Ewing High School - Clepsydra Yearbook (Ewing, NJ)

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WASHINGTGN TRIP The Senior Class trip was taken by train, bus, and boat, proving to be an adventure filled with gleaming, alabaster state buildings, historical sites, and newly learned facts about the American past. Can those of us who participated in the event ever for- get March 27, when, with high spirits bolstered by expec- tation, we boarded the train from West Trenton, arriving in Baltimore, Maryland, where chartered buses took us to Fort McHenry, then to Annapolis and Mount Vernon? Can we forget our steamer of the Old Bay line, with the beauti- ful wrought iron balconies, that for two nights was home while we toured Virginia? What thoughts will come to our mind as we recall with, perhaps a melancholy pleasure, the old church at James- town, the colonial buildings of Williamsburg, and the gov- ernment buildings in Washington? Surely many Class of '56 members will smile, remembering not only the high- lights of the trip, but also little incidents that made some laugh, and which many will forget in the dusky, eventful future. There was the rocking boat and the First Aid Com- mittee armed with sea-sick pills. There were the tired feet and the sleepy looks, and the numerous useless souvenirs. The chaperones, Mr. John McHugh, Mrs. Gladys Jensen, Mr. Arthur Piffath, and Mr. and Mrs. Ridge Leedom, will never be forgotten. This trip made our class iust a little bit closer and a little more reluctant to greet the future which would part the ways of many such happy memories and friends. A ur'

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JUNIOR PLAY The Class of '56 pulled into Grover's Corners, New Hamp- shire, on April 29, 1955, for a two-night stand to present our junior play, Our Town, by Thornton Wilder. The chief engineer on our trip was Mr. John Lacy. Our trip took us on a guided tour through the lives of two young people. The tour divided their lives into three phases: an average day, love and marriage, and death. This type of play was a first for Ewing, for in it no scenery was used. The setting ofthe scene was left to the imagination of the audience and cct- ing ability ofthe players. Although much effort was put into the production ofthe play by the cast and crew, the humorous aspects seem to be those that are remembered. Everyone who saw the play will not forget Ralph Stout's entrance in the wedding scene wearing a Buster Brown hat and knickers. When the production of Our Town was over, and our senior year had begun, we all found ourselves anxiously awaiting the production of our senior play.