Mattituck High School - Reflector Yearbook (Mattituck, NY)

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Best Dancer Dreamer Best Driver Most Talented w H O’ S Most Petite Best Student Most Likely to Succeed Most Talented Best business Woman Most Retiring Most Level-headed Best Sport

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 Ttiotony y£ t e September 1951 - - we were FRESHMEN. Great, things were ahead for us. After the first few weeks we settled down to business under the leadership of Mr. Wishniowski. Class officers were: President, Phil Dickerson; Vice President, Mush Parrish; Treasurer, Liz Corcoran; Secretary, Shirley Downs. How time flew. We were now the SOPHOMORES. As master of our homeroom, we had Mr. McCaw with his lectures on good health. The varsity basketball team included Eddie Haupt, Eddie Decker, and Phil Dickerson from our Class. This was the year of the great Biology tour to the Planetarium and the Museum of Natural History. Our Capt. ain this year was Shirley Downs, with Phil Dickerson as SecondMate, and Liz Corcoran as Bookkeeper. Sophisticated JUNIORS, that was us. Now we were upperclassmen and thought we owned the school. Miss Lee tried to keep us down to a moderate pace, but to no avail. Naturally, we thought our Prom was the best ever held. The theme was a tropical island, complete with palm trees and grass shack. Our class rings arrived and were proudly displayed. Don Sabat and Jack Duryee were chosen to go to Boys' State. The class artist Richie Gutierrez, won the Lord and Taylor Art Award; and the class stock car driver, Cliff Tyler, won the AAA Driver Education Award. Our officers were: President, Richard Gutierrez, Vice President, Donald Sabat; Secretary Flo Schuerman; and Treasurer, Elizabeth Corcoran. Then the year of years. We were SENIORS. We again had Miss Lee for our homeroom. We started off with a bang, with Don Sabat at the helm, Cliff Tyler, as Vice President, Nancy Audioun as Secretary, and Speedy Decker, Treasurer. We topped the sales of all previous years in our magazine campaign with Colleen Browne winning the watch for being high salesgirl, and Jim Grathwohl winning the portable radio. This was the year of the great pep rally before the Islip Soccer game, the spaghetti dinner before Christmas vacation with Chef Clingen, the dedication of the new addition, and the winning of second place in basketball and soccer. Bev Nine was chosen the DAR Good Citizen and wrote an essay which she delivered at a DAR meeting in Riverhead. Mr. Sherwood took us on an excursion to the Brookhaven National Laboratory where we saw the cosmotron and the nuclear exhibits. The play, For Pete's Sake , was a huge success and before we knew it we were off to Washington. So now, we the Class of 1955, having grown too wise for MHS, must step out into the wide world and make use of our store of knowledge. Even though we have complained, we would'nt trade our schoolday memories for any- thing. Thus, we reluctantly depart from good old MHS and its faithful teachers, and go out to face life.