Central High School - Brecky Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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set a high standard of work to which the members of the REVIEW, Bulletin and Brecky stalls may aspire and to increase interest in publications. Certain high-ranking members of each of the three staffs become members by virtue of their posi- tions, but any member of the publications staifs who is in good standing, and who has had six thousand words published, is admitted to mem- bership. So you want to wear a snazzy uniform and please the girls? Yes, sir, there is something about a soldier, and the cadet corps offers you your chance. Any boy may join, simply by ap- plying to Lt. Doerr. Although, naturally, mili- .ary training is given, citizenship and physical training are the important factors. Credit for gym is given to those enrolled. Cadets need music to march to, and so there is a cadet band. To promote social intercourse and the welfare of w - 'f anization, the officers and non-commis- 'hers form the Officers and Chevrons ' '1'.f' is a rifle team for those interested l 3. naar guns, in addition to drilling with au, girls! Don't get discouraged! There is .inlet for your energies, too. Do you like to play field hockey or baseball, or to swim? No? W ell, then, there are badminton, basketball, golf, bowling, volley ball, rifle, table tennis, horseback riding, and archery, as well as the chance to be- come gym and swimming captains. If you are a good swimmer, join the life-saving class. Also, flon't forget tennis and dancing. So, you see, there are plenty of things for the girls to do. Excellence in any of these sports is acknowledged by the award of a C and membership in the Girls' C Club. In case you're wondering, the C stands for Central. Who has never experienced the desire to make love to a beautiful girl or to a handsome boy? Then the Radio Guild or the Dramatic Club should fill the bill. Both deal with dramaticsg but the Radio Guild produces its programs over the air, the Dramatic Club on the stage. The Guild, headed by Jean Bryan, deals with the writing, directing, acting, and sound eifects of radio scripts. It also promotes singing and the playing of musi- cal instruments. It plans to give live programs over the air this year. This year the Dramatic Club is headed by Alice Gartrell who says, I can definitely say that there will be a spring play. It will be a three-act comedy and will include a large cast. Three as- sembly plays will be given, and script writing is THE Rsnsw Q20l encouraged. The Stage Crew works with the Dramatic Club, under the management of Dyer Taylor. He explains, We make and set up scenery and take care of the lights and public address system. Who said, Make-up ? That's something that all girls like to experiment with. Therefore, all girls should be interested in the Rabbit's Foot Club, which, according to the president, Jeanne Parks, instructs its members in the use of stage and street make-up through experiments and demonstrations by well-known cosmetic manufac- turers such as Max Factor. The club will have charge of the make-up of this year's projected spring play. The Debating Club is for people who like to argue. fDon't we all?J Competency in English is an asset and may help you to make the debating team for inter-high competition. If you like just to discuss things in general, the Current Events Club is suggested. Those loud cheers at the games are the results of the efforts of the Pep Club and the cheer leaders. Anybody who has an Athletic Associa- tion ticket and good lungs may become a member. Drive carefully. Become a member of the Tralfic Club. General traffic safety is stressed in talks, demonstrations, and skits. Kathryn QKittyJ Paxson is the president. The junior Red Cross has made its usual drive and will care for underprivileged families at Thanksgiving and Christmas as usual. Its mem- bers are appointed from each section and from clubs, sororities, and fraternities. Another social worker is the Bon Secour, though that is not its only interest. It covers everything from acting and singing to all phases of girls' sports, with meetings at the Y. W. every Friday afternoon. It is the largest girls' club in the school. As a supplement to classroom studies we have, among others, the language clubs. The Circulo Castellano, or the Spanish Club, which meets on Wednesdays in room 223, provides a variety of training and amusement in this interesting language, with outside speakers, programs, plays, and songs in Spanish. The French Club meets in room 105 and covers practically the same ac- tivities as the Spanish Club. The German and Latin Clubs are similar, and all are entertaining. A new language club has appeared this year in the form of the Esperanto Club. It deals with an international languageg Betty Michelson is re- sponsible for the founding of the Central chapter.

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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

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Instruction may be obtained at the meetings. The History, Physics, Biology, and Commercial Clubs deal with the subjects from which their names are derived. They have their social and entertainment aspects also. Newly organized is the Central Town Hall, which invites all to its discussions of current events. For years Central has had one of the best school orchestras. Anybody who plays an in- strument may join, providing he enters the fifth period class. If he does not already play, he can learn. The concert band has the first period class. Second, fourth, and seventh periods are the chorus classesg the fourth is the most widely known, because of its annual performance in as- sembly. L Are you a camera fiend? Or do you just like to take snap shots? The Camera Club is looking for you through its lenses. Or if stamps are your hobby, there is always the Stamp Club. Don't forget the Airplane Model Club, either. The Sketch Club is for the artists of the school, whether they are studying art or not. Members make posters and other forms of art, using any medium the artist desires. Rosellen Sugar is the president. It meets on Wednesdays in room 301. The Art Alcove is used for exhibits of pictures, stamps, photographs, and other forms of arts and hobbies. Each art class elects a member to the Art Alcove Board, which has charge of the exhibits. For students of architectural and mechanica.l drawing there are the Arc and the Cog. Both clubs have entrance standards, and the Arc has a goating period. Their object is to promote their respective interests: they are fraternal as well. The president of the Cog is Robert Ken- nedyg Robert Vetter heads the Arc. The Type and Ink Club is for students of printing. The brain trusts will be interested in the Chess and Checkers Clubs. Anyone is eligible, and in- teresting meetings are held. Furthermore, there is inter-high chess competition. The Hi-Y is designed for boys who are mem- bers of the Y. M. C. A.g it is an extension of their activities, At this point it might be well to mention the fact that in an article of this sort complete informa- tion as to meeting place and date, faculty adviser, etc., of each organization would not only make an extremely long article but an uninteresting one as well. The main office or the Student Council room, 117-A, will be glad to furnish the desired information. Incidentally, boys' sports and allied clubs will be treated in another article in the near future. For your convenience, there is a bank in tl- school, run by commercial pupils with goof' grades, where you may open a savings account Graduation credit is given those operating th bank. Pupils help to operate the lunchroorn. too- fo-- their services they are provided with lun'-lw The Library Guild, for those eniovino' lihr-wr work, affords good experience and training :t does serving in the librarv during stuflv of-1-ifvlf You no doubt have wondered about the :twin-1' working there when you took out bool.-C 'fl did you?j The sororities and F1-'wwf --f' 13 ' selves, but you might he interested '- that there are nine of the former and iivf- of t'-f latter. No extra-curricular credit is -'five-n for membership in the Greek letter activities, how- everg they are for purely social purposes. These myriad activities that form so lar-fre n part of our school life, that represent such varied interests and appeal to so manv tvoes of neoole these many activities that can make vour sc'-of-l years such happy ones, are calling vou. Thev are urging you to climb onto the magic f-arf-at and let it carry you to pleasure and profit. They hold out to you valuable rewards--material and spiritual. They offer you National Honor So- ciety membershipg medals: alumni awards- scholarshipsg offices of honor and resoonsibilitv They offer enjoyment-tons of it-couol-ad with training in getting along with people-in livin Extra-curricular activities hold out to vou, not at the end of a rainbow, but here, within your grasp, a true pot of gold. Tx-11: Rnvxnw lzll