Haddonfield Memorial High School - Shield Yearbook (Haddonfield, NJ)

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Upon starting our Junior year gremlms and fhbberty g1bbets stlll we thought our Washington Trip was on the way to becomtng a reality when suddenly the face of all the world was changed on December 7 1941 Determination was etched upon the facades of us all Mr Gerber undaunted by the fact that we would be unable to make the traditional 1ourney led us onward Thornton Scott was elected chief executive Ray Benson reappeared as Vice President Evelyn Stevenson made her debut as Secretary and Marie lndriso was entrusted with the class capltal We made history in the magazine campaign by oreakmg all previous records Flibberty gibbet wonder Betty Carr was the super salesman and received her award at the dance given to celebrate our success We took over the management of the Haddon Higher and in the midst of our rapidly increasing fame we sponsored a singular prom on May the eighth All flibberty gibbets were granted school keys as their tokens As summer approached we volunteered our servlces to alleviate the farm labor shortage fit is remotely possible that one or two crass individuals mlght have regarded the work a a vacation? And so we settled down for the vacation to recuperate for our crowning year The fact that plans for our Washington Trip were merely phantom dreams did not disturb the sang froid of the now old and improved gremlins The international s1tuat1on grew grave and we devoted our efforts to the common cause We all worked 1n department stores and post of'1ces during the Christmas vacation volunteered our servlces as Iumor Defense Aides farm workers and aircraft warning observers Fast stations rolled bandages and made other Red Cross supplies The treas ury however d1d not go unnot1ced The crass had re elected Thornton Scott as Presldent Ray Campbell became Vice President VIIQIHIC Torr Secretary and Ray Benson Treasurer We furmshed the necessary refreshments for the hungry crowds at the football games and of course Treasurer Benson reloiced over the profits On November eighteenth and nineteenth we gave our senior play 'The Patsy which was a clever comedy dlrected by Miss Hillyer The prom on April thirtleth was our final social fling Our efforts to help 111 the emergency were only slight in comparison with the greater SGCI'll1CeS which some of our number made Our president of two years Thornton Scott along with Robert Aducat Iack Barrett Wes Blealrly Thomas Mutchler William Opfer Robert Radcliffe Norm Rainier and Frank Stallings added n w stars on the service flag Sooner than we had expected we were dropping our gremhn antics and settling down to serious business T e moving finger writes and having writ moves on to write of greater things But there is little more to 1nscr1be of the brxlhant success story of the bad llttle gremhns in their struggle for intellectual maturity All capped and gownecl we trod the last great steps in the history of our class and received those precious little documents which marked graduation-and the end of the Class of 43 25 getting rid of their title f1ibberty-gibbetsf' the girls cleaned first aid . . ,

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Thomton F Scott Presxdent fs 1' Vxrglma Ton Secretary Raymond D Campbell Vice President Raymond H Benson. Ir Treasurer If One brtght September dawn tn 1939 as the crtlzens ot Haddonheld were bustly egg and baconlng l1ttle dld they suspect a portentous event that was about to occur The unfortunate faculty however had been prepared for the worst and tult11l1ng the1r darkest expectatlons promptly at 8 30 ln swarmed a brand new crop of bad lrttle greml1ns and ttbberty grbbets Thus began the hxstory of the educatlon ol the class of 43 greml1ns All year we plugged mk wells were loquac1ous rn study hall bumped 1nto unwary teachers and trred to C1VO1d any erudrtlon that was gently thrust upon us At the years end we found that for the most part we had been bhthely mgnored so we resolved to make a better rmpresston ln the years to come We met agarn ln 1940 m these same 1mmortal halls Mr Gerber had the courage to undertake the 'urther d1rect1on ot the bad httle grernllns H15 a1rn was to r1d us ot our nasty habrts and to enhance our lntellectual and soclal tralts 1n order to make us ready for the days alter graduatlon He put us under our own government Wllh Raymond Benson as Presldent Polly Shlvers Vxce Presldent Ehzabeth Weest Secretary and Iack Padgett Treasurer To QIVG lack somethmg to enter 1n the books the Soph Brau was estabhshed tor the purpose of supplymg refreshments to the Student Body partygoers Because we were developmg from such nasty greml1ns to halfway bearable creatures we were rewarded wlth r1ngs and p1ns to d1st1ngu1sh us as a class destrned for prommence 1n the annals of H M H S hlstory 24 9, ' ' Hrsrom' or THE ctlftss or W5

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A. DONALD I ANDERSON 312 Menon Avenue School barltone future Caruso as slonate playboy takes llfe wrth a gram of salt not too SDICYI Rxdley solld stooge But Mr Mlllerl enthusxastlcl Dorsey fan talented quarantmlst gambler swam HOPPISS m the wmter Slgnal Corps U S Army Glee Club C3 45 Choxr C3 41 Vxctory Corps C1-U EILEEN ANDERSON Mcxrlton. New Iersey Curly locks collects fx st edttrons attractxon close to home partxal to blondes a conscrentlous tudent usually knew the answers 1n class but wasted no words sense of humor laconlc qulps alr of mtld boredom future undecxded E1leen HERMAN ROBFRT ADUCAT Marlton New Iersey Gemal good nature full of Jokes Thats mellow never WOIT1Gd too much about school well lxked by both sexes had pOS1l1V9 vxews he used to buxld boats but now he satls on them our loss IS the Merchant Manne gaxnl rugged bnght red ha1r he made that Chevy hum Bob WILLIAM H ALFF 712 Redman Avenue Alfle dependable cuss basement Medford cowboy subtle humor plaster sa1nt7 S A E ex t owner of one 'nashed Nash Whats the future No stuftl Navy man to be 'mot the type 1 Iunlor Defense Alde Messeng r Q41 Block Warden physlcxst 1 'P Women? 26