Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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so earnestly, is a good example of that. Jim: Murray Adams and Sylvia Todd? Kay: Yes, sir, and living now in a house on the Rowley-Ipswich line to avoid contention. Jim : And there are some left who say marriages are a failure. Alice Wegzyn is married to a corn fed farmer. Kay: But you never can tell. Thelma Davis, for instance, was, as one would have thought, destined to be one of the first. The one with the glasses and the book under her arm. She’s the school librarian. Jim : Some of them seem to take an interest in hiding their true call- ing. Edgar Adams was another. Who would think that that red headed rabbit hunter would turn out to be the platinum blonde pro- prietor of a New York Night Club. Kay : This world is full of sur- prises. I’d never believe that Mary Fido could add so much to her sta- ture in this time. She must be all of six feet : Jim: Just about. Even some of the most unlikely people have turned over a new leaf. We needed a plumber the other day, and who do you suppose responded to our distress signal ? Kay: A plumber, I suppose. Jim : Actually, or at least he had all the traits of one. He forgot his tools twice and lost three Stillson wrenches down the drain. I guess he had his mind on family matters. If facts were known, I think we’d find that his voyage over the matri- monial seas in rather tempestuous Yes, sir: tempestuous. Did you ever hear that word before ? Kay: That was Johnny Hayes,, the inebriated constable of the Sen- ior Play. Jim: None other. But I can’t place that person there. His face is — Kay : That’s Earle McCormick of Rowley. Does he revive pleasant memories of senior play days? Jim: Does he! He’s an account- ant, is he not? Rather stout. Kay: I’ll say, I understand that Katheleen Singer is heiress to a for- tune. I guess she can afford to own and pilot her own car now just like her boy friend. Jim : It was her ambition. Who is that fresh young thing there with the winsome smile ? Kay : She looks as if she had had a course with Edna Wallace Hop- per. But no, it’s Beatrice Mosher. She’s in the hairdressing business now. Jim: Well, live and learn. I think my nails need attending to and I could use a facial. Kay: Now, James. Jim : I can see two old cronies. Where you see one, the other is bound to be in the offing. Kay : They are easily recognized, aren’t they? Dorothea Clapp runs a taxi and Mildred takes in fares. Jim : That’s combining business with pleasure. I can tell you some- thing about George Bournazos. Kay: Please do. Jim : He’s a wrestling promoter, and his chief stock in trade is a black derby and a big black cigar. Kay: It only goes to show that we change our ambitions of lesser value to ones of better merit as we 30

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istry and has discovered many new ideas and theories. To think, though, that the baby of the class should change so Tn twenty years. Jim : I thought he was cut out for an orchestra but one never can tell. Now you can’t fool me on that face. That’s Albert Anzuoni. But why the worried furtive look on his unshaven face ? Kay: Can’t you see? Do you re- member that quiet reserved little girl who semed to have an option on Za ? Jim : Why, Ilene Smith. Kay: Just so. She isn’t quite sure of Za even now, but I guess it’s pretty certain. She still looks like Ilene, doesn’t she? Jim : Certainly does. Do you know who’s responsible for all those cute little delicatessen shops that seem to be popping up everywhere ? Kay: Why it sems that Helen Galanis always had a burning de- sire to own a group of stores and now she’s satisfying her ambition. Jim : A lot of us had high flung ambitions. Take Mable Currier. I haven’t seen her. She went out to seek her fortune. Kay : She was sitting over in the corner with some other Rowleyites. It seems she found a berth in the new high school teaching American History. Jim: Back to the fold, eh? Kay: Yes. and that’s not all. Rose Poirier teaches French in the new institution of learning. Jim: Please don’t mention French. Tt was one of my stumbling blocks. Go on. You seem well post- ed. Kay: I need no urging. I’ll wag- er those two quiet looking people sitting yonder are unfamiliar to your eyes. Jim : Ask me something hard. That’s Ervin Langmaid and Beatrice Austin. What are they doing, though ? Kay: Happily married; at least to all outward appearances. They sort of team up, don ' t they? Elea- nor Mitchell and Theodore Rice combined talents and found success over the radio as “The Harmoniz- ers.’’ Jim : One moment. I can see one person I don’t have to ask about. Kay: And that is — ? Jim : Barbara Arthur. She cap- italized one of her most effective and dangerous attributes. She rolls her eyes now, and Hollywood pays, and the whole world sighs. Kay: Other people have been basking in the floodlights of public notoriety. While I was in Boston the other day, I was attracted by a bill-board. Jim: Yes, go on. Who was re- sponsible ? Kay : The same one who is enter- taining us to-night, Lillian Player. She is a dancer and in great de- mand. Jim: Well, one usually falls into the groove that fits him best. We follow our calling. If we start off on the wrong track, it doesn’t take long to find out and make a new start. Take Jane Bokron, she cer- tainly takes the part of an artist. I think the starvation diet of the ar- tist is helm ' n her avoirdupois. Kav: Yes, but there are always a few who keep the home fires burn- ing. That contented couple, talking 29

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acquire age. He was bound to be a tramp. Jim : Look at that long drink of water over there just radiating with the tang and health of a salt sea breeze. Kay : Who ? The fellow with the gold braid ? Jim: Yes. Harold Sholes, the chap who was to be a mariner. He’s an admiral now and paddles his own canoe. Worked himself up from the ranks, eh? Speaking of wrestlers and athletes, Tony Bud- zianowski is just as handsome as ever regardless of the loss of hair. You know there seems to be some- thing careless about football coach- es. They must let the moths get in- to their tresses. Kay: I heard he had his sys- tem of coaching patented. But let me have a chance to get a word in edgewise. Jim : Go ahead. I’m hard to stop, though. Kay: You’re not telling me a thing. Did you see Margaret Hamm and her inseparable ? Jim: Dorothy Miller? Kay: Yes. They’re at the head of the commercial department of the new high school. Jim : All I can say is that they deserve it. The extra time and ef- fort those girls offered can never be fully appreciated. I see Warren Grant occasionally. He still beats the drums for an orchestra. It isn’t hard to see why we named him best looking boy, is it? Kay : It is not. Who is that ath- letic looking fellow over there ? Jim : Don’t you remember Steve Goverek ? He’s a basketball coach in one of the larger high schools in New York. Kay: Steven spent considerable time in sports. Jim : I can’t seem to recollect having any red-headed girl in our tribe. Kay : It seems that Irene Karcho- nas was always looking for a red- head. Not being able to find one, she converted her own raven locks into coils of gleaming bronze. Jim: Our friends seem to have chosen about every walk in life. For example, those two unobtrusive fig- ures clothed in black ? Kay : Looks sometimes are deceiv- ing, but it looks a great deal as if Lennart Swenson and George Tor- pey have affiliated, Lennart being a clergyman and Torpey an under- taker. They get along famously, I hear. When George has a funeral, it is always from Lennart’s church. Jim : Together they provide some good send-offs. What’s this I hear about Steven Kozacki going native in Hawaii with his guitar? Kay : It’s all true. He answered an advertisement, “Learn to play in six easy lessons,” and now he is very popular. Someone else I see has joined the ranks of the hairless. Who can it be ? Jim : He is one of the more schol- arly members of our gang. He started in young as a druggist and has been in the harness ever since. Kay: Lazarus Lazaropoulos of course. Jim : Someone should have sug- gested that he use some of his own quick action hair tonic. Kay : He can console himself by remembering that he is only one of 31