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

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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

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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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Destinations I heard The singing of The sTars, describes exacTly how I felT as The plane 'DesTiny glided Through The air. Gazing down upon The world below, I wondered where my old friends were and whaT They were doing. Perhaps aT ThaT momenT we were passing over The rusTic cabin of Carl Aller, Jack Shaw and Jimmie Kelly. I was siTTing There reminiscing when a voice inTerrupTed. IT was The sfewardess asking if I was comforfable. I sTarTed To say yes, buT someThing familiar abouT her made me ask her name, She was Lorraine Hoefener, one of my classmaTes aT Richmond I-Iill. Since Lorraine had a few minuTes To spare, we choffed awhile. I asked her if she heard of any of our school friends. Why she exclaimed, didn'T you know ThaT The piloTs are Charles Sheffner and Alfred Gunderson7 N I answered I had no idea Yes and Ida Schurnmel is a sTewardess for This line Too On a plane you are always running inTo people you know JusT IasT week Doris Fischler was on This very flighT on her way from France To acT as unTerpreTer for The U N I meT Florence McLaughlin Too Now a famous correspondenf she came aboard lasT year on her reTurn from Europe We had dinner TogeTher and Talked abouT high school days We were inTerrupTed Then because The plane was approaching Idlewild As I waifed for my baggage To be checked I saw The cover of BeTTer Homes Journal IT was a picfure of a dream house painfed by Dave Rodger I flipped The pages unTiI I found The plans for The house wiTh an arTicIe abouT The archiTecT Johnie Tegeler Making myself comforTabIe I sTarTed To read The magazine The more I read The more surprised I became ThroughouT The magazine I ran across The names of former cIassmaTes Why The fashion ediTor was Elizabefh Hedbavny now one of The besT dressed women in The counTry BeTTer Home s .lournal also confained several inTeresTing arTicIes including one by Marilyn Weiser enTiTled Womens Place in The Modern World Anofher amusing arTicIe was Babies Babies and More Babies by Joan Doyle R N head nurse aT The Kew Gardens I'IospiTal The secTion devoTed To fashions was really one of The besT I have ever seen The dresses and gowns designed by Anne Meyerdierks were simply divine The prices were ouT of This world Too' On The door of The Taxi I Took To my hoTel I noTiced The name of Thomas Cough lin The famous millionaire who owns a whole fleeT of cabs in The ciTy Since l planned To see a play during my Three day sTay I decided To call on Norman Reiss He is one of The biggesT producers in The counTry and if anyone could geT me a TickeT on such a sharT noTice I was sure he could As I enfered The elevafor someone Tapped me on The shoulder Hello he said remember me7 OT course I repl ed Dick LemperT' ITs been a Jn ,, On, I ., . ,. ,. . ., . . if ' if I . , ' . ' ' ' . ., 'ag' T ,, 'HF I. long Time since Ive seen you. WhaT are you doing? ur. , I I I I u ' . yy -'IQ -i 'lv . I ,ly ' .7 . - . s , 1 , ' 6325 ' ' : lf--If l'IavenT you heard7 he asked I m running for The SenaTe in November B. Oh I apologized Ive been away for such a lang Time ThaT I donT know whaT s been happening Dick and I wenT To see Norman TogeTher I was sur prised again when I enTered The office for his secreTary was none oTher Than Doris Kraemer Norman noT only gave us TickeTs To The opening of his new show Good Old New York buT also asked us To loin his parTy Dick invifed me To dinner While we were waiTing for S our order Harry STumps orchesfra played George I 6