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

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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

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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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N.H.H.S. l934 Everrit Gladding, pilot for the Edgar Taft Rocketteers, Inc., has just com- pleted his two-thousandth rocket excursion trip to the planet Mercury without a mishapf' We turn now Qlike all good Americansj to Stanley QScoopiej Allen's column. Glad of the opportunity, we reprint herewith his entire chatter pillar: Barrister Sherman fRosyj Rosenberg fEd. note-that boy Allen is uncanny !j is that way about the lovely Roxyette, Muriel QMussyj Salmon. That light in Jeanette Mandrey's blazing orbs is Bob Ollayos, erstwhile footballer. Tee-hee. Marion Holabird's patter is packing 'em in nightly at the Kittycat Klub. The Roys Beebe Cinema Studios are angling for the services of Billy Skolnick. The resemblance of Kay Daniels to the formerly admired Ann Harding is startling. The Virginia Simpson Coiffeure is sweeping America fDon't sell America short lj. Jack Cavallaro and his pianner are swell at the Paramount Grill. Ditto Richy Pettaway at the Casino de Paree. Rumor has it that the personable Barbara Kelleher will get that vacated athletic director's post at Bryn Mawr. f'Recommended to diversion-seekers: Albro QArnoj Downe's carricks in the N'Yau'ker . . . Solly Q-lake Levine's routine at the B'klyn Paramount . . . Harold Schiller's new play, with Gordon Campbell in the lead, at the H. Finck managed Ethel Barrymore . . . The antics of Sidney Chase at the New Palace. VVe tear ourselves reluctantly away from Allen's colyum and our eyes alight on an advertisement which blatantly announces We can add eight inches or more to your height . The attached coupon is addressed to Arnold Fishman and Milton Albom, Inc.. Height Experts, Oshkosh, Wis. And there is an advertisement of the Helen Webb Waterfront Development Company. Mimsey Sukloff, famous woman press-agent, says: On a QGertrudej clear day, from the Webb Company's 'Healthy Acres', one can see the outlines of the sunf' The classic lines of an ultra conservative advertisement next strike our more or less experienced eyes. It is the announcement by Messrs. Lennart Engstrom, Martin Heyman, and Louis Buslovitz of the opening of their tutoring school for high school athletes. After the names of these our classmates have conjured up pleasant memories of our balmy youth, we are startled to discover that Ruth Komisar has invented an electric ray capable of entrancing any man. At the time of this issue of the Times, the police had already issued warnings to George Dermer and Shephard Powell to get themselves surrounded, as quickly as possible, by a lead body-shield. Manager 'Jimmie' Piccolo will bring his House of David five North to play the Hakoah All-Stars, captained by Burt Johnson and managed by 'Scottie' Mac- Donald. Ujames Bowman and Anthony Bove will appear on the gridiron again next season as members of the world-champion Green Bay Packers managed by Donald fBudj Stavin. Carlton Phillips won the national individual fencing championship from Thomas McCoy by a narrow margin. Lee Burgess and his Mercersburg Academy charges are sweeping the schol- astic swimming world before them this season. Mayson Reid showed his heels to the field in the annual Boston Marathon to romp home the winner in record time. Peggy Duggan has eclipsed the former women's solo airplane endurance record. Believing this heart-gladdening saga of the achievements of the class of '34, fifteen years out, to be at end, we fold the newspaper sadly. The tale of our class told, its history recounted, its successes and failures limned, do you think Harry Meadow forgot his rent-collecting mission? You do? Well, you don't know Harry! SHERMAN ROSENBERG. 27 the elm tree I