Garden City High School - Mast Yearbook (Garden City, NY)

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The Wedding served Tree reTreshmenTs in Tne caTeTeria. Some had Trouble TiTTing inTo deslcs, and some goT a liTTie oTT schedule. buT Tor The mo5T parT They came To The Conclueion ThaT iT miqhT be n'ce To be young again-fQh. yeah? LaTer in CcTober The PTA. provided everybody wiTh a Tree halT day, There was, oT course, one hiTQh To This oTherwise blies- Tul ThouqhT-everybody was To geT a iob and donaTe proTiTs To The scholarship Tund. So we seT ouT happily To mow The lawn clean silver, wash windows. poli,h TurniTure and painT. The nexT day over six hundred dollars was Turned over To The P.T.A. alond wiTh one complainT sTaTing ThaT Two boyi had iprayed each oTher wiTh a ho-'e. The Ivlasduers Club produced iTs lirT,T QT' Pep Rally TorT on The Tirsr oT November wiTn Ken hair' leigh and Ann Leonard in The leading roles. WhaT wiTh Ken under The beo looking Tor a collar buTTon, Billy Damon ruhninq around loolcinq Tor The back sTairs. and everybody else iusT looking conlused, The Wedding showed ThaT This year was To be edual Te lasT when iT came To The Masquere Club. Qur one and only pep rally wae held or Friday niqhT, November 3. Several hundred enThusiasTie sTudenTs gaThered around a huge bonTire ouT on The aThleTic Tield a liTTle aTTer eiqhT. There were cheers ahd speeches, which were heard by Tew, buT neverTheiesQ added To The Turor, The ciimax came when The lvlar, hasseT dummy was Thrown on The Tire, and The rally Tinaly brolce up wiTh a soonTane.Tuf snake dance around The Tire. A Vicfory Merch

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The TirsT issue oT The Echo appeared on Thursday, SepTember 29. ATTer greaT hesi- TaTion and discussion on The parT oT The sTaTT, iT was Tinaily decided To use a cheaper grade OT paper and publish an issue every oTher week. ln This way The news was much Tresher and The work much harder, Joe Kal- bacher headed The sTaTT as ediTor unTil Jane uary, when Mary Jane Shaw and Jack Kun- lcel Tools over. OTher Than The change in paper, The Echo remained largely The same. A new column appeared signed by Willie and Chuclc, along wiTh The column enTiTled Choice BiTs, which everyone seemed To read TirsT. Cn one ouT oT every Two Wednes- days The Pub Room was The cenTer oT a whirlpool oT acTiviTy-The Echo was being puT To bed. Far inTo The nighT a Tew hardy individuals slaved, and when aT lasT The paper was Tinished They had To sTumble home une der The sTars. And The Turor when The Tinf The ECHO ished producT appearedl VVhaT Teacher could compeTe wiTh a copy oT The Echo? Near The end oT SepTember everyThing was preTTy nearly down To The same rouTine. MOQT oT us were geTTing used To crawling ouT oT bed aT unheardfoT hours, having planned our morning dash To school To The lasT second. Miss Jennings was once again holding her aTTernoon ToTewafToTe2 wiTh halT The school in Room lo Trying vainly To soalc up vome l.aTin, Mr. Taylor was bacl aT ThreaTf oning suicide by iumping ouT The window, and lvlr. Thompson was sTill runnirg down The usual Type oT oTTenders, DeTenTion drew Thou- sands. On CcTober I7 The shoe was on The oTher TooT Tor The TirsT Timefour parenTs wenT To school. For one whole evening They wenT from class To class, lfsTened aTTenTivelyl7l To Teachers, drove The halicops baTTy, and were ParenT's NighT

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Erwiu ::i h-:Qi noT abafed wi, The Time Tire grime ro'lcd around cr Salurday, and Tie ucyp rizid IT againl Proving Thar They were ouT rc male ail They couiu, The Juniors gave Tne lirsT dancc ol Tne :ea on on The sixTh ol lxlovembe. Jir about everybody came. Doughnurz were given away unTil iT was icufd ThaT They were supposed To be sold. and The STa'dusT- ers played Tor The TirsT Time in G. C. since Their new TormaTion. Some wild and unprec- edenTed figure wiTh regard To proTiTs was rumored abouT Town The rexT day, The SixTh War Loan opened on Novem- ber 2I wiTh an assembly packed wiTh nol- able people. A chaplain from Texas via MiTchel Field showed us whar The wide open spaces will do To The vocal chords, a Tlyer fresh Trom The European TheaTer relaTed sev- eral experiences and impressed upon us The need of sTrong supporT, while lasT bul noT leasT, Lew Lehr arrived. Looking exacTly like his picTures, he sTepped up To The mike, sneezed several Times, dripped like a TauceT, made laces like a baboon and was oil again. The War Board, headed by Ann Kennedy and under The supervision of Miss Amis, had charge oi disTribuTing The blanks, sTickers, cerTiTicaTes. and all oTher maTerial needed To The Sixfh War Loan Rally deluge The village Tor bonds. Scarcely a door- bell was leTT unTouched, and we are sTill won- dering how Those 7Th and 8Th graders goT around so TasT. ElecTion Day in G. C. High was worTh noTing. Jusl To make us Teel ThaT, even if we were noT exacTly of voTing age, iT mighT The War Board