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

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N K H S Calling SN- A .ghlcflo NKHS calling . . . NKT-TS call- ing. Sounds similar To These coming Trom aTop The whiTe building OT Ken Hi mighT be heard by sTu- denTs some Time in The near TuTure were They giTTed wiTh The abiliTy To hear The goings-on in The eTher waves. AT leasT, ThaT is so according To The mem- bers OT The Radio Club OT Ken l-li, pracTically The newesT organizaTion in The school. ThaT New Ken- singTon l-ligh School will very soon have an amaTeur sTaTion OT iTs own is one OT The chieT aims OT The Stamp AT 3:I5 every Third Wednesday a group OT sTudenTs could be seen enTering Mr. GanTz's room. The regular meeTing OT The STamp Club was abouT To begin. This year's club, one OT They Find Stamps MOST lnTeresTing club. ln having such a sTaTion Ken l li would be Tollowing The lead OT oTher schools in This disTricT, noTably Peabody l-ligh School, which is already well known in The radio world. Thus The club is planning in This respecT To malce Ken Hi The ulTra-modern in educaTional insTiTuTions. Among iTs members The Radio Club boasTs Two licensed amaTeur operaTors and several oThers who will soon be graced wiTh The raTher undigniTied appellaTion, ham, The largesT since The creaTion OT The club in I935, did much To carry on The excellenT work OT Tormer years. Among Their acTiviTies was a sTamp aucTion, which was arranged and conducTed by members. The case in The library, alloT- Ted To The exclusive use OT The club, was lcepT well Tilled with iTems OT inTeresT nOT only TO The philaTelisTs Themselves, buf also To Their Triends. To vary The meeTings, well-known phil- aTelisTs OT New KensingTon were broughT beTore The club To relaTe Their experiences in The various phases OT sTamp collecTing. By exhibiTing Thoir own albums and collecTions The members did much To in- crease The inTeresT in This worThwhile and proTiTable hobby, and by perusing cur- renT liTeraTure They lcepT up To daTe in The sTamp world. T751

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gfzx Lives Up Qoard of Qqcfivifies The Bgard gf AC- fivifies merifs fhe praise of fhe enfire sfudenf body. lf would be no easy faslq fo find a group more con- scienfious and efficienf in handling the various emergencies which arise in a school fhe size of Ken l-li. This organizafion consisfs of four faculfy and six sfudenf members, fhe laffer being elecfed in fheir sophomore year fo serve during fhe remainder of fheir high school course. At fhe regular meef- ings every fwo weeks, fhe board handles such rou- Camera Abouf a year ago fhe Camera Club was organized under fhe direcfion of Mr. l-ladden. Despife ifs relafively shorf exisfence, if has blossomed info an organizafion with one of fhe largesf memberships in Kenl-li. lfs popularify is undoubfedly due fo fhe confesfs which are held each year, fhereby chal- lenging fhe inifiafive and in- dusfry of fhe club members. Thus, the already fiery enfhu- siasrn of fhe embryo phofog- rapher is increased subsfan- fially by fhe award of prizes. Time affer fime fhe enfhusias- fic amafeurs sally forfh fo do or die. Af leasf fhey are dead sef on geffing a per- fecf phofograph. The firsf fhng fhese would-be phofog- raphers learn is fhaf few pic- fures furn ouf perfecfly. Buf l74l fine business as nomfnafions of class officers, appli- cafions for organizafion of clubs, permissions fo sponsor anyfhing from a slrafe fo fhe publicafion of a yearbook. A schedule of evenfs and dafes is made af the beginning of fhe year. The board also selecfs fhe enferfainmenf for fhe regular sfudenf assemblies. The annual banquef is held in Novem- ber. The acfivifies of fhe board begin on fhe firsf day of school and are nof finished until fhe reporf cards go ouf fhe lasf of May. does fhaf defer fhem? Never l Many can be seen near fhe school and every place else imaginable, sprawling in undignified posifions, eyes glued fo fhe cameras, defermined fo make a perfecf picfure. Camera Club Prefers Them Candid Board of ACi'lVIi'I9S To lfs Name

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NoT Quife FiTTy Million Frenchmen Le Cefzcle DCEUHCGLS The Frengh ig an organizaTion To promoTe Triendliness among French sTudenTs, and To enable sTudenTs To share new inTormaTion abouT The French language and counTry. The qualiTicaTions Tor membership are noT binding and no dues are required. Any sTudenT oT French, pasT or presenT, may belong. MeeTings are held aTTer school on The second Wednesday oT each monTh. Every year new members sTarT corre- spondence wiTh boys and girls oT France Through HOW? ECONOMICS TwenTy-six Treshman and sophomore girls work and play To- geTher in This Club. They are girls whose course include sewing and who are genuinely inTeresTed in This old-Tashioned arT. Regular 7 meeTings are held each monTh. AT These meeTings plans are made and daTes selecTed Tor The club's social aTTairs. Some- Times some ingenious scheme such as a collar-making con- TesT adds inTeresT. Lilce many oT The clubs in Ken l-li, The Home Economics girls spon- sored a Tea dance, buT, unlilce any oTher club, They oTTered Tor sale aTTracTive hand-made TelT novelTies which sold like hoT cakes. The ouTsTanding evenT oT The year was doubT- less The Tea and spring Tashion show. Under The guidance oT T761 The medium oT The club. Usually, The social season is sTarTed wiTh a Tea dance, which, This year, was very successTul Tinancially. The annual sale oT home- made candy is exceedingly popular among The sTu- denTs and Teachers, iudging Trom The many, many orders received. UndoubTedly The mosT popular oT all is The gay picnic held in May aT The Memorial Parlc. IT usually rains, buT The weaTher never damp- ens The spiriT. A dinner, prepared in Miss PaTTer- son's l4iTcher, is The high spoT in an evening oT Tun. Miss Lyon, The girls made The cloThes in class. MoThers were invited as guesTs To The Tea, aT which parT oT The enTerTainmenT was The Tashion show demonsTraTing The girls' dressmalcing eTTorTs. Home Economics lnTeresTs The Girls