Hunter College High School - Argus Yearbook (New York, NY)

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inauguraTed group singing, To The immense saTisTacTion oT all concerned. We were seniors in Theory, if noT in TacT. BuT we did sTarT senior acTivi- Ties To The inTiniTe amusemenT oT The eighTh Term and The disgusT oT The sixTh Term which insTincTively realized ThaT we had seT a precedenT. We provided a prom commiTTee, and The prom commiTTee has since pro- vided us wiTh everyThing buT The escorTs. We parTicipaTed in an lnTra- School FesTival, which Turned ouT To be someThing really inTral German sTudenTs sang in The LaTin Sing, French sTudenTs danced The Viennese WalTz, and anyone who had The slighTesT inTeresT in science ioined The DramaTic Club. ThaT year They Tinished Tilming Gone wiTh The Wind, and DocTor Brown began buying up supplies Tor The . . . sh . . . New Building. EIGHTH TERM Spring and no Sing! Prom and no escorT, WashingTon and no cherry blossoms, Freshmen and no naiveTe. CommencemenT and no diploma! We all developed inTo ediTors or presidenTs of someThing or oTher. Girls who had never shown Their Taces aT Term meeTings before began To come and Talce an acTive parT. Now The big sisTers were we, and we were selling TiclceTs To a new kind oT proiecT-Three plays insTead oT The usual Tour. WashingTon, D.C. and ice cream became as paired as l-lunTer girls and Landy's. This season you can see G.W.T.W. aT your local TheaTer lfor a small TorTune iT is Truel and They're moving inTo The New Building nexT Term. The evenT ouTshone The anTicipaTion in The case oT The prom. BuT The anTicipaTion oT prom. our senior ban- D . . OWN queT. and oT graduahon iTselT was half The ix. W wonder oT our senior Term. W-N Q, Now here we are, we, hereaTTer To -7 be known as - THE cmss or JUNE, I94O. fliililkllgis s 'Ax 1.5-QAAVXX

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FIFTH TERM UniTed we sTand! BuT we Tell beTore The onslaughT oT Physics. We did know ThaT Archimedes yelled Eureka! bu+ he was in hoT waTer Too. We didn'T know The exacT scienTiTic explanaTion Tor The mice, buT we were cerTain ThaT They weren'T imaginary images. Sophro was Wise ThaT Term buT . . . sorry This isn'T longer buT TiTTh Term will always mean Physics. and ThaT's all. SIXTH TERM So we had The PoeTry ReciTal, and six majors, and Tour regenTs, and spring weaTher in April. Does iT maTTer? ThaT's The year we won Sing!!! You don'T have To ask us To Tell you all abouT iT, iusT Try To sTop us. Did we pracTise in convenTional, sane places as did oTher years? NoT we! We rehearsed in slips in a DemocraTic Club one hoT Sunday aTTernoon and aT a kind mama's house 'Til midnighT anoTher Time. We wroTe Sing words around The reservoir, and sewed cosTumes in cluTTered bedrooms sans shoes. We spenT EasTer vacaTion wiTh moisT brows and drooping coihfeurs inspiraTing. We even called lnTormaTion To see whaT she ThoughT oT our Theme While The CiTy Sleeps. We also picked up a loT oT deTails abouT Peckham's EscorT Bureau Tor our miscellaneous song. lT's a piTy They wenT ouT oT business beTore prom. BUT our name is on The plague ThaT is hidden behind some nondescripT pile oT books somewhere in The library. We had a VicTory Dinner Too. and we've been singing Sing aT every opporTuniTy since. SEVENTH TERM ln sevenTh Term, we were allowed To choose our poison, and our elec- Tives were a consTanT source oT joy-unTil The midTerm marks came back! We were Tinally admiTTed To The upper Term assembly. Miss Koehnke . -X-s aw! !'1Q'1Sf'T C S, T. y. ,li L. QAQA.- ' ' i W.!l!TV2'w 'li X A -- . T.. J R -Xlgfgii

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