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

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CLASS PROPHECY I — the great, colossal, magnificent reader of the future, Swami — am about to foretell the position of the most honorable members of the St. Johnsbury Academy’s class of 1947 in ten years from this date. My crystal ball is clearing. I see . . . Marvin Bailey — as the principal and basketball coach at Bailey’s Agricultural School in East Barnet. Clinton Barrett — becoming the president of the C. I. O. Lucille Benedict — photographing sheep in Australia in order to analyze the wool. John Bernier — true to family tradition, graduated from Annapolis. 1 see a beauty shop, the name is — Aline Bilodeau’s Beauty Salon. Gordon Burdette — opening a St. Johnsbury branch of Burdette College. Mim Campion — making a career in Korea as an army nurse. Warren Church —mixing cement with which to fill Boulder Dam. Yvette Carreau — assisting in Aline Bilodeau Beauty Shop, specializing in tinting the hair green. Pat Collins — as Physical Education instructor in Barnum-Bailey’s Circus. Donald Conly — leading a second good-will tour of the fleet around the world as lieutenant j.g. Paul Corliss — posing for Charles Atlas Ads. Gloria Creighton — as a social worker, restoring Imagination in America’s Youth. Esther Cross — celebrating the first anniversary of Cross-Murphy Tours — “see the world by foot.” Paul Cutting — in the French Foreign Legion. Lorraine Davenport — still washing dishes at Point Comfort. Harriett Donaghy — as an office girl at Charlie’s Diesel garage. Christine Douglas — as proprietor of a men’s reducing school. Antone K. Fontes — providing his own musical floor show at his exclusive hotel in Rio. David Franklin — as a dentist in Los Angeles Zoo specializing in buffalo bicuspids. Robert Gibson — becoming the electrocutioner in Windsor State Prison. Virginia Prescott — as a psychoanalist of Red headed woodpeckers. Marilyn Proi.man — as stage manager for musical shows on Broadway. Irving Plii.sieer — manufacturing Smeero Hair Tonic. Richard Roberts — as a chief Petty Admiral in the Coast Guard.

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CLASS CITATIONS Boy Cjirl •Most likely to succeed Allyn May Alma Warrell Best looking David Franklin Ann Stanger Most popular David Franklin Vilma McKee Most studious Allyn May Alma Warrell School flirt Paul Cutting Barbara Lewis Best dressed David Sylvester May Marcotte Best school citizen Paul Corliss Vilma McKee Cutest David Sylvester Richard Roberts Donald Conly David Franklin Marceline Mayo Best musician Antone Fontes Gloria Creighton Most ambitious Larry Kimball Alma Warrell Most talkative David Sylvester Marilyn Prolman Most versatile David Franklin Betty Whaley Marceline Mayo Patricia Wood Neatest David Sylvester Patricia Wood Marceline Mayo May Marcotte Best dancer Lincoln Olmsted Virginia Whitehill Best sport Paul Corliss Vilma McKee Most friendly Larry Kimball Vilma McKee Betty Whaley Most dependable John Simons Alma Warrell Most loyal Paul Corliss Alma Warrell Nicest smile Robert Gibson Reginald Rolfe David Franklin Betty Whaley Nicest eyes David Franklin Betty Whaley Lucille Benedict Quietest Donald Conly Janet Urie Most bashful John Hale Audrie Powers

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June 1947 Helen Rogers — teaching Home Economics to the children in Mars. Reginald Rolee — as another lost soul in the French Foreign Legion. Florence Rooby — commuting from Paris to New York in her helicopter. Francis Roy — as the secretary for Podunk Hollow High School — public speaking department. John Simons — performing his duties of janitor at Harvard. Newell Somers — as mathematics instructor at Bailey’s Agriculture School. Mary Gilbert — designing new hair do’s for Powers models. Roy Gorham — finishing a post graduate course at Goddard Seminary. Cynthia Goss — as a specialist in cello instruction at Bates College. John Hale — as president of Hale’s Tailor Shops. (Guess who will be his star customer!) Betty Ann Harvey — gesticulating as public speaking instructor at Podunk Hollow High. Louise Kaiser — as one of the first pioneers in the Antarctic. Anita Kelsey — in China opening Duffy’s Tavern. Larry Kimball — a distinguished modern poet. Ronald Laliberte — re-enlisting in the Army for six years. Elaine LaPoint — the receptionist in Dr. Nadeau’s office. “Chuck” Lawliss — the next generation’s Van Johnson. Ramona Letourneau— becoming a baby photographer in South Africa. Russell Letourneau—a prominent philosophical essayist. Barbara Lewis — married for the third time. “Dick” MacDonald — becoming a Fuller Brush salesman. Vilma McKee — first Congresswoman from Vermont. Shirley McRae — writing the love-lorn column in the Burlington Tree Vress from her home in Arizona. Beverly Macey — paying the largest income tax with the profits from her store in Boston. May Marcotte — modeling her newest fashions for Mr. Powell. Allyn May —voted the best dressed doctor in U. S. for 1957. Marceline Mayo — becoming the secretary of Chamber of Commerce at Woodsville. James Moore — wanted by the Missing Person’s Bureau. Joan Morris — residing at Twilight Rest Llome. Lincoln Olmstead — as a fish veterinary, his office being a submarine in the Atlantic. Delia Platt — a Coxswain in the Waves. Jean Pollard — designing burlap bags for the Idaho Potato Company. Audrie Powers — keeping a home for the tired travellers of Waterford. Anne Stancer — Canadian Immigration Official at Derby Line.