Bronxville High School - Bronco Yearbook (Bronxville, NY)

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Taubeneck then presented his opinion that the United States had best get a foreign policy before it is too late to do so. Following these two speakers, such great orators as Edith Cannon, George Davis, Jean Macauley, Tom Middleton, Jack Ryan, and many others presented opinions and arguments on various as- pects of the main problem. All of the speakers displayed excellent speaking ability, and since they really knew their facts, the debate was quite impressive. The boys' advisory basketball tourna- ment was played over a period of several weeks, and Miss Greene's advisory came out on top. fHeck, they had Big Ed Michalski and Sport Mortlock-what more could we expect?J Co-ed advisory volleyball games were also featured, and the combined skills of our brawny gals and husky fellows made the games a treat to watch. Miss Green's advisory again came out the winners! Mr. Lynch rounded up his trackmen early in the season, and really gave them a work- out. P. F. I's again reared their ugly heads for both boys and girls, and an unusual number of groans and shrieks were heard during that backbreaking period of push-ups, pull-ups, back lift, leg lift, and all the other tortures we had to endure. March 21 was as usual the official be- ginning of spring, and for a while inter- mittent attacks of spring-fever left us powerless. Then April 6th, the begin- ning of spring vacation, rolled in accom- panied by a howling blizzard. Frenzied girls with fancy new Easter outfits wailed constantly, while the hard-heart- ed males guffawed loudly. The day school ended an assembly was called to give us the opportunity to hear the guest speaker enumerate the trials of farm life and go on to encourage us to help Page Iwezzty-sir , xf ,cj ig? N v ' x31 r:-T f ' X X K- S .Qu X QF 1 ffl Y' 35 7 ' x' - YD bak Q5 - - I 'if gl: N., - 'Ta il lf l l Q , out on farms in the summer. The great shortage of men for farm work has ren- dered our services really valuable, and Mrs. Washburn impressed upon us the importance of devoting our summer months to any type of farm work we can do. Snow or no snow, vacation was won- derful. Of course, some of us spent part of our precious freedom worrying our- selves sick about College Boards, but we got through the fatal day without too many casualties, we hope we'll get into college-that was the general idea, any- way. Heaping insult on injury, our first two days at school after the vacation were spent in trying to display know- ledge we didn't possess-in other words, Co-operatives Cwhy are they called that?J had to be undergone once again fthe last time for us-rah IJ Two days of brain-racking, head scratching, and suf- fering yielded only the discovery that we now, as Seniors, knew less than we did as ninth graders. Does it seem worth it? During vacation rehearsals were go- ing on for 'tIn Dutch , or The Buggy Rides Again -a sequel to last year's tremendously successful Bronxville Buggy Ride . This new production was a play in two acts and three scenes, the topic being ye olde Dutch village of Bronxville as seen in 1664, in Civil War days, and in 1944. Mr. Dodds' chorus, aided by Mr. Kinsey's Reformed Church Choir, provided the excellent singing of songs written by Miss Taylor and Mr. Brown. Mr. Harold Gibbs, with assist- ance and suggestions from a special com- mittee, wrote the plot of this sparkling musical, and local talent did the rest. Nance O'Connor and Phil Steding took the student leads, backed by Don Bliss, Bill Coldwell, Dick Geyer, Lynne Mapel, Mercedes Maxwell, Ed Michalski, Tom Middleton, Ted Taubeneck, Peg Thom- son, and many other local stars. The tap chorus CBronxville's equivalent of the Rockettesl had us all agape and really deserved the big hand and all the cat- calls they received. They worked hard for weeks 'n weeks to achieve that smooth co-ordination. Y V V PICTURES . I was just an innocent girl-3' . I don't know what I'm saying! . Now, see here- . The Voice of the Turtle Plasma, Pleaseli' . Attic snipers

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with which to carry out more projects. Each month money was sent to a fund for the aid of our prisoners of war in Germany and Japan. Handicrafts play- ed a big part in the council's program for the year, too. In the feminine cir- cles housewives , knitted scarves, wristlets, and afghans were turned out regularly. In shop the boys made book wagons, lap boards, and rejuvenated old lamps for use. In the early spring it was decided that BHS was sadly in need of a Hservice roll , and Linder the supervision of Miss Clever a group of students set about the difficult task of making a list of all BHS students now in the services. Since the village of Bronxville has no official list of its members in the armed forces this proved to be a really difficult job, and those who struggled with it for long hours have our complete admiration and thanks. One of the most interesting forums of the year featured Dr. Joseph Roucek, who is an American citizen born in Czechoslovakia, he explained that geo- graphy was more important than ideals. He advocated the realistic policy of Wal- ter Lippman of America-first, fore- most, and always! We seemed to see the results of our facing of the facts as the graduates of former years wandered through the halls looking for those whom they knew when they were the big fellas and we the innocent Juniors, Sophs, or younger. Yes, they say, they like the service, but they wish they were back in BHS where they had a little fun and did a little loafing between the week ends. It was swell to see them all again, but it was odd to think that in a few short months the boys of '44 would be helping them out there, for every once in a while we realized that spring was almost upon us, and our days in BHS would be over all too soon. In spite of dire prophecies from the teachers that the fifth goal period is liable to be the Seniors' W'aterloo, we nevertheless turned out full force the first Monday of the new goal period for the last forum of the year. The armed services took over the stage for the eve- V V V PICTURES . Ladies' man, too . Laugh, you bums . This CAN l' be the teacher! . Riding for u fall . Poor little blades of grass Church on Sundays ning, with Sergeant Obie Newcomb, for- merly photographer for the Bronxville Reporter, our own Pete Fitzpatrick tidol of this yearis Senior girls and president of last yearls Senior classj and repre- sentatives from the Waves, Wacs, Spars, and the women's branch of the Marines. After very interesting talks by each of the latter four, Pete told us about his experiences with the Paratroopers of the Army. Sgt. Newcomb then spoke for the rest of the evening of the Battle for Tarawa and supplemented his talk with a series of slides taken during the siege. lVe left the auditorium that eve- ning with an uncomfortable realization of some of the grimness of war. This last forum made a stronger impression than any other we attended. For weeks the Juniors had been dis- rupting assemblies with their tough guy advertisements for their play, Stop Thief , and finally on the 24th and 25th of March we were allowed to view the results of those weeks of chaos. The play was splendid, and we all en- joyed it though perhaps our enjoyment was a bit dampened by the fact the Jun- iors had succeeded in breaking even our monetary records. Realizing that all this money was for a Banquet, we for- gave 'em. The next Tuesday many of our class- mates seemed unusually harried, and the cause of their anxieties became known that night when the Annual Pub- lic Speaking Debate was held. After an introductory speech by Mr. Taubeneck in which he presented the subject of the debate as What Should Be the Role of the United States in World Affairs , Sylvia Henderson stated the solution as the girl debaters saw it--that the U. S. should strive for a world federation as a minimum in the post-war world. Ted f X ff - 6 B tj lo . Ll X ' I .X ' I E-'Li 4 .1 7-PTF 'L Y'-'fl fl Us 1: xi ! Page tweiity-fzi e

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