Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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THE MIRROR, 1938 Her close competitor as an exhibitionist is Dick Handrahan, the circus strong man, who ob- tained his strength by eating the left-overs at the high school cafeteria. What a Man! As Leo Gallitano barks out the first major event, which is the Cannon act in which john Corcoran is shot from the cannon, the circus band plays the new song hit, Shot at Sunrise in the Fading Moonlight. As this act drew to a close and other acts be- came as unbearable as some of Gertrude Cotton's jokes, the crowd begins to leave. As they file out they pass a peanut stand where Charlotte Hadley is handling the nuts. Some of those standing around fnot necessarily nutsj are Fran- ces Matthews, Mary Umbrello, Doris Brennen, Louise LeCain, and Emily Gibbs. In their at- tempt to purchase some peanuts they find that a kind-hearted old man had bought the stand and given the peanuts to the Big Circus Ape. He didn't know the good-looking performer was Dorothy Rafuse in disguise. QNO, the kind- hearted old man wasn't Shaughnessyj Having received ample enjoyment from the circus, we train our rays on the National Broad- casting Company's new studio building construct- ed by Carmelo Mezzarini. You perhaps can pic- ture what a masterpiece it was judging by the physics papers he used to hand in. Anxious to see some of our beautiful class- mates, we strain our television rays on one of the studios where the Mulrean Pretzel Company, with the trade slogan Our business is crooked, but our policy is straight, is located. This prosperous little concern is putting on a beauty show. And what a show! Some of the truly brilliant beauties taking part are Marg. Goodrich, Marion Margolis, Esther McGowan, Olive Foley, Marjorie Wetherbee, Marjorie jacob, and Dorothy Happeny. The judges are Carl Adams, Ed Hitchcock, Ed Daley, jimmie Carney, and Bill Dion, the oil magnate. These judges, all Ph.D. men in math- ematics, were chosen because of their experience in the study of figures. After feasting our eyes without the aid of Murine we jump to the next studio where our news commentator, Barbara Louise Pride, brings the latest news on the 1958 superstreamlined Swing Contest between Betty E.'Stevens, cham- pion of the West End, and Alice Gertie Christie QQueen of Lakeview Swingj. The judge of this specialty is Adeline Beans Campbell, who claims to be Benny Goodman's cousin. There is a guest speaker tonight on the news program. It is Donald Floyd who was lost afoot on the Sahara Desert. His motto now is I surely would walk a mile for a Camel. Not wishing to hear anything with dryness connected to it, we go up a flight to the Kenny Kandid Korset Company. We'll make you or break you is Iheir trade identification. We just miss their program starring Russell Leishman, Ted Bjorkman, and Tom Maloney, a blockhead, but not a Charley McCarthy. Investigating the remaining studio we discover Birgit Borg's cooking program in full swing. l-Ier middle name must be Hathaway judging by the luscious samples I hear she gives out. Dur machine revolves and we find it focused on the Dunbrack Propeller Company. There's Roland with his able assistants, Bill Kilgore, Jimmie Salamone, Charles Massucci, Chug Allia, Robert Millen, and Fred Hitchcock deep in the throes of work. There is a method in their mad- ness, however. They figured they could sell the city of Waltliam a few propellers to go with the wings and tail on the old high school fnow a field housej and send it shooting up in the air, thus enabling the younger athletes to have the privilege of enjoying their sports with a little more pleasure. Those supporting the idea are Ruth Moore, Ruth Hansen, Ruth Foley, Ruth Peckham, and Ruth Tidman of the Ruthless Ruths building concern. Now training our machine on the home of Rita Mogan fthe city homej where the Knit- wits are indulging in gossip instead of in knit- ting, we hear conversation between Anne Thomas,

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THE MIRROR, 1938 doctor who, by the way, learned the profession by the wielding of a razor, ftake a look at the necks of his customersj and Warren Clark being assisted by nurses Eleanor Blanchard, Anne Can- nistraro, Erna Brennen, Kathleen Eaton, Arlene Fawson, Olive Collins, and Pearl Walsh. But now that field is fading, and into the gaze of the crystal ball comes another. Out of it buildings are sprouting, vehicles scatter to and fro, and I am in the heart of a great city. The scene shifts, and I am brought into the interior of those buildings and see, wrapped in the ardor of their work, Margaret Castner, Marie Carlson, Mary Giamo, Anita Grenier, Edith Helgeson, and Josephine Scafidi, all successful secretaries and clerks in the office of the H. F. U. Law Firm, with Forrest Daniels, President, and his assistants, Grafty Strum, Spitter McQuiston, and Mick- ey Shyster Russo. The present case in this crooked little enter- prise the boys have formed is against Abe Kennen and Winslow Bettinson, who are alleged to have stolen some pussy willows from the home of a wealthy old skinflint, Marie Mogan. The case has already been thrown out of the 'district court by Louis Elmer, the presiding judge and wealthy ice cream vender. They are out to get money, however, and are determined to bring the case to the Supreme Court with judges Gordon Anderson, Vincent Breen, Sydney Canter, Frank Clark, Royal Curran, Bob Derbyshire, Albert Di Gregory, Paul Benson, and Chief Justice Bernie Fine. All are appointees of President Fofo Salamone. Without a doubt if there is any way of collecting damages, the H. F. U.'s will find it. On the way out we are met by head cashier Esther Demeo. Fifty cents, please, is the re- quest. Give her a buck , says Shaughnessy, and then we'll leave. Stepping outside we hear the shrill sound of the trumpets. It is a circus parade! Marching down the street paced by Babe Donahue is the Aucoin Brothers' circus band. In the first flank is little Art Power play- ing the sweet potato, john Dahlin and his foosie horn, and Austin Dougherty and Don McCau1 tooting away on the plunger. Other members we recognize are Fran Kneeland, Tony Lopez, Ralph Kelley, Clifford Harrington, Elroy Hill, and the drummer Fran Rowell still pounding away. Fran and Art take time out to sing the memorable little hockey bus duet You'll Never Get to Heaven on Roller Skatesf' Riding on the back of a trained panther is john Sloane. The panther fan over-grown catj was trained after many long hours by Lawrence Selig, Art Schebeci, Everett Smith, joe Madden, and Ray Morreale at the farm of Ohnemus 8c Richardson according to the poster borne by Robert A. Nottenburg, business manager of the circus. Then come the clowns, Norman Burdett as Popeye, Ed Whitney as Wimpy, Sebastian Rigoli as Castor Oil, Louise Milley as Olive Oyl, and Ed Spencer the Goon. The horrors are next in the parade with Carl Paladino, George Pothier, Herbert Wheeler, and Harry Sheldon playing the part to perfection. Harry is carrying two weird- looking shell-pink dahlias, horrible products of a Vernon Street garden. Glancing along the long line of performers we perceive the trim cowgirls. Riding on the backs of truck horses are Cora Sanderson, Toots Sal- vucci, Snooky Marlinska, Princess Dube, Trixie Beninati, and Marjorie Budreau who rode Time Wasted in the Kentucky Derby. That should be a good show, remarked Shaughnessy. Let,s hop back to the machine and save YOUR money. Upon returning to our marvel of television we focus the rays on Jimmie Hayes' Arena located in the spacious grounds of Lakeview. Throngs are busting in on Chet Hill, doorkeeper, and joe Gullotti, police ofhcer. With our machine we peruse the inside of the arena where in the midst of all excitement we End Pearl Crevoshay, extraordinary woman athlete and juggler. Her feats amaze even the oldest Lake Street inhabitants.

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THE MIRROR, 1,938 Betsey Nutting, Elsbeth Heinish, and Miriam Gibbs - QStill old maidsj. Anne is speaking. I don't know how true this is, but I heard from Anne Kelly that the Noone sisters are being forced into Ethel John- son's Old Maids' Home. Well, says Elsbeth, they won't be lonely. Josephine Taranto, Marg. Thomson, Dorothy Savage, Mary Parella, and Elberta O'Neil are up there. Ah! that's it. exclaims Miriam, Ralph Thompson's Bachelors' Home is across the street. Doris Stacy, Phyllis Rines, Margaret Wellman, Ann Smith, and Anita Simeone recently attended the Junior Prom and May Pole ceremonies there. Get them off my ear, says Shocks, or I'll be worse than they are. Taking Shaughnessy's advice I turn my instru- ment to the distant town of Showhegan, Maine, where the World's Fair is in full swing. Our eyes rest first on Lynskey's Burlesque, where Christine Lupo is finding it hard to make a liv- ing as a dressmaker. We rind Barbara MacAl- pine, now a famous Hawaiian dancer. With her are the Jenkins Sisters noted for their art of Syncopated Swing. Gertrude Beach, Lena Belkin, Albina Anthony, and Florence Atwood are in the audience: Un- known to the management, they are arduously trying to censor the show so that they may rent the building for the Annual Girl Scout Exhibi- tion, under the direction of Betty Monahan, National Girl Scout Leader for five successive terms. Her committee is comprised of Joan An- nunziata, Anne Banis, Marion Barry, Virginia Wanberg, Josephine Vanaria, and Lena Santa- lucito. The proceeds of the exhibition are to help to defray the expenses incurred in shipping a few of the fairer sex to Bachelors' Isle QFox Islandj off the coast of Norumbega. May the heavens bless them! QI mean the bachelors.J As time is growing short we focus our dynamic rays upon the Waltham Common where Betty Connelly is leading the Anti-Shower League in its quest to do away with the compulsory shower act now in extreme use at the new Wal- tham High School. Among her ardent followers are Dorothy Clifford, Margaret Christolfersen, Olga Carrissimi, Margaret Phelan, and Edith Porter. Coming from nowhere is Dorothy Shelin of the Pro-Shower League and her faithful col- leagues Flo Sheridan and Mary Tortorella repre- senting the American Soap Company, who are filing protests because of the decrease in the sale of soap caused by the opposition of the Anti- Shower League . In another section of the common we see Clive Regan and Juanita Perrot, now owners of the Waltham Ice Company, fighting feverishly with Henry Ashley and James Murphy, Frigidaire Manufacturers. Before we turn the dial in an effort to secure additional illuminating views within the scope of our double binocular television glass, there is a loud crash. The hill begins to reverberateg it slips down, down, down, into the crevice - That's all! ARTHUR J. CLARK, 1933, ,