Packer Collegiate Institute - Pelican Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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SENIORS BETSY WEGROCKI A JioL JLu. v Gentle and quiet, a lady all through. ,, A bright little student. . . . ( ■ ' And talented too. fdAC JOAN WELLS She ' s an artist — always drawing a croivd. ,Vf

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DEAR DIARY June, 2000 Dear Diary, Today, while I was rummaging through the attic, I found something that took me back fifty years. It was the diary I kept during my Senior year at Packer. It brought back memories that I had long forgotten. How many pleasant memories that diary of the Class of ' 50. I ' ve been rereading the diary and have experienced many a smile and many a pang in recalling the daily episodes. For instance there is the entry of September 21, 1949, the first day of our Senior year. Gee, it was good to see all the kids again. We had a lot to talk about. The summer went so fast and everybody is so tan. Tomorrow we get our caps and gowns. Then, we ' ll feel like Seniors. How time flew after we got into the routine of things. Here ' s an entry that ' s typical of our class. It ' s the one for October 24. We certainly make it hard for Ruth and Evelyn. I don ' t know what they would do without that bell. We were almost late for Chapel this morning. They ran around telling us, ' The music ' s begun. Hurry up and get on line. ' After Chapel there were the usual announcements. Elfriede asked us to pay our class dues, and Jean Dedrick asked us to pay for our Pelicans. Betsy wanted suggestions for a forum topic. We finally decided on Should Religion Be Taught in Public Schools. ' ' After announcements were over, there was the usual dash for the last minute cigarette before the ten o ' clock class. This afternoon the Workshop had a Gay Nineties Revue. Six of us did a dance routine to By the Sea. The costumes included shower caps and gym suits. Marjorie King sang Hello, My Baby, and Nancy Balchunas did I ' i Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage. One part that was very good was the take off on a silent movie. The Senior specialty, the Flora Dora Baby, was also done. The revue was a big success. Teddie deserved a lot of credit for the work she put into it. Here ' s one entry that is remembered by many m our class. It is the one for the 21st of November. There certainly was excitement in school today. Last weekend six of us went away for big college weekends. Teddie went up to the Syracuse-Colgate weekend. Ruth went to Cornell. Wilma and Cathleen both went to Boston, Wilma to M. I. T. and Cathleen to Tufts. Mary and I went up to the Yale-Harvard game. Throughout the day all I heard were tales of the weekend ' s happenings. Then, there was our Senior Play, Tbe Cherry Orchard. How we worked on that. Here ' s the entry for Dec. 1, the day before the play was given. At lunch today we made up a song about the play. We changed the words of ' be With Yon at Apple Blossom Time to ' be M iih Yon in Cherry Orchard Time. Then we went around the lunchrooms and sang it. I think we ' re going to sing it in Chapel 34