Conant High School - Yearbook (Jaffrey, NH)

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ter and suggested that our pilot tour about Rome and Naples. It was lucky that we told the pilot to land in the crater of Mt. Vesuvius, for, inside the crater was ALICE WHITNEY. carrying two cameras and a tripod and climbing up the side of the crater to see us. She informed us that she had become a photographer for Drool Magazine and that her features of Vesuvius would be in the next issue. With a hop and a leap, our helicopter was in Paris, where we strolled down La Rue de Rivoli in quest of a familiar face. We saw a sign on an art gallery which said, Brilliant Young American Successor to Picas- so, and there, chatting to the art critics, was RONALD CHARLAND, who had become a specialist in abstract art. In Germany we stopped off at Berlin Institute where we knew that one of our classmates had become fa- mous for revealing a scientific inaccuracy. The scientist was HOMER SAWTELLE, who told us that he had proven the Einstein theory incorrect. We congratulated Homer and were on our way again -- this time to Geneva. At the Lodge in Geneva, we were disappointed to find none of our former classmates. but, luckily, we turned on the TV set in the lobby and heard a delightful commercial, given by RONALD BUTLER who was advertising JUICY, ROOT-TOOT -TOOT GUM. He was portraying a ballet dancer, but when asked what his profession really was, he replied, A bone surgeon. Yes, truly, Ronnie is a thinking man. The commercial and interview were barely over when we learned that we must hasten to Spain. At the World's Fair in Madrid we found HOWARD WILLIAMS, now a world-renowned trumpet player, who had stud- ied under Louis Armstrong. Howard not only played for us but showed us all around the Fair before we left for England. ' Our special destination in England was the Nichols Motorama. where we found our classmate, DAVID NICHOLS. Dave told us that he had acquired his position by inventing the Caddybaker, a car which steers by itself, and which was selling like wildfire. Too soon, our visit ended, and we were off again to the Western Hemisphere, specifically, to South America. In Argentina, we found a crowd of people massed before a night club. We pushed our way through the crowd where we found, inside the night club, a new singing star, the idol of the native girls. He was known, it seemed, as Augustus Snodgrass, but this proved only a stage name for LOUIS TREMBLAY. From Argentina, we pushed on to Peru, which we had somehow expected to be backward. But from the first glimpse, we were impressed by the number of prosperous mills, and we learned the reason for the pros- perity when we visited a mill and were led into the office of the executive president and owner, HARRY SIR- OIS. Harry told us that he had embarked on another of his spending sprees and he expected to convert the mills into shopping centers. We flew then towards Hawaii. On the Sandwich Islands, we were fortunate in being able to witness the trial test of a new plane, The Meade X-3-45. As the plane landed we dashed to congratulate the pilot and saw it was MEAD HERRICK. After Hawaii, we left for the U.S. and sighted Mexico. As we flew over the Sierra Madre range, we saw a mountain which we knew must be Propocatipili. To investigate, we landed on a plateau and started to ascend. Halfway up we met a dashing climber, clad in a stunning mountain costume and carrying an oxy- gen mask. Yes, it certainly was DIANA Sl-IATTUCK, who, as we walked up together, told us about her plan for tackling Mt. Everest with a group of Himalayans. The climb proved too much for us, so we left Diana, boarded our plane and were soon in Califomia. As we came to a crossroad, we saw an arrow which indicated that we were only a mile from Mr. Uni- verse Contest Building. So we made for the building. As the various muscle men appeared, Margaret and Carol swooned. But then we noticed someone very familiarg we saw plainly our class president, RICHARD BLANCHETTE, standing in a leopard skin, demonstrating his strength by lifting a 5.000 pound weight. As we were about to leave, a voice cried: The new Mr. Universe is Richard B1anchettel After a short stay at the beach, we hastened to Nevada to see the gambling casinos. When we reached Las Vegas, we were much intrigued by a beautiful sign reading, Pretty Boys' Casino. Inside the 'building was every known gambling device. As we circulated about, we bumped into RICHARD SOUCIA, the owner of the Casino. After trying some of the one-arm bandits, we left for New York, on the last part of our wonderful flight. The plane taxied to the runway at La Guardia. One of the happiest surprises of all was awaiting us. For on page one of the New York Times, we saw a picture of Miss Hancock with the news that she had won the Typing Award of America. After reading this interesting bit of news, we gathered in Margaret's suite to discuss the trip, happy to know that our classmates had done so well for themselves. Then we had to separate. . .but not until we 'd re- solved to meet in another ten years and make another trip to see our friends of the Class of 1959. .

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CLASS PROPHECY AROUND THE WORLD IN 59 DAYS fin the Year 19695 Let us tell you of the fascinating trip we took around the world to see all our former classmates. The trip began on a happy note when MARGARET KORPI, the dashing widow of a multi-millionaire, threw a coctail party in her swank, fifteen-room suite at The Plaza, in New York. CAROL UNDERWOOD. a water-skiing instructor at the Cypress Gardens, appeared unexpectedly, since she was in New York teaching Esther Williams the fundamentals of water skiing. The conversation about former days at Conant was proceeding briskly between the two friends when the doorbell rang and in popped BOB RECORD, a sensational new TV comedian. who has his own novelty program called L.et's Be Happy on Channel 59. In the midst of warm greetings, Margaret calmly suggested that the three members of the Class of '59 take a trip around the world. all expenses paid by Margaret. In the ten years while being separated, the three friends hadn't lost the ability to make quick decisions, for the next day they left by plane for Alaska.. . first stop on a tour of investigation. The journal of the trip continues in the first person: We landed in Nome, Alaska, where we were directed to the Allen Mission School. Ttansported to the school by a team of sled dogs. we found TRAVIS ALLEN presiding in her inimitable manner over classes com- posed of smiling Eskimos, all of whom were trying to develop a New Hampshire accent, just like their teach- er's. As we mushed along back to the airport, we saw an oddly-shaped igloo which we found to be inhabited by our former classmate, BETTE STEWART, and her family. Bette was the first person in Alaska to own a split-level, ranch-style igloo. We couldn't stay, but waved as we went whizzing by, and a few minutes later. we were on a submarine headed for Russia. having decided to leave our plane in Alaska. ln Moscow, we went directly to our hotel and found ourselves in a heated argument with the manager, who insisted that our currency was worthless. We didn't understand until we visited the American Embassy. There, to our surprise, was DICK WEBBER, newly appointed Economic Ambassador to the Soviet Union. who told us that he had introduced a new lund of currency by means of which he would bring inflation to the Rus- sian government. We wished him good luck and were soon on our way again, this time to China. After a tour of all the temples and market places, we were exhausted and hailed a rickshaw. The plump little Chinaman holding the rickshaw explained that his conveyance had a broken wheel. He whistled, and who should come running towards us but ROLAND BIBEAU, Yes, Auto Mechanics had been invaluable to him, for he is now China 's Chief Fixer of Rickshaws. flncidentally. you may be interested to know that instead of that short crew cut he had all through school, he now has grown a 59 pigtailj. Two days later, we were in Australia, in search of a new figure skater, who. all the predictions said. would win the Olympics for the United States. We were amazed to find that the famous skater was none oth- er than our MARION BLAIR, who proceeded to give us a special demonstration of the features with which she would capture the Olympics. This even included the figure eight. She had finally mastered itl From Australia we progressed by helicopter to French Equatorial Africa, but. mechanical trouble having developed. we landed in the Belgian Congo. Here, in the midst of the sightseeing, we noted a huge crowd had gathered. Curious to see what was so interesting, we drew near and had our first glimpse of a laughing contest. One of the contestants we instantly recognized: MARIORIE WHITNEY. The other was a spotted hyena. Right beside Margie was her coach. MR. BOUCHER. who told us proudly that Margie had been laugh- ing for a straight 36 112 hours. Leaving this happy scene, we hastened to French Equatorial Africa. A poster in the lobby of our hotel announced that an American movie director was on location in the jungle. As always. our curiosity was too much for us, so we rushed to the production lot where we found the director, LINDA FELCH, calling through a megaphone while a battery of actors hurried to her bidding. The movie on which she was at work was called The Three Weird Witch Doctors, starring Eva, Ava. and Zsa Zsa Gaboon. Promising Linda that we would look for the movie on our return to New York, we left for Egypt. In Egypt we were notified that the public might come in to see an operation on the newly installed King Faradou. so we betook ourselves to the Royal Hospital where we saw SUSAN WILEN, head nurse, who was re- moving a sliver from the King's toe. When we got to Milan, Italy. a chariot race was in progress. As the chariots zoomed by us, we saw PRISCILLA ALUORD in first position. The same skill which made her a basketball star at Conant had now put her in the front rank of the racers. We saw her chariot roar into a flying finish. Then we boarded a helicop-

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