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

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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

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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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THE ACADEMY STUDENT 21 audiences how to apply artificial respiration and how to direct a French play without knowing a single word of French. Marjorie Mathews is running an estate for high-bred chickens whose owners are taking world cruises. Mildred Merchant has finally been granted her one wish, to be given Miss Baile-y's job as history teacher so she can get in the last word on all dis- cussions. Rita Metevier's talents didn't stay hidden long, and her dreams of sing- ing in a New York night club soon came true. There were two Number please girls in the class of 19:39. These were Charlotte Ovitt and Beatrice l.egendre. They have both received medals for their bravery during the typhoon which raged through St. .lohnsbury last fall. Dorothy johnson has taken ovcr the job of the tired library workers in trying to help all the sociology students get A in that course. Edward Penniman has had the crown of king of the Cow 'ludgers placed on his head after a contest was held in the arena at Victory. Irene Beattie, the intrepid adventuress, conducts big game hunts in Africa. Franklin Brickett is still buried beneath piles of Caledonian Records which he carries daily to Randall Sz VVhitcomb's. Marjorie Bonett is editor of The VVorlcl Tellit. Quentin Davison is head of The Ladies' Escort Service, which does it flourishing business. Robert VVard is the perfect bellhop in a Burlington hotel. Barbara Counsell is a highly respected professor of Latin at Dartmouth. Roland Roberts is the lad who gets up bright and early to deliver milk. If anyone should happen to visit the Stork Club in New York, they would see Phil Lafoe and Robert l.umbra in the groove, and Beverly VVright doing the vocalizing. Gordon Wood is the boy who delves in surrealist photography. His picture of cabbage leaves on top of the Empire State building was much ad- mired. The voice of Paul Reed booms at you from the newsreels, telling the latest flashes from the world of sports. Marjorie Bryson is the soft-voiced announcer for the Lady l'ond pro- gram. Dorothy Bailey imports spices and everything nice from java. Muriel Belden is the director of a school for parrots, where she cures them of swearing. Frank Blodgett has a ranch where he raises angora bunnies. Beverly Fisher has a yarn shop where she disentangles people's do- mestic affairs. Charles Dennison, janitor at St. il. A., spends most of his time shoveling snow way into the middle of May. Elmore Harvey, veteran Cape Codder, is a clammer.