The coastland times with which is combined the pilot and herald of Belhaven and Swan Quarter. [volume] (Manteo, N.C.) 1959-1973, 1962-04-27
CLASS or 1852
RETURNS HOME
FROM BIC CITY

the yard at Manteo High School
and deposited SO tired asd ira
vel-weary seniors on Roanoke
Island soil after the completion
Of their senior trip on Tuesday
evening. Anxious parents help
ed the youngsters with the lug
gage and were full Of questions
about 'sthe big city" Their off
spring responded with the usual
"Oh Mother, Of course we saw
that!", and Honestly, you'd
think nobody ever went to New
York nowadays"
The fragments of information
which parents will be able to
, gather from their pride and joys
win probably be snatched from
the mosaic of news which the
teen-agers will pass on to their
younger friends, who were not
old enugh to make the trip.
The senior class did go to
New York, however, and these
are some Of the things which
they did and didn't do:
They didn't stop at National
Airport in Washington because:
"It was getting late and any,
body acan see batch of old
planes from q bus anyway"
They did stop at the Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier and SEEM
ed to be impressed by the milf
tary formality and behaved
selves pretty well except for the
group which wanted to sit on a
wall and were told to get down
=. mostly boys. One girl
thought that the guard walking
on duty was "a little sissy act
ing" but 'it was sort of impress
sive.''
They did stay at the Burling-
ton Hotel in Washington. They
did 60 to the Wax Museum
there. Donnie @Possum" Gam
biels thought that he saw a wax
figure of Captain John Smith
breathing in the museum. After
returning to their hotel on
Thursday evening they joined
students from New York, Cali
fornia and Ohio who were also
on class trips. in a "lot of
dancing at a ballroom in the
hotel.
They saw the Smithsonian In
stitute and the National Gal
lery. A world of interest does
not seem to properly define the
attitude which this visit pro-
duced in the Manteo visitors.
There were complaints of sore
feet and "too much to see at one
time"
They did spend more than two
hours at the Bureau of Printing
and Engraving when the pro-
gram had only called for a one
half hour visit. The Glass of
1862 wasn't that impressed with
all the money there, but the
bus driver had forgotten to get
a license for touring in the capi-
tai city and spent the better
part Of the morning looking for
one.
They didn't go to the White
House because It was raining.
The teen-agers did take a
cruise down the Potomac on
Friday night with 1900 other
high school students from all
over the country. They landed
at an amusement park 1--WE never
could find out its name but it
definitely wasn't Glen Echo) /.
The trip has been described as
"a racket to make a lot of
/, money for the boatowners who
also had an interest in the
amusement park" and "a ro-
mantle journey I'll never for
get"
At the U.N. Building in New
York, the youngsters did poke
into about every nook and
Granny. They were divided into
two groups; one section was
under the direction of a girl
from China. The bther was
guided through the U.N. by an
English girl with very small
feet. (The seniors were talk
ing SO fast that we aren't sure
about the feet business. It is
possible that they were refer
ring to the small feet on the
Chinese girl i. anyway they
were impressed with the
u. N. and the size slipper that
somebody wore.)
On Saturday night they visit
ed Radio City and saw the
Rockettes in a stage production,
The movie which they witnessed
was called Moon Pilot" new
film by Walt Disney. During
the performance someone tried
to pick Nancy Basnight's poe
textbook.
Most of the seniors slept on
Sunday morning or went to
church. A. few did make the
Parade. Della Basnight and two
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