Westerly High School - Westlyan Yearbook (Westerly, RI)

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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.

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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 Patricia Greene, in her exotic Rio tearoom, tells fortunes by the exciting new methods of reading coffee grounds. Shirley Jordan, the world’s greatest sculptress, has just finished creating magnificent marble images of every member of the 1952 class of Westerly High School. Joyce Kaye, the amazing one-woman baseball team, is now playing in Yankee Stadium. June Taylor is running a convalescent home for retired broken-down teachers of W. H. S. in a secluded locale, north of the North Pole. William Ornberg is making his debut at the Metropolitan Opera House. His opening selections will be “Jealous Hearts” and “Home on the Range.” Barbara Kugler has won great fame by performing delicate brain operations in Mamone, Pluto. Joan Lavarini, owner of a banana plantation in Costa Rica, has reduced the water content of the banana from 3 4 to 1 16. Jean Hustwit has just rewritten the Constitution of the United States to cover Universal Government. Hers will be the greatest document in World History. The 1972 Olympics, which were held on the Moon, were the scene of Thomas Keena’s spectacular ski jump from the Moon to Helsinki, Finland. Dorothea Leach is newspaper editor of the Daily Drone, which has a universal circulation. Joyce Stewart, famous executive secretary, has just devised a new stenography system called “Stewart’s Will Do It.” Grace LoPriore, one of our greatest advertising artists, is illustrating a new product produced and sold by Angeline Ligouri, “Ligouri’s Luscious Lima Beans.” Robert Kenneth is a news dispatcher, who travels through the enormous corridors of the World Government Administrative Buildings on his twenty-five-horse-power jet scooter. Tony Grimes, shipyard superintendent of the H H Shipyards (owned and operated by Sylvia Host and Joan Hirst), is now processing a new plastic hydrogen ship. Helen Sweeny spends her days picking flies out of the peanut butter in Haven's Heavenly Peanut Butter Factory.” Aunt Martha’s peanut butter is the only similar product that is guaranteed to stick to the roof of your mouth. Doris Heinold is a daring hot-rod driver, who drives her 1934 Ford down to the winner’s circle every time she races. Virginia Trombino lives in solitude in the backwoods of Bradford with her fifty-five beloved Siamese cats. She can no longer speak the English language, having become completely feline in her manner of speech. Edwin Kenyon, a famous entomologist at the Moscow Museum of Natural Mistory, is exhibiting his tarantula spider which measures six feet in diameter. He found this in the deepest Everglades of Florida. William Knowles, a member of the expedition when the spider was found, was severely bitten by it. The disastrous effect of this bite causes him to dance and caper continuously. Angeline Vetelino has just announced her engagement to the suave Aly Kahn, Jr. Hope Whitehead, who sings while her father plays tuba, is often spoken of as a second Margaret Truman. Peggy Main and Evelyn Wilcox, the Mermaid Twins, are owners of a plumbing establishment. They swim through the pipes if they cannot find the trouble any other way. The Palumbo twins are owners of the fabulous “Gleaming Dice Casino” at Monte Carlo. This is the most unscrupulous establishment of its kind in existence. Anna Pellegrino, known for her long, delicate, slender hands, demonstrates Smelly Joe’s Hand Cream. Barbara Sawyer, one of our best research scientists, in her short career of 15 years, has developed a cure for baldness and love sickness. Richard Comtois has put on the market that new exotic perfume, Sunflower No. 3, which is guaranteed to be irresistible to all types of men. —18 -—