Westfield High School - Weather Vane Yearbook (Westfield, NJ)

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ELIZABETH HINCEL Senior Play Committee (4); Glee Club (2, 3); Spring Festival (2); German Evening (3). Elizabeth is a blonde, blue-eyed girl whose cheerful smile and happy disposition cause a few hearts to beat faster. Nothing is too much for Elizabeth to do, once she has made her mind to do it. She’s witty, capable, and willing to work. BETTY HOFFMAN Academic Committee (3) ; Civic Committee (Chair- man 4); Senior Play (4); Weather Vane (2, 3, 4); Catalyst Club (4) ; Latin Club (3); French Club (2, 3, 4); Community Fair (4); Annual 4 - Betty seems to have a corner on vivaciousness, honesty, kindliness, and a host of other worthwhile attributes, as well as being a fine student and a gifted musician. ROBERT AUGUST HOFSTETTER Prom Committee (4); Slide Rule Club (3); All State Band (4); All State Orchestra (4); Senior Play (2, 4). Do you know that Bob plays the French horn, organ, and piano? Yet he maintains a high scholastic average. Although a business man at heart, Bob suffers at times from Terpsiehorc.m Tnclinicus.” EDITH B. HOLDEN Senior Play Committee (4); Annual (4); French Club (2, 3, 4); Latin Club (3, 4); Catalyst Club (4); Community Fair (2, 4). Never call her Edie unless you want a display of feminine fury from this cheerful miss. Edith, one of our fluent French speakers, is also apt to emote” at a slight tickling coincidental with Spider!” GEORGE R. HOLLAND, Jr. Finance Committee (2); Junior Prom (3); Senior Play Committee (4); Catalyst Club (3); Slide Rule Club (3); Football (2, 3, 4); Track (2, 3, 4); German Evening (2, 3). Besides football and track, George's interests run to driving, dancing, and lately, sophomores. He seems obliging enough when a good pun is cracked, bur reserves special-brand chuckles for his own bidden humor. HARRY J. HOLMES Cross Country Team (4). Afield or afloat, Harry is in his element, for he is adept at hunting, fishing, swimming, hiking, and bicycling. However, Harry’s first love is a skiff, homemade on which he lived last summer, Ashore he buries bis nose in Motor Boating and con structs model boats. twenty-eight

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EDWIN HARVEY Civics Committee (2); Baseball (2); English Play (3). The faculty's up to his tricks now-—and sees that the errant Ed gives up his hall-wandering and hang- ing around the Sophomore-filled Washington School. They say lie's a bit lazy, a bit jazz-crazy» and is making a hope chest for a certain Doris. JEAN HASLAM Academic Committee (4); Red Cross Council (4); Senior Play Committee (3, 4); Weather Vane (2, 3, 4); Mask and Mime {2, 3, 4): G. A. C. (2); Tennis (2, 3, 4); All State Chorus (3). Jimmy,” senior sophisticate» drives a Chrysler and also presides over Mask and Mime. Her Lady Ducks- worth in So This Is London” charmed many beholders. JANET HASTE Liuneeloc and Elaine (2); Candy Committee (4); Senior Day Committee (4); French Club (2» 3, 4); Spanish Club (3); Volley Ball (3); Base- ball (3); Soccer (4). Though Janet isn’t interested in the boys at school» what about the young college and business men she is seen with? Will New York claim her in a good secretarial job next year? JANET HAY Civic Committee (3); Latin Club (3, 4); French Club (3, 4); Collectors' Club (2, 3, 4); Library Council (2). Having obtained a Massachusetts license at sixteen» Janet now drives. The better you know her the better you like her. She was a charming belle on Senior Day» in her gay nineties costume. STANLEY HILL Academic Committee (4); French Club (2, 3, 4); Spanish Club (4); Photoplay Club (4). Leading mimic of the ravishing Mae West and presi- dent of the Foo” Club is lfTuey.” He likes J.mcing, playing tag with girls, and mountain climbing. West- field claims this sleepy boy for ten morulis, while Fdgewood is his vacation ground. E. GLORIA HINE Academic Committee (2); Weather Vane 2, 3, 4); Red Cross Council (2, 3, 4); Mask and Mime (2, 3, 4); Hockey (2, 3, 4) ; Basketball (3, 4); Tennis (2, 3, 4); Senior Play (4). Actress, journalist, Austin passenger—that’s Gloria. This versatile and popular senior is strictly grade A and nut merely on report cards. Ask Gamble. twenty-seven

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RICHARD HOLMES Civic Committee (4); Slide Rule Club (4); Spanish Club (4); Indoor Track. (2, J, V4); Outdoor Track (2, 3, W4), Rah! Rah! cheek jacket, bow-tie, tab shirt, camel hair coat, crew hat, and “BASS. Yes, that’s none other than Dick, better known as Gingc, ' who spends lots of time with a certain blonde. GUY HOPPER Glee Club (3, 4); Speech Banquet (4); Weather Vane (3, 4); Mask and Mirtie (2, 3, 4); German Evening (4); Spring Festival (2, 3, 4); Senior Play (4). This keyboard wizard as a surgeon will wield delicate instruments, Guy’s boundless imagination and rampaging wit reveal the alert mind perched atop his lanky frame. WALTER HORNER Senior Play Committee (4); Track (W2, W3, W4); Lady of the Lake (2); Football (2); Commun- ity Fair (2). Walt,” one of the renowned hillbillies on Senior Day, has been quite active in track during his three years. This superb miler,” won three letters in track and was captain of the Cross-Country Team. MARTIN HOWARTH Basketball (2, 3, 4); Baseball (2, 3, 4). Martin is a very temperamental young fellow on the court, but a perfect gentleman on the diamond. He had the distinguished honor of being the first junior ever to captain a varsity baseball team. Mount's” chief ambition is to work in the Western Electric Plant in Kearny. SHIRLEY E. HUNT French Club (2, 3); Collectors Club (3, 4); Hockey (4); Soccer (4), If you see a mass of brown curls atop a pretty head, and it’s a petite lass who's carrying it all— well no doubt it’s Shirley. She’s usually rather quiet, but her natural ability and grand personality will take her far. DONALD HUTH Photographic Society (3); Band (2, 3, 4); Orchestra (2, 3, 4); Correspondence Committee (4). Don,” that smiling tuba tooter” with wavy hair, is the envy of all the girls. He also entered the Rialto Harmonica Contest last year. His hobby of photography is only surpassed by his superlative sign collection. twenty-nine