History of Oliver Ames High School Teachers from 1950 - 1960
As many of you have moved to various other parts of the country, I have moved from Elm Street to Williams Street and eventually to Center Street. Dave and I have also moved from the first Oliver Ames High School to the second and eventually the current one. I thought you might be interested in what has happened to Oliver Ames High School since you left. Also I shall indicate what we know about some of our teachers.
In 1956 I was asked to return to Oliver Ames from East Bridgewater where I had taught for two years. During 1956-57 Oliver Ames High had double sessions because the new school on Columbus Avenue was still being constructed. I started at 11 A M and worked to 5:30 P. M. teaching ninth grade English and eighth grade English and social studies. The seventh and eighth grade students arrived at 12:30 and were dismissed at 5:15 P. M. You can imagine their reaction when Daylight Savings ended, and it was dark while they were still in class. I taught in room 112 (opposite the gym), and during the winter we heard the cheers of the crowds and referees' whistles from the Tuesday afternoon basketball teams. Not the most ideal teaching situation!!! There was extensive discussion at the School Committee meetings about the naming of the new building. After considering the excellent academic, athletic, and musical traditions of Oliver Ames High School, it was voted that the name should be transferred.
From 1957 to 1963 I stayed in the original building which had become the Easton Junior High School. In early 1962 I was appointed Social Studies Chairman but chose to remain at the junior high school. However, in the summer of 1963 Dave was appointed Principal of the junior high, and the Superintendent recommended that I be transferred to the secondOliver Ames High School. Again it was a building year; the addition (the second quadrangle and the second floor at the back) was being constructed. I remained in the second OliverAmes High School until I took a maternity leave in 1969.
While I was on maternity leave, the third Oliver Ames High School was being constructed on Lothrop Street. The transfer occurred January 2. The Columbus Avenue building became Easton Junior High School, and the original Oliver Ames High School became the Middle School. I returned to the new Oliver Ames High School in the fall of 1972 and retired in 1997. For those who are interested in political history, the first recall in Massachusetts occurred in Easton in 1978; the issue directly was who should be the high school principal. (A special note to the Class of 1952-Leo McEvoy who had been a member of the Easton School Committee from 1964 to 1976, was one of the people elected to replace the ''recalled'' School Committee.)
At a cocktail party at Stonehill College conducted by the Easton Educators Association for retirees, I tried to convey the sense of pride and tradition of education in Easton. I also mentioned that when I was an underclassman at Oliver Ames High School one of the goals was to be in the senior homeroom 104. When I returned to Easton in 1956, the entireEaston teaching staff had their opening meeting in room 104. The room eventually became the Middle School library. I concluded that since 104 and the original Oliver Ames High School was being retired (1997) it was appropriate that I do so also. During the half century Oliver Ames received the highest evaluations by the New England Association of colleges and Secondary Schools: ten-year accreditations. Also in 1985 Oliver Ames High School received an Excellent in Education citation from President Ronald Reagan.
Superintendent Gilbert C. Mann remained in his position until 1957 when the second Oliver Ames High School was completed. He became an instructor in the Boston UniversitySchool of Education. Unfortunately he developed a brain tumor and died in January 1962. The auditorium in the second Oliver Ames High School (Columbus Avenue) is named in his honor.
Former Principal Gilman Campbell (''Soupy") assisted in the establishment of the Education Department at the newly opened Stonehill College and was an instructor there for many years. Dave spoke to his classes many times about administrative responsibilities. He retired in 1965 and died several years later. You might be interested to know that Stonehill, which began in 1948, was ranked in 1999 by U.S. News and World Report in a tie with Susquehana University in Pennsylvania as the best liberal arts colleges in the North. Today (2000-2001) there are 2,083 students enrolled with also an evening division and thirty-one buildings on campus.
Betty Donahue Barrows gradually became much more interested in teaching mathematics than physical education and eventually taught mathematics classes at OAHS until 1959. Then she became a member of the Lincoln School, a private secondary school associated with Brown University in Providence. She taught there until 1992 and still lives in Eastonand the Cape with her husband George. Dave and I did have the privilege of attending a surprise fiftieth anniversary party for them in November 2000. Betty is in the Oliver Ames High School Athletic Hall of Fame as a coach. She died in early 2009.
Veronica Carter, who was the Business Department Chairman, retired in 1970. She still lives in Easton; her husband George ("Nick") died in 1990. Nick and Veron bought an old one-room schoolhouse in Dummer, New Hampshire in 1963 and converted it into a vacation home. It is located at the beginning of the entrance road to the Easton Rod and Gun Club's lodge. Dave, our boys, and I enjoyed many pleasurable vacations there. In 1973 they sold the former schoolhouse to Ralph Peterson, President of the Class of 1948, who still owns it. Dave and I had the pleasure of taking her to a local restaurant in her 96th through her 100th birthdays. Ruth Grant O 'Connell and her daughter always joined us in the celebrations. Veronica is now 102 and is in a nursing home in Wrentham.
Evelyn Foster, who was appointed the first English Department Chairman, remained teaching until she was found dead April 23rd, 1962 in her apartment. The tragedy was that she had had some serious illnesses during her last year and had used all her sick leave time. (In those days teachers had very few sick leave days.) She had returned to school before she should have and was found with students’ papers and red pen on her lap.
Kae Healey, the first Mathematics Department Chairman, taught until 1969 and then traveled extensively throughout Europe, Africa, the Far East, and the rest of the United States. We became close friends (in spite of my lack of mathematical ability) and had Celtics seats together for four years, 1957-1960, the beginning of the Celtics dynasty. Her one wish, to see the Red Sox win a World Series, obviously did not occur. She died in January 1994.
Adelaide Johnson Lundgren became a guidance counselor at Easton Junior High School and retired in 1968. After her husband's death she moved eventually into a new assisted-living facility across from Westgate Mall, Heights Crossing, and enjoyed an active life until her death in May 2000.
John C. Mason, who was both Athletic Director and Faculty Manager, continued his teaching until his sudden death June 6, 1961. The prior evening Joan Mason Lane had a bridal shower for me at her parents' home on Day Street. After Dave brought me to the shower, Jack and he went to the second Oliver Ames High School and had a very special conversation. You'll have to check with Dave about it. You can imagine the shock the next afternoon when we received the call about his death. His wife Margaret was a resident counselor atBoston University for a year or so and then moved to Maine near Joan. She died in 1996. When the twenty-five year time span on the J Francis O 'Neil Trophy (outstanding male athlete) ended, the new trophy was named the John C. Mason Award. (Recently the trophy has been renamed again in tribute to Valentine P. Muscato.)
Barbara Nickerson taught in Easton until 1956. She then moved to Wellesley and worked for many years in the Alumni Office at Wellesley College. She attended a number of reunions of OAHS classes and celebrated in a Natick nursing home her one hundredth birthday with relatives. She died August 30th, 2001.
Tom White left in 1950 and taught for many years in his hometown-at Norwood High School. Leaving three years later, in 1953, were Roger Warner, Jim Galt, and Vernon Schnare. George Angell and Pauline Lyons left in 1952, and James Byrne in 1954. Charles MacLeod retired in 1956, Margaret Dinneen in 1957, Herbert Rollins in 1970, and Shirley Tufts in 1975. Ruth Grant O’Connell, whom many of us had for home economics in our junior high years, returned to Oliver Ames High School in 1958 and taught until 1978.
Peter Sperandio, who left in 1946 to become Principal of West Bridgewater High School, subsequently became Principal of Stoughton High School. His daughter Mary Dempsey, her husband, and family live in the historic house at 31 Short Street, and I had the privilege of teaching both of his Easton grandchildren.
Philip M. Hallowell remained as Superintendent of schools until 1972 when he retired to enjoy Cape Cod and Florida. He passed away in the late 1980s. The first auditorium in the current OAHS was named in his honor.
Peter C. McConarty became an administrator in the Framingham School System in 1960 and completed almost thirty years of service there. Dave and I attended both his retirement cocktail party and in 1996 his memorial service. The priest at that mass had been one of Peter's students when Peter was in the Whitman School System prior to coming to Easton; the service was extremely poignant. Peter was one of the speakers at Muzzy's retirement parties and Bill Nixon's.
Julian S. Preuss became principal when Peter McConarty resigned in 1960 and served in that capacity until 1978. He was able to enjoy his vacation home in Vermont until he suffered a fatal heart attack on a golf course in Florida in early 1983.
J. Donald Amirault remained as band director until 1968 when he became Assistant Principal of Hamilton-Wenham High School. Subsequently he became Principal of LewistonHigh School in Maine. After retirement he worked part time for L. L. Bean and died in October 2000.
Ruth Ashley, who became Director of Music for Easton, resigned in 1969 to become a professor at Lowell State College (now the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and remained there for more than twenty years. She directed a church bell ringing choir, and she brought the choir to Easton each spring to perform with the Unity Church bell ringers until her death in 2005.
Catherine Atkins stayed in Easton until 1960 when she returned home to North Carolina in a counseling role In a local college. A widow and a proud grandmother, Cathy still sends us a Christmas card each year.
Ann Berardi left the high school in 1959 but subsequently became a member of the junior high staff from 1960 to 1966. Then she and her husband Charles Lomartere decided to teach in American schools in Europe. We saw them when they returned one summer in the late 1960s. They were teaching in Italy and skiing in the Alps every winter weekend. We have not heard about or from her in several decades.
Anne Bromly retired in 1970 when Veronica Carter did. She enjoyed family life until her death in 2001 at the age of 97.
Kenneth Burke stayed at OAHS until 1963 and actually returned for several weeks in 1968. Subsequently he taught an elementary class in Mansfield for many years. Dave and I saw him at a coffee shop in the late 1980s. He had never married but had traveled extensively throughout the world. Hong Kong was his favorite place. We also saw him at Betty Barrows's memorial service in early May of 2009.
Helene Cornell left in 1963 and I think she went to work for a publishing company. We did attend her wedding in the late 1960s and saw her at Val Muscato's funeral.
Clyde A. Craig became the Assistant Principal of OAHS in 1964 after leaving for one year at Sharon High School. He retired in 1969 to continue operating his successful floral business on Lincoln Street. Always involved in town and American Legion activities, he enjoyed an active life until his death in 1999. One of his proudest memories was his nephew Jim Craig's winning performance in the 1980 Olympics.
Helen Doherty, the Foreign Language Department Chair, retired in 1984 and continued to live on North Main Street until her death in 1996.
Martha Egan left in 1959 and now lives in Connecticut.
John Farrington became Assistant Superintendent of schools in 1966 and Superintendent from 1976 to 1981. He is an educational consultant and in charge of SPOKE, a collaborate serving Easton, Foxboro, Mansfield, and Norton schools.
Eero Helin, Director of Physical Education, was famous in the 1960s for his gym-jams including the bamboo dancing. He and his wife owned a summer camp on a lake in Pembroke where several faculty parties were held. He retired in 1978. His wife and he had very tragic deaths. They both had become wheelchair-bound and were brutally murdered during a robbery in their home.
Val Muscato, Director of Athletics after Jack Mason's death in 1961, continued as basketball coach until 1970 and football coach until 1975. He retired in 1989 and the newly constructed lighted stadium in back of the current OAHS was renamed the Valentine P. Muscato Stadium. It had been called Tiger Stadium since its construction in 1983. An extremely large testimonial for him was held in 1990, and he died in 1991. The J. Frances O'NeiI trophy, which had become the John C. Mason trophy in 1965, was renamed in 2001 for Muzzy and is presented to the outstanding male athlete. The girls have had a similar trophy since the mid-1960s and it is named for Suzanne Rivard.
Bill Nixon became head basketball coach after Val gave up coaching basketball in 1970. He taught until 1991. He is now President of Willworks, Inc., a company initiated by his older son Bill which sets up trade shows all over the globe.
Dorothy Olson left in 1959.
Harold Simpson left in 1962 to be the chair of the science department of Hamilton-Wenham High School where he remained until his retirement.
Annarae Tong Cohen was art teacher from 1958 to 1960 and returned from 1964 to 1966. Ruth Ashley told me that Annarae and she had had a wonderful visit with PeterMcConarty in the early 1990s.
Sylvia Vellante moved to Millis with her husband in 1959. After their three sons were elementary age, she taught foreign languages in a neighboring community for many years.
Three new teachers jointed the OAHS staff in 1960. Two did not stay long: Delores Smith (1959-1962) and George Willis (1959-1962). However, the third person is someone you all know: Robert "Buddy" Wooster. He taught until 1990 and was the baseball coach until he became Director of Frothingham Memorial Park almost forty years ago. Since 1979 OAHS graduations have been held at the Park with one exception due to inclement weather. The setting is always spectacular.
As many of you have moved to various other parts of the country, I have moved from Elm Street to Williams Street and eventually to Center Street. Dave and I have also moved from the first Oliver Ames High School to the second and eventually the current one. I thought you might be interested in what has happened to Oliver Ames High School since you left. Also I shall indicate what we know about some of our teachers.
In 1956 I was asked to return to Oliver Ames from East Bridgewater where I had taught for two years. During 1956-57 Oliver Ames High had double sessions because the new school on Columbus Avenue was still being constructed. I started at 11 A M and worked to 5:30 P. M. teaching ninth grade English and eighth grade English and social studies. The seventh and eighth grade students arrived at 12:30 and were dismissed at 5:15 P. M. You can imagine their reaction when Daylight Savings ended, and it was dark while they were still in class. I taught in room 112 (opposite the gym), and during the winter we heard the cheers of the crowds and referees' whistles from the Tuesday afternoon basketball teams. Not the most ideal teaching situation!!! There was extensive discussion at the School Committee meetings about the naming of the new building. After considering the excellent academic, athletic, and musical traditions of Oliver Ames High School, it was voted that the name should be transferred.
From 1957 to 1963 I stayed in the original building which had become the Easton Junior High School. In early 1962 I was appointed Social Studies Chairman but chose to remain at the junior high school. However, in the summer of 1963 Dave was appointed Principal of the junior high, and the Superintendent recommended that I be transferred to the secondOliver Ames High School. Again it was a building year; the addition (the second quadrangle and the second floor at the back) was being constructed. I remained in the second OliverAmes High School until I took a maternity leave in 1969.
While I was on maternity leave, the third Oliver Ames High School was being constructed on Lothrop Street. The transfer occurred January 2. The Columbus Avenue building became Easton Junior High School, and the original Oliver Ames High School became the Middle School. I returned to the new Oliver Ames High School in the fall of 1972 and retired in 1997. For those who are interested in political history, the first recall in Massachusetts occurred in Easton in 1978; the issue directly was who should be the high school principal. (A special note to the Class of 1952-Leo McEvoy who had been a member of the Easton School Committee from 1964 to 1976, was one of the people elected to replace the ''recalled'' School Committee.)
At a cocktail party at Stonehill College conducted by the Easton Educators Association for retirees, I tried to convey the sense of pride and tradition of education in Easton. I also mentioned that when I was an underclassman at Oliver Ames High School one of the goals was to be in the senior homeroom 104. When I returned to Easton in 1956, the entireEaston teaching staff had their opening meeting in room 104. The room eventually became the Middle School library. I concluded that since 104 and the original Oliver Ames High School was being retired (1997) it was appropriate that I do so also. During the half century Oliver Ames received the highest evaluations by the New England Association of colleges and Secondary Schools: ten-year accreditations. Also in 1985 Oliver Ames High School received an Excellent in Education citation from President Ronald Reagan.
Superintendent Gilbert C. Mann remained in his position until 1957 when the second Oliver Ames High School was completed. He became an instructor in the Boston UniversitySchool of Education. Unfortunately he developed a brain tumor and died in January 1962. The auditorium in the second Oliver Ames High School (Columbus Avenue) is named in his honor.
Former Principal Gilman Campbell (''Soupy") assisted in the establishment of the Education Department at the newly opened Stonehill College and was an instructor there for many years. Dave spoke to his classes many times about administrative responsibilities. He retired in 1965 and died several years later. You might be interested to know that Stonehill, which began in 1948, was ranked in 1999 by U.S. News and World Report in a tie with Susquehana University in Pennsylvania as the best liberal arts colleges in the North. Today (2000-2001) there are 2,083 students enrolled with also an evening division and thirty-one buildings on campus.
Betty Donahue Barrows gradually became much more interested in teaching mathematics than physical education and eventually taught mathematics classes at OAHS until 1959. Then she became a member of the Lincoln School, a private secondary school associated with Brown University in Providence. She taught there until 1992 and still lives in Eastonand the Cape with her husband George. Dave and I did have the privilege of attending a surprise fiftieth anniversary party for them in November 2000. Betty is in the Oliver Ames High School Athletic Hall of Fame as a coach. She died in early 2009.
Veronica Carter, who was the Business Department Chairman, retired in 1970. She still lives in Easton; her husband George ("Nick") died in 1990. Nick and Veron bought an old one-room schoolhouse in Dummer, New Hampshire in 1963 and converted it into a vacation home. It is located at the beginning of the entrance road to the Easton Rod and Gun Club's lodge. Dave, our boys, and I enjoyed many pleasurable vacations there. In 1973 they sold the former schoolhouse to Ralph Peterson, President of the Class of 1948, who still owns it. Dave and I had the pleasure of taking her to a local restaurant in her 96th through her 100th birthdays. Ruth Grant O 'Connell and her daughter always joined us in the celebrations. Veronica is now 102 and is in a nursing home in Wrentham.
Evelyn Foster, who was appointed the first English Department Chairman, remained teaching until she was found dead April 23rd, 1962 in her apartment. The tragedy was that she had had some serious illnesses during her last year and had used all her sick leave time. (In those days teachers had very few sick leave days.) She had returned to school before she should have and was found with students’ papers and red pen on her lap.
Kae Healey, the first Mathematics Department Chairman, taught until 1969 and then traveled extensively throughout Europe, Africa, the Far East, and the rest of the United States. We became close friends (in spite of my lack of mathematical ability) and had Celtics seats together for four years, 1957-1960, the beginning of the Celtics dynasty. Her one wish, to see the Red Sox win a World Series, obviously did not occur. She died in January 1994.
Adelaide Johnson Lundgren became a guidance counselor at Easton Junior High School and retired in 1968. After her husband's death she moved eventually into a new assisted-living facility across from Westgate Mall, Heights Crossing, and enjoyed an active life until her death in May 2000.
John C. Mason, who was both Athletic Director and Faculty Manager, continued his teaching until his sudden death June 6, 1961. The prior evening Joan Mason Lane had a bridal shower for me at her parents' home on Day Street. After Dave brought me to the shower, Jack and he went to the second Oliver Ames High School and had a very special conversation. You'll have to check with Dave about it. You can imagine the shock the next afternoon when we received the call about his death. His wife Margaret was a resident counselor atBoston University for a year or so and then moved to Maine near Joan. She died in 1996. When the twenty-five year time span on the J Francis O 'Neil Trophy (outstanding male athlete) ended, the new trophy was named the John C. Mason Award. (Recently the trophy has been renamed again in tribute to Valentine P. Muscato.)
Barbara Nickerson taught in Easton until 1956. She then moved to Wellesley and worked for many years in the Alumni Office at Wellesley College. She attended a number of reunions of OAHS classes and celebrated in a Natick nursing home her one hundredth birthday with relatives. She died August 30th, 2001.
Tom White left in 1950 and taught for many years in his hometown-at Norwood High School. Leaving three years later, in 1953, were Roger Warner, Jim Galt, and Vernon Schnare. George Angell and Pauline Lyons left in 1952, and James Byrne in 1954. Charles MacLeod retired in 1956, Margaret Dinneen in 1957, Herbert Rollins in 1970, and Shirley Tufts in 1975. Ruth Grant O’Connell, whom many of us had for home economics in our junior high years, returned to Oliver Ames High School in 1958 and taught until 1978.
Peter Sperandio, who left in 1946 to become Principal of West Bridgewater High School, subsequently became Principal of Stoughton High School. His daughter Mary Dempsey, her husband, and family live in the historic house at 31 Short Street, and I had the privilege of teaching both of his Easton grandchildren.
Philip M. Hallowell remained as Superintendent of schools until 1972 when he retired to enjoy Cape Cod and Florida. He passed away in the late 1980s. The first auditorium in the current OAHS was named in his honor.
Peter C. McConarty became an administrator in the Framingham School System in 1960 and completed almost thirty years of service there. Dave and I attended both his retirement cocktail party and in 1996 his memorial service. The priest at that mass had been one of Peter's students when Peter was in the Whitman School System prior to coming to Easton; the service was extremely poignant. Peter was one of the speakers at Muzzy's retirement parties and Bill Nixon's.
Julian S. Preuss became principal when Peter McConarty resigned in 1960 and served in that capacity until 1978. He was able to enjoy his vacation home in Vermont until he suffered a fatal heart attack on a golf course in Florida in early 1983.
J. Donald Amirault remained as band director until 1968 when he became Assistant Principal of Hamilton-Wenham High School. Subsequently he became Principal of LewistonHigh School in Maine. After retirement he worked part time for L. L. Bean and died in October 2000.
Ruth Ashley, who became Director of Music for Easton, resigned in 1969 to become a professor at Lowell State College (now the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and remained there for more than twenty years. She directed a church bell ringing choir, and she brought the choir to Easton each spring to perform with the Unity Church bell ringers until her death in 2005.
Catherine Atkins stayed in Easton until 1960 when she returned home to North Carolina in a counseling role In a local college. A widow and a proud grandmother, Cathy still sends us a Christmas card each year.
Ann Berardi left the high school in 1959 but subsequently became a member of the junior high staff from 1960 to 1966. Then she and her husband Charles Lomartere decided to teach in American schools in Europe. We saw them when they returned one summer in the late 1960s. They were teaching in Italy and skiing in the Alps every winter weekend. We have not heard about or from her in several decades.
Anne Bromly retired in 1970 when Veronica Carter did. She enjoyed family life until her death in 2001 at the age of 97.
Kenneth Burke stayed at OAHS until 1963 and actually returned for several weeks in 1968. Subsequently he taught an elementary class in Mansfield for many years. Dave and I saw him at a coffee shop in the late 1980s. He had never married but had traveled extensively throughout the world. Hong Kong was his favorite place. We also saw him at Betty Barrows's memorial service in early May of 2009.
Helene Cornell left in 1963 and I think she went to work for a publishing company. We did attend her wedding in the late 1960s and saw her at Val Muscato's funeral.
Clyde A. Craig became the Assistant Principal of OAHS in 1964 after leaving for one year at Sharon High School. He retired in 1969 to continue operating his successful floral business on Lincoln Street. Always involved in town and American Legion activities, he enjoyed an active life until his death in 1999. One of his proudest memories was his nephew Jim Craig's winning performance in the 1980 Olympics.
Helen Doherty, the Foreign Language Department Chair, retired in 1984 and continued to live on North Main Street until her death in 1996.
Martha Egan left in 1959 and now lives in Connecticut.
John Farrington became Assistant Superintendent of schools in 1966 and Superintendent from 1976 to 1981. He is an educational consultant and in charge of SPOKE, a collaborate serving Easton, Foxboro, Mansfield, and Norton schools.
Eero Helin, Director of Physical Education, was famous in the 1960s for his gym-jams including the bamboo dancing. He and his wife owned a summer camp on a lake in Pembroke where several faculty parties were held. He retired in 1978. His wife and he had very tragic deaths. They both had become wheelchair-bound and were brutally murdered during a robbery in their home.
Val Muscato, Director of Athletics after Jack Mason's death in 1961, continued as basketball coach until 1970 and football coach until 1975. He retired in 1989 and the newly constructed lighted stadium in back of the current OAHS was renamed the Valentine P. Muscato Stadium. It had been called Tiger Stadium since its construction in 1983. An extremely large testimonial for him was held in 1990, and he died in 1991. The J. Frances O'NeiI trophy, which had become the John C. Mason trophy in 1965, was renamed in 2001 for Muzzy and is presented to the outstanding male athlete. The girls have had a similar trophy since the mid-1960s and it is named for Suzanne Rivard.
Bill Nixon became head basketball coach after Val gave up coaching basketball in 1970. He taught until 1991. He is now President of Willworks, Inc., a company initiated by his older son Bill which sets up trade shows all over the globe.
Dorothy Olson left in 1959.
Harold Simpson left in 1962 to be the chair of the science department of Hamilton-Wenham High School where he remained until his retirement.
Annarae Tong Cohen was art teacher from 1958 to 1960 and returned from 1964 to 1966. Ruth Ashley told me that Annarae and she had had a wonderful visit with PeterMcConarty in the early 1990s.
Sylvia Vellante moved to Millis with her husband in 1959. After their three sons were elementary age, she taught foreign languages in a neighboring community for many years.
Three new teachers jointed the OAHS staff in 1960. Two did not stay long: Delores Smith (1959-1962) and George Willis (1959-1962). However, the third person is someone you all know: Robert "Buddy" Wooster. He taught until 1990 and was the baseball coach until he became Director of Frothingham Memorial Park almost forty years ago. Since 1979 OAHS graduations have been held at the Park with one exception due to inclement weather. The setting is always spectacular.