St Marys High School - Gael Yearbook (Manhasset, NY)

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History STOP LOOK AND REMEVIBER In September 1932 our llttle red jalopy pulled up ln front of St Marys Our freshman green blended w1ll Wltll the battered fenders and our shaky knees vled w1th IIS clankm carburetor Wlth a cou h and a sputter we started off on the most dlfferent, rf not the most excltmg year of our journey toward Commencement We had the reen light and plunged mto our new subjects Of course we knew the speed Ilmlt was 60 but blology al,ebra Latln and no study period caused qlllle a traffic Jam Bflgld Elson and Harry Cullman each had one hand on the wheel and Ileltllel' could agree on whlch way to turn Thls made the tr1p a httle more CXCIIIIIU but old falthful dldn t appreclate lt QTOP Our 1n1t1at10n outfits almost stopped traffic The lrls wore black stockln s audy k6I'CIl1CfS, and one whlte sock The boys fared a httle better they just bought elevator passes We noticed that John Roswat was first ln hne DETOUR We left the mam h1 hway v1a our first Hallow een dance All the glrls ea erly plled out of the car and most of the boys fnot qlute so ea erly N O STANDIN C We almost ran down the battery waltln for EISCIIIIOWCI, then the presldentlal nomlnee, to rlde down Northern Boulevard W e missed two classes walted about an hour and one half md caught a ,hmpse of hlm for about two minutes That ended our pohtxcal plunge 'VIERGING TRAI' FIC Our httle, red Jalopy really ffot lTl0Vlll0' as the basketball season rolled around The yarslty beat the faculty ln thelr annual game We took speclal lnterest cause a freshman homeroom teacher was hwh scorer wlth FIVE POIWTS Basketball WISE, remember Tom Spellmans terrlfic basket? He raced down the court got hold of the ball, shot He misses trles agaln HE MADE IT neatly plac mg the ball ln the wrong basket After that he started wr1t1n about basketball CHILDREN AT PLAY We had our battery rechar ed at the Chrlstmas show Remember our llttle orchestra complete wlth Jo Tests cello' We were on first and I don t tlunk the pro ram ever recovered especially after Roger, .lohn Marino and Tom Cullman played Wlllte Christmas CURVE AHEAD We rounded the bend and our Valentlne dance rolled 1nto vlew Decals on the wlndows ld6IlIlfI8CI our llttle Jalopy but even more frosh hke were 1ts passen gers Those dog collars and plaid caps we wore were just the thln and an emphatic Geor e filled m all the gaps of conversation We got the old bu,,y slmonlzed to wltness our Hrst school play Anne of Green Gables We had some parents as passengers that day and all enjoyed a real Ceorffe performance CAUTION Althou h our sprln s had not yet sprung sum mer was drawln nl' h and so were exams We re fueled on paramecla Latln verbs, and loads of equations All of us survlved that road test and doubted that we could ever l1ve through regents We parked our Iidltllflll conveyance 1n a safe place ready for next year It was a l1ttle worse for wear but IIS trunk was full of happy memories and we looked forward to addm, to them come September Came September we all plled mto old falthful and gave her the un leavlng empty bottles of sun tan o1l freckle cream and soda pop ln our wake dr1v1n seems her lust blff sunburn hadnt worn off Beach t1me w ns mer and we CI'lllSClI around looklng for a new diversion THE LIFE XOU SAYE 'VIAX BELONC TO A PROSH We even ,ave the old carburetor a chuckle as we put the frosh through thelr paces Their outfits were a blt more appetlzm than ours they wore hfesavers on the ends of IIICII' IJIUIHIIS Our en thuslasms carrled the lllltlatlOIl from the school Ward mto the L I R R And so Wllll our fervor went all future llllll ations AVIS We met several ro idblocks dlsgulsed as Spsllllbll and french Spanlsh was a guesslng game We were always wonderlng who our new Spanlsh teacher would be fwe had five that year! Terry Lee, Mane Sherldan Nlary ,lane Hudson Bob Center and Don Papae wlll never forget their lnte rated Span rsh class Well bet you a quart of o1l that all five teachers wlll never for et It elther RELENTTLY CON S FRULTED W e followed the scent of newly baked cookies to the homemaklng department Then our home ec l Y Y . Y . , L I S ' ' - . .1 1 ' ' , 9 ' 9 9 ' ' . 1, 1 . . . . . U D - . . ' U Y 1 ' D . . . . o Q - . L ' I 4 7 ' ' . . . 1 g E 1 1 as gn , ac g 99 1 . Y . 111 . 1 11 .- . 1 . 1 I 9 U 9 9 I UU. Y ' ' Y' I I I' . I aa 1 99 7 . 9 ' I 1' . - Y an 99 . . 1 . . . M . ' U ' 0 1 . ,, . , . . U . U' - F 1' 9 N- ' 'I 0' . Y I - 1- c- ' . 1 1 , 1 g . Y , Y gn g , 1 1 . V. I 7 U I7 L. . Y . Y . . 1 . . Y 1 1 . ' ' ' rr . ' ' 'U Y ' Y- 1 fs 1 . . 44 . 73 V' 9 . U . 1 1 ' , 1 g , 1 1 1 g D Y ' 1 Y . . ' 1 followed them- Pat Regan took the wheel and had a little trouble . . . , Y Y gt ' o L L ' 7 ' YY Y 1 ' e C T -w , Y 1 vu l ' U Q u Q c V ' r . 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Leo Honor Members are Fred Anderson Nlary Beth Nleaney .loan Burke and Peter Myers A Graduates Prayer long but when temptatlon grew apace they left Thee scandahzed at Thy demands for holy ln mg Other some ll3WC not left Thee wholly hut they haye fallen far far short of what you desired because they llstened to the maxlms of the world Dear Lord I want to serye you just as you want to be sery ed and I want to serye you always but I am weak as weak as they who falled You So keep me near You always true to Thy ldeals and ney er let me go away dear Lord Author unknoun Z4 l I I , L J' A ', I 9 Others, dear Lord, have loved Thee much and have followed Thee 9 I 9 -I I 7 9 1. . . ' 7 J 5 7 ' 9 1 -yn , .

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majors, ,lane Trede and Judy McNally, offered to the old Jalopy new shp covers fjust as soon as thev learned to sewj, fwe havent received them yet'l Hearing some exasperatlons, we went lnto the shop to find Bob Cuckenburger surrounded by ln- un equaled COIICLIIOII of book ends He was futllely trying to find two that matched LRObS ROADS Old fidllllflll took ll slowly as our track stars ,lllllllly Woods, Pat Whalen, and Tom Spelhnan .logged along IICGIIIC us, but we nearly locked our gears when we heard that Tom Cullman, Phll NlLllOIZlQ, Al Ro s, and John bupanclc had made the ,I V SPILILD Tl'VIl:. BI RADAR W e wlnzzed past our Halloween dance md made our next top at hollv tune and the LIIFIQIIIIIIS As embly Our soph representatlve Elleen Ryan and B lrbarn Sexton who h 1d been IJFICIICIHQZ lllell' fhnrleston for xges eyen went so fur a to wear authe IIIIC costumes Ihey were nltroduced und Une the slgnal for the muslc to begin It dldn t, tl1ey tried lgillll SIICIILC prevalled l'lll ally W alt C asper offered to pl ty them a waltz' DILTOURD beyeral detours then followed 1n qlllClx succes s1on Flrst the Valentme dance, June Rapp Pat Hurley and Rlcky L1 Perra were our representa tues W e never could forget our fir t IlllSS1OIl day We pltched penmes, guessed weights, and had a bnby plcture contest Does anyone recall the boy who won' RELP TO IHE RIGHT Wfe nearly got our slgnal mlxed when the Stu dent founcll went full swlng into lllell' Keep to the Right program It ehmlnated congestion and made Illlllgh interesting as you had to walk all around the hlll in order to reach the class that was next door to your prenous one PARKING 12 AM 12 PM fame the soft breezes, the Crocus, and our first regents Putting the car keys aslde, we really cracked those books Our mental tortures com pleted, we parked the car, coyered It wlth canvas 41n deference to lts lgeb and salhed forth ready to forget all those geometry proposltlons, and to enjoy some summer fun Now we were upper classmen and filed lnto our lalopy wlth Illghlty, not because we were Junlors but because we were afrald the old Jalopy would fall apart Pat Regan agam took the wheel and we sat Walllllg for Barbara Larrere to arrlve It seems that 'Whitestone Ferrv was always late SPILED LIMIT 65 We almost exceeded the speed l1m1t when we plunged lnto chemlstry The rest ofthe school was well aware of our experiments as odors of hydro gen sulfide wafted through the blllldlllg Some glrls carrled their experlments mto the home and the most mterestmg results ensued hyeryone will al w ays remember the glrl Wllll the green hair PROCEED AT OWN RIbK Havmg put skates on old fdllllflll, we all showed up at the first skatmg party sponsored by the boys qodahty fSome eiger skaters stood up all the w my home and 1ns1 ted they were more com fortable that way J HObPITAL ZONIL The jalopy got a complete oyerhauhnff We found out she was ln better phy leal lOI'lllltl0Il th lll those poor glrls who were trymf' out for eheermf' 'Ill61l' 81011115 aehed, thelr WOIQCQ were hoarse., md they woke up 1n the lllldlllt of the Maureen fhfford ,lanlce Kron, Arlene Monteleno, ,lune Rapp Larol Fowler Pat Regan, bandra Reilly, Pat Hurley, Pat Drummond, Jane Mc Feeney, and Mary Dalton made the squad CO GOCO Sportswlse, thls year was fabulous We nearly ran out of gas runnmg to all the basketball Games Harry fulhnan made the VARSITY and Phil WlCll0IZlS, John bupanclc, John Roswat, Tom Lulh nan, Al Ross, W 1ll I'r1el, and Dlck Young plaved ,I V W e filled the tank Vtllll Duper Hlgll Test when we heard that Harry Lulhnan and B111 Frlel made the All qtar Team 'Vfmy lllll10I'S were members of the cast of' A Woman Wrapped IH Silence, our M xrlon Tear productlon Speaking of dramatlcs lets not forget I:,mm1hne Demtto who represented our school m many speech contests and our class ln many more, nor Peter Myers whose speech added much mterest to the lnnual speech contest Remember the CIIICICCII Ind the wlnd that was blowing the wrong wav 9 WINDINC ROAD lOur radiator nearly boiled over watchmg that exerting duet between ,lane Wlcfeeney and Gall de Mascola on the f hrlstm IS Show h 'lhat old engine really broke down and cried and so dnl our wallets when our representatives ,ludy Roddy and Blll Frxel werent elected Klnfr and ueen at the Valentme dance . . . . . 1 V . ,, V v 1 1 1 y y 1 . 9 ' , . . . . . . 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