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After Cap'n Rox told us about our school he went on with the history of our town. We could hardly believe the tales that he related to us. Rohanowahahal So that was our town's first name. And who would ever guess that our cognomen was once Clinktown. This verifies the fact lhat our town dates back to the time of the Indians, who gave us our first name. Back in the middle of the seventeenth century, the old Indian name was anglicized into Rockaway. This included from what is now Rockaway Beach to the town of Hempstead, a thriving little settlement. Rockaway was then subdivided into two parts. We became Near Rockaway because of our nearness to Hempstead; the other part Far Rockaway. a name that still remains. With the dawn of the American Revolution, Near Rockaway flared into stirring drama. From 1775 onward, all western Long Island was divided between two factions, one remaining loyal to the British crown, and the other favoring American independence. In Near Rockaway the loyalists, or tories, were especially strong. In May 1776, the plot began to thicken in the struggle between the Patroits and Tories at Rockaway. Tory sloops sailed the channels off Rockaway to bring back arms from British men-o'-war anchored off shore, but the war ended and the Tories faded into oblivion. Near Rockaway was still flourishing at the out-break of the War of 1812 when the Post Office Department ordered its name changed to East Rockaway. Our town saw some real action in this war. A group of East Rockaway men were sent with a company to guard Hog's Inlet, now East Rockaway Inlet, from an expected British landing party, which had planned to seize the inlet and hamper commerce. In East Rockaway, the nearest port to the ocean, a life saving corps was established to aid ships in distress. In midwinter weather in 1836, the ''Bristol'' and the ''Mexico'' were wrecked on the shoals off Long Beach. Mang people died, and it fell to the lot of East Rockaway seamen to bury them. Money found on the bodies was used to purchase a monument to their memory in the old Sand Hole cementery. In the early eighteen hundred's. East Rockaway gave promise of being the South Shore's largest village. It began to develop away from the ordinary run of straggling farms and meadowland, and reached the peak of its development about the time of the Civil War. 12 With the coming of the railroad. East Rockaway's shipping industry was permanently stunted, and even to this day has never taken its former position. The railroad may have been a detriment in one respect, but it has brought many summer, as well as permanent, residents to our community. This has been the history of the past as Cap'n Rox has seen it, and now we should like to relate our class history as we have lived it: It was away back in September of 1943 that our Freshman president, Paul Krohn, called us to order at our first class meeting. With a bang of a book we were launched on our high school careers. I doubt that any of us will readily forget that year. We wont to the ''circus” in Rock Rivalry and had a lot of fun holding down last place. We went in as clowns determined to win and left as scholars who had learned a lot. Sophomore year, however, brought better luck. With a gypsy moon” riding high, we landed third place in Rock Rivalry. As Sophomores we were still developing—from a war for the presidency of the class to a major split between class Republicans and class Democrats over the national presidency. To the tun of ''The Strawberry Blonde” we waltzed into our Junior year and waltzed out of that Rock Rivalry with second place. The Junior Prom was held in our usual habitat, Dreamland.' With the war over, life slowed down to a more normal pace, and much to our girls' delight, old faces returned to grace our school. Returning in the fall of 1946, we found that we had lost a friend; Mr. Philip Langworthy had left, but the loss was lessened by the presence of our old acquaintance. Dr. Henry H. Bor-mann. When we think of white elephants, we think of Room 110 transformed into a gigantic bazaar. When we think of aunts, we think of Charley's Aunt, the Senior Play, and when we think of Christmas, we think of the Christmas Prom, where we danced to the pleasant melodies of the Islanders,” with the odor of evergreens pervading every nook and corner. Our last year here seems to have flown, and we could only wish that time would repeat itself. Despite what the future holds for us, though, we face it with hope and confidence because of our four preparatory years spent here in East Rockaway.
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