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

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT 5 Edmund White after spending ten years unsuccessfully dealing in used Fords, has gone to Hollywood to compete with Charles Boyer. Carroll Church is a world-famous lecturer. His latest series of talks has been on the Mephitis Mephitica. Clifford Lovering is now repairing television sets for the natives in darkest Africa. Edward Plumley is the collector of internal revenue in Victory. Leslie White is running a taxi between West Burke and St. J. Blonde-haired girls get free rides. Rodney Stanton has left the United States and gone to Paris to design ladies’ fashions. Morris Stevens has just opened up a new dance hall called Moonlight, just across the street from Sunset. Lorraine Wright is working on a process to stop hens from laying eggs. She always did hate them. Ann Tony had found an antidote for her curly hair; and when she saw the results, she ended it all. John Canty is still keeping up his 1-A standing of being man about town. He is running the noted Stardust Taxi Co. Lina Bullock is running a doghouse for hen-pecked husbands. Jean Whitcomb is teaching the Southerners her Yankee drawl. Poor Southerners ! Gloria Cassady has revolutionized business by making shoes without heels. Elaine Scott is now running a school on “How to Get Fat in Six Easy Lessons”. Irene Drouin is helping Krobalski to pick up his pennies on Fifth Avenue. Marion Conly is principal of the St. Johnsbury Trade School. She isn’t teaching them distributive education — just principalling. Althea Flanders is an expert boogie-woogie rug cutter. She has been trying her hardest to make Lucille Worster lift her feet. Ruth Legendre has settled down in Sing Song, Vt. She comes to town occasionally to check up on the progress of her store. Dorothy Rich lost her fortune when she bought an investment in Kay Gleason’s “Synthetic Gum Co.” Catherine Douglas is working for the benefit of high school students by teaching them the method of “How Not to be Seen and Heard by the

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4 THE ACADEMY STUDENT with Sully Handy’s Alaskan Bearskins next week to decide the world’s championship. Earle Long has written a best seller entitled “How to Fly without Wings”, which he dedicated to his wife, Katheline McRae Long. Palmer Paine has been Speaker in the House of Representatives for the past ten years. Catherine Rash was assassinated when she made her first political speech denouncing the President. Henry Corra, now an Admiral in the Navy, is giving a sailors’ course on “How to Get around without a Car.” Kenneth McGill — our great leader and reformer is still anxiously waiting his leave from Alcatraz, lie has 99.44 years to go on the charge of strangling (?). Margaret Kittell has recently renounced the Metropolitan and joined the South Carolina Hill Billy Band in which she is featured as chief soloist and yodeler. Theron Blodgett, retired Supreme Court Judge, is now running Goss’s Garage. Elizabeth Keach has Walt Disney and Rosalie Rancour worried with her origination of the comic “Hazel the Hepcat.” Geraldine Bolton is writing a correspondence course on how to grow fruit on Shoe trees. Alice Bedor, now a New York Powers Model, will wed the Romeo of star and scream, Richard Paine. He is currently starring in McRae’s hit show. Jean Homing — We always knew that Jean would aim high. She was last seen on the 456th floor of the Tri-Higher Building in New York. Elaine Plumley has received her degree at Toepunk College where she specialized on the “Art of Picking up a Pencil” (with her toes). Shirley Weymouth, cover girl of 1962, is now making a tour selling various covers to male admirers at 10c a copy. Patricia Wallace has invented a typewriter which is manipulated by the feet. She claims it’s to save her two-inch fingernails. Ruth Babcock died of consumption — consumption of her own cooking. Priscilla Bijolle is now running the Gloomy-out-Look funeral home next to Brightlook Hospital. Medora Boucher has now opened a “Press-’Em-Twice” Laundry in Podunk. Catherine Brown is now a Paine (Mrs.) Beverly Buck has put Sears, Roebuck out of business. She and Priscilla Osgood have started a firm called “Chairs to Lounge In’’ in Barnet.

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THE ACADEMY STUDENT (5 Teacher”. Arlene Henderson, our great reformer, says it won’t work — she tried it! Marian Hamilton flunked out of college when she told her chemistry teacher that NaNo3 stood for Barney’s nickname. Dorothy Mansfield is hidden away in a Tibetan monastery after hearing about George’s harem. Gerald McCormick has returned to England with his wife, who wanted to see her homeland once more. Virginia Leavitt is now prosperous after setting up the “Desrochers and Leavitt Research Laboratories”. They have analyzed several little rocks, which are of good value. Elaine Mayo is now a teacher at McGill’s University — in memory of Kenny! Dorothy Jenne is editor of the Little Rock Daily Rocket starring “Lottie Lamb” in their new comic strip. Aline Demers runs a smart hat shop in Florida. Part of her success is due to Becky MacKenzie who skillfully balances the budget each month. Jean Buck is running a dude ranch in East Topolampo, Texas. Loretta Cook is now famous for originating Splatinench, a language combination of Spanish, Latin, and French. Class Prophecy Committee Aline Demers, Chairman Dale Barber Bernard Krobalski Katherine Gleason Joyce Lord CLASS POEM by Gerald McCormick On the fifth of June there graduates A class, Known since 1940 As the class of 1944. There are things that the class ought never to forget, Such as How the seniors looked to us while freshmen, with our heads barely showing in the froth Of Activities.