Agawam High School - Sachem Yearbook (Agawam, MA)

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The Sophomore Class

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Kay: Ghost' etta Kreczko. Roland Perusse, Fannie Rossini, Norma»Janc Winter, and Mitchell Zielinski. Wasn’t the Agawam Mirror exceptionally good that year? Yes. It won second prize in a National Contest in which schools of its size from all over the nation entered. Roland Perusse was Editor-in- Chief. Miss Phealan was adviser. Ghost: Alice: Did you have an operetta that year? Oh, yes! Miss Perry presented The Singer of Naples. It was a grand success. Kay: Many of the seniors were in the cast, but among the outstanding were Martha Grimaldi and Norma Colli. Ghost: Would you like to hear Norma Colli sing one of the songs from the operetta ? Kay anci Alice: Oh, we’d love to! (Norma sings) Alice: We certainly made a big hit with our Senior Play, Spring Fever, which Miss Phealan directed. Everyone remarked how well each one in the cast played his part. Kay: Ghost: Could you brinj? back a memory of that play to us? I shall show you cne of the most humorous scenes from the entire play, with Dorothy Biady taking the part of Aunt Maude, and Roy Anderson as Professor Bean. Alice: Ghost- (Scene is shown) Were many of our boys good athletes during our Senior Year? Among the boy athletes were Edmund Kalinowski, Eugene Smith, Lino Gatti, Felix Pisano, and Thomas Petruzzello. Kay: After that we had our chance to be the guests of the Juniors at the Junior Promenade. The auditorium was beautifully decorated in our class colors, blue and silver. Alice: Ghost: Then came our last days at Agawam High. Yes. You reached the end of vour high school career in the week of June 12, during which you attended your class banquet, class night exercises, graduation exercises, then your class picnic. Kay: Alice, don't you think there is something very peculiar going on around here? Alice: Yes. And I’ve thought so for some time, but I didn’t say anything. I just wanted to see how far he’d go. Kay: Let’s unmask him! (Girls struggle with sheets and finally remove them only to find Joe Alice: Guy.) (Going to the door) Well, for heaven’s sake! Look who’s here! (She brings in Norma, Ruth, and other classmates.) Kay: And will you kindly tell us the meaning of all this! First “Ghost:” We hope you’re not angry— Second “Ghost:” But we just wanted to see how much you really remembered about Alice: Agawam. Of course we’re not angry, but that was certainly a joke on us. Third “Ghost:” Well, we’re not half so smart as we thought we were. You told us some things we had completely forgotten about. Fourth “Ghost:” We’ve talked it all over now, and I think it was well worth our time. ALL: Don’t you? (Together) I'll say it was! (Curtain) Alice Kennedy — Kathleen Norris Class Prophecy Time: 2039 Place: Heaven Characters: St. Peter Jean Goss Scene: Clifford Keeney Norm a-Jane Winter The living room of the “Heavenly Rooming House.” Enter St. Peter and boy and girl.

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St. Peter: Norma-Jane: Clifford: St. Peter: Norma-Jane: St. Peter: Clifford: St. Peter: Norma-Jane: St. Peter: Norma-Jane: Clifford: St. Petor: Norma-Jane: Jean: Clifford: Jean: Norma-Jane: St. Peter: Norma-Jane: Jean: Clifford: Norma-Jane: Jean: Clifford: Jean: St. Peter: Jean: Norma-Jane: Jean: Norma-Jane: St. Peter: Clifford: Well, here is where you are going to live. How do you like it? Simplv divine! Some place. Everyone who comes here lives in the “Heavenly Rooming House” until he gets to know the place well and makes a name for himself. How long does that take? Well, that depends upon how well liked you were on earth. If you were good and never did anything you shouldn’t like skipping school or disobeying your teacher, it doesn’t take long at all. Oh. gb on. You can’t tell me that everyone up here can tell what’s going on down on earth or what we did while we were on earth. Pcriiaps you may not believe it, but it is possible. Just wait until you have been here long enough to get your “stratosphere legs”—then you will believe what I say. Who takes care of this place? Isn’t there any landlady? Oh, yes. The landlady must be around here somewhere. I’ll call her. Oh, Mrs. Spangler, come out here! You have guests! Why, that’s the name of the landlady in the Senior Play, “Spring Fever.” How did she get here? Jean Goss played that part in the play, remember? Of course. I wonder if this landlady could be Jean Goss. (As Mrs. Spangler enters) Well, here she is. Jean! What are you doing here? I might ask the same question of you. You’re here for the same rea- son. How are you two? Oh, we’re fine. Are you the head of this establishment? Yes, and a very fine establishment it is, too. There isn’t a better one in the w'hole State of Heaven. Of course not. we never thought there was. Perhaps these newcomers would like to hear about some of their classmates up here. Let’s tell them. Oh. yes. Tell us about them. What is Margaret Ardizoni doing? Now what would you expect Margaret to be doing? Running a beauty shop, of course. She has invented a new kind of halo-do for the angels. Rose Grimaldi is manicurist and is now' trying out a gold nail polish that Dot Brady and Lovisa Davis invented. Dot and Lovisa are work- ing for an enterprising young chemist, Roy Anderson, and his assist- ant, Henrietta Kreczko. They are trying now to find a paint that will keep their halos from tarnishing and the feathers on their wings from falling out. I remember Mr. Hadley advocated Listerine for falling “hare” the time he took the rabbit up in his airplane. Perhaps that would help. How about Ruth Babcock? I suppose she is connected with some kind of sport. She always was in all sports at school. Yes, Ruth is quarterback on the Angelic Angels football team, coached by Veronica Blanchard. Even the girls play football up here. What are Anna Beal and Tina Grasso doing? I suppose they are still together as much as usual? Oh, yes, they have a book shop. Their slogan is “Spend your leisure time reading heavenly books.” Gloria Brown, author of the season’s best seller. “Come with the Breeze,” and her publisher. Roland Perusse were guest lecturers there recently. Martha Grimaladi is head of the reference book department. Tel! them about Esther Burnett, Evelyn Gardner, Janet Waterbury, and Margaret Deloghia. Esther and Evelyn are nurses in the Valhalla hospital taking care of broken wings. Janet is laboratory technician there, and Margaret is head of the psychopathic ward. I suppose Eunice Burke, Wilma Hromada. and Helen Keeley are still together ? Yes. They always were so quiet in school that when they got up here St. Peter put them in the halo foundry to try to make them a little noisier. Good heavens! What next! What are you going to give us to do, St. Peter? It seems to me Clifford’s track training has fitted him to be official Western Union messenger—a second Mercury, so to speak. How does it suit you? That sounds great. When do I start?