Bennett High School - Beacon Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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e ennett eacon Vol. III SPRING ISSUE No. 3 BENNETT PREPARES FUR DEBATE Students to Judge By Marie Kurtz Bennett will try to regain its laurels in debate Thursday evening, March 29, when it meets Technical and East High Schools in the iinal debates of the season. Bennett and Lafayette, last year's chamf pions, are tied for first place at present. The subject of the spring debate is, Resolved: That Congress provide a com- mission to regulate the mining of coal. Bennett will uphold the affirmative against Technical. This debate will be held in the Bennett auditorium. The Bennett negative team will meet East High at East. Following the usual custom, the spring debates will be held in the evening. An unusual feature of the debate this spring is that it will be judged by high school seniors. Each school will send three judges to each high school against which it does not compete. Bennett will send judges to Hutchinson, Masten, Lafayette, and South Park. The judges at Bennett will consist of three representa- tives from each of those schools. It is expected that having student judges will stimulate further interest in debate. Those competing for positions on the Bennett team are: Loftus Becker, Elmer Tropman, Dorothy Meyer, Charlotte Bax' ter, Lorna Knibb, Helen Gibson, James Sala, Howard Gondree, Robert Mason, Paul Beck, and George Diehl. THREE PLAYS T0 BE PUT IIN Ill ASSEMBLY By George R, Metzger, Jr. During the spring months the Bennett Players will put on several plays in assemf bly. These will be financed from the profits of Peg O' My Heart. On March 5' the tryouts for the plays were held. There were over fifty aspirf ants. The first play will be given as soon as possible after Easter. It will be The Clock Shop, by john Golden, who was the author of Bennett's first production, Tum to the Right. The Clock Shop is a pretty little fantasy. In it the char' acters are clocks. The plot consists of their ambitions and desires, in which they are quite human. The second is Chinese Love, by Clair Kumer, who wrote The Choir Rehearsal, presented in' assembly last year by the Bennett Players. This is a tragedy, and is rather unusual in its development. It conf cerns the execution of a certain Chinese pirate, and his subsequent appearance, as a spirit, to his wife. Its charm lies in the fact that the author does not seem to have written it to expound her peculiar ideas. The Bennett Players may present an- other play, The Mo'nlqey's Paw, in which Cyril Maud recently played the lead. This play, however, is considered almost too dramatic to put on in the assembly.

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The BEACON ennettss Annual Operetta GIRLS' CAs'r-- Swords and Scissors BOYS' CAST!-HSwUTdS and Scissors

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22 The BEACON SENICII CLASS CHUIISES KNELL AS PRESIDENT By George R, Metzger Raymond Knell, baseball captain, letter- man and honor student, was elected presi- dent of the senior class, and Janet O'Neil, who has been active in dramatics and the Legion of Honor, and who is an honor student, was elected vice-president, in the class elections, held February 16 and 20. Dorothy Garrett was chosen as secre- taryg Elmer Tropman, as treasurerg and Elizabeth Joline and Gordon Davis, as marshalls. Marjorie Gow was made prophet, and George Torge, historian. The three remaining ofhces, those of poet, salutatorian, and valedictorian, are not elective. They will be filled by choice of the cabinet. The first ofhcial act of the senior class this year was to decide against wearing caps and gowns on graduation night. The vote was 256 to 163. SEIBULII PIIUIIUCES MUSICAL SHIIW The Bennett High School glee clubs and orchestra presented the operetta, Swords and Scissors, February 21 and 22 in the school auditorium. This, the an- nual musical play, was under the direc- tion of Mr. Seibold. The school orchestra furnished enjoy- able music for the piece. The choruses, as usual, were excellent. Mr. Seibold has the knack of producing good group music. The outstanding soloists were Marjorie Sullivan, as the Empress, Aileen Bren- nan, as the Maid of Honorg and Donald Dobbins, as the Colonel of Hussars. Truffle, the detective chief, a leading part, was played by Roland Georger. James Sala, as the tailor, Moreau, and Aileen Brennan enacted their roles with distinction. A new system was tried for financing the play. No student tickets were sold, because of the difficulty of keeping ac- counts with so many different managers. fPlease tum to page 23, column 21 BENNETT WINS MICHIGAN CUP City Hockey Champions Bennett won the Michigan Hockey Cup for 1927-28 with six victories, no losses, and with but two goals scored against them. The Demon Captain Puls and Diehl were veritable Flying Dutchmen, and scored many of Bennett's points. Brugnone, Irv Puls and Warren, our steadfast goalie, were star players who con- tributed rnuch to Bennett's victory. It is our Hrst Buffalo Interscholastic Cup-may we win again next year!!! ' This year Bennett had a good chance to show the wizard team she developed last year, but could not use them because of the thaws which constantly disrupted the schedule. This year the team played with perfect skill and breath-taking speed all through the season, whirling all oppon' ents off their feet. It was an exciting race whose climax came when we played Technical on February 12. The contest was extremely close from the start. At the toss-up Gord Puls captured the puck and with a few graceful motions slapped it into the cage for our first goal. After a titanic struggle, Bennett emerged victor at a score of 3-2. Gibbons at East By Charles Boyer Mr. Gibbons spoke February 10 at the Lincoln Day program of East High School. This was the result of a promise exacted by Principal Costello that Mr. Gibbons would be one of the first speakers at his school. Altho it is not the custom at East to have the whole school attend the assem- blies, on this occasion all turned out. Usually the upper classmen only are privileged to attend the exercises, while the lower classmen remain in their home- rooms and listen to the program as broad- cast from a microphone on the stage. Courtesy, said Mr. Gibbons, was outstanding, and shown by the fact that in the crowded auditorium no girl was forced to stand, altho many boys were forced to give up their seats.