Westerly High School - Westlyan Yearbook (Westerly, RI)

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The Senior Year Book — 1953 done and Marie Panciera who, we hope, will take as much delight as we have in non-plussing the teachers. 22. I, Jean Marriott, being of true Scotch ancestry, believe it prudent and thrifty to leave nothing, since I myself can make good use of everything I have. 23. We, Maitland Crandall, Myra Wells, and Shirley Kenyon respectively give, grant, and devise the seeming ease with which we master our studies to Jean Palmisano, Lea Ylonen, and Maryann Capalbo. 24. I, William Cyrus Wilcox, do hereby bequeath in toto, my sesquipedalian proclivities which I have been wont to evince in Miss Kingsley’s English Class, to John Carey who is also a semantologist of sorts?? 25. We, Irma Olean and Maryann Grills, with the decorum becoming our graduation status, do will our vim, vigor, and vitality to next year’s football squad. 26. I, Julia Piccolo, pass on, with relief, my exhausting job of awakening members of the Student Council and then injecting enthusiasm into them, to the future president, who also hereby receives my sympathy. 27. I, Chester Maxwell Irwin, Jr., hereby grant to Margaret Burdick my reluctance to divulge my witty asides in Mr. Morgan’s classes. 28. We, Agnes Sposato and Santa Cofone, leave our ability to disturb the entire class with incessant giggles to Jean Peckham, who can use a double dose of mischief. 29. I, Martha Rider, leave my prodigious and forceful vocabulary to Norman Clark, who would profit considerably from this bequest. 30. I, Anna Chiaradio, bequeath by mania for playing Cupid, handed down to me by Barbara Sposato, to Constance Serra, whose aim as an amorous archer will be as true as mine. 31. We, Donald Kugler and Richard Hutchins, with tears in our eyes, leave our hammer and saw to Bert Larson and James Mackay, two willing juniors equally dexterous in the manual arts. 32. I, Barbara Anne Waite, do tearfully and regretfully bequeath my Gussie Moran gym pan- taloons to Charles Bruno, to whom they will give state-wide prominence. 33. I, D’Ann Frechette, leave my grace and poise to Paula Horton. 34. I, Anna Gradilone, bequeath my talent as a high pressure sales girl to next year’s advertising committee who will surely appreciate it. 35. We, Louis Capalbo, Angelo Algiere, Frank Algiere, and Angelo Pappadia, pass on to John Panciera, Gordon Harrison and James Laudone our official position as perpetuators and propagators of the pulchritude of Bradford. 36. I, Margaret Serra, do hereby bestow upon my unsuspecting cousin, Julia Serra, my position as school amanuensis. 37. I, Robert Ferendo, do hereby will my terp-sechorian talents to Frank Pucci, the Junior Jitterbug. 38. We, Edward Lallo, Henry Federico, Loren Gingerella, and Richard Altimari, being in a somnolent and lethargic state (not to be confused with Rhode Island) hereby postpone our testament. 39. We, the Class of 1953, do hereby delegate our executor conscientiously to make certain that the proceeds from the Senior Prom be employed in the purchase of a 1954 Cadillac Convertible for Mr. Stevens (the surplus remaining after the above mentioned purchase shall be used to equip the convertible with Hollywood horns). We do hereby name, constitute, and appoint Mr. James Smith to be the executor of this, our last will and testament. In Testimony Whereof, we have hereto affixed our hand and seal to this, our last will and testament. Name: Class of 1953 (Seal) Signed, Sealed, Published, and Declared, by said Class of 1953 as and for their last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, at their request and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as attesting witnesses : 1. JULIA PICCOLO 2. MARTHA RIDER 3. DOLORES URSO -$22fr-

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The Senior Year Book — 1953 Class Will and do h' to be our las hereby to dis; ever kind a we may be seiz to exercise eve: possess. sound and free from e influence of any e uncertainty of our dispose of our h, do hereby fier instruments fore made by “is milling rty atetl If ouc ipoinjpient 1. It is the will and llesij of eA of all of us, that our debts, graduate and the cost of administration be p 2. We, the Class of 19 our magic lamp of success, has gained us first prize our heretofore less foil Class of 1954. 3. We, the Class of 1 53, le We the facility and alacrity with which we navei x mpleted our high school career to all undergr uates. hereby l rtlisli for yfcrs coj etition, to brjpnren of the 9. I, John Bernard Jacobson, Jr., do hereby bequeath my treasured but slightly antiquated Model A to Clinton Townley Day, 3rd, Junior Junkman, so that I may acquire a modern 1939 conveyance which will, beyond doubt, mitigate my mother’s phobia of automotive transportation. 10. I, Marjorie LaPere, leave my stupendous strut and terrific twirling talent to Barbara Tex-iera, my promising protegee. 11. We, the members of the Home Economics ss, proudly leave our accomplishments in the Unary arts to the incoming class in the hope that it can find a way to appease the voracious appetites of the masculine gourmands. 12. I, Rosalie Gencarella, do will my neat appearance and unaffected nature to Ann Dobson. 13. We, Barbara Gannon, Rosemarie Abosso, and Ruth Geyer, leave our apparent ubiquity to Lillian Vuono, Gloria Pignataro, and Robert Radiconi. 14. I, Robert Kreyssig, proudly leave my long and unbroken record of going steady to Arthur Bernasconi, who shows promising signs of setting a record of his own. 4. We, the Class of 1953, magnanimously withdraw from our treasury sufficient funds (not to exceed twenty-five cents) for the expressed purpose of providing Hamlet with a royal blue bow which will satisfy his feline ego. 15. I, George Daland, leave my flirtatious nature to Edward Salisbury, Valentino Secondo. 16. Mr. Foster leaves .... 5. I, John Henry Leach, II, the most puissant of presidents and temerarious of football heroes ever to attend W. H. S., do hereby leave my ability to impress authoritative persons favorably, exempli gratia, the acting Vice-Principal, to James Carson. 6. We, the Indigo Bunting Club, bestow our appreciation of the aesthetic arts upon the cultured gentlemen of the “No-Heads” Club who also worship at Erato’s altar. 7. We, Catherine Cellino and Dorothy Si!-vestri, pass our ball and chain to Marcia Bitgood and Barbara Stafford who have already attained prominence on “The Blacklist.” 8. I, Mary Giorno, equitably apportion sufficient of my gray cells that each member of the Class of 1954 may benefit. 17. I, Starlyne Pietrallo, bequeath my amazing acting ability, in part only, to next year's lead in the Senior Play, so that my performance may not be surpassed. 18. I, Richard Seagrave, leave my unalloyed brilliance in mathematics to Roger Scott, who also evinced an inordinate interest in figures. 19. We, the girls in the golden cage, willingly relinquish our tedious tasks and arduous duties in Student Activities to future 12E’s. 20. I, Richard Pignataro, leave my propensity for obtaining manna to Peter Pucci, who is also a “combination man,” who will keep Coach DiGangi well supplied. 21. We, Sylvia Morrone and Dolores Urso, leave our similarity of resemblance to Jean Nar- -■ 21 —

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