Enfield High School - Echo Yearbook (Enfield, CT)

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The Enfield Echo 25 CLASS PROPHECY (By Constance Angelica, Elaine Carmel, Robert Triggs) With the previous speakers we have been hearing facts, and though it was pleasant, it is much more fun to drift to dream-land. So let’s glide away to a land of promise, the land of the future, and discover what the class of ’41 has done to make this old world appreciate us. Let us drift into the greatly expanded, up-to-date city of Enfield in the year 1951. This is the same Enfield that we know now, as far as customs of generosity and happiness go, but the physical aspect has been greatly changed. This has not been achieved entirely through the constant efforts of the graduates of 1941, though we would like to have you believe that. As we saunter down Main Street, the first building that catches our eye is the Thompsonville Savings Company. The name of Thompsonville’s first woman president, Miss Dorothy Gourlie, is modernistically printed on the window. Inside we discover her able assistants, Adella Berozky and Genevieve Pietrusza. George Merrill, teller, finds his job an easy and interesting task, working with Miss Noreen Miltner. He doesn’t mind Miss “Cash” either. Fanny Korona and Rita Crabtree, teachers at Enfield High are depositing their hard-earned money, while Evelyn Duggan at her keyed machine tries not to be so noisy. At the “Floweret” operated by Miss Elizabeth Wishart, we find Betty fixing her window display of pink roses, her week-end specialty. Helen Manning, our lady lawyer, who defended Mike McGuirk last week, comes in and orders a dozen of pink roses. They are to be sent to Mike at the Prison Farm, now run by Mary Parvelac. Up the street a way we see the exclusive shoppe of the well-known dress designer, Miss Barbara Magill. Working for her are Stella Klebosky and Lydia Polec. Miss Marion Charette, best dressed woman about town, is Miss Magill’s best customer. What would Marion do without Barbara? Rushing toward us in quite a dilemma, we find Betty Snow, her dress literally covered with mud; excitedly she asks to be directed to “A. W. Bostick Cleaning and Dyeing Enterprise.” Entering a tiny little dainty shoppe, the “Lamont Shoppe,” which specializes in clothing for short women, we find Lena Rossi, champion roller skater of New England. She is conferring with Miss Lamont about purchasing a purple and green striped outfit. Behind the hosiery counter we find Frank Slapski, helping Anna Dubois select a pair of size 12 stockings for Florence Lynch, private secretary to Roscoe Goodwin, inventor of a wheel-less bicycle. Miss Dorothy Hayden is also there purchasing a “Whirl Wind” hat for employer Eileen Slade, now taking care of the teeth of Enfield’s citizens.

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The Enfield Echo 27 Along side Miss Lamont’s Shoppe is the S. S. S. Shoppe, the “Smart Set Sews Shoppe,” established by Miss Anne Eagleson. In goes Jackie Thompson to take her forty-ninth lesson. Is darn- ing a stocking still a day’s work, Jackie? Elena DeCaro has the smartest Beauty Parlor on Main Street. Her broomstick coiffure, which takes three days to dry, is quite the rage. Catherine Santanella who is working for Elena tells us about Chester Luczai’s prize cow, which tips the scales at 202. Catherine tells us that if we want to see it we ought to go to the County Fair. So off we start in our rickey old 1941 Buick (amaz- ing how long these cars last, isn’t it?) Our journey takes us out through Elm Street which has been re-named Wonder Avenue. To our surprise and bewilderment we find those once vacant, deserted, golden fields of Elm Street have now been turned into a gigantic airport. Its owner and operator is Miss Constance Angelica, well-known business woman. Those beautiful hangars that stretch across the land were designed by Stella Petroski and Co. A plane has just landed and a group of nurses tumble out of the beautiful ship. This is the first year that the Thompsonville nurses are having a convention. Among the familiar faces, we see Kathleen McConn, Eileen Hanrahan, and Eleanor Bak. Josephine Yuskis, our famous majorette, descends with her private secretary, Miss Jean LaGrange. Up at the pilot’s control we see Harold Reed, ace pilot. Speaking of pilots, did you know that Rose Reveruzzi is test pilot in an elevator at the Stella Swist Department Stores? We must hurry to get to the fair before dark, so we leave these people going merrily along. Quite a few are taking the subway to Springfield to see the newest show, “Enfield on the March.” Among them is Josephine Romano, scientist for Enfield, who is experimenting with tobacco worms. After a few minutes of riding, the fair grounds come into view. The grounds are divided into two parts, the domestic and the animal shows. In the domestic part we see Anna Wietecha, displaying her home-made jellies and jams. Louise Breen is dis- playing her latest frock creation, a shoulderless raincoat. Mary Shlatz and Nina Buscemi are competing for the blue ribbon given for the best apple pie. On the grandstand at the farther end of the field we find Geraldine Martin and Helen Pierog as gracious judges for the day. In the animal section we see the fore-mentioned prize cow, owned by Chester Luczai. William Comstock has been awarded a medal for the fastest-racing pigeon. David Beckman now holds a blue ribbon for creating a skinless, eyeless, potatoless, potato. Who do we see at the hot dog stand ? The one and only Andy Siana. He pompously informs us that he is now working on a newspaper staff. The paper is owned, operated and edited by Irma McKittrick. The assistant editor is former police commissioner,