Worcester State University - Oak Leaf Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Jane Vecchione, Lois Wennerstrand, and Mary Laverdiere; the Spectacular Appliance Center of John Allega; the Happy Time Coffee Shop of Jean Schreifer; and the Sky-Light Dance Land of Pat ' Greenhalgh and Dick ' Roy. Of course, none of these establishments would have been possible without the able assistance of Ed ' McGinn, president of the famous Space Construction Company. His motto is Come to us; our wood upholds through cloud dust, jet propelled motion, and vibrations, and is guaranteed to be the lightest, yet strongest substance in space. ' In our first memorable year of 1959, the company ' s best project was the construction of our new modern elementary school, which is now headed by William Owens. His faculty includes Marilyn Goddard, Mary Breen, Jean Collaro, Jean Frost, Patricia McCourt, Patricia Moynihan, and Patricia Nelson. One of the new facilities included in the school was the electrified green board proposed by our research team, Mary Garvey and Elaine Davis. These boards when exposed to an ultra-violet ray erase themselves. Several years later, Carole Flynn, Superintendent of the Space School System, set up a secondary school with Cornelius Doherty as principal. His staff includes Harold Beane, Anthony Cimino, Warren Hayden, Francis MacGrory, Phillip Reis, and Kath- leen Desy. The language department in this system offered courses in the Marsian and Jupitan languages, as well as in French and Latin. Our specialists in this field were Richard Tyburski, Barbara Saunders, and Roland Remillard. ' Ronnie ' Aromando and Theresa Dowgielewicz combined their musical talents with the teaching profession. Theresa was appointed the director of music in our schools, and ' Ronnie ' was assigned as conductor of the senior-high band and the Inter-Planetary Orchestra. Bob ' Fougere and Jeane Allen organized their own physical education program. Last night, Bob ' s ' team, made up of the sons of the class of ' 58, won the championship game in cloud bouncing. Jeane ' s team, consisting of Peggy ' Ransom, Charlotte Spinney, Nancy Forsberg, Barbara Seale, and Dotty ' Lambert, scored the highest number. . . . We interrupt this program to bring you an important news flash! William Belanger and John Dowling, scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory, have just sent up another rocket to the moon. This time, however, Francis Crimmins, a laboratory technician, is a passenger on the flight. Please stay tuned to this station, for Anne Marie Fizgibbons will bring you more information on the eleven o ' clock news. Now let ' s return to Mr. Moran with his interesting news. ' John Bullard and Faith Douglas have founded the first Geophysical Space Foundation and are busy with their co-workers, Pete ' Trainor, Marie Meloche, and Janet Judge, in determining the exact nature of the ionosphere. James Halliday, editor-in-chief of the Duster, ' our local paper, appointed the following people to his staff: ' Joe ' Sarli, sports editor; Maureen Hayes, fashion editor; Carol LaFontaine, literary critic; Joe Hamelin, chief photographer; and Aidan McSherry, managing editor. Others on his staff include .loan Thornton, Lenore Lopriore, Arlene Mazurkiewicz, Tom’ Fitzgerald, and Rose D ' Elia. 18

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FUTURAMA Outer Space Station to Earth . . . Come in, Earth . . . Station GB calling Worcester, Massachusetts. . . . Earth to GB . . . Come in . . . Station WRED is ready to receive reports from the spacemen. . . . ' Ladies and gentlemen of our listening audience, this is Dominick McGrail, the commentator on Planet to Earth, ' bringing to you, this fifth day of September, 1970, the first true-life report on the happenings in outer space. It was twelve years ago today that volunteer members of the Class of 58 ' from W.S.T.C. decided to establish life on the first stopping station in space. Tonight we shall hear from Mickey ' Moran, the keeper and guardian of the landing platform on the station, the Green Beetle. ' Bob ' O ' Brien, the technician, has just given me the signal. In sixty seconds we shall hear from the spaceship ... 25 seconds ... 10 seconds ... 5 seconds . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . I ... Come in, Beetle. . . . Hello, Mr. McGrail, this is your old classmate speaking. As you have said, we left our native land on a cold morning twelve years ago at 0-600. Ninety seconds later, we reached our destination quite pale and fatigued despite the efforts of our competent stewardesses, Jean Chauvin, Judith Kane, and Alice Guzik. As we climbed out of the ship into the vast wilderness, many of us wondered what the future would bring. Our first project was to further organize our group. Our president was, of course, Paul E. Sullivan, who, we think, should be recorded in history as the first president of outer space. Wanting to be recognized as people rather than as spacemen, we called our- selves the Green Beetles, which title seemed appropriate because, for the first few weeks, everything, including our own skin, appeared green. This condition, we later found out through the efforts of the scientist, Richard Terry, was due to the gravita- tional pull on the nervous system. To remedy this situation, Noreen Arnberg, head of our medical center, invented the quick-working non-analgesic vitamin, ' null-G, 1 guaran- teed to restore man ' s natural pallor. Along with this vitamin, an excellent carbon-dioxide reduction system, a green- house, has been established by our expert botanists, Helen Espanet and Dorothy Sea hill. Some of the other emporiums located along our main thoroughfare are: the Fairbrook Meat Market of ' Nick ' Pacella and Phil ' Anastas; the Specialty Shop of 17

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Don ' Kaminski ' s main duty as captain of the Space Patrol is to supervise and control all our social functions which are sponsored by Tom ' McGrain and Mary Lee. One of the more active groups in our society is the Inter-Planetary Ping-Pong League under the leadership of ' Frank ' Schlosser and ' Jack ' Murray, who, believe it or not, are still fighting for the position of ' Mr. Ping Pong.’ Last but not least along the domestic line, we have an unusual composite dis- covery through the efforts of Loretta Beringer, Betty ' Belanger, Arlene Horvath, and Carol Bibber — a liquid vaporizer which places a negative valence on the dust molecules in the air, and a dust cloth which leaves a negative valence on the furniture. And as we all k now, like valences repel; therefore, the chore of dusting is no longer necessary. In closing, I would like to make one plea to our classmates on Earth. Don ' t forget us; remember that we are very anxious to hear news from you. Goodnight Mr. McGrail. I hope you and your listeners have enjoyed this broadcast. Thank you, Mr. Moran. Well, ladies and gentlemen, this concludes the program for this evening. I hope you will join me in next week ' s broadcast which will feature our guest speaker and Good Will Ambassador to France, Miss Eugenia Pepi. See you then. Goodnight. Several years later in compliance with the request Mickey ' Moran made on the broadcast, ' Jim ' Murphy, on a cold, clear night in 1975, tries to connect his self-made radio set with the station on the Green Beetle. The weather conditions being perfect, ' Jim ' finally hears the voice of ' Larry ' Faron, a radio electrician on the space station. Larry ' is quite startled when he hears the voice of his S.T.C. pal, and insists that ' Jim ' immediately tell all the news before they lose the connection. So ' Jim ' starts his story. Well, Larry, ' ' Bob ' Hennigan is the proud father of eight children, three more sets of twins. Carol Roseen is married and the principal of P.S. 53 in the New York City Public School System. Alma DerKazarian is the wealthy owner of Mademoiselle ' s Dress Shop, a 5th Avenue establishment. Joan Cuddy and Nancy Pearsall are among the five leading fashion models. Betty ' Ohman and Helen Such have combined their literary talents and have two plays on Broadway. ' Ronnie ' Herrick has just finished his tenth straight week as featured vocalist at Birdland in the heart of Times Square. Fran ' McDevitt has accepted the position as head coach at C.C.N.Y. Grace Trainor has just returned from her yearly trip to Europe. At this point, Larry ' broke into the conversation and asked what happened to those people that stayed in Worcester. Well, ' Larry, ' Maryan Poskus is in charge of the newly-developed research center for science work in the primary grades; and Joyce Jones, after studying abroad, has recently written a book entitled The World Is One Happy Family. ' Dotty ' Sullivan is the assistant principal at Clark Street School; Dotty ' Kane is in charge of the guidance department for the city; and Kay ' Bergstrom is now a supervisor of elementary education. 19