New Bedford Institute of Technology - Fabricator Yearbook (New Bedford, MA)

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THE FABRICATOR 1936 PROPHECT T was cold that night in New York, and there I was alone and with- out a friend in the Big City . I spied a neon sign that flashed the mes- sage Hardy ' s Bar . My heart quickened. Could it be possible. I rushed through the door and sure enough there ' was Carl dishing it out. Hello, you old son of a gun , I yelled. Well if it isn ' t Beck , said Carl. Stick around awhile . He called for his partners, Barry and Soucy, who were out back, making pretzels. We got together and proceeded to talk over old times — in between beers. Seen any of the gang? I inquired. Flynn and McMullen stopped in last week on their way back up north. They made a fortune selling clip spot overcoats to the Eskimos . Don ' t tell me those two know how to make lenos . No , said Carl, the stuff is designed by Begin Deptula Inc. which makes it bad enough but when Durfee gets through bleaching it the goods are not much good for anything else but sale to the Eskimoes. Well , I said, I ' ve got to be moving. I am going to Russia to in- vestigate a crop of harness reeds which my company grows over there. Szulik is in charge but is having trouble keeping up production. They grow in swampy places but the Soviets are draining all the marshes so we think we will turn to doup twine which does well in filled in swamps. My boat was leaving in ten minutes so I left the bar and started for the docks. As I was walking down the street a voice piped up and said, Want to buy some candy, mister? I turned and there was Parkins with his ever present box of candy. When he saw me he said, Oh it ' s you. Wait a minute. Then he pulled out a little green book and said, You owe me twenty cents from fifteen years ago. I paid him and asked him what he knew. All I know is that Kestenbaum and I are having a tough time try- ing to collect from you birds. I hired Kesty to help and give him 2% commission. If he collects all the debts he ' ll be in the dough for the rest of his life and I won ' t have to work either. I just gave him a queer look and hurried aboard my boat. The first person 1 ran into was Pilkington. What are you doing here? I asked. I ' m head lunchman and chief dish washer , he replied. It ' s a darn good job. Brindley, the mess boy, does most of the work. There ' s plenty of women on the boat and I ' ve got a girl in every port . He told me that Parkinson was the Pilot and Colwell the engineer and between NEW BEDFORD TEXTILE SCHOOL Page twenty-four

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1936 THE FABRICATOR Smith. The duties of principal were now to be handled by Mr. Handford and we soon got acquainted and liked him very much. In this second year, there was less fooling and horsing around. The class seemed to realize that they had come for the education and not to waste their time. The class held another election and those who placed in the money were : President, Dave Aulisio ; vice president, Bill Leahy ; secretary, Carl Hardy; treasurer, Charlie Sherman. In mid-winter the class promoted another dance. Due to the spirits of the committee and most of the boys, this dance was a success and netted some welcome cash. Mid-year exams came and passed. They did not create the furror as in the first year because by this time everyone was more or less used to exams and more exams. Came spring and the young men ' s minds (with Mr. Gourley ' s help) lightly turned to thoughts of baseball. We had a whale of a team as usual. At this time a few trips to various textile manufacturing concerns were arranged. They proved to be very interesting and we picked up much valuable information. Time was beginning to slip by rapidly now and before we knew it June was upon us again and we once more broke up for the Summer recess. In the Fall we returned to school and started on the last lap. This was an extremely busy year with our thesis to do and finishing up odds and ends and concentrating on that branch we would like to make our life work in the field of Textiles. Our class officers for this important year were : president, Dave Aulisio; vice president, Laurence Durfee; secretary, Bill Leahy; treasur- er, Francis McMullen. There were many committees chosen to handle such matters as The Fabricator , class rings, and the social events of the class. The Senior Dance Committee was composed of: Adams, Krumbholz, Begin, Szulik, Soucy, and Ruff ley. Those serving on the Prom Committee were : Barry, Krumbholz, Hardy, Flynn, Turner, and Kestenbaum. Everybody worked hard and did their job well and everything the class undertook turned out well. With Commencement came the end of our stay at Textile. We will always be able to look back on these years with pleasant thoughts. To the School and to the instructors we wish to express our hearty and sin- cere appreciation for all they have done for us. Each member of the class, I am sure, wishes his fellow classmates a highly successful career. Sobrius Esto NEW BEDFORD TEXTILE SCHOOL Page twenty-three

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1936 THEFABR ICATOR them and the Captain, who was Carroll, there was no telling where the boat was going and when you were going to get there. It took us ten weeks to cross the Atlantic and that according to Car- roll was fast time for his boat because Colwell had lost his steam sheets and had a tough time keeping the boilers going. It means that Ruffley and Lacerda would go on strike every once in a while for more liquor and refuse to fire the boilers. We then steamed into the Mediterranean and along the coast of Africa. Soon we sighted a row boat flying a distress signal. They were picked up and turned out to be Aulisio and Leahy. It seemed that Dave was cornered by Mussolini and sent to Ethiopia to do his part. Leahy, as a soldier of fortune for Ethiopia, met Dave on the battlefield and they shook hands, deserted the army and started for home. They were figuring on paddling across the Atlantic when we picked them up. About a month later, I got to Russia and there I found Harrison working in the lab. Szulik told me he wanted a Russian chemist but couldn ' t find one and as Harrison wes the next best thing he hired him. I asked him how the business was and he said they sold all their products to Rothkopf and Lipsitt, who had started up a mill in Palestine. That night I went down to the village dine and dance establishment and there was Krumbholz and his band. Mitchell was trying his best to do the vocals and was doing a wicked job. Over at one of the tables sat Greenough. He said that he was over here to cover the Olympics for the Fairhaven Star . I asked him for some news from home and he had bad news. It seems that Andy Adams was trying to invent a loom to weave cloth without any warp and it finally drove him nuts and they locked him up. How about Goodell and Rioux? I asked. ' ' Well , he said, the last I heard Rioux was official taster in a brew- ery and Goodell was still trying to go up in the world by running the ele- vator in the Empire State building. With my business finished I now had a yearning to get home. Green- ough told me that Giguere and Turner were starting on a non-stop flight from Russia to the United States and so I got in touch with Turner and he agreed to take me along. We started the next morning and about half way across the ocean Giguere went to sleep at the controls and the plane went into a tail spin and hit the water. The next thing that I remem- bered somebody was hauling me out of the dye jig and saying the edge of the jig was a H of a place to go to sleep. NEW BEDFORD TEXTILE SCHOOL Page twenty-five