Bennett High School - Beacon Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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12 Ei The B E ACON school work in college entrance sub- jects. These scholarships are good for one hundred dollars a year for four years at any New York State college or university. E. Claire Groben achieved an average of 93.593 Virginia Jacobs, 92.343 Alice Cowles, 91.473 and Bella Weekes, 89.02. Virginia Jacobs also received a state scholarship at Cornell University as a result of the competitive examina- tions held June 4, 1927. Cornell scholarships pay the major part of the tuition charges for the entire four years for the amended law provides that holders of these scholarships shall pay to Cornell University the sum of one hundred dollars a year in full payment of the annual tuition fee charged by the university for any of its courses. . Another scholarship awarded to a Bennettonian has been won by Charles W. Siverson, a sophomore at the Eastman School of Music in Roch- ester. Siverson took the entire music course at Bennett and was prominent in orchestral activities here. He is the only trombone player in the East- man School Little Symphony Orches- tra, and has been elected librarian of the orchestra. EAST RIVALS BENNETT IN EQUIPMENT On September sixth, the new East High School opened. It was built to accommodate pupils from Bennett and Fosdick-Masten High Schools, which were over-crowded last year, as well as to afford a more convenient place of education for those living in that section of the city. The new school is on Northampton and Fougeron streets, near Humboldt parkway. Although the general fixtures and all the classrooms are like those of our own school, there is a difference in arrangement. The gymnasium wing is at the side of the school, in- stead of the back. Since there is no fourth Hoor, the cafeterias are in the basement. The clinic and the domes- Continued on page 14, 1st col. 75 STUDENTS RECEIVE SERVICE CERTIFICATES At the assembly on October 24th, the awards were presented to a large number of pupils for service rendered to Bennett during the year 1926-1927. Those received by the monitors were for office workg those in dramatics, for participation in any of the plays or dramatic sketches, those in BEACON, for assisting the staff members and acting as reporters for the school pub- licationg and those in the Color Guard, for raising and lowering the Hag before and after school each day. The students who were awarded certificates are as follgwg Monitor ' Gordon Lohumn llernard Meyer Howard Gondree Martha Woohury Arthur Goldberg Dorothy Garrett Edna Uuverzagt 'l'l1omas Hogan Dl'2m2.tlCS Janet O'Neil Harold Goodling Virginia. Nieman Amos Johnstone Russell Peters Irwin Tliiele Howard Bradley Leon Spiller Eleanor Klaus George Torge Eleanor Kimball Albert Ballard Howard Gondree George Metzger, .Tr Paul Downey Thomas Powell Charles Goodsole Marie Hanoteau Lewis Humphrey Beatrice Cursons Paul Harris Edward Trupman Wilfred Hoffman Theodore Metz Edward Roblin John Hill Charles Dwyer Beacon Wilson Mclilatli Bertram Willcox Ric-lmrd Hauser Nelson Adams lleruice Fulxr William Rowe NVilIizLn1 Sawyer Jean Armstrong Rose Bindeluan Wellington Kline Bessie Comstock Rhoda Goelile Arthur Goldberg Charles Horton Robert Mason Color Frances Montgomery .Tacoba Mensonides Marcia Lane Gertrude lilaischoss Bernadine Wende Glen Shisler Howard Gondree Elizabeth Lindow Lorna Knibb Elmer Koehler Marcia Lane Grace Lee George Leyonmnrk John Merrill Yvonne Natowitz Bella Shroder Gertrude Silverberg, Benjamin Swerdloll' lie-ta Wilcox Lester Weintraub Guard Candace Doelinan Louise Lane Louise Appleton Janet Hirt 'Victoria Otis News Reporters Ave Hartfield 0071 1929 Marie Kurtz 12235 1929 Virginia Nieman 12071 1928 James Schneider 12161 1930 Franklin Staub C2165 1930

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The BEACON 11 IJETRUIT HIGH SCHUULS USE IIUVEL METHUDS 25 Buffalo Teachers Make Trip Twenty-five Buffalo high school de- partment heads, among whom were six Bennett teachers, left Thursday evening, October 6, for Detroit, to study the methods used in the city high schools there. The Bennett teachers in the party were: Oliphant Gibbons, Margaret Giesecke, Char- lotte Kreinheder, Richard Seibold, Ray Spear, and Lucretia Terry. The teachers were met by Assistant Superintendent Miller of the Detroit schools, and, after being divided into groups, visited the thirteen different high schools. The largest of the Detroit high schools has a present registration of 4,400, while the others accommodate from four to two thousand each. They are so large that they are divided into groups called houses , in which stu- dents from each of the grades are grouped together under one teacher for all four years of their high school career. In the schools where this method is not practiced they have staggered hours. One group of pupils comes at eight and stays until twelveg another group comes at nine and stays until oneg another is edu- cated from ten to two, and the last from eleven till three. Detroit students have to purchase their own text books. The city fur- nishes none. The school lunch, too, is more expensive. Their cafeterias are run on an entirely different plan from ours. The management is given as a concession, and the cafeterias are run as paying concerns. In the classrooms there is a marked difference. In some the seats are ar- ranged around a hollow square. One of the students acts as chairman, re- cording marks, asking questions, and generally taking over the class for the day or the week. Detroit has no Regents' examinations, nor tests on the whole year's work. Examinations are given at the end of each term on that term's work only. Otherwise, their methods of teaching are not very different from those in use here. The teachers brought back many new ideas, some of which are already being used to great advantage. Student Government-Cont 'J student body that it is alive and work- ing for Bennett. Later it was suggested that a cer- tain number be selected as charter members, instead of including all who had attended from the beginning. The Faculty has therefore chosen the fol- lowing group, consisting of ten girls and ten boys, who will comprise the charter members and will be the main- spring of the organization: Girls Mary Barrett .......... ...... 1 09 Candace Doelman ............ 207 Kathleen Donnelly .......... 109 Charlotte Dugra .............. 207 Marjorie Gow .................. 207 Dorothy Meyer ..............., 207 Elizabeth Spencer ...,,,,,,, 207 Pearl Walters .................. 223 Jeanette Wenborne ........ 109 Reta Wilcox ..............,....... 207 Boys Loftus Becker ........ ...... 2 06 Reuel Denney ........ ,...... George C. Diehl ................ Llewellyn Dietz .............. Charles F. ,Goodsole ........ Gordon Lohman .............. Robert K. Mason .............. 224 224 224 206 Richard Griffin ................ 206 206 224 George Metzger, Jr .,...,.., 206 ' ' 224 William Rowe .................. Bennett Students Win Scholarships Four of the recent state scholarship awards in Erie county, of which there were forty, have been won by Ben- nett girls on the basis of their high rating in Regents' examination aver- ages during the four years of high

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Sixteen Times in I The B E ACON 232 PARTICIPATE III FIRST HUIIUR ASSEMBLY On October 17th, Bennett had the first Honor Assembly of the school year. Those students who have hon- ored Bennett were honored at that time. The program was in charge of Miss Patterson, with Mr. Frank H. Nye, Deputy Superintendent of Ed- ucation, as speaker. Names of those students who had been on the Honor Roll fourteen, twelve, ten. six, four, or two times were read. Bronze pins were awarded to those who had been on the Honor Roll eight times. The students that had been on every honor roll for twtguccessive years were given silver pins. Those honored in this assembly were: Times Dorothy Gai-rr-it AdeIaido,,Gielow Roswell Gardner liaymonrl Knell Louise Lane Roma Stain Loftus Becker Eleanor Burger Candace Doelman Paul Tlorris Hazel Fisher Lois Fries Beatrice Fyffe Fourteen Times Adele Bobys Marjorie Carroll Henry Frank llowurd Goudree Eloise Ilill Marion Holmes Helen ll'laeArtlmr Margaret lllesmer Virginia Waldron Frank Welrh Rota VVileox Twelve Times Lneille Aitken Jenn Calkins Marjorie Dohn Charlotte Dugra Emma Erickson Ida Feinsinger Margaret Foisset Richard Griffin 'Florence Histed Gertrude Horvath Ten Priscilla Bernhard Dorothy Caroll Dorothy Green Howard Henry Hazel Hessinerer Elizabeth .Toline Joseph McGrath Eight Madeline llell Ariel Camp Audrey Ennis Daisy Evenden George Fell Kelvin Ferber Doris Flierl .Tulin Fox Rohde Goehle Marjorie Goetz Marjorie Gow Ruth Kromke Arthur Lewis Alice Link Janet Lund Betty Parkes Clifford Scharf Lillian Steekler Dorothea Townsend Bernadine XVende Times Bernard Meyer Amelia Onody Marion Riley Doris Spelder Sally Spring Gordon Viekery Josephine Whitney Times Genevieve Grotjan lll1'l'lfl'I'd Harris Trene Heaeock Marie Horan Katherine Houghton Ralph Kreinheder lllstlier Lawrence Harold Lifschutz Charles Lyman Edris Maefi-uire llllilflred Melngaino Wilson Melllath 'Inna Miller Frances Nye llarriet Pearson Geraldine Kobbetoy Dorothy Roth Gertrude Silverliurg lllizabetli Spencer llelen Steek lletty Townsend Virginia VValclron Norma Walsh Ernest Wende Lillian Wiener Virginia VVillis Margaret W'o1ltke Six Times l':ltl1erine Alt llarion Andrews Frances Bartlette Vharlotte Baxter llueille Brown Esther Cohen Annu Cooper Williani Corse Rita Diebold Betty Donovan Lois Dorr l'llizahel.l1 Dunn Samuel 'Erentsoft lloris Fisher llelen Flower Iiulli Gibbons Cnlvlor Gilrson .Tossnmine Goerner Aubrey llarris Norah llemphill f'?lI'll'Tlll'I Hengerer Marguerite Honegre' Ls-ora Keeney Tflunire Keller Clementine Kieffer Lorna Knihh Marie Kurtz Dorothy Maltby Henrietta Martz Alice McCarthy Bennie Meeklin Anna Miller Norman Miller Marion Niekson ,lean Noragon Georgrina Notley Lois l'lunnner Ruyxiionfl T'n-mi William l'roilitl Nlllllllllll liUSl'llllllllll hvilllillll Sawyer llelen Simon Truro S1'u'inger Franees Sin-I'I'nn Louise NII'l1'lil!lI1ll Dorothy Striker Shirley Sweeney Marjorie Swift Fllva VVestherg: Marjorie White lsalxel W'hil1-loek Henry Xlforli lNIurg:u'et Kruxnheuer Four Nelson Adams Mary Burke Marion Burnes Lillian Braungart Norma Cowell Annette Crawford Dorothy Dana Edward Dusel Ruth Freund Henry Fyderek Helen Gibson Frances Greenfield Elsie Hise Mildred Hofer Elva Hoffman Dorothy .Tones Leo Kuczmanski Harold Kunek Gordon Leney Erma Leonlu-rgei' llllizaheth Lindow Ruth Mackey Celia Norman Charles Norris Sadie Ostrow Elva Pearson llerniee Peffer Charles 'l',l0lItlll1l'I' Carleton Poppi-nhur,., Emma Reed Eleanor Reiehle Kenneth Reiman Paul Rieh Irving: Rowell Howard Sehnm Lincoln Taylor Tflugene Thompson Marion Voss Ruth Yeates Two Times Eleanor Anderson Gertrude Anneser fllargaret Berkhau sen Wanda Tiieniec-ka i'I't'l'llIl llanlet lilmer Bowes Richard Carpenter Charles Chur .lolm Danitz Malcolm Davis Bertha Tlwork Alice lflhy Sigue. Flriekson Thomas Fay Mary Grace l-llizahelli Day I.:-ona Hatch Contimferl on p Gladys Hauser Russell Hanson Margaret Herzog Ruth lluf'feult Samuel Tsanes llildegarzle .'Iag'ow 'Dolores Johnson Muriel Kaiser Dorothy Kellner Audrey La Mort Bruce MacArthur llohert lllaniliia l'ldwarcl Martin Vllilliam Mm-lntosh Marie lllengrle George Mohn Flllnn Morrison age 1.4, 27101 col.