Galway Central High School - Piper Yearbook (Galway, NY)

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SENIORS

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Dedication The Piper has traditionally been dedicated to a member of the teaching staff. This year, however, we felt the most outstanding contribution to our school was made, not by a teacher, but by a student. It is for this reason that we have chosen to break a long-standing tradition and dedicate the ’64 Piper to a member of the Senior class. Miss Antje Zahn. Antje came to us as an exchange student from Germany under the newly organized Galway chapter of the American Field Service Program. As a member of this program and as a representative of her country, it was Antje's responsibility to help promote friendship and understanding between our countries. This is, understandably, a difficult job, requiring a distinctive kind of person, one possessing intelligence, wisdom, sincerity, and maturity. Antje is such a person and we are grateful to her for giving us the opportunity to learn about her country, Germany, and its people. In dedicating the '64 Piper to Antje, it is our hope that its pages will hold many pleasant reminders of the year she has spent with us and will be a token of the friendship, respect and admiration which all of us have for her.

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We were a very large and excited group of Freshmen that began our high school career four years ago. Like all Freshmen before us and all that will follow us. we put a great amount of effort into making our major class activity, our first dance, a success. We were intensely proud of the outcome of Accent On April. Our sophomore year enveloped us in activity. Our class officers, John Hevelin, Linda Musolff, Donna Benson, Kris LaBahn, and Mary Lansburg, led us in planning a one-act play contest, the first dramatic venture in Galway in four years. Foolishly, yet naturally, we did not pass the year without disagreement. We clearly remember being widely split over what we would wear on Moving-Up Day, but we also remember our unreserved pride as a class when our first class members were tapped for NHS and when we won the athletic banner that afternoon. Ambition marked our junior year. Between dances, ordering rings, and selling refreshments at games, work on our Junior Prom was begun. With five hundred rolls of purple crepe paper, a ton of cardboard, three thousand Kleenex tissues, and a tremendous class effort, we succeeded in creating Deep Purple. ” That year we lost our dedicated class advisor, Miss Blessing. Like all class advisors, she worked too hard and was too little appreciated. As seniors, we were busy, our attention having turned to scholarship tests, college interviews, and graduation announcements. Yet, we have taken time to reflect on what has happened to us over the past four years, and in doing so, we have taken a long look at ourselves. We are a class of extremes - quick to criticize what we do not like, quick to support what we favor; we are impatient and intolerant of injustice or inaccuracy; we are a class of intense perfectionists. For the past three years unhappiness to the class of 1964 has been pork and sauerkraut on Mondays and happiness has been seeing a movie in its entirety without the film projector breaking down once. Now, as we approach June and graduation night we have begun to see things in a different light and we hope to take our place in the world, each in his chosen career, as mature citizens.