DeWitt Clinton High School - Clintonian Yearbook (Bronx, NY)

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G.O. EXECUTIVE couNclL . . a free subscripfion fo fhe News, and reducfions for baslcefball games, fheafres, and museums were only a few advanfages flnaf G.O. member- ship procured. The General Organizafion also sponsored an immense inframural program, a presenfafion of fhe Nafional League's baseball film, Winning Baseball, and a giganfic club carnival. . Affer serving Clinfon as Honorary Presidenf of fhe General Organi- zafion for four years, Mr. J. Roland Gallo foolc on a new iob-af fwenfy- one dollars a monfh for Uncle Sam. Reliable sources disclose fhaf Mr. Gallo sfill wears his GEO. buffon-if goes well wifh a lchalci uniform. The General Organizafion losf a frue friend and a conscienfious adviser in Mr. Gallo. Forfunafely, Mr. Abraham Feibusch, formerly in charge of fhe P. T. A. and an enfhusiasfic profagonisf of exfra-curricular acfivifies, was on hand fo assume fhe honorary presidency. The hisfory of your General Organizafion in fhe I94l spring ferm was one of earnesf efforf on fhe parf of fhe officers and harmonious col- laborafion by fhe sfudenf body fo make a full and a happy ferm for each and every Clinfonife. General Organizafions come and go, fhe symphony of educafion surges on and ahead. Buf fhe human mind, and cerfainly fhe minds of Clinfon sfudenfs, are insafiable, craving progress, and sfill more progress. Thus each General Organizafion is an unfinished symphony fhaf will confinue as long as fhere is a demand for more educafion in Clinfon. 27

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UNFINISHED SYMPHONY Four Thousand, Tive hundred and sixTy-Tive voTes-more Than The sum ToTal oT all Republican voTes casT in The sTaTes of Louisiana, Mississippi, and SouTh Carolina in The lasT presidenTial elecTion-wenT To ClinTon's polls. When The pencil scraTches and chalk dusT had cleared away, Clin- Ton Tound ThaT iT had elecTed Saby Jaffe 6.0. PresidenT, STanley SpecTor, Vice-PresidenT, and VicTor Rosenblum, SecreTary. lrving JaTfe and Alan Hahn were chosen as sTudenT represenTaTives in The Board oT Governors To assisT Principal Clark, Mr. Feibusch, and Doc KwiT-The TaculTy members oT The board. The iubilanT cries oT successful oTFice seekers had hardly died away when The TirsT week of February broughT a vehemenT 6.0. bookleT sales oTTensive. Thus, more Than TorTy-Tive hundred ClinToniTes were subiecTed To a painless exTracTion oT TorTy cenTs. lT was, however, a necessary exTracTion which was uTilized To insure ever-expanding exTra-curricular acTiviTies-The backbone of ClinTon life. So impressive was The lisT oT discounTs, reducTions, and bargains oTfered ThaT iT caused The News To ediTorialize-noT on spending-buT on saving TorTy cenTs by ioining The 6.0. ATTracTive boosTer buTTons, 26 BOARD OF GOVERNORS

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PII-IYNIATES CLINTON RHAPSODY And when The Teacher's words Come TloaTing Toward me, I don'T hear a word aT all, I'm sleeping silenTly. And when I hear ThaT bell JusT ringing Tor me, I don'T hear a bell aT all: I sense my liberTy. Figure This one ouT-iT you can: According To Their program cards, boTh Joe and Sam Tinished Their school day aTTer The sevenTh period. AT The sound oT The bell each day, Joe rushed home To his sTudies, while Sam almosf invariably sTayed aTTer school To aTTend a meeTing oT The STamp Club or To run in The InTramuraIs. When The Senior averages were posTed, Joe was able To boasT oT an eighTy-seven average: Sam wasn'T parTicularIy proud oT his eighTy-Three .... The quesTion is: who goT The mosT ouT oT his Tour years in ClinTon-Joe or Sam7 . . . STrange as iT may seem, Sam's The one. You see, Sam realized The imporTance of CIinTon's clubs and squads. To Those oT us like Sam, CIinTon has oTFered innumerable Tun-giving and educaTionaI exTra-curricular acTiviTies. ClinToniTes arTisTicalIy inclined have had The opporTuniTy To draw Deep Purple To Their hearT's conTenT in The ArT Club, budding air-piloTs have Tlown Through The air vicariously wiTh The Aero Club, such clubs as The Causons SocieTy, Cercle Francais, Pan-American Club, Spanish Club, AIT Heidelberg, LaTin Club, and ITalian Club, broughT The culTure oT disTanT lands closer To Home SweeT Home: The Rod and Gun Club TaughT iTs members To caTch The LiTTIe Red Fox and The Three LiTTle Fishes. A beTTer, more ToleranT America is The hope of every ClinToniTe. ThaT's why The American Club, Douglass SocieTy, Newman Club, ShoTar SocieTy, The American STudenT Union, Town Hall Club, and The I'lisTory 28