Hurley High School - Log Yearbook (Hurley, WI)

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and her Bubble blowing business had a big blow out the other day. lt seems that Margaret Gulan, one of her employees, took Shirley Bruno's bubble blowing badge, awarded her for blowing billions of bubbles, and since then Shirley sticks pins in all of Margaret's bubbles- Naughty, naughty. Pat Mattson, Audrey lassi, and Marlene Johnson decided that the men were making a mess of the Korean war and so they took .over and made short work of it. Oh yes, liz Slaski and Avis Peterson left two weeks ago for that convent they had always wanted to enter. David Barto and Lee Baron as a team, have become the greatest orators of our day. We also have in our class some great athletes who have won in the' 1955 Olympics. Henry Peterson won third in the backward skiing race and Roman Chiapusio, first place in the mile race, aren't we proud. The city of Montreal erected a statue of .lerry Bloomquist, the bashful basketball player, in the middle of Silver St. Helmi Kivi made it with her own hands. .lack Richards recently wrote a best seller, The Fine Art of Sharpening Pencils. He had enough practice in high school. People are still trying to find out which twin has the Toni, as in pre- vious days, Delores and Betty Ann, still have them confused. Bill Valentino Dary was recently in a great love play, love lost, found, Bfumbled, lost, etc. His op- posite was the comedian, Ma'rgaret Rota. The musical score was written by Carl Zandi, and conducted by Frank Sala. lily Sturkol has used her emotions on .loe Stalin, being ambassador of peace to that country, and has had him actually crying. Bob Kirby toured the country explaining the uses of the Atom bomb. F. Ebli con- vinced the Supreme Court that Hurley was a township of Cary. Teddy Gulan changed the Social Security Pension plan down to 25 instead of 65- Dicky Dahl was quick to enioy the benefits of it. Sir John R. Trier became a baker and mil- Iionaire. Also tours with a roller skating outfit, with Amelia Canlia the star. Roger Hanson sweeps the floors. Nilo Nasi operates a fresh air manufacturing enterprise for fussy people. Eva Baravetti has a cute little dress making shop right in the downtown section of Hurley, ably assisted by D. Pretti, R. Savant, and K. Con- hartoski, the three girls who were always knee deep in home ec. Gena Soine not only owns, but operates, a chain of some twenty-five drug stores. Gloria DeRosso has her very own chicken farm, a graduation gift. Doris Rokola is secretary for the National Co-Op. Association. George St. Catherine put through a 'bill to the hon- orable .lames Sell our mayor, for an orchestra. Audrey Saari plays in the string section, when house work doesn't keep her busy, Tom Sorvari plays a wonderful harp, and Celia Negri plays the flute. Chink directs of course- ln case you return to Hurley don't be surprised by Ilene Thiede's mink coat. She has three or four, seems she owns her own mink farm. Tony Vita is M. C. of l.ady's Fair. We always knew these boys would do it, I. Mallick, R. Koski and S. Levra have got rid of all the taverns in town. Ha. Ha. Eugene Brock and Geo. Tuma have invented little electric chairs to kill mice. They got tired of plain old mouse traps. They say it was all Loretta Morgando's idea, though. Barbara De Rosso and Arlene LaMarche have set up the Becca Recording Studios, Inc. of Hurley, Wis. Their top recording artists are Ray Kuula, a great ballad singer, Francis Kallas, the second Patti Page and that new up-in-coming star, Grace Max who became a star overnight after recording There' Been A Change In Me. Dorothy Sbraggia and Gloria Sepanski have set up their place of business on the banks of the Montreal River, catching net after netful of perch. They sell the fish to the most exclusive restaurant in the town, BEDE'S 8- .lEANNE'S owned by, of course, Trombi and Stella. All their customers say they have good floor shows too. Hmmm. So you see Mr. President, our class of '51 hasn't done so bad for itself. l'm so proud that there's not a single bum or hobo in our group. We're so glad they changed the age limitations for the Presidency. Aren't you the lucky one though? Yours truly, Gloria Rice about to leave for the moon

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CLASS PROPHES Y To the President of the United States, John Frezell Dear Mr. President: I am destined for the moon and so couldn't wait for ten or twenty years to pass before writing you and telling about the condition and advancements of the '5l class, and I might like it there on the moon and never return to earth again if there are men there so here it is, all things taking place in less than five years. The class of 'Sl didn't need more than a few years to make themselves well known anyhow For instance look at Lucille Paris, who has established a new law in physics, that of perpetual motion. To think Mr. Forte said there was no such thing, but Lucille had us convinced of it in high school. Then there's Gloria Kromrey, Don Barnabo, Red Trier, Dave Trembath, and Jim, Bertagnoli who have invented a split second timer and excuse device. lf one breaks down the other will work. Gloria seems to like the idea very much. Strange we always thought that Dave Mclntire would end up being a comedian or skier, but he fooled us all- He together with Dave Debus have established an exquisite school for dancing, no less. Punkie Darin has a little DeSoto farm, with little DeSotos running all over the place. Angelo Luppino, Joe'Bednar and Justin Swee have all retired to their shack after graduation and l haven't heard from them since. lThey even graduated in their hunting clothes, so they wouldn't have to waste any time in getting out there. Thank heavens for the robes.l Remember that cute little blond with the giggle, Arloa? Yes, sad was her plight. It all began some five years ago, when Mr- Orsoni asked her while in American Problems class, why people are exploring the South Pole. lt seems she couldn't answer, and ever since to find the answer has become an obsession with her. That's where she is now. I'm happy to relate the news that some of our scrappy Midgets are still together. led by Kukes they are John Sybeldon and Spider Thomas, the new Hurley High Janitors. They use their imagination and think waste paper baskets are basketball hoops. And Joe Kasper has a steady iob in the radio business. He laughs when the Shadow says who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men, the Shadow knows, hhh heeeee ha. Marilyn Bruno, the vivacious little athlete of our school days, has become a Latin teacher and Mary J. Popko has taken over Miss Weiser's iob as speech teacher in Hurley High. Bob Stanczak, Hurley's famous G-Man, is still hot on the trail of finding what the Thing really is. Harold Rantanen is now on his second cam- paign for the presidency of the J. J. Orso and O'Berto Flying Saucer Co. His pre- decessor, one Prof. Keith Nelson, didn't believe the flying saucers actually flew, so one day he took off with his little assistant Dr. George Samardich. We have never heard from them again, but there are strange sounds coming from Mars ever since they disappeared. Our class violinist Charlene Gullickson, decided tomanufac- ture violins, but something happened to the wood and now she is manufacturing tooth picks. Geraldine Baima and Barbara Ruha have established a business which is sky high. They manufacture the rope used for pulleys to carry supplies to flag pole sitters. Ronald Nygard, Stan Matusewick, and Robert Massoglia have estab- lished a school for missionaries on the moon. Of course Loretta Cortichiato fin- ally settled down to the task she had always wanted -- that of raising rabbits. l'll bet everybody thought that J. G. Meade would turn into a bluebeard, with all the women after him. Well, l've got bad news for you ..... he did. Deloris Barrett

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lT'S POSSIBLE Ah yes, these are imminent years both to the armed forces and the United States as a whole since the senior class of '51 emerged into the business world, or should I say the military world. The nation's great threat of a lll world war put most of the boys into the armed forces and it wasn't long before the army thought it was a mistake to have accepted the draftees of lron County. It seems they've been a little too eager in proving what kind of men they are and in doing so they've made several drastic blunders and mistakes. The quiet little town of Hurley, Wisconsin, which is nestled among the pines of the north woods, has the proud honor of having a record exceeded by no other village, town, city or State in the whole country. The record is that 997, of all the men pushed into service from Iron County have one or more blunders per man. This hasn't been equaled in all history except in the Spanish American War when Mr. Forte and Mr. Hoffman blew up the Maine- l.et's glance through these official files and comment on some of our boys' blunders. l suppose you all remember this incident for it made all the headlines. lt was radio technician Frank O'Berto, he was a whiz in electronics while even in school, who ordered Lt. Helinski and lt. Kirby to drop their load of bombs. Ac- cording to their orders they were to bomb a northern section of Korea, but by some slight error of the navigator, staff sergeant Anthony Vita, they missed Korea and blew a section of Ireland right off the map. Staff sergeant Vita swears he added llR2 to the tangent of the circle while he was mapping out the flight course. Buck private .lohn Cornelius Meade was up in arms when he heard of this catastrophe to his native land. He later forgave Lt. Helinski after a portion of Scotland was given over to Ireland. Do you recall when this same private Meade captured ten communists without the aid of a single weapon? He used his singing taIents' on them and that's enough to make anyone give up. Then there's the time cor- porals Swee and J. Trier were found rushing the U. Nations troops with a large mass of north Koreans on both sides of them. Their glasses had been shattered by an explosion and they were under the impression they were with their own buddies. Cpl. Swee had been talking to a Chinese communist for 45 minutes thinking it was his buddy, private luppino. The topic was duck hunting. The whole country is still wondering how Lt- Com. Darin and his crew, made up of l petty officers Dary, 2 Sybeldon, 3 Ebli, and 3 Barnabo, managed to get their submarine in the Holland Tunnel while they were exploring New York's harbor. Darin fell in love with subs after playing the part of an officers in a school play. incidentally shot-gun Ebli has been promoted to the deck canon. lt Com. Darin had to dock 3rd class petty officer Mallick because he kept making a nuisance of of himself by being shot out of the torpedo tube. We'Il all remember the heroic deeds of lst class petty officer Samardich who single-handedly saved E. Brach, G. Tuma, and B. Stanczak from a torpedoed ship. The story goes that trigger-happy Levra had torpedoed the ship while he was en- ioying a cruise on lt. Com. Darin's sub. Big herculean George Samardich grabbed Tuma, Brach and Stanczak from the debris and tugged them three miles to shore. Modest, quiet spoken Samardich gives all the glory to the energy he obtains from Duke Chiapusio's cooking. l.t. Helinski and Kirby have nothing over Flight Commander Trembath and co- pilot Thomas, both extraordinary math and physics students while in hiah school,