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

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THE BLOTTER The School Has a Strong Program of Athletics In Athletics the school has been strong from the beginning. A dominant feature of the athletic program for boys and girls is that every physically lit pupil participates, in the Lower School and High School. The sports indulged in at Kew- Forest School prepare the graduates for the same kind of activity in College. The Girls Athletic Association, to which every High School girl belongs, was founded in October 1925, All girls are members of Red and Blue teams and these have continued in healthy rivalry. In March of every year, a Song and Stunt Contest is held before a large audience of parents and friends, when Red and Blue High School teams compete for winning honors. So enthusiastic over this contest have the girls become, that up to 1947, too much money and time were spent in prepara- tion. Beginning with 1947, this program has been conducted under a charter which regulates money and time that may be consumed in preparation. The field hockey team has been undefeated in 1926, 1928, 1951, 1935, 1943, 1946. In several different years All Long Island Hockey Teams have been chosen, with Kew-Forest School girls fea- tured and honored as leaders. Basketball has been the winter sport, with an undefeated team in 1930, 1940. Lacrosse was introduced in 1934 and had an undefeated team in 1946. At different seasons, the girls have competed in bowling, volley ball, soft- ball and tennis, in addition to the above mentioned sports. The coaching and leadership of Miss Doris E. Sonner, her assistants and her predecessors are shown in the results. The Boys Athletic Association is the organiza- tion for boys. Soccer has been the fall sport for years, with undefeated teams in 1946 and 1947. In the fall of 1947, an All Scholastic Queens Soccer Team was chosen with jack Ogden an hon- ored member. In the winter, boys play basketball, in the spring baseball, which team was undefeated in 1941. Mr. Charles W. Delahunt has lead the boys for several years in the successful sports mentioned above. Tennis was played by boys from 1928 through 1942, with Dr. Dixon many years the coach and team undefeated in 1928 and 1931. Other boys sports practiced at different times have been football, swimming, golf. The athletic pro- grams for each year culminate in two banquets,- one for girls and one for boys. These are two of the happiest occasions of the year, thoroughly en- joyed by parents, teachers, pupils, when many cups and awards are presented to girls and boys. Two World Wars Linked with School's History The school was founded during World War I. In World War II, twenty-three years later, in the enlisted U. S. Military services there served 6 members of the faculty, 70 alumni and 8 alumnae. With sincere patriotic fervor, pupils, teachers and parents bought War Bonds and served in many patriotic and philanthropic organizations. In the future as in the past, Kew-Forest School will continue its genuinely patriotic work of teach- ing and training each individual boy and girl in the school family to become, as far as possible, an intelligent citizen of the United States of America and a man or Woman alert to the need of the solution of the problems of the world. L. A. S. D v , ,H il ll In llllf ' i 1 5 . ,.....,U Qi I I ...- XX7 A ls., in max E ii im

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THE BLOTTER -aiwgidiixl f f ll' JM- .af fb 5 X ygyinifpxwlix ' X X f Smart has been responsible for many plans and details since 1926. Extra-Curricular Program Varied The extra-curricular opportunities have been many. A Student Council was organized in No- vember 1922, but did not survive. A Leaders Club, begun in 1926, proved to have too much emphasis on the club idea. In 1944 a Student Council was developed from the Leaders Club and is functioning as well as it can with the difliculty of finding time for meetings. The Headmaster and Dean are advisers. The Blotter was started as a small paper bound periodical of a few pages in April 1920. Fourteen small numbers, with pictures, advertisements and stories, printed without any particular plan, were published until 1925, when in the school year 1925-1926 four numbers, in good typographical style, were issued. Since that time a large, bound volume has appeared each year. This volume in 1948 is number 27. A sizable literary section ap- peared in 1925-26 and in the succeeding volumes. In 1930 and 1931, Laurose Schulze-Berg '31, wrote one story each, that took first prize in the story contest conducted by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Cam Alma Mater was the dedi- cation poem of 1928. A French department was started in 1929. A Spanish department was inaugu- rated in 1943. At times German and Latin sections have been included. Many prizes and medals have been awarded the Blotter by the Columbia Scho- lastic Press Association, all through the years, with the ultimate of a perfect score, 100079, going to the medalist Blotter of 1940. Mrs. Smart has been adviser since 1925. Debating has been a major activity since the spring of 1928, under the leadership of Dr. Dixon and in conjunction with the Long Island Inter- scholastic Debating Association. A large number of pupils take part as debaters, time keepers, chair- men. Oral themes are taught in all English classes, leading to the experience in public speaking of debating. The oldest club is the Studio, formed by Miss Enid T. Doyle, in 1930. This is largely a working organization, for tl1e members make posters and programs for the school and drawings for the Blotter. Le Salon Francais, organized in 1931, is still functioning. El Circulo Panamericano, started in 1943, interests many pupils. The Glee Club, founded in 1926, has func- tioned through the years-at no time with more vitality than today. The Philanthropy Committee has been most active throughout all classes in the school since Thanksgiving 1925 and the sum of 385,369.50 has been raised for the American Red Cross, Infantile Paralysis Foundation, New York Times Neediest Cases, Fund for the Blind, Child Service League, St. Albans Hospital, New York National War Fund. The dinners for the underprivileged, Red Stockings for the Community Service, Books for Russia, Friendship Boxes for Europe, would be worth 34500 in addition to the above sum. Mrs. Smart and all home room teachers have been the advisers. Through the years, intermittently, a variety of activities and clubs have come and gone-Players, Camera, Science, Mathematics, Three Arts, Der Deutsche Verein.

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