North Arlington High School - Chrysalis Yearbook (North Arlington, NJ)

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Cur First Five Years N the autumn of l93-l, a group of about one hundred and forty boys and girls, we came from Washington, Jefferson, and Wilson schools to what is now N A, H. S, We were widereyed youngsters, then, facing a new and exciting era in our lives However, we were soon in the swing of things and were reg- ulars, To prove to the older students that we were pretty clever, we pre- sented a play for their pleasure. Looking back upon that brave attempt, we cannot help admiring our courageous efforts. We put on a performance of an hour and a half, and when some of the members of the cast forgot their lines, our more nonchalant actors ad libbed like true veterans of the stage. HE year passed pleasantly enough, and we soon found ourselves eighth graders, No longer were we the infants of the school. Our high school had now a iunior class. They were very enterprising, starting The Student Prints, our school newspaper. Since our class felt that we did not get enough publicity, we decided to have a newspaper of our own, iN. B, One issue was printed and that was the endl As we were always a rather progressive class lno modest blushesl we planned the first of the still popular Coney lsland trips. Will any of us ever forget that experience? Of course, it rained. HE next year found us freshmen in a full-fledged high school, For the first time in the history of N. A, H. S. there were seniors for the lower classmen to look up to, And look up we did-we who had grown accustomed to lording it over the seventh gradersl Another indication that our school was becoming a real high school was the starting of a football team. The whole student body turned out to cheer the boys enthusiastically at every game. Although we didn't win a game, our spirit remained undaunted, and we looked forward to a more ex- perienced team for the next year, FTER the end of the football season came the opening of the new addition, certainly a big event in our school's history. The big event for the freshman class, however, The Freshman Science Club conducts an experiment- on hot dogs! Twelvc

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The climax of an exciting yeor for our class- the Junior-Senior Minstrel. was our trip to New York. We visited some of the large museums and the Hayden Planetarium, where we saw a make-believe sky. It WAS romantic, wasn't it? LTHOUGH it seems quite amazing, most of us survived the degradation of being lowly freshmen. We entered our sophomore year with the usual second-year high school student's optimistic outlook on life. We settled down to work after getting accustomed to our higher position in the school's activities and it was this year that the individual homeroom yearbooks were made. Most of us have not forgotten even now the headaches caused by trying to get them in before the deadline. A real innovation, dancing classes, started this year and for weeks stu- dents strolled through the halls in three-quarter time. This was the year, too, of our historic trip to the circus, made memorable by the fact that a certain up-and-coming young sophomore was misplaced. Rumor has it that he was found in the menagerie4exCuse us, we mean watching the menagerie, All in all, though, the triumph of the year was our first football victory, the defeat of the Queen of Peace team, UR iunior class year began as did our other high school years with the usual football enthusiasm sweeping the school. We ran the gauntlet of football games, dances, pep-rallies, bonfires, and lastly the banquet, We were brought down to earth by the six weeks' report card markings, but nevertheless we reveled in our fast-growing sport. This year brought us our new coach and heightened our school spirit as we saw our team's new-found winning power. Sooner or later, however, the inevitable had to happen, and the football season, the most successful to date, came to a close. We were left in a lethargy then for quite a while, due, perhaps to too much resting l?l in the Christmas holidays or the famous last straw which causes many a junior to have a complete nervous breakdown, the midyears. Soon, however, there followed the Junior-Senior Minstrel, the first of its kind, of which we were very proud, for it was a great success, and then came the long-looked-forward-to Junior Prom. Thirteen is