Greenwich High School - Compass Yearbook (Greenwich, CT)

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CLASS HISTORY 9 They gave us a Look A Look that saud tremulously uf not a but grumly What ll we do wuth em? ' lt was beyond the meddle of T949 One war was over anouher was begunnung where was the money goung to come from and what' another Freshman class? fAfter 27 year of exustence GHS had yet to realuze that Freshmen are a yearly phenOm9Y10l Thusly and thenly the Class of 53 arruved un G H S Arruved physucally that us We dud not arruve socuolly untul some Froshs shenanugans landed hum un detentuon CThey knew What to do wuth em un that casel Only then would the Senuors condescend to look upon us as partners un crume Soon we were caught un the rush for lockers lunch and last row seats un the audutoruum By repetutuon practice and newly learned expletuves we learnd Bobo skee wat n dodle Somehow we mastered the truck of openung the maun door We duscovered that there are two operatuves under the pseudonym of GREEN WITCH and that the cafeterua was but why bother applying hackneyed aduectuves to the cafeterua when you can find reasonable facsumules un every COMPASS back to l9259 Before we knew ut we had Freshman class officers John North Presudent Buddy Kordas Vuce Presudent Barbara Jensen Secretary and .lay Ruppel Treasurer The class pucnuc was a muddlungly successful conglomera tuon of hot dogs and fruguduty Everyone had hot dogs those who braved the bruny deep had cold ones All Freshmen have a nught We had several nughts but let s confine ourselves to the officual one Warblers uncluded Tony Cozzoluno John Zuccerella and Lynn Morley Carmelo Guerrueru Charlue Mangold and Nancy Franz played the puano We termunoted our Freshman year wuth money un the bank a portent of our successful enterpruses un followung years l950 The Servuce Club made uts debut under the tutelage of Sheula Hegarty ut served the school by mumeographung dauly menus and talkung to males College course students were Introduced to French Czar Jensen style ln dear old 2l6 now sadly bereft of Jensen the Czar and Nancy Eruckson battled wuts Barbara Jensen and Frances Toomy were the first gurls of our class to be elected to the cheerleading squad An un mentuonable part of our Sophomore anatomy swelled wuth prude when a classmate Annette Vuto appeared on TV playung the harp As Sophomores we generated actuvuuy under the leadershup of Bob Curtus Morgue Crawford Maruan Belgrave and Eddue Rowe Englush students tussled wuth Tale of Two Cutues whuch more than a handful unterpreted as meanung Greenwuch and Port Chester Duck Huggard and Russell Stewart were our contrubutuons to Home Sweet Homucude the stage party that followed us recorded as one of the best lnstead of expendung lust our own efforts un buuldung up the treasury we decuded to enlust the other classes un thus worthy progect So we sponsored a Swum .lam un February of all tumes fReal coolj Everyone was lammed unto the swummung pool or swummung around the Iammed dance floor The coup de grace of our Sophomore year was the Sophomore Follues Rosemarie Chuappetta s organuzung and her tremendous enthusuasm were largely responsuble for the success of the show Carol Keuth emceed chorus lune almost clad un fancy costum s dragged the show over the bumps although ut was quute a grund rendutuon of Thunkung of You The auduence loved our deadpan banlo player Buddy Kordas who kept tume wuth hus chewung gum So we became Junuors Not cautuous Freshmen nor aggressuve Sophomores nor cynuc Senuors but madcap Junuors To the letter Such yaks yuks and yeeks have never sunce been duplucated un the halls of G H S Rememberung the partung words of Mrs Parker when she stressed the umportance of one s Junuor year we determuned to put the blunders on and keep our eyes to our books tul June Thus resolution lasted untul the end of homeroom peruod From then on Junuor year was a vault of laughs and loves whuch skyrocketed us out of l95l and i952 Three fourths of the female contungent mugrated to Brunswuck and shanghaued bracelets galore and even a few scalps Oh and remember that weekend at UConn? Then there was the cavortung behund bolted doors un 319 tearung up the roads wuth brand new druver s lucenses spooked from a grab bag for so the pedes truans thoughtl those class meetungs Keepung pace wuth our frolucs were our scholastuc achuevements much to the surpruse of exeryone except ourselves The colloquualusm What ll w do wuth em was fast becomung passe We unonopoluzed Recognutuon Day wuth Melton Wallace wunnung the Harvard Book Pr ze Betty Jane Kung Patrucua Mullan and Scot Dykema wunnung pruzes un the GREEN WITCH contest Bull Murray wunnung the Gold Key first pruze un the Connecticut State Senuor Essay Contest and five other pruzes The tuppety top layer of scholars were elected to the Natuonal Honor Socuety From these Bull Murray was elected Presudent Multon Wallace Vuce Presudent Maxune Vought Secretary and Juduth Kuhn Treasurer Elected to the Art Honor Socuety were Duane Budwell Carole Seversen Joyce Pollard Gaul Wulkuns and Maxune Vought Jane Stupen and Duane Budwell had leads un the DA play A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM The Junuors domunated the swummung scene wuth Jerry Goetze Phul Arcunu Ed Curtus and Whutey Hulse Dolores Chuappetta Carol Gallagher and Kathy Adams perpetual members of the backstage crews were to realuze the acme of the D A before the year was out the National Thespuans John Peterkuns forceful vouce could be heard un Senuor Chorus and sungung the solo un the Chrustmas Pageant Barbara Carpenter was elected Secretary of the G O C3lB claumed 4 out of the 6 candl dates of that electuon an offense agaunst the Antu Trust Lawlj The WITCHES BREW publushed a provocatuve edutorual on Leap Year and uts sugnuficance by the one and only Renue Healey Bull Seaman dud his usual good 'ob putchung for the baseball team Junuor Achuevement unvaded Greenwuch G H S was besueged wuth pucture frames wallets and Mr Conlon s maguc cleanser guaranteed to clean anythung from false teeth to brass knuckles Juel Kroyer was elected Presudent of Kungcraft the leather goods company To Newpor WW' I ,-. ,a . , , . l ' I A I , .- . s ' . . . 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All this was accomplished under the reign of John Zuccerella President Barbara Carpenter Veep Dot Zygmont Secretary and Nancy Walker Treasurer The Leap Year Dance was a sudden and successful climax of the winter season thanks to Ruth Gisborne who was the recipient of the divine inspiration Sora Sibley and Ro Chcappetta governed the dance It was gurls nnvutatlon course and held February I5 Weather for the class plcmc was nlce enough for swimming fvoluntary or otherwise mostly otherwlset A Game committee was supposed to thunk up interesting diversions but the boys reverted to the tradltlonal practices of throwlng Ice down necks and dunklng By this time we had more money an the bank than the Seniors did We were known as the moneyed class the predatory filthy rlch And what do we see lurlung in the shadows but a slight but of common sense coming to the Class of 537 My my' The operetta The Gondolners claimed many classmates Bill Murray and Charlie Mangold had leading roles The audience almost burst a seam The peasant costumes Introduced a new fad to G H S cnnollnes Thus operetta also had an aftermath leave us say no more Dedicated to those who remember The be all and end all of our Junior year was the Junior Porm In this we have several firsts to our credit We were the first class ever to break even financially on a Junior Prom the first to serve punch and the first almost not to have any decorations because the artificial flowers werent nf9Pf00f Uhonks to The undaunted spirit of committee members this calamity was averted we sprayed emlj The theme Aprll In Pans was carried out despite thus almost Loulse Murphy and Nancy Walker were responsible for the sheet behind the bandstand bearing the notes and words of April In Pans Helena Moralo was head of the Dance And so with the end all of our Junior year our Junior year ended Back to the brick walls steep novel Idea of having a huge muslc stalrs legendary lunches a new green lawn but the famlllar bulldlng with the hole tn the mlddle for the last time We were Sensors Amateur pole vaultmg over buckets of green paint skidding on canvas ducking scaffolds gaping at the flamboyant green cafeteria we were Seniors First on the agenda was election of officers Milton Wallace was elected President Ben Bronsdon Vice President Ro Chlappetta Secretary and Herman Glass Treasurer We cannot omlt summer vacation from our nostalgic recollections Marcelle Yale was crowned Mlss Byram Barbara Jensen was a finalist nn the Miss Surfmotd contest and The Pirates of Penzance was put on an Old Greenwich Tarantara' chlldnshness to chlldtshness If you must but sober sensitive and conscious of the part we play ln the world No longer are we the madcap Juniors we re the horned hurried worried fbut somehow happyj Seniors We discovered to our dlsmay that Macbeth was sensa lonal scurrled thither quoting Wlllle S like mad brandishing cafeteria knives and crying ls this a dagger Part of the class lolned the French Club under the assumption that cognac was Involved Senior gurls sent out an Immediate SOS to all the nearby prep schools when they reviewed the mon situation They also developed mad crushes on the new football coach Once we used to pray for the football team now all our spiritual efforts were dedicated to Registrars A new and vastly different comprehension of what Senior year IS really like Cwork work and more workl dawned on us as we Iuggled supersaturated activity periods Eddie Rowe was tndlspenslble on the football field along with Milton Wallace and Harvey Lambert Naturally we had a Sadie Hawkins Dance Only some parts of ut werent natural' The guests of honor were two plglets freall introduced by Bull Kelly armed with a bottle of alr wick Helena Moralo was chosen chairman of the dance Oscillating from the net overhead were some 250 shmoos one for each couple Garnnshlng the mlddle of the dance floor was an empty PJ stlll real Dogpatch style The scenlc wonder was the outhouse borrowed from Tod s Pomt complete even to Lll Abners crescents hanging from the door Dress was seml formal not quite an keeping with the rustic embelllshments Many classmates were making such a name for themselves they were becoming permanent fixtures around the school Duck Blllm was President of the GO Carmelo Guerrlerl President of Hospltallty Club for the second year Renae Healey Jeanne Urell and Patncxa Mullan editing the tabloid THE WITCHES BREW KBIII Kelly writing the space between the lines for samei Nancy Walker President of the Youth Council Frank Sauter winner of the I Speak for Democracy contest the officers of the Key Club cheerleaders Nancy Erickson Frances Maduru Frances Toomy etc rallying the fans all the nllustrlous characters on the COMPASS Finally the people who made the Senior Vaudevllle one of the bed G H S had ever known Bull Kelly Chairman Sonny Genlse as the Maharalah the Intermission chorus lane and scads of other noteworthy sluts and gimmicks June was fast arrlvlng Suddenly there were finals caps and gowns paying Freshman Dues and the mevltable Senior Prom Signing yearbooks on someone s knobby knee pens running dry Then the last malsle up the aisle of the Pickwick the ultimate triumph of hearing them say tremulously If not a but grlmly What II we do without em9 By PATRICIA MULlAN Class Historian Udff 7fAf5f7lo.u5 N? p-P, .xo f L. 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