Stonington High School - Pawmystonian Yearbook (Pawcatuck, CT)

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a thrilling ride. Aren't they here early for the reunion? Barbara: Look who is here in spurs and cowboy out- fit! Why it's Elizabeth McConnell, star of the horse show in Madison Square Garden. fTlve f0lf0Il'flIg .zjfrernoon af lfJe ll 'rz.i'!ai11gI01z Ball par,-el Ronnie: I can't wait to see some of class athletes in action again. There is Robert Gilmore, star pitcher, warming up. That catcher looks familiar. Oh! .... Stephen Hreschak. I've heard he plays a wonderful game. Josephine: The game is about ready to start. The um- pire, Ed Miner, is talking to the new coach, Donald Lewis. Let's hope he starts his first game of the season with a winner. fTbe 12212111 imzing if Alznmii. 3: Opporzenli, jj Barbara: Isn't it exciting! The 9th inning, bases loaded, and Charles Holly up at bat with two strikes against him. Oh! Charles just hit the ball and is running to hrst, second, third and it's a home run! The game is over, and the score is 7 to 3 in favor of the Alumni. ffljfter the game they attend Ibe Blue M0017, cl jfrzmour zzigblrlzzbj Ronnie: That's Roger Main's Orchestra, The Sleepy Hollow Boys, with Roger at the sax. Alton Gray is at the drums and Ronnie Wilkinson is playing the trumpet, Ed Miguel the clarinet, and George Swain the bass hddle .,.. There is Frank Bliven, the famous singer. Tommy Tanner and Barbara Billings are dancers, and that popular guest sing- ing star is Ida May Ravenelle. Josephine: Oh, there are Beverly Capalbo and Ronnie O'Keefe dancing! Beverly is now reigning as Mrs. America Queen of 1961. Here comes the wait- ress, Ellen Anderson. Are we going to order? fffye f0ff0Ll'f77g dajj Ronnie: We've got a busy day ahead of us. We have to start packing for the boat trip. I wonder if Roy has arrived at the airport yet. fTbej' arrive at llvafbizzgfofl Airlborfj Roy: The next plane is bringing some former cele- brators for the reunion and is due here any minute. There it is coming in for a landing! Here come Joan Marcotte, Marlene Gardner, Barbara Jones, and Carole Swanson, the efficient secretaries at G. Fox and Company at Hartford. Carole: Before boarding the plane I talked long dis- tance with Diane Kelliher and Corrine Ostigny. They can't make it as their husbands have an im- portant business meeting and they have to take care of the children, but both report that they will miss he fun. Barbara: We had better hurry and catch a bus to the ship. It's almost sailing time. fTbej' arrizfe at fha dockj Ronnie: The captain, Robert Peavey, and Robert Tatro, the chief steward, are at the gang plank ready to greet us. Robert: Welcome aboard ship! Glenna Siswick, Cath- erine Lord, and Josephine Prunier, the renowned decorators, are already here. Barbara: Isn't that Flora Mailhot, the Dean of Smith College? Robert: Yes, Some of our classmates and her fellow teachers are with her. Mildred Furey and Muriel Enos are teachers in the Physical Education De- partment, and Elizabeth Simonelli is the English professor. Constance Crowley, Joyce Bliven, Joan Williams and Ethel Clark, who graduated from Smith, are here too. They're downstairs in the din- ing room. Ronnie: Speaking of the dining room, I'm famished. fTbej' go d01w1.rtair'J to the dining roomj Barbara: All these delicacies! What'll we have? Robert: Mo Orlando does all the cooking, and he is a very good cook. I'm sure you will enjoy all the specialties he has prepared for you. I must leave you now. fflfler lflmfi the-j' promemzde 011 fbe ffffkj Josephine: Shirley Day, Joan Syracuse, Rose Samma- taro, and Marge Morrison, who have a leading secretarial school, are playing shuflleboard with Kenneth Holland, Milton McClure, and Lawrence Bentley, television camera men, Ronnie: Isn't that Joan Pont, Irene Marcey, and Rich- ard Palmer over there talking? Josephine: Yes, Dick just got his medical degree from Harvard. Irene and Joan are his secretaries. Ronnie: I'm going down to the swimming pool. Do you care to come! Barbara: My, but that water sure looks good! Ruth page twenty-seven

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fNmz' 211 five bear! of flie cilyj Eleanor Caswell: Well, here is where I leave you. See you at the reception Friday night. Barbara Powers: Were getting off here too. We have rooms reserved at the Lafayette Hotel, Eleanor Caswell: That's just around the corner from the White House. Barbara Powers: Yes. fT!Jey get aff five bm' and ml! back 10 fbe bm tfl'fZf67 j See you at the reception, Ronnie. KAJ they zwzlla np fbe .vfreef ffl?-Ji' do 01 liffle zvindou' rlvoppjzigj Josephine: Isn't that gown beautiful? Eleanor: That's Washington's leading dress shop, The dress for every occasion. Anita DiCesare opened this shop with Florence Luzzi as advertising manager and Audrey Ames as the seamstress. Over there Barbara Brunke is autographing her new book of the year, My English Themes. There is the Washington city hospital with Anne Kiddy, Janet Stanton, and Elizabeth Peabody as head nurses. Here is where I leave you. The hotel is just a block from here. Ronnie: So long. fTbey ezzfef' lfae bore!! Barbara: Well, here we are! Isn't that Gerard Noel over there? Ronnie: Yes. Gerard, what are you doing behind a desk? Gerard: I'm manager of the hotel. Here are the keys for the rooms you had reserved. The bell boy will take you to your rooms. Josephine: That's Margaret Holliday at the switch- board, and Domenic Vennari is the bell boy. Barbara: Here we are once more to relive all over again an exciting trip. ACT II SCENE: Wfezfbizzgfwl. Barbara: Why don't we get started touring the city. Where will we go first? Ronnie: Why not the Lincoln and Jefferson Me- morials? ' Barbara: O.K. fB0ardj1zg bnrj Look who's guest solo- ist at the theatre? Why it's Galeana Franco of the Washington Philharmonic Orchestra. fTbey d1'1'fl'6 az! the fejfermfz Menmrjrzlj Josephine: Roy Smith, Baxter Gray, and Anthony Cataffe! When did you arrive? Roy: Baxter and Anthony brought me down in their airplane after the funeral. They own the Clipper Plane Service in Stonington. Josephine: Will you boys come along with us? Roy: No. Before we attend the reception we have to attend a meeting. We'll meet you Thursday at the Washington Airport. fTbey refzfrfz fo ffye fmfelj fTbe Hex! irfowzjfigj Ronnie: This morning we could take a trip to the Smithsonian Institute. Josephine: What are we waiting for? fTfJey d7'7'jZ'6 az! fhe Slwilfymlziafz Izzfliffzfej Barbara: KAJ they enter the lobbyj Look at all the animal heads Ronald McKie and Andrew Matarese shot while hunting in the jungles of South Africa. fflfter they fam' fbe cilyj Ronnie: What's Donald Truss doing in Washington? Josephine: Didn't you know that he is editor-in-chief of the Headline News and Donald Graff is his capable foreign news correspondent? fTfJey approach the Capiiolj Barbara: fE1zz'e1'i1zgj Why, if that isn't Russell Stew- art addressing Congress! I've heard that he is a very good politician. David Dunn won for the second time as representative from Connecticut. He's waving to us. fTl1ey efzfer the Bzzreazlz of Primizzg and Efzgrarifzgj Ronnie: Look at all the money and if it isn't Joanne Fontanella counting it! Joanne was treasurer of our class. Remember? fN01zf flae three clarrzmzfei' z1'riz'e I0 Glen Erbo Amlzrezzzeni Pure! Josephine: Doesn't this place bring back memories? There are Audrey Santos and Bruce Morgan, Joyce Geyer and Joe Adams going through the tunnel of love .... How about a ride on the roller coaster? Frances Lenzzo, the famous interior dec- orator, and- Esther Grills and Ruth Saunders, the leading hairdressers ot New York, are enjoying page twenty-six

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Bristow and Eileen Barrett are getting ready to dive off the diving board. Have you read their latest book, The Cries of S.l-l.S. Ronnie: Yes. It really brings back old memories. Josephine: Swimming toward the end of the pool are Chester McDonough, Augustine Lawrence, Ronnie James, and Clifford Clark, national swimming champs. Barbara: Seven o'clock and we aren't dressed for the evening performance yet! fTfJey go into ffye ballroomj Ronnie: Francis Crowley and Joseph Quattromani have certainly planned an enjoyable evening of en- tertainment with some of our classmates doing some of their old numbers from our high school days. Their talent as directors has certainly proved suc- cessful. fBef0re they kzlozz' if the evening if orerj ACT III SCENE: In the dining room TIME: fTe1z 0'rl0ck in fbe morzziugj Josephine: The dining room looks beautiful! Kath- leen Connors, Frances O'Neil and Rose I.oPriore have certainly given us evidence of their artistic ability. George Coon did a wonderful Job in mak- ing the replica of our class ring in the center Of the dining room. One of his masterpieces of work in construction is the United Nations Building. fTbey erzfer porlj Ronnie: Here come Donald Comeau, Joseph Piver, and Francis Moscaritolo. I guess they managed to get a leave from their base. Since graduation they've been in the Navy and plan to have a Naval career. Barbara: Roselyn Evans and Patricia Messner aren't here. Are they planning to attend the reunion? Ronnie: The captain told me they sent a telegram yes- terday saying that they couldn't attend as they left for Europe a month ago to enter their contestants, Gloria Gibson, Anne Souza, and Norma Bruno in the annual world's fashion show in Paris, France.- fTj111e parrer quickly. and before lbey krzou' if. it if time for everyone to .rfrzrf the journey faomej fTbe rcezze if now the Wfarbizzgfozz Airportj Ronnie: We're the only ones left to go home. Barbara: I'm really proud of the accomplishments of our class, Ronnie: Our trip of complete enchantment has come to an end. It has been wonderful to have had a class reunion that brought us all back to our mem- orable days at Stonington High School. ....:?:'s rf : Q if - S , , A -.-- ' :'-- E st ' 15 ,a:3.5Lf! s:k1S, '. I g.: t 1- 'r ,gsrf 1, 3 ft , fi- 'fe ' , BEVERLY CAPALBO Queen of Ibe Prom page twenty-eight