Alexandria High School - Alecko Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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FOOTBALL The football team this year was considered the strongest in years, winning eight out of ten games. Prospects looked none too bright at the beginning of the season because of heavy losses from graduation. However, Coach Given received such capable replacements from last year’s “Suicide Squad” that gloom soon turned to sunshine. Eastern defeated us in the first game of the season, 7-6. Then Central fell to the “Maroon and Orange,” 12-0. The second and last reverse of the season came at the hands of Western. The “Twins,” outweighed, went down fighting with a score of 6-0. From then on, one victory followed another — Southern, National Training School, Roosevelt, Washington and Lee, Hopewell, Fredericksburg, and Gonzaga. The Southern game was played at night in Baltimore. This was the first night game to be played by A. H. S. The defeat of Washington and Lee, 12-7, and of Fredericksburg, 20-0, made us Champions of Northern Virginia and holder of the mythical District “B” title. Gonzaga was played as a post-season game, the climax to Home-Coming Week. The “Twins” slid and skidded through a sea of mud and water to win, 19-0. At the annual Football Supper, given by the Pep Club, the following received letters: Co-captains, Luckett and Fritter, Captain-elect for 1935, Shu; Varney, Fones, Ewald, Nugent, Beach, Robinson, Pulman, Stewart, Apperson, Saunders, McCuen, Jefferies, Hammersley, Burroughs, Kirchner, Davis, O’Neil, Worden, and Manager Brewer.

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Club Nexus The Pep Club this year had as its president Edna Weiner, with Dorothy Apperson as vice-president. The members were hostesses at the annual football supper, one of the school year’s greatest successes. Candy was sold at several of the football games by various members. The French Club was organized in April this year. Mary Lewis was elected president, Jane Dunn, vice-president, and Rachel Shelton, secretary- treasurer. The club is a comparatively new organization, but a play and picnic were planned at an early meeting. The Library Club has a staff of capable officers. Anne Monroe was presi- dent, Joyce Waller, vice-president, and Jane Purvis, secretary-treasurer. The club was organized in October and has presented many books to the library. Candy was sold by some of the members at “Girl Shy.” The Art Club has completed several projects this year. Mary Strobel was president and Virginia Rasbach secretary-treasurer of the organization. Once-a- month-program meetings were held to study the works of great artists. At other meetings free-hand drawing was the objective. A large party was given by the club at Christmas time. The Woodrow Wilson Public Speaking Club is one of the older clubs of the school. It is under the direction of Miss Mary Waller Dickinson, who is ably assisted by the following officers: Robert Gooding, president: Helen Pitts, vice-president; Thomas Moncure, secretary-treasurer ; Joyce Waller, parliamentarian. The object of the club is to promote literary activitie s in the school; namely, public speaking, debating, reading, story writing, and spelling. The local contests for the selection of representatves in the Virginia Athletic- Literary Association are under the direction of this club. Jifty-four

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BASKET BALL The “Twins” had a fairly good season this year. Several new schools were added to the schedule, among them, Manassas, Occoquan, and Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. Mt. Rainier, National Training School, Roosevelt, Mt. St. Joseph, Nokes- ville, and Lredericksburg were defeated early in the year. Then followed a mixture of defeats and victories. The team played in the Star Tournament at the close of the season, but was defeated by Bethesda-Chevy Chase in perhaps the most hotly contested game of the year, the winning basket being scored in the last few seconds of play. We entered the state finals at Charlottesville but were defeated. This closed the season. The team was composed of Captain McMenamin, Nugent, Wood, Lynch, Ennis, Apperson, B. Burrell, R. Burrell, Jacobson, Smith, Brewer, and Manager Roland. Jifty-six