St Johnsbury Academy - Lamp Yearbook (St Johnsbury, VT)

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT 11 Now folks, I have a real treat for you. Here is that popular contortionist Alice Thompson. 1 see that she still chews gum. Just a minute, folks. Yes, it is she — Marion Smith, who will he Secretary of War if Republican candidate Rosselot wins the election. And there is Martha Stearns wearing a beautiful tailored suit and one of those new spun glass blouses. Did you know that she is Ralph Morse’s private secretary? What we can’t figure out is how she exists on two bucks a week. Was that thunder? What a rain wouldn’t spoil! Blessed relief. It's only our roller skating champ, Murrium Williamson, as she makes her dramatic entrance. Oops! And it is dramatic. What a fall! Injured? I guess not. We’d miss her, but 1 know she’d provide amusement at Evelyn Eastman’s old ladies’ home or at Barbara James’ “Haven for Disabled Irishmen’’. What in the world is going on? It looks like a game of “winkum” to me. Oh, my mistake. It's just Theodora Kittredge drumming up trade for her Date Bureau. She’s an expert. Clear the way! Here comes George Hagan, the famous football coach at Dartmouth. Thank goodness, those chapel talks on Dartmouth had some influence. There’s a ducky little green and white truck just driving up. Let’s see. It says “Snow and Hale Laundry”. Of course. You know, the one in West Barnet. Well, if here isn't Esther Holmes and Julia Twombly! They’ve been digging up mummies in Egypt for the past two years. V e re nature lovers but not that far back. They say that they have unearthed a Cro-Magnon man in almost perfect condition. George Mumford must have done the embalming. Mildred Ladd has just arrived from Hollywood. I don’t need to mention the fact that she is a popular heroine in western movies. Who is that autographing a book? Why, it’s Hazel Lavature, well known novelist, critic, poet, and essayist. We’re certainly glad to have her with us. Here comes the lire truck, but where’s the fire? It’s stopping here. Can I believe my eyes? It's Margaret McGill, who succeeded her father as tire chief in the St. |. lire depart ment. conveying Eddie Leonard, our representative from West Burke. Now what do we have? Here’s Hazel Moffet, the bathing beauty who just arrived from Miami with the handsome life guard. Roger Miller. There seems to be quite a lot of hand shaking and back slapping over by the door. No wonder. The former Billie Carter, with her own professional baseball team composed of her ten children, (nine regulars and a bat boy) have just defeated the St. Louis Cardinals where that star baseball twirler, Alfred Barrett, has replaced Dizzy Dean. Here comes James Berry and wife, Valora Corliss. They are happily married and are raising prize poultry in St. Johns bury Center. Who’s that familiar figure in the corner? What in the world is she chattering about? Why, it's our Valedictorian, Margaret Beattie, exhibiting her knowledge of Latin. You know that she succeeded Miss Stilson at St. J. A. The unfortunate victims, Arlene Somers who runs an R. L. D. to Danville and all points east, and Karric Kay, the former Carrie Keneson, now radio torch singer, look rather bored. Do you remember that cute little blonde. Marion Beck? At last she has settled down by establishing a hospital in Lyndonville.

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10 THE ACADEMY STUDENT CLASS PROPHECY Good afternoon, folks. This is station STJA broadcasting from St. Johnsbury Academy in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. There’s a hot time in the old town tonight. Celebrities everywhere. The class of 1037 is having its twentieth reunion. There goes Walt Bradley, Olympic winner of the mile, and there’s Eleanor Friend twice winner of the tennis title. What's the huddle over in the corner? It must be politics, for 1 can see Lindol French, Justice of the new Supreme Court, and Vic Schneider, Editor of the New York “Herald Tribune”. There seems to be an argument. No wonder. The two candidates for President, Gene Rosselot, Republican, and Ralph Mollica. Democrat, are at it again. We’re getting a close up of a real presidential campaign. Oh! Rosselot’s wife and campaign manager, the former Marguerite Relation, has apparently settled the question. Mollica is silenced but not con vinced. Into the limelight now steps Portia Morrison, escorted by Lawrence Lapanne. As you know they're both successful radio announcers. Perhaps it means romance. Close behind them is Isabel Mutchler surrounded bv man) of her admirers. Where’s your famous Canadian Dog Team, Isabel? Hello, there! If it isn’t Eldon Wheelock, winner of the Baldwin prize for proven ability to talk the fastest of any living person! Eldon and his lawyer Edmund Graves, are inseparable these days. It is rumored that Mrs. Wheelock, the former Helen Whitehill, is suing Eldon on charges of mental cruelty; he talks in his sleep. That’s the price one must pay for success. Just a minute, folks, there’s a crowd gathered around one of our celebrities. I can’t make out who it is. Oh, yes. Lilia Safford, the popular author of that record-breaking novel “Fuller vs. Stetson”. I hear there’s to be a battle of music tonite at the new armory designed by Edith Howard. The belligerents arc Francis Blair and his Shoe Shine Boys, featuring Charles Bacon, red hot saxophone player, and Frances Brickett with her all-girl band, starring Muriel Lindsley, blues singer. Speaking of music. John Noyes and Elizabeth Richmond just came in. John is Elizabeth’s pianist at the Metropolitan Opera House, where Elizabeth is making her debut as Marguerite in “Faust”. I’ve heard that Fay Stiles gave up opera to study modern art with Dwight Wells as her tutor. We regret that Paul Bennett and Anna McGuire cannot be with us, but they are madly racing across Canada on bicycles. There’s twenty grand for the winner. Two of our classmates are way up in the air. Milton Knapp as a stunt flier and Irene LeBlanc as an air hostess. Quite a crowd just boomed in. Among them we recognize Ken Murphy, the winner of the Davis tennis cup for the last five years; Marjorie Penniman, physical instructor in Mary Stetson’s girls’ dormitory; Vera Ralston, who runs a dog shop up in East Corinth ; Angela Pierce, who has just won a beauty contest as “Miss Brockton”; Catherine Simpson, the soda jerker at the government store; Howard Warren, the famous horse doctor now residing in Lincoln, Mass.; Lindol Wilkie, the bicycle salesman for Sears Roebuck; and the toast of the town is Lilia Peake as a sweet, contented wife and mother.

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1? THE ACADEMY STUDENT Men, this is what you’ve been waiting for, hoping for anti praying for. Neva Eastman has perfected a cure for baldness. Sbe lias gone into business with Beverly Bean and Sally Kittredge, the dime a dance girls. It’s a bargain A dime a dance and a trial bottle of hair restorer free. Vernon Hadley, who is expecting to receive a diploma today for passing business arithmetic, and Phil Smith, who is working out his last campus for Kal,” are among the happy throng. A couple of our gang, Leon McFarland and Christine Burbank, are in the orange-growing business. Christine prefers to grow hers in sunny California, while Leon, having discovered a fertilizer to make oranges grow in Vermont, prefers his native state. There goes Lillian Cushman, the cook at the St. Johnsbury House. If you haven’t tried her butterscotch scallops, you haven’t lived. Believe it oi not, folks, here comes Irene Eager, the first white woman to become the wife of a cannibal. She says she married him to reform him. Mrs. Henderson, the former Marion Filgate, puts in an appearance. It’s about time. Sbe had to trade the motorcycle for a trailer, to accommodate all her children. Well, well, it' here isn’t Maurice Deforge, whose life work is teaching kindergarten pupils how to croon. He has been married tbrice, divorced twice and is the father of quints. What a man! Just now everyone is staring at the luxurious autogiro that just drifted down from heaven. Olive Harvey is the proud owner. Now, friends, I’m sure you’ll be interested to know that Philip Darling is junior partner in “Nolin and Son” shoe store. We all expected it. didn’t we? All the girls are displaying that new permanent wave known as the Sherrer-Lo, originated by Marjorie Sherrer. And see who’s here. The burlesque queen “Toby” Pierce,” whose motto is “What has Gypsy Rose Lee got that I haven’t?” Some gal, eh what? Who’s that chatter-box over in the corner? Believe it or not, it’s Charlie Rattigan. the super salesman for Camel’s cigarettes. The local boys who have supplied him with cigarettes for the past two decades are certainly relieved. Reverend Neil A. Carr, pastor of the South Congregational Church, and wife, the former Mildred Warrell, are coming down Main Street. They have four healthy, well-behaved children. Did I say well-behaved? Sonny seems to be pulling Sister’s hair, but what’s a hair or two, all in the family? Not far behind them is Anna Clifford, the New York stylist. There’s a commotion over at one side. What can have happened? Two policemen and struggling victims. Well, this is a surprise. They turn out to be Richard Clothey, who has won great honor on the police force due to his punctuality and respect for the laws, and Paul McGinity, head of the St Johnsbury police force, who has just arrested a Greek and three Irishmen wearing orange neckties. I’m afraid Barbara should have left her charges safely at home. There go Lucille Daniels and Ruth Denonville, owners of the Bally-Hoo night club, and Jeanette Veilleux, a chorus dancer in the largest night club in Victory. Who should appear now but Betty Wells with George Edney? Who is that pleasingly plump figure trying to get through the door? Why, that’s Olive Burrington, the author of those special articles in the Cale-