Dover High School - Tiger Yearbook (Dover, NJ)

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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF '42 We arc the portals of old Dover High speaking. Many are the classes we have seen pass through our corridors and many the story we have to unfold. Wc remember, even if you have forgotten, the day the members of the Class of ’42 first entered our domains. How different you were then! How you huddled in frightened groups trying to find the auditorium. We saw you flounder in bewilderment, trying to find your assigned scat-rooms, the countless times you tried to ascend the wrong stairs in spite of the foreboding, sinister jeers of those godly upperclassmen. Even your freshman officers are fresh in our minds. You found your leader even then in Bud Furstman. That smiling German refugee, Willy Burns, was your vice-president, while Don Scully and Grace Thorndycraft kept your records. Under Miss Haviar’s able leadership you organized your freshman party. (Can you remember Zelnick’s oak-leave skirt?) How well wc remember the times you couldn’t find your locker, or forgot your combination, your first meeting with the word detention.” Your first exams hit you hard, but as all your predecessors, you came through victorious and reached that smooth sailing period called the sophomore year. Now it was your turn to jeer at the freshmen, to whistle in the halls, enter classes late; and why not? You were freshmen no longer! Then when the class meeting came to pass, you presented a picture different from the innocent serious freshman group the year before. Miss Dowd, your adviser, used every effort to calm you; nevertheless, I could feel myself shaking from the vibrations of the noise you created. Out of this happy-go-lucky meeting came the discovery of another leader. Jack Painter was chosen to head your class. He was assisted by Leo Hayes as vice-president, Faith Honsbcrger as secretary and Jack Evcrman as treasurer. We were present at your sophomore hop. Mingled with the music was talk of the good time you had at the outing at Lake Hopatcong. We saw your brows wrinkle when told of the financial burdens that you would have to shoulder. You were upper classmen now and you had to face the fact that there were things that had to be taken seriously. Bud Furstman was made president and Dot Metz vice-president at the class meeting that year. Shirley Jensen was secretary with Bud Downs as treasurer. Mrs. Sheehan’s guidance was one of the main factors of the success of the annual magazine drive. We saw the plans for the big social event Fourteen

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FACULTY Louis Cron holm .... Social Sciences Uf'sala, A.B. Rutgers, M.P.d. William Walker .... History Trenton State Teachers Collette, B.S. J. Dale Weaver .... History Pennsylvania State Teachers Collette, B.S. Cyrus B. Sherk .... History Lebanon I’allex. A.B. X. V. U„ M.A. Laurence Van Horn . . Bookkeeping Ryder, B.C.S. LeRoy Hinkle ............. Ceography Indiana. A.B. Columbia, M.A. Lois Williams ........... Arithmetic X.Y.U.. B.S. Columbia. M.A. Ercderica Hyde .......... Commercial Ryder Ruth Van Horn ............... Typing Ryder, B.S. Helen llolsiiigcr ...... Stenography X. y. U.. B.S. Leo W. Sanders.. Physical Education University of Illinois Roltert Van Orden Physical Education Panzer Dorothy Briant... Physical Education Trenton State Teachers C liege, B.S. (•ertrude Horowitz Physical Education Trenton State Teachers Collette, B.S. Helen Siehit ............. Secretary- Marie Brady ............... Secretary Madeline Kricson .......... Secretary Elaine Pierson ............ Secretary Whitman Junior College Thirteen

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of the year formulate. The fun, plans, and expenses for the prom were shared by the junior and senior classes. It was an event that left pleasant memories with more than one member of the Class of ’42. Another year having slipped by, on the warm September morning of 1941 we saw your sun-browned faces return to us for the fourth and last time from a summer vacation. How changed you are from this same day four years ago when, as freshmen, you first entered our doors. You say it doesn’t seem so long ago. To us it is only last evening that you were lost in the labyrinth of our now so familiar halls. Again you wisely chose Bud Furstman as your head and a group of able assistants in Bud Downs, Evelyn Schwind and Irv Schiffman. We saw you whiz past the midyear exams from force of habit. That brought you to your last and most active term of high school. When you were measured for your caps and gowns you finally realized that your high school days were really coming to a close. The several sections of the yearbook were assembled at last—the day of victory. Two weeks that will long be remembered by many seniors were those spent during the casting of Hey, Stranger,” the annual spring musical. Ralph DeSantis played the leading role while other seniors playing major roles were Daniel Gebel, Hilah Blair, and Mary Preston Searing. The big news of the term was announced when the April edition of the Student Prints named the Birch Honor winner. Plans were started for Commencement exercises and the Class Night presentation. All senior activities were under the helpful guidance of the Senior Class adviser, Miss Boyd, whose untiring effort was the principal factor in the success of all your attempts. All too swiftly that last cherished year too, sped by, toward the prom and graduation—undoubtedly four of the happiest years of your life.