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

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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.

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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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KEY CLUB There are Two qualiTicaTions Tor member- ship in The Key Club. The TirsT is inTelli' genceg The second, applicaTion To sTudies. All McBurneyiTes possess The TirsT qualiTica- Tion, buT only a score can claim The sec- ond. Thus is iT ThaT less Than Ten percenT oT The enrollmenT Tinds iTs way onTo The Honor Roll and Trom There inTo The Key Club. These are The boys who ranked high in all OT Their sTudies, They deserve crediT, Tor mosT oT Them worked harder Than even The boys on The basl4eTball squad To aTTain This honor. LAMP AND LAUREL sociETY The Lamp and Laurel SocieTy, The meme bership oT which comprises The cream oT The McBurneyiTes, Tinished The year wiTh iTs regular quoTa oT Twelve members, who were voTed in by The FaculTy and insTalled aT The Annual Clubs BanqueT on May 25. ACADEMIC The TighT Tor The Academic Plaque, awarded To The class scoring The greaTesT number oT poinTs in The academic con- TesTs, opened This year in OcTober wiTh The Spelling ConTesT. The columns oT The Times and The Herald Tribune were searched Tor words To down McBurney's spellers, louT The Times and The Herald Tribune Tailed. Mr. Hemenway provided such words as misogynisT and Tacilely. When The clouds oT The baTTle had cleared, RoberT Baurle was TirsTg Daniel Finn, sec- ond: and Rudolph Hirsch ,Third. The nexT round in The baTTle oT The secTions was The vocabulary TesT. The Juniors were quiclcly cuT down in This baTTle: The winners being Ted WolTT, TirsTg Richard Graham, second: and Miclcey Duerr, a Freshman, Third. The nexT baTTle Tor The plaque was a vocal one. ln a harmonious ending The Lower School yodeled iTs way inTo TirsT place, Middle B Took second, and The Freshmen came in Third. NexT came The baTTle of The salesmen. wiTh each super-salesman Trying To con- vince The school ThaT Tor pure, unadulTer- aTed reading enioymenT, The book ThaT he was plugging was The besT. Norman Klein resorTed To pulling a lcniTe and a baTTle oT poison Trom his poclceT To empha- size his poinTs. He didn'T TrighTen The