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

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3111 ing x lor iw- HUIQ l the l ran Gym luiow . they ZH. I? OH, OWU- IOIOUS L . 'Y I LIBRARY SQUAD I M, WU, f X xy a PRGGRAM SQUAD 3 Senior hats .... Little did we dream that the same hat we scoffed at in our freshman year would become ours when we reached our Senior term .... Even this grotesque replica of the Civil War could not shake our awe for the lVIighty Senior .... We couldn't help liking Clinton despite the fact that very often searching parties had to be sent out to find us in that wilderness of halls .... The News lnquiring Reporter asked, at that time, Should America declare war on Nazism? . . . Those were the days we had a foot- ball team, and Clinton came through with five wins out of seven tries under the leadership of Steve Skapenic .... Feeling was high when Principal Clark forbade the wearing of the traditional Senior hat .... Qur cross-country team took first place in the P.S.A.L. meet .... A straw vote conducted by the Clinton News predicated an overwhelming thirdaterm victory for FDR .... Our basketball team won the first eight games, driving the student body delirious 19 -LEX .3r,u5,.,.z ,,,,-.....A..,,...,..,-.av -- .-M -f