Torrington High School - Torringtonian Yearbook (Torrington, CT)

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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-

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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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Dorothy Ferry are famous in the world of social service. Elmo Bianco, Ed Kozlowski, and Paul Rzewnicki are experienced air mail pilots. Suddenly I felt the Who's Who book being mysteriously taken from my hands. Vainly I strived to retain it. Yes, I had it now. Why, that was the arm of a deck chair I was grasping. Gracious, where was I? Where was Floating City? This was just the liner I was on so long ago. So that was it. There wasn't any Floating City as yet! My eyes and that dazzling spray had tricked me. Floating City was but my dream! It was nice, though, to even dream of my old classmates and I cer- tainly hope they are as interestingly and as happily engaged as my dream has visioned them. BETTY RIVERA. 1936---i--'