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

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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

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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 Budget Calendar, Assembly CommiTTees, and The LosT and Found noT be such a pad idea To see whaT we could do, a rniniaTure elecTion was held. Dewey was Tar ahead in The end. OT courie, some radicals slapped Their X down aTTer The name oT Norman Thomas, and some even had The conhdence To wriTe Me, louT re- gardless OT The senTimenTs oT our esTeemed insTiTuTe, The naTion wenT DemocraTic and mosT people around here vowed ThaT The nexT Tour years would Tell a diTTerenT sTory. BuT The school was deTiniTely Turning bue reaucraTic. The STudenT Council, Teeling ThaT The burden OT governmenT had To be dis- TripuTed, had appoinTed several commiTTees -The BudgeT CommiTTee, The Assembly CommiTTee, The Calendar CommiTTee, and The LosT and Found. People who needed money Te.g. The Echol Tried To geT in good wiTn Bill lv1iTchell. People who had any daTes To reserve saw RuTh T-lauser, and The Thou' sands oT people who losT everyThing They own, hopeTully Tollowed Sally Boudreau abouT. AT The end oT The TirsT guarTer The l-lonor SocieTy inTroduced To The school a poinT sysTern oT raTing. The obiecT oT The plan was To sTimulaTe scholasTic inTeresT and show each person exacTly where he sTood in relaTion To his class. Only a Tew homerooms were chosen To be guinea pigs Tor The TirsT Trial. BuT by The end oT The second r1uarTer, The whole school was included in The experimenT. Mem- bers oT The T-lonor SocieTy supervised The underTal4ing, and more Than one oT Them was The Honor SocieTy