Deering High School - Amethyst Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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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-

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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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0 , 'In Q.. ,f . . 'Q Library LEFT TO RIGHT: Mar- shall, Sturtevant, Cate, Russell, Ollerhead THE LIBRARY The library, under the supervision of Miss Gower, has served, as in other years, as the school's source of information and entertainment. Miss Gower has been aided by Eve student assistants who have been in charge during some of the morning periods and in the afternoon from one o'clock to two o'cloclc. The assistants are: Shirley Russell, Judy Sturtevant, Marilyn Marshall, Joan Cate, and Valerie Ollerhead. DRAMATIC CLUB The Dramatic Club is very proud of its large membership, exceeding that of any other club- at Deering. During the school year the club presented the Thanksgiving Day Play, a Christmas play and several shorter plays. The club, under the direction of Miss Hueston and Miss Crocker also directed many school assemblies. The officers were: president, Robert Jortbergg vice-president, Jean Campbell, secretary, Janice Scales, treasurer, Hope Fenderson. Dramatic Club LEFT T0 RIGHT! lort- berg, Scales, Campbell, Fenderson