Columbia High School - Mirror Yearbook (Maplewood, NJ)

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Seniors JIM BRA!» “Diamond Jim 266 Parker Avenue, Maplewood MERYL L. BRAUTIGAM W ILL1AM . BROADBENT “war li Lancaster Avenue. Maplewood Homeroom Cluiirman (3); Guild President (4); Columbian Reporter 2. 3. 4); Advertising Committee Senior Play (4); Intramural Basket- ball 3. li; House and Grounds Committee (3); Intramural Football (2. 3); Glee Club (2. 3); A Capella Choir (2. 3). DAVID A. BROWN “Dave” 185 South Orange Avenue, South Orange Blair Academy: Varsity Swimming (2); Varsity Tennis (2); Academy Players (2); Blair Breeze i2j. Columbia: Varsity Swimming (3); Parnassian Society (3. 4); Pan-American Club (3); Homeroom Foot- ball (3, 4). “Do chip 133 Third Street. South Orange GEORGE V. BROWN “Brownie 86 I nion Avenue, Maplewood Intramural Basketball 2. 3). G. A. A. (4); Personality (’.lab (4); Child Care Club ill; Senior Night Usherette (4). '4 COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOL WE MIRROR 4 Class Will To the typing teachers: students who have not been hanging away on their own machines for years in their own original way. To the students in general: a sure-fire exer- cise to get rid of slight list to starboard which invariably evidences itself once the load of hooks is removed from the hip. To those unsure of foot: a step in the girls’ lunchroom which doesn't jump up and snap at vou when you’re (lying low with a tray-load of dishes. To the ever-credulous sophomores: the warn- ing never to ask directions of anyone whose nose is not buried in “Columbian Highlights.” To the mechanical drawing classes: ink which doesn’t smear itself all over the drawing when you’re away from your desk. To the House and Grounds Committee: search warrants. To Miss Silvernail: library chairs which don’t screech like banshees every time a restless reader launches on a round-trip of the room; also, stu- dents who don’t “oh.” “ah,” and “oli-oh” every time the library telephone rings. To the medical staff: some new and logical symptoms. To th e school: a balcony which does not give you the impression that you’re about to pitch headlong over the railing when you descend tin stairs. To the Assembly Committee: a student audi- ence which docs not clap and cheer frantically, like beings possessed, in order to shorten the work- ing (?) day. (Or perhaps the A. C. will look this gift horse in the mouth.) To those having late (oh. very!) lunch: a live- minute intermission between periods three and four in which to gulp down that part of your lunch which is gulped down anyway, blit which is often a hindrance to class recitation. To English teachers: short-story aspirants who have normal, healthy minds, instead of the murky- swamp, cold, grey-fog variety which unfailingly crops up every year. To Miss Baiardi: a Spanish (imagine!) class with sober-minded, serious students. To the School Council: homeroom representa- tives who, if they must come to meetings late, will not trip and drape themselves dramatically and noisily over at least three chairs in the back row. I‘age Twenty

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JOE BOWMAN 11 Pox 59 Reml;ill Avenue, Maplewood Football Manager Squad 2. 3. Varsity I); House and Grounds Committee 3, I); Properly Committee, Junior Night (3); Victory Corps. Land Division (3. 4); Track (2): Camera Club (2): French Club (2). Accelerated student. Graduated in January. Seniors JAMES .1. BOYLE Jim” SHIRLEY LOUISE BOYD Shirl” 306 Academy Street. South Orange C. A. A. (4); Orchestra 3. 1); Child Care Club (4); Personality Club lit; Victory Corps (4). Left school in January. ANN BOYLE Andy 15 Hilton Avenue. Maplewood G. A. A. (2); Gym Leader (2); Sophomore Dramatic Club (2); Hall Monitor 13); Junior Night Costume Committee (3). 211 Lindsley Avenue. South Orange S |u«mI Football (2); Intramural Football (4). BILL BRADLEY 9 Tower Drive, Maplewood Homeroom Secretary-Treasurer (4); Victory Corps. Air Division (3. 4); Traffic Committee (3, I); Table Tennis Club (2); Intramural Basketball (2. 3. 4); Intramural Football (4). Hawkins, my ability to get around. I also be- queath to her anything else we may have in common. Item XXXIX: I. Joan Schuclcr, leave to future classes of girls, my very interesting collection of snapshots acquired through the years. Item XL: I, Diek Slocum, leave to any bud- ding mathematician, the slightly dazed look which follows naturally upon the heels of a bout with the slide rule, with a second course consisting of log hooks and unit circles. Item XLI: We, the senior members of the football team, leave to Irv Hood, the prophecy that next year he will come through the season intact. Item XLI I: I. Suzanne Pyle, leave to Audrey Peters, the knowledge that we arc two good rea- sons why “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Item XLIII: I, Mary Lea Shiman, leave a record of flawless class recitations, delivered in the face of unwarranted interruptions and dis- tractions on the part of my classmates. Item XLIV: I. Skippy Kemp, leave my ability to throw a really lively party to Don Ncider, who. of course, is a veteran at the game himself. Item XLY: I, Chuck Baldwin, leave to young dance-goers, the memory of a new high in floor- show entertainment. Item XLVI: I. Clint Packard, leave to Dave Dorand, my prowess in the chlorinated tank. (My remarkable resemblance to the Swoon-Crooner is something too precious for me to trust in careless hands.) Item XLVI I: I, Carol Kasen, leave to young and hopeful thespians, a shining example of the power of a silvery voice and perfect diction. Having thus distributed our treasures and possessions individually, we, as a class, do bequeath the following: To Mr. Sterling: a history class that can find a flaw in his argument and trove it. To the Lunchroom Committee: girls who like to eat sitting down—not standing in the aisles. To the pupils in general: a sophomore class that will not insist upon flocking like sheep to stairway 1 between every class for the first two months. To the faculty in general: a sophomore class that will learn the first day that 222B is not next door to 401. I’ltflP VinPtPPii

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J. DUFF BROWN 208 West South Orange Avenue, South Orange Homeroom President (2); Swimming Team 3. I); Forum Romanum 2. 3. President 1); Junior Council 3); Fire Committee 2, 3); Senior JEANNE MARGUERITE BURT Night Property Committee Chairman (4); Homeroom Vice-President (4); Scenery Painting Committee 3); Intramural Football (4). 16 ruler for race. South Orange Seniors RICHARD W. BULL “Richie” 585 Prospect Street, .Maplewood Sophomore Dramatic Club (2); Homeroom Secretary 3); .Senior Play Costume Committee Football 2); House and Grounds Committee (3); Intramural Basket Fit; Bible Reader (3. It; French Club (2). ball 2. 3). Accelerated student. Graduated in January. GERTRUDE F. BURNS “Trudy” 110 Oakland Road. Maplewood BOBER I Bl I EER G. A. A. (2, 3, It; Homeroom Social Chairman (3); Homeroom Basketball (2. 3. 4); Junior Night Cast 3); Pan-American Club (4). nob COLUMBIA HIGH SCHOOL '4 196 Irvington Avenue, Maplewood 4 THE MIRROR To the pupils in general: sweet, even-tem- pered classmates who can pass the 3:21 locker-rush test unrufTled and at peace with the world. To the faculty in general: classes who will think of sonic reasons other than (1) Monday- morning, (2) hunger, (3) satiation, (4) heat, (5) cold, and (6) Friday-aftcrnoon. for not being able to “settle down and get some work done.” So. having performed our duty to our teachers, our fellow-students (we feel we can call them that now, becoming very benevolent in our senility), and our school itself, we, with a clear conscience (didn’t you know?), and a stealthy backward look at, not only Columbia, hut all our years as irre- sponsible, carefree “kids” (hated word), are now prepared to step into the world which had long told us that these past three years would lx the happiest we shall ever know. In spite of its pres- ent turmoil, then, it must he a wise world, for though we have “griped steadily in healthy Amer- ican fashion, none of us will deny that we’ve learned, we've grown, hut best of all, we've been happy. Greetings to Class of 1944 Your Class Will provides for many be- quests of value and charges those who follow you with the preserving and protecting of the traditions of Columbia High School. By so giving, you continue the never-ending pat- tern of high school hoys and girls and June graduation. You have pretended that all is the same as it has been in the past, hut the pattern has changed from peace times, though you would he most reluctant to admit it. If I might, then, he allowed to add a codicil to your ill, this would he my wish. I give and bequeath to each one of you a great courage to face the troubled times ahead, the ability to accept fully your share of the world’s problems, and the vision to help make a wise peace.” This bequest is the greatest gift Columbia can give to you. c. , sincerely, Mary S. Henderson. Page I tvenly-one