Williamstown High School - Yearbook (Williamstown, MA)

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pagethirty-six W.H.S.1933 YEAR BOOK Yes, I have often listened.-to .them, .-I replied. Gordon Macmillan an- nounces their program. Harriet Beals is on the radio, too, and gives daily talks to the women on how to keep a husband. I never thought that our quiet little Harriet would have nerve enough to broadcast. Bob pulled out a letter which he handed to me. It was from Charlie Ryan who was a travelling salesman for Real Silk Hosiery. It read as follows: The other day when I was in Philadelphia, the glaring white lights of a large theatre greeted my eyes, John Manley, Broadway Star, playing here in Take Your Pick, this week only. CSO John was continuing his good actingj The scraps of handbills scattered around the street showed that. John's publicity is done by Sunny Young. She has some clever ideas to make him famous. On my way back from Philadelphia, I stopped in Washington. While there I visited Congress. In the House among the other representatives was Margaret Kelley. She was, I learned, a representative from Idaho. Going to the capitol I attended a session of the Supreme Court. Who should be there arguing a case, but Helen Thompson. Dear old Sadie still at her old job of argument. Once in a while I run across old friends. Last month when I was selling stockings in Kansas, I stopped at a prosperous looking house. The door opened, and disclosed Dorothy Wiles. She was attempting a second marriage with her old boy friend from North Adams, as her first with an actor hadn't turned out so well. She was so glad to see me that she bought 10 pairs of stockings. Remember me to the old gang. - As ever, Charlie. By this time Bob and I had finished lunch, so we went back to the library where he left me to go on his way once more. However, I still wanted to locate more members of my high school class. Who could help me? Then I happened to remember that Jimmy Fitzgerald was a priest at St. Patrick's Cathedral. Maybe if I went there, he could help me, so after the evening service, I asked him. I don't know much, but I'll tell you what I do, he said. Whom would you especially like to know about. Well, where is Wallace Gage? I inquired. The last I heard of him, he was learning how to fly an airshipf' Oh, he's given that up now, said Jimmy, and is Chief Engineer of a copper mine in Chile. The mine is owned by Eddie McCann, but he is so busy telling the home office what to do, that one never sees him. Just recently I saw in the paper than an exhibition was to be given before the King and Queen of England by the famous dancers, Earl Green and Marion Perry. They were here all last Winter, but I couldn't go to see them. Do you ever hear from Franklin Estes? I asked. What is he doing? Yes, I received a letter from him the other day. He's in Hollywood making his first picture this month. All the girls are crazy about him, but he has to be careful because his wife, Helen McNally, is terribly jealous. He

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CLASS PROPHECY AVE you any of the latest books? I looked up, startled, from my desk in the New York Public Library, and gazed at the questioner. Where had I seen him before? His face seemed awfully familiar. Why, it was Bob Darling of our high school class of 1933. It had been 15 years since I saw him, but he was still the same old Bob. Where did you drop from, Bob? I inquired. And what have you been doing all these years? Oh, I'm the head of the Latin Department at Williams now, he replied. We are having our Easter vacation, and I thought I would come down and see the big city. Can't we have lunch together, and talk over old times? Why, yes, I answered. Just as soon as I check off this book, we can go around the corner to Burnett's Restaurant. Peg and Jimmie Steinhoff have a chain of restaurants now, and are quite successful. We started off, and walked down Fifth Avenue, talking busily as we went. Suddenly we stopped at a large crowd which was gathered around a store window. In it were two manikins showing the latest spring styles. Who should they turn out to be but Ruth Walden and Katherine McNicol. A large placard said that the clothes had been made by Landry and Co. So Doris was turning out Paris fashions for her old classmates to exhibit for her. All right, move on now, said a grufi' policeman. Bob nudged me. That's Alfred Wiles, he said. He always said that he wanted to be a cop, but who would expect to find him here? I wonder if he recognized us? We turned into Burnett's Restaurant. There at the cashier's desk sat Helen McGowan. She learned how to count money when she was Senior Treasurer, and she certainly had to stretch every penny. She told us that all the restaurants had been built by Eddie Czarnecki and Co., and that Evelyn Duval was the general manager, but that she was now in Chicago. Over our lunch Bob and I began talking about the old class. He said that a new department of Bird Study had been added to Williams, and that Shrimp Torrey was the head of it. I don't think that there is a bird in town that he doesn't know all about, he added. , Talking about the old town, I discovered that Wendell Towne and Charles Swan had established a model farm in the VVhite Oaks, and this farm was known all the state round. In their spare time the two play their fiddles for the square dances? Of course, you knew that Dick Burns and Ruth Nightingale were mar- ried didn't you? Bob asked. Dick makes enough money crooning over the radio to support Ruth and their two children. He often sings duets with Dorothy Briggs who has also made a name for herself over the radio.

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W.H.S.1933 YEAR BOOK pagethirty-seven wrote that Lena Fressola had a class in reducing. You know how these movie stars are always trying to keep their figures. It seems that Allan Ilderton is studying the sky at the Mt. Wilson Observatory. He thinks that he has dis- covered a new planet. But what of some of the girls? I inquired. Well, to tell the truth, Jimmy replied, I never did know how to keep up with them, but I heard that Lena Tash and Elva Miller had started a business school in Boston. Elta Godfrey used to be friendly with both, but since she has become secretary to the President of the U. S., she won't speak. Oh, yes, did you hear about the big wedding in North Adams a few years ago? Frank Daniels finally married the mayor's daughter. Bill Mac- millan, the rector of the church, officiated. I suppose by this time that Frank is on his way to becoming the mayor. He ought to be anyway. Did Leota MacArthur marry Bill? I asked. No, it seems she was going to, but when he became a minister, she just couldn't stand it so she joined the circus run by Karl Bates and George Duncan, and now is a bare- back rider. And Betty Green is a Red Cross Nurse in China. Peg Ewart, and Herbie Dupell like strange countries too. They are both in different parts of Africa. Peg teaches the natives typewriting, and I heard that Herbie had been crowned king of a tribe. That's all I know, said Jimmy. Thanking him I went on my way home. The evening paper had large headlines about Madelyn Duval. She had iiown around the world all alone. Sighing I picked up a book of poems written by Anita Hickox, and soon I forgot everything about the class of 1933. Nancy Middleton '33