Enfield High School - Echo Yearbook (Enfield, CT)

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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.

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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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16 The Enfield Echo Hollywood Gossip Our home town ce’ebrity, 1 Mary Alaimo, is seeking em- i ployment at Warner Bros, g Studies. She was released be- 1 rause of her naive refusal to g k;ss her leading man at re- § hearsals. Margaret August has picked g a perfect dance partner for l her new picture, “Dancing §j Dawn.” He is none other than g that foot-loose and fancy-free, g ex-gigolo, heart-breaker Justin i Monson (late of the Cafe 1 Paree). j A double has at last been § found for Slim Summerville, g You’ve guessed it—Adolph § Eddo Wing. We think his g name will soon be in the g bright lights of Broadway. Maureen Tierney has just | returned from London after g giving the Englishmen a 1 break. She will start on her g new picture shortly. Est. 1940 Tel. U-2 1 BERGEN KELLY Undertaking Parlors Main St. Longmeadow 1 Make an appointment at BARBARA CHAPIN’S BEAUTY SALON Permanent Waves - Marcels Multiply Your Pleasure By Adding A Bit Of Whoopee Then Subtract Thirty From Your Pocketbook and Give your undivided attention to MANNING’S MINIATURE MONTE CARLO Broadway at 42nd Street Jewels checked at the door. BELLICO LAWTON FAMOUS DANCE TEAM — Added Feature — MARY KUKULKA Famous Platinum Blond High Diver Cultivate a Musical Voice See RUTH GANNER. After 9:00 P. M. Ladies $1.00 Gents 50c 50 Fairlawn Ave., Hazardville Milo Duane Wilcox, Esq. Specializes in Land Re-claiming Office Hours: 3:00 - 3:45 Tel. 234-0