East Rockaway High School - Rock Yearbook (East Rockaway, NY)

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★ ★★★★★ EDWARD J. MEEHAN Buck is the true musician who knows and loves all kinds of music from a Tommy Dorsey arrangement of tho la'.ost Jitterbug pioco to a timeless Nocturne of Chopin. Next to music, Buck finds pleasure in Esquire’s suggested haberdashery as evinced by the green corduroy jacket ho sported last year and his favorite bow ties. • Orchestra 1 2 3 4; Band 3 4; Cheerleading 1 2 3; Captain 2; Chorus 2 4; Gondoliers' 2; Pinafore 4; Hi-Y 4; Secretary 4; Varsity R Gub 4; Dance Orchestra 3. EVELYN MORANO When we reminisce about the characteristics of our classmates. Evelyn will come to mind as one of the prettiest, one of the most athletic, and one of the most ardent in her devotion to ice cream. As a member of almost every varsity, she has collected an enviable number of emblems. We shall also remember her as one of the first to introduce those little Dutch shoes to our school. • Basketball 1 2 3; Honor Team 4: Baseball 1 2; Table Tennis 3 4; Honor Team 4: Riding 1 2 3; Rho Gamma 2 3 4; Hi Y 2 3 4; Rock Rivalry 2 3; Track 1 2 3; Hockey 2; Courier 3; The Rock 4; Soccer 1; Girls' Craft Gub 4. MARGARET R. MORRILL Whether Peggy decides to ride horseback, perform an experiment in chemistry, write a letter or knit, she follows her decision with the zest and enthusiasm which brings success. This much-traveled miss can tell you of the sights of Boston or Georgia in such a vivid way that you almost feel that you've been there. • Chelmsford High School: Debating Gub 1; East Rockaway High School: Dramatic Gub 4; Latin Gub 3 4; Riding Gub 2 3 4; Tennis 2 3; Honor Team 4; Girls' Craft Club 4; Courier 3 4; Rock 4. WILLARD MULLINS —Tall, drawling, good-natured Tex , one of the founders of the Bachelors' Gub , seems to be eternally happy whether he is juggling with an intermediate equation, trying to cultivate a puny mustache, or putting his long legs to the services of the football team. • Amarillo. Texas. High School—Hi-Y 1; R. O. T. C. 1. Waynoka. Oklahoma: Basketball 2; Baseball 2. East Rockaway High School: Football 3 4; Basketball 3 4; Track 3; Ye Oldo Bachelors 4; “Tho Royal Family 4; Bowling 4. FRANCES MULLER At any athletic contest. Tiny's Are you ready kids? Let's go! is an indispensable part of the fun. To Captain Tiny goes the credit for those brilliant new uniforms and for the acrobatic stunts that accompany the cheers. Timid souls who are afraid to venture on a dance floor can find themselves in Tiny's dancing classes. Evon with no talents, though, Tiny would be welcome because of her generous spirit and lovable nature. • Gleo Club 1 2; Dancing Club 1; Dramatic Gub 4; Rho Gamma 4; Courier 4; Cheer Leading 2 3 4; Captain 3 4; Minstrel 1; Reck Rivalry 3 4; Roller Skating Gub 1; Girls' Gaft Gub 4. DEWEY MUNSON -Rooters who saw Dewey play football with a crippled knee last autumn know that if ho had ’wo broken legs and arms, he would in some way manage to carry tho ball that had teen entrusted to him. Give up is a phrase Dewey doesn't recognize in relation to the game of football. One of his most likoablo qualities is generosity; his best pals say that ho begrudges nothing to a friend his last dollar, his last shirt, or his last hour of froo timo. • Latin Gub 1 2 3, President 3; French Club 2 3 4 Vice President 3; La Socioto Honorairo 3; Dramatic Gub 3 4; Gym Toam 2; Courior 1 2 3 4: Frer.hrr.an Basketball 2; Football 3 4; Varsity R Club 4; Handball 3 4; Basketball Manager 4; Rock Rivalry 2 3 4; Track 2; National Honor Society 4. 19

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★ ★★★★★ JOHN McNAMARA Our gay class president. Johnny Mac , has a way of getting along with life and people that has helped him in his period of wielding a gavel for throe years at class meetinqs and four yoars at dramatic club sossions. Any ono who has attonded East Rockaway stago productions will tell you that this broad shouldered senior can portray any character from a dying prisoner to a light-headed movie star with grace and zest. • Football 2 3 4; Basketball 3; Freshman Basketball 2; Dramatic Club. President 1 2 3 4: Student Council. Vice-President 3; Class President 2 3 4; Varsity R Club 2 3 4; Tennis 3; Ye Olde Bachelors 4: Rock Rivalry 2 3 4; The Queen's Husband 2; 'The Late Christopher Bean 3: The Royal Family 4. HELEN MAINS -When we see Helen dreaming, we wonder if she is thinking of her beloved hockey field or snow laden skiing slopes. We know, though, that however far afield her thoughts may be. she will always collect them instantaneously if a friend needs her attention. Dreams are furthest from her mind, though, when she is actively engaged in those sports which are so pre-eminent in her life. • Gloo Club 1 2; Dramatic Club 1; Rock Rivalry 4; Riding 4; Hockey 4; Volley Ball 4; Craft Club 4. ROBERT MASON—Bob plays a dual role in our school. Watch out for his on rush during football season; never try to out-do him in a debate. During that noisy election day Bob was voted President of the second period English class. He is always on hand to enliven every event from a session with the oncyclopodlas to a pop rally with his clowning. Incidentally, Ye Olde Bachelors claim him as a charter member. • Brooklyn Tech: Longfellows 1 2: Mathematics 1 2; Hockey 2. East Rockaway High School: Football 3 4; Varsity R Club 3 4; Baseball 3; Track 3; Ye Olde Bachelors 4: Prosidont 4: Rode Rivalry 3. FRANK MATZKE Rod headed Frank is as conscientious creating startling rod-plaid shirts in the Boys' Home Ec. Club as he is in making fraternity pledges be-havo. Tho Dramatic Club has found in him a stage manager capable of directing any back stago manoeuverlngs no matter how intricate, and the senior class lauds him as a genius in squeezing duos from reluctant class matos. • Hi-Y 2 3 4; President 4: Student Coundl President 4; National Honor Society 4; President 4; Dramatic Club 1 3 4; Vice President 4; Class Troasuror 2 3 4; Ye Olde Bachelors Secretary-Treasurer 4: Radio Club 3; Airplane Club I 2; Glee Club 1; Dandng Club 1; Courier I: Rock 4; The Late Christopher Bean 3; Rock Rivalry 2 3 4; Soccer 2; Hall Cop 3 4; Traffic Cop 4; Stage Manager of The Royal Family 4; Athletic Police 3. PETER McDERMOTT—Peter Duck or 'Quack. Quack . as ho has styled himself with his Irish sense of tho ridiculous, holps to make school life morry. Teasing the girls, giving original but weak excuses to the faculty, planning how he can make caddying a big business proposition, or loading tho Jitterbugs in the latest East Rockaway version of the Shag , Peter is just Peter, inexplainable but immensely likable. • Central High School: 1 2; East Rockaway High School: Dramatic Club 3 4; Rock Rivalry 3 4; Handball 3 4; Latin Club 4. JEAN MEAGHER—v e may find Jean dashing excitedly about the hockey field or basketball court, cantering along the bridle path, or slamming a ping pong bail- or we may see her in a secluded corner absorbedly reading the season's best-seller; but whatever she is doing that inimitable Jean Meagher giggle is her unfailing companion. • Latin Club 12 3 4; French Club 3 4; Riding Club 2 3; Table Tennis 3; Table Tennis Honor Team 4; Rock Rivalry 2 3 4; National Honor Sodety 4; Hi-Y 4; Skating Club I. 18

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ MILDRH) NITSHKE Mildred, our most earnest Girl Scout, is one of the fev who have won Golden Eaglets. If ever you are in doubt of the species of a tree, f.ower. or Dira ask this ardent student of natural science. Seldom, too. does she miss a drum and bugle corps practice for her buglina is both melodious and mighty. I! you don t find her immersed in nature or music, sho will probably be selecting a book to read in the library or polishing meial book ends in the shop • Latin Club 2 3 4: French Club 4: Chorus 1 2 3: Double Octette 1; Rock Rivalry 3; Library Club 4. DONALD NOONAN Curly haired Donald is the senior who has perfected a method of arranging his chair in class so that he can get the maximum amount cl oaso for 45 minutes of slumber. Whon ho isn't slooping or playing prac ical jokes on his pals, he is discoursing, at length, on the best way of cooking flap-;acks or building a lean-to. for camping is a favorite hobby with him. • Airplane Club 2; Latin Club 3 4: Cheer Leading 3 4; Rock Rivalry 2. JUNE NORRIS -Junes pleasing voice is persuasive when she asks you to buy candy from the senior class, becomes businesslike when, as secretaire . she reacts the minutes of the Circle Francais . grows sentimental whon hor thoughts turn to Hawaii, and lends itself harmoniously to the melodies of the Gondoliers the Mikado or Pinafore . Despite this anay of vocal acromplishments. it is her infodlous gigglo, bursting forth at the most unoxpoctod moments, which endears her to us most. • ,T p°nd2lter8 2 Mikado 3. Pinafore” 4; Chorus 1 2 3 4: Girls' Glee Club 1 2 3 4; Societe Honoraire 2 3; National Honor Society 4; Hi-Y 4- Girls' uraft Club 4; French Club 2 3 4 Secretary 3 4; Spring Concert 3 4; Music Club 4; The Rock 4: Rock Rivalry 2 3 4. DOREEN PAYNE - Doreen is the actress who can hold an audience of live hundred in scenes of humor and pathos as Julie Cavendish, or a group of three standing around a locker door in imitations of a Cockney lass or a New York sales girl. She is so able in anything dramatic that we some day expect to pay Broadway prices to see her act. Two other labels of Doreen are her high spirits and her tooth paste smile. • Dramatic Club 1 2 3 4: Tno Valiant 1: The Queen's Husband 2: The Late Christopher Bean 3; The Royal Family 4; Glee Club ]; Minstrel 1- Gal- .ery Club 1 2; Rock Rivalry 2 3 4. The Rock 4: Courier 3 4; Dancing Club 1; Skating Club 1. ELIZABETH PpiBODY- -If you should happen to glance at a report card sparkling with 90's and 95's labeled Jeannette Elizabeth Peabody ', you might have a picture of a sedate ?rind . but when you hear friends calling Hi. Toots! to the owner of this amazing card, you would swiftly change your mental image, one is one of the few girls who can be brilliant yot remain fragilely attractive and companionable. As proof of hor regular tastes, she likes banana splits and drumming, automobile trailers and Connecticut sunsets. • Hi-Y 3 4. Vice President 4: La Societe Honoraire 2 3. President 3: French Club 1 2 3 4, Vice President 2 4; National Honor Socioty 4; Table Tennis 2 Rho Gamma 2 3 4; Rock 4; Dancing Club 1; Library Club 4; Rock Rivalry 2 3 4. PEARSALL I m ca.ied Little Buttercup sings Doris in the low, melodious voice which has won her an important part in ovory musical over staged at V S! ‘ °c dwdy- But ner musical talent is not limited to vocal accomplishment, as we discover on seeing her seated in the orchestra, her violin tucked under her chin or at the piano, her fingers skipping nimbly over the keys. Any group of which Dot” is a member will not long remain serious. • ?5 r? 3,4; Girl8'Gu»« Club 1 2 3 4; Orchestra 1 2 3 4; Gallery Club 1 2 3 4; Rock Rivalry 2 3 4; Dramatic Club 1 4: Diner 1; Gondoliers 2; Mikado 3; Pinafore 4; Spring Concert 3 4; Music Club 4; Rock 4. 20