The 1950 Talisman















Robert Arthur Hougasian (Hoppy)
President
Born: New York City 19**
Entered Greer: 1941
Student Council, Y.P.F., Public
Speaking, President: 2, 3, 4
Editor-in-chief School Paper
and Yearbook, Martin Play,
Senior and Junior Plays.
Football: 2, 3, 4; Captain 4.
Basketball: 4. Baseball: 4.
Plans to enter college. "Doubt
whom you will, but never yourself."


Patricia Anne Dean (Pat)
Treasurer
Born: Brooklyn, N.Y. 19**
Entered Greer: 1946
Top Honors: '47, '49. History
Award: '48. Prize Speaking
Award: '47, '48. Representation
at Herald Tribune Forum: '49.
Athletic Letter: Hockey. Martin
Play, Junior and Senior Plays.
Glee Club, Assistant Editor of
School Paper and Yearbook.
Student Council. Enrolled at
Albany Teachers College.
"Life is like a game of chance.
I do not like the way the cards
are shuffled, but yet I like the
game, and want to play."
Grete Aoyagi (Grete)
Secretary
Born: New York City 19**
Entered Greer: 1941
Glee Club, Cheerleader,
Student Council, School
Paper, Junior and Senior
Plays. Sports: Hockey,
Basketball and Baseball.
Plans to enter Packard
Junior College. "This above
all: to thine own self be
true, and it shall follow
as the night the day, Thou
canst not then be false to
any man."


Jack Maynard DeWaal (Jack)
Vice-President
Born: Marshalltown, Iowa 19**
Entered Greer: 1946
Glee Club, Art Editor of School
Paper. Football: 2, 3, 4, Basket-
ball: 3, 4, Baseball: 1, 3, 4;
Plans to enter Merchant Marine
College. "So much to do, so
little done."
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Patricia Virginia Childe (Pat)
Born: New York City 19**
Entered Greer: 1943
History Award: '49. Glee Club,
Cheerleader, Photographer and
Sports Editor. Sports: Hockey,
Basketball and Baseball. Plans
to enter Business College.
"Giving is true having."


Janet Elizabeth Gregory (Betty)
Born: New York City 19**
Entered Greer: 1937
Top Honors: Class of '45, '46, '48
Student Council, Y.P.F., Martin
Play, Senior and Junior Plays.
President of Athletic Council.
President of Class '46.
Captain of Hockey and Basket-
ball Teams '48.
Letters in Hockey, Basketball,
and Baseball. Advertising
Editor of School Paper and
Yearbook. Cheerleader.
School representative at the
Herald Tribune Forum: '50.
Enrolled at Albany State
Teachers College. "One Life -
A Little Gleam of Time
Between Two Eternities."


Yvonne Lucie Alexander (Yvonne)
Born: New York City 19**
Entered Greer: 1945
Choir, Glee Club, Y.P.F., Prize
Speaking Award. Sports: Hockey,
Basketball and Baseball. Martin
Play, Junior and Senior Plays.
Plans to enter Coker College.
"If you want something done, do
it yourself."




Jessmin Szeto (Jazz)
Born: Canton, China 19**
Entered Greer: 1948
Glee Club, Junior and Senior
Plays. Sports: Basketball.
Plans to enter Clara Blanchard
Russell College. "Where there's
a will, there's a way."
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Agnes Regina Slewick (Aggie)
Born: Brooklyn, N.Y. 19**
Entered Greer: 1943
Martin Play, Junior and Senior
Plays. Glee Club, Y.P.F.,
Cheerleader, Athletic Council,
Prize Speaking Contest (Honor
Awards). Poem published in
National Anthology of High
School Poetry, National Echo
and Sermons in Poetry.
Athletic letter: Basketball.
Hockey: 2, 3, 4, Baseball 2.
Plans to study for Laboratory
Technician. "The spirit indeed
is willing, but the flesh is
weak."


Dawn Kay Christian (Dawn)
Born: Mt. Vernon, N.Y. 19**
Entered Greer: 1945
Glee Club, Humor Editor of
School Paper. Junior and
Senior Plays. Sports: Base-
ball, Hockey; Athletic letter
in Basketball. Cheerleader.
Plans to enter Nursing School.
To err is human, to forgive,
divine."

Jean Augusta Decker (Jean)
Born: Port Jervis, N.Y. 19**
Entered Greer: 1946
Public Speaking, Junior and
Senior Plays, Glee Club, Opera
Club. Sports: Baseball and
Basketball. Plans to enter
Geneseo State Teachers College.
"Know thyself, presume not God
to scan: The proper study of
mankind is man."
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