Chicago Jewish Academy - Memoirs Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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MEMOIRS EDU727 OFFICE SERVICE The school office always c busy place ns buzzmg wuth act :vnty on Tuesday afternoon when ambutlous young ladies assist Mrs M Merritt the school secretary ln her mamfold dutles The mem bers of the group receuve trcnmng ln the procedures of an efficient office program from Muss A Brazda the Club sponsor who acquamts the gurls with the skulls of fllung documents typing bookkeeping general oftlce practice etc whuch wall and the members when seek :ng such posutuons later nn lute LIBRARY SERVICE A beehnve of actsvuty us the school library where the busy bees go scurrynng about attend mg to the days tasks The umblt nous youngsters shown here are busy assnstlng the Iebrarlan mendmg torn textbooks adlustung the books on the shelves and classntymg them and ln general learmng the many tedious duties ofthe Iubrarnan Mrs E Phnllups who IS explaining them to her dlscuples Theur club period ns spent wlselv In the envuronment of good books and they are happy for the opportumty of helping to beautnfy and Improve thelr library .3 Frhy mne

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MEMOIRS TITJTTDT CHESS AND CHECKERS On Tuesday afternoon durIng the UCTIVITY perIod when steppIng IHTO the Parlor we are ImmedIate ly oversome wIth 'oy by the mellow notes IssuIng forth from the varIous Instruments of the band Lets lIsten and hear what they re playIng Now they are lust tunIng up The conductor Mr Phllllp Meyer IS tappIng wIth hIs baton for sIlence Now they all start togetner harmonIzIng to produce melodIous musIc The bond performs at varIous school functlons and IS always looklng for new talent to Improve ITS qualIty and Increase Its scope of OCTIVITY INSTRUM ENTAL GROUP The opInIon that the game of chess IS only for the Intellectuals IS beIng dIsproved In the Academy In evIdence the chess and checker club members are constantly Im PFOVIDQ theIr skIlls on the checker board In the pIcture shown here a dIfflcult move IS beIng gulded by the trusty hand of Mr M Baron the sponsor of the group The bovs are fascmated and theIr abIl TIES and powers of concentra tlon and forethought are Improved WhIle chess has attaIned world wIde recognItIon as a cosmopolltan pastIme many Jews hae rIsen to the top as champlons of the game We hope that some day these students name mlght be added to those of Samuel Reshevsky WII lIam Stemmetz Emanuel Lasker and others Frfty eIght

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MFNIOIRQ l'D WW! Q 238 SCIENCE FICTION In thus club the lmaglnatuon of the members IS aroused by the mo dern fantasles of atomlc warfare flying saucers and trnps to the other planets In order to cultivate their young minds wnth modern trends IH sclence and mechanics and to confirm or duspel theur be luefs In the wonders of nature Mr Theodore Hagensee has organnzed the ocuence Fnctlon club Many of the new novels on science flctuon and magazme and comic book artucles are reported upon and dnscussed The boys are also given a chance to devuse miracle unven tnons of thelr own All nn all e forty mnnutes of the club period are always enloyed and the mem bers are kept unterested OPEN FORUM The Open Forum Club other wnse known as We the Stu dents us a mumature conference room wherein our students meet to duscuss current events and an alyze the chuef problems of world sugmflcance Thus actnvnty affords them the opportumty to exchange nnformatnon to share ndeas and to argue the pros and cons of se lected topucs Alternate weeks are gnven to round table duscusslons and debates Here an a frnendly atmosphere the students can aar their oplnlons and develop theur abnlutues to thunk crltlcally and constructlvely and to express themselves clearly and convmcmgly The group ns spon sored by Mrs S Goldman g ,. . mn . 1 ' ll - 1 I ,, . . . I , fs I , 2 I I . . . . I will - W 'ffl , lf' 5 ,gem :4 12 -W - - . - W ' V ' vim gf . . . , , ' ll - s sn , . , ' an ,. . . . , ' ' . ' , th ' . J Sixty