Leominster High School - Magnet Yearbook (Leominster, MA)

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THE 1939 MA We also see a big game hunter returning from a year’s shooting in Africa. Charlie Owens says hunting tigers is easier on the legs than football. The harmonies of a symphonic orchestra come over the radio. The personnel includes pianist Whitestone, and clarinetist Padovano. The program has ended, and radio-announcer John Ward thanks us for listening as he bids us good-night. The Book of the Month Club recommends a novel by Ernest L. Parent; also noteworthy in the literary world is Winthrop Wiles. Their works are published by a firm headed by the dis- tinguished Elmore C. Palmer. Two old friends gre rival coaches in the Rose Bo w! Football Classic. We may be sure Smith and Vorse will employ the reliable ‘‘Broderick”’ tactics. “The Biggest Show on Earth” opens at Madison Square Garden, featuring one so-called Tarzan, but you can’t fool us, Thornton Willard. Was that the idea of the show’s advertising manager Richard Roberson? Hear the auctioneer talking like Floyd Gibbons as he displays for our admiration the blue white diamonds and distinctive watches. We'll buy one, Elio. You wouldn’t take advantage of a classmate, even though you are turning over the stock for Charles Sheehan. I note Paul Whitney’s name over a column on the Weekly News. Incidently, he comments on Walter Russell’s radio hour. Mary Piano is now the interpreter for the American Consul in Italy, and reports have it that soon she will replace the fast-aging consul. Marjorie Grossi has recently been elected the president of the National Parent Teachers Association. The bright lights of Hollywood envelop the dazzling figure of Dot Church, No. 1 actress of the day. Stir thy cauldron, witches, for the night speeds and the list of names is long. Police Capt. Bernard C. Wood protects our homes with his vigilance. His testimony for the state is presented to District Attorney Chester Ricker. The second world war is history, and among the heroes’ names we find plenty of the fighting Irish: John McCaffrey, Lawrence Murphy, Eugene O’Brien. Read of their deeds of valor, you coming generations, in the Leominster Public Library. Aviator Kendall Taylor battles the winds and fog of the heavens, carrying the air mail. Building contractors Pelletier and Polley are engaged in the erection of a modern hospital. The architect’s initials on their blueprints are F. T. 8.; they stand for Francis T. Seifert. Though the on-looking doctor has grown rather corpulent, we recognize the eminent physician, Alfred I. Shattuck. Nichols and Temple, costumers and decorators, did you design the new state police uniform, so proudly worn by Lieutenant Osborne Watkins? The steam shovel, grasping dirt and gravel with each dip into the bed of the river, bears the familiar name of S. J. Novelli, Manufacturer. At last I grasp another name from the fumes. Dolor Mallette busily pursues his duties as undertaker. As the fuming mass in the black cauldron gradually recedes, the second witch can see still more members of the circle of 1939. He speaks aloud in a weird, wondering voice. I hear a banging; it comes from a courtroom where Robert Bullard, well known Sterling electrical contractor, is suing for an unpaid bill. His lawyer is Avery Cousins, who has never lost a case. The court stenographer, Robert Anderson, tells his neighbor that this is Avery’s first case. At the back of the room is Rolf Anderson, star reporter for the “Daily Wet Blanket’. Still farther out into the street I see Francis Crane leading an army of 700 dwarfs as part of his job as advertising manager for the “Snow White” Marshmallow Co., Ltd. 27

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THE MA 1939 Our tennis ventures were entrusted to the capable hands of Lyons, Hanson, and Longo. We prospected for gold, but in its stead we found the basebal]! diamond. The prospectors that struck the richest were ““T'wo-Gun” Johnson, ‘‘Hair-Trigger’” Bullard, and “‘Genera] Custer”’ Smith. “On to Death Valley! Macketh rides again!’ was the war cry. A new version of Macbeth, arranged by Mr. John Joyce, our director, was nobly presented by Bob Bothwell (Macbeth), Nancy Roche (Lady Macbeth), and the entire cast. As we neared our destination, many brave pioniers felt a tinge of sadness, and regretted Jeaving behind the lively battles we had experienced during our expedition across the hills and plains in quest of knowledge and happiness. The great day arrived when we left the caravan and set our feet on unknown soil to employ our experiences and learning to the best advantage. Class Prophecy Three witches attend a boiling cauldron filled with potent herbs, flower-symbols of the magic art; which, when mixed into a common brew, emit a ghoulish incense, somewhat akin to anesthesia in so far as the conscious mind is affected. In addition, thereto, at each inhalation of the mystic vapor, divination of the future is bestowed upon the attendants; and by means of this unusua] and uncanny power they will now reveal to you prophecies of the Class of 1939, Leominster Senior High School. It is the year 1950. I see a mathematical genius doing research work for the Genera] Electric Company. Who is this successor of Steinmetz?—Our dear old Wallace MacKinnon. A broker hurries to his Wall Street office; the exchange has already opened for the day’s transactions, but, as of old, financier Lyman MacPhee is late. A corner fruit store displays its tempting wares to the public view; within, the genial proprie- tor, Emi dio Martini, beams with satisfaction at his business and with welcome to his customers. A cast of characters appears upon the screen of a moving-picture theatre. We remember the hero, Wilmot Weeks, and the villain, Aldo Mazzaferro. Margaret Pickford has recently been appointed Secretary of State, the first woman in the history of our nation to hold this lofty position. Ruth Johnson, following the trend of modern warfare, has joined a female regiment in the Nurse’s Division of the U. 8S. Army. : I see an ex-intercolligiate lightweight wrestling champion; now a member of the United States Olympic team. When the Stars and Stripes are raised, signalizing victory for America, we will all join in acclamation to Gilson McKenney. The English Channel has been conquered by the skill and endurance of a swimmer once more; this time, the rangy Oozoonian. I see a swift moving plane bound for South America with missionary Elizabeth Rodgers aboard, in search of the long lost Amazonian Expedition. This heroic search turns out to be a success, for not only does Miss Rodgers find the missing expedition headed by the kindergarten teacher, Jane Lane, but also discovers that the supposed Amazons are frauds. For they turn out to be none other than a group of touring Olympic stars headed by Phyllis Hancock, the discus thrower; Frances Willoughby, the javelin hurler; Anna Ward, Vivian Tourigny, and Alice Jeknovarian, 440 hurdlers; and the world’s greatest relay team of Mae Hartwell, Florence Tata, Natalie Greeno, and Charlotte Stewart. As the plane wings its way home over the dense jungle, a very invigorating throb of a tom tom is heard. In a small] clearing we can plainly see Ruby Green leading the beating drummers in the Long Jungle-Motive Cheer for Gertrude Gopfert, who has just completed the long and hazardous swim down the Amazon River. 26

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THE MA 1939 But now the mystic porridge clouds again, but as it clears once more— I see a great building which has the symbols “1939” on its conerstone. Yes, the structure was begun 10 years ago and now contains Louis Cocci, ‘‘Herr Direktor” of the institute, who is a great scientist like Louis Pasteur, only Pasteur beat him to it. Warren Johansson has the whole second floor covered with bugs, worms, flies, and a heap of rocks in one corner that looks like a road project; he’s the noted entomologist who discovered that a gnat does sing. On the third floor are Alfred Davison, Deane Foster, and Richard Fricke busily engaged in their capacity as machinists, watching huge machines do their work for them. The scene suddenly fades, but a violent stirring of the boiling mass brings a suggestion of the top floor. Aha! Here in the conservatory (greenhouse) is George ‘“‘Rosebud”’ Hersey, who is the very famous horticulturalist (gardener) who crossed a sunflower with a goldenrod for no reason at all. Also on the roof I see Louis Donais and Rodrigo Caffoni, sketching everything about them, for they’re commercial artists, you know. But still higher in a little tower is William Gettens and Co. with Frank Foster, Emery Hanson and Howard Genano, who have just introduced three-dimen- siona], technicolor television on the market. There was another little tower to this building but experiment No. 1939 of Clyde Davis blew this part to another vicinity. Away down on the office floor I see Nelson Kouns, Francis Farwell], Robert Eaton, and Augustus Jancaitus doing accounting work for the great institution. On the ground floor I see Fred Gordon, Robert Garrity, and Raymond Comeau managing a thriving department store. Gabriel Gentile has just taken an elevator up to the chemical engineering department to apply for a job. And now once more the seething mass in the cauldron boils over and clouds the vision; as it clears again we hear the third witch speak in a loud appalling voice. I see an airport where super-salesman Donald Albrecht is trying to get an order for 100 ‘“‘money-back”’ guaranteed parachutes. A moment later the drone of a plane is heard and a huge plane makes a graceful landing. Out steps the air hostess, Ruth Burridge; and also the globe trotting journalist, Eva Glasheen; the noted radio songstress, Ruth Fischer; and the very famous opera stars, Marjorie Duval and Marjorie Killelea; and pilot, Anthony Angelini. As this group hurries off the field, a stunt plane operated by Dorothy Hirst, lands and lets out its passenger, Elizabeth Hood, night club singer. The whole gang now has a reunion with the two air-base nurses, Janice Goodale and Claire Bissonette. At this moment Wallace Cunningham, dentist, and his assistants, Loraine Drury and Winifred MacLean, hygenists, come into the administration building trying to charter a plane to go to pull a tooth of Mickey Mouse’s in Hollywood. While waiting, someone turns on a radio. Who is talking but Gloria Kay, reading the annual report of the Mass. State Department of Public Health, of which she is president. As soon as this program is over a press-radio bulletin informs the listeners that Earl Johnson is now in the finals for the international married men’s bowling tournament, with Norman Lyon in second place. But another stirring of the fuming cauldron brings a vision of another part of the globe. I see Francis Gordon, state policeman, tearing along a state road after some crazy speedster. Upon catching the fool, he finds it to be Robert Bothwell, high official of the U. S. Army, who persuades “‘Stretch” to forget the whole thing. On the sea, with the U. 8. Navy, I see Arthur DeCarolis, Edward Gillis, Joseph Auffrey, Antonio Caiazzi, Bernard Capone, Vincent Bartimo, Louis DePasquale, Dello Funari, Richard Julian, and Oscar Kramer. They are sailors of the latest ship in the U. S. Navy, which has reached its completion through the efforts of Benedict Gargulinski and of Robert James, manager of the Highland Daily. On board also is Chief Leo J. J. Comiskey of the Internationa] Detective Association, who is searching for the famous Beatrice Andrews, and Arlene Boudreau. 28