South Philadelphia High School for Girls - Portal Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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OMMENCEM ENT C ESTERDAY, we were girls, carefree, unsure friends who wait us in the years ahead. of ourselves and dcpendcnt on Dad for cxtra Our school years have hecn war years in which change. Today, we are women with greater ref WQQVQ said goodfhye to our men and worked and sponsihilities and the necessity to stand on our own prayed for peace. The eonfliet Will S0011 Cllll, and fcct- WL'1l15'Y still f-WI UUSUVVZ hut, Hf11dU3llY,th'3 then we face a world of turmoil settling into a future will give us greater selffconlidence and poise, time of peace. That peace depends on our interest enahling each of us to slip easily into her own spef in itg so let us hope that what we do now to inf Cizll niehe. Ill ll sense. the future is for LIS YO fwflll sure the peace will mean security and satisfaction and shape into a world that will guarantee what for all time. we strive for most, happincss. Maiy the comradef Commencement is an important milestone, hut ship and goodwill that hound us closely and cstahf in the future arc many others equally important lished Southern as a school with the highest demo- May they he passed as successfully and as happily ' expand and cmlwrace the new as the school days that we leave hehind us. cratie printiplts Eighly-fm

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so that Rose Petragnani was doing just as im' portant if not as exciting work when she kept that end smoothed out. Elvira De Mayo was her private secretary while Katherine Endriss and Eva Dolhansky were typists and clerks. As in every business, bookkeepers were neededg so Norma Snyder, Martha Sparrow and Lena Pug' lisi were keeping things straightened out. Walk' ing down the street, they met Mary Weinberg who was doing a series of articles on Southern City and was on her way to visit the high school. They decided to make a day of it, and they all troopcd into the school. Any resemblance it bore to the old Southern was purely accidental. Cf course, the school still used the same seal with Noblesse Oblige' written upon it. In fact, it was inscribed over each escalator. Vida Bayani was also visiting, and she joined their group. There were many old friends to be seen. Louise Batti was teaching history using a method employed by the best of the old Southern's teachers. Since that teacher had left school and married, Louise was doing a fairly good job of following in her footsteps. Carolyn DeNota was also a history teacher using the same plan. Elizabeth Castiello was an English teacher, Edna Watson was head of the physical education def partment while Thelma Spahr was a gym teacher and coach of Southern's championship basketball team. Frances Arra was another gym teacher. but her specialty was coaching the state chamf pionship swimming team-Southern's of course. They were lucky enough to see a show put on by Shep and Rose , the top comedians of the country. Yes, it was the old pair of Eleanor Shepper and Rose Tramantano still keeping them rolling in the aisles . Clara Newlin and Gladys Prater, survivors of Southern's Modern Dance club, did some interpretive dances. At the school, covering the show as a reporter, was Evelyn Milone, from Southern City's newspaper, who had been sent out by Rita Valente, city editor of the paper. On their way back to the center of town, they saw some of the married gals from Southern. Judith Rosoff was wheeling her little boy in his coach as those redheaded twins of hers danced merrily on their way. Dorothy Pero, Helen Reasner, Norma Pestich, and Jean Minicozzi formed a quartet of young matrons as they strolled down the street. Mildred Pa' citti was driving her red convertible coupe down the street accompanied by Jean Pacitti, Marjorie Gattuso, married to her former boss, and Mrs. Rita Coletta on their way to the Y where Sonia Sokoloff, director, Betty Schultz, gym teacher, and Rose Tomarchio, secretary worked. All were leaders of the Y that was doing such good work in helping young people. On the rest of the trip downtown, they learned of some Southernites who were not in Southern City. For example, Rita Anello was now a pattern designer for Vogue , while her model was Grace Gambino. Hollywood, too, had met and appreciated some from their rank. Clothes by Novello heralded the approach of some very nice styles created by Pearl Novello. Dress def signer Anna Serody was making her own place out there, too. Annetta Day, vocalist with one of the famous name bands, was making a pic' ture at M.G.M. while Esther Pogach was acting over at 20th Century. Helen Persia and Rita Nacchio had settled down out in California en' joying the warm weather and oranges, while Carmela Monastro had picked Florida for the same reason. However, many had been bitten by the wanderlust. As far as was known. the following were last seen shoving off from some place to go to some other place: Betty Rhodes and Victoria Perrone, Evelyn Nardello, the twins fMildred Diodato and Olga Grecoj, Shirley Barish, and Betty Mikelberg. But some others were travelling with a purpose. Estelle Rubin, foreign correspendent, could be seen dashing any place in the ChinafBurmafIndia area in her little jeep. Dorothy McMullen was -a correspondent, too, attached to the U.S. Marine Corps in the Philippines flucky gal, that she isj. Dolores Wil- liams was looking around for material for a sec- ond book which would be a sequel to that one which had already made her famous, June Sprin' ger, superviser of the Western Union Telegraph Co., waved as they passed by. As they ap' proached the mayor's oliice, her secretary, Vir' ginia Tankard, called them. The longfdistance telephone operator, Doris Hauber, had relayed a message to them to report to the airport. Their departure was rather rushed, and they bade farewell rather sadly. The airplane hostess, Marie DeSimone, asked them to board, and when they did, she introduced them to their pilots. They were Alnora Lepley and jean Scarangelli! They took off and were on their way. Suddenly, some' thing happened. The motor stopped, and they started to fall! Down! Down! There was a scream and then there was a lot of noise-a clanging sound. They were on the ground, and a crowd had gatheredg but the plane was missing. Alnora and Jean weren't with them either. Anna asked where they were, but the doctor, Esther Orloff, told her to hush and not to worry. Doctor Adele Goodman ordered that they all be taken to the hospital: and the nurses, Rose Campo, jean Va' lence, Lorraine Lane and Gloria Montanaro, hurf ried to fulfill her orders. They all leave the hospital tomorrow to go back to work. They certainly hope it won't take another explosion to have them all meet again. It would be wonderful to really see each other again. And perhaps there is a chance for after all the world is small, we'll meet some- where along the way! Eighty-four

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