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The Plainville High School Blue Devils Graduating Class of 1958...

(Note: This is a high resolution scan of the original photo. Allow a minute to download if your Internet connection is by phone.. You may also download it to save as your own copy by bringing the cursor on the photo and doing "RIGHT CLICK > Save Image/Picture As".   In addition to all of this, you may left click on the photo to view the photo in zoom while you listen to the last 90 seconds of Sir Edward Elgar's 'POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE' performed by the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra. Some would say that they're almost as good as the Plainville High School Band. Remember the tune as we marched down the aisle of that beautiful new auditorium?)

 

This was the moment when we launched the rest of our lives... With all caps and tassles in perfect alignment, it's hard to believe that this was the morning after Senior Class Night.

Back Row: (left to right): Wishart, Shonrock, Folcik, Kenure, Haddock, Lasher, Bocwinski, Distin, Nicholas, Passmore, Mooers, Dieli, Entwistle, Gabes, Lofgren, Minella, Ron Pavano, Whelan, Beyer, Carolyn Lamprecht*, Coffin, Rudolph, Coach, Antonioli, Noel, Dellaquila, Hiltpold, Grant, Kratka, Moss, Ralph Theriault, Osgood, Bradshaw;
Third Row: Varrone, Trijonis, Gardner, Segal, Montelione, Lopez, Kennedy, Sandy Pavano, Mangan, Suess, Westergren, Juliette Theriault, Grimaldi, Green, Irving, White, Caparelli, Ellis, Henne, Castiola, Marcantonio, Brotherton, Maskery, Atwood, Borajkiewicz, Venturi;
Second Row: Monsam, Hart, Datoli, Hodlin, Zyla, Dinardo, Kordek, Szczepanik, Pat Dulac, Fanciullo, Cambo, Nesser, Smith, Schmidt, Kysor, Janick, Meehan;
Front Row: Annette Dulac, Avery, Johnson, Getchell, Comas, Daigle, Carlson, Hill, Perfetto, Vicinus, Wysocki, Lepore.

This was actually a graduation practice and photo session early on the morning of Tuesday, 17 June 1958. The night before, we had celebrated Class Night... an evening which started with a semi-formal affair, the Senior Class Night banquet and which was followed by some not so formal all-night partying and frivolities. Some of us were therefore not able to make this photo shoot. 

Shall we name them? Why not? They were: Anderson, Coppola, Czellecz, Fox, Grizzel, Hurd, Pasniewski, Perrotti, Ripley**, Sadlowski, Witzke, and Zdunczyk. The Senior Ball as you remember took place the preceding Friday, 13 June. (Was anybody there Tuesday morning to see how Mr. Burleigh got his Volkswagen moved away from the high school front entrance doors?) On Wednesday, 18 June... Graduation Day, we made the news!!  Left click on the newsclip at right and read all about it.

*Until we did a careful accounting of each classmate, we had based the number of students in our class on the yearbook photos of which there are 99. In this graduation photo, Carolyn Lamprecht pops up as the 100th student because for some reason, her photo is not in the yearbook. So, our class size is an even and well-rounded 100 large. 

**Actually, we have it from Ralph Noel (who confirmed it with Boyde Ripley himself), that Boyde was there physically but unfortunately not in spirit... he was in the prone position passed out behind the stage bleachers to the center right not far from Ralph Noel. Notice how everyone in the back row on the right just filled in. There isn't even a hint that someone had just 'fallen out of ranks'. What a team!. Well, Boyde, let history record that you had the good intentions and fortitude to give it a good try...
JRT
Here are a few more graduation photos:
Taken right after graduation in the gym (Several people took these two group pictures so someone out there may have much clearer pictures than these.)
Group Below:
Front row - Jack Haddock, Ruth Szczepanik, June Smith, Linda Comas, Joan Perfetto, Jan Fancuillo and George Nicholas;
Back row - Susan Kennedy, Bonnie Coffin, Pat Pasniewski, Ralph Noel, Ginny, Joe Dellaquila, Linda Kysor, Joel Moss, Janie Hodlin, Fran Meehan, Boyd Ripley and Jimmy Rudolph


Group Above:
Front Row - George Nicholas, Jimmy Kenure, Paul Maskery, Bruce Atwood, Freddie Mooers, Joey Segal, Butchie Diston, Ralph Noel & Bob Zdunczyk;
Back Row - Andy Coppola, Bob Bocwinski, Chuck Venturi, Allan Anderson, Fred Beyer, Eddie Wishart, David Hiltpold, John Folcik, Joe Dellaquila, Keith Schonrock, Alan Couch, Bobby Whelan, Roland Lasher & Ralph Theriault.
Group At Left:

Here's another photo of some of the ladies in the class; 
Front Row: Jane Hodlin, Jan Fanciullo, June Smith, Joan Perfetto, Linda Kysor; 
Back Row: Frances Meehan, Ruth Szczepanik, Judith Nesser, Bonnie Coffin, Susan Kennedy, Pat Pasniewski, Ginny hill. 
These from Ginny Hill Noel's collection. (Click on each photo to zoom.)
That old gang of mine...
One Last Cheer!!  This photo was taken after the Class Graduation Ceremony. (Left to right) Ralph Theriault, Eddie Wishart, Alan Couch, Jimmy Rudolph and Andy Cappola. Phota was taken by Chuck Venturi. This was a tremendously exciting though bitter-sweet time... From this point, we each went our separate ways. This photo is from Ralph Theriault's collection...
 
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