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

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SPANISH CLUB gComo esta Vd? Do you know what that means? lf not, ask any of the seiiors or senoritas who were in el club de Espanol. These Spanish-speaking experts, under the guidance of Senor Walsh, use the language they study at the meetings. The main purpose of the Club is to make the members more familiar with every-day Spanish. The atmosphere at the monthly meetings is friendly and informal, with a social gathering following the business meeting. 1Comanosl Translated for you, that means, Let's Eat! That was the cry heard Cmore in English than in Spanishj at the supper held in the spring. All the foods on the menu were Spanish and were prepared by our own cooks from South American recipes. For all the students who want to know more about Spanish and to learn how to use it more inform- ally, membership in the Spanish Club is just the thing. HISTURY CLUB One of the most interesting and educational of North's activities is the History Club, sponsored by Miss Pratt. Although the members have met but once a month, they have heard lectures on our own city, Mexico, and China: seen technicolor movies on Central America, Alaska, and Eire: taken a trip to Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill Cincluding a stop at the Wayside lnnj, and concluded the season with a picnic at Miss Pratt's camp. Under new rules drawn up this year, History Club presi- dents will be elected the year before they are scheduled to take office. Another new rule makes dropping those mem- bers that miss more than three meetings mandatory: how- ever, the necessity for such a rule is doubtful. President, Redmond O'Brien: Vice-President, Marion White: Treasurer, Joseph Curran: Secretary, Genevieve O'Neil: Reporter, Carolyn Flock.

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STUDENT SECRETARIAL STAFF lt is 3:30 of a bright and sunny spring afternoon. The school is quiet, almost forlorn, and from its corridors the sounds of children playing outside seem overloud. Most of the rooms are bare of life, teachers and pupils alike having left for a few hours of well-deserved rest while the day is still light and warm. In Room 302, however, the beauty of the day and the lateness of the hour is unobserved amid the great activity going on. In one corner of the room, under the guidance and supervision of Miss Lillian Gormley, two girls are mimeo- graphing the programs for the next assembly. At one of the tables an anxious student is cleaning a stencil that has al- ready beeen run. In the middle of the room a few girls are watching a test being 'ldittoed , with pity in their hearts for the students to whom it is destined. Other girls are typ- ing letters, running errands, and coloring the assembly pro- grams as they come from the machine. What is all this activity? Why, the Student Secretarial Staff in action, of course. , LIBRARY STAFF Behind the curtain of silence in the library you'll find North's Library Staff working industriously checking books in and out or digging out back issues of magazines. They can often be seen almost hidden by towering stacks of books which they must put away in their correct places. During study periods these girls must decode hastily scribbled names or try to track down pupils who invariably write their homeroom numbers instead of the study room's. All work and no play is certainly not the motto of the Library Staff: their program is well-balanced. The high- light of their social year was the Mothers' Tea. This year everything had that south of the border touch for colored slides on Mexico were shown by Miss Pratt. The invita- tions were appropriate too, decorated with small figures of a little boy under a big, sombrero. Some of the other social events included a theatre party when the staff saw Inside U.S.A. and also a joint meeting with library staff mem- bers from other high schools. The staff year closed as al- ways with a picnic at Miss Pratt's summer home. The girls go strictly informal in old dungarees and shirts for a day of fun, roasting franks and marshmallows over an open Hre- place and camping out among the pines. The Library Staff offers the girls in grades nine through twelve the opportunity to be of valuable service to the school and to abtain good training in library work. 'The ofhcers for this year were: President, Ethel Whelan: Vice-President, Jacqueline Dowling: Secretary, Janice Leavitt: Treasurer, Jane Raymond.