Manhasset High School - Tower Yearbook (Manhasset, NY)

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During the hrst week of june the senior proc- tors met to decide upon eight junior proctors who would start working with them then so they would be trained to be the scjuad of '48-'49, The eight juniors chosen were Ann McGeeney, Lucia Thwaits, Joanne Stein, jack Diefendorf, Sylvia Carstens, Hugh Kitchener, Marilyn Craig and Nancy Barrows. Most of the clubs and activities spent the spring in organizing work for the future. The English Club planned its magazine, The Pen Point, while the French and Spanish Clubs ended the year with parties and invitations to new members, as did the 5:25 Club. The M. H. S. D. G. also had a hnal tea, at which they elected a new staff of oihcers headed by Ann McGeeney as president. The Cub Reporter chose its new editors, who, headed by Elizabeth Block, wrote the last issue. On june seventeenth the National Honor So- ciety chose Alice Cleaver, Derry Kruse, Nancy Barrow, Nancy Lane, john Moghtader, and Sylvia Carstens as its six new members. The final and most important election of the school year was the G. O. election held during the first part of june. The final results were announced at the G. O. Election Dance on june fourteenth. The new officers were: jack Diefendorf, presidentg Hugh Kitchener, vice-president, Lucia Thwaits, secretary of Student Congress, joanne Stein, secre- tary of the G. O., Anne Finclce, treasurer: Dol White, assistant-treasurer, and Ann McGeeney, head of proctors. Now that all the activities were over, we had only the final exams to look forward to. We set- tled down to hard work and study for the ordeal ahead. The seniors alone were exempt from final exams, could Hit about gaily with no worries concerning oncoming trials. So we studied and crammed, and by some miracle, we'll never know what, we managed to scrape through. Then came the busy hours spent by the juniors decorating the gym for the seniors, the night of graduation, and finally that wonderful, wonderful senior frolic. TOVVER EDITORS Rim' Uut7A. Finclce, A. Cleaver, E, Kelly, Rolf' 'lfzw-F, Kruse, D. King, W. Braznell. T. Austin, V. Thompson. COLOR GUARD C. Frame, E, Wake-111, P. Deely, W. Mcliillop

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Vogler, and Don Hamel were three outstanding juniors who showed great promise and who helped us to place third in the league. It was gratifying for M. H. S. to learn that six of its lacrosse play- ers made the All-Scholastic team. Stan Smiley once again led the track team in a successful season. George Scott, Ken Lent, Les- ter Ashton, and Alex Williiiins provided a strong backbone for the team that beat St. Paul's in Gar- den Clity 58-37, won three small meets, and placed litith out ol' nine Class A schools in the Long Island tour-mile relays. In baseball M. Il. S. broke about even, beating Seaclitf, liarmingdale, Oyster Bay, and Sewanhaka, but losing four of the league games. Dick Berge- sen and Iired Ifranz were two of the mainstays of the pitching staff, while Emery Martin, Tyler Dann and jack Dieliendorli were the outstanding batters. The tennis team had a record ot' five wins to two losses, losing to Great Neck, splitting two matches with Port Wiisliiiigton, and beating Gar- den Clity and Ifarmingdale twice each. Pete Mezey G. O. COUNCIL Rau' Out--D. Wliitcr, L. Thwaits, A. McGeeney, A. Fincke. Run' Tzu,-G. Riggs, H. Kitchener, tl. Diefendurf, J. Stein. and john Johnston were the most successful doubles team, while Bob Dealy, Andy Sands, and Warren Zorbaugh were the best singles men. The golf team did not fare as well as the other teams, but perhaps this was because it was only in its second year in M. H. S. .lack and Anthony Wliite, Ken Schlamp, Bob Dowling and Gene Braithwaite were the outstanding players, May twenty-first and twenty-second was the week end of the spring production of the Manhasset High School Dramatics Group. This time it was Moliere's farce, The Imaginary Invalid, starring Ken Nichoson and Ann McGeeney, with The Great Dark, by Dan Totheron as a curtain raiser. Temptation lured all the Hansels and Gretels Cand lots of othersj, into Candyland on May twenty-eighth when the class of '-i9 presented its junior Prom. Derry Kruse, prom chairman, headed a group of committees that magically transformed the gym into the Candyland which provided a background for one of the best dances ot' the year. The high point of the evening was when Derry presented the crown to jan Woocl.

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PROCTORS Rau' Out'-T. Austin, D. Braznell. Rau' Tun-H. Kitch- ener, j. Bennett, G. Thompson, G, Riggs, l.. Thwaits, j. Diefendorf, R, Ferguson. Ron' 'I'br't'ew-IW. Craig, N. Barrow, A. Fincke, A. McGeeney, J. Stein, A. Cleaver, S. Carstens. FALL S last summers vacation drew to a close and we began comparing adventures, we found that most of us had had our fill of the midget auto races, the movies, the beaches, the days of loafing in the sun, and the summer romances. tSounds fantastic, doesn't it?j Anyway, the seniors were looking forward again to the opening of school, for this was the year they had been waiting for ever since their bib-and-diaper days up in the balcony. Wlieri school opened, everyone met in the audi- torium to learn about the new schedule and be assigned to home rooms. The lordly seniors sat prominently front-and-center in the auditorium, in Manhasset's throne of leadership, the senior seats. Realizing from years of experience that you must know your enemies, we first took an apprais- ing glance at Manhasset's new faculty members. In room I5-the library in days of old-we found Miss Olivia Way, our new librarian, setting every- thing in order. We then moved on to the sciente department, where we found another new teacher, Miss Ruth Seelbach. Although we didn't know it at the time, Miss Seelbach was destined to win a place in the seniors' hearts with a history-making explosion in one of her chemistry classes. NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY Rau' OW-li. Fowle, A. Cleaver. Rau' Tim-A. .MC- Geeney, N. Barrow, H. Kitchener. Rau' Tlvrn'-M. Holmes, F. Kruse, N. Lane, E. Block. Rau' Fam'-V. Thompson. Run' Filff'-M. Craig, S. Carstens, M. Cote. Ruiz' Six-C. Rapp, -I. Moghtader. G. Riggs. Rau' Sezwz -R. Ferguson, D. King.