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

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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

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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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Moving Picfu re Operafors heard babbling figures and percenfages ro himself while walking down fhe hall. l-low- ever, now if is possible for anyone fo defer- rnine his relafive sfanding in schoolwork. The l-lonor Sociefy sfarfed ifs work early wifh fhe elecfion of Joe Faucher as presi- denf, June Koharf as vice-presidenf, and Edith Lacey as secrefary. Feeling fhaf fhe ninfh grade was fhe ignored secfion of school, fhe l-lonor Sociefyls firsf acf was fo presenf fo fhern by means of an assernbfy fhe various acfivifies of which fhey could become parf. Shorf speeches were given by represenfafives from every club-each fry- ing fo oufplug fhe ofher. The freshmen leff deferrnined fo loin nof le,s fhar five. Tnanksgiving came arong wifh The oo guesfion, Vv'haf dale is if fhis year?' And Who can be sure? Bu? fnaf was rea ,y The leasf of eve ybody s worries, The rnarrs lnaf had appeared fhe week before were enough. And if ir hadrf been for Thanksgv- ing a cerfain Echo coiurnnizf ccuidnlr have rnaoe fne franfic sfalezrwenf during Cnrigfr rnai vacafion we wil' have 'hree firnea as much firne fo do what we oid, fn a rhfro ai much firne as we will havef' Dinicg llovcnwbc ard Deiernipl' fre Dir, ern: cages rook uo who 'rrcfe ling sue? K of Marriage and fho Famfiyf Fleeorez, ay 'f wa, worfh you' 'fe fo ge' your ra' on a book dealing wifh rhe subiecf. Numer- ous polls were held around school in regard fo dafing and 'lchoosing a lvlafefl and Chucks oral reporf rnusf never, never be menfioned in anyfhing louder fhan a whis- per? Now who doesn'f believe in Progres- sive Educafionff Hall Cops off Du+y