Norwalk High School - Reminiscentiae Yearbook (Norwalk, CT)

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Joe: Bob Ben Bob Ben Bob Ben Bill Joe: Ben Bill Joe: Ben Bob Ed: Joe: Bill Ben Joe: Ed: Joe: Jack Slattery along as his doctor, with Jean Vllright, Dorothy Broadhurst, and Evelyn Hevesy as nurses. Say, that fellow over there looks familiar. VVhy it's Robert Kircher. Hello there, Bob! : Hello. I heard you folks were around here, and I've been looking every- where for you. : I hear youire a famous surgeon in the Mayo Clinic, Bob. : Oh, there are several Norwalkers there too. George Lawson and Marietta Allen are doctors. Gertrude Yackal, Carolyn Riccardi, and Marjorie Wil- liams are nurses, and Elaine VVetmore is a laboratory technician. Eleanor Correnty, Mira VVarga, and Betty Amundsen are on the office staff. : I hear that Leonard Nemeth is a dentist with Marguerite Quinlivan as his dental hygienist. Norman Meyers is also in the professional field. He's a lawyer, you know. Dorothy Nickerson and Frances Verrnes are his secretaries. : Ida Maestri is a famous actress on Broadway, starring in a play written by John Gribosky. Kitty Lou Ensell is a radio producer, and John Guerard is a radio engineer with the same company. Julia Norwood is a well-known vocalist on that network. : Do you remember Barbara Hayes? She is now a social service worker here. : By the way, what is Bob Rooney doing these days? Oh, he is a horticulturist and has a business of his own in Norwalk. Pearl Norback and Janice Kelley are his assistants. : We have a few engineers, too, in our class. Henry Sullow and Ralph De Panfilis are engineers engaged in building bridges. Richard Ryan is one also in a large plant. And I hear Louis Caruso is an aeronautical engineer. Saul Bornstein and John Petropoulos are chemical engineers and Ray Chuzas is doing very well for himself in a plant in Pittsburg. : What about some of the others who graduated with us? : Marion Johnson is quite a swimmer and is ready for the Olympic meet coming up this year. Fred Buckholz recently came in second in the P. G. A. Tournament and Bar- bara Chapman entered one of her horses in the Empire City Handicap. Doris DeMott his written a new novel that has been getting a great deal of publicity. And Howard Boardman is working for the New York Railroad Company. : Is that so? Harry Bracken is a telephone lineman and Jennie Manzi is a secretary in the ofhce of the New England Telephone Company. I suppose some of our people are in business for themselves and have their stores and shops in Norwalk. Oh, definitely. When I was there. I saw signs outside of two beauty parlors which bore the names of two of our former classmates. They were Marion Chehy and Ida Cocchia.

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btraugcr: I beg your pardon. but didn't I hear someone mention Norwalk? Bill: Yvcll. if it isn't lid Alberta! Joe: Ilcllo there. lid. lvc were just talking about some of our former class- nmtcs and what the-y'rc doing now. Bill. Speaking of doing things. lid. you certainly have helped ns in developing synthetic rubber so it can be used profitably. How did you ever work it out? lid: It w:isn't through my clforts alone, but through the unending toil of my faith- ful chemists, Jean Conn and Saul Ciorin, that gave us the finest synthetic product since nylon. Joe: The synthetic rubber was a great hclp until South America perfected her rubber plantations. Didn't that give your product a lot of competition, Ed? Bd. No, it didn't. Joe. You see we used our rubber for the smaller. more personal things like rubber bands and golf balls, while South American rubber was used for the larger industrial needs, such as tires. Bill: Our relations with South America couldn't be friendlier. VVith such able diplomats as Bob YVinstanley. minister to Argentina: Duane Stewart, minister to Brazil. and YVilliam McGrath. representing us at a conference of the Central American Republic. At this moment. Pat O'Brien. Congresswoman from Connecticut, approached the I-I d : Pat: Clai- Joe: Bill: IZ d : Bill: Clar gl'Ollp' Hello. Pat. I hear that Shirley Zahn and Margaret Rowe are secretaries in your ofhce. Say. Bill, I can still see our Iinglish class. Remember those cut-ups, Vlialter Stelkoyis. Jolm Burke, and Joseph Varanai? VVell, VValt is a salesman for a big New York concern: John is a teacher of Physical Education at Center Junior High: Joe is top sergeant in the Home Guard. ence: A number of our classmates have become teachers. Yes. I was visiting the High School a few months ago. and Dorothy Halloran is a geometry teacher: Jacqueline Friedman. a history teacherg Miriam Rosen- thal is in the commercial department: Esther Anderson is the girls' Physical Iiducation teacher, while James Crcagh is the boys' instructor. There are many in other schools too. For instance, Arthur Booth and iNIary Barata teach in Junior High School, while Mary Hyatt is head teacher in her private school. with Jane Mc-Mahon, Mildred Savatano, and Jean Podzelni on her teaching staff. In the cultural Held, Rudy Palladino is giving a piano concert in Carnegie Hall next Friday night and Josephine Uccellini is an accomplished ballet dancer. Say. would you boys carc to spend an evening at the Blanc Rouge Club with me soon? It is owned by Joe Lawrence and John Cahill. Joe Nyiri is the band leader, with several Norwalk boys in the band-Herbert Herring, Henry Middleton, and Frank DiScala. June Harris is the vocalist. Peggy, Harry, and Iiarl YVebb are featured dancers. The paintings in the lounge are by Barbara Jennings, Catherine Tobin, Iiverett Brown, Rhoda lNIaginsky, and Barbara Cross. ence: I'll wager you fellows didn't know that Bill Sherwood is a famous explorer and that Albert Meckcl and Victor Aprea are his assistants. He took

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Ben Bill Joe: Clax- I hear that Frank Pasquale and Robert Suehy are clerks in the post oflice. Martha Ann Berndt is an accomplished artist, I understand. Yes. her beautiful paintings are known all over the country. Jean Parsons, Norma Fleming, Jean YValsh, and Doris Schwader are on her modeling staff. ence: In connection with that, Rosemary Pool, Al Herman, and Ted Tomey are among the well-known commercial artists employed by the H. Simon Sign Company. which is managed by Marilyn Spence. Bill. I hear that they have been doing a lot of advertising for Super Sports Goods Co., which is owned by Jolm O'Mara. Ben: Oh, that reminds me, the Senators are playing the Red Sox tomorrow, at GriHith Stadium. How would you gentlemen like to see the game as my guests? I'm sure you would enjoy it as a few of our former classmates are members of these teams. Ed Paylik is the star pitcher for the Senators and Sam Li Vecchi is the Red Soxls ace shortstop. Ed: Oh. that will be swell. By the way, Ben, who gave you the passes? Bill: He probably got them from Sig Walirsager, who is manager of the Red Sox. Ed: I was out at the ball park the other day and ran into Dick Weinstein and John Tierney, who are sports writers on the Washington Herald. Joe: Speaking of newspapers. aren't Bob Bauer and Francis Hoppel co-editors of the good old Norwalk Hour? Ben: Yes. and Ruth Thompson, Rita Stahl, and Mary Stefani are secretaries in the 'iHour office. Ed: Many girls became nurses: many of them right in the Norwalk Hospital. In fact, Betty Ann Callahan is head nurse. Adeline Giellman, Lena Giorlando, and Helen Ott are there, too. Lucy de Orio is secretary to a prominent New York doctor. Bill: Mary Gaffney, one of the rapidly growing group of women flyers, has just made another flight across the Atlantic. Her secretary and companion, Jane Parker, accompanied her. Joe: And Carolyn Coleburn just received the award for the outstanding woman journalist of the year. She is with the Farnsworth publications. You remem- ber John Farnsworth back in Norwalk High School. Ed: Jane Healy owns many exclusive dress shops throughout the country. Her chief designers are Peggy Lockwood and Jacqueline Renstrom, who are ably assisted by Dorothea Nash, Genevieve Black, and Pauline Toner. Classmates from Norwalk High School are employed as secretaries in her various shops, including Lois Boerum and Claire Knapp in New York, Elizabeth Krulish and Ethel Kurzbacher in Chicagog Jane Lublanovits and Janet Marsico in Bostong Theresa Matro and Jeanne Seaman in Los Angeles, and Betty Shapiro and Clara de Martino in St. Louis. Joe: Betty Greenberg also has a business of her own. She has taken the place of Helena Rubinstein as the world's foremost beauty expert. Ed: VVell, it sure was great to get together again and talk over old times. At this point, the waiter appears on the scene with the check. Our friends suddenly begin to disappear in various directions. Joe has to make an urgent phone call, Clarence and Bob have to see a man, Ben and Ed have a pressing engagement, Bill. dejectedly contemplating the check, sighs, What a thing friendship is!