Sewanhaka High School - Totem Yearbook (Floral Park, NY)

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CLASS OF'43 . Jxsq X in J!-f TF club design was perTecTed wiTh Tables, waiTers and poTTed palms. ThaT was' parT aT The color, The Thrill ThaT made high school whaT iT was. You were no more surprised Than many oThers To Tind ThaT The ToTem was a Junior Class pro- iecT. The sTaTT had no permanenT oTTice buT slcipped Trorn one adviser's room To anoTher, leaving a liTTle Tinished or unTinished business in each. YeT in spiTe oT numerous handicaps The worlc was compleTed. Before The spring Term began in February, o commiTTee picked The graduaTion ring, a Tradi- Tion oT The Junior year. Everyone was proud oT Them because They seemed To add a Tinal Touch To The'realizaTion ThaT nexf year you would be a Senior. The Junior Pram, The year's biggesT dance, was a TiTTing Tinale. BuT everybody had some- Thing To carry Through The summer Then . . . nexT year he would be a graduaTe, The purpose and reason Tor The years iusT finished. , s F , . A ' n.,l 5

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y X , x . ,' , .- . X . K ,Vg X i E T H 1 -'X' ' This was The beginning ol lhe lhird year, and a greaf many new experiences. as you soon discovered. Graham Pardee, Franlc Besl, James Farrell and Thecla Adams were chosen presidenr, vice-presi- denl, secrelary and lreasurer. Wilh 'rhaf as a beginning, fhe olilicial year was inauguraled and mosl of 'rhe seven hundred sludenls began really lo become involved in exfra-curricular aclivilies, belween which were sandwiched The l-lempslead Rally Dance on Oclober 24, lhe Junior Review, lhe rea dance . . . and sludies. The social whirl assumed much grealer im- porlance lhan if ever had before and you al- lended all of lhem, now lhal a dance floor was as familiar 'ro you as any olher parl ol: lhe building. Every dance was elaboralely prepared and The decoralions look Sfanlorlh Hall from one locale lo anolher. One ball wilh an Orienlal Theme was cenlered around a large Buddha: and you will never forge? lhe lirsl lime lhe Hnighl

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'li if-'K .bi 1 74 1 l QIZITJVM X L' C lla I J ali My J, lr li l, 4 L,U ffVlT lt' A ii, X ' i H 5,11 4 ZW AND THE MIGHTY This was iT . . .The senior year, The besT oT all, wiTh iTs presTige and color. All Three previous years puT TogeTher were noThing compared To This one. Odd Though . . . you felT a bit sTrange in The new aTmosphere, like an inTerne who has iusf graduaTed and hears himself addressed as Doc- Tor lor The TirsT Time. There oughT To be ample To say abouT ThaT year and There was, buT iT would naT have been exce-pT lor The class oTficers, Charles Moncrief who was ably supporTed by Carol BrighT as vice-president Eileen Jung and Bob DisTler as secreTary and Treasurer. SomeThing diTferenT in enTerTainmenT was in- auguraTed in The early monThs of The seasons. A small buT energeTic group called The Thespians .xx SENIORS