Winooski High School - Carillon Yearbook (Winooski, VT)

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HALL OF FAME Girl Boy Most likely to succeed Marion Sal 1 ah William Arcand Best personality Jacky Bergeron Paul Lister Best looking Shirley Fitzgerald Bill Gregorek Most generous Mary Leveillee Gerald Seymour Best athlete Col 1een Dillon Bill Arcand Class casonova Bill Daley Femme fatale Theresa Julian Most studious Irene Chari and Albert Sweeney Most class spirit Theresa Julian Bob Rabidoux Most witty Betty Lister Bill Gregorek Best dancer Audrey Provost Paul Lister Class comedian Audrey Provost Bill Daley Most dignified Marion Sail ah Donald Ignaszewski Best all-around Mary Leveillee Paul Lister Shortest A1 ine Hatin Bob Rabidoux Tallest Joyce Shiner Bil 1 Gregorek Most popular Elaine Merchant Bil 1 Gregorek Best leader Theresa Julian Bill Daley Best dressed Anita Qiintin Donald Ignaszewski Class nighthawk Shirley Fitzgerald Paul Lister Earliest riser Rita Landry Gerald Seymour Most likely to be married first A] ine Hatin Bill Gregorek Quietest Pauline Bergeron Albert Sweeney Noisiest Mary Leveillee Bi 11 Dal ey Gass artist Lorraine Limoges Paul Lister Best physique Paul Lister Best figure Lorraine Limoges Man hater Irene Chari and Woman hater Bob Rabidoux Typical high school student Joyce Shiner Bill Gregorek Class flirt Theresa Julian Bill Arcand Most bashful Jeannette Bouffard Albert Sweeney Most sophisticated Marion Sal 1 ah Donald Ignaszewski Best actor Bill Daley Best actress Mary Leveillee Most talkative Betty Lister Bill Daley Class teaser Anita Quintin Donald Ignaszewski Gass bluffer Theresa Julian Bill Daley Most stubborn Beverly Francis Bi 11 Dal ey Laziest Beverly Francis Bill Arcand

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CLASS HIT PARADE William Arcand The Rovin Kind Jacqueline Bergeron Bewi tched Pauline Bergeron So In Love Jeannette Bouffard Anchors Aweigh I rene Chari and Be My Love Wil 1 iam Daley Nobody's Chasing Me Colleen DilIon What Is This Thing Called Love Beverly Francis Would I Love You Shirley Fitzgerald Harbor Lights William Gregorek I Know That You 're The One Aline Hatin Apple Blossom Wedding Donald Ignaszewski You Call Everybody Darling Theresa Julian There's Been A Change In Me Lorraine Limoges Always True To You In My Fashion Mary Leveillee When You Return Betty Lister I Can Dream Can’t I? Paul Lister Heartbreaker Rita Landry Can Anyone Explain Elaine Merchant To Each His Own Audrey Provost Love Is The Darndest Thing Anita Qiintin Wedd ing Be I Is Robert Rabidoux Ain't Misbehavin Joyce Shiner Where Are You Marion Sal 1 ah My Si lent Love Albert Sweeney Bewildered Gerald Seymour The K. P. Blues Cl ass of ’51 So Long

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VALEDICTORY AND ESSAY THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE By Marion Sallah When a Frenchman wishes to explain his country he speaks simply of “ La Belle France.” The Britisher says, “ There’ll always be an England. These and other nations of the earth explain a lot about themselves just by the use of their proper names. But the citizen of the United States has a different problem. There lives in him a kind of unspoken assumption that his nation is something more than a nation; that it is an experiment, perpetually evolving into something new; that it embodies an ideal. In referring to his country, therefore, he is led on a quest for words. The best word he has ever found is “ Liberty,” or to use a longer phrase “ the American way of life.” Precise thinkers detest this phrase. It is used by every orator on every side of every issue; by the labor leader, by the business man, and by the dentist. It is used beyond our shores by intellectuals. This phrase gets the American into many dif- ficulties. In a way, it sets him apart from the rest of the human race, as if he had taken up residence on another planet. This aspect of the matter worries him deeply. He likes to be liked and he likes people. He is proud that his country is populated by so many races and national origins. He welcomes into his midst their various cultures and traditions. He cherishes a liking for many distant peoples - the Chinese, for instance, have always been favorites of his (and the fact that he is fighting them now is a tragic inconsistency). He is taking very seriously his new role of leadership in the Western worJd, whose culture and spiritual traditions form the basis of his own, and whose civilization he is prepared to defend. Thus this phrase, “ the American way of life” however useful for certain purposes, has become productive of a great deal of misunderstanding and friction. However, it would not be practical to abandon it, because it does mean something important - in- deed, to the American, something indispensable. What is the American way of life really like? To the foreign visitor the most disturbing thing about our way of life is its “ materialism.” The visitor is drenched with sights and sounds and smells emanating from a manmade environment to which almost all Americans appear to give almost all their energies. Pervading these sensory experiments there are the psychological ones - the indifferent way in which the radio combines “ entertainment” with the most humiliating requirements of the human organism - the ever present advertising, seek- ing to identify human happiness with bright teeth - the infantile movie heroes - the wasteful “ abundance” protruding from every store. The visitor sees all this, and is impelled to somber speculations concerning the fate of humanity. What price “ this American way of life?” A noted Russian recently in our midst, a Mr. Vishinsky, states that American capital exists for the purpose of exploiting the people. The American capitalistic system still works injustices, but to think of it in terms of exploitation is to think in terms of a past century. It is not the capitalists who are using the people, but the people who are using the capitalists. Capita] has become, not the master of society, but its servant. The Federal Reserve Board shows that four out of ten American families possess at least $5,000 of assets over liabilities; and that nearly one family in ten has net assets of $25,000 or more. We are a capitalistic people. There is not just one American way of life, there are American ways of life, almost without number. There are the great regional differentiations, where nature herself has conspired with American institutions to create ways of life as different from each other as those of two nations might be.