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

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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.

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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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JUNIOR YEAR Our life here at Crosby has been like a climb up a ladder. Each rung represents another step upward, toward that which we are striving to achieve. At the beginning of our junior year, we were just at the middle of the climb. When we got back to school in the fall we had a difficult time recog- nizing Old Ivy, for during the vacation, the school had been redecorated. The halls had been painted, new desks put in and old ones varnished, and the cafeteria entirely redone. In connection with the cafeteria, it seems only fair to mention something of the splendid work the Honor Society did this year in helping to keep it clean and orderly. Under the supervision of Miss Croft and Mr. Elwell, the members eagerly joined in to make recess and eating a real pleasure. We are also proud for it was in this year that the candle-ceremony induction for juniors was begun by the Honor Society. In the sport world, another rung of the ladder was left behind. Our swimming team finished tied for first place with Hartford in the State com- petition. In football, a successful season was closed by bowing to Wilby 6 to 0. The basketball team did well ending the season with 11 wins to 7 losses. The track team came through once again with its usual successes, as did the Golf Team. Journalistically speaking, Crosby reached new heights. Far above the former steps, it had climbed, when the Argus was awarded a second place rating, in the C. S. P. A. contest. La Page Ouverte entered the contest for the first time and received a third place award. Besides scooping all local news- papers on an interview with Wendell Willkie when he was in Waterbury. the Argus sponsored Crosby's first fashion show. The shadow of war became even more eminent to us when its first effect reached Crosby. The beginning of the year brought two English girls, war refugees, to Old Ivy. With the three-fourths mark of the ladder reached in June, we came to the end of our junior year. This also brought the end of years of knowledge and devoted service with the retirement of two of our best-loved instructors: Miss Kane and Mr. Grafton. Although at the time the climb seemed long and hard, looking back now it passed by unbelievably fast. And now eagerly, we looked upward to our Senior year, the goal and height for which we had been mounting with effort but with eager desire. Next year we would be the highest class, the ones to graduate! W l Q 1 -4 f'N sa! FIN I 4'-x Q 'W -4 .J ll