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

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That sure was a good year all around. Remember algebra class? Will you ever forget the look on Mr. Kane’s face when he came into the room and saw DOTTY FLAGG sitting in his chair at his desk with his sport coat and glasses on?’’ Remember Mr. Fallon’s ancient history class. Some days he had PAT McAVEY at the front of the room teaching?’’ I think it was freshman year too that we had Mr. O’Connor for civics. Remember how we used to tease him because he came from the state of Vermont (Ver- mont has more cows than people).” Gee, you know what? Our first year in high school was a pretty happy one. We certainly had a lot of fun.” Oh what a year . . . Let’s cut the gab and start writing this. Otherwise, we’ll never get to sophomore year.” Summer streaked by, as usual, between our fresh- man and sophomore years. When we returned to the books in September, we had another new name to add to our list. SUE ANDERSEN joined us that year.” That was the year that we came back to three days of Iowa testing.” Later that month we elected WOLFGANG BAUER to lead our class. DONNA GLYNN was vice-president, DOTTY FLAGG was treasurer, and LINDA BROW- NELL was secretary. MAUREEN MACKLIN and BOB OLSON were our Student Council Representatives.” Our class officers led the committees to sponsor our first and last dance of sophomore year, Korn Kernal Krawl.” Howie, didn’t you play baseball that year?” Yes, along with WAYNE PARKER, FLETCHER KINNE, and TED MANNING. Our class really came to a front that year in athletics. The cross country team numbered among its harriers DANNY THOREN, WOLFGANG BAUER, and FLETCHER KINNE. In Junior Varsity basketball, our class had no less than six representatives — STEVE DOWNER, EDDIE NA- DOW, DANNY THORN, WHITEY MOORE, WOLF- GANG BAUER and BOB LANDGREN.” Don’t forget the girls. JOLYNNE KANERVA and BARB NOWAK played field hockey. KAREN HILLER and BARB also played softball and bask etball. Know what I remember most about that year? Dissections and Julius Caesar and French and Latin II.” Remember plane geometry? Remember the fun ULA TOBIESEN, NANCY ERIKSON, and MAUREEN MACKLIN used to have? TERRY RICH spent half the night learning postulates and geometry solutions. Let’s forget about geometry if it makes you two happy.” That suits me fine, but I still can’t forget biology labs and fish and worms and frogs and carrots.” ”1 do remember all the fun I had trying to identify :he parts of a frog. I don’t think I ever did find its gall bladder.” And those lines to learn from Julius Caesar. Friends, Romans, and countrymen lend . . .” Oh, please, spare us Lana. Do you remember that thing we had to learn for Mr. Cecchini?” Let’s see. Gallia est omnia divisa in partes tres; unam partem incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam Celtae, qui a nobis Galli . . .” Oh, shush.” Seemed like that year had just begun when it was all over. Ahead of us was our glorious junior year. What great expectations we had for that year.” We decided not to change horses in midstream.” We elected WOLFGANG BAUER once again as presi- dent but gave him a totally new slate of officers to work with — RONNIE UGOLINI was vice-president, STEVE BLAKE was treasurer and KAREN NYMAN was secretary.” Didn’t ULA TOBIESEN and EDDIE NADOW represent us on the Student Council? We gained more new members that year as JUDY KING and DAVID KASTBERG joined our ranks.” That certainly was a big year. It was sort of a baptism under fire for our last year. 15

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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.”

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' Remember that October day when we got our class rings?” That was the year we started our biggest social whirl ever (only to be topped by our senior year). On Octo- ber 17, I960, we presented our dance, The Lion’s Lua.” We ended the year with the most beautiful prom West Boylston had ever seen, Wonderland by Night. BARBARA NOWAK was chairman and was assisted by almost every junior in one capacity or another. NANCY ERIKSON had charge of refreshments, DON- NA GLYNN, decorations; WAYNE PARKER, tickets and invitations; and BETTY LOU DORSEY, program. What a time that was.” I remember all the work that went into that dance. Remember how ULA TOBIESEN made trees with apple blossoms. Didn’t RAY NELSON make a band- stand? KAREN HILLER cut out silver stars for weeks. TERRY RICH wrapped twelve hula hoops in aluminum foil.” The kids certainly worked hard. Remember all the flowers we had?” Oh, how could I fo rget?” I remember twisting crepe paper and wire into artificial flowers. Why, it took weeks of never-ending flower making at the homes of ARLENE WRIGHT, CAROLE ROCHEFORD, SUE BUTTERFIELD, PEG GRANGER, and LEITH SCOTT. At one meeting, some of the boys showed up. RAY NELSON, GERRY CHEEVER, and BOB OLSON had a terrific time playing ping pong while the girls sat industriously making flowers. Such cooperation!” But, all the work proved well worth it. Truly a night to remember — the gym was transferred into a Parisian paradise with colorful flower gardens and side walk cafes. Joanne Maki was chosen Queen and everyone had a terrific time.” A lot of money necessary to hold those functions was supplied by the traditional junior class fund raising projects. The class officers sponsored a candy sale while ALICE FULLER and RAY LAWRENCE operat- ed the concession booth at the basketball games.” Junior year was one of the best that the school had ever seen sports-wise. The cross country team, coached by Mr. WELLER, had a perfect record of nine wins and no losses. DANNY THOREN repre- sented us strongly on that undefeated team.” Don’t forget that we contributed three members to the Varsity basketball team. STEVE DOWNER, RAY NELSON, and DANNY THOREN provided the strong junior class contingent. WAYNE PARKER and TED MANNING provided the spark for the Junior Varsity basketball team.” In baseball, TED MANNING lent a strong arm to the hurling department while WAYNE PAR- KER played a very strong shortstop.” You ' re always forgetting the girls. SUZETTE DIONNE, JOLYNNE KANERVA, and BARBARA NOWAK played Hockey. KAREN HILLER and BAR- BARA NOWAK played basketball and softball. RUTH DEWITT, CATHY ORCIANI, and NANCY HOLT also played basketball.” Junior year was the second year in a row that TERRY RICH represented our school in the science fair. She did a project on crystals.” Scholastically, as juniors, we met up with many new challenges — the challenge of Algebra II, Latin III, and college chemistry; the challenges of Typing II, Shorthand I, and Bookkeeping II.” There were other challenges too. Remember the challenge of having to learn all the questions in the little pink books so we could get our licenses. Will you ever forget the challenges of learning every word in our history assignments to keep up to Mr. Flagg.” Oh, that was a year of challenges. That was also the year we lost our class advisor, Mr. Griffin, to Brown and our principal Mr. Johnson to Vermont. Mr. Cecchini, our Latin and Spanish teacher went on to school while Mr. McGrail left for Framingham.” Then it was September again. For the last time the Class of 1962 came back to WBHS to begin their final year.” In our ranks were more new faces — MYLES SMED- BERG, PAT EDMONDS, SHARON PERKINS, FRED COKER, DAVE DUGGAN, and CAROL KELLEY.” Remember going into the auditorium that first September morning to be greeted by our new principal, Mr. Charles N. LaPrade?” On the third Friday in September, the Class of 1962 held their elections for class officers. After a week of campaigning, candidates for office gave short speeches in the auditorium.” It was on Monday morning that the seniors cast their ballots in the homerooms. Later that afternoon we heard that BARBARA NOWAK was president; DANNY THOREN, vice-president; ARLENE WRIGHT, treasurer; and DOTTY FLAGG, secretary.” Our Student Council representatives were ULA TOBIESEN and BOB OLSON. ULA later went on to become Student Council president and to lead our Student Council as it has never been led before.” 16