Clifton High School - Rotunda Yearbook (Clifton, NJ)

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THAT JOYFUL RIDE Aint is grand and glorious feelin’ when: You’re in a hurry And you wait for the bus a long time. And when the bus comes You find that it is crowded. You quickly grope in the air For the bar to hold on When you miss it And your hand drops On a lady’s hat And hat-pin While you yell And everyone in the bus Looks at you. You are in agony Standing in the crowd When the bus turns a corner And you land in someone’s lap And jump up quicker than you sat down Only to jam into someone else. And at the next turn You are prepared And grab for the bar Only to miss it The second time And slap A bald man’s head Who is holding his hat Because he cannot keep it on Because of the crowd. And then you see It is time for you to get off And you shout out the street Ten times And finally The driver hears you. And you push Through the crowd Stepping on everyone’s feet But your own. When at last you reach the door And stumble out. Aint it a grand and glorious feelin’? J. M. Troyan, Junior 1. twenty-nine

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 A School Yell Well Well Well Yell Yell Yell Spell Spell Spell C L.. . .O N Oh Well Oh Well Go Tell Everybody Go Tell We’re Clifton From CLIFTON THEATRICALS Business Before Pleasure The Follies of 1921 .. . Where Poppies Bloom. . Patience............... Lightnin’............. East is West.......... Daddies............... Cornered............... Ladies’ (K) Night...... The Last Waltz......... The First Year......... The Broken Wing. . . . Buddies................ The Bat................ Tip Top................ The Gold Diggers....... The Passing Show....... .............................School ........Jorlett and Adelaide Hazel ................Ethel Sutton’s Face .........................Mr. Nutt ......................Harold Brown .................Latin (confused) ........Mr. Derr and Mr. Collester Richard White (unprepared lessons) .........................Mr. Palmer ........................Mike Amato ..................All the Freshmen .................Richard Brookman ( Charlie Keppler ................. ( Harry Kessler ..............Alma Swindenhamer (appears when least expected) .................Alfred Hobelman .................. . .The 4-1 Class .......................Class of ’21 twenty-eight

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WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF Miss Thienes forgot to smile at Quinlan? Collester forgot to keep looking into Miss Hill’s room every day during lunch period? Healy took his hat off before he came into Miss Jackson s room every morning? Muriel Cook forgot to talk with “Cy” Smith during Latin the fifth period? Mr. Riley did not worry about his haircomb? Mr. Brown did not worry about his good looks? Mr. Eyers did not talk with Eleanor Sjoberg every morning? Mr. Mair forgot to bring his lunch to school? Muller or Sutter came to school on time? Brown did his Physics lab. ? Hollender forgot to do his algebra? Feldman did not know his Latin? Mr. Quinlan did his Spanish? Quinlan was never absent? DID YOU EVER KNOW IT TO FAIL It rains the day of a baseball game. When you’ve left your lunch home, you’re starving when lunch period comes. When you’re backward in typing, you get extra work to do. When you’re late, Mr. Nutt sees you come in. If you haven’t said a word for the whole period and you just begin to say two words, you get caught in the act. When you haven’t done your homework you are called on. When you have done your work, you don’t get called on. When you least expect it, the teacher gives a test. When you have a holiday, enough homework is piled on to last the holiday and a few days over. When you’re absent, something exciting happens. When you’re here, not a darn thing happens. Gosh! aint it an awful world. SIMPLE JOHNNY As Mother Clifford was serving dinner there was a clatter of wooden shoes on the cobbles outside the door. The farmers all turned to see what was the matter. Simple Johnny stood there hanging on the door, his yellow hair covering his scarlet face. He had run until he could scarcely talk. thirty