Red Bank Catholic High School - Emerald Yearbook (Red Bank, NJ)

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nological. It’s no longer as monotonous as it used to be. Wave upon wave of athletic accomplishment cast its hero upon RBC shores. Three football victories after a previous year’s total of defeats. State trophy for cross country. A better showing in wrestling than expected. Glorious, glorious basketball with its fever pitch excitement. Base- ball turning in its fair share of ups. Who wants to be king of the surfers? Of course, an unde- feated girls’ track squad. It’s no longer as unre- warding as it used to be. Controversies threatened to capture us within their churning whirlpools. Side burns, how long? Bells, why not? Mass day, compulsory? Cafeteria lunch, everyday? Homework, still? Independent study, honestly? Formal dismissal, really? It's no longer as docile as it used to be. Down, down were we plummeted into the murky depths of a black and unanswerable why. Recuperate and raise yourself, only to have yom faith dashed to smitherines against more rocky whys? Why Joanne Cordaro and the plane crash? Why John Copperthwaite and the sickness? Why John Ciallella and the war? Why John Courtney on the no chance side of a gun? Why is God dead, or is He? It’s no longer as secure as it used to be. Tides ebb and flow and only rise after their lowest ebb . . . and “the times, they are a chang- ing” . . . and there still lingers a quiet Christian hope in a Spirit who can renew the face of the earth. TABLE OF CONTENTS ’69 Calendar ......................... 4 Dedication .............................. 9 Academic ................................ 22 Activities ............................. 62 Athletics .............................. 80 Students .............................. 112 Directory ............................. 150 186 Index

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THE CHANGING TIDE 69 A FOREWORD What a year. We had to learn to expect the astounding, to believe the unthinkable, to accept the change. A ferment of trends rolled over us like blowing sand. Teachers returned with new names or status or style. We ourselves arrived with “soul and “cool. Male fashions took a colorful lead and bell bottomed pants suits belonged to all who dared. It is no longer as drab as it used to be. A foaming froth of academic experiments was sprayed across our minds. Field trips to stock market and synaogogue, independent study with carrels attached, films focusing on a symbol as undreamed of as a red balloon, tapes and trans- parencies and slides and recordings and here and there a book still holding its own amid the tech- 2

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SEPTEMBER Class rank . . . locker numbers . . . IBM sched- ules. Sharpened pencils, clean book covers, ball point pens with unbitten tops. “Patti 4 Pres.” High hopes for the team end in a moral victory over Red Bank. Tests, homework, practices — the events, like a series of waves, bat- tered us with awful rapid- ity. OCTOBER Victory! Before RBC vs. St. Jo.’s ... all that pep at the rally; after RBC vs. St. Jo’s, all that pep in the school yard. 9 weeks tests plus PSAT for 10th, 11th, 12th; IQ for 9th. Cross country comes on strong. Wash those cars, shine those shoes, sell those flowers — the missions need money. And just for fun, “Let’s dress up for Halloween.’’ 4