Norwalk High School - Reminiscentiae Yearbook (Norwalk, CT)

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PROPHECY Scene: Luncheon at a fashionable hotel in VVashington, D. C. Time: Summer, 1957. Several of our country's foremost officials are present and are conversing. Among them are VVilliam Adams, Consul-General on leave from Cairo: Joe Kilbourn, Senator from Connecticutg General Ben Preece, and many others. Bill: Yes, it was December 7, 1941, and I was a senior at Norwalk High School. Vlrhat a shock it was when those .laps bombed Pearl Harbor! I remember it as if it were yesterday. I was visiting at Lewis Lane's house when the report came over the radio. He happened to be cleaning his guns at the time. Ben: Say, by the way, what is Lewis doing now? Bill: Yvhy he's a broker on 1Vall Street and Ed Dorsey is his lawyer. Say, thereis Clarence VVenzel. Remember him? Heis head of that new concern in Nor- walk that manufactures television sets as cheaply as portable radios. Vlvell. Clarence, how are things down at the plant? Clarence: Fine. Production has stepped up a bit so that we just had to take on two new secretaries who graduated with our class, .lane Schreyer and Marie Collins. By the way, John Kavanewsky is head draftsman at-the plant. Joe: Speaking of secretaries, I have both Pearl Kovacs and Louise LeCain in my office. I hear that Bill Holmes and Ed Raila are constructing that new bridge that there's been so much talk about down in Mexico-my, Bill, you seem to be drowned in thought. 1Vhy the silence? Bill: I've been thinking of all the water that has passed under the bridge since the war. You know. a number of former students gladly gave their contributions for the cause of democracy. For instance. Fred Horvath. After Fred left high school, he joined the Air Force where he succeeded in becoming a Top Flight Commander. He left the army after the war and became president of the Toledo Airlines. The vice-president of this successful company is Franklin DeBoer. Paul Murphy and Robert Brown are pilots on his airline. Harry Dutka and James Ball have joined up with the Pan-American Airlines with Florence Trombitas as stewardess on the plane. Clarence: A number of students were in the army and navy during the war and liked it so well they decided to make a career of it. Tom Incerto worked his way up from a buck private to a captain. Under him as lieutenants are Leon Albert, Victor D'Vanzo, George Bennett. and John Rogers. Bill: The army isn't the only fortunate branch of the service. The navy has fl well-known lieutenant-commander by the name of Don Radley. Bill Hubbell distinguished himself in commanding a destroyer during the war. John Irving. Bob Minnich, liugc-ne Vrcdcnburgh. and Louis Lctizia are also in the navy. Ben: Yes, Richard VVl1ite, .lohn Fabrizio, and .lcsse Flnglamler are in the air force. Good old Norwalk has given the country some fine citizens. They arc interrupted by a well-dressed mane-