John J. Lynch Junior High School
Class of 1953


Class Will

        As the bugle soundeth for Judgment Day so riseth the voice of the Class of 1953 in its last will and testament. Listen, pray, while we voice our sentiments and bequeath our treasures as follows:

Article I, To Mr. Peck and the School Committee: Our thanks for the wonderful new school you have provided for us.

Article II, To Mr. Murphy: Our deepest thanks for providing so many worthwhile activities for us and for your persistent efforts toward making our junior high days such happy ones.

Article III, To the Faculty: Our sincere appreciation of your untiring efforts to guide us along the proper paths of life, and to each a copy of the song, "Better Days are Coming", for use on days when everything seems to go wrong.

Article IV, To the Matrons and Building Custodians: Mrs. Moriarty, Mr. Casavant, and Mr. Shea: Several new assistants so that you can give this beautiful building the attention it so richly deserves and needs. Also the hope that future pupils of the Lynch School will fully appreciate all of your efforts in their behalf, and that they will discover that by helping you they will be helping themselves.

Article IV, To Miss Heffron and Mrs. Gibbs: Carloads of government issue commodities so that the wonderful meals you serve at such reasonable prices will continue to be available to all.

Article VI, To Miss Clark: Some truth serum to administer to the doubtful excuse seekers who appear at your desk. Our special thanks for the many hours you devoted to our yearbook.

Article VII, To the Class of '54:

  1. The privilege of being the first class to complete a full year in this school.
  2. The very dubious honor of trying to live up to the high standards of achievement of the class of '53.
  3. The thrill of acting like grown-ups for the first time.
  4. The heavy responsibility of assuming the role of leaders and of running the various organizations in this school.
  5. The hope that you will exert all of your efforts toward bringing credit and renown to the school we have all learned to love.
  6. A chance to earn membership in the National Junior Honor Society, Student Guides, Student Librarians, Radio Broadcast, School Publications, Audio-Visual Clubs, Cheerleaders, and other activities that are exclusively for ninth graders.

Article VIII, To the Class of '55:

  1. The opportunity to assume the characteristics of eighth-graders - that is to say: looking up to ninth graders with adoring admiration, talking or laughing quite boisterously so as to attract the attention of seniors, and making futile attempts to act grownup.
  2. A chance to help out with our school publications.
  3. A better chance to make the varsity athletic teams.
  4. The thrill of attending our school dances.
  5. Some very new subjects such as Latin, French, Algebra and Typing.
  6. The hope that you will work always to the best interests of our school.

Article IX, To the Class of '56:

  1. The opportunity to put away your rattles and assume the role of junior high pupils. Please don't forget to leave your little cribs in good condition for the incoming sixth graders.
  2. The happy thought that after two more years you may be considered grownups.
  3. Some clothes lines on which to hang your bibs and rompers, after you wash them, of course. It is urgent that you make them ready for the entering class just as they were ready for you.
  4. The indignity of having the upper classmen "Lord" it over you.
  5. The pleasure of helping the new sixth graders to adjust themselves to their new surroundings.
  6. The hope that you will join forces with all other classes in making the John J. Lynch School the best in the city.

Article X, To the Cheerleaders of '54

  1. The pep and enthusiasm of our cheerleaders.
  2. The hope that you will have as much to cheer about as we did.

Article XI, To the Basketball Team of '54:

  1. The desire to retain the trophies which our team won for the school.
  2. Magnitized basketballs that will be drawn through the hoop everytime you shoot.
  3. An adding machine to run up the score against Lawrence.

        If by some unexpected turn of events these requests cannot be fulfilled, it must be understood that conditions beyond our control are responsible. We leave our sincere hope that the John J. Lynch School will always be the best school in the community, and that our successors in the years to come will inherit the glorious traditions and numerous experiences which we have been privileged to enjoy here.

        In testimony whereof the Class of 1953 of the John J. Lynch School, in the presence of six witnesses, do hereby declare this to be our last will and testiment, this day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-three.

Witnessed by:
        Patty Goss
        Joyce Bach
        Joan Corcoran
        Enid Schwartzwald
        James Mahoney
        Kathryn Dowling



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