Essex Agricultural and Technical Institute - Aggie / Maple Yearbook (Hathorne, MA)

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY Today started out like any other day in my busy schedule as a well to do doctor's wife. I completed my morning activities and remembered a luncheon engagement at the Colonial Club, so I jumped into my Cadillac and was off. I met my associates, members of the Women's Club, there and we began to order, The waiter insisted they had no Metrecal and I insisted on seeing the head chef. The waiter escorted me to the kitchen and, to my surprise, the head chef was Jean Jaffarian a former classmate at the Essex Homemaking School. I knew that Jean had always liked to cook, We sat down and began to reminisce about our school days and our classmates, Jean told me she was married and had three children. Her husband Mark watched them while baby sitting for the minks on their farm, I could see that her husband was very successful by the mink apron she was wearing. I asked Jean if she had heard from any of our former classmates as it has been ten years since graduation. Although ten years doesn't seem too long a lot has happened in the lives of our classmates. Jean told me that Carol Johonnett, a very intelligent and talented girl, was a dress designer for stout women and was doing very well. I asked her about Paullette Landry whom I remembered as being exceptionally good in spelling; she was always correcting me, Paulette is in Hollywood working on a newspaper writing a gossip column, I also learned that Judy Hall, who had a way of convincing people of just about anything, is also in Hollywood, She is a smashing success as an actress for Medic. Jean asked me if I had heard from Marie Odette, Marie called me a few weeks before, She is happily married and has seven children, She lives in Minnesota so our phone call wasn't too long but I did ask her what she did for excitement. She said she tested thunderbirds for speed at a nearby race track, Marie had seen Andrea Taylor, a very attractive girl. Andrea has filled her life ambition of becoming a model. She is a successful model for the Playtex Company modeling gloves. When I found out that Janet Skelly is a marriage counselor, I was amazed, Jean told me that Janet knew quite about marriage since she has been married four times, These marriages may have not been too successful but her business is. I remembered Janet as a smart girl with a shining personality. I was sure she would be a success at whatever she did. Jean said, Someone is missing, what about Sally Purrington? Sally and I were the best of friends in school and after graduation we kept in touch, She went on to school to become a make- up artist. This surprised Jean because Sally never used make-up of any kind, and now she is making her living displaying cosmetics, I asked Jean if she had heard from any of the two year Homemaking Course, She said, “yes, Nancy Robishaw is working here at the Colonial Club as a veterinarian for their prize riding horses . At just that moment Nancy walked in. I asked her if she would join me and my friends, for lunch. We returned to the dining room and the waiter set a place for Nancy at my table, While we were waiting to be served I found that Nancy was able to tell me what all of her classmates were doing. I asked first about the girls from Newburyport, Sally Earibino, Elain Mar- coux and Susan Packer. You remember Nancy told me, what good spagetti dishes Sally prepared for our cottage meals. Sally and her husband are running a Mediteranean Restaurant featuring Italian and Greek specialty dishes, Elain Marcoux, always such an attractive girl, is now a danc- ing teacher specializing in the twirl which is the 1927 version of the old twist. She Packer is teaching French at the Newburyport High School, She used quite a bit of it in school, Several of our classmates are in the entertainment field, Nancy continued, as a swinging guitar playerJanerParidicw can rip it up. Her husband taught her and they play as a team called “The Family Affair - Janet Cruther, her husband and their seven children who also play the guitars, Our ownJanet Collins is now a great actress, she should be, she did a lot of acting in school especially in Miss Levitt's class, 23

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SUS AN PACKER 57 BromField Street Newbury Port, Mass. Major Course: Home. etc. Happiest At: The school dance Intends To: Go on to school. the Food Trades Program. Activities: Cheerleader 2, Maple Board Committee 3, Dance Com- mittee Refreshments . Start fe. 19 5,” af. NANCY ROBISHAW (Big Nancy) 6 Fourth Street Ipswich, Mass, Major Course: Home Economic Happiest At: Being around horses Intends To: Continue School Activities: F,H.A, member, Maple Board, Assistant Secretary of Senior Class, Prom Committee. JANET Shortie PARADIS 10 Willow Avenue Salem, Mass. Major Course: Homemaking Happiest At: Being with art Intends To: Cosmotology Activities: F,H.A, Assistant Cheer- leader. JANET SKELLY (Jan) 85 Pelham Street Methuen, Mass. Major Course: Cooking Happiest At: class Intends To; Go to Fanny Farmers Activities: F,H.A, member, Dance Comm. Prom Committee. Having fun in food 22 SALLIE PURINGTON 89 Sheridan Street Lynn, Mass, Major Course: Homemaking Happiest At: Spending money Intends To: Takeup cosmotology and get married Activities: Co-Captain of ‘Cheer- leaders 3, Maple Board 3, Prom Committee 3, Banquet Comm. 3. ANDREA H, TAYLOR Forest Avenue South Essex, Mass. Major Course: Home Economics Happiest At: Being with that certain someone, Intends To: Go into modeling Activities: F,.H.A, member, Maple Dance Committee, Cheerleader,

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‘I aksed Nancy if any of the girls were in the business world, Oh, yes Nancy replied, You will fine Susan Nelson's name in the yellow pages under Nellies Judo lessons, She and Billy are now teaching jiujitsu. Juanita Earle is the owner of Earle’s Dunck it . Her favorite driver is Frankie, Judy Batchelder runs the You rip them - we sew them shop in Newburyport. Now that there is no Homemaking School she mends all the uniforms for the football and hockey teams at the Aggie. Time passed so quickly, we were soon finishing our dessert, a delicous parfait that reminded me of those which we had served in the Larkin Cottage. I glanced at my watch, Its almost time for me to be running along, I said, but I do want to hear what Charline Burbine, Nancy Field and Judi Lawton are doing. Judi Lawton is the first woman bank president in Essex County replied Nancy it is very funny because she could not keep her money very long. Nancy Field is running a nursing school, She hashadsomuch practice with her own children she decided to enter this field as a venture proved very successful and she has been asked to lecture on a television program, Guiding the pre-school Child . She also told me the Charline Burbine was very successful as a cloumnist and she has taken over the Dear Abby Program and she has ten secretaries and the answer all the mail, mail from all over the country, As we finished our dessert the waiter came, through the dining room paging Nancy Robishaw. One of the horses had broken out of its box stall, Nancy left quickly. It was then quarter to four and we had to pick up our children at a private school they attended. As we drove along we made plans for our class reunion of ‘62 at my summer home at Cape Cod, Norma Spring Nancy Robishaw 24