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Lillian had her Yiolin now, the title would be
quite appropriate here tonight!"
"Are th re anv mor of the clas. in your
orchestra?"
inqui~·es
Ellen.
"Oh, sure." Lillian grows enthusiastic.
"Why, it's made up entirely of '39'ers. There's
VanNess Buckl
y,
nn Gordon, Laura Ha.
kin~.
Lloyd Jacquay, Francesca La ort , Garth
filler, Peter Theodore, John \Varski and :Mike
Boris. Teresa 1cDonald, our feature vocalist,
ha:; grown amazing-ly ... cute since gradua–
tion."
Whil<> this group r covers from the surpri:;e
of having so many eel breties amm1g their
rlassmal , let's earch through the crowd anr!
find other of the cia. s of '39.
By the time \'e have reached a group of
three which we had already spied near the
familiar Main treet Lunch, a drizzling rain
ha:s
b~C>gun
that is helping the firemen quench
the flames a well as wetting us to the bone.
Donald Pickering, Bruce Flahertv ant!
Gregory Gianakouros stand shivering ·in the
wet, their collars turned up and their hat,;
pulled over their eyes.
As we walk nearer, Gr gory is speaking.
"I've seen so many of our old friends at
this fire. I wonder how it happens that thev'r
all back in Endicott at th , ame lim !"
·
" Iaybe they had a premonition that then•
was going to be a beautiful fire in the high
school!" Bruce ventures.
"Nonsense!" exclaims Don. "What makes
you think of such silly things?" And you
call this fire beautiful! Think of the mo11cv
thi fire is co ling the , chool taxpayers!" ·
" faybe it is expensive. But it's beautiful
11evertheles .
"Look, let's stop this quabbling, even if
it is in fun," interrupt Don. "Listen! Do
you hear a familiar voice?"
"Sounds like our belo\·ed president's. There
he is!" and Bruce point his finger over the
heads of the crowd.
"Clas of '39! Where are you?"
"It'
John Kva ny!" And ·Ralph Warner'.
with him!" exclaims Gregory.
"Pauline Tra too!"
..The voice ..comes more clearly through the
nsmg fog.
If
you graduated from U-E in
June, 1939, be at the American Leg-ion Club
House at seven tomorrow morning" The voic
grows faint r as the own r move on through
the crowd to attract more atl ntion from other
'39'ers.
Jt is a reunion! The entire class of '39, bv
some touch of a magic wand, were in towi1
this m morable
w
ek-end. What.'. more, they
were all at the fire watching th se flames
att mpt to destt·oy their alma mater.
Even tho' the flames might have entirely
de troyed all traces of the school, in the mem–
ory of every alumnu , there would have
remained forever not a picture of a brick
building but a structure of past immortal
dreams, hopes and fears.
SE
SNY
The largest graduation of the Union-Endi–
cott High
~
chool will take place this yeat·
when 2 0 seniors will receive their diploma;;
on .June twenty-eighth, The officers chosen by
the
clags
are as follows:
Pr<.>sident ................ John Kvasny
Vic~>-Pt·esident
.......... Ralph Warner
Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . Beverly Warfield
Treasurer ................ Pauline Tras
The Jtme class this year can be as proud of
thl ir honor students as they are of thei1
organization. In January ther weer sixt en
honor students with an average of 90 per cenr.
m· abov.:>.
N'orma
Br0\\11,
1\lut·iel Cameron.
Hcrh·rt Crumb, Cecelia Early, Boyd Harned,
Ludlle German, Alma Johnson, William John–
son, laire l\Iiller, Garth Iiller, Ruth Morris,
Anna Rando, Antoinette
araceno, Iiriam
Tr~astcr,
Helen Twining, and Grace Zanni.
lass Day program is in charge of :\1r.
Hagerty with Leda Hrincka as chairman.
Othet· memb rs of the committee are Teresa
~1al'Donald,
Jual Wilce, Hazel LaBarr, Louis
Bertoni, Boyd Harned, Edi on Lockwood, and
Donald Pickering.
"WING'
OF THE
MORNING"
"TAGED BY 'E
lOR
The senior play, entitled "Wings of
tb
Moming," by Charles Quimby Burdett , was
presented 1\Iay 12. The underlying theme is
that 'Very individual has a place in society,
about which he would have a clearer under–
, tanding- if he were t.o be involved in a
difticult situation.
The cast of characters included Love
Wolo,;huk as Joyce Calvert, a young busines:;
woman; Irene Brain, Loa, maid to Joyce;
Bruce Flaherty as Adrian Powell, a poet.;
Ja~k
Bartlow as David Banning, a surgeon:
Ehl'in Midgley, a Eben Forthright, an emis–
sary of Peter Iannou, who played Master
Ge1ffrey, a strange host; James Lambrinos as
Tonio Di
ilvistri, a fruit eller; Dorothy
lo . and Janel Shearer, Cal'lotta and Bene–
detta, Tonio's wife and daughter. Ann Komar
portrayed the character of 1\li s Wanley.
matron of an old ladies' home; Alma Johnson
a Effie, a student nurse; Barbara John on,
.Mr. . Ellis, a• inmate in the home. Ruby
len·it, Trudy, lrs. Ellis' companion; Ralph
WarnP.r, tanley Gordon, an aviator;
tar~·
Valenta, Ellen, the twin i ter of Geoffrey.
"\'\'ings of the lorning" was directed b}
Gilbert Hagerty and Alma Johnson, student
director. The staff in charge of stage man–
agement was tage Manager, Garth liller;
As,.istant 't.age
~Ianagers,
Donald Fredel'ick,
Frm1cis Freundorfer, Edward Makowsky, Ter–
e a .Macdonald, Jane
lcl\lullen, Charles
Spalding, Betty Foreman, Alan hepard.