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

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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

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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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X 8 xi OF '42 N. and headed by Bob Fex, supplied some oT The besT slapsTiclc and sTraighT comedy The sTudenTs had ever seen. aTTer They gained experience and smoofhed ouT The rough spoTs. The audiTor- ium would Till To capaciTy when They were To be on. and you oTTen Tound yourself wandering down .There To waTch Them go Through Their sTunTs in gooTy 'cosTumes, when you should have been sTudying. There was noT much neglecT oT classworlc Though, because everyone was well aware OT The nearness OT graduaTion. There were TrequenT visiTs To The Guidance OTTice To Talk wiTh Mr. Sanford abouT The various colleges, or The opporTuniTies oTTered To sTudenTs by The Air Corps or Mer- chdnT Marine. MosT oT Them had Taken voca- Tional invenTory TesTs or had received excellenT direcTion in applying Tor scholarships. By The Time The OcTober recepTion for moTh- ers had corne, The seniors had Tound Themselves and once in a while you would be able To Tool a hall cop and go Through The halls wiThouT a pass. Soon iT was The nighT oT The Senior ParTy