Richmond Hill High School - Archway / Dome Yearbook (Richmond Hill, NY)

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The singers were some ol cur own clossmores. Yes we were reolly molring our morlr. Joon Doyle ond Doris Kroemer led lhe closs wifn fwo English honors, whEe fifleen olhers were the oroud holders oi one honor. ln Domino, Normon Reiss' Tirsl column oppeoreo wnile ihe poperis pnoiogrophs were lolcen by Budoy Rolhmon. Florence McLoughlin won o conresf by wriring lne besr composirion on ine Topic 'll l Were o Boy,i ond Mr, Donn celebrored his 'rwenliern onniversory os principol of Richmond l-lfli. ll wos in lourlh lerm lhol we begon To loolc Torworo lo our iirsi Regenls. Among The pleosonr 'rhings wos lhe orgonizolion cl lhe Lions Club, iormeo by our G.O. represenlolives 'ro supporl 'rhe boslcelboll leom. We monoged il oll righl ond our leom wenl on lo win. Then come The lorrid bollle over the conlinuonce oi none ofhlelic moior lefiers. Aller much debofe if wos decided rho? they should conlinue. Meonwhile, our closs ohicers were conrriving +he Fourlh Term Spring l-lop which wos highlighled by o Truih or Con- sequences show. Mory Jone l-lulchinson song ond Jomes Boruro goye o hormonico solo. One weeir, lermed Richmond l-lill Week, Teo- lured o sludenfslocully boskeiboll gome wilh lhe Tourlh lerm presis den? slorred on +he Big Guns, The leom represenling +he sfuden+ body. The loculry ochievecl on osronishing viciory employing rolher unorlhodox meihods. Lodders were sel up under 'rhe boskels, ond red cords were woved lhreofeningly. A+ lhe Aquocode our own Lorello Seeboclcer swom, ond Commodore l-lollmon demonslroled 'iis oguofic obilify, o rore occosion of Richmond l-lill. AT lhe beginning oi our Tiilh lerm Mr, Donn led The impressive ouldoor ceremony dedicohng fhe bronze doors. The lwo 'rhousond six hundred ond len dollors lor lhe doors were lhe funds lell lrom The money opproprioled for wor worlr. Thol wos lhe yeor Richmond l-lill celebroled ils golden onniversory, ln honor of rhe occosion we welcomed boclc filreen hundred olumni o+ on All Grods Doy Cele- brolion. The leslivilies included o speciol ossembly, on oquocode, ond o communily supper. The speciol lreol ol the doy wos o ploy wrifren by ond slorring The loculfy. Since we were privileged fo see Fiffy Years A' Groduo+in', if would be impossible For us lo iorger 'rhe mony impersono+ions by lhe leochers. -A-WM f 6 EN, We ei ii Th RICHMOND HNLL 4 vv' Osh oo xi. ,GPN vffvxcx, YS 777 0

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Log EighTh Term has come aT lasTl We've leaving The school ThaT we came To Tour years ago as Freshmen. IT was a hard sTruggle buT we made iT. And whaT's more, we've accomplished Things since ThaT evenTTul SepTember day when we climbed Those Tour TlighTs oT sTairs To our new oTTicials aT Annex 90. Since we TirsT sTarTed The Journalism Club, we've been giving service To The school. Mary Lou Quinn was The TirsT AssisTanT EdiTor oT The club and They really worked ThaT Term. There was a Spelling Bee in The Assembly where JaneT Rodger showed us all up and Took TirsT prize. When The TirsT Third ended, sixTeen per cenT of The Freshman Class was on The Honor Roll, and when The second Third rolled around, The Honor Roll held TwenTy-Tive per cenT oT our class. We had one hundred per cenT G.O. membership and STuarT Warshauer was insTalled as Vice-PresidenT of The Annex G.O. ThaT Term The G.O. ran a gala ChrisTmas Dance and gave us a good send-oTT Tor The big holidays. Annex 90 supporTed The EighTh, and lasT, War Loan by selling six hundred dollars in bonds and Three hundred dollars in sTamps. Remember The posTers we worlced on so hard in arT7 ATTer weeks oT worlc and exhibiTian wiTh The Tinal conTesT in The Assembly, The winner was announced . . .John Tegeler. Then came Freshman Dayl We proudly wore our big red bows To The show ThaT marlced The oTTicial end aT our TirsT Term. The highlighT oT The day was a play called Up in Mabel's Room and our Freshman Day neTTed eighTy-Two dollars proTiT, Topping all previous Terms. BeTore we lcnew iT, our TirsT Term aT Richmond Hill had passed, and we were well on our way Towards Spring, In second Term, as beTore, we obTained one hundred per cenT G.O. membership and Mary Lou Quinn became G.O. SecreTary. We helped organize such new clubs as The LaTin Club, The DramaTics Club and The Tennis Club. When The TirsT Term came To an end, one hundred and TwenTy-seven oT us made The Honor Roll, buT second Third was even beTTer wiTh one hundred and ThirTy-one sTudenTs achieving honor averages. Our assemblies were Talcen up wiTh such plays as Across The EquaTor given by The Spanish Classes. The Science DeparTmenT, noT To be ouT- done, gave one Too, which was wriTTen by Two members aT our class. IT was in Third Term ThaT mosT oT us came To The Main. ThaT Term There was a sign ThaT The war was really over Tor among The Three Thousand and ThirTy-six regisTranTs There were TorTy-eighT veTerans, The swimming Team won The borough championship, and Commodore, who TaughT our Tellows how To win, began his sevenTeenTh year as coach. For The TirsT Time in The TorTy-eighT year hisTory oT Richmond Hill a bowling club was sTarTed. Domino again won The all-American raTing, malcing iT The TiTTeenTh sTroighT Term, Qur music deparTmenT presenTed The opereTTa 'lolanThe and among f 'k x X IQ amend H Noni' N I Z... Qqd 1.4, Lrg., ,- oW'!g5 A -1L'1 kb' 'Fic A Rus TL7'4 S ffffsir f

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One oT The biggesT hiTs oT The Term was The 'lAuTumn Jamboreef sponsored by our class. El Commercial, The sTory oT a Tamily oT commercials, was The TeaTured skiT ThaT seT us all howling. STuarT Warshauer and Dave Rodger were The violinisTs oT The Fall ConcerT, WhaT beTTer way To sTarT oTT The Chrismas holidays Than wiTh Dickens' ChrisTmas Carol? Many oT our classmaTes conTribuTed To The producTion oT This well-loved sTory. We began our sixTh Term wiTh one ThoughT in our minds-The Junior Prom. When The gym was decoraTed, you wouldn'T have recognized iT. AT lasT The long awaiTed nighT arrived, and as luck would have iT, iT poured. ThaT, however, didn'T dampen The spiriTs oT The prom-goers and The aTTair pleased everyone. ATTer The Grand March, led by Dick LemperT and BeTTy JanTzen, we rounded ouT The evening aT a TavoriTe nighT-spoT. ThaT was The Term we Took ArisTa by sTorm, in spiTe OT The dreaded inTerviews. The TiTTy-Tive oT us who made iT paraded around The school wearing TooT high dunce caps, horn rimmed glasses, and Tremendous ArisTa signs. BuT we TelT mighTy proud oT ourselves aT The lnsTallaTion Assembly. ln November we presenTed WhaT c Life, a play which dealT wiTh The liTe and Troubles OT ThaT Teen- age radio TavoriTe, Henry Aldrich, Norman Reiss sTruggled Through all oT l-lenry's problems ably assisTed by Ursel Mosheim, Claire STahli, and Bob Fischer. Seniors aT lasT! And, as usual, we were represenTed in every acTiviTy. Our own Richard LemperT was Vice-PresidenT oT The G.O. while Barbara STeTTen became alTernaTe and Rudolph Schumacher was represenTaTive. Claire STahli won The coveTed oTTice oT Girl Leader aT ArisTa wiTh Elizobefh T-ledbavny and STuarT Warshauer as alTernoTes. Our class oTTicers were WalTer SmiTh, Eugene Kraus, ElizabeTh JanTzen, RuTh l-lecker, and JaneT Rodger. One G.O. promise was TulTilled on The evening ThaT The Mid-Term l-lop was held. Harry Jump STump played his inimiTable Dixieland music. This was Tollowed by The Fall ConcerT when STuarT Warshauer played a violin solo. Norman Reiss was ediTor-in-chieT oT Domino ThaT Term. Too. Dolores Messemer ediTed Dome, and, along The liTerary line, Joan Doyle was elecTed presidenT oT Quill, our wriTing club, and Carol Zuecca was secreTary. RuTh l'lecker, JaneT Rodger, and LoreTTa Seebacher swam in our waTer carnival. The nexT day we all sow The annual ChrisTmas Play, The ChrisTmas Tree sTarring Norman Reiss and Ursel Mosheim, wiTh RoberT Flynn, Richard Terwilliger and RoberT Fischer. AniTa Seisler won a naTional award Tor her poem, The Mood. lT was during our sevenTh Term ThaT we were honored by a visiT Tram Lena Kihlmon, a sTudenT Tram Sweden. Welcomed aT a Tea given in her honor. Lena sTayed in Richmond T-lill and was escorTed abouT Town by The llbig wheels. An air oT mysTery descended upon The school during The weeks oT The TirsT conTesT sponsored by Domino. Everyone was asking The same quesTion, Who is Mr. Hill? Free passes To every G.O, evenT were awarded To The person who could reveal his idenTiTy, Doris T-lamm guessed The answer, Mr. Daniel Wood aT The Music DeparTmenT. This conTesT was such o success ThaT iT was Tollowed by an- oTher. Now The big quesTion was, 'Who is Lady Rich- mind? ATTer many guesses, she was Tound To be Miss Marilyn WaTers oT The Speech DeparTmenT, This was l Tollowed by sTill anoTher, yeT diTTerenT conTesT. The winner had To solve a riddle in order To find a cerTiTicaTe ThaT woula enTiTe him or her To CJ daTe aT Johns' wiTh anyone in school, wiTh Johns' picking up The check. As