Mynderse Academy - Myndersian Yearbook (Seneca Falls, NY)

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 Back Row—Peck, Spaid, Share, Giusti, Baker, Muldoon, Compitello, Adviser Hadley, Smith, Gustafson, Sanderson, Coffin Front Row—Palumbo, Rumsey, Story, McCoy, Bracht, Aronson, Haley Marion Story Helen Baker Virginia Giusti Anita Palumbo Jack Bracht Five years of success lie behind the Mynderse Microphone. Each succeeding staff has tried by adopting new features to provide variety and interest and improve the paper. Two years ago the Microphone was accepted as a member of the Eastern Interscholastic Press Association, an exceptional accomplishment for a publication of its size. The Microphone is an active member of the Quill and Scroll Society, a national honorary journalistic group. Several Microphone staff entrants have received high honors in national and sectional contests sponsored bv this society in the past. The new staff members have been the highest graded entrants in the competitive examinations conducted by the paper. The publication of this bi-weekly sheet is done by a group selected according to scholastic standings and journalistic abilities working under the svpervision of Miss Compitello who has been responsible for the success of the paper from its beginning. MICROPHONE STAFF Gladys McCoy, Editor-in-chief Assisted by Victor Aronson Richard Peck Lucille Muldoon Ida Share Eloise Spaid Horace Rumsey Sidney Coffin Helen Hadley BUSINESS MANAGERS Barbara Smith FACULTY ADVISER Miss Teresa M. Compitello Mary Haley Sylvia Gustafson Emma Sanderson Albert Lambert Bernard Vergamini 2-9

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CK$± Back Row—Calarco, Leet, Coffin, Halladav Second Row—Stone, Casey, Jenner, Muldoon, McCoy, Thompson, Giusti, Gustafson, Cefaratti Front Row—Ferguson, Haley, O’Brien, Adviser; Hamilton, Lucke, Nelson MYNDERSIAN STAFF Mary Haley, Editor-in-Chief LITERARY EDITORS Sidney Coffin BUSINESS MANAGER Glenn Hamilton Assisted by Jack Fyfe Bernard Vergamini Frederick Halladay Harold Leet ART EDITORS Dorothy Jenner Paul Ferguson Directed by Mrs. Steigerwald PUBLICATION ADVISER MissJulia H. O'Brien Since the first Myndersian, born of the genius of the Class of 192.5, the annual publication of the Seniors has been one of the most outstanding highlights of each year's activities. We, the Class of 1932., under the efficient direction and with the inspiring cooperation of Miss O'Brien, are emphasizing education as the theme of this book in which we are trying to keep to the standards of recent Myndersians. Last year's annual, the first of our books to De entered in the National Scholastic Press Association Contest, received a Second Honor Rating, a signal honor for any school publication, and a distinct challenge to the 1932. staff—a challenge which we have gladly accepted. This year's annual has refinements in year-book planning which we feel will add to the artistic and literary content of the publication and will meet with the approval of our subscribers. :l8 Lucille Muldoon Gladys McCoy Catherine Casey Raymond Fitzgerald Marion Thompson Virginia Giusti Sylvia Gustafson Angeline Ortino Fausto Calarco Violet Stone Helmar Nelson Mafalda Cefaratti Marjorie Lucke

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 Back Rou- Traver, Coleman, Sluflttpn Leer, Swanson, Nelson, Wilkes, Peck Second Rou- -Sanderson, Miildoon, fcaiT e wSopert ( alarco, Slv, Coffin, Payne, Deary Front Row—Haley, Share, Ortino, Smitij, Warn away. Adviser; Luckc, Casey, Giusti, Stone WIG y OUGE On September zj, 19 0, a group of young actors rvjet in the Mynderse auditorium to revive the original Dramatic Club under the new name of Wig and Rouge. Membership in the club was limited to Prize Speakers, students who had played major parts in plays, and to the mechanical and business staff of any Mynderse production. Willard Fohl was chosen to play the leading r61e of president; Grace Hudson became the ingenue vice-president; Margaret Strong was prompter; while the villain, David Fegley, played Shylock and demanded shekels and Miss Hathaway acted as director. With this group playing, Wig and Rouge started its first act for the purpose of furthering the interest of public speaking and dramatics in Mynderse Academy. This year, the girls presented Joint Owners in Spain,” while the boys entertained the assembly on the same day with It Will Be All Right on the Night.” And so the curtain closed on Act I. Act II of Wig and Rouge, in September, 1931, found Samuel Sly playing the lead; Fausto Calarco, Sam's understudy; Gladys McCoy, the prompter; and the villain, Glenn Hamilton, still pursued the members for dues. Three plays were presented to the public on December 17: The Maker of Dreams, a fantasy; Solitaire, a Christmas comedy; and The Valiant, a drama. In February the club held its initiation and shortly after members were displaying shiny, new Wig and Rouge pins bearing the two masks representing comedy and tragedy. This year the club has studied the art of make-up. On March 4 the Wig and Rouge girls presented Sardines,” a one-act comedy, and on March 11, the boys gave Myndersians their advice in Winning an Heiress.” And then the final curtain closed on a successful group of young Thespians and Act II of Wig and Rouge. 3°