East Rockaway High School - Rock Yearbook (East Rockaway, NY)

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President HILLIARD PROCTOR Vice-President JACK KLIPPEL Recording Secretary ALBERT DOXSEY Corresponding Secretary JACOB FRANK Council Representative ROBERT PASTOR Sergeant-at Arms WALTER CASPER Sponsor MR. HALFORD President VIRGINIA DAVIS Vice-President MARGARET ALFANO Recording Secretary HELEN OBRIEN Corresponding Secretary IRIS WELLEBIL Treasurer MARY SEELY Council Representative ELEANOR MOORE Sponsor MRS. JOY BOYS' H I - Y The Boys' Hi-Y is one of the groups that have come into being as the social branches of our school life have spread. This organization is two years old and is a branch of the Nassau Boys' Hi-Y, a division of the Y.M.C.A. The purposes of this organization, to do good and aid in social betterment, are very abstract. To further these aims, discussions or ''bull-sessions.' are conducted. This season Mr. Studwell inaugurated a series of talks by speaking on The Marks of an Educated Person. The club is being increasingly felt as a good influence whether it is practically distributing Christmas baskets or theoretically discussing life's problems. GIRLS' HI-Y To create, maintain, and extend throughout the school and community, high standards of Christian character. In these words the aim of the Hi-Y Club is given, the aim that the girls try to exemplify. This year the club r r r r i has sponsored dances, cake sales, and card parties to raise money for charitable purposes and has had discussions on ethical subjects and a series of talks by professional women. 28

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STUDENT COUNCIL Senior Class ALBERT DOXSEY, Secretary WINIFRED HAGGARD Junior Class ROBERT PASTOR, President Sophomore Class HERBERT FRANK, Vice-President Freshman Class ROBERT McGOVERN Eighth Grade GARRETT EELMAN Seventh Grade WILLIAM GILLES Sponsor...... MISS BARRON The Student Council is the student controlling board, or ruling organization, of the high school. It dates back to the days when the old Woods Avenue School was the East Rockaway High School, and the now famous slogan, Down by the Creek,'' was absolutely unknown. In those days, however, it was the older students who had the authority in the school, and the lower classes merely obeyed their commands; but now the Student Council is made up of representatives from every class in high school. Throuqh the work of the Council a study hall was opened during lunch hour, a new Webster's Dictionary was bought for the library, and a timber path was made for bicycles. Summed up in a few words, the Student Council is the ruling body of the high school, that initiates programs, activities, and policies. 27

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President JOHN McNAMARA Vice-President HELEN OBRIEN Secretary MARY LOU BREMER Treasurer MARTHA FLANNERY Sponsor MISS GORDON President LORRAINE McGRATH Vice-President ELIZABETH HOWELL Secretary PAULINE DYKE Sponsor MRS. REILLY SENIOR DRAMATIC CLUB The Greeks may have founded the art of the drama, but it remained for the Dramatic Club to make it popular in East Rockaway High School. Members from the three upper classes have at some meetings seriously concentrated on pantomime, fundamental acting principles, and diction; at others they have listened, while sucking lollipops, to informal reports on current Broadway plays. (The lollipops are a Dramatic Club custom.) This year the club has given publicly The Queen's Husband , by Robert Sherwood, and a one act melodrama of the 1890’s. JUNIOR DRAMATIC CLUB The applause still ringing in their ears, after the finish of At the First Tee, the Junior High Dramatic Club was spurred on to further conquests this season in skits called Big Business and Francis vs. Frances . This club for dramatic expression composed of members of the 7th, 8th, and 9th grades strives to give rudimentary training to its members in order to prepare them for more advanced work in dramatics. 29