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

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THE HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF I953 On the morn1ng of September Z 1947 the graduatlng classes of W1lson Washmgton and Jefferson elementary schools assembled ln the mus1c room of N A H S for the f1rst t1me Thms was the begmmng of our s1x excxtlng years 1n North Arllngton H1gh Durrng those f1rst few days the school looked b1g and confuslng but we soon got used to lt and l1ked lt very much Then after a wonderful summer September 1948 rolled around We had our f1rstJun1orh1gh dance that year at whlch the g1rls taught the boys to dance The dance was from three to f1ve but havlng had a l1tt1c trouble w1th the phonograph the muslc ended some t1me after four rellef Sam Col1no gave us the f1rst real sample of h1s enjoyable vo1ce Fmally September 1949 was upon us and another summer had ended Th1s was to be an exc1t1ng year for now we could part1c1pate IU all h1gh school act1v1t1es On Aprxl Z0 1950 we had our flrst class dance The S1lver Shpper Along w1th our adv1sor M1ss Mulcahy the class worked hard for thxs dance wh1ch resulted 1n a huge success That year the boys began to JOIN the athletxc teams wh1le the g1rls Jomed the glee club At last we had our f1rst electlon of class offlcers 1n wh1ch Andy Massey was elected our class presldent Once aga1n 1n the sprmg the Annual Magazme campaugn helped our class ralse the needed money for our treasury As always we could never seem to m1ss the days of exams but we surv1ved and looked forward to a restful summer Returnmg once aga1n toN A 1n 1950 we found M1ss Grant our new small and l1vely class adv1sor At our second class dance Club '53 dlsappolntment we agaln had trouble w1th the phonograph Passmg Room 104 the face ofmany a s1ck sophomore would appear for we were cutt1ng up our frogs 1n blology class Also 1n th1s year Mr Hurley our pr1nc1pal res1gned and Mr Bradford v1ce prmclpal of our school became pr1nc1pal Enterlng our Jun1or year we felt proud knowmg we were reachmg the top In the early fall we had our th1rd class dance The Parade of H1ts and went to the 1-IackensackCourt House for our ' Know Your Commun1ty project In the spr1ng we undertook the annual Jun1or project Career Papers On May 2.3 our very successful Jumor Sen1or Prom was held at the Hotel Suburban 1n East Orange It was a n1ght we shall long re member F1nally the b1ggest day came September 3 1952 Bemg full fledge Seniors we reahzed that th1s was lt It was to be our last year at N A h1gh w1th Don Shardlow as Pres1dent of our class We the proud Sen1ors held our last but most successful dance 1n December W1th the college board exams over we entered a hect1c spr1ng wh1ch f1nally brought the crown1ng of our lovely May Queen and an enjoyable class tr1p In June we sadly enjoyed a wonderful class n1ghtw1th our parents and teachers W1th the g1v1ng out of the OTCh1dS and the readmg of the class w1ll prophecy and h1story We reahzedwe would mrss our Alma Mater Then the most excltmg n1ght f1nally came June 12 1953 when we all sa1d ' good by to our Alma Mater In partmg we wrsh to thank M1ss Grant our adv1sor and all our teachers and fr-1ends for four wonderful years We are now on our own to take part m l1fe's act1v1t1es May we never forget' . y , , I 3 , Q ' I S i l ' . . 5 . . 5 , . ln , . ! 7 ! ' 3 . ' D D ! ,, . . ,, . . . ' 9 5 ' Y ' D - , I l ' ' ' I Y . ! 1 3 ' ' ll ll ! ' I i Vic Romano displayed his talent by playing the pianog but much to our . . , . . U , S . , . 1 Q 3 - 1 ' 0 . . . , . . ' ll ' ll ' 7 5 I ' ll ' 7 Q , ' I . . , , . . - , . . . I ' 7 I , . . . . , . . , 1 . n . . I I 7 Y ' I - ll i !

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5- 4 - Pia Mrs M Steffens MrssA Rornanellr Mr W Ruckel Bus Bus Fry Mrss N Wa BLb r 953 Mrss D Tarantrno M A French Iwrs I Nrthere MA N M Lv Mr J Tully Eng boc or Mrss E Zrngaro M A Mu Qu., in ADMINISTRATI E ASSISTANTS .JS 'T A Mrs K Swarm Mrs C Casey R,N,, School Nurse Cafererra Mrs L Lowry Mrs M Rutyna Mrs A Stalb Mrs H Thomson Mrs F Cobb Sec to Mr Bradford Sec to Mrs Capwell Sec to Mr Bradford Sec to Mr Holbert Attendance Offrcer 7

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