Burke High School - Silver Lamp Yearbook (Dorchester, MA)

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Virginia Mattson is just arriving. As usual, she is dressed to perfection and wearing her ever present smile. It seems to be contagious, for over in the corner Theresa McDonough, Chief of the Police Department, is indulging in a fit of giggling much to the amusement of Ruthie Boyle, the famous psychologist, and Dorothy Begin, Secretary of the Interior. One of the most welcome guests is Marie luliano, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Who wouldn't be welcome if they had a position such as hers? She is being in- troduced to the groom by Jackie Camphell, who is going to conduct the orchestra. Marilyn Rubin, the Superintendent of Nurses' School at Mr. Sinai Hospital, is up to her old tricks quizzing the groom on chemistry. We spy Ertelle Shaman in the center of an admiring group of her former classmates' Estelle just drove in from Detroit, where she is hostess of a tea room operated by Beatrice 0'Rourhe. Estelle has just finished telling her friends that Pearl Ahelman is Doctor Kwiz, mterrogator of a quiz program on W. Q. T. The experts of the broadcast are Mavis Seagle, sanitary engineer, and Claire Carnell, astronomer. The girls are feeling sad right now be- cause their broadcast was interrupted when the announcer, Dehorah Bolde, reported that, as a result of a national poll, Anita Kopanr had been elected President of the Amalgamated Packers and Canners Association of Gravediggers. Oh, femmes, sighed Charlotte Goldberg, who is now a famed lecturer on physio- therapy, I had a wonderful time last night. I went to a concert at Symphony Hall given jointly by Pearl Small and Kathleen Fitzgerald. The orchestra was conducted by Charlotte Leavitt, and the famed pianist, Pauline Carr, played a solo. Really? asked Mary 0'Reilly, the dietitian. I went to a lovely concert last week given by Mary Joseph. Amidst a shower of rice and old shoes, arsenic and old lace, the gruesome twosome, final- ly married, depart for Pellagra Falls in their helicopter, which was designed by Adele Mac- Lellan. As the guests go in search of their wraps to prepare for their departure, the mem- bers of the Class of 1944 gather in the ballroom for a final tribute to their school day mem- ories. It certainly has been a joyful day, seeing all our old classmates assembled in the ever- lasting bonds of friendship and convinced that thispnation under jebs shall have a new birth of freedom and that the government by these Jebs, for these jebs, and of these Jebs, shall not perish from this earth. Chief Prophet, EILEEN LOUGHMAN Prophets MARIAN BRYsoN, CLAIRE MCCAULEY, JEAN MCGOVERN, JEANNE QUINLAN, PAULINE SIDMAN. page sixty-five

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enjoying rural life on a charming farm, where Abbie is raising thoroughbreds and Pat is still being raised. Helaine Flarehner is cornering Mildred Iewetl and is trying to wheedle a donation for her pet project-the Home for Aged and Disabled Fleas. Helaine is taking her social serv- ice too seriously. We think that Mildred is her current victim because of the tremendous fortune she has amassed as a result of her scientific dissertations. Mildred was recently awarded the Nobel Prize for a treatise on the Effects of Blonds on Masculine Metabolism' Arlene Levin is busily advertising her opinion in favor of commercial careers. She is telling us that nothing can compare with the ideal life of a commercial private secretary. It's a job that gives you everything, she says, and to prove it she tells us that she has mar- ried the boss. There go several prominent guests into the library. They are probably getting away from the crowd so that they can discuss old times or perhaps exchange tidbits of news. Let us follow them and see what information we can gather. Genevieve Chludzinrki seems to be holding the floor at present. She is telling the girls about her Home for Dumb Animals. It seems that Gennv has built an ultra-ultra edi- fice that not only has been approved by Jeanne Wyman, Chief of the Fire Department, but also has the sanction of Dorothy Dnrhee, Chairman of the Board of Health. Can this possibly be Mary Carpenter coming in with those cunning twins? We all thought that Mary was an extraordinary girl, and now she has confirmed our opinion. Among the choice group assembled around are two people who are engaged in extreme- ly unusual occupations. Claire Egan, a holathropogist K the one who puts the holes in dough- nutsb, and Ida Wolinrky, a deep-sea diver. Approaching this noteworthy congregation are four young ladies who were seldom seen together during their high school days, they are jean McGovern, Claire McCauley, Eileen Loughrnan and Jeanne Quinlan. It is well known that they have a very successful partner- ship and are doing a thriving business. Jean McGovern owns an expensive and exclusive restaurant, for which she prepares the food. Most of Jean's customers are in dire need of medical aidg Claire, the surgeon, carries on from this point, then Eileen's work begins- she is the embalmer. The finishing touch is executed by Ieanne Quinlan, who drives the hearse. These girls are an excellent example of team work and cofiperation. The distinguished couple who just joined us are the industrious biologists, Janice La- vien and Mary McMahon, who have come out of hibernation long enough to attend this gala social affair. Jan and Mary are working in collaboration on the 1954 edition of Virnalized General Biology, which will be such a joy to many biology students. Let's leave these Jebs with their reminiscences and peek at the ballroom. That Jeb who proudly wears the uniform of a United States Navy nurse is Iean Elkin. jean is help- ing Thelma Rabin, a health teacher, to describe the beauties of the digestive system. Thel- ma is not the only alumna teaching at the Burke! Gladys Becker is putting all the lucky little girls through their paces in history, and Marcia Siegel is doing her best to blow up the Chemistry Laboratory in an effort to teach her students how to make dynamite. Gladys is imparting a bit of news: Girls, she cries, have you heard the latest? Marion Qvilty has been invited to dance with the Ballet Russe. Isn't it wonderful! I read it in today's Boston Moon. That is the paper edited by Iris Her- hits assisted by Rhoda Cohen. In the midst of our wandering we have noticed that Elaine Sparks has been talking with all the little children present. She is just seeping with motherly love. Right now, however, she is greeting Genevieve Cavallaro and Marilyn Elfman. These girls have been working for four years on the book What the School System Needxg they expect to finish it in another ten years. It is certain to be a best seller. page sixty-four

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