Winchester High School - Aberjona Yearbook (Winchester, MA)

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10 ABERJOHA . 1948 ( lass History In September of 1944, when General Ike Eisenhower’s army was racing across the fields of France, a smaller but no less indomitable army was storming the resigned and waiting Wadleigh building. We met for the first time in the Junior High, and after two years we departed, leaving the faculty and school just barely intact. Upon reach ing Wadleigh, our class immediately proceeded to live up to its advance reputation. Remember . . . our first elections, with Dick Kugler, Rog Swanson, Jan Foley, and Ernie Clark heading a turbulent class. . . . Friday afternoons at the canteen . . . orna mented hats . . . large frosh turnouts for football . . . our yoyoes adding tremendously to the sports calendar of the year . . . our foremost sharpshooters cutting their teeth on squirt guns . . . our avid interest in aviation, resulting in Miss Carmichael’s being “buzzed” by one of the most independent models . . . “F. W. Weymouth can take care of himself!” . . . class meetings in detention hall . . . mid years, basketball, more civics teachers, and snow . . . “Brazil” and “Star Dust” at the Midwinter dance. . . . “Buy a War Stamp every Tuesday” . . . our prowess in the scrap paper drives . . . the Holmes’s flat ' car sagging under the weight of a halFton load of paper . . . our first Vaudeville . . . Marg Derro’s first of many performances . . . the solemn memorial assembly at the death of President Roosevelt . . . V E Day . . . suddenly, spring and finals. After a full year of gallantly trotting back and forth to lunch and gym, braving the savage hordes in the cafeteria, and cheerfully sitting on the “shelf” at assemblies, we heard the Wadleigh faculty heave a sigh of relief as we moved on to greener fields. At last, slightly matured, we were eligible to tread the sacred boards of the “big building.” “Wild Bill” Rodgers . . . Ray Hayward — ' ' ' Bounce it off the wall!” . . . once again to the polls, with Bob McGrail, Peg Holmes, Ned Moore, and Ditty Rooney winning . . . “B” lunch for the first time . . . record crowds grabbing hockey sticks and basketballs . . . Jane Beggs and Ginny Walters, our first cheerleaders . . . “White Christmas” . . . Omnia Gallia divisa est . . . jammed keys on a Remington Noiseless . . . some of our elder members received permits to endanger lives . . . cars, bicycles, and unfortunate feet mingled . . Marilyn and Sally singing their first Vaudeville duet . . . we bought shares in detention hall. And now — upperclassmen. We blithely ignored the sage remarks of our SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Seated: N. Bergquist, R. Kugler Standing: E. Moore, J. Amico That Night of Nights

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ABERJOKA . 1948 9 Seniors A

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ABERJOKA 1948 11 teachers, and diligently studied batting averages and football scores . . . the Red Sox pennant . . . the class “C” crown . . . A1 Switzer, Sam Beh lino, Joan Harris, and Joe Harris, our class officers . . . J. D.— “Get out and stay out! “ . . . hen parties every Friday night . . . the A. A. Banquet . . . Bellino, Covert, and Luitwieler new captains . . . cigarette butts at the bottom of the hill . . . the knitting epidemic . . . “Hank” Butters — “Present, but not voting, eh?” . . . we took over the Red arid Blac}{ . . . scuffed loafers and ski sweaters . . . the Hoyas took their first hook shots . . . “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” . . . evenings at Lou Goddu’s . . . Mary “Mac” - “Bonne vieille, que fais tu la?” . . . fried clams at the Duchess . . . the Jr.-Sr. Class Play — “Stage Door” . . . “To Each His Own” . . . our third Vaudeville . . . Mai Smith, A. A. President . . . Ned Moore heading the Student Council . . . our first prom - the Mardi Gras . . . The seniors graduated, and suddenly, after eleven years, we were “it” — the eldest and the ablest. We settled down to the serious business of being seniors. Reminiscing . . . auto races on Border Road . . . quivering in front of “Ma” Stacy -- “You haven’t got the whole story.” . . . Butler’s Taxi Service . . . Dick Kugler and Ned Moore in for second terms as President and Treasurer . . .Joe Amico and Norma Bergquist filling the other offices ... a sevenffiour wait for the Freedom Train . . . Bellino leading the football team to a seven-three record . . . home games on the new field . . . cheerleaders Bob McGrath and Don Berridge, plus little Carolyn Switzer . . . “Bart’s” home room sponsored the first of the popular Stag Dances with a record attendance . . . “Now is the Hour” . . . shoulder massages by “Tex” Keeney . . . “B” lunch — “Happy Birthday to Shovels” . . . the stopped clock in Room 13 . . . ABERJOR[A got underway . . . Switty leading the basket¬ ball team to its best record in years . . . the girls in there pitching under “George” Albree . . . Hoyas “Humiliate” Second Team . . . hockey games at 6:30 a.m. ... we frequented the water tower . . . the Jr.-Sr. Class Play, “Brother Rat,” the best yet . . . cramming for College Boards . . . Ford’s at 2.30 clouds of smoke . . . “Doc” Alley Man of Distinction . . . Matinee with Bob and Ray . . . Rosie McPeake bringing down the house as A1 Jolson . . . Beach Combers . . . Smith and Weidman . . . the Charleston — Buttons and Ann . . . Frank Weidman’s open house after the Vaudeville . . . Smedley and Sedley - “Bully, bully” ... a prom that compared with the best in history ... a whirl of open houses afterwards . . . breakfast at Jane Begg’s . . . Rev. Clippah Harvey’s sunrise service at the water tower. We, Lois Hottel and Dick Kugler, hope that in future years this brief history of the Class of 1948 will bring back happy memories. Jean and Sam, our Mansfield-Wheeler Cup winners . . . Oh, for a bottle of Whiting’s Grade-A Pasteurized milk . . . The wolves refuel . . . Our thanks to H. Ford.