Kew Forest School - Blotter Yearbook (Forest Hills, NY)

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THE BLOTTER . Paper, Noise and More ol? llt EADY! Aim! Fire! you say to yourself as you aim for the waste basket in study hall for classroomj. Your wad of paper lands with a gentle plop just in front of the basket, revealing to the amusement of those around you that your aim was not so good as you had thought it was. Therefore, you rise fromgyour chair with a heavy sigh in order 'tor retrieve that bothersome wad, accidentally knocking all your books to the floor as you pass. You start back to your seat once the paper is safely deposited, and chance to stumble over someone's feet, unconf sciously blocking traffic in the aisle. Immediately everyone looks up, ever ready for some excitement to relieve the monotony of the everyday routine. There is a dead silence as you slide into your chair, thanking heaven that thats over! The student who does a thing like this does not intentionally upset the attempts at concentrated study of the students around him, but does it, perhaps, through a momentary thoughtlessness. The ref sult is a disturbance for which he is wholly to blame. Probably his idea was that if he threw the paper into the basket from his seat, he would cause less disf turbance than by getting up to carry it there. Granted. But if he had kept it with him until the end of the period, and then thrown it away, would it not have been better still? Such occurrences have been a matter for discussion for some time now, and recently a few helpful rules have been evolved in the hope that the students will cooperate by observing them, thus eliminating to a large extent, all noise and confusion from study hall . Cormumemieeimeint Program Prepared Plans are completed and rehearsals are in progress for the Commencement of the Class of 1931, to be held in the Church' infthefGardens, June 5. The speakers will be Julius S., Bixler, Ph.D., of Smith College, and Nancy Kershaw ,Virginia Chalmers, and Laurose SchulzefBerge, members of the class. The organ and violin will furnish accompaniment for Veni Creator, by Gounod and the Recitaf tive and Aria of Xerxes by Handel, which will be sung by High School pupils and Miss Thomas. The school is grateful to the members of the ChurchfinfthefGardens, who, for several years, have made possible such beautiful surroundings for our Comf mencement program. It is a matter of regret, obviously, that room for guests is necessarily limited.

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I 1 THE BLOTTER lKewelForest Continued on the Accredited List Y the unanimous vote of the Commission on Secondary Schools, KewfForest School has been continued 'for two years on the List of Accredited Secondary Schools of the Association of Colleges and Second' ary Schools of the Middle States and Maryland. This Association examines and approves or disapproves of secondary schools in Delaware, District of Columf bia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Panama Canal Zone and Pennsylvania. Of the 767 schools which have submitted reports, 557 have been approved. In passing on a secondary school, many things are considered: QD Organization and Administration, Q21 Preparation of Teachers, Q31 The Teaching Load, Q41 Program of Studies and Q51 Physical Equipment. The commission cooperates in every way with the institutions of higher learning and the academic stand' ing of the graduates of KewfForest School, in the colleges which they are attending or have attended, is an imporf tant factor in the commissions attitude toward the local school. Membership in this Association is one of the highest honors which can come to any secondary school. Gunn Chewing Q An editorial in a modern vein, meant to reform young sinners., IHOUGH we are told by advertisements that gumfchewing is one of the arts mas' tered by the intelligensia, andfof course our school considers itself a member of this group, Kewfflorest puts its intellectual footldown on chewing. Our parents all agree, and I believe we really do ourselves, that it isn't quite the thing for young ladies and young gentle' men to do. But we all seem to ind enjoyment in forbidden fruit , and I suspect that is the main reason why we chew. If we only realized, however, what a stupid lack of thought and com' mon sense we show by committing this misdemeanor, we should save many dolf lars, and put'Wrigley's and the corner stationery store on the bread line. Whenever we think of someone tough , or shall we say, not of the better classes, we picture a girl whose highly rouged lips are constantly rotating from her energetic use of chewing gum. If we chew, we really should not place ourselves above her class of society. Though she may chew because she has been taught no better, we chew by choice, and show a lack of good taste. Therefore, the next time you ride on a subway, and feel generally disgusted by the lack of breeding shown by the people around you in their habit of chewing gum, think of yourselves, and go, with the blessings of KewfForest upon you, and sin no more.

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'l'uliby 'TUBES' ' yoursl, standing collecting everyone studying, somehow which is GingeI ' lVIODESTY, combined with a strong and lovable per- 1 sonnlity, an air of gaiety and the ability to see anything she undertakes through to a good finish, makes Ginny A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays THE BLOTTER CLASS OF 1931 Booth JOHN BOOTH And confident tomorr-ows. Basketball, '30, '31 Football, '29 Soccer, '28 Baseball, '30 IILOTTER Board, '20, '30, '31 Tennis, '29, '30, '31 fdon't call him 'that to his- face if you value unlike the rest of the seniors,' has the out- distinction of' being always busy. If it's not BLOTTER bills, it might possibly be keeping in stitches from his cheerful wisecracks, or even for though we rarely see John in this state, he seems to have his work always done, a trait only too rare among the seniors. ..G,,my,. MGM., VIRGINIA CHALMERS Smith Second Team Basketball, '26, '27 Varsity Basketball, '28, '29,'30, '31 Junior Basketball Captain, '27 Hockey, '28, '29, '30, '31 Captain Basketball, '30, '31 Captain Hockey, '30, '31 Leaders Club, '28, '29, '30, '31 President Leaders Club, '31 Secretary Leaders Club, '30 Dramatic Club, '27, '29, '31 BLOTTER Board, '28, '29, '30, '31 Choral Club, '27, '28 Red Captain, '30 Vice President G. A. A., '30 Debating Team, '30, '31 one girl in thousands. Everyone from the Kindergarten up is her friend. She has done a great deal in every school activity. In athletics she is the wonder and delight of the school. In the Long Island Interscholastic Debating Association she walked off with the championship in individual debating. Kew-Forest and the senior class will miss her sorely. Lucky Smith! 11 a x 1