Central High School - Brecky Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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mlm! is RE you having any fun? If you are, you probably are already participating in one or more of Central's activities-outside the classroom, of course! If you're not, this article is for you. Do you know that there are approximately eighty organizations in Central High School which you may join? Imagine the variety of interests represented in such a number! Eighty of them-clubs, publications, cliques, corps, groups, teams, bands, societies,-the school is full of them! And they are all looking for you! So give them a break: take your pick and step in! Come along, and we'll take a look at a few of the signs over their doors. Before we get going, though, what do all these ictivities mean? What do they do for you? Extra-curricular activities have one outstanding purpose: that purpose is to make living a pleasure, to make it worth while. Extra-curricular activi- ties are intended to make going to school some- thing besides drudgery-to make it a good time. They provide a side to education-a most import- ant one--that we would sorely miss if it were lacking. These varied activities of a school today are considered as vital a part of education as the studies themselves. They offer an unsurpassed opportunity for learning to live-and, after all, that is what we are all doing, learning how to live. They are something from which we can all get a lot of pleasure and an immense amount of value. They are something so momentous to every one of us that we cannot afford to let them go by. Now, let's look them over, and then take our pick. So you're a born politician? Then you might get your section to elect you to the student coun- cil, where you'll find full use for your energies in planning assemblies, coaching new students, as- sisting in the supervision of the cafeteria, and in general building a better school. And you've always wanted to meet the president, so step in Effy- QU- TOUR JEAN BRYAN '40 ED SOLOMON '40 and shake hands with Mr. Rutherford Day and his V. P., Victoria Paul. Or Inayhap you are one of those budding journalists. If so, you're in luck, for Central offers you three publications: the Bulletin, the only All-American honor-rating high-school weekly in Washington, THE REVIEW, the city's only high-school magazine, and the Breckiv. the yearbook. The staff of the Bulletin consists of students who have taken, or who are taking, a course in journalism, though contributions by others are welcomed. Ann Wickard is the editor-in-chief of the paper, and George Scott, Ruth Morgan, and Philip Lewis are associate editors, with Robert Naiman as sports editor. News pertaining to school life and the opinions of our fellow Cen- tralites are presented in the Bulletin. Four times a year THE REVIEW makes its ap- pearance, it is a general magazine containing articles, stories, poems, essays, and other material contributed by the pupils of the creative writing class and by students in general, who as contribu- tors learn how to become editors. This year an ambitious staff is under the direction of Editor James Deane and Associates Amos Taylor, Jack Smith, Helen Daz, and Ed Solomon. . The Brecky is issued once a year, largely for members of the graduating class. Individual photographs and biographies of the graduates and group pictures of the clubs and organizations make up the greater part of this book. The editor-in-chief is Leon Pear, his associate editors are Doris Park, Rutherford Day, and Richard Farr. The Bulletin and REVIEW business staff, under the management of Robert Hill, secures advertise- ments and handles subscriptions and circulation. It will welcome, incidentally, any interested in this work. The Brecky has its own business staff. An art stall is part of the organization of each publication, a cartoonist for the Bulletin, and illustrators for THE REVIEW and the Brecky. The purpose of the Central Quill Clique is to Tn: REVIEW ll9l