Forest Hills High School - Forester Yearbook (Forest Hills, NY)

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Cfaoa .Maier it was on a bright September morning in 1949 that a mob numbering over iive hundred trooped through the sacred portals of Forest Hills High School, their home for the next four, or possibly more, years. They plodded along, clutching in their moist little hands the postcards on which their names had been inscribed. They also carried the incriminating evidence that really marked them as Freshmen : the big blue Home Contact Cards that stuclc out like sore thumbs. Vvhen their shalcing could be controlled they spoke thus: What school are you in? Forest Hills High School, of course. Don't you lcnow that Forest Hills is divided into three schools: Forest, Hill, and Parlc? Now what school are you in 7' 379. After the tirst few weelcs of buying swimming pool passes, lioor spots in the gym- nasium and elevator passes, threats of washing the Senior Staircase with a toothbrush. and cringing at the sight of dreaded marshals, we settled down to the slow process ol malcing our imprint on the school. When October rolled around, some of the Big Time Operators of the class put on their Sunday best, and after sufficient prodding by the parents, got up enough nerve to aslc that cute young thing in General Science to Black Magic, the tirst dance of the season. The dance was the debut of the freshmen in school social lite. And then. on a cold mid-December night, the curtain rose on Play pro's production ol Arsenic and Old i.ace,n something that very iew ol our freshman drama critics will ever forget. in the first year, the impression the freshmen made was faint, but we were acquiring the Forest Hills tradition. irwin Schmalberg and Harry Friedland, interviewed by a Beacon reporter, said Lunch was their favorite period and the girls were pretty. A girl interviewed at the same time said Lunch was her favorite period and the boys were horrible. Our first year was over and we were ioolcing forward to the peaceful summer ahead of us. The summer was liar from the peaceful one that we had hoped for, as war had hrolcen out in Korea and once again our country was battling to iceep democracy sate. Sophomore Year The Fabulous Five Hundred were augmented by three hundred novices from junior high school. The extra-curricular activities were banned, but that didn't iceep us big wise sophomores down too much, although it did perhaps hinder us from showing the school how versatile we really were. in December a concert was given and members oi our class were prominent in both the orchestra and the band. Martin Yudell, our class nightingale, was made a member ol' the All City Chorus, and Louise Falcetti ofthe All City Orchestra. Our first election made Herbert Henschel a senate representative. David Kissinger copped a prize in the G.O. talent show with his hot trumpet playing. Pierre Sprey won a scholarship to a French drama group and Mitch Zucicer was sent to a Junior Red Cross convention as a representative of our school. That year in the assembly the class saw two plays: As You Like it and A Christmas Carol. KP' 'Riga 11 ef X X rf ff F7 .Q ii ,gf ar Q f-sg ,V 'S' iii . ff .Mira . 6- .Gff ' f an itil ,ff tj , ,i If 51 if J