Norwich High School - Archive Yearbook (Norwich, NY)

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Who's Who in 1941 under the Josephine Marshall-Unhitched Vfhile you VVait- llivorce Lawf Misses Greenleaf, Grotsinger and llloom are living on a model farm in Greene. Adeline VVelch has built a very Purdy house in llinghamton. Lucie Machio, the noted opera star is filling an important engagement abroad. Autumn Hard has at last achieved her life-long ambition and is now headfkeeper in an insane asylum. Martin Shriber owns and drives a caravan between 'l'imbuctoo and the Dead Sea. 'lohn Larney is in a very prosperous business. He runs an orphan asylum. Celia Spano is Professor of Dead Languages at Kalamazoo University. ID 7 oiis VN atkins, internationally-known horiculturist, has presented the world with a non'- squirtable grapefruit, made by uniting a grapefruit with a sponge. Claude Cooper, renowned aviator, has returned from a good-will tlight to the Sand- wich Islands. In a talk before the Rotary Club, Mr. Cooper commented very favorably on the hospitality accorded him by the feminine inhabitants of the islands. Emma McNitt is running a greenhouse. She specializes in raising lferns. josephine lfavorito is playing tirst-violin in Walter lJamroach's orchestra. Rasson Crandall recently invented a new system of embahning in which XYale's oil is used. Marion lirowning is the manufacturer of the custard pies used in Educational Pictures. Roxie Reynolds is owner of the New Roxic-'s 'liheatre in New York and has made quite a name for herself. Donald Shetron is proprietor of a beauty shop. lele is noted for his mud baths and linger waves. ' joseph lirank, yodeler in the Metropolitan Opera Company, has gone abroad to teach the Swiss mountaineers how to yodel correctly. 'llhe Kenyon-Steinhauser Clothing Business is one of the most prosperous in New York State. Miss Kenyon, Mr. Steinhauser's financee, revolutionized the clothing industry by inventing suits with only one pocket in them. This will prove to be a great help to the wife who, in years before, has had to stand shivering in the cold in order to iind the pocket in her husband's pants which contains his money. Now, with the one-pocket suits, there will be only one pocket to search. Regina Marshall and Gertrude VValker, members of a New York hospital staff, re-- cently witnessed the culmination of a childhood romance when Rebecca Shriber took Rob- ert Ratferty for better or for worse while he was under the intluence of ether. Rev. Wil- liam Anderson officiated and Freda Nichols was liower-girl. Raymond Fadden has complete charge of lndian Affairs in the national government. Sherwood Hamilton and Raymon Fernalld have gone into the circus business together. James Mahal' is the strong man. Marie Mallery and Gertrude Maclfarlane are the Siam- ese twins. Edith Albright plays the part of the Human Derrick and Teresa 'liaranto is

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Hut after all, Seniors, you are so dumb. if all of you come back and take a postgrad- uate course you may acquire half of the knowledge that we already possess. Once in a while you get down to work and accomplish something. After you graduate, if you work hard you may become efficient ditch-diggers or mill-workers. But you have all our good wishes for success and shall always have our help. May you win fortune and fame, Class of '31, you deserve it. TOML lVQRY Who's Who in 1941 According to the will of Fate, the Class of 1931 is destined to become one of the most remarkable ones in the history of Norwich High. Below are the names of those who have acquired niches in the Hall of Fame. Misses Hill, Case, Simmons and Thompson are running the Pancake Palace for Palpitating Palates. Eva Barnes is owner of a chain of Soda-fountains which are scattered throughout the country. Clifford Lawton, author of the best seller, Advantages of Being Single, is resting as comfortably as can be expected after the attack made on him by his wife. formerly Elean- or Stager. Charles Lyons is Tanner in the E. J. Shoe Factory. Annabell Brennan owns a beauty shop in New York. She recently invented a face- lifter. guaranteed to lift any map on the market. Joseph lJougherty's rubber bullets are used extensively in gang warfare. He was re- cently awarded a medal by the Prevention of Cruelty to Dumb Gangsters Society. A Margaret Kelly and Alura Holliday have started a tea-room. lt is called Ve Squirm- ing Lizard. Marian Rourke is successfully running a kangaroo farm in Australia. Clifton Sabin owns a correspondence school. The most recent addition to the course is ' How to W'in Your Wraman in 10 Lessons Needless to say Mr. Sabin is author of the course. e Maurice Lanfair is in the Movies. He is the man behind the lion's roar in comedies. Wiilliam Clark is also living in Hollywood. He is under-study to Joe E. Brown, famous comedian. Marian Redmond and Mary llrooks are telling of their thrilling encounter with a bar- racuda. lt seems that when they were attacked Mary stalled the monster by trying to per- suade him that he should buy on the installment plan. VVhen he was nearly worn out by Mary's oratory, Marian Redmond came gallantly to the rescue and strangled the vicious brute with her silky locks. Honorable George Godfrey, prominent Reno judge. recently granted the first divorce

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Wh0's Who in 1941 the Siamese Sword-swallower. 'lennie Di Stefano, who is teaching Sanskrit in the john llyrne School for the Deaf, Dumb and lllind, was recently chosen by the students as the most beautiful teacher in the school. Burton NValworth is suffering in a Siberian dungeon where he will be confined for the rest of his life for kidnapping the heiress to the Kleptomaniac throne. Rosemary Griffin, Mary Hartigan, and Mary llyrne are joint owners in a home for mentally deficient college students. Ur. Ronald Prindle and his wife, formerly Miss lietty Vlfilliarns, are touring in Africa in search of the caliopsis petunia, a microbe guaranteed to cure stuttering. Russell Carpenter. Edward Gabler, Robert Kroeger and Jane Tiquin are debating a team from Podunk. They are taking the affirmative side of the question: Resolved: Moustaehes are moth proof. Two Norwich boys, Victor Norris and Ernest XYillcox, recently had their picture in the VVuzilwitz NVasp, advertising A'Perfunied Pate Polishing Plaster. Charles Hale has written a book which should be in every home. lt is entitled A De- tailed and Technical Analytical Survey of This Passionate Yearning for Members of the Op- posite Sex. Melvin Herrick is manufacturing genuine French-made Herets. His factory is located in Hoboken. Elizabeth Leman, captain of the mating vessel just One More, has returned from a trip to England with her crew of silly, simple. single sailors. Pauline Salisbury's spaghetti is eaten in every good restaurant in the United States. The manufacturer guarantees the spaghetti Lo be of fast color, non-shrinkable and non- skiddable. Moreover, if the customer is not satisfied, the spaghetti may be returned within two hours after consumption. Teresa Carey is selling fig-Newtons in the western part of Pennsylvania. Vincent Smith has invented an automatic studier. All one has to do is push a button. set the lesson to be studied before a robot, leave it there for an hour and when you re- turn, the lesson is studied. This invention has won for its inventor the respect and ad- miration of students all over the world. Irma Loftus is teaching psychology at VX'est Point. Angelo Natoli is touring United States, giving lectures to the weaker sex. The title of the most popular lecture is '4How to Overcome llashfulness in the Presence of Members of the Opposite Sexf, Robert Connellan has charge of the 'AAdvice to the Lovelorn' department of a local newspaper. Miss Mary White and Mr. Charles Thomas are cell-mates in the State Insane Asyluni. lloth expect to be confined for life. At last! '!! The scientinc discovery of the century! l ! After suffering midst burn ing deserts, African jungles and frigid polar regions in order to bring to the unspecting