Cambridge High School - Yearling Yearbook (Cambridge, MD)

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Composing ihr first yearbook of Cambridge High School was the special Honor of the 1909 Literary Staff. Entitled The Comet, this publication contained pictures of the faculty, the graduating class, the year’s teams, and essays by the members of the Senior Class. The members of that Literary Staff were: FRONT ROW: Bertha Nathan, Gilbert Meekins, Gene Ruark, Crompton Kerr. SEC- OND ROW: Russell Davis, Elizabeth Spedden, Briley Wright, Anna Collins. THIRD ROW: Katharine Mundy, Robert Warren, Vaughn Stevenson, Mary Hall. BACK ROW: Ethel Bamburger, and Lucy Moore. Cambridge High has always had a widely-varied scope of activities for curricular and extra- curricular participation. Through the years in these activities the students of CHS have displayed the spirit needed to make a great high school. The photos on these pages are a display of student interests through the years, and they cover fairly well the range of group interests that are in CHS now. From the cheerleaders to the Hottentot, from the Senior play to the Honor Society, all arc examples of student effort two decades ago. For many years now the Hottentot has been a school institution. The newspaper men and women of 1931-32 are: FRONT ROW’: Adver- tising Manager Beulah MacSorley, Editor Catherine Wallace, Business Manager Emer- son Slacum, Advertising Manager Eleanor McKnight. SECOND ROW: Typist June Mer- rick, Literary Editor Virginia W’ilkinson, Assistant Editor Catherine Spedden, Exchange Editor Louise Haring, News Editor Lois Jones, Sports Editor Emerson Stoker. THIRD ROW: Sports Editor Harry Towers, Business Aides Robert McKnight, Granville LcComptc, Agnes Fountain, Fulton Moore, Typist Herbert Wilson, Humor Editor Harold Banning. Planning the school’s social calendar was the main duty of the Dance Committee. Because the school sponsored many more dances in 1942 than they do now, the com- mittee’s job was a big one. There were at least six major dances during the school year and a dance after every home football and basketball game. The type of dance varied greatly from the Plaid Shirt Social to the all- important Junior-Senior Prom. 7

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Academic excellence has not always been stressed as much as it is today. When the Cambridge chapter of the National Honor Society was started in 1940, there were thirteen hesitant members, because to be very intelligent earmarked a student as an oddball. In 1942 the number of members had grown to thirty-three and to lx smart was no longer thought of as a serious afHiction. Today there are sixty-nine members of the CHS Honor Society. The members of the 1942 Honor Society pictured above are: FIRST ROW: Rex Neil, Ted Malkus, Shirley Brannock, Mrs. Ella Walter, Claire Laskowski, John Richardson. SECOND ROW: Miss Keplinger, Peggy Barnes, Marian Hughes. Clare Meredith. Rose Cantwell, Theda Brere- wood. Aggie Wilson. Jean Vickers. THIRD ROW: Elree Dayton, Alice Ann Palmer, Miriam Frankcl, Cecilia Keene, Betty Wynn, Sophie Jones. Ruth Hastings. Peggy Marine, Lee Wright. BACK ROW: Bill Barth. Jane Meekins, Ruth Seward. Greta Thomas, Olive Townsend, Gloria Travers, Page Hubbard. Genie Simmons, and Edward Burton. Boosting team spirit is the main job of any cheerleading squad. This was not easy for the 1942 squad, for at the time the country was in the depths of World War II. Nevertheless, during this depressed time the squad managed to keep team spirit high throughout the school. The members of the 1942 squad were: FRONT ROW: Ruba Brannock, Sam Cannon, Agnes Wilson. BACK ROW: Po Ewell, Page Hubbard, Jane Meekins, and Miriam Frankel. A few of the present Senior class were around when this senior play, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was presented. But it’s not likely that any of them will remember this production, for it was staged back in 1948. the year when most Seniors were born! Members of the cast shown include Jane Taitt, Ronald Rue. Marian Dozier, Ruth Edna Matthews, Cora Lee Phillips, Emory Stafford, Polly Matthews, Fran Jacobs, Bruce Burquct, Clyde Todd, and Smith Rue.

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Football has always been an integral part of CHS life whether the season was victorious or not. Even though they lacked uniforms and much of the other expensive equipment available for today’s players, the 1908 gridders fought hard to bring glory to their school. LYING DOWN: Briley Wright, Spence Phelps. SECOND ROW: George Hudnut, Gilbert Mcckins, Lloyd Shorter, Vaughn Stevenson. BACK ROW': Henry Bramble, Ray Goslin, Harry Phelps, Coach Pete Basset, Robert Warren, and J. Richard Smith. Although the letters earned by the members of the 1909 CHS football team look quite different from those worn by the 1964 squad, they were certainly no less proud of them, for getting them required many hard hours of practice. The Cambridge High line-up in 1909 were: FRONT ROW: George Hudnut, Gilbert Meekins, Tom Kerr, Spence Phelps, Lloyd Shorter. SECOND ROW: Vaughn Stevenson, Harry Phelps, Briley Wright, Howard Matthews. BACK ROW: Ben Robbins, Bob Warren. STANDING: Edward Harris.