Watertown High School - Annual Yearbook (Watertown, MA)

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1940 nnua These yusuons dummed and dusuppe red unto obluyuon to be replaced by a more rugged and nousesome seene Twas the openung game of the Aquayulle Assocuatuon s Pootball Team Through the publue address system the announcer was guyung the Iune ups for the lay As the gurls lustenel they heard some famuluar names At left enl Iohn Bueko MueDonuld at left guard that human dynamo Bob lsuller Kellett at left half baek George Tuny Ruggeruo and at quarter baek Hugo Cannonball Capporueeuo Through the loud speaker the sounds of m1le conyuuualuty assauled the lustenung ears and before the gurls rose a pueture of 1 chrome 1nd black bachelors apartment where they found Ernue lap Mannuno butlerung for the owners the Messrs Duek Payne and Myles L1mson who were at the moment entertaunung un theur unumuable manner Chuef Cueorge Hoyt of the Iederal Bureau of Inyestugatuon wluo was undustruously searehung througlu the reeord hles for hus eyer fnorute tune Untul the Ruehl Thung Comes Along Loung ung un 1 eorner was New York s one and only Glamour Boy twho couldnt quute make goody Mrs Kearns bug boy Wee Wfullue suppung 1 long eool drunk from an amber eolored glass and lookung at a new album of gorgeous sketches creatuons of lranklun ones latest sueeessor to George Petty uute suddenly thus group of superb males letu le l they woul l seek exeutement else where As they erow ded unto the eley ator they rubbed elbows wuth the gentleman who had been ehosen one of the years best dressed men none other than loseph Dee who seemed to be talkung garrulously about the new fall styles wuth the oluye drab unuformed eley ator boy Fred Arenstrup Crossunr the lobby they spotted un a corner Helen Saunders and Luyungstone Munroe unternatuonally known muxed doubles tennus partners wluo were guyung theur unutral exhubutton match under the personal management of that ungly opened the door and ushered them to the street where he whustled shrully for a passung cab Wutlu a scream of brakes yoyual Iraneus lantasua ground hus Independent C ab to the curb and greeted hus not too old classrn 1tes wuth a Where to my lads ' The Platunum Roof and don t eonserye on carbon came the answer The cab shot froun the eurb and out of the range of the teleuusor leayung the gurls mudly adyustung the duals to establush contact wuth the errant playboys By the tume they had located the party ut was nonchalantly followung head wauter Vuncent Surabuan to a secluded table Wuth a moan from I C Takyoruan s super hot trombone and some chouce chords from the puano Monte Morroco and hus Mulk Bottle Fuse sw ung unto actuon The floor show had started After the usual openung patter by Fred Deyenny the genual master of ceremonues the feature attractuons of the eyenung started and un the spotlught they saw Vaughn lensen and Iohn Ruchardson popular unstructors at Arthur Murray s dome an exhubutuon danee slow graceful and breathtakung After an enthusuastuc round of applause the spotlught found and held none other than Edgar Bergen But who s th at on hus knee? XVhy that s not Charlue Mcfarthy ut s none other than dumunutuye Bull I alley Voeuferous laughter marked the end of the well known yentruloquusts routune and the band speetled up the tempo as Mary Degnun und farl Bugham tapped onto the polushed floor un 1 noyel und spurklung elanee lrom the sude lunes photographer Xvalter Coyle was undustruously sntppung flushlught pretures of hus famous wufe and luer partn r for Pluotog the weekly pueture magazune eduted by lred Burd A tumultuous oyatuon greeted the finale of the floor show the spotlught dimmed un fayor of the soft undurect lughtung system retently perfeeted by Augustune Neshe he1d teehnueuan II the Let There He I ught and There XY us C o After a lengthy huslu the sound of C ugars eugarettes and FIYCILDIIS eut through the blue haze of the room and Iuey Romard the Pl1tun um Roou unduspensuble eugarette gurl upproaeheel 1 table of four bmulungly she greeted Xvtlluam wsu L . '. , l 4. 'e , ' ' ' I ' , N ' L I l . , 1 A v v 1 . 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IIHIIU 19467 CLASS PROPHECY Our scene g ntle readers as lard rn the house half way up the next block or to you less learned people the mauson de Niaryrose Drummey whereas to wrt and wherern we find namely Mlles Duff Sullax an and Drummey strummrng on the count r and drrnkrng some delrcrous Tenderleaf Tea fplugj Thrs rs the tenth annryersary of the Get Together Cossrp Club whach as you wall all rememb r was formed tlae year that the rllustrtous members of the class of 1940 were graduated from the hallowed halls of Watertown Hrgh Sehool frah rah rah y After the usual desultory gossrp has been exhausted the group turns their attentron to the fact that yust ten years preuous the members had turned the tassels on their mortar boards A retrospectne srlence settled down on thas lrttle group Memornes of school lafe labors and loses rose up yryaclly before them Say g ls rnterrupted Kay wouldnt at be smooth rf we could take a look anto the lrxes of all the old gang' That really would be grand chorused Alaee and Maryrose enthusaastlcally but how to do at an one short afternoon? Pause Thought Brarnstorm' I ye got at screamed Drummey tossrng her Howered apron rnto the arr Alrce you run down to ohn Ilynn s laboratory and see lf we can borrow has teleusron set XX nth a splatterrng of lrpstrek and a slack of a comb Alrce started out to brrng back from her rllustraous father and the door handle left Sally Strandberg wlth an eye rape for a beef steak needless to say long sufferrng readers thas pair were continuing their VC hrnchellang Around for The East Osershoe Cazette edited by that famous yournalast and Cflfll Thelma Thompson and that wadely known adxenturer and author of Around the XVorld On A Raft Bob Morgan The door opened Wfho w as rt ' foul l at be the shadow ? Welcome Iohnny Cram come an and ,OID the girls anl help Allce an wrth that teleyxsor called Kay Iohnny slrd through the door dropped the set on a table and crept into a chaar Wrth much roarrng and flashune the telexrsor finally swung rnto actaon It st pp d A prcture flashed on the screen Eager eyes turned toward at A fashaon show was rn progress Prrouetrng gracefully across the rarsed platform were four of New Yorks most photographed models Representing Saks Frfth Ayenue Mass Edath Farwell modelang the latest an women s langerre from Best s Nlrss flaare Rrccro known as New Xork s petrte modele dnrne BonwrtTellers offerrng Mass Varganaa Olsen an thear latest cellophane eyenrng gow ns and Mass Lucrlle Donnelly gnang her best for Peck 8. Peck s newest Paras models l67l 4 - . V I' . A v yi V 4 , .A 3 . A ' ': .. . u . 1 A. 1 A It ' ' 'A ' A V ' 1 A H ' A . A ' ' ' , I t - f ' ' 'v . I Y Y 1 A ' f v L 'A k' aa .l' k 1 , 1 .A A A A . y - . -A - , A . - - . A f r ai v v 1 4 1 'Ay ' 1 A A v, H I Y I ' the set. ln the hall she neatly' side-stepped Nancy' Vlordan with a I-2-3--1 play inherited A , A c 1 , t ' z ' 4 'V l A . - t V1 .. .ty rf, 'A r . . '. ' ' A A A 'A 'I A A ' H A' ' .I ', ' 1 ' ' H A 4 . A l. t A ' . , 4 t '-' ' . ' L t . Y 4 ,H 7 . I Y 't ' ' f Q 1, ' A t '. f U ' . ' ' A A A y- t L . A . A fA f . Q vi I v ' A , 1 A .SA 'T' L L , . q v 'A ' t A Y . 4, ' J, ' H ' H A A . 'o e Y ' r. A s A Y 1' . ' ' Y ' . V ., ' Y A A 7 V e ' 4 , A. ' A A . . , . . K , , . . . , . 3 ' 1 r 1 , f a , ' ' ' ' ' . A . r A v v ' I L -5 A . V '-' - Y 'K- ' ' a ' .

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nnua 194 Shannon ace hockey player for the Bruans and has eharmang xxafe tlae former Betty Kander accompanaed by ean Dexter xx ho had just recently become a nonentaty among, the Smaths an the telephone book bpon request Lucy poanted out to tlae Shannon Smath party xaraous celebrataes among the ex enangs guests She noted for thear beneht a eroup e, x ell knoxxn career xxomen that xxas congregat d at an adyoanang table tl rom Paree came Mass Constance Courtoas successful buyer for Schaaparella s and .lt lacr rapht s.at Mass Phyllas Raehl celebrated artast and sculptress xxho xx as studyany, under Gutzora Borfslum and darectly opposate they saxx Mass Mary lx Broxxn xx ho xxas enyoyanc a respate from her exclusaxe ska traananp school hagh an tlae snovxy Alps and xxho xx as holdane a heated clascussaon on What To Do and Hovx To Do It xxath Mass Ellen Lynch xx ho xx as completang her latest Book on etacyuette j 'Ihear attentaon xx as daxerted by tlae entrance of handsome Malcolm Cate xxho stall agnorang, offers from Hollyyxood xx as an tlae bac caty anyestagatang a nevx type of re aper for laas Kanbraska farm and xxas xxe k endanlc at tlae home of Normae Race and tlae former Mary Malloy xxho xxere escortany, ham on laas naeht club escapade Un tlae vxay to their table they greeted Rutla Norcross xxho xx as accompanyang laer lausbancl on laas presidential cood xxall tour A call for tlae caearetta Krarl anterrupted laer celebraty spottang, and as she xyended laer xx ay among, tlae closelx ,srouped tables tlae heaxy smoke damaned laer retreatang fapure untal at and tlae Platanum Roof s d cor dasappeared entarely from sa3,ht Salently and pensaxely ohnny and tlae carls vxaated for tlae telexasor to seek n xx xastas XX hale they were thus vxool gatherang tlae straans of a symphony permeated and compla mented thear mood Tlae daamond bedecked taers of tlae Metropolatan Opera I-louse sparkled upon tlae screen and tlae telexasor gayc a panorama of tlae eelebraty tallel auda toraum Seated at the tyxan grand paanos thear Hneers racang madly across tlae gleamany, axory keys an crescendo upon crescendo xxere tlaose masters of tlae musac xxorld Louase Vosgerchaan and ohn Markara an unatang tlacar annate abalataes to brane to tlacar eacer publac tlae measured cadences of tlae Nexx Symplaonae Amerreaane composed by that rcceaxed tlae laeart felt trabute of tlae audaence tlae croxxd thronyeed anto tlae lobby 'Ihere tlae garls packed out many famalaar faces aboxc spotless lanen or raxrshanp coxxn Settan off to perfectaon laer glamorous beauty xxath a shananc salxer taara xx as Nlass Rosuaacan Caethro popular Edator of Harpers Bazaar accompanacd by tlae recent Nobel Praae XY'ann Mass Helen laeld vxho had learned tlaas dastanctaon by xartaae of laer meratoraous xxork an thc facld of fnglasla laterature Fscortang, tlaem xxcrc tlae Messrs lred fhrastenscn and Ra lletclacr tlae former tlae noted lyrac tenor of radao stage and screen tlae latter a socaally promanent Wfall Street broker Near by nonclaalantly brushane a bat of non eaxastent dust from the shoulder of laas ampeccable taalored danner yacket xx as Prof ssor Robert I Hatch Ph D Ll D I. H D and VU P A At laas laeels takanc copaous not s for tlae professor s nevx book Psychologacal Reactaons to Musac trotted Mary Hoxnanaara has an comparable prax ate secretary Standang an one corner ofthe croxx ded lobby hastaly puttanc on then' respectaxe coats stood noted Free Tlaanker Bob Carlstrom anl tlae multa aaaal laonaarc malk magnate Ralph Andrevxs Through tlae modern class doors tlae tclexasof packed up tlae amages of the Rexerend Charles Abram Kelloc Crafhth nataonally knoxxra atanerant manaster lecturer vxho wxas sohcatously maneuxcranc laas xxafe tlae foraaacr Ruby lusla anto a yxaatang taxa The reyolxanc door xomated tlae throne onto tlae sadexx al and xxath a xxharl ofthe doors tlaese select andaxaduals became nonentataes an tla clcattere l street The lazchts an tlae bualdangs flackered dammcd and xxent out leaxanc only shadoxxed bulk on tlae salx er telexasaon screen The yxatchanzc group relaxed as ohnny spun the bakelate daals an search of ncxx scenes and personalataes A glatterang tlaeater sagn flashed before tlacar eager eyes I arce neon Iaghts featured f69 O ' -.1 -. . 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