starred on therr teams con trrbutrng to then success either playrng or manag rng were Sue Blades 5116611 Boucher Sue Godfrey Janlce Houston Janet MacNulty Pr1sc1.lla Owen Carole Peterson Joan Potter Patsy Pym Nancy Rust and Phylhs Wade ln closrng we w11l never forget our hrgh school years full of learnrng and fun We all feel that the educatlon we have rece1ved at Topsfreld I-hgh wrll remarn Wltll us and w1ll always be a source of drrecuon to carry us successfully through the years ahead PA TTI FRA HER SID HURLBURT Sponsored by WOOD ENGINEERING SERVICE ORDEN E OWEN Topsfield Mass Topsfleld Mass . . 9, J, , . 1 I O - 9 - I D l ' . I . . . . . u . D .- . . . , . . . . ' . . . , . - .. .. salesmen, pounding on doors to bring in the profits. This year, John Goggin was elected President ' . , . . . U . n ' , , , , . . . , b 3- . . . . I ' ' ' . ' . I , , t - . . . , . . . - . , , , . . , ' I I I . ' . . , . . . . , . . . , 9 ' - x 20