Newtown High School - Bugle Yearbook (Newtown, CT)

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In the Service . . . We wish to offer the best of luck to two members of our class, Wil- liam Lewis and William Kearns, who patriotically answered Americas call in time of war and will therefore be unable to graduate with us. Zin jllllemuriam We wish to dedicate this small space to the memory of Orville Botsford and Forest Violette who would have graduated with us this vear. '

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SENIORS WILLIAM IRVIN WATERHOUSE Bill i939-'40 Radio Clubg '40-'41 Mechanics Clubg '41-'42 Newspaper Clubg Assembly Committee. HAROLD EUGENE WOODIN ..JeeP,, 1959-'40 Student Councilg '40-'41 Dramatic Clubg '41-'42 Vice President of Classg '42-'-13 Assistant Edi- tor of Yearbook. DONALD HOPKINS SMITH Smitty Wolf 1939-'40 Treasurer of Classg '40-'41 President of Classg Basketball and Baseball Managerg '41-'42 Newspaper Clubg '42-'43 Vice President of Class. NORMAND EARL SMITH 1959-'43 Future Farmers of Americag '42-'43 Tre urer of Future Farmers of America.

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f 7f-C Colffsa A Ten years had elapsed since graduation in 1945 and I had just passed rather noisily from this Life on earth to a more sublime existence. When I awakened I was comfortably situated on a pretty puff of cloud just off the milky way. I stood up to stretch and bumped my head on a sign post. A wise looking bird, perched on top of it, laughed outrageously. Well, my friend, I said, very much annoyed, ls it that funny ? Not so funny as it's going to be. Look. With this he fluttered around the sign post. One arrow read Heaven , the other, Below . You have to choose , the bird said, almost happily. That wont be hard, I answered and turned at once towards the Golden Gates. Not so fast, chum. The Gods decided that before you go either way you can have one wish. What will it be? I pondered awhile before answering, I haven't seen any of my Class of 43 in Newtown since graduation. How about showing me what they're doing now? Right . At once a long fluffy cloud like limousine appeared and we hopped in. It ran automatically and we floated gayly towards earth. As we came in sight of New York, the car glided very low and my bird friend, whose name was Joe, pointed into a window on Wall St. In a very stylish office sat three men in conference. joe explained, That's Eugene Woodin, the prominent banker, William Rockwell, the philanthrophistg and Richard DiVesta, the modern Henry Ford. They're great contributors to business. Passing over the Metropolitan Opera House, we heard the critics exclaiming over Anna Griffin's success in Faust , Nice work, Anna. Circling towards Chicago we passed over several large farms. The beautiful places were owned by none other than Robert Leibold and Robert Mayer, famous horticulturists. In Chicago, Joe pointed out two of the professors at the famous Art Institute. They were Frank Miles and james Scanlon, now successfully happy. At a large theatre there we dropped in to see the star performer, Lorraine Shepard. The writer of her latest success was none other than Donald Smith. What a team! Before turning west we flew over Washington. Walking in the White House gardens were john Leavy, now president, and his able secretary, Muriel Person. They were conversing with two well known senators, Carl Berls and Norman Smith. Now who would have thought--? We must hurry! reminded joe and we continued. In St. Louis my feathered friend pointed out a Famous Girl's School which was ably run by Miriam Butensky and Alice Morgan. Their interest in books cer- tainly helped them to success. X fx