 That, indeed, was student body from the final day of July 1956. Probably the most familiar cast member is Bob Hastings, born in Brooklyn, New York, back in 1925. He was not yet a teen when he began showing up on radio as a boy singer. After serving as a navigator on a B-29 bomber during the Second World War, Hastings returned to radio and starred as Riverdale High School student Archie Andrews.