Lyman Hall High school - Singer Chronicle Yearbook (Wallingford, CT)

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12 THE CHRONICLE On September 1 they went to the state exhibit at Storrs to compete with the best poultry demonstrators from the other seven counties. Here they won first place in the state with a score of ninety-six and one half per cent. The second best was eighty-nine per cent. Realizing their ability, the county club agent asked them to put up a booth at the New Haven Poultry Show on December 3,4, and 5, and sell their drinks. At the Wallingford achievement program held in the Grange Hall. December 31, they again presented their demonstration. Harry and Arthur are planning to attend the World’s Poultry Congress to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, this coming summer. The World’s Poultry Congress is held once every seven years at one of the sixty countries that send exhibits. There are thousands of birds brought from these countries, some of which have never l een seen in the United States before. Six young people’s groups will be represented at the Congress including the Negro 4-H’ers, Boy Scouts, Future Farmers of America, and the regular 4-H group. Connecticut is sending its best demonstration and judging teams. Each county is sending its outstanding boy in poultry club work. lHarry and Arthur have done excellent work individually. This year Arthur at his first try at judging made the junior judging team. I le has bought a 17,900 capacity incubator and is going to hatch eggs for other people. In 1937 Harry made the state senior judging team consisting of three men and an alternate. The team then went to the Northeastern Poultry Producers’ Council held in New York City. In competition with teams from six other states, Connecticut placed second to Maryland, losing by five points. Harry and Arthur are fine examples of the excellent work 1-11 boys are doing in Connecticut and in the whole United States. A Senior STATE HIGHWAY PLANNING SURVEY Mr. Earley has received a letter from tin State Highway Department congratulating him on the fine cooperation Lyman Hall gave in the recent Highway Planning Survey. The results obtained at Lyman Hall High School in connection with this study were r 1 J , ''Vy, and the number of com- pleted interview forms returned exceeded the expectations of the men making the survey. I he representatives expressed their appreciation for the many courtesies accorded them. The students were complimented for the very fine way in which they handled their assignments, and the data that was obtained will very materially aid in helping make the Highway Department Survey a success. 03253164

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THE CHRONICLE 11 OUR BIRDS IN WINTER With snow and winter still with us, it is well to think of the birds that at this time are finding food alarmingly scarce. Some of the birds that stay with us during the winter are the downy woodpecker, the chickadee, the English sparrow, and several kinds of game birds. The seed-eating birds like seeds from different cultivated plants such as asters, California poppies, sunflowers, and forget-me-nots. Many kinds of millet, suet, apples, buckwheat, bread and cracker crumbs, oats, rice, and nuts, especially peanuts, are also attractive to many birds. In various ways this food may be made available for the birds. One of the best ways is to place outside our windows a tray built with a protecting ledge to keep the food from blowing. Coconuts with holes in them, baskets, or cans hanging from trees also serve as good food givers. During the remaining weeks of winter let us remember the birds and their great need for food. Richard Gile, '41 CAMERA CLUB Why doesn’t Lyman Hall have a Camera Club? I f a census were taken of all in our school who are interested in photography, I think that at least fifty students would show more than a slight interest and would like to form a club. In some schools, such as the Meriden Trade School, there are memberships of one hundred or more. If such a club existed at Lyman Hall, all those who are now individually interested in photography would meet regularly to exchange ideas. A detailed study could be made of the lens, shutter operations, diaphram openings, printing, developing, enlarging, special papers, retouching, lighting effects, and other technicalities. Many magazines such as Popular Photography, American Photography, Life, Popular Mechanics, Leica Manual, and Weston Manual are available for forming a library of use to photographers. We hope that very soon we shall have a Camera Club at Lyman Hall so that the amateur photographer will have a chance to become more expert. I quote here an old saying: “Anyone can take a snapshot, but not everyone can take a photograph.’’ William Leibe, ’40 CHAMPIONS “An Egg in Every Drink” was the title of the demonstration that brought fame to Harry Pattee and Arthur Koczak. For the New Haven County 4-H Fair on August 27, 1938, they prepared a poultry demonstration, showing the use of eggs in making good milk drinks. Dressed in white with green 4-H headbands, they presented their demonstration, winning first prize with a score of ninety per cent. Their spotless appearance, originality, and good teamwork rated high in the judges’ scores.

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THE CHRONICLE 13 THE LEGEND OF RUTLAND Bob Johnson, just arriving in Rutland Vermont to spend the week-end with his schoolmate Jack, exclaimed, “W hy, you would never guess that this is the town mentioned in the legend.” “What do you mean?” questioned Jack, somewhat bewildered. “You mean that you've never heard the legend of Rutland?” exclaimed Bob, surprised that he did not know it. “No, 1 haven’t, but I should like to hear about it. “Well,” replied Bob, “I'll tell it.” “Back in the days of Andrew Jackson, Rutland had a country store, where the store-keeper was burdened by the loungers w ho sat around the small wood stove, talked politics, and nibbled at his dried lish, cheese, crackers, maple sugar, and spruce gum. These nibblings were not considered thefts, and the store-keeper didn't mind because to keep even he often added a penny to a bill. “One cold December evening these loungers sal about the stove as usual relating their tales of wonder, with the store-keeper occasionally adding his bit while he kept busy looking over his stock. Soon he observed Ichabod Thompson, a shiftless fellow, slip a pat of butter out of a firkin, take ofF his hat, and while pretending to wipe his forehead, drop the butter into the hat and put it on again. Ichabod strolled before the blanket department, made a casual inquiry about sales, then, turning up his collar, said he must be going. “‘Oh, don't go yet,’said the store-keeper. 'Wait till I've told you what happened to Hank's saw last week.' Not wanting to arouse suspicion, he settled himself again on the box. The store-keeper, piling wood on the stove, lengthened his story until the sides of the stove were red hot. Ichabod became uneasy and kept wiping his forehead with his handkerchief till he remarked