North Plainfield High School - Canuck Yearbook (North Plainfield, NJ)

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Class History Come now chtldren tts tlme to goto bed Aw Gramps please tell us ano her story Inst one and then well go upsta1 s Wel all nght What do you want me to tell you about? Tell us about Nhat you used to do when you were a ktd Yeah Gramps tell us what you dtd when you were 1n hlgh school All tght lll tell you about my htgh school days Yes s1r tts one ot my favonte toprc and I ,ust love to talk about tt Those were the good old days You know the young sters nowadays thtnk that they re pretty good at do ng thmgs and learmng tmngs and havmg fun but when you really come dowr' But of course our class was an exceptton and even the other kids back tn the old days thought we were pretty good Why do you know what those upper classmen dtd to us The ftrst tune they aw us all 1n one group 1n September l937 they Just took one look at us and they knew that theyd haxe to do so'neth1r'g to keep us do NH They saw all of our brlght tntelllgent faces and they knew tlat unless they qu ckly took drasttc step these treshmen of the class of l94O would soon be telling the upperclassrnen where to g t o'f Let rne tell you they were plenty scared The faculty was scared too b cause they knew that such a cond1t1on would ru1n the mo ale of the upperclassmen and hurt the1r work And so they dec1ded to separate us knowxng that by so dotng they would weaken us Well they sent about one thtrd of us back to Somerset School they used some s lly excuse about not hav mg enough room or somethmg But they couldn keep us down entlrely N s1r w rcallzed that rf we were to do great thmgs we had to become organxzed And so we met rn the audrtortum of good old NPI-IS and ptcked our olflcers We elected Iohnny loupassakts prestdent Fred Cole vice prest dent Ianet Donovan secretary and Boo Fxrstbrook treasurer Wtth ths combmatron and Mr Smtth as adv ser we proceeded to make other classes s1t up and take nottce tn those days and let me tell you he was a man w1th tores ght he knew thts class wa an ex eptton and would do exceptlonal thvngs Why we were lust what he had been wa1t1ng for we were yust the class to pu' over a l ttle plan ot hrs What was th s plan Well tt was somethtng thats st1ll gomg srong over 1'1 NPHS and wtll pobabl keep on lo another 50 years the SAT To you SAT means Student ACl1V1lY Tlcket but 1t 'neant more than ,ust that to us Our football coach that year was Al Tw chel and SAT rroant Sup ort Al Tw hell and dxd w support html Well we sold o er 700 tlckets rn a school ot about 950 pup ls l . , Q - . 4 I - A- I ' r . . , - ' 't ' . o, ' , e .. A I I V g tc it, l guess we had them beat all hollowr H 'Colonel' Wooten used T0 teach US buck ' ' A S ' . .i A ' . 1 , ' l ' 2 ' - '. . . . . ' r y 1 l I ' . s ' A A l A 1 1 , 5 b ,I .7 : I ' . ' . ,, ' D ic '- A e t . .. ' ' e . n ' , , , . , l e- A ' i . , ll4fl

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