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

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The Prophecy of the Class of 1932; “Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen:—This is Willie Streeter speaking to you from the historic Yale Bowl in New Haven. | It is our privilege today to bring you a play-by-play picture of the 1ooth meeting on the gridiron between two of football's most ancient rivals, Harvard and Yale. May I say at this time that we of the International Broadcasting Company regret that our phototelephonic equipment will not be available for a brief period before the game, so in the meantime we ask you to sit back and listen while we try to re- produce for you a verbal-picture of the colorful gather- ing here in the Bowl. May I introduce to you at this time one of the most scintillating members of our broad- casting staff, Miss Rita Mauer, former Springfield, Massachusetts debutante, and present-day society tatler of the first magnitude, whose clues of today be- come the gossip of tomorrow. Miss MaAnHeEr will describe for you some of the interesting personalities attending the game.” “Hello, everybody, I’ve been so busy this afternoon running around trying to be everywhere that I've barely had time for even my pipe. Really, I feel like an ultra-modern Walter Winchell. I know you are all dying to learn about these famous and infamous per- sonages who are here, and since I have only a few min- utes to talk, I must begin now. “One of the first people I ran into was ELINORE DELEHANTY, ex-chorine of the FINE EpstTeEIN “‘Anat- omies.”’ And with her was her usual following : GEORGE Hart, WALLY BECKMAN, and Bruce JAGER, Agawam’s perennial play-boys. “Gather closely, m’dears, for here is real soil. The former Misses Betty [FIvE-YEAR-PLAN] Dorr and Betty [DEMocRAT] CHAPIN are here incognito. Rumor hath it that their grandchildren will be playing for Harvard and Yale respectively. “Across the stadium on the Harvard side we saw Gert TWITCHELL with CLAYTON KEISER, national executive of the Youth Movement. Miss TwitcHELL won her claim to fame with her plea against woman suffrage. Her arguments placed the woman in the home. “Did I tell you — LEN SIEGEL, megaphone magnate, has the feather monopoly here in New Haven. He was always a salesman, of a sort. “And here's something which might interest “youse intellectuals... Brrr Hess and Jack LyNcu, who are science professors at Yale, are attending the game. What are they doing at a football game? “Right down there in front of the Harvard bench is Putt WALSH, graduate manager of athletics up in Cambridge. A few minutes ago, a young lady ap- proached THE WaLsH, and he actually spoke to the Miss. The old boy is acquiring a way with the women, methinks. “There is a story about that JOHN BREGLIO, band- maestro of no small fame. He has made a special trip to New Haven to lead the Yale band this afternoon in a number of his own composition, You Red-Headed Child.” “My, oh my, right down in front of me are RUTH Cross and WENDELL Corey — and still holding hands. We arent sure that’s news, but it’s at least acknowledg- ing an old custom. — IR CAVCHA “ez “They tell me that Russ [THE Great Love] Bras- SARD and OLIvE BurGETT are here today somewhere. Miss Burcett, you will recall, caught the public eye when she established a new marriage record for non- polygamists. Ten grass and five sod was her score. “| heard a swell story before leaving for New Haven. PETE WARREN, Tammany’s head of the Vigilantes, was taking his morning constitutional in the Furious Fifties. Apparently his mind was wrapped up in some social reform, for his steps led him up to 53rd St. Somehow he managed to bump into JEANNE [SHYLocK] MILEs. Shylock — I mean JEANNE — was so peeved at being thus rudely aroused from her reverie, that she involun- tarily broke their mutual silence of nigh on fifty years standing with — well, never mind. “Speaking of silence, Dot BoLLes is now in her 4,761st day of reticence. People will do almost any- thing for fame. Still, that’s not as bad as those pseudo- technocrats, Bovio CATALDO and Bos Lyons, who are still waiting patiently for their ball-bearing, whirling through space to wear out. “An agent reports that mingling in the stands today— and probably unknown to one another — are the three figures who appeared in a notorious divorce trial years back — noblest of the renowned triangles, TIGER GIBBs, Mary SLOAN and JANIE [Hot CHa] Taytor. The case ended when JANIE fled the scene of exposure, crying “I’m going back to the country to forget this connubial bliss.” Nerts — in the jargon of the times. In the final fadeout, Mary is in the TIGER’s arms, out of the shadow of the Blind Lady. “Flying low over the field is that Moto-Zep, adver- tising FAcIN Alarm Clocks. Necessity certainly is the mother of invention. “TIL bet CarRotyN Hare will never invent a satis- factory face-powder though. Muss Hare is professor emeritus of the Physiognomy School of Exterior Deco- rati on.

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oe ib 16 eas AS aimee ed W HH ele See history of the class of 19323 deer mom and pop its bin a long time sinse i last rote you but you no ive bin busy studiing a fellow got to gradueight some- time no matter how dumb he is it seams funny to think that ime going to gradueight i remember wen i was a freshie i thot it must feal wondorful to be a senyor but now that i’me a senyor its nothing it seams ordinary and naturalike maybe i almost wish i was a freshie again so i kud do things differant life's like that isn’t it mom wen we finnish a thing we look back and say ‘i shood hav dun this or that a differant way but who nose what wood hav happenedif we akted the other way so we got to be satisfide with things as they are i kan rekall the time we were freshies the 1st day was like the time you lost me at the ralerode stashun everyting was all mixed up after a wile things began to get straitened out and our prinsiple told us something about our skool being the best skool in the solar sistem he had to explane to us what the solar sistem was and then we understould what he ment he also told us something about no one having a rite to do that witch if everyone did wood destroy sosiety that state- ment dint’ meen much to me then but now i see how trew it is i may forget how to conjugeight ‘faire’ or what pi r squared is but i'll never forget those words of our prinsiple anyhow after a wile we had elekshuns and we chose howard stocker for precedant wendell corey for vise precedant kirtly judd for sekritary fred gordon for tresurer and roger ettling for member at large after that everything went hunky dory and wen we all new each other we had a soshal it was a swell soshal and it was a fitting close to our 1st yeer at central the 1st thing we did in our 2nd yeer was to elekt new offisors sinse our former precedant left we chose this time for precedant wendell corey for vise precedant we chose dorothy bolles for sekritary clara gurvitch for tresurer gertrude twitchell and for member at large again roger ettling after we did that we went our differant ways some of us set down to study some to lofe and some to nock around and have a good time well each of us got out of central just what we put in some of us are sorry we dint study more and some of us are sorry we dint have more fun we're all sorry for things we dint do but before you start bewailing the fakt of your suns failure to be an honer pupil i better go ahed and tell about our klass we had our junyor prom neer the end of the term it was a very nise affare and no one had to be karried out and then kame our last yeer we were praktikally the same klass as we were 2 yeers ago exsept that some had dropped out for 1 reezon or another but mostly for I reezon and you no what mom our klass has a distink- shun yes a distinkshun we are the 1st klass that has an all femail offisor bord that is all our offisors are girls well mom i got to hand it to you wimen everyone dint think our klass wood aklompish much under there ruling but i gess everyone has bin shone that a klass kan be run as effishiently if not bettor by wimen the offisors are gertrude twitchell precedant dorothy bolles vise precedant elizabeth dorr sekritary jeanne miles tresurer and clara gurvitch member at large. and now as ime riting you this letter we are turning down the home stretch we are going to have our prom bankwet and graduashun you no mom the 3 yeers i ve spent hear hav passed like a flash i kan remember the ist days i spent hear so well it seams as if it were just yesterday well i suppose we must go on dint some poet say something about how the old order changeth yield- ing place to new i gess that sort of fits us your sun alumnus central committee ADELE FULLER MIRIAM PRICE ROBERT LYONS ISADORE BARR SIDNEY KURNITSKY [chairman]

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aero eo “And here comes the Harvard team. ‘Their suits fit so well they must have been styled by PEG WEBER. “Heavens, my time must be getting short. There are still hundreds of people coming through the portals. Some of my sister committee-women on the National Board for the Curing of Blasphemy and Other Vices have just arrived. Yes, there's RutH RocHForD. GINGER BUGBEE, FRANCES STEPATH, and IRVING Sisson. Pardon me, ladies and gentlemen, that last name was an error. I mean AUDREY TINGLEY, who offered such valuable suggestion in our last campaign against high school sororities — and Betty STEPHEN- SON, EpDITH WEAKE, and HELEN Hosmer. Pst — they must have convinced their husbands to take a trip to Europe. “And now the Yale team has come onto the field, and [ must leave you. I haven't been able to tell you about half of the noted people here today. I’m sure, though, that you'll enjoy the picture we are bringing to you this afternoon, and I| hope that you will be able to join us on New Year's Day when we will bring you the story of the Tournament of Roses game in Los Angeles. We have a personal appearance at that game of HaroLp Cox, internationally famous sports-writer, who will interview some of the western team. Until, then, this is RirA MAHER saying good-afternoon, and turning the mike back to Willie Streeter.” “Well, ladies and gentlemen, the engineers tell me that we are almost ready to switch to the photo-tele- phone wave. But first may I give you the officials for the game this afternoon: AaNee | [ 24 ] Ref.: Ump.: TAKIE Mecas — Vesper George School of Art. L. Barr — Manhattan Aggie. Timer: L. CoHEN — Brooklyn College of Pharmacy. Linesman: H. THomMas — Boston School of Mining. Before I go off the air, may I suggest that you keep this station adjustment, since we will take you to a coffee-hour at KEN KILBURN’s Morgue immediately following the game. As you know, ViLLA BaiLey and her band play there every afternoon. You will also have an opportunity to see RUTH CARMAN, famed American ballet instructor and her talented pupils execute the Dance of the Seven Shrouds. “This is Willie Streeter speaking and transferring you to our photo-telephone wave. We'll be on our vocal wave again at six o'clock, eastern energy time. Good afternoon.” Respectfully submitted by JAMES Q. DoyLe in behalf of the Prophecy Committee: FREDERICKA Davis, Chairman ADELE FULLER Jack LYyNcH Iba ASKINAS CLARA GURVITCH SIDNEY KURNITSKY The Prophecy on the Prophets Article found in the Gossip Column of the Springfield Gazette January 20, 1945. A notable gathering attended the first appearance in the city last evening of Sidney Kurnitsky, one of the foremost of present day poets. Among the first to arrive was Professor John Lynch who recently received international recognition for his discoveries in the field of Technocracy. However, more interesting to us is the fact that Mr. Lynch was ac- companied, as usual, by Miss Fredericka Davis. our opinion the professor is a lucky man. In We also noticed the Misses Clara Gurvitch and Ida Askinas, co-winners of the nation-wide Endurance Talking Contest which was sponsored by a local business woman, Adele Fuller, owner of the City Steel Mill. After Mr. Kurnitsky had read several of his better known compositions, the audience voted that. “The Axe in Room 118, one of his boyhood poems, ranked high among his best works. Signed by the Gossipers, ISADORE BARR RoBERT LYONS