Torrington High School - Torringtonian Yearbook (Torrington, CT)

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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--'

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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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1w I Prophecy of The Prophet It was on June 21, 1947, when I returned from the world cruise on the good ship College to New York, our home port, with all expecta- tions of seeing some of my old friends and school mates again. But be- ing a student of navigation, and having to continue with my studies, even when ashore, I was not able to look any of them up, the day I land- ed. So, sextant in hand, I retired to the roof of my hotel, with the prom- ise of a dull evening at hand. As I worked my sextant, I happened to find a window of the build- ing across the court in range, and imagine my surprise as I recognized the person working at the desk as Betty Rivera, my school mate and friend of those beloved days aboard the dear old T.H.S. '36. She seemed so engrossed in whatever she was typing, that I decided not to bother her that evening, but continued on with my work, vowing, none the less, to find out more about her in the morning. When I woke the next morning, I hurriedly dressed and breakfasted, and departed to the hotel across the way. Upon arriving, I inquired as to which room Miss Betty Rivera was occupying. The desk clerk gave me the number of her room, but hastened to add that she was not in. So I went to the manager in hopes of getting some information from him concerning Betty. The story he gave follows in part: Miss Betty Rivera is known throughout the United States as a famous and able journalist. She is the part owner and editor of a large newspaper here in New York, and is also the author of such famous books as 'Modern Social Workers', and 'Sociology in Our Cities'. Her leadership of social work in New York has made her a loved and looked up to figure to all whom she has helped, and all those who worked with her. Miss Rivera is responsible for the complete removal of all the un- healthy sections of the city, and for those in various other cities that are being demolished and replaced by new airy, healthy tenements. She has founded free agencies and clinics to aid the children of poor families and has obtained food and lodging centers for the destitute left from the rav- ages of our last depression. All this has been done through the generous use of the proceeds of the books she has written and I feel that she will be remembered for years to come as the person who made the city life of the poor as healthy and happy as anyone might wish their life to be. After hearing about the wonderful work done by Betty, I retired to my hotel, thankful that it was one of my own schoolmates that had had the courage and perseverance to tackle America's bigest problem and through her generosity and determination, emerge the victor. KENNETH WERNER. -- - 1936- I - -