Averill Park High School - Threshold Yearbook (Averill Park, NY)

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km 7 0lDb6Q! HE OTHER day, as I sat in my car waiting for my dear friend, the Duchess of Logansberry Cperhaps you know her better as Peg Ringwall of high school daysb to return from a brief shopping spree, the strangest thing happened. A beautifully dressed and groomed lady bounded up to me on her three-inch heels and kissed me violently on both cheeks. At Hrst I was dumbfounded. I could remember knowing no such magnilicient lady. Then the light slowly dawned as she began to speak of old friends of days at Central. This was Grace Saxby. She always could write, but I never expected her to become the author of one of the most widely syndicated columns in the U.S. She was something like the Hedda Hopper who was so popular in the old days! I decided this was a very good time to learn about some of the old gang whom I had lost track of through the years. Of course, I knew the Great Welma Teeden the Katherine Hepburn of today, was our old pal Thelma Weeden and that Roy Herrick was the country's leading cowboy star. These were well known, but what of some of the others? Grace said that there was some little girl back in her car who had recognized her and was demanding an autograph. That's why she was practically running down the street. Can you guess who the little one was? One of Ethel Oliver's little blondes. She has eleven and the electrical business is booming! Then Hedda ldid I say Hedda, I mean Gracej remembered an approaching appointment and began to give me a bird's eye account of the things which had happened to the members of the class of 1948 since graduation. The most famous architectural firm of the day consists of Ralph Hofheinz, Tom Bazicki and George Gunn. We wondered if those T-squares they were always carrying around the halls would ever get them anywhere. Willis and Joan are doing well in their little hot- dog wagon on that great coast to coast thoroughfare - the Troy-Averill Park Road. The coaches of Notre Dame and USC are well known to us, too. You remember Al Goodwin and Bob Dunham. The four muska- teers - Betty, Jane, Maudie and Miriam stuck together and now they and their families are living within a mile of each other. The head chef at the Waldoriidis is Ralph Jesse. Both he and his salads are world famous. Our actors, Fred Douglass and Larry Loker vie with each other for parts 35

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frm Song Tune: The Best Things In Life Are Free We've met today to say so-long - To friends of dear Central High. We'll all be back - It won't be long, To show that We're satisfied. The dances we had - The games that we Won - They won't leave us sad - For We've'had our fun! We've met new friends and loved them All, In halls of old Central High. We'll ne're forget each helping hand, That led us through each long day. To parents and friends in all the land - Our Thanks is all we can say. We've made each dream ours - To have And to hold - But now we feel sad - As We reach the Threshold , So now we leave it all to you - For We must go on our way. 34 Thelma Weeden

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as Thelma's leading man. Bobby Wheeler, having tired of all her men friends, is busy in her lab trying to perfect a new type of invisible cloth made of air. You can't see the holes so you don't have to mend it. Betty Lewis and her husband are running a successful chicken farm. Gerald Henrikson never married because he was too bashful to ask a lady to be his bride. His bankroll has made J. P. Morgan's look like chicken feed. Craig Kingsbury is using his experience as president of our class in the roll of governor of one of our large Western states. Anna Leavenworth is President Fred Wilkins' private secretary. Joan Lampert was known as the Florence Nightingale of her day until she left the profession to be married. Theresa Rossi and Clara Leavenworth are operating a very exclusive beauty salon catering only to the elite. They do all Welma Teeden's coiffures. Our quiet little Florence Lake surprised us all by marrying the mayor of New York City. All the society columns speak of her hospitality. Ann Hall and Millie Biittig started an advertising business back in 1950 which is now one of the largest in the country. You know - things like Tweetzie's little toothache pills and Bubbledy Boo Bath Soap . George O'Keefe left his scientific career a few years after leaving school to marry a rich widow who could afford all those bowling games he likes so well. Wayne Tripp, our quiet prospective minister, achieved his ambition as always! John Clark is a government engineer somewhere in South America. Norma Link, always our treasur- er, is still at her job as City Comptroller. Neil McKendry and Art Feder are contending next week for the heavy weight championship. We hardly know where our loyalties lie. Lois Wagner and Alice Schrump opened a dress shop in Troy and they were so successful that they have affiliates all over the world. Joe Pytko, our navy veteran, joined again and now he's Admiral of the Atlantic Fleet. Arnie Schenker is running a little hock shop down in New York City. If you need any money, why you know right where to go. Of course, you remember Ed Hultberg's interest in model airplanes. Now he's running an air school which turns out thous- ands of pilots a year. Bill Beck and Ross French bought a half interest in the Ambassador Hotel back in 1948 and now they are living on easy street. Helen Taran is Dean of Women at the University of Buffalo. Doris Stock is personnel manager of the Ford Motor Company. If you need a job, look her up. The new Secretary of Labor is Joan Brod. She always did have a way with people. Edna Teal and her hubby are run- ning a successful dairy farm up on the mountain. Irene Teal is also hap- pily married to her former boss. Last but not least is Andy Chesnick, who has already made his first million in the underwear business. Just then, Peg returned and as C1race's appointment was long since past and our tea date with President Wilkins was fast approaching, we kissed each other soundly and were off in a blaze of dust and backiire. 36