Fort Lee High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Fort Lee, NJ)

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THE PIONEER . WI lw Carey Johansen, Artichoke Kingi' of New York who has been Scarface Phil's,' chief rival, recently purchased thirty bombing planes from the Navy to carry on his gang warfare against the Ham and Egg King. VVilliam Korker is just a gigolo. ' lllrs. Dorothy Lakin Van Hi Brow, leading social queen of Oldport, is spend- ing the summer in lkliami, Florida. A Viola Limouze, the only living woman lion tamer, received a slight scratch on her wrist from one of her pets last week. The beast died from indigestion. Albert Logemann, who has supplied vocal entertainment on the Dyckman Street Ferry for the past twenty years, report that he recently achieved the height of his ambition when he received a fifty cent tip. Gertrude Lorenz, the late president of the New Jersey Association of Old Miaids, died last week from the severe shock of receiving a proposal. Bernhard lVIaute, proprietor of a popular Parisien Gown Shop, has just an- nounced his 'finest creation in feminine apparel, a charming dinner gown in pink georgette. ' Aloysius lXfIclVIanus is still in the clam digging business on Long Island. lVIarion llfliller, one of the finest female dentists in this country, attained the height of her career last week when she put a twenty-five pound gold filling in the upper bicuspid of the hippopotamus at the Bronx Zoo. Gustave Von lvloltke is a cosmetics demonstrator for the lVIiladus Powder Company. john llflorrison, inventor of the Anti-Kink Curl Remover, has just sold the Hairless Barber Shops, lnc., consisting of a foreign magn-ate. Dorothy Muchmore was recently elected chief executive of the United States Union of Amalgamated lVIanicurists. llflargaret Newman now lives in the basement of a five story tenement, housing fifty families, of which she acts as landlady. George Nichols was recently promoted to head pill and tablet coater from that of capsule filler in the New Jersey Candy Coated Pills Company. Margaret Novak, well-known accordian player, is now accompanying the Dyckman Street Ferry vocalist, Albert Logemann. ,Virginia Oman has established the enviable record of having smoked 2,564,369,- 841 Lucky Struck Cigarettes in the past year and still tips the scales at 201 pounds. Fred Oman, well-known author, has just succeeded in getting his first book by the censors. t Mzlrjorie Ortlip, a popular aesthetic dancer, is now playing at the Charm Theater in New York. Francis Petrosino, Broadway's Play Boy, has the reputation of being the best- loved and most-admired sheik now. under contract with the Universal Picture Cor- poration. Alex Pinto, defendant in a breach of promise suit, is acting as mayor of Kala- mazoo. i Adam Pubylski, compiler of the Pubylski Dictionary, has just announced the issuance of the fifth advanced edition. John Richard, an eminent police inspector, has received threats of being taken for a ride. Police suspect Bull Johansen's gang. Mary Scott owns and operates the Ellsworth.Finishing School for select young women. Edith Svanberg has just won out in a divorce suit at Reno. Ernestine Scheiblich is employed by Klein's Clothing Store as a model. Anna May Studerus is the most popular cigarette girl in the Blue Goose Night Club. -..gf 23 B..-

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THE PIONEER VN i .MV CLASS PROPHECY NE day during a class extreme drowsiness overwhelmed me. When I awoke, all appeared strange about me. I seemed to be in front of Fort Lee High School, but everything looked different. Deciding I had better go into the office and do some heavy explaining, 1 started up the steps. In the office I was greeted by an alert, gray-haired lady. Where is lVIiss Brandt? I asked. I am she, the elderly ,woman replied. Youl why-why-what is the date ? said I, fearing that a Rip Van Winkle trick had been put over on me. It is the fifth of June, l96l, she replied. Then it dawned on me what had really happened. I was, in truth, a second Rip returning after thirty years' absence. By the way, Frieda, said I, do you by any chance remember the Class of '31 P . Certainly, she replied with a chuckle at my uncertainty. Could you tell me what has happened to them all? I asked. Very easily, she said and withdrew a book from one of the drawers in a high filing cabinet. It proved to be the 1955 edition of the Pioneer , Turning to the alumni notes, I searched for the Class of 1931. There at the top of a page I found a nota- tion about each member. Fedra Barbanti is now perfecting a formula guaranteed to make one sylph-like in a day's time. Evelyn Binder was recently arrested in the streets of New York City charged with disorderly conduct as a Bolshevist agitator. Brandon Blades has just opened a new ice cream parlor on the site of the old Betty Lee. ,, Q Robert Bowe is selling fsoft?l drinks at a Nedick stand on Broadway and Forty-second Street. Conrad Breiby, head of the Ever-Rest' Undertaking Establishment under con- tract with the North Side racketeers, has just inaugurated both night and day service for his patrons. Cornelius Brodersen recently walked off with international honors in hog calling. ' ' Lawrence Bruni is on the road selling pickles for the William Cooke Pickle Packing Plant Inc. VValter Chapulis has risen to dizzy heights in the business world. He is now official window washer on the ninety-eighth story of the Lempire Slate Building. Judith Cundari, the secretary of Scarface Phil Ciancio, the Ham and Egg King, was recently indicted for beating up her husband. Doris Deutsch, chairman of the Anti-Gab Association, was fined twenty-five dollars for flirting with a cop. Arthur Dyer has been appointed Warden of Shing Shing prison. Theresa Dowdell, inventor. of the E-Z-Freckle Remover, has just completed a beauty treatment in Switzerland. Augustus Fallotico was last seen driving a taxi cab during the theater rush on F orty-second Street. Helen Gilpin now has the reputation of being the world's fairest lady racing driver. Alfred Hewitt is in jail under the charge of polygamy. The police have records of at least eight wives in five countries. -..gf 22 ia.-

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THE PIONEER wt IW Patsy Tester, the local dog catcher, caught thirty-six dogs and eighteen cats during the month of llflay. ' ' Virginia VVetter usurped the place of Gertrude Ederle when she swam the dis- tance between San Francisco and Hawaii within a month. Rita Wetter, the long distance telephone operator, states that she has turned down nineteen telephone proposals in two weeks. Dorothy VVilson runs a school of elocution in Fort Lee. lN'1ildredAYach, formerly an active member of the S. P. C. A., was disowned by the organization because of her merciless treatment of her household pets. Hector Zucchino was recently promoted from brakeman to subway guard. XVith a sigh I turned to leave the office. VVhat revelations time can effect! Far different from the listed achievement had been the aspirations of that group of classmates I had known thirty years ago. Then with a rumble and a roar the building fell about my bent shoulders. Awaking, I found myself staring at laughing classmates, one of whom was pounding my back while an exasperated teache' was awaiting an answer to her question. 4 t CLASS HISTORY N September 9, 1927, a startled group assembled in the corridors of Fort Lee High School. After much serious thinking, the faculty decided that we were the most intellectual students and the best athletes ever to enter our school. To verify this complimentary statement we, as Sophomores, spent most of our spare time practicing baseball and basketball in our new gymnasium. Backed by two solid years of experience in high school life, we entered our third year determined to surpass our former record and to overcome any obstacles that might hinder us. Football, a new sport, increased our enjoyment and filled our spare time. We concluded our social activities of 1930 with a prom for the depart- ing Seniors. We, a large part of our original group, realized one of our fondest desires of being regularly ordained as Seniors in the fall of 1930. In April another delight was experienced by some of us when we became charter members of the new Nation- al Honor Society. In the spring we were not surprised when our debating team easily defeated its opponents and we had the privilege of reading our numerals on the cup. Our high school days will soon be ended, but may we never forget our good times together nor the thoughts instilled in our minds by our teachers. 24 yy..-