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

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CL.. Wili We, the Class of 1953 of Westwood High School, in the County of Norfolk, Commonwealth of Mas- sachusetts, United States of America, being set to depart into the spheres of life, do hereby affirm and establish this last Will and Testament. Still physically fit and mentally alert (with a few exceptions) wc hereby proclaim all other Wills stated by this class as VOID. JOANNE AARON leaves her capability and efficiency as yearbook editor to any member of the junior class who feels he can do as fine a job as she did. PHILIP ASHCROFT lea ves his ability to repair broken-down cars to Hans Warnick. FRED BARTHOLOMEW leaves his artistic ability to Skip McLaren. (Thanks, Fred, for the wonderful jobs done on the Prom and Yearbook.) M. XINE BASSETT leaves her quietness to Celia Abate. RICHARD BATES leaves his harmonica playing to anyone who can perform as uniquely as he did. CATHERINE CATALDO leaves her shyness to Nancy Gordon. SHAUN CUNNINGHAM leaves his brilliance to anyone who can breeze through the college course as he did. NORMAN DE FANTI leaves for pro-football with his weight plus ability. How can he miss! FRED DeSHON leaves his ability to break and fix any office machine in the typing room. SANDRA ELLIS leaves her score-keeping ability at girls ' basketball games to next year ' s scorekecpcr. ELV IN FOWELL leaves a check to buy a new set of books; he wore out the others studying. WILLIAM HESTER leaves his many detective roles in the school plays to Bobby McDougall. AUDREY JENNINGS leaves her sweet disposition to Nancy Brewster. TRUE JOHNSON leaves for California. Go West, young man, go West. MARY LALLY leaves her speed on the mimeograph machine to anyone who can run off eighty copies a minute. DOLORES LA ROCCA leaves the minutes to the hysterical, historical class meetings. JEAN LEWIS leaves with an overcrowded car. ANTHONY LOUVARIS leaves his bad luck to anyone who can crack up his new car during the first three hours on the road. GAIL NORTON leaves a new and capable secretary to Mr. Sarris. ALICE PETERSON leaves for Norton, Mass. I wonder why! RICHARD RAY leaves his willingness to help anyone in trouble to David Lowry. DONALD SEYMOUR leaves for his career in the army. BARBARA SLOAN leaves her basketball playing ability to Gail Ness who doesn ' t need it. BARBARA THURSTON leaves the band. She was the last original member of it. PATRICIA WOODING leaves her many cartoons in the Nahatan News to the next art editor. JEAN HICKEY leaves her reticence to Christine McLean. THE WASHBURN TWINS leave in their twin Packards. ZOE TUMMILLO leaves the position of Editor of the Nahatan News with a job well done. JOYCE BEDELL leaves her task of passing out the absentee lists to someone in first-period study. GEORGE BROWN leaves his extreme good-naturedness to Arnold Hayden. DAVID BROWNELL leaves his limousine to anyone who can park it. DONALD CARLSON leaves his ability to be pleased easily to anyone who can argue about anything and something. BARBARA CHARLTON leaves in her sleek black Buick over the road to success. YVONNE del ' ETOILE leaves her excellent shorthand ability to her sisters, Nancy and Diane. PHYLLIS DRESSER leaves her singing ability to Nancy Bartholomew. HELEN FEAVER leaves her sense of humor to Lois Kelsey. HELEN GIRLING leaves her place in the Double Quartet to a next year ' s alto. ELEANOR HALEY leaves her sophistication to Judy Crosby. EDWARD JOHNSON leaves a quiet history class. Need we say more! ROBERTA McFAUL leaves for her job in Dedham. JOSEPH WALLACE leaves his nonchalance to Robert Hastings. JEAN WILLARD leaves her beautiful hair to Carol Conforti. PETER PAIGE leaves his broad shoulders to Artie Van Hall. NANCY ROBERTS leaves her camera to Judy Potter. JOSEPH MORDINI leaves the bills and headaches of owning a car to Donald White. DONALD DEVINE leaves his continuous state of tranquility to Roger Ellis.

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junior tribes have been experimenting. Just before our journey came to an end today, we had 3 welcome addition to our tribe; a lovely senorita, Jackie, who won us all with her vivacious personality. March 26, 1952 We ' ve all been working industriously on life stories. Some very inter- esting sidelights of our junior personalities have been revealed. May 19, 1952 The most exciting event of the year was staged by our tribe. The Junior Prom I ' ll See You In My Dreams was acclaimed by many to have been the most beautiful and memorable prom ever presented. We never realized that we had such good workers in the tribe until the decorating began. Everyone co-operated and worked very hard. To Fred Bartholomew goes a vote of thanks for his splendid work in super- vising the decorations. June 6, 1952 Today we went on our class trip to Green Harbor. It was well attended, and how fortunate we have been to have such perfect outing weather. So again our journey has ended for another year. It has been a good year with plenty of hard, diligent work plus many good times, too. We look forward to the last year of our trip with eager expectations of good things in store for us. Some will be glad; others will be sad; but, nevertheless, we look ahead to next year, the final one of our journey. September 5, 1952 It is hard to believe that this is the last time we shall be traveling together. We plan to make it the best because it is our last. Leaders this year are Ken Burt guiding us; Bob Taylor assisting him; Dolores keeping the diary, and Jackie Gam- boa guarding the treasury. We are very proud and happy to have as our senior advisers Mrs. Healy, Mr. Pierce, and Mrs. Sarris. Joining us at this time are Miss Blacker, re- placing Mrs. Donovan who has resigned in favor of household duties; Mr. Clohesy, re- placing Miss Chapman who has left for a position in Washington, D. C; Mr. Davis, replacing Miss Keenan who is now full-time guidance counsellor; Mrs. Collins, replacing Miss Ball who has left for service in the Army; and Miss Howard, who is to assist Miss Knight in the Home Economics department. October 17, 1952 Our first dance of the year, Fall Festival, was held tonight. We danced to the music of the Meltones and everyone agreed it was one of the nicest dances we have ever had. October 18, 1952 One of the most successful events of the year was held tonight. In order to raise money for our yearbook so that all may read the account of our four years ' journey, we ran a Sponsor Night, capably organized by Graham Long. Over eight hun- dred dollars was raised, and we were very happy to know the townspeople thought so much of us as evidenced by their generosity. December 9, 1952 Our tribe was very well represented in the Dramatic Club play, The Nighr of January i6th. Shaun and Larry scored a brilliant success as the two able lawyers. We now look forward to our Senior Play with so many good actors and ac- tresses so close at hand. January 17, 1953 This being the time to put on our last dance, we decided to be, as always, the most original tribe around. After much debating, which is very characteristic of our tribe, we chose to put on a formal, the first of its kind other than the prom. All those who attended had a delightful evening dancing to Bob Vespa ' s Quintet. May 15, 1953 Our last formal dance was held tonight. The junior tribe did a fine job and wholeheartedly we want to thank them for a wonderful evening. June 8, 1953 In a few days we shall have reached the end of our four-year journey. Our heartfelt thanks go out to all those who have guided us on our way. Now we must turn our gaze ahead in anticipation of what our future years will bring. Although we go our separate ways, in our hearts we shall always remember the four short years which held for us so many happy days. Each of us of the Class of 1953 do not wish to say good-bye. To all our teachers and friends of Westwood High School we merely say, Auf Wiedersehen. — Merry Hughes Gail Chamberlin

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DOROTHY ELY leaves her height to next year ' s guards on the basketball team. KENNETH BURT leaves his popularity and presidency of the Senior Class to Paul Carriere. GAIL CHAMBERLIN leaves her many talents to her sister Lee w ho has many of her own. BEVERLY DOUGLAS leaves her cuteness to Lois Mills. JACQUELINE GAMBOA leaves her versatility to Deborah Mclnnis. EVERETT HENDERSON leaves his ability to dance around the gym floor in thirty-two seconds to any- one who can top that record. DAVID HOLMES leaves his athletic ability to Burton Abel. MALCOLM HUNT leaves his presidency of the Student Council to next year ' s victim. We hope he will do as good a job as Mai has done. GRAHAM LONG leaves the keys to the supply room where he has spent many happy hours. ROBERT McMAHON leaves his ability to grow a mustache to any underclassman. EDWARD JONES leaves his interest in Roll-Land to Ed Whiting. STEPHEN KELLY leaves a record of Cry to any junior who can perform as well as he did at a senior assembly. ANTHONY LAMBIASE leaves with the live dollars he won for being the only contestant in the word- writing competition for the school song. PATRICIA LEE leaves her cheerleading ability to Brenda Lawson. MEREDITH HUGHES leaves for New York to start a dancing career on Broadway. RICHARD FLETCHER leaves Harry Aaron all the pennies he should have won in the card games. SANDRA EMSWILER leaves the gossip column in the Nahatan News to next year ' s snoopers. RICHARD GOOCH leaves his job on the fire department to any boy able to obtain that position. LAWRENCE CURTIS leaves his memory of The Night of January i6th. EDWIN CRAWFORD leaves the typing room quietly for Mrs. Healy. ROBERT TAYLOR leaves his good looks to his brother Charles who looks just like him. RICHARD PIERCE leaves his debating ability to someone in Mr. Kocina ' s history class. PHILIP MITCHELL leaves his mass of curly hair to all the sophomore boys who have whiffles. DENIS SILVIA leaves his tennis racquet to anyone who can match his skillful playing. ROBERT STEWART leaves his acting ability to any other ham. ROBERT SWANSBURG leaves his many athletic achievements to Frank Stanley. HATHAWAY WHITE leaves his happy-go-lucky manner to Peter Gibbons TO MR. CHASE we leave a bottle of Aspirin to take away your many headaches. TO MR. CHICETTI we leave a replica of the shop in the new high school. We know you can ' t wait. TO MISS BURNS we leave some stars to remind you of the senior play. TO MR. MARKARIAN we leave a ladder to enable you to reach the spiders which dangle occasionally before the concerts. Remember the one at Christmas? TO MRS. SMITH we leave an Oscar for all the plays you have directed in the past. TO MR. MARSHALL we leave a bow tie. We hear you don ' t like them, but some folks think you should wear them. TO MISS KNIGHT we leave a set of unbreakable silverwear. Let them test their strength on these. TO MR. KOCINA we leave a movie projector for your history classes. Now you won ' t have to sign up. TO MISS JOHNSON we leave a cosmetic kit to remind you of your make-up work in the plays. TO MR. WELLSMAN we leave a fire engine to remind you of your extra urricular activity. TO MISS BLACKER we leave material to tear up for cleaning cloths when running off Nahatan News. TO MR. DAVIS we leave some powder to cover up those blushes. TO MRS. COLLINS we leave a bathing cap to lend to the girls in the shower room next year. TO COACH BADER we leave a bar bell to help you with your calisthenics. TO MISS KEENAN we leave a bookcase to take care of all your guidance material. TO MR. CLOHESY we leave a signed statement for a quiet corridor during C lunch next year. TO MISS HOWARD we leave a Cook Book for Newlyweds. (However, we know you won ' t need it.) TO MR. PIERCE we leave our everlasting friendship, and to Bobby, Jr. we leave a gavel with which to preside when he becomes president. TO MR. SARRIS we leave a frog. Try to take the heart out of this one. TO MRS. HEALY we leave a bouquet of flowers to show our appreciation for the many hours you spent working with us on the yearbook.