West Boylston High School - Lions Roar Yearbook (West Boylston, MA)

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The next day we took a trip to Provincetown. On the way back Pat” happened to pick up a paper. In the middle of an article she let out a yell, saying that Dolores Anthony had written it. She had become a journalist and had her own column. That night we decided to go to The Theatre By The Sea.” Romeo and Juliet” was playing there. We wanted to see it to bring back high school memories; and by golly — it did! Playing Juliet was Sheila Millin and directing the play was Roy DuPont. Of course, they didn’t use their real names, so we didn’t recognize them at first. After the play we went backstage to say Hello” and also to get a chance to meet the other actors. Back- stage was Nancy Newcomb, now a registered nurse, and Marsha Hilton, a dental hygienist. Also, there were Bruce Goodale, an engineer, and Dana Jackola, a pharmacist. They all met by chance on the Cape, too. After leaving Provincetown, our spacebreaker broke down and we were stranded. We started walking and a kind soul stopped to give us a lift. It turned out to be Joe” Rousseau. What a surprise! He had become an electrical technician. Joe” took us to a gas station, and the mechanic there was Paul Mercadante. At the time he was working on his antique 1950 automobile. Soon the damage was repaired, and in no time we were back in Hyannis. We turned on our radio and heard the weather report by Don” Moore. He then turned the program over to The Happy Little Cook Book Hour,” with the nationally known chef, Douglas Don’t-throw-it- away” Moore. He read an Italian recipe from The Colangelo Cook Book” by Mary Jane Colangelo. Finally we arrived at our motel and rested. As we were dozing off, there was a knock at the door. It was Ligia Matera, who had taken over Mr. Flagg’s job, Aletha Maker, who had become a physical ther- apist, and Dick” Love, who had become a well known bank president. They had met that evening, heard of our whereabouts, and decided to pay us a visit. They told us Carol McGuiggan was in the hospital, so we visited her the following day. Jean Scrimgeour, the receptionist at the hospital, greeted us and told us which room Carol was in. On the way we met Kathy” Sheldon, who had worked her way up to the posi- tion of superintendent of nurses. Sandra Holmes had become the hospital’s head dietician. Carol was pleased to see us, for it had been over fifteen years since we had seen each other. She was leaving the hospital that afternoon. We decided to have a beach party and get in touch with all our classmates whom we had met on our va- cation. There was great excitement, planning the party, and getting in touch with everyone. It was fun to have an unexpected reunion on our vacation. At the party, Janet Gray, Marlene Toloczko, Virginia Beshai, Mary Brunk, and Roger Maddocks sur- prised us. Janet was married and Marlene had become a dancing teacher. Mary was an accountant for Macy’s Department Store in New York City; Virginia had he r own hairdressing shop in Boston. Roger had become a railroad engineer. What started out to be a peaceful vacation turned out to be a reunion of the Class of 1959. 25

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Tune: Summer, 1975 Place: Old Cape Cod With sand dunes and salty air, quaint little villages here and there, the class of 1959 meets. As we cruised to Cape Cod in our spacebreaker, only going 110 miles per hour, we heard the familiar sound of a siren and were signaled to pull over to the side of the road by a tall, dark, and bald state trooper. When we saw who it was, we couldn’t believe our eyes. We rubbed them and Yep!,” it was Larry Fuller. Putting on our feminine charm, we finally thought we had persuaded Larry not to give us a ticket. But we hadn’t — a true state trooper. We continued traveling and soon felt hungry. We stopped at a quaint restaurant called The Sea Gull. As we were leaving, we bumped into Harold Vickery, who had become a noted literary critic. We knew we had better leave right away because he would soon start a long discourse about the Cape. We left him with our best regards and soon reached our destination, Hyannis. After a short search we found an information bureau. Seated at the desk were Hazel Pibus and Sue Meola, who took this for a summer job. In the winter they ran seamstress shops. Hazel and Sue informed us that a good motel to stay at was the Longfellow Motel.” However, Hazel and Sue had failed to tell us that Joyce Gothing and Carl Eames owned the motel. They bought it from Arthur Benedict who had given it up to become a great surgeon. It kept Joyce busy in the summer, and in the winter she modeled. Carl was a psychiatrist who had to get away from his patients because they were driving him crazy. After registering and unpacking we were off to the beach. While we were sunbathing and discussing our own positions, Patricia Popowicz mentioned that she was well satisfied in her work as a laboratory techni- cian, and Julianne Salerno commented on how much she enjoyed being a medical secretary for her husband. I (Michele Abladian) thought how happy I was in my work as a pediatrician. Our reminiscing was broken by a loud scream for help ! We saw two lifeguards dash into the water and save the victim. The lifeguards turned out to be Lorraine Fuller and Cliff” Cummings. Lorraine was a kindergarten teacher and Cliff was teaching manual training. We had a long talk with them, and they told us that Gail Lehman was happily married, and June Skantz and Annette Brunelle had good jobs as fashion designers. Larry Silvester had taken up professional wrestling and was doing very well. The day passed quickly. That evening we were restless, so we went out into the cool salty air. As we walked along a street in Hyannis, we met Beaman LePoer, who was vacationing from his government job in Washington. Beaman invited us to join him as hrs guest at the Oyster Harbor Country Club. Starring that evening were the Offbeats.” When the trio came on, we were stunned. On the piano, singing and playing was Becky” Garside, on the bongo drums was Chet” Brigham, and on the stage dancing was Gerry” Meola. After the show we all got together and had a party. We learned that they were touring the United States and becoming quite famous. 24

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' UtU l Dancing couples ScUfGttfVKZ To our formal Prom, Sayonara, on May 9, 1958, we invited the graduating Senior Class as our hon- ored guests. Five months of diligent work by the six-member committe with continuous cooperation from the entire class prefaced our most spectacular social event. Mr. Phelps assisted in the construction of the elaborate decorations. Radiating from a center- piece of a Japanese garden with a fish pond and pagoda were strands of pink cherry blossoms and gaily colored lanterns. Russ Glynn’s eight piece band played sophisticated music and Brenda Leger, a grad- uating Senior, was crowned Queen and graced our Ball with a beautiful headdress of roses. Refreshments were served continuously during the evening. We relaxed and danced and were gay and then feasted at a supper party at Red Coach Grill in Framingham as a closing to an evening long to be remembered. Queen Brenda Leger dancing with her Escort The centerpiece Russ Glynn ' s Orchestra 26 If