Ardsley High School - Ardsleyan Yearbook (Ardsley, NY)

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BAND Encouraged by the success achreved durmg lts first year of orgamzatlon the band started the new term wlth great hopes and ambltxons for bigger and better accompllshments After a few short rehearsals to get rld of any rust that mrght have accumulated during the long summer vacatnon the band delighted an apprecxatrve audience at the Armlstlce Day Celebration when xt made its flrst appearance of the season Wrth the comrng of the basketball season our young muslclans tuned up the1r rnstru ments and vocal chords and attended the home games not only to cheer the boys on the road to victory but to entertam the spectators and keep them out of mlschxef betwe n those very trymfv quarters The band often rendered nts services at the pep assemblxes to help put new llfe and confidence mto our team Our younger musxcxans not to be outdone by the older fellows organized a begmners band and orchestra which IS growmg by leaps and bounds m numbers and quallty of per formance To our drrector Mr Vlncent who has labored so tirelessly for our betterment go our most smcere thanks for a memorable vear for although success has meant hard con clentxous work he ha varled and arranged lt o that lt has been fun for everyone A D Paoluccl mamma JW! E if 5 W M -'W' ,af Y 'lim' Y 1 3 . . , , , . y - 1 . . . . Q , .. - . . . . . . , . .5 . . . . . . y , 11 7 - 9 ' D 1 f- - . , v S , s S . . MMM MMM- c ' HA I in W If gum.. , W WW. b 'iff' 'M A f ' 'f -2?-fi , ,af V 4 ,H 'f , - : rl r.w, , K V ', I' I V A l Y 5 at 1 , 'gl . fwl N ' v , . , 'J ,' NJ , g ,, ' ', ...W ' - W ,....,w -1 A W, 'Y -5 r - 1, I - r f ' I 4- , ,ff-Mr' . ff' D , , ,, , -,

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GIRLS BASKETBALL Sl' RON IIN Ill 1 nnn n 1 0 N nn ll I I nu ll 1 n I llllUl N :lt fl :Lan Xl ruln froth Iollx iupluht Shss Summers Three cheers for the Junior Cnrls who played through the lnter class schedule without suffering a slngle defeat earnmg l76 points as axzamst their opponents 54 The Senior team placed second wrth the Sophomores and Freshmen tled for thxrd From these unter class teams two honor teams were chosen This year they partrclpated ID play days as well as IH dual contests The Play Day at Washlngton lrvxng when some eighty glrls partlclpated found Ards ley forwards on the wmnlng color team ln dual contests the first honor team defeated Greenburgh s and Hastlngs teams but lost to the Dobbs Ferry lassles The second team al though trymg hard was set back by Greenburgh Dobbs Ferry and Hastings The glrls have formed many frlendshlps from these play days and whether wlnnmg or losxng have been the best of sports so that one vlsltmg coach remarked My glrls look forward to playing the Ardsley glrls more than any other team' Thus we end our 39 40 season having played good basketball made good frxends ex hxbnted good sportsmanshmp for good old Ardsley Hugh' 9 i FIR. ': lin D la, I-'al '- IVA g'l , .la 'W HPI: 'gc-, Saul I'z. n -, l'Iv'ly Eaton, 1' ' .ln ' , to . STANDING: I-Ilizalwth S1-lim-itlvr, yIZllHigt'l'1 Nancy XYilhu1', Motu Sc-h:n'l', Lois Ann Bannister, :xllll1llN'll1' H1'z,.i'- S- ,' gl IH..

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ORCHESTR fn The year l939 has been an unusually Important year to hlstorlans and to the orches tra It has b en a year that many of the members will remember for years to come Last Aprxl for the first time ln the hlstory of the organization we Jolned the New York State School Music Assocxatlon and Mr Vmcent confldent that we were not the worst mu slcal Group ln Westchester made arrangements for us to compete m the Southeastern New York State Competition Festival at Port Ch ster To our great Joy and surprlse we were declared ellglble for the state finals at Amsterdam Through the cooperation and generoslty of the good people of Ardsley we were able to raise suffxclent funds to transport all the members of the orchestra to Amsterdam There we played before the Judges Our joy knew no llmlts when several days later reports were recelved from the officials declaring the Ardsley Hugh School Orchestra had been rated the thlrd best of lts slze ln the state' Ar the commencement of the new term we found that graduation had taken xts toll of many of the older and more experlenced muslclans but the orgamzatxon has been gradually rebullt through the addltlon of enthusiastic members To further his program for deeper appreclatlon of better muslc Mr Vlnc nt enabled the members of the orchestra to attend a serles of instrumental recltals ln New York Cnty We wlsh to join Wlth the band ln expressing our gratitude to Mr Vincent hopmg he wxll conduct us for many years to come A D Paoluccl . . if ' - wq' 1 14 :VA , ,sf - .M f V 4'-J 'Kr 1. Md Q, .1 . . X N , ,yt ' W , ,V - ,,. Q ,,, t rv , W H, sf- M 1 421, , ,' l 2 .f 4 M ' 1 '1- . Q . , . c . Y A , 9 1 I 1 - 'SH ' . ' f . , . . . Q , . . . . . A . . c , - ,