Pingry School - Blue Book Yearbook (Elizabeth, NJ)

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u ilirquivxarant in Hare ARTHUR W. CLOTHIER, '37 JADIES CARRINGER, '35 GEORGE J. MORGAN, JR., '32 WFALLACE P. TRAPNELL, '21 RICHARD S. TUCKER, '34 J. DONALD FINDLAY, '39 I SCIIUYLER CRANE, 732 387 4- 7 Wanna-we . . . . . We proudly salute the host of Pingry alumni consccrat 'M' in ing themselves to thc Cause of Fl'C'f'll0lll on the glohal llattlo '--W . fir-lrls of lanrl, sea and air ..... 'LWak0 in our hrcast lhe living fires, The holy faith that warnied our siresg Thy llzmfl hath made our Nation frocg 'llo clie for hm' is serving Theo. OLIVER XVENDELL Homms Unitml States Army anrl Navy Photographs, 9' . . ri, gl J Army and Navy Public Reatmns BIITPIIUS.

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Cfuaa 0 214 . . . twelve colorful and eventful years . . Un the opening morning of school, Septem- ber, 1932, four boys, tiny, restless but none- theless intelligent, entered the dark confines of a spacious room in the basement of Pingry School, now the sacred Valhalla of the faculty. Here, under the guidance of Mrs. Clayton, they began their education which proved tedious and yet enjoyable. These four bundles of bubbling energy were Jerry Goerke, who exemplifies the phrase, uthere's never a dull moment , Ev Pinneo, manager of this year's successful griddersg HWhitey Robinson, our dramatist extreme, and Buddy Kreh, baseball captain, class president, etc. The following three years brought forth no new recruits, even though our charter mem- bers had graduated from the cellar to the first floor. However, in the fifth grade, two promising lads entered the Class of '44. One was soon to manifest his brute strength. the other his phenomenal talent for math and science. The Samson was Bill Brown, the Scientist, Bud Hopkins. ln our first year under the reign of Mr. Vars, tllree budding intellectuals decided to hop aboard the '44 bandwagon. The new entries were Bob Opie, cracker-jack drum- mer, Charlie Burkman, better known as uYour Usher and Charlie Lee, whose l. would shame the Hlnformation Please brains. Beginning their Pingry careers in the sev- enth grade were DeWitt 'fPudgy,' Page, one of the big four trombonists, uBones Kelly, and Don Miller, who is now flying in the Army Air Corps. As our Middle School ear- ecr drew to a close, our previously small num- ber was augmented by no less than ten brand new recruits. Shayne Dillon, one of the more happy-go-lucky members of our crew, and Tony Nugey, captain of this yearls dream football eleven, eommuted from Bahway. lVlatawan's pride and joy, 'fSandy,' Hutchin- son, Becord Editor Peter Sperry, Kenny Heitman, the speed merchant from Short Hills, Arnold G'Chestah,' Pouch, class pho- tographer, and Daredevil Don Both consti- tuted the more light-hearted specimens in this group. Putting the icing on the cake I age Twelve were Norm Tomlinson and Bob lVIeKeever. World War ll strategists, and versatile .lack Wlard. Wliat with the far-flung reputation of Mr. Buffum as a racketbuster, our young hope- fuls advanced into the Upper School rather timidly. However, four new arrivals added confidence as well as luster to our swelling numbers. Ed Beach, perennial class presi- dents, Charlie Losee, master electrician, Dick Mirabelli, the boy with the extraordinary gastronomical capacity, and Dave Penny, swimming captain, saw their first blue. and white light in the freshman year. As the sophomore year rolled around, the Class of '44 increased in both quantity and quality as seven newcomers joined the ranks. Bob Braeder, who represents both Short Hills and Newark, 'fSmokey Bob Hogan, Dick Killough, who produced the '44 Blue Book, Vince Kuhn, the '4Lover, Vice-President Dave McKenney, Tex MLimp Lamason, and Lon Methfessel, of ln the Grooves fame, were our newly-acquired prodigies. Wlhen our all-important junior year ar- rived, it brought with it two outstanding ad- ditions to our already dazzling conglomera- tion. One was Paul Feteher, capable student and athlete, the other, ,lohn Emery, who ar'- counts for 90? of the noise around school and whose week-ends are the source of 9021 of the conversation. Our Senior year got off to a flying head- start in July. Over one-third of the class de- cided to accelerate by toiling through the torrid summer months. lncluded in this group were two new boys: ,lack uEinstein Schreiber and Carter uMickey Mouse Class. ln September, four more arrivals graced our ranks: Wally f'0ne Play Ries, Bill 'fGucrn- seyll Levine, MTrombonist', Fred Waitz, and Westficld's Frank Webster. ,lack Clemence, .lack Cuneo, Paul Brahney and George Stickel left before, and Don Mil- ler during, the Senior year in order to enter the armed forces. New tl1at we are about to graduate, our years at Pingry have become but memories. We can only look back at past experiences with the regret that we cannot live them over again. And in future years, each glance back- ward to our days at Pingry will serve to in- crease and enrich our undying loyalty to the school.