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

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16 THE CRIMSON AND GRAY 1943 OUTSTANDING MEMBERS OF 1943 Giant girl Dot Gardner Giant boy Ray Gendron Midget girl Joan Tully Midget boy Teddy Sheldon Bright lights Barbara Silk Leroy Darling Best athlete Ray Thompson Talented musicians Edmond Rewinski Betty Maxwell A second Poe(t) Arthur Hall Busiest talkers Thomas Campbell Susie Tobia Prettiest damsel Patricia Noel Most bashful Robert Donavan Rose Pettinelli Class giggler Sylvia Greene Class critics Alice Stanley Ray Thompson Best dancers Sherbert, Southall, and Kirby A sympathizer Judy Kimball Sweetest Barbara Morse Most studious Phyllis Mannis Most stylish Lorraine Lariviere Our Twins John and Richard Cavanaugh CHIPS OFF THE OLD BLOCKS or Freshies and their long suffering Senior Brothers and Sisters: Tommy Campbell Serious Mary Charles Bastien Cheerleader Jimmy William Freeland A student Louise Florence Girouard Popular Odile Bertha Kaszynski Sister Eugenia Lorraine Loiselle C and G typist Rita William Matys Cheery Shirley Lucille Mecure Brother William Edward Ohab Nonchalant Statia Lawrence Proulx Reporter Rob. • WHAT DO Lester Newlands jots this down. Finding myself overcome with an insane desire to write, I ' m going to state a few things that I detest, particularly about girls. 1. Lovesick girls — always sighing and talking mush. 2. Crooked seams in stockings. 3. Chain bracelets and bells on shoes — (remind me of the Pied Piper). 4. Those sweet young things — beautiful but dumb. 5. Foolish questions — purposely applied to attract teacher ' s attention — to let him know they ' re awake. 6. Too much cosmetics — Powder and paint make you look like what you ain ' t (Please excuse my English, Miss Fitzgerald). 7. Shoes without toes and heels — I ' ve really seen them ! 8. Long fingernails — Fu Manchu has rivals. 9. Those girls who establish a postal system in class. La dee da, dee da ! Dame fashion has now taken the football squad un- der her wing, or so it appeared when a young lady in Newswriting class spoke of a touchdown made by a 200-pound bone crusher as exquisite. HOW TRUE!— Barbara Darcey ' 40 There was a little girl and she had a little smile, She sent it to a little boy across a little aisle, He wrote a little note to her, but made a little slip, And they both went together on a little office trip. There was a little boy and he had a little test, He copied from his neighbor and he guessed at all the rest, Because they thought their History was just a lot of bunk, His paper and his neighbor ' s resulted in a flunk. There is a famous football team that always plays so square, There is a coach who knows his stuff, and treats his boys right fair, Combine the two, and see the light that truth right- fully impels, The coach is Coach McMahon and the team is good old Wells! Rah! Rah! IMPORTANT STOPS AROUND THE UNITED STATES Capitol The Office Alcatraz Detention Liberty Bell 3 o ' clock Ring Boston Massacre Getting Your Coat At Noon Time Smithsonian Institute Waste Baskets (everything ' s in there and they are all relics) National Parks The Curbstones Indian Reservations Freshmen Home Rooms Hollywood Girls ' Dressing Room Rogues Gallery Framed Pictures in the Office Old Faithful Robert Morse, Period 1 Bunker Hill Main Street Palm Beach Miss Corbin ' s Fashion Show Metropolitan Opera Glee Club Indianapolis Speedway Two Laps Around Dresser Field Alder ' s Planetarium Footlighters Morgue Miss Hofstra ' s File Route 1 To The Office YOU THINK? Dear Boys, Dear, dear, dear, boys! Roll down your trouser legs and lend an ear — your feminine superiors are about to inform you about a style which will affect your popularity in this day and age! Just a bunch of clam-diggers at heart! (want some sea-food mama?) That ' s what Mary Campbell has to say about the high-water breeches that seem to have taken your fancy of late. Jean Phillips wants to know if they are rolled in an attempt to expose your beautiful purple and green polkadot (or are they striped?) socks. Personally, I ' m wondering if those upturned cuffs aren ' t merely an excuse to display the shapeliness of your ankles! Do tell! Don ' t kid yourself into thinking you look ex- quisitely collegiate, warns pretty Nancy Goddu. You resemble grammar school kids outgrowing their first pair of long pants! At any rate, 80% of the high school belles, includ- ing such lovely damsels as Lucille Dubreuil, and Kay Trainer (heroines of the Senior Play, by the way) say Down mit the cuffer, Charlie! So, roll out the pants-legs, boys, and we ' ll put our blues on the run! YOUR EDITOR

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NOVEMBER 1939 15 PRATTLE Ambling About Not that we ' re curious or anything, but we wonder who received all those smiles Lizzie Costa flashed at the front row, middle section while directing cheers in the assembly . . . Barbara D ' Arcey is encouraging our star trackman to walk to keep in condition on fine crisp Saturday afternoons . . . Jean Phillips is ex- perimenting with the effect of light from different angles on success in class . . . She works on this prob- lem daily in Mr. Kyrios ' History Class . . . soon she ' ll be out the window . . . Arthur Hall brightening up his corner of the Study Hall daily Period 1 . . . Doug Brown and Jimmy Bastien worrying over their Swing Club . . . Have you heard Doug ' s double talk? It ' s quite educational . . . Sara Coffin is surprisingly serious about home work this year . . . Mary Ann Hazleton ' s nickname, Giggles , started with the traffic officers . . . Milton Freeman surrounded by fair damsels . . . Welcome to Burgess II. SONG TITLES The Man With the Mandolin Bob Beauregarde You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby Channing Pratt Blue Orchids To The Poor Nut Three Little Fishies Elizabeth, Cassie, and Fatina Costa Blue Evening Sunday before Monday A Man and His Dream Coach McMahon Day In and Day Out Traffic Officers An Apple for the Teacher Mary Ruzzoli I Want a Hat With Cherries Lester Newlands Girl Behind the Venetian Blinds Marjorie Cole The Wizard of Ox Eddie LeClair Over the Rainbow My Diploma If I Only Had a Brain Shorthand Prayer In an 18th Century Drawing Room Room 126 It ' s Funny to Everyone But Me Ben Benoit I ' m Sorry For Myself Mary Campbell I Get Along Without You Very Well Oral Compositions I Poured My Heart Into a Song Wilfred Pleau If I Had My Way Robert Laliberte I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze Milton Freeman South of the Border Barbara L. Morse Shirley Austin Stay Away From Our Door Truant Officer Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea D To You Nuts HERE AND THERE ALONG THE CORRIDOR Walking down the aisle we see Margaret Diorio surveying a pile of dropped books, waiting for some- one to pick them up . . . Joan Tully walks briskly into her home-room . . . Lester Newlands, of the Poor Nut cast, chuckles to himself over some hidden joke . . . and there ' s Miriam Renaud, who tried to join the track team — Poor Miriam! She failed . . . Raymond Down- er and Lloyd Chapman, two inseparables, with their heads together . . .and by the way, what ' s that story about the strange mixtures Sophs call cokes? . . . Julia Liro rushes to her home-room, a swirl of plaid . . . Robert Proulx, with nothing particular on his mind, saunters into Miss Birtz ' s room . . . And there ' s the usual bunch on the corner trying to do their home- work before the bell rings . . . you know, the ones that wait until Sunday night during the Charley McCarthy hour to prepare that test, though of course WE never do . . . That bit of wind that just blew so swiftly MIGHT have been Harold Briggs . . . Odile Girouard — another member of the senior play cast — remember her as Geraldine ' s mother? . . . Francis Kirby, a better- known Freshman ... A mass of pink, white, and blue pass by that we suspect was Ruth Desmarais, Nath- alie Pierce, and Nan Goddu . . . Big brother Whitman G. follows close behind . . . And there goes the bell . . . and the aisles are empty . . . What a life! THE WORLDS FAIR IN M. E. W. H. S. BUILDING Trylon, Chester Savory; Perisphere, Nelson Carpen- ter; Lagoon of Nations, Bubblers; Children ' s World, Detention Room; Hall of Science, Chemistry Lab.; General Motors, Bicycle Shed; Tel and Tel, May Chaf- fee, Jean Phillips; Railroad Display, Miss Drake ' s Projects; Hungary Building, Cooking Room; Greece Building, Boiler Room; Turkish Exhibit, Showers; Dutch Building, Room Off The Office; French Build- ing, Mrs. Beauregard ' s Room; Scotch Exhibit, Miss Coderre ' s Savings Chart; China Exhibit, Miss Corbin ' s Cupboard; Aquacade, June Desrosiers, Shirley Matys, Adele Liro, Norman Gagnon, Annie Young, Darcy Gir- ard, Lillian Brunell, Clematis Janeczek, Louise Lali- berte, Margerie Hobson, Agnes Butler. NEWS ON BIG ALUM Jean Phillips and Patricia Whiteoak This year ' s gang at Big Alum certainly had one grand time . . . Ken Phillips giving rides in his red speed boat, how he hates it . . . The Roy brothers delivering each morning — stopping especially at cer- tain places . . . The hangout of the Big Alum crowd was at the store which Charlie and Franco run so successfully . . . Then there was the cross on the Mountain which could be seen all over the lake — we wonder what it means . . . Jean Phillips and Pat Whiteoak trying hard to start their often stubborn motor boats . . . O Boy! You should meet Pat and Jean ' s new friend Peg (a blonde with a beautiful tan) the other two attractions were Virginia and Margie, all three from Springfield (That ' s why the continued trips to said city) . . . Dick Renaud ' s form on the tennis courts . . . Shirley Matys ' tennis dates in the morning . . . Fred Peloquin ' s flashlight pictures . . . Jerry Bastien was there but no lemon cokes . . . The strains of neath the spreading chestnut tree floating from Phillips ' porch . . . Roy ' s green motor boat rescuing pretty maidens in distress — maidens anyway . . . June Desrosiers ' and Annie Young ' s frequent trips to the store . . . Steve Lari- viere ' s red crew hat — Stevie, where did you get it? . . . Charlie and Steve running into Fiskdale in the jalopy everyday to get mail from Springfield — Who from? Can ' t you guess? . . . Naturally we think you have seen the Jalopy (Lena) Who hasn ' t? ... Oh yes, Ken P. is still dragging for his motor on the lake bottom (supposedly)- — Good Luck . . . The alumni, R. Toucey, P. Whiteoak, S. Casavant, E. Roy, and G. Beers surprised us by their serenity . . . Girls, have you heard about Pat and Jean ' s friends from the island? . . . We can ' t wait until next summer. P. S. We had visitors at our lake this summer, Louise and Gert Bouvier, also Eddie and Louise Le Claire.

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