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

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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.

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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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The Academy Student Ellen Stanley — as town manageress at Victory. David Sylvester — introducing a new subject into high school — “How to Control Laughter the Easy Way.” Janet Urie — compiling a very compact edition of Gregg’s Shorthand—Revised. John Viets — still mumbling through his beard. Jane Ware — manufacturing Ware’s Everware ski wax. Alma Warrell — the first woman President of the United States under the Prohibition Party. Betty Whaley — has lifted the roof of the Metropolitan in New York one inch. Margaret Whitehill — librarian at the Newell Post. Barbara Wood — employed in New York running the elevator in the Empire State Building. Pat Wood — in the capacity of serving as house mother at Harvard. Melvin Zarbarsky — a successful local truck driver. Bernard Cerier — guiding excursion tours around Boston. CLASS ODE Ode lo Our Lost youth O, Sing praises of vanished youth! Soft streams of quietness through mighty canyons flow; Sweet scented violet, dust blown ’gainst barren rock will grow not to the flower but stone. Cynics’ sweet accompaniment to swell; tenor of youth ’gainst nature’s course, tin flowered bloom will fade, Sterile, silent creature of despair, unborn while parents parade epitaphs unaware. i Day, fleet stag streaked blood-red. Soothes its wounds in cool and mystic night, Our Youth, but the fleeting stag, Our Life its swifter flight. Russell Letourneau