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................. Class Comedian..................... Class A uthor...................... Class Artist....................... Most Dramatic...................... Most Musical....................... J oiliest.......................... Wittiest........................... Most Ambitious..................... Most Generous...................... Neatest............................ Best Boy Dancer.................... Best Girl Dancer................... Best Dressed Boy................... Best Dressed Girl.................. Most Energetic..................... Most Courteous..................... Best Looking Boy................... Prettiest Girl..................... ...........Angus Rees ............Nancy Young William Lanzoni Marion Hoffman William Lanzoni . Shirlee Keddy Barbara Wachteliiausen Katherine Clark Richard Mangine Ann O'Brien Harold Crump Julius Musso . Marie Ahearn Jack Hendricks M amie Gibson Mary Theresa Mushinsky .............Angus Rees Helen Daney George Dunn Betty Whitty . Shirlee Keddy ..............Gay Davis George Dunn Marion Hoffman The Chronicle 1943 23

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GRADUATES WHOSE PICTURES DO NOT APPEAR IN THIS ISSUE JOHN HANISKO Entered the l S. Navy, March 8, IMS WALTER MATHER “Mouse Band 1, 2, S, 4; Choir 1. 8; Glee Club 1. 3; Orchestra 2. 3. 4; A. A. 2. 3, 4: Baseball 2. 3. 4: Play Cast 4. Entered the t . S. Navy, April 16. 1943, Seabees (Navy Construction Group) WILLIAM KNOPE “Knobby Hallowe'en Party Committee 1; Art Contests 2, 3, 4; Art Show 3. Entered the V. S. Navy, February 2, 1942, Second Class Seaman ROBERT LA TOCRNES Entered the L’. S. Army, January 1, 1943 I EDWIN LOBB “Muff Entered the V. S. Navy, February 3, 1943 Jt'LirS MCSSO A. A. 1. 2. 4: Band 1, 2, 3. 4; Orchestra 1. 2. 3, 4. Entered the C. S. Navy, January 25, 1943. Seaman Second Class ALDO POGGIO “PfKj” A. A. 1. 2, 3, 4; Basketball 2; Basketball Manager 4. Entered the C. S. Navy, January £8, 1943, Seaman Second Class ROBERT RIOTTE “Bob A. A. 1. 2. 3: Band 1. 2. 3. 4; Orchestra 1, 2. 3. 4. Entered the V, S. Navy on February 2. 1943, Aviation Division, Radio Work The Chronicle 1943 22

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Class History 19:5!) -an historic year—Hitler invaded Poland, and a new batch of freshmen invaded Lyman Hall. Invaded is not quite the word—gently overtook it would describe the process more accurately. Amazed at the monstrous expanse of the corridors, and the maze of rooms with numbers on the doors, we wandered about getting into wrong rooms at wrong times, and right times into wrong rooms. But in time, we learned, and getting over the shock of being called Miss and Mr., we took over the roles of young ladies and gentlemen. The event that raised the curtain for our social calendar was the traditional Hallowe’en party. Betsy Wooding was a feature attraction dressed as a kitchen utensil. Angus and Milly walked off with the remaining honors. Scene II was the St. Patrick’s Day Party, and here the talent of the Class of ’4.‘! showed promise, but Mike’s guitar didn’t keep it. (The electricity gave out.) The rest of our freshman year passed along very quickly, and before we knew it. came the event we had been looking forward to all year—vacation. We all marched out to the tune of “No more pencils, no more books—,” and Jean Zimmerman and “Chutch” Dondero sang the loudest. After two months of forgetting what we had learned, we came back in the best upper-classman style. About this time. Margaret and Adeline began pounding typewriters, and a bright future was predicted for them. Miss Stevenson began to wonder about Brody’s Latin, but being the only boy in a class of girls, he managed to come through without learning anything. We breezed along the rest of our sophomore year, stuffing our already overworked minds with more booklearning. But what was booklearning to us?—We were going home for vacation. Meanwhile war clouds were getting more dense over Europe. England was now at war with Germany. But it was far away then and we enjoyed our vacation thoroughly. September rolled around again and we went back to school. A surprise was waiting for us. Rooms 15 and 17 had been changed into super de luxe home-making rooms—Venetian blinds included. Here our future home-makers learned the difference between a good and a bad pie-shell and that darning a sock wasn't so bad after you knew how. But the boys were not to be left out—Room 2 had been converted into a mechanical drawing room, and here the boys spend many happy (?) hours with Mr. Hancock, learning to draw a straight line. Our downstairs department was also given the once-over, and the former cooking and sewing rooms were remodeled into a machine shop. And from these rooms are coming our future master machinists. Our first big task was the election of class officers. Jimmy Heilman was elected the big chief; the forgotten man was Charlie Barboni; Kenny Fields, that able financier, kept us out of the red; Helen McNulty was the official notetaker. Our mathematical skill was first put to work trying to figure out how many minutes earlier we should have to arise in order to beat the eight o’clock bell. Marion Hoffman and Roberta Gallagher must have gotten the wrong answers, as they couldn't seem to meet the eight o’clock deadline. (Could it have been the alarm clock?) The art classes were then given an assignment, to make posters advertising the quality and quantity of our Junior Plays. Mrs. Niehaus did a grand job, and all of the four one-act plays gave pretty keen competition to Hollywood. The Chronicle 1943 24