Westerly High School - Westlyan Yearbook (Westerly, RI)

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I'llk Sknior Yi-ar Book — 1952 ered by Irene Bavasso, the Madame Curie of this age. Miss Bavasso made this magnificent discovery as she spilt her cosmetic case in her filing cabinet. Kenneth Bennett, meditating and working in his laboratory in the darkest, deepest section of the Bonga-Bonga Jungle, emerges with the greatest discovery of all times—a candle that burns at both ends. Mary Liguori is doing very nicely at her brand new hospital. She is an excellent nurse and is presently the Mysterious Voice heard over the Guess-Who Telephone Program. This contest is open to all those living in and out of the stratosphere. Anthony Ritacco—Father Ritacco is risking his life cutting through dense jungles to convert the headhunters of the deepest steppes of Russia. Jessie MacKenzie, the current Miss America of the Universe, is now dazzling the Moon with her Good Will Tour, along with her runners-up, Louise Gencarelli, Marie Beresford, and Martha Flore. Mario Sculco. editor, publisher and author of “My Confession” Funny Books, works laboriously night and day producing his great publication at the magnificent rate of one funn.vbook a month. Joan Smith, a great operatic star, has changed the whole pattern of modern living by-taking opera out of its grave. The whole world is simply agog and hypnotized with her magnificent rendition of la Boheme and Rome and Juliet. Mary DePerry—an exotic actress portraying the fair Ophelia at Elamore Theatre, Brooklyn, Mars. Harold Prosser—Sanfornando Prosser, politician and mayor of the teeming Metropolis of New Nevoh. Joan Gavitt, Hanover model, the only woman in the world to model Black Bird corn plasters. Sandra Drysdale, heir to the Drysdale fortune, a happy self-sufficient spinster, just sits at home writing Eskimo Love Lyrics. Louis Prizito, the Uan’l Boone of this great era, noted game hunter and explorer, has just returned bearing the shrunken head of a hum- ming bird from the exploration of the new Planet Krypton. Carol Carlesi is a woman politician who is trying to bring woman suffrage to the Wigalores of Tumonia. Edward Quinlan, millionaire playboy, came into his wealth on the death of his 'ich cousin, sixth removed, Lord Pendleton, the Crumpet King of England. Marianne Cooke, former heavyweight boxing champ, has been suspended from the ring because of her brutality. Francis Haggerty is hard at work developing his golf ball detector which will be guaranteed to find any golf ball in the radius of two million miles. John Restelli, once a well-known seal-trainer, but himself a greater attraction than the seals, is now lonely without his jealous pets, who left him demanding Union Rights. The New World Government owes its great success to our noble ambassador. Miss Emma Benn, for it was she who spread good will throughout the world, making a great hit with all the presidents, kings, queens, dictators, and rulers. Sheila Barboza — the fabulous designer of women’s apparel. Her styles have that “Atomic appeal.” Robert Hamblen has been diligently working since 1952 to recapture the blue in the Blue Mountains. He is old and bent with the futile task. Constance Andrews, the greatest news commentator in the history of the world, is the best informed person in the World Government. She knows what the different branches of legislature are planning before they plan it. Alexander Gavitt is a great scientific farmer in the deepest jungles of Brazil, and has just developed the musical coffee bean, a phenomenon which he obtained by playing hot music to his beans night and day, thus producing the contented coffee bean. Jean Gencarelli—a great hunter, known as “Bring ’Em Home Dead Gencarelli.” She has the walls of her home covered with a huge assortment of all kinds of animal heads. - 16)5» -

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The Senior Year Book — 1952 Class Prophecy We are very proud to submit to Dr. Edward Morenzoni, Superintendent of Schools, Westerly, Rhode Island, U. S. A., the results of our census taking for the year 1972 as regards the class of 1952 of Westerly High School. Especially do we feel it an honor to be the first census takers appointed by the newly established World Government, which is celebrating this year its tenth anniversary. In view of the marvelous and extraordinary inventions of this great historical era which enable people to travel at the supersonic speed of 1500 miles per hour by jetmobile, we have been able to cover vast territories and accomplish the seemingly impossible. The following data are reported by Miss Sylvia Lord, Mr. Frank Serra, and Miss Shirley Berggren covering Asia and Africa, Europe, and South America: Jazz King, Kenneth Babcock, is now introducing jazz at La Scala in Rome after his great triumph at the Command Performance for Queen Elizabeth. Barbara Burdick is now Chief of the Women’s United World Police Force. Her name alone is enough to drive criminals into a frenzy of fear. David Benson, now known as David, Lord Benson, has been knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his sensitive production of romantic lyric poetry. He recently received the title of Poet Laureate. John Champion, once the great Matador of all Mexico, is now recuperating at his Canary farm from his last bullfight in which he was mangled by the BULL. Judy Champlin, bareback rider in the Bing-ling Brothers Circus, has just returned from a tour of the eight major planets. Catherine Currie, head surgeon in the Medical School of Figi-Figi University, performs daily the most intricate operations before admiring students. John Pappadia is a famous judge for the Blue Ribbon Dog Shows. He has given away more blue ribbons than any other living judge. Carole Bennett is the proud owner of a big potato ranch in Charlestown, raising cabbages on the side. Samuel Piccolo — We found Sam breathless and utterly exhausted from his twenty-one day filibuster on the floor of the legislative house of the World Government. Professor Harold Brown is teaching at the University of Languages; his students find him extremely entertaining, as well as instructive. Maryann Brennan and Shirley Brocato are the enthusiastic proprietors of “Contacts and Contracts,” a marriage and lonely hearts bureau. James Pignataro, the Fred Astaire of 1972, has just created a new dance which is known as Jim’s Dream. Its popularity is spreading far and wide. The last word was that the man on the moon was learning it. Rose Bookataub, formerly one of the most sophisticated and charming debutantes of Paris, is now living with her husband. Monsieur De Joke, and their eight children. Irwin Pierce, the richest man of the era, has interests in every known concern in the world. Only through his'taxes is the World Government able to keep in the black. Joan and Marie Esposito, aerial queens, on the flying trapeze, have performed some of the most daring feats ever attempted. They fly through the air with the beauty and grace of swallows. Philip Panciera, “Smiling Panciera,” is proprietor of a used jetmobile lot. “The guy who will not only take your shirt, but you in it.” Daniel Colozzi, Current Swoon Man of Folly-wood, recently divorced his fifth bewitching wife, Fifi Malone, i972’s favorite starlet. Geraldine Cozzolino has just published the first book of her trilogy, “Silence Is Bliss.” Pauline Batty is one of our courageous teachers who braves the freezing weather to teach the children of Whale’s Jaw, North Pole, the fundamentals of mixogas power. Mixogas was discov-

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The Senior Year Book — 1952 Fred Ferraro travels from the North Pole to Nectar Falls, Mars, daily. His amazing occupation is baby sitting for the two hundred children of Emperor Zippo of Mars. He is one of the greatest baby sitters of all times. Catherine Geary, Hedda Hopper of the Universe, is familiar with all the great stars of our world and of the planets that revolve around our sun. In Alaska, as we were passing by the Sun Dial Express Railroad yard, we noticed a former classmate, Victor Finizio, who was presently holding down the position of King of Eskimo Hobos. Robert James, a famous hot-jet-rod driver, won the 1971 Indianapolis Speedway race by driving his jet at nine hundred miles per hour after losing two wheels. We found in the city of Shang-ri-la, on the waterfront, Samuel Fusaro. He was telling the gathering children of his hair-raising experiences on the sea. Peggy Loomis has given Watch Hill, Rhode Island, universal fame by making it the starting off place for her brilliant swimming of the Atlantic Ocean. Her trainer, Shirley Sullivan, followed her all the way aboard the lie de France, the oldest seagoing liner in existence. David Dower, Major Colonel Lieutenant of the Northwest Jet Mounted Police, is now on the baffling case of the “Disappearing Flapjack.” Rudy Federico, BBS, PhD., is now in the middle of his world-famous case defending Mrs. Vanderpoff, formerly Marjorie Holland, in the jackknife slaying of her seventh husband, Lord Percivale. Arthur Smith, one of the better carpenters of Westerly, has just developed a hammer capable of driving screws. Robert Serra, Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard and one of the best Literary Critics of our times, has recently, together with the former Eleanor Eccleston, written such stirring letters as to put those the Brownings wrote to shame. David Smith, otherwise known as the Walter Winchell of 1952, reports all the scandalous events of Folly wood. Peter Brophy is on the Womanless Isle. He spends his life meditating and reading literature of the old masters. Richard Barnes is now head librarian in the New World Government, which is situated at Westerly, Rhode Island. Eugene Brown, leading a jet invasion to Mars, received the Chautreuse Heart for his gallantry demonstrated while suffering the intense agony of a splinter in the brain. Lucille Brown is operating most efficiently a steam shovel for the Ace Construction Company. Salvatore Chiaradio, Ambassador, Lord, Baron, Marquis of modern rebuilt city of Norwich, just put through the legislature his famous bill “Dog Suffrage.” Edith Burdick, Susan Cimalore, Eunice Cam-panelli, fantastically hair-raising acrobatic jugglers, have recently made their debut on smele-vision. Peter Cofone, Professor, C. C. Ph.D., has written a new book entitled “I Can Teach You Italian in Twelve Hours.” All the wofld awaits the colossal publication from Milano. John Koulbanis—the orator who, by his rhetorical powers, convinced the world that no other city or town could compare with Westerly, Rhode Island. Through his tireless effort Westerly became the seat of the World Government. Hobart Livingston is retired to his private library spending his days and nights in an endeavor to attain the knowledge which he failed to acquire in his reckless youth. Just a housewife is sweet, gentle Patty Geyer, as she tends her twelve “Cheaper by the Dozen” loving children. Raymond Marra, following in Mr. Foster’s footsteps, is now teaching history in his alma mater, Westerly High. Bernice Greene, Admiral Greene, commanding officer at New London communication center, takes particular joy in lording it over her humble spouse. Janice Howard is director of a huge, lucrative basket-weaving industry in inner Mongolia.