Bloomfield High School - Tattler Yearbook (Bloomfield, CT)

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CLASS PROPHECY The bright rays of the sun are beaming on the glass stratosphere plane as mechanics hurry with final prepara trons before the flight A loudspeaker bellows weather information from the roof of a concrete hangar at the corner of erome Avenue and the crowds leaving the Park Road subway glance for a moment at the huge s rp Im the first one on the plane To pass the trme I unfold a newspaper and stare at the heading There rt The Bloomfield Bugle June 12 1952 Robert Walsh edrtor with a front page prcture of Bob con gratulatrng Marqurrlfr Phelps on her electron as the first lady mayor of our flourishing metropolis Of course Marguerite couldn t lose wrth her plat form A Bigger Monument to the Class of 1942 Everyone rn Bloomheld talks about the must famous class ever to graduate Trme rs reckoned Before the Class of 42 or After the Class of 42 Park Avenue has four lanes theres a fifty story skyscraper on the corner of Woodland Avenue three swrmmrng pools rn Frlley Park and the biggest nrght club rn New England on Wade Avenue but the school burldrng rs the same Thrs rs kept just as rt was when the class of 42 grad uated Every freshman rs made to memorize the first last and middle name of each member of thrs renowned c ass Oh here comes the prlot And look rts George obnsou And theres Dons Chappell Isn t she a cute stewardess' Dorrs rs certainly having a hard time convrncrng llama Hanson the glamorous drvorcee that she must leave her Angora cat and four dogs behmd Elaine has enough baggage to outfit every grrl on obn Clarks softball team She srts down rn the seat next to me and whrle Dorrs rs fastenrng her belt I notice that Elaine s cheek rs swollen Then she turns to me and says Ive just had two teeth pulled by Doctor Ar! Coutu and he practically krlled me Marjorie' Forsfer, hrs glamorous assistant drd her best to help but Im afraid Arts mrnd wasn t on hrs work My sympathetrc answer rs forgotten when I hear giggles and cheers as Nlrfkej Kohler climbs on the plane with Mary Lajgan bound for Niagara Falls Mrckey has sued a soft drrnk corporation for infringement of hrs name and they are now planning to lrxe on the judgment They take seats rn front of me Srnce everythrng rs quret for a moment I look at my paper again On the second page my attention rs attracted to a big advertrsement printed rn color Don t be fat Vrsrt Leonard Ball s Body Moulding Salon On the next page I read a musrc revrew written by that world renowned errtrc Mary Lzbratore Mary has a wonderful praise for Elfljll Wcbsfcr recognized as Americas greatest pranrst It seems that the audrence 30 cheered so loudly last nrght that Evelyn spent four hours playing encores W ho s thrt bearded man stepping rn now? Some one whrspers Why don t you know? That s Eduard Halens the famous rrrstructor rn aesthetic dancrng Eddy has just completed an entirely new interpretation known as the Havens Hop When a flashlight bulb burst on the steps of the plane I recognize Fred DeBr'nt'dr'll0 leading photog r1pher for Lrfe Magazine What eelebrrty was he eh1srng7 XVhy of course rt s the modern Tommy Manvrlle the boy whose brief marriages to gorgeous blondes fill the gossip columns Paavo Iunno I say hello to Paavo and naturally stare for a moment w hrle he talks to hrs busy lawyer l'Vtl71f'IS Spera Eddy whispers Yes that girl rn the mrnk coat rs I vlbrr Szmfb the leading fashron designer She s rumored to have made a bathrng surt out of four rnches of eloth Let s hope rs stretches I can see the prlot getting ready to start Look here comes someone waving hrs hands and shrrekrng Wart for me Who else but Cooler: Tulm the author of How to Relax 1 lrttle late as usual The last passenger rs fastenrng hrs belt The dramond Irunen Zito who invented the substrtute for rubber called Zrto s Zrt Now the plane takes off There s Bloomfield below us What s that twenty five story burldrng on the cor ner? Tavener s store of course where I' C1 has made a fortune renting huge office suites Pegg Lc'Ham leases a whole floor where she uses her own formula for a beautiful complexion to make a cosmetic lotron whrch costs three dollars an ounce I make sure that my sample rs safe rn my purse and then look out the wrndow I can hardly see Ellsworth It hasn t had a new house burlt rn ten years and there rs talk of condemning the whole town Francis shows me the latest copy of Trme maga Jrne Paul Mallnosky rs the drstrngurshed lookrng Man of the Year prctured on the cover The rrde rs getting a lrttle but bumpy Maybe the newspaper wrll help Thrs looks good Advrce to the Iox elorn by Gladys Tuttlr Tut has at last marrred the editor but contrnues her wrrtrng because Bob s gout fcaused by hrgh lrvrngj keeps hrm at home most of the time It looks as rf Brll Schaal rs strll holding out on the Yankees for that extra fifty thousand but he ll get rt because the crowds come rf Lefty s not on the mound Drstance means nothing rn these new stratosphere planes Now we are at Niagara Falls where Mary and . 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George NX ught and Hurrx XX unn r XX ulluam Sehaul vxho eame un our Iunuor xear, may xx ell be added to the lust In our Sophomore xear xxe xx ere honored bx the unxutatuon to sung at th annual coneert and our earnest xoung xouees could be dustunguushed uboxe all as xxe put exe ythuns, xxe had unto musuc 1-unal exams xxere a tough tussle, but of eourse xxe emerged xuctors Lufe ut B H 5 xx us pretty much on the O K aes sur xxe luked ut' 1940 41 Xxuth renexx ed xugor 7 once agaun traxeled Thus xelr Ldxx ard IISOD Arthur Coutu Secreturx Stuuble xxe the unuor elass, a total of the beaten path to B H S xx us Presudent, Vuce Presudent, Ium Reddung Treusurer, ay The Couuimereuul Club xx ent on 1 trup to the Fuller Buush Compunx and suxx hoxx brushes and eombs are nulde Thex returned xxutli sumples of both fgufts of eoursej The unnuul uxuuorPl1x Nleet the 1oll1s xx as a rup rourung eomedx about un ldoleseent ltd xxho thunks he us groxxn up but puoxes otherxxuse Dlxud Nilclntvre duel an exeellent uob of punch huttung for Harold Wat l1uns xxho xx us ull fmunups Thus also xx IS the begunnung of ennue Oleskexxucz s stage career un the role of Hedy the eutotuc Southern heart breuker Some of the unseen but greatly apprecuuted helpers xxere George Johnson, Fred D B nedetto Busuness Niunagers, Warren B gaudus and Calxun I-erraresso Stage Managers, Publucuty 'xluuuon Shupe and Cuthlrune Skfutl, Propertues and September, 1941 Noxx that xxe xxere senuors We paused to note our number From our orugunal 91 un 1938 vxe had dxxundled doxxn to 69, the number to graduate un une 1 et, thus xx as not strange Iobs aplenty, un thus tume of bug money tempted ull of us The last class officers xxe elected were Presudent Walter Sudol Vuce Presudent Daxud Maclnty re, Secre tarx, ane Reddung Treasurer, Elunor Brenung Thus xx as the year that xxe xxent un for exclusuve class partues Yxe had a chance to reallv get acquaunted xxuth each other We also had an orgy of clubs Besudes the Commercual Club xxho peeked behund the scenes un Fox s xxe rexux ed the D amatuc Club vxhuch grexx wuth leaps and bounds and started the French Club, exclu sux ely for those xx ho had unx estugated the mysterues of the language The Salmon Sheet the school paper, eduted by ane Reddung and Dorus Chappell umprox ed greatlx Wuthout ennue Ostapkexueh Nlaruorue XX alel1 Pearl Lexunson and Exelxn NY ebster, the busy ty pusts the paper could not haxe been prepared on tume W hen opportunutx xx as gux en for Bloomfield students to partucupate un sex eral raduo broadcasts xxe xxeren t surprused to find that sex eral of our senuors had xeryf good raduo speal1ung xouces They xxere Jane Reddung Paul 'x1alunosl1x Robert Walsh Francus Spera, Edxx ard ason and Robert Cummus11ey 4 129 Qound Doreen Burns Theresa Hanagan Vurgunua Coodruch Marx Lubratore Laura Latumer Helen Zaxxa luch Margaret LeHane Nlarguerute Phelps Iohn Stargu and Kenneth 'x1eLaughlun Theresl X ugnone and Phyllus Mortensen ushered Wuth the approueh of sprung xxe dexcloped unto camera crazy fiends No one xx as spared teachers stu dents, lovers und unnocent bx standers xxere our unxxull ung subjects Pruvacy xxas unknown The darkroom was un constant use as the boys and gurls both trued to develop the best pucture Of course the boxs xxon, but ut was loads of fun any xx ay The gall uffaur of the season xv IS our unuor Prom tlue first prom xxhueh xxe reullx could etll ours The b uu tuful floral deeoratuons and the popular wushung xaell tll contrubuted to m1l1e thus dance one that xxe xxould long remember Last, but not least came exams those necessary evuls Then the close of school mother successful year ended Although our year xxas xery full we dud not neglect the finer arts Txxo nexx comers to the stage who wull be remembered, are Francus Spera, as Dr Beneduct and Edmond Barrueau as Professor Yahuda and Musyudged Walter In early sprung Robert Walsh xx on the local oratoru cal contest sponsored by the Amerucan Leguon provung that vxe stull could hold our own Sprung also brought have a yunx un the form to prove that vxe are enjoys postponung class our class yunx Every' class must of a ehuldhood dusease Qprobably stull xxet behund the ears It puctures, unterferung wuth par tues and makung utself a regular nuusance Our yunx was the German measles Vlaryorue Forster was guven the honor of beung the first to ketch them Edvx ard Havens, after haxung 634 xears of perfect attendance, was xuctumuzed bv the measly measles These xxere onlv txxo of manx xxho had the rosx spots There us SCI one month before xxe guxe up our tutle of Senuors and become members of the Alumnu, so I cannot tell xou of the comung exents for then 1 xx ould be prophesyung As Class Hustoruan, 1 furmlx beluexe that our past record us enough to conxunce xou that any thung exer undertaken bx members of 1942 xxull be satusfactoruly completed, for un the future as un the past Persex erance xxull be our motto 1 - -V- VVV VV- . . . . 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NIILRLX get off Thexr seats 1re qulekly hlled by Ifluanl lawn lN1t1on1l Chaxrman of the Intern1t1onal Refugee Nlovement 1nd Grazia olvmon lrecently yoted Amen ey s best dressed 1thleteJ flynng to meet her mxllnonaxre husband Gr1c1e IS bubblmg yylth neyys Last mght she was the guest spe1ker 1t 1 meeting of the Antn Tobacco League where Palsy Russo and Harry Wmmr are m charge of the campaxgn Csracne has dmner wnth Harry and hrs wlfe Helen and looks 1 blt famt today Edward say s that he s1w Georg: Wlglal thus mornxng George rs worklng on the one hundred and INDCIV nmth yolume of the collectxon called The Accomplnshments of the Cl1ss of 1942 George 'announces th1t we mustn t mxnd nf he doesn t mclude 1ll our honors because nt would bc 1 lnfetxme t1sk just to lust them Yye h1ve r1ther a bumpy l1ndnng at Detroit where lsther and Fl1me get off Thus cxty h1s been famous ever smee Fllnor Bnlmnq was 1rrested here for disturb mg the pe1ce get on because she 1lways has the lltest news Dons w1rns Dorern Burns to hurrv for the plane 15 startmg Doreen president of the P T A kysses her three chxld ren goodbye and takes her seat Rachel asks D1d you hear that Laura Latimer 19 dlncmg nn the front row of the chorus 1t the Palace? The show h1s been stopped IWILC by the polnce No but I read that Theresa XIIQHOIH' the renowned opera star has just marrned a handsome tenor Doreen breaks nn Talkmg about the theater I saw 1 grand movle last night starrmg Harold Wafkzns and Maryorze Walek They re the best rom1nt1c team I know Margorle wore a hat made of cabbage leaves desmgned by Bulrly Slezens Flymg over Ilhno1s Edward Jason pomts out Alberta Aleyyons house where she hves wlth her exghty year old husband who h1s 1 fortune of Hfty mnlllon dollars At St P1ul Im practlcally left alone on the plane Ir1nc1s Leon Rachel and Paayo get off Whos that handsome man 1n the brown shorts boardmg the plane? Why nt s Iobn Can elal the chlef scout master of Neyy Fngland Marie D Fngems the desngner yylth a drawmg board under her arm IS followed by Wfarr 71 Bogarrluy who models the necktnes she creates Pbyllzs Mortensen the renoyy ned clrcus rnder takes her seat and Iyennefla NIKLZIIIQIJIHI the hlgh st payd yetermarxan xn the world shouts through the wmdoyy that her horse h1s a toothache and he has no more paregorxc Daze Maflnlyre, yynthout a murmur, opens a copy of C1cero's oratnons Daye teaches Latm to an all gnrl class at Stey ens College 11 Ihvlhs glsps yyhen she reyds thyt Ralph Iozelaml ll 101 Ley has just broken a reeord Rylph has lost hrs hfty hrst consecutxye r1ce Hrrlferl Sll7f'1l7llII17' the msurance szlesman boards the plane m North D.1kot1 to talk to Warren 1bout a pollcy protectmg hxm agamst stranguhtuon Warren Doreen Phylhs and Kenneth leyye us here Pearl Lezmson bound for Hollywood now slts yn front of me Pearl IS a ghost wrxter for Bob Hope Ienme Oleskeuxc the wealthy cosmetxclan headed for the movie c1pntal to jom her thnrd husband shares her newspaper with Marlon Sbupe Marlon IS the favorxte ln a sux day bxcvcle race scheduled for tomorrow Bob C1l77l7lIfS,'E'j h r manager lxstcns whxlc enme rayes about Therese zuqley s smgmg at the Stork Club enme turns to Bob and says Gmgzr told me yes terday that she and lexus are still plannmg then' mar rlage Mary Rrgml who wnll be a brxdesmand has bought five dnfferent dresses and refuses nf thus ns another false alarm to even come to the weddmg Before Marlon has stepped from the pl1tform Dolores Pmney woman sports yynter rs firmg questnons at her Amlrey Zark who has been teaching the Havens Hop to the cowpunchers makes her way mto the plane Milly Alfardo the vnvacnous actress ns rlght behmd her She has been workmg on locatxon where Calun Terraresso the modern DeM1lle has had a red swlmmnng pool buxlt lolan Slargu, the contractor boards the plane nn a hurry because unfortun1tely the color used to pamt the tank was not fast Theresa Hanagan aullaor 0 Dommance ln Per sonahtv snts next to Eddy Jason Hand me a paper somebodv Mllly gasps Ive been stranded here for three weeks On the front page huge headlmes announce that IValler Sudol has been made goy ernor of the Amerncan colony of apan and rn the next column that F11 Bar rreau has yust returned from a successful t0ur of Russn where he performed as a ballet dancer Pearl giggles when she tells that Calbarme Slzrula and enme Oslapkfzub are makmg a fortune from 1 new formula guaranteed to add Inches to your henght In Cahforma Margery Flefzber meets our plane yynth her shmy black taxy Marge has yy on medals for her motor corps work on the Burma Road and noyy spends her ey emngs helpmg Helen Zaualnla to sell copies of her collected poems I ane Reddzng Class Secret ry xn behalf of my fellow classmates am entrusted yynth fiye keys to the cxtv The goyernor of the state greets us with three bands, and a fifty cannon salute The schools are closed and every house fhes a flag Thxs ms a natnonal holldav, a txme for great celebratnon the anmversary' of the mnghty class of 1942 ' ' ' ' 1 . 4 - 1 . , . . . . , K Je ', '- ' , 4 A . - ' ' I . 1' ' - j- ' . . g H . .X , , , ' , . y ' .I , If ' - - - ' ' '- . 1 . 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