Mattituck High School - Reflector Yearbook (Mattituck, NY)

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Under the faculty guidance of Mr. Hilliker and veteran homeroom teacher. Coach Muir, we started our tour of duty through the upper classes at MHS. For student leadership tne united class elected Marilyn Loper. President: Ladaie Decker. Vice President, and Madeline Ruland. Secretary-Treasurer. As representative to the Student Council, we chose Paul Pendzick. he iater became Vice President of the Council and obtained a permanent seat on the ESCASC. Audrey Weese became a Student Court Juror, and John Lenahan. filled the seat vacated by Norma Magor earlier this year. The Junior Class has figured prominently in sports since its entrance into high school. Seven of the nine starters on this years soccer team were Juniors. All these boys represented their school to the best of their ability and Laddie Decker and Bob Templeton were appointed to positions on the 1956 All Suffolk Soccer Team Mattituck’s Varsity basketball team boasted six Juniors, three of these broke into the starring line-up by the end of the season. Bob Templeton led the team in scoring for the year and Lad Decker and Paul Pendzick figured in Coach Kahn's well rounded aggregation. Scholastically, the Junior class placed twenty students in the MHS Chapter of the National Honor Society, the largest group ever to enter at one time from our school. Led by Jack McNeil, whose average threat- ens to explode if he annexes any more stratospheric marks, the class as a whole has one of the highest all-round averages of any group that has gone through Mattituck High. All in all, the Junior class of 1956-57 was a very well balanced and well organized group. Members of our class helped their school tremendously in the Minstrel Show and Senior Play, while others labored on the Mettitalk and 'Reflector' Staffs. This class has just started to show rts diverse talents this year and promises The Sophomore Class started out the year with high hopes and ambitions ... it has lost some ol the high hopes along the way . . . but none of the ambitions. We elected class officers in September and when the votes were tallied Dick Grathwohl was Presi dent. Tom Matrick, Vice President. Pat Hannabury. Secretary, and Marilyn Abitz was Treasurer. Sally Fleet and Dick Sterling were elected as Student Council representatives. Sally was also chosen as Secretary of the Student Court. Our officers ran class meetings that were both beneficial and instructive. We discussed such things as proper dress for high school students, helped select records for the noon hour dance sessions, and proposed a Sophomore dance. A number of our classmen took part in the Minstrel Show. Tom Matrick. Sally Fleet. Pat Hannabury. Connie Jazombek. Barbara Muir. Linda Reeve. Connie Sledjeski. Carol Kneski. Dotty Truskolaski. Carolyn Fanning and Marilyn Abitz starred in solo and group numbers. Of course, all of the boys sang in the chorus. Many Sophomores participated in school sports this year. Floyd Harris played Varsity basketball and Terry Downs, Butch Lynch. Dick Grathwohl, John Kujawski, and Tom Booker scored high on the JV team. Our boys also excelled on the soccer team. Floyd Harris did exceptionally well, for at the end of the season he was picked for the All Star Scholastic Team in Suffolk County. Floyd received a trophy for his outstanding play. Sophomore girls went out for sports with much enthusiasm but Sally Fleet and Carolyn Fanning were the only girls who made volleyball playday. We started our first hiqh school year with many varied ideas . . . some good, some bad. but after a few weeks we found that our studies should come first. We did not seem to find rt difficult to adjust to our schedules and the differences between the grades and high school were not overwhelming. From Cutchogue we acquired Betsy Gerhardt. Robert Mahony, Richard Woodhull and James Tyler. Sidney Bail. Jeanette Lakowitz, and Marjorie Romanowski came to us from Laurel and Peter Zaweski from North- ville. Karen Audioun and Jan Holmes left u$ in October to go to Rorida. Edith Pyne came on January 29th from Astoria. Out of the 42 students in our class. 29 are Academic and 13 are Business or a combination of Business. Art. Home Economics, or Industrial Arts. Our class officers were Wesley Simchick. President: Peter Swahn. Vice President: Mary Ann Rieckman, Secretary: and Barbara Gildersleeve. Treasurer. Peter Swahn resigned as Vice President and Barbara Hiller took over. Barbara Tuthill and James Tyler were chosen as our Student Council representatives. Barbara Tuthill was also a member of the Student Court. James Wolbert. James Wyche. Charles Gremler, Peter Roache. and Wesley Simchick made the soccer team. Peter Swahn was chosen team manager. James Wolbert. Joseph Zuhoski. Charles Gremler. Peter Roache. Charles Coutts. Wesley Simchick. James Wyche and Peter Zaweski all made the Junior Varsity basket- ball squad. Freshmen girls who made the soccer team were Barbara Hiller. Anna Marie Krupski. Kathleen Reiter, and Barbara Tuthill. Anna Marie Krupski and Betsy Gerhardt made the volley ball team. We appreciated having our Guidance Gouncelor Mr. Sherwood and our teachers to talk our problems over with. The tests given to us by Mr. Sherwood helped us find ogr basic interests and aptitudes which will guide us in our choice of occupations later on. This has been a good year for the Freshman Class for as many, if not more, students from our group participated in extra-curricular activities than from any other class up to this date. Arthur McCow -31 i to do even more as we enter our final year at MHS. o A k Ellen Verchot John Long A '■A 'P'ted rtteti

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Mrs. Sherwood Mrs. Kramer Mrs. Crowell i Ifctd tytcule Our biggest project this year was Little Town . We planned the streets, made the building, signs, trees and people. We learn ed about community helpers, and how wns, cities, and farms depend on one en- ter. Our study of electricity helped us light up our town. Experiments in science Haught us many things, and it was fun to learn to multiply, divide and do cursive writing. tpwr ath if li Second fyade Twenty-nine little girts and boys started Second Grade in September. Kathy King left us in November to move to Babylon. Our school days are concerned with learn- ing to read for information and enjoyment. All our work is related to the development of reading abilities. We want to learn to live with each other, have respect for others and understanding and interest in the things around us. Projects and activities help us to develop good citizenship pract- ices and wider knowledge. We do a great deal of sharing in work, play and hobbies. Second (fauie Anytime is Reading Time in our Second Grade, and many of us have read several books. We enjoy writing our own stories and poems, too. The 3 R's are very im- portant to us but we have learned they can be fun. We are keeping a class diary Day by Day and have discovered many inter- esting ideas about days, months, numbers, and time. By studing our Community Help- ers we see how each person must work and play with others for a good living and iome of us have decided the kind of wori we would like to do someday soon. We are learning that healthy children are happy children and that safety is first, last and always. Our Assembly Program. I Hear America Singing shows how songs and dances have helped our country grow fnd remain free.