Westerly High School - Westlyan Yearbook (Westerly, RI)

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20 The Senior Year Book—1932 Standing on a pile of soap boxes, which are balanced by Edna Crandall, and surrounded by an admiring audience, stands Mae Fowkes, lecturing about the advisability of sending fur coats to the starving natives in South America. Another of our number has entered the literary field. Betty Thompson’s book, “The Correct Thing to Do Under Any Circumstances,” has been made famous through her efforts and those of her editor, Mary Low. I am greatly surprised to see that Mary Lynch, Mary Clancy, and Athelina Capalbo have become professional mourners. How some of these people we know have changed! Running the largest merry-go-round at Coney Island I find Naomi Gardiner, and selling lolly-pops I see Marion Kirby. That is hardly a surprise, however, for I remember how well she once liked them. The scene again changes, and this time I am in Africa, where Joe Markoff and Jack Mudge are ardent big game hunters. Their luck has been very good lately, their last catch being a rat eight inches long and an African hummingbird. Well, here is a third in our class to become a writer. Maurice Itchkawich is a celebrated poet, and his poetry readings are so much in demand in ladies’ social circles that it has been necessary for him to hire Jimmie Iacoi as his secretary and'manager. It seems that gigolos are as important to society as ever, and Julius LaPietra and Louis Trebisacci have filled two of the positions in that field. Remembering Higinio Vega’s constant criticism of the dresses we girls used to wear back in 1932, I am pleased to see that he has become as influential a costume designer in Paris as Lucien Lelong. Among his many very attractive manikins are Nellie Kizeik, Mildred Kirby, and Barbara Sherman. The most modern nd most completely equipped dairy in the State of Rhode Island is run by Mary Savy and her valuable partner, Teresa Maini. John Trebisacci has, after many years of hard work, obtained the degree Master of Science, and is now earnestly searching for the still Missing Link. Two others who have taken to the field of science are Theresa Matarese and Loraine Toolin. They have earned a great deal of note and admiration through their Matarese-Toolin Theory, said to be more complicated than that of Einstein, which was so famous in 1932, and to have quite overshadowed it.

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The Senior Year Book—1932 19 A sumptuous villa in France appears before me, and, strolling leisurely in the surrounding gardens, are Margaret Keenan and her husband, Count Giabbagoff. Fanny Burdick, Tillie Levcowich, and Margaret Brindle are found searching frantically for the lost leading lady of their Redding-Machio flea circus, for which they are world famous. A brightly painted sign tells me what has become of two of our number. “Madame Virginia Murray’s Beauty Parlor—We Specialize in Reducing—Madamoiselle Rhoda Hicks, Applier of Cosmetics.” We remember how adept Rhoda once was in the art of rouge application. It is perfectly evident that Anna Sisson has succeeded her mother in the real estate business, and she seems to be doing remarkably well with it. With the aid of her two assistants, Fanny Brucker and Marion Brundage, she has just sold, for an exorbitant price, an acre of land at Charlestown which, at high tide, is ten feet under water. Anna always was a good saleswoman. A brightly polished ice wagon slowly makes its way to the foreground. Victor Gervasini and Edward Saddow have taken over tKe Gervasini Ice Company, and are making a great success of it, in spite of all the electric refrigerators. Laura Walker, playing the solo cornet, ig accompanied by a more tuneful than ever Westerly Band, among whose members are Eleanor Williamson, Mary Clarke, vigorously tooting a flute, and Dick Coduri, enthusiastically beating the drums. It does not surprise me to find that Walter Browning has been officially proclaimed the laziest man and the slowest talker in the world. Edwin Knerr has established a prospering Home for Old and Crippled Cats, wThere neither he nor his assistants, Gustav Siller and Thomas Webster, can stir a step in any direction without cries of affection from the adoring inmates. Robert Mudge has departed for Switzerland, where he lives in blissful solitude on the highest and most isolated mountain peak, away from the eyes of hero-worshipping ladies. His peace is sometimes a little disturbed by the clear yodeling of Grace and Emma Sunderland, wdio have become two of the most efficient guides among the Alps. Bless my telescope! What is this? Two of my former classmates have taken advantage of Boom Bridge Naval Academy’s having at last opened its doors to women. Both Rhoda Pengelley and Dorothy McKay hold the rank of second lieutenant, the highest rank granted there.

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The Senior Year Book.—1932 21 It gives me a great deal of pleasure to see that Lola Mon-talto and her husband have taken over the management of a new Zoo in Roger Williams Park in Providence. They seem to be enjoying the work very much and have purchased many new varieties of animals, increasing the number by about twenty rare species of jungle folk. Another who has taken to mountain heights is Emma Turano, watchman in the forestry tower on the summit of beautiful Mt. Washington, New Hampshire. Since she has been there watching so conscientiously, there have been no serious fires. It is not difficult for me to sympathize with the elation whi h you all must be experiencing as a result of the won-dertiil preceding revelations. Therefore, it is with regret that I must prick these bubbles of Self-Satisfaction. It is only just to warn you that Peaks of Fame, such as these, can never be reached without most strenuous endeavor on your part. Even the Stars of Fate cannot help those who will not help themselves. Is it not, however, encouraging to realize how infinitely favored you are, and how much easier for you to ascend will be the Pathway of Attainment, than for those less fortunate mortals who struggle upward blindly, unable to even see their GoaH Strive onward then, nobly and bravely, dear classmates, and never despair, that you may at last reach the summit whfcre these Glorious Awards await you, beneath the smiling stars! —Dorothy Lillian Rodger