Wells High School - Crimson and Gray Yearbook (Southbridge, MA)

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14 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY again that extra point eluded them. The first half ended with Wells on North ' s five-yard line and only second down. In the last period after Bill Swiacki intercepted a pass, Krysiak and Janusz combined with him to carry the ball to the two-yard line just as the game ended. WEBSTER — 7 WELLS — 6 Thanksgiving day, November 24, 1938. Weather: Cloudy, temperature far below freezing with cold winds from the North West. I was one of the 5,000 shivering spectators at Marcustry Park, so here is my description of the game. Wells kicked off to Bartlett with Capt. Tiberii getting the first tackle. The first half found both teams fumbling the slippery ball and punting out of danger frequently. The real action began in the second half when Bartlett kicked to Wells, Proulx running the ball back fifteen yards. Southbridge kicked to Bartlett on their forty-yard line. After a twenty-yard pass, then a long end run bringing the ball to the ten-yard line, it was an easy matter fori Webster to plunge the remaining distance to the goal line. The kick was good making the score Bartlett 7, Wells 0. Soon afterwards Proulx ran forty yards. Then a thirty-yard pass, Krysiak to Proulx, scored for Wells. Proulx ' s kick ironically hit the upright leaving the score 7 to 6. The remainder of the game found Wells trying to overcome that one point lead, but when the final whistle blew that point won the game for Webster. MR. KYRIOS GIRLS ' FIELD HOCKEY The girls ' hockey team starting its second year of play showed what experience will do for a team, by winning three games. Miss Stefanie Kozyra deserves a world of credit. Just two years ago she started out with a group of girls who had never played hockey before and now she has a winning team of which the M. E. W. H. S. can be justly proud. This year ' s team was made up of: Adele Liro, Julia Liro, Doris Girard, (Capt.), Mary Tobia, Rita Adam- ick, Pauline Lavallee, Rosalie Martin, Theresa Le Blanc, Yvette Proulx, Darcy Girard, Marilyn Miller, Mary Palmerino, Sally Cheney, Jean Robertson, Midge McCann, Evelyn Ostrowski, and Janet Migala. MISS KOZYRA Mascot for her Basketball Team SHREWSBURY — 4 WELLS — 1 This game played in Shrewsbury found the one point scored by Doris Girard not quite enough to cov- er the four made by Shrewsbury. WELLS — 1 TOURTELLOTE— A thrilling game. Julia Liro scored the winning point with but fifteen seconds to play. WELLS — 7 BARTLETT — 2 Adele Liro scored four points, Rosalie Martin, Julia Liro, and Darcy Girard each made one point for Wells, while Virginia Leis made both of Bartlett ' s points. WELLS — 2 BARTLETT — This game made it three out of four this season for the girls from Southbridge, who closed the season in the right spirit by downing Bartlett. Adele Liro and Doris Girard scored the only points of the game. This department wishes you even better success next year, girls. EXCHANGES Here ' s another page in our scrap book. These are scraps reminding us of other schools. All the ex- changes are fall issues except The Blue and White Banner. The Blue and White Banner, Putnam, Connecti- cut. We liked your dignified cover. The literary section is distinguished in both quantity and quality. The Dial, Brattleboro, Vermont. The cover and cuts as well as the very fine literature make this magazine rank high among those that we have seen. Your outdoor theme was very appropriate for Ver- mont. The Aegis, Beverly, Massachusetts. This monthly is a snappy little magazine with several fine long stories. Betty Woodbury ' s poems deserve special no- tice. Dial, St. Mary ' s High School, Southbridge. The Dial has many departments and the fact that it is mimeographed shows the great deal of effort in its production. The Clarion. We were pleased to receive this maga- zine. One suggestion — a masthead would give you a business-like air. We also received several school newspapers listed below: The Palmer, Palmer, Massachusetts; West High Eagle, Muskogee, Oklahoma; Suffolk Journal, Suffolk Law School, Boston; Gove Arrow, Denver, Colorado; Tech News, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worces- ter; Proviso Pageant, Maywood, Illinois. These magazines and newspapers are in Room 126 available to anyone who wants to read them.

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DECEMBER 1938 13 ATHLETICS WELLS FOOTBALL TEAM L. E. Bob Girard L. T. Real Lafleche L. G. Bud Locke C. Bob Gatineau R. G. Al Tiberii R. T. Leo Hazzard R. E. Pick Pickarski Q. B. Rob Proulx L. H. B. Frank Krysiak R. H. B. Vic L ' Ecuyer F. B. Bill Swiacki Manager Louis Letourneau The first string reserves this year were Alfred Mar- tin, Doug Brown, John Gifford, Bill DiGregorio, Serge Bartoli, Howard Buckley, Ray Trudeau, Walter Janusz, James Champagne, Roger Larochelle, and Richard Renaud. Our cheer leaders who helped bring out our school spirit were: Mary Tobia, James Bastien, Elizabeth Costa, and Hector Anctil. COACH McMAHON To Bell His Live Stock FOOTBALL On the 8th of September, forty candidates report- ed to Coach McMahon. They were an enthusiastic group of boys, not quite as big as in past years but they had more than enough spirit to make up for it. The team suffered a severe loss when Henry Adamick starting L. H. B. was seriously injured and lost to the team for the year. Winning three and losing four they tried hard and made a good showing against some pretty stiff competition. ATHOL — 20 WELLS — The first game of the season found Wells play- ing a much superior team. The game did the boys good, giving them experience and proving that they had to fight all the time to win. Athol had the game pretty much their own way, scoring three times, and converting the extra point twice. WELLS — 9 NORTH BRIDGE — 6 The second game was an attempt to make up for the loss to a stronger Athol eleven the previous week, and in this attempt the Wells men were successful. Northbridge scored first on a series of laterals and end runs, but failed to convert the point. Wells came right back to tie the ball game up when, after a thrilling march down the field, Rab broke through the center of the line for two yards and a touch- down. Rab failed to kick the point so the score remained tied. In the closing minutes of the game Northbridge in a futile attempt to break the tie took to the air. One of these passes was intercepted by Frank Krysiak who ran thirty yards placing the ball within scoring distance. Rab kicked a field goal making the score 9 to 6 in favor of Wells. The game ended three plays later. PALMER — 1 3 WELLS — This, the second home game, was a seesaw battle until the second period. Palmer opened the second period by driving down the field to a touchdown, but failed in the attempt for the extra point. Shortly afterwards Palmer took the ball on downs and marched down the field for another six points, this time the try for the extra point was good. The mainstay of Palmer ' s attack was a short pass across the center of the line from a kick formation, which completely fooled the Wells men. Vic L ' Ecuyer on the offense and Nobert Pick- arski on the defense were the bright lights for Wells. WARE — 1 3 WELLS — 2 In the first period of the third home game Ware marched down to the Wells two-yard line and from there a plunge through guard made the score Ware 7, Wells 0, as they were successful in converting the point. The second period again found Ware deep in the Wells territory this time a pass into the end zone scored for them, but they failed in the try for the point. Wells came back in the second half with a new spirit, Bud Locke and Vic L ' Ecuyer playing hangup football in the third period. In the last period the Crimson and Gray team began to move completing three passes, Proulx to Pickarski, to the Ware two-yard line. Here they lost the ball. On the next play they were successful in blocking a Ware kick behind the goal line, scoring a safety, making the score Ware 13, Wells 2, this being the final re- sult. WELLS— 6 MILLBURY— Traveling to Millbury this Saturday afternoon the men from Southbridge were out to win. In the sec- ond period Proulx threw a twenty-yard pass to Bob Girard on the ten-yard line. Two running plays gained six yards and on the next play Vic L ' Ecuyer took the ball over for six points. Rab missed the try for the extra point. Millbury made an attempt to score after recov- ering a fumble but found the Crimson and Gray team too tough for them. In the last period Southbridge intercepted a pass and threatened again, only to have Millbury retaliate by intercepting a Wells pass and ending the threat. WELLS — 6 NORTH— Armistice Day and a perfect day for football. Our boys took the field in their new uniforms with what seemed to be a new lease on life. Shortly after the, kickoff found North kicking to Wells on their own forty-yard line. After three successive first downs Frank Krysiak carried the ball over the goal line, and

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DECEMBER 1938 15 ALUMNI ALUMNI We ' re not being smug or anything like that but it certainly pleases us to note that the following mem- bers of the class of 1938 are now lonely freshmen — very, very lonely: Beverly Austin and Florida DeMers, the two scholarship holders, are attending respective- ly, Becker ' s Business College and Worcester State Teacher ' s College; Rita Gagnon, Ruth Laughlin, Gladys Hood, and Edna Rainbow are also at Becker ' s; others attending school in the city of Worcester are Milton Cole, Kenneth Hunt, and Wesley Williams, all at Worcester Tech; in Boston are Janet Hogan and Evelyn Morse at the Fay School, Barbara Munday at the School of Handicraft and Occupational Therapy, (quick, run for the dictionary) Harriet Robinson at Boston University, and Barbara Wilkinson at Lasell Junior College in Auburndale. Others who are startling upperclassmen with their extreme intelligence are: Franklin Daniels and Ed- ward Beers both at Rensselaer; Thurston Favor, at- tending his father ' s alma mater, Springfield College! Julie Chace at school in Baltimore, Md. and Louise Lemmelin at school in Texas; Ruth Toucey, slaving away at the Bay Path Institute in Springfield; Nelson Fay at the University of New Hampshire; Kenneth Ford at Norwich University; Neil Turner attending Mount Hermon; George Tully at Lowell Textile In- stitute; Martha Nichols at Burdett in Lynn; Vivian Vantura at Massachusetts State College; Lucille La- Riviere at Stoneleigh in Rye, N. H.; Winifred Stanley, who is unusually fortunate in attending the University of Krakow in Poland; Fred Ashmankas at school in California; and Wayne Morse at the Stockbridge School of Agriculture. Apparently Bob Laliberte, Charles Troy, and Eddie Sansoucy haven ' t had enough of school because they are at the Cole Trade. We ' re flattered no end to have these people back with us, taking P. G. ' s: Robert Canning, Francis Lenti, Charlotte Locke, Barbara Noyes, Joseph Paskal, Dor- othy Swenson, and Pearl Wheelock, who is also en- gaged. Punching the time clock at the A. O., and instru- mental in keeping the place going, are: Marjorie Phillips, Ruth Carey, Alice Hampshire, Jean McKins- try, Marjory Simpson, Doris Lapointe, Marjorie Murphy, Ruth Oldfield, and Betty Merrill. South- bridge ' s future businessmen found there are Harry Kraly, Ted Ostrowski, and Warren Haynes. Reasons why other business concerns in town carry on business are: Margaret Chace at the Nomar Op- tical Company; Estelle Quevillon, working at the Town Hall in the Town Clerk ' s office; Clifford Reyor at Foley ' s; Parker Smith, soda-jerking at Shepard ' s Drug Store; Lawrence Trombley, who is not only working at the Edwards Company, but was recently married to Anna Ayers, a graduate of St. Mary ' s High School; Mary Salviuolo at the Salviuolo Wholesale Fruit Com- pany; Lorraine Mercure at Mercure ' s on the way to Mashapoag; Ted Kwarciak, putting in time at a roof- ing company; and Francis Bousquet and Paul Laliberte each of whom is working for his father. Polly Chamberlin came back to help dear old Wells by making up the cast for When Stars Shine. Prob- ably her most outstanding bit of work was transform- ing Yvette Proulx to Grandma Campbell, and helping Grandma to steal the show. Polly is attending Le- land Powers School in Boston. Franklin Daniels Rensselaer. is out for frosh basketball at Bev Austin is one of the highest ranking pupils at Becker ' s for the first marking period. Many alumni turned out for the Senior Play. Among the newest we found Beverly Austin, our last year ' s editor; Barbara Munday, home from Boston; Neil Turner on one of his rare week-ends from Hermon; Ruth Toucey, our city cousin, enthusiastic about Bay Path; Teddy and Eddie, the pride and joy of the class of ' 38; Gloria Julian, rosy-cheeked and happy as usual; Ruth Laughlin, Gladys Hood, and Edna Rain- bow talking over the situation at Becker ' s Business College; and Hugo De Angelis looking more than dig- nified in his glasses. MISS DRAKE Tables for her Projects in the Spring JO JO CUTS HIS FIRST TOOTH Lucille Dubreuil ' 40 Jo Jo, baby son of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Montville, cut his first tooth today, which was a bigger event in the Dubreuil family than the father ' s raise in salary. All wires were crossed to spread the news around. Beaming with pride, uncle Jerry Dubreuil called his two rival uncles, Ray Bonin and Dan Vecchia, to tell them the exciting news and to prove that Jo Jo was the smartest of all since his tooth came long before Chrisie and Donnie ' s had come. Paul Dubreuil called the theatre and asked for the night off so that he could go down to Webster and take a gander at the latest development, while Gert Dubreuil took time off at the switchboard to call Mrs. Aline Larochelle Le- moine to announce the event, and make sure that Jimmy Jr. hadn ' t suffered any unusual pain which might be the arrival of his first tooth. Meanwhile, Jo Jo sat in his play pen, toying away with his Mickey Mouse, very unaware of the feuds, excitement and gray hairs brought about by his tiny tooth.