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

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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

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anyway, so hardly anyone missed Spring flowers in Gee Cee on Easter Sunday. A few of the seniors who went to Florida neglected to return for the senior party on March 3lst, and thereby missed a beauty parade led by such senior notables as Bob Custer, Teddy Lord, Sue Black, and Dick Casey, to name but a few. April arrived as expected on the first day of that month, which fortunately fell on a Sunday, so none of the teachers got Bromo Seltzer in their inkwells. This month also saw the Spring sports get under way in earnest because it was stili a little cold, so a good deal of the early training was done indoors. With the coming of April, the seniors are now beginning to realize that they have only two more months to serve in the old jail, and so everyone, with a twinge of nostalgia, is looking back over the happy years spent at G. C. H. S. and all the good times had here. The only con- solation the seniors have in leaving is the hope that they'll be remembered by classes in years to come as a group who had a course to follow and did so, brightening a few lives and having a good time on the way. Sf' af