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

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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'

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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 of you. Please take this glue and stick around once in a while. REX THORNBURGH, will you please be the next victim? Poor Rex, ladies and gentle- men - and Seniors -- has been pining for a good old Southern chicken dinner for the last three years. just close your eyes. Rex, when you eat this and you won't be able to tell whether it is a real chicken dinner or only a candy one. That is, if you shoot yourself first, you won't be able to tell the difference. Will ESTHER SAGALYN come up here? Esther. we recall your many literary attempts during your high school career, and, knowing that you will write many more, we want you to have a place to which you can send them, with confidence that they will be graciously received. Here, Esther, is a fine, spacious wastebasket. HERVEY SMITH please. Hervey, along with your many other interests and duties we notice that you are very busy during election season in supporting the Republican can- didates. Well, at any rate, we managed to salvage one of the 691,358 things you handed out so we are giving it back to you as a reminder of your political exploits. Will STEWIE KING come on the stage? No, you don't need to show Stewie the way. He is so used to public speaking that he has even started on the foreign languages. How- ever, he does have difficulty in keeping order in class meetings, so we just want to give him this little pole to touch some of the troublesome culprits to order. If the pole breaks on someone's hard head, Stewie, use a slingshot. The next patient is ELI SISITSKY. Eli, we don't know who has been in Central longer, you or Mr. Hill. Anyhow. we decided that you won the decision so we are giving you this empty book in which you are to write an essay on Central, as it was in the time of Queen Elizabeth, or The first soccer team in Central I-ligh School. And now for the last number which is always the best. MR. HILL, if you please. Mr. Hill, as we all know that you have never had much luck at fishing, we wish to give you this little gun so that you may take up hunting. If you don't have much luck at hunting either, you can always use the gun to shoot some erring youth who may come into your office at 8:15 to ask if he may make an announcement in assembly that morning. MEDORA SEARLES ALFRED ASCHER FRANCIS STANTON o 0 0,0 0. 0.0 The Will of the We, the class of IQBOQ, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty- one, being in a condition of mind legally sane. and having come to a time when a legitimate and honorable disposition of our property is needed, in order that those less fortunate may benefit from our life, do herewith make such disposition in this, our last will and testament. ARTICLE I: To whom it may concern, we leave our solemn hope that the word aquarium will be removed from the door of the senior lunchroom, because we think it is not tactful of them to rub it in in this humiliating way. ARTICLE II: Stewie King and Ted Peterson leave their football pants to be made over into one pair for poor Dave Ketchum, who has struggled for years in a pair of tights. -ARTICLE III: Bob Clark willingly be- queaths his stentorian voice to Miss Lewis, so that she may quell any disturbance. ARTICLE IV: Bingham Lillie leaves his natural blondness to Bert Hammerlof and other dangerous blonds, in order to enhance their manly beauty. ARTICLE V: We leave to Miss Anthony a vial of strychnine. which will enable her to do away with impertinent Centralites without a bloody mess. ARTICLE VI: The three K's, Nolan, Reavy, Class of IQBOQ and Rice, leave their auburn ringlets to the faculty to be divided as and if needed. ARTICLE VII: jack Rottner, the tin- whistle fiend, leaves his pipes and tooters to Al White, to aid the latter in his amorous pursuit of Helen Gladstone. ARTICLE VIII: To the Glee clubs and thc Orchestra we gladly give our pardon for any pain, and thanks for any joy they may have caused us. ARTICLE IX: Sam Abrams leaves his incredible salesmanship to the sweet girls who try to sell candy at the school functions. ARTICLE X: jack Carrigan leaves his map of Ireland to Bill Maroney. ARTICLE XI: john Knott leaves a sil- houette of himself entitled Love Me, Love My Dogs to any junior who thinks that his own pedal extremities are too enormous. ARTICLE XII: Sam Krevalin and Warren Greenwood leave their musical ability to the rest of the Orchestra and Band. so that they may struggle along without them. ARTICLE XIII: Al Ascher leaves his book entitled Women and how I win them to Bobby Fellows. ARTICLE XIV: Doug Pannier leaves his beautiful rosy cheeks to the pale girls of Central. in order that Woolworth's beauty department may go bankrupt, I 'ARTICLE XV: Out of the pure generosity CContinued to Page 121, 'P304'