Charlotte High School - Witan Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER by OHV N1 BAIRD Pmpfvet For the purpose of thrs story vue must rmagrne ourselxes proyected forward headlong rnto the year 1961 fundamentally the old earth rs the same as when vue left We are strll lrxrng rn a democracy of the people by the people and for the people Howeyer at thrs trme rt rs berng threatened by external forces much as rt was rn 1941 We traxel about by automobrles whrch can be com erted rnto arrplanes srmply by Hrckrng a lexer We lrxe rn homes whrch can be qurckly rf not neatly made to drsappear underground srmply by flrckrng a lexer fThrs seems to baHle the mrlrtary experts of forergn natronsj We are able to control our envrronment by merely pushrng buttons Truly rt has become the age of the armcharr Our hrst close up glrmpse of lrfe rn 1961 rs rn a small log cabrn way up rn the wrlds of North ern Canada Here srts Professor George Dundon and hrs able assrstant Gadget Zrmmerman They are porrng oyer a huge complrcated ma chrne rn one corner of the room There are wrres and batterres heaped up all oyer the room rn a sort of orderly confusron so characterrstrc of screntrfrc apparatus A frown creases the broad brow of Professor Dundon as he speaks Im stumped Gadget Accordrng to my cal culatrons we should at least be gettrng a hum out of thrs blasted deyrce Perhaps our theorres are rllogrcal creaks Gadget Impossrble storms Professor Dundon A rt stands now our Audroronrctelecerver rs as per fect as skrllful work and patrence can make rt and you know rt Lord knows Ive taught you enough about the structure of the machrne Gadget rs left speechless He ponders for a moment and then prcks up a parr of pearl handled plrers and slowly rnspects the rnstrument wrth the arr of profound helpfulness Suddenly hrs experrenced eye wrdens He yumps up qu k ly shoutrng Iye found the trouble' Iye found the trouble' What trouble? groans Dundon rrrrtated at berng drsturbed from the coma rnto whrch he srnks rn order to be alone Why the trouble wrth our Audroronrctele ceryer smrles Gadget Here rt rs We forgot to plug rt rn Well do so do so at once orders Dundon We are wastrng saluable trme Gadget plugs rn the machrne and rmmedrately the room rs filled wrth a low reyerberatrng rum ble of hrgh tensron current A drm lrght begrns to appear upon the telcxrsron screen He grrns wrth elatron and relrnqurshes hrs seat to Gadget Zrmmerman who eagerly awarts hrs orders Set rt for 30 degrecs N latrtude and 90 degrees W longrtude and well see rf we can prck up the Loursrana Worlds farr at Nevu Orleans Gadget makes the necessary adyustments and the drm lrght on the screen exolxes rtself rnto a beautrful Spanrsh landscape A wrde mer flovys out of the scene at the left and Dundon says Whoa Gadget We re a lrttle north of our obyectryc Once agarn Gadget makes a mrnor adyustment and onto the screen swrms thc crty of New Or leans the gateway to the Gulf the garden swot of Amerrca Iar rn the drstance rs seen the huge shapely woman s leg adorned by an equally huge and shapely stockrng Gadget turns to hrs chref and says There you are professor Rrght on the nose That rs the celebrated Nylon the theme of the Loursrana Exposrtron We drdn.t do badly rn our frrst attempt at tunrng the Audroronrctele ceryer Hmmm no rt wasnt too badly done Gad the farr grounds and see rf we can enyoy rt from here The huge machrne rs agarn adjusted mrnutely by Zrmmerman and slowly the scene changes on the screen untrl the Marn Street on the mrdway rn the amusement area comes rnto yrew Here are people from all walks of lrfe and from all parts of the world crowded together lrke sardrnes and yet they are enyoyrng every moment A gaudy srght seerng bus comes rnto the prcture wrth none other than Brll Gutman at the wheel Iarther back rn the bus stands the persprrrng rm Brll rngs who rs descrrbrng the wonders of the farr to the unrmpressed crowd The bus drryes out of the prcture Our attentron rs next attracted to a popular clrsplay rn front of a shootrng gallery run by Herb Brrndley Hrs customers shoot lrttle dotted cubes of rvory for whatever he offers to bet Herb always had both an eye and a pocket for money By rngenrous manrpulatron Zrmmerman man ages to keep the machrne moyrng slowly so as to follow the crowd down the mrdway On exery srde are barkers callrng forth the hrghlrghts of therr respectrye frf not respectablej shows Here rs Walt Young at the door of the Lrttle Egypt show He too rs persprrrng but not because of the temperrture Officer Bob Morey rs standrng near 2 5 F Y I I - ' ' f '. . 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EVELYN VAN ZILE 67 Surrey Road And :then rh. rzrtuef dled they rnnde he r' he lr. Girls' Camera Club 45 Dancing 45 Optimates 45 Service League 4. TERESA VITTORI 82 Pollard Avenue Silence 711.13 do good. and t.1n dr llllle harm. Baseball Honor Team 3: Service League 45 Soccer Honor Team 25 Tenv nis 45 Volleyball 3. 4, RUTH WEGNER 17 Anchor Terrace Her hright ,rrnile htzunlt me tlillf' Banking Committee 45 Bowling 45 Leaders' Training Club 35 Service League 3, 45 Table Tennis 25 Witan 45 Yanheer in Spain 3. BU L HITE e ld Street 's one in our hu ron ol progrell ' J . fd 5 B 13,4 . tb'. C 2,3,45 B tball cialsd b 4 5 Horse' b . , vl 5 X ROBERT WILSON 90 Estall Road He ,tpenkr an injlnile a'e.ilofno1hing. Service League 3, 45 Soccer Club 3, 4. MARION YOUNGJOHN 617 Denise Road Oh, for Ihe lille of I1 nlilliorltxirefi dnughlerf Banking Committee 55 Bowling 25 Senior High School Party Committee 45 Service League 3. IEAN VERWEY 63 Stone Road Dark lfjeif' Badminton 3, 45 Banking Committee 45 Commercial Honor Society 45 Dancing 25 Service League 45 Tennis 45 W'itan 4. DONALD WEDEL 45 Stonewood Avenue Friendi are my gold. Book! are my tiller. REID WEIDMAN 826 Bennington Drive The great plearure in life ir doing wha! people my you cannot do. Cross Country 3, 45 Les Babillards 2, 35 National Honor Society 3, 45 Senior Council 45 Service League 2, 3, 45 Track 3, 45 Visual Aid Corps 2, 3, 4. WILLIAM WILKINS 55 Alpha Street Tell me VIHI, in mournful numherr Life ir hu! an emply dream. Basketball Club 45 Football 45 Horti culture Club 25 Swimming Club 25 Volleyball Club 3. WALTER YOUNG 137 Keehl Street It i.rn'l the .frhool,' Il'J lhe principal of the thing. Reserve Soccer 35 Volleyball Club 5 4: Witan 4. DONALD ZIMMERMANN 258 Hampton Blvd. Zen for adrenlure. .senre of humor. llvhal more could you ,ul in iz man? Boys' Camera Club 3, 45 Inter-high Science Club 3, 45 News Staff 45 Senior Council 45 Service League 45 Visual Aid Corus 2. 3. 4: Vollevball

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hlm just keeplng hls eye on the proceedlngs As we swlng our attentlon to other parts of the falr our screen catches the announcement of stunt drlvlng and flylng exhlbltlon now ln prog ress over near the central court We follow the crowd and are soon VlCWlng an lmpresslve dlsplay of Grunst Autoplanes These unlque wehlcles wlll not only fly but they may be drlven oxer roads llke the old fashloned automoblles of 1941 Grunst IS havlng hls dlfllcultles ln convlnclng the publlc that the vehlcles are practlcal He IS now drlvlng across the court to show the road ablllty of hls lmentlon Evldently he has pressed e lexer whlch controls the wlngs for two flaps are unfoldlng from the roof of the vehlcle Now e propeller IS set lnto place and Grunst guns e motor Up goes the Autoplane to the utter amazement of the crowd and Grunst proceeds to show off by stuntlng hls machlne Abruptly the englne sputters and stalls The machlne lelsurely SPIDS toward the earth whlle Grunst balls out ln hls parachute and IS gently wafted out of the plcture by the caresslng breeze off the Gulf of Mexlco Set the controls for 33 degrees N latltude and 118 degrees W longltude orders Professor Dundon Lets see what we can flnd ln Holly wood There IS an lnterval ID whlch nothlng IS dlS cernlble on the scleen whlle Zlmmerman adjusts the proper dlals Then slowly the plcture forms agaln upon the screen It IS clearly seen that It Moore the noted actress She IS gently slnglng a current song hlt wrltten by Elghth Note Durbln Wlth her IS her pedl greed Panda sent to her by an ardent admlrer George Baker who makes a hobby of breedlng Pandas ln the mountalns of Tlbet On the op POSIIC slde of the street are those beautlful dancers Valerle Benson Grace Seller and Marlon Younglohn gally trlpplng to the studlo .where they wlll proceed to spend the day ln the PTINHCY of thelr dresslng rooms asleep Thelr boss DCDIS Howe must not be aware of thelr work hablts or he nexer would pay them ten thousand a month As the scene changes the teleslslon screen focuses upon a huge streamllned ocean llner somewhere ln the Paclfic Zlmmerman yggles the control knobs wlth hls elbow and we plck up the boat by accldent At any rate we can see the captaln Rlchard Bowllan and hls nrst mate George Boyd earnestly bendlng over the table ln the chartroom on whlch IS Slfuafed a small radlo set They are llstenlng to the Wash lngton Red Sox and the Green Boy Packers light lt out for the Natlonal Pro Football Champlon shrp Koehler of the Green Boy Packers has just scored agaln and the teams are llned up for 22 the try for the extra polnt Koch IS ready to re CCIVC the ball and Blll Wllklns IS golng to KICK The ball IS snapped from the center and the klck IS good' The flnal score of the game Washlng ton Red Sox 7 Green Boy Packers 42 Malmgren was hurt durlng the half but IS reported as out of danger Zlmmerman changes the rlght hand dlal and we are now vlewlng the promenade deck Several couples are slttlng ln the comfortable deck chalrs deslgned by Madame Glbbs that foremost woman lnterlor and exterlor decorator Ed HlnCllHC IS calmly surveylng hls brlde whom he met last week whlle ln Shanghal He was golng to joln a monastery because he had been dlsappolnted ln love but she comlnced hlm that redheads are good medlclne for sore and wounded hearts and they were marrled We follow the crowd mto the salon where Chet Couch and hls all glrl orchestra are playlng for the dlnner hour GCDCVICVC Kavannaugh and BCSSIC Harrlgan are the stellar attractlons whlle Ruth Wegner Evelyn Van Zlle Arllne Kaufman Loulse Remschled and Teresa Tachln form the rest of the harmony Attractlve waltresses are ln abundance however the llmlted area of the screen makes lt lmposslble to see them all but a few of them are jean Verwey Betty Moyer Ruth Tlschbeln and Shlrley Bedford These glrls are buslly engaged ln maklng lt pleasant for the passengers on board the shlp Several are asslgned to be carefully attentlve to the radlantly has always experlenced the best posslble serslce whlle travellng She has several admlrers on the passenger llst but as yet she IS content to llve on her share of the estate of her late husband Well Gadget we have concluslve proof that the AUd1Ol00lCfClCCClVCf can be tuned to any part of the globe Now how about a llttle free lance twlrllng of those dlals and let s see what we can PICK up ln the way of hlstory ln the maklng7 suggests Professor Dundon Gadget slowly SPIDS hls controls and manages to keep hls eye on the screen so as not to escape any lmportant exent The whole IS spread out IH a panorama We can dlstlngulsh famlllar ob jects as they fllt past us on the screen We notlce the Washlngton Monument Hold rt Gadget chlrps Dundon Let s have a look ID at the Whlte House and See what the presldent IS dolng these days Gadget splns the left knob and we recognlze the front of the hlstorlc CXCCUIINC manslon A speclal goxernment llmouslne IS slowly drlslng up to the door It stops and the flrst lady of the land steps out Ellzabeth IH person She grac lously dlrects the chauffeur Bernard Frlday t unload the bundles and trlps quickly up the steps lrlday staggers after her wlth hls arms . l , . - . . f . . sf s - - - 1 I , 7 . 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