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

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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

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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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..- -. came from Minneapolis, with Anna Ingham Joyce, noted historian. They were accompanied by Prof. Dorothy Quinn, director of Physical Culture at the Davis Women's College in Missouri. Mrs. Claire Lamoureux MacDufie came from Pinehurst, N. C., with her prize winning twins, Gerard and Claire. Dr. John Shepard, plastic surgeon, together with Mrs. Shepard, nee Anna Theroux, came from far away Chile. Sen. Kenneth Pearson came from his adopted state of Virginia. George Morton and his Duffy Serenaders Orchestra came from the Fogarty-Carb ton in Chicago. Vivian Jodoin, was pianist for this world renowned orchestra. Madeleine Cournoyer, teacher of Elocution and Debating at the University of Valpariso. William Muskoluk, automobile salesman in Buffalo, and Marcel Archambault, president of Potter's Chewing Gum Company were other notables present. Olaf Abramson, president of Cornell, came with Esther Nietupski, Grace Walker and Estelle Saucier, leading ladies in the Hanley's Follies. Irene Essex and Andrew Faulds, marathon runners, journeyed from their home town in North Dakota. Olivette Bouchard with her husband and grandchildren, came in their Girouard 32 cylinder bus, with Mangan attachments. The following came on the Morton, of the New York Ex- press: Ruth Hutchins, who controlled the ups and downs of the elevators in the Sharkey Building, and Olive Bartlett whose fondness for canines had made her monopolist of hot dog emporiums in America. George Kresge, who had become famous through his perfection of a squirtless grapefruit, and Emilien Verrier, who was head of the committee to convince Congress that there is not suiiicient glue on stamps and who advocates that postage stamps be generously smeared with raspberry- flavored mucilage, arrived on horseback. The National Holiday of June 20, was celebrated at the Athletic Field by an elaborate program. Those taking part in the exercises were, Theresa Cote, who had become famous through her 6 for 3100 massages, which were guaranteed to put on anywhere from 5 to 50 lbs. in a weekg Charles Bourgault, who had broken the pole sitting record and whose beauty has so enhanced the appearance of the Swanson Metropolitan Building, that he is to be installed as a permanent fixture at an appropriate ceremony on next Labor Dayg Edward Franklin, who had been elected mayor of the Gangster City by one vote on the new Patriotic ticket, Kuba Lukowic, swimming instructor at Rutgers, Olga Richtarik, interior decorator for the Northup Coffin Qcoughingb Co., and Maisie Kenyon, whose fifth husband is old Charlie Chaplin. 63