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

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SepT. 27, I938 Dear Diary, Say, being a home room adviser is quiTe nice. WenT To The dinner Tor The new girls and Teachers lasT SaTurday nighT. Norma Beckerman and Florence Childs did a grand iob in planning The dinner. We had a swell Time singing aT The dinner Table laccompanied by Florence Allen - who by The way really can playl and aTTending an imprompTu enTerTainmenT aTTerwards in The audiTorium. I-lad a good dinner lTor only 35c Tool and wenT home quiTe saTisTiedI SepT. 28, I938 Dear Diary, WenT To The TirsT assembly This year To see PresidenT William Liccione inaugu- raTed inTo oTTice. Bill urges cooperaTion oT everyone To make This a Truly TruiTTul year lespecially in TooTballl. Saw sound movies on SaTe Driving and MaTerials . . . Davis is really going places - Today I heard David Slavin and Melvin Seeger broadcasT on The I-ligh School ReporTer program on WMCAI SepT. 30, I938 Dear Diary, Whewl MoTher naTure iusT won'T leT upl IT's been raining and blowing sTeadily Tor The pasT Ten days and all we've seen are Tallen Trees and hopelessly sTraighT hair. DespiTe The weaTher, Tennis Tans Tinished Their Tall TournamenT7 resulT, Two new champions - Phil Shapiro and WiniTred Cammacls. OcT. 7, I938 Dear Diary, WenT To The I-lome Room Rep meeTing Today where PaT Marshall was elecTed The TirsT girl presidenT oT The organizaTion. CongraTulaTionsI lNow, whaT have I always said abouT The eTTiciency oT The Teminine side oT liTe?l Norman Maddan, John Boone and Josephine Emerson were elecTed To represenT The I-Iome Room Reps in The Council. OcT. I2, l938 Dear Diary, We had Three guesTs in assembly This morning: Mr. Nardozzi oT The Board oT EducaTion who spoke To us abouT Columbus: Mr. I-I. Keeler, abouT The CommuniTy ChesT: and Mr. Chequer, who Told us abouT Marian Anderson, who is making her second appearance in MounT Vernon. lMy, I hope I can hear her singll . . . . Pass- ing Through The halls I noTiced so many brighTly colored display windows, ThaT I simply had To sTop leven Though I mighT be laTe To classl. IT chanced ThaT I chose a TascinaTing Mexican collecTion belonging To Miss Riddle, who recenTly made a Trip Through ThaT counTry. IIT also chanced ThaT I was embarrassingly laTe' To her LaTin classll OCT. 22, I938 Deary Diary, WenT To Connie l.inde's TirsT sporT dance SaTurday nighT. I-lad loads oT Tun! IT was a greaT success and as an experimenT iT cerTainly seT a precedenT Tor TuTure dances! lAnd boys - ThaT's only TiTTy cenTs a couple and a dollar sTag.l OcT. 3l, I938 Dear Diary, Abiel Brown Davis passed away lasT SaTurday. AlThough I never lcnew him well, I TelT as Though I did. I was deeply moved This morning as Taps resounded so clearly Through The hollow school corridors, The Tlag was lowered, and a mes- sage was read. I couldn'T help Teeling ThaT we had losT a Truly greaT man. Nov. I, I938 Dear Diary, AlThough I didn'T go ouT Tor much exTemporaneous spealcing myselT, I have cerTainIy been saTuraTed wiTh The arT Tor The pasT Two weelcs while sophomores, iuniors, and seniors alilce vied Tor The CIemenT M. Biddle Award. I cerTainly didn'T envy Them when' They Taced' such a criTical Davis audience in The Tinals. The winners cerTainly deserved The Ten dollar prizel Margery Mendelschn and Phil Shapiro won as o56o

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0550 Dear Diary, To you l beguealh my senior year -- so lilled wilh precious memories, wilh happy carelree hours, and some sad ones loo, lo make lhe brighler ones worlhwhile, ln days lo come I'II scan you wilh a lear and a smile and luck you away lrom any coming poslerily who mighl nol undersland whal you mean lo me, Many limes whal you hold belween your lines, dear dairy, will mean more lhan whal is aclually wrillen lhere . , . l leave lhal up lo you. sep+. is, me Dear Diary, Back lo school againl My, il's wonderlul lo see everybody aller such a long vacalion. They all look so happy and he-allhy wilh lheir sun-lans and shiny noses . . . l see lhal Mrs. Porler llhe lormer cuslodian ol lhe lamous pink slips l has become Dr. Slewarl's secrelary, and now lhe one lo leer is Mrs, Sumner . . . Two new leachers, so l hear - Dominic Genlilesco and l-lerberl Sunderman, lo lry lheir bil ol maslery over I368 sludenls . . . Say, l noliced somelhing really unlamiliar loday - all lhe lamous Davis clocks have been cleaned, polished, and checked llhal is, all bul Miss Cheney's lamous l'horloge ll . . . Received a Davis l-lifhlews as l walked inlo school lhis morning. lmagine, lhe lirsl day ol school! Mel Seeger and David Slavin, co-edilors, and lheir slall, came up lo work a week early so lhal we could have ill Sepl. l5, i938 Dear Diary, Goodness, l never realized belore whal a hard iob Miss Brown, Miss Lewis, and lhe marshals had al lhe beginning ol each lerm lrying lo lil everyone inlo suilable sludy periodsl lBul now l know, having Miss Brown lor sludy, lirsl period in lhe morningl. l really lhink il would be easier lor lhem il everybody lusl plain cull Bul seriously, lhe marshals cerlainly deserve a rising vole ol lhanks, especially Warren Broemel and Marcia Van Kirkl . . . l saw lhe l938 senior class gill loda lor lhe lirsl lime - cabinels in lhe enlry near room lO9 llhe small audilorium, lhe green room, or whalever you wanl lo call ill. Here, all lhe cups and lrophies won by lhe school are housed and are lo be illurninaled all lhe lime. ll seems lo me lhal il places a greal responsibilily on lhe school 4 in lhe world ol sporls F lo bring home all lhe honors il canl

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0570 seniors: Jean Baer and Leonard Eagin, as iuniorsg Monna Troub and Richard Shapiro, as sophomores. ll guess The Shapiros have a Tlare Tor speaking. Imagine TwenTy dollars in one Tamily in Two weeksll . . . WenT To an inTeresTing assembly Today - Ex- ploring The Magic World oT Color by HerberT T. STrong. Found ouT how TascinaT- ing The Vio'eT Ray is and saw changes beTore my very eyes oT The color in rocks and in The cosTumes worn by some OT The preTTier DaviseTTes. Nov. 9, l938 , Dear Diary, WenT To a very novel assembly This morningl Miss Cleveland has inTroduced a new riTual Tor The presenTaTion oT NaTionaI Honor SocieTy Emblems To sTudenTs. The program cerTainly inspired me. Dr. Holmes, in addressing The whole school, leTT an indelible impression upon The sTudenTs. ThirTy-Tive seniors added Their names To The new regisTer, To become life-long members oT The NaTional Honor SocieTy. Nov. I7, I938 Dear Diary, Friends, Romans, CounTrymen -- Today I heard ThaT RiTa Cuzzi and William Liccione were chosen To speak aT commencement CongraTulaTionsl Gee, I wish Them luck. lBuT, iusT Think l8OO people in The Woods AudiToriuml Why, They won'T be scared aT all!?l Nov. I9, l938 Dear Diary, I am now in bed wiTh wheezIes and sneezles . And all because oT a O-O game wiTh New Rochelle. My nose is as red as The clay was weT, and l'm sure I don'T know why I didn'T leave before BuTch Moller kicked OTT. I Tried To huddle under The umbrella, buT I iusT goT near enough so ThaT The rain slid down my neck. Each Time Pinder would skid on The mud To make a TirsT down Tor The Purple, I'd sneeze and miss iT. Hurrying disconsolaTely home, I heard somebody shouTing in my ear ThaT we'd won a Moral VicTory , so I celebraTed by iumping inTo bed. Hammond, AnTon and The oThers musT have lkerchool played lkerchooll a Tine game, buT I lkerchoolll couldn'T appreciaTe iT lkerchoollll. Dec. 2, I938 Dear Diary, School as usual. January senior elecTion reTurns came ing Carey Wells, presidenT: Joyce Givson, vice-presidenTq George Grove, secreTary-Treasurer: Florence Childs, David Slavin, Giulio D'Angio, advisers. Dec. 9, l938. Dear Diary, AT lasT I really enjoyed a day in school - no classes, you see. I was in gym all morning and The G. O. ConvenTion in The audiTorium all aTTernoon. WhaT candi- daTes! They're so good-looking, I TorgoT all abouT The French book I broughT along. There's Warren Broemel, ChrisTian Myer, Warren Eason, Langdon Collier and John Morse Tor presidenT. As Tor The vice-presidenTial candidaTes - well, whaT chance has a poor girl like me goT againsT Winnie Cammack, Marian SmiTh, or Marcia Van Kirk. lT's unfair To unorganized beauTy. ' OT course, I'Il voTe Tor The candidaTes who give me The mosT bloTTers and noTe books. Dec. I0, l938 Dear Diary, The LaTe ChrisTopher Bean was a success, a really, really big success. Bea Kaplan had us laughing one minuTe and crying The nexT, and Margy MacDonald and Jack McNeil did The love inTeresT wiTh wonderfully innocenT expressions. I was ushering in my new, slinky, black evening gown, buT The play was so good nobody even noTiced me. I guess There musT have been more Than 900 people There. I heard some oT Them say iT was The besT Thing The DramaTic SocieTy ever produced, and ThaT Mrs. MacDonald musT have been proud To direcT such a good casT.