Atlantic Highlands High School - Atrecall Yearbook (Atlantic Highlands, NJ)

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G CLSS It was the eighth day of September, 1949, a calm peaceful autumnal day, radiant with the sunshine of hope, cheer and joyous promise, that the good ship Atlantic stood at anchor at the wharf of a new school year. It was the same old ship that had carried many passengers to safe harbor in the Land of Great Wisdom, but this day was a gala day inits history, and many people gazed upon it in wonder as they watched the 31 beautiful and charming young ladies and the 32 bold and dash- ing young gentlemen as they so happily stepped aboard, for it was rumored that they were about to set sail over new and untried waters in a quest for The Fountain of Perfect Under- standing. As the ship stood at anchor on that eventful morning of September, the passengers began to arrive, and as I was the first to be enrolled upon the, list of passengers, to me was entrusted the important task of writing the log of the voyage-- the voyage that, even then, they all realized was to be the most important of their lives. I had scarcely finished the task of placing my signature upon the ship's register when a companion joined me--a girl who had sailed with me through the eighth grade cruise among the Island of Smaller Learning, and who I was glad to learn was to join me in this larger voyage, We were both congratulating ourselves upon the mutual pleasure of longer companionship together, when we turned to welcome a third comer, who had come from a distant city to take passage with us. We peeped over her shoulder as she wrote her name and were surprised to decipher the letters that she wrote. We had heard of the young lady before, and had known of her many pranks, so while we knew we would not find her overly fond of study, we were sure her jolly nature would brighten for us many an otherwise gloomy hour. In a short time we were joined by a fourth, and soon so many were crowding around us that all the berths were filled and we were assured of a very happy voyage. We were naturally very enthusiastic and asked many eager questions of our Captain, as to the incidents of our voyage and its probable length, and were assured thatifwe were persever- ing and diligent in our duties we should easily reach our destination at the end of four years. So it was with very hopeful hearts and smiling faces that we bade our parents and friends good-bye and waved our handkerchiefs from the deck at those left behind in the Grammar Grades, as we steamed away from the wharf and out of the harbor, actually embarked for four years' absence, on our Voyage of High School Life. We were young and socially inclined, so it did not take us long to become acquainted with our fellow-passengers, nor to feel very much at home with our Pilots, Mrs. A. DeWinter and Mr. L. Hyatt: the Captain, Maynard Reed: the Stewardess, Patricia Joslin: and even the Porter, Robert Duncan. Our fears of shipwreck were entirely wiped away in the assurance that so able a staff of seamen had us in their charge. There were naturally a few cases of seasickness and various ones were tempted to throw up Algebra, Geometry and other dis- agreeable dishes and toss some of their best belongings over- board in times of rough sea, but the Stewardess assured them calmly but firmly that they would only have to consume these indigestibles over and over until they were perfectly as-