Bronxville High School - Bronco Yearbook (Bronxville, NY)

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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

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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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2 3 xr rx rx xv 9 17 9 The Indians against Junior High Honor Squads. The first team, composed of Shirley Baldwin, Charlton and Beckey Barnes, Betty Bryant, Mary Louise Hutton, Alice Jacobsen, joy Roberts, Betty Sands, Nada Seaman, Barbara Shire, and Emily Sykes, was downed by the junior High, 2-O. Fortunately, to save the girls' faces, the other squad was victorious, 4-0. It consisted of Louise Burpee, Mary Chamberlin, Ruth Davies, Carol Erskine, Janet Hanscomb, Betty Hopcraft, Cathie Linabury, Pat Medlar, Jean Redfield, Vir- ginia Trapp, Susan Weaver, and Clare Williams. Barely more than ten girls went out for bad- minton. However, the competition was ex- tremely keen-Thelma Ashley took first place, followed closely by Helena Wilson in second. Barbara Ellinger and Jane Carey tied for third. Helena made the semi-finals in the eastern jun- ior Badminton Championship Tournament. The contest was played at the Sth Avenue Country Club in New York. Running up with Lenore Bachman, Helena also entered the doubles, this time with a little less success. While we were so engrossed in other than described curricula, our parents became ob- sessed with a persistent yearning for learning, and began to pay a dollar a night to learn such ditties as what she thought was H30 was H:SO,, and 1 plus 1 makes 2 and 1 to carryf' Such things as these, as you have no doubt guessed, were expounded at Cappy Ricketts' Science Club. Weire still amazed at his accom- plishments. It,s still a wonder to us that the great master would ever leave the inner sanctum of his brain child, the 3:30 club, in time to reach his lectures. The current chapter of the club was bigger and better than ever. If nothing else, we sure had a swell time that first goal period. Between cokes at Bellis' and hamburgers at Annabella's we managed to sneak in a bit of homework, but just a bit. However, we gradually became aware of the fact that we were expected to graduate in June. It almost scared us that last week. We stayed up all night and worked like dogs burning the midnight oil. Wfe couldn't say we hadn't been warned. Miss Penney found our interests in these extra-extra- Pep Rally