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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.
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(2 SM4. PiofoAecy (as lived by Eddie Decker) If was midnight as I slowly walked along the dark and empty streets of Mattituck. My thoughts reflected to my latest expedition on the Amazon. A glimmer of light from an open window caught my attention, my curiosity got the best of me and I proceeded to investigate. I knocked on the door and to my surprise it was opened by Wilma Gordon, Secretary to the famous research chemist Bev Nine. I found out that Bev, along with her assistant, Ronnie Reeve, was putting the finishing touches on a top secret project. This top secret was the latest model of a super powered space ship, which was to make the first known trip to the moon. In just one short hour the passengers would begin to arrive. Upon inquiry I found that since Dotty Hannabury would not be able to go, there was a seat left ... so I decided to go along. The hour had passed and the people began coming in. First came the pilot and the co-pilot, Phil Dickerson and Eddie Haupt with their space suits on. Next came a very attractive stewardess, none other than our old classmate Nancy Audioun. Nancy took her place by the aperture of the ship and began checking in Colleen Browne, now a teacher in a reformatory elementary school, Liz Corcoran, a teacher of exceptional children, and Mary Marcus, a medical secretary for Gene Chituk. Others in the check list were, Jack Duryee, now a successful businessman, followed by his two secretar. ies, Sylvia Konchalski, and Marilyn Hamilton. As it grew nearer to blast off, Russell Bird, our space mechanic, was making a last minute check. As the mighty ship leaped up and up through the atmosphere, Brady Funn, our radio operator, received the all-clear signal from Helen Shalvey, chief tele-operator at the spaceport. We approached the moon and landed on a smooth plateau behind a bluff. After filing out, one by one, we saw to our surprise, a huge city before us. Upon closer investigation we found out that we were not the first earth creatures on the moon. For lo and behold, we found the rest of our class of 55 . We were greeted by Cliff Tyler now a mem- ber of the space troopers who took us to the school. Here we found Shirley Corwin, secretary to the principal, James Neefus, who told us that two of the teachers were also from our class. As we walked through the school we saw Eleanor Wamback, teaching a roomful of space brats. After talking with her, she told us that we could find Shirley Downs teach, ing her gym class how to execute the plays for space hockey. After watching the escapade, we said goodby and walked out the door. As we walked down the street we met the former Thelma Young with her family decked out in their space suits. She told us we would find James Grathwohl, the architect who designed the whole town, in a luxurious office two blocks down. When we entered his plush office, his secretary,Amelia Kneski, announced us. We decided to have a class re- union and found out from Jim where the remaining classmates were. Betty Naugles was a practical nurse for the Mayor of Moonville, and Richard Gutierrez, a famous artist had just gotten back from a tour of the planets. As we were plan- ing the time and the place, Don Sabat, now a distinguished marine engineer, called in to say that his new space sub had been a failure. We had Jim's secretary send out invitations and started preparations. While purchasing some clothes suitable for moon parties we came upon a top-notch model, none other than Ho Scheuerman, who modeled the latest fashions for us that had been designed by Patty Walgo. The next day was full of excitement, and long before dark, noise and laughter filled the atmosphere. The doors of Joe's Cafe were constantly swinging. Inside another classmate, Joe Pace, combination proprietor and Chef, was greeting guests as they arrived. This closed the search for our class and Moonville knew it.
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