Have you looked online, or in a repository, for your parents high school yearbooks?
My father has an entry in the 1927 Leominster (MA) High School Yearbook, "The Leontine." He was a Sophomore in 1927, and I didn't see him in the photo of the Sophomore Class on image 33. There were few males in that picture, but lots of pretty females.
Image 34 is a list of "Suppressed Desires of the Sophomores."
There is my father - the 9th one down the list. It says:
FREDERICK SEAVER ..... A Second Rudolph Valentino
Who knew? I don't think he ever acted in a play in his life, and I don't think he could sing or dance, but I may be wrong. He certainly had ambitions to be a lothario, I guess. I'm not surprised - don't all 16-year old boys?
Some of the more interesting "suppressed desires" were:
* Peachy Andrews - Champion Gate Crasher
* Fat Starrett - Big Shot
* Goofy Hatfield - Nuisance, Be in the Way, Gum the Works!
* Mildred Kendall - Bathing Beauty
* Doris Lister -Tame the great-big-he-mens
* Doris Keefe -Matron of Home of Starving Sax Players
* Tessy Quennan - Subdue Goofy
* Gordon Phillips -Become President of the U.S.A.
* Joe Goodale - Sheik the Shebas
At least some of them had grand ambitions, others just tried to be funny. I'm not sure which group my father fits into - probably the latter!
Thank you to reader Suzanne S. for the link to the yearbook.
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Copyright(c) 2012, Randall J. Seaver
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