Whitman High School - Spotlight Yearbook (Whitman, MA)

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Q'oVo VQVOVOVOVOVOVOvOVOVOVQVQVOVOX'OVOVOVOVOVOV QVQXO I. . Q Q Qx'A' A'A'A',x'A'A'A'A'A'A'A'A'A'A'A'A'A'A'A'A'A 'A'1Q By Mz1rz'el Hagstrom and Paul Baker Being duly appointed by the class, we, the prophets, after much deliberation, research, and imagination, designed and built a time machine, which has enabled us to foresee the future of each member of the Senior Class of 1941. Our first vision takes the form of a large air- port, the John O'Donnell Airways, Inc. At Gate No. 1, a huge air liner prepares for flight 6. Pilots Edward Foster and Burton Drake are seated at the controls awaiting passengers. Hostess Vic- toria Sylvestri, wearing 9-inch heels to meet height requirements, greets Eldon Lonergan, a wealthy yachtsman, who frequently takes a jaunt around the world. Just before the take-off, Charles Tufankjian, now a salesman for a chew- ing gum concern, hurries aboard. Traffic control manager, Robert Jenness, gives the go ahead signal and the plane takes off with a roar. Our attention is suddenly drawn to a strange creation being pushed from one of the hangars by me- chanics Amos Brine and George Hoffman and supposedly by Charles Lemieux, but he is riding on the tail fast asleep. Aeronautical Engineer, William Moffatt, who is the plane's designer, in- tends it to reach a speed of 560 m. p. h. and a landing speed of 45 m. p. h. Reporter Gladys Tamkun and photographer Hope Ridley, both of the Daily Advertiser, arrive to inspect this meteor-like plane, but they return to their news- paper office empty-handed, for the converted model T engine on the plane refuses to operate, thereby cancelling the flight. At the newspaper office, our man about town Charles MacDonald is engaged in a loud verbal controversy with Norman LeGallee, for LeGallee has made a pointed remark about MacDonald in his Daily Gos- sip column. At one side, Claire Mann, seemingly little disturbed by the confusion, gleefully con- tinues writing the obituaries. Thomas Crowley, Editor-in-chief, sends Dorothy Chetwynd to in- vestigate the disturbance at the beauty shop owned by Lorraine Plasse, Sylvia Barry, and Gladys Daigle. These girls call themselves the three B's, for one has blonde hair, one black, and the other, brown. They wanted Constance Huddleston, with her flaming red hair as another part owner, but Connie was set on being a dietitian. All the excitement was started while Eleanor Reed was being beautified for an ap- proaching exhibition of ball room dancing. The water pipes have burst, spraying water all over the shop. This difficulty is soon checked by the timely arrival of plump plumber, Thomas Bur- bine. In his thrashing about, Tom accidentally put his foot into an electrical hair dryerg but Verne Mattson and Wallace Sayce happen along to aid in extricating him. These two lads are on shore leave from their ship, the S. S. Washington, commanded by William Brennan. Tom's foot is not badly burned, but he welcomes the attention of nurse Althea Bates. The dryer, however, was badly damaged and Electrical Engineer, Warren MacLaughlin, makes repairs. Across the street, is a rival shop owned by Barbara Thomas, Dorothy Staples, and Alma Pina. These girls are kept busy by the visits of a strictly private customer- none other than Leo Sangiolo. Leo is in the U. S. Navy, but on his days ashore, he frequents the beauty parlor. He has a marcel and all, trying to keep pace with the natural wavy hair of ship- mate, George Ferris. We now follow reporter Chetwynd back to the newspaper office, just in time to hear the news story of the day. The annual spring floods have inundated the river valleys and made hundreds of people homeless, including cattle raiser, Samuel Miller and poultryman, Thomas Kelliher. It seems that these two were so surprised by the flood crest that they had to ride the waters on the back of Miller's prize bull, Dandylion. After a long tiresome ride of many miles, Miller and Kelliher were rescued by Coast Guardsmen Stanley Randall and Donald Dunbar, while Dwight Porter easily took care of Dandylion. Although the two ad- venturers suffered no ill effects, they are resting comfortably under the care of nurses Margaret Conners and Jeannette Eno. The announcement of scientists George Kelley and Vincent Bubieniec about their new methods of flood control is natur- ally of great interest to victims of the flood dis- aster. In connection with a new dam designed by Paul Baker, they hope to generate enough elec- tricity with part of the water's flow to decompose the flood waters by electrolysis. Kelley points out

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J 1 2 QW 'B u' L win' ATHLETIC COUNCIL First Row: lleft to right! Glenn Perkins, Nelson LeGallee, Donald Plausse, Marilyn Hagstrom. Second Row: Miss Kenealy, Bernard Hayes. Mr. Magnuson, Muriel Hagstrom. Athletic Council The Athletic Council is the executive depart- ment of the Whitman High School Athletic Asso- ciation. Besides the four regular officers, presi- dent, vice-president, treasurer, and secretary, there are representatives of the three upper classes, all of whom are elected annually by the members of the Athletic Association at the end of the school year. A faculty adviser is also chosen by the members at the same time. This year Miss Kenealy was the faculty adviser. Mr. Magnuson, because of his duties with the athletic department, is also included in the group. The duties of the council are to co-operate with the coaches in the selection of the members of athletic teams who are eligible for letters. It also selects the managers for the teams and carries out all business of the Athletic Association. .-.l..,1. Yearbook Advisers To our yearbook advisers, Miss King and Mr. Bayley, we give our sincere thanks for their kindly, efficient counsel and assistance in the preparation of our year book. 28

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T H E Y E A R B O O K 1 9 4 1 GNASYQD GWQVXDGNASYXS GNQKDGNQKD'-GNQKSGNQKD GNOKD-Q-GNQKDQAWQKD GKQKDQYNNKD Ca-YQKD that the gaseous products of this electrolysis may be recombined over drought areas to produce rain. News of the adventure of Miller and Kelliher has travelled fast and the Brown Book Publishing Co. secures a contract from them giving Evelyn Brown, publisher, exclusive story rights. Evelyn assigns stenographers Helen Kane and Helen Sex- ton to take the co-authors' dictation for the book to be entitled Adrift in a Flood or Two Men On a Cow. With so much work on hand, Evelyn is forced to keep her staff on their toes, for Frances Harrington has just arrived to receive the proofs on her new book entitled Theory and Practice of Democratic Government. Evelyn breaks up the conversational huddle of cashier Frances Brochu, receptionist Gloria Taboroni, and telephone operator, Mildred Chaney: she, however, disregards the noise made by Edith Record at- tempting to show Eleanor Marceau how a com- plicated bookkeeping machine operates. Strangely enough, both girls come out one thousand dollars and six cents wrong every time. Then too, be- cause of the fact that Donald Plausse made a fiying tackle upon a prospect who declined his fine offer, Maurice Schindler is hired in his place upon promising to forget football technique while at work. At the street side window, are secretaries Glenn Perkins, Marion Randall, Margaret Hynes, and Ruth Berman, all of whom are intently watch- ing the building across the street. They are soon joined by Ruth Orcutt, the company's authority on English grammar. Our first impression is that they are watching Walter Morgan wash windows on the twelfth story, but actually, they are watching the pro- gress of the style show across the street. Here, a large gathering of women, urged to attendance by Lillian King's successful house-to-house cam- paign is watching the style show sponsored by Claire O'Neil and Mary Hayward. Ultra-modern fashions designed by Muriel Welsh and Shirley Staples are beautifully turned out by seamstresses Mabel Douty and Ruby Martell and are being modeled by Mary Hogg, Patricia Royce, and Mari- lyn Meserve to the great admiration of the spec- tators. Flowers worn by the models come from the extensive green houses of Warren Linn, who has made orchids the flower for everyone. At the conclusion of the show, refreshments supervised by Ruth Cobbett and Frances Torrey, experts in dietetics, are served while entertainment is pro- vided by singer Hazel Jonesg guitar player, Phyllis Sampsong and violinist, Dorothy Nash. Mary Keveney was also scheduled to sing, but she pre- ferred to attend the National Hockey League game at the Boston Gardens. Moving pictures of the entire affair are taken by expert photog- raphers Pauline Lincoln and Ilean Chisholm. These will later be published as a technicolor movie by Robert Corthell. As the style show is drawing to a close, we hear the strains of a band approaching toward us. Soon a colorful parade announcing the eve- ning performance of the Coggan and Cross 5-ring Circus comes into view. The band closely re- sembles the W. H. S. band of 1941 as Adeline Gaudette struts at the head, whirling her baton expertly. The other musicians whom we recog- nize are Freda Archibald and Jacqueline Gaudette, playing even better than in their high school days. Directly behind the band, are wagons draped with huge posters which are easily recognized as the excellent work of commercial artist Leroy Weldon and his able staff of Ada Bodycote, Mafalda Petrino, and Eva Miller. These posters portray huge wild animals captured by Kenneth Packard, the second Frank Buck. These signs succeed to lure us to follow the crowd to the circus and we soon find ourselves crowding under a tent flap into the big-top. At first we are dismayed to see lion tamer Vernon Blanchard bitten by his most vicious lion, but Vernon hardly minds the pain when nurse Irene Ahearn appears to care for his wounds. Ringmaster Jimmy Conway proclaims the powers of the invisible mirror, which he claims is the reason for two identical-looking girls on bicycles who are riding around the ring. How- ever, we're not fooled as easily as that, for we readily see that it is not a mirror, but really two girls, the Hagstrom twins. Gloria Lahey is rid- ing bare back around a ring followed by clown Albert Horan, who is attempting, with little suc- cess, to mimic her on a donkey. In the tent top, trapeze artists Pauline Beauregard and Lloyd Plasse thrill the assembly with their daring leaps through space, while as a grand finale, profes- sional diver Mary Joy dives from a 150-foot ladder into a pool of flames. With the burst of flame from this dive, our time machine suddenly goes blank and we return to the present. QMDQNS