Torrington High School - Torringtonian Yearbook (Torrington, CT)

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2 DONALD GEER has broken the In o1ld s 19CO1d fO1 a non stop illght a1ound the woIld 3 PETER DROZDENKO S latest nox el and book of poetlx ale a houhng success They aIe saId to be selhng lIke hot cakes 4 EDWIN SEYMOUR lb due gl eat credlt as a successful statesman and orator 5 STEPHEN KLONOSKI has recentlv completed plans for the huge brldge to be constructed across Lake Erle 6 ANN WADHAMS wIll leave town tomouow for Afrlca where she w11l undertake darlng mlssxonary work Now the atmosphere at the mght club on thIs chaIm1ng June ex en Ing IS enchantlng Ewery detall 1S completed to perfectlon I flnd JULIA 7WICK IS the hostess As I Slt down at a nearby table I not1ce the muslc IS furnlshed by HARRY RADOM S most fashlonable orchestra Clncludlng ERNEST RASCHKE and CHARLES BERTANGJ featurmg MAMIE AVENIA and BABE MALONE as dancers and entertalners JULIA comes ox er to tell me that besldes TED S good fOl tune we In ould also celebrate the arrn al of two now famed classmates BARBARA N0 VEY and EINAR PALM PALM has made a great h1t In comedy t3lk16S vIh1le looks famlllar At the corner table are BILL KLAMBT MILDRED ZELE EARL BRow and HARRIET SMITH When I ask BARBARA how she llkes New York she savs lt s Iust lIke home because FRANK COUCH and NICHOLAS KOLTKO are stage managers there GRACE FRITCH deslgns all her clothes and she Just couldn t do wIth out GERTRUDE BRADLEY to put the fimshmg touches on her costumes be fore she goes on stage When I dec1de to leave I remember that I don t know where to go to get home I see a sIgn Used cars for sale I go In to purchase or borrow one and who IS there sell1ng them but RAY and DICK WADHAMS wIth TED MIKLOS actmg as thelr mechanIc I select one go next door to buy gas from RAY MILLER S statlon and start on my way I look at the slgns and stores on the wax I slow up then after a mInute drne on Why I almost b6ll9X9 I am In Torllngton for back there lS a sIgn West mn Homes RADOM and TEMKIN Im drIv1ng slowly along the countrs slde vslth the vsarm SLIITIITIQI breezes blowmg In my face homeuard bound contented and happy to know that all my classmates from the T H S are gettmg along so sw ell ALICE ENGLISH I-143 T 'I ' 1 v 1 - ' , , ' ' ' Al ,!! L J . . I l I ' V' ' , l 'l . . , . . . v ' L. 'k 7- 4 7 v BARBARA has made her stage debut on Broadway. Well, this certainly ' J ! . .. . , . . 7 1. 1 9 . . , . I s ' ' 9 3 ' i-H 59 ' ! ' I , , . ., 7 I Y ' . Y . ,. . . ,, ' n ., .. .l 'I I . Y Y ! -V

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From here I proceed to the brIdffe party XKl'11Ch must be under way by th1s tIme It IS a stunmng apartment turnlshed beautlfully All the guests are former classmates dIessed In the latest fashlons created by RICHARD CLARK When the door opens the fIIst ones I see aIe HELEN FORE BERG PAULINE STROEAK YOLANDA ROSSI and KATHLEEN O MEARA When the maId announces me NIINNIE comes to freet me In splte of thell sur Ioundlngs and dec1ded change In apparel and enwronment they are the same old gang yuth the same Ioy ous sp1rIts unaltered It seems so good to be wlth them agam PIOITI the conyeIsIt1on I leaIn the whereabouts of manv classmates I 1IlqLllI'6 about MARGARET SCHAEK BARBARA FYLFR says She IS doIng splendIdly She and JENNIE JABISKI opened a Klnder garten here three years ago Next I ask about BETTY RUBINO and Lou ISE RYDEN Informs me that she has succeeded Mr Hughes as Math teach er back at T H S It pleases me to know her ambItIon IS fulfilled BETH RISEDORF tells me that CLARA HEWITT IS a PhvsIcal D1rector at a gIrls college and that FRANKIE DRANGINIS IS head coach of the athletIc teams at an exclusIve Prep School Each one chImes In wIth her 1nformatIon about someone or other DOROTHY STORRS IS an Art Instructor at a nearby HIgh School says RUTH BREEN HAZEL ALLEN says Speak1ng of teache1s MARIETTA KEN NEDY MIRIAM JENNY MARY READING and RLGINA TATE are local grade teachers MARGARET PEARCE adds So are ROSE CRUM BARBARA HoR 'roN NEILIF KOURY And STINA SAMUELSON Interrups CATHERINE MIRAN Someone of them Iny 1t9S me to attend the nIght club th1S ey enlng to help celebrate When I ask what thev re celebratmg MARGARET DAY FIELD says Al1C8 do you really mean youxe been In town all day and hay ent heard that yesterday TED BROWN graduated from Law School wIth honors? Each one begs me to stay claImIng that she really wants me but I have my doubts so I promIse to be at the Club ton1ght As I leave the buIldIng I look up the stIeet and see three famIlIar Ms comlng toward me The VIS stand for e1ther Musketeers or MG CARTHY MEYERS and MIGNONE MARY VIRGINIA and CATHERINE-Why I have nt seen them for years' They recognIze me and Invlte me to come to dlnner at thelr apartment Cthey l1ye togetherl WhIle Im at thelr home the Fuller Brush man knocks at the door The famIlIar VOICG draws me to the kItchen and thcre stands THOWIAS MCLAUGHLIN I begln to read the ey enlng papeI and Im more InteIested than ey 61 to find that ALBERT IFFLAND and ROBERT IINGOLDSBY are the Qd1t01S 111th RENNY BEL LI as sports edItor and JACK O SULLIVAN SCAIA and ROBERT SCOVILLE as ramblIng reporters although I thInk ELAINE SAMLELSON who IS also a reporter does most of the rambl1ng The maln topIcs In to nIght s ISSLIQ aIe most en1oy able Some 'ue 1 ARLINE NIORROWAY Is 11XdllI1g' the fame of McClelland Barclay Us ca I v . . . w . Y I , ,Y I , 11 1 4 171 ' K 1 I 1 ' 1 I 1 ' 11 1 1 I .x 1 1 , . I I I - 1-1 , 9 ' Y 5' y 1 I . 1 1 I v 1 . . 1 v , A 2, I I - ' I W - r ' I l I fl 1 7 V' 1: ' v 1 1 ' ' 1 I 1 1 1 . I I I . I I ' I ' . 1-1 Q 1 .SZ ' ,. . , . K, I 0 1 1 r v . ' I ' 1 V - . I U . . I Y N . a . ' ' sv . I , - L x 1 n ' . . . . , . sa - ' ' vs , , , cc ' , 1 9 i - 11 ! ! rv , In 1 . I . , . , 4 as H ' . I I ,- I , I . 7. . . Y . , . ' . f I I , v . Y I 1 Y Y V . ,, V . . ' 9 , . . . . . 1 1 ,s ' , 9 ' 1 A - ' I 7 ' 7 I , . . . . . . - . , . , . - J 1 v 1 . , 1 I . 7 ' 1 Y . Q 1 Y 4 I V ' sw V. - . , Y r r ' ' V 7 . 9 , . . . . - . ,i . N I ' W '- .V . C 1 : A '- 1' v, ' Y.

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Prophecv of the Prophet Wlnle pass1ng through 'Nexx York dur1ng March of th1s xear 1945 I stopped at one of the latest beautv culture parlors on Flfth Ax enue I was amazed as my eyes rox ed ox er the latest 1n modernlstlc furn1sh1ngs As I was s1tt1ng doxxn I began to thlnk of thc Jolly tlmes I used to have back at the Torrlngton Hlgh School Suddenly I recogmzed the YOICC of one of mv old classmates Allce Iflnffl Sl I xxalked oxer to the nrst booth and there she xxas xxorklng on a prcmmcnt xxaxe She hld one of h 1 many asslstants Hnlsh the xxaxe and hurued ox 91 to speak to m Much to my amazement I was mfolmed that she xvas the manager of Alx ce s Beauty Salons After taklng me through th salon she de serlbed to me her XEIFIOLIS branch shopp s xx hlch were scattered all over Nexx York and COI1II6Ct1Cllt All these salons were under her management Closlng her shoppe for the day she 1nx1tcl m to her pent hous a short dl1X6 from her IJLISIHGSS for dlnner We enloyed talklng ox er our hlgh school days after xvhlch she began tellmg me of her expe1 lences slnce 1935 After graduatlon Allce studled beautx cultule 1n the metropolls for one vear For SIX months of th1s year she was under the superv1s1on of a well known beauty CL1ltLlI'1St Durlng the course of our conversatlon she lnforrned me that she had studled beauty culture 1n Par1s for SIX months and had toured through V1enna Rome and Germany Returnmg from these trax els she opened a beauty parlor Wh1Ch soon acqu1red the present fame of Alyce s Beauty Salons It appeared that SLIFDTISSS xx ere not to cease th1s day when I xvas to meet my old chum of T H S Sho told me that she xvas Madame Alyce xvho gaxe the famous rad1o talks on beauty culture ex ery Thurs day ex en1ng at elght o clock ox er statlon WJZ The talk glx en by Madame Alvce each xx eek xxas one of mx fu OTIIQ prof rams and noxx I lealned th xt one of mx closest hlgh school tuends xxas th1s flmous lidx It xx lb tlmost 1DCl6d1bl8I She xx1ll be ITIUIILCI th1s flll to D1 GILW 1 d ntlst She p1om1sed to come to he1 old home to look up her classmates xbout xx hom she 1IIqLl1l'9d As I left he1 pent house I xx ondeled hoxx manx othels of mx class had become as famous and successful as she NIARX NOKETITES I4 L ..- U an ' ' Y V ' ' V . V V , 1 V 1 . V V V V , , ' ', ' ', ' , ' . V V . A . . V v y ' V ' ' I ' V V . v .:,' - f v 1 v v v ' , V V x , ' I '. l 1 1 ' . 2 Q4 4 V 'V V 'V V, V , ,' V , , V x L Y 1 - 1 as , s ar ' D - nf ' V I . ' ' ' eg ' V . , V 5 ' n V - ,' M O u an , L ,, V , 1 1 1. v ' w - ' ' V Y ' . . V K . . , Q. . 4 V . U . L ' V L ' . I . , . as 1 ry I . . 7 . V ' V V K- v . . , Y N . . , . c , ' 1 V Y V. V ' V '4 V ' . 3- V V v 1 V V l , M c C c ., 2 ' -V . AVKV ' V. '.' V V, V 'K Z V E VV. V2 1 c v ' u ' C n , 1 ' V' 1 VU, 'V 'V V V,V V ,, 'V K C A C - L V C v L . v .w s 1 ww 1 1 1 x r v 1 ' ' C a V 64 V rr V . V V VV V f V nf I v 1 ' w w 'ww -1 'v C 1 V V V Ol