New Haven High School - Elm Tree Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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1aq:s':e:1.1e:f::,':-:avg f:2i5as.s: '-is t 2 N if. F 55 ' . 2: -,gg -:-:..1I-E:5:- 25:22-5 . 'E-1.6:-I :11-H ,..,: :,,:.'.1i' 5, -112-Ii. : Z t. :L f..-. '.-X:':::-zx: :.'.x :'.. .-:: -'..-.-. x ual. 4 --. . ...'- ... I - . 1 4. In 1' 'I Q ' L ' Seninr igininrg yy Are we Seniors? Have we at last assumed the important position in scholastic life or are we merely Juniors with a few more points? VVith new friends, -new teachers. new rooms, we gradually lit ourselves into this mold of seniority. VVith varying degrees of determination we set about the tasks at hand. There is the first call for football candidates. Under the skilled tutelage of Coach Bowen. another crack team develops. Smashing line bucks, long spiraling passes. loose-hipped sprints through a broken field. well illustrate the versatility of our well-oiled football machine, which ultimately annexes its second consecutive state title. Football, as usual, predominatcs but the other fall sports make themselves heard over the roars of the pigskin devotees. Tennis finds Milo Peck its Senior champion. An embryonic Jones. Palmieri. takes home the coveted golf title. A fine athletic year is tlms under way. Politics cuts a wide swath in school activities. Wlith December class elections arrive. Again the political infiuence pervades the school. As a rc- sult Lambert Irons assumes the ofhce of Presidentg Georgia Holabird, Vice-presi- dent: Ruth Kimberley, Secretary: Harry Dickinson. Treasurer: Eugene Coyle, Class Day chairman: Lillian Mermin, Class Motto chairman: and Donald Campbell. Class Gift chairman. The Christmas holidays arrive. Wfith Yuletide festivities still fresh in our minds. school presents a drab front. but back we return to the long trek. Athletics again take the center of the stage. A great basketball season is looked for. There is every reason to hope that the pin- nacle of success is at hand: a great coach, promising material. and Bobinski rolling 'em in as never before. That pinnacle, the championship, is snatched from us even on the moment of reaching it. Rho Alpha Gamma offers a cup to the winner of the hiter-fraternity Basketball League, which A. D. S. promptly takes over. The champion Hillhouse swimming team. although not the favorites, retain their honors in the Hnal Tri-meet. That sterling natator, Johnson. duplicates his extraordinary feats of the preceding year. Then, like the sun through the clouds. comes Happy Days . That highlight of every year presents scintillating entertainment. A dazzling stage. pleasing songs, amusing skits contribute to make this Happy Days the criterion of better high school presentations. Once more the track team upholds our athletic standards. March IS sees a Tuttle-advised group win the lnterscholastics. VVrestling and hockey. each with its share of hard fought battles, close successful seasons. The winter of our last year is history. The balmy days of spring are anticipated. The balminess fails to materialize, for March Zlst is a day decidedly reminiscent of some nights in mid-January. Graduation speakers are chosen: Wfaldo Beach, Lillian Plotkin, Margaret VVeigle, and Norton Levine. Marjorie Resnikotf, Anthony Paolilla and Pearl Myland find their places as class historians. For the benefit of the Milk Fund Happy Days is repeated. A fine turnout for First prac- tice bolsters the hopes for a championship baseball club. An oratorio is held at Troup, and the Senior Chorus Hoods the auditorium of that institution with its melodious tones. Time is slipping away. College-Board preparation is in full stride. ln the latter part of April the Glraui appears. True to the admirable precedent which the Glcfam has set. the issue is clearly of the first water as a school publication, and is put out under the editorship of VValdo Beach, with Pearl Myland as associate editor. and Donald Campbell as assistant. Then. although we have been conscious of its imminence for some time, the fate- ful moment is upon us. Shortly, we must sever definitely, the ties of sentiment. loyalty, and comradeship. which have ever characterized our associations with Hill- house. The soberness of the thought is momentarily thrust aside under the gayety and excitement of the great event, Graduation. ' JOHN WVELSH 20