Clifton High School - Rotunda Yearbook (Clifton, NJ)

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POINTS NOT THE ONLY GRAUATION REQUISITES The Senior year is expensive, I hear. Carlson knows it, so does Pontier. The price of the rings gave them a thrill, They’re working now in the Pitken Mill. Dluhy and Sauer don’t care for a mill, They’d rather slice meats, then make out a bill. So Juniors prepare for your Senior year, Be ready with money, or you’ll have to pay dear. Ain’t it a Grand and Glorious Feeling? When you get up from bed Almost too late To eat your breakfast. And you run to school Just getting into the cloak-room When the bell rings. You search in vain for an empty hook So quickly hang your clothes Over some one else’s. Being all out of breath You hurry into your section room And frantically pick out a paper From one of your books And start doing your homework For the first period Which you did not do The night before. And when you’ve just written a few lines The bell for the first period Rings. But you continue writing another minute Yet fail to get a tenth part of it done. Just as you are leaving the room The late bell rings And you travel through the hall In agony. Then as you enter the room Looking for The dreaded teacher You notice a sign: “Classes are excused for today.” With the familiar initials W. F. N. Oh, Boy! ain’t it a grand and glorious feelin’? B. FRIDSMA, June, 1922. Page Thirty-one

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“Miss Grant! Put your glasses on!” is all Sarah hears lately. Mary had a little curl, It hung behind her ear, When Mary went to bed it hung, Upon the chiffonier. Unlike Elaine, Miss Beck declares that it is a foolish thing to die of a broken heart for any Lancelot. Can You Imagine: Bancroft forgetting his lunch box? Bonitz failing to describe some new novels he had read ? Dluhy in love? Pontier attending P. T. regularly? Sauer objecting to a theatre party in New York? Carlson doing away with his “Sharpie Haircomb”? C. Hilton making a racket? M. Karp as a school teacher? G. Valerius without her bobbed hair? Will someone please tell me why the girls like to borrow the boys’ fountain pens about Christmas time? After some deep thinking, I have arrived at the following conclu- sion: Two opposites, a negative and a positive, will cancel. Intelligence and ignorance are opposite, therefore they will cancel. In fact, they have cancelled in the minds of some students, and having cancelled, have left nothing. Is that granted? 8 1? In History Class Mrs. Grammer teaching Domestic Hygiene; Miss Helen Stewart talk- ing to Miss Frances DuPlessis. Mrs. Grammer: “Pardon me, Miss Stewart. I didn’t mean to in- terrupt you.” What would happen if Rosen should loose his gold medal ? Or if he stopped blowing about himself? Well, well, what happened! Mike Amato recited for the first time in three months in Latin, and asked Miss Jackson why he got a 6 on his report. Page Thirty

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Freshmen Agree The cows are in the meadow, The sheep are in the grass, Not all the simple-minded folk Are in the Freshman Class. Teacher: “Johnny, why are you late?” Johnny: “School started before I got here.” What seems to be the matter with Warner Staub and Boletta? Won’t you forgive, can’t you forget? Miss J. Troyan: “Have you seen Screery’s window?” Miss R. Smith: “No, where is it playing?” The star of the High School Orchestra is Mike Amato. Keep it up, Mike, you’re getting good—the first one hundred years are the hardest. Wellenkamp has a great head for business. We intend to have him elected Admiral of the Swiss Navy. Does anyone know what a “yap” is? Please return the correct answer to Brown. Miss Wallace: “Of what use are trees?” Mr. De Luca (after brief pause): “Why-er-they keep the country from going dry.” What would happen if— Peace was ever restored between Jumbo De Vido and Brown. Ain’t it a grand and glorious felling when: You have been doing some cute little baby trick to make a girl think you’re smart, and then dis- cover she isn’t looking at you? (Ask Wellenkamp and Plog.) Why do they call Emil Sauer “Sweet”? Ella has fierce fun trying to keep a pet. Her latest, Sammy Berry, met with an accident on Clifton Avenue and is now at Dr. Lowe’s office where little hopes are held for his recovery. No wonder Miss Brunt is late for school every morning. Gosh, I wouldn’t make all those curls for all the Henry’s in the world. What would happen if Argauer didn’t knock the biggest man out in every football game? A. ROOTER. Page Thirty-two