Wells River High School - Chatterbox Yearbook (Wells River, VT)

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George Hall — Attending Union College, Schenectady, N. Y. John Mahnker — Employed at Shell Station, Wells River, Vt. George Martin — Employed at Adams Paper Co., Wells River, Vt. Leon Provencher — In U. S. Navy. Roger Simmons — Employed at First National Stores, Wells River, Vermont. Patricia Stearns — Attending University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. Marion Webster — Attending University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire. ----WRHS------- CLASS OF 1950 Ellen Bailey — Employed at Bowen-Hunter Bobbin Mill, East Corinth, Vermont. Marion Chamberlain — Employed at St. Johnsbury Terminal, Wells River, Vt. Priscilla Davidson — Employed at First National Warehouse, North Haverhill, N. H. Patricia Duguay — Attending Becker Junior College, Worcester, Massachusetts. Nancy Mays — Employed at Jordan Marsh Co., Boston, Mass. Evelyn Provencher — Employed at Ray’s Clothing Store, Wells River, Vt. Priscilla Pudvah — Attending Becker Junior College, Worcester, Massachusetts. Barbara Sawyer — Attending Lyndon Teachers College, Lyndon- ville, Vt. Ruth Simmons — Mrs. Timothy Wyman, living in Wells River, Vermont. ANN DEMERITT, ’51 — T wenty-three —

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CLASS OF 1948 Margaret Bailey—Mrs. Julius Fankhauser, living in Cranston, R. I. Ina Benzie — Mrs. Albert Boucher, living in Woodsville, N. H. Betty Pudvah — Student Nurse, Hanover Hospital, Hanover, N. H. Lucille Judd — Mrs. Ryland Guay, living in Wells River, Vt. Bill Rowden — Attending U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md. Lester Welch — Employed at Green Mt. Stock Farm, Randolph, Vt. Tink Winchester — U. S. Marine Corps. ---WRHS— CLASS OF 1949 Philip Basch — U. S. Marine Corps. Keith Bidwell — Attending Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y. Blanche Cushing — Mrs. Joseph Vielleux, Wells River, Vt. Kendall Fisk — Employed at home, South Ryegate, Vt. Charles Frost — Employed at Mountain View House, Whitefield, New Hampshire. Nancy Gould—Attending Becker Junior College, Worcester, Mass. Betty Guay — Mrs. Carroll Rinehart, living in Wells River, Vt. — Twenty-two —

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CLASS HISTORY The Class of 1951 first entered this school on September 5, 1939. On that fateful day there were twelve noisy first-graders; Barbara Bailey, Ann Dcmeritt, Herbert Chamberlain, Horace Symes, Rosina Farwell, Alice Barrett, Mary Balch, Thelma Bijolle, Virginia Hitchcock, Beverly Legassey, Roseanna Rushford and Eleanor Wilson, for three years Miss Darling struggled with us and finally passed us on to Mrs. Stanley. When we entered the fourth grade we lost Alice Barrett, Mary Balch, Thelma Bijolle, Virginia Hitchcock, Beverly Legassey, Roseanna Rushford and Eleanor Wilson but we gained Reynold Boyce, Carroll Leonard, Kenneth Lee and Kenneth Paye. While we were being edu- cated by Mrs. Stanley we lost Carroll Leonard and Kenneth Paye. When we finally climbed the stairs to Junior High another boy, Luther Crowe, and one girl, Rachel Simmons, had joined us. When we became eighth-graders we no longer had Luther Crowe and Kenneth Lee but Thomas Verrill and Philip Currier came to take their places. Thomas Verrill left before the end of that year and when the year ended Philip Currier went back to his beloved Plymouth, N. H. At last we were Freshmen. At that time we numbered ten. Two girls came down the river from South Ryegate, Frances Bailey and Winnie MacDonald, and David Gonyer moved to Wells River from Lancaster, N. H. The Sophomores took it upon themselves to make us miserable but having just one boy they were handicapped. There was no change in our mighty class the next year but in the fall of 1949 we found that Rosina Farwell had gone to Cushing Academy in Ashburn- ham, Mass, and Winnie MacDonald had moved to Cabot, Vt. Shortly after the beginning of the year J. David Egner moved to South Ryegate from Delhi, N. Y. and joined our happy fold. When we started this year, Cliff Winchester, a former member of the Class of 1949, had decided to finish school but after six weeks he left. After struggling through school for twelve years with seventeen teachers we are now preparing to graduate? Four of us have been to- gether for all twelve years; Ann Dcmeritt, Barbara Bailey, Herbert Chamberlain, Jr., and Horace Symes, Jr. There are five other highly intelligent members of this exclusive class; Reynold Boyce, Rachel Sim- mons, David Gonyer, Frances Bailey and David Egner. We all hate to leave Wells River High School and we know that we will be missed but we must keep the rest of the world enlightened. HORACE SYMES, JR., ’51 — Twenty-four —