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

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SOCIETIES Athletic Association Journalisn Orchestra Glee Club Prize Speaking Musical Revue

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GIRLS' BOWLING JOYCE BAKER BOYS' BOWLING Baldwinsville, defending champions, entered this year's County League Tournament minus Erwin Christy Mathewson. With Coach Guerrera, the team traveled to Minoa and bowled against ten other schools for the County League Champion- ship. Despite Bunney's high game of 255 and high three games of 602 and the rest of the team's fine bowling, we placed fourth behind Solvay, Fayette- ville, and Liverpool. This was due to the high plane of the competition in the County League. 1. Bunney 4. Coates 2. Otts 5. Tarnow ROLAND LAVOIE The girls' bowling team, now a group of three years' standing at Baldwinsville High School, par- ticipated in the county tournament this year which was held at Skaneateles. As the team had had no previous matches with other schools, this was a new event for most of the girls; but they came out very well. In the county tournament, competing against eight other schools, the team finished fifth. The individual scores were as follows: Marian Furbush 130 133 Years 2 Joyce Baker 115 1 1 1 3 Betty Mahoney 1 10 152 2 Helen Gorke 87 93 1 June Champan Mary Zahn CO UJ 1 14 1 1 3. Adsit 6. Bye Manager, Roland Lavoie

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THE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION The Athletic program of the Baldwinsville Academy is sponsored by the Athletic Association. The governing body which directs this association is the Athletic Council. Members of the council are elected by the students from the four years of high school. The seniors were represented the first term by Frederick Pulver and Leland Rice, the juniors by John Leyburn and Robert Emerson. The sopho- mores and freshmen elected Donald Coates and Richard Olney respectively. The post graduates were represented by Robert Coates. In the second semester Leland Rice and Bar- bara Northrop represented the seniors, while Glenn Goodfellow and Robert Currie were elected by the juniors. Coates and Olney spoke again for the sophomores and freshmen. The post graduates were represented by Charles Palmer. The council sponsored the Athletic Banquet which is the sport high-light of the year. This year the banquet was held in the Masonic Temple with dancing in the gymnasium later. William S. Boelter, assistant football coach of Syracuse University, was the speaker. The banquet was made doubly in- teresting as moving pictures of the Syracuse- Cornell football game were shown. This banquet is held for the purpose of honoring the boys who took part in athletics during the year and to award them with block letters. BARBARA NORTHROP PRIZE SPEAKING The annual Junior Prize Speaking Contest was held in the Academy, Friday evening, April 29. The eight contestants were Helen Cronkite, Alice Mercer, Phyllis Storm, Dorothy McNeil. Leo Brown. Robert Dow, Billy Cole, and Jack Coleman. Helen Cronkite's interpretation of Ole Mistis and Leo Brown's declamation Abraham Lincoln won first prizes, while Alice Mercer and Robert Dow were awarded second prizes. On Friday evening, May 13, the Bigelow Prize Speaking Contest was held in the Academy audi- torium. The four girls participating were Margery Gere, Wilma Bratt, Mary Alice McNeil, and Con- stance Connell. Margery Gere, who spoke The Christmas Substitute.’ received first prize and Wilma Bratt won second prize. The four boys who contested were John Nos- trant, Glenn Thompson, Robert Morehous, and Richard Perkins. John Nostrant's interpretation of Opportunity earned him first while Glenn Thompson received second award. The coaches for these two contests were: Miss Palmer and Miss Roth for the Junior contest, and Miss Roth and Mr. Elden for the Senior. LOIS AMERMAN GLEE CLUB The Thanksgiving program provided by the sopranos and altos officially started the year for the Glee Club. However, long before that, the entire organi- zation had been practicing, under the direction of Miss Roth, on the Christmas cantata to be pre- sented at the last assembly program before Christ- mas vacation. The musical revue came February I I th and 12th. Profiting by last year's experience, the director presented it on two nights, each a huge success. Various members of the Glee Club participated in different popular song and dance groups to make the affair gala and picturesque. The last event for the Glee Club, as well as the orchestra, was the annual spring concert at which time they sang Serenade by Shubert and To Thee, O Country from the opera Martha, appro- priate to Memorial Day. ORCHESTRA This years crop of musicians — over fifty of them — has done much to further the cultural back- ground of Baldwinsville Academy by assisting in many school activities, thereby helping to educate the students musically. Under the direction of Miss Elizabeth M. Roth, with the help of Mr. Silvio Meneguezzo and Mrs. Ethel Connell Phoenix, it has provided two assem- bly programs, music for the annual Christmas play by the grade children, musical revue, Prize Speak- ing Contest and Senior Play and always of course, the regular entrance and exit marches for assem- bly. On the March P. T. A. programme Lois Amer- man, pupil of Mrs. Phoenix, and Robert King, pupil of Mr. Meneguezzo. illustrated the work of music in the schools. Last summer, the orchestra made its visit to the woods for a few days and played a concert on the porch of the Wood Hotel, Inlet, to the accompani- ment of a strong wind. The annual concert was held May 27th this year with the usual success and thus happily ended the musical year for Baldwinsville Academy. VIRGINIA PIERCE