Verona High School - Shadows Yearbook (Verona, NJ)

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reached was something like 51, 195 feet. Marion McEwan right now is conducting one of the most successful advertising campaigns in years: Let's switch to ShienbIoom's. Doris Sims is the proud owner of a little dress shop on 48th Street, N. Y. C. Peg Jackson is the valued assistant of Hilton Jefferson, D. D. S., who has exten- sive offices on Madison Avenue, N. Y. C. Lil Smith is playing the lead in Eugene O'Neil's Broadway hit, Sweet Sixteen. Nelson Smith, though an important member of the New York Stock Exchange, still finds time to give fifteen minutes every morning on the radio to those craving advice on affairs of the heart. Tommy Breese is known to vaudeville fans as Uncle. Wiggly-he wiggles his ears so beautifully. Marion Turnbull poses for those swanky Apple Blossom Hosiery ads. Shirley Wilder is running a darling little tea room, The Black and Silver, on Fifth Avenue. Fred Lahm is demonstrating speed typing for the Underwood Typewriters Com- pany.. His average speed is 250 words per minute-no errors. Harold Shie.nbloom is winning great popularity with his trained flea circus with which he is touring the country. Gilbert Tobin is ably filling R'ipley's place as the world's Believe-lt-Or-Not man. Duane Ober designed Verona's newest stopping place, the Hotel Castoria, Situat- ed on Park Place. Frank Moore is the head of one of Verona's most prosperous industries-name- ly Spaghetti manufacturing. His slogan is Eat Moore Spaghetti. George Mowry is hard at work in an experimental laboratory out in Minnesota- when he isn't fishing. His latest contribution to the world is the Mowryq Perpetual Talking Machine. Dave Roll has just completed his plans for the new Erie Terminal in Verona ..... lt is said to be one of the most magnificent of its kind in the United States. Helen Ward is head of the Charge Account Department in Kresge's. Polly Prahst is playing a big role in the 1942 Follies. This is her eighth year in such parts. Peg Harris has just published her fourth book of poetry, The Man With a Lawn Mower, and Other Thoughts. Elsa Pilger is the Director of the big new Children's Hospital on Linden Avenue. A recent medical journal lauded the project and our classmate, its head. M. H. WRITTEN DURING A HISTORY EXAM. Come little brains, said myself one day, l've got some exams upon which you can prey- Leave your vague wanderings and come to the point, For I'm sadly in need of all I have loin't. As soon as my brains heard my faltering call, Back they came fluttering, one and ally But much to my wonder-my exams amid- They didn't contain all l thought they did. M. H. '32 E211

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N I l 1 H Ten Years from Now O Alumni Notes Freddie Beam is just at present in Central Mexico filming the modern sequel 'fo the Man of the Wild of ten years ago. Floyd Bragg is turning out State Football Champs at Swedesboro, N. J. Gabby Cannon is Assistant Editor of Judge . Ralph Cohen has just published a new Trigonometry book in which he introduces six new theorems. Bill Crabtree is drumming Latin into the heads of Freshmen in Vineland, N. J. Boyd Dickerson has astounded the literary world with his latest publication A Commentary on Modern Poetry. Joe Dox is the head of the construction company that just completed the new causeway between Verona and Nyack. Vic Duffy, known to radio audiences as the Crooning Irishman, is singing every evening over a world wide hook-up. John Leone has just opened a new suite of offices in the Verona News Building.. His title reads, Consultin Attorney! Cherry Brown is the first president of the newly organized Woman Chauffers' League. Y Dot Brown is the artist who has been doing those fascinating sketches for the Sports Wear Department of Bergdorf-Goodman's. Bob Chamberlin is a public stenographer on one of the big New York-San Fran- cisco airliners. Ida DiBella is achieving great success as head buyer for the Glove and Hosiery Department in Hahne's. Jean Fismer is one of the most popular hotel hostesses on Park Avenue, New York. Elizabeth Frey has just revolutionized the business world with the new Frey Method of Shorthand. Dorothy Jacob is reviewing the latest books for the New York Times. From what we hear, she finds matrimony an interesting sideline. Ethel Johnson's beautiful voice has gained her the nickname of the second Swedish Ni htingale. She is singing with the Chicago Civic Opera Company at present. Marie Klee is chief-cook-and-bottle-washer, as well as other things, in a charm- ing home in Miami, Florida. Eleanor L'Amoureux celebrated her eighth wedding anniversary recently. Latest reports are that she likes it fine and recommends the same institution for us all.. Marjorie May's Blues are thrilling hearts all ove.r the United States. She sings twice a week with the Pale Moon Incandescent Lamp Hour. Kay Douglas is one of the most popular young people's leaders in the West. At present she is directing an Annual young people's Conference in Duluth. Marion Rowland has just won her fifth consecutive Dance Marathon title. Virginia Miller last month published her Memoirs entitled My Fourteen Years on the Stage. Walter Williams is winning much admiration as the new principal of the South Side High School in Newark. Pera Marion finds English teaching very interesting but rumor has it that she finds a fellow professor more so. Emma Oates has just broken the woman's record for altitude flying. The altitude i201

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