McBurney School - Lamp and Laurel Yearbook (New York, NY)

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FRESHMEN FROSH I FIRST TERM FROSH II ARTHUR HAWKINS PresidenT WILLIAM REPP MICHAEL DUERR Vice-PresicIenT ROBERT ANNIS SHELDON STILLMAN SecreTary PHILIP DENMAN SECOND TERM AL LEDERKRAMER PresidenT WILLIAM REPP MICHAEL DUERR Vice-PresidenT STEVEN LUKAS SHELDON STILLMAN SecreTary PHILIP DENMAN The Freshman class This year was divided inTo Two secTions. Being onIy Freshmen, The upper cIasses kepT Them in Their place. STiII They Took Their parT in many oT The academic and aThIeTic aTiviTies oT The school. LasT TaII, aT Pelham Bay Park, The Freshmen came in Third, missing second pIace by only Two poinTs. They ToughT hard unTiI The IasT race. On Freshman Day, Thanks To The boxing oT Henry Haske and ErnesT TaroT, The Freshmen came very cIose To beaTing The Sophs in Their Tradi- Tional conTesTs. The Freshmen IecI The school in inferclass acTiviTies, compeTing, Frosh I againsT Frosh II, in many sporTs. Mickey Duerr led The class in academic acTiviTies, placing Third in The VocabuIary f. ConTesT and TiTTh ii? The Times CurrenT EvenTs TesT. Kolya Cadden and ArThur Haw- kins were in The TinaIs oT The Book MarT. ArThur Hawkins and Edwin ThoeT were in The Hobby TaIks Tinals. Mickey Duerr, Ed- win ThoeT, and David Knickerbocker were in The Tinals oT The DecIamaTion ConTesT. The Freshmen did well in The Red Cross and The Y Drives and Ied The school in The saIe oT War STamps. The Freshmen are now weII represenTed in The M Club, The Scroll Ciub, and The Key Club, and are Iooking Torward To nexT year when They will have a greaTer voice in The aTTairs aT McBurney. The Fresh- men can do iT, and They will.

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SOPHOMORES SOPH I FIRST TERM SOPH II LEON SPOLIANSKY PresidenT JOHN LANGE JAMES HOOPER Vice-Presidenf EUGENE RENNER KENNETH BRIDGES SecreTcry BRYANT HOPPER SECOND TERM JAMES HOOPER PresidenT EUGENE RENNER JAMES SCOTT Vice-Presideni' JOHN LANGE ALFRED FREY SecreTory LJWE THEDEN The Two Sophomore secTions which sprong Trom The single Freshmen closs oT losT yeor hove corriecl on The sTo1ndords seT during The previous semesTers in The ciThleTic, ocodemic ond scholosTic c1cTivi- Ties oT The school. John Longe wos The ouTsToncling oThIeTe becouse oT his porTicipoTion in Three oT McBurney's mosT populor sporTs, boseboll, boskeTboll, ond TooTboll. He olso oTToined individuel honor by conTribuTing his shore Towords The winning oT The A.A.P.S. Volley Bell TournomenT. Besides John Longe There were o number oT oTher Sophs who Tigurecl highly in A.A.P.S. conTesTs. The Sophomore boys noT only c1TToined oThleTic meriT os inclividuols buT olso proved Their obiliTy To work os o Teom when They vicToriously leTT The ring oTTer Thoroughly Trouncing The Freshmen during The TrodiTionol Freshmon Doy iniTioTion conTesTs. This wos Their second vicTory oT The lcincl Tor The Sophs, os Freshmen, beoT The Sophomores in lc1sT yeor's conTesT. Turning Trom The Tield OT oThleTics, one con Tind o lorge number oT Sophs on The rosTer oT The Scroll Club. A lorge percenT- oge oT These renderecl service To The school in Tive or more seporoTe orgonizoe Tions. AT The TerminoTion OT The I944-l945 school yeor The Sophomore Closs will be oble To Tolce iTs ploce wiTh The oTher greoT clcisses oT McBurney, righTTully knowing ThoT iT clid iTs porT To bring The seoson To o successTul close.

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SUB-FRESHMEN FIRST TERM SECOND TERM RONALD ROGERS Presideni' STEWART O'NEILL STEWART O'NEILL Vice-PresidenT ELWARD BRESETT THOMAS l-IULBECK SecreTcry RONALD ROGERS This year's Sub-Treshman class has done more Than any oT iTs predecessors To make The upper classmen recognize ThaT iT is a valuable parT oT The Upper School. The big evenT oT The year was The win- ning oT The Y Drive. The Sub-Treshmen broughT in 3381, oT Their quoTa, and won easily, alThough Middle B conTesTed The drive wiTh Them up To The lasT minuTe. Every member oT The group conTribuTed. IT was The TirsT secTion To achieve The one hundred percenT conTribuTion goal. Because They won The drive, The group was Taken To Madison Square Garden To see a hockey game. The class was very acTive in academics, placing boys in The Tinals oT mosT oT Them. One boy enTered The Scroll Club, an unusual honor Tor a Sub- Treshman. ThaT boy was Edgar Allen. STewarT O'Neill and Elward BreseTT en- Tered The Key Club. No Sub-Treshman won an M This year, buT The class was very acTive in pony aTh- leTics. They are The McBurney aThleTes oT The coming years, AT The beginning oT The second Term, The group was increased by The addiTion oT ThirTeen new boys. Mr. Arnold replaced Mr. lngoldsby as The TaculTy adviser. NexT year The Sub-Treshmen expeci' To become The mosT acTive Freshman class The school has ever known. Look ouT, Sophs, Freshman Day is coming.