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

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PANORAMA Sounds oT violenT commoTion ond greoT conTusion down The second Tloor holl ore o sure sign ThoT Ponoromo, McBurney's liTerory mogozine, is in The molcing. BUT somehow, clespiTe all The conTusion, Pono- romo's sToTT hos succeeded in puTTing ouT Two regulor issues ond o lqingsize one. The TirsT issue, WinTer I944, lediTor, Doniel GoodsTeinl come Through wiTh severol ouT- sTonding TeoTures, including Mrs, O'- l.eory's Cow, River's End, ond Rip Von Crusoe. The second issue, Spring l945, lediTor, SeTh Morrisonl wos excep- Tionol Tor iTs mony colorTul ond inTeresTing illusTrc1Tions bylulion Luyloc. Among The ouT- sTonding Te-oTures were Dovid Dovis's Deer l-lunTing, lwiTh excellenT illusTro- Tionsl, The Frigc1Te ConsTiTuTion by SeTh Morrison, WolTer Ellis' Drugs, Bob Bor- ry's poem, A l.omenT, ond The regulor TeoTure, STephen Jocobs' Ponoromo Puz- zlerf' There hove olwoys been o greoT mony more boys worlcing on Ponoromcs Thon on ony oTher McBurney publicoTion. FurTher- more, Ponoromcfs producTion sToTT corries The worlc TurTher Thon The sToTTs oT The oTher publicoTions. Unlilce oTher sToTTs, Their work is noT Tinished when The loyouT ond dummy hove been ossembled, The Pono- romo sToTT cuTs iTs own sTencils ond does iTs own Typing ond mimeogrophing. Visi- Tors on Alumni NighT were impressed by The demonsTroTion of The ocTuol work oT producing The mogozine. A wide vorieTy oT TeoTures disTinguishes Ponoromo: hobbies, longuoges, poems, sTories, puzzles, eTc. Ponorolmo is The school's chieT ouTleT Tor iTs orTisTic ond liTerory TcllenT. This posT yeor's issues oT Ponoromo hover employed phoTo-oTTseT picTures Tor Their covers. The Tinol issue corried o picTure oT Orin Smoll in boTTing procTise os o cover. IT olso conToined biographies oT The members oT The Lomp ond Lourel SocieTy. Chorles Hughes' poem, Ten poges in lengTh, oTTrocTed much oT- TenTiong The sTudenTs never guessed ThoT They had such on ouThor in Their midsT. IT wos o busy yeor Tor Pcnoromo buT o highly successTul one.

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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.

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McBURNEIAN The sTudenTs' newspaper aT McBurney is The monThly McBurneian. AT The begin- ning oT This year Rudolph Ruibal was The ediTor. ATTer his graduaTion in January, James EbbilTs Toolc over. The associaTe ediTors Tor The year were David Davis, SeTh Morrison, and Charles T-lughes. Dur- ing The Two presidenTial elecTions mimeo- graphed ediTions oT The paper were puT ouT under The direcTion oT Norman Klein. In The middle aT The year The newspaper changed prinTers. James EbbiTTs was re- sponsible Tor This change. Revenue was increased by an excepTional number oT ads, secured Through The Tireless eTTorTs aT The business manager, Byron Anderson. The Two Rogers PeeT conTesTs, The TirsT won by William Sachs and The second by Fred Schneider, highlighTed The adverTising. A new TeaTure in The paper was an in- Terview column on Timely subiecTs enTiTled, Now l Think .... T' The McBurneian STaTT was highly elaTed when iT was noTiTied ThaT iT had been awarded second class honors in naTional compeTiTion by The NaTional ScholasTic Press AssociaTion. ln April Charles Hughes was elecTed The new ediTor-in-chieT, and Norman Klein and RoberT Baurle were named as assoe ciaTe ediTors. The newly enlarged sTaTT includes George O'Neill, ErnesT Cupc, William Sachs, Daniel Finn, Fred Weidner, Donald T-lengeveld, and Dean AlTange. These are The sTudenTs whom Mr. Bowman hopes To malce inTo crack iournalislrs.