Agnes Irwin School - Last Strand Yearbook (Rosemont, PA)

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PIllll'HHIY---- - TiTTeen long years ago in hisTory class. The enTerTainmenT secTion was Tilled wiTh news aT my old classmaTes. EdiTh Branin is TasT gaining Tame as Danny Kaye's TuTor. She makes him smoke Mary Ann Snyder's Tamous ''Sinless-STainless-Smokeless-Sigan eTTes, which enable him To Talk wiThouT breaThing. IT is amazing how Danny's popu- lariTy has increased since EdiTh Took conTrol, Susie Jackson has become ukuleleisT wiTh Phil SpiTalny's All Girl OrchesTra and Julie McMillan is breaking all records aT The MeT. Julie has discovered a new noTe and has musicians all over The counTry acclaiming her high z. Joanie BuTler combined her Two main ambiTions and is sing- ing blues in The Diamond horseshoe! The review aT Sue WilliTs revival oT Annie GeT Your Gun was ecsTaTic over Sue's comic acTing abiliTy. This was no surprise To me Tor Sue always kepT us in sTiTches around school. Mary Jo Churchill has replaced Joan Davis on The radio and The paper reporTed ThaT her Hooper RaTing was Tops. Looking up momenTarily Tram The paper, l saw Joan McAdoo rushing by. l called To her and she sTopped long enough To Tell me ThaT she was on her way To lrwins To pick up her Two daughTers, one oT whom was PresidenT aT The Middle School while The oTher was PresidenT oT The Upper School. lT would seem ThaT Mac's daughTers have inheriTed all Their moTher's good TraiTs. ReTurning To The paper, I Tound ThaT The sporTs secTion also spoke aT ex-Irwin girls. Ginny Buckley had won several prizes riding her GreaT Danes in The Devon Horseshow. A long column was devoTed To Janie STone, who had inTroduced The TirsT women's hockey game on ice. I noTiced also, ThaT Eleanor RoberTs was Taking pic- Tures oT phoTo Tinishes aT Pimlico Race Track. She seems To have made Two hobbies inTo one proTession very successTully. Suddenly l heard a police siren and, being an inquisiTive person, l sTarTed look- ing around Tor The cause. Finally, l realized ThaT The commoTion was caused by a cop who was chasing a reckless helicopTer driver righT over my head. As The helicopTers landed, l recognized PaTTy Vollmer, The offender, and Annabel Angus, The Temale cop. I TelT ThaT Annabel probably had cause Tor her acTions, Tor PoTTy used To be The Terror aT The Main Line wiTh her driving, ATTer geTTing The TickeT, PaTTy saTis- Tied my curiasiTy by Telling me abouT The remaining Three members oT our class. ElizabeTh PeTerson has iusT Taken over The posiTion aT head housemoTher aT WesT PainT. We agreed ThaT F'eTe had been desTined To end up aT The PoinT Trom way back. l was noT surprised when PoTTy Told me ThaT Tina Janeway had succeeded Mr. Beling aT PrinceTon, Tor Tina was anxious To learn Hebrew and Greek as soon as she leTT school. Carol Marie Ryan, when PaTTy lasT heard Tram her, was seTTing OTT on a Trip around The world on her new ieT propelled moTorcycle. PaTTy was noT quiTe sure iusT how Carol inTended To cross The oceans, buT we decided ThaT The oTher members aT our Class aT I947 had been capable aT doing amazing Things and ThaT Carol was probably no excepTion. As PaTTy Tlew oTT in her helicopTer, endangering more lives, l seTTled back in my chair and iusT wondered how many aT our long-suTFering Teachers would have ThoughT ThaT our Class aT '47 would become so Tamous. M.G.D. 29

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While wandering down ChesTnuT STreeT The oTher day, ducking frequenTIy To avoid The woman heIicopTer drivers, I began To wonder whaT had happened To all The A.I.S. seniors of I947 while I had been invesTigaTing The problems of The world. Much as I haTed To admiT iT aT leasT fifTeen years since Those wonderful days aT Irwins had passed and I knew ThaT Things musT have changed greafly. The TirsT Thing ThaT I noTiced on reTurning To Philadelphia was The moderniza- Tion of The enTire ciTy, and, my curiosiTy aroused, I decided To explore one of The Town's biggesT deparTmenT sTores. Passing one of The large show windows, I noTiced Nancy WeTherbee decoraTing a new display. Upon making furTher inquiries, I found Tho+ she had become one of PhiIadelphia's leading designers. Wondering if The resT of The class had done as well, I enTered The sTore. I was compIeTeIy overcome by The modern design and wandered around for several minuTes, sTaring aT all The gadgefs like a child making his firsT visiT To a Toy sTore. Coming somewhaT ouT of my daze, I recognized Sally Cox surrounded by her brood of Ten children, who were all Talking aT once. I rushed To speak To her and found ThaT she was buying some Edu- caTionaI Socks which, she Told me, were kniTTed by Priscilla Ball. Pris had goT The idea of kniTTing physics formulae inTo her Argyle socks and, apparenTIy, she was making a forTune from Them. Sally Told me ThaT Phebe DrayTon had a iob in a Travel bureau and was sending everyone To Saranac. We always knew Phebe would do someThing To puT Saranac on The map. The oTher half of our Twins-Bessie-had doubled The family record, and was now happily raising a family of quadrupIeTsl Leaving Sally I made my way To The cosmeTic deparTmenT where I found ThaT Helen Jusfi had iusT opened a new salon which specialized in UITra-JusTi make-up. Louise Givens came in To congraTuIaTe Helen, and was receiving congraTulaTions her- self, for having developed eIecTricaIly heafed school uniforms which are giving The Irwin girls more comforT Than she ever enjoyed on cold days. Louise Told me ThaT Ello Keady was making life easier for The modern Irwin girls, Too. Apparenfly, Ello has invenTed an eIecTric demeriT sysfem, which is saving The Secrefary of The ExecuTive CommiTTee unfold hours of figuring and correcTing. I saw Kay STewarT walking by Helen's salon modeling a new hair sTyIe called an ear-do. IT looked perfecf wiTh Kay's pixie ears and lovely hair. Passing The noTions counTer on The way ouT of The sTore, I noTiced an adverTisemenT which read Buy a Warder Calendar: The Calen- dar ThaT Adorns Walls ThroughouT The CounTry. ApparenTly, AniTa had noT losT her Touch, for The calendars were going like hoTcakes. By The Time I had IeT+ The sTore, I was Thoroughly impressed wiTh The success of The girls in our class who had sTayed around Philadelphia, buT I wondered whaT had happened To Those who had lefT The home Town. I felT ThaT The besT way To cafch up on all The news was To buy several papers and read Them from cover To cover, I seTTled in one of The comforTabIe easy chairs in The new park and sTarTed To read. On The fronT page I read of The poliTicaI campaigns of Barbara GunTer and Marian Decherf who were running for The posT of CiTy Canine CoIIecTor. I gaThered from The conTenTs ThaT These Two girls were confinuing The long argumenTs which began P, 28 IIIASS

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