Enfield High School - Echo Yearbook (Enfield, CT)

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SENIOR HONOR STUDENTS STUDENT TICKER STAFF

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The Enfield Echo 9 To find out what had become of some of our classmates, we decided to take a trip in our newly-purchased super-chief airplane. As we left the ground at 600 miles an hour, we had little idea of all that we would encounter. After flying for quite some time, we cut our motor and glided over the spacious hills and country land that was part of the Thompson farm. As we glided over one of the many barns, we noticed someone running and shaking his fist at the plane, carry- ing an empty milk pail which had obviously been spilled by an over-excited cow. With such a good opportunity to take an aerial shot of Theodore Thompson, we called on our photographer, Rita Starr, and her able assistant, Marilyn Creelman, to do the job. After making a dramatic escape from the fury of the cow, we flew a straight course until we finally came to a business district in the surrounding vicinity. Gliding our plane in to get a clearer view, the first sight to command our attention was a huge building, which, we finally concluded, was the ultra-modern, specialty meat- market, owned and operated by none other than Benjamin Alaimo. Snuggled next to this establishment was another, which was headed by a brightly decorative sign, advertising John Alien's ex- clusive business: “For Customers Only.”— We flew on, nearly missing the town’s theatre, which was featuring—one week only—Johnny Brig formerly J. Brigada— the biggest singing sensation since the decade of Frank Swoonatra, and also a display of the latest and most stunning gowns by the renowned designer, Frances Ambrosini. As we continued on our journey, a newspaper was swept into our hands and we immediately examined its headline which informed us in big blazing letters: “SCIENTIST A. Wolodko DIS- COVERS CAUSE OF COMMON COLD,” and below in smaller type: Secretary Lois Tierney, Plays Vital Part in Discovery.” We were certainly glad to hear what the scientist in our class had achieved. Upon examining the 1957 Gazette even further, we learned that Joyce Dineen had given a strong political speech in favor of sending «itcmic machinery to the new settlement which is springing up in the South Pole. Her speech was written for her by the famous writer, Audrey Trlida. We became so absorbed in our reading that our plane gave a severe jolt before we realized that we were at least two thou- sand miles off our course in Texas. We dived down to scan the town we were now above. Our eyes bulged as we read the sign on the most stately of all buildings. It read: “George Mumblo— Mortician” (All cases accepted—dead or otherwise.) As we went down for a closer view, we noticed Patricia White, busily arrang- ing flowers in the front room. A little further down the street was a large real-estate busi- ness which was thriving under the supervision of June Cowles and her capable assistant, Florence Bush. Within a stone’s throw of this building was a newly organized youth center for the girls

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The Enfield Echo 11 of the city and we learned that it had been founded by Mary Parakilas, who had so generously given her time to the up-keep of our own little youth center during our high school days. With one glance, we realized that our fuel indicator showed we were running low on atoms, so with all the information we had gathered about our former classmates, we headed straight for the nearest airfield where I met one of my former classmates, Johnny Brigada. Let’s hear what you know about our old school- mates. While I was waiting for my plane to takeoff, I met, to my surprise, Peter Bridge, who was a drummer for the Flat Footer’s Band. He told me of an unfortunate accident he had had; he nearly drummed himself to death and Leon Falkowski, anxious for business for his funeral home in Scitico, rushed to the scene. He left me this newspaper, in which 1 found a great deal about our former class-mates. In the classified section, I found some advertisements from Dominick CardaropolV s used car service under the management of Dominick Lepore. The ad read, “You wreck them; we buy them.” Turning to my favorite page which is the sports section, I noticed a picture of the head-backfield coach, Joe Cimino, of the Boston Yanks, giving his final instructions to his two backfield stars, Michael Sperrazza, and Edivard Krajewski, before the Boston Yank—Green Packer’s Game. Continuing to read the Sports Page, I noticed in bold print that Raymond Pohorylo, once great star center for Holy Cross, will referee the Enfield College Panther’s Game. Skipping lightly through the funnies, I came to some interest- ing news items on Page 2. James Pumiglia, famous artist won first prize with his painting—“The Banana Peel” in the Kenneth Provencher painting contest. In the Thompsonville section, I noticed an item which said that Dominick Mangini, well-known plumber, became the father of a ten-pound bouncing baby, announced by Lena Puma, head nurse of the Springfield Hospital. Right on the front page, there was a picture of 25 girls com- peting for the National Typing Championship. I was surprised to see three of these girls were former school-mates of mine. They were Theresa Cicoria, Ann Frangiamore, Elvira Albano. Well, Marilyn and Helen, that’s all I can tell you from gazing over the paper. Maybe your Who’s Who Column could help us out further. In assembling the material for the 1957 Who’s Who, we came across some information that might interest you regarding the members of our class that have not already been mentioned. New York. Ralph Fiore, the famous radio announcer for the Swishy Dishy Dust Pan Co., has gone to Hollywood to make a movie called