Windsor Locks High School - Herald Yearbook (Windsor Locks, CT)

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8 THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD Rose: Not really? Well, Waldo Pinney is taking Clark Giable’s place in the filming of “The Bashful Lover.” Helen: Last winter I met Ray Conroy at the Cotton Club in New York where he is a gigolo. Mary: Just about a week ago Anna Shykula won a $1,000 prize in a dancing marathon held at the Nut Club in Poquonock. Rose: Eleanor Wheeler now Dean of a Young Women’s Finishing School told me that Tommy Connolly was manufacturing thermometers. You remember he was always rescuing thermometers at school. Helen: I hear that Don Cameron is Dean of a Select Young Ladies’ School out in Indiana. I wonder if Don has changed any? Mary: Have you heard that Willie Field is Ed. Wynn’s successor as the Perfect Fool in Radio Broadcasting? Rose: No, but traveling in the South last winter we met Francis Cooney, who now owns a strawberry plantation. Now he can have all the strawberries he wants for shortcake. I’m terribly surprised that he doesn’t own a dairy, too. Then he would have the cream for his cake. Helen: Have either of you read Margaret Griffin’s new book, “How to Increase Your Speed When Conversing With Others”? It is said to be very instructive. Mary: Did you remember Andy Molyn ? Well, he is busily engaged now, building a bungalow for two. Rose: That must mean something. Do you ever hear or see any¬ thing of Mary Gandolfi ? Helen: She called on me while she was in New York last year and she told me she was going on a tour of the world as a companion to Made¬ line Tasillo who is at the head of a large concern manufacturing delivery trucks. Mary: I received a copy of the “Pathfinder,” last week and what a start I received when I read that Burton Wadsworth was the Editor-in- Chief. But that isn’t all, Benny Soboleski is giving instructions on “How to Overcome Bashfulness” in this paper. Helen: I stopped at the Doll Shop to have my hair waved and the proprietor turned out to be our old classmate Milly Raccone. She said that she created the coiffures and Mary Griffin gave instructions on how to keep that School Girl Complexion. Rose: While I was coming up on the train this morning, I bought a paper and the headlines read, “Edward Babiarz, wins Noble Pr ize for Scientific Experiments with X-Ray.” Mary: We have some very famous classmates. Benjamin Goldfarb is a member of the new clothing firm of Gldfarb, Maloney, and Schmidt of Rainbow . Rose: Now isn’t that just like Benny? W r hat is there to the rumor that Max Wolnick is opening a boarding school for undernourished children of Hoboken. New Jersey? Helen: I heard that, too, but it wasn’t authentic. I also learned that Anthony TaraveMa is considered the greatest lexicographer since Johnson.

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THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD 7 Four of our boys gave a debate at the Rotary Club in March. Their subject was, “Resolved that the five day week plan should be adopted by American Industries.” The affirmative side was defended by Waldo Pinney and William Field and the negative by Benjamin Goldfarb and Robert Taravella. Then in May, a play “The Automatic Butler” was presented. Later we had our pictures taken at Brown’s studio in Springfield, and then we be¬ gan to work earnestly on our parts for Commencement. In June we held a banquet at the Suffield Country Club and a little later we gave the Commencement Prom at Memorial Hall. A delightful lawn party was given to the class and teachers by Mrs. Leary at her home in Enfield, this week. Thus the history of the noble class of 1933 comes to an end. May we, as students of undisputed ascendency, advise in closing that the future pupils of Windsor Locks High School try to live up to our ideals and stand¬ ard and follow our motto “Success crowns patient effort.” Angelina Daddabbo, ’33. PROPHECY Time: 1955. Place: Windsor Locks Central Station, Information Bureau. Enter: Helen and Rose. Approach desk. Helen: I am looking for one of my former classmates, Mary Dowd. Could you tell me where she lives now? Mary: At 735 South Center street. Did you belong to the class of ’33? Rose: Yes. Mary: So did I. Helen: Why Mary Sluzinski! I thought you looked familiar. Rose: Hello, Mary. What has become of all our other classmates ? Mary: Well, Shirley Jackson won the “Moby” Silver Loving Cup at the Olympic games for the Roller Skating Championship. Rose: I read in the newspaper where Mary Dowd was chosen for the Olympics to compete in the Women’s one hundred-yard dash. Helen: Speaking of athletics, I hear Catherine Sgorbati is now cap¬ tain of the Aetna Life Insurance Company’s Girls’ Basketball team. I hear she wrote a new list of rules permitting scratching, punching, and biting. Mary: Those were some of Katie’s most effective methods for win¬ ning games in 1933. Rose: Last fall I attended the opening of the Metropolitan Opera Company and to my great surprise Magna Anderson was the featured artist. Helen: I hear that Russell Bacon is campaign manager for Valeria Cooney who is running for Governor of Rhode Island. Did you hear about it, Mary? Mary: Yes, I did. And the latest news from Hollywood is that Robert Taravella has become Joe E. Brown’s rival for the largest mouth on the screen, and Angelina Daddabbo is Helen Kane’s latest successor.

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THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD 9 Mary: Do you really mean that ? Helen: Of course I do. Mary: Well, it does not seem strange to me, at all. Rose: Has Howard White given his lecture on “How to Become a Big Man.” Mary: Is he giving lectures? Helen: Yes, I heard him in Boston. He was very good, too. Mary: I think we’ve mentioned every one but neither one of you has told me what you are doing. Rose: I forgot all about it. Helen, I hear on Broadway no one has achieved as much fame as you have since Ann Pennington. Helen: You exaggerate, Rose. I’m just another chorus girl. I saw you in your latest play “The Whistling Cat” on the opening night and I thought you were wonderful in the part. Rose: Now that we have discussed everybody, I think we had better hurry so we can take the next train, Helen. Helen: Goodby, Mary. Mary: Goodby, Rose and Helen. Rose: Goodby, Mary. Helen Durnin, ' 33 Rose Preli, ’33 Mary Sluzinski, ’33 ADVICE TO UNDERGRADUATES. (Juniors) “There’s something wrong with the best of us.” A group of outstanding, dignified, well-educated seniors, looking out for the interest of the Junior Class, for that class must fill the gap left by the graduation of this illustrious class, have chosen me to impart to that class some well needed advice. Juniors, I appreciate the opportunity of being able to converse with you in this manner, for I teel that you need this advice very badly, much to the regret of this unconquerable class. Gertrude Gallagher—We appreciate the great interest you took in the past baseball season, but we advise you not to take so much interest in the games scheduled, as it arouses suspicion. Louis Camp—We advise you to take a course in “Physical Develop¬ ment” before ever attempting to take on the Freshmen. There are some rather big fellows in that class, you know. George Strogoff and Aldo Sartirana—You two had better show more deference toward your elders. Mary Bottasso—It is nice to be everyone’s friend, Mary. We advise you to try it. Then we are sure you will enjoy your Senior year in Windsor Locks High School.