Agawam High School - Sachem Yearbook (Agawam, MA)

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St. Peter: Clifford: St. Peier: Clifford: Jean: Norma Jane: St. Peter: Jean: Norma-Jane: Jean: Clifford: Jean: St. Peter: Norma-Jane: Jean: Clifford St. Peter: Norma-Jane: Jean: St. Peter: Clifford. Jean: Norma-Jane: St. Peter: Clifford: Jean: Norma-Jane: St. Peter: Clifford: St. Peter: Norma-Jane: St. Petor: Clifford: Now don’t be over anxious. You have plenty of time ahead of you- What about Nonna? Oh, 1 have a place all ready for her. As my secretary is retiring to the Home for Aged Angels, I need someone efficient like Norma to help me keep my Files of the Firmament. Her practice in arranging pictures for the Agawam Yearbook will be useful in keeping my picture gallery for my Who’s Who Among Celestial Society. Now that we know' the worst, what about Helen Carroll, Eva Cirillo, and Barbara Turner? They teach school in the Little Angels’ School. They show the new- comers how to use their wings. I haven’t got any wings yet! What am I going to do? Oh, you’ll get them soon enough—just wait. By the way, Dorothy Button and Eva Roberts are sojourning on the Heavenly Beach. Richard Johnson runs the beach and does a fine job of it, too. What are Norma Colli and Ruth Halladay and Alice Kennedy doing now? They were the “Three Musketeers’’ of the class. Norma Colli is singing at the Celestial Cafe. Ruth is cashier there and Alice Kennedy waits on tables. She skates from one table to another on those skates she won at the Rialto in 1939. Don’t tell me she died with her skates on! Marjorie Connor and Rose Morris arc trying to compete with Roberta Loomis and Ruth Littlefield as fortune tellers, pointing out what you should have done on earth that you didn’t do. Frances Gandini and Lillian Maillard are running a restaurant selling these new diamond shaped hot dogs on a stick. I hear they do quite a business. How about Rita Magnuson and Miriam Kerr? Oh, they’re typists for St. Peter. People are coming in so fast they have to keep busy most of the time. Frank Lango is a typist there too. What about Irene Mulak? I’ll bet she is writing poetry for the “Bugle,” the Heavenly newspaper. No, she is running a gown designing shop for the angels. She keeps Martha Tarnuzzer working night and day to get the gowns made. They ran out of feathers the other day and had to buy some from the Golden Egg Poultry Farm. Wilbert Humphlett owns it, and Antoinette Christopher is secretary. The farm is a branch of a ranch that Wil- liam Harrison and Roger Adams have started. Sabby DePalma is head of the prize baby beef department. Is that the only dress shop up here? No, Ruth Petersen and Kathleen Norris are trying to compete with Irene by running a dress shop that sells ready made clothes imported from Mars. Muriel Mathison models them. The latest thing around here is the fact that the xylophone is fast re- placing Gabriel’s trumpet. Elmyra Powers has been teaching him to play the xylophone. Gosh, modernizing already! Lillian Rossi is teaching acrobatic dancing to the athletically inclined angels. She does! I knew she would be in some athletic group. Evelyn Newcomb cans all the food for the people up here. We’re never afraid we’ll starve anyway. What are Zoafia Subotin and Elsie Mencarelli doing? They are bookkeepers for a big insurance company that will insure you against sickness from high altitudes, wing trouble, and accidentally falling off a cloud. What a company! Something like Lloyds of London. Fannie Rossini is the editor of the “Bugle,” and Eleanor Tardo writes the “Advice to the Lovelorn” column. Almost everything we have heard so far has been about the girls. How about the boys? Marshall Barden is postmaster. He reads all the post cards and can tell you whom your letter is from before you open it. What is Romeo Borgntti doing now? He is an up and coming young florist. His specialties are star flowers and moon glow. I suppose Richard Eagan is running a shop for the well dressed male.

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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?

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St. Peter: Norma-Jane: St. Peter: Norma-Jane: Jean: Clifford: St. Peter: Norma-Jane: St. Peter: Clifford: Norma-Jane: Jean: Clifford: St. Peter: Norma-Jane: Jean- Norma-Jane: Cl i ford: St. Peter: Jean: St. Peter: Norma-Jane: Jcar.: Norma-Jane: St. Peter: No, instead he is owner of the Celestial Cab Company. Neil Wilson, George Kachon. and Arthur Kerr are his drivers. Speaking of driving, what is David Brockett doing? He is the most famous of all the Hell Drivers” that used to come to the Eastern States Exposition. Is that how he got here? Naturally. The way he drove! No wonder! What about Milton Clark and Tommy Petruzzello? They are pitcher and catcher respectively on the Heavenly baseball team. Do you have a boys' football team, too? There were some good foot- ball players in that class. Oh, yes. We have a good one. Edward Duclos is manager and Ed- mund Kalinowski is captain. The players are Lino Gatti, Jimmy Massa, Edward Nacewicz, Felix Pisano, and Eugene Smith. Say! That’s some team! I should say so. What are Georgianna Styner and Priscilla Talmadge doing? Oh, they’re actresses at the Celestial Opera house. Priscilla is a comedienne and Georgianna is specializing in dramatic love scenes. Dorothy Steele is their manager, and Clarence Parker their publicity man. Joe Guy is there, too. He’s doing his Hercules act for the angels. I’ll bet Henry Pickett is a bell boy in a hotel, he is so small. I should say not! He is a wrestler. ‘‘Bone Crusher” Pickett is his professional name. Good heavens! It doesn’t seem possible! Mitchell Zielinski is Commander-in-Chief of the Heavenly Hosts, our defense fleet. Let’s see, isn’t that about all of the class? Oh no! We haven’t heard about Robert Godfrey and Jeannette Smith. Well, Robert is chief electrician in charge of illuminating halos. Jeannette, as you might have guessed, is trying to invent a cure for her laryngitis. Well, I guess that is all. Now would you people like to go out and look the town over? Oh, we’d love it! Well let’s go— (They go to the door.) Heavens! What is that up on top of the pole across the street? Oh that! That is Raymond Phelps. He’s chief flag pole sitter here. Norma-Jane Winter — Clifford Keeney Class Will We, ihe class of 1930, positively in our right minds and supposedly of our own free will as we are about to leave this pleasant life to pass into the realms of the future world, do hereby proclaim our last will and testament bequeathing as follows the scholastic possessions we value so dearly: To the town of Agawam: Our sincere appreciation for educational privileges ex- tended to us during our school careers. To Mr. Phelps: A shady mountain brook crowded with hungry trout. To Mr. Dacey: Many more senior classes with the intelligence, loyalty, sports- manship. virtue, dependability, courtesy, trustworthiness, scholastic ability, persever- ance, and wholehearted cooperation possessed by his first graduating class. To the advisers. Miss Dickerman, Miss Henderson, and Mr. Langlois. Our true thanks and appreciation for their conscientious efforts to make our senior year a success To the faculty: A new bag of tricks to spring on the next senior class. To Jasper: A medal of valor for protecting the students from traffic after school. To the Juniors: One more brief year of happy high school days. To the Sophomores: A chance to put on a Prom for us to return to. To the Freshmen: A summer’s vacation in which to grow so their presence will no longer be known only by their noise. Victoria Ardizoni: Another football hero to replace a certain half-back whose