Farmington High School - Student Yearbook (Farmington, CT)

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FARMINGTON STUDENT To Andrew Lesiak, Robert Saunders bequeaths his track laurels. Perhaps you'll need this speed to catch the 11:15 car from Farmington, To Eleanor Adams, Mildred Iudd bequeaths her smile, the smile that has won so many automobile rides. To Stanley Whiteman, William Ryan leaves two permissions. First, to keep the Day long, and to make sure he has a Day seven days a week. S To Kenneth Wilde, Harold Scheidel bequeaths his fondness for Skit impson. To Ebba Nelson and Ieannette Zegger, Pauline Iames and Glenys Mosher bequeath their love for rumble seats on moonlight nights. To Theodore Grocki, Edward Nelson bequeaths his bashfulness. To William Bronson, William Toth bequeaths his upright position so that the teachers won't fall over his feet in walking the aisles. To George Lusk, Richard Petersen bequeaths his shiny red trousers- they stretch, George. To Stanley Kasmarcik, Charlie Cadwell leaves his collegiate strut. To Roberta Parsons, Edith Anderson bequeaths her package of gum. It comes two for a cent. To Sam Robotham, George Schulz bequeaths his love for early retiring and his place on Hackney's corner mornings, waiting for a ride from the teachers. To Robert Hartigan, Harry Wells leaves his mysterious vocabulary. You'll need large pockets to carry such a large dictionary. To Sophie Grigerik-the twins, Mary Marek and Catherine Gurovich leave their cafeteria aprons. To Edith Iohansen, Dorothy Nawrocki leaves her compacts and lipstick. To Francis Day, Monroe Bagdigian bequeaths his love for horses and wild heifers. To Mary Chester, Carol Skoglund bequeaths her glasses. Maybe you can see the alarm clock mornings. To Edward McMahon, Edmund Penny bequeaths his love of eggs, but not the chickens. To Catherine Collins, Mildred Winalski leaves her rosy, we hope natural, complexion. To Ann Connelly, Margaret Mack leaves her ability to keep quiet at the talkies, To Alice Gorman, Margaret Herzog leaves her height. Maybe you can see the games then. To Raymond Hitchcock, Bertram Peltier bequeaths his scholarly serious- ness. This will help you to get your English papers in on time. To Carolyn Hitchcock, Irene Campion leaves her bobbed hair and giggle, Look what they have done for Irene, Carrie. To Ioe Hassett and Iim Morrissey, Blinn and Clifford bequeath their harmonicas and their hill-billy tricks. ,To Grace Flood, Marie Derby leaves her powers of vamping. Oh, such eyes. To Iohn Scoville, Donald Bowler bequeaths his policy of argumentation. lt at least kills time. To Victoria Valigorsky, Dorothy Busch leaves her dignity. Then you will never be heard in the corridors, Vic. To Mary Silver, Sophie Ostroske leaves her high brow demeanor. Don't reach for the moon, Mary. 15

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FARMINGTON STUDENT lust Half a Century just half a century has passed along Since the first class: and when you're gone Life may then smile and fortunes bend While others plod the paths of men. Yet sadness creeps as we view the list, For ranks are thinned and some are missed. Let's pray that fifty years from now, The self-same spirit that you vow Will penetrate your inmost soul. And as the seasons on you roll You'll live to serve, you'Il love to share, Make life just better 'cause youre there. EUGENE W. ELLIS. Superintendent. Class Will T IS a matter of course that when a man dies he Writes a will bequeathing his property, estate, and other belongings to his relatives. Now the class of 1932 is not singing a funeral dirge, but we feel as if we have acquired some habits and specialties during our four years at Farmington High School that We are anxious to leave to the undergraduates, who are our only kinsmen in high school days. Witness, then, we the Senior class of 1932 of the Farm- ington High School bequeath our perfectly human, and we think lovable quali- ties to you, the undergraduates, and to you, the faculty of Farmington High School. To Louis Parrott, Frank Cadwell. in bequeathing his ruggedness and good looks, leaves the hope that the fair sex will not molest him next year when he goes to Washington. To Walter Balazy, William Ryan bequeaths his skill in the terpsichorean art and adds this warning: I never acquired my perfection by standing in the doorway all night. To Hazel Alderman, Helen Hartigan leaves her love for Latin and her customary I-I's. To William Duff, Francis Cignoli bequeaths his saxophone and the prize piece of his Iunior year, The Stars and Stripes Forever, A T30 Margaret Day, Doris Buteau leaves her steadfastness and loyalty to one. To Anton Grocki, Henry Dobrynski leaves his special privilege of guard- ing and buying roses for the women teachers, blondes preferred. To Doris Cromack, Helen Battista bequeaths her excellent record in typing. There is just one precept to follow: Keep your eyes on the keys and not on the boy at your right. To Paul Aliano, Ed. Ryan sadly leaves his golf clubs and the right to roam the corridors while his classes are in session. 14

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FARMINGTON STUDENT To Iohn Silver, Frances Manyak bequeaths her quietness. That is why she gets along with the teachers. To Lois Petersen, Marie Stieg leaves her exactness. To Louise Foryan, Mildred Roncaioli leaves her favorite piece, Mother Machrcen, with all its dramatic emotions and movements of the eyes. To Catherine Revak, Nellie Zurles bequeaths the bird on Nellie's hat. Tweet-tweet and then a squeak. To Carol Brooks, Margaret Rossvall leaves her amiable disposition and her popularity. To Marguerite DeSando, Amy Farry leaves her talkativeness and her love for parrots. l-low quiet you must be, Marguerite. To Lillian Toth, Catherine Onidi leaves her ability to run food sales suc- cessfully. To Ann Dublac, Loretta Scheidel bequeaths her position next to the driver of the Burlington bus. To Marcella Cignoli, Alma Bailey bequeaths her right to have boys walk home from school with her. But don't live six miles from town, Marcella. To Faith White and Evelyn Carson, Agnes Arnold and Marion Tall- maclge leave their privilege of disturbing classes. lust talk facts, girls. To Eunice Sperry, Gertrude Flood leaves her telephone numbers, but you cannot have Normans To Vera Lawton, Mary Deparolis leaves her promptness in making up work and taking monthly examinations. To Florence Osborne, Isabel Vibert bequeaths her privilege to meet the boys at the library. To the faculty, the class of 1932 leaves its sincere appreciation and ever- lasting gratitude for the patience and encouragement shown during our course. In witness whereof, we, the class of 1932, do to this will, append our signatures on this the 16th clay of Iune, l932. Witnessed: MILDRED E. WHITNEY, Iosispu R. Burms, EGIDIO G, LAURETTI. 16