North Quincy High School - Manet Yearbook (North Quincy, MA)

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and the hand in the velvet glove be- comes the fist in the iron mitten as each girl hunts through corridor and underbrush for any shy male who may be uninvited to the dance. Then, too, Bliss Crockett, the Girls' Club adviser, runs a Date Bureau. If her room is crowded after school it's not because the girls are forced to do home-work during school hours. They're just girls looking for the name of a boy who might help them in a little after school work. CExtra cur- ricular, eh boys?j The Girls' Club is one of the largest organizations at North and the grand bunch of girls that belong to it do a grand piece of work every year and deserve a large vote of appreciation. LIBRARY STAFF EET you in the library alter school. ' e-'Got to look up some- thing about Democracy. These and other remarks are heard constantly in and about the corridors of North. How lucky we are to be able to talk about our library and to have the use of it. However, we must not only think of the library asa pleasant room filled with books and magazines but also think of those who help to keep it such a pleasing and beneficial place. iff 0 I , H92 +1-'+ f'9.f 3 5 2 The library staff consisting of members from grades 9 through 112 assists Miss Sherman in keeping the library an efficient and helpful unit. Each group has its own special duty which is either keeping the shelves in order, working during study periods, making out permit slips, or checking books in or out The staff also takes care of the bulletin board, new books, and magazines, and when we read them we scarcely think of' the planning which is necessary to give us interest- ing material all the time. Besides their regular duties many members of the staff work on a series of contracts and others keep notebooks containing interesting and educational clippings from newspapers. These projects teach them more about the library and how to be better members ol' the staff. Then there are the social aspects of the library staff. Each year the staff visits some other school library and entertains that staff in return. In this way many new ideas are ex- changed. There is always the annual f'hristnias party held in the library and this year the staff is planning to have a Mothers' Tea. ln the spring there is an outdoor pienic and food is cooked over an open fire. Page Q5

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STRING ENSEM BLE LESTIOX: YYhat music organiza- tion has played for many school and outside activities including both junior and senior high schools? Ans- wer: The string ensemble. Leave several stringed instruments including violins, violas, and 'cellos with some of us and you might wonder what animals have been let out of the zoo. But take those same instruments and put them into the hands of eleven junior girls and put Bliss Beesly at the head and you have harmony pleasing to the ear. A detailed list of the times this ensemble has played would include Senior Class Play, Christmas program, Girls' Club Christmas as- sembly and other junior and senior high assemblies. Outside of school they have played for the Chamber of Commerce, Parent-Teachers' Associa- tions, and Bethany Congregational Church. Those of us who cannot play music can at least appreciate it when played by this group. GIRLS' CLUB ELYERY senior girl maybe a member of the Girls' Club at Xorth. This is a sort of a tradition. Each year an observer new to the school might well Page Q4 think he had wandered into a lunatic asylum by mistake as he sees girls in every conceivable queer looking out- fit and usually carrying dolls, wan- dering about the building. This, fortunately, occurs only on one day a year and is the day on which the eleventh grade girls are initiated as members. The Girls, Club donates its services in preparing Christmas and Thanksgiving Baskets which are given to the poor at these two holidays. The girls also hold roller-skating parties at which most of the members skate sitting down. Xo, itls not a new method which they have originated, but merely the result of the wheels on the skates being so slippery, Cat least that's their excusej. The semi-formal dance held every year is the high-light of the year and more than one lan- guishing female girds on her armor Tickets, please!

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TRI-HI-Y Perhaps some Thursday evening you've had a chance to go by the Quincy Y. BI. C. A. If you have, you'll certainly have noticed the sparkling array of pretty girls on their way inside. No-there you're wrong. There aren't any beauty con- tests being held and it's not a con- vention of the prettiest girls in the state-it's the members of the Tri-Hi- Y. This is an all-girl organization under the direction of Nfr. James Hardy and Bliss Ruth Stevens. The girls hold meetings twice a month and conduct their meetings so well that you might think you were in a well ordered session of Congress Cex- cept, of course, no one's asleepb. The members take field trips to other cities and have a yearly banquet with the Hi-Y. On the whole, North thinks they're a grand bunch of girls and that they do a grand job. Page 26