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

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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

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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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THE FUTURE TENSE EDITOR-Marcia Freeman June 2, T959 MAYOR LACEY OPENS BRIDGE The new FleeTwoOd Bridge was oTTicially opened lasT nighT and Televised over a coasT-To-coasT hookup. AT IO:3O P. M., Mayor GerTrude Lacey OT MounT Vernon, N. Y., pulled The swiTch ThaT opened The long-waiTed proiecT To The public. Mayor Lacey said in her brieT message, We, The people OT MounT Vernon, Teel ThaT The com- pleTion OT This magniTicenT span will noT only uniTe FIeeTwoOd wiTh The PaciTic COasT, buT will also prOmoTe inTernaTional goodwill . FirsT man To cross The bridge was W. Randolph Campbell. Said Mr. Campbell, who camped Tor Three years in FleeTwood so ThaT he mighT achieve This disTincT honor, IT was woiTh iT, buT iT ain'T The ToisT Time me and Connie, me moTorcycle, has won dis honor. And we'll do iT again, yes sir! Engineer RoberT STeele, who compleTed The bridge aTTer TwenTy years, an all-Time record, is being inTernaTionally acclaimed. His nexT venTure, Mr. STeele inTormed The press, will be a new MounT Vernon sewer done in The Rococo sTyle. HALL STARS SFNGER Miss Norma Beckerman was guesT singer lasT nighT aT The Phil- harmonica SympaThy ConcerT aT Carnegie T-Tall. The orchesTra, under The direcTion OT masTero Pensiero MasTropieTrO, who suc- ceeds The laTe Michel Bosini, played well-known selecTions in- cluding G. Groves FiTTh Sym- phony in A Maior, and several Old-Time melodies, namely FlaT FOOT Floogie , and The old Ameri- can Talk song, T-lold TighT . Miss Beckerrnan, who has iusT compleTed a successTul concerT Tour OT The Fiii Islands, sang The SexTeT Trom Lukemia by Don- chabeTTmi. She was accompanied by virTuoso Florence Childs, who will give her own concerT aT CiTy I-Tall in The near TuTure. ALUMNI MEET' Alumni OT The A. B. Davis class OT '39 will meeT TOnighT Tor a gala anniversary parTy aT Club 3l, Warren X. Iiroemel, class presidenT announced To- day. Similar To The parTy OT The class OT '38, which was held in DuTTy's Grill lasT February, The aTTair will bring TogeTher one OT The greaTesT masses OT celebri- Ties ThaT has been assembled in many a day. ATTer dinner, The group will Tly in a charTered spaceship To Davis where They will be wel- comed by Principal STewarT and aTTend The opening OT The. school's new audiTOrium, erecT- ed by The TaculTy in Their honor. ROTERMUND TO RUN N NEXT ELECTION ErnesT ROTermund, Tormer U. S. Marshal, was nominaTed Today, as mayor OT SpringTield, aT The Free Soilers' ConvenTion in New York. Also nominaTed was Joe BaTes who will run Tor The posiTion OT chieT OT The DeparTmenT OT Sani- TaTion in The TorThcoming elecTion. J. Edgar I-Torn, head OT The F.B.I., declined a nominaTion To run again Tor The posiTion he has held Tor Three monThs. ln a wide open leTTer To The press, he sTaTed ThaT his compleTe unravelling OT The Serge Ring Case has won him a much needed resT. I-Te will de- parT Tor his shack in The CaTskills, close Triends disclosed. The Free Soilers parTy, which was recenTly reorganized by AI Fiering, well-known poliTician, ad- vocaTes The donaTiOn oT a whiTe, ivy-covered cOTTage Tucked be- Tween The hills OT VermonT Tsend Ten cenTs To cover cOsT OT mailing Tor beauTiTully illusTraTed bookleTl To all reTired TooTball players and sTage crew members OT A. B. Davis. The convenTion closed wiTh a marshmallow roasT and swaTTo parTy aT Howard Field. FAIRSERVIS RETURNS FROM EXPEDITION WalTer Fairservis, noTed arche- ologisT and Nobel Prize winner, reTurned yesTerday Trom Cairo, EgypT aTTer a six monThs expedi- Tion Through The Sahara deserT. In his suiTe OT OTTices aT The NaTural I-lisTory Museum, Dr. Fairservis re- porTed To The UniTed Press ThaT he has made Two signiTicanT dis- coveries. The losT Tomb OT The Pharaoh I-lavanalmond was un- earThed, and a secreT chamber was discovered in The neck OT The Sphinx. Dr. Fairservis, whose sun-dark- ened skin pleasingly conTrasTs wiTh his whiTe goaTee, wore a purple velveT robe encrusTed wiTh pearls and precious sTones. This, he ex- plained, was The sTaTe robe OT Pharaoh l-lavanalmond and is said To bring doom To all who wear iT. Many oTher priceless Treasures have been unearThed during This expediTiOn, including a sTrange scarab ring ThaT is said To have belonged To CleOpaTra, and is now worn by Dr. Fairservis, A dinner will be given Tomorrow evening aT The Windblown Room OT The Savoy AsToria in honor OT The greaT scienTisT. GuesT speakers will include Dr. Langdon Collier, renowned sTaTesman and OraTorg Mr. David Slavin OT The New York STreamlined - Times : and acTOr John Servo, currenTly sTar- ring in Kiss The Girls Hello aT The BilTmOre TheaTre. Dr. Fairservis' newesT book, Dig and Ye Shall Find , will make iTs public debuT nexT week. LANDMARKS TO GO The Trylon and Perisphere, land- marks OT The I939 World's Fair, will be Torn down soon, Park Com- missioner BurTon Fox an- nounced Today. The quainT, :di-i lapidaTed sTrucTures will be'ire-, placed by a power planT operaTedi by cosmic rays, he sTaTed. Myer Zendel, OT The New York LOsT and Found DepT., will con- duc+ The parTing ceremony beTOre The buildings are demolished.