Bronxville High School - Bronco Yearbook (Bronxville, NY)

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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

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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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the Hudson Valley squad put on a furious drive for a touchdown. It was of no availg the boys in the Blue and Gray displayed some of the best football they showed all year and held them off. Bronxville then took the ball on the same spot it had been four downs previous. Mustering every bit of its strength, the line broke Rees clear for a sixty yard dash to put the Indians in scoring position. Witli eighteen seconds left, Iired Brown stepped back, and behind perfect blocking passed a long one to Andy Crichton running free in the end zone, to pull the game Attached to Each Other .4155-K W'asn't lt Swell? Bonne d'enfant out of the fire. It was a happy moment for Bronxville. Wl1.1t had seemed like defeat two min- utes before had been changed into victory. The band marched, and we cheered. For us, the season slowed up thereafter. Except for an elec- trifying tie of Rye, touted the best in the country, the locals were stopped from then on. The Blue and Gray dropped succes- sive tilts to Fordham and strong North Tarrytown. Following Rye it slumped before a weak Edison Teck Squad and then lost a heartbreaker to Scarsdale, 16-0. The game was in actuality a hard fight all the way, the heaviest part of the scoring coming in the final minutes when it was too late for a Bronxville victory. Later at the dance, the Maroon players swore they had never played a harder game. Coach Matthaei's sentiments at the emblem assembly struck home as we realized the plight of our team. This year we suffered from a lack of material. Matthaei pointed out that only half of the boys physically and mentally capable of going out for the team did so. To him the Scars- dale score remains 7-0, and the team the most loyal he has ever coached. Interspaeed with the football season we had our annual Hallowe'en Dance. It was a grand, 25 as xv as xr 2: