Chatham High School - Chatter Yearbook (Chatham, NJ)

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THE CHATHAM CHATTER 5 Ni ll Blue T1 langle The Blue Trlangle 1S the name glven to the Chatham Hlgh School group of Glrl Reserves It IS run by the women s d1v1s1on of the County Y M C A The oificers for last year were Ohve Bray presldent Peggy LaFoy vlce presxdent Mlldred BOIVIS secretary and Nancy Jackson treasurer M66tlDgS were held twlce a month ID the new school or occaslonally at a member s home Th general program followed along the hues of ser vice soclal act1v1t1es and lnsplratlonal dlscus slons Durmg the year there were several worth whlle dlSCUSSl0DS and talks whxch were of value to all of us Mr Gyer of Boonton spoke about Mlss 1931 an approprlate subject Margaret Lum our advlser told us about her trxp around the world and Mlss Loulse Brown told us about the benefit of domestlc sclence 28 Two card partles were glven All of the hlgh school g1rls were lnvlted so that they might be famxllar wlth the Triangle and Joxn when they became sophomores The proceeds of the second party were glven to the Porto Rlcan Fund Around June all of the senlor g1rls are greatly lnterested ln graduation dresses The Blue Tr1 angle came to their a1d wlth a Bamberger fashlon show Many lovely dresses were dlsplayed and the g1rls had an opportunlty to declde on what they would llke Th1s year representatxves of the group have attended two conferences Ollve Bray went to the State Conventxon and Mlrlam Stokes Nancy Jackson Marle Fleldmg Carolyn Huff Ollve Bray and Mlldred BOIVIB went to the county one at Mountaln Lakes Many valuable ldeas and sug gestlons were gamed IH thls way and we hope that the club w1ll carry them out next year Peggy La Foy .32 , , , . 3 il v I I g ' 3 7 . swf - As , . S. .yy Z , 5 5 -1 .L ,3 5 J T'?'i' - sg . 'T A. u X ,. ,f 4' f,-A l X 'N' Qi 1 iff' - ' 5 'a'.'. . . . , . . . , . . Z 1 ' Z ' ' - ' , 2 y - . . . W I , , ' ' . e l Y - Y V v 1 Y 1 -. - ,Y - - - - , . . ' Y Y v , . . . ,, . , ,

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THE CHATHAM CHATTER The Band The present Band was organlzed after the Thanksgivxng vacatxon ln the year 1929 under Mr Spxcers able leadership Edward Carpenter Dolbeer Spohr Lmwood Quackenbush Henry Spohr Amzx Dudley Ollve Bray Ernest Hadley Horace Johns Harold Thompson Oscar Laurie Gordon Rxtchle Wlllxam Kondrat George Hoge man Benjamin Tyson Peter Trlola Martm Hutchlnson James Callahan Fred Lewis Albert Reed Stanley Budd and Ted Hogeman composed 1ts membershlp We practlced long and nolslly twice a week over ln the lunchroom iwe had dlsturbed the hard worklng students who made up the elghth perlod and so we had been booted out of our former domxcxle the Lab across the way to the lunch room J It IS sald that charlty suffereth long and IS k1nd If the rest of the school could be posslbly personlfled as Charlty the school certalnly ap peared kmd and lt suffered long ln February when we made our first publlc appearance m chapel We were up on the stage and we played two numbers' And what was more remarkable we recelved some applause We played at one of the home baseball games too We formed ln front of the school on the great day and marched down the mlddle of Faxr 27 mount Avenue behmd Chxef Burke When we arrwed at Main Street we had the entire street from Faxrmount to Passaic blocked oft' for our majestlc ensemble And because of our lnspxred playing Chatham beat Wharton 13 to 1 But stnll further successes were ID store for us Mr Spicer had apparently bribed the American Leglon for we played ln that worthy organxza txons parade We had a truck all to ourselves although we were pretty crowded and we d1d manage to play a few recognlzable tunes when the truck stopped We looked the part too lf we never d1d before Instead of the usual medley of brown blue and gray pants and many colored shlrt the whole outfit was done up ln a cute little outfit of white pants and shirts and blue coats It was voted a crowning success by all who saw but dldn t hear the band as lt sped by We opened our second year of exlstence w1th a bang bang as Mlss Suydam would say by play mg at the begmnmg and endlng of chapel The membershlp was decreased consxderably due to graduatlon droppmg out travel etc so Mr Splcer organized a beglnners band to JOID the advanced band as soon as It had progressed that far One fine day nt dld and appeared ln chapel along wlth the other sectlon and With the exceptxon that one or two people played the fCont1nued on page 31l 1 . , . . . . , 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 - 1 1 ' - 1 1 1 1 ' . . . , 1 1 1 - , 1 1 1 1 - 1 1 1 1 1 1 . . rl 11 . . . 1 1 1 ' 1 . . . . . , . 1 ' 1 1 1 ' 1 1 - - 1 1 1 1 -1 ' Y 1 V . . . , . . - 1 - , , u 11 - 1 - 1 . 1

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THE CHATHAM CHATTER H1Y The Boys H1 Y began the new school year un der the leadersh1p of Rev P P Harr1s The first two months were turned over to dlscusslons ot var1ous top1cs Two of these subJects were Glrls and Leadershlp Then because M Harrls was too busy w1th h1s clencal affalrs Mr Baker of the County Y M C A staff led the meet1ngs unt1l we found Slty He held hlS pos1t1on unt1l the Chr1stmas vacatlon after whlch the H1 Y was left leaderless unt1l Apr1l In Aprll a meetxng was held to d8Clde whether the H1 Y should be cont1nued or dlsbanded The members hnally agreed that they would rather attend meetmgs at n1ght than dur1ng school hours because of 1nterference wlth sports S the next meetlng was held at nlght 1n the Ogden Memor1al Church w1th Mr MOPFISOH dlI'8CtlIlg A commlttee was appo1nted to cons1der the names 29 of two men actlve 1n the communlty and ask them to be leaders One of these men Mr W1l l1am A Lathrop IS now our leader Under h1s d1rect1on a Const1tut1on was drawn up and the name of the H1 Y changed to the Pyramzs Chap ter of the Hz Y On May 13 officers were elected for next year They are Morton Chr1st1an v1ce pres1dent VS1ll1am Cunsel secretary treasurer Ted Hogeman IS the reporter to the newspapers On June 12 the H1 Y had a dmner at the Jane Grey D1n1ng Room followed by a dance at the Clubhouse The H1 Y although not so successful th1s year as 1n prev1ous years Wlll agam forge ahead be cause of the carefully selected new members the leader and the old members who stood by when the H1 Y seemed a fa1lure 1 a new leader in Mr. Middleton, of Drew Univer- Edward Carpenter, president. . . .- ,. . , Q . , . I O . , y . . -