Berlin High School - Lamp Yearbook (Berlin, CT)

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CLASS INVENTORY Boy Girl Class Wit Delphi Carnali Eileen McMurray Best Dancer Victor Baccaro Angie Veneziano Class Actress Betty Langdon Class Actor Elwood Johnson Most Courteous Norman Munson Sophie Nalewajek Neatest Elwood Johnson Shirley Crandall Most Pleasing Personality Harold Yantz Elizabeth Sullivan Best Dressed Edward Wrobel Shirley Dowd Most School Spirit Louis Gelmini Rita Fagan Class Musician Edward Wrobel Lucy Indelak First to Marry Edward Rusczyk Ann H. Bakanas Most Natural Stanley Tzargan Clara Starzec Most Popular with Faculty Elwood Johnson Elizabeth Sullivan Heartbreaker Edward Wrobel Helen Willet Nighthawk Russell Webb Florence Lanza Most “Umph” Albert Bernardo Virginia Ellsworth Most Capable Leader Alfred Pulito Hope DeMore Most Popular Teacher Mr. MacKenzie Miss Small Most Popular Student Alfred Pulito Rita Fagan Most Pep Robert Gardner Mary Beatrice Done Most for Class Theron Carter Hope DeMore Most Respected Alfred Pulito Shirley Crandall Most All Around Student Enso Bighinatti Angie Veneziano Most H andsome Edward Rusczyk Prettiest Girl Eleanor Pulito Cutest Alex Barattiero Antoinette Baccaro Best Athlete Enso Bighinatti Rita Fagan Most Likely to Succeed Harold Yantz Shirley Crandall Most Daring Frank Cianci Elizabeth Chaponi Class Borrower Russel Webb Janet Fields Most Talkative Virginia Ellsworth Class Couple Victor Baccaro Rita Fagan Class Dreamer Donald Brown Evelyn Norton Most Independent Norman Munson Shirley Crandall Class Artists Enso Bighinatti Mario Martino Janice Bigelow Class Tomboy CLASS MOTTO Rita Fagan KNOWLEDGE IS GREATER THAN WEALTH CLASS FLOWER GARDENIA CLASS COLORS BLUE AND GOLD

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SALUTATORY Mr. Superintendent, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Board of Education, Members of the Berlin High Faculty, Parents, Friends, and Classmates: It is my pleasure to welcome you in behalf of the graduating class of 1940, and to express our sincere appreciation for the many educational opportunities which have been given us. Youth has within its heart a desire to achieve true and lasting success. Nature has so equipped the young person that he naturally looks forward with real anticipation to the opportunities which he feels that life affords and anxiously awaits the day when he can ably take his position in the world of human affairs. The great steel magnate, Charles M. Schwab, once said, “Nothing is so plentiful in America as opportunity.” The doors of opportunity seem to open of their own accord on every side to urge those who are succeeding to drive on to newer heights of achievement. Young people often fail to catch the vision of true and lasting success, and fail to realize that opportunities to achieve are right at hand, even at their very door step. The seemingly slow passing of time for the young person may be indirectly or even directly caused by a perverted notion concerning living realities in a changing world. He may be looking forward with great anxiety to a day in the future when a chance to become great will suddenly present itself, and that all he will have to do is to assume greatness. The trouble with this point of view is that it rarely happens that way. Success comes to one after he has worked with a zest and prepared himself to achieve it. It is not a case of “lo, and behold,” but it is a problem of meeting successfully the different situations in life as they present themselves. The Class of ’40 again extends its gratitude to the parents, to the Board of Educa- tion and to the Faculty, to whom we owe our success as a result of their untiring efforts. Shirlf.y Crandall

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CLUBS AND ORGANIZATIONS The extra curricular activities of the Berlin High School have contributed a great deal to the scholastic standing and moral of the students. Within the last two years new organizations and clubs have been added to the previous list. They were a success both socially and financially. We hope that all future classes will carry on in extra curricular work. The School offers in the line of clubs and organiza- tions the following: Agricultural Club, Art Club, Beacon Staff, Camera Club, College Typewriting Club, Com- merce Club, Dramatic Club, Geology Club, Home Eco- nomics Club, Honor Society, Motif Club, Music Club, Sea Scouts, Student Council, 4-H Club.