Huntington High School - Huntingtonian Yearbook (Huntington, NY)

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SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS George Van Ausdall, Vice-President; Anthony Santosus, Secretary; Claire Rosenkoff, Treasurer; Robert Cozzette, President. End of the (rail T was 1946 when we left our old familiar haunts and hitched on to the wagon-train with our prairie schooner shining and newly-built. The going was a little rough that year on the trail, but with Bill Monroe on the driver’s seat and Elizabeth Darling, Allen Brush, Mini Provenzano, and Paul Bennett taking a hand now and then, we managed to keep up with the other wagons. The old-timers tried all their tricks on us at first, but we grew wiser, and along about April, we'd sit around the campfire telling yarns with the best of them. We were going stronger than ever the next year. Ethel Smith gave Billy Monroe a hand with the reins, while Diana Katnack kept the records, and Ralph Williams watched the supplies to make sure we didn’t run too low. It seems as if we were kept mighty busy that year. We entertained the rest of the crowd, too. Recollect the talent show and the speaking contest? Around June, when some of our party decided to branch off in another direction, we gave them a bang-up send-off—tried a newfangled Mardi Gras idea that came up from the South. Then, used to the road, we advanced to the head of the wagon train, There were other things to do in this last lap—plays, concerts, football, basketball, baseball. The days just weren't long enough. Some of our group took a railroad train, that speedy new invention, to Washington, D. C. —saw all the country’s monuments down there. But they came back; they couldn’t stay away from their old partners. And now we've reached the end of the trail. We're leaving the rest of the wagons, letting them go on and fare for themselves. We'll find our gold, now. Can’t beat us Forty-niners!