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

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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

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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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These Moderns Enioy Their LaTin Latin IT a Roman lad oT The days oT Cicero should sTep ouT oT a hisTory TexT and inTo The halls oT Ken Hi, he mighT noT Teel aT all losT in The TwenTieTh cenTury environmenT. Especially iT he chose To drop inTo Room 2ll on The lasT Wednesday oT The monTh. l-lere he would Tind some subiecT Trom ancienT days being discussed by modern girls and boys, ThirTy or Torty upper class- men oT Ken l-li. l-le would be guiTe aT home dis- cussing The Toga, Roman myThs, Roman homes and The members OT The Culinary ArTs Club are Ken l-li's experTs on cookery. Supervised by Miss BryanT, They prepared delicious viands boTh in class and aTTer class. They Boys, Too, Go ln For Culinary ArTs The calendar. OT course These subiecTs are noT discussed in LaTin, buT many common English words would have a Tamiliar sound. l-le mighT be sur- prised To Tind girls parTicipaTing, or To discover ThaT The direcTors oT These acTiviTies were Miss l-lawk and Miss Rorabaugh, Two women members oT The TaculTy. lT is probable, however, ThaT having aTTend- ed one meeTing, he would Tind The conTines oT obscuriTy raTher dull and be loaThe To reTurn To his niche on The shelT. sTudied noT only The preparaTion oT Tood, buT also iTs consTiTuenTs. They looked inTo The maTTer oT eTiqueTTe and learned The TundamenTals oT serving. They demonsTraTed Their accomplishmenTs in This respecT by serving aT The ban- gueTs held in The school. Be- sides meeTing regularly Twice a monTh, once Tor business and once Tor pleasure, They made delicious candy Tor ChrisTmas and sponsored a successTul Tea dance, wiTh The popular cake walk as a TeaTure. Needless To say, They prepared Their own reTreshmenTs Tor all social aT- Tairs. The boys have shown Their abiliTy To keep pace wiTh The girls in The arT oT cooking and serving. AlThough This is one oT Ken l-li's smallesT clubs, iT boasTs an enviable spiriT and conTinues To progress. T771