Berlin Central School - Mountaineer Yearbook (Berlin, NY)

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Joan Jones (formerly Jewett) invested wisely in both Elaine's and Art's businesses so she didn’t loose out in the transaction between Art and Elaine. She is President of the First National Bank of Japan and is married to the Vice-President. She and her husband have two children which at the age of two could competently operate an adding machine and a slide rule, blindfolded. Wow! June Crandall was given her start in the laundry business by Joan. She has now gained control of every laundry in Japan. She also handles all of the business that Arlene Jandrow and Allen Armsby send her way. Arlene owns a chain of restaurants, two in each town and city in Japan. One specializes in Jap- anese food and the other in American food. She sends all of her laundry to June's establishments for quick service. The main problem that Arlene has is that she personally samples everything turned out by her excellent cooks. Allen Armsby is the owner of a distributing firm which distributes bicarbonate of soda to all the towns and cities in which Arlene's restaurants are located. Allen married a Japanese girl whom he met in one of the productions produced by Joan and Jerry Maxon whoemploy fifty geisha girls for their musi- cals. iNaiurally since Allen married one they now have only 49. Joan and Jerry have one little Lord Faulteroy that they claim as a dependent but at times would like to disown.

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 It is now 1960 and the setting is in a large Japanese hotel. The reunion is not to meet until about half an hour. But here comes John Goodermote who evi- dently decided to leave early from his tea plantation on a small island just south of Tokyo. Johnny is so tall that he doesn't need ladders to pick Tetley’s tiny tea leaves from the top of the trees while Carol and the nine children pick the leaves nearer the bottom. He is usually late for his dates but due to the speed of Doris Goodermote's sampan, he arrived early. Doris married Arnie and not John which is evident from the fact that she charged John 15 yen for the ride to the mainland. She has a monopoly on the sam- pan business, so he had no choice. Doris and Arnie now have twin boys and a girl, so she has pilots for her sampans. After arriving on the mainland they were dangerously transported to the reunion in a rickshaw driven by Bob Higgens himself. As Bob owns an entire rickshaw business it seems inevitable that he should have trouble with union strikes. Bob has five children, who, if necessity strikes, can operate the rickshaws. But if the union threatens to strike, he simply places an order with Rodney Huff for Hari-Kari swords. Rod owns a large corporation which exclusively deals in Hari-Kari swords, all sizes, styles but with only high prices and one use---suicide! The next to arrive is Bill Palmer who builds earthquake proof houses tor anyone who can afford to pay for them. The main problem with these houses is that in a heavy storm or strong wind they invari- ably collapse. Bill is developing a new style house which is both earthquake proof, water proof and wind proof. Here comes Audrey Burke, Ruth Ellis and Hillar and Eunice lives. Burkie is a famous international relations expert who has already helped to avert three major wars. Ruth is a teacher in a Japanese central school and is earning 500 yen a week (which in American money is about $2. 00). Ruth married the principal who makes 17, 500 yen a week (that’s $70). So she has no financial problems. As for Hillar and Eunice, Hillar is a scientific researcher in the field of human diseases and like Dr. Salk, he uses his five children for guinea pigs. Eunice is his scientific private secretary. It’s a good thing she can type. Entering now is Art Maxon who owns a silk worm business. He has just finished settling a lawsuit with Elaine and Bob Michaels because the pesky beetles from Elaine's rice paddies have been attacking Art's hybrid silk worms and killing them. The settlement made between them was that Elaine had to pay for planting ginkho trees for silkworm food and for a beetle-proof fence around Art's silkworm pastures. Elaine and Bob have two rice planters of their own. Page 22

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Scklvx Despite all the hustle of preparing for tests and working on the yearbook, the Class of '58 presented William D. Fisher's It's A Great Life , on the nights of March 20 and 22. As the play progressed through its three acts, the audience could picture the average teenager and the problems that arise in a home. One confusing inci- dent after another provided plenty of comedy through- out the play. Page 24