Cranston High School - Cranstonian Yearbook (Cranston, RI)

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nr-. .tv W, . - ---rv-mv . .I , . B 1939 ' famed all-girls' orchestra, featuring Mary Pati, blues singer, Eileen Anthony, bass strummerg Fannie Soscia, key tinklerg Priscilla Short, drummer, Lucy Coppolelli, sax player, and Gladys LeRiche, clarinetist. The master of ceremonies is Cap Donnelly, who enjoys introducing the chorus, the Bon Ton girls, including Florence Jacobs, Margaret Nelson, Emily Stamp, Violet Moran, Maxine Lamb, Anna Kucavicus, Virginia Colvin, and Claire Casey. The bouncer, Fat Anderson, doesn't have much business as Warren Nelson, the barftender, serves only orange juice. Visitors to the club cannot help noticing Lois Weigner giving away free gum, or the excellent head waiter, Norman Petterson. Indilferent people may attend the theater which features the pictures of the Universal Utopian Film Corp. The current hit is Alvin jager's The Merry Wives of Utopia, featuring Janet Dunn and Clint Sperry. A coming hit is Sherlock Homes Rides Again featuring james Leaver as Sherlock Holmes and Walter Rem' ington as Watson. The Motor Cycle Co., with Audrey! Armstrong, President, furnishes the island with the motor scooters. The VicefPresident of the company, Annetta Edwards, keeps the company out of the red. The sales manager, Anthony Cece, is the main reason why so many scooters are seen every Sunday afternoon making their way to Mt. Utopia. There Russell Brower teaches skiing on the soapfclipped slopes of the mountain. At the base on the artificial lake of glass, Hope Place, champion figure skater, performs many a fancy twist. Back in the metropolis Carolyn Schuster, famed dancer and creator of the Utopian Hop, holds many dance recitals. Utopia's Bazaar, edited by Helen Osterlund, and managed by Ruth Anderson, is one of the foremost periodicals of the World, featuring articles on faceflifting, mudpacks, etc., by Helen McCall. Richard Kellerman's School for Soda jerkers has attracted students from all over the globe, just as Michael Ricci's Super Laundry has brought laundry men from all corners of the earth to study his revolutionary method. With her Utopian dress designs, Barbara Hill has stolen the fashion center from Paris. On the main thoroughfare are the oflices of Utopia's thriving businesses, such as Robert Anderson and Theodore Norberg's haberdashery, Geraldine Fennessy and Annette Segal's Beauty Salon, Anna Rodi and Adeline Zarrelli's Cooking School for Young Brides, Lillian Rhodes and Laura Winslow's Chinese Tea Shoppe, Anna Najarian's factory for false eyelashes and fingernails, and the city office of Pasco Menna's banana plantation. And from a Classical point of view Utopia is Afl, as the Utopian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Guy Gargani, has for many seasons played in the outdoor temple of music. Out in the wild country, Mildred Bennett's Beauty Farm keeps the young ladies in trim, with Barbara Brokaw the riding mistress, and Elsie Siple the head of the hiking department. Utopia has its share of capitalists in Bill Grogan, Thomas Hanrahan, and Ray Burns who spend most of their time at the country club, run by Raymond Bood and that ambitious caddy master, James Champlin. Cranston's public has watched Utopia's development with great interest, and they feel that it will soon become a world power and that many other groups will try the Utopian method. CBANSTIIN O HIGH O SCIl00L 23 li ,Q-2

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1939 tmroplzecy of cgebruary Glass o 1939 IN the year 1960, the class of February 1939, of Cranston High School, pooled its funds, purchased Wake Island from the United States government, and set up the state of Utopia. Captain Ernie Swanson transported the pioneers to their destination on his diesel yacht, Wimpy XVII. Before long they discovered the necessity for government, and a most democratic form was adopted. By popular vote Harry Gray was elected Chairman of the Board of Governors. The following were chosen to serve upon the board: Eleanor Weisner, Robert Barningham, Fred Howard, and George Coffey. Priscilla Cranston is the Speaker of the House. The Utopia Utopian, edited by that eminent globe-trotter, Kenneth Hazard, features Miss Cranston's column, My Day. The Utopian has on its staff Jimmie MacDonald, world famous cartoonist and Avis Post, editor of the Womans Page. Utopia University soon gained recognition as one of the great centers of learning of the world. The school is efficiently managed by President Louis Fazzano, B. A., M. A., Ph. D., LL. D., Hon. Pres. of the Royal Academy of Utopian Arts. Lectures and exams are extrafcurricular. The only courses offered are those in domestic and biological sciences under the professorship of George Roberts and Earl G. Page, Jr. Sports are limited to football with Head Coach, AllfUtopian Ray Larson, Wally Davis and Bob Heaton serve as backfield coach and line coach respectively. At the other end of the island is Miss Kenyon's Finishing School for smart young women. Miss Nathalie Caldwell is head of the Dead Language Department. Mary Adams, head of the English Department, specializes in the poetry of the poet-laureate, Lloyd Sheeran. Ruth Geockel, the swimming coach, stresses bathing beauty contests more than swimming meets. Mildred Spelmen, Physical Ed. Supervisor, offers a most invigorating course in Tiddlywinks. The two schools are linked together by a Date Bureau with Hap Palmer representing U. U., and on the sly, Betsy Herrick from K. F. S. Neither police nor prisons are necessary in Utopia, and since the Fountain of Youth was discovered on the island, the hospitals have closed, thus putting jane Graves, Supervisor of Nurses, out of a job. Incidentally, Miss Graves is now doing missionary work on an unfutopian island nearby. The Utopian airport, ably managed by Olando Macari, keeps the populace in communication with the outside world since transfpacific clippers land there daily. The WrongfWayfCorrigan Restaurant situated at the airport and run by Angela DeSantis and Rose Paola keeps the clipper's passengers wellffed. One of the best customers is Kenneth Robinson, Good-Will Ambassador to whom it may concern. Almost any time one may tune in to WfUfT'O and hear the vigorous announce' ment of Donald Ford. Other high spots on the program of the station are One Family's Man featuring Virginia Smith, Helen O'Loughlin, Henry Morin and Mary Malley, the song birds of the airwaves. Only yesterday, Waldo Watkins, sports commentator, gave an eventfbyfevent account of the Knights of Utopia Track Meet. The food supply is taken care of by Joseph Iaciofano and his able distributors, Sahag Kalousdian and John Lane. Clifford Johnson has set up the elaborate Utopian Dairy. A unique feature is the milk maids, Edith Toumaine, Dorothy Kay, Ann Messerlian, Agnes Ledverissis. One wishing to spend a quiet evening, may go to the Library, where Barbara Harrington and Gladys Liljendahl are librarians. Or one may drop in at Howard Russell's Club Utoperico, where he may hear the bouncing rhythms of joseph Enos' GRADUATING O CLASS O 0F sans.: -..gf 22

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1939 .14-1 THE SENIOR c:LAss PLAY, Tx-nz sEvEN KEYS T0 BALDPATIS' Let to Right: Armstrong, Levy, Fazzano, Nason, Gould, Ward, Gorton, Battey, Russell, Graves, Blake, Kenyon, Crump, Carlson, Cole. QTMIOI' The combined Senior Classes presented George M. Cohan's great play, The Seven Keys To Baldpatef' The role of Williani Magee, the author who had to write 1 novel at Baldpate Inn in twentyffour hours in order to win a bet, was portrayed by Frincis Battey. His acting together with that of the fine supporting cast provided a most enjoyable entertainment. Elijah Quimby. . . Mrs. Quimby .... The Cast Willizim Hallowell Magee .... John Bland ...... Mary Norton .... Mrs. Rhodes ..... Peters the Hermit ..... Myra Thornhill. . Lou Max ........ Jim Cargan ....... Thomas Hayden. jiggs Kennedy. . . The Owner of Baldpate ..................... Two Policemen .................. James Armst Faculty Directors . . . . . .John Ward . . . .Nancy Gould . . Francis Battey . . . .Louis Fazzano . . . .Barbara Gorton . . . . .Louise Kenyon . . . . .George Levy . . . .jane Graves Earle Nason, jr. .Howard Russell . .Stuart Crump . . . . .John Blake ..............-WilliamCarlson rong, James Cole Miss Ruth Hassell .................... ...... C oach Miss Anna Harrington ........... . . . ............... .Business Miss Hattie Holt .................................. Properties Properties: M. Bennett, B, Collemer, B. Eddy, M. Forster, J. Johnson, G. Liljendahl, M Trudeau, H. Hudson, H. Morin, H. Gray, A. Macari, G. Tucker, K. Hazard, ll. McDonald, H. McOsear, J. Leaver, G. Burns, C. Larkin, W. Hoxie, B. Smith. GRADUATING I CLASS I 0F 24