Lyman Hall High school - Singer Chronicle Yearbook (Wallingford, CT)

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CLASS HONORS Boy Accomplishing Most for the Class Girl Accomplishing Most for the Class Most Popular Boy.................... Most Popular Girl................... Most Athletic Boy................... Most Athletic Girl.................. Best Author......................... Best Comedian....................... Best Orator......................... Most Dramatic....................... Class Artist........................ Most Musical........................ Jolliest............................ Wittiest............................ Most Optimistic..................... Most Ambitious...................... Most Generous....................... Neatest............................. Best Boy Dancer Best Girl Dancer Best Dressed Boy Best Dressed Girl Most Obliging Most Energetic . Most Courteous . Most Sincere Best Looking Boy Prettiest Girl William Taylor Ruth Backes . . Charles Sabo . . Doris James . Kenneth Spellacy Elizabeth Posluszny . Shirlee Sinow . . Charles Sabo Robert Till . . . Fred Fucci Charles Sabo . . Alyce Goodwin . Thelma Jeffords Charles Sabo . John Brf.snock . John Brf.snock . Peter Barbf.rino Lorraine Callagher Charles Bridgett . . Bernice Zemke Charles Bridgett . Joyce Sciiipke Doris James . . Dorothy Edell . . John Bresnock . . Lillian Simon . Stanley Nasczniec . . Rutii Backf.s The Chronicle 1940 21

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GWENDOLYN WESTPHAL “Gwen” “Fair as the day, and always gay.” Glee Club 1, 2, 3; A Cappella Choir 2, 3; Junior Play Costume Committee 3; Senior Play Costume Committee 4 DONALD WOOD “Don “All work and no play.” Student Council 1, 2; Junior Ring Committee 3 CHARLES WOODING “Charlie “Every day has its pleasures, its style of interests, and its own ways.” Student Council 3, 4: Chronicle 3; Daubers 3, 4; Junior Play 3; Senior Play Publicity Committee 4; Junior “Prom Decoration Committee 3; General Chairman of Senior Dance 4; Baseball Team 2, 3; Immigration Panel on Radio 4; Inter-class Basketball 2, 3; Honorary Usher 3 I JEAN WOODTKE “Jean “She dances like an angel” Junior College Club 2, 3, 4; Compass 4; Glee Club 2, 3; A Cappella Choir 3; Junior Play Candy Committee 3; Senior Play 4; Class Night Roll Call Committee 4; St. Patrick’s Day Program 1 : Honorary Usher 3: Vice-President of Freshman Girls’ Glee Club 1 JOSEPH WRINN “Joe “A penny for your thoughts.” Junior Play Usher Committee 3 ; Senior Play Usher Committee 4; Junior Prom” Committee 3; Senior Dance Committee 4; Freshman Leaders Club 1 BERNICE ZEMKE “Ben “She. the bright sun of all her sex.” Student Council 2, 4; Chronicle Distributor 2, 3, 4; Financial Department of Afternoon News 1 ; Junior Play Ticket Committee 3; Senior Play Committee 4; Freshman Leaders’ Club 1 ; Basketball Team 4: Baseball Team 3, 4; A. A. Member 4; St. Patrick’s Day Program 1 vU The Chronicle 1940 20

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CLASS HISTORY On a bright day in 1936 the class of ’40 wandered into Lyman Hall in pairs and threes to start a hectic four years of school life. The Hallowe’en Party was a pronounced success from an eating standpoint. On St. Patrick’s Day we adjourned to the “gym” for a party, where George Magee attempted to take pictures, which looked like the photograph of the inside of a dark-room in operation. The Backes-Ferraro feud got off to a good start and has continued ever since. The basketball team won the inter-class championship for the first time in a row. Bob Nash had all the girls’ hearts a-flutter. In June the teachers declared an armistice and we devoted the next two months to forgetting all that we had learned. Returning from a two months’ hibernation, we started the school social activities with the annual Hallowe’en Party, where we showed the fluttcry freshmen that being a sophomore was a great honor. Bob Nash was our chief cook and bottle washer, with George Cook as his able assistant. Harriet Gelfalum, the only girl to get elected to an office in three years, was the secretary, and Dave Anderson was our official dough-boy. Bob Nash now had another rival for his heart-fluttering activities. It was noticed that feminine membership in the musical organizations showed a decided increase. Aghast at having learned something in the past ten months, we left school to forget and indulge in anything that didn’t require much work. Junior year was the year Mr. Torrcy convinced us that we looked like cows when chewing gum, except that cows looked thoughtful. Immediately we practiced looking thoughtful. At the polls Robert Heath won over Robert Nash. Everyone wondered if they were just taking turns at the presidential office. David Anderson, the treasurer, was well versed in money matters, having seen Wall Street. Frank Tomko, since he had kept a diary so long, was an ideal writer downer, so we made him our secretary’. In the Junior Play Charles Wooding and Carolyn Masoni played Guess Again to a full house. As this was merely a public view of a long standing romance, our Thespians were very convincing. From the play to “Prom” was just a long haze of jitterbug jackets and saddle shoes, with lulls in the rush for us to scrape up money for rings and to appease Simon Legree dues collectors. With a furious pace dashed Daniel Boone draped over a squared hypotenuse, pursued by a short hand playing a typewriter. Aeneas was beginning to say Heigh-Ho Silver instead of groaning. When May had come and the “Prom” was in the offing, the young man’s fancy lightly turned to thoughts of a tux and a corsage. The ingenious juniors, profiting by financial theories that would honor a Morgan, finally announced that they could take the affair in their stride. James Lee, the man who came to dinner, also went to “Prom.” Everybody wondered if the red glow in the hall was the new indirect lighting, but soon we all discovered Joseph Fitton just radiating. Right after the “Prom” John Bresnock discovered that Einstein was right all the time, and since then John has scrapped all his theories. We could hardly wait for the seniors to vacate so that we could occupy the upper berths. It was fun to be a junior, but we wanted to be tops, and besides Joe Wrinn and Bob Harrington were by this time big enough to be senoirs. The seniors were perfectly willing to vacate. So in June a stampede for Senior Home Rooms began. Senior year the C’s had it—Cicero, Confucius, and cardigans. As soon as the boys had seized all the window seats, we were off. The Senior Dance brought forth many new romances. Richard Crocker resolved to devote himself to someone. William Taylor sedately took office after a successful campaign. His political colleagues Richard Johnson as the forgotten man, George Cook as pen-pusher, and James Lee, the man with the dough, were inaugurated with him. Martin Factor now began spouting formulae and was named the test tube kid of chemistry. Ruth Backes tried very hard to steal John Bresnock’s record for being late to class, but John was too practiced in this art. Kenneth Spellacy and Charles Sabo were right on the ball and the talk on the court was “Shoot the score to us, Ken, The Chronicle 1940 22