Weston High School - Key Yearbook (Weston, MA)

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CLASS PROPHECY Let’s imagine this is New Year’s Eve, 1954. The class of 1944 is having its reunion at the Sandy Burr Country Club in Wayland. BERYL: Hello there, June, how do you like Snap Malloy’s orchestra? JUNIE: Oh, he’s good now. Remember how he used to drum in Mr. Zorn’s English classes? GlNNY : How could I forget it, particularly during public speaking! Look, there’s Mr. and Mrs. Hanney. They were married at the close of the war, but it’s still hard to imagine Bud settled down as a family man. Remember how he used to flirt with all the girls? He surely did roll those big, brown eyes around! Beryl: Hear that crash? That means things are getting done. Weenie Ferranti is backstage get¬ ting ready for the Truth and Consequences show. Remember the one she did in our senior year when David Clapp was the Inebriated Idiot’’? GlNNY: I hear she is head of the Personnel Department down at Cronin’s. Do you suppose her old crony, Miss Dennis, is still there? JUNIE: Could be, though I think Weenie said that she finally resigned. Hey, there’s Sally Fos¬ ter and Jack Fradd just back from Egypt where they’ve been digging up those queer things Miss Spear used to tell us about in ancient history class. More fun! ! Beryl: How well I remember. Do you know that Lu Horne is now a famous aviatrix and is flying back and forth from Mars in those contraptions we used to read about in those uneduca- tional comic books? (Isn’t that right, teachers?) All those years of struggling in Miss Green’s math classes were of use after all. GlNNY : Remember all those oral talks David Clapp used to give on airplanes, airplanes, and more airplanes? His ambition certainly did come true, didn’t it? He’s now chief engineer at the Douglas Aircraft Plant. He is still chasing Koonie around, only now in his new-fangled plane without wings. JUNIE: Will you ever forget all the chasing” he did at Discussion Club? I haven’t seen the Burkes yet, have you? They said they’d be here about 10:30 and it’s nearly that now—but you know Nancy and her ability to be on time! Where are they living now, Beryl? BERYL: I don’t know, but I hear they’ve got a darling house, and George, Junior, is so-o-o cute! ! GlNNY: Martha Sherman won’t be here tonight so she wanted us to say Hi” to the gang for her. She’s a math and chemistry professor and she just finished writing Volume III of Sherman’s Super-Duper Math Book. JUNIE: Let’s see, who else was in our class? Oh yes, my old pal, Cousin Harold. Do you sup¬ pose that plumbing business will ever run out of Colpitts? GlNNY: It doesn’t look very possible, Junie. Look, Snap’s waving his baton; it must be time for another song. Georgia Ragan is his featured singer. Do you suppose she’ll do that Drumboogie” number that Snap and Herbie Whitcombe used to do? Beryl: I hope so! Herbie left us to join the Navy in the junior year, but because he couldn’t keep away from us Westonites—or do I mean Waylandites?—he’s back in town. GlNNY: Look who’s dancing over there. Koonie and that New York publisher she introduced us to. Wasn’t her book on the best seller list this month? JUNIE: I’m pretty sure it was, and last month’s list, too! Oh look, there’s Charlie Briggs danc¬ ing over there. Can you imagine that, after the great orations he used to give against such a frivolous pastime in English 111A! What are we coming to? 18

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Class of 1945 Bottom Row (left to right): Pauline Jacques, Aristine Zebo, Seaton Jackson, June Fiske, Marshal Hills, Nancy Woodman, John Mele, Priscilla Otto, Jeanne Rogers. Second Row: Nancy Peakes, Kay Ritz, Lorraine Comeau, Joan Brouillette, Alice Dolan, Sally Caffrey, Ruth Max- ted, Philis Brown, Carolyn Robinson, Betty Tebeau, Na¬ omi Newell, Katherine Gallagher. Third Row: David Campbell, Alden Whittemore, Paul Foote, Henry John¬ son, Alfred Edmunds, Gordon Desmond, Theodore Love- joy, Kenneth Turner, Jack Patterson, Philip Noyes. CLASS OFFICERS Marshal Hills Andrea Byron June Fiske Seaton Jackson President Vice-President . , . Secretary . . . Treasurer ■■■ mm mm 17 1

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GlNNY: I was driving through Lincoln yesterday when a sudden explosion svent off about half a mile away. I drove over and it was absolutely nothing but Charlie, his test tubes, chemicals, and memories of the good old days in Pop Sawyer’s chemistry classes. BERYL: Don’t forget the more quiet girls in our class. Betty Norton has taken over the Primary Building and is teaching the little dears their three R’s and what they should and shouldn’t know. I hear she’s doing a swell job, too. JUNIE: Speaking of children, Doris Swanson is giving a course in physical therapy at the New¬ ton Hospital nosv, and Alice Shaw has her own private office in town and is working under some of the best doctors in the state. GlNNY : I was talking with George Wheeler and Lenny Upham just before I met you two, and they were telling me about their last trip from Santa Fe to New York. Lenny is an American Airlines pilot and George is his flight engineer. Those two really worked hard to make their ambition come true. (I’ll never forget the first day Lenny came to school in his C. A. P. uniform. Didn’t he look neat! Almost as handsome as he does now in his Airlines uniform.) George spends his free time between trips driving from Weston to Holyoke. I wonder why? Beryl : Let’s join Lee and Stephen Ellis at their table. They still look as happy as they did in Miss Bouquel’s room, don’t they? The only difference is that Lee’s name isn’t Owens any more. GlNNY: 1 wonder what Stephen is doing now and where they are living? Let’s go find out. Oh, we won’t have time because Snap’s drum s pecialty is ready. JUNIE: What’s all that noise over there in the corner? You might know, it’s Charlie Foster. Do you suppose he is still campaigning for Mr. Wiilkie? BERYL: I hear he’s pretty high up in the political world and he’s just as good a Republican as he used to be. He and I both! GlNNY: Oh, look, there’s our Frank Sinatra fan, Lois Lammers. I hear she was his publicity secretary for several years, but come to find out, she swooned so much she had to retire. But she’s perfectly happy now and her dream to retire young did come true. She’s one of those lucky people! TUNIE: There’s Captain Clive still in uniform, over there talking to Snap. The Engineers thought he was so good they promoted him to Pfc. nearly as soon as he got to Colorado. Then they wouldn’t let him go so he’s now Chief Supervisor of the construction of the bridge on Conant Road. We certainly did use it a lot coming home from school and our social gather¬ ings at Eaton’s, didn’t we, Beryl? Beryl: Somebody else is missing tonight. My gosh, it’s Maddy Homond! I saw in the paper the other day that she is giving a series of concerts abroad this winter. She certainly was the only musical one in our class. I’ll never forget the day we were lined up in Assembly for the try-outs for The Gondoliers” and she was the only one who was at ease under the glares of the freshman class. GlNNY: Here comes our man-about-town,” Phil Sheehan. He’s now settled down to the more quiet life of farming in Lincoln. He always did like that town, didn’t he? JUNIE: That was pure gossip, Ginny. Ask Phil. Congratulations on your undefeated hockey team; you must have quite a team. Ginny: Thanks. Joe Sheehan is coaching at Weston, too, and you know he had an undefeated football team. Now we’re trying to see who will have the better basketball team. Wish me luck! JUNIE: You and Joe did choose coaching in your Career Books that we did in Mr. Zorn’s room, didn’t you? Beryl: It’s almost midnight, Junie, so let’s go find our husbands and join the gang. It cer¬ tainly was great to get together again and WHAT A PARTY! ! ! 19