Andrew Jackson High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Cambria Heights, NY)

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YESTERTI-ICDLICHTS . . . when you were a freshman and Mairzydoafs was an undiscovered phenomenon? . . . Remember ? ? ? fhe school buses which made life so easy? . . . how you could play baskefball fhe whole period long, insfead of imifafing commandos? . . . all fhe privileges you fook advanfage of, like buying 6.0. sfubs, pennanfs, baskefball fickefs, because you wanfed fo be a real Jacksonife? .... fhe way your mofher bade you fond farewell af fwelve noon wifh fhe warning, You sfop in Joe's on fhe way home, and l'll break every bone in your body, and how you gof losf coming home in fhe dark? . . . how you firsf made Mr. Bove's acquainfance when you fried fo apply for Arisfa? . . . when girls could powder fheir noses in Enrolling Rooms wifh no boys presenf fo crificize? . . . how you were persuaded info vofing fhe righf way by promises of school hours of fwelve fo one wifh an hour ouf for lunch? . . . or have you forgoffen? . . . how you innocenfly planned a four year graduafion program wifhouf considering Remember? ? ? any such sfrange animals as war courses? . . . fhe mysferious widge+s ? . . . fhevfoofball championship Jackson would have won if we had a feam? . . . fhe very memorable Monday, lDec. 8, l94I,l when you were forcefully snapped info a sfafe of solemnify by fhe Presidenf's war speech? . . . or fhe following day when you were senf home, posf-hasfe, during our firsf air raid alarm? . . . how we Jacksonifes, nof safisfied wifh winning 'rhe Cify Baskefball Championship, fried fo capfure Times Square, buf were defeafed by fwo riof squads and a longing for supper? . . . how peeved Doc Swenson used fo gef because all of our air raid drills occurred iusf as Mafh 22H was geffing under way? . . . fhe way you devoured your nails as you sfruggled fhrough your firsf Regenfs? . . . do you? I4

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,926 SENIORS IN SERVICE PICTURED Hop row, Ieff fo rigI1+I HAROLD DE FIORE KEITH CASSIS ARNOLD KINSTLER Iboffom row, Ie'H' 'I'o righ+I WALTER GUENDEL ROBERT ARDEN LE ROY HARRIS EUGENE MORTON NOT PICTURED ROBERT ANDERSON LEONARD D'ALLESSANDRO JOSEPH C. HUTCHINGSON DONALD FRANCIS LEAHY FRED LEIBOLD CONSTANTINE PORRECA ERNEST ROSITZKE RUSSEL VEINOT EDWARD WHITEHURST PAUL WIGAND

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JLJNIQR Remember ? ? ? . . . fhe baffle over girls' slacks during 'rhaf cold winfer? . . . fhe swimming feam which made a definife habif of winning championships? . . . when you saw fhe same March of Time in fhe audiforium fhree 'rimes in one day? . . . fhe service flag fhe English Deparfmenf hung ouf for Mr. Raubicheck and Mr. Ponemon? . . . fhe leffer from fhe Regenfs Board commending Howard Sfein for a perfecf Chem Regenfs paper? . . . when we losf fhe championship fo Madison's baskefball feam in fhe Garden, buf won fhe baffle of Duffy Square afferward? . . . fhe Gold Medal fhe Hickory Log won ai' fhe Columbia Scholasfic Press Associafion Conference, and how all fhe New York papers clamored +o sign up our sfaff . . . or don'+ you? SENICDR Remember ? ? ? . . . how we sfarfed our lasf year by copping mosf of fhe maior school posifions? . . . when Beffy Schroeder, spoufing poefry righf and leff, assumed fhe Ediforship of fhe Sfar ? . . . when Terry Chrisfy and Joe Scheines fook over fhe Lunch and Traffic Squads respecfively, and sfarfed sending wayward sophs fo Doris Allen, Sylvia Libes. and Don Monks, Senior Judges of fhe Sfudenf Courf? . . . how Sue Wells and Kafhie Driscoll sharpened fheir pencils anew upon becoming Co-Edifors of 'rhe Hick- ory Log ? . . . fhe day fhree hundred odd Seniors and one Soph lined up +o order class iewelry? lfhe Soph fhoughf he was on fhe prefzel linel . . . how cerfain feachers wenf info hiding when you needed fheir signafures for acfivify sheefs? . . . fhe day fhe warning bell rang an exfra minufe and Mr. Pollin observed an unusually long period of silence? . . . how fhe boys groaned affer fhe mosf feminine Senior elecfion in hisfory? . . . how your lasf spring in Jackson came in wifh a bang and a bump? lfhe bump was Bensen dropping a book in fhe daily dash from Gym fo Hisfory, and fhe bang was someone slamming fhe door on a raging snow sforml . . . how Bill Walker, wifh his leff hand in a casf, led our crack baskefball feam fo our second Cify Championship in four years, wifh a smashing vicfory over Beniamin Franklin af fhe Garden? . . . fhaf wonderful June 28 when you marched proudly up fo receive your diploma? . . . Of course you remember! How could you ever forgef? l 7 l I5