Grover Cleveland High School - Clevelander Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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18 THE CLEVELANDER The Prophecy of the Class of 1936 THE PARLIAMENT OF BIRDS QWith apologies to Chaucer, Poe, Shakespeare, Tennyson and Everybody Elsej SCENE: A Student's Den. TIME: No Time. CHARACTERS Student, a Graduate of Grover Cleveland High School . . . Floyd Sill The Raven ...........,.. . . joseph Naples Chanticleer . . . . . . . Louis Privitera Jenny Wren . . . . . Isabelle Leisinger Longfeared Owl . . . . . Frank Penna Bluebird ............... . Ruth Cavanaugh The student falls asleep while reading Poe's Raven In his dream the Raven appears. On the request of the Student for information, the Raven summons members of the feathered tribes who give the following information about the graduates of the Class of 1936. 8 -3 In the field of literature I note that Sebastian Militello's book called Militelloism has been awarded the Nobel Prize for the outstanding work on how to run the government of the United States. The author suggests advisers to help the President. The committee is composed of ten mem' bers, five women and live men each with an equal say so. Salvatore Saiia, Isabelle Liesinger, Peter Zanghi, Marian Corby, Charles Scozzaro, Harriet Liddell, Warren Sweeney, Ethel Nie, Joseph Torchia and Mary Palisano are the members of this committee. The author states that with such competent advisers as these we cannot possibly go wrong. There can be no more depression. Incidentally the book was published by Catherine Grosso and Matilda Nassar. Lena Tona has just been awarded the Rigoli award by Sebastian Rigoli for the century's out' standing poem, entitled, Ode to Donofriof' in honor of the great lover of music, Anthony Donofrio. Rowena Thomson has perfected her television apparatus. Soon she will broadcast the greatest play ever produced, Passing the Buck, written by James Higgins and directed by Rose Moscato. Salvatore Alessi is the hero and Paulette Stauffer, the heroine. Russell Battaglia and Vincent Bar' hcra are the Gfmeng Thomas Buscaglia, the doctor, Jean Trumello, the mystery girl, Evelyn Tymesen, the dancer, Seraphine Rizzone, the telephone operator, Elizabeth Price and Mabel Joseph, the strange women, and Anthony Sodaro, the butler. The scene of the play is in the Empire State Building which was recently purchased by Betty Gimbrone and Irene Kerr. The plot is original and outlandish. In it is the greatest array of stars ever assembled for a drama, a moving picture or a radio broadcast. Here's more theatrical news. Trieste Ripoli and Mildred Ricigliano have purchased a large moving picture studio. John Civello is publicity manager and John Barill, director. Jack Fundaro and Ruth Cavanaugh have been assigned to play opposite each other in the company's new picture, Do Nothing . Wrigley's Gum Manufacturers have sold out to Beck's Gum Company, its greatest rival. The company is owned by Wellington Beck and is operated by joseph Chiaramonte, his business manager, From now on it will be Beck's Gum . Harold Brun and Salvatore Failla are the proprietors of an interior decorating shop. Among the employees are, Jeanette Mazzola, Angeline Mangano, Marian Aquino and Angeline Battaglia. Jane Lonca, Mary Giordano and Angela Fusco sing for the broadcast sponsored by the Drayer Show Company. On the same program, Sarah Guarino and Mary DeGregoria tap dance. Chester Annis is the announcer. Louis Migliore and Dominic Mecca are financing Marie Buscaglia's nonfpropeller airplane invenf tion. The most daring pilots are: Alena Battaglia, Frances Fickera, Mary Berrigan, Marie Carnevale,

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THE CLEVELANDER 17 Memories Warren Sweeney doing the Flea Hop at basketball games . . . Tom Kennedy talking behind his hand in the study room . . . Santo Bellanti working after school on problems found in old math text books . . . John Carriero trying to dodge playing the piano in the orchestra . . . Louis Privitera receivf ing a big hand after his Washington Day speech . . . Joe Carey's red cheeks . . . Mary DiGregoria unconsciously tearing up her Completed homework . . . Charles Cascio's rosefcolored sweater . . . Phil Taibbi surprising every one by singing so beautifully in a radio amateur . . . Mr. Ping's short assembly speeches- Help . . . Norma EC1dy'S Cl6mOI1St1'HtiOn of the sundry shades of iingernail polish . . . Joe Corbo and Tony Privitera creating poems to present to the charming substitute English teacher. The fun in Miss Geyer's thirdfhour senior English class when a note was passed to the pupils on April 1, telling them to blow their noses at 11:20 sharp . . . The trouble Miss Larson had in trying to get the girls to step in the foot bath fthey claimed it wore out their stockingsj . . . The hard time the orchestra had in getting the musical instruments in tune on Junior Day f1935J . . . The morning our Senior Boys were shoveling snow for the city and eating bologna sandwiches while the younger set of Clevelandites were going to school . . . The uselessness of entering the shower room when we had nice leaky pipes to drip water on us while undressing . . . The paper which accumulated in our desks while we were attending classes in other rooms . . . The freshmen boys early in the term trying to sit far away from the teacher in the studyroom and their chagrin at being asked to move. Mimeograph sheets of Campus Topics . . . Fire drill in the midst of an assembly . . . The debate in '35 that began an hour late because one of the judges forgot his appointment . . . Halls ringing with The Music Goes Down and Round . . . The bidding for football tickets in assembly . . . The first pictures our photography club took . . . The spurting of the water fountains giving more than one person a clean face . . . Winning the trophy for debating-dfollowed by placing first in the tenor and the baritone classes in the cityfwide singing contest . . . The squeaking seats in Room 212 . . . Prac' ticing new cheers in assembly . . . Boys trying to open windows in assembly pulling all the cords but the right ones. The number of priceless friends you made during your high school days . . . When the Seniors of '36 were Freshmen in '32 and had to attend every other assembly . . . And when we had to carry cafeteria chairs into the auditorium so that we could sit in the aisles and the trouble we had taking our seats back to the lunchroom . . . The Christmas spirit in the lunchroom- Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells . . . The senior girls' baseball team being beaten by a team onefhalf its size . . . The RED TIE and GREEN BOW days of '36. Josephine Mineo getting locked in the Secretarial Practice Room . . . Joe Knepper buying a garter belt to keep his stockings up while playing hockey . . . Miss Marquardt leading the cheers at the basketball games . . . When Rose Shevlet was usherette at the spring debate and walked gallantly down the aisle to turn and find that nobody was behind her . . . Miss Moore giggling at the Senior Class meeting. The time Miss Middleton asked Norman Ventura to name a tragedy of Shakespeare, Norman's reply: Shakespeare's Macbeth, by Julius Caesar. . . . When Mr. Cavelieri asked Joe Corbo to sit at a girls' table in the cafeteria. Did Joe blush? I should say not. He liked it . . . When Frank Penna told Mr. Dressler's history class that the Pilgrims landed in Virginia . . . The stormy day when all the girls in Room 200 were on time and they didn't ring the tardy bell until 9 o'clock. Were the girls irritated and were their nice curls straight? The time Miss Geyer had getting Jeannette Catanzaro out of the room when she had her eye full of powder in 1932 . . . The time the Buffalo Symphony Orchestra came to G. C. H. S. When Mr. Kennedy was delivering a speech one of the musicians moved a little, striking the chimesg did Mr. Kennedy get the gong . . . When we had the bad weather everyone in school was thanking Old Man Winter because we received a day off, but the laugh was on us when we had a day subtracted from our Easter vacation.

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THE CLEVELANDER 19 Dorothy Hopkins, Genevieve Constantino, Jeanette Catanzaro, Angeline Loffredo, Frances DiNatale, Carolyn Ferranti and Concetta Lojacono. With the idea of establishing lasting peace and avoiding all future wars, a peace plan has been drawn up by Lucille Colkitt, Theresa Incorvia, and Genevieve Parlato. It has been signed by Italy, France, Germany, England, Japan and Russia. The best equipped hospital in the world has been built by those famous contractors, Andrew Car' den and Joseph Calabrese, under the direction of William Clemens, the architect. The funds for this ten million dollar hospital were donated by Ruth Patterson, Edith Rawson, Helen Vallie, John Licata, and George Gimbrone. The head doctors are Joseph Constantino, Salvatore Pace, and Theodore Schultz. The perfect nursing staff is headed by Josephine Polino. The success of the hospital is due to such lovely nurses as Lucy Petock, Jennie Terranova, Rose Bassow, Archangel Piccillo, Mary Melancon, Teresa D'Amico, and Marion Reino. Hollywood's largest department store is owned by Marjorie Sewell and Pauline Benevento. Joseph Crimi, John Mellon, and Joseph Digati make those ultra fashionable models, which are displayed in all high priced stores. The heads of the different departments are Michael Cuviello, John Nocera, Vincent DiLorenzo, Josephine Pellegrino, Mildred Maggio, Lauretta Gaudiosa, and Elula Stinson. The entertainers in the store are: Philomena Silvestro, Rita Chiavetta, Marie Prince, Rita Spring' stead, Marie Ricigliano, Rose Cucinotta, Margaret Roan, and Theresa Scalia. Why only yesterday two girl flyers completed a trip around the world in twentyffour hours. Their names are Rita Sanfratel and Betty Schlagter. Oh, yes! We now have the American Epic-written, of course, by Tom Kennedy. Transparent walls, now so popular and highfpriced, were invented by Helen Oglialoro and Rose' mary Provenzano. Casimer Palermo has drawn up plans for a transatlantic tunnel, connecting New York and Lon' don. Ina Addie and Carmela Villa are financing the project and the Puccio Company has been given the contract to build the tunnel. Michael is the president and Rose Scoppechio is treasurer. On the corner of Broadway and 5 4th Street there is a unique tea shop. It is owned by Anna Montesano, Frances Tracy, Josephine Mineo, Dorothy Barry, and Concetta Lomanto. One block down Broadway, there is an enormous beauty shop, women iight in the doorway to gain entrance. The shop is owned by George Burke and George Beedy. The beauty specialists are Geraldine Marsala, Josephine Cutrona, Philomena Taibbi, and Carmela Marinello. On West 21st Street, there is the most exclusive dress shop in the country. All the dresses and coats are direct from Paris and the proprietors sell their articles only to distinguished customers. The shop is run by Rose Gino and Norma Eddy. Ruby Bills is known among the intelligentsia as a bibliophile. Her collection of Oriental manu' scripts is the envy and admiration of all scholars. Jesse Ramunno has published his volume of brain twisters, now being puzzled over by presidents of our great universities. You know James Manly supplied most of the information. In the music world, Robert Hennessey is director of the New York Symphony Orchestra which is composed of ZOO members. Joseph Petralia thrills the crowd with his violin solos, while Charles Manguso and Salvatore DiMarco together with Lena Montaldi and Grace Catanzaro have been voted the world's best quartette in harmonica playing. The orchestra is under the management of Victor Petruzelli and Frank Oddo. I hear that a group of nationally known scientists, including Professors Santo Bellanti, Eleanor Aquilina, Salvatore Ianello, Concetta Alfano, Florence Cannon and Salvatore Stolfo, have opened a huge laboratory which embraces three square miles, in an attempt to find the fourth dimension or some' thing else. Dean Bellanti has promised that within a short time he will announce something to the world, which will astonish mankind. In the field of discovery and exploration I learn that Samuel Zuppiroli, Charles Eppolito, Joseph Broderick and Harry Albert in quest of finding the fountain of youth in the middle of the Ant' arctic, accidently discovered a large island, which they named Zeba, in honor of themselves. With' out exploring the island, they sailed for England immediately. There they hired the famous explorer, Joe Corbo, to survey the island. The explorer with a crew of men set sail immediately for the island