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

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THE LAMP amz! LAUREL 1947 Published by the Senior Cliiss of McBurncy School l'iclitor-in-chief ...,.. Business lXlllll2lgCl' Aclvcrtisiiig hlziiiii get Sports liclitor ............., :Xciulcniics lfclitor john l'lX'lllIflICS Stcwzlrt O'Ncill Leon Spoliunsky Charles 'lroialin XVilliiuu Repp Iinucs Scott Richiucl lfjelcl Sznuucl llgiryyoocl S'l'Al I luck Stewart lliirolcl XVetter Richiucl Ott licliuuncl 'l'rost XYilliiuu Ruclcstuhl Louis bluccclli Bruce Church Boyd Mason l'l2lCllliy Aclyiscr ,.t,. ,....,.......,,.......,............... ,.,.....l'iclyyz1rcl lXlcCluskcy Wlirreu Lutz Robert Iliuykinsou Robert Uttcrbourg Randolph Tyudiill Robert Kunkel George O'Neill lliiyues Iohusou lereiuy Felt Noriuzin Klein Vtliltcr Rutherford Arthur llayykius Phil Ciuubriclge S. Llggctt Pliotogmpliy by Dclinzi Studios lffiigrziyiiig by Scientific lfiigrqivnzg Conipiuiy Printing by Abbey Printing Coinpiniy

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ACADEMIC CONTESTS Last year McBurney completed its full roster of acamedic contests, seven speak- ing contests, one essay contest, a current affairs contest, a math contest, and the three activity room contests. The season started with spelling. Be- fore a packed auditorium, Giulius Chiron outlasted Edward Carson to win, Christ- ian Raffalli came in third. In the Hobby Talks, the second contest, Christian Rafialli won with a talk on throwingknives, Bernard Sohn and Robert Simon, both of whom talked on photography, took second and third. In the Book Mart, Ieremy Felt, who had taken four third places in 1946- 47, came into his own and won with a talk on Walden , Peter Iones, who was second, discussed Shaw, and William Walter, third, sold the audience a cook book. In the Vocabulary Contest, An- thony Kelly defined the word that Robert Kunkel missed and was awarded first place, Iames Scott placed third. In the Oratorical Contest more spirited speech was thrown at the audience than Mc- Burney has heard for some time. Charles Angell, short on argument but long on emotion, won with an impassioned de- nunciation of the use of the veto in the United Nations. Ieremy Felt was second, and Guy Strauss, third. The Declamation Contest, restricted to the three lower classes, was won by Bruce Wald, Alfred Killerman was second with The Congo , and George Kinnell was third with Ulysses . The last of the speaking con- tests, that tour de force known as the Extemporaneous Contest, in which the contestants have two minutes in which to make up a two minute speech on a sub- ject selected by lot from the morning newspaper, was won by Ieremy Felt, with Iefi Colby second, and Robert Kunkel third. In this contest only one boy of the twenty finalists failed to talk the required time. The writing contests are less spectacular than the speaking ones-there is no audi- ence, no applause-but they are equally important. Lewis Hill, a Sophomore, won the Essay Contest, with Christian Raf- falli second and Alan Dirlam third. The Math Contest was won by Edward Mc- Cluskey and Iames Heineman. Arthur Hawkins topped the Pegity Ladder, Roger Carasso finished the year as the best chess player, and William Ruckstuhl, beaten by Roger at chess, gained the leadership in checkers. ln the competition for the Academic Plaque, the winning of which is the aim of the academic contests, the Seniors started out with an early lead. They in- creased this with each contest, until they had built up a commanding lead of sixty points. Unforunately, the Seniors neg- lected the Activity Room ladders, they preferred the pool room. When Mr. Weeks read the pegity, chess, and check- ers ladders, he discovered that the Seniors had won 27 points and the Iuniors 89. The Iuniors won the Academic Plaque. CLASS SCORES Pe. Fr E0 s. E E 2 e 'S Sa' O rv 8 vT I 2 P Seniors ............ 23 IQ 11 31 JUNIORS ......... ...... 1 8 7 3 15 Sophomores ...... o 17 15 2 Freshmen ,......... ....... 1 4 9 7 7 Subfreshmen .............. o g 1Q o x denotes that class did not participate. Q 5 r-1 'Q' E ES E gd 2 on 5 fi bs E 5 'id 2 '-- '51 'U 2 B 'gb rv 0.1 .E x: l-' U V1 K Q 5 Z O E O Q M H D.. U U P cn 18 21 X 35 29 8 9 1O - 214 2 34 X 20 18 30 38 21- 218 1 x 1Q o 7 17 8 24 - 111 3 X 14 o 1 o o o - 61 4 X 22 8 o X o o o - 55 5

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