Enfield High School - Echo Yearbook (Enfield, CT)

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14 The Enfield Echo Because Malcolm Krolisky, u cartoonist for the “New York jg Times,” has been doing excel- 1 lent work, the National Ad- g vertising Corporation of | America has offered him a g position on its staff. They 1 want Mr. Krolisky to draw g the models for the cigarette g ads. Social g Jeannette Landry, interna- | tionally known authority on g children’s paper dolls, will be g the guest speaker at a chil- g dren’s banquet to be given un- g der the auspices of the Holly- g wood Petite Paper Doll Club. j§ Jeannette Smith has just {§ remodeled her summer home 1 and is having open house for g the week-end. Casinghino’s | orchestra will supply the mu- | sic. Soloists will be the noted g blues singers, Charles Torre g and Genevieve Lucay. Deco- g rations will be in charge of j| Miss Olive Birdsall, the inte- g ricr decorator. Miss Lois E. King is giving g a garden party at her home g on Boulevard Road, Friday g afternoon at 2.00. Miss Marion g Cook of Spauldings, has 1 attractively decorated the ta- 1 bles with a number of her g special “West” orchids. Ma- g dame Genia Cygan, designer g from Paris, will have her girls = model the American woman’s g wardrobe. Madame is unable g to attend, but is sending her § assistant Shirley Halsted. 1 Models will be Miriam Mon- i son, Evangeline Raisse, Lor- g raine Davis, Evelyn Rachwal- sld, Ruth Thompson and Celia Quinn. Chef Stewart Block will serve a buffet luncheon at 5.00 in the reception room. The program will consist of violin solos by Charles Destro, an Apache Dance by William Lamont and Muriel Bostick, and the “Prisoner’s Song” by Mary Brutto, radio singer. Bernadine Scavotto, a well known opera singer, will be heard tonight over station ELK at 9.30. Miss Scavotto was born in a small Connecti- cut town and was graduated from Enfield High School in 1936. After leaving high school she took lessons for three years at the Matthew Lezak Conservatory in New York. She then studied in Italy under the direction of Samuel La Russa. Recently she returned to America and in 1944 sang before Arthur B'iowen, conductor of the Metropolitan Opera House. This is to be her first radio appearance. Social (Cont.) Yvonne Du Bois, governess for the Dionne Quintuplets, is back in town for a week’s va- cation. The Quints are now touring the United States un- der the direction of their pro- moter, Josephine Kurly. Miss Nancy Alaimo, head of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, will ad- dress a meeting of the local chapter which is headed by Miss Harriet Cairnduff. The committee in charge of the

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The Enfield Echo 13 nowned inventor of comforts §§ for cows, has completed his g new contrivance devised for g the protection of cows against jj flies, mosquitos and bees. This little device has only | to be attached to the tail of g the animal, plugged into an jj electric light socket and in- jj stantly the suction carries all i the insects into the mouth of j the contrivance, where there g is a jellylike substance which §| makes it impossible for the in- g sect to get away. Senate Charges Bills Bill Boyle and Bill Mad- 1 docks, heads of the Pacific g Munitions Works, are up be- g fore the Senate Munitions In- l quiry Board on the charge of g selling water pistols to school g boys. The Blow-’Em-Up boys’ g two secretaries, Helen Bal- 1 tronis and Genevieve Senio, g are also being questioned. Local News Louis Cavaleri has moved g’ his Elite Meat Market from l his old quarters on Frew g Terrace to the center of the g town on Bridge Lane. H Miss Frances Antinore, j§ clerk in the Gum Drop Candy g Shop, is thinking of getting a 1 job as a train announcer, g While she was riding in the g elevator the other day it g dropped three stories and 1 Miss Antinore swallowed her g lollypop. She has brought suit g against Helen Sordoski, the g proprietor, and Christine §§ Warren, the clerk. Grace i Lamagna was the former Ij proprietor. = Ruth Bridsall and Marian Caramazza, local librarians, announce the addition of sev- eral new bocks to the shelves of the library, x’he new nov- els are: “Where Is That Man” by Evelyn Runkey, “Dancing Lady,” by Eleanor Davis and “Horrors” by Gladys Most. Vinci Alaimo, nurse in the Naval Hospital at Hampton Roads, Virginia has been transferred to the Naval Hos- pital in Hawaii. New additions to the teach- ing staff of the Scitico High School are Betty Patterson, who will teach Commercial Law, Eileen Mahon, Social Civics and Esther Byron, the new gymnastics instructor. Vincetta Angelica has ob- tained the position of cashier in Adela Klaus’s Hill Side Garage. Local News (Cont.) Miss Mary Petraska will be heard over this station tonight at 6.45. She is to start a new children’s program. Mother Goose stories and songs will be featured. Miss Martina Marinaccio, who runs the En- field Print Shop, will be her accompanist. The program is being sponsored by the E. Steele Silk Stocking Company. Alwena Lehman has opened a new Bakery on Pearl Street Extension. For one day only a dozen of rolls is to be given away with each purchase that comes to more than a dollar.

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The Enfield Echo 15 refreshments includes Sophie E Mientus, Helen Mika, Alice = Gamache and Ernita Morse. Winnie Ludwin, famous = aviatrix, will speak tonight at § the Drum Corps hall. Miss § Ludwin is a friend of Drum | Major Margaret Landry. Al- i freda Pluto will give a tap i dance. = The Reverend Thomas i Brennan, who has been trav- = eling in Africa, will preach g the sermon at the United §| Church on Sunday. The choir = will be led by the soprano, |j Helen Thompson. Miss Doris Sisitsky, New E York society leader, returned E from Europe Wednesday. Du r- E ing this trip to fourteen Euro- 1 pean countries, she was E accompanied by her three sec- i retaries, Eleanor Quinlan, E Janet Wadsworth and Helen E Narewski. Miss Sisitsky is I shortly to be married to Count § Count-Yer-Nickles of Nickel- = odio. = SPORTS Local Boy Wins Derby Bob Spier, noted jockey, i rode “Half-Pint” to a victory j| in the Kentucky Derby yester- = day, winning by two lengths. j§ “Half-Pint” is owned by E Evelyn Dixon, latest child E actress to succeed Shirley E Temple. Eugene Osikowicz on E “Brevity” came in second. Carl Rostek, owner and j§ trainer of “Blue Boy Destro,” 1 won the preliminary race. |j Carl was called upon to give his secret of getting horses into shape. He explained that there is nothing to it. All you have to do is give the horse a good ink bath. This, he says, takes out the laziness. Pete Kaminsky, Frank Lo- cario, Joseph Bania and Catcher Wally Strycharz have just joined the Yanks of Scit- ico, owned by Leroy Oliver. Dick Organ’s ambition was partly realized yesterday. Organ’s ambition was to make the big league within fifteen years. Although he is five years late, Manager Leroy Oliver has appointed Organ as assistant water boy of the Yanks. John Santanella, after win- ning the United States Davis Cup matches for the third successive year, has finally decided to give up the game. He says that as long as there is a shortage of competition he will spend most of his time to furthering the game of ping-pong. Pee-Wee Mangerian won a victory over Big Turk Davis after three hours of hard and bloody fighting. Sports com- mentators consider the Turk one of the most pitiless men in the neck breaking business. Bill Sidway, ace fielder for the “Take It Easy” baseball team, eloped with Miss Eileen Warren last night. They plan to spend their honeymoon riding elevators in New York.