Agawam High School - Sachem Yearbook (Agawam, MA)

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23 AGAWAM HIGH SCHOOL A dele: Lena: Adele: Odette: Adele: Lena: Odette: Lena: Odette: Adele: Odette: Adele: Lena: Odette: Adele: ward the end of the play Robert Bennett comes on the stage. The play certainly is good. Yes, it sounds that way. Elaine LaFleche created the coiffures for the show, (looking at watch) Lena! I’ll never get that report in. Fd better go now. (stands up ready to go. Enter Odette.) (looking at watch) Well, I guess I’m just in time, (turning) Why, hello, Adele! What are you doing here? Certainly you don’t need your face lifted! Oh, no, not at all. I’m just a reporter for the Spring- field Union. By the looks of things, you don’t need your face lifted either, Odette. I’m to take the lead in the new picture, “Sweet Six- teen.” I know Dr. Johnson will be able to take years off my face, (turning to Lena) Is Dr. Johnson ready for me now, Lena? Dr. Johnson will be ready in a few minutes. Sit down and tell us the news. Have you heard from any of our old school pals? Yes, a few. Do you remember Clayt Moore? Could I ever forget him? I suppose you’ve heard about his latest invention. He invented a contraption that he calls a “Mud Digger” to lift cars out of the mud. They’re selling like hot cakes to some of those kids at school. You know how muddy it is behind the school. He says he got h’s inspiration the day he had to go to the photographer’s and he and Bill were stuck in the mud for an h ur. Speaking of Bill Cassens, I read in the paper t' at Bill was an archeologist and had just uncovered Queen Tut’s tomb. That Cassens boy always was inclined toward the weaker sex. How about some of those North Agawam boys? What became of Henry Alvergini and Sam Provo, and all the rest of them? Well, Henry’s in the Major League now. (Starts laughing.) And Sam, did you ever hear anything so funny—Sam’s spending his time writing blank verse. He has just published his third volume. No kidding! Remember those inspirations he used to have when he would stare off into space and say, “I feel a verse coming on?”

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1934 YEAR BOOK 27 Adele: Lena: Ade c: Patient Lena: Adele: Lena: Adele: Lena: Adele: Lena: Adele: Lena: So Renie’s getting important isn’t she? Now, here’s something you didn’t know. Who do you suppose founded the New Agawam Mutual Insurance Com- pany? Ernest Stone! Rose Brusseau is the head secretary, and Shirley Hawkes is head bookkeeper. Beverly Needham, Mary Chagnon, Evelyn Cowles, and Doris Svenson are working there, too. It sounds as if half the class were there! And here’s some news about the High School. Miss Smith and Miss Ward aren’t teaching any more. They have retired and are living in a chateau on the Riviera. Elizabeth Abrams and Bernice Halladay have taken their places. Jennie White is head of the art depart- ment now, and Virginia Birchard, of the girls’ physical culture classes at Agawam. (Patient, all bandaged up, walks in with aid of crutch.) Can 1 see the doctor? The doctor is busy at present. Please wait in the next room. (Patient leaves room.) And I didn’t tell you that Lydia Pisano and Helen Ramah are gym teachers in the grade schools, and that Leonard Belcher is taking Harmon Smith’s place as coach. Did any of our class get through college? Oh yes, I forget to tell you. Winifred Carroll was graduated from New Rochelle, and Jane Hamblen has finished an art course at Paris. Raymond Mon- tagna—can you imagine it?—Ray’s head of the new cooking course at Yale. Well, what do you know? % I rode to Springfield this morning in one of Henry Kessler’s new busses. What a change from the Toonerville trollies we used to have. Yes, I know. Night before last I rode down in one to see the latest musical comedy at Court Square, “Spying Down to Reno.” Oh, that’s the one Fern Miller (Mrs. Ray Hubert) wrote, and Bob Smith directed isn’t it? Yes, you ought to see it. Joe Assad is leading man, and guess who is in the chorus? Eunice Bitgood and Lillian Ardizoni. They both got their training at the Hastings’ Dancing School. Helen Cascella and Frances Lucardi sing some of the cutest songs. To-

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1934 YEAR BOOK 29 Lena: A dele: Lena: A dele: Odette: AdeZe: Lena: Odette: A dele: Lena: A dele: Odette: Lena: Odette: (picking up book from table) Speaking of publica- tions, take a look at this, (reads.) “Old Father North Wind” by Evelyn Lewis, published by Lango Publishing Company, photographs by Webster’s Stu- dios. Remember Barbara Tulloch and all those romances she was always having? Well, now she’s carrying on a column in our paper called, “Advice to the Poor in Spirit.” Look, here’s one of her columns, (reads.) Dear Miss Tulloch: I am a lonely hermit living all by myself on this little South Sea Island. I have never married because I couldn’t find a girl to appreciate me, but now that I’m getting old, 1 think I would be willing to take a chance, even if she didn’t appreciate me so very much. Can you help me? A hermit in distress, Daniel Di Donato Well, of all things! So Danny’s a hermit. He always did have an inferiority complex. That’s not all. (pointing to column) See this column, “From Infant to Tot.” Do you know who writes it? No, who? Walter Stepanik, with the help of Marion Rising. It really is very instructive. Let me see that paper a minute—wait—there I knew it was here. Listen to this. “Richard J. Shields, medical missionary, reports having converted 21 can- nibals and cured 259.” Cured them of what—cannibalism or sickness? Your guess is as good as mine. Ilis secretary, Michael Christopher, says that Dick has escaped being made into a meal four times already. Well, his luck won’t last always. You haven’t said anything about Eddie yet, Odette. What is he doing now? Oh, Eddie’s prompting old-fashioned dances at the new dance hall at North Agawam. In the daytime he works at the Daubitz Garage. (Bell rings.) Dr. Johnson is ready for you now, Odette. Thank you. (exit.) (Telephone rings.)