Pittsfield High School - Yearbook (Pittsfield, MA)

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I 'Nl' 9 Swoons were not pre ent 'I hankmg them and expressxng the wlsh of seemg them agaln I left XX hen I arrn ed at the office good news awa1ted me Edltor Nllchel on told me that he had two tlckets for the football game and that he and I were gomg to take the re t of the day off and attend It Y ou see he IS st1ll the same old Fd I got yermx ton to d tsh out to get some new clothes I went ox er to IN CXCIUSIVQ gown shop on I'1fth Avenue It was called Madam Lotus xeaux Shop but the proprletress real name was Helen Coons She to d me that she had a surprlse for me Then she called her four best models Fhey were 'Norma Pore Elalne Ph1ll1ps Ehnor Fmn The fourth was Grace Ames but she was busy at that tlme Helen told me that the dress maker for the Amerlc in made gowns was Salway Napmy and that Llly Renwall was the destgner I hnally selected my gown and went home to dress Lx en when we h d arrlved at the game I d1d not know who was to play except that 1t was an lmportant game I d1d not have tlme to 1nqu1re for my attentlon was caught by the DOISY entrance of one of the spectators It was X lctor De Fd71O the racketeer He IS a very democratlc person and alwavs 1ns1 ts upon h1s ch tufleur Arthur 7w1ngelste1n accompanymff htm It IS sald hand Then I notlced Ieannette Brewer Y W C A pre ldent and her a SlSt3Ht Eunlce Kennedy comlng 1n wlth Lawyer Greenwood and Lawyer Robert Xl hlte I he chlef lmmedlately began to make motlons to attract Greenwood s tttentlon but hc only succeeded 1n gettlng everyone else to look Ifmally Jeannette s tw us and they came over We talked over old t1mes I learned that Mary Parker was a soclal worker and that Marguerlte 'Nlunson and Mary Pelkey were worklng at the Y W C A also Blll called my attentlon to the fact that Elwood Fmch the trapeze per former Edwtrd Ilrockwiy the l1on tamer and Mlldred Ruesch acrobat had dropped ox er to see the game Ihere was a great deal of tpplause as Foster McRell cand1date for the presldency accompan1ed by Lots Denm on ahas Mlss Massachusetts entered the stadlum Ehfabeth Cheyne champlon hltch hlker followed Then George Kelsey who wlth Alan Seymour had broken the record for flymg, xround the wolld c une ID w1th Paullne Klllan who was the model for the C hes terheld idx CITISQITIQIIL Keep K1s able Last but not lexst came Howard NIcGlynn whose plctures were raptdlv sellmg Cluetts Collars 'Ihese were all I had tlme to see for the game started 'Io my surprise I found that P tul Dvcon was captam of one team and that Joe NX OIKKOSKI was captam of the other Ihey were rn als for the best Amerlcan football team X 1I'glI'lIO NIPIFLIII to w as tn end on Dlxon s team 'I he game was xery excltmg and 1t ended wlth the core 13 13 W h1ch prow es that both boys were hung up to the t1tle of athlete After the Crime we ru hed out and managed to get a taxl due to the fact that the operator was an old frlend Herbert Kosher XX e were nearly starx ed sO he stepped on the ea 'Xl e took the corners on two wheels and almost passed CLASS UF ,Lj1, 1 32 57 V ,, Q , . . . . , ,, . c ,I 7 ' , . Y y x v . l . A S . Q . 7 g . , . . kr ., u . s , . 2 . 3 'SS' 2 5 , :'. Y . Z , S' K v 1 f K1 I 1 ' 1- v ' , f ' ' 1 1 ' v , V Av J y . . . y . . i C . 2 5 AT .. . A . n I C. u T ' fb A u A Q r . . 7 . s , . ' 2 , , g , ' g . that he does thls IH case he has to leave in a hurry, thus Speedy Art w1ll be on - , . . . . s' , s ' , Y K, . ,, i . . .1 . , L , . ., . W . . U! . 7 . Y I - 7 2' V 2 7 I 7 ' I I VN Y Y ' ' r W ' C C 7 . r . . .Q . I . ' 7 V Y 7 C 1 74 , , 1 M uv, 1' 1 I r 2 ' , .1 . . . .. , in e L- - 2 ' .Q H 7 HS' H. c , 2 c f . 1 v V - . w K ' ' sc i H A , C K V J , . ' c ' . z , . ' , K ' Y h ' as H ' ' ' 1 C C A Cx C C C C C c . i . V u sv D 'L L ' c . . 1 ' S 'c SZ . . c ' 2 . V. S b- ll , . v r K ' ' . s. gz ' s ' C C 'C T C l , n v v T C, Y ' g.s. ' '

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'NIUR KNNU Lombard seemed to give them cause for alarm On this team was another classmate James Snell The women s Olympic swimming team was captamed by 'Vlarjorie Renne champion diver Her team included Barbara Roscoe and Doris 'len Broeck Our class was also represented on the track team as it was captamed by Benjamin Kincaid the Platinum Kid VN 1ll1am Spasyk international sprint er was also representing us Auto racing had been added as a new event Clinton Rodda had entered the mechanic was Charles Barnes 'lhough they did not win the race they made it evident to the people of Hollywood that there IS a place called Pitts field After I had exhausted this information I looked through the files of sport mg events 'Ihe first notice that met my glance was Edward Hlckey Athletics youngest and best find pitches another victory for his teammates Fvldently Eddie had gone baseball in a big way but not quite so big as the former Babe Ruth Two of his teammates were 'lom Harrington and Eugene Archey while two opponents on the Yankees were Edward Martm and Edward Johnson The next item of interest stated that America had at last gained two people to take the place of Helen Wills Moody and Bill Tilden 'lhey were Helen Sawyer and Alfred Bachus Both were traveling fast Cit was all in the day s workl and had lost a lot of weight according to reports John Majchrowskl had been elected President of the Isaac Walton League His outstanding contribution to the club was the pr1nt1ng of a sign which stated When bigger and better fish are caught I W League members will catch them In the field of horseracmg there was new material At the Kentucky Derby a horse owned by the Rebecca Gifford racing stables had won over the favorite Blue Monday on whom the betting had been 32 1 It was stated that Bookmaker Walter Biety had won enough money on that race to retire It was a lucky thing for him that Rebecca had decided to own horses instead of Just drawmg them It prov ed to be more profitable for both Just then the clock struck nine and I hastened to my office On my desk I found a notice telling me to report at the monthly meeting of the literary club So I grabbed a pad and pencil and left Arriving at the club room I knocked and was told to enter Going in I beheld all the young writers of the day I went toward the chalrm in and I found that it was Betty Grand Llenard, the most prominent woman novelist of the day Jean Horelly, another young authoress, was sitting to the right of the chairman Marjorie Young who had Just published her latest novel, Strange People tit was rumored to be a story of her former classmatesj was also present Lauretta Laurin, who had published the book, How To Grow Tall, and Margaret McN1choll, the authoress of a book entitled, The Lady 54 Tiki' I if ff! Alf R . L c ' , . , . . . . . . g . . J . , Y . H K . Y . . . . ,, . . ,, ,. . . . I . J ' x ' ' , . . L . . l C his auto, The Spirit of Pittsfield. His relief driver was William Eliott, and , C I L' 1 ' ' W ' ll ' ' Y 7 Y . . . ,, . , . .. , . . , . U , 7 7 . . . , . . . , ll ' ' 7 7 ' ' 77 y 1 ' ' ' . . 7 Y ' 7 . z ,

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16 Sl-'NIP 1 policem tn Ihl w as not really Kosher s fault for the policeman happened to be Lloyd Stokes It w ts x erv hard to see him amidst ill the trafhc At last we reached the re taurant Ihc owner was Sax erio f hiodo He w ts competing with Child s restaurant md seemed to be leading No doubt this was due to the fact that the manager of C hlld s w ts smaller than Chiodo In his rest 1ur1nt he had as waitresses fixe girls whom we knew lhey were Iull 1 W tldron Betty 'I ucker Iennie Iones Olive Richards md Rose Ricci Ihe lure of Proadwax had called them It had been so ox erpowering that they had left their homes in Pittsfield Between courses we talked ox er old times He said that Iames Baker who was ft tr tx elmg salesman for a perfume company and Sam Boxer who was also a salesman often dmed there lhis w is also the fax orlte place for I ouis and Alice Rock two of the greatest artists of the period After we h td finished we went down town to a show It was called 'I he Prairie Flower lhe leading ladv was Nancy VN alker 'I he second lead was Clara Sedgwick It was said that their first real ability had been shown in the class play that they had acted in back in 1932 Catherine Killeen was also a member of the cast playing the very difficult role of an impersonator Howard Reinhardt had been an actor too but now h was MISS Walker s financial manager In the audience I saw Orrington 'Iubbs who was a prominent Wall Street broker with John Dax 1d on President of the New it ork National Bank 'lhey came over during the 1nterm1 sion o that 'I ubbs might ask about the reunion I told him that I was checking up on the classmates At this Johnnie said that he could help He said that Jennie Jones was his private secretary Mabel Wright and Edward Stevens were bookkeepers and Elaine Knollmever and Laura Anthony bank clerks After talking a few minutes they returned to their seats We proceeded to watch the play After the last curtain call we left to go over to a cabaret for a blte to eat Here we were x ery clex erly entertained by dancing revues Among those who were the features were Laura Alderman Doris Loveless Anna Loboda and Catherine Lonergan As we left for home I heard an occupant at the next table remark that he behex ed the four girls I had just mentioned were to have an interv 1ew with Florenz Ziegfeld on the following VK ednesday The next dav saw me back to work 'I here was to be a big banquet down at the Vt aldorf Astoria which I had to cox er There were many celebrities present from all parts of the country Elinor Buck prominent club woman gave the speech of welcome Robert Ralston newly elected mayor of Nlew I ork gave a short address Then the guests beglnning wlth the one to the right of Miss Buck spoke a few words The first one was Edward Bonnu 1er Prof of Psychology at Columbia Then Robert Carmel Prof of English also from Columbia Then Jane Bliss a member of the L S Senate gax e a speech on prohibition Marion Boulogne and Caryl Tuggey the two braxe mission aries who had sax ed the life of an African child told of their exciting and inter estmg work lhe rest of the speakers followed in order Eugene Catalano, 7 tl: ANNINI, ' fi ' U ' z z . as . s ' . -. ' ' ' '. . ' ' Cx 4 n C L in A . . ' ' ' , , 2. L , . ' Y. . 1 f ' v ' 'I s s 1 K. l as L A - 1 Q 'z 'Q , ' , - ' . ., ' . . 1 ., l I.. V' I 1 7 ' I , . L 7 D , . . r 7 I .,. ' f ' , c , . . z ' ' .. . . , , . . .' . . , . . 'z. ' : ' ' I : Gilarde, the novelist and .lames Harrison, the economistg Dorothy Connor, I y L L s u I ' ll X L x , a ' ' H rw ' Y 7 w . 7 . . N . , . . L Q . , , - . V. I . , . . Y. Q . , , , . , , c , . - . I . I 1'. l ' I I A . . , 1 XY 1 - 9 Y v C 1 A I 7 V Y ' 7 C . , . . . 7 , - A . . 7 1 . . ' 7 7 Y . , ' A , , , M . , , . 1 Y ' v 7 . . , . . , . . , 7 . , . . , u A y v Y ' s' Y , I ' . ,, N . .