Crosby High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Waterbury, CT)

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FRESHMAN YEAR Anticipation and excitement marked us as unsuspecting freshman. We floundered about the wide halls and finally discovered what we later learned was the assembly hall. The following day, we gropingly began our career in Crosby by peering at the room, numbers. Upper classmen pounced on us with shining offers to sell us tickets for the elevator. Some of the lazier and more gullible members of our class were bulldozed into this proposition. For the first three months, teachers and upper classmen gazed con- descendingly and pityingly on our stilted efforts to act as if we belonged. After that, we were merely ignored. We took advantage of the only club open to Freshmen, and concentrated our efforts in the Freshman Dramatic Club, Props and Paints. Many of our potential musicians furthered their careers by joining the band and the orchestra, and they aided considerably in maintaining the excel- lent standards of these organizations. Some of our more literary members interested themselves in the Argus and have since risen to prominence on this paper. The Crosby splashers, with outstanding success captured 11 victories and suffered only one defeat in the State Championship matches. The Rifle Team proved its marksmanship in an outstanding game with Leavenworth, a close game with Wilby, and the subsequent City Champion- ship. The Golf Club succeeded in downing both Leavenworth and Wilby. The Basketball Team, unfortunately, experienced a season of alternate successes and defeats, and for the first time in many years Wilby won a 25 point lead over Crosby in the traditional Turkey Day game. A year chock-full of new interests! We felt awe-stricken at first, but now we're troopers preparing to take a second big step. Freshmen beware! ! We're sophomores now. ' 'W Q A 1 -4 fN NJ fN l 'Q Cz 'N -4 .1 V

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GEORGE BROWN Serretarv DONALD VIALL Treufzzrer

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SOPHOMORE YEAR Although we now seem to have reached a certain degree of maturity, as sophomores we faced the opening of an entirely new life for us in Crosby. No longer restricted by the term freshman, we enter wholeheartedly into all the phases of Crosby activities. Early in the year, athletics drew our attention with a thrilling 13-13 tie in the annual Thanksgiving football game with Wilby. Then basketball and swimming took the spotlight. An Ivy swimming team broke the world's record in the 300-yard medley relay and made an excellent record at the Interscholastic Swimming Meet at Yale. Although the basketball enjoyed only a mediocre season, the team did succeed in splitting its pair of games with Wilby. In the spring, fighting basketball and track teams took the field and made creditable records. Crosby organizations were also very active that year. The Radio Club was formed to replace the Crosby News Program. The Argus received a third rating in the Columbia Scholastic Convention and La Page Ouverte enjoyed a successful year. The Art Club purchased a fine oil painting and presented it to the school. Both the Band and the Orchestra concerts were highly lauded and the senior play of the Senior Dramatic Club was a great success. Throughout the entire year of activities, members of our class were to be seen participating in all the organizations, and when we found that we had reached the halfway mark of our high school career, we realized that so far it had indeed been a very full orie.