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

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One oT The biggesT hiTs oT The Term was The 'lAuTumn Jamboreef sponsored by our class. El Commercial, The sTory oT a Tamily oT commercials, was The TeaTured skiT ThaT seT us all howling. STuarT Warshauer and Dave Rodger were The violinisTs oT The Fall ConcerT, WhaT beTTer way To sTarT oTT The Chrismas holidays Than wiTh Dickens' ChrisTmas Carol? Many oT our classmaTes conTribuTed To The producTion oT This well-loved sTory. We began our sixTh Term wiTh one ThoughT in our minds-The Junior Prom. When The gym was decoraTed, you wouldn'T have recognized iT. AT lasT The long awaiTed nighT arrived, and as luck would have iT, iT poured. ThaT, however, didn'T dampen The spiriTs oT The prom-goers and The aTTair pleased everyone. ATTer The Grand March, led by Dick LemperT and BeTTy JanTzen, we rounded ouT The evening aT a TavoriTe nighT-spoT. ThaT was The Term we Took ArisTa by sTorm, in spiTe OT The dreaded inTerviews. The TiTTy-Tive oT us who made iT paraded around The school wearing TooT high dunce caps, horn rimmed glasses, and Tremendous ArisTa signs. BuT we TelT mighTy proud oT ourselves aT The lnsTallaTion Assembly. ln November we presenTed WhaT c Life, a play which dealT wiTh The liTe and Troubles OT ThaT Teen- age radio TavoriTe, Henry Aldrich, Norman Reiss sTruggled Through all oT l-lenry's problems ably assisTed by Ursel Mosheim, Claire STahli, and Bob Fischer. Seniors aT lasT! And, as usual, we were represenTed in every acTiviTy. Our own Richard LemperT was Vice-PresidenT oT The G.O. while Barbara STeTTen became alTernaTe and Rudolph Schumacher was represenTaTive. Claire STahli won The coveTed oTTice oT Girl Leader aT ArisTa wiTh Elizobefh T-ledbavny and STuarT Warshauer as alTernoTes. Our class oTTicers were WalTer SmiTh, Eugene Kraus, ElizabeTh JanTzen, RuTh l-lecker, and JaneT Rodger. One G.O. promise was TulTilled on The evening ThaT The Mid-Term l-lop was held. Harry Jump STump played his inimiTable Dixieland music. This was Tollowed by The Fall ConcerT when STuarT Warshauer played a violin solo. Norman Reiss was ediTor-in-chieT oT Domino ThaT Term. Too. Dolores Messemer ediTed Dome, and, along The liTerary line, Joan Doyle was elecTed presidenT oT Quill, our wriTing club, and Carol Zuecca was secreTary. RuTh l'lecker, JaneT Rodger, and LoreTTa Seebacher swam in our waTer carnival. The nexT day we all sow The annual ChrisTmas Play, The ChrisTmas Tree sTarring Norman Reiss and Ursel Mosheim, wiTh RoberT Flynn, Richard Terwilliger and RoberT Fischer. AniTa Seisler won a naTional award Tor her poem, The Mood. lT was during our sevenTh Term ThaT we were honored by a visiT Tram Lena Kihlmon, a sTudenT Tram Sweden. Welcomed aT a Tea given in her honor. Lena sTayed in Richmond T-lill and was escorTed abouT Town by The llbig wheels. An air oT mysTery descended upon The school during The weeks oT The TirsT conTesT sponsored by Domino. Everyone was asking The same quesTion, Who is Mr. Hill? Free passes To every G.O, evenT were awarded To The person who could reveal his idenTiTy, Doris T-lamm guessed The answer, Mr. Daniel Wood aT The Music DeparTmenT. This conTesT was such o success ThaT iT was Tollowed by an- oTher. Now The big quesTion was, 'Who is Lady Rich- mind? ATTer many guesses, she was Tound To be Miss Marilyn WaTers oT The Speech DeparTmenT, This was l Tollowed by sTill anoTher, yeT diTTerenT conTesT. The winner had To solve a riddle in order To find a cerTiTicaTe ThaT woula enTiTe him or her To CJ daTe aT Johns' wiTh anyone in school, wiTh Johns' picking up The check. As

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The singers were some ol cur own clossmores. Yes we were reolly molring our morlr. Joon Doyle ond Doris Kroemer led lhe closs wifn fwo English honors, whEe fifleen olhers were the oroud holders oi one honor. ln Domino, Normon Reiss' Tirsl column oppeoreo wnile ihe poperis pnoiogrophs were lolcen by Budoy Rolhmon. Florence McLoughlin won o conresf by wriring lne besr composirion on ine Topic 'll l Were o Boy,i ond Mr, Donn celebrored his 'rwenliern onniversory os principol of Richmond l-lfli. ll wos in lourlh lerm lhol we begon To loolc Torworo lo our iirsi Regenls. Among The pleosonr 'rhings wos lhe orgonizolion cl lhe Lions Club, iormeo by our G.O. represenlolives 'ro supporl 'rhe boslcelboll leom. We monoged il oll righl ond our leom wenl on lo win. Then come The lorrid bollle over the conlinuonce oi none ofhlelic moior lefiers. Aller much debofe if wos decided rho? they should conlinue. Meonwhile, our closs ohicers were conrriving +he Fourlh Term Spring l-lop which wos highlighled by o Truih or Con- sequences show. Mory Jone l-lulchinson song ond Jomes Boruro goye o hormonico solo. One weeir, lermed Richmond l-lill Week, Teo- lured o sludenfslocully boskeiboll gome wilh lhe Tourlh lerm presis den? slorred on +he Big Guns, The leom represenling +he sfuden+ body. The loculry ochievecl on osronishing viciory employing rolher unorlhodox meihods. Lodders were sel up under 'rhe boskels, ond red cords were woved lhreofeningly. A+ lhe Aquocode our own Lorello Seeboclcer swom, ond Commodore l-lollmon demonslroled 'iis oguofic obilify, o rore occosion of Richmond l-lill. AT lhe beginning oi our Tiilh lerm Mr, Donn led The impressive ouldoor ceremony dedicohng fhe bronze doors. The lwo 'rhousond six hundred ond len dollors lor lhe doors were lhe funds lell lrom The money opproprioled for wor worlr. Thol wos lhe yeor Richmond l-lill celebroled ils golden onniversory, ln honor of rhe occosion we welcomed boclc filreen hundred olumni o+ on All Grods Doy Cele- brolion. The leslivilies included o speciol ossembly, on oquocode, ond o communily supper. The speciol lreol ol the doy wos o ploy wrifren by ond slorring The loculfy. Since we were privileged fo see Fiffy Years A' Groduo+in', if would be impossible For us lo iorger 'rhe mony impersono+ions by lhe leochers. -A-WM f 6 EN, We ei ii Th RICHMOND HNLL 4 vv' Osh oo xi. ,GPN vffvxcx, YS 777 0

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sevenTn Termers we so d Ricnmond Hill posTers and succeeded in reducing our senior aues. Our class was Tinisning up iTs long record o? service To The scnoo. ,loan Doyle was aoooinTed EdiTor oT Domet Joan Bergmann was To be The EaiTor oi Domino wiTh RenaTe Seger as AssisTanT Eoiror. EighTn Termers and weren'T we proudl Maybe we dia have To waiT a :ew weeks Tor our Senior haTs, buT werenT They worTh iT? WiTh The confusion aT receiving Senior naTs. buTTons, ana phoTagrapns and serving on numerous Senior commiTTees and oTher Senior acTiviTies, The Term iusT seemed To Tly, Why, we hardly had Time To sTop and congraTuloTe loan Bergmann, Beverly Levine and Joan Doyle, wno mainTained The Top Three averages ThroughouT Their Tour years oT high school. loneT Mongan presided as presidenT aT Quill and Jean Morlock was Treasurer oT The Newman Club. WalTer SmiTh won honorable rnenrion in The FirsT Annual High School Salon al PhoTography Tor his scene aT a Tree in The winTer sunlighT. Claire Slahli reTurned To her posT as Girl Leader aT ArisTa while STuarT Warsnauer was Boy Leader. ElizabeTh Hedbavny was secreTary and Norman Reiss Treasurer, while Beverly Levine and ArThur Goldberg were alTernaTes. Weill never TorgeT The TalenT Show aT March l9. Norman Reiss acTed as masTer aT ceremonies and Harry ilumpii STump performed on The drums. Our play producTion group puT on i'You Can'T Take lT WiTh Youi' in May and Mr. Daniel Wood direcTed The Spring ConcerT. The unusual Spook Dance, which was sponsored by Senior ArisTa and held in May, was one aT The mosT successTul evenTs ever. Besides oTTering a TerriTying Fun House and o gala Tloor show Tor enTerToinmenT, There was music by a TeaTured dance bond and a special shock surprise in The Torm aT a TrighTening FrankensTein rnonsTer wha loTer unmosked, Turning auT To be ArTie Goldberg. Mary Lou Quinn and her commiTTee worked hard To make The Senior Prom The wonderTul success ThaT iT was. Over 420 couples marveled aT The TransTormaTian oT gym To ballroom and carried away Their souvenir giTTs as memenTos oT a never To be forgoTTen evening, Senior Day and Class NighT were planned and direcTed by Norman Reiss and his commiTTee, bringing To lighT some unknown TalenT oT our classmaTes. The Class NighT play saTirized school liTe wiTh The Theme oT The '49 gold rusn. Meanwhile The good news reached us ThaT loan Doyle ana Dick Lemperr were among The TirsT To be awarded scholarships. WiTh so ambiTious a beginning The class oT June l949 has sTorTed on a career which, iT is LTOFZCG, will be long and oeneTicial. lTs beginning nas been auspicious ana iTs iuTure seems rosy. 1 2 Q