Canastota High School - Toot Yearbook (Canastota, NY)

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said they’d open a liberry. We sent back East fer some books and after six months the durn things fin’lly got there. We even had two drawin’ teachers in town. Betty Pavone and Judy Wales give lessons to all the small fry in town and every Satiddy afternoon you could see the young’uns traipsin’ down the street with their ma’s determination behind ’em and their own misery ahead of ’em. “The biggest excitement we ever hed wuz the day ‘Kid’ Frank Vecchio robbed the bank at Lone Wolf Creek. The posse set out and after a couple hours, Sheriff Cole Bloss came back with ‘The Kid’ bound and gagged so tight he couldn’t wiggle. Judge Bertolino give him a hasty trial and Gerry Cox cross-examined Frank so good the jury couldn’t help but convict him. “Wal, I’m perty well talked out fer now, gal. Come back agin’ tomorrow and I’ll jaw some more wiv ye. —JULIE HEINTZ Z)lie J$e£te£t and yiio te t in CMS Pij i, • v, 't y j BOY GIRL Most Popular . . .Mike Milmoe .... Most Likely to Succeed . . .Mike Milmoe Best Disposition . .John Lucarelli Most Personality .. Mike Milmoe .... Best Looking .... . . .Doug Chapman Best Athlete .... .. Carmen Barres ... Most School Spirit . . Mike Milmoe Nicest Smile . . Doug Chapman Happiest . .. . .John Hallagan Busiest .. Shibley Pixley Friendliest .... .. John Lucarelli Most Courteous .. . . Don Clark Best Actor-Actress . . .Mike Milmoe Best Scout .... . .Gerry Cox Biggest Flirt .... . .Frank Vecchio Best Dancer ... .. .Gordon Wilkinson ... . Biggest Griper ... . .Phil Harney Noisiest .... .. John Lucarelli Sleepiest . .Louie Ezzo Outstanding Senior .. Mike Milmoe Outstanding Junior .. Darrell Conley Betty LeBlanc Outstanding Sophomore .. . . .Don Pexton Outstanding Freshman . .. .. Lyle Kneeskern Favorite Orchestra ...........Harry James Favorite Movie ...............“The Snake Pit” page twenty-one

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ClaM Prophecy, In past years, the “Toot” has contained a class prophecy which portrays the seniors in their roles as future citizens. This year we’d like to turn the clock back to those rip roarin’ gold mining days of 1849, and listen to Doug Chapman, that weather beaten old. prospector relate some of his experiences in “Dead Horse Gulch”, California. “I had traveled West along with the thousands of other gol-durned fools in search of thet yellow stuff, but I soon discovered thar warn’t no gold fer me in them thar hills. I almost went back East, but them pur- ty gals of thet minin’ town were too much fer me so I stayed right war I wuz. “Joe Galavotti’s stage brung me into town, and I didn’t hev much trouble findin’ a place to stay, since Eugene Fratini and his sister Virginia hed opened a hotel in “Dead Horse” quite some time back. They give me the best room in the place, overlopkin’ John Hallagan’s saloon across the street. “The fust night I didn’t get much shut- eye, the noises cornin’ from them swingin’ doors wuz enough t’wake the dead. I got used to no sleep though, and spent most of my nights thar jawin’ with Lois Palmer, the barmaid. One mornin’, when I was hoofin’ it down Main Street, I met three of the most charmin’ ladies I ever see’d. My old eyeballs lit up like candles on a Christmas tree, and I follered them until Augie Loguidice in- formed me thet Carol Scherrer, Mary Lou Farnam and Sara Laguzza wuz already hitched. “The day I met Mike Masucci, the town blacksmith, he wuz busy shoein’ Eddie Fish- er’s hoss, the meanest creetur in ten coun- ties. It wuz Mike thet interdooced me ta Mis’ Theresa LeBlanc, thet good lookin’ spinster. I courted her fer nigh on to a year, but she wouldn’t give me a tumble. “I’ll never fergit the fust time I started pannin’ gold. I took off fer the hills one mor- nin’ and wuz all sot and busy workin’ when I wuz interupted by two gents who inter- dooced themselves as Joe Verro and Fred Tucci. Seems like I’d made a leetle mistake stakin’ my claim, and whuppin’ out thar shootin’ arns, they p’litely told me to leave. Bein’ quick on the trigger myself, I grazed ’em with one clean shot. They apologized hasty-like, about-faced, and dashed fer old Doc. Pixley’s office. “You should a been here the day Par- son John Pafka married Don Clark and Mary- dee Pankhurst. Why, the whole durn town wuz thar from Widder Beverly Costanzo and her ten young’uns, to Carmen Barres, the lo- cal bachelor who sat smirkin’ in the back pew and thankin’ his lucky stars he hed sense enough to stay single. “Since Jay Tornabene hed been takin’ singin’ lessons from Mme. Susie Vella fer nigh on to a year, she and Mike Buttino (with his boomin’ bass) were unanimously elected to sing “0 Promise Me”. “Marie Simmons, the town dressmaker, outdid herself on thet weddin’ dress, and Marydee’s coiffure was set in the latest style by Betty Lannis and Evelyn Wuilliez. “Helen Holdridge wuz Maid of Honor and when thet tear rolled down her lily- white cheek, you could jist see she wuz dreamin’ of her own weddin’ not fur in the futui-e. “The two ushers, Roger Relyea and My- ron Smith were feelin’ good from the bach- elor’s party the night before, and when Ma- rilyn Vreeland rushed in late, they tripped her. Gordon Wilkinson immediately rushed to her rescue, and yanked her up. “Dolores Cerio and Esther Relyea, as head cooks, put their heads together and came up with a bunch of eats the likes of which ain’t never been see’d since. After the knot-tyin’ we shoveled in thet food like we hadn’t et fer three weeks. “We always looked forward to readin’ Mike Milmoe’s newspaper, ‘The Gulch Ga- zette’, when it come out every Friday. You could find anything in thet durn paper, from gossip to a love-lorn column, writ by thet em’nent authority, Joan Runfola. One week, a big notice appeared in the paper ‘John Lucarelli and Co. of entertainers will appear at the Golden Nugget.’ Never one to miss any form of the theatre, I went to the fust night’s performance. After thet feller John fin’lly quit singin’, he interdooced them fam- ous ‘Flora Dora Girls’, Nancy Burke, Pip Rinaldo, Gloria Wright and Jane Phipps. Before we knowed it, Joe Bonaventura was up on stage with those gorgeous gals! Louis Ezzo tried to haul Joe down but got punched in the nose fer his trouble. “Me and some of the intellectual citi- zens decided the town needed some book- larnin’, so Virginia Burton and Jean Stone page twenty

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