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

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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.

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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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HTHLETICS