Enfield High School - Echo Yearbook (Enfield, CT)

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24 The Enfield Echo To ring down the curtain with a fitting quotation, I quote from Thomas Heywood who said: “The world’s a theatre, the earth a stage, which God and Nature do with actors fill.” THE CLASS PROPHECY OF 1939 (By Donald Sullivan, Helen Jedziniak, Thomas La Russa, Palma Mancini) Scene—Gypsy Camp Part I—By Donald Sullivan We the internationally known “Phoney Forecasters” have been requested by that remarkable and unforgettable Class of 1939 to peer into the future and prophesy coming events up to 1950. We are gypsies who have traveled from the Soviet to Sacramento. We are known for our ability to forecast the future aided by our magic kettle. As I gaze into the future, I see: Dorothy Allen as a school teacher out in the great plains of West Wallop. Mary Angelica and Virginia Chillson out in Hollywood where they are both fighting for the part of Scarlett O’Hara, I think that glamour girl Shirley Temple will get it. Leslie Andrew is still out in Pine Point where he is building a twenty-room cottage for the summer. Janet Armstrong, the boyfriends are still four deep in front of her house. Jean Bailes is the matron at the Prison for Women Drivers. Grace Cimino is her secretary. Adele Baj is at the head of Frank Cook’s hospital for aged dogs. Dorothy Vivier and Kenneth Pelkey have just finished their latest experiment of raising bananas without the peels. Agnes and Leona Baltronis are doing a sister act at Ernie Burgess’s “Nab and Stab Casino.” Nuvart Baronian and Margaret Cook are partners in a Speech Activity School with Evelyn Cormier acting as the Principal. Malcolm Bernier, the boy who looks like Joe Di Maggio, is bat boy for the Shaker Nine. Wanda Blondek runs a dude ranch for Marilyn Coons who is too busy taking care of her own dude, David Dolge. Charles Borski has just been elected coach of Enfield’s base- ball team because the team won the championship and the last coach got a stroke. Antoinette Bosco is happily married to that bread winner, Jerry Cardone.

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The Enfield Echo 23 ACT IV Scene—Same as preceding acts. Time—About 8 weeks later. Characters—Class of ’39 who have achieved the envious title of “Dignified Seniors.” To guide them in their Senior year, the Class of ’39 elects Ernest Burgess—President, Mary Sheehan—Vice-President, Jean Conley—Secretary, Donald Sullivan—Treasurer. To start the year ofF with a bang a large number of the class takes part in the annual Hi-Y Minstrel entitled “Nite Club Revue.” Stars of the show are David Johnston, Thomas Sullivan, Frank Morrison, Mary McNally, Janet Armstrong, Desmond Hyde and Robert Leggett. Mr. Langford directs again. Next they put on one of the most successful Senior Proms in years. Host David Dolge and Hostess Marilyn Coons present a striking appearance at this social affair. After their Christmas Vacation the Senior Class returns and begins work on the school play entitled “Come Out of the Kitchen.” Included in the “All Senior Cast” are Margaret Cook, Janet Campbell, Janet Armstrong, Eleanor Smith, Mary Halak, Raymond Kaminsky, Joseph Bosco, Alden Ridley, Francis Smith, Frank Morrison and Thomas Sullivan. The production is under the able direction of Miss Javorski. The one-act play “A Proposal Under Difficulties” represents Enfield in the one-act play festival. The director is Miss Collins and the cast is composed of Margaret Cook, Janet Campbell, David Dolge and Joseph Bosco. Enfield’s debating team finishes second in the State finals. The argumentative abilities of David Johnston, Frank Morrison, Mary Halak, Raymond Kaminsky, and Ruth Damon were the highlights of the debating campaign. The first week of May finds about 70 members of the Senior Class following the tradition of the annual Washington visit. The trip will live long in the memories of those who were fortunate enough to go. The Enfield High Static blossoms out into a first-class literary publication. Miss Crombie, the faculty advisor; Margaret Cook, the editor; and Margaret Leach, Katherine McLaren, Janet Campbell, Carol Horner, Stanley Nosal, and Hubert McCormack who made up the rest of the staff, have a lot to be proud of. In the list of outstanding athletes are the names of Borski, Melfa, Nosal, Porcello, Morrison, Scavatto, Bernier and Zawada. Most of these boys starred in sports all through their High School Careers. During the Junior and Senior Years the Class of ’39 lost two of its most respected members, Lottie Bigos and Frederick Fitzgerald. It is to them that we, the Class of ’39, dedicate this class history.

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The Enfield Echo 25 Joseph Bosco is a matinee idol with the W. P. A. Theater Guild. Barbara Bouchard is secretary for the big steel magnate, Donald Comstock, who by the way is still walking to Rockville to see his girl. Mary Cammilleri is a hairdresser at Irene Clarkin’s beauty parlor. Donald Campbell prints the “Shopping News” now instead of delivering it. Howard Hicks is leading an orchestra at the Cassotta Sisters’ Dine and Dance Palace. Frances Casavant is teaching pygmies the secrets of chemistry in dense, dark Africa. Nicholas Bartlotta has just been signed up in Hollywood to take the leading part in “The Great Lover.” Rita Charest has opened a beauty salon and she is her own best customer for cosmetics. Charles Comparetto the organizer of hitch-hikers of America has just completed a two day tour of Suffield and Somers. Frank Morrison and Jean Conley are happily stored away in a small bungalow with all of Frank’s camera equipment. Part II—By Helen Jedziniak Our magic kettle reveals the following interesting information : Alden Ridley living on his model cow farm in Scitico where he trains Jersey cows to eat Hershey bars and give malted milk. Then 1 quickly glance into Texas where 1 see Leger Starr as the model drugstore cowboy. Edward Ryan sits in the middle of Asia where he has just finished his latest edition on Chemistry entitled “How and When to Study It.” In Washington I notice Jane Wagg at the head of the taxicab monopoly. Now she can argue with the customer instead of the driver concerning the fare (as she did on her last Washington trip). Also spending time there is Senator Stephen Wence who is trying to push through a new bill for allowing students to attend class at their own convenience. My eyes tour the world and I see in India, Francis Symth play- ing strip poker with Mahatma Ghandi. In addition there is John Renals who is running a roller coaster concession in a park owned by Joseph Wlodkoski. I quickly move towards France and there I see “Tommy” Sullivan who is showing the thirty million Frenchmen where they were wrong. I also see Alice Szczepanek and Jennie Narewski who are there on a vacation from their jobs as models. They are looking for the same thirty million Frenchmen that “Tommy” Sullivan took care of. Marilyn Rush is there giving pointers to the French women as to how to become domestic, just like she was back in Enfield.