Bay Ridge High School 1945 Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY) - Full Access

CLASS HISTORY H-for hectic, for that is exactly what our first term in Bay Ridge High was! We approached high school with no little misgiving and quite a collection of distorted ideas. For instance, high school was a cure-all for our youthful incapabilities-it was guaranteed to pick us up, whirl and spin us (with the accompaniment of some magic phrases) and presto, we would be glamorous, know-it-all lassies! Imagine our surprise when we approached and saw the old Annex, within whose walls we had supposed the metamorphosis to take place-and could such a change take place within those scarred and drab walls? What folly! Yet our young souls, tenaciously hope– ful still, expected the promised new Annex to turn the trick. Mean– while, our spare moments were spent in thinking up mischief, like the time when the sopranos changed seats with the altos in Mr. Meizel's music class on April Fool's Day. What strange sounds the "sopranos" made that day. l-our immigration to the new Annex, and certainly when we had arrived there, bag and baggage, and climbed to our air-thin classes on the top-o'-the-world fifth floor, we knew we would accomplish one phase of glamour, slimness. Then too, those gym periods on the roof in the dead of winter (with us bewrapped in coats, scarfs, bobby-sox, et al.) did cause quite a charming vermilion shade in our cheeks (the lip color rivaled even today's selection of shades-with every color from a beautiful crimson to an anaemic blue!). But little warriors that we were, we said the main building would be our just reward. That term we elected May Thorkelsen as our Grade President and Eleanor Bakke was our Executive Council representative in the Main (the apple of our eye!). S-there we were; saddle-shoed Sophies swinging through the Main– at last! Of course, we swung along a little less energetically when we started to climb from the gym to the lunchroom, down to the first and then up aC'ain to some fourth floor class! That term we got "reinforcements" from the junior high schools. Among the dainty damsels was one Catherine Wilson who became our Grade Presi– dent. Serving with her as v:ce-President, Secretary, and Treasurer were "veteran Bay Ridgeites" Gloria Enriquez, Rita Clark and Pat Moroney, respectively. Betty Macri was our able Executive Council member. We were introduced to the mysterious organization, the