Enfield High School - Echo Yearbook (Enfield, CT)

Page 28 text:

26 The Enfield Echo Jean Oates that well-known opera star is giving a concert for the benefit of the aged members of the Class of 1939. I swiftly focus my eyes on Russia where that famous Com- munistic leader Robert Underwood is giving a soap box speech on nothing in particular and everything in general. Mary Sheehan and Delia Swades are also there trying to teach the Russian women how to save time by planting zippers with the potatoes so they won’t have to peel them later on. Evelyn Santenella is at the head of the Salvation Army in Enfield. Elizabeth Watton, Dorothy Tamulis, and Sarah Theofiles are models at a dress shop which is owned by Elizabeth Shea where Katherine Russoto is a fully equipped commercial advertiser. John White is a full fledged radio operator on a ship bound for the wilds of Borneo. Edmund Zawada and Eli Raffia, two sports writers, are taking a trip on the same boat. To supply the demand for all day suckers Mary Santenella and Mary Shea have opened their new and elaborate lollypop shop. Frank Zyck has just opened a restaurant in Enfield where his star customers, William Jatkevicius and Mary Roczniak, newly elected coaches of a basketball team keep him pretty busy. Sophie Pierz, Fannie Pohorylo and Carmel Soricelli are on a hunting expedition looking for strange animals for the zoo owned by Eleanor Smith. Last, but not least, is Enfield’s own “King of Rhythm” Dcnald Sullivan who is teaching the natives in Africa how to beat the tom toms. Part III—By Thomas La Russa As I dabble in the future, I see: Arthur Manning beating on the drums at Mike Melfa’s new night club in Powder Hollow. As a feature attraction there is Eileen Sullivan and Bob Leggett, the new dancing team. The magic pot reveals Hubert McCormack Public Enemy No. 1 being captured by Henry Polek latest of the G-Men. Teddy Ludwin noted shyster rushes to McCormack’s defense. As the bubbling water clears, it reveals Marie Lord who has a millionaire in her old classmate, Thomas La Voi. Jeanette Lehmann has secured a position in the State Employ- ment Agency where she is the state critic. Janice Neelans newly appointed state supervisor has just com- pleted a civil service test. In far away Italy I see John Provenzano playing in Mussolini’s musical unit. In Enfield Vincent Porcello has just finished walking his last mile to the altar with Edna Matyskela. Stan Luczai has just won the ten-mile walking race. Palma Mancini has secured the position of head dress designer

Page 27 text:

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.

Page 29 text:

The Enfield Echo 27 at Alfred Lees’s exclusive dress shop in Scitico. Vivian MacFawn noted society woman, is her most elite customer. Lena Maggio has just opened up an Ice Cream Parlor in Alaska, and her best patron is Katherine McLaren, noted tennis champ, who uses snowballs and snowshoes to play the game. Earl Pelkey left Mary McNally waiting at the altar so that he could pop the question to his old flame, Mary O’Hara. Nathalie Nuccio and John Rybick are winning new acclaim and laurels for being the new jitterbug champs of the country. Josephine Piorek has become the Greta Garbo of the stage. Marjorie Malley has just been appointed first woman mail carrier in Thompsonville. Helen Navikonis recently secured her fifth divorce from the well-known explorer, Joseph Scavatto. Sophie Pcdosek has become adviser to the lovelorn and some of her best clients are Jean Moore, Molly Miltner, and Cynthia Oliver. Louis Sperrazza, alias “Little Caesar,” just robbed the Babies Lollypop Bank stealing 3,000 lollypops. ‘ Charles Brutto has just found a new way of shaving without the use of cream or razor. The method he uses is the spreading of milk on his chin and the cat licks it off. Joseph Italiano just broke the record of filibustering: He talked for five days in a row in order to stop Senator Stan Nosal’s bill concerning W. P. A. funds in the rocky hills of Suffield. Part IV—By Palma Mancini The magic kettle does not contain much more information but I can make out a few more details: Carmela Criscitelli, a noted foot doctor, and her two assistants, Ruth Damon and Mary Di Lorenzo, are holding a patient down while she goes to work. James Gaetani is a family man with four children and his poor wife, Wanda Koski is being worked to death. Carmelina Di Fredo is the new Physical Instructor at Enfield High and she is proving her new theory that you can just as well teach the students sitting down as standing up. Oh, here is an interesting future, Lillian Gemme has become the wife of that great Metropolitan tenor Desmond Hyde. There’s Genevra Hastings, that lovely little debutante, and that heartbreaking Romeo Joseph Goles who are altar-bound. Margaret Leach has been modeling street clothes at the famous restaurant “Sloppy Jane” which is owned by Lillian and Doris Kelly. Some of the waitresses there are Mary Halak, Irene Hoersch and Ellen Gibson. Thomas La Russa, that famous criminal lawyer, has a very