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

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JUNE, 1943 Cast of Oh Kay, Junior Play Cast of The Lovely Duckling, Senior Play

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the control center and busy as aurplane spotters and even as wardens-assustant wardens to be sure but stull wardens A fa vorute hangout of our war workers was at Butlers farm Always wullung to help out were they when Butlers was mentuoned Been robbung any graves lately? May furst saw the Audutoruum of our Alma Mater uam packed wuth Southbrudge utes eager to see our furst mauor dramatuc flung Oh Kay Remember Joan Tully swal lowung pulls for luver attacks buluousness undugestuon earache heartburn headache uumpung tooth appenduc tus and flat feet to mentuon only a few and Joe s hesutant speeches as he vugorously tued hus suspend ers to avoud an unrehearsed catastrophe? We mustn t forget the made to order scenery buult around the wheelchaur euther Laurels went to Bull Matys and Hank Weav er for doung so splendudly on such short no tuce Of course we all knew ut would be a Muss Drake our class advuser and Mrs Beauregard The sound of applause had hardly sub suded before we were busy wuth hostess responsubulutues for graduatuon Members were s en beneath roses peonues dausues and the luke racung around un varuous mo toruzed vehucles especually Cudworth s and Mrs Beauregards cars and Plumptons truck' Thus travel was quute o feat sunce we were allowed only three gallons of gas a week Ah those were the good old days You could even get to Howard Johnson s and back there I sugh deeply But to return to graduatuon We had our duffucultues as l suppose every class dud Whule decoratung for Bac calaureate we were unformed that no flowers could be placed near the pulput Mr Gules had hay fever Fruday afternoon found our beautu ful red whute and blue streamers saggung about the necks of Mr Tarduff and Mr Speranduo We all had our doubts about the dependabuluty of the strung holdung them THE CRIMSON AND GRAY and wouldn t have been surprused to see ut pop about ten that evenung Can t you just see the dugnufued guests dusentanglung them selves from a mass of twusted crepe paper? But oh happy thought that segment of twune held fast durung the festuvutues As the Prom drew to a brulluant close we thrulued to the thought that now we were the senuors SENIOR YEAR We entered our fourth and last year grum and determuned We were SENIORS the uppermost classmen of all Oddly enough as uf un a dream no one else seem ed to notuce us any more than usual Fresh men stull rammed head on unto us en route to the coat room sophomores stull paraded around cockuly even managung to convey the fact that they too were umportant Thus new found udea was only uust set tlung un our seethung brauns when we were shocked agaun We were senuors all rught but the uolly uunuors who had taken our places dudn t care' ' ' ' Semblung our dug nuty we determuned not to be annoyed We loosened our lups slughtly un a ghost of a smule put on our wusdom caps and went on Soon however we began to come back to lufe Slowly at furst and then un leaps and bounds we began gettung un the groove Then came the realuzatuon that we were at war We were ready to do or due so we practucally and to all untents and purposes dud Furst came the ratuonung jobs wuth everybody runnung around yellung Next? Who S next' wuth Boy Scouts dashung about beung prepared and gettung un every ones way whule doung ut phones rungung and everyone tryung hard to look terrubly effucuent and succeedung only un lookung horrubly bewuldered We were all surprused to fund when the smoke cleared away that thungs hadn t been so bad after all Every body now possessed Ratuon Book No l Next we dabbled un fulung for a whule down at ye olde ratuon board on ye older . , . . 1 . . , . , . 1 . . . I T 1 - . . . . . I 1 . . . ,I 1 ' 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 1 f 1 l 1 1 ' I . , . ' 1 1 - , . . - ' ' 1 A , - . I . T 1 1 ' . , - - - - success-look who we had directing it- . . . . I , , . . . ' 1 1 1 . , . . ' I ...I T I . Q . . . - - ' 1 1 1 I I ' ' 1 1 . . . , . . . T . I 1 . , - II' ll . I , - - 1 . , . - - 1 1 1 . - 1 ' .1 - - 11 . 1 - . 1 11 - . . . . I ' . 1 - 1 - - ' 1 1 1 ' - 1 1 - I I - 1 1 ' - 1 1

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Tl-lE CRIMSON AND GRAY Elm Street where several senaor garls plowed thear way through stacks and stacks of as sued unassued and to be assued fuel rataon books We vowed never agaan after one day only to appear braght and bouncang the next mornang Thas progressed for several days wath our old standbys Ealeen Sher bert Lorraane Lavernoas and Terry Queval laon sacrafacang all thear favorate classes for the war effort Ah how noble we were All of a sudden out of a clear blue sky came our long prayed for one sessaon' We would have been overaoyed af we had had tame to thank about at lmmedaately up came the questaon of spare tame What about at? lt was a shame to waste such beautaful tame doang nothang so the war workers' ' 'We all magrated thereafter at I2 30 to our respectave aobs Everybody enaoyed ammensely the farst tame lfor most of usl our farst pay check was receaved Then the male element of our class start ed the scrap drave scrap scrap and more scrap We had at paled around tree trunks around hedges an among fences and fal lang out of every avaalable hole an the ground The boys resplendent an plaad sharts and World War l tan helmets drove around town collectang everythang from haar pans to aron boalers All an all at was a huge suc cess nettang the government pales of cratac ally needed aunk metal Thas war actavaty maght seem to be all we could accomplash but our burden was con saderably laghtened by the Senaor Play Ah the great dawn of a new theatracal era came about when we approached the footlaghts Our play The Lovely Duckling starred such notables as Maraon Gabb George MacLel lan Barbara Salk Francas Karby and prac tacally the whole senaor class Remember those gay rehearsals? The naght Barbara Salk got soaked an the raan and rehearsed an a bathang cape and bare feet? And the tame Tweet fell on has nose takang can dad camera pactures7 l hope you apprecaated the roses such artastac efforts were the results of three days worth of crepe paper twastang Tweet MacLellan s portrayal of a zoot suat stooge and George Suprenant s lrash Murphy stole the show Soon after our class was austly proud when George Young Presadent of the Student Councal left school to aoan the arm ed forces soon to be followed by several other senaor boys Although our graduataon splendor wall be somewhat dammed by thear departure e would all rather have them where they are faghtang for our freedom so that other classes can graduate an a world forever free JOSEPH BURGESS GERALDINE GlLLON MARION GIBB JOAN TULLY Yfygff? 'Lfci Y K , l lff- Yo V 24 l I I ' I ' I . I . I . I I 1 ' I - I I - I I I - . . . . . 11 - ll . . I I . . I - T . . - ll 11 + - - I I - . . . . I I . . ' ' Il Il I . . . . I I I popped up again. We could be defense - ll aa I . . . I , . 3 , ' ' . 1 I ' l- I I ' ' . I , , . I W I I ' . . . , . . . , . , , I I - fl' 7rl 'f a 33' A .EKx 'I'QV ul!