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

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HI-LITES FEBRUARY College Boards marks arrive . . . the class average in verbals is 590. Nash and Cox are elected president and vice-president. All is peace at the Packer dance. After eight years of patient effort, McBurney acquires a Drivers Education car. The merman beat Peekskill at Colgate to become state champs . . . the med- ley relay team sets a new meet mark at Prince- ton. The basketball team wins three straight. The first of the college acceptances come in . . . Brown to Columbia, Mills to Swarthmore, and Florence to Oklahoma. MARCH The natators win the Westchester and A.A.- P.S. meets by large margins . . . never has McBurney produced such a team. Parents- Alumni Night draws a huge crowd. The Ninth Grade basketball team wins the district cham- pionship but loses in the borough. Minoia gives Colgate the once over. Caterson and Gavigan invade the Emma Willard School for girls. Mr. Leonard has a nervous breakdown when Sloss gets behind the controls of the new car. Now and then Steve Heyman brings up the subject of the blazers. Rumor has it that the McBurney schedule is going to be revised, eliminating the noon general education periods. APRIL Young, Snyder, and Leffler are seen in the streets appropriating new hub caps for McBurn- ey's pet Chevrolet. The hockey team loses the Stanley Cup by default . . . no ice in the swimming pool. Trial by fury and Down in the Valley are howling successes. leremie Griffith creates the missing link in the lab . . . the aver- age l.Q. of the school rises. McCartney, Rose, Eichhorn -even Caterson and Zapf swim their way into college. Acceptances pour in so fast that the office has trouble keeping the seniors posted. Spring fever hits the class, but no one seems to mind except the baseball, track, tennis, and golf coaches. MAY AND IUNE The Maypole Dance is a huge success . . . so is the May Day Parade. The lunior-Senior Prom at the N.Y.A.C. enlivens things for a few days. The dramatists present The Hasty Heart. Recognition Day . . . he who hasn't given the faculty some reason for recognizing him has certainly wasted his year. Clubs Banquet . . . more awards . . . also big, black cigars. Mr. Leonard leaves for Europe . . . he wants to pick up some driving pointers from the taxi men of Paris. Graduation comes at last. Old seniors never die, they just pass! Page 45

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SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER Summer ends three days early . . . we re- turn to McBurney on September 18. The mem- bers of the faculty smile upon us, assuring us that we are the best senior class ever. The smell of liniment permeates the halls as the athletes return from conditioning camp. Mike Abrahams looks over the new seniors to see if there is anyone among them who might chal- lenge his academic rating . . . there is no threat. Field Day is rained out, cheating the boys of their chance to beat the faculty at base- ball . . . Ties and jackets are compulsory again . . . what weird color combinations! Rumor has it that Panorama, defunct for two years, may be published again. The soccer team starts the season with a series of wins . . . the foot- ball players do not fare so well. NOVEMBER Senior privileges are granted for the first time in many years. Steve Heyman begins to take orders for McBurney jackets . . . it is reported that they will be worn by the glee club at the Christmas concert. Reports reach home . . . don't you remember your own youth, Dad? The first dance is a success. A yearbook staff is collected . . . Andy Ullman becomes business manager on condition that his horse be made his assistant. Mr. Yeh, dis- covering that his advanced algebra class can't think in English, writes Think in Chinese on the front wall of 304 . . . marks immediately im- prove. The little men in green crepe defeat the sophs in the annual Freshman Day games. SE IOR DECEMBER The dramatic club performs Dickens' Christ- mas Carol with Messrs. Scudder, Hardenbergh, and Weeks in the caste . . . plus numerous young ladies . . . as a result Dr. Ouinn has many applications for parts in the senior play. Mr. Deme collects McCartney, Bill Rose, Cater- son and company and starts them splashing in the pool every afternoon from three till four. Some seniors want to apply to Big Ten Uni- versity . . . why not? isn't Big Ten football the best in the country? Christmas vacation starts early for many students . . . after all they couldn't permit their parents to go to Florida without proper protection. IANUARY The swimming team, as everyone expected, runs away with the dual meets, even winning from City College freshmen . The basketball players are not quite as successful. The Third Father and Son Banquet is eaten . . . Rod Nash is the only senior present, the others are sleep- ing up for the College Boards the next day . . . Rod's father is the speaker of the evening. Mills, Parr, Brown, and Arneth travel to col- leges for interviews. Slifka wins the Hobby Talks with a homemade burglar alarm. The swimming team spends a weekend at Brown, coming in third in the first invitation tourney of the year. Page 44

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MICHAEL ABRAI-IAMS First, Hobby Talks, 1954, Second, Spelling, 1954, Sec- ond, Declarnation, 1954. BRUCE BROWN Second, Extemporaneous, 1955. IEREMY GRIFFITI-I Second, Vocabulary, 1956, Second, Spelling, 1956, Second, Short Story, 1956. RICHARD HEMMINGS First, Declamation, 19547 Third, Book Mart, 19545 Sec- ond, Book Mart, 1955. EDWARD KOPPEL Swimmers First, Book Mart, 1956. PAUL ARNETH All City Soccer, Second team, 1955. WILLIS CATERSON PETER DAVID Third, individual medley, Colgate, 1954, Second, in- dividual medley, Westchester, 19547 First, 50 yard tree- style, Westchester, 1955, First, individual medley, West- chester, 1955: Second, 50 yard freestyle, A.A.P.S., 1955, First 50 yard freestyle, Brown, 1956, Second, 50 yard freestyle, Colgate, 19565 Sixth, 50 yard freestyle, Prince- ton, l956, First, 50 yard freestyle, Westchester 19565 First 50 yard free style A.A.P.S. 1956, Member of win- ning medley relay team at Brown, Colgate, Princeton, Westchester, A.A.P.S., 1956. EICI-IHORN Third, 100 yard freestyle, Westchester, 1956, Third, 100 yard freestyle, A.A.P.S., 1955, Member of freestyle relay team, Third, Colgate and A.A.P.S., 19555 Member of freestyle relay team, first, Colgate, Westchester, A.A.- P.S., 1956. MILLS All City Soccer, First Team, 1955. M. WILLIAM MOORE Member of winning half-mile relay team, Westchester, 1955.