Waltham High School - Mirror Yearbook (Waltham, MA)

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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, ,

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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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'IIHE MIRROR,'1938-li Who's Who in the Class of 1938 Boy Most Likely To Succeed EDMUND HARRIS Girl Most Likely To Succeed ETHEL JOHNSON Most Popular Boy Most Popular Girl Best Looking Boy Best Looking Girl Most Studious Boy Most Studious Girl Best Actor Best Actress Most Cheerful Boy Most Cheerful Girl Class Bad Man Best Dressed Boy Best Dressed Girl Class Baby Most Athletic Boy Most Athletic Girl FORREST DANIEI.S BETTY STEVENS EDMUND HARRIS ANNE THOMAS JOHN SLOANE ANNE THOMAS WINSLOW BETTINSON ETHEL JOHNSON EDWARD RECKA MARIE CARLSON JAMES FERELLI EDMUND HARRIS BETTY STEVENS LEo GALLITANO ARTHUR SHAUGHNESSY BARBARA BENT Brightest Social Light BETTY STEVENS Class Clown FRANCIS ROWELI.