Richmond Hill High School - Archway / Dome Yearbook (Richmond Hill, NY)

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Page 16 THE DOME ,ay The Dome of thought, the palace of the soul I l THE DOME H s 1--.R E -- iltwlllt' b f PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS or RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL i f EDITORIAL BOARD EDITOR-IN-CHIEF .... FRANCIS E. KEATING CIRCULATION STAFF Business Manager ..... LESTER SKINNER Assistants Assistants RUTH WADE ELISE DANN NATHAN KOSSACK HERBERT GRANOFF Aclvertisiug Manager . . EUGENE BURMEISTER Annex 56 . . M. BERNSTEIN , . ...... . GRANOFF Treasurer . . . . LAWRENCE cLIsT Am 90 J FACULTY ADVISERS B kk . . . . BERTHA NOE 00 eepe' ANNA PRICE ROBERT H. PROCTOR Faculty Adviser . . SUZANNE B. LENT Art Advertising Issued Quarterly RICHMOND HILL, N. Y.C., June 10, 1929 Price 35 Cents THE THRILL OF D-X -x 'K l HE most awe-inspiring expression on 'U the face of a human being is that of flue-,,,.f-fi a radio bug 7' at three o'clock in the morning listening to Wellingtoii, New Zealand. There is no exultation experienced by humanity that can be compared to receiving or sending a sound thousands of miles through space and realizing that your mind is in Contact with an- other stranger in a land you will probably never see. Somehow there is always a thrill in doing things at a great distance, even in receiving letters, but when a communication is picked up out of the air by something of your own con- struction, the L' kick W is simply indescribable. Picture a young fellow in shirt-sleeves, hair tousled, dark rings under his eyes. Despite his appearance, there is a glint in his eye that be- speaks his determination to get something or blow out his tubes. Suddenly he clamps his phones tightly to his ears, intense concentration on his face. As the code buzzes in, his face falls. ,lust some Canadian. A vicious twist of the dials sends him hfty metres lower. Again he Hshes for a faint squeal and his face resumes its former expression, only to be disappointed by someone in Seattle. The same performance is repeated time after time, but as he reaches out his face becomes enlight- ened and the disappointments are not as keen. His list covers the United States, Canada, and Mexico, and stretches across the Atlantic into England and Germany and down into Brazil. The clock is at a quarter to three, getting 'to be bedtime, when a faint squeak sounds that must have come from Mars at least. Gently he twists the dials back and forth until he hears faint dots and dashes. His whole body slumps, and his face gazes half fearfully at his set that has thrown him ten thousand miles and back. Just such scenes as this are enacted every day throughout the world by men with their share of the pioneer's blood, who, if their bodies are held back, wander over the world in spirit by means of radio where their forefathers 'traveled in books of exploration or adventure and where their descendants will go by television. During the day they are just ordinary people, but at night they roam the world amid as many trials of patience at least as ever the Spanish conquistadoresg and if the chance is ever of- ferred, as it was to Byrd and Wilcox, they will not be backward in going forward.

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THE DOME Page 15 Blacklooards and Boredom Ep G73 EDIZEVAL, Chinese, or lndian tor- But the best way of erasing fa board is with tures are havens of bliss compared a white chalk-laden eraser, to give you 'C fillers T to a thoroughly boring lecture- inf, These erasures make faces and profiles, period. You must do something. You simply cannot sit there and listen to the lecture. And yet you must appear to be paying attention to it. You canlt look at the ceiling, at the pic- tures, at the fioor, or start scribbling. He is sure to notice it, and say, in the icy tones he uses so well, and with the polar stare that all teachers can give you, glam not speaking for my own benefit, Miss? So you really must look at something on his own level, something behind him, something that will change every period. ln a classroom, this something is inevitably the blackboard. This is my port in the storm, my oasis in the desert. For to me an erased blackboard is the greatest field for imagination that l know. Three horizontal strokes of an eraser over 20 percent Spanish board-work re- minds you of the cross-section of Niagara Falls as shown in our physiography book. A sweep- ing, swinging curve, which you sometimes use when erasing boards, makesia perfect waterfall. Hard up-and-down strokes give the most Won- derful trees in winter-just the trunk and a few main limbs. even if they do lack a chin or the top of the head. Yesterday, too, l saw the most perfect little dog-house on the board,- minus the dog, of course. l think it was on top of a H present '7 list, so frequently seen on blackboards. For some reason or other, algebra and inter- mediate algebra blackboards have the best pic- tures or near-pictures. On these, more than on any other, you can discern canoes, babies, and even cats. The most wonderful picture l ever saw was over an algebra example. The board presented one of the most perfect colonial porches, with three trees in front. It had no windows, of course, but only one pillar was out of place. There wasnat even a roof to it, but it helped the boredom. You can seldom see the same picture twice, but trying to find one a second time lessens the boredom and helps to make blackboards more interesting. y l hope, some day, if I should die and go to heaven, that there will be blackboards up there, erased with the whitest of erasers, on algebra blackboards. Alma Polske. 5 , ff-it ' X 5' .. 2-, -i ,ff 5 gina- 1 elif- at 1 . Qs iiifzgfg gig , .fit , :i.51'-Hr le- 4 iilili- - cl'-, -,Z hifi L -,i fi ff. :, - - I- ,ja -ni ..,, ,f -Ly . fi ' - 717 1, - 4, 1, ,Z ,. . - , .Y - -M-,..?i,,,, S -T , -V rv, .-2 'z fkingl' an-- 1 Wi il cf' xi? 11 ' 125 W M ,s WA.-5 W- .- fa' f w . -- ,. 1- N... 1 A -4' vi- , X fy sexe. li- 5 --- .:- . , -ti 5, . 1 , 1 c'lt ,u. A ki.. L -' -V ' 1 . . -- ' 1 s' f L, .Lin-1.4- . ' 1 l V -as-,, J, f B -ff , .I W -M , . f . .s ff -- Y 1 fill ff' fi -at Q uf ' W i - A V, ff -- aww-.-f 42- M, egg,-Q .i M W B i tt I bf i J 'J'f'if Q. ' '-?fff: .2 V .J 'ZATIA ' 'Q-gig Q5 - l'3'?J.i Lv T A 'l ' T , bfiili- X f-fi ... -A - L. -V - , l mg yum 1- eff. , Lil., -f L f - r o fr .LU Fri. - --1'-,2,.:.,, -Y-, Y Y Y I

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T1-ra DOME Page 17 if UNE 30, I929, ten years after my grad- Fgl uation from the Richmond Hill High School, I had been reading the papers and had seen one of my classmate's names in a list of society welfare workers. I fell asleep, and dreamed that I was a Rajah looking into a crystal ball. At first the ball was cloudy and nothing was visible, but it gradually cleared and I was looking into the office of the Pres- ident of the Preventit Fire Insurance Company. At first no one was there, but almost instanta- neously appeared a tall, stately man, with red hair,- so red, in fact, that when he walked in a beam of sunlight you'd actually think it was on ire. I-Ie seated himself at his desk,- But hold on! I know this man. Vlfho can it be? Why, Russell Moir, president of our Senior Class. I-Ie was now engagediin giving authorita- tive utterance to his secretary, a dark, pretty, youthful girl with a familiar Visage. Blow me down if it wasn,t Edith Wills taking dictation from her schoolboy chum. The scenes then shifted to an apparel estab- lishment at 5 Fifth Avenue, and as the picture became clearer Flora Clickman's name was on the window. Inside, Frances Merron, Gertrude McEnaney, and Ruth Orr were performing ser- vices as manikins, and Harold Dietz strutted around as the Hoorwalker. Immediately following this I saw a little tea- room at 42nd Street and Madison Avenue. A cluster of garrulous ladies were seated at one of the tables, so I conceived it was a coffee- clotch. Upon closer inspection I found them to be Jessie Praitsching, hostess, Beatrice Marx, Helen Nixon talking as usual about everything in general and nothing in particularj, Evelyn Marchi, Mary McKenna, and Elizabeth Walters. Suddenly another young lady approached and with a very pleasant smile asked, 44 Is everything suitable? W But before she had time to say an- other thing she was recognized by the group as Ruth I-Ieitzmann, and you can picture the aftermath. The scene now shifted to Richmond Hill High School, where an assembly was being held. Mr. Dann's seat was occupied by Charles Basile, and Philip Hagelstein was speaking on The Elasticity of the Monroe Doctrine in connection with the History Department. Suddenly I saw a room in the east wing. A Spanish faculty meeting was taking place, Michael Galletta presiding, and Dorothy Nuding, Edward Strueber, and Alice Brown were among the faculty.