West Warwick High School - Chronicle Yearbook (West Warwick, RI)

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1931 CLASS PROPHECY May 20th, 1965. PROCLAMATION I, Ktnneth L. Graham, as President of the United States, set apart and proclaim June twentieth, Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-Eve, a national holiday throughout the nation, to be observed in commemoration of the ending: of the Civil War and as the Twenty-Fifth anniversity of the incor- poration of the City of West Warwick. I designate West Warwick as the City in which the National Program shall be carried out and the Athletic Field in said City as the place where the exercises in commemoration of the One Hundredth anniversary ol' the termination of the Civil War and the Twenty-fifth anniversity of the incorporation of the City of West Warwick shall be held. QSignc-dy KENNETH I.. GRAHAM, President of the United States of America. Witnesses: Paul L. Talbot, Secretary of Treasury, Elvira Calei, Secretary to the President, Russell Smith, Attorney General. 61

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.,,. HH 20. To Miss Briggs, successors to Nat Fuller and Dot Quinn, who will continue to keep Room 10 in order during the second period study. 21. To Dick Duffy, a book of new excuses to give to Mr. Grinnell, when he arrives at school late. fWe understand this is a rare occurrence.l 22. To Mrs. Fogarty, a Senior Class as quiet, orderly, obedient, and co- operative as this class was, so that she may not have to ask for quiet more than twice. 23. To Mary Collins, a joke book so that she may understand all the jokes about Mary. 24. To Sydney Kennedy, the right to converse with Senior girls only when he has become a Senior himself. 25. To Mr. Potter, a new Bible so that when he begins reading in the future Assemblies, he will not find, to his embarrassment, that the next page is missing. 26. To Miss Swanson, a book entitled Answers to Hard Ones in case she has other pupils like Kenny Pearson. 27. To Miss Sharkey, a pair of rubbers, which we hope she will wear in stormy weather as an appreciation of our generosity and, at the same time, to eliminate her colds. 28. To members of the West Warwick High School, the school spirit, which the Senior Class has always shown. 29. To George Levesque, a pair of stilts to make up for his difference in height compared with certain Senior girls. 30. To Lefty Duffy, a carol book, so that he will never forget Silent Knight, Holy Knight 31. To all members of the Class of '31, we will and bequeath success in all their undertakings, the best of health and happiness during their entire life, and most of all the courage to face the struggles of life bravely. In witness whereof, we, the Class of One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-One, sign and declare this as our last will and testament in each other's presence, and hereunto subscribe our names as Witnesses this twenty-third day of June, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-One. Anna G. Theroux, '31. 60

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.- 1 This proclamation having been broadcast throughout the world, the members of the Class of 1931 of West Warwick High School immediately set out from the various parts of the world with West Warwick as their destination. l The first group to arrive, reached West Warwick in the dirigible P-E-P, 400. The giant airship was piloted by Raymond Wujcik, internationally known pilot. The passenger list of the P-E-P included: Mademoiselle Lil- lian Quinn, premiere danseuse at Le Moulin Rouge, Paris, Nils Peterson, American Ambassador to Sweden Miles Cowen, poet laureate of Great Britain, Theresa Lefevbre, better known as Suzanne Mollyneux, leading modiste of Paris, and two of her models, Stella Kulasewska Polignac and Rita Coogan LeCaron. Willard Carr, owner and manager of the Mullen Royal, this City's largest hotel, had registered among his guests for the current season the following: Thomas Kirby, Viceroy to Indiag Bernard Barber, chef at the Leach Hotel in Calcutta, Louis Tomasso, director of Athletics at West Point, James Bates, superintendent of the Rolls Ezee Motor Plantg John Moran, professor of accordian at Sarah Lawrence College of Musicg Mary Lombardi, leading American beautifier at Caron's in Tulsag and Carl Hawkinson, noted American Sculptor. Among those arriving on the Conlon Express were: Col. Kenneth Mott- shaw, a member of the staff of the Governor of Arizona, and Ruth Watson, secretary to the Governor, Walter Colvin, popular radio announcer for W. E. S. T., the Howard O'Connell Boardcasting Station in Panama City, Marian Viens, better known as Sophie D'Amour, the celebrated actress and her manager Joseph Yendzejecg Wilfred Parente, president of the Cali- fornia Fruit Grower's Association, Clinton Read, chief engineer of the Loughran Memorial in Duluth, Alice Fleet Townsend, American novelist, Doris Gifford, founder of the Roxane School for Girls in El Paso, and Emma Zannini, Lecturer on the New 1975 Washing Machines. The Grinnellania, newest of passenger ships, arrived from the Far East with many illustrious passengers. The most prominent were Rev. Charles Lawrence, head of the Chinese Mission stationed at Peking, and Mildred Matteson, Morton Tarbox, Alice Noren, and Thomas Rawlinson, mission- aries, who having converted America, went to China to continue their work. Esther Fiske, favorite soprano of the King of Siam, Vincent Petrarca, cartoonist for the Bruce Daily in Shanghai, Livia Lefebvre, secretary to John Schofield, American minister to China. Paul St. Germain, retired banker, arrived on his yacht, the Deering, from his villa in Havana. He had as his guest, Gordon Anderson, philan- thropist, and Florence Smith Moone, financier. Philip Miller, journalist, 62