Stamford High School - Flashback Yearbook (Stamford, CT)

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fWff no QFVO-1 C QR Rx tions, and the bride screaming, l wouldn't marry you if you were the last man on earth! Of course there was the happy ending, and, after the wedding march, the presentation of flowers to the coach, Mrs. Gertrude Peisel. Next came the junior play, EVERY FAMILY HAS ONE. Skeletons popped out at one from ceilings, bulletin boards, and all closets, while rehearsals were held in feverish haste. At last the great night-back stage scrambles, granny Lucille Gerber hobbling around stage, Oh's and Ah's as Joan Coy descended the stairs in her shimmering wedding gown, the arrival of cousin Joan Smith, all the skeletons dragged out of the family closet so that the bride woulcln't marry that stuffed shirt, Brace Wynkoop, the boy-friend, Andy Rudman, disliked by mamma , Peggy List- won, the brat, Nancy O'Connell, complications, solutions. Again came the flowers, this time to Miss Gladys Leonard for her wonderful coaching. Our 'Www final production, THE SENIOR PROM, saw a welcome change from the usual family plays. Remember the class prophecy, written by snob- bish Selma Sigler, flighty Jane Robin and Clara Curtin, with its dig at that plain chicken farmer's daughter, Peggy Listwon? And then came the Sen- ior Prom, with the nasty iokes and accidents which happened to Peggy, Joan Smith's anger at her snobbish friends' antics, her cousin musician, Joe Tooher, who offered to take Peggy to New York as a singer. Then remember the rich, glamorous star who returned to wreck vengeance with a picture of a two-headed rooster, a pair of saddle shoes, and an old evening gown, and her chagrin and the ro- mance with Joe? There was the audience breath- lessly waiting for clinches that had been cut out. Again the happy ending, and the flowers to Miss Leonard. Fads, fads, fads! Some of them lasted the whole three years, others burned out in a week. Some of the more lasting were knitting, bangs, long skirts, crew cuts, hand knitted sox and plaid woolen skirts. A fad which caused much criticism was the New Look. The boys think the skirts are too long! Bud Lovell says The New Look? Who would look twice? With the New Look came bright colored scarves, wide leather belts and ballet length skirts. The sloppy look went out in early '47, The tube skirt was often seen, especially on Joyce Waldman, Leona Maffei, and Julian Skirpan. The dear old prontos were still worn. White knee sox were seen almost as much as bobby sox. Everything was smoother, women became feminine! The boys had a new look, too. After football season in senior year they selected coat sweaters EIL

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I 2 D'Elia, John Tavlarides, and Gerry Myers. Who can forget the wonderful football dance they spon- sored? John Wynne in o short, orange, crepe paper skirt as head cheerleader, Mr. Sorgman as water- boy, Mrs. Bohn in bobby-sox as a teenager, the T formation with tea cups. Remember the school meeting they sponsored, modelled after the town meeting: Vito Bruno dressed as the town crier, ringing a bell, discussion between Council members and the rest of the student body, the first assembly of its kind? Three cheers for their new honor roll, for the improvement in the boys' and girls' rooms. At least, we're on the right track to school government. SPORTS Come give a rousing cheer and fight on to victory thundered from the shady side of Boyle Stadium during the football season, from the bleachers in the gym during the basketball season, from behind the catcher's backstop during the base- ball season. We gave rousing cheers for our three-letter quarterback, Joe Morelli, for our goal- menacers : Vin Cioeta, Mike DeVito, and Art Nixon, who wrecked rivals like Greenwich 33 to 0, and New Britain 13 to O, for our rookie center, Mike Buzzeo, for our aggressive, All-State guard, Al Shanen. We cheered Mary Ellen Gallagher's fire- twirling, and the bare legs of the drum corps, the popular attractions that captured the eyes of all but the hot-dog lovers during the half. We screeched Aces High, Deuces Low! and The Team Yell under the able direction of Lois Annunziato. Then during the basketball season we gave cheers '-MXXXXF for top basket ringers: Jack Kelley, Art Nixon, and Bob Lynch, while braving the questionable odor filling the gym. Each spring thawed Joe Morelli's pitching arm, and turned football players like Mike DeVito and Vin Cioeta into sluggers, leading Stamford to first place in the state. THE CLASS PLAYS Remember our sophomore class play, in which we got the first view of our budding actors and act- resses? There was the sudden switch from FIRST CLASS MATTER to A WEDDlNG, leaving the problem of too many leading ladies, a dilemma solved by letting Chet Andrews marry Dot Mravu- nac in one performance and Joan Coy in the other. Then there was Chet searching madly for his collar button, best man, Joe Tooher, trying to calm him, Lucille Gerber and Jane Robin causing complica- V X I iN Bra--Q bv!!- f H, v- 'jj 114' 52.4 DR .

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if instead of the regular pull over. Everyone expected the team to appear the Monday following the foot- ball dinner all decked out. Remember all the surprised looks when they didn't appear until Tuesday? Crewcuts came in at the beginning of the iunior year. Shirts were worn outside. Most of the rugged men preferred huge black and white checks. Army clothes stolen from big brother's closets made their appearance, too, and pants were rolled half way to the knee to show oft the hand knitted sox. Knitting was the biggest fad in the senior year. Every boy who had a girl had at least one pair of hand knitted sox. Remember the time Ann Steed lost her sock, and the piece in the lost-and-found section of the bulletin next day? identification bracelets were a three year fad. Almost every boy and girl in the whole school owned one. lD'S signified whether a fella was going steady, and many a girl wore them with the name of her heart-throb inscribed on the front. There were loads of sayings and songs, too. Everything good was Hubba Hubba. Handsome boys caused the girls to reach for their drool cups. And a not so pretty girl or silly boy was referred to as a drip or a droop. Some things were simply ravishing. Kilroy was the man who caused ardent lovers to break up. His name was on the tip of everyone's tongue, and appeared everywhere, everything good and bad was blamed on Kilroy. lf someone annoyed you he was told to D. D. T. idrop dead twicel or F. F. F. F. F. T. Cfall flat fatally on your face five times.l There were many songs echoing through the halls. Remember Mairsey Doats in our sophomore year, and the lovers singing To Each His Own and wg The Anniversary Song to each other, and hum- ming to themselves as they parted for classes? In '47 Ted Weem's version of Heartaches was imi- tated by almost every boy. Near You was the song every lover sang into his girl's ear at the dances. About the same time the whistled tune of Peg O' My Heart was heard echoing through the halls when everything was quiet. In the senior year I'm Lookin' Over A Four-Leaf Clover was sung, whistled, and hummed by everybody every- where. Peg O' My Heart and I'm Lookin' Over A Four-Leaf Clover were first published in the early twenties. CALENDARlA Come give a rousing cheer for Calendario, for Mr. Whiting, for Miss Burrow, for Phil Jones, for the cast of Calendario, who made Stamford High School a little Broadway during the weekend of May 'l0, 1947. After three successful performances, Wifi