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

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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.

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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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x LOWER SCHOOL FIRST TERM SECOND TERM MICHAEL ARTIST Preside-nT GEORGE O'NEILL JERRY ADELSON Vice-PresicIen+ MICI-IAEL MILLER SPENCER BRUNO SecreTary ALBERT PREYSS This year The Lower School had a very large enrollmenT, 46 boys. Mr. Cole, who had been head oT The Lower School Tor The pasT Ten years, leTT aT midyear To Talce charge oT The Brookside School in New Jersey, I-le was succeeded by Mr. John C. Marlcay, who TaughT previously aT Blair Academy. The smaller McBurneyiTes proved Their worTh by winning The Singing ConTesT, They had one-hundred percenT conTribu- Tion in The Red Cross drive ond The Y.M. C.A, Financial Campaign. They exceeded Their guoTa in borh, and collecTed over Twofhundred dollars Tor The War Fund. They sTaged a vigorous drive Tor cloTh- ing Tor The poverry sTricl4en people In Europe. The boys puT on an exhibiTion Alumni NighT and received much praise Tor Their work. The baseball, bosl4eTball and soccer Teams had one oT Their mosT successTul seasons. They played Their old rivals- Riverdale, Adelphi and Brooklyn Friends. Many oT The boys in The Lower School received leTTers Tor playing on one or more Teams. The Lower School aThleTic supervisors were Guy Loudon, in charge oT swimming, Ray Reid, lan Nemlich, Byron Anderson, Warren, I-Iagberg, WalTer Jones, RoberT Woodhead, and Fred Korner. -l