Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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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

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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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many. Jim: Yes, all you can do is grin and bear it. That’s what Tony Cynkus is doing. Kay: Tony? Why he was the lad who had quite an affair with an accordion player. Jim: Yes, and now he’s living in Somerville, and family matters have made ' deep furrows in his noble brow. Kay: Even the most wary fall into the pit. But most of them seem to have gone into business of some sort. Now did you know that Aldene Marcorelle and Dorothy Greene are running a dressmaking shop on Fifth Avenue ? Jim: Well, thev certainly look the part. As I recall, they had plen- ty of preparation for it. Kay: They took a great deal of interest in it. Jim: Some of these quiet girls have surprised me. Why, I never thought that they would stir out of Ipswich. Kay: Oh, some haven’t. There’s Christine Scourletis. She finds it very comfortable at home. She spends all her spare time at the li- brary waiting for “Bob.” By the way, the library is in charge of Sophie Klos. Sophie is very accom- modating. She keeps the doors op- en as long as Christine and Bob care to stay. Jim : Someone’s burning the mid- night oil. Did I tell you about our shy and retiring Randolph Emer- son ? Kay: No, but he hasn’t changed a freckle since I last saw him. Jim : He went far in the horti- cultural world. Did you ever hear of the Emerson strawberry? Well, he’s responsible for it. The demand was so great that he had to increase his staff. Kay : To what extent ? Jim: Well, he advertised, and his old classmate Wilda Parsons answered. She’s a brilliant secre- tary. Randolph is lucky. Sigrid Lind applied but was too late. Kay: Well, I’ve always said it. I’ve always maintained that the early bird gets the worm. Will you kindly inform me as to who that stern looking woman is yonder? Jim: Well, I won’t be certain, but it looks like Mary Johnson. I under- stand that she teaches now and makes the poor students toe the mark. Kay: Well, if the pupils were anything like you, she’d need to be stern. Pardon my bluntness. Jim: I certainly will. But I’ve turned over a new leaf since then, you know. Kay: You used to make me so sick. Jim : Oh that reminds me — Kay: Now what? Jim: Merely of that write-up in the paper a short while ago, about the epidemic in school. Kay : It seems to me I read it. Jim : I was down here covering it at the time, and I recall vividly the splendid work accomplished by the district nurse. Kay: You must have fallen for her. Jim: Just the same Catherine of twenty years ago. If you’d listen just a minute. The nurse turned out to be Stashia Kuconis. Kay: Well, now, that makes 32