69 days until the 50th Reunion
As many of you know, Paul Younghans, will not be able to attend the 50th Reunion. But he wanted to share with his former classmates a couple of items that he found stashed away in one of his mystery cartons. This is the first edition of
Reveille published by the senior class of 1962: The October, 1961 edition. I've put this up in a large size so you can read it while you are tapping your fingers waiting for the festivities to begin. You may have to get out your magnifying glasses to assist you.
There is a way for you to read the pages on your computer. Left click on the page. When the pop-up page changes the image it looks like it changes to a smaller size. But not really.
Right click on that image. When the menu appears click 'save image as'. Label the image anyway you want, like: Reveille Page 1. Then click save. The image then downloads to your computer. Use the magnifier in your own computer's photo gallery system to increase the downloaded image to readable size. That should work. You will also have your very own copy of
Reveille to print if you wish.
Here's an abridged report on the front page:
* Four new teachers joined the faculty, including new PE instructor, Margaret Stockhammer, who had to fill the formidable sneakers of the well liked, Miss Rodgers. Father John Flanagan, replaced, Father Houghton, as "being in charge of Holy Trinity HS". Funny, somehow it seemed he was always there.
* Janet Roguski, was inaugurated as Girls' State Governor at Douglass College, New Brunswick. She learned and did almost everything a candidate for office could possibly know and perform within our political system of government and in its electoral process as they were designed to function. A laudably prestigious accomplishment. This probably explains why she isn't Governor of Texas today.
* Freshman were given a complete rundown on everything that would be expected of them over the coming year including a warning about a much to be feared "jug". Yes, never pass up an opportunity to intimidate the poor, lowly beasties.
* In the middle of the page we learned that, Charles Mattina and Lucretia Bace, were installed as temporary officers in an exciting new political club, the Teenage Republicans. Do the Romney campaign veep-vetters know about this?
* Barbara Griek qualified as a semi-finalist in the National Merit Scholarship Program. Catherine Bartels, John Finch, William Hogan, Catherine Keegan, Willis King and Nancy Roberts, were awarded Letters of Commendation. We'll have to stay tuned to a future
Reveille edition to find out how Barbara did.
* The U. S. Navy was offering a scholarship. Maybe Ted Hack can fill us in?
* And five seniors; Barbara Staib, Stephanie Woodruff, John Finch, Charles Bodayla and Charles Mattina, will be attending a journalism class. We all know how
THAT turned out.
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Page 2 has a conservative Op Ed offered by, Willis King. A liberal rebuttal by an alumnus, Robert Wilhelm '61, appears in the November edition. [Were there no liberals in our class?] Together they make for an interesting political / historical time-capsule, especially in light of events that would soon follow our leaving the comfortable womb of HTHS. Fifty years later both positions sound remarkably familiar.
* Mary Anne Zambito, releases her inner, Murray the K.
* Elaine Reinberg, my former next door neighbor - Hi Neighbor! - does the Alumni-News. Elaine had a natural gift for interviewing the more mature collegiate male.
* Two reporter/artists by-lined as, "Lu and Cathy," cover the pleated plaid skirt euphoria of the senior girls at being the first upper class in Trinity history to wear the innovative not-a-uniform uniform. The girls were so besotted with them those skirts might very well turn up at the reunion.
The rest of this edition you will have to decipher as best you can on your own because my eyes are rebelling against this shrinking print.
Page 3:
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| Even kindly, Barbara Staib, can't resist mugging the frosh ^ |
And finally, the
sports page. Sorry, no scores in this one, but there are several faces and names you will surely recognize as well as some well written sports columns.
Paul and I hope you enjoyed this historic literary excursion.
You might send Paul an email and let him know what you think of his contribution. He'd enjoy that.
Next week: The November, 1961 edition of
Reveille.
