Clifton High School - Rotunda Yearbook (Clifton, NJ)

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NCE more it has been made possible for us to publish our school paper, the “ Reflector.” Possible is the word to be em- phasized, for, without the hearty support of the student body, this publication would certainly have been impossible. We cannot sufficiently show our appreciation to those of you who have so admirably responded to the call for material by contributing personals, stories and poems. Even though we have not been able to print every contribution, we admire the spirit in which they were submitted. We owe a special word of commendation to the boosters of the “ Reflector Ad Contest,” which was held during the week beginning Jan- uary 9th. The results were most gratifying. True to previous promises, the two individuals and the two classes securing the highest number of advertisements were duly rewarded in assembly. We trust that, in the days to come, our paper may prove to be a true “ Reflector,” by supplying the means through which the departing Seniors may recall old memories of their school life, which terminated on February 1, 1922. We heartily congratulate this class in having so faithfully completed its High School course, but it is, never-the-less, with a feeling of sadness that we see its members leave us. However, in this inevitable farewell, we wish them all the very best success in life, and Godspeed wherever chance may lead them. E. C. W., June, ’22. 8? 8? Can you answer these questions ? Why has our High School been so successful in the past few years? Why have the greater majority of students successfully passed their subjects? Why have dances and other Page Five

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“REFLECTOR” STAFF Editor-in-Chief—Herman Bonitz Associate Editor—Eleanor Woodruff LITERARY DEPARTMENT Jack Feldman Edward Hollender Gladys Valerius Molly De Mattia Virginia Ruhe SCHOOL NEWS Edwin Bancroft Lewis Erber Adele Haitinger Margaret Thienis Harold Brown Helen Dixon Morris Karp PERSONALS Andre Bryere Molly Karp Adrian Van Dorn Donald Collester Ruth Guilfoyle Ruth Smith Manuel Cantor Donald Wellenkamp Fred Laue ART DEPARTMENT Jules Genthon ATHLETICS Alfred Molin Edward Pojedinec CIRCULATION Milton Sutter Joseph Fox BUSINESS Madaline De Mattia Russell Jackson Treasurer—Robert Ritchie Howard Goellner Page Four

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social functions been unusually successful? Why are athletics so well supported? Why is our paper in a position to be published twice a year? Surely there must be some causes for these signs of progress. The answer may be concentrated in one single word, co-operation— co-operation among students and with our principal, teachers and other “ powers that be.” Students in our school are coming to the realization that each must do his share in school activities. In this way alone can we make advancement. It is up to the students themselves to keep the machine of progress moving on to bigger and better things. H. BONITZ, ’22. U “I? To the Editor of the “Reflector”: Sir:—Where, 0 where, have all those harbingers of the future, the sure thing oracles, gone? Where are the good old days of Delphi and whispering oaks, when the future was disclosed to all who sought it and the world was at ease? Would that I could be transported for a scant few minutes into those long lost days so that I could ease my mind on one question familiar to all of us, “When do we get a new High School?” For O! how the necessity of such an institution is impressed upon us each day! General assembly is impossible, class rooms are over crowded, laboratory equipment inadequate, corridors too narrow, to say nothing of the entire lack of a gymnasium and a lunch room. No stage— therefore no plays. No manual training. No domestic science. And, as one student laughingly puts it, he must bring his own hook if he wants to hang his clothes up. Yet the city officials believe a new High School is not yet needed! Is what they need a little prodding? And is it up to us, the pupils of the High School, to let the voters of the city know the conditions that exist and help administer that prodding? PETER VASYLINKO, ’22. To the Editor of the “Reflector”: Sir:—As a student of the Clifton High School, Class of ’22, permit me to express an opinion regarding the non-existence of a. cafeteria in our school. Page Six