Kenmore High School - Kenitorial Yearbook (Kenmore, NY)

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This is the year 1958! 1958, where life has been rejuvenated by atoms, rockets, and coke in every drinking fountain. 1958, where we, weary travelers from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Suffering Seniors, have emerged from darkest Africa, after spending years away from the outside world in search of the origin of Civilization In the midst of our venture, a certain nostalgic feeling gnaws at our heart strings and we know we must return to our old habitat at K. H. S. and those familiar landmarks we learned to love so well back in '48. We board our rocket ship and set off west- ward, bound for that metropolis of Kenmore. As we step from the Kenmore Central Airport, we see a beautiful blue and white cab of the Sheri- dan Cab Company, owned and operated by Gordie Reed. We hop in and journey down Delaware Avenue, where we notice many familiar sights, including a new and improved Alcobar, run by Diamond Jim Hicks, and a coke establishment recently opened by Nan Nelson and Eleanor Fronczak, charter members of the Kenmore chapter of Pepsi- Cola Anonymous. Lounging in the booths we see Lou Paar and Andy Podlucky, the place's steadiest customers. Sweeney's has been replaced by a haber- dashery run by Dean Bensley. We hear he is an expert at fitting pants. But wondering how Kenmore is being run now, we go over to the city hall, where we are ushered into the office of Mayor Sylvester Nye, who intro- duces us to his secretary, Doris Cunningham. While waiting for Mayor Nye to finish some important business, we happen to pick up a news- paper and see in the headlines David Stein has added another degree to his long chain, already mounting into the hundreds. This time it is B.L.S. CBachelor of Long Standingl. On the society page we see June Wiegand has finally accepted Paul Devitt's proposal of marriage. It's been a long, long time. Down in the corner is CLASS PROPHECY an advertisement for Don Pritchard's hermitage for happy bachelors. On the sports page we see that the Kenmore Blue Devil's baseball team has just announced the sign- ing of Specs Van Deusen, for the stupendous sum of 575,000 per season. His bobbing and weaving style in catching fly balls should be a great gate attraction. On the comic page the current hero appears to be Fearless Forkin, drawn by Ted Yochum. Everyone is aroused at the coming of Jack Wil- liams and his 100-piece orchestra, the largest dance band in the land. Featured in this massive aggrega- tion are Merrill Hall on drums, and Bill Watson, who recently won the Downbeat poll for the 5th consecutive year. Williams is to appear at the Ken- more Music Hall in a gala show also featuring songstress Barbara Dean, comedian Bones Evans, and those foremost exponents of modern dance, Shirley Larson and Larry Mucha. Along with this extravaganza is to be the huge water production of impressario Jack Miller, star- ring Pat Roberts, Nancy Ludeck, and the spring- board specialist Ray Arnold. We learn from Bill Callanan, who is to be emcee, that three local girls have gone a long way in the musical field-these three are Pat Earl and Peggy Gensler, now featured in the new show at the famed Diamond Horseshoe, Up in the Clouds, and jane Murch, who accompanies them on the piano. These three have banded together with two other Kenmore girls, models Nancy Stilwell and Hazel Tarbell, into a Kenmore Alumni Society in the Big City. Another local girl has reached the top of the legitimate stage. Frances Graley is now starring in the hit Life with Roogie, written by Beverly Martin. A very prominent candidate in the presidential race is Arthur Otten. The point that appeals to his following is that he will read the Sunday comics

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to all his loyal subjects if he is elected. Well, it worked for the Little Flower, so why not for the Big Bud! Well can we remember those school days when he was struggling with trig and physics as we read how Barry Milliard has hit upon a new scheme of rocketing cars to the moon. Too bad they haven't found a means of enabling people to reach there also. The current hangout for Kenmore grads appears to be an elite establishment known affectionately as Mothers, where the finest ginger ale in town is served. There we find Bud Knisley, Bill Bickerton, and Bill Myers. Jim Musty has initiated a unique business. He has purchased an old mansion and redecorated it specifically for rental as a summer theatre-it must be the old playwright in him. His cohorts in this enterprise are Howie Kirkwood and Jim Nist. As treasurer of the Hi-Y Alumni Association,Tom Polson is still trying to collect unpaid dues from jack O'Neill, who is now cruising in his yacht, The Hacienda, off Long Beach. But no visit would be complete without return- ing to our old alma mater. So we return to the school, where we are greeted by Principal Bill Sanders. Mr. Sanders takes us on a tour of the school, where we seeimany familiar faces, includ- ing john Youra, now the custodian in charge of Tobacco Road, and Librarian Edith Chesley. Down in 241, we see Mr. Mooshie, now completely bald, mulling sadly over the problems of the 1958 Kenitorial. The coach of the basketball team, Roughem Toughem Ken Varshay, informs us that Bullet Billy Doerr has just signed to play pro football for the San Francisco Starlets, sponsored by Dottie Dennis and Ann Masterson. What a fate! Coach Varshay tells us also that John Yacos was at school last year on his way back from his Olympic swim- ming triumphs in every free style race from the one yard to the marathon ten miles. This grind ap- peared to have little effect on Mr. Yacos, although protrusions similar to fins and webbing between his toes were apparent. Recently presented with their doctorates after doing post graduate work at K. H. S. were Connie Callanan, Lois Hayes, and Ruth Penfold, who com- bined to write their thesis on Homework, a Fate Worse Than Death. And still running around in search of identifica- tion sheets for Who's Who is janet Beardslee, its editor-in-chief. On our way back to the airport, we stop in at the offices of the Kenmore Press, which now has the widest circulation of any paper in the nation Cexcept The Daily Workerl. Editor Gretchen Dorries introduces us to her new associate editors, Janet Bogart and Phyllis Vance. Photographer Dick Sherer had just returned from taking pictures of the reopening of the Ten Pin Cub. While we are in the offices, several flashes of interest come in over the wire. Don Coon has just been selected to play the lead in the latest Tarzan picture. Dick Phinney has just won the American Bowling Con- gress Championship held in the City of North Tonawanda. Of special note to art lovers is the fact that E. Frank Moelich's masterpiece of Wood carving, the Passionate Pixie, has been awarded first prize in the contest conducted by the Rube Goldberg Foundation in Rockefeller Center. I Bob Stalker, Tonawandafs swimming coach, drops in to renew old acquaintances. He informs us that Bud Jones and Bill Harris have gone into the sporting goods business, Harris handling the needs of the skiers and Jones the girls Cneedsj. But time is growing short and our legs are grow- ing weary. We must bid farewell and return to our ship and back to Africa. Having seen the sordid atmosphere of our erstwhile comrades, their various and sundry life pursuits, we are not reluctant to return to Civilization again. Ah Wilderness! DICK NEWELL