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

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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

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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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I Furohy s hIT uroe wn cn was un y AT anor Taole Rrcme Lefxnd o ace o w Y 4 ouT u arach JaneT M ngar' wn wrITI rnern e Taf e r or able wITh ner prIvaTe secreTa y I-Ielen I-les on u ck serv el excarnea DIclf a our sTeak arrvea I To Jerome Bafnan experImenTs cookvna wITh aTomIc energy ha became pracTIca WhIe w w r aT na DIck rambled on abou me oT Tne oTner member oT our class We ve all come a Iona way slnce hIgh school D ck remar ea Cla re STanl Conaress now She even ha her own column In The I ew York Tlmes She has som sT TT compeTITIon Thouan because Joan Beraman wr Te a r val column Tor Tne Trlbune STuarT Warshaur you remember STuarT has been my parTner Tor The IasT Thre years and IT and when I aeT To Congres he s gouna To Take over Tne oracTIce DId you know ThaT aT lasT w are aoIng To geT Those und rground parkways7 Joe Bona IO and Larry Svenssen have been gIven The conTrocTs Ta buIld Three aT Them rIghT across ManhaTTan ThaT nIghT I saw Good Old New York and IIke all aT Norman s plays IT was o hIT Ursel Moshenn who had came Tram I-Iollywooa To play The lead gave a wonderTuI perTormance One oT The scenes I especIaIIy IIked TeaTured Barbara LIghT and Mary lane l IuTchInson In a momenT oT exTravaaance I enTered Poms FnTh Avenue The nexT day To buy some oT GInnIe Dunnes excluslve creaTIons Whule There I Tound ouT Tram Barbara cmurdano who was modelma ThaT DoTTIe AlberT s In charge of The adverTIsIna aeparTmenT and AHIIO Mauceru and RIIO KambanIs are The buyers Tor Parrns WITh Mary Anne VeTTer and Do IS Olson as The commercral orTIsTs Tor T'Ie Tore TS wonder ThaT ParrIs has The mosT Talked abouT d splays Durlng my sTay In The cITy l looked up several or my old TrIends BoTh Anna WeIh Ind JaneT Rodger are Teachmg languages aT RIchmond I-IIII Gerald Thompson hung cuT hIs shIngIe noT Too long ago and he IS now The mosT popular docTor on LeTTerTs Boulevard DorIs Hamm has made a name Tor herseIT as a bacTerIoIagIsT wITh Th dIscovery aT pennImyccIn The newesT drug 'Nlow os I sIT here In a comTorTabIe deck chaIr TInIshIng up my memoIrs whIle The s earner ploughs slowly easT I see Gen WalTer SmITh sTrIdIng up The deck Toward me ana I wonder whaT has been The desTIny al The resT of The Class or June 49 'FET' 3547 f ,ff flul lilll WI KW II I I fl Ig ll ff I IZ R I - f E? c 'Q X -Q-f Il X P A I Passlon , T? . s g oy songsfress Pa' Oflex I re' ' ' I' r , p cner I r The Ne York an ees was gvng a To- J s, o I, o ls The , . o'rs :T n r r was aT Tn e oy T I , '. I ' I I' , I sl ., Q I lc .I I ' I s s I ', vnanlqs I I . , s , J s , . o e e e I Q ' Tso , I s '. M ' . 1 L L I Tig In s ' ef I I ' e I 4 W U I S I . -- -- e V . V SI ,- . V , K . . . e ' e . s' u .. ., .J ' ' ' ' ,II l J . . . , , , f' I S , I DO I . . ' ' ' ' e ,, . . , , , ' fN , I' -' I' 1 1 t X :ji M . rr , QQ ff f 7 ,. , n G -I I 4 I I 5 N k QA I k . r I l Y ,.'f:f.-if X ., T.,- . J t lv l , I