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

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VV eee Ct aan om Lie ws Let The Presentations of the Class of 1932+ We were studying hard, engrossed in our work. Ten minutes of the study were left and still thirty more lines of Virgil to do. Clank, clank, clank! Oh, heavenly divinities, would that noise ever cease? In behalf of lower classes and classes yet to come we wish to banish this fear. Mr. Hill, we present you with these baby rubbers. GERTRUDE, you are the first girl to ever be the presi- dent of a class in Central High. WE will always re- member this. Accept this gavel which will be a symbol to you of a great power achieved by no other Central girl. Between home work and the work you do outside, as well as for the class, you are a very busy girl. This telephone may help you, Betty [Dorr] to transact your business more easily. Like a tiger after it's prey, JEANNE [MILEs], you taunt your victims and snare them in your trap. How many innocent ones have you caught? Here is a mouse trap as a symbol of your success. We saw WENDELL [Corey] sitting at a desk, RUTH [Cross] was beside him. We saw RutH walking down the corridor, WENDELL was beside her. Wherever we see RutH, we see Wendell. We present you, WENDELL and Ruth, with this leash so that you may never be separated. Who is that well dressed girl? Remarks like these beseige our ears whenever you walk by, Rita [MAHER]. Here is a copy of Vogue so that you may always be up to the times. There have been many complaints, recently, concern- ing a pungent odor that would prevade the whole room. Upon investigation, with masks. the odor was found to come from a sweet scented cloud surrounding you, CAROLYN [Hare]. The class presents you with this compact so that after graduating you may still continue to cast this aroma about wherever you are. You Puitip [EpsTEIN] always seem to be doubtful in the morning about attending school. This is probably a natural feeling to one who arises at nine-thirty. Here is a watch to help you to be more punctual. Lewis [CoHEN], your interna! rattlings are always well meant. We advise you, however, for your own good, to restrain some of those bits of wisdom that drop from your lips. We present you with this muzzle to help you to that end. KENNETH KILBURN, Chairman GEORGE FISHER Hazer McCartHy Epwarp NorMANDEAU Naomt ONoRATO Last Will and Testament of the Class of 1932° We, the class of 19324, in the year of our Lord, 1933, in the independence of the United States, the 158th, in the foundation of Central High School the 150th, being in full and complete possession of our minds, yet con- sidering the uncertainty of our lives and to the end we may leave the Central High School in good standing, do hereby declare, publish, and assert this to be our last will and testament. First: To our Principal, the Honorable Mr. W. C. Hill, we, the class of 19323, leave the following: [1] One pair of felt-soled sneakers, in order that while going through room 323 he won't wake any of the industrious students. [2] One comfortable chair in his office, so that he may for once be in when a pupil in distress seeks him. [3] Another universe so that Central might be twice as good. Second: To the class of 1933 we leave our good old expression, We're not proud’ — along with an assort- ed bunch of megaphones. ArTICLE I. George Fine leaves that girlish figure to Peewee Cohen. ArtTIcLE II. Ralph Gibbs leaves his ability as a sterling penman and speller to anyone who wants it. {And don't say we didn’t warn you. ArTICLE III. Mary Purdy — of the Pennsyltucky Purdys — leaves that slouch to Virginia Leete, who has for three years tried to copy it: and we must say she has succeeded in a big way ArTICLEIV. To Julian Amolsky, Jack Lynch leaves that irresistible charm with women, and his ready repartee. ARTICLE V. We, the class of 19323, leave Mr. Ed. Smith out of the will — for a change. ArTICLE VI. Gert Twitchell leaves her prominence to Jimmy Gray. [He can take it or leave it. ] ArticLeE VII. To Tom Tuohey, the big spark and battery man, Betty Chapin leaves her giggles. We always wanted to hear a bass giggle. ArTICLE VIII. Carolyn Hare, that ravishing brun- ette, leaves her ability to wield a lipstick, and her strength to carry all that nail polish, to Suzanne Blanc — her only real rival. ArtTIcLE IX. Bill Streeter would like to leave some- thing, but [poor fellow] after three weeks in the hospital he claims he has nothing left to leave. ARTICLE X. Lennie Siegel leaves his tender school- girl complexion — plus a blow torch to singe his beard — to Jimmy Maxfield. ARTICLE XI. Irv Sisson leaves the school and no one even notices it. ARTICLE XII. Eileen Gordenstein leaves her wit to Snakes Goffard; maybe he'll have a whole one now. ARTICLE XII!. Bud Doyle leaves those white shoes — if we have to take them off him.

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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

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H ARTICLE XIV. Ken Kilburn, the tea-dancer, leaves that ‘‘come-and-trip-it-as-you-go ’ form to Kirtley Judd. ARTICLE XV. strony and silent. leaves his soccer ability. We're sure he'll feel grateful. ARTICLE XVI. Contrary to opinion, Dotty Bolles will not leave Roger Ettling. She's coming back for a P. G. to keep an eye open for all competition. ArTIcLE XVII. Elinore Delehanty and Olive Bur- gett, those striking opposites, leave their ability to make the lads sit up and take notice to Rita Lee Ascher and Teresa Beargeon, their duplicates. ArticLE XVIII. To Bruce Proctor, Bruce Jager, that handsome lad, leaves his ability to philander and yet get away with it [We wonder how he does it. ] ARTICLE XIX. Jane Taylor leaves her cute giggles in the care of Mr. Brown, so he won't get lonesome during his spare hours. ARTICLE XX. Wendell Corey — under protest — leaves his popularity ARTICLE XXI. We leave all our presentations — in a heap — to the ashman. Toast to the Girls of “324 Here's to the girls of °323 A toast I am glad to propose, To the better half of our classmates, And the brightest, as everyone knows. For the future we wish you good fortune, And everything good fortune sends, We assure you that always you'll find us Your sincere and most loyal friends. Then here’s to the girls of °323, A class which none may surpass: For the sake of our school days to-gether A toast to — “The Girls of Our Class.”’ To Bugs Cohen, Harold Cox, our — ARTICLE XXII. Auntie Rita Maher, that dynamo of personality, hopefully leaves some of her dynamite to hopeful Hope Chapin hoping it wil! help Hope hope for Hope to hope — we hope. ARTICLE XXIII. We leave all future students at Central High to the mercies of those who have been merciful [or merciless ] to us. In witness whereof we have signed, declared, and published this instrument to be our last will and testa- ment, on the twentieth day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty three. Signed: GERTRUDE TWITCHELL. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above president as and for the last will and testament of the class of 19324 and in presence of us the undersigned, who at her request, have drawn up and signed as witnesses to the same. Signed: EILEEN GORDENSTEIN WENDELL R. Corey RutTH Cross RaLcPH H. Gisss LEONARD SIEGEL Toast to the Boys of °323 Here's to the boys of °323, Our brothers, our comrades, our chums: Whenever | think of their virtues, My head with their praises just hums. They've faithfully sampled our cooking, For they've purchased our candy and cake, And brought their loose change to the tea We ve held for dear Central's sake. dances, Then here’s to the boys of °324, Good fortune, as years swiftly pass, And may the world have cause to honor The men, once, “The Boys of Our Class.”