Berlin High School - Lamp Yearbook (Berlin, CT)

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CLASS PROPHECY June 14, 1964 Miss Betty Dyer Washington, D. C. Dear Betty: It seems unbelievable that twenty years have passed since I last saw you at our graduation from High School. Congratulations on your excellent leadership of the Worldwide Military Police Force! To think your career began on the Berlin High Traffic Squad! I had to write so that you, too, could enjoy the strange experiences I have had during this last week. It seems impossible, but put yourself in my place and imagine you were along as Scoop (Angelo) Leone, famed society reporter, conducted an experi- mental tour throughout the East. One evening, while walking along Fifth Avenue, I was amazed to see Scoop suddenly stop, and gaze in awe as Irene Gadzik and Gloria Krause paraded by with the Wacs and Waves of World War II. As we approached New York harbor, we heard a whistle and looked up to find Admiral Orcutt and Captain Carlson waving at us from aboard the U. S. S. Pensacola. While we were waving back dazedly, we stumbled over Ruth Read who was sitting on the wharf counting coupons which she had taken from a Treasure chest, and wondering sadly how much meat she could have had for them back in 1944. Norma Mazzali was with her taking down notes, stopping only to wink at Banker Richard Mangone as he swung by with his cane and inevitable cigar. We had an opportunity to visit New York’s Select Schools where we rested and chatted a while with Sister Annamae Kuhlmann. Just as we walked out, Thomas Fladdock slid by in his 1964 Rolls Royce. He married some girl named Lois. I don’t suppose you know her? The most surprising picture of all was that of Donald Klotz shootin’ pheasants in Times Square. While there, we put in a good word for Donald Emery who was being questioned by Officer Edward DeVivo about his car which was very similar to one recently reported stolen. Jack Heinzmann, the brilliant chemist and mathe- matician who discovered infinity, was with Donald and not at all frightened by DeVivo’s brusque reprimands. We were warned that darkness was nearly upon us when Roderick Beach serenaded us from the top of the Empire State Building with “Taps.” Below, Irene Indelak, leader of an all-man orchestra, revived the bugler’s victims with some sweet but solid boogie-woogie in Rockefeller Plaza. Startled by loud, angry voices, we turned to find John Savage in the middle of the street, talking the OPA into raising the price of milk to benefit the farmers. Page Twenty

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We stopped by to hear Marion Zigmont defend the Happy Housewives and Pat O’Brien represent the career women on Merwin Gianotta’s radio quiz program. This comes on just after Mac Pickett’s sports digest of America. Robert “Sinatra” Thomson crooned into the microphone while Lorraine DeMore swooned right on from 1944 in spite of Usherette Emma Culver’s attempts with smelling salts. Armand Bonola was repairing the microphone in a desperate attempt to have it ready for the “Carleton Yopp and his Zoot Suiters Noise with the Boys’ Show.” After all this it seemed strange to come back to Berlin and our old school. It had changed a great deal as we remarked to Doris Potter who was striving in vain to teach English to some contrary students. They aren’t as intelligent as we were, so you see, times have changed. We bought a newspaper edited by Richard Kallgren and read all about his successful hobby of producing oil. Hobbies are wonderful things. Judson Meigs enjoys his of being Superintendent of Berlin Schools with Bob Harris assisting him as chairman of the Board of Education. We had quite a time when we dropped into Nalawajek’s Barber Shop and Beauty Salon where you can have shoes shined while you wait. Stanley was giving Donald Wishart a wave to make him presentable for that evening’s banquet in honor of his becoming First Selectman of Berlin. Wishart defeated Harry Pentore who retired to the garden house on his estate to write mournful poetry. Barbara Payanis yelled out at us from the screen of a local theater one evening. She was the heroine and Richard Anderson the rootin’ tootin’ cowboy hero of “Once Upon a Time in Kensington.” It was very late as we walked home, and the sidewalks were dark and deserted. The night was hushed and quiet, when suddenly Shirley Pepin came tearing down the street on her horse, swinging a lantern to and fro. As she vanished into the deep black of night, she left with us the weird cry, “1964 and all’s wceeeclllllllll!” I guess that is enough of this curious story for now. However, I meant to ask you if you’d send me a few statistics on the extent of your jurisdiction as I am writing an article on national relations for C. Howard Goding’s magazine “New World in the Making.” I’ll be seeing you when the twenty-first Century World Exposition is held in Berlin. ’Bye now. As ever, Phyllis Johnson. Page Twenty-one