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

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iJf£fT ' ' . ll OPEN UP THEM JUDGEMENT DAY has arrived. Upstairs. Saint Peter is a busy man these days, for he spends many long hours each day tabulating accom- phshments, checking personalities, and signing slips of admission or rejection. Perhaps vou would care to hear a page from Saint Peters lit- tle black book. Then listen closelv as Saint Peter checks the list for mistakes, while Timo- thy, Saint Peters faithful helper, can be heard reading off the names. Boss, this is College High ' s class of 1947. Xo member ever became president, but thev all certainly led interesting lives. Now take Phvllis Adolf, for instance. Phyllis read ' Gone ' ith The Wind ' so many times that before she fin- ished college she had to write a sequel, and her book, ' Watch Out, George, Here It Comes Again, ' made her famous for life. And here ' s Ray Cassel, who was head of the complaint department at Macy ' s. His experi- ences would have made at least three best sellers. In fact, his expository essay, ' Marks Aren ' t Neces- sary, ' was the leading juvenile piece of the dav. Look at Beverly Becker, too. As president of the United Women ' s Hockey and Basketball League of the World, she united all women un- der the sign of the hockey stick and Softball. Her fame will never die if the fair sex has any- thing to say. And it usually does. If anybody deserves admittance it ' s Bette Choate. She became the first woman umpire in organized baseball. Poor Bette was killed at 37 when a Dodger fan threw a bottle at the oppos- ing pitcher and hit her by mistake. A sad but courageous way to go. Perhaps you ' ve heard of John Geismar. He took over Phil Spitalny ' s orchestra in 1960, and by adding thirty more hot violins made the organization famous all over the world. John became to classical music what Toscanini was to swing, and that ' s no easv thing to accomplish. Listen to this. Jane Anne Flanders started out as a tester in a perfume factory, but at 29 she discovered hair curlers that won ' t pinch, push, or bulge. All you do is glue them on and hope for the best. One of the saddest cases in the class is that of Walter Hunziker. Walt received so many Bov Scout medals that he contracted lead poison- ing, and died a hopeless invalid. But he kept his medals to the end. Six pallbearers suffered strained backs during his funeral. Did vou hear the latest?

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HIS T t» II 1947 During!: our freshman year, the class displayed its dramatic ability by presenting several types of creatiye plays, inclndinn; Norman Corwin ' s The Plot to Overthrow Christmas and China Had a Washington, both directed by Dr. Fulcomer. A small riot of a play, entitled Father Take Your Stocking Down, The Christmas Tree Is Dying, was our first sophomore production. The play, a take-off on faculty and students, almost put us out of the good graces (whi ch we weren ' t in anyway) of our teachers. The complete script was written and enacted by ourselves. Ordering our class rings played an important part in our lives that year, and we also took over main- tenance of the C. H. S. War Service Honor Roll, started by the class of ' 46. This was the year that a great many of the boys in the class tried out for the various ath- letic teams at school, slowly starting the climb to varsity recognition. In March we presented our first dance, The Spring Whirl, a huge success. Closing up school was celebrated by a swimming party in New York ' s Hotel Shelton. From the very start of our junior year, school activities were more prominent than ever before. The French students revived La Cercle Francais, the C. H. S. French Club, and adopted little Marie Loviise, a French child. During our extensive English study of Shakespeare, the class saw Maurice Evans in Hamlet. We also examined the New ork Herald Tribune plant, in connection with our study of newspapers. Be- ing an ambitious class, we presented two dances, The Fall Finale and The College Hi-Ball, the latter dance being decorated not unlike a Salvador Dali painting. January brought forth the time when we took over the Crier, and the coveted Crier office became our den of creative endeavor. As a final gesture of good will towards the class of ' 46, we took said class to the Orange Mountain Reservation for the annual junior-senior picnic. When we walked up the hill to school in the autumn of 1946, every member of the class of ' 47 had a certain air of well-earned satisfaction about him. After five years we were the seniors of College High. Before long, however, none of us had time to think of this, as we were deluged with work, f un, and the business of being seniors. The first big event in our social calendar was Ye Olde Pumpkin Fling, a combination square dance and carnival, attended by the largest crowd in C. H. S. history. Trips to New ork were frequent during the year, including theatre parties to see Henry V, Henry VIII, and Cyrano de Bergarac. Class parties, too, were more frequent than iu any previous year. But before we had time to realize it, the year was gone. The year- book had been compiled, and the Crier had been turned over to the juniors. In the spring the senior bridge was presented, and then, as our final bid for glory, we pre- sented the senior play, a decided njasterpiece. At last, to the dismay of everyone, we graduated. And so, exit the Best Class To Ever Attend College High, and may all fu- ture classes have as full and interesting a career.

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PEARLY GATES Perhaps the most impressive entry here is that of Joan Ganow, who, because of her out- standing work in trigonometry, was appointed dean of math and sciences at Vassar College when 19. Joan retired sixty-six years hiter only because she could see the figures on the slide rule no longer. You must have heard the name Ted Lob- senz. Ted was the J. C. Calhoun of his day. As senator from New Jersey, he swayed the entire country with his famous forty-nine-day filibuster. He hail intended to speak longer, but he lost his voice and had to retire from office. Next is Joyce Macfarlane, the country ' s greatest social leader. While at the height of her social career she brought fur dresses into style, which subsequently led to the wearing of dyed mouton underwear and ermine bathrobes, quite an innovation. Here is a name that was uttered by mil- lions — James Quackenbush. Jim, America ' s youngest heart specialist, performed science ' s iiiost amazing operation by removing his own heart without the use of ether. To say that this experiment revolutionized the medical world is an understatement. Right here, in bold type, is Maureen Pom- fret, the first woman in America who dared cut her hair shorter than her bangs. To add to this sensation, Maureen created new color shades for her bangs to match every new style that she wore. The story of John Pike is indeed a tragic one. John discovered the first atomic automobile, but in his anxiety to test this marvelous machine, he neglected to discover how to turn the energy off, and so John was forced to race around the world at 1200 miles per hour for sixty successive years. His last quotable words were, ' Whee ' . And then we have Joan Neild, who made her fortune in radio. Her characterization of ' Little Mimi ' on the ' Life Can Be A Stupid Mess ' program endeared Joan to millions of housewives all over the world. Only recently she was awarded the Lifebuoy Prize, presented to radio ' s most washed-out heroine. You couldn ' t have missed Trip Reid. At 25 Trip was a successful engineer, but he left his job to become the bridge wizard of the 1960 ' s, only because his faith in science was shat- tered when the sun rose in the west one morning. His Gin Bridge is now the national game, played bv all but the W. C. T. U. •-G u6 ' Here ' s looking at vc ' Alihlili! '