DeWitt Clinton High School - Clintonian Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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section ol our scllool lile will remain in our memories as one of screaming lieadlines, tense radio reports, and ol a lear and lwope witliin ourselves as to the way our UVVN government would turn. Almost everytliing that happened witliin time Senior year was controlled actively liy our own class. Seniors were featured in tlle UID. elections: Seniors ran tlie Arista: Seniors edited tlie lvlagpie, tlie Clinton News. and. ol course. tlle Clintonian: Seniors llormed our atlilt tic teams and tlle Service League: Seniors managed tlie ol- lice squads. Tliis was tlie year in wliicli we finally attained tile liey Q' F s ' tlie organizations lor WlliCll we llad worlied some tliree years previously. This year we reaped our individual rewar s. Aside lrom all time extra-curricular worlc, we sliall always re- memlier. and lie inlluence A A luundreds ol little cards. lmlanles, and numerals witli wliicli . .rave come into contact. Tlle year lins BAND lmeen a procession ol cliaracter cards, report cards, permanent record cards, Senior averages, lcnoclq ards. college bulletins and require- ments. Arista lxlanlcs. Class Nne ticlcets, Regents cards, scllolarsliip applications. working papers, luncliroom scrip, service record. and S Holly: l don,t tliinlc anybody can, at least. not tl1e Clinton enior. l liope all ol' you lioys liave as clear a memory of your sclioo as time goes on as you liave toniglit. l don't tlwinli you,ll find anylrody to disagree tliat you liave llad a wonderful experience. Oliziy, lvlilton, talie it away. Comm: live talcen it, Holly. And since we liaven't mucli time lelt. just say Good Niglit to you and tell you to listen in next weeli, same time. same station. to radio,s most amazing slwow. 20

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n , I fa BL P i P i v E P nevertheless, a triple session seemed like a major catastrophe to us coming haclc in September. The hoys aloove the fifth term, among whom we were inconspicuously included, went to school from 8:00 to 12:45, a hit different from the 8:50-to-2:40 arrangement which we had had helore. The Honor School was temporarily in session from 9 to 2:30, hut in January all hours were made the same. We never really sacrificed so much for school, as when we had to crawl out of hed on those hitter winter mornings an hour earlier than 1-ver hetore. The change in the G.O. card came as no surprise though, he- the size of the G.O. deficit. The new G.O. card was priced at forty cents, and it wasn't really a card. hut a twelve page looolclet. Every- hody wore a hig red hutton fron ' nt on also, signifying that he too was holding his finger in the dnt Holly: Nice going, there, Mr. Shag. l guess welll have time for Hl'JOI1t OHS ITIOFC, .IOl'lflIly. Have yOU OHS ready? Parlc: I certainly have, Holly. l should lilce to present the honorable l. O. Yugh, one of the classss outstanding politicians. Holly: Delighted, Mr. Yugh. You have already had plenty of ex- perience in puhlic spealcing, I lcnow, so you will need no prompting. Yugh: My trans! l disagree heartily and wholly with you. How can you stand there and place any other year hetore your Senior year? It is disgraceful, and what is more, it is treason against the Senior Council. Vve shall certainly rememher our Senior year not only with re- gard to our own activities, hut to those of the rest out the world as well. For didn't we hegin school in Septemher ot l939, less than a fortnight after WAR had heen declared in Europe? And didnyt We witness, while the year marched oft and a new one came in, how Germany attaclced Norway and the low countries? lndeed. this .. get se ORCHESTRA

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LUB MATI EE CJ YCJU ttiintc t stioutctve usect a ACI instead ot a 'Cf'-y H-anct. turttiermore. .tapan tlas ctetitmeratety anct-U lKGllElfCt your queen. guard your queentu Vvctre stitt wittiin ttle portats ot Ol c ear otct Atma txtater. U.VV.C.. anct not in ttie otmservation warct ot' , fttevue, as some ot you may tlave tvanciect. Vve tlave simpty enumerated some ot tti diatogues tgrequentty tiearrt cturing atter-sctloot sessions ot' a tew ot tintonts many extra- curricutar ctutxs anct activities. tn wtmtever tietct ot encteavor ttle interests ot ttie ctiviftuat onitc may tie. ttlerc is a ctutm or squact in ttiis sctioot compo 1 stuctents wittu simitar interests, anct ttirougti tree intercourse wittl t se ottier stuctents, tie soon tmecomes proficient in tiis ctiosen activity. tn ttiis manner, ttie sctloot ctlanges tvrom an ato and inctitterent ptace ot' tearning in wtiicti ttie stuctent is continent eactx ay. to a tiving, tareattiing part ot ttle stuctent and a ptace in wtlictl tie may xpress tltIHSCtf and reap ttie tiarvest ot' a ttutter anct more enjoyatate tite. To ttme tuttittmenl ot ttlis goat. ttie ctutqs anct squacts ot is sctloo ctecticatect. VVe sincerety tmope ttlat ttme graduate. tootcing C' on tiis tour years ot' tiigti-sctioot tite. Witt teet ttiat tie receivect a ti e tmit more trom ttie sctioot ttian ttie prescritmect curricutum. Vvittrcannons txooming. tmomtms txurstingf, anct stletts wt1i ting lover ttieref Ctinton sociat science ctutxs pursuect a more peacetut iourse in settting ctittterences of varying tcincts. Sucti ctutms as ttle Currer History Ctutm, ttme History Honor Society. ttle Newman Ctutm. ttle Jewistm Discus- sions Ctutm. ttie American Stuctents Union. ttie Town Hatt C tb. ttle MEDICAL y SQUAD 30