Westerly High School - Westlyan Yearbook (Westerly, RI)

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SIXIUR 1xR 1 1942 Class H :story Nlxx 19 9011 Den Sholtx As a 1ulc plaxmg hookx flom school does not haxe any pa1t1cul11 benefit f0l th OITEHCIBI but the othe1 dft6lll0OI1 I leally had in unusual QXDQIIQIICQ If 1t hid not been such 1 be1ut1ful aftelnoon I should h xxe come ox El to the hosp1t'1l to see you but the ulge to go IIShl1lg was much too g1eat so I g1the1ed my nshmg, tzckle 1nd pole 1 ein ot xx o1ms and some nets and I hopped lnto mv pl me and flexx ox Cl to thc old docks 111 StOIIllIgt0l'1 mx fax o11te hldeout The same old c1oxx d xx as the1e xx 1th the exceptlon of one old man vxhom I had nex E1 seen befo1e He vxas Qlttlllg on the edge of the dock d1essed 1n fishe1mans clothes vxlth an old tflll cap on h1s head He was xxeathe1beaten and stooped but ex n at 1 glance one could tell that dc sp1te h1s age he xxas stlll 1 keen ale1t 1lldIX1dU1l He glanced up from the nets he xx as m1k1ng and I soon became axxa1 of the fact that he xx as sta11ng at mx class LOIOIS on It 1ed xx h1te and blue A d1eamx look came oxe1 h1s face is though h xxe1e l6mQIIIb llllg' some hzppx pe11od ll hls youth Hoon he beg 111 to talk at fi1 sl mutteung some lncoherent xxords then 1epe1t1ng 43 ox Q1 1nd oxe1 agaln Iasked lnm lf h1s class h 1d gladuated that yea1 He nodded h1s head and began to smlle as though H1018 happy memoues xxe1e passlng tl11ough h1s mlnd Then he sta1ted tell1ng me of h1s long past schooldays and many fr1ends He heh Ican st1ll see h sald the 1xxed QXDIQNSIOHS on ou1 faces as xxe xx alkcd 1nto the hlgh school that fn st day feehng xe1x lnslgnlfncant among new classmates ind loftx sen1o1s Thls feel mg soon passed hoxxex Ll xxhen xxe leal lled xxhat a hne cl1ss xxe h 1d About the Inst thlllg xxe dld I gllCss xxas to hold ou1 class SIBCIIOIIS NI m lets see Um DQSIITIOIIB xxas chosen to lead Oul class that xea1 as IJIQSIUBHIQ and JIITIHIX S1 on xx as elected XICQ DIQNICIQIII xx h1le Jox -1+ IU P1lm and Fd1v1 Barbe1 xxere elected to the OITICGS of secretaly and t1easurer 1 spectlvely It was xx nen the football season lolled alound that xxe hrst began to shme though fo1 many of our classmates trled out xxxth th1ee 1lILlbt1l0L1S sophomores malxlng the fi1st team They were Um Deslmone Stan Drec7ko and La1ry Do tolo Football soon made way for bas ketball and the1e agam our class held Its oxxn xx1th many of our classmates gc lng out for thls sport You d almost thlnk th xt xx hen baseball stalted xxe d have becn all t11ed out xxouldn t you? Not our class though' We sure shoxxed those Junlor and s H1018 xxhen some of ou1 members 1nclud1ng Bob Downey Johnny Hawke and Alt Coy ex en made the first team It was not only IH athletlcs that ou1 class shone howexer Th1s was proven the nlght of the Prlze Speaklng Contest xx hen John Schonmg xvalked off Wlth sec ond DIIZQ for h1S recltatlon Gentlemen the Klng We we1e represented also xx hcn xx r1t1ng hono1s WQIE announced and Essay Contest had the name of Joy Paln1 aftel the second Yep xxe sure proxed that 5831 that the class of 43 xxas go1ng to b outstandlng Well bho1ty that dleamy look had come over hls face agaln and I must sag I xxas glad he had stopped talklng Or couxse 1t xx as 1nte1est1ng and all that but g0OCl!li-ESS lt all happened so long ago and heck I xvanted to get HQhlI1g I pulled out my balt and gaxe a qlgh of rehef but I guess I xxas too eage1 f01 the old man mox ed at my motlon and started talkm agaln At the beglnnlng of ou1 Junlor year xxe saxx both g211llS and losses Our class had gl own xx 1th the addltion of students f1om Ashaxxay and Hope Valley but one of ou1 f3X01lt6 sophomore teachers MIS Mata1ese vsas absent because of lllness It xx asnt long before class electlons wen held and agam Lm Deslmone xxas unan lull. 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Ill Sl vox I IRR Bunk l 3 lmously chosen to lead ou1 class for an other year wlth Johnny Hawke 'Edna Barber and Art Coy as X106 preslden secretary and treasurer respectlvely Honor was next brought to us by onf of ou1 new class members Marylm Coombs who won the Natlonal Grange E say Contest and was awarded a trlp to Worcester and a gold watch Im afrald the next lmportant thlnf wh1ch affected our class was not due to any member of It but rather to people whom we had never met It happened on a beaut1ful sunny afternoon IH December December the 7th to be exact the date whlch you young boys read about IH hls tory as the date when a powerful countrv struck us 1n the back by dropplng bombs on a peaceful llttle lsland ln the Paclfic Mm hm the war certamly had 1ts ef fects on our class and many weeks of school were lost because of gas and sugal ratlomng We had our Junlor Prom though and a rlght successful affalr xt was too Gosh I can st1ll see the decora tlons red Whlte and blue l1ke your cla s p1n There was a great blg star on the celllng w1th a lot of llttle stars comlnxf down from It That star caused many sleepless mghts for the Prom C0mm1tt9 wondermg lf It would stay up there It did and the commlttee had reason to be proud that nlght The only other soclal w h1ch could come up to lt that year w as the receptlon we put on for the senlors Ill May Our lumor year went by pretty fast and the only other event of 1mportanc1 was the lVIartha C Babcock Essav Con test ln w h1ch our class was agam xepre sented thls year w 1th two of the pr11e wmners Marylm Coombs won second prlze and thlrd went to Joy Palm Om class presldent Um Deslmone was award ed the cox eted H1 Y Cup The w ar ffrew more Sl-Il1Olls that sum mer and so lt was only natulal to see when ou1 class met 'lgam 111 Septembe some of oul COII'll2':lCl9S leaxlng fo1 the armed forces Among the fllst to leaxe were Doug Owens and Jlmmy Nugent both of whom Jolned the Naxy When class electlons w ere held for tht last tlme bm Deslmone ln a Spllltfffl campalgn was chosen for a thlrd term -1411 w1th Chlck Connols Edna Pasettl and Jlmmy SISSOII 1s vlce plesldent secretary and ICIGHSLIIQI 1espcct1xelv For cla marshal we lected Ted Mollel wh1le th co chalrmen of the Senlor Prom Comm1t tee were Exle Sayles and Joe Rltacco Speaklng of the Semol Plom that won derful affan was held sometime In De cember and was lust IS much a succes as our Jun1o1 Prom When we came back aftel Chr1stmas xacatlon we heard of a lot of change w h1ch w ere to take place Mo1e classmate we1e leaung too for war and colleg Johnny Hawke soon left us for the naw w h1le John Schonmg, became a student at Bowdoln College Brown Un1xe1s1ty wel comed some of our frlends lncludlng Tel Moller Doug Tobln and Tommy Pucc1 w h1le Robm Donatl became an undergrad uate at Amherst and F1 mcls Lathrop Robert Downey George TLIIEIHO anl NIa1yl1n Coombs became freshmen at R I State That wlnter we had a sllght epl demlc of scarlet fever schools closed down the end of January for two weeks The basketball team lost the serylces of Ioe Rltacco for sexeral weeks Ratlon m February and we emoy ed another week off We ney er knew when we would hax school The Westerly Sun w as w ztched calefully fo1 'Vo School announc ments Mm hm the wa1 sure had an effe t on our class and as the days went by more bovs left us to answel then coun trys call to arms Iet me see I cant seem to thmk of any mole names M memory 1s growmg, dlm 4 3 that sure was a wondel ful class' Say you know Shorty I had leally be come Interested ln the old man s hattel I txled to remembel w hat I had studlel about that wax way bick 1n 1943 but I guess we wele study mg that the week I was expelled f1om h1sto1x class Yox sl'lOlllIl haxe seen the old man s face w hen he finlshed He was Smlllllg' a 181111111 cent llttle smlle and hls ex es wele closed I thmk thele was a teal 111 the co1ne1 o one of them Gosh' I hope sou wont th1nk Ixe gone sclewy or ans thmg wut mg all thls to you but honestly I thlnk that Class of 43 must haxe been a grant class I 2 . 5. 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