New Haven High School - Elm Tree Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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Ll ' A. -3Cg3.,ISfs Qi 1192 ii I've only been in the United States two days and I've heard about more of the old school-chums than I expected to hear about in a year. You haven't heard anything yet, Jimmie said. We haven't a thing to do this morning so I'll tell you about all the kids I can think of. Q Commence! I'm all ears ! Well-George Farren--you remember Gawge? He runs a chain of cafeter- ias and has almost put Longley's out of business. lncldentally, Bill Beebe is a silent partner in this business and so gets all his meals free- Betty Ives is in Ver- mont, doing a thriving business growing wall plants. Speaking of vines, you'd never guess who's turned into a clinging vine of the most adherent type. Ruth Clappg I know you remember her. Charlie Albom is a soap box orator. The last I heard he was advocating food for the starving monkeys in Armenia. Clare Har- grove and Betty Betts have become comediennes, with a big dance act, but they had to cut out the dancing because they couldn't keep in step with each other. Janyce Pickett made a big success of dancing, though, and now she's in a big cabaret in Chicago. They didn't manufacture ties loud enough to suit Bradford Bidwell, so he went into the business himself. Bunny Hugo, Eleanor Tullock, and Babe Andrew are teaching dancingg that kind of dancing that barefooted girls in Greek gowns do out of doors. Norman Godfried became a connoisseur of butterflies and mouse-traps. Kathleen McKenzie and Betty Scanlon started to teach ukulele lessons and for the first 1no11th or two did fine, but their pupils dropped off, strange to say, and they went bankrupt. Louis Reichel invented an instrument that is played with the feet. It makes a sound like a broken-down Ford and a few cat fights, but it passes for jazz and he made a fortune on it. Steve Wilchynski leads his sixty piece band day and night at Coney Island. He has an art studio in Greenwich Village in the winter. Alice Evans, our own tiny canary bird, has succeeded inteaching parrots to do more than swear, and she's made quite a name for herself in doing it. That's about all I can recall just now. Perfect l I answered. How did you ever keep in touch with so many of that big class in I-Iillhouse? It's marvelous! But you didn't mention Herb Norman, what's he doing ? Oh, I forgot Herb, Jimmie replied. 'KI-Ie and Eddie Fitzgerald entered poli- tics and when they're not entangled in them they ride dark horses for recreation- Speaking of horses, Dot Bishop and Connie Needham have opened a riding aca- demy in Central Park. Among their first pupils were Charlie Schnelle and Eddie Falseyf' I sat back in my chair trying to realize that so many years had passed and had made such a change in those who had graduated with me in 1927. I wondered whether or not it was not all a fantastic dream. ' MINERVA AARONSON 28

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,A .E N W - --,,. gg: - g -K... CQ'1fS:s eE QE- fQilQ2s7.fEQ lgrenihenfn illlemmge CLASSMATES AND FRIENDS: The time is fast approaching when we must say goodbye. During the past four years we have enjoyed the fellowship of one another within the walls of Hill- house High. For some of us, probably for most of us, this period will represent the most pleasant years of our life. lt has been a time in which we have bucked the same problems together, and the satisfaction of overcoming them has been the same for all. Under these conditions it has been easy to carry on, each one hav- ing his share in the difhculties and triumphs of the whole. This time of mutual fellowship is over. On graduating we will leave this great brotherhood and each will seek a way in the world. Some of us will go to college or spend another year in preparation 3 others will begin their life work: in any case, our obstacles will no longer be the same, and the joy of working together as a class will be over. Each one will meet his or her individual problem, and it is up to each one whether or not he makes good. Regardless of what path each chooses, however, and in what circumstances each finds himself, there is the great game of life to be played4a game which re- quires the best in each one of us, to make it a success for all. VVe have chosen as our class motto Vadc Via Vf'ra-Tread the fall: of trzith. ls this not an excellent guide for our futures? How better can we do our part than to hold this motto as our guide and to follow it through calni and storm? VVe have chosen wisely as a class: as individuals be yours to hold it high through life. Sincerely, Your President, S.xwN1i-1 CiASTON , ' ii'Q352ii'f1i-i .aiilifgii hi 'fwiv' if 5, I, . 1'::M??Z:is1'Q 30 .nk