Westborough High School - Cotton Gin Yearbook (Westborough, MA)

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Dan Sibley, who is now known as Twinkle Toes, is teaching dancing at Arthur Murray's. It's rumored that Dan is about to take over Arthur's job. Norris Lukey, youremember, was the practical joker of our class. He now owns the biggest chain of joke shops in the country. Some people say a good sense of humor doesn't a . p y Charlie Kelley and Norman Burke, of Westboro High School basketball fame, spent so much time downlSouth trying out for baseball teams that they each acquired a terrific tan and are now playing basketball with the Harlem Globetrotters. I Virginia Harper couldn't make up her mind whether to be a taxi driver or continue with her Red Cross work She settled on a compromise, she now drives an ambulance for the Red Cross Betty Jewett is now a farmerette Betty grew so attached to the farms after living near them all her life that she couldn t bear to leave them Beverly Snuth Good nat11red Beverly Smith now writes the jokes for the New York Sun But we have neglected ourselves My friend David Storey and I have been taking a nine years rest after the rigors of high school But we finally got hungry, so we got this job Now that we have completed this census, we will take a well earned vacation Thus you see that the class of 1950 has turned out to be a complete success The fields of business, art science literature and athletics are all well represented by this illustrious group of shirung individuals Bruce Krueger David Storey Francis Trank Clam Jfuitono, September 7 1938, was memorable for two reasons For one thing it was the first time that anyone could remember its raining on the first day of school The second, and the thing with which we are to be concerned for the next few minutes was the start of the long eventful career of the class of 1950 We were in complete harmony with the weather Nearly everyone cried, not just in the morning but all day long The routine of school required recess and lunch hour straight She always ate her lunch at recess and then spent the noon hour trying to borrow some one else s In spite of a few minor mishaps we passed on to the second grade, much to the relief of our first grade teacher It was while in the second grade that we made our initial venture into the theatrical world with a minor production entitled The Gingerbread Man Our star performer was Joan Fournier who playing the part of the pig ate David Storey as the Gingerbread Man In 1940 we crossed the school yard to the E11 Whitney building and the third grade At that time we were not particularly concerned with presidential elections There was one ex ception however Francis Trank was even then campaigning vigorously for the Democratic Party Of some fifty little third graders he was the only one who sported a Roosevelt button Miss Lawry had devised by far the most effective method for silencing noisy students I was really too simple she merely gagged them One day Connie and Hughie went just too far and wound up not only gagged, but tied back to back in the same chair , i . , . . adjusting on the part of some students, particularly Louise Alberty who couldn't seem to keep 5 1 n . 1 1 v Q 1 ' S l , Q . . D

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There 1S a bxg carnxval up at the Westboro Stadium One of the feature attract1ons IS Rudolph the Daredevll B1ke Rider Rudolph Carlson IS apparently still r1d1ng that b1ke of his Another feature IS ChesterFarrar the stunt flyer Chet flies an a1rplane ups1de down wh1le turnxng somersaults on the top of xt One of the town s leadmg c1t1zens IS Stephen Tyler Stephen IS the e1ghteenth v1ce pres1dent of the Bay State Co Actually he sharpens the penc1ls for the seventeenth v1ce pres1dent Remember how Wendell Tufts was pers1stently swappmg old cars? Wendell 1S now the proprietor of Honest Wendell s Swap Shop Do you need a sweater for that special OCCRSIOII9 If you do go to Trull s Sweater Shop We always thought that .T une would make her l1v1ng w1th those sweaters For that classy co1ffure make an appo1ntment w1th Peter of Peter s Beauty Salon We ll bet that not very many people knew that Peter Forsberg s secret amb1t1on was to be a hairdresser Frances Naples IS 1n qu1te a profitable busmess Perhaps you have heard of carrler p1geons Well, Frances has a whole flock for frexght plgeons These b1rds are a cross between an ostr1ch and a hommg pxgeon and can carry from forty to s1xty pounds of fre1ght cross country Hugh Tufts who always had a lot of 3I'tiSt1C ab1l1ty IS now draw1ng calendars for Esqu1re magaz1ne Hugh says he fmds h1s work qu1te interestlng Roger W1ldt the renowned sc1ent1st, has come out w1th an amazmg 1nvent1on that he says 1S go1ng to preserve peace It s a hydrogen bomb that doesn t explode But when he presented h1S plan to the U N everybody walked out except the Russ1ans It IS rumored that they are go1ng to manufacture the bomb and sell It to the U S Barbara Russell Who IS 1n the top 500 1n SOC16ty threw a b1g party last n1ght and for entertamment she hired the world famous comedxenne, Dorothy Rugule1sk1 Dorothy s 1m1tat1on Walter W1nche1l has come out w1th a hot news 1tem Besslemae Nava the beaut1ful Powers model, IS gomg to be marr1ed 1n the sprmg The lucky man IS rumored to be an a1r plane p1lot Marglt Badt IS a llterary cr1t1c Margut you ll remember was the 11ttle g1rl w1th the b1g vocabulary back 1n h1gh school Morton Berqu1st and Mary Lou Borden are starr1ng ln the current product1on of Hamlet Morton who did such a good Job as the father 1n the Semor Play plays the part of another father, Polomus We thmk Mary Lou w1ll go far 1n the f1eld of drama after her 1n Splred actlng as Opheha Franc1s Adams and Byron Andrews are now tra1n1ng hxgh school teachers They know from the1r own experlences Just what to teach the would be educators about the behavlor of the modern h1gh school pup1l Rlchard Burhoe IS giv1ng lectures all over the country HIS sub1ects are var1ed but the most popular seems to be one ent1tled Are Po11t1cal Asp1rat1ons Inher1ted or Cultlvated? George Moroney IS runrung a model farm George doesn t do much farm work though because he spends most of h1s t1me tell1ng other people how to 1mprove the1r farms .T anet Haburay IS now the ed1tor of the Westboro Chronotype Janet always was glfted w1th the pen, and now she makes her talent pay off Robert Whlte remember Whltey the late entry xnto our fabulous class? Well he was gett1ng new parts for that Junk heap he had 1n h1gh school S0 HOW he S Come up wlth the gem of the century a portable collapsible auto Dav1d Houston 1S prospect1ng for gold ln the Hlmalaya Mounta1ns Dav1d always was mnterested 1n rocks, and now he apparently f1gures he can have h1S fun amd make It pay too J ' ' , . , . . . . . . . u u , '- y . ' v . , . . , . . , . , , . . I 7 7 ' ' 7 ! 1 ., . . , l , . . . . , . . , of a Wild Goose is really quite humorous - 7 .I n n I 1 1 , n n Q ' 7 7 H ,, . . . ' ! i ! I . H . . . . . . . ,, . . , ' 3 J 1 . U . , . , . . , , u , . Y , .

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Well, only n1ne more years to go and here we were ln the fourth grade, or was th1s old Hawau'P M1ss Gleason thought that sxnce we were studymg Hawail we would get more out of It 1f we learned some native songs and dances You know what that meant' A hula dance, complete w1th dancmg glrls and nat1ve drummers' Y Our drummers were Francms Trank and Stephen Tyler The hula gxrls were Bess1emae Nava, Lenlce Krull Loretta Butterfxeld, Bernadette Lxlley .Toan Fourmer and Ann Forsberg Here lt must be mentioned that Ann was the envy of all the other girls She had the only genuine grass slurt 1n the group You should have remembered g1rls that It s what you put 1nto '1 thmg that counts And so another year passed and we now cons1dered ourselves among the el1te of the grammar school crowd After all we were 1n the f1fth grade on the second floor School was sl1ghtly hect1c th1s year As a matter of fact we left our mark 1n the form of an enormous staxn ln the mlddle of the ce1l1ng Yes on the cellmg How d1d It get there? Hugh1e Tufts practlclng a h1gh pass w1th an orange and splatl 'Nough saxdl We were not ent1rely free from practlcal Jokers e1ther We w1ll never forget the t1me Betty .Tewett gave Mary Dunne a hot foot. M1ss Roberts smelled the sulphur fumes and feel1ng herself unable to cope w1th the s1tuat1on called IH M1ss Glbbons Here we proved our loyalty to a fellow class member When asked who had l1t the match, we repl1ed m un1son Betty dldn t do It After th1s l1ttle eplsode we managed to calm down long enough to pass on to the s1xth grade We were all completely enthralled w1th the 1dea of hav1ng two teachers and changmg classes The novelty soon wore off when we found ourselves staylng after school every nxght mornmg 1nspect1on Every mormng we llned up before General Glbbons to be checked on personal appearance glrls flrst and then the boys One morn1ng Chester Farrar alone remembered h1s handkerchxef It started w1th the flrst boy and was passed swlftly down the lme We always wondered Lf M1ss Gxbbons ever thought It odd that all the boys used the same lung of handkercluef Agam we proved our dramat1c ab1l1ty when the fxrst row presented a h1stor1cal drama wr1tten by Marglt Badt It was about the death of Jul1us Caesar The hxgh spot of the pro ductxon was the f1nal scene when Bruce Krueger as Brutus stabbed Juhus Caesar played by Norman Burke w1th a letter opener Th1s dramatxc scene produced nothmg but a loud roar of laughter from the rest of the class Th1s rumed Norman s dramat1c career He s never been on the stage smce, except beh1nd the curtams The t1me fmally came for us to leave our grammar school days beh1nd and move over to the hlgh school If we enJoyed the novelty of two teachers, Just th1nk what a thr1ll we got out of hav1ng four and changing classes every perxod L1fe can be beautlful A certam group of boys who spect nearly every afternoon ln M1ss Nash s room were puzzled as to how she always knew, even w1th her back turned, when they were up to somethmg A couple of these sharp l1ttle characters soon dlscovered that she was usmg the p1ctures over the blackboard as reflectors The solut1on was slmple for such bright boys One nlght after everyone had gone the boys w1th the a1d of a chalr, ra1sed the p1ctures ever so sllghtly M1ss Nash left us shortly after th1s to be marr1ed She was gomg to take the easy way Needless to say Norman Bruce and Hugh were qu1te upset over her departure Our nature lover Charles Kelley, wrote a short artlcle for the 0r1el entltled Myrtle, My turtle Charles has long smces passed from turtles to other th1ngs ' 7 . . . . , . 7 7 ' a l o , 1 a . 7 7 ' ' 7 . , . ' 1 . , . . , . . . . . H ' 7 . , . ,, . . . ' 1 for making too much noise in the corridors. The only flaw in an otherwise ideal existepce was 7 7 ' 7 , . . . . . . , . , . . . , , , . . . . . 7 7 . ' ' Ci ' 7 7 ' 6 I 7 17 ' '