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

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ITALIAN CLUB LATIN CLUB To hear llalian as il is really spolcen, The llalian Club Traveled en masse lo an llalian molion piclure in New Yorlq. ln Iheir quesl Tor a real maslery of The Tongue, The sludenlrs presenl plays, engage in games, and read Iralian lileralure a+ Their regular club meelings. Trayelogs ol llraly were shown al one session. ' The Lalin Club journeyed Io Ihe lvlelropolilan lvluseum of Ari and sludied The special exhiloils Irom Crele Io The Tall of Pompeii. Thoroughly cognizanl wilh Ihe classics, The members ol Ihis organiza- Iion learned numerous mollos in The original Lalin. Al Iheir meelings Ihey play games. Three represenlralive members were senl Io Ihe annual Lalin Sighl Reading Conlesl al New Yorlc Universily. ogno

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DEUTSCHE VEREIN EL ATENEO SPONSOR Mss Florence Leighfon 0790 El ATeneo, The Spanish Club TO you Americanos, and Der DeuTsc:he Verein, The German Club, are Two OrganizaTiOns which give Their members pracTice in Their languages as living Tongues raTher Than sOmeThing COnTined To books. EI fXTeneO presenTs plays in Spanish, OT course, and plays games, The mOsT exc:iTing being a Spanish PrOTessOr Quizz Program, AT The meeTings OT Der DeuTsche Verein, all business is cOnduCTed in German. IT, TOO, presenTs plays. Among Their OTher acTiviTies, The members Tell sTOries, play games and read magazines. All who join eiTher OT These clubs nOT only derive greaT pleasure and eniOymenT TrOm The acTiviTies enumeraTed, buT also are aided maTerially in The sTudy OT The language, and come To undersTand The habiTs OT The German and The Spaniard.

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CHESS CLUB AVIATION CLUB ogio Inspired by Caplain Leo Feigin, Ihe counIy's besl high school chessman who has been delealed only once in Iwo years, Ihe chess Team earned second place in Ihe W. I.A. A. conlesl, Porr Chesler being lhe sole leam lo emerge viclorious from a boul. Lasl season Davis look lop honors. Olher slellars on Ihe Ieam are Joseph Zibelli, Jerry Vriens, Jaclf Irwin, and Ivlaury Rappaporl. The Avialion Club was really flying high when il made a pilgrim- age lo a near-by air porl This spring. Some ol Ihe members loolq Ilighls over Ivlanhallan and Ihe surrounding counlry. Generally, Ihe club's meelings are devoled lo sludenl papers on Ihe aspecls of avialion. This year, lheir scheduled airplane Conlesl did nol lalce place.