New Utrecht High School - Comet Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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Ghz Qliumet LEADERSHIP CLUB This club is composed entirely of girls who have been selected for their out- standing athletic ability and performance during physical training class. The purpose of the club is to train girls to become efficient leaders and to help teachers dur- ing athletic periods. A meeting is held every Tuesday afternoon after school in the girls' gym where members are taught the fundamentals of all athletic events. Under the capable supervision of Miss Bott a very pleasant and interesting time is always assured. TENNIS In spite of the fact that we are not equipped with tennis courts and have to travel to them, the keen enthusiasm of the girls proves that tennis is one of the most popular sports at New Utrecht. ,Un- der the proficient instructions of Mrs. Can- tor the girls have enjoyed every minute of the time they have spent in this out- door sport. This vigorous and exciting sport has gained the favor of the girls for more than one reason. It lends grace and freedom to the body without exertion. This opportunity is especially good for beginners, since Mrs. Cantor sees that they play in the proper way right from the start, and thus prevents them from making the faults of less privileged per- sons. Perhaps we have a Helen Wills in the rough among us? BASKETBALL Columns have been written in the school about the boys' basketball activities. How- ever, there is a girls' basketball club which has not received the attention it merits. Girls require exercise and athletic activity as well as boys and any organization fos- tering this idea deserves commendation. The students have met twice a week after classes under the guidance of Miss Allen, Mrs. Hennessay, Mrs. Cantor and Miss Kaufman who have helped bring this sport to the fore as a great factor in the athletic development of the girls. Teams are formed and compete against each other. The girls play purely for the love and enjoyment of the game and take ad- vantage of the many opportunities basket- ball affords to prove their character and sportsmanship. SWIMMING Everybody should know how to swim. New Utrecht offers this opportunity to the girls and is to be commended for it. Mrs. Chapman meets the girls in the pool ev- ery Thursday after the seventh period. Those girls who do not know how to swim soon learn under the excellent tutelage of Mrs. Chapman. Those who can swim are taught new strokes and old ones per- fected. The advanced swimmers are per- mitted to practice the various tests for the junior and Senior Red Cross Life Sav- ing awards. An opportunity such as this should not be allowed to slip by' and an even greater response is expected next year. .y.lgyg4 T.4. Thirty-one 5 1 .-J

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Elibe Qlumet Danny Del Vechio of football fame, is an ideal all-around man, starring in the infield and outfield, along with Red Sie- gal who pitches an excellent game be- sides playing second base. Antonio Balucci, the mainstay of the pitching staff, had pitched a no-hit, no- run game against Roosevelt, last year's P. S. A. L. champions. LACROSSE Day in and day out the lacrosse team has been practicing diligently in the school yard waiting for a chance to redeem it- self. Getting off to a slow start the In- dians dropped their first game to Manual at the score of 6-1. The first half of the game was played in a slovenly fash- ion by our team. The Park Slopers took advantage of our greeness and scored five goals in quick succession. Between the halves Coach Fitzpatrick spoke to our boys and it was a new team that came on the field. For that second half, the boys fought the championship aggreggation giv- ing them blow for blow and at most times showed marked superiority over the champs. Both teams scored once in the second half but neither team deserved a goal, ours being scored by a Manual de- fense man and their goal coming on a break that was just as undeserved. The high spots of the game were the playing of jerry Gold and Abby Sundell who ex- celled for the Green and White. With Erasmus, Hamilton, Boys and Madison still to be encountered the boys still have a great deal to do. The defense of the team is composed of Captain Pe- corella Christiasen, Firtenberg, Simnowitz and Lissendrella with Iverson, Reznitzky, Selivan, Graff, Cohen and Forman being held in reserve. Our attack is being held upg by Abby Sundell, whose spectacular Thirty and bull-like method of playing brought him very near an all-scholastic position last year. Mutzie Silowitz, who was kept out of the Manual game because of in- eligibility, is not expected to play again this term. It is a hard fighting, fast playing out- fit containing, fast shifty men like Lis- sendrella and Formosa, excellent stick handlers, like Gold and Christenson, and stocky hard fighting players whose methods of playing is to put their heads down and force their way through the entire team, such as Pecorella and Sundell Manager Nat Shapiro states that the chief burden in the remaining games will be upon the hands of Pecorella and Sun- dell. Because of their superior experience and ability the rest of the team look up to them for directions and instructions during the game. Graduation will hit the team hard this year because when the roll is called for initial practice in 1952 such stars as Pecorella, Sundell, Simnowitz, Formosa, Caliman, Moore, Gold, Levinson, For- man, Lefkowitz, Strafaci, Iverson will have graduated and left their positions open to be filled from the ranks of sub- stitutes who are diligently striving to make the varsity. Murray Elman who will manage the team in '52 claims that '32 will be the best year Lacrosse will ever know in New Utrecht. The game is steadily increasing in popularity and it will be necessary to cut the squad down to a definite number as was done this term for the first time in the history of Lacrosse. With 45 an- xious fellows and only one little field to play on we were faced with the possibility of getting another field or cutting the squad. Fifteen boys were dropped from the squad in order to give the better players more of a chance to show their ability.

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Q l L. GICDB Gitomer TO THE MEMBERS OF THE GRADUATING CLASS: I have been asked to leave with you one word as you graduate from High School. I can think of nothing better to say at this moment than the following four words: THE POWER OE EXAMPLE We see about lus, in all lines of human activity, many examples of the modern Tartuffe, the arch - hypocrite of Moliere, who preached virtue with his tongue and practiced villainy in his every act. ' We come to distrust the self-anionted Saviour of hu- manity, who is ready with a panacea for all ills, who can glibly set us aright in eloquent phrases, but whose own attainments are distinguished rather by the nothingness of their results. We become restless under the words of the silver tongued orator, when we feel instinctively that the eloquence of the speaker is but a mocking gilt which covers the coarser and baser metal. With that eagerness, however, do we follow instinct- ively an appropriate example set by others, even in the humbler acts of our lives! How much more eloquent does a smile seem to us, and how much more eloquently does a courteous word appeal to us than vain words unaccomp- anied by proper example. How important it is for all of us to think of even the minor acts of our lives, that we may mirror forth our own upright thoughts by deed rather than word. How eloquently has the example of father or mother or teacher or friend, appealed to us instinctively as we have grown from childhood to young womanhood and young manhood! How important it is for lus to measure each and every act of ours, that we may ever remember the force of our own example in influencing proper thought and action. We forget, at times the power inherent in what are commonly thought to be the minutiae of life. Yet all life is made up of smaller composite elements and each el- ement is the example which we give, minute by minute, hour by hour and day by day. Let us then ever remember, -THE POWER OF EXAMPLE. H. A. POTTER, Principal Thirty-two