Central High School - Blue and White / Pnalka Yearbook (Springfield, MA)

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THE BLUE AND WHITE The Prophecy of the Class of IQBOQ Scene I - A Street FIRST PROPHET. Hello Elizabeth, I haven't seen you since we drew up that lQ3Og proph- ecy twenty years ago. I wonder how close we came to guessing the truth. What do you say if we go over to dear old Central some time in the near future and try out their new television set? We can get a line on everyone in the class in next to no time. SECOND PROPHET. l'd love to. l've got a revised list of the names and addresses of all our old classmates, so we won't have much trouble in locating any of them. This is going to be fun. Shall we make it tomorrow afternoon? F Iizsr PROPHET. Fine. Be sure to bring that list. Scene I I Interior of Central High School SECOND PRDPI-IET. This is some building! They've remodelled it so that I would hardly recognize it. FIRST PROPI-IET. I'll say! Come on into the auditorium. I'm anxious to get started. SECOND PROP!-IET. Let's try Springfield first. You turn the dial and read off the names and locations. FIRST PROPI-IET. Our class is certainly outstanding. There's Ronald Clark, proof reader and grammar expert of the Springfield Shopping News. And there is Norman Pierce, resident of the Springfield Save-a- Penny-Ifsank. He must be on his way to lunch with Mary Nelson. vice-president of the bank. Morris Read seems to be taking his profession very seriously. He's our lead- ing undertaker you know. Look at Theodore Peterson riding around in that purple Rolls Royce. He seems to be quite successful as an automobile dealer. Listen to that nifty band. lt's the Springfield jazz Phoney Orchestra. with Francis Stanton leading it. Fred Stricker there. is the new curator at the museum for preserving and collecting antique bicycles. Now let's see who is in our school system. Our class seems well represented. There is Iva Birmingham home economics teacher. Gregory Carhart teacher of math- ematics. Sidney Cooley teacher of physi- ology, Eddie Silverman science teacher, and Marie Drummond art teacher. Donald Hurd has gone one step fartherg he is a professor of English at Harvard. We'll have to hunt around a bit to Find Rex Thornburgh and Katherine Rice. Rex is a Cooks Tour guide and Katherine is a travelling lecturer. Now let's try Chicago. There's Nicholas Latino. I-Ie's singing the tenor lead in Aida at the Chicago Metropolitan Opera House. tonight. Let's see what lawyer Belmont Cross is doing. Look! He's defending james Blackburn, who has been haled into court for selling blank cartridges to thc gangsters. I think our friends will win their case, for theres Prentice Miller, famous gumshoe detective. Hehas some new evidence on the casey .When james Cassidy gets elected mayor. he'll probably clean up that old city. He's been working with Sam Abrams, who has made quite a name for himself as a counterfeit coin detector. Let's take a look at the Western coast, Hollywood. for instance. There's Sally Stone preparing for a big Charity Ball, to which she has invited most of the movie celebrities. Thatfs Olivia Smith and Ruth Stowell of the Paramount Dancing School. There's Homer Slutskin, too. getting ideas as to what the well dressed man will wear, for a men's furnishings store in New York. This party has been planned by Bertha Farnham. She's social secretary to many of the wealthy people out there. Charlotte Finklehoffe assists with the decorations. Muriel Broughton is out there too. She's the proprietress of Ye Olde Brokyne Glasse Tea Roome and Gift Shoppe. Did you know that when Einstein visited Los Angeles in IQ3I. Margaret Ferre became fired with enthusiasm to support his theory. She's been doing it ever since. They say, too, that Eleanor Fonda has become so great a scientist that her name has been added to the small list of those who understand Einstein's theory of relativity. This looks like an airport. and there's Donald Young. dare-devil pilot. squeezing himself into the cockpit of a plane. He certainly ought to be well fitted for the 'ob. if his experience driving a car ever did him any good. Let's come back East. Kathleen Nolan is now president of the Sargent School of Physical Education. The school has had to turn away hundreds ever since she took charge. Helen Breed is her basketball coach. That mission house in Boston is run by Myfanwy Parry to help misunderstood college boys. Medora Searles has been active in the Society for the Abolishment of the School Year Book with more or less success. There's Elizabeth Seybolt. kindergarten teacher. going into that dentist's office. and if it isn't Christine Steinbeck who is the torturer. with Cordelia Brown for her sec- retary. Isn't that Douglas Pannier's smiling face on that billboard? He's making big money with that schoolboy complexion of his. Everett Thatcher. secretary of the Palm Olive Company, discovered him. The attraction in the middle of that crowd is Edward Lohan, who is the Ziegfeld of today. Poor Harold Lepovetsky is having a hard time just at present. He was so successful 'P274'

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THE BLUE AND WHITE 'lvl' Goodbye to Central Sung to the tune of Anchors Aweighf' I. Classes that take our place, Success to you. We Wish you happiness, and may your cares be few. Math.. English, History, French and the rest, We studied hard, and in those subjects We did our best. Z. For football and the rest, We'Ve done our best. NOW we go forth into the World to meet our test, test, ICSI, KGSIZ. We'Ve spent some happy hours Within your halls: We hate to leave you now, but We say goodbye to dear old Central High. 3. Now that three years have passed, We take our leave. Teachers and friends We knew We say goodbye to you, you. you, you. To college we must go, With spirits highg We WOn't forget our pals in our alma mater. dear old CENTRAL HIGH. .0 WARREN GREENWOOD . The Ballot of the Class of IQZOQ Best Boy Student. Best Girl Student. ..........HERvEYSMITH MIRIAM POMERANTZ Most Popular Boy ........ . . .STEWART KING Most Popular Girl Handsomest Boy ..... Prettiest Girl ...... Class Baby ....... Most Stylish Girl. Most Stylish Boy. Most Bashful Girl .... Most Bashful Boy Noisiest Boy ...... Noisiest Girl .,....... . Best Boy Mixer ........ Best Girl Mixer. . . . . . .MARY NELSON .......BoB BEELE . . . . .GERT LARKIN ........EDLOHAN . . . . . .GERT LARKIN . . .BINGHAM LILLIE . . . .MARY ROGERS ........EDLOHAN . . . .JACOB ROTTNER . . . . . .OLIVIA SMITH . . . . . . .SAM ABRAMS . .KATHLEEN NOLAN Boy Who Has Done The Most For '3oM HERVEY SMITH Best All Around Boy ........ STEWART KING Best All Around Girl. ..... KATHLEEN NOLAN Most Dignified Boy. . . L ..,.. STEWART KING Most Dignified Girl ....... DORCAS DELANEY Class Actor ..... ..... ......... B U D TODD Class Actress ....... ...... D OT HOOVER Cleverest Boy ....... ........ H ERVEY SMITH Cleverest Girl ............. ESTI-IER SAGALYN Favorite Piece of Music THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE Favorite Movie Actor ROBERT MONTGOMERY Favorite Movie Actress. .... JOAN CRAWFORD Favorite Man Teacher ....... . . .E. E. SMITH Favorite Woman Teacher .... MISS ANTHONY Nerviest Boy ................. SAM ABRAMS Nerviest Girl ....... .......... O I.IVIA SMITH Class Artist .............,..... BOB BEELE Class Homework Fiend. .MIRIAM POMERANTZ Class Gossip. ................ OLIVIA SMITH Class Grouch ............... TED PETERSON Class Singer .... ..., R OLAND SAWYER Class Wit ....... ....... S AM ABRAMS Laziest Person ..... ...... . . .SAM ABRAMS Cutest Boy .............. FRANCIS STANTON Cutest Girl ..,... ......... I VA BURMINGHAM Favorite Indoor Sport ............. DANCING Favorite Outdoor Sport ....... .... F OOTBALL Girl Who Has Done The Most For Central KATHLEEN NOLAN Boy Who Has Done The Most For Central STEWART KING Girl Who Has Done The Most For '3oM MARY NELSON Class Womanhater Class Manhater. . . Class Sonny Boy. . Boy Crazy ........ JAMES BLACKBURN ...........HELENBREED .. ......... ED LOHAN . . . .OLIVIA SMITH Girl Crazy ........... .... B INGHAM LILLIE Best Natured Girl. Best Natured Boy. Class Giggler ...... Class Show-off .... Class Dancer ...... . . .MARY NELSON . . . .SAM ABRAMS . . . .OLIVIA SMITH . . . .BINGHAM LILLIE . . . . . .OLIVIA SMITH Class Collegian ............ BINGHAM l.ILLIE Class Saint ....,.. ..........DoNALDHURD Most Irresponsible Girl. ....... OLIVIA SMITH Most Irresponsible Boy ........ SAM ABRAMS Our Patrick Henry .......... ROBERT CLARK Class Mutt ....... Class jeff ....... . . . . .JOHN KNOTT .........EDNAMARTIN Class Romeo .... ........... .I OHN FRANCIS Class Juliet ..... . . . . .MURIEL BROUGHTON -I-26+

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THE BLUE AND WHITE in advertising his Genuine Cat Skin Coats for college boys. at a dollar down and a dollar when he catches you, he can't keep up with his orders. Harold Adler and Milton Baron have been overworked for months, chloroforming stray cats. I think we'll find some of our girls in that big French Beauty Salon that Dorcas Delaney and Mary Haight run. Yes. theres Gert Larkin, chief dermatologist, Violet Brook. manicurist, and Mary Rogers. hairdresser. The class is represented on the stage too. gnne Petri and Hazel Robbins are Follies' ir s. Let's get the office of judge , the comic magazine. I think we'll find janet Carey and Dorothea Hoover there. They are co-editors of Life and -judge . We've got another editor in the class. john Francis, and I picked him out to be a major or a general or something. He's editor of the New York World. Now for the offices of Gold and Company. He made a mint of money on the Double- Bore-Sanitary-Straw he invented. Roland Sawyer is the leading man in that new production Emerald Fields . With all the musicians in our class we ought to have a few in the New York Symphony Orchestra. Let's see. just as I thought. Alfred Ascher and Samuel Krevalin are star artists. We ought to find Margaret Munro teaching Latin, and Anna Dunlea teaching art in the Cunnin ham and Ellinwood Finishing School for Cgirls, in Newport. R. I. Some of our class is in Washington. Let's see. joseph Abihider has just been chosen ambassador to Arabia. Bob Clark is speaker of the House. Attorney john Knott has at last proved to the Supreme Court that the ban on parking automobiles in Temple St. is unconstitutional. We won't have to look up Esther Sagalyn. 9 'Q The Prophecy Setting: The sitting room of an Old Maid's Home. Time: IQSO. A tenor solo has been completed, and impatiently we wait for the announcer to introduce the next number. At length he steps forward and presents Dr. Harry Memery. Professor of Science at Springfield College. On the screen of our new television radio we see our former schoolmate, but who would recognize him? Those wavy locks! Gone! He is utterly and absolutely destitute of hair. A suave voice comes through the ether. The professor has begun to speak. His She won the Nobel Prize for literature this year. Try Shirley Provost. We must have made a mistake. That looks like a man at the desk. No, it isn't. lt's Shirley all right. manager of the Spaulding Sporting Goods Co. That's Elizabeth Graves, her assistant. who just came in. Look at all those nurses: Rita Miller, Helen O'Conr1or. Edna Martin, Virginia Winquist, and Katherine Reavey. Kieran Dunn of South Bend. Indiana is in Knute Rockne's shoes now. We don't want to forget the National Broadcasting Studios. because that's where Helen Gladstone. radio blues singer, does her stuff , and jack Rottner, famous noise maker. imitates trains, drums, whistles, etc. Bing Lillie, our Romeo, keeps up the ood work as a whispering tenor. Warren Greenwood has replaced Matt Tompkins, as a leader of the Tompkins Corners Band. Eli Sisitsky is the manager of the Waldorf Lunchroom System. Wallace Partridge is a bond salesman. This looks like Madison Square Gardens. That's john Carrigan down there. manager of the New York Yanks. Here's one we guessed right. Dr. Fred Kilgour. He has made himself famous in the medical profession. Slipped on this one though: Dr, Hervey Smith, but not the medical kind. He has replaced Dr. Fosdick. the famous New York preacher. Last, but not least. Stewie King is president and Al Todd is football coach of Duke University. Ruth Belcher is secretary to president King. I think this takes in everyone. It would be interesting to take another look at them all in another twenty years. ELIZABETH Doocs HARRY MEMERY on the Prophets subject is his recently published book. The Art of Curing Curly Hair. Sadly Dr. Memery confesses why he has written this treatise. In my youthful high school career. he proceeds, I was so tormented by taunts concerning my hair that I have devoted my life to relieving the burdens of curly-headed youths. As you perceive. ladies and gentle- men. my own trouble has finally been rem- edied, but I have grieved so over my mis- fortune that this literary expression has been the outcome. The radio sputters, the voice dies away, and the picture fades. We are left musing 'l'23'l'