Westwood High School - Green Years Yearbook (Westwood, MA)

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14. Biggest Wheel. Donald Johnson Littlest Spoke Sarle Smith Most Popular Gir] Nancy McLaren Most Popular Boy Paul Sheehan Best Looking Girl Helen Parks Best Looking Boy Paul Sheehan Best Dressed Girl Nancy McLaren Best Dressed Boy Joe Fay Most Musical Gloria Bedard V ittiest Girl Eileen Meade Wittiest Boy Donald Johnson Most iithletic Girl Lois MacKenney Most Athletic Boy Paul Sheehan Best Natured Girl Velma Mitchell Best Natured Boy Earle Smith Class Flirt Barbara Winshman Most Ambitious Nancy Larcom Girl Most Likely to Succeed Nancy Larcom Boy Most Likely to Succeed Herbert Munroe Class Wolf Donald Patterson Cutest Girl Velma Mitchell Cutest Boy Earle Smith Most Reliable Girl Natalie Sturtevant Most Reliable Boy Gordon Smith Most Studious Girl Irene Bertlesen Most Studious Boy John Bagley Cutest Couple. . . . Velma Mitchell and Bob Watson Best Boy Dancer Bob Watson Best Girl Dancer Eileen Johnson Most Winning Smile Eileen Johnson Favorite Song The Stars Will Remember Favorite Food Hamburgers Favorite Sport Basketball Favorite Movie Actress June Allyson Favorite Movie Actor Bob Mitchum

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16. THE GREEN YEARS Sir Robert Vmlpole once wrote, All history is a lie ' . The class of 48 class history is quite unbelievable but quite true. September 8, 1945--a day of rejoicing? No, it was a sad mournful day for the poor hardworking teachers. That is the day that the class of 48 crashed the gates of our freshman year. Remember us then--svi ee t innocent children with a mad desire for learnings. Coach Bader v as our new coach and many of our skinny athletes decided then to take football so as to greatly improve the sport. Can you ever forget the gym exhibition girls. J.lany of us found that the studying was quite hard but we somehow always mana: ed to pass the tests. New teachers (poor souls) were heralded with joy as they came to take the places of other teachers v;ho had suffered nervous breakdowns. Among these v e welcomed Liss Keenan, I.iiss I.ioody, Lir. Bader and kr. Dickerman. The big event of that year was our first dance that could be held at night. That was a big time all right, --imagine a dance with a real live juke box. Me then learned the procedure of writing out invitations to the teachers to act as chaperones at our dances. Many times the invitations v ould arrive the night alter the big dance--but that v as excused because we v ere young and inexperienced. (at least that v;as our excuse.) How we envied our big brother upperclassmen who could get out of classes for one reason or another. Most of our big wheels were then only little spokes. Somehow with luck we managed to get by those trying days of our freshman year with not too many casualties. Our Sopiiomore year was a little more daring. Some of our boys even got caught smoking. Our social prestige was ruined. It was that year of 1946 that our girls wrote the ancient and honorable Ode to Brade . Our gift to great literature. We welcomed Mr. Thurston, Mr. O ' Neil, Miss Whiting and Mill Montague as members of the faculty. ' We held many class dances and the adoption of movies was tried. It was that year that the girls played the teachers in basketball. We took it out on the poor teachers all right. There was many a twisted knee and a bloody nose after that battle. Do you remember those uproarious class meetings when poor Don Johnson tried to keep order.