Littleton High School - Record Yearbook (Littleton, NH)

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26 THE RECORD family now. He's one of the pilots of the Pacific Clipper and looks pretty nice in his uniform. B: You don't have to tell me about Russ Buker. I can guess who caused him to go into a tailspin. M: Yes, Russ and Sally are running the toy department of Firestone back in Littleton. They have a great time pushing the scooters around. B: I heard of Glode's famous Kandy Kitchen back in Littleton. Is that Monica by any chance? M: Yes, it's Monica all right and her silent partner is Wilbur Willey. B: I can't picture him silent very long but then I guess Monica put the old sheik in his place. M: I just received an invitation to attend the L. H. S. Junior Prom this year. They're having Lawrence Latulip's Blues inthe Night Band with Earl Sinatra Trombley the featured singer and Jitterbug Olive Towle giving an exhibition. B: I bought a magazine at the last stop we made and guess whose picture is in it? Carlene Ennis's. M: Carlene's! Why? B: She's a model now-advertising Dr. L. M. Bauld's new hair oil for luxuriant hair growth. M: Well, I'll be darned. You'll be able to see some of our old classmates when we land in Brazil. B. Swell! Who? M: Bob Labonte, Virginia Cote, Pauline Sidney, and Marie Pa- quette. They came down on a good-will tour and got stranded. So they decided to make enough money to go home on by dancing in a Night Club. Bob does the managing for the girls. They liked to work here so well that they're going to stay a while. B: Some of our classmates are married now. Phyllis Mitchell married Ed Bixby-they live in Ohio. Ed's a coach now-pretty well-known, too-and when he received two offers to coach, one from Ohio University and one from Dartmouth-you can imagine which one they took. M: Oh, yes, Phil did come to Littleton from Ohio when we were Juniors, didn't she? B: Where's Barbara Miles now? M: Haven't you heard about her? She's heading an expedition going into the jungles of Africa. B: What on earth for? M: There's a certain parachutist from the War who parachuted to safety during the War. That was years ago but he never came back. Now it seems that a certain native tribe in Africa has an exalted white king-with Red Hair! B: Say no more-I get it. Say, Eleanor Colby is living in Little- ton again. M: She is? I remember she went to Plymouth Teachers college. Is she teaching in Littleton now? B: No, she had to give up teaching and help her husband in his Hardware Store. He kept getting tangled up in the rolls of wiring

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THE RECORD 25 CLASS PROPHECY Time: 1954. Place: Airliner going to Bermuda, South America, etc: M: Are you comfortable, sir? Well, if it isn't Bob Finn! B: Why, Mimi Olson, what in the world are you doing in here and in that outfit? M:-Why, I'm senior hostess on this Pan-American clipper. What are you doing here? B: I always knew you'd land a job like this where looks and in- telligence count. I'm on my way to South America to work on my first engineering project. I just finished college this summer with the government paying all expenses. Remember they made us that offer after we got through licking Hitler and Tojo? M: Yes. heard that quite a few of our classmates liked the Armed Services so much that they stayed in after the war ended in 1945. B: Bob Miller is a veteran tar now. Much to the disgust of Gladys Marsh he signed up for another ten year stretch in the Navy. I always knew he hated all girls but I never knew he would go that far to get away from them. M: Joe Sulham is a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy and boy! is he giving the works to Dick Muzzey and Al Blasenak who are under his command! Al is putting his athletic ability to use by having to swab the decks most of the time. I heard the only reason Al stayed in the Navy was because they gave him plenty of food. He was afraid that he could never find a girl to marry who would cook enough for him. B: But you can't say that about Dick Muzzey. A girl in every port made him stay in the Navy. That was the only Way he could afford to go around and see them all. Bill Sullivan and Leo Spread- bury stayed in the Leathernecks together, did you know that? M: Yes, I heard they did. Both of them are sergeants now. B: That's right but it's the same old story that it was in high school. Bill is top sergeant and thinks up all of the dirty work while Leo is mess sergeant and gets all the mess that Bill can get them into. M: A lot of the girls of our class got into the WACS before it was all over. Tina Pierce, Lois Hart, Bev', Gardner, and Rita Ross joined together and their job was to speak before large au- diences and get them to buy War Bonds. B: Yes, I can remember how they used to love getting up in class and giving a ten-minute talk. M: After the war they stayed together and are running a date bureau for old maids. B: Weren't Norm Simons, Miles Quigley, and Russ Buker in the Air Force? M: Yes, and they got to be aces during the war but they're aces of a different kind now. Quig is running a helicopter line between Littleton and St. J ohnsbury. He also transports the Gilman students to L. H. S. in his helicopter plus transporting all the athletic teams. B: He flies through the air with the greatest of ease, huh? M: Norm is still aces with Ruth although she's the boss of the

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THE RECORD 27 everytime he had to unroll any. You know how it'll snap back up on you. M: Gloria Lyons Jock's husband was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1948. Now he's trying to keep Gloria as calm as he helped keep the Japs. B: I hear that Ray Foster is somewhere in Argentina. M: Yes, he went into the back country to teach the natives how to erect those ready-made bungalows from the United States. They still insist on taking them down and folding them up during every storm. B: Ray always did want to be some type of engineer. M: Irene Carbonneau was down in Brazil recently-to compete in a broad-jumping contest. She won, too. B: Gosh, I remember back in school Irene was lots better in ath- letics than any other girl. M: She's still going strong, too. She winters in Sun Valley and summers in Europe and South America-teaching athletics. B: Kathleen Bronson has a band of her own now. She calls it the Bunny Hugs. She put Harry James on the skids when she went professional with the trumpet. M: I remember when Bunny used to play in the school band. Our school orchestra is now a thing of the past. They let the kids play Swing now. B: Beverly Perkins, Pauline Santy, Eva Laflamme and Deborah White are still back in Littleton waiting for their respective iiances to come home. M: Where are they? B: Oh, they're part of the world policing system in Germany. The girls are getting quite excited-the boys' terms are up in three more years. M: Hillis Goad and Goldie Styles are still working for Norton Pike. B: What are they by now-private secretaries? M: Oh no, you know the recreation plan that each factory has put into effect since the war. Well, Goldie and Hillis are in charge of keeping the workers happy. B: Barbara Thompson's boy-friend moved to Littleton to be near her when we were Seniors-remember? Now that they're married they've moved back to Whitefield-he got too homesick. M: I remember when Barb used to always be waited for by him in his car after school-the rest of us always had to walk down that steep hill. B: That hill was easier going down than up! M: Excuse me-everyone fasten their safety belts, please. We're preparing to land. Bob, wait 'til you see Who's President of Brazil. B: Who is? M: Hadley Gadbois! Jimmy Dorsey's arrangement of Brazil finally got him. He came down here as a sightseer and you know