the Outing Club...this picture makes you want to jump in with them and take off...
...the car looks like a late 30's Ford --the kind that had a rumble seat!
loafers and saddle shoes, but with low socks compared with our class...were these...
Bobby Soxers?
...with a young Miss Cubley on the left...
...she always read us "pwoyatry" as she said
...and of course there was Masque!
the major production of the year was Pride and Prejudice...
...and this year they went to NYC to see "Life with Father, that hilarious comedy hit of two seasons"
...the stage crew doesn't look too much different from ours...
...a
little hard to read, but the text below the picture talks about how sad
they were that the senior trip to Washington, DC had to be cancelled
because of
war conditions...
(a little problem fortunately unknown to us...)
...shortly, many of these kids would be in the fighting, and the Long Islander of the day was replete with stories of awards for valor, many posthumously...
...reading these old yearbooks leaves one with a certain feeling of nostalgia, and an enormous gratitude that we weren't among the classes graduated during that time and called upon to do what they did...
...as one reads these books, and the few excerpts here convey only a part of them, a certain empathy with --and affection for--these people inevitably develops...
...suddenly it dawns on me why that is so:
they weren't like us...they were us...
