Agawam High School - Sachem Yearbook (Agawam, MA)

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SACHEM . . 1940 Eleanor J: Eleanor P: Jean: Eleanor J: Jean: Eleanor P: Jean: Eleanor J: Jean: Eleanor P: Eleanor J: Jean: Eleanor J: Eleanor P: Jean: Eleanor P: Eleanor J: Jean: Eleanor P: Eleanor J: Eleanor P: Jean: Eleanor J: jean: Betty Roleau, Janet Wheeler will play the leading role. The stage man- ager will be Virginia Scagni. By the way, what is Margaret Roeheleau doing these days? Oh, Margaret runs the Kiddie Shop, where Lilian Levesque is business manager. Margaret McDonald and Victoria Ardizoni are her clerks. I hear “Vicky” is expert in the toy department. Speaking of business, (addressing E. Jensen) how is your beauty parlor coming along? I hear you have Dorcas Turner and Ruthe Light working for you. Yes, and Kathryn Wilcox is my new manicurist. Yesterday I saw some girls with bright blue jackets, and on their backs it said, “Jensen’s Beauty Salon”. Have you seen them, Eleanor? (Look- ing at Eleanor P.) Why, that’s the basketball team I coach. Eleanor sponsored them to ad- vertise for her. Betty Brady is our manager, and on the team are center, Jeanette Smith; guards, Irene Nacewicz and Beatrice Allard; and for- wards, Jane Bennett and Mildred Tortoriello. Isn’t the new department store that Edward Godfrey constructed wonder- ful? Jeannette Kent and Anne Mathison modeled for me when I went there to get my gown for Frank Johnson’s Dancing School Formal. Where is the dance to be held? Isabella Tulloch, one of his instructors, asked me last week if I were going. Mary Guy, his pianist, told me that it would be at the Reed Street Hotel. That will make it almost like a class reunion, there are so many of the Class of ’40 working there. Ruth Cesan is the hostess; Paul Tatro, bell- hop; Frank Santinello, chef; James Morrison, in charge of floral decora- tions; and Earle Williams is the house detective. Yes, Earle always was hanging around doing nothing. The Reed Street Hotel certainly receives plenty of business these days with all the people who come to the Riverside Park. Why, I remember back in 1040 when Riverside first opened, many of our class tried to get jobs. Some of them are still there. Bernice Secord is cashier at the Rollaway, and Alfred Penna is in charge of parking cars at the Riverside Drive-In- Theatre. Speaking of park employees, last Sunday I went to the Aerial Show where Herbert Freeman does his bicycle act. I had just bought a nice big box of delicious pop-corn from Pauline Ceccarini who sells refreshments, when Herbie started across the high wire on his bicycle. I got so excited I turned that box bottom side up right on Art Wyatt, the singing Western Union boy. Did you see Mary De Palma? Her baby beef was the Grand Champion at the Riverside Exhibit this year. Yes, she has her own Baby Beef Club now. She has! Well, did you know that Virginia Carr is the National Presi- dent of the American lx?gion Auxiliary. I didn’t know that, but she always took an active part in the “Junior Auxiliary” in her high school days. How time flies! It’s half past four already. I have to go home and get supper so I won’t miss Judge Hardy’s latest picture at the Art. I will probably see Marie Wilson, who is an usher. I guess she gained experience walking the High School corridors. (Picking up her end of the work and depositing it on Eleanor J.’s lap.) I hate to leave you girls now, but I must go. Call me up tomorrow, Eleanor (turning to Eleanor J.) Good-bye! My, doesn’t she talk a lot? I hardly had a chance to get a word in edge- ways. We’ve got to hurry if we don’t want to miss the Secretarial Exhibit at the auditorium tonight. (Gathering up the quilt.) Fanny Tonelli, the world-famous typist, and Pearl Zaoini, champion ste- pcige twenty-seven

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SACHEM . 1940 Eleanor P: (Three chairs are in a circle, and scraps of cloth and thread litter the floor. Eleanor and Jean are intent upon their quilting when Eleanor P. dashes madly in.) (Shedding her coat and dropping into a chair.) Am I late? I tried my best to get here earlier, but right in front of Filene’s I met Edna Gazar, who is head buyer in the Sportswear Department there. Then I jumped into my car and hurried here, but at the new Agawam bridge I was stopped for speeding. (Pause) My, but he was handsome! Jean: Eleanor P: Why Eleanor, that must have been Neal Raison. He’s Chief of Police now. Neal Raison! That reminds me. I saw an article in the paper the other day that Renzo Balboni has replaced Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons, and Alice Sopet is his secretary. Eleanor J: (Glancing out of the window.) There goes Norma Swanson in her 1955 Packard. She’s national head of the Girl Reserves. Edmond Hermansky is her chauffeur. Jean: Oh! I heard she is going to speak before the Tri-Hi Club at the Agawam Junior College for Girls this afternoon. Alice Patterson is the president. Eleanor J: Jean: Isn’t that where Lewis Martin, Carl Gustafson, and Elmer Goodhue are? Yes, Lewis teaches English; Elmer, U. S. History; and Carl is the Biology professor. (Their quilting is resumed and all is quiet for a moment.) Eleanor P: Did you know that Roger Dalgleish and John Sasson are still at Clark University? I’ll bet between the two of them they keep the professors in a whirl. Jack is still a candid camera fan, and Roger has cooperated with Francis Fenn in the discovery of a new cure for sick horses. Frannie uses this in his veterinary work. Jean: No, I didn’t know that, but yesterday when I was walking down the street a car came up behind me and scared the daylights out of me. It was Raymond Kent. He had so many contraptions on his car that I could Eleanor J: Eleanor P: hardly see him. He owns an auto accessory shop, and I guess he believes in advertising. Dominic Zerbato is his assistant. Is that today’s paper, Eleanor? Yes, Aileen Levesque runs a news stand now. I bought this from her on the way. Eleanor J: (Opening paper.) Let’s see what Geraldine Blanchard has written about Eleanor P: today. She has her own column now in the Agawam Herald, “Forgotten Facts About Agawam.” Florence Dalgleish assists her in collecting the news which is illustrated by Daniel Pugh. (Looking over Eleanor J.’s shoulder.) There’s a picture of the staff of the Agawam Memorial Hospital. (Turning to Jean.) How do you enjoy your work there as Superintendent of Nurses? Jean: It’s wonderful. June Smith has been promoted to head dietitian and on her staff are Luella Fiske, Helen Subotin, and Millicent LaVoie. Milly is trying to have rubber-tired roller skates adopted for nurses who are on duty on long floors. Eleanor J: (Turning the page of paper.) Here’s a picture of Norma Blackburn who is the U. S. Senator from Massachusetts. Let’s see what it says about her. (Reads.) “Miss Norma Blackburn, the Senator from Massachusetts, will speak over station A-G-A tonight at 7 p. m. Her subject is ‘Youth and the Constitution’.” Jean: We must be sure to listen. The announcer on A-G-A is a classmate of Eleanor P: ours, Earl Neill. But we had better put that paper away, and attend to business here if we intend to finish today. (Eleanor J. drops paper to resume quilting.) Have you heard the latest? Jean and Eleanor .1: (Together) No, what? Eleanor P: Last night Margaret Rocheleau and I went to the Hofbrauhaus, and there we saw Elroy Benjamin and Marie St. John. Elroy is the singing waiter, and Marie is their featured entertainer. Anna Wylie, the famous poetess, was there with Edward Shea who has just published his latest play, “Grownup Pains”. When it opens on Broadway under the direction of page twenty-six

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SACHEM . 1940 nographer, will demonstrate their skill, and Rita Paro will give a talk on “The Honor System”. She became interested in this work through the influence of Mr. Quirk. Eleanor J: (Looking out of window while folding the quilt. Jean is sweeping scraps into a pile.) There’s Eleanor Burke. She wants to go with us tonight to hear Rita. Eleanor teacher elocution and Rita was one of her A students. Jean: Eleanor, why don’t you come over to my house for supper? Then we can get an earlier start. Eleanor J: O. K. that will be swell. I have never tasted one of your suppers but there is always a first time. Jean Blood Eleanor Jensen Class Will We, the Class of 1940, about to embark on our initial voyage into the vast and promising sea of fortune, do hereby submit our last will and testament, and leave to our friends and advisers some of our high scholastic ability, energy, and ambition. To the Town of Agawam: We express our gratitude for the scholastic opportun- ities we have enjoyed at Agawam High School. To Mr. Phelps: A farm hand to gather in his bumper crop of beans. To Mr. Dacey: Another group of quiet Seniors like the Class of 1940. To our class advisers. Miss Ward and Miss Smith: Our thanks for helping us make our Senior year a success. To the Faculty: Another class of intelligent, cooperative, and energetic Seniors. To Jasper: An automatic coal shoveler. To the Juniors: A chance to produce a senior play as good as “Growing Pains.” To the Sophomores: A long-awaited chance to be an upper classman. To the Freshmen: A “crack” at social life. (The Sophomore Party.) Louise Allen: Another faithful friend to take the place of Luella Fiske. Stanley Anderson: This advice—Fewer words and more action. Frances Arnold: A little of Virginia Scagni’s self-confidence. Joanne Baker: A ruler to keep track of her increasing height. Geraldine Balboni: An opportunity to earn a scholarship for her hard work. Raymond Barbieri: A car so he can ride instead of walk to West Springfield every night. Thelma Beal and Mary Grasso: Agawam boy friends so they won’t have to go to Springfield. Marion Blackak and Germaine LePage: Another year to lead the football team on to victory with their cheering. Marianne Brady: Another year to be an outstanding athlete. Virginia Brinker: A typewriter to help her pass a course in typing. Cecile Brusseau: A barrel of sugar to keep her as sweet as she is. Philip Brusseau: Another year to catch up to Rubinoff. Charles Calabrese: An automobile of his own so he can peddle his papers in comfort. John Caldon: A soda fountain in Agawam so he won’t have to go to West Spring- field when he wants refreshments. Charles Carr: A little of Daniel Pugh’s nerve. David Cesan: The faithful companionship of Eleanor Pruczinski. Barbara Chapin: The right to annihilate Chuck’s younger brother. William Chyba: A book on good manners. Evelyn Comeau: Mary Guy’s place as pianist for assemblies. Phyllis Connors: Another year as typist on the Mirror staff. Dorothy Conroy: A little strength to protect herself against the Seniors in her neighborhood. Patricia Coughlin: A boy friend with a car so she won’t have to drive him around. page ttt enty-eight