Well, I was at HTS from '58-'62, but Prospect girl must have been 2 classes ahead, and as I recall, we had only fear of upper classmen! But I'm sure we had a lot of the same teachers, all of which were under the eagle eye of the principal, Sr. Louise. I ended up at HTS in the 2nd half of my 4th grade year which I guess started in January '58, and managed to stay until graduating in June '62. Did you get a miniature Lane chest back then? Not sure where it came from, but I think a classmate's parents must have owned a furniture store and talked a supplier into providing these mini chests for the entire 8th grade (and yes, I still have it).
You talked about living on Prospect Ave. near Central Ave. Because my Mom worked, I was sent to a 'pre-school' on the corner of Prospect and Central. It was an old converted house parallel to Prospect that backed on to the railroad tracks. It's the white & green house in the pic of the old prospect Station on this site (
http://www.hackensacknow.org/images/prospectRR.jpg ). I do remember the house across the street as the one you mentioned in other posts. It was on the NE corner of Prospect & central, a big white house set back from the road with a big curving driveway and lots of shrubs. I was really impressed with the '47 or '48 Black Packard that was often parked there.
Warren