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

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THE CRIMSON AND GRAY PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE STUDENTS OF THE MARY E. WELLS HIGH SCHOOL, SOUTHBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS VOLUME XXIII NOVEMBER, 1939 NUMBER 1 CRIMSON AND GRAY STAFF 1939-1940 Business Manager Treasurer Secretary Subscription Manager Business Staff Richard Aucoin Gerard Bastien Howard Buckley Norman Donais Milton Freeman John Gifford Aldo Piucci Francois Roy Editor-in-chief, Barbara Darcey Athletics Locals Editors Whitman Goddu Lester Newlands Louise Bouvier Nathalie Pierce Prattle Mar y Campbell I Mary Dirlam Alumni — Annette Lorange Exchange — Mary Rizio Reviews — Edward LeClair Subscription Staff Darthia Bernheim Elizabeth Costa Jack Eaves Raymond Freeland Glenna Houlberg Robert Laliberte Patricia Whiteoak Henry DiGregorio Adele Liro Lillian Brunell Arliss Olson Typing Staff Yolanda Barbierri Wanda Jura Leonette Hebert Rita Loiselle COVER DESIGN CARTOONS EDITORIALS TABLE OF CONTENTS Lester Newlands Edward LeClair Lucille Dubreuil ' 40 Edward LeClair ' 40 PAGE 2 3 LITERATURE Mary Rizio ' 40 Barbara L. Morse ' 40 Shirley Austin ' 40 Barbara D ' Arcey ' 40 Clematis Janeczek ' 40 Odile Girouard ' 40 Esther Lenti ' 40 Kathleen Traynor ' 40 Elba Dintini ' 40 ALUMNI LOCALS REVIEWS Shirley Matys SPORTS PRATTLE Barbara D ' Arcey ' 40 ' 40 Letter from Eugene Roy ' 39 Howard Buckley ' 40 Lester Newlands ' 40 Mary Campbell ' 40 Jean Phillips ' 39 Joan Tully ' 43 8 9 1 1 13 15 Patricia Whiteoak ' 39 Robert Morse ' 40

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NOVEMBER 1939 EDITORIALS AMERICAN YOUTH COMPARED WITH EUROPEAN Lucille Dubreuil ' 40 It ' s getting cooler and cooler out every day. American mothers are beginning to store away their children ' s light summer clothes, and to ransack attic trunks and closets for fall and winter clothes. American boys and girls are digging up earmuffs, mittens, and kerchiefs; still others are digging out old faithful , the raccoon coat. Why all this? The football season is on. Coaches are seeking good fighting blood, strong vitality, and most of all, good sportsmanship in all the boys who are anxious to conquer opponents for dear old Alma Mater. Girls, either celebrating victories or anticipating winter ' s fun, are planning skating parties, dancing parties, sleighing and skiing parties to entertain our gridiron heroes and to show the latter how much they are appreciated; all parties end, most likely, with a little snack in said girls ' living rooms, where various groups gather round the piano, close to the warmth of the fireplace for more mirth and hilarity, for, this is the life. Soon, football victories will crowd war news off the front pages of newspapers. All America will be clamoring to know who ' s who in that fascinating, fast-moving game, which draws such large crowds to its gates. How disillusioning is war! How many occasions will the European youth have to rejoice in warm liv- ing rooms? Consider what he will be doing while the American youth is going through his never-to-be-for- gotten and happiest stage. While our boys are exercising to limber up their muscles for the games, Europe ' s boys are exercising their aim in an attempt to save bullets, and at the same time, destroy mankind. While our boys are building up resistance on sound, healthy food, the boys across the sea are skimping and saving on war rations. Europe doesn ' t know how many days, months or years she will be fighting in this struggle which the foolish, senseless desire of one crazed man, pitted against the world, has created. Young German, English, and French boys should have a right to free, happy, healthy youth. Those years, such short ones, are so important in preparing youth for manhood and the responsibility of work- ing and striving to give their own sons a good start in life. War certainly isn ' t a good start. And, certainly, scenes of bloodshed and massacre, of half-starved boys in ragged uniforms, stricken with cold and un- dernourishment, walking along battlefields, dazed with the sight of strewn bodies, and half-crazed, do not present pretty pictures to a man ' s mind, as memories. He should have memories of course, but war shouldn ' t furnish them. His memories should be of happy school days, of days filled with excitement in sight of great crowds cheering hard-working football teams on to victory. Pain and effort, hardship and sorrow have built America into our fine, sound democracy, and have made it a nation admired and looked up to by all other countries. Let us appreciate our ancestors ' work and renounce all talk of war. SUBTLE THUMB-TWIDDLING FOR THE SUMMER MONTHS Edward LeClair ' 40 The purpose of this paper is to show how, in various ways, the summer months may be fitted with tlhe wings of Mercury so that they flit by with the great- est of ease while appearing to be used in gainful em- ployment. Of the several ways in which this may be done, three appeal to me particularly. They are: reading a great deal of light literature, listening to all the music programs on the radio, and putting off my one big summer project everyday. The latter, in- cidentally, is my favorite. You can read light literature with little concentra- tion and still be able to get frhe essence of the story (if you wish to). This,, however, is not necessary; you can allow your eyes merely to slide over each page, meanwhile pondering on the outcome of this year ' s pennant race or the prospects of a good Wells football team this fall. If asked why you are reading so much, you can tell your questioner that you have been tipped off that next year ' s English class requires a great deal of book reviewing and that you are pre- paring while you have time on your hands. Listening to music programs also requires little con- centration but the music serves as a very good back- ground for such philosophic thoughts as, I wonder if Margie (or June, or Tom, or Dick) loves me as much as I think she (or he) does, or, I wonder if I ' ll be able to go to that Yankee-Red Sox game (or Jane ' s House-party) next week. If implored by a harassed mother to, Shut off that radio, I can ' t hear myself think, your answer may be that you have been ask- ed to submit a report to the first meeting of the Glee Club on Music Trends During the Summer Months. Putting off my one big summer project is, to my mind, the best method of all three — it makes the time pass faster than any of the others. The first step is this — as soon as school closes in June, decide on some project for the summer, such as writing a book, painting a picture, or making an inlaid check- erboard for Uncle Tom ' s birthday in September. The next thing to do is to contrive to be busy during the day to make it impossible for you to start your pro- ject. Then at night as you march off to your trundle bed, resolve to start your project on the morrow. Re- sult: suddenly September is upon you and the project is unfinished, yea, even unstarted, and you wonder what happened to July and August. Ah well, next year will bring another summer to loaf away. Next year try these and I guarantee that they ' ll work. Incidentally, you won ' t be able to tell me of your progress, I ' m going to Colorado next summer.