New Kensington High School - Taleoken Yearbook (New Kensington, PA)

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KenTonian's Big Three Examines One Issue and CorrecTs The NexT '-jiCe lt07ll6U'l DespiTe The Tact ThaT This year's sTaTT sTarTed ouT wiTh only Three veTeran news- hawlcs, The KenTonian Tor I939 has been one oT The besT published papers in Ken l-li Tor some Time. The aim oT The sTaTT, which changed The paper's moTTo Trom Our World ExacTly As lT Goes To Our School ExacTly As lT Goes, was To give an exacT as well as inTeresTing accounT oT Ken l-li's sTudenT liTe and sTudenT acTiviTy. Several ouTsTanding TeaTures oT This year's publi- caTion were The increased number oT phoTographs and The increased use oT original linoleum cuTs. The Iinoleum cuTs were producTs oT arT TalenT pres- ent on The sTaTT. The phoTographs were, according To a sTaTT member, The resulT oT sTaTT eTTorT in bor- rowing, begging or Taking pic- Tures concerning weelcly news evenTs or TeaTure maTerial. l'lighlighT oT The TirsT semesTer was The l-lallowe'en issue, in which every arTicle had a Hal- lowe'en head line. AT The beginning oT The sec- ond semesTer The sTaTT was compleTely reorganized, alTho EdiTor-in-ChieT Sam Conner, AssociaTe EdiTor BeTTy Mc- Garr, Business Manager Geo. Esa, CirculaTion Manager Don JusTham and a Tew oThers re- Tained Their Tormer posiTions. The highlighTs oT The lasT se- mester were The April Fool issue and The Tinal FuTuroscope i T721 issue. ln The April Fool issue vivid accounTs were given concerning such improbable incidenTs as a hurricane sTril4ing The school, I2 TeeT oT snow Tall- ing over nighT, and a sTudenT body equipped wiTh scooTer-bilces Tor The purpose oT Traveling Through The halls. The FuTuroscope publican ToreTold occur- rences which mighT perchance beTall members OT The graduaTing class in The disTanT TuTure. The sTaTF also parTicipaTed in a number oT acTivi- Ties which were noT direcTly connecTed wiTh pub- lishing The KenTonian. Five KenTonian represenT- aTives Traveled To Irwin, Pennsylvania, where They met oTher sTudenTs and helped To organize The WesTmoreland CounTy Press Club, aT Norwin High School. Our School ExacTly As IT Goes

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All the World's a Stage mational fl-lzespians Try-outs! Try- outs To-night I was the cry heard early last tall. The National Thespians, in coniunction with the Dramatic Club, were beginning the activities ot the year by selecting new members. The Dramatic Club, which endeavors to promote an intelligent and act- ive interest in dramatics, received its charter to become Troupe I4 ot the National Thespians in 1935. Members ot The Dramatic Club attain the distinction ot being Thespians by participating in a .qpebafe since Tis organization in 1937, the Debating Club has grown into one ot the lead- ing activities ot New Kensington High School. The ardent debaters have enjoyed many an evening, Resolved, That .... required number ot plays and by going Through a trying initiation. At The regular meetings Two one-act plays are given and guest speakers are pre- sented to The members. The Thespians sponsored The Christmas assembly and The exchange programs with Vandergritt, presented to The public Apron String Revolt, a three-act comedy and highlight ot the dramatic year aT Ken l'-li, and co-operated with The seniors in staging Their annual class play. The semi-private dance was an outstanding event. during which They were driven to Trenzy by The heat ot argument. Usually The Tirst number on The pro- gram is a scrap and The second scrapping. Scrap number one takes The torm ot a debate. These debates are very interesting, perhaps not so much to The victims ot The speakers as to The speakers Themselves. A great deal ot valuable train- ing is derived trom these small debates, such as learning to talk betore an audience, how to present an argument, and countless other things That cannot be set down in black and white. The scrapping as- sumes the Torm ot rebuttals. lt occasionally happens that the speakers etticiently ex- tinguish Themselves, showing clearly how much they do not know about their topic. T711

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Ken Hi's DeparTmenT of The Exchequer Students SUULWQS .qgank Though The headguarTers oT The STudenTs Savings Bank are raTh- er small in size, members oT The bank sTaTT carry no small responsibiliTy. They TransacT business Tor all The organizaTions in The school. Juniors and seniors QT The Commercial DeparTmenT Till These posiTions. William Yeager and Tom NesbiT, messengers, make Their daily Trip down Town, rain or shine. Emily Drag and Sarabyrle Beard seem To wriTe endlessly in ledger and iournal. The checking accounTs are CLOWIWIGTZCLLIT One hundred TiTTy-eighT TuTure stenographers, secreTaries, salesmen, book- keepers and bankers make up Ken l-li's Commercial Club. Besides claiming To be The largesT club in handled by BeTTy Thomas. The Taleoken and School AcTiviTies Tunds are in The hands oT Genevieve Tro- ianoski. And The Tellers who cheerTully change your Tive inTo ones or sell you a TableT Tor a nickel are MargareT Bonidy and Jean Glass. Miss DoherTy oT The Commercial DeparTmenT supervises all These acTiviTies. To handle The numerous accounTs neces- sary To run The business oT a communiTy oT some eighTeen hundred sTudenTs requires no liTTle accur- acy on The parT oT The bank sTaTT. school, iT also iusTly claims To be one oT The oldesT and peppiesT. lT sponsored conTesTs To deTermine The besT TypisT and The besT shorThand sTudenT. GreaTesT oT The year's underTakings was The Com- Commercial Club Grows in Numbers and EnThusiasm mercial Club Open l-louse held in March. The seniors clemonsTraTed Their skill in shorThand, while The iuniors showed They had rhyThm by Typing To music. The book- keepers worked under The di- rection oT Mr. Kordes and The bankers wiTh Miss DoherTy. OTher TeaTures were demon- sTraTed by The oTFice pracTice class and displays oT various Torms OT commercial work on The bulleTin boards. Members oT The club served as a regis- TraTion commiTTee and guides, TaculTy members supervised all deparTmenTs oT The exhibit. T731 1 i