Liverpool High School - Hiawathan Yearbook (Liverpool, NY)

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The Commercial Club ended this semester with a trip to jamesville Penitentiary which proved very enjoyable and interesting. On the way back from Jamesville, the Club stopped at Green Lake for a picnic, and a swim proved refreshing before eating. The Club held its meetings on Thursday morning of each week before school began. Various types of programs entertained the mem- bers, such as spelling bees, short skits, and Pro- fessor Quiz games, thanks to the program com- mittee, consisting of Hattie Zuhlke, Helen Miller, and Dorothy Wademan. A successful food sale was held at Nichols Store on April 29, to raise money for the trip to Jamesville. Those who are entitled to pins are: Jack La Rue, Ruth Seeley, Arlene Emm, Helen Miller, Arlene Seeburger, and Georgianna Michaud. Kiki ENGLISH Helen Frank Mary H eid Gerlrnde Srnilh l-.l i,l HIS year the English Classes have new prose and poetry books. The English II have the Prose and Poetry of Appreciation. It includes a years work of reading for the student. Prose and Poetry of America is the book used by the English III students. This book is divided into parts for each period of time. It includes the greatest and best known authors and their writings of America. Their reading out of class, covers fiction, biography, and travel. The English IV classes have the prose and poetry of England. The book is divided into four parts, poetry, essay, drama, and the novel. Each part consists of the days from the early ages to the present day in England. The plays read by the class were Macbeth by Shakespeare, and She Stoops to Conquer by Goldsmith. The novel was Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Dramatic Club President ......... Vice-President .... Secretary ....... Treasurer ....... Faculty Adviser ..... HIS year the Dramatic Club boasts 15 members. The following were initiated at the home of Miss Betty Glahn where the Dra- matic Club's annual Christmas party was held. Helen Tooley, Paulette Crane, Jack Pease, Richard Frank, Caroline Beebe, Eleanor Gett- man, and Grant Orman. Among the members who attended were Robert Parsons and Steve Orman, Alumni of Liverpool High School. Other members in- cluded Alice Wright, Beverly Freeman, and Bruce Barton. . . . .Betty Glahn . . . . . .Alice Wright . . .Beverly Freeman . . . . .Bruce Barton . . . .Mary K. Heid In june the annual picnic in the form of a 6 o'clock breakfast was held at Willow Bay. During the course of the picnic Hazel Clay, Francis Clary, Piers VViezel, and Willard Lowe were initiated into the club. The Dramatic Club started off the season by presenting f'The Trysting Place - a one act play by Booth Tarkington at the fall Chorus and Orchestra Recital. During the f1rst semester many assemblies were also presented, chief of which were the Arrnisliee Assembly a pageant Memories of Page N ine

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COMMERCIAL Charles Beahart Jeanette Decker HE COMMERCIAL activities of this year included the District contest which was held in Liverpool on April 22. The commercial department has been doing excellent work this year. BOOKKEEPING-The members of this class worked out a practice set involving the complete bookkeeping and accounting cycle. This cycle teaches the students how a complete set of books should be kept. A bookkeeping team entered the district con- test, with the members of the team also entering as individuals. SHORTHAND-The shorthand I class and the advanced classes have been doing regular shorthand work consisting of dictation and transcription. Some of the shorthand I class can take dictation at sixty words a minute, while the advanced class can take dictation at one hundred words per minute. Both classes entered teams and indivudals in the district COI1tCSt. SECRETARIAL PRACTICE - Secretarial Practice is a class in which former shorthand and typewriting students get a finishing course in stenographic and office work. It is organized in such a way that much practical work is com- pleted by June. Students have had assignments in filing, mailing list work, and mimeographing. A large amount of material was rnimeographed for the Liverpool Garden Club during the year, for which the members of the class cut the stencils. They completed the whole project with practically no supervision. Work was also done for the Liverpool Rod and Gun Club, the Liverpool Lodge F. and A. M., and a number of other organizations who sub- mitted material. For further study, they accomplished a great deal in building a complete mailing list for the Department of Business Education of the Na- tional Education Association. Letters were mimeographed and envelopes typed for several mailings. The secretarial practice class includes: Georgi- anna Michaud, Ruth Seeley, Helen Miller, Marcia Therre, Sophie Gapski, and Geraldine Sharpe. Elizabeth Barrett and Arlene Emm assisted in much of this work, thus learning how to do most of the important types of work in a business office. TYPEWRITING-Both a team and individ- uals were entered in the district contest from this class. The typing class was large this year with a student at every typewriter. Several models of typewriters are used by the students so that they can become familiar with the differ- ent makes of machines. COMMERCIAL ARITHMETIC-This sub- ject gives the student the business arithmetic he will need in his business life. It is con- sidered hard by many students but it is needed for quick calculation. INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS - This subject gives the students an idea of every phrase in business, the problems that may arise and how to take care of them. They learn about modern transportation and communication, how business mailing is handled and the proper use of bonds, stocks, drafts of all kinds and checks. -l- Commercial Club President ................ Georgianna Michaud Vice-President .... Secretary ...... Treasurer ....... Faculty Adviser .... Page Eight ..........RuthSeeley . . . , .Arlene Emm .......jackLaRue . . . .Jeannette Decker

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1918 and the Christmas Assembly which con- sisted of a one act play, a group of readings and a series of musical tableaux depicting the nativity. Betty Glahn gave a football reacling'l'Scuse Me Please at the A.C.H.S.A.A. Banquet held at Liverpool in November. In February the junior High School presented a joint Lincoln and Washington Assembly. In March the American Legion l'Americanism Prize Speaking Contest was held and from among the following contestants Paulette Crane, Alice VVright, Robert Dingman, Bruce Warnerg jack Pease was chosen to represent the school at the County Contest. ln March, also, the Annual Senior Play was held and was a great success-The cast of Meet The Duchess a story of Hollywood and the movies included Alice Wright, Betty Glahn, Eleanor Gettman, Betty Barrett, Hazel Clay, Paulette Crane, Helen Tooley, Piers Wiezel, jack Pease, Willard Lowe and Francis Clarey. In May the Dramatic Club sponsored the May Festival and Revue of 1939. Helen Tooley was elected Queen of Festival by L. H. S. student body. The program consisted of a one-act play 'lThe King's English and a series of skits, readings, a tap dance and a musical number. The finale in which 150 school children sang God Bless America will not quickly be forgotten by the audience. Bruce Warner represented the school when he read poem 'lWhere But Here! A patriotic reading at the Memorial Day exercises in John- son Park. As this goes to print, work is being started on the Commencement Program which we hope will be the biggest and best ever and a fitting climax to a busy year. - - journalism Club Editor-i1i- Chief .......... ..,.. M arjorie Goudy Grade News Editor ..,. ..... M ildred Newton llflariagirtg Editor .,... .... H elen Kingsley News Editor ....... ..... E thel Yehle Sports Editor ..... .......... -I ack Pease Social Editor ..... .... I eanette Burdick Typing Manager .... .... P aulette Crane Faculty Adviser ...... ........ H elen Frank OVEMBER 18, 1938 was an important day for journalistically inclined students of Liverpool High School because it was the day on which our first Journalism Club meeting was held. At 8:30 A. M. thirty students from the junior and senior classes all of whom were interested met in room 309 for their first journalism club meeting. Miss Frank spoke on The Writing of Articles for School Newspapers. From that time until now the journalism club has been and probably will be for many years to come the favorite school activity for many of the students of L. H. S. As the Journalism club went onward it was elaborated on greatly. It was decided that at every other meeting there was to be a speaker on some subject connected with Journalism. This proved to be a very great help to the members in Page Ten writing up their assignments, later a system of dues was decided upon for the purposes of buying club pins for the members who had earned them. All these and many more changes made the journalism club what it is today, a group of 27 students each of whom have an assignment that they write up each week. The success of the Journalism club for the past year was due largely to the excellent cooperation of the following members: Paulette Crane, Ruth Seeley, Frances Scanlon, Alta Evans, Betty Glahn, Marjory Cvoudy, Mildred Newton, Jeanne Stier, Helen Tooley, Ethel Yehle, Helen Kings- ley, Caroline Beebe, Alice Wright, Florence Mc Ardell, Peggy Bittle, Ruth Fath, jean Stockham, Alice Richardson, Mary jane Hiller, Georgiana Michaud, William Cory, jack Pease, Evelyn Nichols, Betty Barrette, David Henes, Robert Dingman, Jeanette Burdick, and also to our faculty adviser, Miss Frank.