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

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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

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1 1 STUDENT COUNCIL This yecir's STudenT Council proved To be one of The mosT ocfive McBurney hos yeT seen. The elecTions of The firsT Term elevofed Byron Anderson To The covefed presidency ofTer o long, hord boTTle. Dur- ing his odminisTroTion The STudenT Council firsT disTinguished iTself by presenTing o very successful donce. LoTer come The Y Drive, in which The school wenT over iTs unprecedenfed quoTo oT 51,200 by more Thon 5700. This conspicuous Triumph wos broughT obouf moinly Through compeTiTion omong The secfions. The highesT percenToge wos ThoT of The Sub-freshmen, who obTciined 338 percenT of Their quoTo, or 5287. Middle B wos second wiTh 284 percenT, followed by Senior A wiTh 200 percent Sophomore I, 148 percent Speciol A, 147 percent The Lower School, 130 percent Freshmen 1, 114 percent Middle A, 101 percent ond Freshmen ll, 88 percenT. Morch broughf The elecTions for The Spring Term, ond Henry Boron wos vicTor. Only Three bo11oTs were required for Boron To poll 138 voTes, The exocT number re- quired. AlThough Flonk Boron's reign wos unusuolly shorT due To The elecTion being posTponed so long, iT wos chorocTerized by much ocTiviTy. One of The firsT meos- ures considered ond puT Through under his direcTion wos o mofion creoTing o STudenT CourT, mode up of The heods of eoch of The school clubs ond orgonizoTions. Led by boTh presidenTs, This yeor's Red Cross Drive wos corried Through To o very successful close when The school wenT over iTs quoTo wiTh oi grand ToTol of 5423.60, divided omong The secfions os follows: Middle B, 5136.603 Lower School, 5107.111 Freshmen 1, 532.827 Senior A-B, 521.001 Sub-freshmen, 519.261 Middle A, 515.85: Sophomore 1, 515.353 Freshmen ll, 513.113 Sophomore II, 512.45. Oufside confribu- Tions omounTed To 55000. The finol drive of The yeor, The SevenTh Wor Loon, ended in onoTher Triumph. Under The direcTion of ErnesT Cupo, The school exceeded iTs quoTo of 510,000 by severol Thousond dollors.