Hartridge School - Tempora et Mores Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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CLASS HI TUIIY It all began back in nursery school when, at the age of three, Cay Siccardi, firmly clutching her mother's hand, stumbled into the Mushroom to start the class of 1954. l'n Kindergarten she was joined by Lois, Mary Jane and Gay Stanton, where despite hated naps, the four enjoyed blocks, jungle jims and skipping around the room to the tune of God Bless America. After the departure of Mary Jane and Cay Stanton, Lois and Cay Siccardi entered first grade, where, instead of play, their 'fdayu was composed of workbooks, work- books and workbooks. Nevertheless, Miss Hitchings suc- cessfully managed to instill the feeling of being the big girls of the Mushroomg this conquered any other senti- ments! Lindsay entered in second grade, just in time for that frightful spitball affair, and joined them in presenting their first one-act play, King Midas. This year was a delightful one of setting up miniature towns on the classroom floor on which the versatile gremlins also painted streets and grass to make the town more realistic. Miss Mother Tenant greeted them warmly in third grade and immediately nicknamed them her 'alittle chicka- deesf' She also attempted to diminish the power of that notorious class boss, Lois, who held dictatorship qualities over a wide-eyed, subjecting class. Walking Terry around the grounds was a favorite fourth grade sport, and Wex'en't they devils to sneak off onto the street'?,' Chris and Penny, the newest additions to the class, certainly agreed to this and all other schemes as the girls plotted class marriages and secret clubs in defiance of the little black-books of two trcasonable mem- bers of the class since departed from our noisy corridors. As fifth graders they were again the big girls of their building. Every Tuesday afternoon they would un- pack their valises and dress carefully-white gloves and all! -for Miss Flor-ence's Dancing Class. Objecting vehemently to unfair treatment, the fifth grade leaders waged an anti-assembly strike and picketed in front of the Pine Cone. This insurrection, however, was short-lived. Sixth grade and the Middle School brought the class Barb, Marian, and the end of naps. To bells and home- work they all became somewhat adjusted, trap doors were investigated, and '6King Arthur read with much distaste. Thinking the seventh grade too sophisticated, bossy and snobby-words which at this time were indispensable to their vocabulary-'tour girls waged several battles with the class above them who annoyed them to no end by refusing to fight back and responded with only a grow up!'i lift of the eyebrow. In seventh grade Meej returned to aid in the in- evitable revolution. It began with a civil war of which Penny and Lois were the opposing heroic leaders. They and their classmates applied war paint from bottles stolen from the art room, tied hostages to trees and tortured spies in the summer house. They then proceeded by torturing the sixth grade, discovering Aunt Tilly Redwood and evolving the '4brilliant scheme of blockading the upper school girls on their way to lunch. Nevertheless, it was a happy and confident class that graduated that year, even though they were forbidden to see Kiss Me Kate in New York and ended up with poison ivy on graduation day as a result of Miss Richardson's party in the country. In 1949 the Terrible Ones hit the upper school. Gay Stanton returned to the tribe and Ann, Betsy and Sara were newcomers. Never will any of the class forget those riotous trips to the circus and Rockefeller Center, chap- eroned by those utterly-worshipped Seniors. tNor will they forget the episode concerning Marian s undershirt on Forty-Second Street.J Very grown-up at times, the young ladies would ride the bus downtown on Friday afternoons, eat a respectable lunch at Abbot's', and trapse book-laden down to the movies. During this year, the eraser fights in Science were of great concern as well as Miss Colie's unbelievable statement that every girl would bleach or cut 'her hair at some time before grad- uation! , As IIs, with the entrance of Diane, the class attended its first Lawrenceville Dance and took part in the all- school Christmas Pageant. By now the girls had begun their social life outside school, which consisted of a continual stream of enjoyable parties. Moving into their third year in the academics, the class donated a Thanksgiving basket 'to the Salvation Army. But, their revolutionary spirit still prevailed fthough in a bit more organized manner!l as they led a violent debate in assembly in defense of a new marking system. Excited at the news of a new addition to the class in the second semester, the girlsganxiously awaited their Southern Belle, Louise. Junior year brought Lynn, Helen and Joey, and the class, now beginning to abandon its guerrilla warfare, began to work together for' more important goals. Honored to put forth the first editor of The Hue and Cry and first president of The Paint-and Prop Club, the girls worked enthusiastically throughout the year and finally attaineditheir dream-come-true: the Cut. But, alas, they returned from a day at the 'shore with bright red sunburns and peeling skin. Nevertheless, the year continued and the girls managed somehow to survive those fateful, fearful elections. - This year as big, big girls with reminders in everything they did that it would be the last, their senior year was hectic with sandwiches, annual meetings, bridge- teas, and college worries, but it was even more wonderful with the knowledge that the class had really developed into approved-by-others young women. And then, there is that pride and unexplainable feeling they hold toward each other. ' And now, graduation-the leaving of all that they have enjoyed and despaired, but all that will never be forgotten . . . 15