Clifton High School - Rotunda Yearbook (Clifton, NJ)

Text from Pages 1 - 88 of the 1934 volume:

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To all the other students, who, by their solicitation of advertisements and subscriptions, their literary con- tributions and artistic endeavors, have helped to make this issue a success, we extend our heartfelt apprecia- tion and thanks. THE EDITORS. llveclication 'llvo you, Mr. Nichols, whose unlortunate ahsence lrom school is clue to worlc in hehall ol our generation, we ol the lllellector Stall cieciicate this issue. REFLEC TOR STAFF EDI TOR-I N -CH I EF JOSEPH KOOSMAN ......,,.. June LITERARY EDITOR HARRY COOPER ....,,...,.......,........,.,.,..,,........ June ASSISTANT LITERARY EDITORS JENNIE CIESLA ..,.A...,...,,..,.,,...................A..,A Feb. MARGUERITE SMITH ....,..,, June DAMIANo NoTo ....,....,,.. June GORDON SMITH ....A..,.. June ACTIVITIES EDITOR STELLA KOZAK .......,.,..............................,...,....,. Feb. ASSISTANT ACTIVITIES EDITORS RUTH HENGEVELD .....4.,..,..........T..T....,,,..... June EDITH GoETscHIUs ....,,,..... June JAGR HUGHES ........TT...,,.,., June SPORTS EDITOR HENRY CROLAND ,.,..........,...................,. Feb. ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITORS ETHEL DUDASIR ..........,...................... Feb. ADELE STROGEN ..........,.. June HARRY RAZEN ......4..,.......,...... Feb. REFLECTIONS EDITOR MARGARET KENNEDY ....,. .....T...,.,...,...,,........,........,... J une ASSISTANT REFLECTIONS EDITORS REGINA CONRLIN .,.........,.,............,.....,....,...,........ June CATHERINE KEELER .....,... June KATHRYN GEORGE ....... Feb. ART EDITOR LYDIA DE NADEL .......,..,. .........,....... J une ASSISTANT ART EDITORS JOSEPH BOREGR .,,.,..........,.....,,........ June HAICO NOONBURG ............,.... June FRANK BLACKOWSKI ..........,. June BUSINESS MANAGER RUSSELL PLANCK .,..........,........,... Feb. CIRCULATION MANAGER MILDRED MESSENBRINK ..........,,...................... ........,, J une ASSISTANT CIRCULATION MANAGERS BELLE ROSENFIELD ......,................,,.,...................,.......... June JOHN CHANDA .,..,........... ...........,.....,..................,....... J une MARVIN EBERLING ,....,...... June ALDEN ZAMBORSKY ...,...,...,..... June ADVERTISING MANAGER MARION WESLEY ......,...................,.,....,,...........,..,.......,..... June ASSISTANT ADVERTISING MANAGERS ETHELIND LARsoN .....,..,..........,............,.....,....,..,............. June MARGARET MAYER ..,....,,...........,.,..,..............,............., June VIOLA SMITH ...,.........,,.......,.........,...............,......,. ,.... J une Sponsors MISS RUTH SMITH MISS AGATHA SPINELLA MISS CATHERINE DANGREMOND MR. CHARLES A. BERTHOLD TABLE OF CONTENTS 4., Item Author Acknowledgments ....... .,.,............. T he Editors Dedication ................. ...... G ordon Ross Smith The Staff ..................,....... ....,..................................... Change of Policy .................,, .................. T he Editors The China Bank CStoryl ..... ....... G ordon Ross Smith Song of Spring fPoeml ...... ......... C arolyn Leibach Cow College lStoryJ ................ ............. R odney O'Dell Why Go to High School? ,..... ....,..... M arguerite Smith Lazybones fStoryl ...,........... ....... G ordon Ross Smith Villain fPoemJ ................... ........i....... F red Rothwell On Unweeding Gardens ..... ....... R ichard Grundman Spring Fantasy fPoemJ ..... ....,...., E dna Grimshaw Wishes fPoeml ................,... ......... I Dolores Wade Barb'ra o' Mamie fStoryJ ...., ...... R uth Hengeveld On Watching a Storm ........................ ......... H erbert Suess Editorials .....,.,,...,,.,.................. ....,............ ..,.... J o seph Koosman Why Aren't These Clubs Active? ..... ...............................,.,.... The Dedication ..v............................... .......................,........... Part Time ....................................... .... A New Era ....................... ................,,.................... Something Necessary .....,.. ..,...............,....................... From the Easy Chair ........ ...................,...,,.......,.........,.. Planning Careers .............,............ ...... C harles A. Berthold The Bed fPoeml ,... .... ..................... .......... J o h n Chocholak Dream of Days to Be iPoemJ ...... ,...... J eanette Burbank The Teachers' Council ................. ...... J oseph Koosman Senior Play, Tommy ....,...... ......,.. S tella Kozak The 2-2 Graduates ......... ..... S tella Kozak The Debating Society ....... ,... . . Bert Bertelsen The Honor Society .........., ......,.. S tella Kozak Club Photographs .............. ...................................... The Boys' Glee Club ....... ........ J oseph Koosman The German Club ......... .....,.... G ordon Smith Club Photographs ....... ...............v...................... Evening School ...................... ....... ....... ..... J o s eph Koosman The Orchestra ......................,............................. .......... ,........ J o seph Koosman Our Cafeteria ..........,.......,.........................,.........................,............,.... Joseph Koosman The Columbia Scholastic Press Convention ........,...............................,....................,...... Girls' Glee Club ...................................................... Robinson, Woolford, and Mutch April Shower Dance ............... Footlights Club ......,... Use of Library ......... Girls' Sports .......... Baseball .............. Sport Shots ....... Tennis .............. Basketball ....... Golf ............... Track ............... Inspiration .................... L. R. ................................ . Slang Vocabulary ...........,.. Our Faculty iPoemj ....... Forget, Forgive fPoemJ ..... Hi-Lights of the Term ........ The Alumni is Dead ......... Personalities .................... Who's Who fPoemJ .... Senior Section ............. Jack Hughes Marion Curtiss Stella Kozak Ethel Dudasik, Adele Strogen Henry Croland ...ffffff'ii'5fi33 ii52Eii Henry Croland Henry Croland Harry Razen Ethel Dudasik, G. A. A. G. A. A. Bert Bertelsen Margaret Kennedy Margaret Kennedy Joseph Koosman Edith Goetschius Margaret Kennedy Margaret Kennedy fIfIQ 'iiiLQi556 'i5i5 lii1i'iili 'i58iiiiLzdy and Committeel Page 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 13 14 15 16 17 17 18 20 21 21 23 23 24 25 26 28 30 30 30 31 31 32 32 33 34 34 35 36 36 37 37 38 38 38 39 40 42 43 44 44 45 45 46 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 54 55 VDGNO'k9Q.J0fDQJOfDGNO'kDGNO'kDQ.?0fDQJ'OfDGNOkDQJa00'DGS ls c c lf, lg l 4 Qhangc of llbolicy I F The year 1934 has been one of changes in all ranks of F0 life. Things that dreamers longingly hoped for in the dis- tant future have been precipitated upon us with startling by P rapidity. We in school have been amazed at the suddenness P of change in the world about us. In the High School we have experienced similar and not Q less momentous changes. Enrollment figures have mounted l in the upper grades. The need for economy has forced the introduction of a daily double session. The need for adjust- 24: ment has brought Vocational Guidance. We consciously feel ourselves growing up more rapidly. This trend of affairs has suggested the desirability of changes in our high school magazine, The Reflector. We L, have felt that it, too, should grow up. This year we have therefore abandoned the uswaddling clothes of its old de- partmental organization. We have dropped the introduc- 4 tory full-page illustrations which formerly began obvious departments of literature, news, sports, and humor. We have introduced the illustration of stories. We have welcomed 'ga original verse in the Senior Section. We have broken with l tradition and have invited the faculty to contribute articles of interest to us which we could not adequately handle. We 'Q have put some color into the book. We have departed from the old type illustrated cover to one of newer design. As in the world about us, the process has been one of peaceful change. The student body has been waiting for it. We have all secretly desired it. We do not know, as yet, whether or not the change is for the better. As in the case of the other changes going on about us, we leave the decision of the merits and the demerits of the transformation to the future. For the present we are satisfied to present something different. THE EDITORS. g.9L0'0fDL00iJL00iJCLl05JfL0W7TJL0'OfJCTNf0kDCTYf0'kDCTWf0kDQ2 THE REFLECTOR WI 5 THE CHINA BANK T was not fair, she thought, to make her sort these endless boxes of useless bric-a-brac. Better to throw all of them away rather than to waste time in pick- X But her mother did not see it that Way, and so she had been given the task of separating the good from the bad. It was not very interesting to her, and the girl fiercely reflected on her motheris injustice. She sat up straight among the boxes of wrapped china, the piles of wrinkled news- papers, and the pieces of crockery scattered haphazardly over the floor. Far better, she rebelled, to have gone hiking with the girls. It would have done her more good than sitting in a dingy, cobwebbed, open-raftered attic sorting china, a job that could have just as easily been postponed to a rainy day. And it was a wonder, she inwardly grumbled, that the attic itself was not cleaned. Why, it was filthy! But, she supposed, that would be part of the spring campaign against the onslaught of the Powers of Dirt and Dust. She returned to her task with an inward detestation. China statues, big and small, a porcelain slipper with a gilded gut. Squat bowls, deep bowls, fancy bowls, plain bowls. Tall vases, short vases, cracked vases, Japanese vases. Paperweights, whatnot ornaments, glass Bibles, hollow china books labeled Spirits . All formed a seemingly endless procession through her hands, roughening and intensifying her irritation. In the course of her labors, she came upon a small china ornament, consisting of two little pickanninnies seated on the ends of a log, facing each other. The larger one was just beginning to chaw a huge, crescent- shaped piece of crimson watermelon, while the smaller one thumbed his nose at him. She stared at it for a moment and then gave a sharp laugh, cut short by a quiet pause. It was but the calm preceding the storm, her spirits overflowed, as she swiftly raised the ornament above her head and dashed it violently to the floor. It was shattered into countless pieces-irreparable. It was then that she remembered. It had belonged to her little brother. Her pale blue eyes, so hard and unyielding such a short time ago, filled and overflowed. She mixed her tears with the fragments of china as she slowly gathered them up and deposited them in an empty rose jar. After closing the jar and hiding it in a dark corner for safe keeping, she returned to her task. Steadily she worked on, and soon but one box was left. Near the top was something large and rectangular, carefully wrapped. Curiosity raised its head, and, heeding its command, the girl un- wrapped that package first. A box about six inches long and four inches wide was revealed. She removed the lid, carelessly throwing it on the floor, and drew forth a china bank. ' ing them over. If A ' 5 1 Seven THE REFLECTOR VW In It was in the form of a medieval castle. There were the walls, draw- bridges, towers. A mounted knight stood without, demanding entrance. Gothic windows, arcades, balustrades-all were faithfully reproduced. Only one feature belied its authenticity. This was a wide slit, large enough to receive a silver dollar, which ran in the crevice between two peaked roofs. She held in her hand the bank of a child of a departed age, but she also held a splendid work of art. She shook it, and it rattled. It was an imaginative girl in a lonely attic who heard the rattling of coins inside. She turned it upside down and shook it. Much noise, but nothing came out. Again she shook it, and again and again, but each time in vain. Setting it aside, she finished the last box. Then she returned to the castle. She shook it, rattled it, knocked it, but the coins slid into the roof on the one side or the other of the slit. She kept up her efforts until finally a quarter slid out, as if reluctantly. The shaking became more vigorous than ever. Suddenly a familiar call shrilly ricocheted up the stairs. Dinner. The girl started, and then hesitated for a moment. The setting sun shone in the grimy window and threw patches of light on wall and floor. She had but a short time to decide. She gazed at it musingly. Then, with a faint shrug, she placed the bank upon the floor. Quietly and carefully she stepped upon it. There was a crunching sound, as something crumbled. Eagerly the girl scattered the fragments of the fairy castle, then, more slowly, from among the ruins she picked up-seven little copper pennies. GORDON Ross SMITH, June 1935. Song of Spring Fleecy white clouds mounted high, Lazily drifting. Watching them, I close my eyes, And with a little sigh Send my thoughts soaring high and wide, Drawing phantom kingdoms in the sky. Church bells pealing forth their sweet melodies, Daisies blooming thickly In a nearby field, Song birds singing sweetly To the azure sky. The breeze bends the slender blades of grass, Golden sunshine plays On newly budded trees, Willows bend over the laughing, rippling brook. In Spring the whole world seems created just for love. CAROLYN LEIBACH, February 193 S. Eight THE REFLECTOR was OW l+ , TDS Yagi, CO W COLLEGE -il' WINTHROP PHILLIPS II, a new student at Kings- , ton, glared at the antique, brownstone building he was approaching and thought of the splendor of '53 - Pemberton University, which he had so recently left. L, Why, they wouldn't use a place like this for a tool ff shed back in the regal surroundings of the New Jersey school. So this was Old South ! To hear Dad talk you'd think that it was the White House! Another thing was the way these Mid-Western students dressed! ,lust before he passed through the plate glass doors into the Registrar's office, he cast an appraising glance at his fashionable tan topcoat, brown suit, white shoes, and dark brown hat perched at the pre- cise Pemberton angle. Back east he may have been just one of a type, but out here his clothes made him feel as though he had on a formal outfit while in the middle of a cornfield. Evidently old corduroy trousers, sweaters, preferably as discordant in color scheme as possible, and a dilapi- dated sheep-skin coat represented the height of fashion. A few minutes later he was formally signed up as a student. He felt as though he were signing his own death warrant as he endorsed a receipt for his payment of the matriculation fee and for incidentals. I say, my good fellow, could you inform me as to the location of Perry Hall? Holt Meade grinned good naturedly at Phillips and offered to walk over with him. Perhaps he might learn where this evidently out-of-place student came from, and why he chose a cow college like Kingston in- stead of the Eastern school he had formerly attended. Nine THE REFLECTOR W' Ill .... and the Memorial stadium cost several million .... new Chem buildings .... transfered because of finances .... D so prattled the new companion of Holt's. Instead of becoming bored as one usually does when another boasts of past experiences and surroundings, Meade proved an open-mouthed listener. He had seen pictures and heard fabulous tales of Eastern colleges, but this was his first contact with a genuine student of one of the Big Fourv. Besides, this fellow was a darn interesting talker, even if the sub- ject was himself. By the time they reached Perry Hall the two were Holt and Phil to each other. After seeing his new acquaintance properly installed in the dorm room, Meade proceeded to show him around the spacious but scan- tily developed campus. The book store, engineering labs, and a half-dozen other buildings passed in quick and careless review. They halted at a huge fieldstone building with a beautiful blue-grey slate roof. This, so Holt stated, was his frat house, the newest and most luxurious building on the campus. Pemberton had no fraternities, and therefore Phil was impartial as to frat relations except in a professional sort of way, for he was now studying to be an architect. His Dad had decided that a mere B. A. degree was not worth the money being expended in regard to its future use- fulness. Upon viewing the dinky stadium, Phil blandly spoke of a million dollar team, coach, and of the fact that he had been one of the players on last year's squad. For several weeks he moped around when not studying or attending classes. He knew but three or four students better than a nod or brief hello. On the first day of the third week the coach issued a general call for all football candidates. While on his way from Physics, his eight o'clock class, Phil met Holt on the 42nd Street and Broadway of the campus, the spot where the walks from the men's and women's dorms and from the lab and recitation buildings met at a War Memorial Fountain. Holt was leaning rather sleepily against a Civil War drummer boy, which, oblivious to the student's friendly attitude, was grimly lunging forward, perhaps to beat out a tattoo on Holt's blond head. Hi! Pledge, he mumbled quite indistinctly and equally fuzzy, mwhere to and if so, why? Perry,,' was the brief and haughty answer. It was now Meade's turn to be talkative. Pal, I remembered that you said you played on the football team back at Pemberton, so I gave you a break and handed your name in to the coach early this morning. Our house is going to initiate you at the next meeting, and we haven't had a man on the squad for the last three years. Ten THE REFLECTOR VN IW Regrets now arose in Philis heart, because he had not mentioned the facts that the team had been the fourth one and the only reason that he had made that was because he was the only one out for the position. Turn- ing out for a major sport was not quite the thing in Pemberton, you know. Another reason had been the fact that he had had an aversion to oncoming backs. But now he realized he had talked just a little too much. For some unknown reason he did not attempt to talk his way out of the rather embarrassing situation. Instead, meekly, he reported for prac- tice and found the frat boys had talked him up to the coach until the poor gentleman had the glorious idea that he had got a prospective All- American guard. Phil found himself the center of a crowd of second team players and the object of many devout glances. The fact that he knew personally the men who had had their names blazoned across the Sports finals every Saturday evening, and that he had been on the squad of a big school com- bined to make the simple souls look upon him as a hero and a sure-fire future first team man. They were almost right, for he made the second team, shattering his faith in divine powers for several weeks. All his prayers for expulsion from the dreaded agony of a whole sea- son on hard and unsympathetic benches and in the bleak stadiums were unheeded. While all over the country hopeful candidates were struggling for a place on their school squad he was the first player in the history of the game to ask for deliverance from the sport. The sudden metamorphosis to a campus idol, formerly liked by none except Holt Meade, who was conceded too dumb a cluck to know other- wise, aided the unseen cause against the pride of J. Winthrop Phillips, II. His room was now usually crowded with football enthusiasts, and Phil just couldn't help talking. Outwardly he acknowledged the fact that he would rise to the first team as soon as he got on to Kingston ways. If they could only feel the anguish promoted by the mere thought of a two- hundred pound back charging down upon you with murder in his eye and the will to die for dear old Podunk! On the eve of the opening game of the season he had a premonition that he might be called upon to prove his mettle, and therefore he enter- tained a peculiar sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach. Always when he had entered the field at Pemberton, the cheering had made him envy the first team men, but now, with a chance of playing, the shouts and the sight of the gold and blue pennants streaming from the stadium flagpoles seemed to be giving him the royal razzberriesn. While hunched under the huge blue blanket with the golden K on it, he thought of the quiet of the Kingston College cemetery where, perhaps, if he were lucky, he would end a perfect day. I-Ie hoped that the end be sudden and minus the jeers of students who had seen the truth of the matter. A sudden hush over the stadium arose him from his reveries. Eleven THE REFLECTOR Wi IN Oh me, oh my, they're bringing that big bohunk that plays left guard for the regulars. Huh? Who me? O. K. Yeah, I'll tell them to watch the guy playing right back for Lawrence Tech. So long. He forgot, in his terror, even to affect his expensively obtained Pem- berton accent and merely repeated the vile language uttered as only a second-rate but enthusiastic coach can spiel it out in moments of stress. Wonder if Ill get out to the middle of the field without my knees collapsing? OW, grab a peek at that mug playing opposite me. They muSt have rescued him from a lynchingg looks like Capone's right hand man. A whistle brought him back to his predicament. As is usually done with new enemy linemen, the play was directed at Phil's position. Mmmmmmmph! Darned good imitation of an express train. Still going too. Well, at the rate he's going we'll receive the next kickoff. Over! I'1l get yanked out for this, thank God! Aw, nerts, they stopped him. What? The half-yard line? We'll never hold him for four downs on that. Yeah, I'm getting in placeg don't need your advice. You didn't seem to do much more yourself. Huh? Oh, I said nice going. Here he comes again .... Hey! get that ice water out of my face .... Lapsing into silence again, he was none too gently carted off the field and forgotten by all but a scrub manager, whose duty it was to revive stricken gladiators. After several weeks of Phil's tackling an unresisting dummy, the coach was optimistic enough to send in again the ex-Pemberton player. On the third play in which Phillips participated he suddenly found him- self behind the opposing line and the back with the ball directly between him and the goal post. Closing his eyes he lunged forward. His heart pounding, legs driving, he stretched out his arms and encountered a very solid object indeed. The next day a nurse faintly resembling one of Saint Peter's daugh- ters handed him a daily paper opened to an account of the previous day's game. KINGSTON DEFEATS BARNES UNUSUAL ACCIDENT EXCITES SPECTATORS' MIRTH Ames QAPJ, Today.-Kingston State College today defeated Barnes to the tune of seven to six in a mediocre game at the Barnes Stadium. During the third quarter J. Winthrop Phillips, 19, a substitute left guard, was the victim of an unusual accident. In an attempt to stop Jack Annozzi, Twelve Barnes half-back, Phillips mistook the southern goalpost for Annozzi, with dis- astrous results to various sections of his body. Upon entrance to the Ames General Hospital, Phillips was found to be suf- fering from a fractured collarbone and a dislocated shoulder. RODNEY L. ODELL, June 1935. THE REFLECTOR ni A I-Y 3 WHY GO TO HIGH SCHOOL? HE desire to earn money immediately has caused many young people to give up a high school educa- tion. They have argued that Lincoln, Edison, and these men had exceptional minds and an active ambition that spurred them on to train themselves. The average mind needs a guiding influence and oftentimes a certain amount of compulsion to develop it adequately for future use. f Ford got along without much education. True, but ig. 5 All professions need a trained mind. One can not be a doctor, a law- yer, a teacher, an architect, or follow any other desirable profession, with- out training. It takes systematic training to develop the mind, and schools are the only answer. Those who have left high school early have not gained as they had thought they would, for few important business positions go to young people with less than a high school training, and the overcrowding of every American university shows clearly that even a college education pays. This is an age of specialists, and unless one can compete with the best in his chosen profession, he must be content with the second best in life. It has been stated that every day of a completed high school course adds ten dollars to the student's capacity for earning. Work with the hands is entirely honorable, but it is work with the head that pays. But money is not the only recompense for an education. The more the mind is developed, the broader and more varied are the interests in life. The richness of knowledge to be gaind by a mind trained to appre- ciate good literature, music, and art is beyond our estimation of value. An education should prepare one to live a useful and happy life. In institutions of learning one makes friends and is taught to get along with those about him. The acquaintances one makes in high school will last throughout life-friends are invaluable to a happy life. In the same class are boys and girls of all nationalities-these contacts teach one to treat all people alike and to respect the opinions of others. We are never happy unless we are doing something-something that is useful and interesting. The high school curricula are so planned that they aid us in choosing a vocation suited to our abilities. We are taught to enjoy reading novels, biographies and other good literature, to appreciate art and music, and to participate in sports and social activities. So we are prepared for a profitable use of leisure time. Why go to high school? So that we may live fuller, more useful, happier lives. MARGUERITE SMITH, June 193 S . Thirteen THE REFLECTOR 'M nv 'W Zia-'71 A if 9 455' f Qi 122 llflffffxiii-QT? fivfflv' fl ille- x 3 fffj wx J W eg--. . 'f ,, 3 f 'Q J WIDE p W e 5- A -,vs-- . 0,945 e Q 1, 52 7 Pig 45' ff 5 l ifglix i st A4 ,i 'fl y. '- I - 'Tl' - -E22 e V irggkief f LAZYBONES ' PRING fever seems to be an ailment that every young ' y fellow contracts during the days of late March and throughout April, May and June. It is said that in spring a young man's fancy turns to what the girl has been thinking about all Winter. I cannot vouch for the truth of this statement, but I rather think that it is correct. After all, Why not? Everyone, except those Ll Whose minds are hopelessly immature, seem to need a time for reflection. And it would also seem that unblemished nature constitutes the best surroundings for this. Hence, boys are occasionally deterred on their Way to school. Of course, our parents do not seem very favorably impressed with the idea. They seem to entertain the strange notion that one should get his recreation outside of school hours. On the other hand, many students find that that is the only Way in which they can get long periods of time solely to themselves. One can call it laziness if he chooses. Even playing hookey was not unknown to our elders. It is good to be lazy occasionally. Let one shoulder his knapsack, per- haps even take his camera in his hand, and ramble into the countryside for a quiet, meditative day by a brookside. The unoriginal vulgarians would, of course, add the battered old line, which they have carried down from babyhood, about a good book. Not that one should not read good books, but that the statement is so strikingly, and disgustingly, unoriginal. Fourteen THE REFLECTOR lil X 1 Lazybones brings to mind the picture of a great meadow with a single, giant apple tree, in the shade of which meanders a quiet stream. It is here that one lies, either thinking or dreaming. I do not mean to say that he need build fairy castles, or reflect upon the fundamental nature of things, eternal. The subject of his thoughts may be, especially if he is rather introspective, himself. The thoughts of a lonely person, might easily turn to friends. It is trite to proclaim the scarcity of true friends. By friends I mean friends in the truest, deepest sense. Friendship, as Andre Maurois has pointed out, is unaccountable, inexplicable. Montaigne, when asked to account for the great friendship of his life, could explain it only in the words, Because he was he and I was I. But friends cannot be treated as inconsiderately as one pleases. Friendship must be mouldedg friendship must be a product of tact, gentle- ness, consideration. Hence it may be that, while lying alone beneath the ancient apple tree, one plans a policy of self-forgetfulness, naturally com- bined with consideration, in order to bind still closer a much loved friend. Of course it may be that our dreamer cares little for such topics. He may hum or sing. He may muse upon the actions of mankind, races, cities, houses, or casual social acquaintances. But, however he may be, he' thinks, unless he be a moron or an imbecile. Everyone needs a time for thought, by reason of which I close with the following lines of poetry: i There is a pleasure in day-dreaming, There is a rapture in drifting contemplation, There is a peace of mind in the lazy dreamer's eye That only dreamers can attain. GORDON Ross SMITH, June 1935. Villain Oh Spring, are you a demon in disguise? Are you an angel who would tell me lies? In spite of all your beauty, Do you think you do your duty When you make madness in my soul arise? I love to watch your beautiful display Of yellow-green against the sun's gold ray. I love your dainty flowers. Why manifest your powers And change from brightness to dim, gloomy, grey? Oh Spring, please have some sympathy for me. Please let me keep those moods of ecstasy. Please let me go on dreaming. Can't you keep your brightness gleaming? Must you display all this variety? FRED ROTHWELL, June 1934. Fifteen THE REFLECTOR VII I- gy it Of course we all chime in with an enthusiastic affirmative We are thinking of a beautiful retreat where bushes and trees blossom in the utmost pro- fusion, where a murmuring fountain drips and splashes into a quiet pool, where every variety of the bird beautiful sings lusty melodiesg where one lies in the shade listening and thinking. Only a few of us, if any, remember our own gardens. It was unfortunate this year, but so it always has been. Last spring, when leaves were still caked about the stems of dormant plants, we reflected upon the state of the garden. How badly it needed to be cleaned. But, we continued, it was spring. It would be better to take a hike, the gardening could be done next week, we concluded. Within a week, however, che plants are beginning to show their heads. A little late now, we think, to clean it up ourselves. Perhaps it would be better to get a gardener, then the new plants would not be broken. We promptly forget it. A few more weeks pass. The plants have grown up-but they develop only a few puny flowers! Evidently they are not used to this treatment, they ought to be, though, after all these years. Now we become desperate. We actually inquire of a few friends where to hire a good gardener. They give plenty of advice. It appears easy. We let it slide. The weather gets hot. The garden is a sight. It resembles a plowed but unplanted field at the end of summer. No flowers are visible, only rank, overgrown, yellow-green weeds swarming with bugs. We are disgusted. It would seem that nothing but weeds flourish in our garden! We regret, maybe we abominate, and-sit! July turns to August. It gets hotter, and we become lazier. No use weeding the garden now, we think. There isn't time for anything to grow. Besides, if we were to uproot all the weeds now, the garden would be devoid of plants. We forget the garden and go on our summer vacation. We visit someone who employs a gardener a day or so every week. We envy his garden. He laughs. We determine to make amends to the garden when we return. But during the whole week after our return it rains. We already are used to the garden. The weeds are aware of it and flourish. Late summer turns to fall. The weeds shrivel up and turn brown. We decide to rake up the leaves and dead plants. We actually go out and walk around. Oh well, we think, perhaps it would be better to leave them as they are. They will help to keep the ground warm during the winter. We postpone all gardening operatons until next spring, meanwhile firmly resolving to have the finest garden on the block next summer. RICHARD GRUNDMAN, June 1934. ON UNWEEDING GARDENS -1'-'- '- ARD work indeed are gardens, but they are worth Q . l n 1 e N Q ' , l l Sixteen THE REFLECTOR VII IN Spring Fantasy Sitting at my window, I look into the past. It is spring. Soft feathery quills of tender grass Ripple and tremble with the soundless movements of people Who pass into the old farm-house, Where a ball will be held tonight, But the old house sighs in resounding emptiness, And a mouse scratches in a mildewed moulding. Golden cupped crocuses border the walk, The oriental spice of hyacinths drifts through the air, A rustling robed girl glides into view. A peep in the window reveals to me Noiseless laughter, and silent music, Starched formal manners of another day, The door opens but no light shines forth, A boy and girl wander into the garden. Pale wan moonlight lingers on the girl's young faceg Timid, half-fearful, the boy asks the old, old question. A sudden flood of cold, man-made light from a passing car Discloses the unpeopled garden in rude shadows. My misty dream is dispelled! I sigh and wearily seek my bed, But I shall always wonder how she answered. EDNA GRIMSHAW, February 1935 Wishes All the fluttering wishes Caged within your heart Beat their wings against it, Longing to depart, Till they shake their prison With their wounded cry, Open wide your heart today, And let the captives fly. Yes, some hearts are lighter While these captives roam. But, for their tender singing You'll soon recall them home, When the sunny hours With falling night depart, Softly they will nestle In a quiet heart. DOLDRES WAD E, February 1935 Seventee THE REFLECTOR van ng BARB'RA o' MAMIE Hiram Briggs chuckled softly to himself and slowly turned when she was no longer to be seen But the smile still twitched at the corners of his mouth What a girl she was' Ye know, he said afterwards to his brother Luke-Luke was making the quarterly trip to the town to have his horse shod and do shopping. It wasn't often he drove the twenty-five miles- Ye know, that girl's a wonder, an, allus wuz. I sez that to ma last night, and I sez that I wisht that young un o' Mamie's had been like her. Well, ma- ye know how ma is-well, ma near blew my head off. Cause she used to say that Barb'ra o' Mamie,d be a great piana player, er op'ra singer, er author-authoress, I mean-her with her looks, ye know, an' wavy hair an' sweet smile an' all. She did use to be quite nice, Barb'ra did. But dang it all! I never seen a person change so in all my born days. Charlie made quite a bit o' money at gamblin'. CHe was jest one 0' the few lucky guysj . Well, when Charlie made that money, Mamie made up her mind to take advantage 0, it quick, and send Barb'ra to school out east-Noo York, I b'lieve. So off went Barb'ra. Well, that was the last I seen o' Barb'ra fer nigh two years. An' when she come back fer her vacation, Mamie wanted me to paint up the old buggy-red, ye know, so's everybody could see Barb'ra comin' through town. I did it-ma made me--but course I couldn't help that the paint Weren't dry, an' I couldn't go fer her. I said it was dry, but ma said no, so no it was. Ma said it'd spoil that new suit o' Barb'ra's. What d,ye call 'em? Oh, I ferget. Anyway it wuz one o' them things with that thing slung around their shoulders. Ma sait it wuz very stylish, 'though I couldn,t cell the diff,runce between that an' the black thing my old granny used to wear for Sunday-go-to- meetin'. But I'm a man an' an old one-so Mamie says. I'm not. Old, I mean. I wuz jest seventy-six, two months and five days. I figgered it up that night. Not a day older! An', by jingo, if that tan coat o' Carol's wuzn't twice as nice, I'll eat my hat! But, anyway, as I wuz tellin' ye, that paint weren't dry, so I couldn't go fer her. O' course, ma made me tramp down to the station jest the same, but that wuz fun. Shell I tell Jake to put medium or heavy iron on? Hey, Jake! Jake! CHe don't hear meh. Hey, Ja-a-a-ke! Put medium iron on that black mare. Yeah, medium. Well, as I think I wuz sayin' Barb'ra went to school with Carol, oney they chose diff'runt crowds. Carol knew some o' the ways o' the society world, cause her ma come from Chicago. Carol felt at home. With Barb'ra it wuz diff'runt, I guess. She wuz all alone, an' jest couldn't make friends quick. It wuz oney her looks that got her anywheres. I s'pose it didnit take her long to find that out. An' maybe she leaned on them too much. 1 S ELIT, if it ain,t Carol Bryan an' her little lassie!', Old ' . H . V Eighteen THE REFLECTOR YM IN When they wuz here, both of 'em-Carol an' Barb'ra-wuz both good at learnin'. But in the east, Barb'ra' sociates jest wuzn't the learnin' kind. Durin' the summer when she come home, there wuzn't no peace. Fer weeks ahead, we painted and papered an' fixed everythin' up, and when she come home, there wuz always some o' them city dandies lookin' cockeyed. I r'member one time when they wuz here, some o' our reg'lar boys decided to come around. An' kin ye imagine! They come in overalls an' shirt sleeves, an' them city fellers jest stared. Well, Teddy Brown-his father is Ted Brown, too, and he's our mayor an' a good one at that-well, young Ted had a good idea, so he dragged them city guys to see the cows an' the hogs in that ol' pen, and he left Ba-ba-ra-as them city folks call her-to the mercy o' the rest o' them teasin' rascals. Well, mercy it wuzn't, 'cause they wuz jest bent on teasin' an' mortifyin' Ba-ba-ra to death. Even Barb'ra's eyes an' lipstick an' perm'nent wave didn't do no good. They wuz reg'lar boys! We know how boys is, huh, Luke? Been boys, ourself, once upon a time, huh? Well, anyway, right after Barb'ra finished school-eighteen she wuz -she went to pay a two weeks' visit to her Aunt Lily fthat's Charlie's older sisterj . She didn't use to have nothin' to do with Charlie 'cause he married Mamie 'stead o' some girl she wanted. But when she learned Barb'ra was quite nice lookin' she thought it'd be fun to have her around. That's why she invited Barb'ra to visit her in her big city home. She don't really own it, ye know, there's lots o' mortgages on it. Well, Barb'ra seemed to like it there. Butler, maid, cook an' every- thin'. So, anyways, she stayed an' stayed an' stayed. An' ye know how Ma an' Mamie is. Ma said she'd orta come home right away, an' Mamie wuz worried stiff. An' oney notes came. Well, one day when Mamie wuz near ready to go after her, Barb'ra come breezin' in, hangin' on the arm o' a small, dark dandy. An' right after her come Aunt Lily, smilin', an' introduced him to us as Wilfred Northerton. She said he was a wonde- ful author, oney twenty-six, but I never yet seen any o' his books, an' he looked fishy. Things had sure gone pretty far-Barb'ra wuz engaged. An' her mother not even knowin' she'd met anybody. How she could ever live a lifetime with a guy like that, I couldn't ha' imagined. Well, ye know Barb'ra. It wuzn't long before Mamie got a telegram. It went somethin' like this: 'Mamie, send money immediately. Books rejected. Desperate need. Barbara.' We wuz all excited, an' Ma an' Mamie almost had an endurance worryin' contest. There wuz no answer fer the money order, oney another askin' telegram a few weeks after, until finally that wuz the customary way to hear from her. After a while, Mamie writ her an' told her to come home, if she Wanted. Barb'ra's oney answer wuz that she'd never be able to live in the country again. Of all dead places! So that wuz that. Nineteen THE REFLECTOR IGF! VM An' jest the other day, Mamie got a letter-the first real one in ages. Listen to this part: 'Well, Mamie, not so long ago, --this is what Barb'ra writ-'I heard that Carol Bryan had married Ted Brown around three years ago. The lucky thing! Ted really used to be a terrible pest, but now he is quite famous and all on account of those two remarkable opera- tions, though, of course that was a lucky break, too. It always is. But I wonder how she ever got him! You'd think he'd be smart enough to marry someone richer, wouldn't you? She wasn't even prettyl' Kin ye-Look, Luke! Here she comes-Carol. just say hello-you don't needa say her hair looks lovely or she looks like a spring mornin',- just say hello. An' not bein' deaf, dumb, an' blind perhaps ye kin figger it out fer yerselff' RUTH I-IENGEVELD, june 1935. ON WATCHING A THUNDERSTORM It takes a thunderstorm to bring out timidity in the average person. How many of us sit out on a porch and watch the elements at their best? Most of us will get in out of the rain and sit impatiently during the storm. Let us, instead, watch the approach of a real summer storm. It is a sultry day. The sun is shining brightly. The sky has a blue-gray appear- ance. The air is still and sultry. Then in the distance we see the edge of a cloud faintly visible, its color blending with the color of the sky. A hot breeze springs up, and now clouds appear everywhere. The sun is hidden and faint rumblings of thunder are heard in the distance. By now people are scurrying everywhere, trying to get to their destinations before the storm breaks. Suddenly a wind springs up. Paper, dust, and dirt fly around, getting into our eyes, hair, clothes. People are dashing upstairs, closing windows with bangs, getting things out of the impending rain. The thunder rolls incessantly and an occasional flash of lightning breaks forth. Little drops of rain are starting to spatter the hot earth. A loud crash and the rain pours forth in torrents! Flash after flash of lightning glares brightly, even in daylight. Thunder, like the sound of giant cannon, sets the earth into vibration. Jagged streaks of fire send their hungry fingers towards the earth, trying to destroy objects which seem to displease them. For fifteen full, fearful minutes we can watch an electrical exhibi- tion put on by giants, with giant apparatus, at nature's expense. The storm dies away as it has started. The flashes are fewer and the thunder is not so loud. Before long, the storm center has moved farther on, looking for new worlds to conquer. The rain soon stops, and the sun, more glorious than ever, makes everything sparkle. Activities begin anew, and we, who have watched, have a feeling of awe due to the example that has been shown us of the power of the elements. HERBERT SUEss, June 1934. Twenty THE REFLECTOR yu IN As The Editor Sees It WHY AREN'T THESE CLUBS ACTIVE? HAT was the cause of the discontinuance of the YN language clubs? Why isn't the Honor Societyias A V active as its quality of members might make it? Q P 'X Where is the Press Club which once had possibilities l A x of developing a fundamental training for future X journalists? Why was the Math Club done away ,D with after it had been so successful in putting out 'X mathematicians better than classwork could develop, 'iii with the aid of supplementary study? Why did the History Club relax after having begun that series of interesting lectures? Where is the Commercial Club which once had such interesting programs of outside speakers and helped the commercial students in their work? We should like to know what became of these clubs, which, when in existence, were apparently very beneficial to the school. We should like to see each and every one of them brought back into being, as there could not have been any truly serious obstacle to keep them from performing their excellent work. Looking back through school records, we find these clubs were once very prominent in the social life of the school. The present state of affairs may be the fault of che students. Now, with permission to go home after their last class, interest in extra-curricular activities has lagged. Only those ambitious ones who really like school and who understand what these extra activities represent Hnd it Worth their while to stay until the end of seventh period to participate in the social life of the school. The clubs of the school are the strongest links whereby groups of students are kept in contact with each other. In some cases, failure of a club may be due to an inactive sponsor. The disinterest of a sponsor will show almost immediately upon the mem- bers of an organization. An original, intelligent, wide-awake sponsor will not let a group of willing students with intention lose interest. First, let us consider the language clubs: In 1929, we see the Latin Club revived after a depression, under the name of Classica Sodalitasf' Of all things, the complaint was that it was hard to get members because of the fancy name. After a term of good work, it fell away again. In 1931, the club was re-organized as Nostrum Concilium Latinumf' The motto of the organization was Vivat Lingua Latina or May the Latin Twenty-one THE REFLECTOR wo ,W language live. We don't know if there was any foreboding in that motto, but surely, from all the Latin classes there must be enough pupils in- terested in gaining assistance outside the class in a novel and interesting a manner as that offered by a Language Club. The French Club was active in '31, and it even presented a French play in the assembly. Activities of that group skipped a year until we heard that they had presented a marionette show at an interesting meeting. We remember seeing a large group at that meeting. We haven't heard from them since. French-the smoothly-speaking tongue, the language of the lovers, a popular modern language-Come on, you Frenchies of the classes. Allons, mes enfants! We haven't heard from an active Spanish Club since ,29 also. Then, the organization was known as El Circulo Castellano. Mr. john Dishian is very much concerned about organizing such a group, and anyone in- terested, as there should be, may see him about it. Maybe you'll be president. We pounce with determination upon the Honor Society. Of all the clubs in the school, this one should know best how to be active. The calibre of the mental capacity that the members of this group are required to possess should be an advantage over other organizations as regards crea- tive ability. If the Honor Society, which is supposed to represent the cream of the crop in the highest exponent of intellectual life, cannot create any ideas for interesting meetings and projects, then how can any- one expect any other club in the school to be anything but the well known QQHOPU. The Press Club had excellent sponsors. We must admit it was the lack of co-operation from the students that caused it to fall through last term as an active project. So this challenge is directed mainly at those who are interested in writing, but who evidently don't want to do any- thing about it: Do you think your education for anything at all in life should be handed to you on a silver platter? Have you nothing in you to make you teach yourself? Are you afraid to taste some practical work in schoolv which the Press Club would be in a position to give you? Or do you think you are not mature enough to do some practical writing in High School? You may be able to fool yourself at present, but in later life you will miss that practical foundation that is offered you in High School in the form of organizations that can give you an inkling of what to expect when you graduate. The downfall of the Math Club was also caused by the lack of in- terest of students, we are sorry to say, and we cannot understand this peculiar attitude of the pupil of today. The commercial club was once a prominent organization of the school. Why this club ever lost itself is quite unexplainable. Students will not realize until it is too late that memories, in the future, of High School days are not based primarily upon class acquaint- ances. Those memories bring back recollections of hard work, and some- Twenty-two THE REFLECTOR VN IW times more unpleasant thoughts. But the Organizations in the school, we may look back at them and recall the happy days of diversion spent at meetings, planning and doing things. We recall many more friends through a pleasant association than through some unpleasant experience such as receiving those gas-billsv in Latin or Math. So with a kindly and helpful thought for the underclassmen in particular, we urge each one of you to join at least two organizations of Clifton High School. You will never regret having done so. THE DEDICA TION ESERVING indeed is A Deane Nichols of the dedi capacity of assistant to Walter F Nutt our princi pal he pursued his arduous activities to the detri ment of his health Recovering slowly but surely Mr Nichols is expected to be able to return to school in September. Mr. Nichols has been kind enough to supply us with facts concerning his life. His career is a notable and distinguished one, and we are happy to relay the high spots of it. Arrol Deane Nichols was born at DeRuyter, New York, December 22, 1892. His education included courses at the Utica School of Com- merce fSecretarial coursej Utica, New York, School of Accounts, Com- merce and Finance, New York University, B. C. S. degree. Experience in the commercial field came as instructor in Keystone Academy, Factory- ville, Pennsylvania, Business Department-1914 to 1918. QI-lead of de- partment 1917-1918J. During the year of 1918-1919, Mr. Nichols was in service in the fifty-sixth section of Searchlight Engineers, United States and American Expeditionary Forces, France. He has taught in Clifton High School since September, 1919. Mr. Nichols is Secretary of the High School Commercial Teachers' Association of New Jersey, a member of Kappa Tau Alpha Fraternity, New York University, F. and A. M. Western Star Lodge No. 15 , Bridge- water, N. Y., and Mohawk Valley Consistory, 32 Degree, Utica, N. Y. cation of the Reflector this term. While serving in the , - 1 . . . l , PART TIME This September may see the inauguration of the part time system in our High School. The Superintendent of Clifton Schools, Mr. George Smith, has given his suggestions to a committee of the Board of Education as to the need of the new system, and also plans for the working of the new school day. A decision was not ready at press time to be printed in this issue of the Reflector, but it is the opinion of many that we shall have it. As with most things, this plan has its advantages and disadvantages. If the plan goes through, the chances are that the Juniors and Seniors will attend in the morning, and the Freshmen and Sophomores will have classes Twenty-three THE REFLECTOR VW IN in the latter part of the day. This doesn't seem satisfactory to most of the underclassmen. The common view of the students is that it is better to go to school in the morning and be able to have the rest of the day off. This point is hardly worth consideration because, as long as the system may have to be installed, the students will break out even, having two years of each type of class day, morning and afternoon. Disadvantages of this plan do not pertain so much to the students as they do to the administration, whose duties lie in the regulation of the teaching staff and control of the longer school day. It seems that it is best for the students. Congestion will be relieved, for one thing. Everyone knows the inconveniences of large classes. There will be more opportunity for extra curricular activities, as far as the time element is concerned. As time goes on, the system will gradually adapt itself to the lives of the students. A NEW ERA This September will mark a period in the history of Clifton High School as what may be termed A New Erav. The new term will see the inauguration of a thing which is more necessary in the present age than has ever been before. Vocational Guidance is to be introduced into the extra-curriculum of our High School! With the demand for highly specialized labor and professional men, it has become necessary for school to give the student more than his readin', writin', and 'rithmetic, and the other school subjects which are supposed to teach him enough to get a diploma, and then entrance into a college where he doesn't even know if he is taking the course that he likes best. But many students do not go on to college. Schools have had of late a propensity toward mechanical output of students. One does not see, universally, the interest of the administration of the school in each individual, which may prove a means of finding out what the student likes and is capable of doing. True, schools have become crowded. It has become necessary to concentrate efforts on the exact re- quirements of the curriculum, without addition of individual qualifying courses. Vocational Guidance will help the individual pupil to find his place in the society in which he lives. Under the system to be instituted, case studies of individual pupils will be begun. This fall, the system will not affect the whole school but will begin with one group, probably the juniors. In succeeding years, the other groups will be added until finally each freshman will be carefully guided during his entire High School career. He will become acquainted with various kinds of work, and by the time he is ready to be graduated, he will have a more definite idea of what to do after graduation. The plan, once begun as a trial, will last at least four years because it must see through to the end the freshmen with which it started. With sufficient interest in their own future, the incoming students will find Twenty-four THE REFLECTOR vu - f on this assistance the most substantial, and probably the most interesting, part of their High School life. SOMETHING NECESSARY What this school needs, say the bicycle riders, is a shack for our bikes. Righto! Some sort of a shed is really necessary for the boys who come to school on bicycles. After all, busses don't come to the High School from everywhere, and, for some of the fellows, it is necessary to come to school on a bicycle. Some boys who take the bus would much prefer coming to school on their bikes, but they can't afford to take the chance on having them stolen. If a shed were built, these persons could be saved the fare, and it would be much more convenient. They would not have to get up a certain time in the morning, they would take no chances on being late, and their own pleasure also means something. The cost of a shed of this sort would not be too much. We are no bidders for the job, and so we needn't venture a price. Inasmuch as the structure is not to be the eighth wonder of the world, or anything like it, it is within reason that it could not cost a fortune. Here's a thought. just as was once the case with locker keys Ca thing that has been done away with by the advent of combination locksj , a price could be charged each user of the shed for the use of a key. The boys have a mutual interest-that is, to prevent bicycles from being stolen. Therefore, there would be no thefts from within the school. Once we had wooden racks for the bicycles. There Was a slit into which a wheel of the bicycle was inserted, and anyone who wanted to steal the thing would have to take the stand and another dozen bicycles on his back. As the stands aged and fell apart, they were not replaced, and the fellows had to lock the wheels without attachment to anything else. Naturally, the crook could easily carry the bike away and file off the lock later. Since the last vestiges of the racks vanished, there were several instances of trouble concerning the theft of bikes. With a nominal sum to start things going, the building of a shed would become a realization. It is sure to pay for itself in time. 0 Twenty-five THE REFLECTOR VW IW FROM THE EASY CHAIR This is a fine, fine chair in which to become wrapped in one's thoughts, but I'll try hard not to become twisted in che thoughts, and maybe you'll know what I'm talking about in my -3- delirium. HO-HUM! I hear Mrs. Sears, our former teacher, has been blessed with a baby boy. A hearty cry from our ranks of Good Luck, Mr. and Mrs. Sears. Many missed the pleas- ai ant disposition of one of the most popular teachers in the school when Mrs. Sears, CMiss Mildred Peter- sonj , left school for a domestic career. We are glad to hear that she is very happy in her present station in life. Laurels for our good friend, Marvin Eberling, that genial Reflector stamp salesman. The hardy fellow is very active in motorboat racing, winning wide attention in the annual races at Albany. Quote the local newspaper: Marvin Eberling won wide attention in his feats until he cracked up at Lake Hopatcong last year. Something ought to be done about the telephone calls from the office to the classrooms. When a person is called to the office, he trembles all over until he gets to the office and has the interview over with. Gver the phone, they should say whether or not the fellow or girl is in any trouble. It would certainly relieve the minds of those wanted. But on second thought, shouldn't the person himself know whether he has done something wrong? We graduating Seniors, just as other Seniors in the past, have been accused of being Know-it-allsf' just like that. It has always been the custom for everyone to say that a Senior can't be told anything. This term, we grant you something. We may know our English, our mathematics, our French and Spanish, but we,ll listen to anyone who can tell us where we can get a job. Twenty-six THE REFLECTOR WI IN Senior's scene twenty-five or less years from now: Ah, son, so you're taking Democracy now. You're taking up the history of Clifton? That's ine! Ch, you're studying about the change from the councilmanic to city manager form of government back in 1934. Yes, I was just about to graduate from Clifton High School when that change came about. I'll tell you about it .... Ways and means of making money for the Senior classes and other organizations in our school have lapsed. What's wrong? No ideas? A major plan I'm thinking of right now is that Clifton Night Revue. Quite a sum of money was realized on the affair, and I thought it was decided that it be an annual presentation. The Girls' Athletic Asso- ciation was in charge of it, but it was to be put into the hands of the General Organization. The proceeds of the yearly affair could then be distributed evenly among the active and Worthy groups of the school. But first we need an active G. O. Behold the New Reflector! We who have put into effect this new type of Reflector sincerely hope you enjoy it. Due to the unusual success of the Reflections Department's contest, you have a bigger and better humor section. See the action pictures in the Sport Section, and read something new in School Activities. Spend an enjoyable reading hour with the enjoyable stories and poems in the Literary Section. Warning to future graduates.-Make your plans for a graduation trip far, ever so far, in advance to insure a good trip. Don't be like us at present. Besides the trip itself, take some advice from those who know: Pay the class dues during the term, and avoid the last minute rush at the end of the semester to get this and that paid. What's this we hear about abolishment of marks? It seems that in certain places, the absence of marks for the pupils has increased their in- terest for the subjects due to the fact that they worry less about the abstract value of their learning. If such a plan Were to be adopted by schools, there would probably be many who would appreciate it. How- ever, there is a catch. The teacher quizzes you nevertheless, and at the end of the term, he is the one to judge Whether or not you are capable of advancement. You receive a note at the end of the semester as to passiing or failing. It's not a bad idea, but, like everything else, it has its au ts. Goodby, C. H. S.! Twenty-seven Tl-IE REFLECTOR W' In PLANNING CAREERS Editor's Note: At our request, Mr. Berthold, Director of the Vocational Guidance Program to be introduced in September, presents in this article the guidance plan pro- posed by Principal Walter F. Nutt, and approved by Superintendent of Schools George I. Smith. Hard times are particularly hard upon the young, not so much on account of the immediate sacrifices they are call- ed upon to make, but rather because of the break or lack of continuity in their e life's plan brought about by a period of depression. While it is true that some pupils still are fortunate enough to be able to continue their studies in colleges or technical schools, many young men and women are leaving the public schools, not, as formerly, to enter upon their lifeis work, but, unfortunately now, to enter upon a period of enforced leisure or non-employment. The School is keenly aware of this condition and is striving by all means in its power to ameliorate the evil effects of it. 0ne expedient has been the en- couragement given to graduated pupils to return and take up post-graduate work in the High School. Whenever pos- sible, also, available funds have been applied to the further education of worthy students. To a limited degree some jobs have been opened up to pupils who have shown exceptional ability in given fields of endeavor. For many years academic guidance and advice have been given to senior students about to graduate. In recent years, however, it has become increasingly evident that new trends in society are forcing a planned economy upon us all. The School perceives the need of helping all its students toward the goal of the realization of a full and happy life. In order that each pupil may be speeded on his way of Ending his place in the world in which he lives, Vocational Guidance has been introduced in the public school systems. In the past, various plans of Vocational Guidance have been tried in numerous cities. Some have been most serviceable, others, due to the introduction of too much academic red-tape, have been disappointing. Our school has endeavored to profit by the successes as well as the failures of others and has, after careful consideration, decided to put into opera- tion a plan especially approved by the Research and Psychological Labora- tories of Columbia University. Twenty-eight THE REFLECTOR yu IN Through the efforts of Principal Walter F. Nutt a group of teachers who have had special training in this field have been duly appointed as vocational counselorsv for the High School. They have willingly given of their time to this task. No special compensation is to be given them for this work, except that of a slightly reduced teaching load. They will be released from one regular class. The five counselors: Miss Clarice Smith, CColumbiajg Miss Erna Brown, fRutgersj g Mr. Willard Campbell, fRider Collegej 5 Mr. George Coulthard, CRutgersj g Mr. Langley Claxton, Cllutgersj , and Mr. Charles Berthold, CColumbiaj , have collaborated with Principal Walter F. Nutt in preparing the entire guidance program. The plan, while detailed and intricate in many of its phases, may be reduced to a few simple principles and practices accepted as sound by educators and laymen alike. First, information on occupations and on occupational opportunity will be given to pupils in the form of annotated lists of possible jobs and positions, supplemented by the qualifications necessary in each field. These lists will open up to the pupils a widened view of the field of human endeavor. Second, pupils will be asked to supply the counselors with informa- tion concerning themselves, their likes and dislikes, etc., in self analysis blanks. These will be given to the pupils through their home rooms since home room teachers are better acquainted with their charges than class teachers. The results of the analyses will be checked with the tentatively selected careers. Excessive introspection will not be a feature of these self- analyses. Third, individual counseling or consulting will rake place between the pupil and the counselor in charge of the field in which the pupil is interested. As the result of these consultations the pupil's course of study will be checked, a plan of special preparation for the proposed life's work laid out, reading materials in the field made known to the pupil, visits and talks arranged, and progress checked. Parents, of course, will be urged to consult with their children and with the counselors on these matters. The fourilo step in the program embraces the placement of pupils in positions and a follow-up of their work. Wherever possible this will be done, but at the present time it must be realized that the school cannot work miracles, nor, in fact, does it hope to do so at any time. What the School hopes to do is to help pupils plan their careers in- telligently and intelligently to use the present leisure time to advantage for the future. Under no circumstances will any attempt be made to influence the decisions of pupils. They must be, and will be left free to decide their own futures. The guidance program will aid them in finding their separate paths and in following these to their respective goals. CHARLES A. BERTHoLD. Twenty-nine THE REFLECTOR 'Ol an THE TEA CHERS' COUNCIL Because of vacancies in its ranks, the Teachers' Council recently has been reorganized, again under the presidency of Miss Edna Vorrath, its first presiding officer. The new council includes, in addition to the president, the following teachers: the Misses Ruth Smith, Agatha Spinella, Elizabeth Morrell, Elsie Tuttle, Erna Brown, Anita McLain, Margaret Kelly, George Coul- thard, Charles Berthold, and Adrian Struyk. The Council is at present at work on the project of a new report card and special report on studies, to be submitted to the consideration of the principal and superintendent upon completion. JOSEPH KOOSMAN, June '34. The Bed I slept in a bed. It was so soft, this bed of hay, Up in the loft. I stretched and yawned. What a necessity is a bed! A bed makes one-third of our whole life. We are born in it, We live eight hours a day in itg And we shall die in it. It rests our body, It soothes our pains. It is the symbol of rest. There is nothing so beneficent as a bed. JOHN CHOCHOLAK, Feb. '35. Dream of Days to Be When my hair is thin and silvered, and my time of toil is through, When I've many years behind me, and ahead of me a few, I shall want to sit, I reckon, sort of dreaming in the sun, And recall the roads I've traveled and the many things I've done. And I hope there'll be no vision of a hasty word I,ve said, That has left a trail of sorrow, like a whip welt, sore and redg And I hope my old age dreaming will bring back no bitter scene, Of a time when I was selfish and a time when I was mean, When I'm getting old and feeble, and I'm far along life's way, I don't want to sit regretting any by-gone yesterday. I am painting now the picture that I'11 some day want to see, I am filling in the canvas that will come back soon to me. And though nothing great is on it, and though nothing there is fine, I shall want to look it over when I'm old and call it mine. And I do not dare to leave it, while the paint is worn and wet, With a single thing upon it that I'11 later on regret. JEANETTE BURBANK, February 193 S. Thirty THE REFLECTOR 141 1 SENIOR PLA Y, TOMMY A complicated romance was very nicely untangled by the Senior Play Cast when the February class of '35 presented Tommy , a three-act comedy by Lindsay and Robinson. Marie Thurber, the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thurber, is being courted by a gentle- manly young man named Tommy Mills, QArnold Braskj. Her parents CHarry Federico and Anne Surgentb approve of Tommy as a son-in-law and make up their minds to force the issue and have Marie fHedWig Lugosj become engaged to him. Marie, resenting their domination, encourages the attention of a personable, go-getting, auto- mobile salesman called Bernard QWinHeld Adamj. The trouble comes when Dave Tuttle, CLeo Schmidtj , Marie's lovable but meddling uncle, offers Tommy some advice which almost results in the ruin of Mr. Thur- ber and the marriage of Marie to Bernard. Ex7Rfrl Soc: ess Pl-BY V N, P TRN. SENIOQ Pl-HY I9 M., Q 1: f I ' V., , 95 'ix 1 lx I A N ful xx The great success of the play was due especially to the wonderful cast, the superior direction of Miss Margaret De Vries and Ella Kiss, the work of Miss Lee Dolson and various committees, and the co-operation of the audience present on May 18. STELLA Kozzuc, February 193 S. 2-2 GRADUATES The Senior 2-2 promotion exercises were held on Monday morning, June 18, in the High School auditorium. The following members of the group received their certiicates at the hands of Principal Walter F. Nutt: Mildred Baumann Almeada Beckman Emily Chmielowicz Jeanette Constantin Catherine Federovich Elsie Fiori Helen Gaboda Anna Gorman Sara Glick Florence Gola Ruth Goldberg Alice Grunstra Evelyn Hoedemaker Henry Holster Violet Koziol Evelyn Kraft Evana Lyons Rose Macyok Ruby Mantie Lenore Menegus Irene Metzger Marie Miller Aivor Mostrom Ida Natoli Louise Negele Annabelle Newbold Rose Pallitto Florence Peluso Ann Pyches Gertrude Smith Hazel Soop Wanda Sceliga Evelyn Troast Daniel Vande Vrede Harold Van Winkle Albert Vaxmonsky Gertrude Zym Evelyn Walton The sponsors are Miss Helen Lauritson and Miss Doris Connelly. Thi rty-one THE REFLECTOR 'W ON DEBATING SOCIETY ECOVERING from a lull last term due to lack of members who were willing to participate in inter- forth this term with many promising young public speakers who made a notable showing in the seven interscholastic meets that the club has had up to press time. Our squads consider this a successful season despite the fact that winnings did not accompany the majority of the debates held. A successful season to them means pleasant affairs on meeting other schools. The fact that they had other teams competing with them was enough to make for a successful season. The first debates were arranged through the Tri-City Debating League, of which Passaic, Boonton, and Clifton High Schools are mem- ' A 'l'o' ' bers. Each school had an aflirmative and a negative team, which debated the opposite teams of the other schools. Clifton was un- W 1 u ' .fb x scholastic meets, the Debating Organization came P r K P ortunate in these encounters winning none f though through no lack of effort on the part Z Z f of the members of the squads. The topic was, Resolved, That the United States Should Adopt the British Method of Radio Broadcasting Control. On the same subject, Clifton's affirmative team defeated a squad representing Central High School of Paterson. Miss Helen Pierpont, former English teacher in our school, now teaching at Central, judged the debate. Those who upheld the Clifton Debating Banner were: Affirmative -Marian DeHart, Russell Planck, and Joseph Koosmang negative- Margaret Smits, Harry Cooper, and Bert Bertelsen. Harry Cooper occupied the president's post in the club, Bert Bertel- sen was absorbed in the capacity of vice-president, Marian DeHart did a good job as secretary, and Dorothy Hengeveld was in charge of club finances- BERT BERTELSEN, June '34. JOSEPH KOOSMAN,JUHC,34. THE HONOR SOCIETY Honor Society awards were distributed to the eligible students at an assembly April 26. John Baumann, president of the Society, made the awards. Those who were recipients of silver pins are: Damiano Noto, Jennie Kostamacha, Hattie Schuster, Lee Galinak, Bertha Pasieka, Daisy Saller, Evelyn McAlister, Pauline Giambolvo, Alfred Toth, and Ellen Tiziani. Bronze pins went to Dorothy Case, Peter Liotto, Clarence Van De Wetering, June Knapp, Hal Reid, Raymond Cesaletti, Martha Gall, Peter Smith, Kate Wengrenovitch, Emma Franko and Helen Dancz. STELLA KozAK, February 193 S . Th'tyt --- r ..-,.:::,. f S qu- RLi.SE?VES N ' Boyf, 1 . S15-iiliugg -,SJ ,fffw .f '0 -SX 'N.-fiQ,s2I.g,-ff G 'ifv - ff ' L' ,,. Lpub ,f,lLRO ERY ,ZZ F THE REFLECTOR 'IDI W, THE BOYS' GLEE CLUB Musically-inclined boys of the school give up one lunch period a week to give vent to their pent-up musical emotions. When they gather in Room 201 under the direction of Miss Mar- garet Kelly, many are the thrills instilled in passers-by, if so they are, or many are the agon- ized cries emitted by those who happen to be the boys stand it, which fact isn't so surprising J, inasmuch as the noise is their own product. Miss Kelly doesn't seem to mind it all the time, or perhaps she doesn't display her inner commo- tions on hearing us. The forty-minute session each Wednesday offers the boys a relaxa- tion from their studies, and they certainly appreciate it, as is shown by their regular attendance. The three voices, tenor, baritone, and bass, combine harmoniously, usually, to produce good arrangement of popular features as Well as selections from light classics. At press-time, plans were being made for a Glee Club Assembly some time in June. The Boys' and Girls' Clubs were to sing several num- bers individually, and the combined groups were to sing two numbers. After the notable development in the size of the Boys' Club this term, it is possible that several boys will accompany delegates from the Girls' Glee Club to represent Clifton at the All-State High School Chorus to be held at Atlantic City during the Teachers' Convention next No- vember. JOSEPH KOOSMAN, June '34. in hearing and Who can't take it. Anyway, v , lr allllllflllz The German Club Spring is one of the greatest enemies that officers of clubs and faculty advisors of extra-curricula activities have to combat. It works by sugges- tiong it is insidious. But even so, in spite of the fact that other clubs are approaching-or have approached-an obscure end, the German Club keeps to its task. Certain of the more influential members are contemplating dances in the gymnasium. Plans for parties have been successfully carried out. In short, the German Club is swimming, and each stroke is lustier than the last. And this takes place in spite of the fact that it was deserted by its president Chelpful person!j about the middle of this last semester. Eric Stier, the former Vice-President, is doing his job as presidentg Irene Mesaros is working hard in her capacity as secretary, and Gordon Smith is helping as treasurer. And finally, Helen Schafer undoubtedly de- serves honorable mention for her excellent Work in arranging for parties. Miss Erna Anderegg, sponsor, has done much for the good of the club. GORDON SMITH, june 1935. Thirty-four hip., ng .VI Q ?' - Y nQ P' ' 14 V ' 1- Ja 1 Q L E: C Q X 49 I fl, V, 1 . ' R A I '- X 1 5.5, . , ' 1 g .' 'T 'fig ' , ' , P L 0' N v A' N, '- 4 n .. .. Q A V ' ' W 4 Ar 1 - . -:A J A .Y4 I Q., . -M 2, :U I 'X Qi- 7. . - ., 34 l '55 v1 7 Q ll l I I .. n lxgxxfxf -K Que N'7-'QXXN 'Qs - , Q4 ' .l ix. rl' ' Q I S - ' -- . YS' lfE.'7 l3 L..l.. i ifiml if THE REFLECTOR WI IN EVENING SCHOOL OR the worthy cause of adult education, a grant of S300,000 was allotted New Jersey by the United palities which were willing to undertake the project. The allotment was made under the terms that the municipality furnish the building, heat, light power, janitor service, supplies, and a supervisor. Clifton voted 52,000 to the project. It was passed by the Board of Estimates and approved by the City Council. The evening sessions in Clifton, which began February 9, had an enrollment of 606 adults, and were highly successful in regard to the interest and deportment of the students. Twenty- four well-qualified, un- employed teachers aided in making the undertaking successful. The subjects taught were stenography, typing, bookkeeping, Com- mercial Law, Commercial English, Commercial Arithmetic, High School English, German, Spanish, French, Algebra and Geometry. During the winter at two week intervals, the night students were entertained by different units in instruction and pleasure. The County Symphony Orchestra presented a concert, Captain Osborne, of Australia, gave a lecture on Africa, The Normal Songsters of Paterson State Normal School gave a program, Masque and Masquers Dramatic Club of the Normal School presented Neighbors, by Zona Gale, Judge Maurice Karp of Clifton, addressed the Law students concerning the Small Claims Courts, and former Assistant Prosecutor Michael Shershin addressed the night school students on Criminal Law and Courts. The teachers who took part in the project were: Grace Amato, Doro- thy Comiskey, Alba Belli, Eleanor Hamil, Helen Jacobs, Elsie Kanis, Mar- garet Leary, Virginia McAleer, Babett Moller, Helen Okonowsky, Eleanor Peterzen, Madeline Schmidt, Margaret Stromiello, Agnes Connors, Sylvia Slavin, Margaret Sala, Margaret Schmitt, Gladys Worth, Sophie Weiner, Eileen McCann, John Dobol, William Knosp, John Paranya, Nicholas Persel, Sam Shyowitz and Irving Rapps. JOSEPH KOOSMAN, june 1934. M States Government, apportioned to various munici- I! THE ORCHESTRA It's hard to write about an orchestra, because its work is so obvious. We may all appreciate our orchestra for all it has done for the school, and to Mr. Benjamin F. Derr goes a great deal of the credit. The service rendered by the musicians at the graduation, besides the other school func- tions, certainly deserves recognition. During the past term the orchestra presented arrangements of several popular selections to the pleasure of the student body. JOSEPH KOOSMAN, June 1934. Thirty-six THE REFLECTOR qu UU OUR CAFETERIA Regardless of the possibility of part time in September, Mrs. Minnie DeMott, the proprietor of the school cafeteria, will still be with us. In an interview, Mrs. DeMott stated that in spite of the double ses- sion, she has reason enough to remain. Besides selling light sandwiches, candy, and ice cream to the students, one must consider that she has from eighty to one hundred and twenty teachers to cook for. Accounting for the comparatively low prices charged students for food, which fact raised some conjecture as to whether or not Mrs. DeMott was making out well, she stated that she accepted the duty with the knowledge that she was to charge the students a price which they are able to pay. Under her contract of paying three per cent. of the profits for the use of the room, Mrs. DeMott is concerned only with the overhead, besides, of course, the cost to her of the things she sells. We heartily wish Mrs. DeMott and her staff luck in their future stay in our School- Josiapn KOOSMAN, June 1934. THE COLUMBIA SCHOLASTIC PRESS CONVENTION --l T was a great trip, it was an excellent affair, and the N525 'mme speakers were of the best. About a thousand dele- i s 'T ' - gates attended the meetings of the annual Conven- mil -' tion of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association at 4 Columbia University. There were eighteen of us 5 Q from Clifton. J The Convention got under way March 8, and . gl ended March 10 at a luncheon in the Grand Ball- W'-? room of the Hotel Commodore. The delegates were greeted on their arrival by joseph M. Murphy at a general assembly. There were delegates from all over the country. We attended sectional meetings in various buildings of the university to hear speakers such as Helen Hull, author, Eddie Dooley, sports writer, and Gilbert T. Hodges, newspaper executive. The rest of the time at the Convention was spent similarly. At the beginning of each day, there was a general meeting with important speakers such as Louis Wiley, business manager of the New York Times, Mrs. William Brown Meloney, editor of the Herald Tribune Magazine, and Smith Reavis, foreign news editor of the Associated Press. Then the assembly dispersed and the delegates went to the many sectional meetings. Fitting speakers indeed were had at the luncheon the last day of the Convention. Besides an address by Joseph Murphy, exceedingly interest- ing talks were given by Sir Wilmott Lewis, Washington Correspondent for the London Times, and Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, author and Arctic explorer. These two speakers, reserved for the last general gathering, end- ed the Convention in a blaze of enthusiasm for the profession of jour- nalism on the part of the delegates. tovrol JOSEPH KOOSMAN, June 1934. Thirty-seven THE REFLECTOR YN nw THE GIRLS' GLEE CLUB The Girls' Glee Club, an organization of the school almost as old as the school itself, can boast of many achievements and successes. Another achievement being planned for at press-time, is an assembly-concert in June. Songs will be given by the Boys', as well as the Girls', Glee Clubs. Miss Margaret Kelly, our compentent supervisor, is confident of the suc- cess of the presentation. J Our happy gatherings at the regular Tues- !! lp l ff day meetings are a sign of the earnestness and :AJ fat- .. pleasure we girls take in our work. We have A as our own, will be fulilled. Tp, From our group, the following have been 1 chosen to represent Clifton High School at the All-State High School Chorus, which will per- form at Atlantic City in November: Sopranos- Nedra Berry and Joan Robinson, Altos-Charlotte Sandig and Mildred Shambura. Florence Hoffman has the distinction of being president of this active group, assisted by jean Jackson as Vice-President, Joan Robinson, secre- tary, and Dorothy Hengeveld, advertising manager. JOAN ROBINSON, PHYLLIS WOOLFORD, MARJORIE MUTCH. THE SENIORS, APRIL SHOWER DANCE Outside, the weather was fair and warm. The stars shone brightly. There was a bright moon, whose light revealed not a single cloud. The sky was clear. Who could even think of rain on this night? But inside the school, on April 20, over two M V hundred people were gathered in the gymnasium, X 19 N ,., ' 6'1 J . , ventured to say that Miss Kelly s hopes, as well v ll 'ld 'HM dancing to the music of How Howard's orches- X tra beneath paper rainbows and synthetically V' dripping umbrellas. It was the evening of the T? 4-1 Seniors' April Shower Dance, whose name fully explains the startling transformation of the inside to a very wet outside. Under the direction and advise of the class sponsors, Miss Ethel Condon and Mr. Alfred W. Applegate, the com- mittees in charge made a great success of the affair. The proceeds will go toward defrayment of graduation expenses in February, 1935. JACK HUGHES, June 1935. THE FOOTLIGHTS CLUB A trip to New York City this term proved both educational and interesting to members of our Dramatic Society. We had gone to see two 1 64 5' 'gf gl ffjil WL-iijwd Thirty-eight THE REFLECTOR aol IN Shakespearian plays produced by the Washington Square Players of New York University, As You Like It and Macbeth . Most of us appre- ciated the latter play more than the former due to the fact that we have studied it at school, but the other presentation was equally entertaining. After seeing Macbeth , We Went to the Jumble Shop just around the corner, where we had dinner in a delightfully unusual atmosphere. Now we are all looking forward to having as good a time at our picnic planned for june 7. MARION CURTISS, june 1934. USE OF CLIFTON HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY In an effort to reveal to the student body the approximate library cir- culation and student attendance of our school library, an estimate was taken for the two weeks of April 9-20, inclusively. Student library attendance for these two weeks, by periods, follows: LIBRARY ATTENDANCE-APRIL 9-20 Period April 9 10 11 12 13 16 17 18 19 20 1 .....,................., 6 13 29 30 28 32 16 20 28 2 . ...,,,.. 3 ....r...... ........ 2 0 19 16 23 29 22 18 27 26 4 ........... 13 28 28 30 26 24 34 18 7 5 ........... 13 20 21 33 30 32 34 15 30 6 .........,.......,. .... 1 0 21 15 31 19 20 34 16 12 7 ....... ..,. 24g 12 i 22 V 2Y0iV Y f W i f24 V28 Total .,.......,..,..,.. 86 113 102 168 154 126 139 34 120 131 Actual Attendance-April 9-20 .....,, .....,..,.,........,,..................,..............,.,.,,,... ...,....,.,...,,.................. 1 , 173 The periods not accounted for had either been omitted or classes had been held in the library, thereby necessitating the non-usage of the room for library work. A general idea may be derived from the following figures as to the types of books that are taken out most frequently: BOOK CIRCULATION-APRIL 9-20 Useful Mag. Soci- Fine Date Total Fiction Arts Lit. History 8: Pamp. Biog. ology Travel Science Arts April 9 69 20 6 12 12 1 1 6 2 10 47 19 12 5 5 3 1 2 1 1 47 19 21 2 3 2 12 42 12 1 5 6 4 3 2 1 2 1 3 35 7 9 5 5 5 1 1 1 1 16 3 6 12 8 2 3 4 2 3 2 17 24 10 4 3 1 3 2 1 1 8 33 3 2 0 4 3 1 2 19 26 9 3 4 2 4 2 1 1 20 25 8 1 4 1 2 3 3 3 Total ,,,......... 384 119 99 43 40 29 22 16 10 5 1 STELLA KOZAK, February 1935. Thirty-nine THE REFLECTOR W IN GIRLS ' SPORTS ' IGHTY oaks from little acorns row mi ht well S 8 ,- e quote in re erence to t e growth of the Girls A 2 Athletic Association. The little acorn was an f- idea in the mind of a girl-and the mighty oak IH :L has not yet reached its full growth-but it is well on its way. Branch after branch in the form of sports and other activities, our tree is assuming very large proportions. The A. A. has grown into a splendid organiza- tion with far-reaching effects upon the lives of the girls. Through sports, social activities and leaders' classes the girls have been brought into contact with many others with whom they have formed valuable ac- quaintances and friendships. As the program widens the possibilities for social and physical growth also expands until now the activities pro- gram of the A. A. offers opportunities with which nothing in this school can compare. The first and only activity offered was basketball. The enthusiasm aroused demanded the introduction of many more sports. Baseball, tennis, soccer, hiking, swimming, tumbling, and apparatus shortly followed. The increase in sports naturally brought an increase in participants. With the growth of the organization more activities were added, track, archery, social dancing, corrective exercises, hockey, and individual games were introduced. Individual games include ping pong, tether ball, tennikoit, shuffle board, handball, and horseshoe pitching. There are many advantages in all these sports. Not only do they help the girls physically, but the whole situation, of which the sports are the center of interest, is highly educational. The democratic theory of indi- vidual responsibility is here put into practice. Others' rights and opinions are honored. Leadership is respected and practiced. Followership of the highest type is an aim well on its way to perfection. Necessary routine is handled precisely and systematically. Sound business methods are used in keeping records, and accomplishment finds its reward. The direct influence of the Girls' Athletic Association is being felt throughout the city and its program has already warranted the praise and comment of many persons from various parts of the state. Forty THE REFLECTOR vll l . IN Tumbling and apparatus were held for the first time this term with a great deal of success. An official individual meet closed this extra curri- cular practice program. Spring basketball for novices will mean more material and keener competition on team rating next fall. This term base- ball is held under the management of the girls and has aroused great in- terest among them. Tennis instruction is given for beginners and a tour- nament is being conducted for more advanced players. The introduction of archery in class periods marks a very long step forward. It is also played as an extra curricular sport. Having been started last year, it is gaining great popularity and interest throughout the school. A decided improvement has been noticed in the posture of girls who have taken corrective exercises. Individual help is given to special posture cases. Unfortunately this work, because of its nature, cannot be afforded to all who need it at present. We anticipate reaching more girls later. Social dancing, the only activity the Girls' Athletic Association now sponsors and which includes the boys, is held in two classes, the elementary and the advanced. These classes advancing rapidly under the instruction of Mrs. Swift, have already aided us in attaining a reputation in this vicinity for being extremely well versed in the fine art of the social dance. Hockey is the sport of major interest for the G. A. A. this season. The girls have been trying to get this sport into the school for a long time and their dreams of this have finally come true. Interest in it runs high not only because it is new, but also due to its qualities of speed, vigorous activity, skill, and team play. Universally known as the King of fall sports , hockey gives promise of being the king of the G. A. A. sports program. The organization depends for instruction in all activities and for advice concerning its policies and set-up upon its instructors, the Misses Mary G. Kelly and Louise Richardson and Mrs. Alice DeLeeuw. The G. A. A. offers to all the girls of Clifton High School not only the opportunity to participate in sports and to gain the health benefits to be derived from them, but also one of the greatest, most stimulating, and most inherently interesting means of educational development known in a modern school program. ETHEL DUDASIK AND ADELE STROGEN. I - I Forty-one THE REFLECTOR van IN BA S EBA LL -i-'11- MAGINE the situation, ninth inning, home team be- hind by one run, two down, bases full, pitcher up- sorry, the pitcher is retracted, and a pinch-hitter replaces him The ball IS curved toward the plate the bats- man swings my gosh he misses it' He squirms about tips his cap and more or less mechanically 5 Q . i . . , . .. , . , . . , . shoots his bat at the next pitch. He connects! He races! All runners are advanced! All for naught, however, for by mere coincidence, a hostile centerfield player moves, and applies his glove to the ball. And so the third out. Disgusting, and yet pathetic, the home team records defeat. You may judge from the foregoing that the 1934 baseball season has come. Our baseball team, nevertheless, is in the hands of a most capable mentor, Lank', Shepard. The present coach was a conceivable star at a New England College. He brings with him many excellent tactics of the nation,s pastime. We, therefore, feel quite safe in seeing the duties of head coach in his hands. We welcome and wish him much success at Clifton. The previous coach was Harry Collester, vice-principal of the High School, a man who served superbly. We should like to think of Mr. Col- lester as the man who made Clifton High baseball-conscious, as a man whose work can be likened to the labor of the late well-known baseball man, john McGraw. Harry Collester gave us our one and only state championship thus far. About seventy-five prospective candidates greeted Coach Shepard in his initial season as head coach. From this energetic group was picked a most competent squad. Many new faces have shown themselves on the diamond. Those that round out the team are: Pitchers--Pete Novak, Russo Kyse, Joe Sondeyg Joe Mattliano and Amato Paccioretti behind the plate, Pete Maguire at first sack, Frank Lennon, brother of the versatile Jack Lennon, at second base, Bob Doherty and Bill Kupec at third, Joe Bizub at shortstop, Ray Lowry, Jim Crozier, and Joe Pangaro in the outfield. ' At press-time, our baseball team has lost four games and won one. In their losses, however, the boys showed plenty of punch , and hope to vindicate themselves before the season closes. The season's opener was against Hackensack, a game in which our genial principal took part. Mr. Nutt threw out the Hrst ball, in fact, he threw out the second ball also. At this point, we may say he was a corking second baseman at Hobart College. It took a few games to find the kinks in the works, and we may look hopefully to future contests. HENRY CROLAND, February 193 5 . Forty-t X SHUT XX ' RNS , X , if O X, Q l ff2f'i+lf Q . 5,5 Y ,A 1' 9 'R 933' ' - ' -1 X .Q , N i , , M:-, E Q f N . Rf I . bl , A 'io v 0' 3 . V Y zfv .0 i I M1 'H mf X S i is N' V I 3 , i5b..,. 9 . .QM I 'J va sq .., 1. -Q: 4 J .N B, ' H ' ,,'.iY ' 11' .. 7- ,, v L- 5 55: .ff .... 1 fvfif' f' '- H' Q LL.L ,L,L A 51 q w - 1 ' A-Sf:-wwZfi'M'w Q-W ' 'ti 5 V 'J if f THE REFLECTOR YN ll! TENNIS iii LIFTON,S three losses and no wins isn't a nice way 0 to start off a season, especially if one wishes for a V materially successful term. -However, our tennis , squad, under the able direction of Arthur Benson, 9 it Q has done its duty by giving the school all it had. We X are not obliged, though, to say that our team has 5 Q, no value. It is true that we are good, but the op- posing teams are better. Our school has on its tennis squad capable and willing men, such as Paul and Bob Doherty, Chester Gursky, Fred Mueller and Jack Moller. The following schools were on Clifton's schedule at press time: Lyndhurst, Eastside, Passaic, Central and Belleville. Clifton dropped a 3-1 score to Lyndhurst, and lost 5 -0 to both Eastside and Passaic. HARRY RAZEN, February 1936. BASKETBALL The outlook for the coming season is something that worries us little, for the players have shown an aptness to learn easily. Most of the squad will report back for action next year. The coaches, Langley Claxton and Emil Bednarcik, have worked diligently with a new group of basketeers, and the results bring good tidings. The team of the past season was not diagnosed by the amount of victories, but by the amount of basketball knowledge assimilated. Captain Bob Doherty was the only varsity man remaining from the previous year. Thus, you can readily see the obstacles which confronted the coaches. The squad as a whole played persistent, if not consistent, ball. We had few really outstanding players on the team. A11 were more or less of an equal standard. In the basketball team, the idea of co-operation was clearly exem- plified. Also, through the team, a closer relationship was made with the faculty. A picked group of faculty men were brought together in games with the varsity. Two games were played, both won by the varsity. But that matters little. The real point of it was that teachers really are human beings, with likes and dislikes, like the rest of us. A game bunch are these teachers! In the future, let's have more games between teachers and students. The student body appreciated these games also, for at both contests, the school gymnasium was filled to capacity. Major players in the faculty-varsity game were: Faculty-William Campbell, Morrill Shepard, William Benkendorf, Langley Claxton, Emil Bednarcik, Edward Frankovic, Charles I-Iartzell, Daniel Cheston, Her- bert Oakes and Tunis Baker. Varsity-Harvey Dorpfeld, Bob Doherty, George Dudasik, Emil Zanetti, Joe Sondey, Leo Marchione, Neil Van Der 131008, Joe Bizub and Pete Novak- HENRY CROLAND, February 193 5. Fatty-four THE REFLECTOR qu IN GOLF Golf had its initial start in Clifton last season, when it came into being under the competent leadership of Coach Langley Claxton. Those who choose their team by the amount of victories won will undoubtedly go along with the Golf Team. Taking all spring sports into consideration, the golf team has been most successful materially. The team won handily last year, and seemingly like results are in store this year. The team won their opener with Lyndhurst easily enough, 11-0. They lost to Central, however, 8-4, and at press time, they defeated Rutherford 10-2. Those who comprise the team: Charles Knipple Albert Weber William Champin Frank Furman Morton Rochelle Fred Weber Vincent Procopio Rendall Hamm is coach of these promising boys. The home grounds are at Broad Acres. HENRY CROLAND, February 1935. TRACK It has been a long time since the day of Sam Sedor and Jack Lennon, but now Clifton once again has a track team. The coaches' call for men resulted in a splendid turnout of a fine list of aspirants. Each prospect has been tested by the coach and the best material picked for the team. The boys make a fine showing in their new uniforms of maroon and gray, as you can see in their picture in this issue. Gordon Gus Wilson has been elected captain of the team, and Nat Rubin is manager. Both boys, besides being Well known and Well liked, are first class athletes, excelling in sprinting. Coaches Claxton and Bednarcik look forward hopefully to meets with Eastside, Montclair, Pas- saic and Tenafly. Members of the team are: Jack Hughes Anthony Brozina Alfred Attal Steven Shear joe De Ghetto August Dalla Mura Fred Becker Edward Heron William Westhoven Harvey Dorpfeld Joseph Teller Charles Farr Harold Coyle Ben Trippler Robert Merbler John Chocholak Nat Rubin Ernie Weigh Art McAllister Gordon Wilson Edward Hill HARRY RAZEN, February 1936. Forty-Eve THE REFLECTOR Rl IN INSPIRA TION UST a glance at her tall, alert Hgure is enough to in- spire any girl. Whether she's on the gym floor, the soccer field, in the swimming pool, or at the tennis courts, it makes no difference. It is easy to under- active interest in sports. Four years ago, before she was here, most girls didn't even know how to hold a racquet, or handle a basketball, or aim at the target, or swim a strokeg but today each girl knows at least one of these activities. It's all because her enthusiasm is so contagious. After listening to her instructions for five minutes, a person just naturally wants to try, and try, and try to do the Work. an Aww L4 stand why the girls have recently taken such an And that's not all! Even a king could be envious of her superb health. But her smile is The Thing. Need we go further? Yes, you've guessed itg it is Miss Mary G. Kelly. It was rumored that several girls even get a larger size when purchasing shoes, because she has big feet. Yes, indeed.. She's proud of them! ETHEL DUDASIK, G. A. A. L. R. There is a teacher in our school Who laughs and jests quite as a rule, She's not afraid to straddle the horse, Can she swim? dance? jump? Cf course! That she's a sport the girls all know, And whatever she says does surely go, Anytime she wants something done, It's really no labor, but a great deal of fun. A braid she wears in the back of her head She's a most pleasant young maid, 'tis said, This lady walks, she has no car. Her initials? you ask. Certainly,-L. R. G. A. A. Forty-si THE REFLECTOR Q Q ii-ps-.gp .5 -5 . . . Q , . - .' - 'A 5 . , , K , N . ,., -- 59.85 fS?f.i'w9fQy'Z.'2Q6i'2sa?3Wg'?a1'S9e'2Qfwm, i Aw V ix I Y ,- Y if . . S g , up Z W W5 t OH YEAH- Es- pl. vu iw xsxifsu - A 2-A Q .a 'I . L 5 C' Q' ' '51 X xxx W A. tx gtg rr-Q4vr,,1v 'Ez' gr. AQ x Q N 'wad : 71fzfXi SQQXQQ- lumkg wax. 8, ' 1' U S 2 qffi 1 7 4. N X xx l f . . i C Qff X N Y ' X, 53 f f ' Q S 1 Q ? 5 Q a K L-DEN D L. SLANG VOCABULARY A A f Prepared for the use of teachers during lunch period Q fliirst prize, humor coutestj age handed down to us by our forefathers But American Youth has conceived another language that is simple and concise For the benefit of those who are not up to par on their English translation f of it, a few fragments are herewith presented: Q N erfs-Meaning dislike, disgust, disbelief, or abhorrence of a situation, statement, or state. Hi-Ya, Duchess-The manner in which a pro- gressive young man, who Wishes to be polite, greets a young lady whose acquaintance he desires. The young lady, should she find the aforemen- tioned speciman obnoxious or undesirable, should sweetly reply, with the best of diction, Go peddle your papers, which translated means, I am sorry but I would not enjoy your company. Will you kindly depart to other places. Scrum-Is the command used when a person wishes another person to evacuate the immediate premises. Note: Amscray is a more emphatic scram. Stooge-A stooge is a gentleman, or lady, who donates his most will- ing services to another gentleman, or lady, whom he admires, respects, or who he thinks might reward him in some material way. i. e. A promising young student who assists a teacher in his, or her, menial labors. Claiseler-A chiseler is a character who, due to the lack of character, is inclined to be parasitic in his ways or habits. The student who is forever borrowing your homework is an excellent example. Moniker-Is the word used to designate the name of a person. Ditto-Ditto is the word used to express perfect agreement or har- mony in opinion of one person of another person's statement. All's lake-This, unlikely as it may seem, has nothing to do with Jacob. This statement is an answer to an inquiry of a person's present ll N this fair land of ours, we have a delightful langu- Forty-seven THE REFLECTOR VU IN condition and signifies that all is well, and that the present state could not be more satisfactory to the person using this delightful phrase. Crump-A cramp is not, as commonly supposed, a bodily affliction. A cramp designates a person whose actions are odious and unpleasant to the party who uses this clever expression. See?-fNot to be used in connection with sightj . See?,' is a mental persuasion used to make a meek human believe that to which he does not conform. Note: Frequent users suggest an ample pair of fists or other gentle persuasives to make this dainty convincer more effective. Thus you see that America marches on. Youth has caught the torch and is nearly putting it out. Soon youth will have the language so per- fected that it will not be necessary to talk in order to converse, and every- body will probably be better off. It must be enjoined upon our elders to keep in close contact with this modern metamorphosis lest they be socially ostracized. BERT BERTELSEN, June 1934. Our Faculty Tl HE features of our faculty 3 Q In dear old Clifton High Are varied, but I'1l point them out If you'll but cast your eye: First on Mr. Benson Who is tall and rather thin, And then on wee Miss Hopkins ---1 Who looks just about eighteen. Now Mr. Dishian, you'll admit, Has rather bushy hair, When Mr. Howell feels for his, He Hnds his forehead there. Now look at Mr. Hartzellg He is jolly, tall, and round, But, as you know, Miss Tuthill Is built close to the ground. I Miss Johnson's always rather sweet, We'Ve never seen her sad, But watch out for Mr. Struyk Or 'twill be just too bad. Miss Lauritson has gold locks, And I'm sure that you will say When placed beside Miss Dolson, They're as like as night and day. If Mr. Derr, our science whizz, flt surely seems to mej Fatty-eight THE REFLECTOR VN ON Were placed beside the baseball coach He'd come to that man's knee. Now see the English teacher, Miss C. Smith, tail and straight. Mr. Hamm is different, Quite like the figure eight. And so you see they're different, Yet very like at times. I'd like to just go on and on, But I've run out of rhymes. If I've offended anyone In this silly little song, I hope that you'll forgive me, And don't bear me malice long. MARGARET KENNEDY, june 1936. f Second Prize Humor Contest Q Notice: Tickets are to be sold at recess. M. Bailey: How much is that? Forget, Forgive At last we bid a fond farewell To the class of Thirty-four, And as they leave the school behind, We gladly shut the door. They think that they,re an awful lot fDon't say I told you so.J For not a soul can say a thing They don't already know. We have a lot to thank them for At least that's what they say, We fail to find the wonders that They worked in four C PJ years' stay. I , , Jos DE GHETTOS But some day we will Seniors be, CONC EPTIQN OF And we our lives must live, They must go on into the world, So let's forget, forgive! E DUCATIGNAL GUIDANCE MARGARET KENNEDY, june 193 6. Grimshaw flooking at some history workjz Oh! Look! Here are some extras announcing Caesar's death! Jephcote: Kind of late, don't you think so? F ty X , THE REFLECTOR VN IN HI-LIGHTS OF THE TERM 9 ,lrfff .' ' Flefv f fy ' up , :mf I ' Ntfhfdkm 3 A II flip .J March 8-We pass February 18.-Well, well. Still another term to the permanent vacation. Anyway, this term looks promising for pleasant times despite this cold weather. Here's a ray of hope already. Principal Walter F. Nutt has announced the honor roll for the term of September, 1933, to February, 1934. 170 boys and girls made the above-80 mark to gain the distinction. Teach- ers' definition of a utopia: honor roll of 2,000. February 21.-Slides depicting the story of American independence were shown the assembly in celebration of Washington's birthday. Russell Planck was narrator. Principal Nutt spoke on Washington, the man, and in a talk on A trip through the Mount Vernon Estate , he urged everyone to visit Washington's estate if they ever have the opportunity. over a period of two weeks to attend the Colum- bia Scholastic Press Convention. Today, the February issue of the Reflec- tor won recognition as a second class publication. Several representatives of Clifton were present to hear many outstanding people in modern journalism speak on various phases of the profession. April 11.-An interesting Arbor Day assembly was held today, and the students left the auditorium with the inspiration to conserve trees, and to take care of forests when out on a picnic or camping trip. April 18.-W. Phillip Shatts, field secretary of the Regional Plan Association of New York, presented a very interesting discussion on the value of regional planning. By means of slides, Mr. Shatts was able to show how much more convenient, comfortable, and beautiful a com- munity may be when it is planned for construction. He gave plans for reconstructing the present system of transportation around the congested area of New York so that people can get to their destination without F3 any roundabout route. April 20.-The CWA orchestra of Clifton presented an excellent program of concert music at a special assembly. The band, having twelve different types of instruments, was under the direction of Albert Okulski. At another special assembly for music or- ganizations, the string quartet of the CWA or- chestra entertained with selections of chamber if A 4. 1 music. Joseph Totzauer, first violinist, spoke on the life of Joseph Hayden, Austrian composer. The other three were Stephen Servis, who played the second violing Henry Lochner, violag and Max Drugman, cello. Fifty THE REFLECTOR -M - on L in 9 I April 20.--A bit of cheer for the good ol' gymnasium since last term's Junior Prom. All 7 - xg is decorated in prettily colored streamers, depic- 7 tions of rainbows and umbrellas, the gym looked , proudly on the scene of its interior as the 4-1's 1 held their April Shower Dance , with the suc- cess of the affair owing no little credit to the 5 active committees, and the assistance of Miss Ethel Condon and Alfred W. Applegate. May 1.-What! Again? That's right! The baseball season rolled in today. Hackensack S, Clifton 4. May 2.-Miss Ruth Lorenson, representing British Pottery Company, gave an interesting talk on chinaware. May 18.-From one grand affair to another. With all things favoring success, our 4-1's came through this night as they presented Tommy,'. Acknowledgements or credit to Miss Margaret DeVries, Miss Dolson, and the excellent cast. May 21.-Success! Our baseball team scored .-...?-- its first County League win of the season. It de- , feared Eastside High School of Paterson, 2-1. May 29.-jacob Lotz, only living Civil War Veteran in Clifton, addressed the students of the High School on incidents in his life. Mr. Lotz, great grandfather of our own John Lotz, is 86 years old. He en- listed in the Civil War when he was fifteen. JOSEPH KOOSMAN, june 1934. iiafiy if 'i l THE ALUMNI IS DEAD - LONG LIVE THE ALUMNI! Perhaps you have heard that the Alumni has died. Well, it was ail- ing along time from too small a group of active members. The doctor, in the form of an abstract ideal, prescribed a new treatment. The past and present oflicers were to meet every now and then to discuss the busi- ness in hand. The treatment proved too effective, and soon no one ap- peared. The then presiding officers called a special meeting to make funeral arrangements. It was decided to honor last term's valedictorian, Alfred Sellarole, on the occasion. Therefore, a dinner-dance at the Garten House at Englewood Cliffs took place. The officers, past and present, were in- vited to attend. The Alumni officers, amid many tears, buried the long ailing, long suffering Alumni. Should it have been necessary to make everyone in the organization an oHicer in order to keep the group banded together? Shall our dear, dear Alumni ever be resurrected? That, fellow students, depends upon you. But in the meanwhile, The Alumni is dead, long live the Alumnili' EDITH GOETSCHIUS, June '34. Fifty-one VII THE REFLECTOR IN PERS ON A LI TI ES We understand that personalities are objectionable in pupil maga- zines. We are convinced that they are. Read over this list and prove it to yourself. THERE WOULD BE No OBJECTION IF: Charles Topps brought in his homework. Joe Koosman weren't an authority on the subject. Dick Grundman could get his mind back on his work. Mildred Angel knew why. Bob Overbeck hadn't played football. Steve Linzenbold would stay put. Russell Planck cut his words in half. Harry Cooper abbreviated his speeches. Ruth Kroll grew up. Gladys Ludwig hadn't such a sense of humor. Peg McAvoy weren't acquainted with any of the J. P.'s? Reflector cards sold themselves. Genuine signatures were placed on gas-bills . Science was really taken seriously by the fairer sex. Agnes Kruger actually lost her self-consciousness while speaking. Mrs. King passed everyone in a 4-2 history class. All the possible graduates graduated. Mr. Adams didn't draw diagrams. Mrs. Bloore didn't have a Buick. Johnny Petrisin weren't so popular with the girls. -ff I emruvnw W , .hSf.'i2'. I-f-Ti VU 13 T Fifty-two MARGARET KENNEDY, june 1936. And then there is the freshman who didn't take a general course because he wasn't interested in leading the army. History teacher: In relation to the occupations of pre-historic man, give some occupations of man to-day. Pupil: Hunting. Teacher: Well, er hunting? Hunt- ing for what? Pupil: A job. THE REFLECTOR 0, IN 2- fs ag V-JIT-N une- I iq , .M I my :uf fc f .'!'4 1... 0 , rx 'haha' U' 7 f' .Z LETS SEE N9W- UWC!! ONE OF THESE WILL BE E HSIEST To QLIMB. 'Z'L im I-DE NQUBL IF YOU WANT TO KNOW: Why there are platforms in science rooms ...o...... .........., s ee Mr. Piaget. What caused the oily spot on 217 's board ,..,.,.....A.......o,... see Mr. Struyk. What a New England accent is ,....,...,...4..,..,............ .......,... h ear Mrs. King. Why gentlemen prefer blondes ....,..................l ...,4,.. s ee Miss Johnson. How you'd look in a permanent wave .....,... 4,......i.,i..... s ee Mr. Derr How to say it in French .,..,..,....i....4,,............... ,.......... s ee Miss Schuster. How it is to be short and sweet ....,.........,... .,......,. s ee Miss McLain How the air is up there ..........,...,.,i...........,..,,,A,.i,..i ...,.... a sk Mr. Shepard. What happens if you don't eat spinach ......... ,......... s ee Mr. Campbell. Why the plants in 215 grow ,,....,..........s,.4.....,,.. .. ..,,.,..... see Miss Clough. What the latest styles are .....,.,......,,..........,.....,. .......... s ee Miss Mgt. Kelly. How to pronounce laugh .,.,.....................,......,...,.,...........,.,. see Miss Kerwin. Miss R. Smith: What kind of animals whistle? Farrell: Birds. Bright pupil: No sir: man. While visiting a neighboring school to debate, we were shown through the school. The young lady who escorted us was very proud of her school. And that is the library , said she pointing to a door leading from the basement hall. I looked through the passage, but saw nothing but a large safe. What's that for? I questioned. Oh, replied the maiden with a broad smile, We keep the books in that. J. KOOSMAN. Dot: This is a bad day for my father, windy and dry. Dash: What does he do, lick postage stamps? F ity th THE REFLECTOR IN Who's Who He is our high authority, A factor of our destiny, He helps us when we're in a rut, You know the answer's Mr. --1 President of the boys' Hi-Y, Not too bold and not too shy, He will never be a singer, But a pal-That's Henry -l He led the class through care and strife, He'll be a leader all his life. A boy respected, yet not proud, John -1 will stand out from the crowd. Her hair is cut in boyish styleg She's into something all the while. Active in sports, this friendly Miss, A girl scout, too, is Ella 1 Peppy, vivacious, and ready to gog She,s ready to learn what she doesn't know. Always an answer on her tongue, You've surely met Miss Doris He left our school for Seton Hall, He was known and loved by all. How we miss him none can tell, You all know Andy -1- well. In our ranks is always found That little dancer quite renowned, Whose joints don't creak like rusty boltsg This little Miss is Charlotte l MARGARET KENNEDY, June 1936. Indignant Staff Member: But I i couldn't get a Reflector card. Every time Q9 the representative came around, I was tied rv, g -.i up in my section room. vi' H ' All-too-literal Bystander: Do you X ll W1 bite? llfff ffm ' , l nf. Husky Senior: See that fist? .., .AAT 5421, ' 0 - Supposedly meek freshman: Yeah! X Senior: Well, what would you do if A 0 A :I N' you had it? Frosh: I'd wash it. CSenior was last seen chasing freshman.j Fifty-four Buf Caiass QiI'iCQI'S JOHN LoTz President Always faifbful, always frur, I-I1 s jnrrzzwl fo ns llraf lnfs Hl7'Ill' blur AIOHN BAUMANN Vice-President High in all xrbolastic work, Wz z'f' zlvwr known lobn I0 sbirk. MADELINE KRUG Secretary Maddie Alfllouglr flJf'rr s IlIlSf'l7ll'f in ber FJVC5, Tn ln' goml sbr' really frirx. GEORGE HILAIRE Boys, Treasurer H0 is lmmlsomr, dark., and fall, Aml flu' girls-bow fbvy :lo fall! ALBERTA KAHN Girls' Treasurer keen. Our dollars wvrc' few aml far befzuemz, sbs' guarrlvzl fbr treasury with izzfercsf DOROTHY ADLER !QDotl, She is sweet and full of glee, A success she's sure to he. ELEANOR ALT NEI!! Her hair is the envy of many a girl, It's brown and soft and does it curl? JOHN ALT Small he is, only in size, A sensible young man in disguise. AL APELIAN NAI!! He drives a car to school each day, It helps him out in many a way. GROVER BACHMAN Slow but sure must he his rule, At least, that's how it seems in school EVELYN BATTEL A teacher in French she's going to be, Some day she may sail to gay Paree. MARY BELLI At her post each day stands sheg We all know she's a faithful I. P. NEDRA BERRY Nedra's skin is very fair, Her smile is niceg so is her hair. BERT BERTELSEN He was an artist in our senior playg He acted well. What do you say? THERESA BILOWITH Tessie Hair so curly, eyes so bright, She certainly is a beautiful sight. GRETA BJORKLUND Grer Greta and laughter go hand in hand, No one can tell where they will land. BERNICE BLOCK Bunny Bernice is dark, she talks a lot, Still we like her, do we not? ANTON BUDNICK Rusty When there is fun he's always there, But to his lessons he gives little care. JOHN BULLOCK As a friend he fills the bill, His tongue, though, is seldon still. RAYMOND CESALETTI KQRay9! He knows his lessons, he studies hard He reels of misfortunes by the yard. LILLIAN COATES Lillian says, Come what may g This indirates her carefree way. KATHRYN COEN flKay,l She is popular in any crowd, Of her hair she should be proud. JEAN COLEMAN She is a friend to all she knows, And spreads good feeling as she goes ALICE COMBEE Her hair is wild, but her face is sweet Simply to know her is a treat. BERYL CONINGSWOOD He intends to sail the sea, A jolly tar he's going to be. HARRY COOPER The highest marks in the class has he He deserved them well, we all agree. AMES CROZIER J His baseball ability is known all around I n him a treasure the school has found. FRANCES CULMONE She's short and plump with curly hair She does her work with utmost care. JAMES CURRY !!Jim!! 1im's always ready with a joke or tl? prank We admit we like him, if we're frank. MARIAN CURTISS Witty and lively, she's well liked by us Sophistieation and high marks, plus. BEULAH DEAN She's rather dark and oh, so thin, With a personality that's bound to win. DOROTHY DE FINO CQD0tD! Life of the party, noise of the crowd, Beeause she's our classmate we're very proud GEORGE DE GRAFF Tall and handsome, this young man Gets the girls as no boy can. I MARIAN DE HART In a debate she's at her prime, Tho' she seems to enjoy life all the time. VIOLET DELANEY KlVi,, The tiniest senior girl is Vi- Anrl is she attraetizfe, My O My. GEORGE DERR George stands high over everyone, He,s up in his studies too, and fall of fun HENRY DINGER Hank An ojiee high he held in srhool, And over the 1. P. forzfe did rule. VINCENZA D1 CHIARA She is a friend, and very true, Her work is ready when it's due. ROBERT DOHERTY l!B0blY A football hero with muscles strongg Depend on him and you can't go wrong. BARBARA DUSHA Bobbie Golden hair and bright blue eyes, As a beauty she'd take a prize. JOSEPHINE DYLE QQJOI! The army boys Io seems to slayg Perhaps it's her winsome way. EMERY EINREINHOF l've heard at poetry he is a wiz, But, like us all, he hates a quiz. ALMA FANTON HAI!! Alma has a little pup That Miss Smith gave her to bring up. HELEN FAURE Helen's sweet and rather nice, Perhaps that's why they all look twice. MARY ELLEN FENELON Skin so fair, eyes so clear, To all of us she is quite dear. BLANCHE FINKLE Blanche has red and curly hair, A friend she is, and willing to share. MARTHA FISCHER Martha's tall, her hair is browng She looks quite nice in any gown. FERNAND FLORY uFerdn He is a Hi-Y and an X. I. P., Well on his way to a degree. CHRIS FROELICH Mirthful, sportive, misehierous is he, The pet peez'e of the faeulty. JULIUS GAYDOS I-Ie's fond of sports, but just hates sehoo He passes subjects as a rule. CATHERINE GERSIE The postmaster's daughter, young and wis She's blond and fair, we do surmise. JAMES GILMORE llxlimmyii He thinks that he's ultra-hlase, But if you know him he's O. K. EDITH GOETSCHIUS In every elass her hand is raised, Her striet attention must be praised. MARION GRIFFITH Marion always has plenty of pep, To keep with her we have to step. NELLA GRINWIS Nella is active, pleasant, precise, All of which tell us that she is nice. DORA GUISTINA Dora's very small and meek, With hair so dark, and rosy cheek. RICHARD GRUNDMAN Dick Those deep set eyes get every gal, But to the boys he,s just a pal. THOMAS GULA He's very quiet when in sehoolg His time he does not waste or fool. DOROTHY HENGEVELD uDotD As a musician she's just great, She defended 'us in many a debate. ARNOLD HIEMSTRA He's medium sized, his hair is brown, You seldom see him with a frown. FLORENCE HOFFMAN Blue-eyed Florence is bright, we'll say, A splendid teaeher she'll make some day. ROBERT HOLDEN !QB0bl ! A hoy with grit, he works each day Removing ohstacles in his way. EDNA HOLM Her work she does with utmost care, A pleasure it is her friendship to share. MARGARET HOLMES She's got the eyes, she's got the hair, And she has boy friends everywhere. JESSIE HUDSON Jessie, it seems, never says a word, She's one of those that's seen and not heard GEORGE HUEMMER George does his work but has his His personality our praise has won. JEAN JACKSON She rides to school with a teacher each day But he's her neighhor, so it's quite O. K. FLORENCE JOHNSON KIFIOD A friend who's always true and steady, For a romp shels always ready. IRMA KABAT She is not short-nor is she tall, But one good pal, and that's not all. MATTHEW KAISER lQPat!D Pat seems to have that certain thing , Instead of Kaiser he should he King. JOSEPHINE KASSACK QKJOD Io is clear-eyed, tall and hlondg Because she's pleasant, of her we're fond. HELEN KEELER uRubyn Helen's what we call petite, Everyone knows her to he sweet. ANITA KENNEDY Neat Anita likes to sit and sewg She's just right for an old-fashioned beau. ANDREW KEYBIDA QlAndy!! In his dances hard and fast The Ukranians are far surpassed. GEORGE KLAIMAN He's not particularly fond of schoolg lt's a good thing for him to follow the rule MARIAN KLEPATSKY Happy am I, from care I'm frcv, Why can'1 you all he like mc? STELLA KODY Stel Stella is a friend so trur, In hrr prvsvnn' no 0nz s blur. PETER KONOPAKA Pete A haslzvflvall player wilh wavy hairg No maffrr what hlorks him, be gvls fhrrv. JOSEPH KOOSMAN ..J0e,, Hc's ii1l4'n'sh'a' in St'll'lll'l'S of l'l'l'Yy lzindg Amhilion lilzv his you'll seldom find. WILLIAM KOSCHE Hr is a pal, and frm' af fhalg Hf s nm'r'r hrvn known fo ln' high-hal. MARGARET KRUG ffPeg,, Sho lilzf-s lo haw' a lof of fun Bu! not unlil hor bUllll'lL'0fk,S donv. STELLA KRUK If if's lions you would lamr, Try Ihr' hoys-fhr'y'z'z' just flu' SIHIIF. RUSSELL KYSE Hv's small, hui full of fun and frivks, Hv's not parfirular on whom hr pirks. HERBERT LEVENDUSKY Herbie A foolhall hvro all his yvars, Tlu' fans grvrf him 'wilh shouts and rluws. DOROTHY LEVERTON Dot Wfr 1'f oflvn zuondrrvd, fhoughl, and guessed Wln-nrrfr it was Doi's fongur' did rvsf. PETER LIOTTO Pete PUI1' is a dcvolrd lad, A paiirnl sfholar, a happy Ugrad. RUTH LOTZ A prrffy young lady, plvasani and fruvg Shi' owns mon' good qualifivs fhan mos! pvoplz' do. JOHN LOVELL lfrvrklvd fare and hair of firr, Of his rompany we never firr. EVELYN MCALISTER llEv!, Ervlyn has a wry sufrrf wayg Il won her the lrad in our senior play. V S .JI ELINOR MCCULLOUGH We like her because she is always witty, Coy, petite, and very pretty. RUTH MARRERT Pure of heart and pure of mind, There never was a maid so kind. ALEC MARSHALL A winning smile, a willing way, junior will get there, eome what may. NAOMI MINTZ Unusual the girl, unusual her name, We admire her ability just the same. JEANNE MOSCOVITCH This tall lassie likes to cook, But does not like a history book. HELEN MULLER '-Mull Charming eyes and hair so dark, Her beauty we cannot help but mark. FRANCIS MURRAY He was never high-hat, at least not yet, You ean't tell me that he'll forget. FRED MUSTERER Once a friend, a friend for life, He'll help you out in eare and strife. AGNES NOODERBROOK QQAggie3, Her laugh ean be recognized half a bloek away, But we've no objections to a person thats gay. DAMIANO Noro !lDan!l Through the oeean's foggy mist He came, to be a journalist. IDA PALISH Ida is a elever girl with much ability, She,s very studious, evidently. AMELIA PASNIT Mimi Small, lively, sweet and thin, She eould make any boy give in. EDEL PETRICEK Val At driving a ear Edel is nifty, She takes her curves at more than pfty MARY ANN PICCOLA She's short and rather dark, l'd say And she's a true friend in every way. We IRENE PLEVA Renee Irene, as we knmv, is brightg She's short and sweet and rather light SARA PULLAN Sa1ly,' Her talk is always of some boyg This seems somehow lo give her joy HENRY RAMEZZANA ul-lanky! lunior Polieeg aefor loog There isn't much that he ean'i clo. LOUIS RANALETTI KKI-lou!! We hope on judgment day he's spared For Lou is always unpreparerl. JEANNE REIFF The reason boys fall easily Is eviden! lo you and me. JOHN REIMSCH john has sense and greaf abilifyg We need' noi menfion personality. NELLIE RESSETAR uNellu She elaiins she's hard fo geig But someone will get her yef. MARY RICHARDS Friendly and sweet To know her is a freal. ERNEST RICHTER Ernie Ernie oft exaggerates When a sfory he relaies. JOAN ROBINSON FRED ROTI-IWELL He's a pal io everyone, Ana' an awful lot of fun. LOUISE SALATINEY As Mrs. Popham in our Senior Play, She supplied some humor in her usual way DAISY SALLER Sophisiieation, poise, and such Make us admire Daisy much. FREDERICK SCHMIDT Freddy Freddy has a giggle queerg Things always hum when Fred is near She has a voice thafs high and frueg always regret when her song is Ihrough RAYMOND SCHOCKNER QlRay,! His hair is blond and his eyes are blue, Where Ray is, there's a girl or two. MIRIAN SEABERT Lovely notes on her piano she plays, Loneliness of person she also portrays. VICTORIA SEMTAK UVic!! A charming girl we,ve often heard, She's one of the group we call Preferred CATHERINE SERVAS Patient and still, And full of good will. ALFRED SHARRY He takes little interest i11 any text, But doesn't cause the teacher to he vexed IDA SIDERITS Ida's sweet and sort of quiet, We know that she won't cause a riot. ELISHA STEFANI We know him as a quiet ladg He's full of fun, and never sad. LESTER STOLARZ Lester has a ear, you see, He parks it with the faculty. HERBERT SUEss Herbie When Herbie plays they stop and stand, That's why he's always in demand. MARGARET SUGRUE This charming maiden so demure Says very little, unless she's sure. JOSEPH SWEENEY In class an answer he'll seldom dareg In a hoy so hig, eould it he a scare? PHILIP TALIPSKY He helped the teehnieians in our senior play And did it well, we all would say. SALLY TIEDEMAN Light or dark, short or tall, Her beauty seems to get them all. EVERETT ULBRICHT A silent member of the class, He seems to stand out from the mass. CLARENCE VAN DE WETERING A dashing farmer he will makeg For that's the course he wants to take. WILLIAM VAN WYK One of the few who's very meekg One thing he'll never make, a shiek. JOSEPH VISALLI l!Joe!l He talks a lot, he likes to rutg But he'll help you out when youire in a rut PATRICIA VITAL Izpatn A fare of freckles, a heart of goldg That she is likable neea' not he told. LOUIS WEIGLE He always has some jokes to eraek, But as an electrieian he's a cracker-jack.. WILLIAM XVESTI-IovEN I hear he hides most of his time, But we rlon't think that's sueh a erirne. LILLIAN WILLIES She's tall and dark. We all agree A nieer girl yozfll seldom see. PHYLISS WOOLFORD Phyliss is pleasant, eoy and sweetg Sorialile, likable, kind and petite. DORIS YOUNG Dodo Doris keeps ns on the gog Let's see the one who falls her slow. MICHAEL YUHAS Mike Talking is his own sweet wayg He surely has a lot to say. OLGA YUHAS We're prouzl of her as proud van he, Perhaps it is her rare beauty. VICTOR ZANETTI f!ViC,7 We know his looks are of the better kind But we never can tell wh0's on his mind. I ,T X f X X K . 'A r1,,' fm, ,, .J,.1L:.f- N f' 'V .fgf f' 2' Y A U Uh M' m ' H XIII Hun lv.. '7Yw v, f1.,, xxf 5 xzDMwQNnZ Q fS,'ll!?J'2E'?5 Tl-KE BUSNNESS SYAFF n Q :Q M4 . V ? Xfjowf p fo 'mf 1 F 'F 'Pm Q mf-5E'fToN F' lin l mfe.m hQ ,,, 1 'sn.f,BunE'3.q.,- We Are Here to Serve You Catering Done to All Student Occasions .l-49-.-i Clifton High School Cafeteria MRS. M. DE MOTT PROPRIETOR COURTESY - DEPEN DABI LI TY SENIORS Before going any further, get Secretarial Training- then you are ready for whatever may develop. If you plan going directly into business, the Secretarial Training qualifies you for a position, and for advancement. On the other hand, if you have the opportunity and de- sire to go to College, this same Secretarial Training will prove to be one of your biggest aids. OUR COURSES ARE INTENSIVE, TI-IOROUGH AND ADAPTABLE TO YOUR NEEDS Inquire about our SUMMER SCHOOL CALL, WRITE OR PHONE DRAKE BUSINESS SCHOOL 196-198 JEFFERSON STREET, PASSAIC, N. J. Phone - PAssaic 2-0002 WOOLEN S OF FINEST QUALITY Fon TOWN AND COUNTRY WEAR FORSTMAN WOOLEN CO. PASSAIC, N. J. Charles E. Danko PLUMBING STEAM AND HOT WATER HEATING Alterations and Repairs a Specialty Esfimntex tfheerfully Given I5 QVINCY S'l'REET, PASSAIC, N. J. Shop Phone I'ASsz1iC 2-16411 Res.: 180 Ilzulley Ave., Clifton, N J. Phone I'Assnic' 2-2560 Lotz Bros. Dairy, Inc. 280-6 PIAGET AVENUE u1.1F'roN, .1. Phone - PAssaic 2-8796 Kaempfer's Market si I.AKEVIl'1W AVENUE c1.1F'roN, N. J. Donald G. Collester Class of 1922 ATTORNEY-AT-LAW CLIFTON NATIONAL HANK BLDG. STUDEBAKER PONTIAC Clifton Motor Co. PETER TRAMONTIN, Prop. 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SAVAGE SCHOOL FOR PHYSICAL EDUCATION Established 1890 An Exceptionally Strong Faculty A Teacher Training School which prepares men and women to become teachers, directors, and supervisors of health and physical educa- tion in schools. colleges, playgrounds, clubs. private institutions and industrial organiza- tions. The curriculum of the three-year course in- cludes practical instruction in all forms of athletics, gymnastics. games, dancing, swim- ming, dramatics. and the like: also the essen- tial courses in education. psychology. anatomy, physiology, hygiene. and others, thoroughly covering the theory and practice of health and physical education. Catalogue Upon Request Employment bureau for students and graduates. Register Now Class Entering September 17, 1934 SAVAGE SCHOOL 308 West 59th St., New York City THERE IS A PREMIUM ON GOLD I BUY OLD GOLD DO NOT SELL YOUR OLD GOLD TO STRANGERS I Hold U. S. 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