Beaver Country Day School - Senior Yearbook (Brookline, MA)

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K:'x Luncheon Club Kingsley Houghton Janet Gutterson Nancy Stkoi-ast Jane Woll, Chairman Ann O’Day Sally Browne Lucy Baker [59]

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Athletic Board Annr Shepard, President Bunny Millikin Dubby Rugg Sally Wood Cynthia Nicholas Patty Thayer Kay Andres Dubby Knights Joan Schermbrhorn Mary Caskey Sally Biscoe This year brought several new additions to the Athletic Department and the Athletic Board. First and foremost, an entirely new staff of teachers came upon the scene. With them they brought many new ideas which, during the course of the year, have proved exciting and worthwhile. Our second annual hockey game with Dana Hall was planned for three different Friday afternoons, and on each Friday we came to school in the rain. The game was finally postponed until next year. However, our spirits were not down for long, because we all of a sudden found we were playing hockey and being hostess to the Boston Umpiring Conference. We won’t forget that Saturday for a long time, with fourteen prep schools in the morning and eight colleges in the afternoon; we certainly absorbed a great deal of hockey that day. Beaver played Newton High School, Brookline High School, and Dana Hall. Newton High beat us i-0, we tied Brookline High 1-1, and we tied Dana 0-0. In the afternoon Miss Burke showed us how it’s done by playing with the All Boston team. In the basketball season we have a game with Dana Hall planned and a game with the alumnae. We look forward to these, knowing the rain can not disturb us this time. Our modern dance group will attend a conference at the Windsor School. The Athletic Board as usual is helping to promote experience and good sportsmanship throughout the school. One added way of promoting this is through the Blue and Brown teams. This year we arc awarding points to the team winning the hockey game, the basketball game, and so on. The tennis groups and even the lower school help their team. [58]

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Chairman..................................................Jean Briggs Secretary..............................................Joan Olmstead Let row. Rosen, Cohn, O’Neil, Mrs. Pope, Olmstead, McCarthy, Howes. 2nd row. Wechsler, Mbacham, Swain, Rees, Feldman, Baker, B., Siioet, Houghton K. Sul row. Townsend, Cordingley, Falvey, Wyner, Thayer, Harris, Fernandez, Fitzgerald, Absent Briggs. This year because so much interest was expressed in poetry, the Log Board sponsored the establishment of a Poetry Group for both faculty and students. We read and—more or less— discuss the works of various poets—including ourselves! Mr. Hodgman started us off with a ■’boom”, reading Vachcl Lindsay's The Congo . Later we had a very interesting meeting with Miss Blair and Dr Heidcr reading Emily Dickinson. Miss Blair told us some of the difficulties of reading her poetry; then Dr. Heider gave an account of how he happened to find out about Emily Dickinson and read us a poem he had written about her. Miss Knight contributed some photographs and a photostatic copy of an original manuscript from her collection of Dickinsonalia. One of our best meetings was the one at which Miss Clcndenin read Negro poetry. We all loved it so much that we rushed right home after the meeting to read the books of Negro poetry with which Mrs. Pope had decorated the table. We also went, one memorable day, to hear Robert Frost read at Harvard. We hope to have many more opportunities of this sort, and to enlarge our program, listening to records of poets reading their work, and perhaps having poets come and read to us. The Log Board looks forward to an ever-growing Poetry Group! [60] Poetry Group