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

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would decorate the necks of the falrer sex of the hugh school whule thelr dannty ones would Ive In the hlp pockets of thelr current Romeos In splte of the dlther of dlthers for fear the rungs would fall to appear before Chrlstmas many were pleased to fund that Santa Claus rushed through has flrst de Iuvery of the golden curclets as a surprise present much apprecnated To add to the ranks of our brulllant mornlng faces we welcomed Julle Perron Buddy Butler and Professor Savory who ponned company wlth a good class Then too forty one of us punnors had younger brothers and susters nn the fresh man class to serve as nasty llttle chaperones edge from sand superior lunlors After we gave the town a good gomg over at New Year s our dear class returned to the haven of alma mater to prepare for the lunuor p ay Thus I state brlskly blow :ng on my nalls that the Class of l942 put on the best play ever presented wuthun the four walls of our great audutornum All lok Ing aslde the juniors packed the hall sold standnng room and made the buggest profnt In the hustory of Wells Furthermore this drama Mode to Order Hero was so good that not one but two extra command per THE CRIMSON AND GRAY formances were given before the chnldren of other schools No sooner had thus prause been sounded than It was tame for us to get to work and decorate that same assembly hall for Class Day It certainly IS lucky that gasollne ratlonnng wasn t In effect at that time o the four cars that each made about twenty trlps for flowers vases moss and above all mountaln lthe forbuddenl laurel wouldn t have been so successful But never before had we seen the old hall look so festlve and we grudglngly admitted that the mad and hectuc two days spent had brought pleasant results It was worth all the wor ry For weeks afterward the town buzzed nts decoratuons Closely follownng thus was the decoratnon of the Town Hall whuch we mnstakenly but Iaborlously thought could be decorated on the same scale However the patrlotlsm displayed was In :ts very slmpluclty beguulnng and all those present enloyed themselves So passed another year and the erstwhule lolly jumors have become the serlous se nlors just waltung for the favors of the truflung underclassmen SENIOR YEAR In September of l94l we became sensors CAST OF MADE TO ORDER HERO 20 I . Q I ' . - I r T I ' I I I 1 I . . . . , . I - I I Il ll ' I I I l I - . I l . I I -what am I saying?-to gain useful knowl- with talk of the beauty of our stage and I 1 Q I 1 I I . . , . . , , , . . I I I . . l . . I . - I . . ' . - I ' . l I I I ' I -

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JUNE l942 In the musuc department sophomores Tommy Walkunshaw and Luonel Gagnon wowed the upperclassmen by theur master ful way of playung uazz at the Vuctory dance after the Grafton game Football the domunatung sport at Wells saw un uts ranks a future star player un sophomore Duck Renaud Duck started rught out to guve hus ardent fans somethung to gloat about by scorung a touchdown un the furst of the football games he appeared un From then on through three years Duck has proved to be Websters scorungest Southbrudge opponent The sophomores grew and grew untul the Dramatuc Club gave uts Box Socual The uppercla smen were greatly umpressed by the daunty boxes of our gurls and the danc ung of our boys We even seemed old ment of the tables The study hall new as a sophomore home room was the one place where news of all sorts was to be had Practucally all sopho mores could be found there before mornung and afternoon classes thus we became well acquaunted wuth Muss Coderre a d Mr McMahon the study hall home room teachers Wuth the fullung out of electuve cards our thought tcrned to June and we became ter rubly anxuous for vacotuon to come probably umpatuent to become uunuors JUNIOR YEAR The uunuor year of the alr ady famous Class of 42 began wuth a thrull of antucupa tuon Muss Frances Troy was to have the dubuous honor of herdung the sully sopho more sheep unto the uunuor pen and prepar ur'g them for the senuor shearung We were naturally much excuted and luterally tuckled punk for Muss Troy was a favorute among us and her leadershup was much ap precuated Then too we were upperclass men now un the much vued for spot of Jolly Junuors those terrufyung tartars take us long to establush our superuoruty over those poor wuse fools' Also we had already begun to duscuss rung desugns and emblems worthy of the best class ever to reugn un Mary E Wells Hugh School Of course ut was well under sto d that a good percentage of saud rungs --Q.. CHEER LEADERS 194-I 1942 Left to rught Elaune Salva Moruon Gbb Claure Lusugnan Barbara Morse Stacua Janusz and Henry Romano I9 if I Wifi V , 4 -f , I - . l I A I , ' ' ' - or 1 I ' ' I ' . , S l ' I I I I l U ' 1 11 - 11 . , . ' II - - II ' ' I . I A s ' ' - ' - 1 I - I ' - ' lu - . 11 -- ' ' enough to fit into the night club arrange- who sauce the sophomores And it didn't . II I Il , . I I , I by , ' Mig, f ' l , I , -

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JUNE l942 At last we could walk wsth our noses hsgh and proclasm to the rest of the world we are tops Then suddenly we sensors were attacked by the pesky foes measles and scarlet fever Many of us were annoyed by rather than ssck wsth them Fra wcoss Roy for snstance watched measles sprout rsght before hss eyes Even the fsrst sensor event of the Year our play 320 College Avenue was affected The star Buddy Butler was quarantsned for two weeks the vsctsm of hss ssters scarlet fever Thss caused great anxsety sn the sensor class but Iucksly Buddy was re leased sust before the play and so the play was aved Upon Ray Phaneuf we turn the spotlsght of our thanks for hss fsne sob of worksng the spotlsght dursng the te'1se moments of the play The athletsc seasons scsntsllated wsth champson football and basketball teams And we of the Class of 42 are proud of our contrsbutson to these two great sports Notable dursng thss persod was the fsne 2l support one way or another asven our team dursng the Putnam gam Thss was fol lowed by the Northampton Basketball Tournament whsch many sensors attended For the fsrst tsme many of them found beauty sn a school busldsng Not to be left out of thss lsne up ss our D batsng Team Do you remember thesr exhsbstson of how men fsght verbal battles? Many gave thanks that no blood was spslt As for our class sts lf ov r fsfty of us have left the ordsnary routsne of classes Some p rsons have already had several months expers nce at the Trade School and sn defense work Many of the dutses of Csvslsars Defense hav occupsed our tsme What a peaceful Isfe we led untsl war struck' And sncsdentally snausre about Mr Sperandso s solly old nature walk Because sn spste of snterruptschs the Class of 42 has fsnally come to graduatson battered and brussed but stsll holdsng the ba'sner hsgh we know we have produced a race whsch wsll survsve the trysng tsmes ahead CAST OF 320 COLLEGE AVENUE I l -J . - 9 . - sl sl - 1 I I - - 1 I ' 1 l ' I - - 9 . 1 , 1 I ' . . 0 D . 1 1 V , C, . . . . 1 , . f. , - . l ck . . I , - Q 1 ... 1 . S . I , 9 . Q . . ' 1 I . 1 . . . , . . I I . . . I . I 1