Chestertown High School - Dragon Yearbook (Chestertown, MD)

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SCANDINAVIAN VISITORS We were very fortunate 1n havlng mth us for two days durlng the month of January, three guests who were from Denmark, Sweden, and Norway They were malcmg a tour through schools 1n the eastern part of our country We had a program whlch cons1sted of some musical selectlons and a roundtable d1s cussion for them At thls roundtable dlscussion we asked questi uns about their govern- ment, ways of educat1on, and about the geography of then' country They retaliated by 4- n. Un 21-an had some student representatlves from other schools throughout the county, who in turn went back to then' schools and told what they had heard and seen Our visltors slncerely urged us to join the Umted Natlons Youth Organlzatiorl Thls to appreciate thelr slgvlflcance THE JUNIOR CLASS PLAY The Junlor Class dec1ded to g1ve the play, A Ready Made Fam1ly, by J y Toblas as a means to make money ill for the D tch Sch ol, 1l'h1Ch Chestert-Jim Hlgh School 13 support lng, and C23 for then' own personal use Th18 18 the story of a ndow and a widower, plus the determlnatlon of thelr children to upset the matrimonlal apple cart by acting then' worst before then' prospectlve step parents THE SENICR CLASS PLAY Thls year's class play 18 'Wurrbo-Jumbo , wrltten by Jack Barnard It relates the adventures of two college boys who use their unc1e's country home as a hotel to ralse money whlch they need When one of thelr queer medley of guests is mur dered, two sherlffs Cone of them a woman, try to solve the case Each clalms the cr1me was CO'flm1ttGd ln h1s county THE MINSTREL SHOH The CHESTERTOWIN RAMBLERS boys from the n nth, tenth, and eleventh grades put on an Old Fasnloned Mlnstrel Shown at Wllllam Smlth Hall, Frlday, February 13, at 7 30 P The end men were Jullan Crew, Gordon Scott, Albert Parsons, and Jack Newsome with Bobby Fatcherson, the nterlocutor, and Dr Roblnson, the dlrector Southern songs such as Old Black Joe, Clementlne, Sweet Genevleve and The Darlng Young Man on the Flyzmg Trapeze were sung The proceeds were used to help the actlvlties fund buy athletlc equlpment for the students Y-+6 I . ' I csmng as many o- ...e :me questions. ..- a-.- , e, L , . . , ' O Association helps its members to keep in touch with happenings throughout the world, and , A V . . . - . . . ' 0 . . ll A . ' I . . V. . . . . z om. . i , ' ' . ' O

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SCECER For the first time in the hlstory of the h1gh school we had a full tame coach The soccer season was started mth practlce held after school, but because many of the players lived on farms and had to work after school th1S was not satisfactory Then Coach Ward arranged for the b'-'JFS to Practlce dll-P1l'1g lunch perlod The schedule 1S as follows wlth a br1ef summary of each game The Chestertown Reds pa1d a vlsit to Galena, September 26, to defeat them 11 to 2 This game was D1 'yed nth confldence and the ablllty to work together, result1ng in beautiful team- work The Scorers gf the game were Billy Wheat, Paul Stokes, and Joe hltbank Do you remember that warm day on October 3 when the Chestertolm boys played hosts to the soccer team from Sudlersville? This was the day to remember because the two te ms had the same power in thelr backfields resulting in the b ll being 1n scorlng pOSit10fl only once or tw1ce during the whole game, and then the goal1es did then' job, making the g me scoreless at the end of playlng time Our first full school pep rally was held October lO when the school team played at M111 :Lngton to suffer its flrst defeat with a score of 2 to 1 The boys in the back leld were over-confident in their l1ne whlch in preceding games was in excellent playlng form A M111 11'lgt0Il teamsman sllpped through our wobbly defenses to score the winning point 1n the last few mlnutes of the ofl icial game A home game was played on October 17 as a return game from Galena School sprirt was faces Everyone felt as though the blg red team was golng to pull through another vlctory, an the boys themselves, runnlng around :Ln shorts, had a certaln satisfactlon that today's game would be full of thrllls and climaxing wlth our team on top The soccer team d1dn't let amy one down and the cheer-leaders had somethlng to shout about, for once more the boys rolled up a tally against Galena, treadmg them :Lnto the athletlc f181d ltself, by a score of ll,-O One day the boxs on the Chestertown soccer team plled into cars to vislt Sudlersville run up agamst boys th t wouldn't be budred and the score tallled with a 3 over l 1n favor of the team whlch we rode so far to beat Fzmally the game of all ruportant games was played at the Washington College football fleld between Centreville and Chestertoum The wind was blowing and the field was muddy The ttwo teams met and struck tlme and time again with ne ther making much headway 1nto the other's goal zone The cherry and wh1te team plaved with the1r backs toward the wall defending Then the Centrevllle team started breaking us down and the final score was ls-0 in then' favor Both teams played the1r very best ball but wlth weather conditions the way they were, nelther team looked so well Our boys were looklng forward to wlnning this game so as to advance fu-fthe? 011 and try to win the champlonshlp 11-8 pretty high and you could tell it by the joyous looxc of,'1expectanfgl happiness on the students' 0 . , . . d J . . to