Bronxville High School - Bronco Yearbook (Bronxville, NY)

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What's New? jack Rosenquest's record set last year of a 100 percent advisory in three days, Man Mountain jenkins' clan taking the banner. Although from time to time we were missing a few hundred unaccounted-for dollars, it was a real job and well done. No let up came with the tumultuous end of the G.A. drive. President Jack Burke immedi- ately stepped into action and called together the first Student Council meeting of 1940. Mari- lyn Hedges was made secretary and Tom john- son, Vice-President. However, at a second meet- ing a new vote had to be taken since Tom had changed schools. Jean Redfield, runner-up in the first election, was unanimously chosen. As head of the G.A., Shuttleworth became Treas- urer. First in the council's crusade for new things was an elimination of school bottle-necks, such as seventeen-inch skirts for cheer-leaders. The result was a renaissance in school spirit. For four weeks the football team had been practicing for the opening game with Saunders trade, tough Yonkers outfit. To counteract the low ebb in spirit, Jack Burke's council called a mass meet- ing for Friday evening, the night before the game. XVood for a great bonfire had been com- ing in all afternoon. Under the ever watchful eyes of Ken Kline and Bob Stevens the pile grew and grew until at flame time, it was enormous. Frank Cooley threw out the first match. A snake dance ensued with Cooley again taking the lead. The band played loudly, shook with emotion, we all loved it. The cheer-leaders cultivated our voices, and Burke blew a whistle until he was blue in the face. We couldn't talkg our voices were hoarse. All this happened before ten 0'clock. Training rules you know. The next day Bronxville avenged a last min- ute defeat of the season before and nosed out the favored Saunders eleven, 6-0. The Boiler- makers never really thrcatened. From the begin- ning to the Finish the locals pushed them from ,ps 2 X rf 5 Laying lt On Thick one end of the field to the other. Early in the third period, Rees capitalized on a penalty and drove over from the two, for the lone score of the afternoon. XVhether the victory came as a result of Mr. Matthaei's generalship, the new W.P.A. field, or the girl cheer-leaders, Bobby Lau, Janet Hanscom, Barbara Fick, Ginita El- mendorf, Pat Albanese, Ge-Ge Given, and Rose- mary McDonald, is something we'll never know. Anyway, we won, and that's what counts. 21 w w xx as n xr

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Wnth the ldea that thls was golng to be the yelr of changes some four hundred of us rambled baek to Bronxulles freshly painted halls a few of us lucky senxors for the llst tlme If we thought we vs ere gomg to rey olut1on1ze B H S though we certa1nly dndn t start off hke balls of fire We reglstered got the orange cards our faculty 1ns1sts on calhng pmk and the pmk cards strlngely enough also termed pmk stood 1n hne for hours for books some of us would use about slx tnmes the whole year finally keeled ox er from too much summer lack of sleep and deplorable condmons that s1mply MUST be Cen sored There were the newcomers and the Edge monters a slovenly lookmg lot 1n the begmnlng but Blue and Gray fa sprmkhng of both regu llrs novs Though the goal books set the begmnmg date It September 6 vue Sennors dldn t come out of our summer s hlbernatnon for nngh on hve weeks In fact lt vsasnt untll Mnss Penneys opemng welcommg speeeh that we reahzed we l were here She talked of our teachers amaze ment at the perfect behavlor of our predeces sors at thelr last party Th1s must haye been the correct psycholog1cal approach Mrs Ha1g pomtmg out m her own quunt way the funny a smcere desnre to make good Fortunately she dxdn t mentlon what problems' Our makxng good 1n other than strnctly peda goglc pursunts was somevt hat hampered by our prmclpal s first pxoclamatlons The first decree dehnlated an audltorxum ln whrch the senlors vxere seated not under the balcony but ln the front rovx s' In others vt ords we senxors who had worked for three years to reach the back of assembly were ordered to surrender that van tage poxnt to the sophomores We suffered a second 1n1ury when the Self Rellant Group was hqundated The last legmmate means of escape had been covered up but we found others not qulte so legmmate It yy as no easy task gettmg people to do thmgs that Hrst week espec1ally to buy GA s we shudder at the very thought of CPA s and the AAAJ Albelt vahant Harry Benson Shuttleworth bubbhng oy er wlth enthuslasm launched the annual hnanenal dr1ve on the stu dent body to tlde over th1ngs ln general for the durat1on of the year Wnth S132 left from last years funds Harry worked fast and txed Paper Warts xv xr 39 n n 20 i vii Av v. 1, x s. 5 . , 3 1 ' , L ' I , as y fs s ' , my ' ' , ' ' , l , . . , . . , I 1 ' ' ' u - as x - , I , y l .. V ,, - s 3 1 I . I ll ' a ,, , I , 3 , 7 . . . . , , A , .V ' ' J , , ' 1, ' ' 'T - . L K- v. ' , . 1 y t 1 1 ' ' - , . l y httle fact that we all attacked our problems with A , , , , H g .E I I I, . . . - ' . , I . E . , . . , ' . . , , . . , I . y l l V h 5 3 1 y s y ' ' 7 , , V- V s - . . X x . V ,, , , y at r s A s ' , ' . ., f , . . . . , -x .. - . I ,, r y ' 3 l

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XVith the football game in the past, we be- came ever more vigorously engrossed in the Presidential election. Bitter words and hot tem- pers flew across class rooms. Susan Ammann and Andy Crichton debated the candidates' merits in assembly on two straight programs. Susan, supporting Willkie, was a land-slide win- ner in Bronxville, but no doubt youive heard she lost in the Nationals. At the first meeting of the XVestchester Council with our own inter- locutor, I. D. Taubeneck, presiding, Crichton again crowed for Roosevelt, and june O'Brien and Ruth Davies stumped for Willkie. The Mir- ror remained neutralg it sold no advertising. While the nation had its election, the Senior class, though to a few not as important, held its own. In as noisy a din as ever surrounded a Communist rally, ,lack Conway was elected President and Charlton Barnes, Vice-President. They and Dave Waller, treasurer, and Dotty Goesling, secretary, did a swell job in carrying us through the year. Class dues and other offi- cial jobs came later, little actually being accom- plished during the first goal period. At approxi- mately the same time, the Senior Executive Council met to pick the larceners of the year- book. The Council, composed of Senior Class oflicers, two representatives from each Senior I D D D X D9 X 22 Apple Grapple Filled to the Gillis Advisory, and advisers Dusty Dodds and Jackie Moore, elected Mary Chamberlin, Editor, Perry Clayberger, Business Manager, and Andy Crich- ton, Literary Editor. It was they who were chosen to shoulder the responsibilities that go along with a production of this sort. They didn't mind then, since Dodds and Moore packed them off to Bellis' for a treat. Nobody dared order anything more than a coke. The girls were out early getting in shape for the winter. Badminton was somewhat dis- appointing, but soccer took up where the shut- tlecock left off. Some ninety-live girls picked the outdoor sport as a fall conditioner. Harriet Manzer and Susan XWeaver were chosen manag- ers. Captains were Becky Barnes, Mary Cham- berlin, Emilie Hughes, Rosemary McDonald, Pat Medlar, and Mary Lee Richardson. All six teams played in a round-robin tournament. Hughes' aggregation, with a record of two vic- tories and two ties, emerged winners with Barnes' running a close second. At the end of the season two honor teams were picked to play