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

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18 THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD varied. A graduate of an ordinary high school with average intelligence can qualify for the many phases of advertising. For instance, if one can write expressively and clearly, a concern can use this gift of writing in magazine and newspaper advertising. An artistically minded person will be able to make sketches, illustrations, or pictures of the articles advertised. One who has ability as a salesman can fill the position of selling a com¬ pany’s products by his fluent, convincing and effective salestalk. Moreover, good solicitors are needed to get the ads. There are many who through their personality, wit, or business tact, can convince a business man to give them his ads. Persons interested in research work, can try for the staff of workers investigating for newer and better ways of advertising. A student who is adept in chemical science would be able to qualify for the staff of scien¬ tific investigators who study the product to be advertised and whose knowledge of science and history can better help to sell such products by revealing to the public how much purer or safer the goods are from those of former times. The rewards in advertising are satisfactory. The salary ranges from fifteen dollars a week to ten thousand dollars a year. Hence, advertis¬ ing is a godsend to a high school graduate with a limited knowledge, be¬ cause there are chances of great advancement in it, both in position and in salary. There are also many good correspondence courses in advertising which would enable one to increase his knowledge in this field. Therefore, the high school graduate or underclassman who is interested in English, in journalism, and in salesmanship, or who has had some experience on a school paper or on a newspaper staff, might seriously consider taking up advertising as a vocation. Thomas Paoletti, ’34. ADVICE TO UNDERGRADUATES. (To the Juniors) At this time of the year it is customary for the highly intelligent and sophisticated Senior Class to leave a few parting words of advice for the betterment of the students so that when they graduate they will be almost as intelligent as the class which is now ' graduating. First of all, let me give a little advice to the lowly Juniors. As a member of one of the most intelligent and illustrious classes that ever graduated from this high school, I feel that I have the right to advise you youngsters. Jennie Saruta and Katherine Wenis—We congratulate you on your ability to get rides home after school at night. Such concentration on your studies should make you first honor students next year. Frank Merrigan—We warn you to be more careful when working on your job over at the high school next year. Remember, Frank, pride comes before a fall, and the junior girls don’t want you to fall.

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THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD 17 non-skid sled, and he told me that Teddy Tenero had just been elected presi¬ dent of the reorganized Windsor Locks Bank. Pat: While I was visiting in Windsor Locks the other day, I ran across Tony Coiy, who is now head of a chain of Coly hotels all over New England and he told me that Anna Gaudette is assistant manager of the Bridge Book Store in Hartford. She wanted to be supervisor of the public library in Warehouse Point but Marion McCloskey won out. I also heard that Mary Bottasso is running an article in the Windsor Locks Journal “Advice to the Lovelorn. Gert: When Carrie was in New York last week buying hats for our shop she went to see “The Follies of 1944. Who do you think was the leading dancer? Lucy Sfreddo. She was a great success. I wish I could see it. As I think back to high school days I remember that she always did like to dance. Rita: Her old pal, Stel?a Giesacki, became an attorney and is now running for the United States Senate. Pat: While I was out near the plains today I saw a sign which read “Antonacci’s Hatcheries, Scientific Chicken Raising.” That isn’t, by any chance, Antoinette is it? Rita: Yes, that’s Antoinette all right. Dorothy Kelsey is also going in for farming but in a different manner. She has a large cattle ranch that is widely known for its “beef-steak.” Pat: Well, my train is leaving in a few minutes so I’ll have to start along. I hope we’ll meet again soon. Rtia: I’ll have to be going too, but I certainly have enjoyed this day. Gert: We’ve had a lovely time together and I have learned a lot about our classmates. Pat: Well, good-bye, Gert and Rita. Gert and Rita: Good-bye. Grace Norman, ’34 Rita Sheehan, ’34. Gertrude Gallagher, ’34. ADVERTISING. The members of our class gathered here tonight represent the finished product of four years of study. We have acquired some skills and knowledge to offer to the world, but what does the world hold in store for us? In a few r weeks many of us will be searching for positions. Others will proceed to higher schools of learning. Those of us, w’ho are not going on further with our studies, will probably be w’ondering w r hat vocation to follow’. One interesting field of w’ork that is not overcrowded today is the business of advertising. It is a flourishing and growing vocation w’hich holds many opportunities for the clever individual. The requirements are

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THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD 19 Lorraine Jenkins—We advise you to bring onions to school, so that when you cry because someone has taken your books, no one will know you really mean it. Mildred Sfreddo—We congratulate you on the way you vamped the boys into buying Junior Prom tickets. Keep it up and next year Memorial hall will be too small for Senior dances. Lily Catucci and Mary Molonski—One Mae West is enough in the world, and we would suggest that you spend more time on studies and less time imitating her. Carolyn Matroni—We think you had better find a new place to talk with a certain newsboy if you want him to hold his job. Sophia Usanis—We advise you to keep up your athletics and in a few years you will be just a mere shadow. With this highly instructive advice so generously given by the Senior Class I now leave you, hoping you will continue to be a model to other classes as we have been in the past. Frederick O’Neil, ’34. (To the Sophomores) Since my unquestionable position as a studious, sophisticated, and infallible member of the unsurpassed Senior Cla ss enables me to impart to the silly,’clumsy, unschol ' arly Sophomores a bit of constructive criticism, I now take this opportunity to advise you. George O’Callahan—We advise you to bring down that grass seed that you promised a certain individual about a year ago. He has haunted us all the year and he will no doubt pester the future Seniors. Frances Ludwin—We advise you not to be so rough while playing basketball or else there will be no one to play with in future years. John Gorka—We think you ought to buy a muffler and put it on that whistle of yours. The neighbors will thank us for this, I’m sure. Ellen McKenna—We warn you not to interfere with the delivery of Uncle Sam’s mail, and to put more time on your school work; for Ellen, you know it is a serious offense to hold up the mail. Francis Carniglia—We suggest that it would be better Francis, if you stayed at home nights and did your studies, instead of lingering around Marconi’s news stand every evening. James Cummings—Don’t you think it would be better, James, if you weren’t quite so boisterous? Remember, children should be seen but not heard. Anna Mae Ferrara—I hope that next year you will not have the misfortune of being in a class composed mostly of boys. This situation seemed to bother you a great deal, but Anna Mae, we have to live. Now in conclusion, I hope that all of you friendly spirit as it is given. take this advice in the same Earl Barberi, ’34.