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JUNE HISTORY Most classes start high school by going to high school. But we, the june class of 1946, were dif- ferent. We started our higher education with a vaca- tion. The Board of Education kept school closed ten days longer in 1943. The members claimed that it was because of the polio epidemic, but we knew better. They were just scared of us, and they had good cause for their fright. After discovering that there was no legal way to send us to Garfield, Fort Dix, or the Rahway Re- formatory, the Board broke down and reluctantly let us enter the hallowed halls of PHS and even per- mitted a select group to inhabit Passaic's great his- torical site of Revolutionary Days-the Annex. Some of us lost our sense of direction that first day of school and never did arrive at our home rooms. We couldn't find our classes, we explained to Mr. Kennedy. Every time we set out for class, we wound up in the Sweet Shop! We weren't so dumb. Others forgot to take lunch that memorable first day. They tried Buck Siegel's sandwiches. After that we all remembered to take lunch. The 4-2's told us about the long forty-minute lunch periods which they had for their 2-1 term. Then they showed us how to eat two sandwiches and fruit in ten minutes so we could have the other ten to roam the halls, making noise and dropping the chocolate coating of our ice cream pops all over the joint,-oops! We mean school. ' Leon Auerbach mastered the art. He ate three sandwiches in ten minutes and made more noise than anyone else during the other ten. What a man! The upper classmen showed us other things, too. They showed us how to go from the Ofhce to 105. just go to B9 and take a short-cut through the gym. Otzi Watchman never wanted to get to Mr. Ander- son's geometry class anyway. But we learned a great deal without the aid of the juniors and seniors. Nobody had to tell the fel- lows that there were several interesting female speci- mens from the other junior highs. Unfortunately for the men of the '46 class, the juniors and seniors no- ticed that too. The boys never could understand why the girls of the '46 class preferred seniors-at least not until they became seniors. Ah, that first term. Don Lichtenberg ran JV Cross Country. Fred Shiber finally bought a pair of glasses and brushed the hair out of his eyes so he might see those pretty girls everyone was talking about. Chippy La Placa was sick with a serious dis- ease--he was sick of school. How he ever contracted the illness nobody knew. After all, he had never tried coming to school. Al Vargo was disappointed. He discovered that he could not become president of the senior class as long as he remained a soph. jack Gruss was disappointed, too. He had lost his fourth love in three weeks. We also mastered the art of Latin prose. Jeanne Small and Roz Slaff found that the Art's last name was Okun. We were happy to see promotions making us exalted 2-2's. We treated the neophytes with tradi- tional kindness. We split up in pairs. The girls dropped half dollars along the halls and the fellows kicked the sophs as they bent down to pick them up. The 2-2 term flew by, presenting us with a sum- mer vacation. But Bull Fortgang loved education so much that he decided to continue his studies with a summer course at Hackensack. Through his dili- gence, in the heat of July, Bull became recognized as one of the intelligentsia. After all, very few peo- ple made the honor roll in the fifth quarter of the school year. At the start of our junior year in PHS, love en- tered Doris Oshinski's life. Doris got that sad look in her eyes and suddenly lost her appetite. For months, we knew only that the boy's name was Ed. But the whole truth finally was revealed, Mr. Clark really had something that Sinatra could never match. Did Frank know that atomic bomb as the up and coming thing? No, but did Mr. Clark? The junior year proved that history repeats itself and some people repeat history. We just kept rolling along. Mr. Blakeslee retired and went back to Cape Cod, taking along his signpost which said, 2 miles to Passaic. Miss Grace Randall was in difficulty. She could not decide whether to award the title of Chief Sinner of A 7 to Danny Piekarsky or Roslyn Slaff. Danny became one of the few four-letter men in the annals of Passaic High. He got a P for basketball, football, track, and conduct. We ran our Junior Prom in May and crowned Carol Sidlovsky queen of the female juniors. The eight runners-up, maids of honor, agreed that the crowd had made a wise choice, after Carol pulled their hair a little bit. Dick Arnold was not taking chances about Al Vargo's hair-pulling abilities. Dick ordered a short, short haircut from his barber. Another summer brought another vacation. The war ended and we returned as seniors ready for the great reconversion. We were really very erudite by this time. Using a specially built slide rule and a vast mathematical knowledge, john Potter and Harold Small computed the vital statistics of our three years on the Hilltop. In these three years, Harry Kwartler ran around the block during gym period 139 times, stopping at the Sweet Shop 139 times. Also, Harry winked 9,863 times at 616 girls in PHS. Leon Auerbach consumed 1,629 peanut butter sandwiches, which might explain his nutty mental state. Teddy Adamcik closed his mouth exactly twice. Don Lichtenberg ran 194.58 miles on the JV cross country squad to get excused from gym for 177 days. There must have been an easier way, Don. Ronald Ruby banged the 88 keys an average of 1,019.4 times apiece. Ruth Cross spent 12.36 of the time in her high school career stand- ing on her head. Mildred Saks spelled every word in the English language incorrectly at least once. But the most important calculation of all reveals that ap- proximately 281 of us received our diplomas on the night of june 21, 1946.