Stonington High School - Pawmystonian Yearbook (Pawcatuck, CT)

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Page26 I' no one can play the hddle llke Henry does eyen lf wc cllklll t relllze thc flct when he played ln the School Or chcstra As I was walklng around the bulldlng I fell over an easel plus Barbara Cralg who wlth deft strokes was palnt lng a plcture of the school I trled to plck myself up qulckly before anyone notlced my embarrassment but I reallzed that I had falled mlserably when I heard a glggle Margaret Cawley s of course All joklng 8SldC though Peggy takes her posltlon as School Dletlclan ycry serlous ly She plans the dellclous meals whlch Marlon Durfec cooks And let me tell you a secret no one makes choco late cake llkc Marlon does Oh oh here comes someone dressed ln what looks llkc the latest creatlon from Parls It s Theresa Lamour cux who has one of the smartest dress shops on Flfth Avenue There IS someone walklng behlnd Theresa whose face looks famlllaf Oh yes lf s DaVld MacDonald You haye seen hls plcture ln the newspapers frequently Davld plays hockey wlth the undefeated team the Whlte MICC As I was walklng up Elm Street the other nlght I spotted a llttle tearoom the Ellnors I went ln and found Fllnor Whltford and Ellnor Whlpple runnlng the place They greeted me cordlally and told me that they had a pleasant SLIYPIISC Alblna Danesl was scheduled to dance there that evcnlng Beatrlce Boucher famous for her Swlng MUSIC was golng to accompany her on the plano Well I was more than glad to hear that so I settled down and ordered my lunch ohn Farrell the Slnglng Walter brought If ln ohn came along nlcely wlth the tray untll he got to my table and then I don t know whether or not he dld II on purpose but he spllled the contents of the tea pot down my back Well I forgave hlm for old tlmes sake And then someone carrylng a large black satchel walked ln On the bag ln gold letters was prlnted Gavltt the MlfaCl6 Man Yes lf was the same ack Gayltt who has turned IDIO a trayellng salesman and IS trayellng to all parts of the country trylng to sell people thlngs they don t w mt Oh just a moment folks Here comes Dorothy DQVISOU the great moylc star of the productlon entltled Sophlstlcated Lady The mos IC you know IS dlrected by Mary Itallano Dorothy and Mary certalnly have ad xanced slnce thelr unlor year when they acted and dlrected respectlsely ID the Competltlse plays ust behlnd them I can see Ralph Babonas Raymond Bogue and Wllllam Scott No doubt they are talklng about thelr farms They are stlll the best of pals Now Margaret Parklnson your first announcer IS gOlDg to re turn to the mlcrophonc and tell you what she has dls coyercd about the Class of 1936 slnce she left us 1 short whlle ago Well hello agaln folks Im back agaln wlth plenty of news After haslng lunch thls noon I declded to walk dow n Water Street to see what new thlngs haye deseloped SINCE I left Stonlngton I walked along for a few mlnutes and then all of a sudden a brllllantly llghted slgn flashed ln front of me The slgn read Madame Mary Ellzabeth s Danclng Classes Mary Ellzabeth and danclng have al ways been connected ln my mlnd wlth Mary Wllcox S I ellmbed up the fllght of Sf3lfS and was met at the door by Edna Dyblng who as Mary told us later took care of thc chlldren who came to the class At thls tlme they were rchearslng for a Klddy s Revlew whlch was to be put on for chlrlty as a fuor to Mary Champlln who IS a welfare worker and yery much lntcrcsted IH promotlng charlty to IIS fullest extent Thls posltlon sults Mary very well for she always dld want to be dOlDg somethlng for someone else Mary told me that Kenneth Lattlmore has made qulte a name for hlmself He IS the only establlshed Veterl Bernard Davls and Maurlce Savln belong to the faculty of S H S Bernard belng the teacher of Manual Tralnlng and MQUYICC of Bookkeeplng Maybe Maurlce turned to Bookkceplng because that was the subject he got so many A s ln when ln school Fourteen years ago Edward Bradley was just a delly ery boy now he IS and has been for the past two years the postmaster of Stonlngton After leavlng the danclng class I belng always ln terested ln knlttlng declded to YISII the cute knlttlng shop across the street Mae Law was the manager and when I entered she was busy maklng some flne samples Mae showed me some samples of the embroldery work done by Antolnette Masclana Whlfh people came mlles to buy She also told me that she had just read an artlclc ID the newspaper about Mary McCarthy s belng appolnted the new senator from Connectlcut I m wllllng to bet my last cent that Mary wlll lntroduce some new bllls to the effect that students should go to school when and how they please Decldlng to return to the school grounds and see what w as golng on I halled a taxl The drlser of lt was Mlckey Mawson who told me that he was an HSSISIKDI to Reglnald Delagrange who owned a garage on the Boston Post Road I can lmaglnf what tlme the doors of that garage open Well who IS that lmportant looklng gentleman walk lng across the fleld The red halr ldentlfies hlm II s Marcus Drlscoll 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THE MASQUE pagm Class Prophecq TIME 1950 Good afternoon ladues and gentlemen Thus us Mar garet Parkunson speakung In just a luttle whule we are goung to broadcast the openung of the new Stonungton Hugh Sehool I am proud to .announce that the plans for the new school were made by Nellue Lombardo and Gr tee Brown both members of the class of 56 The Pruncupal Rachel Taggart has asked me to thank Donald Archangel the Presudent of the Connectucut Raduo Commussuon for makrng thus broadcast possuble There are many famuluar faces gathered here toda Rughr here on my rught us Mary Marseulles takung rapud notes Although Mary us now edutor of the Mystuc Tumes she consuders thus event too umportant to assugn to any of her assustants so she us takung care of ut herself Why there us Clarence Hughes talkung to Russell Medbury Cl1rence played shortstop wuth the Detrout Tugers un the World Serues last season Russell has been recently m1ele manager of the Mystuc Power Company Here eomes Ruth Vargas world famous swummer 1nd Gurls Gym unstructor at the Hugh School We re glad to see you Ruth Speakung of gymnasuums perhaps you know that oseph Pont us responsuble for the larger and better eeluupped gym whuch we now have oe us stull Daffy 1bout sports I.I'lLl he belueves that everyone ought to have 1n opportunuty to partueupate un them Stonungton Hugh School students are doubly fortu nate un havung Muke Francus as theur football and base ball coaeh There us someone over there tryung to attract my atten tuon She seems to be sayung Have you completed the Hustory 1ssugnment' It s Llunor Turner the Hustory te 1eher What she s probably sayung us I would luke to announee the Hustory assugnment L1dues and gentlemen the peculuar mumblung sound wnueh you l1e1r us not statue It us Niargaret Chrustun 1 who cant of eourse allow ple IbL1l'L to unterfere wuth busuness so she lu lb brought dong the scuentuhc theme that she us wrutung for world wude eompetutuon un the hope of ob taunung some new m.1teru1l A racung motor and screechung brakes and out yumps Marguerute XVelch from ta Ply mouth no less Ply mouths and theur ow ners have alw 1ys unterested Marguetute Hum I C10 tell by the look un her eye that she us goung to try to sell me 1 car the furst chance she gets As part of her sales talk Marguerute always explauns that one specual feature of 1 Plymouth us an unv usable raduo over w huch one can lusten to the meloduous vouces of Carl Roode and Charles Moosey every Monday Wednesday and Fruday evenung at 8 30 These boys sang wuth Gordon Auns worth s orchestra the azz Kung of raduo Aunsy has offered hus servuces for the unuor Prom tluus year H guest artust for the evenung wull be Mary Shannon the popular blues sun er There has been a plane curelung overhead It lande I just zu few munutes ago Here comes the pulot now Why uts Chrustune Geyer Wuth her us let me see Stashua Swutz She us wearung the unuform of a stew ardess and a rather nufty one too Well well uf ut usnt Iarederuck oseph How are you Saduef I haven t seen you un a long tume Tell me are you stull doung forestry work? Oh yes Im head of the Natuonal Reforestatuon De partment at Washungton lreddue dont you want to say a few words to the auduenee Im sure that the members of our class would lul e to hear from theur Cl1ss Presudent Why of course Hello folks I am very glad to be here today to wrtness the openung of the new school It us somethung whuch everyone has hoped would happen eventually Thank you Ired Oh hello Bobby L1dues and gentle men I tm goung to turn the mucrophone over to Robert Goodman for a vvhule Hes been tryung to tell me un sugn language for the last fuve munutes that he s met many members of the class of 36 and he would luke to tell you about them So here goes Well folks you ll never guess what I ae been through I ve been pushed and stepped on and pushed some more why 7 Beeause of Betty De Bragga You all know luer She w as voted the prettuest gurl un her class Well she stull us and no matter where she goes she draws a crowd Iveryone w ants to know how she keeps her good looks Betty h as had so m1ny Llllb and letters for beauty advuee th at le had to guve 1 serues of lectures on Beau y un all the le adm cutues of the eountry I hnully succeeded un getturug .1 few words 1 uth Betty and she told me that Lourse Kelso and Dorus Savun were head nurses at the Stonungton Hosputal These gurls are knoekouts un theur unuforms and unsust on sun un to theur VS patuents whether they luke ut or not And uncudent ally there us one person un our class who goes about puttung other people out of busuness Henry Babeoek He has secured Rubunoffs raduo contract for 1 ' ' V . 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THIL NI ASQ I IL Pagegy a few words before some of has friends see ham Marcus can you tell me some of your exciting experiences as a criminal lawyer 7 That argumentative personality of yours certainly made you prominent Well I only have .1 short whale to stay but one thang I know you wall be interested an as that Artis Burdick our former classmate who could always take dictation so fast has recently broken the world s record And Artis is my efhcaent secretary Thank you Marcus Izdath Brearley as the children s story teller at tfe Bradford Public Library and when she tells the children stories of Harps and Harpers they sat with rapt atten tion on the edges of their chairs listening to her It looks like they are going to show off some of the men who were great athletes in High School but are nov more prominent than ever Clarence Burdick the great maler and ames Cunning ham are fast working their way to fame not only in the male but also an cross country ohn Spellman a football star has also gone further an the field of sport He as playing professional football at the present time And Chet Perkins o.1r great high jumper has finally satashed has trainer and as going to compete an the Olympics Glenna Noble I am told as unable to be with us today because s e has just returned from a trap abroad Glenna has continued her interest an the Rainbow Girls and during her stay on the continent has organized many new assemblies Madeline Moll anel Mary McNamara have completed to tour America and gave us the benefit of their wit Donald Read and George Shefiield head a famous dancing school that is widely known for its exclusive and successful dancing classes Read goes an for tap dancing whale Shell eld specializes an adagao Irene Martell living an Reno is doing good work for the married people of the country She has organized a Loraely Heart Club and has succeeded an sending home more th an seventy five per cent of the people who I ave come to Reno for divorces The price for Irene s services as high but her motto as Happiness is priceless There s a lot of excitement ov er here someone seems to have lost something Yes I m right for Wfillaam Sylvia has lost has ballfold Well forget about that for 1 minute Bally and come up to the make and tell us about yourself VUe ll get james Tough and Arthur Tefft great detectav es to mv estrgate and they ll soon have the robber Now Bill what have you been doing since you grad uated9 I suppose you have continued your football an terest I remember you captaaned a winning team during your Senior year I got some fine trarnang at Rhode Island State which I attended for four years and then went an for professional football I played wrth the New York Bears for a while but am not dotng anything in particular at the present time Now Bill please don t be so modest you know as well as I do that the whole country is demanding that you make a personal appearance tour and I heard rumors to the effect that you have been offered several moving 1 ac tt re contracts Have you made any definite plans' No I havent decided what I am going to do-but I do know one thing that I am going to stay an Stonington for a few weeks and watch Make Francis progress with the team Well Im certainly glad to hear that Thank you I Louise Schroers is featuring a Madame Louise per manent w ave at her beauty parlor And by the way this shop decorated an green and silver by Gladyce Taylor interior decorator has a most exclusive clientele Armando Campo is making a test flight an has new plane Campo as not only known for has flying but also for his inventive qualities With ham as Thomas Crowley A soeaated Press photographer who has made a name for himself for has photographs whrch took a great deal of daring to take Dorothy McKmneys newest play as being presented on Broadway and as said to be her crow ning success Shr- is arraong the celebrities who are with us today I'ut,ene Bessetre and Arthur Friedman are two of tlae eently appointed as Chief ustaee of the United States Supreme Court and Bessette has for two years occupied the seat of Secretary of War We re sure that they will both be very successful an any endeavor they may attempt Barbara Cook as known for her riding academy She has devised a feather bed saddle which we re sure will be apprecl ated by the horseback riders of the day lvcn at graduation we knew that ane Emerson with her pleasing personality would be a great success ant as now president of Becker College and has worked up to this po ation fr m that of mathematics teacher at S H S The m joraty of the boats that are cruising rn Sron rngton Bay are those that are made by Albertus Fam and Company Stanley Tanayew ski is the designer and their business is fast progressing Marguerite O Keefe has been the most successful fa nancially of any member of our class Marguerite as now hv ang in luxury at her mansion on Lantern Hall where she has tl home for stray cats and dogs She has had son c experience an thas lane for isnt Ganda 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