Bronxville High School - Bronco Yearbook (Bronxville, NY)

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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

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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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as xx as xx as 24 curricular activities so great that she finally usuggestedy' that a Penney study hall be estab- lished for those of us who couldn't play on the football team, sing on tune in chorus, play in the band, serve incidental committees, and car- ry five majors. It worked in a vile sort of way that last week, but we were just a little too late. Our real problem was to get into college. Dusty Dodds kept sending around circulars ask- ing us where we were going. On the first ones we had the sagacity to put down COLLEGES, but, as the year progressed and the goal books came back, we came to our senses and told the truth: Miss Winklebaum's Finishing School for Young Backward Girls and Spearfish Normal for 'Brilliant' Boysf, Jack Moore, Marie Mason, Ma Bertha Green and Herr Helmuth Joel helped Dusty. Alas, it was of no avail, and all came to naught. We calmly sat by as our books went to rack and ruin. The girls knitted, gabbed, listened to Shaw, Miller and Dorsey, and vamped boys. The opposite sex listened to blaring ra- dios, went out for football, talked politics, chased sophomore girls, and got vamped! With our goal books through we were changed people. We dropped our heads, kept clear of school and home, sneaked to and fro, and vowed never again. The leaves began to fall and the air became crisp and clear. We dug our winter clothes out of the moth balls and settled down for a long, cold winter. Still not sufficiently recovered from the last week's cramming, we uttered a few spas- modic, hapless innuendos about our work, went back to remedial advisories and settled down to the more serious business of football. Having won the first encounter against Saun- ders, we looked forward to the ensuing fight with Leake and Watts. The team, suffering un- der the same conditions as its predecessors, the ,39 club, namely a lack of reserve strength and veterans, didnit anticipate letting down. It went after the Yonkers outfit with as much gusto as it had the Trade School. The results were, but for the good graces of Old Chief Gramatan, al- most a reverse of the week before. After three scoreless periods, Leake and Watts succeeded in breaking through the Indians' defense, and pushed them back to their own two. Here, for the first down with two yards to victory and little more than two minutes playing time left, It's All In The Game 'ea