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

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OFFICE STAFF Here are the office staff and our main office. This room is the center of all school business. Mrs. Lee and Miss Schempp keep all school funds and accounts in order, and record excuses and latenesses. (Many are the trips home a poor student has to make because of forgotten excuses!) All day long students swarm into this office. Some come for lost articles, some for fund slips, some for passes, and quite a few for 43-minute stretches on those hard chairs. (Wondering what's in store for one is just as uncomfortable as sitting on those chairs, believe us, Cap'n Rox.) The other rooms are the offices of Dr. Bormann and Dr. Studwell. Our school is run under their able guidance and direction. They have helped us in more ways than anyone can realize, and our class is very grateful to them for all they have done for us. Left to Right: Dr. Bormann. Mr . Loo, Dr. Studwell. Miss Schempp PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION The third Thursday of every month marks the date of the Parent-Teachers' Association meetings. The P. T. A. is the organization where teachers and parents become better acquainted and discuss ways in which they can help both the school and the students. The officers of the P. T. A. are Mr. George Schuler, president; Mrs. O. Victor Gerth, first vice-president; Mrs. James Gambee, second vice-president; Mrs. Gilbert Meske, treasurer; Mrs. Krohn, corresponding secretary; Miss Jane Duffy, later, Miss Agnes Hickman, recording secretary; and Miss Gladys Olson, financial secretary. Programs of the P. T. A. are always interesting and attendance at them is usually good. This is one organization which should be complimented for what it tries to do for the school, Cap'n Rox. Sealed: Mrs. Schuler. Mrs. Cooke. Miss Hickman. Mrs. Gerth. Mrs. Krohn. Standing: Mr. Meske, Dr. Bormann, Mr. Gambee, Dr. Studwell. Mr. Sherman. Mr. Smith. Mr. Clark. Mr. Schuler.

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Seated: Mr. N. Mott, Mr. R. Pape, Mr. H. Gessner. Standing: Dr. A. Scimeca, Mr. H. Sherman, Dr. H. F. Studwell, Mr. H. Proctor, Mr. G. Smith. Absent: Mr. W. Magee, Mr. A. Kohout, Jr. THE BOARD OF EDUCATION The East Rockaway Public Schools' governing body is the Board of Education. The members are elected by the voters of the district on the first Tuesday in May each year. Their term of office lasts three school years, the school year beginning the first day of July of one year and ending June thirtieth of the following year. The Board of Education of each union free school district is a corporate body, and at each annual meeting elects a president from among its members. The present members of the Board of Education are: President: Mr. Robert R. G. Pape; Trustees: Mr. Harold Sherman, Mr. Walter Magee, Mr. Henry Gessner, Dr. Anthony Scimeca; Treasurer: Mr. Hilliard A. Proctor; Clerk: Mr. Nathaniel Mott; Counsel: Mr. Anthony Kohout, Jr.; Superintendent: Dr. Harold F. Studwell. 9

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FACULTY No more pencils, no more books. No more teachers' sassy looks! First Row: Miss Duffy, Mrs. Symonds, Mrs. Howard, Mrs. Mosks, Mrs. Joy, Mrs. Yotter, Mrs. Nelson. Mrs. Winters. Second Row: Mr. Hermanson, Dr. Bormann. Mrs. Reilly. Miss Hickman. Miss Olson. Mrs. Offer, Miss Lorenz, Miss Roisman, Miss Tobin, Mr. Halford, Mr. Prunhuber. Once upon a time this was our typical chant. Today we are seniors looking back on our many school years, and although we may not miss the pencils and books, we all feel that we shall miss immeasurably the teachers and their sassy looks. No longer do we dread these second parents, for we feel that we shall be leaving a second home, our school. We shall never forget: Miss Duffy's attempts to pound into our heads that elipses have curved comers, not square ones; Mr. Fordham telling chorus members to meet their boyfriends elsewhere so he could have rehearsals instead of a youth center on Monday nights; Mr. Halford's calm manner of banging heads together when he couldn't quiet his classes any other way; Mrs. Howard's nonchalant remarks that kept English IV in hysterics; Miss Irish's face the day Ezra walked coolly into the nurse's room during the girls' physical examinations; Miss Lorenz's homeroom piled high with white elephants for the senior sale; the ease with which Mrs. Meske was able to teach us amo ; Mrs. Nelson's advice on good grooming—but jeans and our dads' shirts were so comfortable; the cheery grin that Mr. Prunhuber always had for us; the door to Mrs. Reilly’s room always sticking because of our gum parked outside the room; poor, poor Miss Reisman, who prayed every night (between knitting socks) for new typewriters; the extent of an English teacher's vocabulary as displayed the day Lyn dropped a chair on Mr. Sackman's foot; Mrs. Symonds and her young gremlins who did everything but climb up the walls; Miss Tobin's telling her study hall students. Callaos. estudiantes, which was Greek to most of us; the hall cops trying to slow Mrs. Winters down because they mistook her for one of the students; the time we almost had Mrs. Yetter believing that Leif Ericson discovered this square world of ours. We shall always appreciate: Miss Hickman's way of watching over us and helping us when we needed an extra lift; Mr. Judd s advice that clean sportsmanship is the best sportsmanship; Miss McCord's understanding manner and sense of fair play that helped us to be both good winners and good losers; Mrs. Offer's endless patience during history debates. We shall miss: worrying about Herm mixing up H SOj as though it were HoO; the drooly ice cream cakes which' Mrs. Joy brought to special”Hi-Y meetings; Miss Olson telling us a straight line is the shortest distance between two points and then having to spend periods listening to the theories of students who believed in short cuts; Mr. Ruckdeschel's advice on how to take a car apart and put it together again without any left-overs. (Whatever will happen to the faculty's cars after our boys leave?) Never will we forget our faculty. They were always there when we n needed the most. It will be hard for us to leave these wonderful men and women of East Rockaway High.