Torrington High School - Torringtonian Yearbook (Torrington, CT)

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THE LOG one of the world's leading designing studios owned by Mary Dillon, fam- ed designer, where Edith Elliot, Margaret Galya, Luella Johnson, Eliza- beth Luckso, Helen Krauchalis, and Irene Pavlak were renowned stylists. The gowns were also created from the new aluminum, brass, copper and chromium materials manufactured by the world's leading textilists, Ed- ward Kosikowski, Elia Larocca, Odell Landi, Henry Rollet, John Tara- sevice, Alfred Seitz and Henry Samuelson. A iioor show was next staged. After several acts of wholesome en- tertainment the grand finale was presented in which Homer Wheeler and his professional partner Elizabeth Feher tripped the light fantastic to the tune of Ship Ahoy composed by that great composer, Barbara Morgan, and so competently played by the orchestra which consisted of Margaret Michna, Charles Thiede, Albert Persechino, Ray Stecewicz, Eddie Jerrykitz, Sal La Monica, and Kenneth Fahey. After this strenuous day I retired to Floating City Hotel where I seated myself in a most inviting chair. Picking up the book on the near- by table I found it to be a Who's Who of 1947. Scanning the pages I found many familiar names. These noted people I found were Alvera Pagano. author of a popular book entitled How the Small May Dress Petitely : Martha Horwath. originator of colored cigarettes which are chic with any ensemble: Robert Krause, world famous chiropodist: Charles Lindbloom, the most noted of all aeronautic engineers: Fred Woodilla, the most prominent of Wall Street Brokers: Joe McGowan, owner of the largest dog hospital in America: Arthur Kraig, modern architect: Adeline Ganem, a society Woman prominent in outdoors sports: Elizabeth Koury, renowned plastic surgeon: Nick Mecca, poet who has several children's bedtime poems to his credit: Louis Zbuska, champion baton swinger in Connecticut: John Nedorostek, champion typist of the world: Alice Szeskowski, wife of a fa- mous flyer in the German army: Wellington Leach, Spanish professor at Columbia University: Ray Ryan, America's leading poloist: Doris Sco- ville and Eleanor Hurlbut, hostesses of Plaza Pleasant at Palm Beach: Tom Cooke and Tom Dwyer, distinguished sports writers: Henry Zele and Eddie Higgins, proprietors of a swanky haberdashery where only the loudest of socks, scarfs, and ties are sold. On other pages were the names of Margaret Hogan. prominent in the world of nursing and of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where her in- vestigations have brought forth astounding revelations and cures con- cerning heretofore deadly diseases: Alma Rossi, head surgical nurse at the same hospital were Elinor Abeling, Virginia Corey, Mildred Fritch. a 1936

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executive of a thriving insurance company where Jennie Horvath, Anna Bedus, Adele Baltuskonis, Alfred Cavagnero, Rachel Cisco, Chester Mier- zwinski, and Ted Tyczenski helped her to carry on a most successful bus- iness. Then came other such famous personages as Nick Fusco, physical director at Priscilla Thompson's and Louise White's kindergarten for shy and bashful children, Kittie Rosenbeck, a model for chewing gum adver- tisements who poses for artist Doris Hall, Eleanor Pratt, America's out- standing fashion authority, Eileen Sarkis, possessor of the world's larg- est wardrobe, Verlyn Friday, editor of the Friday Morning Paper, a pa- per with a daily circulation of fifty copies, Congressmen John Rubino, Edmond Jobin, Henry Grun, Ernie Herrmann, and George Morton, Ed- die Kaleel, who is furthering a great drive for the introduction of Amer- ican sports in Ethiopia, Georgina Buonor-ore, who is at present the first woman postmistress of the Torrington Post Office, Eleanor Brennan, famous Olympic swimmer who is the originator of many new diving feats, Alcibeth Lamphier, who is one of America's foremost baby spe- cialists, Anita Smith, famous violinist who has taken the World by storm with her fine interpretations of the music of great composers, Wanda Budney and Thomas Quartulli, lecturers. Thomas discusses the subject How to Overcome Bashfulness, while Wanda tells her audience How to Be Merry though Poor. 'Albert Jene is founder of the first American club for Newspaper Boys. World known celebrities were next announced such as Russell Bur- dick, big game hunter from Africa, Eunice Stotler, Lois Brenker, Alma Buzzi, and John Peckham, leading novelists of the year, Bus Smith., John Freedman and Chet Speed, landscape artists who recently improved the White House grounds, Multi-millionaire Pete Hoysradt still escorting Mary Kennedy, Walter and Wallace Wilcox, who are authors of a popu- lar booklet, How to Tell Twins Apart , Louise Church and Mary Colan- gelo, who have founded a school of dancing where only the latest dances are taught, Dr. Huska, famous American physician who has expounded the subject of X-Ray and has brought forth many new theories, Armand De Grandis and Lawrence Scoville, great professors of philosophy and still immune to the ways of the world, Ernest Booth and Herbert Bishop, famous scientists now searching for a cure for blushing, Thomas Gar- diner, who has discovered a freckle cream which will remove all freckles fifteen minutes after the first application, and Helen Alicky who is a great sports promoter. The gowns worn by many other such charming guests and society matrons as Emily Craig, Gert Silverman, Eleanor I-Iennequin, Efdna'Roy, Sophie Dubiel, Elsie Sawitzke, and Phyllis Drake were creations from l----1936----T

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Helen Kubik, Ida Perzanowski and Alma Dahlen give the patients ex- cellent careg Tekla Fredsall, Elizabeth Healey, Agnes Richardson, and May Jacob, the dieticians, and X-Ray technicians Mary Higgins, Eliza- beth Jendrzewski, and Anita Coiiill. Further along I read that Kay Malahan had traveled in Europe ex- tensively and was the winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize for the most out- standing novel of the year. Ronny McLaughlin is commanding an enor- mous salary derived from the income of America's most beautiful and profitable country club of which she is the sole owner. Mary Wilczek and Yvette Aube are the owners of a Parisian chapeau salon While Jo Ran- dazzo, Marian Chatfield, and Dorothy Simko, are clerks and Arline Dou- gal, Veronica Skarupa, Mary Grello and Lily Westfall model to advan- tage the newest of these inspired hats. Marvin Nettleton is President of the Chase National Bank where Alice Symonaitis is his private secretary, Robert Geiger, the treasurer, Edmund Litke, the cashier, and Romilda Muschell, the teller, While Lillian Skargensky, Mary Koltko, Helen Rad- zevich and Irene Novick are accountants, and the stenographers are Ida Guarda, Mary Marracino, Mary Laska, and Elsie Graziani. I also read that Albert Thrall and Ralph Itfland are endeavoring to have the Eskimos build their igloos from a special lumber which they declare is cold-proof . Bernadette Kearns and Esther Doyle are deans of the most fashionable of finishing schools for girls in America. Wil- liam Karpetska and James Ivain are the most skilled mathemeticians in American history. Lorraine Tyrell has transported her giggles to Holly- wood and is, as a result, the most popular actress of the year. Goodness, what was this? The Reverend Kenneth Werner, is the founder and rector of Connecticut's new Little Church Around the Cor- ner, where he recently performed the marriage ceremony of Ethel Fenn and Edward Diskavich, America's Model Couple. Larry Mencuccini is footballcoach at Harvard with his supporting staff-Edward Chaberek, Patsy Matrascia and Michael Marinelli. Richard Ferry is Secretary of Navy, and Eddie Keepin is Secretary of Treasury. Edith Moore is Home Arts editor of McCal1s. Louis George is the inventor of a type of human wings which make you feel Just Like a Feather in the Breeze. Tony Marracino, Dominic Husser and Matthew Scanzano are his demonstrat- ors- Eugene Schutz, talented stage and screen star, recently co-starred with the most outstanding actress of the year, Jerry Dwyer. Eddie Mac- sata, widely known as Uncle Eddie to his large youthful television au- dience because of his oh, so thrilling bedtime stories. Bob Driscoll, James Bogardus, Bill Morse, and Bill Morrison are prominent senators. Emily Archambo, Elizabeth Clark, Nellie Mazzochi, Regina Przetak, and - -1936-