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

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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

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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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Biology Club December broughT The TirsT oT The Band ConcerTs. WiTh The audiTorium p'Tched inTo compleTe blackness The Twirlers showed us whaT could be done wiTh luminous balons, and Mr. Perkins appeared only as a pair ol: gloves. The Boys' AThleTic BanqueT was held early in December. The TooTball, soccer, and cross- counTry awards Tor I944 were presenTed and The coaches and AI received presenTs. BUT The highlighT and climax ol: The evening was The presenTaTion oT The gold TooTballs To mem- bers oT our undeTeaTed Team. Soon aTTer, The TooTballs were worn by Those sTudenTs who never have been seen on a TooTball Tield. On December I5Th we seniors Tinally aT- TempTed a dance. Wilh Mary Jane again aT The head OT The commiTTee Things goT sTarT- ed. lmmedialrely, The quesTion arose wheThor iT was To be Tormal or inTormal. The girls said Tormal-'ibuT iT's a TradiTionl The boys saicl INFORMAL! EiTher ThaT or They wouldn'T go. The argurnenT raged Tor days ---Win classes and ouT. To have a dance wilh no boys seemed raTher silly, so The decision was Tinally inTormal. BuT The worsT problem was a Tree. To Tind a Tree which would noT look like a losT sTump in The gym was like looking Tor some edible meaT. Barbara Jones and Kay SrniTh worked Turiously on an immense SanTa Claus used as a back drop, and The resulT was noThing shorT oT an arTisTic masTerpiece-especially wiTh The snow eTTecT eT coTTon. Dick Rieger and Archie lvlallon produced a Tree ouT oT no- where aT The lasT minuTe, and Things began To look a biT brighTer. Friday aTTernoon was spenT in decoraTing The gym-The Task which always resulTs in Trayed nerves, wornouT bod- ies. and general pandemoniunn. Somewhere Scphomores