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

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handbook, The Trojan Guide, which after a five- year layoft, was finally brought up to date. The second event was the success of our quartet, Tom Duft, Frank Williams, Nick Johnson, and Kenny Lee, who won a contest at Malverne and then appeared on Paul Whiteman's television show in Philadelphia. December started out on a hopeless note for those seniors interested in going to college. College Boards were held in Forest Hills, and the Garden City contingent, resplendent in their white bucks, trooped in late, as usual. On the l6th, most of the school turned out to celebrate the beginning of Christmas vacation at the Student Council Dance. Everyone enioyed the visit from Ollie Claus, who crowned Susie Olmsted Snow Queen, and had a wild time tearing down the beautiful tinsel decorations. Vacation passed all too quickly for the col- lege-conscious seniors. They could hardly wait for New Year's Eve, but January 2 came on much too fast for all except Cowboy Crawford, who was stranded by the army for two weeks while on vacation in Hawaii. Poor boy! Garden City's traditionally long ltwo daysl skating season opened on December 28th, a red letter day. All the ice enthusiasts brought out their hockey sticks and heavy socks in anticipa- tion ofthe days ahead. This was the first time a hockey game was played at Hubbells' Pond at night without lights. However, as has been said,

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On October 24, Garden City's parents made their annual visit back to school and found the student grind iust as confusing as ever. After a musical sendoff by the chorus in the auditorium, the parents stumbled through their classes to meet all the whip-wielders, new and old, in Gee Cee's school system. With the coming of November, the tirst Masquers' production rolled in. The play was Junior Miss and Sistie Uudy Gravesl Sime, Sharon lthat voicell Eister, and Janet lbored to deathl Howe surely did it up fine. And close on the heels of the play came the girls' yearly chance to get their men. The Sadie Hawkins Dance was held in both gyms on November 6th, waltzing in the boys' gym, square dancing in the girls'. No sooner had the school recovered from the dance, than a new crisis presented itself. Our earnest students discovered that first marking period was over and nothing could be done about it. After everyone had crawled out from under his report cards, it was discovered that there would be a long Thanksgiving weekend in which to recuperate. Most of the kids needed it, too, after that Thanksgiving Eve Senior Sea- sonal Dance! November left us, finally, after two more im- portant events had taken place. The first was the publication of the Garden City High School

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the skating season lasted only two days, and then our springlike weather returned. KNeedless to say, all springlike aspects disappeared three weeks later with the advent of midyear exams.l In the second week of January we learned that we might have a new school and we were to have a new law-and-order squad to replace the dead but well-remembered hall squad. The new school was a result of a village election to pick a new school site. Unfortunately the pro- posed building will not be ready for occupancy by present Cherry Valley students. Our new hall squad, dubbed the Student Citizenship Board, was made up of a select group of students who roamed the halls demand- ing passes from everyone and generally making their presence felt. Soon after the inception of this group numerous short-lived attempts were made to strike back at this limiter of student rights. Ash cans began disappearing like mad and one homeroom took to piling its desks up in thc center of the room. With the coming of February, a rumor leaked out to the effect that there were evil doings going on in Room 31 every first period. Some- one asserted that the senior creative writers were writing! And not only that, they were writ- ing, with the help of Mrs. Spiers, a play which was to. be used as the P. T. A. show for l95l. When a few more bits of information leaked out, it was learned that the play was to be called The Party Line and would be about a Russian student in America. The play came off as scheduled on the week- end of March l6th and was a tremendous hit, many scenes and songs from it were later pre- sented in an exchange assembly at Port Wash- ington. Cynthia Josefa Berk shared the lead with Frank Williams in the production, which was a great tribute not only to the writing skill but also the imaginations of Mr. Warriner's students. Credit should also be given to seniors Sue Black and Tom Duft who wrote most ot the original music in the show, to Mrs. Spiers, who directed the production, and to Mr. Rehman, who directed the orchestra and chorus and Mr. Doar, who arranged all the music. Along in the middle of March the seniors were again forced to do some work due to the advent of the source theme. What's Your Topic? became the most frequently asked ques- tion in all senior social studies classes, and it was thought that the teachers overworked them- selves in thinking up topics like The Effect Upon American lmport-Export Economy of the Sale of Beaver Hats in Boston in the Year l873. A big feature of the first half of March was the eagerly awaited Student-Faculty game which saw the Barons, lntramural Champs, defeat the faculty in a hard fought contest by a score of 34-26. March flew by rather quickly and that eagerly awaited Easter vacation arrived on schedule on the 22nd, Spring had been ushered in appropri- ately on the 2lst with a snowstorm, but most of the student body headed south during vacation