Curtis High School - Yearbook (Staten Island, NY)

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,sw B cuusmsa I A1 my 1 f N522 f ,, 3' age F AN ii...--' ' X N CLA H 55 JJ S Q FRESHMAN YEAR On September 12 1952 400 eager brught eyed students entered the halls of Curtus Hugh School as the Class of 56 None of us wull ever forget that furst day of our hugh school careers We trooped unto Feldman Hall and lustened atten tuvely as Doc Anderson paternolly warned us agaunst the evuls of the green elevator and the bucket of steam lt was then too that we met Mrs Taylor our grade advuser who promused to lend a sympathetuc ear and a helpung hand Soon Barbara Van Name Pat Moore John O Neull and Bruce Soupy Campbell to represent our class ln the fall of 1952 we wutnessed for the furst tume a G O campaugn We were a but amazed at the revelry that took the place ofthe long wunded speeches we had expected Not only was there a conga lune for the EVEN party but there was also a representatuve body from Mars The motto for that party was of course The ODD party us out of thus world The second term had hardly begun when elec tuon tume rolled around agaun Thus tume Maureen O Bruen and John Lange uouned Barbara Van Name and Soupy Campbell as our class offu cers ln the sprung under the talented durectuon of Mr Ruchard Mudgett and Mr Raphael Kosakoff Curtus Hugh School presented The Mukado operetta by Gulbert and Sulluvan Many students of our own class partucupated and ut was a great success Thus our furst year ended S ll,,ff SOPHOMORE YEAR Another September and we returned to school no longer unsugnufucant luttle freshmen Thus was also the Golden Annuversary of Curtus Hugh School and to celebrate The Vagabond Kung was pre sented un the sprung term wuth uts cast of thou sands We were well represented un thus presen tatuon not as the stars but as the make up staff stage crew and extras for mob scenes At electuon tume we proved how untellugent we were by choosung capable leaders ln the thurd Barbara Van Name Vuce Presudent Thomas Ferry Secretary and John Lange Treasurer Thomas Ferry Dagny Jensen Fauth Solomon and Aruay Godston were our Presudent Treasurer Vuce Presu dent and Secretary respectuvely for our fourth term Another evudence of our superuor posutuon un Curtus was our partucupatuon un the G O campaugn Even through the valuant efforts of the Cheer leaders we dud not come through wuth flyung colors However we felt confudent that we would be vuctoruous un the next electuon As June approached we experuenced muxed emotuons we were happy that vacatuon tume was near and worrued because we would be tak ung our furst Regents Examunatuon We dudn t realuze how short those weeks really were as we duscovered that the more we studued the less we knew and the more we had to study to be able to pass Though few of us fouled those crucual tests many of us sughed un reluef that we had passed and summer vacatuon was too close to have any regrets about the past year ff- QJ h.2 4',fl f- -if .15 'i 5 Z7 XT? C ,ff X 4 8 ., V -A W 1.3: . . -.-Sf' '- u A ' ' ' -5: 7 , 1, J g A A1 1 e l r ts 1 'f' - - ' , 1?r - , , '-F? I ff' . X A f-jf s ' F' fa, T7'l ,,l 1 -- u'l l fl after we were settled, we elected four people: term we chose: Faith Solomon as our President, - - ,. - an . 1 i R F .23 . J ff f ufl 1 wx g ,D ,I I! , J 5 7 L u 'X X 6 sl- f--- l X ' C v ef -- ' ' o T- 1 ' -J 'T ' 5

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Peter Saderholm Robert Murphy Arlay Godston Harold Robtnson CLASS BLUSHER CLASS SAINT BEST MANNERS BEST LOOKING John Santore BEST DRESSED Thomas Ferry BEST DANCER Alfred Polladnno BEST ATHLETE Array Godston MOST POPULAR John DeMauro CLASS FLIRT LEFT TO RIGHT Dagny Jensen Most Popular Tom Fer y Best Dance Mau een Coll ns Best Dancer Arqay God stan Best School C t mn Class Smger Best Manners Most Popular Emlly Dorset Best School Cttzen -A1 T TO RIGHT N ck So d Il M sl Tolkat e Fo th o omo Nat d t Mon e s Pe e So hol ass BI her 8 st N t ed Jocke Kpp Class A o Mart Rosen Class Actor Rachel Gnnnus Vlrglnla Kelly Forth Solomon Dolores Jaslremskn Wendy Btnstock Maureen Colluns Dorothy Pletracatella Dagny Jensen Ruth Gundersen 3 R12 LEFT TO RIGHT Donald Bon n Most Wtty L Ile Cor r er Most Wntty Joan Soper Class Cla n A dy A Class Clo .4- I , . . N,e.. I 9 I I . ' I I I LEF S I r Ine I, o iv 3 I S I n, Best ure l Bes n rg V r der rn, CI us , e a ur g i I , ct rg In , . 0 .' ,A .Q f J I X ' . I I , I 3 uc? I , ' Q W wg n vellino wn, 1 , y r , rg r I , I I ' , Ii , ' , . 3 ' , i' .

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333 s G 's S 4 KN ,if 41: -.2 gf ff ,E H1 G If Jawa X JUNIOR YEAR September l954 and as we entered the halls of Curtss we agasn felt proud We were not lowly freshmen or sophomores we were qunsors p perclassmen Our heads swelled wsth concert which soon left us when we realszed that thss year would be a challenge We would agasn nomsnate candsdates for G O offsce many of us would be chosen for Arssta we would choose our class rsngs many of us would hold coveted posstsons sn the Football Basketball Track Cross Country Swsmmsng Baseball Bowlsng and Golf teams and the Cheerleadsng Squad and we would have the honor and prsvslege of gsvsng a .lunsor Prom which would make Elsa Maxwell burn wsth envy These thsngs were a challenge but they were met successfully' Even though we had hoped to wsn the G O electsons we could not say that we dad or dsdn t because a new system was snaugu rated whereby no matter whsch party won we also won As a result of the electrons Arlay Godston became Pressdent havsng Emsly Dorset Secretary and Ken Gyarmathy, Vsce Pressdent, as hss fellow offscers On December 4, we presented Stardust the .lunsor Prom, sn honor of the Class of l955 It seemed as though a msracle had been performed when we saw the fsnsshed product of our efforts at transformsng the boys' gym snto a grand ball room for the evensng For days afterward we talked about the wonderful tsme we had that nsght, but our chatter about the prom was soon replaced wsth the excstement of choossng sensor rsngs We ordered them sn March and smpatsently wasted untsl that day sn June when we could walk through the halls wsth our fourth fsngers extended, proudly dssplaysng the emblem of our rank as sensors And so another year came to a close SENIOR YEAR The last three years had sped by and now st was September l955 Comsng back to school now was almost a pleasure for thss tsme we resgned as sensors feared and admsred by frosh and sophomore envsed by the lunsor We were at last the bsg wheels on the campus because members of our own class held the honored pos: tsons sn school government and sports The LOG and the YEARBOOK seemed very smportant now because for the fsrst tsme we were part of them We no longer had to dssplay our sensor rsngs as the ssgn of our posstson we walked talked ate and breathed like Sensors' Even our subgects bragged for us for who could have Latsn 7 and Solsd Geometry but a Sensor? lt was December lO and we were gosng to the prom but thss tsme the prom was besng gsven sn our honor by the Class of l957 The bsg feature was a huge dsamond cut hemssphere on the ceslsng whsch reflected the lght Iske a msllso moonbeams lt wasnt untsl January that we fully realszed how close we were to graduatson Many of us felt sad that we'd soon be leavsng our alma mater Our sadness was soon forgotten when the G O, sn cooperatson wsth the Arssta, presented a Valen tsne's Day dance Lske the Football Rally sn Novem ber, st too, was a success Msdterms and Easter came and went, and fsnally Sensor Day a day that we'd looked for ward to for four years arrsved On thus day we, the Sensors, run the school, taksng over classes and the lunchroom lt's fun sn other ways, too, because we all get dressed up sn our very best clothes lt was a day we'll long remember sec ond only to Graduatson the most smportant day sn our lsves s nm, ffxx 752, N fix? ft 1 I XIJ ffJ '!v l nf N Q X -LL I f xml .g -4 Jn , ll' I B' . ' H , .A .. s, 3 I ll' Q, s It 1 1 I ' . I . - ull .ss , 1 - - l sl lt - ' - l A M I Q , ' ll-ME l . - I ' ' : ' ' ' s s , ' ' . ' A : 5 E - . ' H -R E T f - - N wil! . n , N l 'l sl I A! WV fk. I s ' 1 - -' - ' l I 'sl Xe' X tl Q, Qs