Berlin High School - Lamp Yearbook (Berlin, CT)

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MOST CHANGED Tony Legnani, Jeanne Parzych CLASS LOVERS Cliff Hamilton Norma Beaulieu SHYEST George Kron, Dorothy Yost MOST POPULAR CLASS EARBENDERS Rose Rector, Rog Rochefort CLASS HEARTBREAKERS Gerry Barr, Myrna Nolan George Raymond, Gerry Barr Mike Hines, Marion Slater 23

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DONE MOST FOR THE CLASS Larry Geremia Jeanne Parzych MOST DIGNIFIED Mike Hines, Lu Hanes BEST DRESSED Ray Tomasi, Connie Johnson MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED George Raymond Mudie Overstrom CLASS JOKERS John Gadzik, Jane Cornali 22

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CLASS PROPHECY 1951 The final strains of Pomp and Circumstance died away and we leave Berlin High School to face the future. As I stood amid the relatives, and friends who were congratulating the latest additions to the high school alumni, I wondered what the future had in store for this, the graduating class of nineteen hundred fifty-one. Slowly I walked up the stairs and through the halls, where many pleasant memories came to mind. I wandered into the science laboratory. In one corner of the supply room I saw a shrouded object. I drew the covering aside and saw a bronze plate which bore this inscription, The Roy E. Fabian Electronic Device for the conquest of Time, Light and Space. I stood in awe for a moment and looked at the coffin-like machine before me. It bore a great number of dials and controls for the year nineteen hundred seventy-one. I climbed into the thing. Taking a deep breath I pressed a button marked atomic activator switch. With a sickening lurch the machine wrenched con- vulsively and with a deafening roar the apparatus went into action. After an interval of about twenty-minutes the noise began to decrease and then died out completely. I opened the metal latch and found myself in a pile of decaying rubble which once had been the old Berlin High School. I later learned that the School had been destroyed by an over-ambitious chemistry student who had discovered my book, Nitroglycerin Made Easy. Yes, here I was in nineteen seventy-one. As I walked down the main street, a very much changed Berlin met my eyes. There was a large restaurant with a dazzling neon sign that said, in three colors Tomasi ' s Spaghetti Palace . I went inside and chatted with Ray Tomasi over a dish of Italian spaghetti with meatballs. Ray told me that I was just in time to see the television show starring that television technician who made good, Danny Schoell, with jester, Jane Cornali. Ray apologized for the slow service, but it seems that his bartender, George Raymond, had left to study for the ministry. I then left to continue my tour of the town. The next structure I saw was a clean white marble building, bearing the sign, Berlin Health Center. Feeling a slight touch of indigestion, I went in. Nurses Marion Slater and Grace Volz, were busy with their duties. The receptionist, Geraldine Barr, told me that Jean Parzych was a patient there. But my fears were banished after head nurse, Mildred Overstrom, whispered to Doug Lowell who jumped up and offered me two cigars. Twins! he gasped. One suite of offices was ocupied by Bob Soroka ' s Dog and Cat Hospital. Bob is assisted by nurse, Viola Helin. I met Connie Johnson outside of Bob ' s office, holding an anemic looking Pekinese. Connie told me her husband was studying to become a minister and that the children were all fine. Horrible screams rang out from the end of the corridor. I went down to where they were coming from and saw the office of Dr. Richard Hall — Painless Dentist. I left the health center and continued on my walk. A huge, illuminated billboard proclaimed Dan Rusczyk ' s Dance Band, with Tony Legnani on the clarinet and vocalist Barbara May. A long, black sedan passed slowly in the street. I went into a large bookstore, run by Dorothy Yost, Barbara Manthey, and Marion Crowell, and asked about the owner of the sedan. They told me that it was owned by Stanley Budzinski, formerly of Anheuser Busch but now owner of the Budzinski Brewery. Bob Russell now holds the title of Budzinski Brewery ' s Best Bowler. 24