Burlington High School - Arrowhead Yearbook (Burlington, MA)

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In the news of the educational field once again we find the story of the absent-minded professor. This time it was Alan Johnson who kissed the dog goodnight and put his wife out until morning. Also we see that Miss Eileen Gentile, now a teacher, is holding night classes at the Lexington Street School for hard-struggling, underprivileged Juniors. Inventor Lennie Bunton tried to explain to the Annual Conclave of Great World Scientists that he did not invent color television; he just spilled all the colors of the rainbow on his tools at the time. Miss Joan Biagiotti has risen to fame recently in the musical world with her latest torch song called, “I'll Like to Get You on a Slow Jet Around the World.” This song was written by Betty Cook who is also famous for “It's a Long Walk Home” and “Why Didn‘t You Buy a Spare Tire?” At the assembly will be Italy’s famous writer, author and lecturer, Louis J. Govoni, Jr., who is noted for his adventure stories “Hit ‘Em Quick and Hard” and “How to Kill Pigs in Ten Easy Lessons.” In a recent issue of ‘Fantasy Magazine” the featured article informed us that our leading explorers, Russell Petersen, Bill Johnson and “Bud” Larson, were frantically, feverishly, and fearfully making their way out of darkest Africa closely pursued by a fierce group who want to boil them for dinner. At latest report the race was close. The ‘Burlington School of the Dance” is represented on Broadway this season by several of its star members, among whom are Mary Ann Brundige and Pat Cooney, in the ballet “The Dark Bird” by Joan Cassidy. The leading part is danced by Stewart Crockett who has added something new. He sings. It is anticipated that the assembly will be entertained by that great French company, “Carol LeBlanc and her Dancing Five.’ They are Marjorie Pattison, Richard Schwab, Barbara Wyer, Jackie Ramsdell, and last but not least, that light-footed, light-fingered Jimmy Michaud who also tickles the ivories in such a delightful manner. And I, J. A. K. “Joy Always” Kelly, being Secretary of Defense for the Commonwealth, do hereby delegate the Ancient and Honorable Unit of the State Militia to keep order. John Kelly

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Class Prophecy 1974, twenty years hence. News has spread to the far corners of the earth that the wild forty-four members of the class of ‘54’’ are coming from here, there, and everywhere to attend an assembly, an assembly to be held in the great metropolis of Burlington. Looking over the news bulletins since the announcement was made, we are able to follow the travels of each member. Coach Al Wilde, who has pulled his team through thick and thin for the past twenty years, the thick being the cigarette smoke in the boy’s room and the thin being their marks, is discussing the coming assembly with Superintendent Sumner Rupprecht. Mr. Rupprecht has just won an argument with School Committee President, Shirley Skelton, over the shortage of white composition paper. In the art world the battle of the colors has stopped momentarily between Carl Johnson and Ora Davis. They are both on their way to the assembly from Paris. Bill Fontaine, who is said to be selling rum up and down the coast from Florida to Boston, is coming from his hiding place in the swamps of the Florida Everglades to Burlington, where Neil Foster, his accomplice, has been: selling his merchandise at a high price. A bulletin from Egypt tells us that Maharajah John Berlandi has refused to pay a travelling tax on his harem of one hundred dancing girls. In Detroit, Michigan we find that fifty-one percent of all General Motors stock has been turned over to those three automobile tycoons, “Big Jim” Sweeney and the “Money Bag Brothers,” Norman and Carl Christiansen. It is said they plan to arrive in separate chauffeur-driven Cadillacs. Prime Minister Erich Nitzche of Great Britain, while in London discussing affairs-of-state and the coming assembly with his chief cook and bottle-washer, Lester Enos, suggested using the battleship ‘Invincible’ with several destroyers as escorts for the forthcoming Atlantic crossing. A picture taken in New York and appearing in “Life” shows playboy Lester McGinnis lighting a cigar with a ten dollar bill. No doubt. In New York also, at the “No Second Chance Theater,’ the main attraction of the evening is the ‘Bobbsie Twins,” Dick Howard and Dick Wilde. They are currently going through their latest dance steps, an act called ‘Dig Those Sloppy Feet’ or “Your Shoelace is Dragging.” In the wings the next act waiting to go on is none other than ‘Fe Fe” Fay Collins and ‘“Mitchy”’ Arletta Mitchell who will sing ‘Burlington, My Burlington” or “Don't Send Me Back to Prison Again.” Their supporting cast consists of one guitar player named Phylis Fowler, one pianist named Joan Taylor, and one half base fiddler named “Little Jim’ Taylor. Around the corner from the “No Second Chance” in the local precinct station (the law enforcement department) we find Sergeant “Friday” Walter Bennett who has been hurling the big question at a frightened witness, Pat Ekwall, for several days now, “Just want the facts ma’am, just the facts.” He is usually followed by his partner-in-law, Kenny Jay, who says, “That's all, just the facts.”

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