Torrington High School - Torringtonian Yearbook (Torrington, CT)

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Time Sails On I was luxuriously seated in the deck chair aboard a liner that cleaved its way through the sparkling blue water as it sent its great shower of transparent, glistening, and diamond jeweled spray upward, far above the deck. Dreamily I gazed at the delicate beauty of this spray. Slowly these misty curtains parted. Now hazily something appeared to be moving toward me from far beyond. A huge gleaming hulk was fast advancing forward. Was it a liner? More than this-A Floating City was taking shape before my eyes! I found myself being taken aboard this modern spectacular wonder of 1947 by Harry Birch, the proud owner and inventor of Floating City, and being placed in the stream lined autogiro piloted by Robert Bligh, which flew over a street of chromium and opaque glass buildings. Before one of these buildings the autogiro stopped. After being ushered within I stood in the midst of a scene of great activity. Here, was a radio tele- vision station with its studios and employees managed by Robert Mead, Michael Catino, and Warren Daniels. Harry took me into one of these studios with the name of Madame Barbara lettered on the door. At the desk as I entered I glanced at the girl seated there. Something familiar about her. Could it be? It was- Gert Bolle of TLI-I.S. '36 who told me she was Madame Barbara's secre- tary and arranged all her television programs. Gert told me I would meet many more of my '36 classmates aboard. But, Madame Barbara was to broadcast at this hour with her guest artist. so I was invited to remain. Al Signorelli, our famous T-HS. announcer. was announcing the guest artist on this program which was sponsored by Liptak's Tack Factory. Why, I knew those celebrities being announced: first Al announced Alta Granger, television's pioneer singer, then Monte told of his thrills in shooting around the World in a skw-nf-lfet. a trio financed by multi- millionaire Rocco's Electrical Rocking Horse Concern. Monte's trip was a recess from his position as football coach at Yale where Bill Hull was the well respected president to whom Miri.am Williams acted as private secretary. Howard Haas, the Lanny Ross of Television preceeded Patsy DiGiovanni, successor to Eddie Cantor. A rustling, a murmuring, Madame Barbara was announced. Madame Barbara! I Why, the famous organist was none other than my old class- mate Barbara Hibbard. The program ended and I was told that I might wander around Television Station and the rest of Floating City. 1936

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day before going to his swimming practice in the pool on board ship! She certainly must have been an inspiration for he made a wonderful record. You aren't blushing, are you, Alma Z' In September, 1934, when the goodly galleon once more weighed an- chor to start out on the second half of our journey, we elected Alma first mate of Junior Deck- She was no longer a volunteer cheer leader this yearg not only was she on the team but moreover elected captain of it. This year the sailorettes, not to be outdone by the opposite sex, formed a basketball team of their own. Alma played port forward and was frequently seen on Wednesday afternoon piling up points for the Junior crew. Nineteen-hundred Thirty-five, the year in which Connecticut cele- brated its Tercentenary, the good ship was on its return voyage. The Tri-Y sorority of pleasure pirates elected her as their jolly captain and the Order of Navalpothalian Dramatics voted her their boatswain. She filled these positions with responsibility and tact. The faculty ap- pointed her Editor-in-Chief of The Log , the account of our four years' service in the T.H.S. Marines. Throughout her four years, the best was none too good for Alma. All the journey she travelled A Class. She ranked A number one with all her classmates and A number three in scholarship, maintaining the av- erage of 93.66. Alma's high school days are nearly over but she leaves behind a record in scholarship and leadership which will be hard to equal. 'Tis the last year of high school Al's first trip is throughg Now one's before her As difficult, too. She was a good friend of all: We all liked her. too. For the trip that's ahead Bon Voyage to you. ANGELA WALL. L-----1936-l---

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.l In the maze of studios with their large panes of glass, I noticed many familiar faces. Phyllis Conforti, dermatology authority, broadcast- ed daily. Her program was also supported by such famous beauty cult- urists as Alice Perkins, Beatrice Demarest, Emma Wesolowski, Margar- et Hunt, and Lucy Pietrafesa. Sauntering out of Television Station I entered upon the street below where I absent-mindedly bumped into a young man and knocked his new- est of headgear, a stream-lined celophane fedora from his head which re- vealed a shiny bald spot. Looking up to apologize I was astonished to find that the victim was Clem Conforti with his hilarious companions who were Frank Iacino, a horticulturist, who has successfully grafted the zipper into the banana skin, and George Lent, a manufacturer of ever filled salt and pepper shakers. Then there was Eddie Krochalis, employee of the National Biscuit Company, who was so successful in putting across his sales talk that he supplied the entire world with Uneedas so that you no longer Needa Biscuit. Also Frank Lovallo, who is manufacturer of licorice jumping ropes and his competitor Paul Horvay, who engages in hand-painting jelly beans for Dorothy Eichner's kindergarten pupils. Feeling the need of something bracing after such an encounter I decided to enter an attractive cafe called the Sea Gull under the proprie- torship of Ernie Lacore. After entering the cafe I seated myself at a table in a remote and secluded section of the cafe where I was informed by the charming wait- ress Dorothy McLellan that a dinner was being given in honor of Angela Wall recently famed as First Woman Chief Justice of America, during which administration Reiny Herman was a speaker of the House, seem- ingly he could still talk as much. The dinner party was being given bv some of society's model host- esses, Harriett Coffey, Doris Dwan, Madeline Siegel. and Betty Perkins. As the celebrated guests arrived they were announced by Andy Weiman and ushered to their tables by Frank Couch, Leonard Dlugokinski, Eu- gene Garbin, Stephen Jankovic, Joseph Kolpinski, Louis Manes, and Ed- ward Zawadzkas. Ah, some one was being announced. First came Jack Tynan, U. S. Ambassador to Mars and his charmingly gowned wife, the former Mary Gleeson. Then came William Lundon, founder of the latest village in Little America, and Noreen Hickey, present governess and nurse to the Dionne quintuplets. Next were announced Congresswoman Charlotte Bill, Elizabeth Arezzini, Elna Sheagren, Helen Przemylski, and Angela Hogan, also Edward Drenzyk, television's Major Bowes, with Winnie McNamara, brilliant successor to the great Katherine Cornell. Of course, I saw Adele Doty, America's most successful business woman and head ----1936 I ---