Packer Collegiate Institute - Pelican Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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THE PERFECT SENIOR Pevsonalily Thelma Aschenl ach Laugh Solveig Ausen Creat!t ' e ?ess Louise Bachman Athletic Ability Nancy Balchunas Fingernails Beryl Block Innocence Elizabeth Coelho Hands Laulupe Coley Aiouth : Ruth Crane Efficiency Jean Dedrick Legs Mary Ellenwood Speaking Voice Barbara Frischman Teeth Dorothy Gebhard Nose Evelyn Hall Shoulders Lois Hopper Profile Cathleen Hunter Neck Marjorie Kautz Friendliness Marjorie King Hair Elfriede Koehler Walk Janet Koehler Chin June Larsen Casual ness Wilma Livingston Petit eness • Dagmar Mjos Torso Frances Poggi Lyes Virginia Scileppi Complexion Edna Soracy Wit Marilyn Sussel Cheekbones Annis Thompson Style Lois Valentine Brains Betsy Wegrocki Smile Joan Wells Spirit Senior Class Backbone Miss Giddings 36

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tomorrow. Marilyn Sussel is very good as the lead, and they say Solveig is going to have for her pet in it the dog that played with The Cherry Orchard on Broadway. How we all worried about that play, but it finally went off very well. I remember Ruth ' s nephew didn ' t recognize her, and he thought Joan Wells was Santa Claus, because of her long beard. The next entry that stands out is the one for March 13. Today in Chapel ' Aschenbach and Hair played duets on the piano. Included, of course, was Don ' t Blame Me. much to the amusement of our class. I guess that will be the only time harmonizing is allowed in Chapel. This afternoon the Seniors inhabited the Social Room, as usual. Dottie, Lois Valen- tine, Janet, and Joan were playing bridge. Janet seemed to be quite confused by Joan ' s artificial club. How often the phrase, Jo n, what ' U I do with this hand? ' can be heard. To add to the confusion June was teaching Mickey, Louise, Edna, and Barbara Frisch- man to do the Charleston, and Lupe was teaching Lois Hopper to do the Hula Hula. Marjorie King and Ginny Scileppi left to go to Jehovah ' s Witnesses for their Soci- ology survey, and word came that the Social Room is to be redecorated. I wonder how long it looked neat after that. Here ' s another entry for the same week. It ' s for St. Patrick ' s Day. Today we held a party. It started off in the Assembly Room with entertainment. Louise and Solveig each played the piano, and Marjorie King, Marjorie Kautz, and Nancy Balchunas sang. After this we went to the Social Room, and Teddie and Evelyn gave out little gifts to express each person ' s outstanding characteristic. Looking back on it, our class really got along very well. Lunchtime was another period which was full of activity. My entry for the March 21 shows a typical lunch period. Today was one of those days in the lunch room when everybody was singing. I had to eat my lunch in a hurry because I had some work to do, and Frances Poggi was also hurrying so she could practice some vaults. Thank heavens we have her for the Meet. When I got upstairs, the radio was going, Beryl was teaching Nancy and Betty Coelho knitting, Solveig and Dagmar were having a tete a tete on the sofa, probably doing their Math homework. I kept this diary throughout most of the year, but the entry of March 21 is the last I can find. Although I have no written record of the remaining days at Packer I still have memories of May Day and all the events of graduation, which are so symbolic of Packer. Our graduation was the climax of all we had worked for, or even joked about; it was a triumph tempered by the more important realization that we are not the be-all and the end-all here. Although there were many times when we were discouraged, the memories we hold are all happy ones, which on our recalling them provide us with pleasant moments. 35

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.cDfcJiK ' :;s|| m jM| Q-- v ' - .■w . ' ::;. ' -::■ ' - .JUNIOR class ' ' i c Left to right, front rou — Joan Wiel, Barbara Waldo, Ann Besthoff, Mary Jane Rob son, Barbara Sterling, Adele Krankewitz, Itsuko Sasaki. Second row— CoWeen. Maxwell, Joyce Willis, Elaine Brath, Rosemay Wolfe, Roberta Wiener, Elaine Furst, Barbara Warshaw, Janet Kraissl, Irene Schirmer. Third ;-o;i ' — Elizabeth Scaer, Audry Linton, Connie Di Geronimo, Barbara Myers, Georgette Saab, Betty Hartley, June Coville, Elizabeth Turner. ,i„- x c Absent — Harriet Chapi Dorothj! Grimm, Virginia Kumm (V- . Iv ' • yi