College High School - La Campanilla Yearbook (Upper Montclair, NJ)

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ZJInrough the Ujears . . . We the class oF 43 are forced to admit that we are the finest class that has evei had a contestant in the pie-eating contest on playday. By nature we, the studet;ts of our class, are modest and retiring (except when we are awake) and therefore we don t want to put too much emphasis on what a wonderful boolc this reallv is. But we must show you the mighty ladder we have climbed in our noble way, so we present as a heritage to you, this brief recording of our class history. We hope that you will have the courage to follow our example, even after you see what endurance it takes for each of us to autograph 126 yearbooks. We entered the seventh grade in the typical timid manner that all classes do, but it didn t take us long to get accustomed to our new surroundings. Our main activity for the year was puppet-making. Dr. Partridge helped out by taking a group to New York each week to specialize in some phase of puppet assemblying. The specialists then returned to teach the rest of the class. On May 14 the puppet show was presented to the school in assembly. Under Mr. Nickerson s direction, we gave a choral speaking assembly, which v ' as judged to be one or the most outstanding presentations of the year. Mrs. Winchester took many groups to New York to see the various museums. At the end of the year we all knew we would like it at College High. Returning from our summer vacation with blood in our eyes for the new seventh grade, we started in instantly hazing them. Festivities lasted until Hallo- ween night, when the underclassmen were formally initiated. With Jerry De Rosa as our homeroom adviser, we took several field trips, one of which vas to the Breyer s Ice Cream Factory in Newark. In our English class we vsTote our autobiographies and joined the Junior Literary Guild. It was in this grade that our athletic prowess first showed up. During the basketball season we formed what was to be t he nucleus of one of the best teams in the history of College High. We also formed a baseball team and had an undefeated season playing other schools. Latin or French? That was the leading question we faced at the beginning of our eventful freshman year. But the problem was soon forgotten in the excite- ment of preparing to produce The Enchanted Christmas Tree in the assembly, and cooking a perfectly indigestible meal of Garbanzes (navy beans to a sailor) for the social studies class. We left something of ourselves for immortality by making

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Alma Mnter It can ' t be tlnit bud. Post war planning Oh zut! This way to the Lepidoptera. Piltser s pansics When 1 was in the twelfth grade Ooof! Hubba hubba Friday night fn

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a record of Benet ' s Lislen To The Peopfe. We have lonci liopes tlial luture classes will listen to it, altliough we know that they couldn ' t enjoy tiie listening as much as we enjoyed the making. France fell in this year so we did what we could. With Madame Cressey ' s encouragement we helped to support a F rench refugee girl. We also sent her a Christmas package and wrote letters lo her. Toward the end of the year we started to prepare Twain ' s play A Conneclicul Yankee in King Arthur ' s Court, but we never gave it. Who knows? It might have been Broadway material! In September, 1942 we settled down and tried to become Sober Sophs. We started the year off with that traditional Bang ' by forming a Latin Club. We saw movies, played records and gave reports on the current events of Ancient Rome. We had a French Club too. in which we learned French songs and played such intellectual French games as Bingo. Feeling ambitious, we wrote a book called A ' ieu7 oj 52. hi this book each member of the class wrote his idea of what the world would be like in ten years. The result was quite terrific! It was in our Soph year that we gave our first dance, Swing Shift. Add to all this several parties and good times and you will see that ten can be a lucky number. Our Junior year was full of a great variety of events. Some of these were traditional and some were of our own invention, such as when the boys called an unofficial holiday to see the World Series, unbeknown to the teachers, or when four boys went hiking on the Appalachian Trail in eighteen inches of snow, or when the girls started our revolution in English class. In November we took trips to the Newark News and Montclair Times offices to see how a paper should he run. Then in January we took over the management of the Crier. In the social column there was our dance. Fall Fantasy, ' which was a success because we only lost thirteen dollars on it. and also other numerous parties of the year. Suddenly our senior year was upon us, as if live years had passed in five minutes. So for the sixth and final time, our class went through the intracacies of beginning a school year. Early in the year, we presented a project, which traced our English course from the seventh grade to the eleventh. In November, we held our County Fair. It was a whirl of chance games, refreshments, square dancing, and cake sales, and turned out to be a huge success, financially and socially. The year moved along quickly, hastened by field trips to New York, basketball games, dances, and days like May 1st. Then, before we knew it Graduation Day had arrived. Six years of education, sports, and fun, were at an end. I he history of the class of 1945 was completed.