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

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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 . . . , .

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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 Oh here comes Frank Blrss the brg game hunter lollypop rn mouth sunflower rn hand and smrrk on puss Behrnd hrm trarls joe Carter recuperatrng from a jrtterbug contest wrth rcebag perrlously perched on dome In the wake of the shrp we glrmpse Betty Brown Olympic breast stroke champron takrng her darly exercrse Anna Carchra stewardess patrently holds her robe wartrng for her to emerge That great archrtect Grace Bowen constructer of doll houses looks on wrth superror amusement And see the hsh down there swrmmrng gracefully through the warm blue water Dont you recognrze Frank Cerullo the long stuprd prke and jrmmy Dean the swordfish7 And over there rn the drstance spoutrng wrth glee rs Kenny DeForest the baby pxnk whale That flash of lrght rs caused by joe Tomasellr the electrrc eel Among the guppres are Lrllran Warren the one wrth baby blue spots and ulra Sprnosa wrth brrllrant chartruese strrpes berng chased by Ruth Krng the truant ofhcer of thrs school of fish The Captarn Mrke Vrttr saunters out on deck followed by three of hrs satellrtes Donald DeForest the first mate Lewrs Benko hrs second mate and Peter Calrtrl cabrn boy Pete carefully carrres 1 prtcher of cold water whxch he now and then offers to the captarn Edmund Corr m a fit of frenzy sur reptrtrously slrps a drop of dye mto the water He s crazy for color' Our quartet of rnveterate honeymoon brrdge players Isrdora Ortrz Mary Prrone Ruth Sonn tag and Mary Lehotzky the habrtual klbrtzer are wranglmg over therr latest game Varney the sphrnx comes haughtrly mto the room Antornette Conetta frrst woman vrce presrdent recuperatmg from a strenu ous senate sessron meanders by smllrng broadly Sl Angelina Grallo and Ida Tangorra lookmg like babes rn the wood are searchrng earnestly for the beauty salon operated by Elrzabeth Gesualdr ohn Sokosh our purser takes them rn hand and drrects them to the swrmmmg pool What rs that farnt norse on B Deck? Why nts Robert Schmrtt the Pred Prper followed by qurte a crowd Margaret Qumn authorrty on Amerrcan Prob lems Marran Poole House keeper to Krng Ferdrnand Gordon ON1ell the Keeper of the Krngs canary s lettuce Charles Lapolla the flower fancrer wrth a dozen of hrs rare Orethoenpatolrprsts Phrlrppe de Bourbon of the de Bourbon Cherry Bomb Manufac tures Elsre Enqurst secretary toj P Morgan s cousin thrrce removed Eddre Karser the professronal fan mall wrrter Mark Totaro hrgh brow lecturer on totalrtarran governments Skippy Self noted eques trran Vrncent Vrttr archrtect who desrgned an art gallery and museum for Hrtlers parntmgs and Chamberlarns umbrellas Charles Wrmberley tap dancer rn a Broadway hut Vrvran Fuhrer the famous woman transport flrer Mrldred Frnney that excep :tonal woman who owns a strrng of 552 teashops and Mary Gagon who prefers berng called M as rt rs so orrgrnal and frts rn wrth her surrealrstrc poetry Everyone rs formmg behind the prper and are all marchrng off mto drnrng salon Oh yes' Here comes George Young to jorn them draggmg hrmself out of the brlge where he has been futrlely huntmg bad pennres George Young Chaxrman Frances Thomsen Betty Urban 1 1 1 , 7 7 - 1 , ,, .J , 1 1 , . , . 1 1 . - 1 1 , , , . . , - ' - ' 4 ' . 1 1 1 1 , , . . , . V ' ' ' 1 1 1 1 , 1 - - . . .. . , , 1 1 1 - 1 - 1 1 1 y . . 1 ' ' - 1 y 1 ' 1 , ' 1 , , - , J , , , - - - , , . . 1 1 ' . . , , . y 1 . 1 1 ' 5 - 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 ' 1 . . . . - .. .1 , . 1 , - 1 1 ' . 1 1 1 ' 1 1 1 1 ' ' 1 1 . . . , 1 1 - , . 1 1 '