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

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H719 IU UQ L9 Q11 Whooool whoool Chug I Chugl Yes, you guessed it. Those were the passwords of the Davis Tom Thumb enthusiasts. The Davis RAILROAD SOCI- ETY, engineered by Mr. Sun- dermann, and conducted by Willard Spalding, club presi- dent, consisted of enthusiasts interested in every conceivable phase of railroading, from model building to operations, The numerous activities of the group consisted of meetings, quizzes, discussions, guest speakers, and trips to nearby railroad facilities such as the one at I-Iarmon, New York, and to model layouts similar to the one in Pelham last year, spon- sored by the Westchester County Railroad Society. The twelve members of the RADIO CLUB, those fiends of the hamways, at last reached RAILROAD SOCIETY lBelowl Row I: L. Iuso, A, Gewecke, F. Neale, I. Day, I. Mosca, Row 2: I. Mil- ler, W, Weinrod, Mr. Sundermann, A. Galler, W. Spalding 2 -f ' rzitrfaaiiifi i .stil--.5 'es , , v - - '.. N' ' Y lhfifft-'KV-.51-.QQ333 J. fa fwiftjy if 'ff'fw?'5Z'74I 11:95 .-f Fl H' EJ .7-il,-jr-.u.. QA.-Za , 197-E - I . - ,Q-rv 1. .vt f -- 1' ' ' 2Z'5w.tfl'H 4 iffffff? ill 4 ISIXQ1 V. fl f1:'33'i7 3. .-Ar fur. ,,?,q5yS7,1 . ' '55K5f.ifff..' 2 ' . Ii 5 1 .i.1r . . Q X' 'A ,'gL'g ' i 5' 45, rg. We ,, ' X., irq -Jf w, i.-i ,i 'ifit wlgk s I . IA , 4 V- L wlrciy . I .355 1 N ' . lg- rf'lt'S f I ' --I ---. -:es ' :7' lf? Dio ,inf T ' 3. 7 N.. . fQjff?'lfQf- iffffh I5 f y ,522-. .2,.-- .' 'I -- .-4.2 . .- RADIO CLUB lTopl Row I: R. johnson, G. Myers, Mr. Spielman, D. Freedman, I. Angilelloj Row 2: P. Studner, I, Littwin, A. Ber- min, M. Spatz, Row 3: E. Callahan, H. King, W. Plume, K. Kerslake, P. Mets- ker, S, Gelband their heart's desirel In the for- mer storeroom opposite the physics laboratory, a shack was set up just after Easter, as all members had received their Iicensesqa real, operating transmitting station. The club possessed a few transmitters, including one from an army tank and another from a sal- vaged airplane. This highly specialized organization had as its president David Freedman, one of the most experienced amateurs. Meetings con- sisted of code practice, discussion of radio theory, and construc- tion of radio sets. I 4 Page forty K. X. -x . 982 if -Q --ij 5 ii

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Probably the most unique club in Davis last year was the ADVANCED SCIENCE CLUB. The club, consisting of a dozen students, was a loose- ly-knit organization, unhampered by formalities and under the capable supervision of Mr. Stokes. This group did not really function as a club, but rather an assemblage of ambitious students banded together three periods a week, for the purpose of working on their individual projects and assisting in lab work. The only require- ment that one needed in order to join this select group of masterminds was that one have at least one year of Chemistry or Physics to one's credit. Whenever the occasion arose requiring a meeting of the club members, Leonard Friedman presided over it, as his office of president of the Advanced Science Club demanded, but these were quite infrequent, and rare occasions. The projects tackled by these future scien- tists covered many and varied scientific fields such as: making of plastics and bakelite prod- ucts, compounding the various pigments, study- ing the actions of enzymes, constructing and learning about wind tunnels, and actually pro- ducing some. of the different types of batteries. The club offered to its members the oppor- tunity of assisting in the Mount Vernon Hospital and thereby gaining much first-hand, scientific knowledge through the aid and guidance, that an occasion offered, of the staff members in the hospital. It was to the credit of this fine organi- zation that out of the four students that received honorable mention, from Davis, in the noted National Westinghouse examination, all fqur were active members of the Advanced Science Club. An enviable record, to be surel For the members of the ASTRONOMY CLUBl,f the arrival of spring was signified, not by any- thing as unreliable as the annual appearance of the robin, but by the stolid, seasonal placement' of the stars, in the heavens above. These astron- omy enthusiasts were taught to know and' be able to identify between fifteen and twenty first magnitude stars. lncidentally, Annapolis requires its midshipmen to know thoroughly at least l2O different stars, for the obvious reason that while at sea, sometimes their very lives depend on their knowledge of the heavens. The Astronomy Club members received a considerable amount of instruction from Miss Chase, on astronomy and astrology. These meetings were supplement- ed by frequent nocturnal classes, whereby the celestial heavens were more closely scrutinized. This rela- tively small club, consisting of twenty members, had as its pres- ident Dante Faticato. ADVANCED SCIENCE CLUB lTopl Row l: A. M. Hargraveg Row 2: N. Fisher, L. Friedman, M. Bael, G. Robinson, Row 3: W. Fluegel, S. Berkowitz, R. Gor- don, l. Wolf, C. leanne, Mr. Stokes ASTRONOMY CLUB lLeftl Row l : R. Sabella, C. Pettit, l. Gaines, l. Freedenberg, A. Posner, E. Stevenson, E. jones, Row 2: S. Zeckendorf, l. Cava- naugh, l. Bonner, l. Bliss, T. Twiggs, D. Ponon, I. Siegalg Row 3: R, Cimmino, R. l-lorvath, G. Emslie, D. Faticato, T. Stokas V. Ventura, Miss Chase Page thirty-izine

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zigns of tlze 02.11195 lf you let x be the hippopotamus and angle Q lies in the seventh quadrant, the fabulous MATH CLUB sponsored by the fabulous Miss Brown needs your talents. As we angle down the hall, we turn 90 degrees to the right and face the digits 2l4. Proceeding further on a plane sur- face whose symmetry lies in conjunction with the general contour of the parallelopiped-shaped solid, the room to you laymen, we arrive at the Math Club, The members not only learned the use of the slide rule, but also on the agenda were interesting talks on japan by john Stevenson lNavyl with pictures to illustrate, and Lieut. jack Robinson who spoke on the Relationship of the Sciences. A varied and interesting club has thus resulted. MATH CLUB l Belowl Row l: l. Reiner, l, Singer, M. Schmidt, L. Polinger, M. lmpagliazzo, H. Harry, A. Stern, N. Halpern, l. Copeland, l. Sonnenblick, Row 2: M. Fowler, A. Hargrave, E. Frenzel, N. Reinhardt, 1. Rayman, A. Moskowitz, S. Seeman, S, Gar- land, G. Robinson, Row 3: C. Copp, S. Peschel, T. Neely, B, Billingham, l. Wolfe, B. Stier, E. Resnick, D. Ross, Row 4: H. Thomas, A. Brout, R. Scwartz, W. Katzenstein, D. Hal- sey, R. Gordon, H. Seer, M, Karp: Row 5: W. Hoffman, K. Shindler, S. Radin, R. Hoff, j. Goldfield, l. Kossar, G. Palmer, A. Soss, Miss Brown: Row 6: W. Hogan, N. Fisher, G. Scoledes, A. Borghard, G, Linabury, l. Davis, H. Blanchette, R. Miller, C. jeanne, C. Nahmmacher, Row 7: L. Bonus, A. Kramer, A. Gamson, W. Hemingway, D. Rodriquez, H. Kor- nahrens, B. Balkind, R. Brozan, R. Keefe, D, Pearson, A. Grass, T. Warshafsky, S. Knafel, R. Nagle, M. Isler, D. Wil- son, S, Berkowitz, Row 8: D. Goldberg, E. ledeikin, H. Michaelson, A. Greenbaum V N.,,224TV S .f . .. ,uf I l lin My Y...-Q..-,.,,,,,..g . e-MM, T. Page forty-one