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

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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

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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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'N CLASS PLAY The Goose Hangs High Lezris Beach Cast Bernard Ingals Frank Flynn I':lllll'f'f' Ingals Barbara Everson .Yoel Derby Wallace Patstone Leo Day lYalter 1XlcCarthy Rhoda Klary Danckert Julia .llurdoeli Lois Dwight Mrs. Bradley Grace Connick Hugh Ingals Lester Groke Ronald .llurdoclz Melvin Carter Lois lngals Eleanore Quimby Bradley Ingals Philip Posey Dagmar Varroll Phyllis Favorite Elliot! Kirliberley Alfred Henriksen VERY year a few students elected from the senior class by virtue of their acting ability present a Senior t'lass Play. This play is coached by Blr. John llofferty. The t'lass of 194-0 presented The Goose Hangs High. Every afternoon from the time re- hearsals start until they end, the auditorium may be heard resounding with directions, cues, dramatically proclaimed speeches and repeats of the same in a less dramatic tone. After rehearsals, the bloody but un- bowed actors and actresses wend their way homeward determined tand 'ar-ggf t' 'H t 2 I rightly sol that their play will be the best to date. This year's cast did an excellent piece of work and had a great time doing it. They attended other school plays in a body as well as being given the privilege of going in a group to see Bliss Helen Hayes in one of her stage plays. The cast every year does a grand job and for next year's castqa formula for success: Hard work plus enjoyment plus J. Hofferty equals a swell play! YOUTH CONCERTS lDN'T you like that haunting melody in the second move- ment? Yes, but I preferred the snappy third movement. No, it's not a conversation between critics, but two music-minded North students who have just attended one of the six symphony concerts in Boston. lf you prefer Benny Goodman and his swing band to a Mendelssohn concerto, we wouldn't recommend these concerts. lint if you have always wanted to hear purely for enjoyment some of the great composers' works with interest- ing conunents, these concerts are just what you are looking for. Nlr. lieckctl. the conductor. knows how to interpret music from youth's point of view. These Youth Vonccrts are new Page Q7