Greenwich High School - Compass Yearbook (Greenwich, CT)

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CLASS HISTORY Through the four years that we have occupred G H S we have left some unforgettable marks on rts marble walls From that very first day rn the fall of 48 when the faculty peered nervously out of the wrndows to watch us trudge bravely across the Havemeyer Green rt was obvrous that we were a class apart A class touched by the hand of destrny A class of drstmctron' To start us off on our march toward fame there was that mght of nrghts that gem of gems Freshman Nrght' Ah what memorres that brrngs I can strll hear those beautrful rendrtrons of Cuanta La Gusta and Buttons and Bows sung by the all star Freshman Chorus Then came a successron of yet undrscovered talent led by Valerre Taylor who drd a fine job playmg that grand old favorrte Rustles of Sprmg Followrng th1s was a solo by jean Hansen fa graduate I mrght add of dear dead but not forgotten Mason Streetj Then came another prano solo by John Phelps thrs trme rn the form of boogre A solo by Mrss Barbara Strpen was next and last but certarnly not least that Dr IQ of 52 james Wagner offered a few classlcal selectrons Of course our master of ceremonres was rrght up to par wrth the hrgh standards of our class bemg none other than that great and unforgettable wrt Ca fanfare pleasej ohn Srmon And we cant close our memorres on thrs event wrthout mentronmg the excellent smorgasbord dmner that was served to us not the noble ladres of the cafeterra who prepared rt Of course we had officers It seems every class has them In thrs case they were left to rrght Bryce QBugsD Brown Presrdent Pat Pratley Veep Clm mformed that these two worked extremely well together that frosh yearb Wally CThe Throatj Fletcher Secretary and Sally Mortrmer Treasurer Also rn our openrng year rn G H S we put on a play That rs to say certarn select members put on a play It was of course to quote an exghth grader much smaller than myself tremendous And no wonder When we turn the yellowed leaves we read that the all star cast rncluded such greats as Sukr Thremann Bryce Brown Donna Hmckley Barbara Moore and Hardy Finch Oh and I can t forget Ctho Ive trredb that prcmc we had And as rs understandable wrth such events half the class was absent the followrng day All of a sudden we were Sophomores CThats the best way for that to happen J Naturally rt drdn t take a class of our stature bearrng and modesty long to gracefully accept the 1dc1 th rt we were begrnnrng to be Important People We celebrated our comrng of age with a Swrm am at the YM C A Creal sophrstrcated lrkej Under the supervrsron of our new class oftacers Paul Delage Presrdent Ruth Pratley V1ce Presrdent Beth Montgomery Secretary and Kay Wrlster Treas urer rt proved to be a gre tt socral success May I stress the word socral for after we had pard for the damage Qdone no doubt by members of some yealous rnferror classj we had netted the grand sum of S95 Not much of course but ours all ours The thought of havmg money m the treasury spurred the class on to brggcr and better thrngs such as the presentatron of the movre Teenrcrde Thrs prcture deprcted the horrors of reckless drrvrng by teenagers It was really qurte good and poured a substantral num ber of shekels 1nto our coffers Then came another play or more properly named our Sophomore One Act Probably one act was enough too for the records of thrs event are very vague By thrs trme some of the more talented members of the class were makrng therr presence felt throughout the school and drsplayrng therr wares before larger audrences than that of our own class Mr Harrrngton was already chantrng the prarses of such talented per formers as Walter Horne Beth Montgomery Hua Young Harry Rers Rrchy Fay Russell Bedford Martrn Valentrne and Irwrn Kotch whrle Mrs Kant was rav mg over the prowess of such greats as Frances Roberto B111 Laemmel Wally Fletcher Barbara Strpen and Marvrn Berenblum Also durrng thus perrod such future Thesprans as ohn Srmon Paul Delage and oan Church were performrng before the footllghts Of course these are yust some brref samples of the gemus our class had to offer our lucky colleagues at G H S Almost before we had wrped the sweat of the sum mer of 1950 from our sweet young faces we were unrors Thmk of rt unrors' At thrs crucral stage rn our development we changed class advrsors agarn ffrom Mr Colgrove freshman year to Mr Wrlcox sophomore year to Mr jolly Jensenj We seemed to roll up a hrgh mortalrty rate rn advrsors whrch of course could not possrbly have been our fault Along wrth thns change we also recerved a brand new set of officers Bob Sobocrnskl was our Presrdent Ken Cucuel Vrce Presrdent Pat Hyl Secretary and Kathleen fSnowyD Bartlrk our Treasurer . .. 7 ' 1 32 2 7 t - K 7. - .Q , Y . . - , . 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The first money making pr nect of the year was an Old Fashioned Dance under the direction of our own Frances Roberto which was most successful Imme drately following this dance 1 cake sale was held by our class This was not a large success but after all even the best of us have our bad moments lncxdentally it seems to me our class invested tn a generous supply of G H S emblems banners stickers c1ps and 1ll sorts of good ies It is sufficient to say that they did not sell like hot cakes nor hke cold cakes for that matter It must have been a bad year for school spirit However it wasn t long before we came to one of the high spots of the year the Girl Boy Basketball Game Although not extremely orlgmal it was, to say the least hilartous, enjoyable and profitable A great deal of credit for this success should go to the krds in charge ack Newton and Sandra Fraser In February we sponsored the N Y U Glee Club in a concert at the hr gh school The Glee Club did their part beautifully but the receipts didnt measure up to the performance However, rn the poised and controlled manner that characterized our behavior as umors, we took this in our stride ust as we expected something gay turned up to divert our attention from the state of our treasury which in this instance happened to be the electron of a large number of our class to the N ttional Honor So xmmy Wagner Beth Montgomery Paul Delage Fred Iackson, and Michael V1UghH Qwhose continued high marks won htm a Ford scholarship to Columbia Uni versity at the end of his junior yearj Our class was also well represented in other fields such as art We had rn our midst such talent as oe Ur1tta, Pete Allard and Andy Poll lfd all of whom eventually won the honor of being elected to the Na tional Art Honor Society, an organization which con tributes a great deal of invaluable maternl to the school And perhaps the one thing that a number of our class will always associate with the closlng of our junior year is an old signpost that reads No Golfing Thus having been exposed to the facts of life CG H S style5 the class of 57 prepared for a riotous senior year But before we begin this final chapter I think it only proper to give a little credit to the more athletic minded members of our class Certainly no one will ever forget the football playing of Mackaul Vitterrto and Decker Nor will the memory of our cheerleaders led by such talented personalities as Kay Wxlster Pat Pratley and Sandra Fraser be easily erased from our happy recol lect1ons of the sporting events at G H S In other sports, too honors were heaped upon our class, our school, and such individuals as George Brown, for his out standing work on the soccer team and Waide Howley, who showed his specn 11 mettle in more than one sport And then there was our fine tennis team led by Harry Twiss, Ned Wilmot, and Dick L well how much can you expect from one class' To get bick to the senior year it got off with a bang when our class electrons brought to power George H1m1lton, Presxdent P1ul Delage, Vice President, Pat Hyl Secretary and lx1thleen Barrhk Treasurer After this Qbefore rt, too our class always had a knack for fully celebrating every possible occasionj were many gay festrvitres including a musical assembly which dis played a variety of odd and ancient instruments and an odd and ancient mm who played them It was quite an experience And of course we had a Sadie Hawkins Dance It says here that rt was successful and didn t cost much These facts often go hand in hand Then from out of the blue came the one thtng in our lives that could top dear old Freshman Night e Senior Vaudeville And what a Vaudeville it was Typically we got off to a relaxed start that drove our advisors rather mad but then just IS typically we whipped ourselves into first class activity If there was show certainly cleared up that matter Imagine having on one program such t1lent as Richard Kriskey CD1rec torj Emerson Brown and Harry Nordberg CMC sl Frances Roberto Walter Horne Richard Wiggins our own jazz band Cwith such outstanding performers as Martin Valentine and Iohn Phelpsl plus a large sec tton of the Senior Chorus If the right talent scouts had been in the lLlLll6I'lC6 there wo11ld have been a great improvement 1n television shows by this time' Of course we cant forget our theme which was nothing less than a stroke of genius The Thruway' F1n1lly as rs usually the c1se at the end of most senior years we graduate And after this parting of the w ays the best we can hope for is an occasional meeting at one of the many glittering social clubs in and aro11nd fmostly aroundl Greenwich Now, as I sit here filled Llp with nostalgia falso some other fine things equally warmingl a great wave of relief and accomplishment and pride sweeps over me And now, all rhir rem uns is for the class of 1957 to go on alone, and prove mdn ndu 1lly whit we have proved collective ly that we are indeed a Class of Distinction' - 1 1 . . . , i. 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