Central Park School - Scrip Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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AROUND THE WORLD IN 1960 Reed Caughey, distinguished aviator of the class of '36, is about to start from New York on his inverted nonstop flight around the world. He is to fly in his Caughey Super Amphibian assisted by Leonard Jackowsky, William Hoffert, Percy Collins, John Kelker, Arthur Ryan, Merritt Larkins, Rich- ard Slocum, Harold Taylor, and Donald Cook. He has iustfinished installing the most modern avia- tion equipment with the help of a famous corps of engineers consisting of Charles Snell, Thomas De Caste, Ralph Downie, Richard MacAdams, Fletcher Brown, and Everest Wing. The passenger com- partments in the plane have been decorated under the supervision of Doris Dussel, Arline Spitzer, and Elaine Duke. Reed has just sent his secretaries, Mary O'Neill, Peggy Feane, Ruth Deere, Alice Young, Evelyn Decker, Clara Anderson, and Gertrude Farrell to the president of the United States, Audrey Keefe, to obtain letters of recommendation, in case he comes down fast. ln his I00 passenger Caughey Super Amphibian with a wingspread of 300 feet, Reed is still offll The plane is completely equipped with a chemical laboratory in which is a group of chemists that have iust been graduated from college. Here for practical experience, they are Roger Dinsmore, John Hanrahan, Robert Eaton, Walter Wicks, Clark Willsey, and Robert Solberg. Bernard Czarkow- ski is also coming along to teach them all he knows about radium. Caughey's personnel is as follows: Reporters: William Allen, Fred Emerle, Frank Traver, James Simmons, and Victor Tomazewski: detectives: Walter Plarr, Mickey McPadden, Paul Hotop, Wil- lard Roth, Frederick Gavin, and Jack Delaney: musicians: June Turner, Hadassah Sahr, Jack Maggs, Charles King, and Howard Hickin: doctors: Robert Wiese, Dorothy McDonald, Frank Parisi, and Lillian Killoughg nurses: Maybelle Kelly, MariorieApkes,Gertrude Bourdeau,Anna Friguliette, Justine Hunt, and Margaret Skinner: dentists: Gerald Petersen, Robert Parsons, and William Peth: hair- dressers: Barbara Stibbie, and Gladys Palmer: travelers: Elsie Vesperman, Geraldine Ruhl, James Barber, Charles Culver, Evelyn Kohn, Elizabeth Venette, Mabel Sparrow, and Genevieve Borkowski. Billy Kruk is ticket collector. We also have with us Juny Giroux who has iust lost his position as a tall freak in a circus and Popeye, alias Alfred Moskowitz. Lester Adams and Richard Adams are also here to keep up the log book. Dorothy Ostrander, the perfect housewife, is here on a vacation. Herbert Miller, Robert Mowers, Barbara Hubbard, and Donald Dill are the chief food inspectors. Caughey's navigator is Wallace Wimpy McFarland. Everyone in the plane has been outfitted from the Connelly Clothing Store. Contact with the world from a height of 50,000 feet will be maintained by Burr Rockwell with his super regenerative oscillator detector radio. He is assisted by Robert Campchero. Reed's still offll Reed's sixteen one thousand horse power Bernard Thomas engines equipped with Adriance eight blade variable pitch propellers pull the ship along at a cruising speed of 500 m.p.h. due to the efficiency of John Stanton's vapor superchargers. Bob Smith, posing as Tarzan 6V8, is hanging out of the window holding on by one toe and is look- ing through the clouds below with his Dick Marvin Ultra Cosmic Ray telescope at the grave of Betty Lane. She was overworked in Ella Dwyer's night club under the supervision of Violet Miller, the famous fan dancer. Over the radio we are hearing the golden voice of Kate Smith lBarbara Tanisl and Gracie Allen played by Elinor Engell. Uncle Moe's Bedtime Stories are being given by Robert Cook. The next program is Major Kelly's Amateur Hour. Gloria Cammarota's dozen brats llll are tap dancing with the sound effects of a machine gun. Dorothy Beyer and Gertrude Hardingstall are singing a

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BY-PRQDUCTS A certain Lord Chamberlain once said: Take care ol the j k minutes and the hours will take care ol themselves. Just another epigram to most people, but let us consider just bs' f what this pithy phrase should mean to us of the younger T . generation. If , l ln this age of high-pressure and supercharged activity, ' we all tail to take advantage of much of the time at our 9 disposal. Forgetting, entirely, that it is the little things that count, we consider only the HOURS and overlook the MINUTES. There was a time when industry also overlooked the little things . . . for example, the meat packing business. The scraps and waste, once thrown away by the meat packers, are now turned into BY-PRODUCTS earning additional profits for the packers. Pigtails have become a table delicacy and the hair is used in the manufac- ture of fine ropes. And these BY-PRODUCTS, remember, have been produced from what was once considered waste. There is an important lesson to be learned from a study ol how our industry has turned waste into valuable by-products. Each day we are wasting TIME . . . throwing away valuable minutes that we should be turning into BY-PRODUCTS to our own profit. We all have certain duties to perform day in and day out. . . most of these are of minor importance and should be reduced to a rigorous and efficient routine. For instance, why take five minutes to comb your hair? Do this iob in two minutes and you will have three minutes left in which to produce a BY-PRODUCT that may pay big dividends in the future. The trouble lies in the fact that very lew of us realize that we have these ODD MOMENTS to spend in the development of something worthwhile.Too many ol us are lorever bemoaning the tact that we haven't time to do this or that, yet we are wasting many a spare minute every day in the year .... minutes that could be utilized for good reading, study or the pursuit of some hobby. We would do well to consider what many others have accomplished through the utilization of their odd moments and the valuable by-products that have been given to the world as a result. The story of Edison's life is one which proves the value of utilizing every spare minute . . . while Edison was working as a telegrapher, he was using his spare time to work on an idea that gave the world the duplex system of telegraphy. And this is true ol all successful men and women . . .in most every instance, the things for which they are most famous have been the BY-PRODUCTS of their ' ODD MOMENTS. lt is time, we ol the younger generation, started making practical use of our spare time . . .there are good books to be read, hobbies we can engage in, or studying for further advancement in the fields in which we are interested. We will do well to follow the example of others by putting to use thot spark of individuality, with which each ol us is endowed in creating some way of turning our now wasted ODD MOMENTS into BY- PRODUCTS of practical use.

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duet. Emmett Eagan, the official bouncer of Sloppy Joe's Tavern sings There is a Tavern in the town. Warren Schaller, the rag man, and Frank Reyes, the gigolo, are presenting Sweet Adeline. B-O-O-O-O-M. Reed's still offll While over the Atlantic, we see the mighty U. S. Armando captained by Admiral Frank Bar- rett. Those who have sub commands under him are Robert Remillard, Clarence Hilton, and Nelson Quant. The chief surgeon on board the U. S. S. Garahan is John Connelly. The next ship turns out to be the S. S. O'Conner under the command of Captain Vincent Woodward. The chief cook and bottle washer is Elinor Walsh. Back to our plane-he's still off-again? lNote: Pete Weber, the loving husband, is even now wondering when we'll arrive home.1 We are carrying a cargo of athletes consisting of Dorothy Fox, George Biittner, Harriette Schein- zeit, Fanny Mae Robinson, Martha Hoffman, George La Pier, David Pohl, Raymond Miller, and Frances Palombo to be dropped by parachutes at the Olympics in the Swiss yodels lthe Alpsl. Burr has iust received a flash by radio that the new million dollar school ldonated by Evalina Wagnerl has burned down and the following teachers escaped, lwithout our help,l with their lives: lda Schwartz, Mildred Gavin, Shirley Jennings, Virginia Van Valkenburg, Dorothy Goggins, Anna Mary Andrews, and that serious-minded professor, Ted Vinick. Helen Mahoney, the famous dress model, is on board as a model for some of the gowns designed by Barbara Underwood, Eleanor Hummel, Polly Anna Baade, Ruth Silberkraus, Betty Attenhofer, and Rose Cacchillo. Clementine Zmyewski is also displaying gowns. Teresa Holland is along as a model for girls' dresses from the ages 6-8. As we pass over the new super Eiffel Tower, designed by Fred Fisch, we are obliged to fly low to drop off some business men and women, via parachutes, for a conference at Paris. They are Ruthe- leise Lochmann, lda Kwolick, Edna May Walton, Jean Moore, Robert Marx, Doris Sayles, Eddie Schoonmaker. Robert De Forge, Floyd Stone, Gerald Salisbury, William Wilkin, and Thomas O'Malley. While in Paris we may as well see how Buddy Appleton, the American playboy on the Riviera, is getting along. Rather well l fawncyl Herby Marx and Jimmy Wagner are also with Buddy. Passing over Russia we receive a report from Bob Smith. Leonard Levine, chairman of the Bol- sheviks, is talking to his people fsome of them aren't listeningl with his super voice. Skipping ratherfast, aren'twe? Anyway we are nearing home. Pete Weber is already yelling Hurrahl Don't get excited, Peter-we're lust taking in Hollyood. Here we find Dorothy Hornby,- doing what? l wonderl Betty Mannes is acting as Shirley Temple's double and Sylvia Levitt is a gra- cious social worker. Another report from Smithyl A forest fire in the West! Well we still have to dump off Charles Miltner, Clyde Mackert, and Leonard Reuss, so that they may accomplish their good deed for this trip. Reed's still offll We're home! Some are mad: some are glad. We think we'd better be leavingl We are-leaving Reed Caughey holding triumphantly aloft the quarter he has just received from the one who bet him that he couldn't fly around the world in an inverted airplane on a nonstop flightl