Derby High School - Crimson Yearbook (Derby, CT)

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THE PRESENT We the Class of nineteen hundred and forty eight of Derby High School in the clty of Derby county of New Haven and state of Connecticut being of sound and disposing mind and memory have called together the student body and faculty to make known our final wishes and to donate what few gifts we have to bestow m these the last moments of our high school days FIRST We leave to our parent our fondest appreciation for their gentle understanding of our numerous problems SECOND To the Board of Education we leave a plan for a field house at Coon Hollow Park THIRD To the faculty who have done so much to prepare us for this final moment we bequeath the memories of our four glorlous years spent within the domains of their classrooms ln particular we would like to leave to Dr James O Hara a new battery for his car Mr Daniel Heffernan four memorable years under his excellent guidance Miss Louisa Baker another successful Senior play Mr Franklin Benoit a standing order in the Derby Grille for blueberry ple Miss Norma Botti more business for the Lookout Charles Byrne a streamline sled to coast down St Mary s h1ll on the way to school Lawrence Bush 1 large female enrollment Martin Chrom1k a church full of students on his wedding day Frank Clancy a sound proof gym Edward Coss an alarm clock Miss Theresa D Alessio a class of students who not only speak French but tbmk it Miss Elizabeth Dempsey the formula for the atomic bomb Miss Evelyn Garnsey another homeroom with a Boots and Peppers to liven it up Miss Frances Gibbs a champion bovs ling team Miss Marie Houlihan the latest Paris fashions Miss Josephine Howard eyeglasses in pastel shades Mxss Hattie Lmeburg a supply of paper plates Miss Anna McGeough a mate for her noiseless ty pewriter Mr Harry Nevllle black spectacles and 1 ruler Miss Alice Ring an electric typewriter Mr Leo Ryan a Davis and Blanchard combination Miss Anne Txghe a remedy for colds Miss Angelina Vxtali a special waste paper basket for her gum collections Mr Thomas Wrigley a set of new spark plugs for his car Fot RTH We bequeath The Freshman our fondest hopes of securing taller classmates The Sophomores the respons1b1l1t1es and prix ileges that come with the honor of being upperclassmen The Juniors a more successful athletic season The Class of 48 the hope for the realization of their ambitions 33 3 I - I ' 7 . ' 7 7 S . . . . 7 - i - - ff if . Mr. ' . ' ' . Mr. . . Mr. ' ' ' ' . Mr, - ' . Mr. . Miss Marian Cronin a steady job. ' L Y . . . ' . . I I L Q . T . . . 1 I Y U . 1 . ' V ' 4 .

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death part of Derby HIgh seemed to dIe also He was 1 truly wonderful person No words can express our feelIngs for hIm and no amount of tIme can wrpe out our memory of hIm MIss MarIan Crontn was hIred ro teach EnglIsh I In hrs place Soon throughout the halls of our great InsrItutIon were numerous whrspers among the SCHIOIS SenIor play tryouts were comrng At once everyone began to demonstrate hIs abIlIty In the art of actrng FInally a cast was chosen For several weeks everyone worked drlrgently to make lf a finrshed productIon Unnl dress rehearsal thIngs looked rather bleak but under the skrllful supervrslon of MIss Baker we gave a superb performance It was a cast of stars Jeanne McEnerney and Peppers Preneta portrayed the lovIng If some tImes drflicult parents of DavId Grlbert and Genevreve Zyskoskr RIchard Salerno Harry Francolxnr and Mary Duggan surpassed theIr bfllllanf performances of the unIor play VInnIe Mrngrone and Phyllrs Krng were newcomers but that dId not drscredrt them In the least Arlene Karlms stole the show wIth her black face and Southern accent Helen Prekarskr gave another grand show as the tomboy In the play Gordon McLachlan our Import from Scotland pulled actIng out of hIs bag of trIcks and drd a magnIfIcent job oan Krrby and Sammy SPIICII were perfect for theIr parts Therr roles were rather small but theIr ad Ilbblng helped them out consxderably All In all If was a wonderful P aY We were rather successful In football thIs year Although we dldD t beat A050013 or Shelton we gave them qurte a scare We count them as moral vIctorIes In basketball we drd very poorly however We had three speakers representrng our class In the oratorrcal contest thIs year Angeltne DeCarlo joan Klfby and john Preneta although they dId not WID gave excellent speeches One of our teachers Mrss Trghe was struck on the head by a fallmg ladder whrle Chrrstmas decoratrons were beIng removed from the streets She was In the Grrflin I-Iosprtal for a tIme and then removed to her home We were all extremely glad to see her back and well agaIn when she returned on March lsr The D A R award for good cItIzenshIp was grven to oan Klfby thIs year Each gIrl hopes for thIs award as lf really IS an honor and somethIng of whrch to be proud Next came our Semor Assembly We dtdn t do too wtll at the fIrst attempt but when we drd gne It If was a huge success Many agreed ll was the best We had somethrng new thrs year Each class had a separate socIal Instead of the usual Freshman SocIal The SenIor Soctal wIll never be forgotten We shall always remember that event because lf concerned our class alone What dId you thmk of the junror Town Meetmg of the AIr9 Derby was Indeed honored to be chosen as the school from whIch If would be broadcast The quesnon of Inflanon was drscussed There were speakers from Derby Ansonra Shelton and Seymour joan KIrby represented Derby It was broadcast over statron WELI on March 7th There were questIons from the floor and everyone felt the Importance of the OCCZSIOH The operetta thIs year was Doctor Drlnkwater It was almost entrrely a Senror show ean Krrby Jeanne Mclinerney VIrgInIa Carroll Rtta Bergnn Marran OKeefe Harry FrancolInI DomInIck Lonardo Robert McLachlan Salvatore SpIterI DIno MIHUI Carmen Gallo all had leadIng roles The performance was a most colorful and tuneful one and made a hIt Wllh everyone Instead of havxng Class Nrght we had a Senror Ban quet It was agreed that thrs was a real Improvement as everyone had a wonderful trme Immedrately followmg came the long awaIted Sen Ior Prom The gym was attractIvely bedecked and could scarcely be recogmzed The gala affaIr wIll never be forgotten In the mrnds of the Senrors of 48 Graduatron was all that we expected The clImax of four IndustrIous frurtful years was splendrdly ter mInated and the speeches were laudable As the year drew to a close everyone notrced beneath the masks of smrles and grIns whIch every Senlor wore many srgns of melancholy and despaIr We had cer taInly had a glonous nme together durrng the last four years whrch we shall always cherIsh and remember Farewell Derby HIgh' JEAN ADAMSON PATRICIA CALDWELL JOAN KIRBY MARIO POLIFERNO , ' . t a 4. c . I V h I . . Y . . ' 1 x - . , V. Y . I , . I t t . . . t . , . a . , . . . . . . , U , . ' v v ' v ' I 1 - v 1 s a ' I. .I . . . . 1 ' - a 1 . , , . . . . . ,, . ., -I - .. - - I- - - - . . J . - , , . 9 ' 1 a ' 1 - - .I N . . . . . a 1 a V . . . . . ' a s v ' 1 1 - 1 1 , . J . .. H . . . - . . . . , - - 1. - - If . . 9 - , . , . Y . - I - . . . . s - . X . . . ' ' ' ' V . 1 ' . 7 . v ' a . s 1 y , ' 1 s v A ' s - , I 1 . s , . ' 1 , . v

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FIFTH The followrng bequests we make rn the farnt hope that the recrprents may find them useful ean Adamson s srngrng abrlrty rs w rlled to anyone wrshrng to become a srnger J rcquelrne Ambrrsco cheerfully hands down her capacrty for yawnrng to Helen Orzech To her srster Patty Nancy Aylo entrusts her sense o humor Lrllran Baldellr bestows her hrdden talent to the Rho Alpha Rho sororrty The members of the Glee Club are left the memorres of Dorothy Berger s speech makrng Rrta Bergrn bequeaths her abrlrty to sneeze to Mary O Connor Walter Bresadeckr ceremonrously departs leavrng hrs manly physrque and adaptness football to Albert DrGranvrttorro Iosephrne Brancucro hands down her love of aft to her brother Andrew Arnold Breault srlently passes down hrs quret ways to Chubby Testone Lucky Vera Scrarettr recerves three packs of bubble gum from Glorra Cacchrllo C hubby Cafaro s brother Brll stands to rnherrt hrs football abrlrty Patrrcra Caldwell bestows her blue eyes on her brother rm jacquelrne Camrlrnr leaves h r knack at norse makrng to a future angel Erleen Cybart generously recerves Rose Carotenuto s respect for D H S Vrrgrnra Carroll yrelds lots of pep for makrng that mad dash rn the mornrng to Eddre Walker jos ph Castaldr wrlls hrs stutterrng to Domrnrck Nardrnr fzrnest Coppolo s hrstory notes are bequeathed to any future hrstory student Some short underclassman rs grven the benefit of Nancy Cronrn s herght Ruth Damon s drmples are sadly passed to unror Ranno Angelrne DeCarlo yrelds her pep and norse to Vrrgrnra Ragusa Talented B111 Young rs the lucky recerver of Don Defala s musrcal abrlrty Ruth DeGennaro cedes her class typewrrter to Margaret Adantr Lourse DellaMonrca regretfully hands down hrs hrstory notes to Brll Young Mary Duggan levaes her actrng abrlrty to her brother B111 Mary Duncan leaves her abrlrty to laugh at Trmmy Walsh s jokes to Mary Durante Robert Dunn sadly departs donatrng hrs bull to Mr Bush To Rrta Dunn Wanda Dzwonkowskr generously concedes her neatness and composure Gerald Eaton s srx dull subjects are left to any half balanced junror lohn Frlchak grudrngly bestows hrs abrlrty to peer rnto the deep annals of chernrstry to a future chemrst Helen Frtol leaves her place rn the Glee Club to a musrc lover Rrta Forsyth lovrngly grves a new parr of drum strcks to Ray Coppola Georg Foy donates the cat s paramas to Sam LaForte Harry Frfrncolrnr wrlls hrs posrtron as edrtor to some lucky member of the Lookout Board C armen Gallo leaves the Derby Hrgh bchool to the relref of the faculty joseph Granpoalo relrnqurshes hrs servrce drscharge to a future army career man Sam Granpofrlo cedes hrs prng pong champronshrp to a deservrng opponent To Chester Zrembfr rs vw rlled Rrchard Grbson s pleasrng personalrty and cheerful drsposrtron Du rd Grlb rt vu rshes Lours Srll to assume hrs responsrbrlrtres as stage manager Lors Golob sadly relrnqurshes her posrtron on the Lookout Board to her srster Ann Mrchael Gruttadaurra s guard posrtron rn homeroom basketball rs left to a future Room 12 Senror Theodore Halat presents hrs ball rack to Leo Kuna Phyllrs Heffernan s darly rrdes to school are offered to any trred student Elvera Hemon proudly wrlls her Southern drawl to any Northern belle Mary Mongrllo recerves a fourteen carat manner from Ann Hunrhan Arlene Karlrns specrfles that her bl rck face from the Senror play be drvrded between Lors Schpero rnd Mfrrcra Spl rx er Paul Krng s locker rs solemnly donated to hrs brother ames 34 . .. .. , , . . . . . 7 , . . . at 5 V L . . . . 7 . . . .Q Leora Douglass seriously bequeaths her secret amours to Mimi. . . J . . , . . . . , Y . - . . V . . . . , 2 r 1 ' .