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

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ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE This year the Assembly Committee, that incubator of future stage directors, was led by Charles Trojahn. Norman Klein was vice-president during the first term. In February, Edmund Trost, who had been stage manager, succeeded him. William Totten took over the stage man- ager's job for the remainder of the year. Many of the assembly programs were devoted to the semi-finals and the finals of the Academic Contests. In addition to these, the committee arranged for the rallies introducing the various drives and for the presentation of numerous educa- tional films. The committee also took care of the scene shifting on the nights of the dramatic club productions, ar- ranged the Little Theatre for the school dances, and managed the staging effects which made Parents-Alumni Night such a signal success. One of the most important functions of the committee was the use and care of the Recordio. With the cooperation of the committee, Mr. Chamberlin and Mr. Liggett had discs made by each boy in their English classes. These discs, given to the students, had much to do with the improved oratory in the school. In addition to the oflicers, William Meeks and William Gatehouse, and the projection crew of Randolph Tyndall, Donald Wittenberg, and Neal Riesner, were very active. Y. M. C. A. FINANCIAL DRIVE Last year McBurney again went over the top in the annual financial drive in support of the New York Y. M. C. A. program. In Ianuary the student commit- tee-Iames Hooper chairman, Iames Lange, and Stewart O'Neil-met with Mr. Chamberlin and arranged the details of the drive. Quotas were assigned to each section, and the race was on. The race was not particularly interest- ing, the Sophomores went ahead in the first days of the campaign and drew fur- ther and further ahead as the days passed. They finally won the drive with 25327 of their quota, the best record in many years. The Lower School took sec- ond place with 14076 of their quota. The winning Sophomore section were taken to a Chicago-Rangers hockey game at Madison Square Gardens as the reward for its line showing in the drive. In all the school collected S2810.00, well over the S1750 quota which was as- signed to it. PARENTS-ALUMNI NIGHT On February zo, the worst snowstorm in five years blew into New York. By the time the snow had stopped falling, three foot drifts blocked the streets. Despite the inclemency of the weather, however, six hundred parents and alumni attended the annual exhibition. The visitors were amply rewarded for their efforts. Mr. Deme staged a diversi- fied show in the North Gym, including wrestling, fencing, boxing, basketball, calisthenics, gymnastics, and tumbling. The highlight of the show was the drill, performed in the dark with only the dumbells, painted in phosphorescent colors, showing. Both the Lower and Up- per Schools demonstrated swimming and diving techniques in the Pompeian Pool. Each classroom contained an exhibit of the students' work. As usual the crowd Hocked to the laboratories ,where a physics-chemistry demonstration was put on by Edward McCluskey, Giulius Ghiron, Robert Hawkinson, Robert Kunkel, Iohn Evanthes, Leon Spoliansky, Guy Strauss, Robert Rundle, William Ruckstuhl, Alan Hays, and Sanford Ho- hauser. Mr. Ingoldsby transferred his reading clinic to the Little Theatre where he showed all of the school's mechanical equipment. The evening ended with dancing in the North Gym. The committee in charge of arrange- ments consisted of Iames Hooper, chair- man, Iames Scott, Edward McCluskey, VVilliam Mitchell, Stanley Erichsen, and William Prager. Charles Trojahn did an efficient piece of work in painting the dumbells, setting up the public address system, and preparing the rooms for the exhibits.

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MCBURNEIAN The NICBURNEIAN this year won its second successive first class award in the National Scholastic Press Association's country wide contest. Editor Klein feels that the school has just cause to feel proud of this record. Besides Norman Klein, Iames Scott fsportsl, Iames Hoop- er, Robert Kunkel fby-linesj, William Peniche Qcolumnistl, and Edward Mc- Cluskey feditorialsj were the students re- sponsible for this high ranking. The advertising manager, William Prager, worked valiantly and well to keep the newspaper solvent. In the advertising contests, sponsored by Rogers Peet, Bruce Wald and Charles Angell won first prizes while Robert Simon received honorable mention. In all, ten issues of the MCBURNEIAN were produced, the most interesting being the Christmas, Parents-Alumni, and Crad- uation issues. All events were completely covered, even the interclass games and the semi-finals of the academic contests. By supporting such extra-curricular activ- ities, and also the dances and the plays, the MCBURNEIAN contributed its share to their success. XVhen May and examinations ap- proached, the Senior members of the staff turned over their offices to the Iuniors who had been elected to replace them. Next year's staff-Richard Ott, editor, Stewart O'Neill, managing editor, VValter Rutherford and Robert McCuigan, assist- ants-are fully capable of carrying on thc RICBURNEIAN tradition. SCROLL CLUB The Scroll Club, organized to take care of the school's academic activities, had an unusually successful year. At the first meeting Iames Hooper was elected presi- dent, and the club was organized for busi- ness. Alan Dirlam was put in charge of the college catalogues, and William Ruckstuhl was appointed to manage the Activity Room. During the year both boys did a splendid job in their departments. Twenty-live members of the club hav- ing graduated in 1946, the membership had fallen to thirty-eight. In its January meeting, the Academic Council, the members of which are the presidents and chairmen of the various student activities, elected thirteen new members. These were inducted at the mid-year recognition day. In May two more meetings of the council were held, at which twelve more boys were rewarded for their efforts during the year by being elected members. These boys received their scrolls on Recognition Day and at the Clubs Banquet. At the end of the term one-quarter of the students of McBurney wore the scroll, the emblem of leadership in academic activities. Twenty McBurneyites had won silver scrolls, and three, Charles Trojahn, Leon Spoliansky, and Iames Hopper, had been honored with gold scrolls. PANORAMA PANORALIA, McBurney's literary inaga- zine, is unique among the school's pub- lications: Mr. Chamberlin, the faculty adviser, has no part in the production ex- cept the proof-reading of the articles. All of the other work, including the printing and binding of the magazine, is done by the members of the staff. During the year, four issues of PANOR- AMA appeared. The fall issue 'was notable for its excellent cover, a drawing of Winston Churchill done by Bruce Church, the art editor. For the winter issue Guy Strauss interviewed Edgar Bergen and obtained several autographed photographs for publication. This issue also contained an interview with Ben Grauer, NBC's special events man. Rob- ert Ranelle, G. I., contributed an interest- ing article to the spring issue. For this one, Guy Strauss interviewed lose Ferrer, who was playing the role of Cyrano de Bergerac on Broadway at the time. The summer PANAORAMA broke away from the unsatisfactory mimeographing process, the new lithograph machine was used for the work. Shaded drawings can be produced on this machine, and paper can be printed on both sides. During the year PANORAINIA acquired a coat of arms and a motto, Ce qui plait est demi-venduf' The staff is proud of the motto. Leon Spoliansky, who directed PANOR- ASIA for two years. graduated in june. The magazine is now in the hands of Francis Pardo, Guy Strauss, Elward Bresett, William VValter, and Bruce Church.