Bayside High School - Triangle Yearbook (Bayside, NY)

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Out of Eden came Eve, out of chaos came the Juniors, really remarkable people-Juniors. They have their disadvantages at best-most people have. But fancy the scheme of things done without them ll After all, they do constitute somewhat of a necessity, opinions of some Seniors to the contrary. And how can we ever reach our goal of being Seniors except by the inevitable and, generally speaking, happy state of being Juniors? During this most thought-out year we became the proud winners of the PSAL swimming championship. Our sports activities, Basketball, Swimming, Baseball, Soccer and Track all claimed our attention by their good showing. The Jazz Concert was attended by large numbers with great enthusiasm. After this event, as all JUNIORS do, we settled down to enjoy our new found dignity. We were still eager for success, but no longer green or backward. The Junior year had slipped by with unexpected speed and there remained but one more year, the shortest of them all. September 12, 1955 and we were officially Seniors. SENIORSHI This term began with the mysterious Twirp week which came to an end with the twirp danceg the woman is requested to pay. We felt that our years at Bayside were coming to an end when we were measured for our Senior rings. We parted with a deposit of our three hard earned dollars. This feeling continued as we marched in one by one to have our Senior pictures taken. Although we knew that we would not complete our stay at Bayside until we received our diplomas, every step towards that eventful day seemed to bring the ending closer. The buying of Senior hats, pins, and rings and taking part in our last Jamboree and only Senior show engen- dered an air of superiority in all Seniors. It was a series of culminating events for all members of the class. We fell off our pedestal when we realized that College boards, scholarship tests, and Regents were too close for comfort. Our spirits soon rose though when we bought our Prom bids and started rehearsals for graduation. We found ourselves breathing freely after completing our last Regents week and receiving those long awaited diplomas. The Class of June, l956 has taken its place beside the other classes of Bayside history. Fifteen

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M5 f0l g It's all over now. Four short years have elapsed and the class of 1956 of Bayside has passed into posterity. No class history can record the full details of all that this class has experienced since it entered in September of ,52. It is only possible to grasp the highlights, to describe smatterings from here and there of the important events, in the hopes that by so doing the spirit and the significance of those eventful student years can be recalled. Certainly the Glass of '56 possessed all the elements necessary for school spirit. Bayside's teams had made a fine showing the year before and promised to do equally well in our starting year. Although extra-curricular activities were resumed the year before, after having been set aside for a while, they were just beginning to boom forth with rejuvenated spirit. Great new ideas were undoubtedly to come forth. But, before the freshmen could join into all these activities, they had to become orientated to this unfamiliar vastness that surrounded them. They wandered from basement to third floor and back again following their new programs. Soon they realized that they were part of the school when a dance, The Freshman Frolic, was given in their honor. The enthusiasm of the freshman class came forth in full when many of the freshman represented their class in one of Bayside's most success- ful plays, Best Foot Forwardf, Max Liebman's spectaculars have nothing on the exhuberant, collossal Nights of Music' which brought to completion our first term at Bayside. As second term rolled around we prided ourselves as being educated freshmen, seeing that we had gone through midterms and finals. QLittle did we know then what awaited us in our next three years. REGENTSH! BAN ON DUNGAREES, more midterms, and many, many more Regentsj In the fall our class returned to Bayside as Sophomores, a much wiser and cockier group after their browbeaten Freshmen year. No sooner had the basketball season gotten under way than we found ourselves in the midst of Madison Square Garden cheering our team on to glory with the aid of our newly born cheering section. We had just recuperated from our downfall at the Garden when our hearts were lightened by the play, Night Must Fall. iNhile watching this iVho- Dun-It some ingenious member of the audience thought up the idea for a new dance, NThe Skeleton Swingf, The spirit of our Sophomore year never lagged as was shown by that festive event, our second Jamboree .... Besides having fun ourselves we made sure that others benehted when we adopted a Korean Orphanage. As the Sophomore year came to a close we were delighted to see our favorite teachers participating in the faculty show and many of our parents taking part in the Bayside Guieties. Fourteen

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