Bronxville High School - Bronco Yearbook (Bronxville, NY)

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3 Q91 0 , Pfzgr' fwclzfc weeks later, he told us that 94222 of the voters of our commu- nity had registered. On Friday, Cctober 9, we left school for the Columbus Day week end, our first three day holiday. Big things were to happen that week end, and they started happening on Friday afternoon, when our soccer team returned victorious from its first engagement by defeating Riverdale, 4-2. Saturday after- noon, we saw our football heroes carry off their second victory of the season, when they defeated Blessed Sacrament High School of New Rochelle, by the not too meager margin of 18-6. On Monday night, October 12, we Seniors capped off our long week end by holding our Senior Sing at the Grants' house. That was an evening we will long remember. We were in such a musical mood that we sang lustily every song that was flashed on the screen, and some that were not, even when we didn't know the tune. On some of the numbers we really showed quite a lot of talent, and this may be accredited to the practice we had had one day when we went down to Mr. Pirnie's room to sing during advisory period. High spot of the evening was Mr. Moore's renditions, on his guitar, of several old favorites, especially The Girl Friend . Cider and doughnuts were then distributed, and we teventuallyj returned to our respective abodes, satisfied with our first long Week end, which had given us a victory in soccer, a victory in football, and a lot of fun. The very next night, there was more excitement to be had in the form of a lively discussion at the first Westchester County Student Forum. At this affair, we all imagined that we were members of Congress discussing whether or not to draft the eighteen year olds. The final decision was that we should draft them, but it took some snappy argument to reach it. On Thursday of that week, while we were having our pic- tures taken, the first goal period came to a close, and we seemed settled in our school life and activities, resigned to the fact that we had to go through five more goal periods of the same sort. We found many things at school the same as they had been last year, but we realized that there was something about this year that was different from any other school year we had known. This year we were starting school while our nation was at war. There were evidences of it everywhere-in the halls, where piles of scrap metal and old rubber were to be found, in the lack of cars on Tobacco Road, in the class rooms, where little boxes were placed on the teachers' desks to receive old keys, in the dimmed out streets of the village. The Junior Red Cross was working diligently to send as much aid and comfort to our soldiers as it could. Several boys were taking a pre-flight aviation course to prepare them for military ser- vice after they graduate. Mr. Lynch had organized a group of Junior Commandos who did all sorts of exercises to build up their bodies, and thus to prepare themselves to be good soldiers. At the end of the first goal period, the entire Senior High School was preparing, under the direction of Ned Con- way, to make a collection of scrap metal all over the village. Thus, with all this activity, there were few of us who did not have some activity to take our minds off our regular school The iron hand in the velvet glove ' Your move Peace reigned before Cutie went out for a butt The Monday Luncheon Club

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