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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