by Laurel | February 5th, 2012
It was lots of fun at the 35th reunion of the class of 1920 from Holyoke High, Saturday night. Among those attending were, left to right: Mr. and Mrs. Howard B. Greaney, Mr. and Mrs. George H. Dooley and Mrs. Marion Carlson Cassie. The affair was at the Mt. Tom Golf Club.
1955, from an undated newspaper clipping
George Wilhelm of Louisville, Kentucky, received a prize Saturday night for the 1920 Holyoke High school graduate coming farthest to the 30th year reunion at the Mt. Tom Golf Club.
Other prize winners at the gathering attended by an estimated 75 persons were: Howard Johnson of Holyoke for the most children, which number six, and Mrs. Marjory Malcolm Shaw [sic] for having the largest number of grandchildren, which also number six.
On hand for the event were: School Supt. and Mrs. William R. Peck, Dr. Howard Conant, retired principal of Holyoke High School and his wife; Miss Margaret Powers and Miss Charlotte Norris, retired Holyoke High teachers as well as Mayor Edwin A Seibel, a member of the class and his wife.
John H. Lyons, Hampden County register of probate was master of ceremonies. Officers of the 1920 class are: Mrs. Minna Gardner Thompson of Williams St., secretary; Mrs. Marjory Malcolm Sharp [sic] of New Jersey, vice-president, and George P. Donoghue of Oak St., treasurer. The class president Alphonse Turgotte, is deceased.
