A B Davis High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Mount Vernon, NY)

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1 .n . .Y - at QEQIE 'W sr' D Q OUR Town CLUB . .- wav:-X, b v f U ,Af C Nom' I: N. liernardinctte A. Douata H. llarr U. Griswold, li. Foley? ll ll1lQl'lillllIl'l'ill', li l , 'K li tr, I Coldluig,l Grau- uc iliolz . . rews e L. I H .. hart, l.. Alder, l,. Uellfuono, G. I-'eldinan F v llubliard, A, ficeiola, if llelano, li. Amlrews, Rom' J: U. Mauricllo, lieaeoin, if llolmrt, R. llargreaves, liielier, S. Uoshay, li. Bron- son, F. cIilYJllll7ll, -I. Goldberg, A. Klingenberg, LI. Gaines, M. Uefarlo, M. Dunkel, S. Cohn, if folarusso, M. Farewell, Rom' 3: ll. lfesuilo 1 I l'. Ainiano, M. Brush, E. jones, ll. Holxapfel, M. Caleatterra, A. Ualigher, Hinitz, l'lausen, E. Hewitt, S. Doherty, M. Barrows, F Iaeobson I Benedict, I Dunlrxin S. Garland, I . 7.' ,' ' 7 R. Hudes, L. Alper, Colnes, lxo-me 4: L. Dritz, ,I. Buist, VV. Calhoun, R. Cipes, I Halpern, l'aIdwell, M. Freedman, W. Cunnington Bernstein, N. Freed, A. Hoffman ,1. 'lihe club officers were nominated and elected by the students themselves in a semi-annual direct primary elec- tion. After the students had voted for nomination in the primary election, the top ten were again voted upon to as- certain the three main ofiicers of the club. 'lihis year,s officers were Eugene Nadel, Presidentg Barbara Bronson, Vice-Presidentg and Marjorie Reichert, Secretary. Past chief executives were Loomis Dana, the first president, Raymond Myers, and Gray Robinson. The club program, based upon suggestions made by the members, was both instructive and interesting. Dur- ing past meetings, the club heard many of the City's prominent citizens speak on various subjects pertinent to Mount Vernon city life. One of the main features of the fall program was the Pearl Harbor Dayn visit to City Hall. Through the cooperation of the Mayor and his of- ficial family of City Officials, eight elected and thirty-two delegated representatives of the Our Town Clubn took over the reins of government in Mount Vernon for the day. Gray Robinson, our Mayor , spent a really rough day trying to keep up with the pace of His Honor Mayor Wil- liam Hart Hussey. One very obvious consolation to Gray for his trials and tribulations as Mayor',, was his very charming secretary, Miss Barbara Bronson. And who- ever will forget the Ere during which Fire Chief Arnold Hoffman climbed up the walls of Davis High, while Davis students stood aghast at this strange and startling phenomenon! VVe shall never know who was more frightened, the Fire Chiefn or the uspectatorsn. The adventures of Mount Vernon's Hofficialsl' did not stop with a mere fire. Many of the students visited the police station, where they were shown everything from the radio room and finger-print department to the dark cav-

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LEARNING CITY MANAGEMENT IDENTIFICATION Qtopj Rofw I: M. Lefsky, R. Longo, D. SoloInon, R. Miller, M. Steinberg, B. Tompkins, B. Rhynas, C. Rhoades, N. Palminson, M. Reichert, D. Weiss, H. Richards, L. Rossi, M. Toussaint, M. Son- nenblick, Singer, Landy, H. Press, E. Nie- man, Rofw 2: N. Rheinhardt, L. Manna, A. Leyton, P. Rose, C. Landy, E. Stevenson, W. Levitt, R. Woolf, A. Sprinz, N. Wagner, M. Lorusso, A. Rings, H. Lamprose, Schlaitzer, W. Sherwood, Novelli, Mayo, D. Werner, D. Maggipinto, Rofw 3: D. Theall, R. Requa, E. Pucillo, Kernstock, E. Shallow, E. Nadel, R. Meyers, A. Kyman, F. Phillips, B. Smith, Kossar, R. Schweitzer, R. Schwartz, R. Kennedy, T. Zuk, Mrs. Addis If you happened to be in Davis any ninth period of a second or fourth Thursday, and felt the walls of Davis High tremor and heard the rumble of Davis students on the run, you all knew that the Our Town Club was about to assemble! This club, the largest and most active at Davis, evolv- ed from a primary membership of SO stII- dents to a maximum of 250 Our Town- ers . Its growth was so tremendous that it abandoned the small auditorium in favor of the large one, but what will happen when it outgrows that? Under the capable supervision of Mrs. Walter Addis, who or- ganized the club in September, 1944, the club strived to acquaint its members with the Mount Vernon city government, its in- dustries, cultural groups, and educational facilities. I OUR TOWN CLUB

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LEARNING CITY MANAGEMENT erns of the photography room and the cells where they kept adult delinquents. At a meeting of the Board of Education, Eugene Nadel, student president of the Board, assisted Mr. Robert G. Sturtevant in conducting the monthly meeting of the Board. Through that visit and actually sitting inn on the various functions of the city government, the students gained Hrst hand information on the workings of the various branches of the municipal government. At noon, the city officials and student representatives Q84 in alll, Went to the Studio Club for luncheon. Mayor Hussey delivered a welcoming address to all on behalf of the other city officials and himself. At the end of the after- noon, when the immediate activities of the city came to a slow halt, the student officials bade a sad adieu to City Hall and its very genial administrators, and then made rt mad dash for Teen Town Qunder the Recreation Com- mission, you know? where the evening's entertainment cleared the cobwebs from tired brains. This ended the activities of the fall term of Our Town Club. The Spring Program got well under way with a Quiz Contest on Mount Vernon, under the Chairmanship of our Vice-Principal, Mr. Childs. Robert Zadek, apparently the best informed Our Townern on Mount Vernon af- fairs, came out the victor. Nevertheless, he was closely pursued by Arturo Gonzalez, Beatrice Kaplan, Ira Bern-- stein, Mary Ann Hargrave, Joan Habel, and Jerome if Kossar. Yould be surprised at the things they knew about Mount Vernon. The Mount Vernon Movie Makers, who have con- sistently won awards for their excellence in photography, exhibited their prize winning trophies and prize winning movies to the Qur Townersn. So you see, it wat pos- sible to learn and to enjoy oneself at the same time. The City of Mount Vernon rendered a valuable ser- vice to Our Town Club by helping to start our members on the road to good citizenship, and by turning outn boys and girls mentally aware as to what makes Mount Ver- non Htickn. 1