Roselle Park High School - Parkerscope Yearbook (Roselle Park, NJ)

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The following September, we resumed our travels, and chose N. Kemp- son as President, R. Weber as Vice-President, D. Brecht as Secretary, and G. Drake as Treasurer. Miss Hedley and Mr. Forrest were elected as our advisers on this, the final lap of our trip. This year we had four of our mem- bers on the Council of Ten: namely, B. Jack, J. Breen, W. Cotter, and R. Ruff. Those of our group residing in Springfield and Kenilworth were called back, but life had to go on without them. ln December, l937, we were faced with the problem of compiling a yearbook as a reminder of our trip. The staff was composed of B. Jack, Editor, B. Bromberg, Assistant Editor, L. Salinardo, Business Manager, M. Babcock, Photographic Editor, and S. Worth, Art Editor. On November 25, we were victorious in the Roselle-Roselle Park Classic, and the annual Thanksgiving Dance became a Victory Dance. About a month later, a Christmas Dance was given in the Sherman School. ln March, our Senior play, The Seven Sisters was presented. lt was a huge success, both socially and financially. During Easter vacation thirty of our members journeyed to Washington to see the sights. We are still hear- ing episodes of that memorable trip. After that, we were entertained at the Prom by the Juniors. We were then aware that graduation was slowly, but surely, drawing near. The Baccalaureate service was held on June l9, and on the following Thursday evening, we bade adieu to Roselle Park High School. Forty-nine

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CLASS HISTORY NE day in September, in the year of l934, a group of eager young people, from Roselle Park and Kenilworth, started on a four year tour of Knowl- edge, a country of vast realms. The trip was to be divided into four parts: namely, Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior laps. As every group must have its leaders, we elected Fred Frey as President, Alvin Ziegler as Secretary-Treasurer, Walter Gaedcke as Vice-President, and Edmund Johansen as our representative to the Council of Ten. Miss Morris and Mr. Jannone were unanimously elected as our advisers. Our tour con- tinued quite uneventfully until the Minstrel and Rotary Shows, in which many of our tourists participated. Other outstanding events took place when Norman Kempson was presented with a medal for having the highest scholastic average among the members of the football team, and when E. Ahrensfield, F. Boyne, D. Brecht, C. Bruns, R. Hazard, B. Jack, D. Lake, A. Patterson, D. Pettit, P. Pragler, H. Robbins, R. Stowbridge, and M. Werner were awarded Honor Certificates. E. Ahrensfield also won the Freshman Scholarship Prize with an average of 98th. At that time, we decided to disband for a vacation of ten weeks. In September, l935, our trailers again embarked on their iourney to higher realms. Our executives were F. Frey, President, P. De Palma, Vice- President, D. Brecht, Secretary, A. Ziegler, Treasurer, and Mr. Jannone and Mrs. Lewis, chief advisers. We had two very important skirmishes with our enemies, the Freshmen and the Seniors, and returned victorious. Her- bie Farrell, our half-pint of pep, vim, and vigor became state wrestling champion. ln June, l936, Margaret Bove, Jean Fleming, June Geiger, Ber- nice Jack, Pearl Pragler, Donald Petit, and Helen Robbins reached the high- est heights by obtaining honor certificates. Frank Szostak won the Progress Prize because of his fine work. Thus ended the first half of our four year trip. At the beginning of the third lap of our trip, Norman Kempson was elected as President, R. Weber as Vice-President, D. Brecht as Secretary, and R. Stowbridge as Treasurer. Our class advisers were Mr. Collins and Mrs. Lewis, while J. Geiger, W. Cotter, and J. Breen were our Council of Ten rep- resentatives. While en route, our Junior play, namely The Ghost Train, was pre- sented with an all star cast, and was acclaimed a huge success by all the first-nighters. The Junior Prom, the most important event of our school activities, was presented on May fourteenth by the Junior Class as a fore- well to the Seniors. June Geiger and Norman Kempson, two of our more prominent members, were formally inducted into the Honor Society, Honor Certificates, the awards for excellent scholarship, were presented to June Geiger and Jean Fleming, with the Progress Prize being awarded to John Kulp. The caravan of trailers sought a ten weeks vacotion before resuming the final lap of the trip. Forty-eight

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CLASS PROPHECY ABORPHOBIA, June 23, l958.-After a lapse of twenty years President Kempson returned, yesterday, to Laborphobia, that model modern little village nestled in the Rockies and composed entirely of the members of the Class of l938. As engineer Weber pulled the locomotive into the station, a group of singers, namely, F. Frey, M. Brooke, M. Timm, C. Speth, E. Brennan, C. Mclntyre, B. Wode, A. Baker, Bob Brown, and J. Meeker, accompanied by the band, W. Johann, R. Hazard, D. Toddings, l. Pukit, H. Robbins, J. Hur- ley, and L. Montgomery, led by W. Gaedcke, blasted out our class song which was interrupted only by the deafening roar of E. Kolisek's explosion, set off by J. Gillikin, and R. Ragland. Porter Mulshine helped the President to the platform. From there, the procession proceeded down Alumni Avenue to Class Hall, where the President was officially welcomed by Mayor George Drake and Councilmen and Councilwomen, R. Flay, R. Ruff, R. Stowbridge, J. Clune, W. Cotter, and M. Belcher. Mr. Naffke, President of the Board of Health, conducted Mr. Kempson on an inspection tour, in which the Pres- ident met many former classmates. The first visit led him to the Vail Dairy Farms, where he encountered Al Sprague, V. Vail's chief driver. Emerging from the barn in the back- ground was farmer Anderson, with a pail of milk in each hand. They then reentered the Shallcross sight-seeing bus, and headed for the town athletic field where a baseball game was in progress. Mocky Garthwaite, President of the Dads' Club, was at the gate taking tickets. Over on the bench was Coach Hanna talking nervously to Assistant Coach Rath. Scattered here and there were newspaper reporters F. Boyne, M. Boulton, J. Knapp, D. MacDonald, and editor of the Chatterbox Column, Jeanne Pul- len, taking notes for the Bromberg Daily Press. Among the spectators were such notables as Professors Jack and Ahrensfield, Doctors De Palma and Breen, the famous singer, Mme. Di Stefano, and Miss America, the all around American girl, Pearl Pragler. Overhead the clouds began to gather. They broke, and suddenly en- veloped the field in a tidal wave of raindrops. The bleachers arose in unison, and headed towards the gate. Felix Wujcik, the Tyrone Power of '58, hurried Miss Eleanor MacMillan, magnetic screen personality, into a cab driven by Salvati. The remainder of the group jumped into Shallcross's bus. Due to the inclement weather, they were forced to take refuge indoors. They went to the new Y Building, housing both the Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. or- ganizations, where National Presidents T. Fitzpatrick and R. Buchanan were installing the officers of these associations. Among them were: Social Presidents P. Davis and F. Hazelhurst, Secretaries to the Presidents M. Bove and J. Acker, Vice-Presidents M. Pryor, P. Gordon, V. Lewis, and E. Kaiser for the Y.W., and R. Benner, E. Cammann, R. Dabb, and E. Johnson for the Y. M., General Secretaries V. Glynn and R. Knapp, Business Secretaries M. Babcock and L. Salinardo, Treasurers M. Dougherty and C. Scott, Publicity' Fifty