Maine Central Institute - Trumpet Yearbook (Pittsfield, ME)

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that lately he has had several financial setbaclcs, due to serious competition in the automobile business. The promising young salesman, Arthur Hamilton, has sold so many new Chevrolets that it is feared the V-8 plants will soon close their doors. F. R.- Of all things-Clifford Stevens, head master of the boy's dormitory has iust expelled ten boys. The charge preferred is tallcing aloud during study hours. My, that old boy certainly has forgotten his prep school days. E. l..- Say, Zeb, you remember Phil Young don't you? F. R.- Sure, what does it say about him? E. L.- Philip Young is a name heard often in New Yorlc these days. He recently obtained his degree from Columbia University and almost overnight slcyroclceted to the position of star critic of all Broadway productions. Boy, just thinlc of that. F. R.- lt looks as if Winton Garland and Paul Houston are using the experience they got in the Senior play and their wavy hair to- good advantage for it says here that Winton iust signed up to talce the place of the retired ,John Barrymore in the B. ff. T. Libbey production, and would you believe it, Paul is to appear as the suc- cessor of Clarlc Gable. E. L.- What is the world? '?'?-Radio Discovers New Talent. ln their search for talent, radio scouts have found a young violin virtuoso. He has for years been in- terested in music and has always cherished his beloved instrument. His shy unassum- ing manner forces us to withohld his identity but we shall call him the new Rubinoff. That dispatch is from Pittsfield. They can't fool me. l lcnow that our talented virtuoso is none other than Billy Rubinof'f Hanson. F. R.- Oh, oh-Listen to this announcement.-Reid Hersey has opened a banlc in Pittsfield. It is sure to be an excellent place for students to save their spare change as Reid has had much experience along financial lines, being the treasurer of the class of '37. E. L.- Well for goodness salce. lnever thought that she, of all people, would go in for politics. Get a load of this. Miss Eunice Spaulding is doing some mighty heavy campaigning for road com- missioner this election. She states that if she obtains the position she will start im- mediately on repair worlc of the road running between Pittsfield and Hartland. As Miss Spaulding states the road is in a frightful condition and for people who are obliged to travel to Hartland as often as she, it gets monotonous riding on such a highway. A F. R.- What's this? lt says that Harold Varnum has retired from the slci contests that talce place in northern Switzerland. But here's an item that will interest you, Eleanor-He has talcen-what-Royal Grover's place as superintendent of grounds at M. C. ll E. L.- Oh a new dairy-lt says a new dairy has been established on the outslcirts Page-Twenty-five

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CLASS DIQUDHECY Prologue: This scene which you are about to witness is taken from the daily life of two of the graduates of '37 who have, since their schooldays were completed, acquired some degree of fame in their chosen line of work-the newspaper business. As we look in on them we find them seated before a desk that is littered with items that are to be arranged and revised for the daily edition of the Boston Bugle. Clraracters: Franklin Zeb Raymond-editor of the staff Eleanor Lane-an assistant editor Scene: Office of the Boston Bugle Time: The year 1947. F. R.- Phew, iust look at the work that's piling up. E. L.- Well, T can't say that l am especially fond of work, but it certainly is heaps of fun to read all these items from Pittsfield, that have been pouring in lately. F. R.- That's right. There have been a lot of them since they discovered gold out back of M. C. l. E. l..- Say, Zeb, here's the funniest thing, listen-Wayne Fernald has opened a studio of music and his first vocal student, Clifford Robichaud, has acquired interna- tional fame singing that ever popular song, 'Where the Shy Little Violets Grow'. F. R.-- Speaking of music here's one-Theola Spinney and her iazz band was held over for another week at the 'Metropolitan' in Boston. It is said that the saxophone section of her orchestra, which is made up of two former M. C. l. students, Maxine Mann and Barbara Sullivan, is way ahead of Guy Lombardo's. The saxophone section broadcasts every Wednesday evening over station P. f-l. l. L. for the famous Lerette Home Made lces, lnc. ' E. L.- This one is about a graduate too-The new beauty salon recently established on Main Street will be managed by the competent Miss Ermine l-lathorn, who has become a licensed operator. Miss l-lathorn guarantees to put a beautiful Lancaster wave in the most obstinate locks. F. R.- FOR HEAVENS SAKE-Francis Young Talbot Tucci Laughton l-lolmes most recent divorce is at last final and she has already announced her intention of mar- riage to a famed baseball star! She's sure giving Wally Simpson a run-up. E. l..- Franny never was satisfied with one. . . . Look, a dispatch from Detroit. ' n n No not the one we used to know at M.,C. l. but the next size larger, Detroit, Michi- gan. lt says Henry Ford has recently suffered a serious nervous breakdown. It seems I Page Twenty-four

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of town. lt's manager is to be none other than Vincent Goodell, that vivacious young Mr. who has delivered milk at our door since the day that he donned long trousers. His experience we know will make him a model dairyman. He is employing as his head milker, Clifford Doherty, who has twice won the state championship for rapid milking. F. R.-- That Andy Laughton is doing O. K for himself these days. This piece says that he is now Mayor of that thriving metropolis, Ripley, Maine. And say-here's the marriage announcement of Dan Longfellow and Marie. We've certainly waited a long time to hear this. E. L.- Well fancy that. Phyllis James, that famous authority on the price of butter and eggs, has recently taken the fatal step. We are going to guess that she will make that family budget balance even if prices do hit the top. F. R- for goodness sake. Howard Mitchell defeated George Parmenter for the wrestling champonship of the world. Since he left school he must have eaten a lot of wheatiesf' E. l..- Here's another member of '37 who has become well-known. Rachel Davis, the well-known torch singer of that famous night spot, the Rainbow Grill, has arrived in Palmyra to spend her vacation. She came by plane having as her pilot the notorious Charles Lindbergh Mitchell. They made a spectacular landing behind the Palmyra grange hall. The whole town turned out to welcome them Boy, iust think of having the whole town come to welcome you. F. R.- Yeah, all three people l suppose. Say l always knew Paul would go in for the ministry. Paul Hersey, Baptist Minister, of Canaan, performs wedding ceremony. The first was Margaret DeCourcy and Edwin Calder. The best man was Bruce Woodman who stayed iust long enough for the ceremony and then hurried back to his duties as road commissioner for the state of Maine. l can remember, can't you Eleanor, how Paul even convinced Miss Alley, the Bible teacher, back in '37 at M. C. l. that we were all first cousins to the monkey. E. L.- Of all the bright ideas this one takes the cake. The modern scientific world was baffled by the complicated mechanism of a spelling device exhibited here today in the new laboratory on Main Street by the brilliant young scientist, George Bryant. The machine is so made that one has only to concentrate on the word in question and presto-it appears on an electric plate. Not bad, but George should have had that inspiration before he graduated from school. He never could twist letters around to look iust right in Senior English. F. R.- Hmmm, another scientist-William Bradford former M. C. l. science expert, donates to the school a device he invented recently which automatically rings the bells there. E. L.- Listen, the Misses Arlene Walker and Alberta Hopkins have returned from New York where they have been employed as salesladies for 'Pep' by the Kellogg Page Twenty-six