A B Davis High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Mount Vernon, NY)

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l . is me vii Q WM s ' f '..' ! A ttf if 1 I' 4 'ik 9' Our twirlers and drum majorettes added a great deal of needed color to our football games. These girls were our sehool's flag-bearers, and gave us a brilliant show of school spirit. In basketball this color was lacking, but in the fast-moving football games the spectators were more than satisfied. It was our basketball team which represented Davis during the winter months, and while we were far from the top this year, every man was in there doing his best. Davis has always ex- celled in fair play and good sportsmanship. Let us continue to strengthen these good qualities so that other citizens of our City may desire to know us. 6 X xr!

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REVENGE IS SWEET Crowds shrieked, bottles barely missed the umpire, expectancy shone on the faces of every spectator. Who would the victor be? It was the ninth inning, two out, bases loaded - one strike, two strikes, three - you're outl Cheers, jeers, and once again Davis students had proven their physical prowess over their classroom Simon Legrees. More exciting than any Dodger exhibition, the Hill-top sports fans welcome in Spring each year with their annual Student-Faculty game. The diamond displayed many good points on last May ll, with Mr. Russell, Mr. Avery, and Mr. Cullen hop- ing to keep face for the teachers after their combat against the more agile younger generation. The Babe Ruthls of Davis included Larry Parker and Herb Ramsey. The highlight of the game came when Larry, with one foot raised in preparation to descend on Mr. Cullen's unsuspecting head, had to decide whether his school or sports career was more important. In that second, with umpire Pop Phillips an unbiased spectator, Larry chose the former. Although our Worthy pedagogues battled commendably, as usual, they had to admit the students' superiority.

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CONFUSIONS MASTERPIECE Long before motorboats and doughnuts were invented, the world was bothered by the apple. As the story goes, Adam and Eve partook of the forbidden fruit and suiferedieternal damnation-fatal applel Henceforth, all who tasted of the never-to-be-eaten green apple doubled up and became twinsl This was their punishment, and as a result, the rest of the world suffered. People hesitated to speak to all carbon copies for fear they were addressing the wrong party. Whenever the dittos went shopping and waited on lines, one was refused by an icy, haunting voice- only one to a customer. The good citizens of the town were forced into con- fessing that they had just a wee snort whenever the double editions crawled by. The druggist prescribed aspirins and seltzers, but people still saw double, and the druggist, failing to mollify the situation, was exiled. Alas, the factory that supplied the aspirins received no orders and had to close down. The workers were jobless and had no buying power. Qther workers, because of this, were forced into oblivion. The town was becoming cadaverous. lVIultiply this drastic situation by thousands and what have you - a hopeless merry-go-round of con- fusion, strife, and depression. Then, out of the troubled sky, came a Hash of hope in the form of Noah VVebster. Taking his powerful pen into hand, he inserted the word twin into his dictionary. He, wise and understanding, knew that some children would nibble on the sour apple, and double up. Therefore, wishing to redeem them he interpolated his wide-read text and wrote: twin-one of two persons or things related by ties of birthfl He never mentioned their sin, and, as a result, the ever-grateful, ever-increasing army erected a monument for the man who provided a refuge for them, who saved them from the flood of bewilderment. Thus it was that Noah's Ark came into existence. And now, centuries later, the world thrives happily, and has grown to love and accept twins-so much, in fact, that a certain Johnny Appleseed planted apple seeds in the hope of cultivating this one-time destructive apple. So the story goes. . . fShades of Gemini, what liesl J