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Thf. Senior Year Book — 1951 Class Prophecy “WHAT WE MAY BE” (With apologies to Shakespeare and Ophelia) It is the year of our Lord nineteen-hundred sixty-two when we come upon Professor David Pinardi, Dean of Classical Music at Tiawanna Tech. It seems that the Professor has recently been elected by popular vote of Y. W. C. A. poll, The Most Dangerous Bachelor of the Year.” Let us follow Dr. Pinardi on one of his typical daily routines. In his mad rush (a la Dagwood) to make the 8:43 bus to the University, he literally flattens his mailman, Robert McGibbon, who is just about to drop the mail into the mailbox. Not aware of this sudden impact, our Professor continues on his hectic dash to the corner bus stop. Waiting at the same corner for the bus is Jacquelyn Car-lesi, a very successful dental hygienist, who now is working for that renowned dentist, William Scott, formerly known as “Wild Bill from Potter Hill.” As the bus pulls up to the corner, the Professor climbs in and cheerfully greets John Chaffee, the bus driver. While walking down the aisle to the rear of the bus, he notices Margaret Bray, Mary Coughlin, and Louisa Wardman gay-ly chatting about the new Broadway production, “Three Gals and a Guy,” in which the three have leading roles. The play is produced by Ronald Panciera and Roger Grimes. He finds a seat next to that mad scientist, Andre “Instein” Tarase-vich. The two discuss the marvelous new cure for flat feet, invented by John Monti, the renowned medical practitioner. Glancing through his morning paper, Dr. Pinardi spies on the front page in bold headlines that Attorney Joseph Kozlin has again successfully defended that notorious jewel thief, Cliiford Smith. Also splashed in big headlines on the front page is the news that those two well-known inventors, Richard Hill and Hiram Barber, have just invented a revolutionary car engine. It has taken many years of careful research and manipulation, but the two finally have come up with their rubber-band engine for automobiles. Turning the page, he notices that Mary Ceplenski has just completed her concert tour in Europe and has returned to the States for further piano study under that great maestro, David Stenhouse, who is part time waterboy for Donald “Duck” Gingerella’s basketball team the “Quackers.” At the present time, Mary has almost mastered the intricate techniques involved in the execution of “Managua Nicaragua.” A few star players for the team are Frank Ruisi, Joseph Serra, Samuel Antoch, and Louis Ferando. The next game scheduled for this colossal team is the one against Barbara Sposato’s fighting fiive, “The Boston Bloomer Girls.” Two players on her team are Margaret Terranova and Virginia Ter-ranova. As our gallant Professor is meandering through the fine print of the society page, he notices that Joan Barrett has made her debut as a torch singer in Ralph LaPere’s night club, La Chi-Chi Clubbe. On the sports page, Dave comes across a few names of former classmates. He sees that Paul Meyer, Louis Masucci, and Fred Savage have made the Pro-All-American Football team and will play in the Cereal Bowl on New Year’s morning. He also notices that those two great high school track stars, Karl Johnson and Richard Mansfield, have again made sports headlines. In this year’s Olympics, Karl has broken the world’s record for the 100-yard dash by .999 of a second, and Dick has jumped one-quarter of an inch over the world record of high jumping. Not neglecting his favorite section, our Professor turns to the comic page. He reads with enthusiasm Edward Pinkowski’s comic strip, “The Adventures of the Wandering Arab,” based on the explorations of Robert Gavitt in the moldy wilderness of outer Shannock. Finally reaching the back page, he notices that the illustrious law firm of Cofone, Cofone, and Cofoni, Angelo, Peter, and Peter, respectively) with the aid of their very capable secretary, Ann Cofone, have attained another victory in the field of law. As the bus comes to a squeaky halt, Dave makes a beeline for the front exit, and barely misses getting caught between the two doors. After his narrow escape, he begins his two-block walk to the University. Having taken approximately one step, he runs smack into his old acquaintance, Vivian Clarke, who is Dean of English Literature at Kings-Lee Kollege. Just before he reaches the gate of the University, he spies “the Bobbettes” (Robert Brucker, Robert West, Robert Pellegrino, Robert Champlin, and Robert Twigley) selling peanuts at the gateway. Gayly chatting and chomping on their peanuts are Dorothy Reynolds, Helen Ruisi, Ann Carr,
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The Senior Year Book — 1951 and Helen Cahoon. The girls are graduate students at the school and take this means to exercise the jaw muscles. As he turns his head to wave to the caretakers, Francis Sisco and Richard Ahern, he is knocked for a loop by Joyce King who is frantically trying to catch up to her bosom pal, Florence Obermann Cross. Picking up his weary bones. Dr. Pinardi heads for the conference room, where the faculty is holding a meeting. Among the faculty members are Doris Kimball, Professor of Agriculture; Vera Maine, Professor of History; Joyce Kreyssig, Professor of Romance Languages, and James McElroy, Professor of Mathematics. His stomach tells him the faculty meeting is over and he goes to the cafeteria to see what the chief cook, Dudley Cooke, has on the menu for the day. Slaving under Monsieur Cooke are the potato peelers, George Salisbury and LeRoy Grinned. Supervising the dessert department is the great connoisseur, Robert Smith, who is busily mixing fruit salad for lunch. The waitresses, Aurelia Kearns, Barbara Miner, Nancy Manfredi, and Jacqueline LaFountaine, rush to serve the Professor. He gulps down his food and leaves for his afternoon class. The work cut out for him this afternoon is directing the rehearsal of the Tiawanna Tech Barber Shop Quartet composed of Anthony Chi-aradio, Richard Morenzoni, Anthony Bavasso, and Ronald Beaudette. This proves to be rather tedious and unrequited work. To make this a more pleasant day, the Professor decides to instruct the fairer sex in their promising sextet consisting of Belmiea Bliven, Ida Serra, Barbara LaPero, Jane Shea, Dorris Denham, and Ingeborg Luzzi. The sextet has a chance to appear with Uncle Miltie. This ends his working day, and Dave trudges to catch the 4:13 bus home. Although he arrives at the bus stop ahead of schedule, the bus, driven by “Hot-rod” John Hill, whizzes by and leaves him stranded. There is nothing left for him to do but rely on the quick and steady taxi service stand owned by Jane Fiore and Maureen Flynn. Waiting patiently for a taxi, he sees Eileen Harrison and Camille Nac-carato, who are presently employed as stenographers by Clarke Maxson and Jordon Russo, partners in the “Country Squire Company.” He also sees Catherine Abosso, Norma Sacco, and Shirley Mellow hastening from store to store soliciting for the “Harding Daily,” Shirley Harding, Editor. His patience finally growing thin, our noble professor rushes to the corner airport and jumps into a helicopter piloted by James “Ruffy” Rae. Dorothy Cardinal and Frances Fusaro, helicopter hostesses, gayly wave a cheery bye-bye to him. In four and one-half minutes he arrives safely at home. After slipping into his slippers and robe, he stretches out on his lounge and picks up the magazine Post.” He notices that the illustration on the cover is drawn by the celebrated artist of the day, Oiva Ylonen. Thumbing through the pages, he stops to read Janet Sims’ latest mystery story, “The Case of the Missing Link.” Finishing the intriguing thriller, he notices an advertisement for the latest edition of Kate’s Kitchen, a cook book written by Winifred Cercena, Ruth Holmes, and Josephine Gallagher. This advertisement is followed by an announcement of the grand opening of “The Beverly Shoppe,” owned by Beverly Christy and Beverly Bowden. Before concluding his reading, he observes a cartoon drawn by John Howard, who is now writing for William Gavitt’s crime show, featuring those notorious television gangsters, Robert Gallaher and Charles Petrone. Finishing the magazine, he prepares to go to Stanley Coucill’s cafe for supper. After a brisk walk he arrives at the cafe. As Dulcie Champlin and Barbara Ornberg are busily waiting on other customers, Eila Fors takes Professor Pinardi’s order. While eating the delicious meal he enjoys the soft piano music rendered by Patricia Urso. On his way out he bids good night to the cashier, Annette Bryant, as he pays his bill. The clock begins to strike seven o’clock. Like a flash of lightning, Dave streaks home and before the clock finishes striking the hour, our Professor is seated in his favorite armchair waiting for the first of his favorite TV shows. The first show proves to be a direct televised show from Radio City Music Hall, starring the famed Rockettes, among whom are Teresa Paige, Ruth Talbot, and Pauline Patton. (No wonder Dave rushed home!) All too soon for Dr. Pinardi this gala performance ends. The light dims and the music softens and on the screen appears a beautiful ballet. Among the Corps de Ballet are Lorraine Gerbitz, Gertrude Helander, Heidi Gould, and Robert Ross. The Prima Donna of the group is Joan Hutchings. The broadcast from Radio City ends, and next on the agenda is a stock car race televised from Seekonk. The feature driver of the evening is Frank Tate, who is often most ably assisted by his chief mechanic, Jerry Duhamel. As Dave is sure Tate will win the race, he switches to another channel. On this new channel, Number 3,0471, already in progress Joseph Rizzo’s talent show, “What’s Your Act?” he sees Martha Mudge and Marcia Hamilton going through their breath-taking acrobatic stunts. The next performer is Richard
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