Ipswich High School - Tiger Yearbook (Ipswich, MA)

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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

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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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Virginia: And Ted Pojasek owns the “Diamond Center Night Club” in New York. Edward: I’ve heard about him. Also that his orchestra is led by Al- den Mosher; and Bob Mullens plays the bull fiddle in it. Have you been living in Rowley for long? Virginia: Yes, almost ever since I left school. Why? Edward : I was wondering whether you knew about any Ipswich boys. Virginia: Jimmy Nikas and Char- lie Soffronas couldn’t get away from the newspapers; so they bought the Ipswich News and now run it to- gether. Edward: Well, I know about Nick Markos. I suppose we all do, but I’ll tell you to make sure. Any time you’re in Boston, go to 1076 Common- wealth Avenue and there he is, — short, rugged, and usually smoking the blackest cigar on the market. He runs the store, and his modern apart- ments begin at 1078, one door away. How about some of the Rowley fel- lows? You ought to know something about them. Oh, and I forgot to men- tion the fact that Nick’s sister Julia is a valuable aid to him in his busi- ness. Virginia: They believe in keeping business in the family, don’t they? Dick Hayman has fulfilled his ambi- tion and is now down in South Amer- ica building bridges. He married a native. Edward: Any time you’re in Ar- lington stop at Hulbert’s Alarm Clock factory. He makes these new Ting-a-Ling Clocks that get you out of bed as well as wake you. Too bad he didn’t have one when he was in school. Virginia: Wait a moment! Here is the latest Good Housekeeping. Look closely at the cover. I thought you’d recognize it. Sammy Lombard has a school of art, you know. He has two of our classmates as instruc- tors — Nappy Beaulieu and Marjorie Hull. Edward : Yes, I know about them, and Marjy is still as forgetful as ever. I heard last week that she got on a subway train and forgot to get off at her station. She ended up in the North Station and was she em- barrassed ! Virginia: Well, I guess Marjy’s the last one as usual ! And what an odd place to leave her ! Edward : And I guess this is where I’d better leave you. Here I’ve wasted your afternoon, made myself late in reporting, and not made a single sale. The afternoon hasn’t been all in vain, though, because at least your curiosity has been satis- fied. Virginia: Thanks, and yours too. Well, glad you stopped. Goodbye. Edward : Goodbye. 32