Westfield High School - Weather Vane Yearbook (Westfield, NJ)

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 tTlic feather 3anc ALFRED MEYER Some, less refined, beneath the moon s pale night. Class Basketball (3); Manager (4); Class Football (3); Thanksgiving Play (4); Senior Play (4) ; Senior Play Program Committee (4); Class Pin and Ring Committee (3); Orchestra (4); Weather Vane Captain (3. 4) ; Senior Day Music Committee (4); Annual Committee (4) ; Knock Committee (4). Al is Flaming Youth personified. When his banjo begins to tinkle, feet begin to itch! Al acts as Westfield's Grover Whalen, especially when a new girl comes to town. He is also an expert dance crasher. ALLEN MOORE Successive study, exercise and ease. Varsity Track (I, 2, 3, 4); Interclass Track (I, 2); Class Basketball (3. 4) ; Class Football (3, 4) ; Spanish Club (4) ; Slide Rule Club (4); Chairman Senior Play Scenery and Carpentry Committee (4); Hi-Y Club (2. 3, 4); Union County Track Meet (I. 2. 3. 4); Academic Committee (2). What about Al Moore? He’s a fast man in basketball, and it takes a good guard to keep up with him. In the class room the teachers have to hold him back so that the rest of the class can catch up! As you have probably guessed, he is also well known to the feminine elite. Always a good sport, always playing a clean game, always doing his share and more in school activities, Allen is the fellow to whom it is safe to entrust something which has to be done and done well. WALTER NELSON Live well and fear not sudden Fate. Junior Prom Committee (3); Senior Play Committee (4); Class Football (3, 4); Class Basketball (3, 4); Varsity Baseball (4). Blimp is all that his name implies. He ran a close second in the contest for the biggest world figure of today. When Blimp marches into chapel they have to open both doors. In basketball he gallops around, making a five-man defense all by himself. Of his cheery good nature and unfailing congeniality. we need not speak. PATRICIA OLDS “What passes in the dark third row Or what behind the scenes. Entered in Senior year. French Club (4); Senior Play (4). We all think of Pat as Dulcy —for surely nowhere but in professional realms could one have found a more intelligent or scintillating performance than that of our talented “leading lady. Her diversified and interesting life, her somewhat intellectual tastes and interests, her unusual personality, her home in High Orchards, her car—all lend an air of charm and intrigue to this attractive young lady.

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(Ebc 3HcatI|cr £lanc 25 WILLIAM LINDSAY Contented wi’ little and content wi moir Far in a wild, unknown to public view. Class Football (2. 3. 4); Dramatic Club (3, 4); Thanksgiving Play (3. 4); Senior Play (4); Class Dramatic Committee (4) ; Class Finance Committee (3); Class Pin and Ring Committee (2); Junior Prom Refreshment Committee (3); Hi-Y Club (I); Dramatic Club Play (3); Class Day Play (4) Bill comes from the distant expanses of Scotch Plains. On account of the scarcity in said hamlet. Bill gets his Coles from Westfield. HARVEY MASON At once the chaser and at once the prey. Thanksgiving Play (4) ; Senior Play Committee (4) ; Senior Day Play. Gravy is the boy who charms all the women with that Packard with the orange wheels. He has been a sheik ever since 6th grade in Lincoln School. Ask the Wilson twins, they know! He can make a ukelele sit up and beg in a wee. small voice. ANDREW McWHINEY With whate’er gall thou sett’st thyself to write Thy inoffensive satires never bite. Weather Vane Board (2. 3, 4) ; Spanish Club (3. 4) ; Dramatic Club (3, 4); Academic Committee (4); Junior Prom Committee (3); Glee Club (2); Orchestra (3); Hi-Y Club (3. 4); Leader Reporter (2. 4). Andy—as he is well known to all of us—is a man of actions, rapid action. His hobby—all big men have hobbies (as they say in books)—is airplanes, in every shape and form. His life work and great ambition are to make somebody laugh at one of his own jokes. GENE MESSERSMITH She speaks, behaves, and acts just as she ought. Springtime (I) ; Glee Club (2); Dramatic Committee (3) Junior Prom Committee (3) ; Finance Committee (4); Senior Day Play (4); Thanksgiving Play (4); Head Typist for Annual (4) ; Glee Club Concert (2); Hockey (2); Cheer Leader (4). Nothing ever seems to disturb Gene's calm serenity—even an avalanche of Weather Vane material to be typed at the last minute in an impossibly short period of time. We envy her poise and ease.

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 HItc JBcatljrr Jane 27 ROBERT PEARSALL “And here is a man who has advanced the dignity of his person.” Football Class Team (I. 2, 3); Spanish Club (2. 3); Junior Prom Committee (3); Glee Club (I); Hi-Y Club; Weather Vane Captain (2). “Parsally” spends most of his time at school getting on the nerves of a certain teacher. We nearly died laughing the day he knocked the valve from the radiator. It was the only lime his care-free and happy manner dropped. He thought he had blown up a boiler or something!!! One day he was tempted to do his English homework, but he stoutly thrust the temptation aside, and his record still remains. CARL RADERS “Declare our doom is drawing nigh. Art Club (4); Senior Day Play (4); Annual Committee (4). No other class ever had a Carl Raders! He is a most individual little person who worries his teachers and classmates with weird topics for debate. Indeed. Carl is a theologian extraordinary. Carl is 28’s most radical and most willing. WARD RANDALL “On you their gifts are all bestow’d again. ’ Weather Vane Board (3. 4); Business Manager (4); Debate Club (2. 3); French Club (2. 3); Dramatic Club (3. 4); Thanksgiving Play (4); Christmas Play (3); Senior Play (4); Junior Prom Music Committee (3); Orchestra (I. 3); Weather Vane Captain (2); Academic Committee (3) ; Dramatic Club Play (3); Interclass Track (2. 3). Ward is the boy who irritates the piano with great success. He is the boy who interprets middle-aged financiers with great success, and he also takes Weather Vane seriously—with great success. Until a few years ago. we never suspected him of being a sheik, but lately he has been playing Beau Brummel. As actor, artist, musician, author, swimmer, and scholar, we feel that he is a pretty good mixture of a lot of accomplishments. JEAN REYNOLDS “And fresh and blooming as the month of May. French Club (3); Senior Play Committee (4); Class Committee (3) ; Junior Prom Committee (3). Has she got them? We’ll say sho has. if you mean dimples! Can she do it? We fynon she can if vou mean talk. She has more speed and endurance when it comes to talking than anyone we know.