Summit High School - Top Yearbook (Summit, NJ)

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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.

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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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MR. JOHN B. DOUGALL SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS B.A. Adelphi College: M.A. Yale Sludies Toward Pl1.D. New York Uni- versily. Illllll ISTHAI