Derby High School - Crimson Yearbook (Derby, CT)

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Mrmr Malafronte rs the lucky recerver of Phyllrs King s interest rn musrc joan Kirby s bangs are pledged to Bobby Nolan O 1 hrm they ll look good Mrtchell Kopec sheds a srlent tear and leaves hrs jokes to Eddie Kuna Lours Kudej gladly concedes hrs bookkeeping marks to hrs brother Frank Vrncent Lazzaro bequeaths hrs tall storres to any student who rs foolish enough to believe them Butch Ranno rs the proud receiver of Don Lonardo s trumpet and playing abrlrty Mary Durante rs grven the right corner of the mirror rn the grrls room by Gloria Lucarellr Alan MacLeese wrlls hrs calm arr of rndrfference to a strong and srlent unror Nicholas Marcucro donates hrs lrrrousrne to john DrPaulo Louise Mason s harr fussrng habrts are left to Mrmr Anne Materas bids a sad farewell to her cute proboscrs and hands rt to Anne Ryan Jeanne McEnerney relrnqurshes two cups of coffee and a shower to some future nrght owl Gordon McLachlan s school memorres good and bad are grven to some brave follower Carmen Perri rs offered Drno Mranr s accordran together wrth a book of rnstructrons Butch Mrkos leaves Frank Skrba hrs stature of five feet four inches Mr Benort may benefit by a grft of Vrncent Mrngrone s jokes james Mongrllo s broken test tubes are presented to Jimmy Abate without charge Kevrn Mooney wrlls hrs all of a sudden stature to joseph Daddro who certarnly could use rt Marran O Keefe s red and whrte saddles are solemnly handed to jennre Moccra Dorothy Palazzr s ambrtron rs left to any eager beaver Paul Pascuazo donates hrs sax playrng talent to some future band member Mary Pepe cheerfully turns her make up slrps over to Pam Marcucro Florence Perez wrlls her shrewdness and cleverness to Robert Warlronrs Boots Prekarskr after due consrderatron retarns her grft of gab for future use Instead she parts wrth her gum leavrng rt to some unror Marro Polrferno calmly hands down hrs brutal temper to Freddy Palmrerr An abrlrty to laugh rs wrlled by Betty Potter to her brother jimmy Peppers Preneta bequeaths hrs rrresrstrble combrnatron of flashy socks tres and sweaters to Deedre Drrrenzo Glorra Romano tearfully leaves all cute ushers to rnx Phrlomena Sabetta yields her shy retrrrng nature to Polly Polrferno Angelrna Salemme bequeaths a strong affection for Mr Ryan to her brother The combrnatron to the office safe rs left to an enterprising young Freshman by Rrchard Salerno Pete Segenchuk donates an ambitious nature to some lazy Freshman Rosemary Spagnola s fast chatter rs grven to anyone clever enough to grasp rt Miss Garnsey rs wrlled a peaceful Senror homeroom rn the future by Salvatore Sprterr Phyllrs Starsrak leaves her delightful sense of humor covered by a quret manner to a junror admrrer Clara Testone presents Mr Coss wrth sleeprn g tablets Mfrrrlyn Tuttle s smrle rs grven without reservatrons to Mr Ryan Domrnrck Valentrno sadly takes leave of thrs rnstrtutron of hrgher learnrng leavrng hrs memorres to Ed Walker ean Vrllrnger s long eyelashes are donated to a junior grrl wrth beautrful eyes Alex Warlronrs leaves hrs bobbre prns to anyone who can gyp the barber four long years Robert Woods passes on hrs great studyrng abrlrty wrth due ceremony to Lours Matter From Paul Yocher Earl Grey recerves the schools camera equrpment Betty Zanowrak s chatterrng rs sincerely granted to her cousrn oan Jean Zyskoskr laughrngly relrnqurshes her joyous memorres of book drscussrons at good old D C C to Mr Benort Watnerrer Lors Gorors HELEN PIEKARSKI JOHN PRENHA GENEVIEVE Zyskoskr 35 3 7 ' Some hopeful drum majorette will benefrt by receiving Dolores Pettengill's glittery baton. , J ' - 3 7 , . , 7 s

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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 ' .

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E UTURE An enjoyable exenrng was before me as I settled myself rn a large, comfortable charr before the new telerrsron set I had purchased today I turned the dral to the vsell known statron W O W and dreamy musrc flooded the room as I recognrzed Don Lonardo s band Of course, I had known about Dons success rn the musrc world but I hadn t seen hrm srnce the gr rduatron festrvrtres rn June of 1948 when the members of our Senror class turned therr eyes to the future and prepared to undertake therr desrred posrtrons rn lrfe Don had changed slrghtly but I knew he had lost none of hrs frrendly pleasrng personalrty which contrrbuted much to hrs success Lours Della Monrca and Paul Pascuzzo were the star saxaphone players rn hrs orchestra and hrs srngers both former classmates of mme, vrere jean Adamson and Drno Mranr Much to my regret, the program ended shortly Several well known persons were featured next rn rnterestrng rntervrews I recognrzed Arlene Karlrns petrte figure clothed to perfectron for she was now a Hollywood stylrst Mary Duncan now a cover grrl model, was among those rntervrewed One could easrly understand how Mary had successfully attarned such a posrtron by notrcrng her brrllrant smrle Lourse Mason owner of a charn of Mason Luncheonettes extendrng across the state of Connectrcut, proved to lead an rnterestrng lrfe She was accompanred by two of her waitresses from a local luncheonette Glorra Cacchrllo and Betty Potter The Lookout at Derby Hrgh School had won a natron vr rde contest and Dolores Pettengrll faculty advrser was present to represent the magazrne Marro Polrferno an rrtrst md Salvatore Sprterr who vras nova a populrr man rn the mowres portrayrng humorous ch rracters were present Paul King hrd 1 most unusual occupatron of trapprng and sellrng the furs obtarned Ted Halet had pursued hrs career rn golfrng and wrs now a respected professronal Ann I-Iunrhan had dex eloped her hobby of photography rnto .1 successful career whrle Ioseph Cn rnpoalo had studied drlrgently to become 1 noted surgeon The program dren to 1 close bcfore I had realrzed rt and another one rn vrhrch the audrence partrcrpated, rnstantly captured my attentron especrally srnce I had attended school vr rth thc master of ceremonres Rrchard Salerno Rrch was lookrng well and hrs face was glow rng for he had recognrzed some of the partrcrpants as hrs former classmates john Preneta, vacatronrng from hrs dutres as a busrness executrve, had escorted to the program Mary Duggrn who had undertaken nursrng as a career Harry Francrhrnr now manager of the Rose land Bakery, Lors Crolob who held a secretarral posr tron Paul Yocher a carpenter, and Clara Testone a well known Powers model, were rn attendance Also present were jacquelrne Ambrrsco, owner of a repu table cleaners and lrbrarran Phyllrs Heffernan Trme passes all too qurckly and so the program drew to a close A nevrs broadcrst wrth Kevrn Mooney as the com mentator, brought me up to date on the latest happen rngs Senator Robert Woods had been confined to hrs home wrth rheumatrsm but was recoverrng raprdly hrs doctor, john Frlchak had reported to the Senator s secretary Patrrcra Caldwell, today Robert Dunn had agarn taken frrst prrze rn a yearly prrze bull con test Several Amerrcans had taken first prrze rn the Olymprcs thrs yerr Mrss jean McEnerrrey physrcal instructor vtho travelcd wrth the contestants to forergn countrres was well ple rscd wrth therr showrng Dorothy , . Y - ' '. . , , .. ., 4 . 4 . , . . . , . . . r , r r ' c 7 L1 . 4 . , ' . , ' - y 1 7 , , - 3 1 4 . , ,. . ' r K - 7 , , - . , , , 1 .1 1. 1. , I V 1 V - 1 I 4 'f ' 11 . ' 1 1 . r r .,