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

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SUB-FRESHMEN First Term Second Term Robert Myers President Carlo Howden Albert McDonald V ice-President Albert McDonald 1061 Halop Secretary Ted Basil Harold WVetter . Harold Vtletter Karl Schenzer Student Council Owen Ancheu The sub-freshmen were extremely active all year. That is normal, the sub-freshmen of McBurney have been noted for years for that quality. In October the section organized itself into a soccer team, every boy o11 the roster took part in the project, and each one played at some time during the season. Of the nine games played, McBurney won three, lost four, and tied two. When the soccer season ended, the basketball season began. Here again the entire sec- tion entered into the game. On Parents- Alunmi Night, the team met the pick of the Lower School boysg the Subfreshmen won. When the students returned from Easter recess, the baseball season started. The first game was lost to Riverdale, io-5. The following day the boys met the Pro- fessional Children's team. They almost won, being edged out in the seventh inning, 11-10. St. Thomas drubbed the team in its third game, 16-4. Buckley re- peated the drubbing in the next game, de- feating McBurney 13-4. The low point of the season was the game with Barnard, lost by the Sub-freshmen, 12-o. Trinity then won the next game 18-3. This was too much, and the team members re- solved to salvage something from the wreckage of the season. They tied Staten Island Day School in the next game, 9-9. Then in one wild spree, getting revenge for all of the defeats of the season, the boys rose up and slugged the ball all over the field, defeating Cathedral Choir 26-17. The sub-freshman exhibit for Parents- Alumni was one of the best in the school. The high points of this exhibit were oil paintings by Donald Wittenberg and rail- road models by Don Smithers. In the academic contests, Trafford Allpass, Owen Anchell, Carlo Howden. Philip Cambridge, Harold Wetter, and Herbert Burkard made the finals of various con- tests. Herbert Burkard was elected to the Key Club and inducted at the Clubs Banquet. The boys of the section are looking forward to next term, when, as ninth graders, they will be an important part of MeBurney's Upper School.

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F RESHMAN B First Term President William Fitzpatrick Vice-President lohn Hordyk Secretary Marco Clayton Student' Council Samuel Harwood The boys of Freshman B section en- tered McBurney last fall. For several months while they were becoming ac- customed to the new environment, they were not too active in the extra-curricular activities of the school. Once acclimated, however, they began to do things. During the spring the section came forward rapidly in the Interclass Athletics com- petition, finishing the year in second place, behind the Sophomores, who had built up a big lead last fall, but far ahead of the rest of the sections. VVilliam Fitzpatrick and Sam Harwood were the sparkplugs of most of the sec- tion teams. ln addition William was the second highest scorer on the Pony Basketball team and won a varsity letter in track, making himself the lirst mem- ber of the section to become an M Club- ber. Samuel Harwood tried to make the varsity football team last fall, but his greatest success was with the academics. He won the 'ATime Current Affairs Test in the freshman class and became the sec- tion's first representative in the Scroll Club. Here he was joined by Iohn Hor- l FRESHMAN c Second Term Second Term VVilliam Fitzpatrick George Eggert Samuel Harwood Marshall Grimm Marco Clayton Hubert Girard Iohn Hordyk George Eggert dyk, who played several minor parts in McBurney's production of The Taming of the Shrew . Constantino Lantzounis worked seriously all year in the coat room, for his willing service he was awarded a Service Ring on Recognition Day. VValter Donahue, who is the section's third repre- sentative in the Scroll Club, won the honor through his activity in dramaticsg he played one of the major roles, Tranio, in The Taming of the Shrew. Iohn Hordyk, Marco Clayton, and john Wor- rell won shop certificates, while Vincent D'Agostino and Iohn Munro were awarded recognition for improvement in shop. In February a new section, Freshman C, was organized for the students who had entered McBurney at midyear. The members of the section concentrated on their studies, 2596 of the class making the Honor Roll against 521 for the rest of the school and Cameron Hopper be- coming a member of the Key Club. In addition, Cameron made the iinals of the Declamation Contest, and Nathan Reed was in thc Extemporaneous Finals.

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LOWER SCHOOL First Term Second Term Allen Martell President Robert Merz Anthony Montana Vice President Eric Dunn Iohn Seibold Secretary Iohn Seibold David Adams . Allen Martell . S d C Robert Smith tu em OUHC11 Anthony Montana Eric Dunn Athletic llffanagcr Richard DeV0e The forty-seven Lower School boys en- joyed a full school year purposely de- signed through a Balanced Living pro- gram. Among the interesting activities were such highlights as the Variety Show, Ilalloween, Christmas, and Farewell Parties, Parent-Alunmi Night, Annual Outing and Field Day at Indian Point, VVashingt0n, D. C., Trip, Virginia Trip, Recognition Day with the awarding of prizes. On this occasion Ross Giese of the seventh grade was awarded the highest honor bestowed by the school, namely, the coveted gold McBurney Scholarship medal. The silver and bronze scholarship medals went to Iohn Seibold, of the seventh grade, and Frederick VValz, of the fifth grade. The All-round hIcBurn- eian award for excellence of character, scholarship, and athletics was won by Raymond Burbank of the sixth grade. The Host Improved hIcBurneian prize was earned by lay Gummersbach, of thc sev- enth grade, and the Courtesy Award was won by loseph Blanco, of the seventh grade. The Lower School voted Eric Dunn The Most Popular Boy. During the year the ever popular Wed- nesday Trips included supervised visits to The Lighthouse, the New York As- sociation for the Blind, Zoos, Museum of the City of New York, The Museum of Natural History, the Hayden Planetar- ium, the Museum of Science and In- dustry, The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Span- ish Museum, The Museum of the Ameri- can Indian, The Mechanex Illustrated Show at Madison Square Garden, the Stamp Show at Grand Central Palace, The Seamen's House, The Seamen's In- stitute, and the Metropolitan Opera House. These boys excelled in the following special fields: Music-David Adams, Erie Dunn, and Leszek Wachtel, Art-Sven-