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

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N'l'I'H'S' 1934 As we introduce the subject of the Gleam, other names rise in our minds. Editor Thomas Edmonson must be commended for his untiring efforts toward making the Gleam a success. And here is a little girl who must not be left out, Selma Allinson, better known as Simmie . As assistant editor of the Gleam and vice-president of the Writers' Club, she strove and succeeded in aiding both to attain their goal, despite the fact that she is but a mere slip of a girl. Another ardent worker of the Gleam was the associate editor, Mary Bergin, who is also our class secretary. Speaking of the secretary brings to mind another of our officers, Walter Burke, who, besides holding the office of treasurer, was always a popular member of the class. Jane Sweet was also a well known senior-we couldn't mention Walter Without Jane. And now we come to the Class Book. We pay tribute to Harry Meadow as a most excellent editor 5 and though Miss Woodpecker may have described him as the boy who walks around the corridors in a dazen fpersonally we think that was due to the influence of a certain blond missj, Harry seemed to get things done. And we must not forget that he was ably assisted by the other members of the board. The business board, too, had a great share in making this edition a success - it always does - it's tremendously important. Ted O'Connor was the business manager, and a mighty fine one he was. Could he speak! We certainly enjoyed his talks at assemblies, brief as they were. And thus, with a happy ending for the class of 234, we close the covers of Who's Who in Hillhouse High . RUTH WELLINGTON. 4 I r 'F 3' d 4, l 48 25 the elm tree

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4 the elm tree I934 Sveninr inietnrg We now open to Part III, the final chapter of Who's Who in Hillhouse High . This is the climax of our story. The authors of this great book have done their utmost to keep you interested, amused, and above all, informed on the very great and important events participated in by this class of '34. Now we have something in store for you, as the authors have bent their greatest efforts in composing Part III of this glorious book. It is in this part that you will hear of the outcome of the four-year careers of our heroes and heroines, for there are many, you know - Oh, yes, more than ever before have Figured on the pages of such famous books. Now, chapter one of Part III goes on to tell of the glories of our athletes. The first of this group to be mentioned is jimmy Bowman, captain of our most suc- cessful football team. Captain Bowman carried out his job as a true sportsman throughout the year, and much credit is due him. Other outstanding players of this team are Burt Johnson, Robert Ollayos, John Lengyel, and Lawrence Lewis, our illustrious president. Others worthy of mention in the same field are Babe Canelli and Burt Johnson of the basketball team: Richard Pettaway and John Lengyel of the baseball team, Betty Terry and Roslyn Sterman, star players in tennis. As a grand conclusion to this chapter we have decided upon Happy Days , our famous annual production. Here the honor of interlocutor was shared by William Keane and Wesley Pratzner - and we couldn't decide who was the better. Then there were that great pianist, Jack Cavallaro, and Frank Abadessa, our talented orchestra leader, Marie Coogan, Lawrence Sussman and his Gym Team Skit, and Richard Pettaway, with his wondrous voice. We will now proceed with Chapter two, which deals with those who have taken active parts on the Sentinel, the Gleain, and the Class Book, thereby proving them- selves fitted for literary careers. The first shining star of the Sentinel is Big Chief Turner-Richard, by way of address. There is little room to tell of his accomplishments and abilities, but one glimpse of the Sentinel arrangement will tell the whole story. Next is our shining news reporter and keyhole peeper, Stanley Allen, better known as Sophisticate, Jr., author of ln the Passing . It is prac- tically impossible for us to do him justice in so short a space. Why, the daring, the dash, the nerve of the young man! His ability, too, is astoundingg he was also assistant editor. Despite the fact that one grew rather weary of reading history in the joke column, Miss Woodpecker's work has been appreciated. A vote of thanks to Mimsey Sukloff. Marcia Goldys, as competition editor, executed her job with the greatest efficiency. And last, we pay tribute to Mr. Nettleton, faculty adviser, without whom the Sentinel could scarcely survive. While speaking of the S entinel, we must mention Sol Levine, its best sports writer, or was it Michael Levine, Jin? That young man certainly had us guessing for a while, but personally, We don't think he could make up his mind. The business board. too, had its share in keeping our paper up to its high standard. It was headed by William Keane as business manager, assisted by Barbara Gilbert, Ralph Grillo, Mary Anastasio, Vincent Pal- mieri, and Edith Miller. But before leaving the subject of the Sentinel, we must not forget 4S, the room of the school. It is the room in which are carried on all the weighty affairs of our school paper-aside from many othersg it is here that Mr. Nettleton might be heard to render one of his famous speeches, here Marcia addressed the Sentinel heelers during competitiong and here all members of the board came willingly and regularly every Thursday to meetings. Those four walls know some mighty in- teresting facts! 24

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N.H.H.s. l934 I the elm tree Hrnphvrg nf the 0112155 nf 15134 Time to get a new calendar again .... Here we are already in 1949, bolstered up by talk of the reformation administration Qshades of President Roosevelt in l934!j promised us by our first woman President. the Hon. Marcia Goldys. Reclining in my law offices atop the Herbert Friedman Building, the largest edifice in the world, I send my partner, john QMan Fridayj Weisman, downstairs, five miles below, to purchase a copy of the New York Times in order to take our collective mind away from the jarring absence of clients. While Johnny is girding on his jumping belt preparatory to his expedition into the world below, I am on hand to greet Harry Meadow, who has come to collect the rent. The same old ma- terialistic Harryl I try to steer the discussion away from the subject in hand by recalling Harry's editorship of the New Haven High School Class Book 'way back in 1934. After five seconds fby the body-heat-driven Splitseclock designed by William Shutej johnny returns from his lengthy jaunt armed with an angelic smile and a copy of the Times. Meadow's face glows with a spirit of comraderie peculiar to our illustrious class and forgets his collector role when he sees that Editor Richard Turner has dedicated this issue of the Times to the Hillhouse Class of '34. Turner announces the injection of new blood into his staff with the appoint- ments of Frank Persky and james Cunningham Sargent as literary critic and society editor, respectively, of his worthy journal. The amount of space devoted to the mayorality race between Lawrence Lewis and William Keane is eclipsed only by the tremendous publicity given Drs. Thomas Edmonson and jack Parella. who have invented sixteen new prefixes and suffixes to make scientific terms longer and less intelligible. Becoming enthusiastic over the prospect of reading about our classmates, we turn on the indirect lighting equipment fed by the sunlight-storing apparatus invented by Professor Henry Lufier. Reading further, we find: State Banking Commissioner Walter Burke is attempting to revive the now de- funct Theodore O'Connor National Bank. Eleanor Duncan was the hostess at a dinner given recently for the King of Fratpinnia. Marie Coogan is the mascot and official cheerer-upper-when-the-spirits-fail for the Second Annual Mars Goodwill Expedition. fHeretoday, gone to Marslj This expedition is sponsored jointly by Ambassadors Walter Dray and Charles Hill. The long-missing Edward Minor was found in a fog at London by Constable Arthur Demosthenes Mullen. Nathalie Goldstein is writing a series of articles on interplanetary relations for the Revue de Quiuze M omies. The Prentice Resnik Medal for Correct Diction has been awarded to Jeanne Newton for the third consecutive year. The medal, which is a two ton bronze bas-relief of the modest donor six feet in diameter fthe medal, not the donorg but maybe I'm wrongj. is awarded annually to the person agreeing to cart same away. Selma Allinson, jane Sweet. Roslyn Sterman, and Edna Chauser announce the graduation of The Pupil from their Personality Development School. Mary Bergin has Won the Atla-mir Monthly First Novel Prize for 1949. In September youthful Oscar Herschderfer will assume the duties of the lamented Dr. Einstein at the Princeton Graduate School for Advanced Studies. Marion Warner's Advice to the Lozfelorn colunm is an old established institu- tion in the Times. In this copy an advice seeker wrote: My wife threatens to leave me. She says I married her because her aunt left her a fortune. What shall I do P La Warner's classic answer was: Tell her you would have married her no matter who left her the fortune. 26 Q