Teaneck High School - HI Way Yearbook (Teaneck, NJ)

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'I S s T1 I ru Lt' ' w gig. WW -I Ulas Hi tory Still caught up in the swarm of activities which surround the senior year, we are a little awed by the thought of graduation. Now, after six years of growing up as a class. we are going to separate. each going a different way-to col- lege, work, or marriage. Throughout our lives at Teaneck High, what has given us thc feeling of belonging to a special group? Perhaps our small size: only 297 in allg maybe it is because we represent twenty-five years of Teaneck Higlfs existence. Most likely it is our class history- those many remembered events which belong to us alone because they happened only to the Class of '54. The first time we entered Teaneck High as a class was in june of sixth grade. when our gram- mar school teachers took us for our first glimpse of high school life. After marching through end- less halls and classrooms. we were treated to dixie cups in the cafeteria. Someone made a speech. but We were so busy gobbling up the free ice cream and jabbering away that we scarcely listened or noticed all the other strange kids who would someday be our best friends and classmates. That September we entered a confused new world, where stairways kept going the Wrong way and classrooms disappeared mysteriously. The first day. armfuls of registration forms trailed our every step. But orientation was swift and subtle. and soon we were repeating the stu- dentls creed with the enthusiasm of a football cheer: Ric. Rae. row. rowg 'il believe in honest workfi XVe began to take for granted many things which had first impressed us-our own lockers. the hamsters. lunch buying in the cafe- teria. The high cost of living was lower in those last golden days of the eighteen-cent student special. XYe bought the Te-Hi News by the copy from hhawkersn in the halls. and invested our life-savings in a Student Pass. One year later we left the position of school underdog to the greenhorn seventh graders and assumed an air of Te-lli knowhow. The boys 24