Thomas Jefferson High School - Quid Yearbook (Elizabeth, NJ)

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YEAR-1929 paring for his big flight across the South Pole. Airmail was flown from the United States to Latin America, and in thirty-two hours a plane could fly from New York to San Francisco. Progress was definitely here. With science advancing by leaps and bounds, and with the nations of the world deceiving each other with promises of arms reduction, daily life went casually on. In the sports' world, the Philadelphia Athletics took the World Series from Chicago in five games. Bobby Jones won the U. S. Open golf title, Babe Ruth was still the great idol 3 and Gene Tunney, heavyweight champion of the world, had already retired undefeated. Big Bill Tilden was king of the tennis worldg its queen was Helen Wills Moody: and Gallant Fox was warming up for his Triple Crown year in racing. Tremendous changes were being made in the motion picture industry, where talkies were discussed as the new medium which would transplant the silent films and challenge the legitimate stage. Old heroes of the silent pictures either switched to the new technique or disappeared from the scene. Broadway saw thirty fewer produc- tions than the previous year, for, as the winter neared, unemployment spread and gloom and worry were in the air. This former happy nation now had little time for frivolity. However, the season managed to turn out such hits as Let Us Be Gay lrather ironicall, Berkeley Souare , the Pulitzer Prize winner Street Scene . and Jerome Kern's Sweet Adeline . Radio moved into big business. Huqe-salaried stars emerged as more and more talent flocked to this med- ium. Vaudeville had not long to live, but it still boasted such performers as Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, and Dick Powell. Nineteen twenty-nine marked America's hicih climb in wealth, and a crash to the darkest depths in modern history. lt was a year which bowed out the celebrated flaming youth of the roaring twenties-the sheik and the flapper. America hummed 'Singing in the Rain , but it had enough sobriety to forget isolationism and to awaken to a re- sponsibility in world affairs. And America has never stopped singing. ll P nv 1.-Z D -1 .-iv,--M E -' .'1s ! ' f 'F i Brown Bros. Somber crowds gather at the Stock Exchange during the great crash. Every wall was wet with tears. Elie Nemm Elimzs. fm X . -N ,, . . WW. t .nm-.-. not X.. ,M ...U - N. -mg:-it wfmumx f. -A nuvxwl txt: L'2'a'H'- -J- L'5 Ql- . .ff A .s,,.s1.... BYRD SAFEL YFLIES TO SOUTH POLEAND BA CK, LOOKING O VER 'ALMOST LIMITLESS PLA TEA U ',' DROPS FOOD, LI GH TENS SHIP ON PERILOUS TRIP iam up-n.a.t.4....-..f. ' i ' .Hamm Fmsr Mission wuz slam mom ms soum mullwt Bllllllll ms ll H501 FIU , N .,,. s 'W s . 'AU' Nm V PM I N by I V . ,:'lffA '-M,-,:':L'f '-.fzjnmmt-4 .M Commander film China and Plll ,W - Wmjjjjjj-:L H t 1 Rom Upwarl Amid Swirling Drift . Aim,-.mi Ain:-:Ass novo nsmsrr, a. mn. :iss r. no-fr 00' Tlvwglv Gvfgl N TIWIM A i -.fit.......i,,.i. assA.M.x.a.v.a.r Lriu. .N.'.n.-uyalqhu... N 'W' S ...,,...,.i.. ...i..........i......,.Z'J'.. .t.L..r.-.n,s.u.-f.. lUllllllllfWlllll'lU 'WWW' nf'UfPllMum3oadalup,uu-walvd. Wlunntlumri. We T'm W . s - YA ln In Q hand, th Fu H M J On-dquunfnnhohlnruqll ixrhtwdhulwnm ' .. . MM- 'nw A an Nunn . ,,.. - vi.. .ia-.,.M.u9u....-w...4a.m.a-a-Munn.-stir. l.u.n.u-1 -W-W--me um . inxaizsr. A s,mo--..a.un-eau-lqnsntnnhdu-Ahh.h' ...an- 73 l-73'ltlli'il1ki,RlPY'iATlliii I' '- 'H--H--M-In-sms-e--a--4 1'..E:'iiE :.'E-'l13 ' ' sa., ' W tn.:-Amtita wha-..n-an-,NunHl.hn.GmvnhAuahlnhp. Ullman .......:.-, .aa-1... 1 I A imma ummm .Mau N... if r..o..u.....s..4-4 a-gunman.. '?..g'.'.: :'..:':. ,.'.. ,1.':.'.'I. ,, .:,:,'2 . ,, mcmm. -..wa-a,uudnh-l'snshnqhut!iqnn- ..............-.. 1.-...- ,. . fzxff if. ta.. 5.-W M .Q t.. l-H' wa 'l-Hm- 2.'..n... .. .. ..:.-.... ... .... -.....- asv. f.,..p.vt ll'Hnlk' Kai I, I 1- .'-' '-iii .1.V.:f33,xj.g.: t.,.,.....3...1.I' CAPlllllllS?l1 L 'fhflwgs-6 .:1L'.1', ..1.l':.'L'.LI'.I.'I.':'.'..Z'. :.. .': uizuun ua is vm M F' ' ' ' ' sh. ml cars:-T: ......bxU:.':4.:-xy, . .,,..,,,,,,,',f,j'1 2',,: :. -.-.'-.. q U-in-can-ug-4-ny nn-an-as .,.-,...,..,. .... ... f,..f.,,,..s.... .... -W rw-----M 1:'::z:'.-.:'mF?w--1-Q-v .-... 'P is.. L'.'2'.'f'.!I.. 2 '.L1'L.'1 ...'2.'2.'2'. New York Times The bottom of the world flashes under man's eyes: the first message from the South Pole. A 41 QW ' 5 ff 6 'f 5 R557- fs it ' .1 - 1 f -1 A A ii r S -3,1 . 4 Af, Life Magazine by Philippe Halsman The lt girls-the jazz products of this roaring age known as flappers. Life Magazine by Philippe Halsman Rudy Vallee: the megaphone and an . adenoidal voice made him qreat. A --

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from our first faculty? No? those days there were more hair and less worries. because Jeff's new, young, ambitious mathematician, her head bursting with sundry and diverse formulas-l929's Florence Gorgens. ff. . ., The fighting men of Jefferson-1929 style. A jam session. Man, dig dis daffy dozen! Beau Brummell himself Lester Williard THE FIRST This year, l954, marks the 25th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson High School. lt was a quarter cen- tury ago that a group of high school seniors first found themselves in this new building, A great number had transferred from the Battin High School, and wondered how they would get along in a school void of co-education. They also realized that their class represented the general first impression of the new school, and that the reputation they should establish would very well set a prece- dent for future classes. To us, twenty-five years later, the initial class of Jefferson occupies the first floor in our structure. Many people were apprehensive, but the first class was more than equal to the task. When it was grad- uated in l93O, it had formed a strong groundwork over which the succeeding classes would freely build. The purpose of this unit is to re- view the past quarter century. As each year passes the history of Jef- ferson High School and the world will come alive again, And now, let us return to the year of the founding of Jeff, the year l929. . . Nineteen hundred twenty-nine began with the police raids on speak- easies and bootleggers. lt ended with the aftermath of the stock market crash. It was the last year of the fabulous decade of peace and pros- perity. The year opened upon a mil- lionaire nation, ran headlong into panic, and closed with a promise of early recovery-a promise which was not to be fulfilled. On October 24, the New York Stock Exchange suffered the great- est crash in its history. Big investors and small buyers alike were ruined, Throughout the nation production slowed or stopped, as countless busi- nesses failed. The free-spending, carefree '2O's were dead. The fabled streets of gold proved to be cold, hard stone after all. Many were wiped out financially, and the de- pression spread across the country. Herbert Hoover was inaugurated President, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn in as Governor of New York. Aviation began to bind the na- tions of the earth into one world. Admiral Byrd was in the Anartic pre-

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'Sm These prospective Tarzans constituted Fred Wiebesiek's Muscleteers the Tumbling Club. These hustling gentlemen represented Jeff on the diamond in the days when Ruth and Gehrig were in their prime. sei? in TIME MARC!-IES' ON The depression slowed things down, but event- ually we were able to reestablish ourselves and to progress to greater heights. Thomas Jefferson High School, as well, fresh from her new start, be- gan to climb. These pages represent a pictorial sur- vey of life in Jeff, and of life in the world about us -two and a half decades in review. The Kamp Kookery Klub Makes your mouth water doesn t lt? Charles Harm in 1936. Miss Catherine Close- .Cliff0f'I J. back When - . A dapper printer. not for long, though. Today she's known as Mrs. Harold Vogt. DlSTlNCTlVE The Mademoiselle, Miss Mary Murphy, in the 3O's. Seems as if they're going to burst into the Marseillaise at any moment. Note the attire on this organization, The Camera Club of 1930. Their motto- Snap, We Have It. Daring, eh? 55 as fi H it Sl 22 Oh, brother. Don't take this ad too seriously Prices were different in the good old days.