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

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Mr. H. Edward Phelps, Art; Mr. Herbert G. Maynard, Music. OFFICE SECRETARIES GUIDANCE SECRETARY 12 Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Ryan. SCHOOL NURSE Miss Evelyn Lemay CAFETERIA STAFF Front-left to right: Mrs. Ruth Roseland, Mrs. Evelyn Wyman, Mrs. Alice Soderlund. Mrs. Mildred Alexandrowicz. Back-left to right: Mrs. Shirley Felch, Greta Kriegstrom, Mrs. Florence Carlson, Mrs. Mildred Garside, Mrs. Sue Leger. Mrs. Johnson CUSTODIANS William H. Howard, Rein- hart A. Schiebler. Absent from photo, Mr. Nicholas Geneva.

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CLASS HISTORIANS: Sue Butterfield, Howard Marriotti, Lana Silvester. Well, girls, the deadline is approaching and we still haven’t written the class history for the yearbook.’’ I know, Howie, but believe me, Lana and 1 have been trying to get our four years down on paper. It isn’t easy.” Sue and I just can’t seem to find enough to write about. We did so little and yet so much in those four years.” Why, it doesn’t seem like four years when you look back on it.” Remember the spring of 1958 when we found out that Boylston would be starting the ninth grade with us?” I sure do, Howie, I can still see the Boylston kids marching through the school on a guided tour that year. There were twenty-five girls and three boys — GENE DuCHARME, RICH- ARD HODGES, and GERRY CHEEVER.” I seem to remember a current of jealousy among the West Boylston girls about that 8-1 ratio.” Then we found out in September that the 8-1 ratio was a mistake.” What a month that was. We numbered one hundred then. With all the new faces around, there was a lot of getting ac- quainted to do.” Remember walking into the auditorium that first morning and seeing all the kids? Then Mr. Johnson, our principal, came before us and laid down the laws which we students had to follow for the rest of the year.” Then, we began changing classes. What an experience that was. Remember how we anticipated our first high school courses?” For a while we were lost, but soon we easily found our way about the school. As freshmen, we managed to travel from the gym to the senior high wing by sneaking in and out of groups of upper classmen.” I remember selecting the class officers for our freshman year. We elected DANNY THOREN to lead our class as president; SUZANNE HALKOLA as vice-president; DOTTY FLAGG as treasurer; and LINDA BROWNELL as secretary.” Wasn’t JAY LAMOUREAUX our Student Council repre- sentative that fledgling- year?” Our social activity that year was limited to one dance. EDDIE NADOW wanted to call our dance Rockin’ Robin.” CLARA FELLOWS insisted upon The Freshman Frolic.” What was the name of the dance?” The Freshman Frolic.” I think ANN RACINE Made some posters for the dance.” As I rem ember, it was a big success and marked us for many future triumphs in that category.” Right from the beginning, we established ourselves as a very talented class athletically speaking. WHITEY MOORE represented us on the cross country team.” And we had four of our members toiling for the Junior Varsity basketball team. DANNY THOREN, STEVE DOWN- ER, WHITEY MOORE, and WOLFGANG BAUER did us proud on the hardwood.” The freshman spirit at the games led on to future en- thusiasm. As I recall, BARBARA KYES, NANCY ERIKSON, DONNA GLYNN, and LINDA BROWNELL helped lead the cheers of the school that year.”