Waterbury High School - Longhorn Yearbook (Waterbury, VT)

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LONG!-IORN Slnce I wasn t ln any partlcular hur1y I floated out f1 ont a11d sat down at a r1ngs1de table to make sure I dldn t mlss anyone The l1ghts dlmmed and wl1en they came up the1e was A1lene LaRow domg a snake dance and w ho w as accompanymg her but Salhe St IOUIS w1th her one glrl orchestra She was playmg the bass d1 um w 1th one foot harp wlth the other DIHHO w 1th he1 rlght hand Xylophone VVlth her left plus a harmonlca to keep her mouth occup1ed I dont behexe anybody ex er reallzed that elther of these glrls had so much talent The act had no more than begun w hen there was a blg commot1on 111 the corner It turned out to be nothlng to get exclted about though lt Was 1ust Carmeta Musclebound Holmes the bounce1 electlng anothe1 customer She must go to Jean HOFIIGI s Physlcal Cultu1e Gym Oh I d1dnt tell you Yes Jean Horner the only g1rl who ever acted he1 age 1n ou1 class IS the dlrector of a gsm It IS noted for bu1ld1ng up the body Everyone s attentlon w as brought qulckly back to the act as a beaut1 ful dark haned g1rl stepped out upon the stage I thought she looked l1ke someone I ought to know and sure enough lt turned out to be my old part nel 1n cr1mes Ramona Belange1 She has yust finlshed he1 mate1p1ece The Rmso Rhapsody for Tw ID Washboards 1n the Key of E llIll'101 She s been Worklng on It fo1 the last ten years Afte1 that act I found I had to leaxe I drlfted down the st1eet not see1ng anyone I knew when bang starlng me 1n the face was a DIC ture of Sk1p Woodruff' The slgn Sald he was runnlng for p1 es1dent of Bolton Flats that IS When I had recoy ered from the shock I not1ced that the plcture lf that s what you want to call lt was pasted on the front of a woman s dress shop I st1ll hadnt found all of my classmates and I flguled some glll mlght poss1blv be w o1k1ng In thls sw anky shop I passed through the key hole and who should nearly walk on me but Sk1p M01 se It seems he was the ow ner of the shop and dld the chooslng of all the models As I 1emem ber he was the shy type 111 scl1ool I should th1nk choosmg the models would be a te111f1call5 ha1d qob for h1m but he appea1ed to be enyoymg h1mself I hea1d a customer ment1on that the famous 1nte11o1 deco1ato1 Sall Spence had 1emodeled the shop As I looked around I wonde1 ed why I hadnt notlced the lnterlor befo1e now It had 1ed Walls d1amat1cally streaked yv1th s1lx 61 purple rugs and orange ce1l1ng p1nk cha11s yellow cu1ta1ns and fuchs1a shades Gads I now see why she IS back x1s1t1ng Wate1burv Poor g11ll Afte1 my eyes became accustomed to the shall I say loud colo1s I saw another classmate Pat Helbert who w as modellng a fu1 llned bath 1ng su1t des1gned especlally f0l ILSkllYlOS by Janet Day1s Anothe1 creatlon of Janet s was the Bull Dog All Yea1 Coat w h1ch g1ows fur IH w1nte1 and sheds It du11ng the summer Ve1y economlcall Just as I was leax mg Tommy Wells 1an through me Afte1 I had pulled myself togethe1 I heard h1m exclalm Ive done 1t' Ixe done 1t' I ye finally completed a set of false teeth that w1ll play The Sta1 Spangled Banner when you chew ' After that 6p1SOd6 I dec1ded Id better leave bQf0Ie somethmg else happe11ed I floated a b1t further down the street and came to the DIITEI ent Look Beauty Saloon owned by Eleano1 Blgelow Through the w1n dow I saw Eleanor cuttlng some D001 LIIISUSIJQCIIIIQ., customel s hall 1n that style she o11g1nated w hen she w as a senlor 1n h1gh school Now she calls It The Splral Stancase W1th the F11nge On Top hancut 9 ' 1 1 1 7 . . 1 . , . ' ' , 1 1 1 1 1 7 7 . w 1 1, . . 1 I , ' 7 I . J 1 1' ' 1 ' 1 1 1' I . I , , 7 . . v. 1 2 . 1 7 1 1 ' ' ' 1 I . 7 . . . ' K I . 1 11 K 1- 1 T T ' ' 1 1 ' If 77 ' ' 1 1- 1 1 L 7 7 1 171 ' 1 ' 7 I . , ' 7 7 . . . . 1 'V 7 1 ' ' , . v . . V I I I ' , ' I I . Y I 1 1 . 1 ' I , I , - 1 ' ' . 1 1 1 ' 1 '1 1 1 ' 1 , , . I . I , 66 ' D ,' , ' ' ,77 1 I I I . . . N N 1 1 ' 1 1 1 7 ' 1 . Y Y i -1 . . . Y . - 1 I - I, . Y . . . 7 7 7 1 Y 7 7 N , I I I ' 7 1 ' 1 ' 1 A . I ' 7 I , I ' ' 1 1 ' ' ' 1 1. 1 - II V I I I . II 1 ' 11 I W I . I I I 7 Il II Il. I' I ' 1 ' 1 ' 1' , I , . I . I I 1 11' 1 1 1 1 5 1 w 7 1 1 1 1 1 - K 1 f 1 1 1 1 V . , 1 1 . . 1 K 1 7 7 'Y 1, 1 ' ' 1 1 1 II 1 I I 1 ' : I s , S 1, '.', 1 1 1 1 - 1 ' 1 ' 1 ' I II 1 , ' ' ' ' ' 1 ' 1 '1 ' 1 1'1 I I I I I . 1 ' '1 1 1 '5 . 1 7, 1 ' . I I , 1 ' 1 1 1' 1 I I . . 1' 1 1 , I . 1 . . H 1 . ,Y . 7 , 1 . . ' 4 7 1 1 5 1 t , I I 17 7 77 U . . 1 . . , 1 . 7 L , ' 1 H ' 1 . I ' 1 17 4 4 ' ,' - V L 7 ' ' 1 1 1 ' 1 17 ' 1 ' I I ' 7' I , Il I 7' I I I' I I I I l I V' l ' I' 7 I' . v Il Il . H . I . 4 v . 4 1. ,, I . A , 1

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LONG!-IORN Class Prophecy Who Knows 7 How thlngs change ln ten years' I know I we been do1ng some lnvest xgatlng You see sex en years ago when one of my experlments 1n college blew up IH mv face I sprouted wlngs and took off Once up here and you wlll notlce I sald UP hele I became Interested ln our new spaper The Celestlal and offered my SQFVICGS as a reporter The paper IS reallv beautlful It comes out once a vefzr and IS hand prlnted wlth colors from the ralnbow There are plctures storles news and ex en a few fzngellcal caltoons Phat s our mam proyect and we all look forward to It with gl eat expectatlons But let s get back to mv artlcle whlch IS appearlng ln th1s year s 1ssue My angellcal upper ups wanted to know what all the people on earth poor souls were dolng that graduated IH the year 1952 Slnce I w as a member of such a group I was asked to report on my classmates Of course I agreed as I wx as dylng oh excuse me we don t use that expresslon up here as I was anxlous to know what the gang was do1ng I was made 1nv1s1ble and told to get gO1Hg Flrst I floated down to Waterbury What memorles It brought to mlnd c pec1allv the school I drlfted through the halls and whom should I see Lut Edna Demas She looked xery th1n and poor I couldnt help wonder mg what she was do1ng st1ll 1n school I later found out from St Peter that she had been appolnted chlef halo pollsher for all the k1ds at W H S but had recently gone bankrupt No bllS1I19SS you know' Next I flew up to the llbrary where I found two books wrltten by mem bers of my class Admxral Lahues Hlstory of My Crulses on Thatcher Brook and M110 Marshall s Fssay on the Coocoon Stage of an Ayrshlre Cow Flea ln the State of Ve1 mont for the Sprlng of 1962 I would l1ke to have stayed and read them but I dldn t haye enough tlme I could hear Gabrlel playlng The Sldewalks of New York I took thls as a hlnt for me to go to New York and floated off ln that d1rect1on On my way I was pu77led to look down and see a thumb all by 1tself on one of the mam hxghways mot1on1ng towards New York Upon close lnvestlgatlon I found Bob Qumn who had taken up the honorable profes slon of belng a hobo rechnlng under a tree and smuggly watchlng hrs IH ventlon The Bummlng Thumb wlth an electrlc slgn abowe It readlng New York You see Bob mlssed the class trlp to New York and he s st1ll trylng to get there Really ambltlousl After reachmg New York I dr1fted around trylng to f1nd someone who looked farrnllar When I saw a large crowd at one of the plers I declded to try my luck there Trlpplng down the gang plank of the liner Queen Mary was Madame Arlene Sayah wearlng her latest style Comfy De presslon Shoes w1th electrlc dr1lls IH the heels that bore 1nto the sldewalks thereby maklng her as short as her husband When a reporter asked 1f she had any remarks about her new shoes she rephed Why not buy a pa1r of Comfy Depress1on Shoes and you too can have that s1nk1ng feel1ng I left and soon found myself ox er the Pmk Elephant Nlght Club where Roger Melchant was d11 GCtlIlg h1s all qul muslcal entltled Mer chant s Moppets It looked qulte lnterestlng I passed through the roof and found myself backstage u here I thought I saw some fam1l1ar faces I . . . , v . . rI K I' . , T I' Il ' . . N 1 V l 1 I I . 1 . . I , I I , I ' ' I V ' rw 1 I t , I I . , ' ' 1. ' U 1 'I .I 1 ' 1 ' yu I U I , I I , W if ,, 1 - 1 1 I , c I I I . D 1 I I , 1 I A . 1 I R . I U c I - . Il v. ' ' Il, I Il, I, . 4 , , . . r 7 ' 7 c II. I' ' ' I . . A . , . . . x f . r . . , ' . ' ' , I U I I I I I . - A , I' ', c . ' ' I Y w , 1 I. I , y ' 1- . 7 1 4' , , I , , I 1 . . 1 W' Q L I . . 1 . . . 1 - 9 sq . I, L I . I I I N 1 ' 7 - , . . V . . ., . , . . V . 1 A ' , ' v U ' ' , I, I xv ' a as - , I J . 1 . . ,, . . , I Y . l K a Y Y . . H . ,, . Y . I . , as , . . . . . I 1- ' 1 r f ' ' .. a . 66 . H . . . . Y . . 1 a .N . Y , . - 1 s . 1 1 1 o K , ' 7 . ' u y v 9 ' . ,, . . . 1 . i . . I , , I V '1 1 . I I . , ' an - Q 9 A ' 9 , ' ' ' 1: a 1 ' , an ' - ra I I , 1 K v . . .N I. l . . H - f . . H ' ' . ' I . . ' L 1 4 A , f six ,I D 1 I 1 1 Y I 1 1 ' . l i A 1 I , I .

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LONGHORN She had her telex1Q1on Qet on and a women Q xxreQtl1ng match was be 1ng Qhovxn I passed through the xxmdow and xvas surpr1Qed to recogmze the WreQtlerQ none other than Betty Catchapaxx and Bex 9115 Wheelock They were WreQtl1ng tor the xxorld Q champ1onQh1p t1tle An adx ertlsement for DeCell Q Interplanetarv Tam SQIXILQ 1nte1 1upted the bout and Qure enough there at the cont1olQ of her nexx style lOCkQt sh1p xx as Mary LOUISE She uQed to be qulte f1 speedste1 at W H S IS I recall By the tlme the adxertlsement xxas hnlshed Qo xv IS the 'xXl9Stl11Ig, match therefore I can t tell you vxho the chftmplon IS The next program xxas to lntroducc txxo X791 monters xx ho had m1d1 h1storV I xxaQ IH luck both of them xvere fo1mer classmates of mme namely Flleen Ashley 1nd Joy Bartlett Flleen had 1ust completed a t11p around the World the t11Qt Woman to do Q0 What made he1 such 1 he1o 1ne XVHS the tact that Qhe had made the tr1p on a pogo st1ck AQ for Ioy she haQ ex en the sclentlsts puzzled AQ I th1nk b 1ck about Joy I can Qee her clearlv and dS usual she IS talklng Well afte1 she gl 1d uated Qhe became lnterested 1n deat and dumb people and took a LOUISG 111 x hlch she learned to speak xvlth he1 hands Noxv nobodx has fx th 1nce to get a Word ln edgexx1se xx hen Jov IS around because she mn spe 1k to txxo people at once one xx 1th her hands and the other bv mouth I 1lxv1vs knexx she d nnd some way to out talk ex ervone elQe Jtst beto1e leaxlng I saxx a pack of Mlnus C1gf1rettes moxe 1Ll0Ss the SCILSH Thev had been dexeloped bv Fvelyn H 1yes and a1e gua1anteed to be smokeleQs odo1le s and tasteless Noxx k1ds W1ll be able to smoke ny place and nex er be detected Once more I hea1d Gabrlels ho1n this tlme playlng Deep In the Heart of Texas Agaln I took the h1nt and headed ln that d11ect1on I xxaQ almost to lexas When somethlng streaked along the load 1ust beloxx me BV hrlng some ot my emergency 1etQ I soon caught up xx1th the SIIG 1k mg gold pl xted toothplcks d11x1ng her mustard yelloxx conxe1t1ble xx1th LQIISS t11m and he used to be such a qulet gllll Nothmf else worth mentlonmg happened untll I 1c1ched 1 huge dudt 1 mth I xxas so t11ed I mst h1d to float down IGI 1 1est When I wot close enough to ILLOQHIIG any one the1e xx IS Ba1b C1bbs llfllllg llil Q11 ss bred bounceless holse As I xxatthed he1 go fllldlllg' bx I heard the 1 lCll0 1nd declded to go 111 1nd llsten I arr1x ed 1ust IH t1me to hea1 a h1deous glggle 1t the end ot I nel Sanctum I xx IS lllI10St DOSIIIXQ I hzd he11d th lt l1ugh beto1e 1nd SU16 enough It xx 18 S 1llx Iease Wl1o d haxe thought that g1ggle xxould pay off but xou never can tell lNeXt I heald 1n 1mpo1tant nexxs lJL1ll6t11'l st'1t1ng th It P1t I+ xx 111 h 1d beaten WAIIQH Austm 1n the electlon tor the Unlted States dclev 1t1 to the Umted NdtlOHS What lSLl11'D1f'IbBl A detectlxe DIOgI 1m entltled Dolan s D 1ppe1 Dlcks tolloxx ed Yes Hazel Dolan xxas the detectlxe She had d1scox ered the 11t ot lIIX1NllJll1tW 1nd was noxx one ot the tolemost detectlxes IH 'lex IS And to Ihlllk It 1ll started 1n W H S xx hen she t11ed e1Ape11ment1ng on her l1a11 Just as the IJlOgIdITI began gettlng e'cc1t1ng It xx IS llltelltlplefl bx 1 pohce 1epo1t 1ead1ng as tolloxvs Watth IOI th It I1OtOI10Lls IIIILOIILS 1gent INancv S11yton She 1s xxanted IOI selhng Cot une C ll 1mels to k1ds' What a shotkl It seemed 1nc1ed1ble that so many ot mx elassmates l11d gout lIIt0 1' ' 1 7 1 ' A f 1 - A A , A . . 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