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

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As time marched on, new advances in science resulted in new activities in high school. Unlike the graduate of 1900, this year's high school senior was given the advantage of today's progressive visual education, which included the showing of slides and motion pictures. In the spring of 1947 the Davis PROJEC- TION CLUB was formed under the sponsorship of Miss Agnes Padou. This club was organized with the purpose of teaching students to operate Davis slide and movie projectors. Trained op- erators then helped any teacher who wanted films shown in his class. - Through the year this club performed a valuable service for its high school, and all students were familiar with the boy or girl who 'Lunflinchinglyw gave up a class period to show a film which would hold the lucky audience spell- bound. roiecfion CM ROW 1: R. Hockman, A. Goodrich, S. Ziltzer, G. Subotky, W. Zelley, J. Fine, L. Gilbert, B. Knapp, N. Hochman, D. Degenhardtg ROW 2': J. Light, R. Bael, 3 G. Snyders, D. Klein, L. Balter, H. Black, WJ R. Piersall, D. Waxman, N. Lynn, A. Saltz- man, Miss Padoug ROW 3: M. Trister, C. Wolf, H. Schweitzer, D. Kass, M. Brigham, G. Houston, A. Nagle, R. Stevens, F. Fisher, S. Harris, B. Frisch, F. Baenag ROW 4: R. Pacchiana, A. Marcus, R. Ehret, T. Henderson, M. Blendermann, E. Josephson, J. MacMillan, W. Pelkus, G. Spoll, R. Rabkin, F. Hoffman Since its organization eight years ago, the Davis RIFLE TEAM has continually copped the W. I. A. A. rifle crown as well as placing in several Metropolitan Area matches. Under the watchful eye of Coach Jack Caville, new recruits are brought up each fall through the Basic Small Arms Course which instructs new mem- bers in the parts and care of a rifle, correct shoot- ing positions, and good sighting technique. At their weekly meetings rifle skills are practiced and 'grifle gossip exchanged. This was . l Q just one more organization which yearly takes top honors CM ROW l: J. Annecelli, D. Levitt, F. Fischer, Mr. Caville, C. Buonanno, J. Furman, C. Glueck, J. Kramer, D. Garvey, A. DeFilippis, R. Perkins, ROW 2: R. Bael, M. Hess, L. Smith, R. Pacciana, S. Busa, O. Potts, N. George, R. Waechter, P. Greges, N. Hochman, J. Light, ROW 13: W. Butler, W. Hauser, G. Crute, J. Kleiner, M. Fiewel, F. Vener, O. Hoyt, L. Neale, ROW 4: J. Arena, H. Ashendorf, B. Hand, R. Bantz, M. Sena, S. Press, ROW 5: R. Gotschall, H. Freed, L. Schramm, G. Pnccio, S. Warshall 30

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lfllf' Seated behind the mayor's desk at City Hall were two men. both of whom were mayors. 0ne's face was that of Mount Vernon's William Hart Hussey: the other. a younger face, belonged to our own Clifford Storms. The corridors of City Hall echoed with eager footsteps on De- cember T. 19-19. Once more the members of OUR TOWN CLUB had taken command of the inner workings of the government of the city of Mount Vernon. From the fourth floor fire alarm system to the basement dental clinic, interested students explored City Hall. Behind the impressive doors of the Wlater Bureau, the student commissioner poured anxiously over charts showing the serious- ness of the current water shortage. Two floors above, within the confines of the Department of Public Wforks, officials for the day appraised the plans for the housing projects under con- struction on Site A. Davisites recorded in the official ledgers of Mount Vernon everything from marriages, in the ofhce of the City Clerk, to deaths, in the Bureau of Vital Statistics. For one day Mount Vernon was really f'Our Town. It was one afternoon five years ago that one hundred fifty Davisites filed into the audi- torium on the Hill Top for the first meeting of Our Town Club. Advised by its founder, Mrs. Walter Addis, the members visited City Hall for the first time on December 7, 1945, but over night A DAY AT THE DENTAL CLINIC Olflflfl Our Town Club had become the largest and most popular club at Davis. A tradition of efficiency grew up over the years among the elected and appointed uofficialsf, The best example of this took place during the first Our Town Day in 194-5. So seriously did the Commissioner of Public Works take his responsi- bility that he arose at dawn and was supervising garbage disposal at the city incinerator at the early hour of six-thirty. No wonder that our municipal employees were impressed by the 'fofficialsw for the day! But back again to this year! Across the street from City Hall a student commissioner learned Mount Vernon's methods of law enforce- ment at the Police Department. A Davisite ac- companied the fire chief in his bright red sedan to the scene of a minor blaze. Farther south in 'fOur Town the 'fSuperintendent of Schoolsw and the President of the Board of Education saw for the first time the other side of our school system. From Bronxville to the Bronx, from Yonkers to Pelham, members of Our Town Club saw and ran the City of Mount Vernon, while their official acts were carefully recorded by the photographer of the uDaily Argusf' whose editor, in turn, loaned these photographs to the 6fMaroon and Wfhitef' Some day in the future the green curtain of the voting booth will be before us. It will be our responsibility to choose the people who will direct our city government. Who will be better prepared than a member of Our Town Club, who has seen and worked in City Hall, to choose the future officials of the City of Mount Vernon? Although December 7 was the biggest day on the club calendar, members met every two weeks during the year under the supervision of its new adviser, Miss Rouget. Movies, speakers, and other means were used to bring 'fOur Townw closer to club members. Many members realized for the first time that although they had lived here all their lives they had never witnessed the inner workings of the government of their own home town. As one member admitted rather sheepishly, 'GI saw Congress in session, but I had never been inside City Hall, before joining Our Town Club. 29

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Ziff ROW' 1: H. Hirsch. P. Bloomfield. E. Seplow. H. Podell. A. Kulka, P. Schwartz. H. Wfollman. L. Cirino, S. Har- ris: ROYV 2: P. Zellermayer. G. Blake. A. Lenlos. A. Schwartz. A. McYVhirter. B. McElron. D. Sherman. B. Comdenq ROW 3: A. Cohen. A. Nagle. R. Abelson, L. Balter. A. Korhamrner, B. Hertzberg. C. Greenberg, Mr. Millerg ROW 4: A. Mur- denger. J. Colombus. M. Klein. E. Joseph- son. H. Marks. R. Pacchiana Q-bracing CM ROW7 1: R. Bass, F. Lucadamo, M. Pucci, D. Grifhng ROW 2: A. Cohen, A. Schwartz, E. Seplow, G. Gouldg ROW 3: N. Grusby, H. Hirsch, B. Posner, R. Stew- art, L. Goldner, D. Zale, D. Klein, M. Wolf, W. Bard Progress has been the byword of the Davis CAMERA CLUB, which has been in existence since 1939. For the past three years, under the able leadership of Mr. Miller, our Davis photo- fiends have been clicking with great success. Formerly hindered by a lack of equip- ment and money, The Davis lensmen have risen from the previous depths of despair to the present heights of photographic art. Ever striving for added knowledge, the club arranged a program of demonstrations and experiments designed to attract any sincere photographer. Posted on all modern techniques, they even took some pictures for the best yearbook in the country! Rising from the developer and solidifying in the fixer, our club expected to he framed as the best club in Davis. If effort and ability count at all, Mr. Mil1er,s boys should make it. Some authorities say that they have already done so. L'Ooh, that hurts , cried one of the brave fencers as he awkwardly parried a blow. Yes, the FENCING CLUB members were at it again, but they no longer had a coach. This circumstance, however, did not force the club to give up any more than it had in some of the other years since 1939, when it was a struggle for would-be fencers to develop club teams. At the onset of its history, the Fencing Club had an excellent record. Guilio D'Angio, who was one of Davis' iinest fencers, acted as coach. After he left, there was no one to guide the members, so the c1ub's activities practically discontinued. ln 1948 and 1949 while Mr. 'Os- borne, an interested citizen, acted as coach, the club revived marvelously, with the team winning five victories. This year, although the club was without an instructor, one could still hear foils ringing in room 9. 31