Technical High School - Techtonian Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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'Many well known graduates are returning for this reunion: among them are Henry P. Vogt, wealthy newspaper owner, who is a research chemist for recreation: his Winchellian columnist and man about Town, Faye Hilbert: his ace reporter and globe trotter, William Devonshire: the sports commentators, joseph Tuczapski and Leo Skrobacz: the Yarvard football coach, Richard D. Kentner: the Olympic swim- mer, Alexander Stefanik: Commander Robert Ertell of West oint, and Admiral Cedio Saltarelli of Annapolis. 'Mr. August Geib and Mr. Dexter P. Ftumsey, who recently took over the Fed- eral Housing Project, to put it on a paying basis, have arrived from Washington. While here, they say they will combine business with pleasure. 'Mr. Peter Newman and Miss Florence Petrino, who have just received the Motion Picture Academy award for their brilliant performance in The Conquest of Mars, have returned to Buffalo for the reunion.' That just gives an idea of the importance of this reunion ffolding paper: stops to scrutinize another gentleman who has entered the room, Commander Dellmorel. Petit falso noticingl: Don-Donald Dellmore! This is a surprise! How are you, old man? Dellmore: Hello, Edl Hello, boys. fCordially shaking hands.l Peck: We can have a reunion right here on board! Dellmore: We may be able to do that. I've been forward ever since we took off, talk- ing to Ray Zier, Kendall Hermans, and Robert Donofrio, the pilots of the Clipper. They tell me Edward Kordinak and Angelo Zaccagnino, who are also pilots, flew to Buffalo for the reunion. Chester Kajdan, the managing director of a coast-to-coast air line, was a passenger bound for the same destination. By the way, another Tech graduate is on this plane, Mrs. Throcton. She was Lucille Beardsley. Do you remember her? Petit: Of course. Where is she? Peck: Here she is now. Southall: Mrs, Throckton-Lucille! Lucille: Well, gentlemen, I thought the Tech reunion was in Buffalo! How are you enjoying the trip? The hostess tells me we are flying over Newfoundland now. Peck: The trip is fine, but we keep recalling old days and old friends, and I fear we are a little envious. Lucille: There are others who long to be there just as much. Lillian DeGraff started just as we did for a non-stop flight through the stratosphere, from New York around the world and back. She hopes to break the record of ten hours. Petit: I heard about that. It was Amelia Earhart twenty years ago, but Lillian DeGraft today. There will not be many girls there to represent our class. Do you know of any others who will be at the reunion? Lucille: August Konefal, the fashion expert. is bringing his gown creator, Evelyn Stein. She will adequately represent the girls, as will Betha Daughtry, who is a kinder- garten authority: Gladys Brown, who married an architect. and Rose Priore, a beau- tician whose name is on all sorts of her preparations. Elizabeth Ioseph has been traveling in Iapan, but she may be there. CAt this point a passenger turns on the radio. Listenll And in the World of sports, Willifm Geary has been chosen football coach of the Buffalo Technical College. He wi be honored tonight at an Alumni Dinner with All-American Michael Smereka, whose basketball coaching has made history. Another notable guest will be Edward Herrle who revised the rules of basketball in America. Mr. Donald Kochersberger. the humorist, will be toastmaster, and Ioseph Gottstein, a notable after-dinner speaker, will address his audience on: 'Ten Years of Changes in Sports' As I leave you now, ladies and gentlemen, I, too, will join the celebration. This is Gordon Lorig, your Sports Commentator. CPassenger changes the program? Peck: We miss an honorary dinner, too. Radio: This program has come to you through the courtesy of the All-American Air Lines owned by Miles Fries and Bene Ehret. CProgram is again changed.l Southall: I remember those two. They graduated with us, didn't they? 7edaZ'omhn 7937

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efadfi SETTING: The Main Salon of the Trans-Atlantic Clipper, the newest development in passenger aircraft. The Clipper is in a New York landing station and is soon to start its flight for London, England, a jaunt of six hours. TIME: Six P. M. on a Tuesday in Iune, 1957. CHARACTERS: EDWARD PETIT-U. S. advisory representative to the United European States Conference. LEE PECK-Nominee for governor of New York of the Anti-Graft Party, accompany- ing Mr. Petit. DONALD DELLMORE-Commander of the Clipper. ROBERT SOUTHALL-Noted television engineer. LUCILLE BEARDSLEY THROCKTON-A handsome and prosperous passenger on the Clipper. Other passengers. SCENE: The salon is a large and elegant room where five passengers read or talk while waiting for the takeoff. Two men, Mr. Peck and Mr. Petit, enter, talking. Petit: Lee, it certainly was our misfortune, having to sail today, on the eve of the Tech Alumni Reunion. Peck: Yes, Ed. This is our twentieth anniversary, too, so our lads will take an active part. Even before I left Buffalo, Donald Becker, of the wellknown law firm of Beck- er, Celli and Gates-you remember Serio Celli and Herbert Gates-they are all practicing in Chicago-had arrived to act as chairman of the reception committee. He brought Edward Collier, who has been playing in Chicago, with him. Petit: What is Collier playing now? Peck: Believe it or not, he has toured half the country With Romeo cmd lllliefu Gnd The Humor of Huqettef' They offset one another, you see. Petit: How did he come to play Shakespeare? Peck: Another local boy makes good vio Edwardo l:'ischle's Television Test and Tour --from ham to Hamlet sort of rise. Q Petit: I flew to New York from Palm SprinQ'S with PCIU1 Mecca and his Swish OfCl'1eS- tra, He woe going to the Reunion to volunteer the services of his band. Victor Heppner is ploying with him now, but is retiring to Hawaii, to rest henceforth. COne of the passengers behind them hos been listening and watching. He leans forward to interrupt:l Pardon me, gentlemen, but I thought I heard you mention Buffalo Tech. It was my school so l - Stops in surprise. I Why, it's Eddie and Lee Peck! How are you boys? Petit: Robert Southall! By love, it is a long time since I saw you. Peck: Greetings, fellow Techtonianl Why aren't you at the Reunion? Southall: I was in Buffalo until yesterday with my two partners, Francis Matus and Richard Gall, and I intended to stay for it, but our television interests abroad de- manded attention. I expected, then, to join Samuel Sortisio who has just taken over Standard Oil Company, for this trip, but he is completing another deal with the Achatz, Novits, and Coyle Steamship Lines, so he could not leave now. By the way, Petit, I though I read that you were going abroad with Mark Locey. Petit: Mark left on the plane before this: he is probably at the Conference now and wishing he were in Buffalo at the reunion instead. He has attended an average of fifteen conferences a year for twenty years, as a representative of some- thing or other. Southall: I was just reading an article in this paper about the celebrities who will be present at the reunion. fLooks through the paper.J Listen to this: 'Tonight beneath the roof of the erstwhile Buffalo Technical High School, now the Buffalo Technical Col- lege of Related Sciences, Dean C. Gordon Ryther, Ir., will welcome all former grad-- uates. The Program Committee includes: Dr. Chinn Ming, Director of the Depart- ment of Chemistry: Professor Edward Lipowski, of Modern Art and Design: Profes- sor Iohn I. Reilly, of Structural Design: Dr. Neil Brown, of Electricity, and Professor Iohn Stacey of Aeronautical Engineering. '7ecfzbmbn 1937

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Radio: You will now hear Merrills 'Stokowski' Rutledge and his Philharmonic Orches- tra, featuring the golden voice of William Dungan. This program is sponsored by the All Glass and Steel Home Building Corporation of which Bernard Barthelmy and Francis Bagley are the designers and owners. This is Stanley Popko speak- mg. Dellmore: Time for the parachute test. iSpeaking to all passengersj Parachute test at the front of the ship, ladies and gentlemen, please. IAII leave except Southall, Peck, Dellmore and Petit.l Lucille: Have you tried the test? Southall: Yes, we believe in getitng things over. Dellmore: Look, llooking out the windowl, we are passing over the Modemu. the new ocean liner returning from Europe. Peck: On its way over that ship carried cr cargo of Diesel engines from Stewart Watts Company, designed by Allen Owen and Raymond Terepiny Rudolph Doctor sailed on it for his annual golf at St. Andrews in Scotland. Petit: Yes, and it is bringing back three American chemists, Slepian, Puglisi and Kass, who have been doing research on cool heat. A Southall: They must be with Gallisdorfer, Courtade and Green, who own and origi- nated the Tabloid Food Dispensaries. You know,-no food, just tablets of vitamins, calories, and such. Dellmore: The mention of those names reminds me of Richard Reinnagle, the television idol, who renounced a career in the electrical world, to satisfy a million feminine hearts. Southall: William Bandla was my pal. He is a member of the Electro-Energo Com- pany of Barrett, Baynes, Bibjack and Bandla, who became known for their feat of breaking down the ion through high frequency machines. Peck: Really recalling old times, aren't we? Nor are we the only ones tonight. CThe passengers retum.l Dellmore: Sit here, Lucille. Petit: You Weren't long. Dellmore: No! We have with us the expert parachute man, Ioseph Millemaci. Now let us not be downcast. In just a while we will be in England and we can have a reunion of '37 by ourselves. Lucille: Good! Ray 'Dazzler' Hereth, the star pitcher of the Pittsburgh team, is in En- gland vacationing now. We can contact him. By the way, here is Loron Kerwin's latest book, Of Life and Its More Serious Aspects' It is a philosophical study, I understand, and quite unlike his clinical novels. Peck: I had not seen it, but I heard Frederick Grafs opera last week. How do they do it? Dellmore: I wonder that every time I see Nick Strascina's pictures. He received another prize last week. He is neo-sur-image platist. Petit: Do you remmber Patrick Kane? He manages the Mid-west Transcontinental Transport Terminal that Howard Schmidt and Iames Conwell designed. He is in England now, too. We will have him join us. Southall: Edward Kelly is in Ireland, where he is directing a sweepstake. He should be able to meet with us. Lucille: Angelo Alberalla, who has the 'Omni-Lingual' Advertising Concern, is in Paris. I read of his departure with his partner, Francis Pratt, a few days ago. Dellmore: This will be a real party! Some day we will have a reunion of all '37, I'm going to send some messages and see our pilot. Lucille: Here is the 'North and South American Reviewz' cover by Earl Obermeyer, edi- torial by Chester Flicinski, and a story by Ioseph Cox. They must be running the magazine completely. Petit: I am glad to see that magazine. It is being discussed everywhere. Dellmore: It is time for dinner. Let us go to the dining salon, where we can complete our plans before reaching London. Peck: Goodl Sea air makes one hungry. Come, Lucille, and Edward. '7 1937