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

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P R EV U E S In which we raise the curtain for a brief moment to take a fleeting glim-p se at the roles we may play at a later Stage. QAnd any resemblance to future real life situations is highly intentional. ' ) First of all, our crystal ball reveals Bill Lane who, after becom- ing president of M. I. T. and inventing perpetual motion, has settled down to a quiet life. He had manv secret and important discussions with Professor Einstein and now is readv to announce their decision to the world. ' The egg came first. Linda Gump, because of her extensive knowledge of make-up, has become fashion editor of ' ' Vague and is known to hundreds of females as Ladv Linda. Her introduction of green lipstick has ingratiated her ' ith men with wi -es who always detect lip- stick on their collars. Now thcv can sav thcv just bit too deeply into a pistachio ice cream cone. Tune in to W. P. A. L. to hear Mama Palma ' s platter-chatter nightly from four to nine. Fast gaining in popularity (she ' s even better than Rosalie Allen), Bobbie Palma is the only girl disc jockey to plav records with long red finger nails instead of a needle. Her favorite discs are Ay Barbara Reeba and When johnny Comes Marching Home. Besides being famous for his invention of jet-propelled busses for tardy students, Armen Fisher also has caused a sensation in the fashion world with his creation of a different colored sock for each foot. For Xmas Armen ad ' ocates red and green socks, and for Hallowe ' en, orange and black. His patriotic socks don ' t sell too well because of the dearth of three-footed people. If they hadn ' t lost the negative of Charles Atlas ' s picture, Da- id Christie might have been destined to an obscure life of sell- ing copies of Dear Diane. But Dave got a job posing with fle.xed muscles in a bathing suit. Llnderneath his photograph is the caption, You, too, can have a body like mine. Really 3 ' ou can. At his microphone we ha ' e Larry Friend, violently wa ' ing his Gillette razor and gi ng us a play-by-play description of the cur- rent Armv-Na ' y football game. Truly the finest sports commen- tator in the business, Larr-Larr is always on the ball— foot, base, or basket. You must read his latest book on his adventures in auto racing entitled, A Friend in Speed. ' Adele Pattison has made a fortune with her book, Cheering for Practical Purposes. ' ' Says ' Del, The E-yah Team Rah cheer is fine for reaching things on high sheh ' es, and the War Chant will get vou in a scrubbing position quicker than you can say ' V-a-r-s-i-t-y. ' The Locomotive cheer from a standing position will subdue the toughest of husbands. Wearing burlap pants and Yankee Stadium mud, Dick Yeskel has just scored another touchdown for his team, The Verona Wildcats. In times of stress Dick may be heard shouting lustily, Hold that wine! — and he doesn ' t mean Mission Bell. 24

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swelling treasury (not to mention our swelling heads). Our Sophomore year started off with a bang with the production of The Ghost Stor -, directed by Mr. Fox. Two of our more serious jobs as tenth graders were maintaining the C. H. S. War Sendee Honor Roll, started by the Class of ' 46, and ordering our class rings. We finished the ' ear with our first dance, The Spring Sensation, which indeed it was! Our junior year began with more school activities than ever before. French stu- dents joined ' ' Le Cercle Francais which had been re ' ived the previous year, and many of the boys ' ent out for the ' arious athletic teams. Accompanied by Dr. Krauss, we journeyed to New York where we visited the New York Herald Tribune plant and sa v Laurence 01i ' ier ' s produc- tion of Henry V, ' in connection with our English studv. In December our sec- ond dance, The Snow Ball, completed College High ' s social season. After Christmas vacation we took over the important job of putting out the Crier and thus gained possession of the coveted Crier office. To show our appreciation and good will to the departing senior class, we finished the year with the annual junior-senior picnic held at Barbara Bal- lou ' s summer cottage on Mountain Lake. The following September we returned to College High as seniors, fully con- scious of our new dignity. Early in the fall we started plans for the annual senior carni al which we called The Rural Rumpus. More people attended this an- nual event than ever before in C. H. S. histor ' . For the seniors, this final year brought to a close their sports activity at College High School. In recognition of their athletic performances at C. H. S., the ' arsity members received their letters in June, while members of the Girls ' Ath- letic Association were also presented with awards. Some of our senior field trips, sponsored by Dr. Moffatt, included visits to Paterson ' s District Court, the New York Stock Exchange, and the Town Meeting of the Air radio program. Then all too soon we realized that the greater part of the last and best year at College High was o ' er. The Crier was now in the hands of the junior class, the yearbook was com- pleted, and work on our biggest master- piece, the senior play, given for the bene- fit of the Scholarship Fund, was begun. The curtain ' s fall at the end of the plav was symbolic of the approaching climax of our full and rewarding six years at College High — graduation! 23

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Barbara Lou Baker ' s career began when a fortune teller told her to Follow the line which her name suggested. Howe ' er, this seer neglected to tell her which name. So confused Barbara doesn ' t know which to use first, her rolling pin or clipping shears. Acute indecision finally dro e Phyllis Durget into being a weather girl (whether or not). Phyllis ' s system, sniffing the air From a tower of St. Basil ' s Cathedral and waving an old Irish charm to and Fro, was successful until she predicted sunshine For St. Patrick ' s da)-. It poured! Phj ' llis ' s bangs were d ' ed bright orange and she was exiled to Northern Ireland. We Find Joan Gewecke deep in the Congo— one of the reasons we don ' t wanna leaye it. She is teaching the natiyes to speak Enghsh by pantomime. Although an excellent actress, Joan is Finding it extremely diFFicult, For obyious reasons, to act out the word kiss to the Ubangi. George Gilbert, listed in the Scotland Yard Files as Gee Gee Gibo, is one oF the greatest detecti ' es of the century. His most famous case was that of The Reindeer Sweater, which Gee Gee says was rather hard to unra el. Soh ' ing crimes by using a pay telephone makes George a booth sleuth. We see Irene Habernickel watching a horse race. She had been dismissed From her old job as girl stable boy because she tried to impersonate a dappled horse by wearing her leopard skin coat. Irene sometimes has a bad colt in her head, which accounts For her hoarsiness. Bob Van Ess has spent so much time in dark rooms developing pictures that now he cannot see in the daylight. He now has a job on the Lights Out ' program, and makes a good deal on the side, turning out the lights oF refrigerators A ' hen the doors are shut. Asked his opinion of his night liFe, Bob retorted with Whoo-Whoo! Ginny Hoagland has put her book-wormish talents to work. Her job is with the Boston censor department where she reads all comic books, newspapers, and novels entering the Hub city. Howe -er, she almost lost her job ' hen she let Fore ' er Amber pass the ban— she thought it was about a man with chronic yellow jaundice. AFter becoming interpreter For the Russians at the LI. N., Edson Barlow grew a beard so his Friends would not recognize him. Later, while smoking his skull pipe, his beaver ignited. Ed ' s comrades ha ' e elected him the most likely to succeed Stalin. For anyone who v ' ould go that far to be Red deserves something. Happy Barbara Ballou was so cheerful that she became the first Female Good Humor Man. She is also Famous For cornering the doughnut market and cleaning up an enormous profit at a foot- ball game. The climax of her career came soon aFter she s ' nthe- sized tutti-fruitti from Dr. Freeman ' s worn-out cigars. Bill Fay has started a used car business under the name of The Chuckling Czechoslovakian. His business is located on the top of j lt. ' ' hitney. When he sells a car. Bill gives it and its. new owner a sho ' e. The proud possessor coasts halfvi ' ay down to San Francisco before he disco ' ers the awful truth— no engine! 25