Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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Mephisto, The Wonder Horse?’ Our first long pants or up-sweep curls: We were grown-up boys and girls! We bumped the frosh from many schools In vain to follow traffic rules. Of course we carried all our books, And shrunk to mice at seniors’ looks. The year sped on with a date or two— President Lassen carried us through! ‘Pook! Isn't That No longer were we mere small fry: We were the sophomores of Plainfield High! A skating party rolled in the dough; There was just nothing we didn’t know! Russo held the class in sway, Upper assemblies were the thing of the day. Whom to ask to the current dance? A coke at The Dive—our first big romance! Figure by Edmund Chimleski The class of °42 moved right along: Battistella keeping us from wrong. The junior-senior prom in combination Lived up to the class’ expectation. “What Night Club Artists Really Do” Was the subject of the junior revue. Exchanging class rings with The Only One: High school life has sure been fun! PAL RS Wa

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Skillful Hands Create .. . Seated left to right: Miss Kathryn Patton, B.F.A., University of Kansas, M.A., New York University; Miss Helen Morton, Temple; Miss Alice Lindsley, Mechanics Institute; Miss Muriel Miller, B.S., Cornell; Miss Florence Firth, B.A., M.A., New York University. Standing left to right: Charles Det- gen, B.S., Newark; Arthur F.. Hopper (director), B.S., M.A., Columbia; Ken- neth M, Ball, B.A., Montclair, M.A. Co- lumbia; Henry Oesting, Rindge Techni- cal; Kermit Whitehead, Rutgers Summer; Jules Wiesmann, Mechanics Art. Absent from picture: Phylip Y. Craig, B.S., Rutgers; William Gordon, B.S. New York University; George Wharton, Rut- gers Summer. For Sound Bodies . . . Seated left to right: Mrs. Ruth B. Gilbert, New Haven; Mrs. Marion E. Snyder, Savage School; Mrs. Elizabeth B. Persinger, B.S., New York University, Russel Sage, Standing left to right: Jack Liddy, B.S., Rutgers; Herbert A. Stine (head), B.P.E., Springfield; Harold Bruguiere, Panzer College; Evert R. Pearcy, B.A., Salem, M.A., West Virginia; Wilbur F, Brann, B.A., Oberlin, M A... New -York University. me LU Men of Music Standing left to right: A. Dwight Brown (instrumental music supervisor), B.A., University of Iowa; Glenn L. Ma- hon (elementary instrumental supervis- or), B.A., Ithaca; Clarence J. Andrews (supervisor), B.A., University of Iowa. B.M., Ithaca. Seated at the piano: How- ard S. Savage, B.S., M.A., New York University. Music, drama, art—beauty in its high- Miss Ruth LeFevre, dramatic coach, Lois Lippincott. Miss Kathryn Patton, est form Left, Mrs. Mildred Searles, (center) takes time out from the senior art teacher, (right) explains the theory accompanist, plays in assembly; while play rehearsals to discuss a skit with of color to Laurel and Holly Reichert.

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