Deering High School - Amethyst Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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Cafeteria LEFT 'ro RIGHT: Miller, Chadbourne, Joyce Dame, McDonough, MacDon- ald, Swan, Phyllis Dame, Joyce CAFETERIA One of our most dependable organizations is the cafeteria. Despite war-time conditions, our nutrition experts have continued serving well-balanced meals. The cafeteria has been in charge of student clerks and cashiers, including Lorraine Joyce, Joyce Dame, Phyllis Dame, Gretta Jensen, Virginia Brown, Lauris Grant, Jean Miller, Patricia MacDonald, Mary Gard- ner, and Mary Curtis. A new addition this year was the boy guides, Thomas McDonough, Thomas Swan, Keith John- son, Mlahlon Chadbourne, and Robert Stevens. GlRL'S SWIMMING CLUB This year the Girl's Swimming Club has been quite successful, having an average attendance of more than thirty members at the practice sessions. They have devoted most of their time to working on the various strokes so that they will be in top form next year when they hope to be able to compete with other schools. The officers were as follows: captain, Judy Sturtevantg sub-captain, Barbara Knowles, and sec- retary, Dorothy Smith. Girls' Swimming Team Left to Right: Knowles, Sturtevant, Smith

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Wri1er's Club LEFT TO RIGHT, STAND- ING: Hayford, Spaulding, Miller, Robinson, Nis- bet, Campbell, Frost, Bos- ton, Gee, Burroughs, Mary Morrill, Rawlinson LEFT T0 RIGHT, SEATED: Flynn, Shaw, Tracy, An- drew, Bragdon, Martha Morrill DEERING GIRL RESERVES As a result of a large increase in membership, this year's Girl Reserve Tri-Y Club has been a great success. Part of this success was due to the leadership of the advisor, Miss Farnham, and the officers, Betty Wilson, president, Glenys Burnell, vice-president, Marjorie Sawyer, secretaryg Rosemary Segars, treas- urer, and Arlene Thomsen, program chairman. The activities for the year included parties, bowl- ing, dances, service projects, and discussion groups. WRITERS' CLUB This year, Writers' Club had a successful season. Under the guidance of Miss Pease, short stories, poetry, essays, and other literary works were writ- ten and criticized. The best material of the club goes into the annual Writers' Club booklet New Leaves. Several of the members have distinguished them- selves by having their worlcs published in the Scho- lastic. The officers this year were: Jeanette Andrew, presi- dent, Holly Frost, vice-president, and Jack Tracy, secretary-treasurer. Girl Reserves LEFT TO RIGHT: Wilson, Segars, Sawyer

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Girls' Glee Club LEFT TO RIGHT, SEATED: Keith, Hicks, Whitney Auoursro PIANO: Stover Wright, Wing, Jannell, Bryant, Johnson, Golden, Farstacl, Wyman, Haley, Carter, Whitten, Hag- man, Segars, Greenough, Martin, Ladd, Moses, Hurd, Hayford, LaCroix, Oliver, Sawyer D CLUB The D Club is an organization of letter winners who try to promote interest in school activities. This year's officers were: Keith Johnson, president, Arthur Black, vice-president, Shirley Corthell, secretary, Louis Bove, treasurer, Channing Hay, Lawrence Mc- Crum, and Walker Irving, executive committee. This year the KD Club activities included picnics, suppers, dances, scavenger hunts, and other enter- tainments for the club members. besides rallies, as- semblies. and the traditional Dv Club Show. GIRLS' GLEE CLUB This year the Deering High Girls' Glee Club, un- der the direction of Miss O'Brien, had over fifty members, the largest group in several years. They sang at the Christmas program, the Pathfindefs Club, the Portland Rotary Club, the Orchestra Concert, and the Woman's Union of the Woodfords Con- gregational Church. The ofiicers were: Barbara ,I-licks, president, Enid Oliver, librarian, Beatrice Heal, secretary, Dorothy Keith, Barbara Whitney, and Marjorie Sawyer, exe- cutive committee, and Alice McGowan, accompanist. D Club Crum, Black LEFT T0 RIGHT: Bove, Corthell, Johnson, Mc-