Babylon High School - Trawler Yearbook (Babylon, NY)

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DISCUSSION CLUB Have you heard yells and shouts noon hours on Thursdays? Pay no attention to the uiet 6? debates of Miss Winslow's Discussion Club. The 've s ent ver en'o able hours Cl Y Y I Y keeping up with history in the making. This years president was Charles Wagnerg vice- resident was Marianne Snedeker. Marshall Southard was secretar and treasurer. P Y IVIUSIC DEPARTMENT Strange music fills our earsu this year. Mr. Mairs, music director, with what we have come to recognize as characteristic vim and vigor, organized two new groups - an A Cappella Choir and a Swing Band. The Choir, added as a fifth subject to many schedules, struggled up under the age old criticism, It's never been done before. After hearing their first performance in our Christmas Program, we humbly ate our words, for we were awed by their moving rendition of much loved Christmas music, the solo work of Dorothy Sparacino providing the concert touch. The group made its second public ap- fi N f 32

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STUDENT Democracy is carried out in the school by our Student Council which is composed of representatives elected from each homeroom and heads of all clubs who HCI as ex ofhcio honorary members. This body suggests and controls many of our student activities. From time to time they sponsor dances. Their big success this year was the hobby show in which students displayed their various hobbies and collections. The Council originally elected Bill Eames president, but when he left, Marty Albert took over the job. Gloria Semenza was vicerpresidentg jean Downs, secretaryg and the treasurer was Bob Capie, COUNCIL DRAMATICS CLUB Dramatics Club has had a very successful year. Credit for a' great deal of the success goes to Mrs. Tuttle, faculty advisor of the club. The first success of the year was a Christmas play, Kate Douglas Wiggin's well-known story The Birds Christmas Carol. Another performance was given on Armistice Day in the form of a radio play. The audience showed decided emotions, whi.l1 is always a silent applause for the actors. Congratulations are in order to the club on the production of the senior play, Dangerous Ladies. The cast included Thelma Fitts, lrene Merk, Wally Brown, Alice Pfeifle, Dick Byrns, Dorothy Dimitry, Henry Von Mechow, Ray Annino, George Lipp, Nele Lape, and Agnes Diekmann. Will we ever forget how Ray, as the German gardener, explained to Ellen 4Alice Pfeitlej that You couldnt see the scar from a cut on my hand, because l really cut my t'igh ? Or Geroge Lifps ketchup stained corpse? Gr the gun that wouldnt go off? The curtain has fallcn for this season, but we promise another all-hit bill for next year.

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pearance in the January Orchestra- Band Concert. Aniong its repertoire was a group of Negro Spirituals with commendable soloing by a senior, lrene Merk. Finally, with their suc- ccss in the spring concert, we can see nothing but smooth sailing ahcad for the choir. Hearing the wails of ardent hep cats because we had no Swing Band, Mr. Mairs rallied to the cause and created one. It was a very short time before this organization gained recognition and enthusiastic approv- al. Elinor Richter and Doris de Groff added the final professional touch with their handling of the vocals. This band made numerous appearances throughout the year, playing for basketball games, school dances, assembly programs, and noon dances. There seems to be a little question of the long life and popularity of this new offspring of the music department. Innovations may come and go, but the band and orchestra are de- pendable, ever-present. They did themselves proud in both the win- ter and spring concerts. Their pro- grams included Dvorales Largo, W:igner's March of the Neister- singersf' Pavanne, Von Suppe's Morning, Noon and Night, and Bachs Prelude and Fugue in B Mi- nor. Certainly in mentioning the band, it would be a grave error not to mention the new eye-catching uni- forms which add to their natty appearance. Witli four organizations as alive as these, there is little fear of our being XX!ithout A Song.