Westerly High School - Westlyan Yearbook (Westerly, RI)

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Tn f. Senior Year Book — 1944 ALICE: What are Elaine Mantles and Mildred Tefft doing, sitting in the middle of that patch? PEARL: I don’t know but I guess they are unstringing string beans. HOB: Ha! 11a! That’s a good one. MARGE: You haven’t seen anything yet. Look at Eileen Niles harvesting her eatable weeds. ALICE: It’s about time for the daily news broadcast. Look up, everyone. BOB: He's right on time. Bud Clemens has been making a profitable profession out of sky-writing the current news. A star reporter of his is Margaret Wilson. PEARL: What’s he writing? MARGE: That smoke line says that Sarah Lihou will be featured as “Baby Be Good” at the Star Theatre. ALICFI: She always did have an appealing voice. PEARL: Gosh! It’s raining. No more news for today. MARGE: Let’s watch Nat Capalbo playing a tune on the streaks of rain. BOB: What was that? Another streak! It was Leslie Smith’s tricopter which he made from his 1934 Ford. Vincent Rose helps Leslie to keep it running smoothly. MARGE: What beautiful colors in that rainbow! Ethel Palmer, Irene Servidio, and Louise Vuono.seem to be heading in the direction of the end of the rainbow. Must be searching for the pot of gold. ALICE: Let’s join them in their search. BOB: O. K. fellow prophets. Let’s be on our way. ALL: Farewell to Ardenville and to the Class of 1944. P. S. Any similarity to a member of aforementioned class will be a miracle! ALICE BRESSETTE MARJORIE OPPY PEARL RICCI ROBERT CHAMBERLAIN Prophets In Memory of Archibald McVicar June 11, 1935 My mind goes back for several years, To the time when 1 was a child of eight. And to thoughts of a curly-headed boy. Who was spared the sight of a world in hate. He was not known by all the call. But we who knew him held him dear; And loving him. could we wish him back In this world of battle, pain, and fear? —Alice Giannoni For we picture him on a winding road. Only a little way before— O. please, dear Lord, watch over him. That he may be happy forevermore. Former George Babcock Nat Babcock Members of James Bressette Bernard Clemens Class Now Arthur Garafola Robert Smith in Service Donald Tetlow Louis Zanella -- 13)3-

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Tiif. Senior Year Book — 1944 ALICE: Doesn’t this beat all! Look at George Jepherson and Ray Burdick sitting under this broiling sun, engaged in a very calm game of checkers. MARGE: Oh! Oh! Joe Faitani is dashing down the street snouting Hail! Ilail! BOB: Maybe he is welcoming us. PEARL: No — silly! Feel that hail. Must be as big as ice cubes. ALICE: I hear that every time it hails here, Barbara Smith invites all of Arden-ville over for ice water. MARGE: Hurray! The hail is turning to snow. And here’s Richard Lamb with his head in a snow pile and his feet up in the clouds. Must be trying out his new skis. PEARL: Isn’t that an easy way of getting rid of the snow? It’s Jean Coon and Jeanne Merithew using a sun lamp. ALICE: Carmela Pignataro and Margaret Toscano seem to be heading toward the lake. Carmela fishes through the ice while Polly throws the poor fishes back into the water. BOB: On the other end of the lake are Maurice Laing and Eddie Hindle pearl diving while beside them Shirley Sanders works diligently collecting periwinkles, and Winnie Walker and Marion Sherman are waiting patiently on the shore to get a chance to use their extra long finger nails in opening the oysters. MARGE: Watch Joe Silver and Donald Tetlow acting as coolies whizzing that sleigh over the snow. And they have Frances Gilchrist ringing the sleigh bells, a very responsible position. PEARL: Carolyn Barber, Phylis Burdick, and Sue Capalbo are having fun dangling their feet off the back! BOB: It’s a good thing they are enjoying themselves now because in a few moments the snow will disappear. It’s getting warmer already. ALICE: Do you hear what I hear? Frances Sherman and Nora DiPaola giving their famous lecture entitled “Silence Is Golden.” MARGE: Oh! Look! Reggie Brown is taking advantage of the remaining snow by pitching snowballs to get in practice for his favorite pastime of pitching woo. PEARL: While we are on that subject, Margaret Carey, Anne Waddington, and Bev Maine have established a bureau for the lovelorn. Joe Ruisi seems to be a steady customer of theirs. MARGE: There’s a new turn of history. Bunt Garafolo imitating the ride of Paul Revere on his trusty steed, Mortimer the Turtle. BOB: And to start Bunt off, they used Tony (T. N. T.) Turano. ALICE: That cactus bush hasn’t any thorns on it. PEARL: That’s old stuff. You know, Barbara Clark, Marion Eleazer, and Helen Lanphere plucked all the needles for Carolyn Spencer and Shirley Thayer. Carolyn and Shirley use these needles to sew their famous cob-web stockings that have brought them such a fortune. BOB: I’m outnumbered, and it’s getting dark. MARGE: Don’t worry, Bob. A favorite hobby of Mary Gabrielle is catching lightning bugs which she sells to be used as lanterns. PEARL: There are Frances Gaccione and Mary Lallo purchasing one to help them in their search for five-leaf clovers. ALICE: Dot Whiteley and Marjorie Clarke ought to buy one to make the reading of Shakespeare a little easier. They interpret his plays for unpoetic students— only fifty cents a line. BOB: Yeowee! I feel something slippery rubbing against my ankle. MARGE: Silly boy! That’s Jenny Gril-lo’s pet seal. She taught it how to dance in six easy lessons. BOB: What a relief! PEARL: Gosh, that sun is blinding. Am I seeing things or is that really Margaret Montalto and Irene Priore trying to bounce eggs? Won’t they be surprised when they find that eggs don’t bounce? Or perhaps they do here in Ardenville. ALICE: I think I need glasses. Tell me, is that really Bob Collings and Francis Quattromani? And look at those suits that they have on! MARGE: Gert Tyler must have sold them those. She can sell anything. BOB: But she couldn’t possibly sell anything without the assistance of Stella Sad-dow and Nancy Ritacco. -- e( 12

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The Senior Year Book — 1944 Class of 1944 Edwin R. Connors Football (co-captain), Track (2), Baseball (2), Senior Board, Student Council (president 4), Class President 3, 4, Prom Committee, Senior Play, Traffic Officer (4). Behol I! Our dashing class president, an all-round chap. “Archie” has proven to be an outstanding football player, and also a policeman who stood his place in front of the office. Being such a popular person—class officer for three years, president of student council, how can he prove that “Women and money are the root of all evil?” C’L VSS OFFICERS—Back Row. 1946. Farquhar Smith. Edgar Maxson. Robert Clarke. Dorothy Autry. Middle Row: 1945. Corinne Palm, Thomas Salimeno. Simon Majeika, Sally Briggs. Front Row: 1944. John Sposato, Robert Connors. Joseph Faitani. Pearl Ricci. - 41 •+)• -