Battin High School - Red and White Yearbook (Elizabeth, NJ)

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MUSIC GROUPS 0 The orchesfra, band, and glee clubs confribufe generously fo many enferfainmenfs and ofher special acfivifies. Baffin is very proud of ifs band and orchesfra, because bofh of fhese organizafions have affained fheir highesf marks of success during fhe pasf year. Baffin has fen represenfafives in fhe New Jersey All-Sfafe Or- chesfra and has members in fhe All-Counfy band and fhe All-Cify band and orchesfra, chosen for fheir abilify and fhe progress fhey have made in our own band and orchesfra. under Mr. Brandenburg. A new addifion fo fhe band, fhe chimes, have been feafured many fimes in fhe pasf year and many inferesfing programs are planned for fufure enferfainmenf. Our Band Direcfor

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MAGIC T WhaT Tun To mysTiTy your Triendsl Learn how To proiecT simple Tricks in The Magic Tor EnTerTainmenT Club sponsored by Mr. Siska. Besides FOR sTudying The Technical aspecTs oT The mysTicisms, which involve cerTain TundamenTals oT chemisTry and physics and enable The magician To under- ENTERTAINMENT sTand her Tricks Thoroughly, personal TraiTs are also developed. No Trick ' can be sTarTed if you don'T have a cerTain amounT oT leadership, and iT will never be successTul if you lack poise and personaliTy. Much explana- Tion is necessary in This 'Form oT enTerTainmenTq ThereTore, The members sTudy eTFecTive English and Try To culTivaTe a pleasing voice. MoTion picTures have become one oT The mosT popular Torms oT enTer- TainmenT-buT how much more enioymenT can be obTained Trom Them if we know The work and Time involved! Miss Ayars, Miss Mancini, and Mr. i-lawley sponsor The Tive PhoToplay Clubs whose purpose is To sTudy The deTails oT The moTion picTure indusTry in an eTTorT To know and appreciaTe The besT Technicians and acTors and To undersTand Their individual work. In an aTTempT To help all sTudenTs, balloTs raTing each approved Tilm, criTic- isms, reviews, and previews oT such Tilms will be published in l-ligh SpoTs and The members will prepare library exhibirs oT picTures, books, and reviews. We appreciaTe The cooperaTion oT The BeTTer Films commiTTee in our ciTy, Tor Their helpTul iudgmenT in recommending picTures and Tor The Time They have To give To reviewing new Tilms. PHOTOPLAY CLUB I 27

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BAND 0 i To The TuTure iuniors and seniors oT BaTTin, we ask you To Take an inTeresT in These organizaTions and we promise you ThaT you will neverbe sorry if you accepT This biT oT advice, Tor iT Trains your mind in many ways and iT may prove useful To you laTer on. Maybe you have wondered abouT our sTunning scarleT uniTorms. l-low do we keep Their whiTe saTin linings so immaculaTe? ConsTanT care. JusT go behind scenes some Time and see The amounT oT organizaTion which goes inTo arranging Them in proper numerical order. Checking caps and capes and puTTing Them neaTly under unbleached muslin is The answer. They Take a Trip To The dry cleaner aT leasT once a year. So-good habiTs carry over. ORCHESTRA O A person who has never been a member oT such organizaTions as The band and orchesTra cannoT real- ize iusT whaT iT means To hear a beauTiTul melody or a Thundering chorus and To know Thaf she is doing her parT To make The melody whaT iT is. Music gives The player a real chance To ex- press many oT her emoTions. IT doesn'T maTTer wheTher a person likes The classical or The popular, Tor any appre- ciaTion oT real music is one oT The greaT giTTs liTe has To oTTer. 29