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30 The Enfield Echo THE CLASS PROPHECY OF 1938 (By Ruth Beeman, Marie Soricelli, Eva Richardson) Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is Station E.H.S. broadcasting this special program. Joseph Kurley, Mystery Chef, has very kindly given up his Cooking Class so that we may bring you the Reunion of the Class of ’38. We are coming to you from Reggie Charette’s Cocoanut Grove at Enfield, Connecticut. The music is furnished by Billy Brown and his Swingaroos with Leah Galloway, vocalist, and special songs by Marge Buck, night-club entertainer. We first take you to the lobby of this popular night spot. There is Siggie Ligenza, noted sports announcer, checking his hat and coat and smiling at the hat check girl Phyllis Merrill. With Siggie are Eddie Novak, professional basketball player and middleweight champion Alex Mika. Sherwood Cunningham, owner of the Cunningham, Cunningham Cunningham Department Stores, looks on. Well, look who is entering the lobby. It is Frank Wilson, wealthy yachtsman, and George Bomely, famous aviator. At closer inspection we find that Mr. Wilson has an infected ear. That giggle sounds familiar. It belongs to Valentina Luczai, glamorous divorcee, entering with song-writer, Jimmy Glista, who is expected to become her sixth husband. John Campbell and Billy Connor have just flown in from Washington, D. C. where they are working in the Photostatic Department. Scattered about the lobbv we see Katherine Conlin, opera star, Yale professor Anthony La Voi and Anthony Javorski, Nobel prize winner for his latest book. Also seen are Thompsonville’s mailman Fran Malley with socialite Ruth Green. We leave the lobby and are just in time to see the finish of the floor show featuring dancer, Jean Bourgeoise and her troupe of girls including Helen Karcz, Dot Tatro, Liz Mahon, Flo Malinoski, Helen Pilch and Fannie Siemonko. The spotlight is turned on the well-known Hollywood cele- brities, Solange Stafford and Jack Clarkin. At their table are Stevie Stevens, Dean of the Stevens Seminary for Stafford Springs girls. Eleanor Brigada, news commentator and writer, Dominick Destro, Connecticut Senator of the United States Congress and Evelyn Tatoian, lady dentist. Allyn Most, famous scientist who has just returned from Africa, is telling an amusing story to his group about playboy Mario Sarno, of the United Baking Co. Mario was teaching the African natives to do the Big Apple. With Most are Margaret Sarno, hair stylist, Albert Montana, the Henry Ford of ’58, Anna Lasievicz, head buyer in the Cunningham Department Stores.
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The Enfield Echo 29 urer. Solange Stafford and Francis Malley were elected to serve on the Executive Committee. The first important social event of the year was the annual Hi-Y Minstrel. It was presented following the plan of a show boat revue. Jane Leete and Kenneth Leach, along with many others from the Senior Class, played an important part in making it a success. Mr. Langford was again the director. The school play entitled “The Charm School” was presented under the direction of Miss Javorski. Grace Furey, Marion Duncanson, Edward Burns, Richard Stevens, Francis Malley, Theodore Eddy, and William Brown, all of the Senior Class, made up the greater part of the cast. The Senior Prom proved an enjoyable evening for many stu- dents, with Clyde Harris as host and Solange Stafford as hostess. A popular Gilbert and Sullivan light opera entitled “Pinafore” was given on May 20, under the able directorship of Mr. Merritt. Special mention should be made of the unique stage setting which was a product of the combined efforts of Mrs. Borck, Mr. Fowler and Mr. Tatoian. Leading parts were taken by Cynthia Birdsall, Katherine Soricelli and Sherwood Cunningham. The first week of May found about forty members of our Senior Class in Washington continuing the tradition of the annual Washington visit. Perfect weather, historical points of interest, pleasant companionships; all contributed toward an educational and happy trip. The history would not be complete without mentioning the names of our representatives on the debating team and in the field of sports. For two successive years Eleanor Brigada and Helen Parvelac brilliantly argued their way to victory. In the list of out- standing athletes we find the names of Charette, Novak, Leach, Harris, Ligenza, Wilson, Haznar, Stevens and Lamagna. As the time of our final gathering draws near, we are touched with regret for we must sever our happy relationships with our school and fellow students. The friendships and experiences that we have enjoyed during the past four years will never be effaced from our memory. We sincerely hope that as graduates of the Enfield High School we may maintain the reputation of the school and contribute to the progress of the community.
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The Enfield Echo 31 Lawrence Browne is escorting the Miceli Twins of the Miceli, Browne and Miceli Undertaking Parlors. We overhear a conversation among Jane Leete, May rose Trudeau and Mary Perry, girl internes, discussing the successful operation on steel magnate, Stanley Dynia, by Doctors Clyde Harris, Josephine Kukulka and Stanley Wojnar. This sober and professional atmosphere is interrupted by those radio comedians, Johnnie Hanrahan and Blanche Humphries. Miss Bee Bickford, debutante daughter of Beatrice Bishop Bickford, is making eyes at wealthy bachelor Edwin Smyth. Kathryn Kozazka, first woman manager of the Boston Bees Baseball Team and who is now starting an all girl baseball team, is autographing baseballs. Her girls’ team is made up of Stella Narewski, Julia Barszcz, Fannie Tokarczvk, Jennie Walaszck, Isabel Bayek, Mary Sachelli, Lilly Buscemi, Vincy Cammilleri, Sophie Petroski, Josephine Destro and Bernice Drodwill. Ralph D’Amato and Carlo Lamagna, the sound effects men, are seen at work as we pass to the Roof Garden, which was de- signed by Dolores Brown. Several teachers and secretaries are at a large table in the corner. Jean Triggs, Genevieve Karalinta, Florence Savage, Mary Eagleson, Esther Sharapan, Anna Puchinsky, Alice Kamaros and Helen Pawelec are teachers from Enfield High School. The secre- taries are Jeanette Gendron, Jennie Grojeski, Georgia Harlambakis, Agnes Mielnikiewicz, Alice Dedonis and Frances Pawelcik. A new dance has been invented by Mary Malley. It is called the Sliced Banana. Among those doing this tasty dance are the two farmers John Haznar and Arthur Mullen accompanied by Florence Halak, model, and Florence Desrocher, policewoman. Also dancing are Cecile Hydack, manicurist, Marion Humphries, secretary to Mayor Edward La Grange, Doris Johnston, still up- holding the old chicken tradition, and Ted Eddy, the radio, “Believe It or Not.” There are Cynthia Birdsall, lecturer on the prison reform movement and Grace Furey, Hollywood dress designer, with Kenny Leach and Walter Markowski, popular golf team. Although Miss Birdsall is escorted by Walter they seem to be having a heated argument. We spy another sports celebrity, Marion Duncanson, tennis star who won the Davis Cup this year. Katherine Soricelli, horse- woman and owner of the Kentucky horse stables, is dancing with Eddie Burns, Broadway producer of the latest hit, “The Last Hope.” Miss Soricelli’s partner, Iola Chapin, is discussing tomor- row’s race with jockey Buddy Sheehan and woman lawyer, Genevieve Rarus. Alcine Buckingham, American ambassador to France, just re- turned on the Normandie and is discussing her trip with Edward Sheehan, philanthropist, who has just given Enfield High School
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