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

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CONTESTS judges, alThough he did place second. lErnesT Cupo won The conTesT, and Ted WolTT placed Third. The greaT explorers nexT Tool: The sTage, To enlighTen The school on The mysTeries oT The EasT. David Davis, The basso Tram CaliTornia, gave an inTeresTing and learn- ed discourse on The Chinese language, in TacT, David delivered much oT his Tallc in Chinese. He won The baTTlep ErnesT Cupo and Neil DiGiacomo placed sec- ond, and Leon Spolianslqy came in Third. The Hobby Tallcs were noTable because The TirsT speller oT The school repeaTed his Triumph. RoberT Baurle held TorTh aT greaT lengTh on The pleasures oT Tresh waTer Tishing. ErnesT Cupo was second wiTh a Tallc on roclcs, and a Sub-Treshman, Layson, won Third wiTh a demonsTraTion oT magic. The baTTle Tor The plaque came To an end wiTh The ExTemporaneous Speaking ConTesT. ln This conTesT The spealcers are given a Topic Talcen Trom The morning paper and are Told To Tallc Tor Two min- uTes on iT. David Davis repeaTed his Tri- umph oT lasT year. Loren Seeley placed second and SeTh Morrison Third. ATTer The'shouTing and The TumulT had died, iT was discovered ThaT The Juniors had won The plaque by a wide margin. The Seniors were The runnersup, and The Soph- omores came in Third. SCROLL CLUB The Scroll Club now boasTs The largesT membership in iTs hisTory, sevenTy-Three members, sevenTeen oT whom possess Sil- ver Scrolls Tor excepTional service. Three Gold Scrolls were awarded dT The Clubs BanqueT, To Byron Anderson, Henry Baron, and lan Nemlich. The awarding oT Three Gold Scrolls in one year is worThy oT noTe, Tor The Gold Scroll in iTs sphere is as ex- cepTional as The Congressional Medal oT Honor in iTs. ACADEMIC COUNCIL The Academic Council, made up oT The presidenTs OT The various academic clubs and organizaTions, had iTs usual business To TransacT during The year. ThirTy-Tour new members were elecTed To The Scroll Club. The eighT academic conTesTs ThaT were held absorbed The inTeresT oT The sTudenT body during much OT The school year.

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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

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-if 451 PINGPONG This year There was no oTTicial pingpong Team aT McBurney. ThaT does noT mean, however, ThaT The game was neglecTed. Day aTTer day, during lunch hour and Tram Three unTil Tive, The Tables in The Pingpong Room resounded To The ping oT The balls. Since no compeTiTion was ar- ranged, iT is impossible To name The besT players. CHESS The chess Team, Thanks To The able TuTor- ing aT Mr. Weeks, ended The season wiTh a record aT Tour maTches won and Three losT. The chessplayers opened The season auspiciously by deTeaTing Columbia Grame mar 3-l, Jacobs, RucksTuhl, and Kennedy winning Their games, They pulled Through againsT Regis, 2lf2fllf2, Jacobs and Ruckf sTuhl winning and Kennedy Tying. DisasTer overTook Them in The TriniTy maTch. Cnly Barry, who had suTTered deTeaT in The pre' vious maTches, won, and The Team losT, 3fl. The nexT maTch was a disappainTmenT when Riverdale TorTeiTed. FieldsTon, The nexT op- ponenT, was deTeaTed 3fl, Jacobs, Ruck- sTuhl, and Kennedy again winning. This was one oT The hardesT ToughT maTches in McBurney's hisTory. The maTch againsT l-Torace Mann ended in a 3lf2-V2 deTeaT3 RucksTuhl managed To Tie his game buT The oTher players losT. The Tinal maTch, againsT Franklin, was a disappoinTmenT also. Jacobs won and Barry Tied, buT RucksTuhl and Kennedy losT, giving The maTch To Franklin, ZVQATVQ. In The individuals, sponsored by The Chess AssociaTion aT PrivaTe Schools, Bob Barry held his own unTil The semi-Tinals, where he was deTeaTed by Kurchmeyer, l-lorace Mann's sTar.