Kensington High School - Compass Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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m TEN YEARS 1937 United in all activities for the advancement of education, science. and vulture stands Kensington High School celebrating this year ten years of service to Builalo. lts fame carried to the far corners of the earth has proved its unceasing efforts to further world peace and better understanding. Mr. Thomas J. lVlcDonnell assisted by Mr. John Chassin and 66 faculty members. first opened the door of Kensington High to 1850 students on Sep- tember 9, 1937. ln the decade that has passed. Kensington has risen to the heights in scholarship. music, dramaties. journalism. oratory. sports. and patriotic drives. It is an accumulation of little things that have made Kensingtoifs brief history. Some recall the keen competition in athletics that brought to the trophy ease the Columbia, Syracuse, and Williams Cups and the Scalp and Blade Trophy. Others re- member the debates. declamation, and oratorical Contests with the winning of the debate award in 19441. Many relive the hours spent in beating the dead line for the Compass appropriately named after the school's distinguishing feature in marble which has been trod upon by every student. and publishing a book that has consistently taken top awards in Western New York. Students in school and those on the battle fronts recall the Ken Knapsaekv which tried to keep the scattered members of Ken- sington one big family in touch with school news and each other. A tradition that has been with Kensington from the first year is the annual splendor of the Christmas Pageant -fKensington's expression of the WH loin Pan:-k, Mr. Haggerty and ward Toale examine the .lap l94l-Sonie beautiful scnoritas from lhc production 'l'lic Belle of Har- celonaf'

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0F PRIIGRESS 1947 holiday spirit. In the spring were the operettas g'Miss Cherry Blossom, 'The Belle of Barcelona, the Cay Ninetiesf' The Rhapsody in Black. and spring concerts. Each spring the girls pre- sented an elaborate Water Follies. Winning the annual essay on Americanism spon- sored by the American Legion was only one of the ways the students brought honor to Kensington year after year. Other students acquired top honors in contests sponsored by the Navy and by corporations like Westinghouse and the National Association of Meat Packers. During the war, Kensington gave everything it had. It took top place in the city salvage driveg in a national drive for selling war bonds sponsored by Hobby Lobbyg won a battered Jap flag captured in the Solomon lslandsg gathered books, clothingg and donated food. 928 sons and daughters volunteered in the armed forces+38 of whom gave their lives. It is to these who gave so much, that the student body plans to erect a memorial. Built of black mar- ble with a bronze plaque, it is to be installed in the space that the trophy case now occupies. Into it will be sealed a metal box containing the names of the students who helped make its erection pos- sible. The plaque will be dedicated early this fall. With the return of peace, Kensington once again returned to an active daily life renewing its inter- ests in clubs which discuss atomic energy to those which strive to understand international relations and develop international understanding. As each succeeding class forms the HK on Senior Day, the students, with their hearts firmly planted in the past, will let their hopes soar to the horizons of tomorrow. 1947-V-Kensington High School today. Photo taken by Joyce Wagner, Room 404. l944: Congratulations to the Compass Staffs of '41, '42, '43. lNote: We also won the Yearbook Trophy in ,45 and 7163 1942: Ilow's that for ti record, Mayor Kelly? 1945: An informal pose of Kcn's Minstrels---Margaret Ryan, Sher- wood Szen, Kenneth Swannie, and Eileen O'Mara.', i 1