Williams Memorial Institute High School - Legenda Yearbook (New London, CT)

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MARCELLE PHYLLIS DORSKY Mara College Actions speak louder than words. Latin Club 2, 3, 4; French Club 3; Biology Club 2; Departmental Honors 1, 2, 3, 4; B.Y.C. Council 3; Legenda Photography Editor 4; Descant Circulation Board 3; History Club 4; Mathematics Club 4; Drama Club 4; Folk Festival 2. Here we find rare and spontaneous wit,—an idea-a-minute girl. We have ample proof that Mara's hustling usually gets things done. As a Latin prof, she should be tops. ROSALIE SALLY DRAGO Sally General Active as quicksilver. Science Club 1; Drama Club 1, 2; Cheerleader 1, 2; Biology Club 2; Biology Club Assembly 2; Glee Club 3; French Club 3; Junior Ring Committee 3; Descant Circulation Board 1; Descant Staff 4; Descant Dance Committee 4; Folk Festival 2; Bulkeley Cheerleader 3, 4. Sally is the dynamic little bundle of energy who for two years has been exhorting the Bulkeley rooters to do or die. If ever we are driven into a bomb shelter, we can count on her to keep our spirits up. ANTONETTE MARY FARINA Tony Commercial When my chance comes, I'll be ready for it. French Club 1, 4; Glee Club 1. Tony will have ample opportunity to use her diplomacy when she realizes her ambition to go into the department store field as a saleswoman. The customer may not be always right, but we're sure Tony with consummate tact, will keep her from ever finding it out. ISABEL ANN FERNANDES Izzy Commercial A kindly smile to all she lent. Glee Club 2; Biology Club 2, 3, 4; Departmental Honors 4. If Izzy manages the figures on a cash register as well as she cuts them on ice and in pastry dough, we know she will make a most successful sales clerk. HELEN KEENEY FLOYD College Behold her, single in her field. Latin Club 2; Glee Club 2; Biology Club 2; Folk Festival 2; B.Y.C. Council 2; Junior Tea Committee 3; Choir 3; Double Trio 3; School Reporter 3, 4; Departmental Honors 1, 2, 3, 4. We contend that it is possible to ask questions continually and still be a lady. As a case in point we present our inquiring reporter who lets us have no secrets from her, but who presents us to the public with our best feet forward and our faces well scrubbed. Miss Dorothy Thompson, move over! 24

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FLORENCE RUTH DEMPSEY Floss College It is good to live and learn. Advanced Biology Club 4; Departmental Honors 4. ’’Floss is the kind of person, who, when there isn't a dance or a football game in progress, likes to curl up in a corner with a good book. We predict that there won't be much time for such pleasant pursuits until she earns her R.N. ALICE IRENE DENNISON College Who mix'd reason with pleasure. Class Vice-President 2; Honor Court Representative 3; Le-genda Circulation Editor 4; Legenda Circulation Board 3; Orchestra 2, 3, 4; Bulkeley-W.M.I. Orchestra 1, 2, 3; Orchestra President 3; Departmental Honors 1, 2, 3, 4; Mathematics Club 2, 4; French Club 2; History Club 4; B.Y.C. Council 2; Nominating Committee 2. Ambitious as she may be, it never hurts a girl to know how to dam a sock , says Alice, with one eye on a Bunsen burner and the other on the Coast Guard. As a cellist she and Oscar make quite a pair. FRANCES MARY DI POLLINA Dippy General Good nature spreads good will. French Club 1; Class Ring Committee 3; Cap and Gown Committee 4. Dippy , whose nickname is just one of those things and no reflection on her mentality, is ambitious to become a navy nurse. Her hobby is collecting pictures of her friends. Do some wear brass buttons by any chance? ROSEMARY DOLCE Butch College Active yet resigned. When she shoots B-B guns at targets, not windows, and plays baseball and football with the youngsters in her neighborhood, she's called Butch. (You really have to earn a name like that.) But when she reads and dances and ambitiously plans her future as a graduate nurse, then she's Rosemary, and a lovely name it is. MARJORIE ELIZABETH DONOVAN Margie General We like your style, your winning smile. Chairman of Junior Prom 3; Vigilance Department 3; Vigilance Chairman 4; Class Vice-President 4; Class Nominating Committee 4; Science Club 1. Everything about Margie is outstanding, especially her attractive appearance and sweet disposition. A hard worker, in and out of school, she has had successful experience in many fields. We know she will go on to further accomplishments. 23

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NORMA ELLIOTT FORSYTH College Smile—it's becoming. French Club 1, 2; Choir 3, 4; Glee Club 3; Advanced Biology Club 3, 4; German Club 2, 3, President 4; B.Y.C. Council 3; Drama Club 4; Mathematics Club 4; Descant Dance Committee 4; Legenda Circulation Board 4. Scene: Twilight, a scraping noise, a lantern's eerie beam in the gloomy interior of some ancient's tomb. Our demure Norma is busily exhuming the skeletons of ancient man. With such ambition, Norma should prove a sure thing at any lecture on archeology. KATHLEEN TERESA FOSS Fossie Commercial We all know her as a grand person. Baseball 1, 2; Basketball 1, 2; Science Club 1; Biology Club 2; Advanced Biology Club 3, 4; Debating Club 4; Descant Typist 4; History Club 4; 50th Anniversary Committee 3; Departmental Honors 3. 'To be or not to be' is not the question, but what to be? says Fossie , whose interests during the four years have been quite well divided. Her enthusiasm for candid photography might be the answer. MARY LOUISE FRANCISCONI Mamie Commercial Ideas control the world. Drama Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Debating Club 1, 2, 3, 4; Advanced Biology Club President 3, Vice-President 4; Glee Club 2, 3, President 4; Nominating Committee 3; Legenda Circulation Board 4; French Club 2, 3; History Club 4; Soccer 3; Volley Ball 3; Biology Club Dance 2, 3; Commencement Committee 4. This is our Mamie ; this is she whom all her classmates really like. As a mirth-provoker she's second to none, but with a wit that is always kind. DOROTHY STARR GADBOIS Dottie College Sweet, grave aspect. Class Treasurer 2; Latin Club 2; Science Club Secretary 2; Descant Reporter 3; Mathematics Club 2, 3, 4, Secretary 3, 4; Choir 3, 4, Treasurer 4; Glee Club President 3; Vigilance Department 3; Legenda Circulation Staff 4; French Club 3, 4, Treasurer 4; Departmental Honors 1, 2, 3, 4; Chairman Bulkeley-W.M.I. Christmas Dance 4. One look at Dottie's activities shows the pait she plays in our school life. Her dignity and ever-present poise make it a pleasure to follow where she leads. MARY LOUISE GAFFNEY Gaff Commercial Ever in motion, blithesome, cheery. Biology Club 3; Debating Club 3; Field Day 2; Descant Staff 4; Legenda Advertising Staff 4; History Club 4; Descant Reporter 2. Gaff is a giggler—she says so herself. It's an infectious thing, giggling, like measles. It's a gloomy morning: breakfasts have been bolted or missed entirely (those homework assignments were too long, anyway). It's a sour world. Gaff giggles. You giggle. Everybody giggles. 25