East Side High School - Torch Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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Election results in our Junior A term were: President. Anthony Fiordaliso; Vice President. Dolores August; Secretary. Margaret Maggio; Treasurer. Arnold Criscitiello. Finally our long awaited Senior days arrived! Our Senior B election results were: President, Vincent Lipinski; Vice President, Dolores Conforti; Secretary, Marie Gomes; Treasurer. Anthony Cavallaro. Friday. April the 1 3th, was the setting of our Senior B LUCKY 1 3” Dance. Tony Roberts was the guest soloist. Almost all our classmates attended, and it was enjoyed by all. Senior REC Day! The long awaited day. We really looked forward to it. The girls really dressed up nice and the boys looked sharp. We have many pleasant memories of that important day. George Stankan, Senior A president, presented the Senior torch to our President, Vincent Lipinski, in honor of us. the new Senior B's. After school an afternoon dance and refreshments were enjoyed by all. Then to New York we all trotted. Remember Shane , Porgy and Bess , Greenwich Village , 'Mama Leone's and many other places? Our corsages were spring flowers in a colonial bouquet. Our PROM? Really? It's true. Our prom. Moulin Rouge , had arrived. Everyone worked hard and we are proud of its SUCCESS. Our tickets were beautiful and the decorations were just out of this world. The boys hadn’t realized what pretty lasses the girls in our class were until that night. Many couples from our class went to the Bill Miller's Riviera . Graduation Day for the class of June 1953 and our girls helped usher. A nice long summer intervenes. September 14. 1953 opens our Senior A school days. Our election results: President. Vincent Lipinski; Vice President, Dolores August; Secretary. Marie Gomes; Treasurer, Joseph Della Sala. Our class chose to have a Class Dance instead of a Senior Recognition Day. The name of our dance was Get Your Man and it was held in honor of Sadie Hawkins Day on November 6. 1953. Dungareed girls wearing their brothers' shirts, and boys in L’il Abner shoes appeared at 8:00 o’clock P M. for a social dance. The Farewell Dance was held on January 15. 1954. Everyone came dressed for the occasion, for this was to be our last class social at EAST SIDE. A seriousness enveloped the dance even though everyone was having fun. Remember how much fun our graduation rehearsal was! But on the night of graduation. January 27. 1954. at East Side High School auditorium. with bright eyes filled with happiness and tears, we took our diplomas and changed the position of the tassels on our caps. Our High School days ended as abruptly as they started! 29

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(Atony by SHIRLEY RYMAN Hey there! Come here! And you too, friend! Gather around as we tell you a little of our formal high school history. In the beginning . . . the date was February 1, 1950—a most extraordinary group of Freshmen entered the halls of East Side High School and its annex. We weren’t any greener than most Freshmen. Introductions, to very important people in our lives, Mr. Sutton. Miss Gronheit. Miss Parmele. Mr. Horwitz and Mr. McCracken, didn’t mean very much to us. then. Mr. McCracken's list of rules and regulations did make us wonder. Before we became acquainted with our homeroom teachers, we were set to filling out this and that form, until our hands and arms were numbed. Lucky for us. we only had fifteen minute classes the first day. In the fall we. the educated Freshmen, were all together, because the Annex had been condemned. Our Freshmen days flew by. even though the school days were longer and were tormented by ‘‘Up Stairways. Down Stairways, Elevator Tickets, Upperclassmen and ONE WAY TRAFFIC.’ In the fall of our Sophomore year changes occured in our various homerooms. Miss Gronheit left us as class counselor when she went to the Ann Street annex. Mr. Sutton, class adviser, gained the help of Miss Parmele as class counselor. All in all. we really acted the part of nice ’’sophisticated morons.” As Sophomore A’s we had our first elections, the results were: President. Arnold Criscitiello; Vice President. Anna Marie Dallakian; Secretary. Leo Souza; Treasurer, Joseph Della Sala. None of us will forget the bomb scare in our Junior year. We had boots, umbrellas. and all sizes and kinds of books to carry home. We were the first Junior B class ever to hold a night dance. It was a Leap Year Dance on February 29. 1952. We were proud as could be of our decorations and games and of our success. The results of our Junior B election were: President. John D Oliveira; Vice President. Dolores Conforti; Secretary. Dolores August; Treasurer. Anthony Cavallaro. In the fall of 1952. the Jack O'Lantern. our second dance, another great success, was held. Even though Margaret Maggio had graduated, she played such a big part in the success of our class social affairs, that we will always remember her. Remember the buses hired to take students to the away from home football games.” in our Sophomore A and Junior A terms? 28

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