Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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.:.i-1.--i-.--1 -.-.-- 1-.i Crass or 1940 -if ----- -1-Y- --.--. SENIOR PLAY CAST Seated: lefz to right, Robert Clemence, Miriam Munster, Hope Goodell, Jeanne Berggren, Charles Manning. Sefofzd Row: left zo right, Donald Morrison, George Shedd, Elaine Cahill, Genevieve Chiasson, Edwin Briggs. p Third Row: lefl to right, George Killam, Anne Drury, Philip Vincello. those lofty and almighty individuals whom we had always envied and whom we had looked up to with reverence. Returning from ten weeks of leisure, we seniors found that there were now freshmen in the school and that the corridors were more congested than ever. Settling down, however, to the well-accus- tomed routine, we again elected our officers. For the third time, Richard Johnstone was chosen President, Bertillie Lochrnan, Vice-President, Marion Wagner, Secretary-Treasurer, and Robert Martin was selected as Auditor. Witli the formality of election completed, the Class of 1940 devoted their energy every Saturday to cheering on the football squad. Capably led by Co-Captains Johnstone and Goguen, the team fought bravely although in many cases luck was against them. Memory of Thursday, November 50, 1959: When the Brockton band marched in the for- mation of a turkey, it played the death march, and many of us are still wondering whether that selection was for the turkey or for Waltham High.

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.g..--r,-t-,-U-0-.,- - - -- - 9-U CLASS OF 1940 -am-0-1 1- - ---- - -0-0-wr. ! ad SENIOR PLAY COINIMITTEE Setmd: leff In iiglvl. lxlargaret Bonoino, Doris NX'hitcomh. Hilda Berman, C0'TS'Ll'1l'L' Fuller, XX'ilma Greenlaw, Muriel Healey, Helen Leary. Middle Ifflllf fell In ffyflf. Arnold Sarmanian, .lanice Loving, Jeanne Finaw, Regine Hanna, Barbara XX'cel-cs. Ruth Leishman, Marjorie Dow, Kenneth Eberhard Bart lime: left lu rilqlvl. Lawrence Tobin, john Forster, XX'alter Harvey, Robert Clemence, john Cronin, Chester Ruggles and Bob Mason added the scoring power neces- sary for B. C. High to beat Wzilthain by the tight score of fi--3. Thus entering the playoffs with two defeats, one lonely Framingham goal was enough to eliminate our team. A smooth-running basketball team took the Suburban League crown and added to the success of Waltliain High athletically. With time marching on as usual, the Class of 1940 soon found that spring was upon themf- spring, love, and the junior Prom. Carefully planned and executed by a competent committee and aided even by the weatherman, the greatest social event of the junior Year was a success in every way, even financially. In june we said good-bye to the Class of 1939, watching many friends and companions regretful- ly leave the school for the last time. It was hard to believe that two years of our high-school life were behind us and that we were now seniors, CONSTANCE FULLER Senior Play Chairman I i n l .IL UA

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' l I , ---- ---. ---- - -1- --1 CLASS or 1940-1 ------ 1- - --'- -1-- SENIOR PHOTOGRAPH COINIIVIITTEE Smlmf' fel! In rigbf. Barbara Boyd, Marjorie Hellner, XX'ilma Greenlaw 5f.n1di11,q: lefl lu riglvl. Fred Kennedy, Henry Kelly, Richard johnstone Recalling the hockey campaign, we remember that the team made the best record since 1956, winning seven straight games and losing to Need- ham in the play-offs only because luck was against them. In the midst of the hockey season came the Christmas vacation and then the Senior Dance. Held in early january, the affair was in all ways a great success, breaking exactly even financially. Soon after the Senior Dance the Picture Com- mittee was electedz then we all realized that our Senior year and our brief sojourn in Waltham High was rapidly approaching the end. In April it was shown that the Class of 1940 was not lacking in dramatic talent. The Senior Play june Mad was played successfully to a capacity audience. Penny and her red dress, Elmer , and Milly Lou made a hit with the audienceg while the cast was more interested in getting the ice cream for Chuck on time with as little depreciation as possible. The remainder of the year was taken up mainly by the exchange of pictures and plans for gradu- ation and the future. Now as we stand here and look back at the faint footprints left in the sands of time by the Class of 1940, we feel that whatever the future may hold, the days spent at Waltham High will always live in our memories as the happiest and most advantageous years of our life. Wherever our separate paths may lead us, let us hope that the knowledge we have obtained here will serve us well, and that the members of the Class of 1940 will make their marks in the vast world stretching before us as we again stand on the threshold of another portion of our lives. EDWIN S. BRIGGS.