Higgins Junior High School - Tatler Yearbook (Thompsonville, CT)

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CLASS OFFICERS —Photo by Brown (Left to right) Henry Buika, President; Gene Furey, Secretary; Sidney Bushnell, Vice-President. A. D. HIGGINS GLEE CLUB — Photo by Brown

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The Tatler Frank Zaczynski will own a restaurant and will employ Bertha Gracewski, Ella Raffia and Genevieve Podosek as hostesses. Ignario Bonelli will be engaged by the Government to finger print everybody whether guilty or not. He will have a large staff of assistants includ- ing Francis Pradrevita, John Hias, Francis Hanks, Stanley Samo and Sammy Picone. Frances Fiore is destined to be the county librarian in a remote section of the Rocky Mountains with Aspacia Kamoros as assistant. Edward Maxellon will eventually become Secretary of the United States Navy. Congetta and Donetta Ruggiero are to run a unique gift shop carrying suit- able presents for people you don’t like. Miriam Ryan will become a successful beauty shop owner. Lucine Croteau is destined to be a great literary light and will write criticisms of the new movies for Life. Irene Wojciezek will invent a lipstick that isn’t transferable from lip to cheek. Victoria Poleski will have in her posses- sion the most beautiful pearl in the world. Fannie Tomaszek will be a brilliant mathematician. She attributes her success to the heavy studying she did in Room 7 while at Higgins. Walter Wosko will succeed Jack Benny playing the violin. Milton Landry will become the chief of police in Thompsonville. Frances Kukulka is destined to own an Interior Decorating establishment and will employ George Maylott and Ed- ward Stone as painters. Jean Tomaka will make the grandest pretzels. She learned how from Chef Kennedy of the Waldorf Astoria. James Kiley will swim the English chan- nel twice — doing the backstroke. Joe Angelica and Warren Haight will work on a method to make doughnuts without holes. Charles La Grange will go to Alaska to sell refrigerators to the Eskimos. James Marino is destined to become a judge in a Colorado court. John Krawiec will run a small hardware shop. Jennie Ludwin will make pants for boys who must play marbles. Jerry Maniscalchi will succeed in climb- ing one of the highest mountains in Switzerland. Ann Purdy will compose a new wedding march. Allen Caswell will become sheriff of a small town in Montana. Frank Alaimo will become owner of a bus company with Ha? ' ris Hicks as a driver. Barbara Peterka will win a beauty prize at Porto Rico. Helen Zareski will someday be the man- ager of a large department store. Teddy Dubish and Lawrence Lynch will be her floorwalkers. Joseph Wenc will perfect a beautiful motor bicycle. It will travel 120 miles in two hours. Eva Piotrowski is destined to be the originator of a short course in church housekeeping for sextons. John Bania will take over his father’s coal and oil business. Anthony Scavatto’s fate is to spend his years installing radios and electric re- frigerators. Virginia Young is to conduct a corre- spondence course in non-fattening deli- cacies for Tea Room proprietors. John Ward will become very rich through the invention of a silencer for back seat drivers which Henry Milkowski will manufacture for Ames and Baker Novelty Co. Dorothy Zito, Stella Zych and Esther Santa Croce will be dancers in Donald Karcz ' s Review. Donald Robinson will become the man- ager of the “Rai ' us Hotel.” Charles Scalia is destined to become the leader of an orchestra. Edith Magill will become a famous ac- tress in Hollywood. Robert Martin will give illustrated lec- tures on his big game hunts. James Laughlin will become a brakeman on the New Haven Railroad. Helen Lasiewicz will occupy the position of ticket salesgirl in the Strand Theatre. Joseph Luicci will be a salesman for the Karona Baking Co. owned by Sophie and Walter Karona. Tony Calcasola will be a taxi driver for the Christi Cab Co. Sadie Mancuso is destined to become a school teacher specializing in Litera- ture. Anna Scavatto is to become internation- ally known as the designer of stuffed animals for nursery population which Carl Hanke will sell. Stanley Zareski will be selected as the special Ivory Soap Carver for the Queen of Roumania. Helen Sypek will make a fortune as the inventor of a collapsible kitchenette winch can be carried around in the pocket, slide under a bed or will shut up like an accordion and hang on the wall. Angelo Scicolini will be an importer and dealer in fancy fish for pools and aquariums. Paul Mancini will be the author of a successful book on Personality and Power. i.

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The Tatler In the Bigelow Sanford office you will find Ruth Greenblat, Gladys Bonk, Nina D’Amaco, Grace Pindaro, Rose Misuraca , Anita Ragno, Helen Mo- krycki and Jennie Sarno. Mary Angelica will run a small bookshop on Main Street. Robert Belisle will be a guide in the Yellowstone National Park. Anthony Caronna will be manager of the Metropolitan Opera House. Mary Caronna will run a dancing school for bashful boys. Dora Cormier, Eileen Colton and Josephine Curry will be instructors. Rosalie D ' Aleo will be treasurer of her father’s store. Joseph De Forge will become a society writer for the Daily News. Michalina Dusza and Josephine Digre- gorio will become heads of a girl’s college. Edith Del Aquilla will become a famous collector of stamps. Josephine Fiore will be head waitress at the Giaccone Iacolina Grill. Stella Gumineiak and Lillian Gebo will be reporters for the Thompsonville Daily News owned by Edward Kazmerski and John Raissi. Fred Turner will have a detective agency. He will hire two office girls, Bernice Lehmen and Doris Landry. Ann Bissland will tell stories over the radio, written by Joseph Krazewski. Edward Matyskiela will be a radio comedian. Paul Pasalaqua and Ernest Petrone will work in a fire tower on Somers Moun- tain. Josephine and Mary Vella will be heard on the radio as the singing sisters. Helen Wlotkowski will run a boarding house in Springfield. (Hecate once more waved her hands over the crystal ball and looked up.) Hecate: That is all the crystal ball will tell me. Have you all the informa- tion you need? Leonard: Yes, thank you. We can now write the Class Prophecy. Back to school with glee we went And many, many hours we spent In writing what we heard for you And we hope you believe that it’s all very true. Gladys Bonk, Leonard Landry. 0rust, (Srtmttpir VALEDICTORY According to the usual custom, our class has chosen a motto to guide us in the years to come. This motto, “Try, Trust, Triumph,” displayed above us in our class colors of blue and gold, has a place of honor in the stage decorations this evening. However, these words do much more than merely add beauty to our gr aduation exercises. They are more than empty words chosen for their pleas- ing sound or colorful effect. They are more than words to be remembered only during graduation week. In fact, as time goes on, the meaning of our motto and its application to our lives should become increasingly clear. These words, “Try, Trust, Triumph,” encourage us to think of what we hope to do, and how we shall work to attain our ambitions. With our motto in mind, we graduates look for- ward to new adventures and achieve- ments. These words apply not only to the future, but also to the past years spent in the A. D. Higgins School, with all the tasks and pleasures that they have pre- sented. Is not our graduation here to- night proof in itself of our triumph? Only through trying and trusting, how- ever, did we finally reach this goal. Although our graduation tonight may seem to mark a high point in our prog- ress thus far, it is only a beginning for further training to prepare us for useful work ahead. With our motto, “Trv, Trust, Triumph,” to guide us, we should be able to complete the hardest tasks successfully, just as many other people have overcome great difficulties and tri- umphed, because they learned how to try and try again, and to have faith that their work would not be in vain. Since the theme of our graduation is Pan- Americanism, it is appropriate to con- sider the achievements of two men whose engineering and medical skill made pos- sible the construction and use of the Panama Canal. One of the men to whom I refer is Col. William Crawford Gorgas, M. D., known during his life as the only high officer in the United States army who fought all the time, battling not against hostile regiments, but with disease breed- ing insects. To him is due almost entire credit for the sanitary condition of the Panama Zone. — Continued after Graduates