Woodrow Wilson High School - Saga Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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Warren Vigeant has invented a little gadget which he made out of syn- thetic pyrex. Because it serves as a tie clip, hairpin, can opener, shoe horn, and pipe cleaner it is selling like hot-cakes! Vige is really in the dough . While we're on the subject of dough, I might tell you now that Bill Mateyov is ct baker and caterer. His ideas are features in the United States Pamphlet number 232006, which is called Cakes and Cookies of America or How to Get a Wife in Six Easy Lessons . Paul Braisted is really forging ahead in the academic field. He has so many degrees tacked after his name he has run out of English letters and is now half way through the Greek alphabet. Ernie Heppenstall is now third assistant vice-president of the Consolidated Nail-File and Eyebrow-Tweezer Corporation, and she and her assistant, Violet Iason, are working on their new cosmeticja Crystolin by-product, Nyloprene, the Heppo-Iason After-Shave Lotion. It enhances and brings out the beauty of five o'clock shadow . Jimmy. Cotter is an Animating Director at the Fleisher Animated Color Cartoon Studios in Miami, Ruth Dragoo is a registered Nurse at the Wakegan Seeing Eye Dog Hospital and Frosty Francis is a newspaper man for the Peoria Gazette, an enterprising sheet out in Illinois. Helen Pehota is working on the staff of the Newfield Newshound. ln her column she answers the problems of the lovelornl Aud Thorpe always wanted to be a little taller so she took up toe dancing. She is now one of Butch Buskin's Ballerinas. Frances Platenka is a dentist. Her greatest en- joyment is yanking the teeth of other dentists-revenge from her childhood daysl - Iack Carlson is now a professional cheer-leader. He has one of those new Zellophon megaphones and he is as hCIIJDY as a kid withla new toy. Try reading his pamphlet, The Megaphone Mania or You, Too, Can Incite Mob Violence . Tom Wilcox got married soon after graduation. Because he likes foot- ball, he is raising his own football team. Pretty tough, though, because the eleventh baby was a girl!! Don MacDonald is still a ladies man-but more so! Mac has dis- covered a way of making nylon stockings out of rock by means of a very simple electro-loom. He now has more steady girl friends than an Indian shiek has in a harem! 5, Clarence Waldner is certainly coining money these days. That is, he is working in the U. S. Mint on a sixty-hour work week. Don Chase has found his way into the judiciary department down here, and right now he is inter- preting the Constitution for a means of crushing all opposition to the election of his new political party The Non-conformistsn. Remember Carmelo Mazzotta? He's turned astronomer, and he recently discovered a new star near the planet Saturn. Of course, when Carmelo's wife gets after him, he sees ct few more stars than usual! Guess what Harry Peck is doing! He has a good job-easy, high-paying and musicallvhe is the man who blows the twelve o'clock whistle, the one o'clock whistle, and the six o'clock whistle. After a day's work, Harry relaxes by whistling Whistle While You Work ! Peg Doebener is an advertising model for the Rayothane Silk Stocking Company. Pauline Habelman surprised us all by turning out to be Americas foremost Aviatrix. She tests those new zylon plywood jobs up at Utopia Field. Marion Bailey is president of the nation-wide crusade for eighty and not forty watt bulbs for coal miners' caps . u 25

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CLASS PROPHECY 1945 1960 Greetings from the Nation's Capitol in the year 1960. Here I am in this great little city,-Congresswoman Marilyn Gordon. My bill, which provides for bigger salaries for teachers, better hand-outs for hoboes, and more rattles for babies, is well on its way to becoming a law. The other day, as I Was strolling down Kalorarna Avenue, l bumped Cliterallyl into Alan Cowie, my classmate of '45. He was just coming out of the ultra-modern advertising studios of his new, super-deluxe plant, the Plastofoam Chewing Gum Com- pany. Plastofoam Chewing Gum, Alan's own invention, is guaranteed to last thirty-nine days. Oh, this plastic age! While we were reminiscing on the good old days, out came Fritz Layman, who is a steady worker at Plasto- foam Productions . He told us of a little gadget he had finished working on, the Crystallite-tell-all-Scope. l-lis machine knows all, sees all, tells all. Deciding to look up our graduating class of 1945, we jumped into Fritz's new thermoplastic car and sped over to that cute little Soygalow where Fritz lives, and here is what we found: At the Plaza Riobamba, Washington's Plastic Night Club, some of the old gang have organized a hot jazz band under the leadership of Mary Labbadia. Torchy plays a sultry trumpet and she attributes her success to ,her new Glasstex mouthpiece which she perfected a couple of years ago. Dave Sweet was drumming on a beautiful new drum set with Pyralin rims, and Ozzie Czaja was the featured sax soloist. Yes, Labbadia and her Lamebrains are really a solid congregation. Oh, one thing we can't forget. The bouncer is Foogie Porlini, and boy, after a couple of years on the traffic squad at Wilson, he really knows his job. Iimmy Coleman is down here too, doing some secret work for the govern- ment. He is wearing a badge with a number on it, and he drives one of those snappy cellulosic plywood convertibles. Helen Hayn is a stenographer for the Lactolin Animal Cracker Company, and Tiny Hait, believe it or not, is vice-president of Electrostatic Time Clock Manufacturing plants. We wonder if she gets to work on time now! Two of our gang have gone airline stewardess on us. Adele Ewanowski and Bette Bednar, the Brenda and Cobina of the air lanes are really having a swell time for themselves at their new job. Their favorite trick is to neglect to tell the passengers to fasten their safety belts and then watch the fun when the plane hits an air pocket. Remember Iohnnie Otterbein? Well, he is now manager of one of New York's swankiest movie-houses. Between pictures, Iohnnie sells not the usual popcorn, peanuts, and soda, but turkey dinners, club sandwiches, and cherry cokesl This accounts for his popularity. Speaking of theaters, you must have heard of the famous Nolan-Nolan Act comprising Ginger and Red. They are trapeze artists, and Ginger's five and one-half twist in mid-air is known round the world! Arlene Tuttle is the star comedienne of O'Dooley's Daily Diaper Service Program. Her motto is Laugh and chuckle with Arlene Tuttle . Barney Thayer is the announcer of her program. His deep, resonant voice sounds very convincing as he advertises O'Dooley's soft, comfortable diapers. tlt was by Barney's suggestion that O'Dooley's diapers are now adjusted by snaps rather than pinsll Have you been in Carnegie Hall lately? If so, you have probably wit- nessed Edward Markowski, a virtuoso on the piano, playing his newest concerto, Enchanting Harmony , played in B flat minor, A sharp major, and G-all at the same time! 24

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Al Calhoun decided that it was such fun being a drugstore cowboy that he would do it for the rest of his life. He has built himself a supercollossal drug- store with plexiglas fountains and liquid air air-conditioners. A marvelous place-drop in sometime. Beverly Ralph and Winnie Robb have a parnership in a Gossip Cor- poration. Their motto is Give us the pieces and after we fit the story to- gether, we will make out of it as big a scandal as possible. ,Steven Cichon is owner of a plant which manufactures Saint Bernard Dog equipment. It makes the nicest little Soyatex Lignin brandy kegs you ever saw. Ernie Linderme is in the department which fills the kegs, and believe me, there's nothing synthetic about the stuff he puts in them! lannie McCutcheon has remained a life-guard at Coney Island for senti- mental reasons. You see, once when she recovered a drowning fellow, she threatened to let him sink if he would not consent to marry her! He did! Nice going, Iannie. Ev Paulson, now a Vice-Admiral, decided to remain in the Navy after the war. Ev is a man of the world because he has sailed the seven seas, seen the seven wonders of the world, and he has at least two girls in every port! Howie Walters built himself a rocket ship and he rocketed to Mars. According to the latest communique from him, he has married a cute little Martian girl, and he is growing tooth picks for a living. Carrie Strom is a physical education director at the Chicago College for Week-Kneed Girls. She teaches the girls to use diligence, daring, and drugs in their struggle to catch a man. Wendell Buxton invented a new Multiplane Movie Camera which takes pictures in the fourth dimension, and he is doing well out at the West Coast. That famous tap dancing team, Lucey, Foley and Lucey, threatens to bring vaudeville back to the days of Fred Allen during the depression. Regina, Barb, and Ruth are touring the country, and they really get around fast because they are never allowed to stay in one town more than one night. Oh well, keep plugging, kids. Charlie Stone owns a company called Stone's Sardine Packing lndustry. Charlie is really making money now but during the depression, he even had to resort to eating sardines. Frannie Denert is now a colonel in the WAC and she looks very smart and trim in her uniform. Helen Adamzyk is designing dresses in Philadelphia. Anna Bensenhaver is working in the cosmetic profession. Her new perfume using a syntholux base has been most successful. She calls her new crea- tion One Weekend in Bulgaria . Mary Guyette is out in Hollywood as Margaret O'Brien's stand-in. Barbara Hastings is Power's Model. Paul Mastras is a very successful surgeon at the Mayo Clinic. In what little spare time he has, Doctor Mastras relieves all the fellows on Informa- tion Please by taking care of the program himself. Iohnny Bengston has turned chemist on us and he has invented a synthetic gasoline. Bengston's High Octane, Strato-flight, Flo-go, Super gas. It has enjoyed a large market. Dot McGuinness is a telephone operator, and she is working in Dick Steuart's Dates for the Dateless Company. Instead of the usual number please , Dot's key words are name, number, description, and how do you like 'em, please . Dick really enjoys his work because he does come in Contact with many peculiar people. Priscilla Robinson is a Welder in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She handles her rivets so well that she was recently awarded the Welders Medal of Honor 26