Bloomfield High School - Tattler Yearbook (Bloomfield, CT)

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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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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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CLASS WILL Let rt be remembered that the Senror Class of 1942 resrdrng rn the town of Bloomfield rn the county of Hartford rn the Unrted States of Amerrca wrsh to make thrs therr last wrll and testrmony and bv dorng so hope to leave a lrttle happrness rn thrs troubled old world Alberfa Alerson hereby wrlls and bequeaths that ever ready sparklrng Pepsodent smrle to her younger srster That qurck thrnkrng senror Paul Malmorkr wrlls to Ben Snyder hrs abrlrty to talk a counter attack around Mrss Hubbards hrstory questrons surroundrng one of them wrth words yet never qurte annrhrlatrng rt To Ray Watkrns George Iolmson donates the thrrd charr from the left rn the back row of the Cbasketballj second team bench Dead eye Drck Harold Watkins leaves hrs basket shootrn eye rn the care of Bob Burnham best of luck Bob' Cut fightrng Marrne Inn Staublc' Qprobably the handsomest Marrne rn the servrcej leaves some pretty brg footsteps for some underclassmen to follow rn That Krtten on the Keys Frclan Wfebsfer hereby wrlls and bequeaths her snappy prano playrng to Mar rorre XVatkrns Leon Tulm passes on to Bob Trombly the hope that he won t get rn so much trouble by dorng so lrttle Popular Mickey Kohler otherwrse known as Clark Gable donates hrs charm and way wrth the women to Seymour Farber fany you don t need Seymour how s for nassrng rt on to the rest of us guys'j Elame Hansom wrlls Eleanor Holcomb some of her sweetness whrch added to what she already has ought to help save on sugar Our famous blonde Gladgs Tulffr wrlls and be Edna Haun for her use next year accordrng to Coach rts gettrng pretty scarce grrls' Say hon should he know7j To cave man Harry Schaal brother Brll leaves those lrkeable unmrstakable Bzll Srlaaal manners That lrttle Ball of Frre Margery Flcffher Cother wrse known as Zambaj leaves to Barb Newton her verv much O K personalrty To Mrnnre Russo our class song brrd Therese 1112163 wrlls and bequeaths her operatrc ambrtrons Ambrtrous and energetrc Bob Walsh leaves some of hrs surgrng pep and energy to the next edrtron of the Tattler trustrng that he and a bottle of asprrrn wrll be more than a match for the headaches Lewis Hayes who some day wrll be an artrst for Fsquzre wrlls hrs artrstrc abrlrtres to Mrlton Krant7 That glamourous trro Mara Laqan Vrrgzma Good rrrb and Maryorm Forsivr wrll and bequeath therr glamour plus to any deservrng Iunror vamps Peggy Lc'Hane and Dolores Pznuea grve therr knack of gettrn to school rust as the bell rrnvs to the wrllrng takers Toots LeHane and Vrrgrnra Iohnson Th t all around good guy whos a screntrfac whrz-1 Paaro Iunno wrlls and bequeaths hrs wealth of knowl edge to a fellow screntrst Herbert Schurman That argufyrng senror Fd Barrrvau Cvrho must have had relatrves who came from Mrssourr somewhere along the lmej donates hrs debatrng abrlrty to Dante D Addeo 32 Rachel Iumm wrlls a blush or tvro to Helen Sudol can you use them Helen? Here s some good news for Clrff Stark' Clrff you are hereby wrlled and bequeathed 6 rnches of length the donor Spike Cunznrrskca That Scrappy athlete Iobrmr Clark leaves wrth Gene Prnney hrs fight and abrlrty to swrsh through the baskets Art Conlu and Irancrr Zrlo wrll two rooms rn the St Francrs I-Iosprtal for appendrcrtrs vrctrms Ther hope that there ll be none thoughj That Hollywood fugrtrve actor Daze Mrlntrrr wrlls and bequcaths hrs talent to Brll Lagan Tu Sfrlrns leaves wrth Herb Strles that lrttle blue slrp that says A W O L hoprng he can cook up some ood excuses lobnnr Slargu leaves a trrp to Trade School everv afternoon to any Iunror who should choose to follovr that road to educatron Pafrr Rurro leaves thrs thought vsrth Tommr Tucker Arn t rt swell to be the son of a constable and not get rn trouble' QO yeahj laura Lafrmrr passes on her charmrng conservatrve ways to Glorra Snell land her red coatj Call In farraresro wrlls hrs way wrth dogs to any one who happens to be rn study hall when a pooch wan ders rn to spend a quret half hour Dj sleeprng on a desk among the learned Those rnseparable two Marmn Shape and Catharine Skruta make two rnseparable shadows for Lucy Granettr and Dorrs Brousseau Bob Scully F11 lawn wrlls you srx lessons on how to b come a successful archrtect For that mathematrcran Murrel Moran Eslhrr Smrflz reserves the only grrl s seat rn Trng class I bet r ou d lrke berng the only grrl Murrel but how about the Trrg7j Audrey Zark wrlls all the charm of her caprtrvatrn eyelashes Ann Cel herself a handsome smrle to the grrl wrth the dancrng luccr for her use rn hypnotrzrng Romeo F G TdlC11FT has stored away on the forvs ard lrne of the soccer 7awalrch Everybodys pal P1911 Mmfenscn who almost never vets rnto trouble says to her brother Do as I do lrve rs I lrve and enroy old B H S Maryorzc W aloft who looks as though she mrght have stepped off a page of Vogue wrlls the next page to Betty Bos sen Those steadres Harry and Helen leaxe to any starry cred students therr belref that sprrng fever rs pretty su ell all year round Our All Amerrcan Coed Grant' Iofmron do nates a goodly portron of her vrm vrgor and wrtalrty to Kate Dudenhofer vrho s followrn close at her heels Marguerrte Phelps leaves her long walk to school nerr mornrng to some underclassman vrho can match lrer energy and farthfulness Iobnna Can eld leases urth hrs brother Bob the Canfleld strck to rt trve ness trl next fall a spot team for you Pete I I Y 7 -K ' . . . . , , , - .7 7 5 1 , r 4 w ' t - 1 1 1 a ' K . , - K , V, , 3 5 ' , . -, . . 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