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

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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.

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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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The prize Cririrrnas free icii Trom The Senior dance was qenerously Qiven To The school lo serve a' riecoiaiion for The holie dayz. Some pay il .zo cd a wee oil OSTG. but you canil have oerylhihq. Fo' eeveia. Gays Ch izimas cw 1,5 were played pelween clagzes on a viclro a. our lne eTTecl was some- W. c., losr il yiu .-fi 1 'igr in a radius oi Three icel. hlowcr, il ihis music lacked The Cyiee Cluli rugs, .fi when They walked lhrouqh The hall. irrqinq iigilenl lhlignlii on The lxasl clay l CifIC is icalion. The Chrislmas pifil by llf. lime was overTlowinq. School clo ed Tar Chrislmas vacaiion on December Pl along with sighs oT Al laslli lmaqine l2 day, To do anylhinq al alil Need we menlion lhal The hiqhliahl OT all high- liqhls was New Yeahs Eve? The second oT January rushed up leavinq us one measly day lo calch our brealh, Beiore we knew il we were baclc wrilinq I944 inslead of T945 while Tiqhlinq hard To slay awalce. Cn January second The French Club spon- sored a movie called Les Perles de la Cou- ronnef' Consislinq oT some Three reels, il lasled over Two hours. Noi less Than Three languages were spolren, bul who could have done wilhoul The Enqlish lilles? The movie was bul one of The Tealures presenled lhroughoul The year by The French Club. Senior Dance For an unlimiled membership spealcers have been oblained, plays have been given, and local lalenl has performed. The War Bond Drive was brouqhlr To a close wilh an assembly on January ninlh. The lolal amounl sold Turned oul To be S677,l93.5O, wilh The Senior Class coming The Chrisfmas Pageanf