New Canaan High School - Per Annos Yearbook (New Canaan, CT)

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PERANNOS 1940 SENIOR YEAR 11939 401 Wrth happy thoughts of our summer wacatxons fast fadnng away we returned to hugh school for the last time This year we could lord lt over the others and feel that everything was run for us At our flrst class meetmg Gabriel Barrales was elected presldent Lrllran Moller vrce presrdent Anna Cerretanr secretary and ElsreEnqu1st treasurer Early m the year commrttees were chosen to con srder rmgs and to decrde on the company from whrch we would order our ptctures that we mxght have them by Christmas lt was announced that caps and gowns would be worn at graduatron whrte ones for the grrls red for the boys june 7 1940 was set as the date for the annual Semor Prom Followmg the example of last year s class we elected a staff to publxsh the yearbook Perannos Apron Strmg Revolt was chosen as our class play and under the drrectlon of Mr Mrller rt was a great success The play was grven two performances as usual but with the same cast The cast presented Mr Mrller wrth a small token of appreclatxon at the end of the second showmg For the first trme ID the hxstory of our hngh school a Student Councxl has been establxshed The Executne Committee consrstmg of members representmg exery home room has drawn up a constrtutron whxch as yet has not been adopted by the student body The officers are as follows Wrllram Beardsley presxdent ohn Steele and Phrllppe de Bourbon vrce presxdents Anna Cerretanl secretary and janeB1shop treasurer N C l-l S was well represented on the grrdnron thus year The team agaxn proved itself worthy of all out by Mr Keyes had no mercy on nts rxvals At thrs tnme sprrng sports are yust gettmg under way but we are sure that they wxll have successful seasons Briefly rn these pages we have gn en a shox of the four years spent rn hxgh school After gradua tron some of us wxll contmue our studres rn varlous educatronal xnstrtutrons others wxll take thexr places ln the busxness world Wherex er we go whatever we do we wxll look back wnth pleasure on our days spent rn hugh school Y ' V 4 ' 3 1 I . . . . . n . 4 V 1 ' ' , ' 5 J 7 Y l . u - . . . . 1 - Q Y 1 1 ' , - l . 1 1 9 ' ' ' , ' , I . o ' - v the praise given to it. The strong fighting-ftve turned ' , l , , N . u a . n s , . , . , U ' ' V nlmistcfu - , l - . . . . , . 1 D t ' . ' , D 9 Q . 0 . I . Y , , 49

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PERANNOS 1940 CLASS HISTORY SOPHOMORE YEAR 11937 585 Our first year un hugh school proved quute a full year for us In the fall we organuzed as a class the first Sophomore Class to do so Our offucers were Mary Ann Bowles Presudent Anna Cerretanu Vuce Presudent Mary Lehotzky Secretary and Elsue En quust Treasurer We chose Mrs Rhoads as our sponser At Chrustmas tume we were saddened by the death of Mrs Catherune Prud hommeaux our French teacher and durung Easter vacatuon by the death of Supt Fuller L Austun who had been wuth us sunce September Many of our boys showed theur abuluty and sports manshup un athletucs Among those who went out for football were Gabruel Barrales Mike Vuttu Vuncent Vuttu and Lewus Benko In basketball also our boys proved themselves able Lewus Benko Mrchaelj Vuttu Muke Vuttu Vun cent Vuttu Wulluam jones Frank Bluss and Tony Akromas took part Wuth the openung of the baseball season some of our boys showed theur abuluty un baseball The Vuttus Lewus Benko Kenneth DeForest Tony Akromas Mark Totaro and Wulluam Jones played for N C H S The gurls of our class also partucupated un athletucs In the fall field hockey was started un New Canaan Hugh School for the gurls Among those who went out for thus sport were Audrey Lully Anna Cerretanu Elsue Enquust Carolyn Beardsley Norma Bowler Wunufred Tulley Lulluan Moller Mary Ann and Vur gunua Bowles ulua Spunosa and Frances Thomsen The same gurls went out for basketball and soft a JUNIOR YEAR 0938 391 Our unuor year began un the fall of 1938 and ac cordung to custom we organuzed electung ames Kelley Presudent ohn Steele Vuce Presudent Anna Cerre tam Secretary and Wunufred Tulley Treasurer The fall of 1938 proved to be one of the best football seasons N C H S has known wuth several of our junuors takung actrve partucupatuon un the games Those who saw actron were joe Patterson Long ohn Steele Moose Benko Donald DeForest Chuck Vuttu Escobar Barrales Vunt Vuttu and Emul Annuzuato Managung these stalwart lads was Perp Vuttu Stull vuvudly umprunted un our munds un the memory of that eventful Halloween Dance whuch our class sponsored Close on the heels of thus affaur came the annual unuor Senuor Promenade for whuch our class set the unprecedented custom of chargung an admus suon pruce Other sources of mcome for thus occasuon were a benefit movue held at the Playhouse and a cake sale both of whuch proved to be successful The Basketball season opened wuth a bang pro ducung an all star team uncludung Long john Steele Perp Vuttu Moose Benko and Vunt Vuttu wuth Frank Bluss Bully ones Tony Al-.romas and Chuck Vuttu doung theur part Next came the sprung sports un whuch Chuck Vuttu Mark Totaro Tony Akromas Lefty DeForest Perp Vuttu Moose Benko Vunt Vuttu and Bull jones partucupatedun baseball Among those who went out for track Gabe Barrales Chas Wumberley Tom Vallette Don DeForest Bull Beardsley and oe Tomasellu Chuck Vuttu and Vunt Vuttu were seen playung wuth the golf team Last but not least the tennus team called forth such notables as Beale Foster johnny Steele Davud St john joe Patterson Kenny DeForest and Amory Halley Although luttle attentuon was called to gurls sports many of the junuor gurls took part un basketball hockey soft ball and tennus Thus our unuor Year was brought to a close wuth us all lookung forward to our next year when we would proudly call ourselves Senuors 1J 1 ' 1 ' ' Q D 9 Y 9 ' , , , - I a 1 I . , , , , .... W. . I , . .- . . . , s 1 . . -1 u 1, J , , - - 1 .1 11 - - U 1. 1. - ff - - - 1 1 1 1 . . . .. ,, . . . . , . . . . , . , , I - o n a n 1 1 ' . Q - . . . . . 7 ' ' 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 1 1 , - - - - 1. -1 ' 1 1 , , N -V - - -. 1. .1 - -1 - - f , 7 U 1 . . . . . . ' ' . , 1 J 1 1 1 1 1 ' . . ' U ' ll ll , .... . - . . . ' ' 'Y . 1 1 1 1 , .. 1, - - -1 u -. - 11 - - - , 1 1 1 n Y ' , , . .. fu .. 1. - , , Y I - . ll It ' , , , 1 1 1 . . . . . , - rv .1 - - 1- u 11 - - , , . J . , , J , . - - b 1 1 ' 1 1 . 11 ll , . . , . , I 1 1 ' ' 1 J 1 '

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PERANNOS 1940 CLASS PROPHECY It rs the th1rd day at sea and Nancy Gannon the Pulrtzer prrze novelrst looks wrth shmmg eyes at the happy people clustered on the promenade deck of the S S Semor Her thoughts travel wlth her eyes over the many faces Turmng to her companron Harold Txtus of Rrnglmg Bros and Barnum and Barley the fellow who darly stacks hrs head mto a ferocious lxon s mouth and emerges trxumphantly wrgglmg hrs ears she says Let s go over and llsten to the man wrth the mrcro phone He is trymg out a new method of rntroducmg people Thomas Vallette stands pleasantly charmmg by the mrke And ladres there ns Beale Foster ox er by the Chref Petting OLTICCI Henry Dubay Beale rs athletic drrector of the swank gurls school Davxd St ohn s jolly joint for Janes See that lrttle bundle of lovelmess Cecelia Portwme chanteuse extraordm a1re smrlrng demurely at jumpmg jrve joe Patter son leader of our shrp s orchestra Sweet Melodlers Watch Tony Akromas and Anna Cerretam grung out on their little trap drums and Gabrrel Barrales enveloped rn the 1ntr1cate measures of hrs orlgxnal composrtron whrch he claxms outdoes the Angel Ga brrel hrmself Emrl Annuzxato Norma Bowler and Harry Brown blow wrth mrghty gusts producmg small sonorous tones on trumpets The Bearclsleys Bowles Browers Cataldos and Fenlcks offlcrally form a double qumtet our beautlful ballet but now under the Influence of le mal de mer But why the sudden hush? Oh I see lt s Rlchard Martnn the Great Lord of Geometrrcs Prmce of Trronometrxcs and Kmg of Gab The Dictator of Learnrng Whatta Man' He casually nods at Lrllxan Moller whom one can usually fmd on the top of a Fifth Avenue Bus because she loves to be hlgh What' Clarke Rockwell the vrolm vxrtuoso has strarned hrs wrrst playmg deck tennns wrth Hrlton Waxbel ohannes Factotum Cthat by the way IS Latmj' Call the doctor Joseph Lapolla Call oe Ready the apothecary Brmg rn Rosle Chrappmellu woman xn whrte Pearl Isaacs of the queens of tl Ralah of Rangpoo rushes to the rescue whrle the long drstance runner Amory Halley grms at the antrcs of Frances Neale and Barbara Nolan who are teasrng Vrrgrma Proudman s dog with huge prece of bologna of therr own manufacture Vxrgnnma ns Shrrley Temple s stand m She doesn t mmd lf people tease her dog for she rs more mterested rn smrlmg at Wrllram jones a professor of self control at the Eleanor Macauley School for Women xmmy Kelly and johnny Steele co authors of the much read Keel s Adv1ce to the Lowelorn are surrounded by ten beautlful grrls T E N count em Carollne Morrlson promment stylrst Audrey Lllly the lady mortlcran Anna Lapolla secretary to the chref of the G Men M Vrttr Munsey Mohnkern publxsher of well known translatrons of Caesar and Crcero Betty Urban who has been Walkmg dogs on Fxfth Avenue for twenty the cents an hour for the last three years Ruth McCreary of the Cellophane Lmgerle Company Frances Thomsen and Wmxfred Trlley orxgrnators of the famous T n T 10071 relxef proof cough drops Rose Vrttr dubbed the Vxtalrty Gxrl of 1949 and joy Wetterer who 15 wrrtmg a long treatlse on troprcal ram There they are ten grrls' 1 1 1 1 ' . , 1 . . . , ' 7 1 J 1 1 1 . , . , . J 1 ' 1 . . A 1 1 . , nt. u 1 - 1 - . . - 1 1 ' 1 1 -1 1 , ' 1 1 , 1 1- - - Y . . . . , . . 1 1 1 - - u - 11 - . . . . . 1 ' - - - - 1 .1 - . , . , . . 1 - ' - J 1 - 1. 1 . . . . . ' 1 . . . ,, . , , 1 1 ' , ' - 1- - - .. - - 1, . 1 ' - J - 1 .1 - 1, .. , . , - ' ' Y' - Y .1 V ' 1 ' ' 1 ' 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 ' 1 1 . J. , ' n ' ' . 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 - ' 1 1 , , 1 U -1 . . . . . ' 1 1 - -1 1 -I - . 1 ' 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . . . , .