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

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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'

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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 over the unusual and melancholy fate of Harry Memery. Setting: Death Valley Time' june 21, IQGO Sand. sand, sand, and sand! Everywhere on all sides, it surrounds us. Hot, yellow, swirling, golden dunes confront us as we make our way sadly and heavily over the tawny plains. Buzzards circle overhead: lizards scramble aside at our slow approach. In despair we move on through the oppressive heat of the desert. What is that out there moving, almost crawlin . in the sand? A figure of a woman? Yes. The glasses confirm our supposition. Are we at length to realize victory? Is it she? Forgetting our painful journey. our quench- less thirst, and aching limbs, we run to the lonely figure. It is she! At last our efforts are to be rewarded. We, the Augury sisters, have found the long-lost poetess, Elizabeth Dodge. Curiously we inquire the cause of her strange disappearance. I' 'With the look of a lost soul she laments. My word. my word. and with a long drawn out sob she starts to wander off. but we forcefully detain her and compel her to go back with us. Not in vain had the Augury sisters travelled their long, arduous path. Ah, no! Miss Dodge must finish her book, a collection of Scotch poems entitled, The Locks of Bonny Yale. The press demands it: the public cry for it. No! sobs Miss Dodge. I cannot! I need a word. a beautiful word. I had it: I lost it. Ah, me! The book is not complete without it. It rhymes with band, with band. with band, she moaned. We ponder, we meditate. and then we go all through that strenuous.process again. Sand, sand. sand on all sides. We gasp. and with one accord we screech, Sand! Miss Dodge faints. The book is finished. MARY NELSON BERTHA FARNHAM Presentations of the Class of 19301 Will ROBERT CLARK be the first victim to walk the plank? Bob. as you know has been the Town Crier of 323 for this last semester. So that he may always be heard in future life. we wish to present him with this solid silver tin whistle. Will MARY NELSON please step up here? Mary, as Central knows, has undertaken the task of helping to push the Blue and White over the top so it can fall on the other side. In recognition of our best wishes, we give you this pair of sun glasses so that you may protect your eyes when gaziniliipon that ever benevolent countenance of r. Leland W. Smith. Will Admiral SAMUEL ABRAMS Esq. please ascend the altar! Super-salesman Sam. as you know, stuck the girls in the frwhman class for seventy-five football megaphones. So. Sammy, to be fair with you we present you with these two megaphones, free of charge, as souvenirs of your salesmanship. Will TED PETERSON please step forward? Well. Ted. we've noticed that Q5 Z, of the boys in the class do not wear garters. So we pre- sent you. the representative of that o5'Z,, with this beautiful pair of garters, which we hope will be put to good use. JOHN KNOTT. next please! Well. john, we've noticed that your trouble seems to be the no parking signs, here. there. mostly everywhere. So we are giving you this handsome hatchet so that you can chop down all those yellow hindrances. Will BINGHAM LILLIE please come up? Well, Bing, during your sojourn at Central we've always noticed you were perfectly groomed, but nevertheless we have found out that two things were missing. So we present you this vanity case and package of bobbie pins, hoping that you will make good use of them in the future. FRED KILGOUR and HAROLD LEPOVETSKY please! Well. you boys have had quite a time in the census-taking business. that is. getting the names and addresses of attractive freshman girls. To make it easier for you at college, we give you this five hundred page notebook. We hope that you will have great success. Will Fritz Kreisler kindly step forward,- pardon me, SAM KREVALIN. Well folks. permit me to introduce Sam, the right hand man of our famous music director, Miss Hazel Clark. Well, we can't give him any- thing anyway, because we couldn't spend the money, but I had to take this opportunity to introduce this wonderful piece of human- ity. Pass on Sam and make room for some- one worth while. Will EILEEN CUNNINGHAM direct her pedal extremities hither? Eileen, your case has long been a mystery to us. We surely would hate to see you never grow up. There- fore we are giving you this package of Malt Breakfast Food. Mix it with one bottle of Cod Liver Oil and be sure to eat up all your spinach. If this doesn't make you grow. buy a pair of stilts. KAY NOLAN please step up here. Kay. you have been so busy doing things for the past three years that no one has seen much 'I'29'l'