Bay Ridge High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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make a IoT oT noise so ThaT we could escape The wraTh oT The Teacher SweeT man he did Too' AnoTher evenT ThaT gave me pleasure was The vis1T ThaT Vic Damone paid To our school The gurls were so Thrllled and exciTed ThaT They nearly Tell oTT The balcony and when he sang Those wonderful songs every hearT beaT a IiTTIe TasTer Oh This is one of The Things ThaT makes IuTe bearablel I remember The Tear I experienced Though when I saw The lumber piled in The Senior Garden I hoped we wouIdnT lnheriT ThaT lumber yard My Tears were unTounded however and when I IeTT The school Tor The summer vacaTion I knew ThaT when I came back In The Tall The building would be The mosT beauTaTuI in The ciTy IT really came True Too' BARBARA PRICE AT IasT aT long IasT I reached Grade 5 only To discover ThaT I was considered The Treshman oT The morning session and was meT aT every Turn wlTh glaring Senior and Grade 7 puns Now I came To school by Tlash IighT and Toghorn insTead oT going home ThaT way and among oTher abuses was Torced To wear a suiT oT armor To combaT The Talling pIasTer oT modernuzahon I-Iowever I bore IT all wuTh a brave hearT Tor There were many evenTs To keep me occupied and my Troubles were overcome Every hearT beaT TasTer when Ten oT The male chorus members Trom Champlain College sang aT Bay Ridge To recrulT cand1daTes Tor Cham To hop on her I1TTIe red wagon and enroll aT Champlain Then came The long To be remembered never To be TorgoTTen Turkey Rall The Tech Bay Ridge roller skaTlng parTy when our dear old broTher school sToIe our hearTs away and TuTure prom balT began To be sTored up The climax oT Grade 5 was our ChrlsTmas Bazaar which TeaTured penny a peep shops and booThs Trom every deparTmenT in The school IT was Tremendous success along wmTh The Triple FeaTure Shop held The same nrghT Remember The Tlve man quarTeT oT TacuITy members7 WnTh The coming oT Grade 6 some oT our exTra curricular acTlviT1es were resTored We held a bug G O Dance chr1sTened The Bunny I-lop and The Term was really under way A large scale club sysTem was unsTiTuTed and we Tound ourselves enloyung diverse acTnvuTies every oTher week during assembly bell schedule The cream oT Grade 6 was Tapped Tor ArlsTa and They soon enTered The ranks oT our honor socieTy AnoTher successTuI skaTing parTy wiTh Tech was held The IasT big evenT in our Iunior year was The music TesTuvaI which com bined The eTTorTs oT The Choral Club and The OrchesTra WiTh anoTher seT oT RegenTs and Tunal marks behind me I IeTT Grade 6 wnTh banging hammers and Talllng Timber ringing In my ears, buT also w1Th Tond memories oT many Things learned and good Times enloyed by all RUTH CARLEN plain. For The nexT monTh, every girl in The school was making avid plans

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any spare Tlme we had I remember my own enloyable Tumes ln The swlmmnng Tennus danclng and dramaTlcs clubs There were oThers oT course buT lm only human All These Thungs made my Treshman year a memorable and happy one Qur exTracurrn ular acTuvuTues were com peTe FRANCES lvlcGl2ATI-I Well here I am aT lasT' IT was a Tough TughT buT I Tunally made :T Perhaps Id beTTer explaln ThaT lm reTerr1ng To my sophomore year This new home :T really IS you know cerTa1nly looks luke a hugh school I guess none oT us wall ever TorgeT The scary Teelung we experuenced as we enTered The Mann Bunldung IT made us Teel so small and 1nsIgn1TncanT ThaT we really TelT luke Treshmen alThough now we were known as Unclvullzed sophomores Are They kuddung7 I had qulTe a blT oT dlTTlculTy geTTlng around The school Though Everyone rushed around as Though she were berng pursued by a demon I always remember The Trouble I had To Tund The rlghT sTalrcase and when I dad somoT1meslTTelT as :T The whole school were Trylng To clamb up over me I believed The yarn abouT The swlmmnng pool belng on ID Thesr baTh1ng su1Ts I never had any luck Though In The monTh oT February I became a cuvnlnzed sopho more and I looked Torward eagerly To The Term ahead oT me Maybe IT was due To The TacT ThaT summer was comnng We all had a wonderTul TreaT ThaT memorable Term We were snTormed ThaT The school was To be modernized and Then The Tun really began The class work was 1nTerrupTed conT1nually by Tne hammersng drzlllng and sawing oT The carpenTers ThaT was The besT Term we ever had Some days beTore enTer:ng a classroom where we hadn T done our homework we asked The carpenTer ouTsude To I 0. vi . . I I I ' R I . ' . ' I' ' , I I . . . I . . . . u . . . . 'F ' K f ' . illffxi I 0 . . . . . Lk . The Tloor above The lunchroom, and I used To look Tor girls A 1 , , ' 1 ' ' 'I Q ' I K . I ' 1. ' 0 . ' . ' k I ' . ' . X 1 T - I A I ' I I 1 l I . , 1 f . 'I r nf' l ':T:S....:,.' .2 . 9715?

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The dafe was Sepfember 8 I952 If was a greaf day ID my llfe I sfarfed my Sensor Year My program during fhe sevenfh ferm was nlce excepf for Typing I Iusf couldn f gef If My flngers gof caughf In fhe keys I remember goung wlfh fhe grade presldenf fo order fhe grade seven puns The address of fhe pon manufacfurer was 4222 Fourfh Avenue She and I hopped fhe bus over fo 42nd Sfreef and fhen walked up fo Fourfh I puf on my glasses and sfarfed fo help her look for Ihe bulldung num bered 4222 Afler looking franflcally for almosf half an hour we decmded fo ask someone We wenf up fo a garage affendanf and sfafed our problem I-le assured us fhaf fhere was no such place on fhaf sfreef or avenue We once agaln referred fo fhe paper fhaf held fhe address We also nofzced If had a Telephone number affached If read Murray I-lull 5 2324 Thafs In New York' we screamed Buf Grade 7 had nofhung fo worry abouf We gof fhe Angels IH fume anyway Who could ever forge? Grade 7 nlghf7 One of my favorlfe feachers played Sanfa Claus l le had a pack fllled wlfh wax fawns fhaf had sachefs around fheur necks And before I knew If fhe day had arruved February 2 I953 I became a Sensor The Iheme of our fnrsf Senuor meefnng was We musf sfudy harder Oh my head' No more homeworkless weekends I gof my Sensor plcfures qulfe soon affer I 'rook fhem lsnf If funny Then came Sensor Day I felf luke Queen for a Day Thaf was soon over remember We musf sfudy harder Even wlfh fhe male shorfage I managed fo gef my package for fhe Sensor Prom Thaf was a nnghl' I II never forgef Dum Iughfs soff music and danclng af fhe Waldorf composed fhe social hlghlughl of our I-Ilgh School career Info every llfe a Isflle raln musf fall And so If dld Regenfs Week arrlved I-lavlng come ouf fhe vucfor we began pracflclng for fhe graduafxon exercnses As we pracfuced fhe speeches and marched down fhe aisles my whole hugh school career passed before me I could remember Ilffle fhunos I had done as a freshman Buf I had an even sfranger experience The nrghf of commencemenf nfself I wenf nn as a sfudenf and came ouf an alumna I knew I would never again walk fhe halls of Bay Rldge I-Ilgh School wrfh my friends Some of us may be walklng fhe halls of anofher school shorfly ofhers may be walkrng fhrough fhelcorrldors of an office bulldlng No maffer whaf fhe fufure holds for us we have been well equipped fo meef every snfuafuon fhaf may aruse I am sure we can all promise Bay Ridge I-lugh School fhaf we wall never falfer CAROLE MASUCCI ll ll ' ' how picfures never do a person lusfice? ' J