Westerly High School - Westlyan Yearbook (Westerly, RI)

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The Senior Year Book — 1942 and there's a new sweater girl, Kay Pan-ciera. Charles Manfredi and Robert Carr are efficient cameramen and are really reeling them off. Claire Taillon, Jane Nestor, and Dorothy Walker are the triple stars in the hit of the season, “Three Gay Bachelor Girls.” Edward Parry is now writing Morgan’s scripts and each joke is funnier than the last. FERI)—(Turning to Washington) Mac-Arthur is now President and Robert Bit-good and James Dow are serving as his aides—their reward for being two of the aviators who finally ousted the Japs. Look up there in Grand Rapids. Isn’t that Louis Coazolino, running a (match and toothpick factory to supply his own demand of special wood? BOB—Let’s see who’s at Miami. Just look at Foster Niles, the glamour boy of Miami surrounded by bathing beauties. Yes, there’s Tommy Maines, the new Charles Atlas. Boy, what strength! IRENE—(turning the telescope) Well, isn’t that Sam Cherenzia selling ice and Lawrence Faitani canvassing Cleveland with his newly patented back-scrubber and scratcher? (turning) Here we are back in New York again. Harry Crandall is now master of ceremonies at the Waldorf Astoria, with Marjorie Capalbo as his featured vocalist. The world-renowned Russell Smith has just finished his latest and best symphony, “Fantastic Echoes.” And over at Carnegie Hall, Angelo Spo-sato, the “Harmonica King,” is giving a concert. FERI)—How about a peek? Lima, Peru, is the scene of the Western Hemisphere Olympics and Nat Broccolo is there to break more records as pole vaulter. Bill Eleazer and Michael Levcowich are also winning eternal fame for the United States as milers. Natale Falcone is acting as their manager and advisor. Wake up. Bob, it’s your turn. BOB—I see a Bathing Beauty Contest to select Miss America of '52. Lewis Rath-bun and Bill Baldwin are supreme judges. Boy, what a difference! And after much deliberating they have unanimously chosen Agnes Rozanski. Pat Toscano has collected so many dance records that he'3 wondering if he should build a special room for them or sell them back. IRENE—Look here, boys—James Sisco has won the Nobel Prize for inventing an alarm clock that, because of an electric eye, will not shut off until you’re out of bed. Oh, yes, Clifford Mitchell, Frances Knight, and Ruth Montalto are now' retiring as millionaires living on the interest from their defense bonds bought back in ’42. BOB—I see that Louis Algier is Chief Doughnut Hole Inspector and Joe Cotter is his right-hand man. (Turning the telescope) There’s a yacht sailing over the Caribbean Sea. It’s the “Venus de Milo” and Bob Smith is its captain. Some of his crew include Joseph Colosi, Schuyler McCall, and Charles McCormick. FERD—Dorothy Eccleston now doubles for a talking machine and w'hen she isn’t available, Ruth Kelley replaces her w'ith the greatest of ease. Madeline Vuono has a w'orld reputation as the “Petite Poetess Parfaite.” Duke Abbruzzese has a little barber shop on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street and specializes in men’s marcels. Next door is a beauty shop operated by Evelyn O’Donnell who is arranging Rose Regine’s hair in the latest style, the downsweep. Rose is one of the city’s wealthiest socialites. IRENE—Let me look, for a change. There’s a new building in Times Square. The signs says, “C. Arnone, Publications.” On the staff are Priscilla Brown, Claire Turco, Rose Verzillo, columnists, and Mary Uzzi, illustrator. Anna Evans is the snooping reporter. (Turning the telescope.) In Los Angeles, Richard Smith and his “hill billies” are playing at Grau-man’s Chinese Restaurant. BOB—Look here. I see Paul Tate headlined as the new bantamweight champ of the world. Now that cars are coming into their own again, Ethel Hindle and Doris Crandall, two prominent philanthropists, are happily speeding over the highways rushing with all the other girls to Hazel Perkins’ exclusive dress shoppe. Hazel is designing gowns made of glass cloth. Ann Gencarelli is creating dippy hats and accessories of plastic to go with them. 11 }3»—

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The Senior Year Book — 1942 Class Prophecy Boom, bang, crash, smash? ! () ! ! ! ? ? ? (short period of silence). FERD—Well--------here we are on the moon and it’s still May 28, 1952, the same day we started from the Earth. Our rocket ship certainly performed as expected, including the crash landing. The clever inventors, Jesse James, John Tus-cano, and Ethel Whiteley, certainly deserve credit; our only criticism being Ethel’s inexperience at making springs. Boy, oh boy! What a landing! IRENE—Well, at least we’re not hurt. Let’s see if our super-duper atomic telescope, constructed especially for the expedition by Robert Young and Harold Payne, has escaped damage. BOB—Oh, don’t worry, it was made of that extraordinary non-effervescing metal compounded by our ingenious chemists, Eleanor Narciso and Rodman Greene. This being the tenth anniversary of our graduation from our Alma Mater, why not investigate the earth with our telescope and determine what our classmates are doing with their lives? FERD—An excellent idea—is it focused on Westerly? What can you see, Bob? BOB—What do I see? Well, if it isn’t George Cottrell, still reading magazines while working as president of the Mermaids’ Bathing Toggery. Under his employ are Mary Wolstencroft and Rita Feli-cetti as head designers. IRENE—Let me have a turn. You haven’t a monopoly on it, have,you? Oh, there’s Bernice Turnbull writing a history of the United States and correcting errors in the Hayes and Moon textbook Now I see Peggy Saunders and Mary Fin-ster running the Rollerdrome skating rink. Doris Field and Minnie Loughborough are in Woolworth’s doing more giggling than work. It’s quite dark in the United but I see that Helen Piccolo and Marion Sil-vestri are still with the fleet. FERD—How about my turn? I see that Jimmy Woodfield and Wilwyn Simmons are grave diggers, and still playing with skeletons. Wally Greig is president of the Westerly Town Council with Rose Sammataro, Walter Gardner, and Frank Capalbo as fellow members. Well, if Roy Knight and Frances Gorskoski aren’t still struggling to get to work on time for the N. Y., N. H., Hartford R. R. as timekeepers. Take a look. Bob. BOB—Gene Rose and Connie Wright are now a professional dancing team entertaining and instructing at Vars Brothers. And there’s Libby Zonfrillo, still the glamour girl of Ashaway, putting on the dabs of whipped cream for the soda fountain customers. Rose Paterno, Kathleen Cercena, and Angeanette Fusaro are now in the business of “Advice to the Lovelorn, some of their special customers being Caroline Wilbar, Eugene Notkin, Carolyn Crandall, and Warren Brown. IRENE—There are Jean Graham as our girls’ gym instructor and Nordino Pan-ciera as basketball coach. Look, Mike Gua-rino and Ed Gencarelli are co-coaches of Stonington. Just as one would expect, it takes two former W. H. S. boys to teach Stonington basketball. FERD—Why, there’s Blanche Y’ezina in charge of Westerly Library with Eleanor Howard as one of her assistants. Let’s turn to some other section. We must have exhausted Westerly. BOB—Okay—It's focused on New York now. Eddie Tourtellotte is playing for the New York Yankees but he can’t seem to strike out Cookie Laudone, the “Home Run King.” Look who’s modeling for I. J. Fox Furs Studio—Sally Archie and Chick Grispino! At the Empire Theatre Lloyd Coon and Lily Tamer are playing the tyrant Macbeth and “his fiendlike Queen. ’ I see Gerard Nardone and Gertrude Schwabe as leading stars in the Metropolitan Opera. They are the world’s most famous Isolde and Tristram. IRENE—Let’s look in on Hollywood with our telescope. Genevieve Dubiel has just succeeded in getting her scenario accepted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — S( io )■ -

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The Senior Year Book — 1942 IRENE—Ruth Brown has just returned from her cross-country travels and Frances Boyington is a farmerette in Shan-nock. Now that the war is over Philo-mene Motes is a beautician and is making the girls feminine again since slacks have been put away. Elaine LoPriore and Elvira Malagrino are making nail polish in every color of the rainbow to go with each costume. Here, Ferd, you look at the world for awhile. FERD—In the Westerly A P Super Market, Joe Pescatello is the new produce manager and Pete Vocatura has taken over the meat market. I see that Ken Sayles is earning a dollar an hour playing nursemaid to beautiful babies whose mothers are flying planes for the Pan-American Airways. Look at Saul Saila. He’s now a forest ranger in Glacier Park and still has opportunities to enjoy his favorite pastime of “angling.” BOB—Lemme look—I can see Virginia Hurtado crossing the finishing line in a roller skating cross-country race. And Mary Capalbo is in her seventh heaven as an airplane hostess. Whee—just gaze at that snazzy red racing car!—and it’s Jean Champlin at the wheel just being crowned with flowers for coming off first in the international auto races. IRENE—I see that Jean Dreczko has taken over the duties as secretary at our old Alma Mater. She has been granted special permission to ring the fire alarm system five times a week. Donald Miller is still going around incognito behind his dark glasses trying to give the impression that he’s who he isn’t. It is said he is really the world’s greatest detective. Ruth Shippee and Thelma Burdick are cooking at Norwich Inn; their food now being the talk of the town. FERD—(turning the telescope) Loretta Devine is editor-in-chief of the largest, most liberal magazine in circulation, the “Whiz.” Virginia Celico and Myrtle Grinnell are expert and efficient secretaries at Westerly Telephone Company. Here, Bob, you may look now'. BOB—Shirley Haston’s hat shoppe on Fifth Avenue contains the very latest in milady’s so-called millinery. Ina Babcock and Priscilla Dove are making millions by manufacturing gum for high school students. They have invented a kind which if chewed consistently will make failure in exams impossible. Kay Grills is about to be married for the third time; and look who is head nurse at The Westerly Hospital—Kay Crowley. IRENE—(turning telescope) I can see Darkest Africa and a caravan headed by those two famous explorers, Arlene Church and Evelyn Palmer. They’re hunting for an unknown species of ferocious cat. (Turning again) Lillian Weimar is an influential diplomat in the New InterContinental Court founded by David Par-nigoni and other allied diplomats. FERD—Well, the rocket ship is all set to go and we’ve seen all our classmates except Justin McCarthy, Seigel Ralls, and Edward Hoiniski. Let’s take off. (Pause for a few seconds.) We’re approaching the earth, hold your hats tight. Hang on! (The ship hits the earth with such terrific force that it penetrates it a depth of three miles and comes to rest in a subterranean passage.) No wonder we didn’t see the other boys for they’re using the new earth-boring machine and are bringing to completion this Super-Perfect International Roadway from Westerly to Calcutta right through the middle of the earth. Let’s take this new road home. FERDINAND COMOLLI IRENE TOUGAS ROBERT CARD Prophets — 8f 12 )§►-