Oceanside High School - Spindrift Yearbook (Oceanside, NY)

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JAMES DEMPSEY Everybody likes Jimmy, because he's a friendly, good-natured intelligent felloe. A member of the Boys' Glee Club, he is sec. ret ary of the Eta Delta Gamma Fraternity. He likes fishing, swimming, golf; dislikes women drivers, hypocrites. HELEN DITMARS Here's one blond who isn't dumb] Recipient of the Johnson Scholar ship key for the highest senior average.she is also an accomplish ed actress and a member of the Thespian troupe. Towering 5feet 10 inches, she likes walking in the rain. She intends to be a laboratory technician. MARIE DREW Full of pep and enthusiasm this slender lass captained the cheer leading squad efficiently and with skill. Drewpy also starred in athletics on the hockey, volley ball, basketball and baseball teans. Her main interests are having a good time and Malverne, where her main love interest isc GLORIA FARNHAM Her golden hair and misty hazel eyes present the quiet picture of beauty which earned her the title of best lookinggirl inthe class. A member of the Service Club, she belongs to the Epworth League out of school. Collecting souvenirs and writing letters are her hob bies. MARGARET DEMPSEY Take vivid blond hair, flash ing green eyes, a sparkling per sonality, and you have lovely Meg Dempsey. She is secretary of the Alpha Chi Sorority, in tends to study secretarial work after graduation. Meg is a member of the Service Club and Glee Club. JOSEPHINE DOERFLINGER Here's another senior who is going to be a Florence Night in gale. Dark, slender hazel eyed josie is interested in children, dislikes grouches and saves oddly-shaped crystals. She is an offi cer of the Fidi Amici Sorority and in school was a member of the Glee Club and Sider Press. HELEN DUDAR She's got a passion for perfection, is a demon for hard work. Her eye on a career of writigg, H »len handled positions as Ed it or in Chief of the Sider Press and Assistant Editor of Spindrift with professional competence. Spark lipg-eyed Helen is a member of the Quill and Scroll and Honor Soci ety. BLANCHE FIELDING Green eyes, black hair and a milk white complexion brings up the lovely picture of that Field ing girl. Blanche maintained a high average throughout high school. A member of the Fri Gamma Sorority, she likes music and thunderstorms, collects ticket stubs and would like to travel. VIRGINIA DENTON Ginger was an April Fool baby, but she's nobody's dope. Gifted with a delightful singing voice, she would 1 ike to make singing her career, but like all the other girls she wants to gel married. Roller skating and good cooking are what Ginger enjoys most. MILDRED DOVEL Blond Milly is one of the family of five Hovel girls. Very tall, she has part icipated in badminton, basketball, bcavling and managed the hockey team. Always ready to lend a helping hand, Milly is a member of the Masque .Society, Service Club and Sider Press. HELEN DUNCOMBE Sweet, quiet and shy are the words to describe Helen. She won a scholarship to the Wood Secretarial School where she hopes to train to become a successful sec ret ary. She was news editor of the Sider Press this year ami listen- her main interest is school work. PETER F | N I GAN Tall and lanky. Pete is a nice fellow to know. Although lie's an, amateur magician, Pete's looking forward to an electrical engineering career. A brilliant student, lie's a member of the Honor Society. He worked in the printing department of the SIDER PRESS for three years.

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FRANCES ALTSCHUL Red- hair, sparkling eyes and a dynamic personality, this little mite has a leaning towards dra matics. President of the Masque Society last year, she is eying the stage fora career after grad uation. She’s also achamp knitter and reels off sweaters like mad. PAUL AN000S Blue eyes, blond hair, 6 feet 1 inch tall, he's the handsome, quiet Nordic type. Oaul has a dislike for work and insists that his hobby istakiqg life easy. He was active in the Rifle Club, of which lie was secretary. He looks for ward to a position as an officer in the Merchant Mari he, one day. BENJAMIN BLAU Ask him what his favorite sport is, and he'll grin and tell you Spanish athletics, for by his own admission, he is the biggest blow hard in the school. Dark com plexion and dark haired, he's a member of the Arista, collects books and jokes. He was on the track team. BETTY LOU 80SW0RTH This gentle blond girl brings up visions of pale pastels, but she's strong enough to hold her own in a bowling alley. Betty Lou likes tennis, but most of all she enjoys roller-skating with Charlie. Her ultimate ambition, is to settle down and marry. THEODORE BURKE Towering 6 feet 3 inches tall, lanky, happy-go- lucky Teddy thinks the best part of school are the vacations. He's always pushing back that annoying lock of hair that falls in his eyes. A member of the Gamma Phi Epilson, all Teddy wants out of life is a col lege education and a job. VINCENT CANDIA Dark, olive complexioned Vin was one of the mainstays of the track team. An excellent trom bonist, he was a member of the school band and also organized a swing band of his own. Vin’likes working around motors, wants to be an airplane mechanic. DOMINICK CARBONE Line up the raviole, spaghetti and pizza, and Dom will be the happiest man in the world for those are his favorite foods. A crack runner , Dom was a member of the track team. He's no amateur at golfing, either,and also likes to hunt. Dom intends to learn the cheerful trade of undertak ing. MILTON CHWATSKY Arguing is his main occupation, although he won't admit it. Endowed with a brilliant mind, he has achieved excellent grades in high school and was awarded a scholarship by New York Univer sity. His ability runs to ath-letics also, for he was one of the mainsprings of this year's varsity football team. NONA LEE COLE She has the delightful knack of writing poems, good ones too, for all occasions. Her pert Irish nose and pretty face has been capturing the hearts of the strong er sex for years. She aspires to fame as an author some day. She's also an excellent all around girl and played in all sports in school. pleasing een outstand-,t?hroughout high on the basket Hey ball and student leader ;e yearsV Jo intends to l.y nursing after graduation. EDNA COSBY Dancing, and not the ballroom kind, has been her main interest for many years. Eddy excelled in sciences inschool,and intends to study for a career in bacteriology. A member of the Masque Society,she was recently inducted into the National Thespian Troupe. She likes music, too, and plays the cello. FRANCES 8. CUDAHY Witty and charming, Franny has been making Oceans iders laugh sinre she came herefrom SouthSide after her sophomore year. Those big blue eyes and lovely blond hair shouldn't be a hinderance when she sets out to find that telephone operator's job she wants.

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RUDOLF FLADER x A hard worker, and a good one, Rudy spends his spare time dis covering the intricacies of auto mechanics. Short and dark, he plays the violin in orchestra and is a member of the Drum and Bqgle Corps and the National Rifle As sociation. Fond of blonds, food and nice cars. ELSIE FRITZMAN Energet ic, a grand sense of hum-or, and agood brain, Fritz worked like mad all year as chief adver tising stencilist of the Sider Press. She lias a passion for South American music and malted milks. An Honor Society member and a hard worker, Elsie's main interest is in increasing her short.liand speed. JOHN GILKES Voted most talented in the class, his versat ilit ies are many. Johnny is an excellent art student, wants to study ceremic art. Cap tain of the wrestling team, Johnny was a cheer leader, a twirler in the band and plays an instrument in the orchestra and band. JACK GOURLAY Math is his enigma. To live to be 100 is his ambition. His brown curly hair is the envy of all the girls. Photography and fishing take up Jack's spare time and bowling, basketball and baseball are the sports in which he parti cipates in school and in church. MARIE FLYNN She's full of fun with a zest for life. The green-eyed Duchess likes going to nice places and good food. A good position, a car and a beautiful home in the country are all she needs to make her happy. She's good at all sports. Photography and driving are her hobbies. BARBARA GEIGER Quiet and unassuming, Bobby goes about her work with serious ness and zest. This brown-eyed, brown- haired girl lias agreat love for singing and dancing. Bobby, who intends to take up nursing after graduation, worries incessantly over her Latin marks, but usually makes out fine. DONALD GILL He's apepsi-cola fiend,can bake a cake as well as his mother does and lias an extraordinary dislike for love scenes in the movies. Blond hair, green-eyed, Gil wants to study to be a Diesel expert. Played football for the C. Y.O. and ping pong for 0.II.S. Collects re fund bottles in his spare time. LILLIAN GRAFINGER Petite Lil's interests center around basketball, which she has played in school for three years, and which is her favorite spec tator sport. Brown eyed and brown haired Lil is looking forward to a career as a telephone operator. She plays the viol in in orchestra and is a member of the Glee Club. AUDREY FOWLER Preparing herself for aposition is most important, right now, to little Audrey who wants a civil service .job if she can pass the exam. Standing only 5 feet 2 in ches. she can hold her own in volley ball and tennis. Grey eyed Aud plays t he violin in orchestra and pounds the piano at home. MARVIN GEIGER Tall and well groomed, Miggs usually looks like something out of Esquire. Good looking and friendly, he's popular with the class because of his easy dispo sit ion. He's president of the Boys' Glee Club and has been on the track team for three years. WILLIAM GORDON Green eyed, and brown haired. Bill is full of fun. He likes sports and excelled in football and baseball at Oceanside. Bill is interested in aeronautics. HELEN GRINOS Vivid, blue eyes, set in an olive complexion and framed in jet black wavy uair afford a lovely picture ol' a very pretty girl. She's handy around a sew ing machine and makes nearly all her own clothes. Helen's got a lovely singing voice and was a member of the Glee Club. She was also a cl eerleader.