Warren Easton High School - Eagle Yearbook (New Orleans, LA)

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Info up since superintendent Edmund Garland introduced co-education in the high schools. But who would have thought we'd ever live to see Camille Berges principal of old Warren Easton, with Dutch McCarthy down in the gym yel- ling. Hey, youse guys, if I catch anybody throwing obstaclesv- And believe it or not, among the respected f?l members of the faculty are Albert Boyd, Henry Caldwell. Steve Cefolia, Henry Chambers. ,loc Deville. and Teddy Drell. ,lacob Drago has succeeded to George Armstrong's oflice. in- cluding the rheumatism. Pass me a cigarette. will you? And be careful with the lighter or the Anti- cigarette League will be raiding us. ,lust when Luke Carr had invented the first cigar lighter the world had ever seen that would actually always light. they had to go start the Anti-cigarette League. lt's a pain in the neck even if the President is an old classmate of ours, Harold Durr. Everywhere you go you run into the names of old classmates of ours. it seems. .lust look at the electric signs out there. Elmer's Permanent Wavesu: El Fornaris and El Ashton Cigarsng G'Gonzales Gartersu: Whitey Hall's Gymnasium g '4Humphreys Hog Meatvg 6'Lo Giudice and Lunn, Lumbern: Bill McGuire in 'Prairie Passioniwr, 'LMequet and Merwin. Morticiansu: Mori-I. Nelson, and Peterson, Divorce Lawyers-24 Hour Service. And there are two more of them pulling an endurance flight over the airport down the river, Tom Santon and Marshall Wreng and two more pull- ing an endurance sojourn in the new jail up the river, Billy Bosser and Kurt Schwartz. Sam Prager is the new warden up there. Everybody knew he would wind up in jail, but we didnit think it would be as a warden. And the alulnni of Warren Easton are doing their bit to keep that jail filled. what with criminal lawyers like Laurence Robinson, Leonard Salatbe. and Lucien Wallace, and criminals like-well, we wonit mention names. And ,ludge Simpson and Judge Trepagnier are pearls of great price on the bench. Hard-boiled? Wow! Oh. the world hears of New Orleans, all right. New Orleans-made prod- ucts go forth to the far corners of the globe. Rocl1's Rock Salt. Steineris Steins. Upton's Upholstery, Settoon's Spittoons. I W if The light has been slowly growing outside, and now ice see that perhaps the darkness has deceived us. Let us look more closely . . . yes. evidently our fancy has been playing us tricks. The hurrying planes are but the night birds and jireflies that throng a moonlit Southern evening. The airport lights are but the beacons of the ,lung and the Steamer Capitol, after all. And perhaps the building isn't 56 stories tall. No, it can't be: there aren'r any that Iall. This isn't 1951, iris 1931. Maybe we were dreaming! 'll' fl' 'll' Say, what are you laughing at, Boom? Talking to myself. was I? I was dreaming. No, a lot of crazy stuff. Not a bit of truth in any of it, probably. Except that l'm a Steve. Fold yourself out of that chair and come on-lt's time to start for the Prom. V 1 v I ... 1. t , -. . . , , -

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HU the situation. And we all went out on Canal Street and took a look at the town and decided it wouldnit do. Why, there wasn't even a 30-story build- ing in the whole business section. So we said: Hit 'em hard, hit ,em lowe- Colne on Easton, let's go! and did we go! Boy, look at the results. We found out what was keeping New Orleans from developing into a thriving modern metropolis, and reme- died it. How did we find it out? Elemental, my dear Watson. It was easy to discover that things had started getting rotten immediately after the death of Martini Behrman. lt was but the work of a moment to deduce that the trouble was. we were changing mayors too often. Obviously what the town needed was another perpetual mayor. So we elected Pete Menge and every- thing was fixed. And with a commission council composed of such sterling citizens as James Aucoin, Charles Cannon, Frank Gruber, and Edgar Haas, our future was assured. Of course the trouble with the Police Department was that everybody criticized the Superintendent too much. That was easy. We simply appointed Nick Zichichi to the post. Nobody can pronounce his name, so they can't criticize him. And you couldn't find a snappier chief of detectives than John Hirsius. What's the quotation I want? '4Set a . . . No. that's not it, of course not. We thought we had a wild and woolly governor when Huey Long was in Baton Rouge, but he was nothing compared with His Excellency, Thomas Henry Johnson. Huey had only one lady secretary. Reporters don't sock Thomas in the eye. Not with that bodyguard of his hanging around, George Collins and Ray Egan and Harry Vorhaben. The editors of the three news- papers, Albert Dupuy, Charlie Guell, and Louis Leber, all being former class- mates of His Excellency, political warfare in these parts is practically con- fined to an exchange of bad cigars. They said we couldn't build a real modern city on this soggy soil. But we did. We had engineers as were engineers, Gernhauser, Gregory, Kane, and Maggio. The climate wasnit so hot, but changing it to an eternal Spring was mere child's play to our scientific genii, Messrs. LeRoy Newman, Louis Weis- dorffer, and Richard Heaney. And the D. P. W. took on new life under the expert direction of Harold Picolo, Naheem Mickal, and Ralph Klein. Never before in the history of New Orleans has garbage been handled so artistically. Our Fire Department, too, is one of the best when we can pry the Chief, Bobby Liepsner, away from his private tennis court. The guiding spirits of the Association of Commerce, George Frantz, Lawrence Cox, Thomas Quigley, and Milford Rombach, see that all these things are broadcast to the world. Isn't that a peach of a television program they put on every Tuesday evening, with the Alliteration Boys, Berlin Bergeron, Hilton Haspel, and Morris Mig- liarrio, doing the heavy harmony and Stanley Chin Bing's band doing the accompanying? I don't believe they had many things in the old days that we haven't surpassed. Robert Hayne Tarrant in his prime couldn't have held a candle to Elwin Lejeune for satorial pyrotechnics. The school system is all pepped I , iT? -.,

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4 . fo Prophecy of June Class, 1931 --fri- - By HARRY HERM.-KN, Historian ..,Q.y-- Time: .Nbout 50,000 A. D. Place: Hades. Characters: Satan and his sinners, the June, 1931. Graduates. Srelw: SHHIIIQS main chamber. Sombre shadows lurk in the corners of the great cavern. A musty, revolting odor is noticeable. In the center of the cavern is seen the never-dying embers of Hell's main furnace. Everything has a ghastly outlook. Suddenly a commotion is heard and who should appear but old Satan himself in all his splendor! Behind him come long groups of attendants. impish figures, all dressed in scarlet. But what has happened? Satan has given a command to what seems to be his chief fire-tender to make the fire hotter. As his command is fulfilled the red glow of the furnace turns into a white-hot heat. So great is its brilliance that the immense cavern is illuminated. But what has become of the shadows? They have turned into the shapes of men! As we gaze with consternation at this infernal scene, and wonder what kind of drama is to be enacted before our eyes, we are suddenly brought out of our reverie with a bang. Old Satan with a stentorian voice has commanded everyone to rise. What is the meaning of this diabolical assemblage we cannot hope to fathom. Then. what appears to be old Beelzebub's right hand man comes in front of Satanfs throne and blows three blasts on a trunlpet-like instrument. After tlms centering all attention upon himself he proceeds to speak. We are amazed at his words: Oyez, oyez, oyez, all ye who have business with this infernal court, draw near and present your petitions. Then, the truth dawns upon usp Satan is having court. Today, the day of days, wherein those who have truly repented and atoned for their sins are given a CTIHIICC to redeem themselves. Meanwhile Satan proceeds to open his great book upon which are in- scribed the names and records of countless individuals. Satan's right hand man, whom for convenience we'll call his clerk ffor that seemed to be his busim-ssl arises and in a manner which resembled that of a clerk in the courts of the external regions, announces: The first case on the docket is an appeal from sinners Zito, Tusa, Rous- sarie, Sierra and Sanchez for the revision of sentences given them for the selling of intoxicating liquors to sinners Primos, Sabrieur, Dieharry, Sanders and Mares. These sinners will be represented by lawyers for is it liars?l 7 . . - . . . . - , . . , . .