Middletown High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Middletown, CT)

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FRENCH CLUB Second Row: Dumont, Maloney, Caram- ma, Miller, Miller, Battistini, Trembley, Stocking, Bartulis, First Row: Rame, Tringaii, Waylock, Rosner. The French Club of composed of students of the French 1 and 11 classes, had its beginning this year under the guidance of Mr. Guiney, the French instructor. The club has elected the following officers: Eleanor Waylock, president, and Betty Tringaii, secretary- Second Row: Smith, Woods, Rasmussen, Hannon. First Row: Johnson, Summ, Goldberg. treasurer. A trip to New York has already been planned. There the students will lunch at a French restaurant, visit a French institute, and see a French movie or ballet. During some of the meetings held activity periods, French films are shown and French records are played, which should help the students know and appreciate the country whose language they are studying. SPANISH CLUB This year introduced a new club to Middletown's long list of activities, the Spanish Club. As of now, this club consists of members only from the Spanish class, who, along with the learning of the language, wish to extend their knowledge of Spain's historical background, culture and way of life. It is hoped in the next few years more students will be joining the Spanish Club. Once a month during the class period the officers of the club preside over a program dealing with some phase of Spanish life. The officers of the club are Jerry Goldberg, president; Carol Summ, vice president; Feme Johnson, secretary; and Mary Kay Smith, treas- urer.

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Standing: Neil, Pattavina. Seated: Marino, Reinhardt. The Girls' Student League has spent another active and successful year with Miss Dorothy Wigmore as adviser. Every girl in school is automatically a member of this organization. There are representatives from every section room, anr' el» ?en girls are elected to the G.A.A. Every girl in Middletown High School is a member of the Girls’ Athletic Association. One girl from each section room is elected as a representative. All these representatives assist in planning their annual fall dance, whose profit is used to support school activities. During the year the girls often attend sport days held by other high schools, and occasionally sport days are held here. They also present the annual awards assem- bly at the end of the year. Advising the girls this year is Miss Jean Maus. The officers elected are Deborah Reinhardt, president; Connie Marino, vice president; Florence Pattavina, secretary; Jean Neil, treasurer. Standing: Jezouit, Nicholas, Adviser Miss Wigmore, Summ, Tringali, Stearns. Seated: Rosner, Caramma, Day, Nord- gren. executive board. In the line of service the G.S.L. was responsible for all the drives and also for the teachers’ secretaries. They were in charge of a radio program and had several assemblies. In the fall the freshman girls were enttrtrmed by the junior girls, and then spring brought the long- awaited semi-formal dance to which the girls invited the boys. 23

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Third Row: Davidson, Scata, Tremblay Festa, Garofala, Parenzino, CoFransesco Marino, Cannata, Miller, Stocking Merenda. Second Row: Mathewson, Ma rino, Miller, DeGroff, Jurzak, Tringali Emme, Airo. First Row: Aubin, Lo Guidice, Poppalardo, Branciforte, Bon vino, Leveson. GIRLS’ BASKETBALL During gym classes the girls are taught basketball fundamentals. From this stem the intermural games held on Tuesday and Thursday during activity period. The teams are composed of girls from all four classes. Competition is held between freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors. Every class team plays with the other three at least twice during this competition. The two teams obtaining the highest number of wins com- pete against each other for first place. The girls on the winning team are awarded chenille letters, and the members of the losing teams receive emblems. Besides this, at the annual awards assembly individual and team awards are presented. This year the winning team was the senior girls' basketball team. BOWLING The Girls’ Bowling Club meets once a week at 3 P.M. at the Y.M.C.A. from October to March. Playdays and sport days play a vital part in this ac- tivity and are held yearly between Portland, Woodrow Wilson, East Hampton and Meriden for the purpose of getting the girls acquainted. Along with this, every year they attend an ice-show in New Haven. Numerals and letters are awarded at the end of the year and the girl with the highest score has her name engraved on the bowling trophy. Officers of the club this year are Linda DeGroff, president; Barbara Miller, vice president; Betty Trin- gali, secretary; Eleanor Jurczak, treasurer.