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

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M. BROUT CHOSEN BOARD PRESIDENT Miss Muriel BrouT was chosen as The new presidenT oT The Board oT EclucaTion aT The annual meeTing lasT nighT. Miss BrouT, a graduaTe oT The Sub Normal School and maThemaTics Teacher aT Davis I-ligh accepTed The posiiTon. GuesT speaker aT The meeTing was ProTessor John SchulTz OT Po- dunk UniversiTy whose subiecT was The ParenT1 I-lis NaTure and l-lis Needs . ATTer a resoluTion To inTroduce in Congress a bill proposing a longer lunch period Tor The sTu- denT, The meeTing broke up. The nexT meeTing, The new presidenT disclosed, will TeaTure The Mc- Clellans , comedy Team and SaT- chel-Puss Eason, corneTisT. l mean To puT life inTo These programs , Miss BrouT explained. My campaign includes The com- pleTe modernizaTion oT The presenT educaTional sysTem. VAN KIRK HOME SCENE OF TEA The home OT Miss Marcia Van Kirk was The scene oT a Tea yesTer- day Tor The meeTing OT The Board OT The Bide-a-Wee Abode Tor Bees Inc. Miss Van Kirk presided wiTh her usual calm aTTer reTresh- menTs had been served in The Deep Purple room oT her spacious mansion aT 808 EasT 195 ST. In a simple gown oT yellow saTin re- lieved wiTh Touches oT green and blue brocaded ruTTles, The hosT in- Troduced The chairman, Miss Ann MorgensTern, Cornell '49. Miss MorgensTern ouTlined The plans Tor a giganTic beneTiT perTorm- ance Tor disgrunTled bees To be held aT The I-lippadrone. PerTormers aT socieTy's biggesT evenT OT The year will be, virTuoso Ada FarringTon who will render The Tamous .violin selecTion, The Bee . Also conTribuTing To This greaT cause will be Dr. William Liccione who will discuss The I-labiTs and CusToms oT The Aus- Tralian Wasp . HEAR AND THEIR wiTh Molly KickabouTer The crowd aT New York's popu- lar Flamingo Club lasT nighT was an especially gay one. Mrs. Rugby FiTzgerald, The Tormer PaT Mar- shall l-lollingrad Fairchild McAn- drews, occupied her regular Table near The orchesTra. Included in her parTy were playboy Carey Wells, iusT back Trom Flushing, and BeTTy RoberTs Romero looking Tragile and exoTic in black velveT lshe has been wearing ThaT sombre hue since her laTe polo-playing husband broke his neck aT WesT- porTl . . . Gerry LundT Walker dashed in in sables and a per- TecTly devasTaTing chapeau . . . Among The dancers were The Bob Adamses, she in Molyneux's newesT creaTion . . . sipping a coke aT The milk bar was Lady l-lendi- courb, The Tormer Daphne STones, wiTh Prince Serge Jahnke . . . Wag MaTTy Rosenschein held courT aT his Table, chaTTing wiTh surrealisT designer Jean I-lirsch, in a cellophane haT . . . Peggy Dig- gins, The movie glamour-girl dash- ed in wiTh Bob Barrymore Nord- hausen, aTTer her personal appear- ance aT The RockymounT 'IheaTre . . . she Took Time To inTorm your reporTer ThaT she is simply swamp- ed wiTh 'Travail', don'T you know? . . . In The CacTus Lounge, hangouT Tor The liTerary seT: BeTTisha Gips, Chris Meyer and Giulio D'Angio discussing Mary MarTin's laTesT book oT very Tree verse, Skin In My Cocoa . . . AT The same Table: ColumnisT Broemel, iusT back Trom an exclusive grouse hunT in FlaTbush, looking TeTching in his TiTTed pink hunTing iackeT . . . CriTic Jean Baer dashing in To reporT ThaT Bill Nielson in Cherchez La Femme is Too, Too divine! . .. Bramwell Lieber, alone aT his own Table, relaxing . . . his one man exhibiT oT eTch- ings will open Tomorrow aT The RoTary Club. Add: Margery Squire sails To day on The King Maxy Tor her posT as Toreign correspondeni on The Daily Blurb . . . OIISO M. SEEGER WINS SWEEPS PRIZE Amid The liverwursT and garlic oT a small delicaTessen sTore on BaThgaTe Avenue siTs Melvin See- ger, Today, on a pickle barrel, wiTh a check Tor Fp500,000.74 in his hand. Grand winner oT The Irish S.weepsTakes, Mr. Seeger and his joyous Tamily posed Tor Their picTures and Told your reporTer how iT Teels To have so much money. IT feels as Though your TooT's asleep , said Mr. Seeger. Asked whaT led him To place his beT on PreTzel , The winning horse, he replied ThaT The name broughT a wave OT nosTaglia over him as he was slicing! cheese one day. OTher winners visiTed by your reporTer were RuTh Barsky and Marcia Freeman, one Time news- paper ediTors, who now live in a rooming house on FourTeenTh STreeT. The Two, amid a IiTTer OT pasTe poTs and scissors saT near- sighTedly gazing aT The check Tor fB234,567. Our business, Miss Barsky ex- plained, ls clipping Typographical errors Trom The Daily BulleTin GazeTTe. Now we'll be able To geT some new pasTe . And scissors , screamed Miss Freeman, clipping a hardware ad Trom lasT year's Sears, Roebuck CaTalogue. Your reporTer Tledl Mr. Leon Feigen, champ checker player and anoTher winner, had iusT blown up his privaTe lab and was in no condiTion To be inTer- viewed. R. MOLLER HONO RED RoberT BuTch Moller, l-lale '43, is receiving much acclaim Tor his coaching oT The Narmy Team which beaT P. U. aT The Soup Bowl This year. One OT The Tamous Moller broThers, BuTch will vacaTion wiTh his sisTer, Sue Moller, aT her rooming house in Passaic, New Jersey. NexT season he will again coach The Narmy Team. Mr. Mol- ler expecTs such men as sopho- more Milan Lillis To carry on Tor Narmy during The TorThcoming TooTball season.

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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.

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