Potsdam Central High School - Sandstoner Yearbook (Potsdam, NY)

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Class Prophecy of ’47 Janet Sanford is now Dean of Smith's College in Massachusetts. Dana Farrisee is the successful President of the Ra quette River Paper Company. The crystal then became cloudy and she was un able to see any more. Finally, it became clear and speaking in the same voice, she began again. Virginia McIntyre is now the star in the Broadway Success, Talk It or Leave It. Paul Whalen is opening up another branch of the Community Ice Cream in China. Don King has been signed up with MGM and is known socially as a heart breaker. Betty Simpson is the new head librarian in the Congressional Library in Washington, D. C. Pauline Bancroft is now lecturing in Europe on the fi ner points of the Symphony. Bill Oman is the successful President of a large Con struction Company in San Diego. Peg Lavine is the assistant pianist to the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Dorothy Lawrence is her per sonal secretary. Jane Besio and Hazel Bostick are designers for the U Itra, Ultra Fashion magazine. Your two Morgan boys, Ken and Bob, have obtained success as lawyers and are partners in the firm of Morgan Morgan. Margaret Hunter and Martha Thompson have married two prosperous business men and are making a place for themselves in the world. Beverly Crowley and Antoinette Dokianos now ho Id high teaching positions as tutors for the children of the exclusive Palm Beachers. Pat Measaw has now gone into professional photog raphy for John Powers. One of her favorite subjects is the famous Holly Howard, formerly June James. Merrill Whitman, Winifred Burrell and Joe Haley have journeyed West and are in a corporation which has control of several burlesque companies. Veronica Baxter and Betty Sweet are employed as nurses at Belleview Hospital in New York City. Mary Perreault has secured the position of head telephone operator in one of Washington's most prominate political buildings. Bob Bacon is now a successful Wall Street business man. Jane Macomber and Laura Lloyd are stewardesses, now employed at the Transatlantic Airways, on route be- tween New York and Paris. However she wasn't able to get in touch with Stanley Towne. He must be at his usual occupation . . . Loafing. Tom Coyle has succeeded the late Maurice Evans a nd is now one of the greatest Shakespearean actors of the day. After she had finished, I thanked her very much and left with a deep satisfaction of knowing that the class of 1947 was going to attain happy and prosperous goals for themselves. GOOD LUCK CLASS OF '47.

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Class Prophecy of ’47 One evening not so !- i I was leisurely sitting at home when I began wondering about ihe future of the members cf the class of '47; and, anxious to hear what th 3 mystic Crystal Ball would foretell, I was inspired to con- sult Madame Zola, the noted gypsy teller. When I arrived at her home she ushered me into a small, dark and mysterious room. After going through many strange acts she leaned forward in her chair, and putting her hands on the Crystall Ball, gazed into it. Then closing her eyes and in a far away voice she began: I see your President, Richard McGee, has just completed eight years of intensive study at Wadhams Hall and has been appointed Pastor of St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Dick Jebo, Vice President, Your own Frankie apparently has discarded his singing career for his love of stop- ping leaky faucets. Sally Arton, Secretary, is STILL waiting for the fleet to come in. The door is unlocked, the table is set, but evadable Kelly hasn't come yet. Lorraine Amelotte, Treasurer, is operating several successful Dress Shoppes featuring the famous Larr's Lacy Lingerie. Bruce Campbell, Business Manager, is being kept busy these days as art editor of the Women's Day and is playing father to his five carrot-top Sallies. Violet O'Leary has finally attained her long awaited goal as a first Soprano in the Metropolitan Mad House Donald Northrup is explaining the Einstein Theory of Relativity and discovering new laws in Physics. Alma Lytle is busy on a project of cleaning up the slums of New York City. Beverley Rice is, at the present, touring the country with her violinist husband. Your own Bill Jenner and Bill Thompson have taken New York by storm. They say they're doing this and doing that. Everyone is wondering who's doing this and who's doing that. Barbara Calipari and Joyce Pope, in the past years have bettered the relationship between Pan America and the United States by really applying the Good Neighbor policy. Dick Sanford and Guy Ballmoose are now engaged in building a pier in San Francisco Bay. Joyce Leonard is now operating a chicken farm, hatching chickens. Dick Patenaude is a representative of the Assembly and has recently introduced a bill which will make the present school day two hours shorter. Barbara Hayes, Betty Lawson, and Lorraine Scott now hold positions in a large New York firm as bookkeep- ers and accountants. Bob Manfred is a professor in the Massachusetts institute of Technology, teaching higher mathematics. Corky Sisson has recently resigned her position as Medical Secretary, because the call of the home was bec- koning. Con Krupa Elliott is the leader of a famous dance band now playing in an exotic New York night club. Wayne Denicourt, his vocalist, is the new rage of the bobby soxers. Charles Bullard and his wife, the former Marie Sellers, have now expanded their business so much that Com- munity Ice Cream is referred to as the Pride of the Norih, South, East and West. Anna Adams, Louise Moshier, Dorothy Regis and Ann Fefee are happily married and are kept busy caring for their families. Charles Blackman is now the head of a large firm which manufacturers short trousers for boys. Ann Regan is the National President of the 4-H Club and is now attending a National Convention in Chicago. Fred Chase is now the owner of a large circus which is touring the country and is supported by a small star cast of the class of '47, including Gilbert Jones as the strong man, Jerry Lennox as the elephant trainer, and Louise Cary as a tight rope walker.

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FIRST ROW (left to right)—Hadley, Henry, McGee, Paquette, Carvin. SECOND ROW—Theobald, Howlett, Patenaude, Green, Dart. Student Council Members of this organization consist of one member from each home room who is chosen by his fellow classmates to serve as a home room president. The function of this council is to help plan and direct all school activities as a whole, and assist in the raising of money for public benefit.