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

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Room 424 is one of the few classrooms in the building where one can find living creatures other than human beings looking on at classes. Mice, fish, snails, turtles, and even bats are a few of the inhabitants of the biology laboratory. Caring for these strange guests are Miss Shields and the North Quincy Biology Club. Inspired by a wish to further the interests of biological sci- ence in future doctors, nurses, and biologists, or in mere potential dabblers in the study, the club meets once a week to conduct in- teresting experiments. Dissections of starfish, frogs, and birds have been performed by skilled student hands. Earlier in the year the club traveled to Woods Hole to col- lect specimens of marine life. Besides various field trips, the group made a journey to view an electronic microscope. Another club activity is caring for and adding to its museum, started this year. Arthur Green is the Biology Club's only officer.

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m --. v N 1 9 lt's always fair weather when good fellows get together. Once every two weeks these good fellows of North's Hi-Y gath- er at the Quincy Y. M. C. A. for an evening of instruction, enter- tainment, and fun. The meetings are presided over by Charley Hadlock, Presidentg assisted hy Ralph Kent, Vice Presidentg Eddie Sweeney, Secretaryg and W'illiam Glover, Treasurer. After movies or a talk by Mr. Hardy, the group's director, the boys finish the evening by bowling or playing ping pong. Plans were made to invite speakers from other cities later in the year. Other special events arranged by the club were joint meet- ings with the Tri-Hi-Y, boxing matches, and hockey games. By emphasizing fine, clean sportsmanship the Hi-Y hopes to mold young men of high school age into upright Christian citi- ZCHS.

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Whenever you look into the library-during any study period or before and after school, you'll see a member of the library staff at work. Her job is to help Miss Sherman by checking out books, sorting the mail, and competently dealing with the confused student who persists in writing his homeroom number for the number of his study room on library permit slips. Of course, library staff membership has its lighter moments, too. Every year there is an informal party to help new members become acquaint- ed with each other and with older members of the staff. Later on the girls give a more formal tea for their mothers, who learn how the library functions and enjoy some form of entertainment. The library staff, incidentally, has the most attractive room in the school in which to hold its social affairs. This year our library staff entertained other girls from school libraries all over the South Shore. This South Shore Library Round Table was held so that librarians and staff members from all South Shore towns could meet each other and exchange ideas. The library staff, under the able direction of Miss Sherman, is one of our most active and useful organizations.