Bronxville High School - Bronco Yearbook (Bronxville, NY)

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During the week eight Senior boys who were participating in our new ac- celerated course and doing wonderful work at it, took the Army-Navy College Qualifying Tests to find out if they were eligible for further school work at the government's expense. This extra ed- ucation means that the boys will be better fit to do more responsible jobs when they have to enter active service. All of them realize their positions now, and that of their country, and are do- ing all they can to be better prepared for what lies ahead of them. On Armistice Day Dr. Bair spoke to us of the day N25 Years Afterw and of his hopes that we have learned enough not to repeat the mistakes made before, but to plan for a better postwar world. That Saturday, November 13, tit must have been that numberj the BHS football squad, till then undefeated, played Fordham Prep on their field in a semi-blizzard. Though we lost, the Bron- cos did their best, but Eric Miller, the soph quarterback sensation, was out with a head injury, and the Prepmen seemed to click at just the right times. The final score was 12-7, but we will maintain, to the bitter end, that we was robbed . The next Friday our kid Mercurys took third place in the Tri-County Cross- Country Championships. With some fifty competitors, the Broncos placed men in the second, nineteenth, twenty- fourth, twenty-ninth, and thirtieth po- sitions. The biggest athletic event of the year, the Bronxville-Scarsdale football game, dx 0- Q 4 its-Nl Ns' Fw l,,- UQ ,ff - I SNA Xf xl, V C' Page fourteen . C55 if v-, ' . N . I - F i- 4 p - f PS5 ' Eli l '31 'ing lt M ca ' Q -1' 1 Q K Q 5' L K . 7 w ,,,,,. ,-4 K took place the same Friday, and all ear- nest endeavors on our part related to study went to the winds . None of our former fears came to fruit, for we were the victors in an exciting game that ended with the score 24-14. After the game, the traditional Scarsdale-Bronx- ville dance was held, at Scarsdale. Through the excellent work of all the committees concerned, the dance was a great success, and rivalries were hap- pily forgotten, for a few hours, at least. The week end was a blissful relief after the trials of goal-book marking. We trudged back to school on Monday to start anew. The teachers also decid- ed that we should start anew because third goal period means marks, marks mean semester grades, semester grades mean getting into UD college which all goes back to studying. Just one big vic- ious circle! And so we staggered home with books piled high. But, happy thought, Mr. Taubeneck's forum was tonight, so, of course, we couldn't do any homework. We listened with great attentiveness to the subject Study America-The Hour of Decisions and were told that we must study our pro- blems and make the right decisions with understanding. Tuesday our teachers, with the exception of Taubie , were not at all understanding and were quite concerned, to say the least, that we hadn't done our work. So you see now why there's some truth in our favorite saying, A student's life is not a happy one. Ut really is, but it gets us down sometimesj Our plans for study had not progress- ed too well because of some strange mal- ady we called Christmas fever. iIt's not unusual, really.J All around us were the holiday signs: the festively deco- rated tree in the main hall, the sniffs of evergreen, dreams of the jolly old elf',, anticipation of vacation dates and danc- es, and many surprises hidden in lockers and closets. Christmas vacation began with the Senior Baby Party on Thursday, Decem- ber 16. Our sophisticated glamour girls, especially the gruesome twosome of Macauley and Hake, were exceedingly entrancing with a doll in one hand and V V V PICTURES . Miss Pep of 1944 . Tramp, tramp . Go-get Scarsdale! . AMAZING concentration Cpage Miss Penney, quickj . 'Happy Little M0rons . Thatfs the wrong one, fella

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wending their ways to the Big Gym to partake of our traditional Hallowe'en Dance. Strange indeed were the var- ious costumes, ranging from boys deck- ed out in skirts and sweaters or formal evening dresses, to cowgirls complete with jeans and 10-gallon hats. Dances to the beat of a real live band, led by Johnny Marshall, were interspersed with hilarious solo performances-everything from songs to a parody on the horrors of push-button radios. Gates Reid acted as the sophisticated master of ceremon- ies. During the next week, serious affairs of student management came to the fore with the selection of John Main of the Juniors as head of next year's G. A. We all wished him good luck in continuing the swell work done by Ned Conway this year. Other serious events filled our minds throughout the week. Under the slogan Keep the scrap coming to help keep our boys going , Don Bliss launch- ed the Red Cross Scrap Drive, and soon the halls were filled with printed liter- ature of all types Cfrom Atlantic Monthly to True Confessionnl plus tin cans and other fascinating items. As a result of a rather confused home-run, a new set of even more complicated fif that's possiblej Air Raid rules were an-- nounced, and we mastered them in short order. A surprising number of high school students possess great potentialities in the entertainment field, as was evi- denced by a talent display in assembly. Presided over by MC Jean Macauley, the stage-frightened 'fentertainersi' went through their repertoires, to the great delight of an appreciative audience. Once again we breathed with relief as another rare and joyous week end hove into sight, and our various sports enter- ed the limelight with several victories and one defeat. They did it again! Our Broncos defeated Saunders Trade 27-7 in a swampy battle on a muddy field. In our fifth win of the year, high-scorer Trapp came through with fifteen points for the Blue and Gray, with Michalski and McCleary bringing in the rest of our points. Also struggling against odds on a wet field, the booters lost a close match V V V PICTURES . Hangin, on for the ride? . Don'll get him! . S'matter, Bob? . That man's here again! . Long-distance cinder- men-our first squad . Coach Rit.chie's crew -and Mortlock with Fieldston, ending with a 1-0 score. Next they tied Horace Mann in a see- saw game that ended 2-2. Our distance runners competed at Tibbetts Brook with Roosevelt and Hastings High Schools on the same week end. The Blue and Gray runners took second, fourth, tenth, and eleventh places to bring BHS in second in the Triangle Meet. The next Monday night Mr. Tauben- eck came forth in another forum based on World Topics, by which we were pro- perly impressed and afterwards infin- itely better informed. A wide variety of subjects was discussed, ranging from the Atlantic Charter to home politics concerning elections. CYou party mem- bers can take it from there. New Deal- ers are in the minorityj Shortly before, Mr. Taubeneck had impressed upon his feather-brained Seniors the seriousness of local politics and government, after which we all trouped down to the gym to View with awe those formidable ma- chines that we shall be using in just a few years. After elections were over, our history classes were the scenes of heated debates about those elected, thereby proving that after all, we do read the newspapers, and not just the funnies. And in relation to our study of the beginnings of our great nation, Sylvia Henderson, one of our most illustrious Seniors, was chosen by students and fac- ulty alike as our representative in the annual D. A. R. essay contest. Sylvia's subject was The Causes of the Amer- ican Revolutionu, to be expounded in H300 words or less . In view of her past excellent work, we were not surprised at the swell job she did. Gi? z.. .91 X rig iT ,365 ' 1 ' S-a la .l ' cb 5 . T' X .A g, , 'sk .' A ff, 1 Q' 'il 2 N Q S Q N YH He J 'U fgj iYl fa' Page tlzirteen

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