Flushing High School - Gargoyle Yearbook (Flushing, NY)

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l95 l' Q ry. -1- fji of 7-fqaqruum f ..-Q XZLZWJ 1:4 C4 ,ff,f,f,uf5, We were adventurers entering Flushing High School in 1954, not know- i. n. , . db. Q' . . . f h 1 X ei 0 i .ing quite what lay ahead. Would there be parties and dates, a mass o ome- Q Q ' , . . Xe I 0 u . work, studying, and worrying? What would the first experiences be like? ' 0 'I - i The first of our years in Flushing came at a time when it was no longer ' .' ' the duty of the senior to guide the dazed freshman around the school. Fresh- ., A ' ' , ' - men helped seniors, seniors helped freshmen, and teachers were late for Aj:-F-Tl - ' classes. What, no desks! we cried as we entered classrooms in the new KE, ' .C wing. What skill it took to balance notebooks on our knees as we tried in vain Re' I i . to scribble down a few geography notes. -5 , ' : At ten thirty some of us looked at our programs and found to our amaze- . . , ment that the next period was lunch. Lunch, we exclaimed, we just ate - ' . breakfastln Ah, but we were having the honor and privilege of being the first members of the Flushing High School Breakfast Club. Eating in the N lunchroom was an entirely new experience for us. We had to pull up a piece , 7 1 ' ' of floor and sit down, since there were no chairs or tables. Not too much was ' O41 offered in the way of food. Lunchroom officials strictly enforced the one ly r M5 raw law. All day long a guard stood over the straw box to make sure that - , ' :. ach container of milk purchased was accompanied by only one straw. -.x tk ,ll 'T n Leaving. the lunchroom we wondered why everyone.was going in the X - - x wrong direction. Suddenly a teacher instructed us, This IS a one-way hall, I c H 4 M 1 ' and you'll have to go the other way. To avoid congestion in the halls, traffic W' U , T- was being regulated by means of one-way halls, and UP and DOWN stair- -A - .A X cases. gb' lil-'l lqf 1 ' earl?- .5 With the absence of lockers, gym classes were administered in a make- shift manner. We dropped our books and belongings on locker foundations and proceeded to change into sneakers. We managed to escape the commo- tion of the locker room and then eagerly entered into the gym, where our only danger was getting hit on the head with a medicine ball. Our freshman class was quite lucky. The year we entered Flushing, the school discontinued the split session and went on a regular nine to three schedule. What a blessing it was to come home at three o'clock and not at five oiclock. After a few months we freshmen became an integral part of the school routine. Soon the lockers were completed, the desks arrived, and the lunchroom had tables and chairs and served hot meals. The earlier confusion disappeared and we found Flushing High School a truly livable place. 5 Jjz ' , 1, Q r jawn -x ' Q- di 1,7 . . ZX ' ' of ' W rl . at K- fem J ini-

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Il' 'da' N4 Mrs Goldman GRADE ADVISERS We the senlor class of 1958, have been for tunate ln havlng such wlse and amlable grade ad v1sers as Mrs Goldman, Mrs Rowe and Mrs LaBarbera They have helped us along for the past four years lxstenmg to complalnts workmg long, tedlous hours at clencal work, planmng programs to su1t each student s needs, and pro Vldlllg strong and sympathetlc shoulders for our troubles Now that we are graduatlng, we reallze how lmportant thelr guldance has been to us and how much our grade advlsers have sacrlficed to help us bulld our futures. Diana Kahn, Mrs La Barbera, and Blanche Wxesen val' 'LQ Mrs Rowe

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As sophomores we walked through the halls with an air of assurance. No longer were we being taunted by seniors who tried to sell us elevator passes. We were becoming more familiar faces, greeted as we walked from class to class, and in our classes, the percentage of people we recognized had increased greatly. Now that we had come through our disorganized freshman days, we started to take an interest in the varied extra-curricular activities. What is our school government like? How does the G.O. function? Which political party should I join? How does one become a member of the Forum staff? I wonder if I'll be able to qualify for membership in Arista? These were just a few of the questions we asked now that we were organized and had the time to explore our school. During our sophomore year the faculty and the students were sorry to hear of the retirement of our very able and respected Principal, Mrs. Edith M. Ward. A surprise tea was held to honor Mrs. Ward's ninth anniversary as Principal of Flushing High School. It turned into a real surprise when Mrs. Ward announced her plans of retirement. Mr. Waring then assumed leader- . ship of the school as acting Principal. In March of our sophomore year we received our new Principal, Mr. Arthur Franzen. I , One day during our fourth term a terrible shock hit us when some of our teachers started passing out little white cards. These cards have to be filled out for the regentsf' the teachers said quite calmly, as we sat there trembling at the mere thought of regents. No longer would we get a vacation because it was regents week. The middle of June came soon enough, and with it some of the hottest days of the year. This, of course, was the ideal time to take a regents. There we sat, in pools of perspiration, trying to find the square root of 32145 .... We continued on our adventures and found ourselves in our junior year. We can remember cheering our Red Devils to victory after victory, and awarding a prize for the craziest socks at the football game on Crazy Socks Day. Dancing away the year, we drifted from the Winter Wonderland Dance in December, to the Evening In Paris Dance in May, and, cruised up the l ,X Q '- cv . Q' - ' - xg . , V, li 9 - ii? l . w .'o ' , I . Q-f .ij 9 ,fi C4 04,6 , ,'. ..1 WML!- . . X5 f , Calleeellaom Y! 9:5 'ilqf j r ' 'J beautiful Hudson to the music of Ray Bloch on the Moonlight Dance ' N55 Cruise. We were entertained at the Spring Concert by the orchestra and chorus. Jeffrey Steinfeld, a senior, brought honor and prestige to our school 0 We ': by winning many scholarships and coming in fourth in the State Scholarship o Exam. Proudly we thought that being a junior was the next best thing to ' 5' f I being a senior. Graduation now came into our line of vision, and we no longer - .fp ,, , felt that this was just a nebulous dream of the future. P5445 x 'I Continued on page 61 PM If , I A , I if +1 . Y . l 1 ., J ' ' . ' ' X -it rife M so 75 -I If 'if f ff ' ff .wer rs . i I K X ' K XP N I 'if ffi' iii Q' I at ' . I K X . I