Here are the four Class of 1964 officers, as pictured in the September 1963 edition of the Chronicle. While these were the official leaders of the class, we, as the senior class, were leaders of the school (at least the student part). (I’m interrupting the order of posting Chronicles, because it was taking too long and 1963 had a lot more about us. All issues will eventually be available here.)

The Chronicle itself was a class project in terms of editors. Kathleen Ensign and Robert Stroshine were co-editors and page editors were Jeffrey Powers (one), Robert Stroshine (two), Edward Callahan (three), Barbara Mooney (four), Reid Oslin (five), and Margaret DeMontigny (six).

Lead picture on page one (at left) was Tom Counos, as king of the freshmen. Other page one articles reported on Ray Brassard and Nancy Thompson, as co-editors of Pantherpix, with numerous other seniors on the staff. Six members of the class qualified as semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship program, and Paul Donahue and John Sheehan scored above 750 in both the math and verbal sections of the SAT. Twenty-six other members of the class scored above 700 in either math or verbal.

George Shannon penned a column about the Federal Communications Commission on page two. Page three reports on several seniors’ summer jobs and a new advanced history class conducted by Sr. Marie de Lourdes for 16 seniors. Charlotte Chartier wrote a feature about classmate Janice Perry, returning after two years in Puerto Rico, where her father was stationed in the Air Force.

About a third of page four is devoted to a ton of seniors who served as members of the Senior Patrol. Smaller items reported on another classmate, William Wood, whose family was uprooted by the Air Force to Nebraska but who lived with family friends at Westover to continue study at CHS, and Ellen LeClair, who had lost her class ring at the beach but had it returned by a member of the Class of 1961 who found it.

Page five reports that the Purple Panthers “will field a fast, mobile and hard-hitting squad this season.” Classmates on the team include linemen Dan O’Malley, Dennis Finnerty, and Fran Stachowicz; running backs Dave Guyer, Don Chase, Ed Crowley, and Paul Defresne; receivers Don LaCasse and Dave Wall; and, of course, quarterback Gene Ryzewicz. Hey, and they all played defense, too!  The sports page also notes how some “feminine CHS’ers” kept physically active during the summer and includes a picture of our cheerleaders, including our classmates Kathy Modry, Holly Donahue, and Maureen Lyons (at right).

Page six had the photo at the top of this post, along with an article giving background on our class officers. Another item reports on classmates elected to lead the JETS (Junior Engineering Technological Society): Vincent Brown, president; Stephen Sullivan, vice-president; John Dubiel, secretary; Timothy Holt, treasurer; and Robert Zielinski, “publicity man.”

Here’s the September 27, 1963 Chronicle