Moorestown Friends High School - Cupola Yearbook (Moorestown, NJ)

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GEORGE M. MILLER Adviser One of the highlights of our high school experience has been our relation- ship with you, Mr. Miller. We know you not only as a teacher who made history, whether it be Ancient European or Modern American, come to life, but also as a guide and leader in all our class affairs. Looking back on our freshman year we realize how little we knew about class government, but how quickly you taught us and how well you guided our class meetings. Without you we would have fallen far short in our efforts for our parties, dances, and proms. You have been a great influence in moments of decision. Unimportant as it seems now, those of us on the decoration committee will never forget those critical moments during our preparations for the Junior Prom. Remember the mirrored ball we planned to use for our centerpiece? We would have been driven to desperation had it not been for your patience and help! Thanks to you, we finally managed to glue each piece of mirror to the big wire frame and to hang it in the center of the gym. We thought it looked pretty good, tool In fact, we thought that prom was the greatest. You have always been willing to give us your time whenever it was needed and to help us, personally or as a class, over any rough spots. As we have valued your guidance and companionship in the past, so will we cherish your friendship in the future. Our thanks to you, Mr. Miller, teacher, adviser and friend.

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JEAN N. RICKETTS Adviser Four years ago two freshmen entered high school at Moorestown Friends' School-you, Mrs. Ricketts, and the class of 1956. From the time that you became our class adviser we had no doubt of your ability and competence, although on many occasions you must have wondered about ours. We first knew you as you led us through freshman English. Your knack of putting fun into an English course as well as facts into our heads made you stand out from the very beginning. Then, too, your little threats of 'boiling us in oil' also helped to increase our respect for you. Later, when we no longer had you in class, you were still a guiding light in all our meetings. You have been a dynamo of energy in our various undertakings. You helped with cake sales, mixed punch for Color Day, advised our Senior Dance Commit- tee, showed us how to do the can-can for the Golden Nugget, and produced our senior play. You have always been ready to lend a hand wherever it was needed. We thank you, Mrs. Ricketts, for all the help, guidance, advice, and friend- ship you have generously given to us over the past four years.

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Seated: Mimi Hathaway, Art Editor, James Hull, Co-Ediotrg Harley Armstrong, Adviser, Erika Paul, Co-Editor, Paul Mecray, Photography Editor, Standing: Sally Haines, Garrett Richman, Pat Pearson, Donald Duff, Circulation Manager, William Smith, Advertising Manager, Helga Leiseg Joe Rogers, Rebecca Cupola tail Producing the Cupola hasbeen a big job, we all admit it, but it has been fun, too. Perhaps there was too much fun in the very beginning. We'll never forget those first yearbook meetings in Septem- ber. We were rather ignorant then, or let us say, unaware of the size of our task. Yearbook meetings started at about 7:30 ona Friday evening, then by 8:30 we were all piled into two cars and on our way to see a flick at the drive-in theater, feeling pleased about the hour's work we had more or less accomplished. There was also the night we gathered at Garrett's house to write the class history. We arrived with a half gallon of ice-cream, spent an hour reminiscing over our child-hood' days, and wound up the evening dancing and watching T.V.l However, these little get-togethers were soon a thing of the past. By December we were keenly aware that there was much work tobedone and all by January 20th. ln previous years the book has been done in sections. This year all material had to be sent in at once, consequently, much hestic activity occurred in December and January. Pictures, pictures, pictures, ads, ads, ads, write-ups, write-ups, write-ups. Everything seemed to come at once. We all admit, without the slightest moment's hesitation, that without Miss Armstrong our Cupola probably never would have been. When we decided upon a large book instead of the smaller one of previous years, it was she who warned us of the worries and problems involved, for we were all to much in the dark even to understand! But when the light finally dawned, we began to realize how much we depended on her advice and help. Now that the yearbook is finally completed, we want thank Miss Armstrong for all the aid she has given us. Working on the Cupola has been a wonderful experience for all of us, a little trying at times, perhaps, but nevertheless, a valuable experience. Breckerg absent, Dorothy Duff.