Page 21 - PINE CREST 1955

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5.30 Alarm rings in Dorm III. Cindy and Mori stumble out of bed to study for an English test.
8:00 Teachers call an emergency meeting. Decision: Three senior skip days in a row are quite
sufficient.
8:02 A screeching of brakes, a cloud of blue smoke, and the Foreign Automobile Association
of Pine Crest arrives.
8:02% Joel and Duke unfold themselves-from their Austin and MG respectively.
8:06 Jim gets Russia on his short wave radio. Tells Bulganin off.
8:15 Margo and her ’55 Chevrolet “arrive?”
8:25 DeSoto Dick arrives and removes a junior and its car from his parking place.
8:27 Ambulance comes to remove junior.
8:30 Bell rings.
8:35 Seniors amble, walk, bop, skip, slither and slink to classes.
8:45 In creative writing class Nance yells for correction fluid as another headline is rubbed out.
9:30 Lowell, in his favorite brown shirt, faces life with Mr. Stauffer.
9:40 Sally Jo nets an A on her muffins.
9:45 Mrs. Patterson suffers from indigestion.
10:05 “X” vanishes from study hall for his mid-morning snack.
10:25 Seven minute morning break. Pandemonium reigns.
10:29 Students evacuate patio to prepare for classes.
10:30 Mr. McMillan announces to his history class that he is extremely rough and feels
“just like a tiger.”
10:31 Wayne growls back.
10:50 Senorita rings her bell, awakening Willie.
11:13 Lan leans on a ’55 Oldsmobile aerial. Snap!
11:30 Jean answers Mrs. DiSimone’s question with a simple statement, “flowers.”
11:31 A class meeting is called to order by president Richard Artie Holman. Secretary
Martha Lott has difficulty reading the minutes of the last meeting. Faulty shorthand?
11:45 Miguel struggles through the weekly “palabra” test.
11:55 Students groan as the subject of term papers is brought up.
12:00 Buck sends note up to Mrs. DiSimone. “It’s lunchtime. Can we go?”
12:01 Mrs. DiSimone says, “MAY we go?”
12:02 Joyce fakes knock on door.
12:03 Seniors storm cafeteria.
12:07 Dust coats the campus as seniors take off for noon rides.
12:10 John, alias “Bone,” takes to the Melaleuca tree.
12:20 Barb, sitting in the dorm, decides whether to attend afternoon classes or not.
12:35 Seniors return to stomping grounds.
12:50 Bell rings.
1:00 Seniors go to classes.
1:20 Sherry asks Sue what margins to use on a pica type when typing a 150 word letter.
1:30 Sue says, “Uh-huh.”
1:40 Linda and Nancy are busily at work putting the finishing touches on their popular comic
strip “The Adventures of Whip and George” or “What Being a Bird Means to Me.”
1:50 Sally Manning launches into another of her frequent hour-long soliloquies.
2:00 Martha Pogue passes her 140w.p.m. shorthand test.
2:15 Pat Forward leaves for New York, the bright lights of Broadway, and perhaps a glimpse
of Brad Littleton.
2:30 The Discipline Committee measures Ralph’s bermudas to see whether or not they are
less than 3 inches above the knee.
2:45 Margo Linden is caught napping in the English room — it’s time for phys. ed.
3:15 Mr. Gorden calls, “All out” and Sally Houser drags herself to the dorm to report that
ten laps of the pool is a physical impossibility.
3:17 Doors slam, duals roar, and students shout “goodbyes” as another “Typical Senior
School Day” comes to a noisy end.