Belmont High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Belmont, MA)

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GIRL RESERVES The Belmont Girl Reserves were off to a good start with their first meeting in November. Under the capable guidance of Miss Richmond and their officers, Virginia Ferranti, President ; Julia Connelly, Vice President ; Genevieve Wells, Secretary; and Laura Malaguti, Treasurer, the club had a successful year. Inter- esting speakers, entertainment, and refreshments kept the meetings going at a brisk pace. To introduce new members to the aims and purposes of the Girl Reserves, the play “Down to F.arth’’ was presented at the first meeting. Old members participated in this event, and were rewarded for their efforts by an appreciative audience. During the year the club had the pleasure of hearing two excellent speakers. The first, Mrs. Mary Roy, spoke on “Christmas in Vienna” and her fascinating work in puppetry. Also at this Christmas meeting, gifts were brought by the members and distributed to children at the North F.nd Union. Because of her engaging discussion of Boy and Girl Relationships last year. Dr. Mendenhall was asked to return again this year and renew her discussion of this lively topic. A group of eighteen girls under the guidance of Miss Richmond and Miss Shaw spent a week-end at a winter houseparty during the February vacation. Outdoor sports, such as skating and skiing, furnished an opportunity to enjoy the country weather. As a fitting climax to a successful yeai, a mother-daughter tea was held in May. The members reviewed the club’s aims and purposes to find their signifi- c ance in service, loyalty, and friendship. 122 }

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BASKETBALL When the snow lay deep and the icy winds howled, the dim, but hallowed confines of our alma mata echoed, not with the names of the forgotten grid heroes or the whispered accounts of what had passed in the detention room, but the booming thud of a basketball on the hardwood court. Every afternoon the hoopsters worked hard under the tutelege of the master himself, “Uncle Mel,” and the result of their labor was one of the best quintets ever to carry the red and blue spangles into the fray, and to victory. Led by co-captains, Billy, “the butcher” Mannix and Eddie Marsh, this outfit was one of the finest since the immortal team of 1935 that won 18 straight games. They walked over their opponents and chalked up tallies in the win column that closely resembled telephone numbers. With Hank Durham and Buddy Imler on the defensive points and the co-captains teaming with Parker Carleton and Guy Jackson on the forward wall, the Belmont defense was prac- tically impregnable. Aided by such stellar reserves as Rogers, Dyer. Jack Stuart, Frank Prescott, and the seasoned veteran Tom O’Neil, it is easy to understand the team’s success, for “Uncle Mel,” could at any time send in a reserve aggrega- tion equally as strong as the varsity. i 24 }