Tenafly High School - Tenakin Yearbook (Tenafly, NJ)

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AN IS FOR ATTITUDE Safe driving habits occupy Mr. Williams and B. Carlisle. BEAUTY IN GREEN Senior girls display talent for acrobatic contortions. DEGREES DOLORES RUTH Aanrro B.S., West Virginia Wesleyan CAROLYN BARBER A.A., William Woods B.S., Louisiana State University ANTHONY I. RADOVICH B.A., North Carolina EUGENE C. LITTLER B.A., Nebraska M.A., Columbia KIM DREZNER B.S., Tufts ELTON L. WILLIAMS B.P.E., Springield M.A., New York University RALPH I. CAVALUCCI B.S., Utah State DRIVER EDUCATION Proper Attitude a Prerequisite THE RIGHT WAY Mr. Cavalucci instructs K. Rombout and E. Lapaluza. Racing the second-hand of the Porto-Clinic test apparatus, parking six inches from the curb, and absorbing lectures on attitude, automobile mechanics, and evils of alcohol-all play a vital role in transforming characteristically exuberant and reckless teenagers into respectful, careful drivers. Injecting their Driver-Ed chats with illustrative and often amusing anecdotes, Mr. Williams, traditionally addressed as lVilly, and Mr. Cavalucci bring out the fine points of automo- bile navigation, the technicalities of motor vehicle laws, and the rules of 'fgood road conduct. Finally, mastery of classroom fundamentals and attainment of age 16W permit the student to venture forth with an alert instructor in a training car to develop confidence, and general road sensef, MUSCLE-MEN Onlookers see prowess of Mehrhof, King and Santoro.

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Diversion and Distraction 17 , PHYSICAL EDUCATION 'WW AMW ,iz - I CUTE AND COLLECIATE Checking health notes is one job of vivacious Mrs. Drezner. Traditionally the dullest and most disliked class in the school day, physical education became this year a period eagerly awaited and thoroughly en- joyed by THSers. Spacious locker rooms, new equipment-rings, horizontal and parallel bars, ropes, weights, and exercise racks,'-not to men- tion the added distractions in co-edi' gym classes when the electric partition failed to operate-all drew the interest of even the non-athleticv habitual gymdodgers. But only as good as its instructor is any class, and with Mrs. Barber, Mrs. Ardito, and Mrs. Dresner, whom we regretfully saw leave at mid-year, and coaches Littler and Radoviczh, a dull moment never existed in Phys-Ed. AW, C'MON . . . Coach E. Littler encourages maintenance of high standards with B. Markle, I. Mac Gauley, R. Woodward, L. Mizell. . 1 10 'f ' . t in Wiwfiw ffflfj SINK IT, CAROL, SINK ITl Mrs. Ardito coaches a game with C. Conniff and I. Smith. JUMP BALL-CET IT, GET IT . . . Stolid students stare as Barber balances basketball. TECHNIQUES OF THE GAME Mr. Radovich teaches the Tarheel method to aspirants, junior John Zerkis and sophs Jett Smith and Mike Thom.

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2 6 1 MUSIC Resonance of Mellifluous Tones BASS CLEF HARMONY Spirited songs are delivered with enthusiasm at assemblies and at the annual Spring Concert by the Boys' Glee Club. With the addition of a magnificent new music wing, the melodic harmonies drifted even more abundantly down the halls of Tenafly High School this year. The music room with its tiered seats, the equipment room with its convenient shelves for instruments, and the soundproof prac- tice rooms with their punctured wall-paper, added DEGREE E. BROCK GRIFFITH B.S., Trenton M.A., Columbia Always faced with the problem of too many basses and a dearth of tenors, the boys continually resort to their falsetto. incentive to the already inspired singers and in- strumentalists of the musical organizations: The Girls' Glee Club, the Boys' Glee Club, the A Cappella Choir, the Orchestra, and the Band. Unforgettable to the musicians as to the audi- ence was the Christmas Assembly. Under two long ropes of evergreen, male voices blended as the THERE IS SWEET Violins: G. Brodersen, B. Carroll, N. Schrnader, R. Reale, H. Ediserer, S. Holiday, B. Reisner, S. Gilbert. Director: E. Brock Griffith. Piano: R. Trefethen. Flutes: N. Farnum, G. Gallusser, I. Rutherford, T. Williams. Clarinets: E. Ocbis, L. Cardozo, L. Rapport. Bass Clarinet: I. Goodwin, I. Gillette. Bassoon: I. Barbero. Trumpet: S. Gibbs, T. Church, R. Bryant. GRIFF ENCOURAGES PATRIOTISM A commanding down beat from Mr. Grif- fith begins the assembly with America.