Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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were speaking about Betty Martel. Edward: Oh, Winnie? She went in training to be a nurse, and she liked it so well she went into partner- ship with a doctor for life. Virginia: Doctors, medicine, drug stores, Dot Fuller, and Polly Smith. Edward: What have they got to do with all that? Virginia: Dot and Polly have re- juvenated the old drug store across from the post office. Dot fills pre- scriptions and Polly jerks sodas. Edward: No, really! You have a charming little place here. Virginia: Do you like it? I’ll have to give the credit to Ruth Stone and Alice Kuconis for that. Edward: You’re talking in riddles again. Remember I’m only a travel- ing salesman. You’ll have to eluci- date. Virginia: Why, didn’t you know? Ruth and Alice are interior deco- rators with a lively business which extends all along the North Shore. Edward: Gosh! I didn’t realize there were so many in our class. Doesn’t that cover about everyone? Virginia: Heavens, no! I can think of several more without half trying. Elsa Emmons inherited a large farm in Byfield and has started a riding school. Rita MacKinnon goes up at least once a week. She says riding does wonders for her fig- ure. Rita, you know, is head of the drive for more sanitary and health- ful conditions in shoe shops. Edward: Rita should know what she’s talking about. She used to work at Foster’s shoe shop. Then there’s Eleanor O’Malley. Eleanor is in one of the current hits playing on Broad- way. Here’s something that will “bowl” you over. Theresa de Grand- pre is private secretary to a district attorney. Virginia: I’m properly awe strick- en, but she isn’t the only one who has arrived. Jessie Campbell, who used to manage things for the senior class so skilfully, is now a movie director. Yes, Jessie is one of the leading direc- tors at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. She has as her assistant Alice Karchonas, who should know movies, inside and out. She spent all her spare time at the local theatre, as you probably remember. Edward : And what abou . . . Virginia: Stop! I’ve done my share of answering. You take over for a while. I’ll do the asking. Edward : Shoot ! Virginia: Whatever became of red- haired Jackie Tremblay who was our outstanding cheerleader ? Edward: At present she’s abroad resting up from the 1947 Olympics. She was the representative for the U. S. A. in cheer-leading. Of course you’ve heard of Marjorie Sheppard’s triumphs in the fifty-yard dash for women. Virginia: Isn’t that thrilling! Priscilla Worthley isn’t losing any time in “making her place in the sun” either. Edward: You must mean the girl who was Don Hazen’s heart interest senior year. 30

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any time. She’s star reporter for the Globe , you know. Edward: Really? How about her constant companion, Althea Hebb? Virginia: You mean to say you . . . Why Althea is teaching commercial work in our alma mater. Edward: Back at Ipswich High? I can hardly believe it, — one of our classmates teaching in old Ipswich! I bet Althea makes them “toe the mark.” You see I’m covering the dis- trict the other side of Boston, so I can’t keep track of the news down this way. Virginia: If you didn’t know about Althea, this will be news too. Aphrodite Galanies is owner of that impressive looking building on Fifth Avenue known as “Aphrodite’s Beauty Salon.” They say the facials you get there from Thelma Fowler are something to rave about. Edward: Thelma Fowler? She was in our class, wasn’t she? Virginia: Of course. She and Ralph Recine were “that way” about each other. I wonder what happened? Edward: That ended up in wed- ding bells and a happy married life in a new apartment in New York where Ralph is the stage manager of a night club. Gosh ! Haven’t the fel- lows and girls in our class scattered? Not many left in Ipswich. Virginia: Oh wait! I haven’t fin- ished yet. When I was at the Cable Memorial Hospital last month . . . Edward : What ! Virginia: Having my tonsils re- moved, who do you think was my night nurse? Edward : I give up ! I can’t stand many more shocks ; so break the news gently. Who was it? Virginia: None other than Vicky Machaj. We should have had a grand time reminiscing, but Vicky, always on the job, had to keep running hither and yon answering bells. Surely you must have had time to recall what the others are doing. Why not take a few of our celebrities? Edward : Our best-looking girl, Betty Martel, is buyer of women’s clothes at Marshall and Fields, in Boston. Virginia: I wonder if that name Marshall awakens any memories for Betty? Heavens! Look at the time. Edward : Am I keeping you from an appointment? Virginia: No, but I’ve been so en- grossed in our chat that I’ve missed Betty Hale’s program. Edward : What next ! Does she sing? Virginia: No. It’s a half hour talk on child care. You know Barbara Waite and Betty studied at the Chil- dren’s Hospital in New York. Edward : Barb was our girl athlete, right? Remember how she and Mr. Conary used to argue about basket- ball? Is Barb still working in New York? Virginia: Yes, but at present she and her parents are vacationing at the Neck. Oh, yes! I meant to ask about Winnie Palladino when we 29

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Virginia: None other. But get a load of this ! Priscilla has taken over the direction of Ina Ray Hutton’s Band. And if the newspapers have the story right, she’s going over big, taking with her Virginia Mallard, who is publicity agent for the band. Edward : And I passed up a chance to hear that band just re- cently. Well, you’re asking the ques- tions. Virginia: As if I’d forget. Do you remember the girl who sat in front of me in the home room? Mary Mavroides? What is she working at? Has she grown any? Edward: Not an inch. She man- ages to keep a very important posi- tion, however, as chief operator at the telephone switchboard in Boston. Virginia: What a waste! Think what an ideal jockey she would have made. Then Dot Adams who was so quiet; did she marry? Edward: Yes, the fellow whose picture she wore on her wrist. Wasn’t there another Rowley girl? Tall, slim, and dark? Virginia: You must mean Marion Benischek. She and Ruth Eustace formed a partnership and opened a dressmaking shop. Edward: That worked out right, didn’t it? They both received prizes in school for superior sewing. Virginia: That seems to take care of everyone, Eddie. Edward : Oh, no. As you’ve prob- ably surmised, Bill Galanis and “Buck” Georgeopoulos have remained loyal to the theatre. They own all the theatres in Ipswich. Virginia: What else can you tell me? Edward : Remember the good times we had at the Cub meetings? And how hard Dick Horton tried to keep o rder. Well, he’s having more suc- cess now as editor-in-chief of the Herald , And speaking of the Herald , guess who advertises in it! Virginia: I give up. Who? Edward: None other than Don Hazen. Here’s the “ad” I clipped out of last evening’s paper. “Grow a moustache in one week by using Hazen’s Never-Fail Moustache Grow- er. Guaranteed to give prompt re- sults.” Virginia: What has become of your close friends? Edward: Well, Dave Smith is about the best known of them. He croons every night with the “High Street Corn Huskers.” In the day- time he is the son of Dr. E. J. Smith and Son, Dentists. Virginia: And look who writes articles in the Post ! Stewart Player. And look at the title — “How to Drive Safely.” Edward: What! Well, who would have thought that, after all the smash-ups he was in during his school days ! Virginia: What has happened to some of Billy Galanis’s friends? Edward : I can’t tell you very much about Pete Costopoulos because he is never in one place for over a day. The last I heard of him, he was in Calcutta and going East. 31