Summit High School - Top Yearbook (Summit, NJ)

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HISTORY OF 1938-1939 lTs birTh was comparaTively unheralded. When democracy reared iTs beauTiTul head, sTudenTs insTilled wiTh ThaT mosT wonderTul Teeling de- manded advancemenT. Thus The new success, The School lmprovemenT CommiTTee, was creaTed. ITS accomplishmenTs are noT mere maTerial Things. The mosT imporTanT Thing The S. I. C. has ever done, iTs major Triumph, was To imbue The sTu- denTs wiTh The ThoughT ThaT any uniT oT Their school could be Talked over openly, criTicized, and revoluTionized, iT need be. The CommiTTee is one oT The ToremosT examples oT school democ- racy To be Tound anywhere. IT you have ever aTTended one oT Their meeTings you have sensed The air OT equaliTy which predominaTes. The ThoughTs oT principal, TaculTy member, and pupil are placed on The same plane. The TruiTs oT These ThoughTs maTerialized in The opinionaTive baIIoTs and open assemblies which have charac- Terized The scholasTic year. AT one meeTing RoberT l-lufchison, our poliTician, Tramed The mo- Tion which evenTually changed The procedure oT This year's G. O. elecTion. Speaking oT alTera- Tions, The resulTs oT ThaT elecTion were mosT in- dicaTive oT popular iudgmenT. NexT year will see The Tirsf girl presidenT To be elecTed in sev- enTeen long years. Three ouT oT Tour oTTices To be conTrolled by The weaker sex. MosT revo- luTionaryl DoubTs have been expressed as To wheTher The assembly programs oT These Two semesTers have been as good as Tormer exhibiTionsl As mere hisTorians, we will noT aTTempT To deTiniTely seT- Tle This quesTion. in our opinion, The audiTorium oTTerings have been OT average caliber. One day a minor revoluTion was in The budding, be- cause we, The sTudenTs, had been denied a swing soiree. BUT There had been a misundersTanding which was quickly ironed ouT. The resulTs oT This experience Took The Torm oT a new sTudenT as- sembly commiTTee, which, alack and alas, has accomplished nil, as Tar as swing music is con- cerned. Though Miss WassTol is very charming, our assembly singing has lacked enThusiasm. IT is noT ThaT we dislike our songsTress personally, iT is iusT ThaT The appeal which communiTy sing- ing makes is raTher Teeble. ParTicularly noTiceable This year have been The many European war scares. Their eTTecT has produced some very excellenT discussions and opinions, To say The leasT. Every poinT has been expounded upon beauTiTully and logically, aT any Time, on any day, in any place in The school. The TinesT Thing abouT The argumenTs has been Their one-sidedness: They were decidedly againsT war. CerTainly our graduaTing class will never be so ignoranT as To endorse any belligerenT plans which will Tend To sponsor Them as cannon Todder. Though graduaTes may be TorgoTTen by The organ which haTh prepared Them, Though Their accomplishmenTs may be ignored, Their impres- sions oT The TaculTy will lasT indeTiniTely. Who can TorgeT Miss T'lerrmann's precise pronuncia- Tions or Mr. Downes' anTicipaTed analogies, Miss Carew's propheTic preachings or Mr. Temple's TheaTrical Themes, Mr. BarTholomew's assembly asserTions or Mr. Dundon's quizzical calm, The Commercial Corps which has been enlivened by Miss Anderson's peppy personaliTy? . . . BUT enough oT This. OTher circumsTances have ap- peared, causing us To cease This alliTeraTive adu- laTion. When The morning announcemenT proclaimed ThaT Seniors would be measured Tor caps and gowns we knew ThaT we were well on our way. A period oT leviTy and loquaciTy-The Senior Banquet A period oT mind and memory-ex- aminaTion week. All These conTribuTed To our grand Tinale. Fired wiTh emoTion, we Seniors graduaTeq Tired Tram promoTion, The Teachers re- cuperaTe.

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And so iT came To pass ThaT The school year had ended. BuT beTore iT halTed, wiTh mixed sighs oT regreT, ioy and optimism, records were delved inTo, memories recalled, and liTerary Tal- enT rushed To The Tore. Then This annual came To be wriTTen. We lThe hisToriansl cannoT say ThaT we have looked back. On The conTrary, These happenings are noT behind us, They are parT oT The unknown TuTure. For will we noT change and enlarge These incidenTs upon re+eII- ing and bringing Them To mind? On a cerTain SepTember day, every year, Three Types oT sTudenTs renew Their conTacTs with civilizaTion. They are classiTied as sopho- more, iunior, and senior, respecTively. To pre- senT an analogy loT whom does ThaT remind you?l, The lowly sophomore is roly-poly YouTh, The pracTiced iunior is Prime Middle Age, and The veTeran senior is an AncienT. The TirsT sensaTion The AncienTs had when They began This year was one oT superioriTy. They were on The Top oT The pyramid. No one could look down upon Them. BuT This invigoraT- ing Teeling conTinued only Tor a liTTle while. Then came a period oT Tragic realizaTion-Summif High would noT know Them nexT year, They would be ouTcasTs, TorgoTTen Tavorifes. YeT we will noT wover Trom our conTenTion ThaT on graduaTion nighT This senTiency will likewise be supplanTed when a galaxy oT oraTors proclaim Them as The Young AdvenTurers oT Tomorrow, The Conquer- ors oT a New World. As has been said, cerfain evenTs oT The year will be held in The back oT everyone's mind, To be produced as wanTed as evidences oT The revo- luTion oT I939. NOT The leasT oT These were The sTruggles oT sporTing supremacy. Our warriors oT The gridiron inauguraTed Their conquesT wiTh HISTORY OF 1938-1939 a vicTory over EasT Oranges ScoTT High and culminaTed Their siege by Trouncing Caldwell, and very soundly. The biggesT Thrill, oT course, occurred aT The ouTseT OT The Millburn baTTle. when Cabby Baker ran back The opening kick-OTT, over sevenTy yards worTh, To score sTanding up. All in all, The TooTball Team acquired meriT wiTh a much beTTer-Than-average season, Our sTudenT body was very proud The nighT Their baskeTball Team sTrolled on The courT To en- counTer RuTherTord in a STaTe TournamenT Game. The squad had emerged on Top in all buT one oT sixTeen conTesTs. No beTTer Team during The pasT Ten years. LiTTle Five Champions. AlThough our boys were deTeaTed in a close conTlicT, The loss did noT deTrocT Trom our admiraTion. We are sTill proud. IT we were TorTune Tellers we could probably predicT a brilliani season Tor The baseball Team. BuT we'll sTay on The saTe side by wishing Coach comog ioods oT luck. The year was noT wiThouT iTs social ceremonies. ATTer The somewhaT hilarious TreaTise on adoles- cenf suTTering, in oTher words The dramaTic Growing Pains, we prepared ourselves Tor The usual run oT TuTure expecTaTions, The lighT Tan- TasTic was gaily Tripped aT several swing ses- sions, mosT noTable oT These being The Seniors' FooTball Hop, The Leap Year Dance, The ThriTTy Hi-Y hops, and The Junior Promenade. The number oT SummiT High girls who aTTended The Prom increased slighTly This year: Toreign girls are cerTainly appreciaTed by The sTronger sex. OTher Thespian Thrills were provided by Those Two annuals, The G. O. Show and The Spring Revue. The second annual TOP maTinee drew many curious To understand The TiTles oT The plays. Ah, yes, we do have so many hisTrionic aspiranTs.

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I. C.P.A.'s, 2. Advisory Cobine+ doing so. 3. Swing os she is swung. 4. Cnrisfrnos cheer. 5. Darwin was righ+. 6. Reneorsing for Heorsf.