Suffield High School - Sagitta / Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Suffield, CT)

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BASKETBALL Because of the curtailment on transportation, the basketball schedule for the season of 1942-43 had to be shortened. The games which were played proved to be eventful. BASEBALL The baseball team, lacking pitching reserves, played under handicap condi¬ tions all season. The games which were lost, were lost by one run margins.

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CHEERLEADERS These four cheerleaders supported the team with their spirit and enthusiasm all through the season. They lent their cheerfulness to every game and came through both victory and defeat smiling. GIRLS’ BASKETBALL Although the girls’ basketball team played no outside games, they had a season of fun in contests of skill held among themselves.

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PROPHECY It was my appointed job to write the class proph¬ ecy. Very well, but clairvoyance runs thin in my veins. Therefore, I searched for help. The best is none too good for the class of ’43, so I sped to New York and consulted Mysterious Mildred who is acknowledged to be the seeing eye of the future. After several hours of consultation, we were able to conclude the fol¬ lowing : Wilfred House will realize his life’s dearest am¬ bition when he marries an Amish girl, buys a sixty acre Ohio farm, and raises a healthy family of four¬ teen. Dottie Hamilton will get the job of manicurist in Joe Falkowski’s swank, seven chair barbershop on Day Avenue. Charle s Robert Brome, Jr., will someday drill oil wells down in New York City. There aren’t any? Well, maybe he’ll discover some. How do you know? Shirley McComb will run Suffield’s largest riding academy west of East Street and north of South Street, or somewhere. Bob Curtin will land a job as chief gag writer for Bob Hope’s successor, C. Elmer Sillybritches. The Jap exterminator, John Rising, will make his fortune by endorsing the product which keeps him in top condition, Soogies Breakfast Cereal. He’ll also write a ten volume essay How I Dood It’’. Chet Grabowski will be flying that New York- Alexandria hop and will do all right until his Egyp¬ tian goddess divorces him, then he will settle down with Maggie O’Flaherty, the cop’s daughter. Here Mildred got a little mixed up, asking me if any of the class of ' 43 were married. It looks as though Lillian Zukowski won’t stay single very long. I believe Walter Sadowski is a farmer at heart and someday he will settle down with the cutest, nice- est little—hog farm in New England. Mildred says that Betty Stafford and Muriel Whalen will operate one of Suffield’s largest homes for aged cats. (Feline or female?) Lillian Stratton will have a patriotic war job for the duration but her real love is nursing, so after the war she will land a job as a Marine nurse. Andy Organik will make a successful career of carv¬ ing epitaphs on gravestones, until his six ton master¬ piece falls the wrong way. They just left it there. Walter Drenzek will fly The Rover’’, high, fast flagship of Ralph Merrell’s new Suffield-Hindustan airline. Mildred says Ralph will take pity on a couple of his old classmates, giving Vernon Trudo the job of running the soda founta ins aboard his airliners and Helen Papafil a job serving light snaks to the passen¬ gers on one of his big ships. From all the activity there will be in Suffield, I began to wonder where the gold mine would be lo¬ cated. There will be no gold mine, but the cause of it all is even more astounding. It will be found by that eminent semi-chemodoodler, Bruce Hinckley, that two weeks spent breathing the air from the Suf¬ field area is an absolute cure for cronic disjointitis. Hawley Rising will set up a bottling works where he will have Jessie Glownia and Marguerite Kopernik jamming air into bottles as fast as they can, while Chink Carlson rushes it in his sealed pressure truck to the President in Washington. Henry Wilson will run a bottling works too. No, not air, just let it go at that. Florence Putkowski and Jennie Karpinski wil be featured at Edwin Phelon’s night club in North Granby. Francis Deane must have more drag than an air¬ plane carrying the hangar because Mildred says he will soon—ten years—find himself a Lieutenant-Colonel! Olive Hinckley is a natural born critic so it’s nat¬ ural that she should grow famous in that capacity. Her specialty will remain a secret, she’s just a critic, that’s all. Rachel Cutler will develop the newest thing in lipstick, Honey Pine Pitch’’, guaranteed not to come off. Off what? Ardelle Pease has risen to the lofty heights of editor of McCall’s magazine. Florence she’ll get it if it’s your last cent” Yasai- tis will collect bills for the Ajax Bill Collecting and Pleasant Bouncing Agency”. I believe it will be the first such occupation undertaken by the weaker (?) sex. Lawrence Tavino will develop that artistic touch of his and open an art studio. He won’t make much money because of the high wages of models and how could he paint without models? Mildred says that Veronica Kosinski will spend a long, tranquil life as an old maid librarian. I’m losing faith in my mysterious friend. Gordon Blakesley will have charge of physical education at Yale someday—or is it Vassar or it could be Alcatraz, I’m not sure. Sailors Alfred Rock and John Cain will soon be shipwrecked on a South Sea isle and lost for twenty years. Oh happy day—such hospitable people. Mildred would like to have Dorothy Kraiza as her own understudy, but says Dorothy will attempt the psychic malarky” on her own. Esther Koski will finally marry a buck private from Bradley Field. It must have been just what he needed because in a few weeks he will find himself wearing stripes.