Dover High School - Tiger Yearbook (Dover, NJ)

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 Qi ancincj It hardly seems possible that four years have passed. September, 1956, our debut at D.H.S., seems only yesterday. As verdant freshmen, we found ourselves busy becoming acclimated to our new surrounding. We worked hard during that period to give our grades a proper status but our lives were immeasurably brightened by a “get-acquainted party and a trip to Bertrand’s Island where we frolicked for an evening long in our memory. To our amazement, we were sophomores over night, it seemed. We were a bit more social that year and found ourselves hosting two dances, one a Saint Patrick’s affair, resplendent in the traditional Kelly green and the other a fund-raising “waltz” at which we truly raised lots o’ funds to swell our class treasury, if we may say so ourselves. Junior year arrived and ’twas a big one indeed for 11s! We sparkled at our Junior Promenade, whose theme was “Promenade Parisienne.” Rita De Oregon's and Richard Riley were our able co-chairmen while Barbara Mitchell and Jerry Murray transformed the gymnasium into a gala, beautiful Paris night. Rol erta Poletti was a luscious Prom queen and Paul Huhn, the king, as resplendent as a Viking ' of old. Senior year, the year of years, dawned in September. We were happy in a frightened sort of way; it hardly seemed possible we were that old, on the brink of adulthood. Life has been great this year. We have worked hard and concentrated on getting ourselves placed in colleges and jobs. We played too and shall always remember our Senior Banquet at the Westmount Country Club as a night of nights. Ah yes, our life at Dover High has been a good one and we are finishing it with regret yet with hope that our future days will be of the same golden hue. We have been duly aware of the fortune of our life and equally cognizant of the fact that none of this, or very little of it, could have been accomplished without the man at the helm of our Faculty Committee, Chairman Arnold Tversky. At this point, words can be overused so we shall just say, “Without him, we would not be the citizens we are today.”