Ardsley High School - Ardsleyan Yearbook (Ardsley, NY)

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32 EIGHTH GRADE Mr. Harlan A. Thomas. Teacher. Top Row: NVesley lflrown, lsiclo-re Verch. -lohn Canning, Dominick De Nardo, Artlmr Kaercher, Mr. Thomas, XVillia.m Gierczynski, lirank De Stephane, Raffale De Terlizzi, Charles Quimby. Michael Paohicci. Lawrence Chadwick. llennet lVhite, Edward Herring. ' Third Row: Bessie Robertson, Mary Pascone, janet Hofm-an, Angela Spano. Gwyneth VVilliams, Bottom Row : Townsend. Class Class Class Class Elizabeth Oakes, Josephine De Mura, Couchetta De Rosa. lfaluch Perillo, Robert Mathews, Ronald Mackenzie, Ronald rv Motto- Success is our aim. Flower--Crimson Rose. Colors-Red and Gold. Yell: Skidoo! Skidool You're all in the way. For who do you think ls leading the way? Ardsley Eighth Grade! Rah! Rah! Rah!

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tinnsisyzfin 31 THE SEVENTH GRADE CHRONICLE Ntiws ,xxn tiouxticw To date twenty-one out of our thirty memhers hold a perfect attendance record. The pennant awarded hy the Student touncil to the champion ticlcet-sellers adorns our wall. Vie have alreacly had the .Xttendauce llaimer twenty-tive times and the silver Attendance Lup tive times this year-every time with 100 per cent. As we go to press, we qualilv for a third rear .Xttendance Chatnpiouship of A. lil. S. ' ' I Last liall we tried to repay a little of Bliss C'onlqlin's patient care with white paint service in her clinic. Wie packed twelve Red Cross lloxes for kiddies across the sea, lior our own little cripples at lllythdale llome, Valhalla, we made jointed cardihoard Santas nd dolls. YVe are represented in hoth Senior and -lunior Orchestra. As a special service to our school, we have applied our tnauual training to a real purpose. XYhcn we leave for Grade 3. every desk top in our room will have been scraped. stained. and varnished hy our own hands. In Sewing Class our girls have made aprons. laundry hags and slips. and are now working on dresses. In the Manual Training Class. our hoys have made hroom holders, candle sticks, book-racks. neclitie-racks. hoats. hird-houses. and four new tahles tor the lunch room. Soctxt. livlcxrs On December 3. 1026. in the new ltmch room we held a most successful hanpttet to celehrate the completion of three months of lO0 per cent. attendance. hive opened our Old lfamily .Xlhutn at .Xssemhly one morning' to explain to the school our inheritance oi' superior ahility. This explains why a visiting principal called us the most interesting' class in the school, SPHRTS .XXII Nl VSICNIIQNTS Together with the lfighth tirade. we formed a hlttnior .Xuduhon fltth. XYe have also a llasltethal and Ilasehall Team.

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LARD5iE'iI.EYA!U 33 EIGHTH GRADE PAT ll Fl ND R R ORGANtz.x'rIoN-Tlie lfighth Grade at its tirst class meeting in September elected Ronald Townsend, president. and Wesley llrown, treasurer. Ronald 'l'ownsend was re-elected the second term, and lsidore Yerch was chosen treas- urer. Our president has taken l1is duties seriously and worked faithfully. Law- rence Chadwick was chosen che er leader. and Conchetta lle Rosa wrote the class yell. Olnly two pupils left the class during the year. 'l'hey were Raymond Strat- ton and Rosina tiasperine. llc have had three pupils come from other schools. they are janet llofntan. Raymond Neary and Rocco De Angelis. KXTTIZXDXNt'I2kDlll'lllg the month ol September both the Seventh nd Eighth grades had 100 per cent. attendance and shared the attendance cup. XX e have not had an illegal absence during the year. Sixteen pupils have been at school every dav. ENTER'l'.XlN3IEN'l'S+.'Xf one of their meetings the llonor Society decided to ask each grade to put on a stunt. The liightli tirade gave the Romance of Annabelle. We also gave in assemlfy a dramatization. The Training of the Rugglesesf' Much credit was due to .Xngela Spano, who worked hard and played the part of Mrs. Ruggles very realistically. The lligh School asked tts to give this pfaylct in their assembly whch we did. l.arry Ruggles. played by Ronald Qllackenzie, certainly added real life to the play. SCIIOLXRSIIll'+fll1I' class has tour boys who skipped the liifth and Seventh Grades. It is gratifying to know that these boys lived up to the confidence placed in them by their teachers and parents and showed the same high type of work in the Eighth tirade as in previous years. These boys are lidward llering. Charles Quimby, lYilliam Lawrence, and Robert Mathews. In the regents' examinations in january, two boys. Michael l'aolueci and Ronald Townsend, each received l00 per cent. in arithmetic. SPORTS-lJO1llllllCli De Nardo was the captain of both our baseball and bas- ketball teams. Dominick also is a member of the varsity baseball team. lxliza- beth Oakes played on the lligh School basketball team. flRC'llES'I'RA-l:lVC of our members belong to the Orchestra. They are Nuzi- anto Leo, Ronald 'l'ownsend, lialuch I'erillo. Dominick lie Xardo, and llcssie Robertson.