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

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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!

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

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JUNE l943 WILL OF THE CLASS OF 43 We the Class of l943 berng sound of mrnd and body on thrs twenty thrrd day of June rn the year of our Lord one thousand nrne hundred and forty three A D leave our hrghest and most honored possessrons and abrlrtres to our posterrty As these abrl rtres and possessrons orrgrnally bestowed upon us from the land of Super Rabbrt descend upon you we assume that they wrll bear to you hrgher understandrng greater rnte lect a d solutron f all our problems To the Mary E Wells Hrgh School the Class of l943 has already left eleven stars rn rts roll of honor grateful thanks To Mr Robertson JOAN TULLY leaves Grandma s prlls from Oh Kay' to sustarn hrm when he s lost rn sorrow for l943 The senrors leave therr Vrctory Gardens to Mr Greene JOE BURGESS leaves hrs screwed up fore head swrngrng arms and emphatrc orator s vorce to the Junrors To the Class of l947 GEORGE SUPRE NANT leaves hrs prnce nez so rt wrll be able to look down on the school To Mrss Coderre ROSE PETTINELLI leaves her bookkeeprng experrence to be used rn the Stamp and Bond Room To Mrss Swrackr LORRAINE LIVERNOIS leaves her shorthand medal To Mrss Frtzgerald the class leaves book reports lthose we rntended to wrrtel To the corrrdors of Mary E Wells Hrgh School BARBARA MORSE leaves her dog to wander around and enlrven thrngs BETTY MAXWELL leaves her vrolrn to Mrss Dolan DORIS PERRON leaves her baby talk to Mr Dron To Mrss Lanphear JUDITH KIMBALL leaves her frshrng lrcense JOHN AND RICHARD CAVANAUGH leave therr tough beards to the freshmen To the grammar schools who have rnvaded our sacred realm we the class of l943 begrudgrngly perhaps bequeath certarn shares rn the Mary E Wells Hrgh School To Mr Tardrff GEORGE MACLELLAN leaves hrs sharp shootrng medal for hrm to reward hrs best basketball player next year To the school drums JOHN KEENAN leaves hrs name LORRAINE ARSENAULT leaves her wrde eyed rnnocent stare to June Srmonds SHIRLEY BACHAND leaves to Isabelle ELEANOR BAGLEY leaves her forthrrght and determrned manner to George Keyes so he may contrnue as a class offrcer LEONARD BEAUDOIN leaves to Gene Bour delars hrs rob as health offrcer rn room IZ4 lTake good care of rt Genel To the Jones twrns HELEN BELISLE leaves her quret manner ETHEL BERRY leaves her soda fountarn rob to Paul Rrchards To Bob Bastren OMER BERTHIAUME leaves hrs pork pre and brrar BETTY BEVERAGE leaves her love for horses to Rrchard DrGregorro to prepare hrm for mrlrtary academy ARMAND BLAIR leaves hrs traffrc post to Bunny McMahon and hrs perfect attend ance record to Mr Latarlle To Gale Coulthard PAULINE BOURDEAU leaves her gentle manner ELAINE BOYLE leaves her red rrmmed glasses to Veronrca DrFederrco ED CALCUTTI' leaves hrs dog to the fresh men to protect them when they go out IRENE CALLAHAN leaves her steady stamp buyrng to Wanda Boksa To Pete Theodoss SAVARIO CAPRERA leaves hrs swrvel hrps 'MAH gg M 7 gg A W gg gggggggggggg g gg 25 I I I . - ' -I . I I 'T' I V . ' I - I... . I I . ' I , n a ' o y I . l I - To Miss Drake, the Class of l943 leaves its Skowron her rapid voice, . I . I ' ' . . . , . . ' ' Q I I . . . - .- - I I I . . I ' I . . I - . . I I . I ' - , , . I . . I I