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

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT 19 Doris Smith drives a school bus from l'assumpsic to St. johnsbury three times a day. Mrs. W'illiam Pearl, nee Lucia lohnson, is te'tchinff school and frivino' 1 . ' r. ' 23 'Cr music lessons in Victory. Yvonne Langlois operates a dress shop specializing in her own designs, which are distinguished by that Parisien touch. Yirginia Elliott burns the midnight oil by hunting down bacteria with a microscope in her work as a laboratory technician. Arlene Ayer has recently accepted a position as hostess with the Red Nose Rocket ship company. She will care for passengers on the daily trips to Mars, the Moon, and other places of interest. Herbert Bailey is a beach entertainer in Hawaii during the summer. lle features penny divers and Hula dancers. Eastman Kodaks may be pur- rhased at special prices. Audrey Bean is senior partner of the law tirm, Bean, Bean, and Bean. They specialize in suits between beauty shop operators and their customers. Louis Bedard and Walter Bedor have been experimenting with a new automobile engine using air for power. The government has placed a tax of tive cents per cubic foot on air. .Ioan Caldbeck was recently frustrated in her attempt to make dough- nuts for doughboys. Gordon Caldwell has attained world fame by walking across the waters of Lake Memphremagog. He performed the feat in january. Harry Clark has recently perfected an adding machine which will do logarithms. He is recovering from the effort in XNarn1 Springs. Paul Colby is recovering from an attempt to cross Niagara Falls in an automobile. He said somebody must have moved the bridge. Horace Comstock is pilot of the stratosphere plane operating once :-1 month between St. johnsbury and East Village. Duncan Corliss is raising chickens from molecules in his Ryegate lab- oratory. Francis Grimaud is world's heavyweight boxing champion. He defeat- ed ,loe l,ouis in l fonej second in -Iune, 1970. Harlan jenne, Grimaudis manager. has been accused of putting dyna- mite in Grimaud's fists. Robert Mulvey is a murderous baseball player, and undertaker on the side. lf he should happen to hit a batter he can always give him a decent burial. Harry Parker, besides running a successful lumber business, is parli- amentary adviser to the Vermont legislature. Philip Heath has written a best seller entitled, How to Study XN'ithout Opening A Book. Stanley jones is administrator of the new wage-hour law. The half- hour day at S200 an hour is now in existence. Lawrence Cutting has been awarded a prize for being the best-dressed baseball player in the Big League.

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18 THE ACADEMY STUDENT Neil Benoit has wanted to be a mousetrap salesman ever since it was suggested to hi1n by the prophecy committee of the graded school from which he graduated. Today as the top ranking salesman of his company, he attri- butes his success to Mr. Henry's salesmanship course. Roland Carrigan is stenographer to a good looking business woman. He is doing well, and it is said that he works very fast. Elbridge Colburn is in charge of the bull sessions at Cobble College. He certainly is well qualified for this position. Robert Delaney is now in the long-distance trucking business, using only 1926 Ford trucks. His longest haul was from St. johnsbury to Passumpsic. Bob Fisk is a prosperous dentist. Perhaps he got the idea when he used to drill those basketballs through the net at the Academy. i Isabelle Sargent conducts a ski school for children. Howard Hastings poses as the famous Man You Didn't Expect to Meet on a popular radio program. Paul Howe is a prominent optometrist. His motto is: 'fXVe make your eyes lit to see. Dorothy .Iohnston is first ranking cook at the Longlegged lnstitutior, for the halt, lame, and physically handicapped. VVayne La Point has finally achieved his goal. Yes, he has married Beverly W'right after many years of friendship and many attempts at a successful proposal. Daniel Linehan is a minister. llis interest in the ministry was first aroused on his daily walks to Park Street. Lyle Little is still pumping gas at his father's Socony station. Lyle is also president of the Tall Story Club. As yet he has had no close competition. Everett W'heelock is a fruit dealer. He supplies those vitamin-rich products to all the athletic teams at the Academy. The Academy has had very poor seasons in all major sports since 1939, Lillian Bill brings sunshine into the lives of people in the New York slums by her work in a settlement house there. Madeline Brough, known everywhere as The Vermont Songstress, is currently starring in the Metropolitan's latest production, The Little Girl from the Country. VVinifred Eager is keeping the books straight for Everett Wheelock at his store. jean Flynn tours the country holding forth on the merits of the Roose- velt administration. ,lanice Fuller, aside from her interest in child psychology, keeps the buttons polished on her husband's Annapolis uniforms. Charlotte Farnsworth is making her employer worry by going out with all the salesmen who visit the office. Carolyn Hafner poses as a model for the manufacturers of Ry-Krisp. Gwendolyn Hanks has organized a girls' basketball team which has won the championship of Caledonia County.

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20 THE ACADEMY STUDENT Richard XYatts is rapidly becoming the greatest baritone of all time. Wlilliam Dimick is a dignilied and serious professor of physics at johns llopkins University. Quite a change from his student days. Stanley Gosnay is the recognized superior of Paul Bunyan in the North Woods. George Kellogg is the dictator of Puerto Rico. Nlfarner Field is president of the American Bottle Emptying Company. Robert Coburn is a ghost writer for political leaders. l'hat's why we hear so many crazy arguments. Ernest Mcliee is a chemical engineer for the DuPont company. We hear that he has discovered a new luminous nail polish. Hazel Hersey is happily married to a Vvall Street financier. That is where her knowledge of domestic science comes in handy. Richard Tilton is a movie star. He has been married and divorced only three times so far, but we expect he will do better in the future. Gertrude Noyes is polishing off the males in her new and successful Charm School for Boys. llarmony Ovitt spends most of her time nursing Frank Gentile, who manages to be in the hospital continually. The Pulitzer Prize for art was presented recently to our rising young illustrator, Margaret Oldham. Lawyer Donald Powell has won national prominence as a result of his prosecution against the United State Distilleries Company. llc is also co- author of the Powell-Einstein theory. Ethelyn Pratt is successful in her double life as loving wife of Patil Howe and virtuoso violinist. Thelma Prescott is much in demand as a secretarial saxophonist. After taking down her pothooks, she provides entertainment with a few notes on th: saxophone. Patricia Rattigan at present is thrilling immense audiences with her brilliant pia11o playing. It is evident that the leading cooks of the country are openly shaky over the rising fame of Priscilla Cheney, who astounds authorities with her culinary art. Gerald NVood has just received a position as lirench instructor in the Too Too Divine Girls' Finishing School. Gordon Spaulding has not lost the knack of wrapping himself around a tree every time he goes skiing. Eileen Tillotson is just tinishing her tour as the star of that recent Broadway hit The Art of Being Gentile. Mlle. Vivian Stafford, Parisienne designer, has returned to her summer home in Yermont for a brief rest from pressing demands of her patrons, Dorothy Carter is still holding down a big SllZll'C of the interest in the great chain of stores called the A 81 P. Natalie Rodger is dividing' her time on the stage between telling her