Oceanside High School - Spindrift Yearbook (Oceanside, NY)

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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.

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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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SHIRLEY HAVENS All good things come in little packages. 5 feet 2 inches of vivaciousness and pep, her idea of complete happiness is to own a maroon convertible car. An ac complished acrobat, she bolstered up the cheer leading squad with four feet leaps in the air. Intends to be a dietician. GLADYS HOHLER A mane of lovely reddish brown hair,blue eyes, and 5feet 2 inches of liveliness, she'll be a great comfort tothe sick when she starts her nursing career. A good sport and a swell athlete, she played on the basketball,hockey and baseball teams and was a cheerleader. ELOISE HENESY Full of pep and the quest for fun,El loves dancing and friendly people. This soft voiced charmer will make some executive a good secretary one day. A member of the Service Club,El played soft ball and tennis in school. Her hobby is collecting snapshots. EUGENE INGLIS Those deep-set blue eyes contrast favorably with the olive complex ion. Friendly and well liked by his classmates, he aspires to be come a radio operator on a ship. Hates rainy weather, Latin; loafs or fishes in his spare time. He was manager of the baseball team this year. SHIRLEY HERSCHLER Hersch's greatest grievance is her size, 5 feet 8£ inches, but her ambition is to be a model which she couldn't accomplish if she wasn't so tall. Good natured and agreeable, she likes mostly everything but conceit and tur nips. Blue-eyed and blond, she collects newspaper clippings of her friends. GEORGIA KARADENES This dark haired Grecian beauty is one of the most charming and unaffected girls in the class. The ownership of a dress shop and marriage will render her complete ly content. Embroidery and fishing are her hobbies,Glee Club and SIDER PRESS her activities. CHARLES KLINE His brown wavy hair, snapping eyes and prowess at all athletics are a magnetic lure for the fairer sex. The star of last year's foot ball and basketball seasons, his taste for girls leans to blondes, but they must be nice girls. He's a Gamma Phi Epsilon and wants to go to college. WALTER KRITZER Wherever there's arguing to be done, t here you fcjtj fm nd Walter, at orat ions, eches. Tall s a ping pong fiend s well. His hobby is aphy but lie would like to life work airplane mech anie. who is pr, discourses RUTH LARSON Full of fun and a good sport, Rut hie gets most enjoyment out of dancing and crowds. She is a splendid athlete, and has played baseball, basketball, hockey and tennis in school. Ruthie wants to be a nurse or, the next best thing, a companion to the rich on trips. Plays the cello in orchestra. RAE LAZAR Dark hair and snapping brown eyes, she's always will ing to lend a helping hand. Rae's hobby is writing poetry but, for her life's work, she has chosen to be a specialized chiropractor. President of the Glee Club, she was a member of the Masque Society and Service Club. JUNE LEHMAN Petite, dark Junie rates high with her classmates for an agree able disposition ami a love of fun. Those hazel brown eyes sparkle at the mention of Tommy Dorsey, ice cream sodas and Buddy. Always willing to lend a hand, slie was make-up editor of the Sider Press and Service Club treasurer. INNOCENCE MANUELE A champ at typewrit ing, dark-eyed Innocence likes to spend her spare time at domestic occupations—cooking and knitting. A position as a telephone operator or a civil service job will satis fy her ambition completely. In nocence plays the violin in or chestra and is in the Girls' Glee Club.