Prospect Heights High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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lt didn't talce us long to become oriented, and to seek for membership in clubs. We became nursery rhyme characters for a day and won the purple and gold Agatha bar. Lucy D'Agostino and Eleanor Allocca proved that one doesn,t need a pointed head to wear the Arista dunce cap. Those who were able to read shorthand notes baclc were awarded the light blue ribbon of Alpha. As we advanced in nerve, in age, and in wisdom, many of us devel- oped talents that we never lcnew we had. The aspiring writers congratu- lated Suzanne Miller, the first of us to get a poem into Cardinal. There was Rosalie Katz with her infectious giggle and her warm-hearted stories to help brighten the staff members when they were weary of reading manuscripts. Evelyn Kings stories and art worlc gave our magazine a truly professional touch. Eleanor Cohen and Julia Marenghi, two of our Cardinal artists, helped to give distinction to Cardinal. The guidance ol Mrs, Vvunnenberg, Miss lVlcEntee, Miss McKenna, and Mr. Nathanson. helped to lmit all the three staffs into one thriving organization. We were proud of Eleanor Castellano and Jean Haubold in the bright red ribbons ot the Usher Squad. While their ellliciency tool: care of the audience, Marilyn Von Freuden and the baclc stage club became the unseen performers at our plays and other activities. When we made the discovery that Agnes Comislcy was a whiz at boolclceeping, we drafted her to loolc after our accumulated CLO. fortune. We uncovered the mystery of Minerva at the fabulous fashion show, when Jeanette Burnett, Rita Ericlcson, Ann Villani, and Anita Palazzo, together with so many other C.D. students, won applause for their original creations. A proud day came when we read in the World Telegram that Devote Hanrahan had been chosen TEEN OF THE WEEK. It was at the same time that Eunice Lugo of story-telling fame decided to graduate in three and a half years and to join our class. With our Senior term came many honors, along with shiny buttons and senior thrills. Little Connie Chunga climbed to head Big Sister. a smiling little Big Sister, who was still ready to run her feet olf for anyone at any time. At the Prom we loolced at the mature young ladies and tried to recognize in them the bobby soxers of yesterday. It has been a wonderful four years, every hour ol it. and we shall go from Prospect Heights a little wiser, and a good deal better prepared to talce our places in the world than we were when we entered it. Our IT

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I X M Wy - 5 'ui W 5 er l CLASS I-usToRY is ,R -::::2: 2 Y. ' 'V-sra5,NR0oV ' As we think hack over our past tour years at Prospect Heights, can we select our most exciting day here? Was it the time we attended our first assemhly at Maxwell Annex, the time that Miss Ekholm proclaimed us the Class of June ASH? 01- was it one of the other red letter days ot X our varied careers? Today, with Class Day here, and with Commence- . ment coming soon, things keep jumping into our minds that we thought If had heen erased long ago. fx VV e remember the ever present Maxwell that played such an impor- R tant part in our growing up. We think of Miss Bentley and of all our - teachers, the hig events connected with them, and the little ones, like the MDORDON, first time microphones were installed in the auditorium. Vve all strained to notice the difference in the sound of a familiar voice, as the microphone stopped working, then went on again. Miss Vvitherhee continued to speak to us with no mechanical go-loetween, and her direct way of talking made us feel very close to her. As the term progressed, we discovered one another. Soon we went all out for the most vivid, wildest, gayest campaign posters for Connie Pafundi who decided to enter politics as our first term Vice-President. After a few weeks of General Science, we scorned plain water and drank H20 instead. We admired and envied Frances Di Gioia, winner of the Traver Award for Citizenship, a feat that inspired her to other honors in the G.O. Council. A group of us in Miss lVlcGinn's English class decided that we deserved more than a column in Scribe. We wanted all the ads taken out so that we could have the whole last page! We attained a stronger voice in school affairs, with Doris Bloom as President of the new Annex CLO., which she and Anita Brettschneider helped to form. Then came our concert assembly in which Dolores Belt, pianist and linguist, entertained us with her rendition of Grieg's Piano Concerto. We listened to Jo Nell Thomas's singing of popular tunes, and followed her when she joined Miss Martinys Glee Club. In due time we hade farewell to the friendly, draughty Maxwell with many a backward glance of affection for the pretzel man, appeaser of after-school appetites. We eagerly entered the dignified grey stone huilding that has been home to us ever since. We were new enough to he awed lay itashing senior huttons and marble staircases. We were still docile, meek, and right thinking. We went virtuously up the UP stair- cases and down the DOWN. I6

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gratitude and appreciation go to Mr. Hoiotber tor ttie long tlours imc tias spent working for and wittl us. We stiaii rememtmer Miss Greene for iier devotion to us, Miss Kysor tor inner endless Concern for our happiness, safety and comfort. Our iove and thE1IliiS go to Miss Ficits tor tiu- ever- iasting understanding, and tor ttme triendiy smite ttiat stie aiways had tor us when we needed it most. Vve want aii our good friends at Prospect Heigiits to Rnow that tiieir spirit wiii always be with us in the tmooic ot memories ttiat we stwaii treasure always. Fiorence Koiasinsici Vincenza Latorre Elinor Ttiormodsen COOPERATIVE COURSE SENIORS t E GROUP B GROUP A