Berlin High School - Lamp Yearbook (Berlin, CT)

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DRAMATIC CLUB The Dramatic Club, one of the most active clubs in the school, has just com- pleted a successful season. A highly enter- taining presentation of “Shavings” was presented in November. Part of “The Rivals” was given at Connecticut State Drama Contest held in Danbury in which the club participated in April. The officers of the club for the year were: Elwood Johnson, President; Clifford Lehman, Vice- President; Hope DeMore, Secretary; Nor- man Johnson, Treasurer; Janet Fields, Head Usher; Teddy Schultz, Stage Manager; and Mr. E. Reed Hardy, Director. MUSIC CLUB High school music fosters “the will to be musical” through a curricula of theoretical, instrumental, and choral study, and aims toward further development of the art of performance. Our classes of instruction are open to all high school students and grant credit toward graduation. Mr. Wil- liam V. Harris is Music Superviser of the Berlin Public Schools.

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STUDENT COUNCIL The Student Council, though representa- tive of the student body, is not a governing body, but an advisory council. In this respect the Student Council has during the current year endeavored to introduce measures beneficial to the school — uni- form system of permission slips for social affairs, attendance certificates, and Play Day. The members were as follows: Victor Baccaro, President; Robert Edgerly, Vice- President; Robert Werdelin, Secretary; Fred Lowell, Treasurer; Hope DeMore, Rita Fagan, Elizabeth Sullivan, Thornton Roby, Barbara Smith, Frank Emond, and Shirley Crandall, Recording Secretary. BERLIN HIGH BEACON The bi-weekly school publication “The Beacon” is managed entirely by the students this year, under the editorship of Hope DeMore, and the faculty adviser is Mr. Henry Anderson. Miss M. Flannery oversees the typing and mimeographing. The follow- ing members are on the staff : Janice Bige- low, Harold Corr, Shirley Dowd, Carol Knowles, Robert Edgerly, Dorothy Emery, Lenore Carbo, Lucy Simeone, Pat Law- rence, Theron Carter, Anita Achilli, Har- old Yantz, Norman Benson, Rita Fagan, Herbert Schultz, Eileen McMurray, Kath- ryn Hoppe, Rose Pavano, Theodore Schultz, Lucy Indelak, Mary Beatrice, Ken- neth Scheer, Albert Bernardo, Elizabeth Sullivan, Sophie Nalewajek, Eleanor Pulito, Angie Veneziano, Dorothy Buckley, John Prendergast.

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MOTIF CLUB The Motif Club, with a membership of 24 senior girls, enjoyed a busy and success- ful year. It is a cultural and recreational organization with self-improvement as its purpose. In May, the year’s objective was realized when the club members enjoyed a five-day tour of Washington, D. C. The 1940 membership was as follows: President, Hope DcMore; Vice-President, Sophie Nalewajek; Secretary, Dorothy Buckley; Co-Treasurers, Lenore Carbo and Shirley Dowd; Sylvia Alberti, Janice Bigelow, Janette Baumann, Alda Bighinatti, Antionette Baccaro, Anna Bakanas, Mary Beatrice, Shirley Crandall, Peggy Duncan, Edith Edelson, Virginia Ellsworth, Janet Fields, Rita Fagan, Virginia Fowler, Alice Hutchin- son, Eileen McMurray, Elenore Pulito, and Angie Veneziano. Miss Dorothy M. Small is Faculty Adviser. SEA SCOUTS The Sea Scouts Ship No. 68 is composed of high school boys past the age of 15 years. The Ship is sponsored by the Board of Education and the American Legion, Bolton Kasica Post 68. Mr. Emerson Mitchell is Skipper and Mr. Kenneth L. MacKenzie is Mate. The members are: Robert Werdelin, LeRoy Riggott, Jack Tompkins, Norman Benson, Robert Tom- son, John McQueeney, Richard Fowler, Philip Prior, Frank Coligantry, Loring Burwell, Alex Barattiero, Theron Carter, Harold Yantz, Herbert Schultz, Norman Peterson, John Ruscio, Robert Gardner, Donald Giffith, Robert Morse, Fred Lowell, William Poppel, Harold Corr.