Richmond Hill High School - Archway / Dome Yearbook (Richmond Hill, NY)

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f5 LJ. fllt ELZEEQ 2 fl f Jamaica -Xvenuc stood l ln the fall of H397 a small red brick building just south o -1' completed. The last brick fitted snugly in place and the wet paint sign was remover and it was ready. The neighbors looked proudly at the dome on the top of the new E E' Q E high school - Richmond Hill High School. .I , - - - - - l or thirty years the building so stood a symbol in a growing community of educa- tion and progress. ln l929. a new building was built. It boasted a swimming pool. a ninety-foot auditorium. special classrooms fe all the modern improvements a school should havesbut still some of the homey community spirit that had peryaded the older building. - lt was to this Richmond Hill that three hundred bright and eager freshmen llocked VI one cold January day in l9Al4l. Our faces shone. our saddle shoes were polished V white. and our bobby sox were pulled up. Some of us clutched shiny pen and pencil 5 sets we'd got for graduation. lt was a small class and we fitted snugly into the under- jfvqf sized assembly room in Annex 56. ' ll was then that we saw for the first time the men and women who would be our at 4 leaders for the next four years A Mr. Dann. Mr. Kanwit. Miss Koch. Wie smiled when 55,5 Mr. Dann addressed us as Hthe Class of January l948. January 19-10 seemed another age away. We were assured it wasnit. that it would be on us before we knew it. and Q?-Qmikif now it is herel .im f K Vive spent the spring term in Annex 56 getting used to what was a new concept of lilo ll! education for us. high school. Annex 56 has few facilities to offer its students. We .' found the asphalt-lloored gym hard to get used to. Mr. Kersey made us face half right so as not to hump when we exercised . . . and we soon learned what seats to avoid in the study hall when it rained. We found out what commuting means. Wie A came packed into the Myrtle Avenue trolley cars or jammed on the Jamaica Avenue X XOMQRS ICI trains. We found out just what homework is and how to avoid it. BMS 7 The first third was highlighted by our introduction to school politics. the Gil. elec- ! Q, l tions. We elected Peggy Lal'ointe and George Yvhipple president and vice-president. x 6 That spring we saw a terrific Lion baseball team, ace no-hiti' hurler Doc Wvorgul, ja and hard-hitting George Kaiser. The whole infield hit over 300. Some of us were at ji X Dexter Park the day we lost a game and the championship to Jamaica. 'It Y fy V it ln our ow'n sports we trounced a softball team from Annex 90 by lil to 2. l ew of ' V X us can forget the noisy little orchestra that Miss Hart directed for assemblies. 'I Q America was in the midst of war that spring and liichmond Hill pitched in. Over 'WH X in 56 we bought war bonds and stamps. gave to the lied Cross. and collected enough X scrap paper to build one-fourth of a bomber. s 5 1 Annex 56 was closed that fall because of the war and we were split up. Some of us went to Annex 90 with its eight llights of stairs and its annoying grammar school kids. The rest of us were sent to the main building. There were hardships for us to We felt lost at first in the swirling mass of three thousand non , n iii '1'::- I Yi. fac un 1 'Elf V : 14 I Q ' 1' T-57 1 e there. too.