Westerly High School - Westlyan Yearbook (Westerly, RI)

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The Senior Year Book — 1935 with whipped cream, as they are giving a shower tonight for Cathryn Farrell, local umbrella manufacturer. News Item: Helen Crandall and Marie Alexander have started a bullfrog farm. They say that there is nothing quite so sweet and appealing as a group of tadpoles playing hopscotch. News Item: Miss Bertha Whiteley recently won all the prizes for horse races at the County Fair. Her champions were ridden by Dorothea Chaffee, America's best professional jockey. One of our leading automobile manufacturers, Chester Novak, has predicted that if Miss Whiteley puts her super-horses on the market, the automobile may soon be obsolete. News Item: Henry Bacon and Arthur Beaudreau, radio team, have just signed a long term contract with Station AWOL. Mr. Bacon sings tenor, and Mr. Beaudreau just vocalizes. Mr. Bacon was absent last week, due to a slight cold, and many letters were received asking who repaired the transmitter. News Item: George Anderson, song writer, has recently completed a smashing hit about the sweetest story ever told, the title being “Your Credit Is Good Here.” Advertisement: Gertrude Morrison and Helen Walker, toe dancers who have appeared before the crowmed heads of Quarry Hill, will today begin a week's engagement at the Daisy Theatre. There is a bit of gossip around that Miss Walker has threatened to quit because Miss Morrison will not dance on her own toes. News Item: Mr. George French, manager of the large chain of Daisies, has recently returned from Chesapeake Bay where he has been harpooning oysters. Advertisement: Buy your groceries, automobile supplies, dress goods, tinware, and livestock at Le-Roy Chaffee’s Up-to-Date Drug Store. Delivery service by the chief salesman. Bill Urban. Good quality at reasonable prices. News Item: Michael Turano, nationally known trainer of Notre Dame’s gridiron cohorts, has announced his intention of retiring. He says that he will return to Westerly and raise petunias. News Item: Violet Adamo, Josephine Azzinaro, Mary Cherenza. and Ellen Costanza, local jellyfish fanciers, will enter their prize specimens in the annual jelly-fish derby. News Item: Frances Ferguson and Dorothea Bogue have just returned from Brazil where they have been studying squirrels. They say that the more one feeds them dill pickles, the better they like nuts. News Item: Florence Paladino, Olympic diving champion, will leap from the top of the Washington Trust Building into a cup of tea. Her manager, Maurice Leon, says that unless he gets his ten per cent, he will not put any sugar in the tea. News Item: Joseph Corey’s collection of animal pictures is now on exhibition at the Public Library. The pictures were made from the menagerie of Edna Salisbury, rising young naturalist. Mr. Corey’s “Portrait of a Disconsolate Crayfish” is generally considered a masterpiece. Advertisement: Patsy Iacoi’s Billiard Emporium De Luxe announces a coming attraction. A week from Thursday, Stephen Chernasky, the musclebound 18.2 balkline champion of Washington County, will make a personal appearance here. News Item: Miss Janet Coleman has recently returned from Paris, where she has been designing heels. While she was over there she met Donald Graham and Thomas Broadfoot, builder-uppers in the steel business, who were well fitted to lend a few’ sugestions. The Misses Elizabeth Ferguson, Gertrude LaMarche, Dorothy Clarke, and Katherine Rathbun, of the Westerly Black and Blues, who last year occupied the cellar position in the ping-pong league, left early this morning for a two-hour visit in Bradford to confer with Miss Lillian Coates, the present singles champion. News Item: Our own Alice Bliven, who finally got to Hollyw’ood, will give a personal appear-

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The Senior Year Book — 1935 Point, was seriously annoyed at his reception here today. He insists that it was inexcusable for the band, under the direction of Lois Berry, to play “He Was a Little Tin Soldier,” instead of “Hail, the Conquering Hero Comes.” Major Wood says that he will not remain in such au unappreciative town, but will leave at once for Wyoming, where he will visit the scenes of his childhood. Social Notes: That attractive and eligible bachelor and man-about-town, Donald Crandall, was among the guests at a tea yesterday afternoon at the luxurious home of Jean Robertson, a leader in social circles. Miss Charlotte Patterson was the guest of honor, and read several of her latest literary works to the admiring assembly. News Item: Prof. Allen Cornell, A. B. C. D. E. F. G„ one of the leading entomologists of the country, has succeeded in exterminating the insect which began to attack bank rolls way back in 1929. When interviewed by Douglas Gardiner, star reporter. Dr. Cornell stated, with his customary modesty, that he takes no credit for his amazing achievements, but considers himself merely an ordinary “buggist.” In Pauline Webster’s “Advice to Lovers” column, we find a letter from Kurt Harries, beauty specialist, asking how he can be sure which of twenty charming girls he really loves. Miss Webster refuses to settle this momentous question, but refers him to Michael Olcowick, the “Romeo of the Screen.” who is said to be an adept in affairs of the heart. Advertisement: Marion Weigel has returned from Paris and opened a Style Shop here. She is known in France as well as in this country as a designer of the most charming gowns. Some of her creations were worn by Broadway’s newest star, Betty Holiday, in Madeline Zerbarini’s “Follies of 1945.” News Item: Edward Cercena, James Hall, Gilbert Handley, and Thomas Whitehead will leave next week for the South Pole on an extensive hunt for whistling walruses. Lillian Pirhonen, Gelena Susena, Dorothy Dinwoodie, and Florence Hurtado have announced their intentions of exhibiting at the next World’s Fair a new species of bovine which drinks no water, gives condensed milk, and furnishes excellent dried beef. News Item: Thomas Wills, automobile magnate, whose rapid rise to success astounded all of us, will next week place on the market his new Super-Six Hunkajunk. It is equipped with no-brakes and water wings. Advertisement: Come to Mattie Jackson’s Drug Store to get your lead-plated corn poppers. With every two dozen corn poppers purchased, an autographed stove lid will be given away. News Item: Miss Clarice James is to lecture before the gymnasium classes of Westerly High School under the direction of Marguerite Simmons, physical instructor, on the value of a johnny-cake and potato diet. Miss James is widely known as an authority on this subject. News Item: Emily Sposato, Jennie Tassone, and Rose Turco, proprietors of the Bide-a-Wee Home for Spinsters, have lost a valued guest. Ruth Brown, who has just embarked on a matrimonial career. Miss Brown selected her spouse through Jessie Fish’s Matrimonial Agency. Advertisement: Have your new teeth fitted by Paul Giuliano. He is a dentist of good repute and is recommended by many prominent people, among whom are Esther Crandall, famous prima donna of Alfred Sculco's new opera: Vincent Tuscano, mayor of Chicago; and Joseph Walthers, noted novelist and playwright and twice winner of the Pulitzer prize. If I)r. Giuliano is not m his office, his nurse, Beatrice Hill, will extract your teeth as painfully as the Doctor himself. News Item: Palmer Williams, Police Commissioner of White Rock, is greatly worried over the present crime wave. Seven chickens and a goat have been purloined in the past fortnight. Commissioner Williams was playing solitaire with the rest of the force when the breaks occurred. He picked up three suspicious looking characters, but they turned out to be Dorothy Rathbun, Helen Rhodes, and Mildred Sawyer. They had been picking caterpillar nests to fill -«f 12 )►-

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The Senior Year Book — 1935 ance here tomorrow in connection with her new picture, “The Great Silence.” News Item: Andrew Low, eminent scientist and mathematician, has at last succeeded in measuring the exact dimensions of an atom. Dr. Low says his task would have been much easier if it had not baen necessary for him to do so much of his research in the sixth and seventh dimensions. Irja Ojala, who interviewed Dr. Low for this paper, wants to know' what he’s going to do about it, now that he has found the measurements. News Item: Dr. Elizabeth Leon was arrested today for vivisecting a hippopotamus in her laboratory. Her secretary, Jeannette Barber, reported her to Louis Vezina, president of the S. P. C. A., who immediately called the police. Miss Leon is now awaiting trial in the county jail. She has engaged a shrewd lawyer, James Steadman, to defend her against DeVere Kuehn, State’s attorney, whose argumentative talents are a source of anxiety to Dr. Leon’s friends. Advertisement: While in town, stop at the Elysian Hotel, under its new manager, Dorothy Shepard. A new corps of charming waitresses have been engaged, including Mary Rose, Constance Nardone, Esther Pan-ciera, and Marguerite Crowley. The chef, Charles Larkin, has cooked in famous European hotels. New's Item: Stella Ulles, former manager of the Elysian Hotel, has retired to a ranch near Weekapaug, where she will raise prize fleas for circuses. They will be trained by Peter DePerry, who has trained some of the most intelligent fleas in captivity. New's Item: The steamer U. S. A. Flatilla, owned by Louise McMahon, was wrecked last week near a small island in the South Seas. Among those who sought refuge on this island were a troupe of beautiful dancers who w’ere going to England for appearances in all the London theatres. This troupe consisted of Rose Curzio, Alice Davis, Nancy Gingerella, Frances Ingham, and Gilda Gulluscio, and their manager, Lois Larkin. On the island they met Irene Dammeyer and Gladys Pratt, business women, who were camping there. The entire company came home today in Miss Dammeyer’s yacht. It has been interesting to read the exciting news and to find so many names familiar to me and to know how the present generation is running the world. Surely Westerly High School has reason to be proud of her illustrious alumni of the class of 1935. —Ethel Pearl Maines. —DeVere Keuhn. (Claafi 'g’mtg Tune: “There Is a Tavern in the Town 1 We love our high school Love it well, Love it well, But now must leave it. Sad to tell, Sad to tell, We’ve spent three years within its hall, But all our lives will heed its call. REFRAIN: Fare thee well, for we must leave thee, Do not let the parting grieve thee, And remember that the best of friends must part, must part. Adieu, adieu, dear school, adieu, adieu, adieu, We can no longer stay with you, stay with you, Throughout our lives we’ll always cherish thee And ever loyal be. 2 We’ve read our French, and Learned it well, Learned it well, We’ve written themes Between the bells, ’Tween the bells! We’ve typed, and sung— We’ve boosted all our sports And from our teachers wisdom sought. —Arranged by Natalie Sherman. —Sf u) --