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

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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.

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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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DRAMATIC CLUB The DramaTic Club has been more ac- Tive This year Than in many years pasT. The direcTion oT drarnaTics was Talcen over by Mr. LiggeTT aTTer Mr. l-lall leTT. The club was very successTul as shown by iTs Tour hiTs: Yes Means No, Kiss The STar, Banquo's Chair, and The Name is John- sTon. The club increased iTs membership This year To a Tull TwenTy-Tive sTudenTs. William Behrens was presidenT The TirsT Term, and RoberT Baurle, The second. Yes Means No was a Tarce given Tor The sTudenTs in assembly, lTs casT included: Ted VVolTT, Cverry McCoy, Charles Foley, Buddy Pomeranz, and Guy STrauss. For The ChrisTmas Play The club pro- duced Kiss The STor. William RuclcsTuhl, RoberT Baurle, Neil DiGiacomo, Ted WolTT, Guy STrauss and Leon Spoliansky made up The casT. Musical numbers were provided by The Upper School Glee Club, The or- chesTra, and The Lower School carolers. A dance Tollowed The play. The annual Senior Play was a mysTery enTiTled, Bcnquo's Chair. lT was presenTed Tor The parenTs on Two evenings: and was Tollowed by The Junior Play, The Name is JohnsTon. Dances were held on boTh eve- nings. Those Talcing parT in The Senior Play were: William MarTin, ArThur STein, Ted WolTT, l-lalsey Cook, James Colaneri, Rob- erT Loriclc AI WaTl4ins, and Leon Spolian- sky. Members oT The Junior Play's casT were: AlTred T'laclc, Donald Hengeveld, RoberT Baurle, Neil DiGiacomo, William Peniche, and Norman Klein.