Bronxville High School - Bronco Yearbook (Bronxville, NY)

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wins and four losses, wasn't too good, but we were still hoping. Between prac- tice periods for the males, the female basketball tournament started, with all trying to be superwomen. Other brawny blondes and brunettes were off to score at bowling so they could impress the boy friend. Almost before we realized it, the Sen- ior play was perfected under the able direction of Dusty Dodds. Everyone looked here, there, under desks, and in lockers for any culprit who hadn't bought at least one ticket. None es- caped the evil eye, and all were brought under subjection. Whoopee! We es- tablished a new record in money made, and the play Nothing But the Truth was a brilliant success. It was a three act comedy concerning Bob Bennett fTom Middletonj who made a 810,000 bet that he could tell the absolute truth for twenty-four hours. Whereupon E. M. Ralston C Little Iggie Taubeneckb invited Bob to his home in order to make everything as hard as possible, with the help of Gwenn Ralston CShirley Mc- Kayl and other members of the cast such as Jim Bailey, Don Bliss, Lois Cole, Francoise Crivelli, Fritz Fulton, Lucile Hake, Jean Macauley, and Mercedes Maxwell. After the second night all members of the cast Cand most of the Senior classj departed for Don Bliss' house to dance, partake of refresh- ments, and hash over the mistakes and successes of the evening. Unhappily, almost as soon as the play was over, we had to bid goodbye to one of our best actresses and most lovable Seniors, Hakie. Luckily she came back after a semester in Arlington, Virginia, to join in our graduation revels. The goal period land semesterj was fy .qi s . V J ,fggfv an -' f fx. ' r Liga- I J J lrlll Ill lr .qi gg, H . ,,. , -mix . F ' ' -:Il qw,--S X fl 5 - f ,. . A Page eighteen rapidly drawing to a close, and we be- gan to realize that we were going to lose thirteen of our students who were off to college, the seven seas, the infantry, or the air. On Friday the 28th, after a grueling week of regents, Jim Ashbrook, Page Benson, Tom Blomberg, Geoff Duf- fil, Squeak Eaglesham, Dave Harvey, Dick Jansen, Bill Linehan, Bud MarElia, Bob Newcomb, Mary Rogers, Tom See- hof, and Mont Simons were graduated as the first mid-year class in the history of BHS. Considering the conditions which made this irregularity necessary, we sincerely hope it will also be the last group to make its exodus in January. After the brief exercises in which the orchestra played and the chorus sang, the new alumni went to a reception and semi-formal dance given by the Senior class in Gwinn Hall. For a while our former classmates roamed the halls looking superior and perhaps a bit wistful, but within the next two months these alumni were scattered far and wide: Bud, Mont, and Geoff in the Air Corps, Jim at Denison studying to be a chaplain, Page taking a pre-med course at Cornell, Bill in the V-5 at Brown University, Dick fJan- senj in same at Williams, Bob and Dave in the Navy, Tom Blomberg and Mary Rogers furthering their educations in New York, Tom Seehof in the A-12 Unit at Rutgers University, and Squeak working toward art school in the fall. We who still had five months before we joined the Class of '44A in the wide worldu wished them the best of every- thing and waited anxiously for news of their activities and whereabouts. With all the distractions of this im- portant goal period, it was hard to keep our minds on work, but we struggled along and were fairly well satisfied with our grades. We hope that our colleges will be too. That's what counts! After the usual barrage of semester exams, goal period tests, and the cus- tomary quizzes ending the first term, a number of us plowed through the snow up to Scarsdale to see the traditional rivals play. Being definitely on the ball , the Maroons took a quick lead and maintained it throughout the game, the Y V V PICTURES . Student Council . Senior Ex- ecutive Council . Junior Executive Council . Yearbook Editors . Mirror Editorial Board