Littleton High School - Record Yearbook (Littleton, NH)

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18 THE RECORD B. The last I heard was that he had established a hydroelectric power plant on Palmer Brook. N. Yeah. He always was a dam builder. I hear you're in the engineering field too. B. I have been puttering around here and there. My last as- signment was to make the Amazon River navigable from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. N. That sure was an amazing feat. I read in the papers recently where Rudy Kimball and Leo Mayhew are the originators of the new Z formation which the Army football team will use next fall. B. Is that right? They sure were crazy about sports in high school. Remember the swell job Joan Ryan and Verne Dempster did in our senior play? Well, a theatrical scout signed them up for a ten- year contract in a leading New York theater where they are billed as the Reigning Queens of Burlesque. N. What ever happened to the brains of that group-Kay Demp- ster? B. Oh! She's the manager for the girls and recently had the Queens' legs insured for 31,000,000 apiece through Lloyds of London. N. Did you know that Sally Mason was president of the Getum and Marryum Young Association which has a reputed membership of 35,000? B. She always said she was going to get married just as soon as she left high school. N. Well, she did and now she's getting every other young girl hooked up. B. You know my old friend, Armand Bilodeau? N. Yes. B. Well, he is a Major General in the Army and a strong advo- cate of the atomic bomb and teen-age conscription. N. Did he ever get to West Point? B. Oh, yes, and a few years after he graduated he returned as commandant for the academy. N. By the way, Jewel Muscles Mooney is wrestling tonight at Madison Square Garden for the championship of the world. B. Is that right! ! Don't tell me she stuck to Wrestling after the senior play. N. You bet she did and she's fioored more than 200 opponents up to now. B. Yesterday I happened to be in Rockefeller Center and noticed on one of the doors the names of Lamb and Boardman-Electrical and Architectural Engineers. N. I heard they had established here in New York with Bernard Houle as chief electrician. B. What are Bernard's duties as chief electrician? N. They tell me he inserts light bulbs. It is very high precision work. B. What ever happened to that triple-threat team, Sherman, Gerard, Smith?

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THE RECORD 17 with hard work, they still remembered their successes and felt that they were ready to launch into the last year of high school and the tasks that were before them. The Senior year started off with a bang and our first social event of the year was the annual Freshman initiation. This was some- thing which we had been waiting for a long time, and those on the initiation committee entered into the campaign with gusto. The Freshmen rewarded the Seniors by being excellent sports, and we felt that we had started off on the right foot. The Senior play, entitled Act Your Age, was the second big event which took up a lot of the time of certain class members but they, too, were well rewarded because the play was a success. Other less important events held our attention but in the backs of our minds we have been thinking constantly of the last three major events to take place in our lives at L. H. S.--Final Assembly, Class Day, and Graduation. The year is coming to an end too soon for most of us, and soon we as a class will be separated as we journey into a world which is now free but which is still in a dangerous position and may hold strange things for us. We are the first class to be graduated since the ending of World War II, and as we are about to enter on the open road to life, let us bear in mind that we are going to help make up the world of tomorrow. Let us help to keep lasting peace in the world and set an example for those who are to follow us. Let us remember our life at L. H. S. and cherish our fond memories in days of trouble and failure. Lastly, let us remember those who have been our helpers and who have en- couraged us when we would have failed without their help. If we do these things, we will feel that we have had the right start in life and that we will always be successful in our undertakings. Helen F. Houston Robert Cady CLASS PROPHECY The skit takes place in New York's Central Park when B. is sitting on a park bench and N. comes by. B. is reading a paper. B. Aren't you Nick Pisperikos? N. Well, if it isn't M. B. fShake hands.J Long time no see. B. It sure is. What are you doing here in N. Y. C.? N. Why I have been doing brain surgery at the Bellevue Hos- pital for the past two years. B. Don't tell me you're the famous Dr. Pisperikos who recently operated on our old classmate, and now the famous Maxine Bubbles Marsh of Hollywood fame, for a brain tumor? N. It was nothing serious. I heard the secret behind her trip to stardom was that she was trying to corner Van Johnson. B. She always was a little man crazy. Remember her crush on Donald Whicher? N. Wha,t's Donald up to now?

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THE RECORD 19 N. Not so long ago I was in that thriving community of Gilman, and I found that they were incorporated in a hotel business there. B. Don't tell me it's the Gilman Hotel! N. Yes, but its chef, Mizzie, runs the coke bar, and Herbert is the financial wizard of the group, assisted by his wife, the former Dorothy Finn of Littleton. B. A year or so ago on an engineering trip to Moscow, who should I encounter but Stalin's first assistant and commissar of the people, Pat Enderson. N. Is that the same Enderson who revised the five-year plan to 25 years? B. It sure is and a couple of weeks ago she was awarded the Russian Order of the Silver Star. N. Speaking of medals-Dick Hastings recently received the Distinguished Service Medal for crooning above and beyond the call of duty at the county farm in Haverhill. They loved that boy. B. Did he really have such a good voice as they claimed? N. Man, it was better than that. To keep his vocal chords in shape he does hog-calling in his spare time. B. Three of our former classmates, Rita Laveau, Dayle Hart, and Lorena Tift have formed the Married Woman's Political Action League and elected Douglas Buswell for president. N. Don't tell me he is another Norman Thomas? Why, I re- member he's run for that same office during the last five elections. B. Well, you know the old saying, If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. N. That's exactly what Charlotte Oakes and Pearl Lee did. At first they met with difficulties, but are now on the road to success with their chicken ranch on Mann's Hill. B. It sure is good to see so many of our classmates so pros- perous. N. Did you know that John Spencer has made a fortune from his nationally known Spencer Drug Stores and his famous one-cent sales? , B. I also heard he intended to expand into the most distant parts of the world with Robert Derrington as chief soda clerk. Dick Long- champs is also in the soda fountain business. After he graduated from Alison University three years ago, he returned to the Sweet Shop and is making cokes and frappes on a scientific basis. N. Those seven years at Alison were worth it though. He makes the best orange cokes you have ever tasted. B. Did you happen to read that article in a recent American Magazine by Elsie Bolduc and Roberta Christie who are now teachers? N. Why yes, they are the ones who strongly advocate the dis- posal of books and adoption of pictorial methods of teaching. B. Yes, but Elsie and Roberta have met with considerable op- position because Isabel Morrill believes that lessons can only be learned through books.