Enfield High School - Echo Yearbook (Enfield, CT)

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12 The Enfield Echo important notes on the writing of their new simplified stenography book. In the same group was Marion Hayden, who told me that she will introduce the book when it is completed. The plane left the ground with a beautiful take-off, and I boarded my train to Chile. I haven’t met any more of our classmates, but I did receive a letter from Constance Agrapides who is now in California. She wrote me an interesting letter in which she said: Dear Wanda, The other day I attended California’s Big League Football Game with Anthony Siana and Francis Panella as its star players. In the bleachers I met Jack Becker and Charles Robinson, now head engineers of the San Francisco Engineering Co. As one of the football players was injured, he was immediately taken to the Western Memorial Hospital, where Mary Porcello is superintendent of nurses and Josephine Caramazza is head nurse in the operating room. While I was at the Fashion Shop yesterday, I talked to their expert dressmakers, Audrey Howard and Caroline Legienza. They informed me that Terence Burke is Dean of the University of California, whose renowned faculty consists of Shirley Landry, Claire Rush, and Janice Ryan. By the way, did you know that Edith Criscitelli has established her Beauty Salon on Main Street? Her assistant, Virginia Slick, has achieved prominence as an outstanding hair stylist. I recently dined at the Crystal Club and saw Donald Brown and Edward Wojnar leading their swing orchestra. Dancing to their music were Robert Watton, principal agent of the Central Union Insurance Co., and his lovely secretary, Jean O’Brien. Other stenographers employed in this office are Ann Lamagna and Genevieve Ward. Oh yes, Gilbert Pierce wen first prize for his farm products at the recent County Fair. Lila Reed has written me that she has secured a position as secretary to a business executive. Helen Kamay will also be em- ployed in the same office. As suddenly as Wanda left me I found myself in Quebec talk- ing to Clemens Polek. He said: Hello Bob! It was on the tenth anniversary of my graduation from Enfield High that I spent a vacation in Quebec, Canada, where I met many of my former classmates of 1944. I took a large twelve- engined transport plane from the Windsor Locks Airport, which was flown by John Conboy with Edwin Bourque as his co-pilot. As I was sitting very comfortably in one of the large chairs, Josephine Angelica and Janet Tierney came up to greet me. They were both stewardesses aboard the plane. I had previously heard that Fred Bomely was president of the “Pay As You Go Insurance Company,” of Canada and I was anxious

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The Enfield Echo pitching staff. Running the business department of the Yankee organization were Jean Panella and Carmelina DiMaria. Carmelina is now in the New York Yankee’s Office in Mexico City. I stepped into the model department of the W. T. Grant Co., and saw Con- cetta Angelica, Miss Connecticut of 1953, and now Miss America of 1954. She has been very helpfully aided in her quest for the championship by her manager, James Caronna. For classical en- joyment I went to see Janet Bromage, a famous Metropolitan opera star, now playing in the nationally known Strand Theater. Feeling a bit hungry, I stopped at Annette’s Coffee Shop, owned and operated by Annette Vasseur. It is located in the former resi- dence of “Ye Old Town Tavern.” In her employ are Stacia Olech- ney, Margaret Sferrazza, and Mary Fowler. Glancing across the aisle, I met David Bordua’s “Hello”. Dave has become known as the second Wendell Willkie because of his basic arguments on the leading subjects confronting the country. Bordua is running neck and neck with President Roosevelt in the race for the presidency. It is rumored that Bordua has a slight chance to win his way to the White House. Then I met Wanda Pierog, now living in Argentina and before I could recognize her, she was talking to me. Hello, Robert. Say, have you heard that Raymond Ligenza and John O’Brien are organizing an Argentina baseball team? Their agent, Francis Martin, is booking games with Myles Ken- nedy’s Ace Welders. I understand that Claire Pare, that famous South American dietitian, prepares the meals to keep the Welders in proper physical condition. Miss Pare’s efficient secretary is Mary Theofiles. Incidentally, Lillian Johnston is also a secretary working for Clemens Polek in the scientific research department of the Neelans Klimek Museum. Polek is now in Quebec doing research work. Miss Neelan’s private secretary is Constance Agrapides who is leaving next month to tour the United States. Anne Purdy will fill this vacancy. 1 understand that Maricn Gaetani, a very efficient nurse, takes care of the exhibits which trace the evolution of the human body since the days of the cave man. I learned from Joan Kennedy that Thomas Cammilleri will open a modernized funeral home here in Buenos Aires. Miss Kennedy has accepted the position as secretary to this rapidly ris- ing businessman. While in Buenos Aires, I attended the Argentina Conservatory of Music where Therese Starr has been playing to an enthusiastic audience. From the Buenos Aires Press, I learned that Betty Myers had played there for two months. Going from Buenos Aires to Chile, I met Edmund Renals pilot- ing a passenger plane headed for Africa. The hostess was Annette Landry, that cheerful glamour girl, who seemed to be enjoying her conversation with Lillian Ryan. Miss Ryan was traveling to Africa with her employers, the Misses Longmore Buck in order to take

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The Enfield Echo 13 to see him about some life insurance. His personal secretary is Eileen Robinson. I arrived at the Shangri La Airport in Quebec about 10:30. The airport looked strange to me so I began a sightseeing tour. In one of the so-called hangars, I saw Henry Sidor repairing a new type of helicopter, which was the queerest thing anyone could imagine. My next visit was to the Department of Agriculture, where I found Edwards Potwine and Joseph Perry working on a book entitled, “How to Raise Weeds.” It was nearly noon, so I asked Joseph where I could get a good lunch. He advised me to go to the Best Foods Restaurant, owned and operated by Jennie Zawada. While I was eating my lunch two tall handsome fellows entered the restaurant. I soon recognized them as Robert Fournier and Donald Perry. Bob told me he was a correspondent for the North American Daily News and that Donald Perry was his most able cartoonist. The intense heat made me very thirsty so I went into the Walgreen Drug Store for a milk shake. To my surprise I saw Peter Radosti, the proprietor of this store and Bertha Petraska, his book- keeper. My supply of money was diminishing rapidly so the next day I went to the Bank of Canada to cash some of my ten-year-old bonds from the last World War. Behind a big stack of bills were Joan Fahey and Rose Angelica. Rose told me that Florence Moschetti was a gym teacher in one of the high schools of the city. I wanted to see how this school ranked with Enfield, so I ventured out to look at it. As I was walking through the playgrounds I saw Saverio De Caro giving a group of boys a terrible workout. His basketball team had won the championship four times. When returning to my hotel that evening, I met Irene Mercier and Elspeth Stowe leaving a large beauty parlor after a hard day’s work. Irene remarked that she had recently talked to Dorothy Dobrozensky in the nursing school of the “Quebec Hospital” for men. The hotel was sponsoring a dance that night which I attended. Dancing the South American rumba was Dorothy Jacobs. Then Polek informed me that he had to go to Mexico to trans- act some business for his employers, and before I could say “Jack Robinson” we were in Mexico. There I met my old classmate Carmelina DiMaria, who stopped to talk to me. Hello Robert. I haven’t seen you for almost ten years. That certainly is a long time. I suppose you’ve met some of our former classmates here in Mexico. Edward Zebrowski, the well-known literary genius, is visiting this country to collect material for his latest novel. June Magnuson, the first woman to become president of the Third National Bank, has engaged Rita Vesce as her private secre-