Mahopac High School - Wampum Yearbook (Mahopac, NY)

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ONT PiEeAlin HE Radio-Drama Workshop has gone on to newer heights. Under the able cuidance of Mr. Towey, directors, as well as Thespians budded. At Christ- mas Dickens’ “Christmas Carol” came over the broadcasting sys- tem to students and later to a P.T.A. meeting. In the spring the stage-minded enjoyed “Life With Father’ in New York. ONES Gai aL NES ONS innovation in Junior Class proceedings brought the Workshop into the limelight. With the Juniors, they presented the annual one-act play contest. The combined casts produced, under Mr. Towey s harried but capable direction, “Who Gets the Car Tonight?’ a farce: “Winter Sunset’, a melodrama: “Grandma Pulls the Strings another comedy; and “The Inn of Return”. a mystery drama and the winner. CAMERA GIG fees My.) Cums ningham or some of his “shutterbugs , are trying to get different and better snapshots. Good pictures resulted as the members learned developing and printing of films, and enlarging and mounting of prints. Some worked on portraits, oil and water coloring, toning and still-life pho- tography. With this knowledge, a few camera enthusiasts helped Mr. Cunningham provide pic- ? tures for “The Wampum :

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Notes To Yo u year that Director DeVries, and his choral group of forty members go to Haldane for the annual concert. There upon the stage, you will see sopranos, altos, tenors, and bases, from schools throughout the county, combined to entertain through song. These extra-curricular musical organizations are the out-growth of the musical program of the school. From the kindergarten, where our youngest have a thythm band, through the high school, which has classes in music theory, the boys and girls have singing periods, as well as instruction on instruments of teir choice. In some instances, students learn to play instruments, which they ordinarily would not buy themselves, when the school purchases them to augment the band. Biel) ON

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FOURTH ES bawae ya OU want to subscribe to THE -MAHOPACK- AGE, dont you? Throughout the year a willing staff of re- porters, typists, and cartoonists diligently labored to give the Mahopac students a paper, com- ing out each week on Friday, worthy of their support. Ted Curry guided these “fourth es- taters half the year, and Anne Aulbach the remaining time, with the capable advice of Miss Uelzmann. CAIRIESy RESERVE REE, lancers are they — all baking delicious cakes, dye- ing scarves, making Christmas baskets, going roller skating — what more could one ask? The Girls’ Reserve’, who have as advisor, Miss Bryan, runs the gauntlet of activities and does a grand job, as results show. The meetings are always held in the homemaking room where varied desires are fulfilled. HLWIDE AND... HE Hi-Y started out with twenty-six members who en- joyed the Army-Brown game at West Point. They again held a successful triple-header basket- ball game. As their latest project, they drew up a constitution. Note, please, that most members and the adviser excel in many sports; but what makes them really different is meeting every other Monday night. Yes, they re really ‘‘tops’’.