Medina High School - Mirror Yearbook (Medina, NY)

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it V, ,--M1 .J It ff f 2 M,., syn' Y 2 ' K l News Writing The H. S. News , a weekly newspaper, reports all school activities, Red Cross cam- paigns, benefit performances, assemblies, honor rolls, sports, student opinions on various sub- jects, and special information about clubs, or- ganizations, and classes. The fourteen members of the News Staff studied various newspapers and different types of newspaper writing, visited the Medina Daily journall' to watch the printing of that paper, and the High School print shop to study the mechanical details of printing. In April, they made a tour of the Buffalo Courier- Expressn building. if Eunice Wluite is manavin editor, Bill Mat- Sz zdi g Hartman Collins Maxon Hellert Adams d' M' O El M F dl 11 .' . , -.,' , , ., -, t t - - 1 Powley, Johnson, Grubb. Sztzzng: Roddenberry, Corrallo, bon, Spin S de Mor Ed usd Asao k ergusljn' Bill Matson, White fManaging Editorj, Scarborough, Slgolflsofa HH I' War ' rge 5 Printing Pask. a viser. THE SCRIBBLERS ' MAGAZINE The Scribblers' Club of twenty-five members attempts to establish literary standards for prose and poetry creative writing in Medina High School. Members judge the contributions submitted from junior and Senior High School pupils and prepare acceptable material for publication in the Scribblers' Magazine. The officers of the club are: Joanne Menke, president, Joyce Collins, vice-president, Barbara Achil- les, secretary, Arden Skinner, treasurer, joan Voorhees, editor of magazine. Miss Carol R. Hall is the sponsor. Last fall, the club had contributions of two of its members accepted for publication in the National A,.LLA1A,,,. Af YYIBI, l -l,-,l TX I Top Row: Ives, Forsaith, Pope, Scott, Stillwell, Schrader, Hales. Second Row: Mastromonaco, Higgins, 4 Voorhees, Scarborough, J. Mason, Ognibene, Hess, Semanchuk. Franz Row: Oderkirk, Forder, J. johnson, Skinner, Menke, Miss Hall, Collins, Achilles, Baker. Creative Expression 16 THE M. H. . NEWS

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Act ll. Education for Peace in the Clubs Ingenuity THE I946 MIRROR C0-edil0r.r.' jean Mason, Eunice White. Sp011.ror.' Miss Elsa M. Ferguson. LITERARY DEPARTMENT C1411 fer .' jean Mason. Clubr and 0rga11iz4ztim1.f.' Dorothy Breitbeck, Marilyn Raymond. Senior remrd5.' Patricia Field, Carolyn Kerr, Lor- raine Webber, Margaret 'Wasnock. Slzfdeul A,l'sli0Eitlfi0!I g1'o14p.r: Alice Mason. Sp'or1.v.' William Matson. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Ad1fe1'li.ri11g.' Eunice White, Virginia Britt, Wil- liam Matson, Elma Sowl. Ci1'L'1lldffU12.' Eunice White, Nelda Beeton, Doris Clendenon, Mary Ingersol, Carolyn Kerr, Marilyn Raymond. Typing: Miss Laura Engelson and the secretarial practice class. As a fitting theme for the 1946 yearbook, the first Mirror to be published in peizrelifzze since 1941, the Staff chose the subject, Education for Peace . In the form of a three-act pageant, the ways in which Medina High School is preparing its stu- dents for the task of preserving the peace are de- picted. Essential traits fostered in M.H.S. classes, clubs, organizations, and sports are featured as subheads in the three acts. Pictures and action shots complete the theme. UMIRRORI' STAFF Co-editors jean Mason and Eunice White make the linal check-up on copy. Smfzdizzg: Becton, Clendenon, Raymond, Breitbeck, Matson, Kerr, P. Field, Ingersoll, Sowl. Seizfed: Wasnock, White- co-editor, j. Masonkco-editor, Webber, V. Britt. N, - Tv.,

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Service to Others THE ARISTA SOCIETY The Arista, an honor society under the sponsorship of Miss Ruth DeLand, has nineteen members. The Arista members alternate with the Wakapans on Lost and Found duty in the Student Room. Arista members give an award each month to the student who has performed an outstanding act during the preceding month. Each marking period it awards the attendance banner to the home room hav- ing the highest attendance record. The Arista gives also a scholarship trophy each marking period to the homeroom that has earned the highest average of honor points. Its ofiicers are: Margaret Acer, president, Lois Roddenberry, vice-presidentg Carolyn Kerr, secre- tary, Laverne Hartman, treasurer. Smzzdifzg: M. Hoffmaster, Britt, Mason, Papadinoff, Field, Balcerzak, Sowl, Rumble, White, Lattin, Marcia Payjack. Sillizzg: Bird, H. Hoffmaster, Howell, Cousins, Kerr, Miss DeLand, Acer, Rod- denberry, Hartman, Maxine Payjack, Murdock. Top Roux' Wfillis, Forder, j. johnson, Vickery, Swift, Kennedv. Hale. Semud Roux' Maynard, Brennan, Rankin, N. Hellert, V. Adams, B. Matson, R, Koontz, Eddy, Vosteen, Franchell, Malte. Fif-,rf Row: Passarell, Prichard, Scott, B. Balcerzak, Ver- non, Miss Smith, Achilles, Hutchison, Albright, Knivht, Moriarity. The Wakapa is the honor society of the ninth and tenth grades, the members of which are chosen on the basis of high scholastic standing. The twenty-eight members alternate with the Arista Society in taking care of the Lost and Found Department in the Student Room before and after school and at noon. Members are also working on means of honoring high scholastic standing in these grades. The Wakapa Society meets every other Friday with Miss M. Genevieve Smith, sponsor. The officers are: jack Vernon, presidentg James Hutchison, vice-president, Barbara Balcerzak, secretary, and Barbara Achilles, treasurer. THE WAKAPA SOCIETY Dependability 17