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

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WINIFRED CAMMACK GERTRUDE REICHGOTT LILA WARSHAW OIIEO THE WESTCHESTER GIRLS ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION l.asT year Davis was very pleased To announce To iTs girls ThaT iT had become a mem- ber oT The WesTchesTer AThleTic AssociaTion Tor senior high school girls. The purposes oT This organizaTion are as Tollows: lll To provide a uniTying organizaTion To promoTe suiTable programs oT aThleTics Tor all senior high school girls. l2l To sponsor Play Days , and To sTress The social and recreaTional values oT com- peTiTion. l3l To promoTe educaTional publiciTy ThaT places The emphasis upon The sporT and iTs values raTher Than The conTesTanTs. l4l To sTand deTiniTely opposed To an inTerscholasTicleague oT championship games. AT The presenT Time There are eighTeen schools in The organizaTion. The execuTive board consisTs oT all The women insTrucTors oT physical educaTion in The senior high schools ThaT are members oT The associaTion. The junior board consisTs oT represenTaTives Trom each school chosen Trom The girls acTively engaged in aThleTics. There is one represenTaTive chosen Trom each scholasTic year lTenTh-TwelTThl. The junior board acTs wiTh The execuTive board in promoTing The policies oT This associaTion, planning Play Days , ouTlining programs oT inTeresT To girls oT senior high school age, and suggesTing ways and means oT inTeresTing all girls in some Torm oT aThleTEc acTiviTy. There are Two regular business meeTings OT This associaTion during The year. Addi- Tional meeTings may be called aT The discreTion oT The presidenT. Davis has had The pleasure oT aTTending several hockey, volleyball, baseball, and basl4eTball Play Days . The volleyball Play Day was held aT Davis. Pive oTher schools aTTended and all agreed iT was a greaT success. On May 26, The associaTion had an annual dinner aT The New Yorlc AThleTic Club. The represenTaTives Trom Davis were in charge oT This aTTair. AT The closing meeTing, oTTicers Tor The ensuing year were elecTed. Binh A Mai! -.ia-a...i.,,. 'T ll' i -i ro' ,al .Y

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OUR TEAM CAPTAINS WhaT does a capTain oT a winning Team do? Well, iT depends a greaT deal on whaT kind oT Team she is capTain OT and whaT kind oT girl she is. The Tour capTains This year un- quesTionably rank wiTh The besT. WhaT They did, ThereTore, and how They did iT, make a preTTy good yardsTick. . FirsT, There is DoroThea Owen acTive in volleyball, hockey, baskeTball, baseball, and The sTunT club. ln baskeTball, DoroTheia won second honors, and in hockey, she was capTain OT her Team: buT iT was in volleyball ThaT she Tinally led The iuniors Through an unblemished schedule. An all-around aThleTe, The girls made no misTake when They voTed DoroThea Their leader in Two diTTerenT sporTs. Then, There's Winnie Cammack, one oT The Maroon and WhiTe LiTerary EdiTors and Vice-PresidenT oT The General OrganizaTion among oTher Things who is noT Too busy To be capTain and sTar OT The Tennis Team. Along wiTh her D , Winnie has won a couple oT Davis Tennis TournamenTs. NexT in line is Adele Jones, capTain oT The senior baskeTball Team which won TirsT honors in The inTra-mural TournamenT. Holding down a Torward posiTion is a preTTy sTrenuous job, buT Adele sTill Tound Time To swim wiTh a group oT high school girls who made The Y Their headguarTers This winTer. This Team, incidenTally, also elecTed Adele Their capTain. Finally, There is Barbara McClellan, capTain oT The winning senior hockey Team. Bobbie survived an arduous hockey season To carry on as capTain oT The senior, second baskeTball Team. So you see none OT The girls have single-Track minds. Their acTiviTies are as varied as Their abiliTiesg and Their personaliTies are as aTTracTive as Their records. They successTully guided The desTinies oT The winning Teams oT T939 and oughT To give you a preTTy good idea oT whaT a leader in girls' sporTs is like. OII44? WINIFRED CAMMACK ADELE JONES DOROTHEA JONES BARBARA McCLELLAN

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GIRLS' SPORTS ln order To have a successTul program OT girls' sporTs in a high school, iT is neces- sary To have Two Things. FirsT, someone To do all The planning and organizing and have all The headaches: second, a group OT girls who are enThusiasTic and cOoperaTive and have all The Tun. Davis has boTh. A brieT review OT The schedule OT inTra-mural acTiviTies, which was compleTed This year, will show The exTensiveness oT The program. Field Hockey, in spiTe OT sTill being raTher new, had a large Tollowing OT girls who apparenTly liked being baTTed around wiTh a club. The senior Team, aTTer geTling OTT To a shaky sTarT, breezed serenely Through The resT OT iTs schedule To Tinish in TirsT place. Volleyball, because OT iTs populariTy, undergoes a severe siTTing-down process dur- ing The gym periods. Unlike oTher sporTs, The Teams which Tinally TighT iT ouT Tor TirsT honors are The ones which Took TirsT place in Their respecTive gym classes. Thus inTra- mural volleyball has one hundred percenT supporT, and iT is possible To say ThaT every girl in Davis is aT some Time a candidaTe Tor, and has an opporTuniTy To obTain, a TirsT honor leTTer. BaskeTball also had an especially acTive season This year because The number OT games was exTended aT The expense OT The number OT pracTice sessions. An inspired and admirable decision! The girls who Turn ouT Tor baskeTball are divided according To Their abiliTy inTO Two Teams. ln This way The oppOrTuniTy To play is greaTly increased. Anyone will Tell you iT is decidedly more Tun TO be The big mOmenT on The second Team Than a sub Tor Two minuTes on The TirsT. The high pOinT OT The season was The iourney made To WhiTe Plains by Two honor Teams. Whi+e Plains won boTh games, buT every one agreed ThaT The Tun and The reTreshmenTs were nearly adequaTe cOmpensaTiOn. Tennis may well be considered one OT The mosT valuable sporTs aT Davis. IT is a sporT which can be carried On aTTer one Tinishes school enTirely. Each year a spring and Tall TournamenT is sponsored by Miss Taylor, Thus giving any girl inTeresTed a chance TO parTicipaTe. Besides This, a Tennis Team is Organized, made up oT The mosT capable appli- canTs. This Team plays by inviTaTion oTher schools in WesTchesTer CounTy. Non-compeTiTive AThleTic AcTiviTies wenT on This year in addiTion To The schedule which was drawn up Tor The Tun we all undeniably geT ouT OT compeTiTion. Miss WighT Organized a girls' gym Team which bOasTed a surprisingly numerous and enThusisaTic aTTendance. Mrs. Young conTinued To sponsor archery, and Miss Blackburn and Miss Cleveland mainTained The riding club. All These, while They cerTainly do noT claim The inTeresT OT every girl in school, hold ouT TO everyone The oppOrTuniTy To parTicipaTe. Somewhere in The lisT, nine girls ouT OT Ten are bound To Tind an acTiviTy which is especially aTTracTive To Them. OII647