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

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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

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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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by a distinguished visitor to the Yard-Wally Tuttle, who is mayor of Maromas. Wally was pitcher for the Middltown Giants for a while, but he gave it up when the people of Maromas-all three., of them-unanimously put him in office. Irma Heinrich plays swing records on Station IAZZ and specializes in singing commercials. Rita Moore owns Moore's Mops, Muzzles, and Matches Incorporated. Rita is president, vice-president, treasurer, and she is even her own secretary. Good job, Rita! llo I-lirtle and lean Farrow own and operate a snazzy modeling studio in New York and are experimenting with Plastoglass for their dummies. Across the street hangs the shingle of another famous firm, Gibbons, Grace and Golba, Attorneys at Law . They are a fun-loving bunch and are very busy-spending a large part of their time in court: we won't say on which side of the prisoner's dock. Bed Olson now has a long red beard--and it is very becoming! A rich uncle left him a fortune, and he is spending it for his hobby-building model ships out of matches! Have you heard about Buck Daniels' new invention--the Mathematicians Delight? It is made out of Crystolux, that new wonder plastic. The Aristo- crat Adding Automaton for Absent-minded Algebra Addicts . Buck would have made a fortune except that he forgot to take out patent on it, and it is now being enjoyed by the mathematical world at large. I Carol Whiting worked for ten years trying to decompose oxygen. Finally she gave up. However, she is now trying to analyze gold. Good luck, Carol ! When you find the constituents, let us know, too. Ray Warenda has the pleasant job of undertaker in the You Kill 'Em, We Bury 'Em Bureau of Missing People . Ray really meets so many people, and he has a chance to do all the talking! Ted Dickes is a skiing instructor at a winter resort in Canada. He uses those new Resinotron skis, you know, the ski with the double groove . A large part of his clientele seems to be feminine. Now, why could that be? Betty Schram is assistant professor of higher mathematics at Harvard. Her new theories which deal with spherical trigonometric functions have won her much renown. Many fellows are envious of Betty's job-working with so many figures. Alan Brown is a commercial airline pilot. The things he likes best about his routine is that every afternoon at four o'clock the stewardess brings him in his cup of Postum and daily Plastolux K ration. Stewardesses and K rations at 40,000 feet. Pretty soft! Elsie Petras is an elevator operator in the Empire State Building. Though she has her ups and downs, we all know that Elsie will triumph in the end! Cecile Walsh is a Metropolitan singer. Every Tuesday night at nine o'clock she sings over station BOSH. Ray Kensel had a promising career ahead of him as a master electrician but he rnade a devastating error when he wired up an electric chair with alternating current instead of direct--he gave the electrocutioner an awful shock. Electopia, the electrians' union, put his name on its blacklist, and when last heard of, Ray was trying to get into a school specializing in high tension rope! Beab O'Brien is an underground policewoman. That is, she directs the multitudes of subways in New York City. I wonder how many tickets for speeding she hands out! 27