Enfield High School - Echo Yearbook (Enfield, CT)

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10 The Enfield Echo friends and we went to the Roxy Theater one evening. We were entertained by the famous ballet dancer, Emily Farrick. I hadn’t seen Emily for a year or more so I went back stage after the show. Evidently I wasn’t the only one with that idea for I met Gloria Larson there. Gloria is taking Walter Winchell’s place as a re- porter for the stars in Hollywood. She is on the radio five times a week over a nation wide hook up. Emily mentioned that she had been visited by Stella Guminieak a night or two ago. Stella is in show business herself and has a promising career ahead of her in Hollywood.” Marjorie: “Michaline Dusza previously supervising scenery at M.G.M. Studios in Hollywood, now has the duty of seeing Walt Disney personally and showing him the ideas of Rosalie D’Aleo. She is the creator of ‘Numbo’ the Wolf. She got the idea at Enfield High School. John: “Hollywood is not the only place that has our local talent but also the sporting field—Paul ‘Ted Husing’ Mancini gives his home town buddies, Bill O’Brien, pitcher for N. Y. Yankees, a plug in his column ‘Play Ball’ whenever he can. Bob Keller is coaching football and baseball at the United Nation’s University established in Switzerland for the purpose of training boys of all nations. Edward Kazmerski is his chief assistant and is in charge of the track team. He claims that he now has a four minute miler and he will race him in Enfield. Harris Hicks, who is in charge of the physical education program at Tuskegee Institute, in Alabama, predicts that he will produce the All-American team of colored champions this year.” Wanda: “Keeping the students of Enfield in the sharpest con- dition are Coach Steve Triolo and Physical Ed. Teacher Ann Sca- votto. Gen O’Hara and Esther Radosti are back at Enfield, now as teachers. Perhaps they appreciate the struggle the teachers had in keeping them quiet.” Warren: “While at the Hotel Astoria one night, the world’s hottest jazz band under the leadership of Harry James Therrian was playing. Some of the members are Don Richards on the clari- net, Baronian on the drums, and Sadie Luczai at the key board. Pert little Doris Bechard does the vocalizing. On the same program is Irene Ludwin. Irene has just come back from a personal appear- ance tour of Europe and Asia. Interesting to note is, that all of Irene’s costumes were designed by Margaret O’Connor who recently had won the coveted honor of designing costumes for Women’s Auxiliary Service Units.” Marjorie: “The war has had a direct influence on many of our classmates. Lt. Francis Hanks of the Quartermaster Corps at Bradley Field has been widely acclaimed for his influence in passing the new rule in regard to army life. It is now possible for the soldiers to have their breakfast in bed as long as they are up by 5:30 A.M. Another phase of the war was the women mechanics

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The Enfield Echo 9 about him. As a mechanical engineer, Edwin is making a name for himself. At present he is completing plans for a plastic airplane with plastic and cellophane wings. Back in high school we thought that almost everything possible had been done to the airplane but if anything more can be done, Edwin is the one to do it. “Why here come Pilot Warren Haight and Flight Engineer, John Rarus.” Warren: “We heard through the communication system that you were reminiscing and we thought we’d join in. We were re- lieved by Joe Wenc and Joe Czipulis.” John: “Do you remember when Henry Bellinger was appointed chief of the A.A.P.A. (the Anti-Axis Propaganda Administration) ? When Dr. Goebels heard him he knew he was through, so there was another suicide in Nazi Germany. Also another genius of our class, Arthur Morris, now an eminent scientist, has employed Roberta McGuire to be his assistant. He is contemplating a trip to Mars to see how the law of gravity really works.” Warren: “During the time I have been piloting this plane I have transported Francis Lutwinas to China where he has tried his luck at farming. He tried to persuade Warren MacGovern to go with him but Warren was too interested in his book, ‘How to Foil Escape from Prison’ to leave. Nevertheless, Helen Mockrycki, of the local ‘Girl Victory Garden Club’ fame consented to go along. In China they met Patricia McGinity, a nurse, engaged in rehabil- itation work, trying to get home. Ella Raffia secretary to George Maylott, head of the ‘U Lika Go, We Lika Take’ Travel Bureau, finally arranged her passage home.” Marjorie: “Speaking of farmers, Donald Graham recently in- vented a device for preventing the flies from bothering the cows. Don invented this in his spare time on the farm and he is now in Washington applying for a patent. During his absence, his brother, Gordon Graham, is managing his farm along with his own. They have adjoining farms on the outskirts of the city of Hazardville. Gordon is working on some experiments for getting chickens to lay square eggs so that they can be packed more economically.” John: “The most photographed model in New York, Irene Bourque, is posing for those creative gowns of Marion Boland on Park Avenue. Irene still keeps that streamlined figure. Tim Con- ley, her manager, sees to that.” Wanda: “Myrtle Merrill, Miss America 1950, is being starred in her next picture ‘Why Men Prefer Blondes’ or ‘Blondie and Donald.’ It is also rumored that Miss Merrill has employed Edith Magill to provide her with witty remarks. Edith’s book ‘A Remark for Every Occasion’ is still rated number 1 on the nation book- shelves.” Wanda: “Robert Starr, Hollywood’s new glamour boy, made his debut at the premiere at the Franklin Theater.” Warren: “Last month I was in New York with some

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The Enfield Echo II who did much to win the war for us. They are still the essential part of the world and Frances Kukulka is doing work along this line in recovered Poland. She is Rehabilitation Director of the Warsaw Industries, Inc.” John: “Members of the WAVES Training School at North- ampton, Mass., Sophie Korona, Aspacia Kamaros, Theresa Du Bois, and Sadie Mancuso are being taught by that expert on dentistry, Jennie Buczkowski. These girls plan to make a set of false teeth that will automatically come out when the body gets fatigued and gets ready for bed. Gobs Francis Padrevita, Milton Landry, Wil- liam Munsell, and Matthew Bajek, are being ‘put through the ropes’ by Lt. (J.G.) Peter Buscemi. They are training to be gunners without the triviality of shooting guns.” Wanda: “We find Lucyan Augustyniak a camouflage artist in the United States Army. He is personally responsible for the camouflage of General Douglas MacArthur’s cars. Captains Sec- ondo and Stevenson, while on a special government mission in Washington, saw Fannie Tomaszek, Hallie Stevenson, Virginia Young, and Jennie Sarno in the White House as private secretaries to the President of the United States. Also while there, they met Congresswomen Jean Tomoka and Miriam Ryan who had come to Washington to pass a bill to have a childrens’ village established in every state in the Union.” Warren: “Those three smart girls around town, Margaret McKelligott, Bertha Gracewski, and Mildred O’Donnell have moved to Washington, D. C. They are employed in the Bureau of Vital Statistics on Japan. Their job is to find out what happened to the Japanese race.” Marjorie: “Did you know that that unmistaken red head, Edith Green has been in the Fiji Islands? She went there as a missionary but realized that a bigger profit could be made teaching home eco- nomics to the cannibals. She had a bright feather in her hat which reminded me of the fact that Joseph Krajewski is experimenting with ostriches on his farm in Africa. He is trying to get the ostrich feathers to grow in colors so it won’t be necessary to dye them.” John: “Rose Aloisa and Mary Angelica are working on a new hat that will be 100% revolutionary. It will be just a plain ordinary bonnet. Jennie Ludwin is the head seamstress in their factory.” Wanda: “This morning I noticed in the paper a ‘Help Wanted’ item stating that Leonard Landry, who has taken up residence on Lonely Rock as a lighthouse keeper, was looking for someone to assist him in serving his life sentence so that he could get away and get married. Doesn’t he know when he is well off?” Warren: “That neat figure skater, Genevieve Podosek and her financial and personal manager, Gladys Bonk, have toured North- ern Alaska. While there they met Mary Coronna trving to set up a factory making air conditioning units to be installed in igloos. It is now ‘The Thing’ in Eskimo society to have a Coronna Appliance.”