THE YEAR BOOK
1940 VOLUME IV
ROSLINDALE HIGH SCHOOL
ROSLINDALE, MASSACHUSETTS
Our Year Book will be a lasting remembrance of our days spent at Roslindale High School. In years to come, we may reacquaint ourselves with our fellow students and teachers by looking over this long cherished souvenir. As we glance over its many pages and pictures, happy memories of our high school days will be recalled.
The Class of 1940
...strong in will
To strive, to seek,
to find, and not to yield.
-Alfred Lord Tennyson
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ROBERTA J. KELLEHER
"Berta" "Bobbie"
Hobbies: Tennis, Skating, Sailing. Sewing.
Activities: President French Club '39, Treasurer Spanish Club '40,Student Council '40, Athletic Association '40, Drill Leader '40.
Ambition: Executive Nurse
Further Schooling: Regis.
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Class Prophecy
Listen, my children! Just open your ears.
And I'll tell you about the future years
Of the class of forty, and what they'll be:
But anything said don't hold against me!
Now, let's get started, then we'll soon be done,
Though just remember it's all in fun —
We'll start with flashes from here and there
And end up with news that'll be very rare!
If we're all living and going great
You might see in 1948:
That Sidney Vinton is the chief chef at the Walforf Astoria. Mr. Warren Kay Vantine has a new model for his advertisements. If you would care to know her name, it is Florence Bergren. Rita Goodwin has gone South to become private secretary to the great plantation owner, Mr. Joseph Egan. That new secretary to Professor Francis Coppinger of Harvard is Gloria Johnson — where there's a will there's a way — she always did want to go to Harvard! Louise Houston, who most people thought was just another nurse, is working on a cure for cancer — working with her is that other capable nurse, Roberta Kelleher. Attention, men and boys! Ethel Langmeyer has a shop called the Flower Pot where you can get corsages for 75c — too bad that didn't happen back in 1940! That famed artist. Ted Flanagan, has sketched a lovely figure with a gorgeous smile for the Foamy Tooth Paste ads — as his model, he used Margaret Dineen. Miss Betty Sargent has just made her debut as a concert pianist. The ovation after the performance was appalling. Two nights later, Dorothy Samsel and Helen Schank appeared in the Metropolitan Opera — they have been hailed the best since Kirsten Flagsted and Grace Moore. There was a great to-do in Boston when Natalie Hatch was invited to model gowns for the Princess Margaret of England. She was chosen from a group of 200. Warren Shepard, the man about town, has just bought a new car which will carry sixteen passengers. You may see all the stars of Hollywood and Broadway at John Gatturna's famous Spinning Top Night Club. Now for a bit of special feature news from all over the country. . . . pi as h — Hoboken, N. J. — Miss Marion Miller has started a school in which there is a strict rule that stars may go to school only every other day and have a three months' summer vacation! Kalamazoo, Michigan — Our inter- viewer, Albino Petruzzo, went to interview Mr. John Clune, President of the Sudsier Soap Co. While there, he met the brilliant inventor, August May, Jr., who has invented a non-slippery soap. Mr. Clune has a pretty and very clever secretary whose name is Shirley McNair — We guess that Mr. Clune has quite a time keeping visitors from his secretary's office. Boston, Mass. One of our staff sat in on a beautiful wedding. The bride wore a beautiful creation done by Marie, better known to her friends as Winifred Minkle. Washington, D. C. — Jack Toland. U. S. Senator, had Congress in stitches as he told the story of President Teddy Roosevelt's first speech. He was supposed to say, "Greece! her knees are bent", but could not get past....
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President's Address
Every one of us, at some time or other, has expressed the desire to be a success. Some of us desire successful business careers; some seek success in a profession, and some just want to be a success without knowing how to achieve that goal. Addison said, "If you wish for success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counsellor, caution your older brother, and hope your guardian genius." That is, Addison thought perseverance, experience, caution, and hope all necessary to success.
We have shown perseverance in that we have finished our high school course. Some of us, I am sure, felt occasionally that a diploma was not worth the work required to attain it, but now that we have persevered, we feel rewarded for our work. As we grow older, there will be times when we shall feel that all is lost; let us remember this, and always try to realize that anything worth doing requires that old stick-to-it-iveness that is known as perseverance.
While we have all shown perseverance, we have very little experience. Until the time when we have had experience of our own, let us listen to the counsel of those who are experienced. The fact that we are high school graduates does not mean that we know all that there is to know: in fact, we have a long way to go before we can consider ourselves as knowing any- thing at all. With this in mind, we should go to our elders for advice, for they have had the experience which we lack.
After experience, Addison lists caution. In my mind, both extremes of caution are dangerous; the over-cautious person, or pussyfooter, is just as bad as the incautious man. Since we are all young, however, there are few of us who are over-cautious. The majority of us are inclined to be a little reckless, and if the reckless person meets with disaster in school, it is not difficult to imagine what happens to him in later life.
Hope, which is the last of Addison's requirements for success, is, it seems to me, the most important. We must have hope if we wish to succeed. When the going is the hardest, we may be down, but we're far from out if we cling to that hope v/hich "springs eternal in the human breast".
Addison has told us the secret of success, but it seems to me he has omitted one point. The happiness which results from adjusting oneself to the conditions controlling one's life is a factor without which true success is impossible, for only the happy man can be successful. We shall soon have an opportunity to put these ideas into practice. May success of the right kind and happiness come to each of us.
John T. Toland