Grover Cleveland High School - Clevelander Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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ULASS F 1938 lll'l'9llY 1939 Volume X, Edition Il Ideals grow and hearts expand. WEATHER: Fog Ru SOPHIE On the second stairway of our high school career, we were at the height of sophistication. Maybe that is how our name of Sopho- mores came about. When safely embarked on our second year, it became quite the thing to buy lunches, so, we very graciously informed our parents that we were just plain fed up with home-made lunches. The nickname sober Sopho- mores became attached to us also, for we as Sophomores, thought the silly actions of the rest of the school were disgusting. RISING STARLETS Again the stars that showed up the most on the Honor Roll were Francis Saccone and Joseph Lun- ghino. This year our class presented Annabelle Monaco and Mary Hawkins as our cheerleaders, or should l say human jumping beans? Also, Dan Nigro continued his delightful piano playing. .,i ..j1i NEPTUNE'S FROLIC One of the entertainments pre- sented in our Sophomore year was Neptune's Frolic at the Holy Angels auditorium by Sea Scouts of Grover Cleveland. The Cava- liers was the orchestra that pro- vided the lovely music. SOMETHING NEW This year was also the year we decided to organize a class in Ind trial Arts for girls. Also, to honor the Grover Cleveland students who had attained average of ninety per cent or over for two successive marking perio honor cards were used. This was the newest means of recognizing and paying tribute students of such achievement. The card had a green and White monogram and it was decora with the school seal, which had our motto Semper Vera on it. To make it even more attractive, gold stars were put on every ti a student made the Honor Roll twice. Some schools give roses every so often to honor the students 2 others just acknowledge them at the assemblies, but our method see to be the best, for the cards may be kept long after our school days remind us that even though we did hard work, it was well worth 1 while. We hoped that this system would continue and that more and m students would be honored as the years went on. WHAT NEXT? ?? A S h OP Omore I hope you weren't too start when you heard a strange clipp clappity fill our echoing hallwz The noise was one very commo heard in Holland. What was from? Haven't you guessed y Why, of course, those Wool Dutch shoes, the latest thing fads, were what caused our wilderment. 7 in school - ' f of S135 7. There was also another v strange fad. It was orchid lipst This was the rage of the girls . the horror of the boys, but f will be fads and, of course, g will be girls when it comes to kc ing in step with the fashion fix .Ur if vin! -JJ ' aw -.rf 30

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Lllilllilll :aa Volume X, 'Edition I Courage and Service and Loyalty Be at my side! There is work to do. Matilda Hughes. WEATHER: Slightly Foggy FRESHMEN ARE BORN We entered Grover Cleveland High School with a too-young look, with our dresses above our knees. knickers below the knees, ribbons huge and very, very floppy, hair unruly, and eyeballs bulging. In other words, we looked like hor- rified rabbits snatched from the woods. We were only unimportant, mi- nute creatures who asked too many questions. When we timidly in- luired from the upperclassmen the iirection to a certain room, we were unmercifully sent in the op- Josite direction. It sounded per- fectly sane to us when we were told phat the gym was on the fourth ioor, the office in the basement, the iuditorium in Room 12, and the lunior Room was the room marked Dffice. A Freshman i advooi Q2-5:15 f CQ 1 ulffxlxi Vsllmvn ,f I . Grover 1 N if DEBUTS There were some of us who started out our Frosh life with a bang. When Frances Saccone topped the scale with 98W for an average, we all sat back aghast. This industrious person was one we all had the pleasure of being acquainted with. Dan Nigro also made a place of prominence for himself when he pleasantly startled us by tickling the ivories. When we came back to reality again, we found Angela Campanella and Della Caruso pattering about in elf-like dances. Mike Mancuso came to light and won his place on the All-High Basketball Team through an outstanding game on the Varsity Squad. Such accomplishments as these inspired us to be better Sophs than any before us. COMMANDMENTS OF UTOPIA Remember the ten commandments that were handed down to us from the years before. 1. Thou shalt do no homework. 2. Thou shalt go to gym only when thou desireth. Thou shalt bring thy pea-shooters to school because they cometh in handy. 4. Thou shalt not study after school for any reason. 5. Thou shalt not take exams if they bothereth thee. Thou shalt leave the trays on the cafeteria table. 3. 6. 7. Thou shalt honor the boys that weareth no ties. 8. Thou shalt not use stairs g use the elevator. Thou shalt not use any specified entrance. 10. Thou shalt not use the locker combination given to thee, bring thine own. Weren't we happy to discover that our new school was to be so much fun? The only drawback was that the faculty objected. I wonder why!!!!! 1' 9. , FROSH HAND-ME-DOWNS We soon learned to follow upperclassmen. We copied their pageboy hairdo, plaid skirts, bear jackets, and any what-not that was in style. 29

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GLASS U I T Y I939 IIISTIIIIY I 9 4 ll Steadily carry on alume X, Edition Ill - ,i WEATHER: Unsefiled The work that rs yours to do. GROWING UP? ?? In our Junior year we were quite le thing, weren't we? That's hat we thought when we rose to Lis high position. We were the :sky ones who made the re- ainder of the school wish we had ever happened along. Remember? 'e took down our hair and let lrselves go. There wasn't much sophistica- on left in us from our Sopho- ore year. No, we were now con- Iited clean through I I I RED JUICY APPLES Do you still remember Mr. Ken- :dy's advice to the fair lassies of e school? Well, he suggested at we beg, borrow, or get a nice, g, red, juicy, mouth-watering :ple and take a walk with it to e park to urge the laddies of rover on to victory in the track ces. Just how did he mean that? id he mean that our beautiful, frgeous, splendid, magnificent, ces would urge the boys to run ster so that they might come .ck to us sooner, or did he mean at one look would send them fly- g away to the finish point? That's subject for discussion I I I GOING UP? ? ? Besides our scholastic knowl- edge rising a few points and becom- ing a bit more integral, our hair and skirts rose too. If you happened to see something go down the hall with something piled on that something's head, that something was only a some- thing trying out a new hairdo. How did they manage to keep their hair up there? I really don't know. Ask one of the something's that tried it Wedgies were the talk of the town that year and so were mus- taches. The fellows detested wedgies, and the girls were fright- ened away by the mustaches. The mustaches were called everything from a soup strainer to a flour sifter. The fellows just couldn't figure out why girls wore such ob- jects of ridicule as shoes with too- thick soles. They still are a sub- ject for discussion. A junior. . . :xg fljr, ,Blu if '53, ' Suv x. m School I 41 f:5O .1 'D I lawn' 3I SHOWING UP? ?? Mary Ballachino took the prize that year. Her fine speciman of literary Work, The Power of the Ballot, won her the delightful trip to Washington. Of course, Frances Saccone top- ped the Honor Roll again. We should have been very disappointed if she hadn't. To put a little more pep into us Cas though we didn't have enoughi Betty and Dewella Groat, as well as Marie Coniglio, started their career in cheerleading. Also, Rita Saggese was elected Junior Vice-President, besides President of the Western New York Inter-Scholastic Press As: sociation. Room 315 wasn't to be outdone by any means. In the sale of Foot- ball Athletic Booklets, they made a sale of 11575. Also, 119 was close behind in this contest for the sale of athletic booklets. These two rooms earned the praise they re- ceived. In the line of fashion, the ever- popular cardigans showed up this year also, and pleated, plaid skirts became one of the musts on our shopping list.