Natick High School - Sassamon Yearbook (Natick, MA)

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TM: 5yfll575!flfWQfV 1 1933 playing gowns at the Natick Style Shop for Virginia Nicholson, the proprietor. Ann: Ameeu Solomon has become one of the most famous tailors in this vicinity. He gets a great amount of work from A. B. Turner and Sons. the men's store on the corner of Main and Summer streets. Joe: That reminds me, did you know that the Heath 8: Heath Real Estate Co. has taken over Fred llarriligtons man- sion on Highland street and it's for sale? Ann: No. but have you heard about the comic strip in the Boston Post written by Bob Rogers in which he portrays Alice Fritz as the new Fritzie Ritz of the Mo- vies and Elizabeth Malcolmson and James Grady are cartooning Us Girls? Joe: Speaking of comedy, have you seen the picture which stars Robert Rus- sell and Victoria Pelton? It's playing lat the Hl1JDOdl'OI11G this week and has George Hume and Catherine Hughes as support- ing artists. Tony Guarino bias become successor to his famous cousin Sunshine Sammy and they've changed the nalne to Rainy-Day Tony. Ann: I went over to the Teachers' Col- lege yesterday and talked with Eleanor Mt-Cormick alid Frances Halpin, who are teachers of German and French. Joe: Speaking of colleges, I visited the Betty Co-ed College of which Peg Ma- haney is president to see the football team coached by Tony Marciano. He is ably assisted by Harold Potter and Rob- ert Gibbons. Ann: George Hanna isa Golf Pro at XVildwood and is making superb golfers of Phyllis Grant and Robert Kane. Joe: Joe Walsh, the largest stockholder of the Natick Protective Union, employs lone Miles and Kay Grant as stenograph- ers in the store. The Hedderig 81 Hed- dcrig Co.. who run an Employment Bu- reau, placed the girls. Ann: Mary Ml-Gann won the Pulitzer Prize for hcr poetry last year. James 0'llricn is her publicity manager. .lor-2 I saw some of our more brilliant classluatcs, Anna Jordan, Agnes Lane and Heir-ll Itaczus, who are teaching at Wal- nut llill whcrc Lluelah Stanton is now PAGE TEN president. They were all sitting with their kliitting. Joe: Walter Hayes is collecting laun- dry for Peg Nugent and Betty Lucey, who are now baking in washings. Gladys Henry is the President of the East Na- tick Village Improvenient Society. Ann: Francis Bardellini and Ferdinand Schialler are acting as Indian guides to the tourists who visit historic South Na- tick. 'l'ne work is most remunerative, they say. Joe: I had the funniest experience I've had in a long time the other day when I saw Fred Nickerson trying to purchiase Chinese clothes at a local dry goods store. I inquired why he desired the sudden change in clothes, and he told me he had been appointed Ambassador to China and had to dress for the occasion. He said he was going to fly to Cllina from the Na- tick Airport in a plane built by the Valle Brothers. Virginia Hall, a war correspondent for the Boston Globe, is going to take the trip with Nickerson to get material for her paper. He is also taking Joe Eve- rett aild Francis Barnicle the star cam- eramen of the Globe. Ann: I have the returns of the city of Natick election. Have you seen them yet? Joe: No, what were the returns? Ann: Well, Honest John Keating is our Mayor and our class is represented on the Council by John Gibbons. and Wil- liam Johnson. The people have wisely chosen Bessie Parker, Kenneth Rathbun, and William Whalen for the Board of Public Welfare. One of the boards in the Miayor's platform was for a new library where Ann Bacigalupo, Rita Conroy and Alice Bonyman will probably be employed as librarians. Ann: The School Committee, Grace Gor- don, Marianne Burke, Edmund Shea, Anna Stevens and Joe Rotchford have appoint- ed Barbara Wade as head of the Physics Department in the New School. Politics have claimed a number from our class all right. Margaret Whitman is the ward boss of the Nebraska Plains district. while

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ri. Mitsui Mow - 1933 the Economics Dept. at Ohio State and Paul Feeley of Middlebury College. Weill send them for an interview on Monday. Joe: Look Ann, there goes Joseph Bar- nicle and isn't he some togged out with his orange tie, cane, and even the ten- cent cigar! He tells me that he is ex- tremely busy with an insurance business. Unemployment insurance and old age pensions spoil most ot' his business. He has two bustling salesmen, Robert Gib- bons and Harry Green. Harry sold a huge policy to Francis Knowlton, the big dry goods chain-store magnate, and to Dorothea Sunderland, Woman's Light- weight Boxing Champion of the world. Listen, Trudy, remember that ll1I1ll6H- tial politician, John Doherty? He wants ns to supply six speakers and two secre- taries for the State Election Campaign which starts next week. Ann: Yes, we'll want to help him in electing Charles Frank King, Governor of Massachusetts and lrlorence Mary hall, Lieutenant-G-overnor. Ralph Lovejoy, a captain in the Marines, will make a good impression in his uniform, Betty Suther- land, as President of t-he D. A. R., Mary Sullivan, President of Palmolive Soap Company, Nancy Bosworth of Paramount Picture Flame, United States Senator War- ren J. Bedford, Judge Grace Elkerton, should all have good influence upon the voters. Joe: Grace received her fame in ham:- ling that famous divorce case between Roma Wright and John Nelson. John found la gold mine in China so Roma thought she would get some of it, not being satisfied with the S250,000.00 set- tlement 111 the lnompson case. George made his money as a television expert, you know. Ann: I guess that's so, all right. We'l1 have Evelyn Bouret and Winifred Blan- chard write the campaign speeches. Room 12 certainly sounds like a dress- making factory with all that whir-r of sewing machines. Rita Parker is a phil- anthropic lady if there ever was one. She is responsible for all the material that is going into those garments for the unem- ployed besides keeping Marguerite Allen, Sigrid Benson and Mary Balcom on her payroll doing the actual dressmaking. What's all that yelling down in Room 11? Joe: That's old Doc Sudbury trying to It's the old gag of keep his victim calm. open up wider--this Won't hurt, and it'il only take .a minute. Catherine Denny, once manager of the Waldorf Restaurant System in Massachusetts, is now out of work because of the almost universal use of synthetic tablets--the new easy way of getting nutrition, invented by Richard Trum. Ann: Room 11, a dental clinic, Room 12 sewing---and all this noise and pounding in the assembly hall! Joe: Well, we have to have a workshop in order to repair toys and make the new ones, the sale of which gives our treasury a good boost. We have a great set up there with Alex Chiumento as boss, Wal- ter DeMelle doing the painting, and Nor- man Bruneau the wood turning. Ann: Say, that was quite .a fire they had over in Armand Larivee's iJEl.SCDElli Factory on Walnut Street. Armand sure- ly is doing his bit in these trying times when he keeps Albert Woodward and Bruno Tassinari on as salesmen. Joe: Yes, he is, and say, wfasn't that a big fire! George Fairbanks, the Chief of the Who lJangs , was taking charge of things while his merry men, among whom were Tony Palladino and Ralph Sa- viano, were doing their best to extinguish the blaze. Ann: They were really getting the fire under control when the water main broke and then a call was sent for Holt Monag- han, the Commissioner of Public Works. Joe: Speaking of water, John Killeen has been employed by the Metropolitan Water Dept. as the guard to keep boys from fishing and swimming at Lake Co- chituate. Ann: The Killeens seem to be very prosperous. Helen is owner of the Sand- wich Shop land Catherine Hall and Lillian Ljunggren are employed there. Joe: Yes, several shops have opened around the city. Margaret Sims is dis- PAGE NINE

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The ,ASISVMVIQN Z 1933 Agnes Riley decides just who will and who won't vote and what the vote will be in South N.atick. Joe: I was talking to Grace Marston the other day and she told me that she was superintendent of nurses at the Leo- nard Morse Hospital and she has Lillian Mercier and Betty Meehan on the nursing staff. Ann: Harry Swanson, the great artist, and his assistant, Ruth MacDonald, have become art designers for the Chesterfield Cigarette Co. of which John Weatherby is advertising manager. Joe: Elizabeth Ross owns a night club in New York where a floor show is put on three times daily by a company of dan- cers traveling under the name of'1'he Hollywood Revue. I later learned that these dancers were none other than our old classmates Helen McManus, Frances Morrissey, Estelle Golden, Helen Hesek, Doris Doyle and Grace Bernard. Ann: Adamo Agostinelli is working for the Italian Consul as an interpreter. He has Alice Bedford as his secretary. Joe: Lee Swanson, an expert swimmer, has appointed Virginia Bryan, Rose Mc- Glone, and Priscilla Felch as swimming instructors at the swimming club at Dug Pond. Ann: I hear that Mary Maffei and Kita llflacNeil have organized a women's tennis club. Dora IVells, Eva Mordis, Elizabeth Franciose and Cora Gilman are among the many members. They are expected to have a very promising tennis team. Joe: I saw Joe Horan the other day running towards Worcester Street. He told me he was practising for the mara- thon, but I didn't believe him. To tell tlie truth I think he was late and besides he was all dressed up, and I never saw a marathon runner all dressed up. Ann: Helen Connolly and Marie Dona- hue are making it much easier for the timid bachelors of the city. They have opened up a matrimonial bureau. Why only one week after Iva King applied for a. husband she was married to John Barr. Joe: I took a bus from East Natick the other day and a wilder ride I've never had. I would have reported the driver if it hadn't turned out to be Leonard Yea- ger. Ann: Augusto Horghesi told me that Bob Rohnstock is traveling with the New York Yankees. Is that true? Joe: Yes, Bob made good at high school and SI21l'l'Qd with the Coolidge A. C., so he was taken by the Yankees. Ann: Laura lVlain and Edna Means have started a travel bureau and have just booked Elizabeth Shea for a cruise a1'ound the world. Joe: Remember Frau Garvin? She has a beauty parlor in Framingham and em- ploys Loretta McGrath to give perma- nents. 1 l'Zll1 is doing very well there. but then, she always was fond of Fram- inghani. Ann: Speaking of Fran's beauty shop, did you know that Sydney White. the great scientist, is on her payroll? He prepares all her creams and powders. Joe: It seems as though the class of '33 has done quite well since they grad- uated from Natick High. Have you heard from any of the others? Ann: Yes, Rosaline McHale was here the other day and told me that Sarah Bernhardt has a large grocery store in North Natick, and that Mary Brady was life guard at South Natick and Argentine Temprendola was working in Virginia Nim's Stationery Store on South Main Street. Joe: I met Ernest Parks coming down the street with a gun and a pack on his back. Iasked what he was doing and he told me that he and John Soter had just returned from a hunting trip in Maine. Ann: Wouldn't it be wonderful Joe, it all the people in the city were as well taken care ot as our CIHSSIIIHIGS 1' Lei s get busy and see if we cau't make some contacts for SOIIIQ of these people who have applications with us. 1lllS unem- ployment problem is certainly keeping us on the hunt for positions. Anna Trudel .loseph Penell PAGE ELEVEN