Charles W Baker High School - Lyre Yearbook (Baldwinsville, NY)

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All in all, the Journalism Club feels that it has fulfilled its duty and hopes for as great success next year. The staff for both papers is as follows: Crimson and White Editor-in-chief News Editor .Managing Editor Sports Editor Feature Editor M essenger Editor-in-chief News Editor Managing Editor Sports Editor Feature Editor —Martha Sullivan —Carmella Cenci —Nancy Bigelow —Jack Bunnev —Jane Pritchard Kathryn M cC a r t h v —Lucyann Davis —Alice Montague —'Charles Greene —Donald Flaherty ----oOo— Orchestra The orchestra, under the able direction of Miss Elizabeth M. Roth, has accomplished many difficult undertakings during the year 1936-37. With her very helpful assistance, Mrs. Ethel Connell Phoenix and Mr. Silvio Meneguzzo, every piece of work has been successful. The orchestra played at various school entertainments this year which include prize speaking, Parent-Teacher Associa- tion meetings, senior play and all assembly’s. The best per- formance of all was the splendid annual spring concert which took place May 28, 1937. Although the orchestra lost many members by the graduation of ’36, they have added several new members. At the concert they welcomed back an old member of the orchestra, Miss Helen King, whom everyone was glad to hear once again. May I say that, all in all, the orchestra of Baldwinsville High School is something to be proud of! And here’s to the future success of this very active organization. 21 CAROLYN DORAN

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CLUBS Prize Speaking The Junior Prize Speaking Contest was held in the high school auditorium on Friday evening, April 16, 1927, at eight o’clock. Rather a large number tried out. Elizabeth Sweeting, Arthur Baker, Catherine Montague, Richard Perkins, Mar- ietta Burt, Hugh Gibbons, Marjorie Gere, Glenn Thompson and Mary Browning Curtis were chosen as contestants. First prizes were awarded to Marjorie Gere for speaking “The Chrismas Substitute” and to Richard Perkins for “The Bell Ringer of ’76”. Second prizes went to Mary Browning Curtis and to Arthur Baker. The annual Bigelow Prize Speaking Contest was held in the Academy auditorium Friday evening, April 30, 1937. A smaller number then usual tried out, but the following were chosen for the finals: Howard Crego, Martha Sullivan, James Weeks, Mary Alice McNeill, Leonard Socia, Clarice Fer- guson, John Nostrant and Nancy Bigelow. The judges gave James Weeks first prize for “The False Valuation of Money” and Nancy Bigelow first prize for her interpretation of “Penrod’s Busy Day”. Second prizes went to Martha Sullivan and to John Nostrant. Although we have shown a decided interest in prize-speak- ing, still we hope that future classes will better even our efforts. IRENE SPRAGUE Journalism Club The success of the Journalism Club this last year was obvi- ous and wonderful. Under the guiding hands of our two able editors-in-chief, Martha Sullivan of the Crimson and White. and Katherine McCarthy of the Messenger, the Journalism Club members furnished splendid material for the issues of the two school papers. Since the club had been enlarge by the addition of fourteen new members, it was possible to have a great many articles. But the success of the editing of the two papers was not the only accomplishment. In the middle of the year the club had a successful party for its members and throughout the year they were most fortunate in having very interesting speakers. 20

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Musical Review This year’s Glee Club entertainment was patterned after last year’s and had the same name, “Musical Review”. The performance was given January 29, and repeated the follow- ing evening as a means of raising money for the Red Cross Flood Relief Fund. A one act play entitled “My Turn Next”, presented under the direction of Mr. Elden, headed the program. The actors included Michael Sawyer, Walter Williams, James Weeks, Frederick Pulver, Jeanne Gere, Phyllis Long and Betty Foster. The second part of the program was new to our school; it consisted of a tumbling act which was Mr. Guerrera’s con- tribution to the success of the evening. The last and biggest part of the entertainment was an “Eddie Cantor” program under the direction of Miss Roth, Mr. Cary and Miss Forest. There we found the quartet sing- ing many a favorite tune,, Rubinoff pulling the bow over the strings, the famous “Floradora Sextet” dancing and blithely- singing, the pupils of the Sehroeppel Studio of Dancing and Julia Sanderson and Frank Crummit singing “Good Night My Love”. As a finale a large chorus gathered and joined in the spirit of the “Eddie Cantor” program by singing “ 1 Love To Spend This Hour With You.” The “Musical Review” was a real financial success as it cleared about $100 for our Baldwinsville Academy funds and gave about $70 toward the Red Cross Relief Fund. LUCYANN DAVIS Dramatics At the expense of her free period and much of her spare time, Mrs. Lower organized for the first time in the history of the school a class in dramatics. Those who took the course received no regents credit, because the library did not have, the required number of books on the subject and also because there had been no time to submit an outline of the course of study to the State Education Department in Albany. It is hoped and expected that next year’s class will receive a half unit for the course, as the library had added many books on dramatics this last half year.