Bassick High School - Voice Yearbook (Bridgeport, CT)

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Urcgyu 45559 Q GUMING EVENTS Who Us CForrner Bassrckrtes of the Class of l949D Where At the Broman and Balogh Crrcus at the Brrdgeport Crrcus Grounds When June 9 1959 Why For the fun of rt Step rrght up step rrght up folks' See the brggest show on earth' Ladres and gents you are about to see the greatest the most magnrlicent the most stupendous show rn the country The Broman and Balogh Crrcus' Thrs was the famrlrar cry of the barker that we heard as we were pushed through the mrllrng crowds Makrng our way to the marn tent we accrdentally pushed a lrttle red harred grrl rnto the cotton candy stand We turned to apologrze and whom should we see but the chrlds parents Mr and Mrs Robert Samuelson nee Natalre Wunsch To our delrght we found that thrs trny creature was the youngest of therr four chrldren We talked for a whrle about the old days at Bassrck and whrle srpprng hrs soda Bob told us that a former classmate of ours Arnold Bar was working on hrs latest experrment a method by whrch one could remove the fizz from Pepsr Cola We had not moved much farther when we saw an autograph hungry crowd surroundrng a tall cowboy wearrng a ten gallon hat He was none other than that Wfestern star Klrppety Klop Kleban We were swept by the crowd rnto the brg tent and found seats next to Marcra Blank senror partner of the law firm Blank Dash and Space Marcra rn qurred about Arnold Schwartz who had recently gone rnto partnershrp wrth Noel Grnzberg to manu facturc that new type Stecksonrum pocketbook made from the new element of the same name found by Susan Steck We drdnt have long to chat before the show began wrth Anne Wrseman and Eevlyrr Stearns swrngrng on therr magrc trapezes and Sally Cunnrng ham rrdrng bareback rn the mrddle rrng On a nearby bleacher we saw a young couple Glorra Osso and her husband who are runnrng a combrnatron musrc studro and boxrng salon rn Long Hrll Behrnd Glorra sat Harrret Lerpner who had recently donated her servrces for a mrlk benefit whrch had been sponsored by jrm Cashavelly and Rrchard Callahan drrectors of the Delrnquent Advrsory Center Suddenly someone fell rt was Drane Smrth who had just farnted Alvrn Herskovrtz the yukapuk man of the day now berng featured wrth hrs clarrnet at Bob Wollerts nrghtclub rushed to her rescue wrth some of Drane s own farntrng prlls Dolores Crouthers regrstered nurse also lent a helprng hand After thrs excrtement had subsrded we turned to our program to see what was next rn the show As we glanced through the pages we saw the famous Tonr ad Whrch twrn had the Tonr Hazel or Clarre9 On the opposrte page we saw john Beyek prctured rn an Arrow shrrt ad jrm Matyas was also featured as a Man of Drstrnctron The brggest ad however was that of the People s Hardware Store now operated by Arnold Epstern and Brothers Next on the pro gram came the parade of the anrmals led by Marron Onady and followed by the crrcus band led by Elsre Cocco rn whrch Grlbert Lrndberg was head trombonrst We decrded that we wanted some popcorn and so between acts we went out to get rt By the stands we met joan O Day and her red harred husband joan told us that Joyce Stanley had been re elected to Congress on the Brrdge Party trcket and that Dan Olah presrdent of our graduatrng class rs now presr dent of the Olah Pastor and Rrley Rarlroad Co an express from Brack Rock to Trumbull Therr chref patrons of course are the Bassrck boys from the 49th state who are currently couttrng grrls rn Trumbull When the lrghts went up durrng rntermrssron we saw rn the sectron reserved for the hrgh school students a group of teen agers ushered to the crrcus by Rrchard Lrndsay Englrsh teacher and Nancy Watson and Grnny Abrtz French teachers We got up to stretch our legs and whom should we see but Bob Keller headrng toward the tent where hrs lron cubs were on exhrbrt After we had almost bumped C VJ! 4 ...4 c rn.. I Q ' s ' 7 . . a ' ' . . . . 1 1 ' . - ' 9 , 9 , . . , a ' ' . , . . . 1 , , , . ' . . . s - a 7 . ' . . , ' ' , . . . , , . - ' a a , . . , 5 ' Y 5 Y 7 1 s Y 3 . . I , , . . , - , . . l 7 a a ' 1 7 7 'S . . 1 . . s 1 9 ' - ' , 1 r a ' ' ' s . , - . v ' s a - , . ' a Q x , .

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into oy Lxndholm our senior class secretary she excitedly told us that Bob Caterson had eloped wrth a rich widow over whose hand both he and Phil Ness had been vyrng We next strolled over to the balloon venders stand where jack Warren and hrs wife the former Beverly Butler were buying balloons for their youngest ducklrng While we were standing there joan Strossr and Marron Boczan stopped to renew old acquaintance They told us that Rita Costa and Ann Trvadar had opened their second tea room Rita had designed rt but Bob Menhart and Chick Alber ghrnr had carried out the construction plans We bade farewell to our friends to return to our seats where we found the men drscussrong the new best seller written by Don Borgman Fred Dorr and Arnold Gustavsron entitled Our Impetuous Youth or Sixty Ways to Aggravate Teachers Marcia re mm led herself that she must send an edrtron to Mary Lou Keegan who rs traveling rn Switzerland The men told us that they had lust talked wrth Pat Sn non and Carol Scharmett co editors of a Week t t the attention of the men was diverted toward a group of shapely young women Dolores Whalon Loretta Ghranuly jackie McClean Nancre Botha Nancy Waverley and Mary Lou Rossignol who were wearing the new style developed by joan Weinberg called the big stare as featured rn Vogue now edited by Anne Pasqua and Eleanor Gondola These girls are models for the Powers Modeling School run by beautiful girl typoon Brll Power and hrs srster Pat After the grand finale of the crrcus we decrded to go to Vrnnys the most exclusive restaurant rn town run by Vrncent Marnrero and Ernest Santo After being pushed and shoved through the grounds we hailed a taxr to take us across town Whrle wart ing to be served at Vrnnys place we picked up the evening newspaper On the society page we saw that last evening Mr and Mrs jack Beatty had enter tained for the celebrrtres Arthur Sherwood and Marlene Regnery now starrrng rn I Remember Bassrck at the Little Theater off Wood Park pro duced by Hayward Smith and Dick Seaman Bob Fox also had made the paper He had recently ac quired mrllrons from the sales of hrs new kitchen deodorant wrth the slogan If your cooking krlls your husband we ll krll rts odor In the movre section we read that Carol Ford and eannre Robstock are now co starrrng with Zoltan Varga and Jack Whrte rn Wrllram Weavers productron Taylor jacobr Amerzcar Greater: P1911 anzhropm featuring Soren ohnsens new song Im Forever Blowing Smoke Rrngs The advertrsrng for the show was done by the hrm of R and K Wilkes Under the Highlights of the News we read that Tommy Hamrlton treasurer of the UN rs preparrng to take a trrp wrth hrs secretarres Sally Anderson and jean ohnson to Istanbul to write Tommys memoirs Desrrrng to know what would be on the radio that nrght we scrutrnrzed the radro page edited by Lrllran Kemeny We found that at eight oclock Don Dempsey was featured on the mystery program was lrsted a fifteen mrnute disc jockey show called Bidding for Boko Following the musrcal show was Pitching Pennies wrth Pacentr wrth Peres giving the up to the mrnute news from Broadway We noted that there were some excellent televrsron shows on too At nrne o clock there was A Song Fest starrrng Albert Lrggrns and Barbara Laufer At nrne thrrty there was that new qurz program called Take a Guess wrth Paul Whalen qurz master assrsted by hrs pal Bill Lewrs We found as we looked farther that they had finally televised that hilariously funny radio program Lrfe Wrth Lrzak wrth Elrzabeth Thayer the renowned radro actress playing the female lead and Mary Snook and Connie Kararndros rn supportrng roles After eating we parted but not untrl we had made plans to meet again rn the near future Thus june 9 1959 came to an end Marcia Blank ean Flax Lois Gronberg anet Halprn Marryn Reiss J . ' . 7 . . A , , - . , , , . . 7 I , J . - . , K . l . , . J , , .. . y . . . 7 , . . 5 Y . I I . 7 s J 1 Y 3 ' Y . .L , . . I , ly ,leader for history students. As we continued to Yvette, Crime Photographer. For eight-thirty there 1... , V I I i I -. .1 , Q! ' ' .H ' ' , , , ,, . . . . ..,, . . . . 7 l - - - . 1 . 1 . . , 9 - g , . , . ,, - - ' H! 7 . 3 I , I . , ,, . . . ,,, . . 7 3 l 7 . - ' l i I , . ' 1 . , ' i i . , l 5 S 7 ' r , I , , I ' 9 ' Q 27