Classmates were throughout the January 1962 edition of the Chronicle, especially in reference to the production of “Silas Marner” presented by Sister Agnes Bernard’s 4th period English class. I don’t remember whether “Silas Marner” was even an okay book, but most of us probably had to read it.

This picture, below the fold of page one, shows many of the principal cast members, but the caption, oddly, does not include mention of the two students to the left — Elizabeth Francesconi as “Eppie” and Paul Donahue as the eponymous main character. The article to the left of the photo does list cast members: Paul, Elizabeth, Michael Reavey, Kevin O’Malley, Margaret Morneau, and narrator Dianne Dillon, but excludes Marilyn Stowe, who’s in the photo. Kathleen Ensign’s article about the play, to right of photo, also mentions Gene Ryzewicz.

Page three includes what I believe is Reid Oslin‘s first article in the Chronicle, reporting on the “tankmen,” i.e., swim team. Reid also covered sports for the Springfield newspapers for several years during high school and college and had a distinguished career of more than 40 years as Sports Information Director, and later as a senior member of the Public Affairs staff, at Boston College. He was inducted into BC’s Varsity Club Hall of Fame in 1989. He has written three books about Boston College sports, including one just out on the BC hockey program.

It was in the Literary Supplement that class members were particularly evident. William Devlin had a “monoprint” of an “ultra-modern home” on the first page. Thomas Dunn had an extensive piece on page two entitled “The Haunter of Hilltown.” Kathleen Williams gave the “Definition of Cathedral.” Kathleen Martin provided a poem and Lawrence Landry a drawing of that same ol’ Silas Marner. Reid Oslin, showing he can write about stuff other than sports, looked ahead 50 years, to 2012, in sketching what might have been a good episode of Twilight Zone.

Here’s the January 26, 1962, Chronicle