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

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THE ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE To The Assembly CommiTTee Tolls The imporTanT iob aT planning and managing The school's assemblies in The LiTTle TheaTer. AT The TirsT weelcly meeTing aT The year The secTion represenToTives selecTed Fred Weidner, presidenTg Norman Klein, vice president and Ray Reid, secreTory. Mr. lngoldsby again served as TaculTy advisor. When The Spring Term elecTions were held, PresidenT Fred Weidner was elecTed Tor a Third Term, Vice-PresidenT Norman Klein, Tor o second Term: and an addiTional VicevPresidenT, Darel l-liclcs, and a new sec- reTary, Jack STewarT, were named. Some oT The assemblies arranged by The Assembly CommiTTee were: Tallcs by Mr. Funara on Gypsies, Dr. CrampTon on our healTh, Mr. l-losTeTTer OT PraTT lnsTiTuTe on Triclc maTh, a lecTure by ex-guerilla Bill AalTo, on The worlc aT guerillas in This war, an illusTraTed discussion aT The TempesT by Mr. Sam Pearce, and a speech on The Red Cross by Mr. ArThur KosTer. Some OT The many inTeresTing, Timely and inTormaTive moving picTures shown in The Assembly were: Mexican Moods, ForTress oT The Sky, l'STory aT Glass, The Amazon Awalcensf' ComboT Amer- ica and many March oT Time picTures. The commiTTee also managed The pre- senTaTion of a French play, o ChrisTmas ploy, all The dances, a Spelling ConTesT and The ExTemporaneous Speaking Con- TesT. This is iusT a sample oT The TeaThers PresidenT Weidner and his Assembly Com- miTTee have in Their haT. Each TeaTher rep- resenTs a loT oT hard worlc and worry, espe- cially Tor Fred Weidner, who is well lcnown Tor his Theme song, The Troubles llve Seen. During The pasT year The Assembly Com- miTTee has provided McBurney sTudenTs wiTh a diversiTied program in iTs endeavor To give The boys a wider ouTlool4 on world aTTairs .

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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.

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ORCHESTRA When Mr. Arnold puT his golden Trump- eT To his lips ond senT ouT The clorion col? Tor orchesTro members, nine oT The Tolenr- ed sTudenTs OT McBurney onswered. The orchesTro procTised every Tuesdoy ond Fridoy oTTernoon in The lnTernoTionof Room. When The sounds produced were especiolly sweeT, The orchesTro enriched The ossembly progrom wiTh iTs hormony. The moin oppeorcinces oT The orchesTro coincided wiTh The producTions oT The Drc1moTic Club. EovoriTe numbers in The reperToire were: Our DirecTor, Officer of The Day, Wash- ingfon and Lee Swing, Army Air Corps, Anchors Aweigh, and Summi+. The members were: TrumpeT Trombone ClorineT Violin Piono , fEd McClusl4y Fred SchmidT Al BlunT AI l-loclc S Wm. Proger Z Ed l-lowlings S Chorles Hughes 2 Eugene Lukas Eugene PrimoTT GLEE CLUB McBurney's Glee Club boosTs o member- ship oT more Thon TiTTy boys. Reheorsols ore held during sTudy periods oT sTc1Ted Times during The weelc. AT These Times The lnTernc1Tiono1l Room is Tilled wiTh hormony, melody, ond iusT ploin song. The Glee Club oided The DromoTic Club in iTs ChrisTmos progrom, There They song ThoT Tomous number, STouT l'leorTed Men, which will live in The memory oT Those who song iT Torever. The Lower School Glee Club enriched The some pro- grom wiTh cz splendid rendiTion oT mony oT The populor ChrisTmos Corols. NexT yeor The Glee Club hopes To pro- duce some oT The more complex mole chorus numbers.