Martin Van Buren High School - Futura Yearbook (Queens Village, NY)

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ln Martin Van Buren High School, the senior year is always a happy musical one. From the tuneful groans of those who are preparing for the final examination of their music cycle, to the memorable performances of the white-sweatered and emblemued Senior Chorus and Senior Orchestra and Band, music is strongly influential in our school life. lt is consistently developing new facets in our school. Establishing a precedent, this year's Senior Show is under the co-operative direction of the Music Department and the Speech Department. There are now two theory classes as well as two new teachers, Miss Faye Levine and Mr. Irene. Van Buren has sent performing groups to the Annex, various other high schools, and to the Bell Park Jewish Center to entertain our community's senior citizens. Many Van Buren students have been inspired by professional musical presentations which they attended through the assist- ance of the Music Department. Yet these many activities did not dim the traditional highlights of the musical calendar -the festive Christmas program or the ioyful welcome to the season, the Spring Concert. Over six hundred students in the Senior Chorus, Junior Chorus, Girls' Chorus, Orchestra and Band played a part in these shows. They were overwhelming successes that garnered the delighted support of the entire school. If there was a song in our heart during the senior year, the music department and the music students of Van Buren did much to put it there. F-7

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BEN FRANKLIN To foster and perpetuate the ideals of Beniamin Franklin. This is the motto of Van Buren's Ben Franklin Club. The Club's members try to live up to their motto by holding regular meetings at which additional instruction and plans for the future are discussed. The Ben Franklin Club performs a great service for the school by printing up many of the forms and papers necessary in an educational institution such as Van Buren. The officers for the Spring term of 1963 are: Douglas Abbes, President, Gerald Nacheman, Vice- President, Terry Nahlik, Secretary, Hayro Ayvazyan, Treasurer, and Sheldon Forman, Historian. ln April of this year the Ben Franklin Club took a trip to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. This trip helped all the members to gain a better under- standing of the life and work of Beniamin Franklin. l. X JR. RED CROSS Mrs. Wirth, the faculty advisor of the Junior Red Cross in Martin Van Buren, explained there are two general fund raising periods, one is the Christmas- New Year Season and the other is in March, which is designated as Red Cross Month. The thirty-five members of the Red Cross Club, besides their other activities, such as making articles for hospitals, decorating the hospitals for special events, and becoming general volunteers, have be- gun work on a scrapbook which is to be sent to a sister school in Japan. Red Cross service is not confined to winter activi- ties. Its extensive summer program includes hospital, playground and blood bank work. The representa- tives, of which Martin Van Buren has four, to the City Red Cross Council participate in these programs as well as special ones such as presenting plays to be given at different hospitals.

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