Holderness School - Dial Yearbook (Holderness, NH)

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x 7, 1:3 . Standing Mattersdorff News Wagoner Sports Libbey Mr Hunting Facultq Adviser Cree ley Staples Seated Quetton DIAL Editor Bull YEARBOOK C0 Editor Weld YEARBOOK Co Editor R Vickerman THE DIAL BOARD This year s report is one of figures With prices up on paper and general printing costs the number of pages by changing from glossy to malt paper and by successfully trying a new printer The resulting DIALS if not always just what we hoped for were generally satis factory The spring issue was probably the best ever printed with such new features as a survey of student opinion a swing section and critical sport write ups Hugh Quetton was Editor in Chief of the DIAL while Edric Weld Jr and George Bull Photographic Editor and Business Manager respectively were chosen co editors of the YEARBOOK l-lovermg behind these two is the specter of our financial scales and the trustees can see George sitting on the black end At any rate from the coke bottles and potato chips littering the City Room we may estimate the amount of work and worry that went on in that department we faced the problem of getting out two DIALS for the price of one. We did it, by reducing

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latenesses a General Infractxons Commlttee and also a Serxous Infracttons Commlttee to handle only the most serxous cases The boys gxve therr excuses or arguments to the Faculty Advxser of the particular commnttee The Adviser takes the boys srde at the commxttee meetmg where the slxps are voted on If guxlty the offender xs glven the approprxate demerxt or a Sernous In fractnon penalty The Student Councll further assxsted m settlng up the rule whereby a student wlth 30M demerxts Ends himself m Study Hall for two Saturday evemngs there he whlles the hours away wrltmg to hxs parents explammg the sltuatlon At 35M dements four more Study Hall evemngs are awarded wxth four more letters home After 40M demernts the student IS on Bounds for a month and Study Hall for the semester When and rf he gets as many as 502 he has earned for hxmself a permanent vacatxon from the stress and stram of lxfe at Hold erness Exght months havmg passed smce last fall xt ns now possnble to judge the relatnve success of these mnovatnons The Student Councxl IS no longer merely a figurehead but rs now an ac txve umt m the admmnstratxve system of the School It can and has disagreed wxth measures passed by the Faculty and xt has mtroduced many new rmprovements mto the lxfe of the School In addltnon to those already mentxoned the Councxl has worked out plans for the present club system lf passed a plan orngmated by a commrttee of Stxth Formers whxch gave boys from the two upper forms permlssnon to VISII and date gxrls from the Normal School rn Plymouth Thxs measure has shown nts worth nn many ways but lf IS especxally to be noted for one of 1ts results the recent xmprovement of relations between the School and the town Fmally lt now controls part of the Smokmg Off Bounds problem and the admrmstratlon of movle per mxssxon on Wednesdays The fact that the Student Councxl has absolute control of pumshment and supervtslon rs a vast and better change from the trme when nt was somethmg smart for a boy to slxp mto a Wednesday movxe The Student Body feels that nts Councll rs more repre sentatnve and that xt rs a real force nn School affanrs In the same way the majorrty of the boys reallze the worth of the new dxscnplmary system The masters now only report an nn fractnon and do not hand out any purely arbrtrary pumshment Frlctxon between boys and masters has been greatly dxmmxshed and the masters no longer fear to treat the boys as fnends for accusations of drag have greatly lessened We are gettmg away also from the feelrng that work IS always a pumshment Let us hope that the Student Council and the Sixth Form wnll always meet wxth comparable results and as good a spmt those dutxes that new years shall brlng 1 1 . . . , . . . - 1 . , ' 1 1 1 , 1 1 ' - 1 . , ' - 1 1 , . 1 1 1 1 1 1 . 1 1 - - - . . - 14 11 1 . 1 , 1 - 11 11 - ' , . 1 1 1

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CLUBS This year Holderness embarked on a new venture namely that of havmg clubs for every one every Frrday mght Actlvmes m these clubs ran through Scxence Photography DIAL Dramatxcs French Debatmg Musxc Apprecnatxon C1lee Club to Current Events Two other clubs Dancing and Brndge had constantly changmg personnel new classes formxng every srx weeks Fnnally Mr Mead of the Forest Servrce held a Red Cross Course on Frnday mghts durxng the early sprmg This addmon mxxed up the Club system by takmg many of the Fnfth and Slxth Formers but rt was worth xt Mr Wrles IS head of the Scrence and Photography Clubs and guldes them through a com plete schedule of lectures dlscusslons and experrments The members Ed Kesler for nnstance seem to be working on defense secrets for they are surprlsmgly retxcent about what goes on m the xnner sanctum Both the DIAL and Dramatrcs Clubs have been given up and thenr functxons have been transferred to separate organizations apart from the Club system Every Frnday or Saturday evemng the Pool Room rs transformed 1nto a banquet hall and the French Club takes over under the direction of Mr Flore Here one attempts to confine one s conversatxon to pxdgm French wlth varymg results The Debatmg Club very successful last year has been hampered because some of nts leadmg debaters have been busy elsewhere Yet Burt Lowes and Llttle Vxcks volces are quxte powerful too and the younger members of the club have been worknng on many queStl0nS as Shall we abolxsh Capttal Punxshment? One of the most popular clubs IS Music Apprectatnon rn whxch more or less serlous musxc IS lxstened to and dxscussed Explanatxons have been furnxshed by Mr Rogers at first and more recently by Mr Branstad Only slnghtly dxfferent IS the Glee Club whxch started out as cholr practnce More recently the members have been takmg up a more mundane repertoxre and the lyrxcs from Trzal by Jury have held the spot llght The club IS under the same dnrectxon as Musxc Appreclatxon and sometnmes the two clubs get together to smg Last but not least there ns Current Events Here boys get together to discuss and argue subjects of contemporary mterest and to gxve re ports on the news of the day but what arguments they have' And here Mr Wernert holds forth The Club system so far has worked out qulte well And more nmportant, rt has gxven boys a far better chance than before to participate m extra currxcular actxvmes ' - . 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 - 1 T , . , . , v , 1 , , . 1 1 1 1 1 . . . v ' , . . ,, . . ,, . . . ' 1- . , 1 1 14 e 1 1 11 - - 1 1 9 . . , 1 . . , - 1 . 1 . , 1 ' ' .