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

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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

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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 Band around eeven, lhings were finished and lhe lasl hardy souls ilaggered home lo dregs if ary lime remained. Arriving back al lhe scehe in whar zeemcd ,ile less +han lhirly rnfrure . lney were norriiied lo find a glaring. unshieldod searcnlighl making havoc wilh all our plan. Where wal all rhal darlrne. lhal wa, going lo come in io handy? We never rlicl Tind oul. Senior picluref were lnlen on December I8, l9lh, and 2Olh, wilh The rozuli lhal The Masl edilorg are Qlill frying lo recover. They could nol have chozen more unlirhely days, Tor hall lhe clasi memberg were worlfihg, ahd lne olher half were if parls LIFLUCAWD, Milne The resull was havoc. Bur nolhing can com- pare wilh The day The proofs were relurned. A Cnrislmas pageanl was given on De- cember 2O+h by The Masguers Club. The Giee Club supplied The background music while carrying burning candles wilh everyf one laying privale bels on who would go up in llamez Tirnl. John Burrell slayed on his Tim Carroll and Mr. Sanford af The B.A.A. Award Nigl'l+ r f .. if' fi fll' lTQL. , fi fill' 'IVU 7d,V'l ceer ace 'o waf srce are a 'WEVTFDGT of the Narrrer larny made he' Sage deout.