Red Bank High School - Log Yearbook (Red Bank, NJ)

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4 THE ROUND TABLE that we came back to school this Fall with no knowledge of whether a field had been procured or where it would be located. We first learned, and needless to say we were delighted, that the use of a field at the corner of Ridge Road and Cambridge Avenue had been donated for Red Bank High School Football games for 1924, when the fact was published as a news item in one of our local papers. Why was the news accepted so calmly? Why wasn’t the student body of Red Bank High School on their feet immediately with a “Lo- comotive for the Ridge Road Field? Undoubtedly, this was an oversight on our part, for each of us is grateful for the field. However, it is not too late for the Pupils of Red Bank High School to express their appreciation. A real practical way to show our appreciation is to turn out 100% strong to every game played on the Ridge Road Field and cheer ourselves hoarse for Red Bank High. H. N. T., 25. -------o------- OUR ORCHESTRA How many of us ever stop to think about the Red Bank High School Orchestra and the work it does for us? There is no question but that it has been and is a great success under the able direction of Miss La Fetra. It plays for all chapel exercises and school entertainments. At present a Junior orchestra is being contemplated. There is practice every Tuesday af- ternoon. In this way, the music de- partment places before all students who are interested an opportunity to advance in their special line of study. The members receive one half a point a term. At the end of the year they are given the school letters. The students who play in the orches- tra are as follows: John Noonan Cornet George Wells Trombone William Elliott Clarinet Robert Goode E flat alto sax. Charles Pannaci First violin Vito Mar ascio First violin Sydney Meistrich First violin Frances Blaisdell Flute Francis Branin Soprano sax. Gerald Baldwin C melody sax Blaisdell Hackstaff Drums Margaret Manna Piano o— K. B.. 25. HALF HOUR CHAPEL This issue of the Round Table would be incomplete if no mention were made of the increase in our Chapel Period for the 1924-1925 term, from fifteen to thirty minutes. First it gives the Junior Class fifteen more minutes to drape themselves over the chairs and assume an attitude as of knowing what it is all about, (a Senior’s comment). Second: it provides fifteen more minutes for the Seniors to mount the platform and “speechify (a Junior’s comment). Third: the School Orchestra takes advantage of the extra time to get in a few extra notes. NOTE, the entrance and exit of the girls, consuming fifteen minutes, if you wish to add to your knowledge of up- to-the-minute dance steps. As the year progresses we expect to learn more, in our Half-Hour Chapel Period, of The Senior Class, The Junior Class, The Athletic Association, The Debating Society, The Round Table, and all other departments of Red Bank High School.

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THE ROUND TABLE 3 GETTING OUT A PAPER THE 1924 FOOTBALL FIELD Getting out a paper is no picnic. If we print jokes, folks say we are silly. If we don’t they say we are too serious. If we publish original matter, they say we lack variety. If we publish things from other papers, we are too lazy to write. If we stay on the job, we ought to be out rustling news. If we are rustling news, we are not attending to the business in our own department. If we don’t print contributions, we don’t show proper appreciation. If we do print them, the paper is filled with junk. Like as not some fellow will say we swiped this from an exchange—we did. We, the Pupils of Red Bank High School, have accepted, apparently, as a matter of course, a gift that we should greatly appreciate and that should at least have mention in The Round Table. You will remember with what con- sternation the news of the sale of the Oriole Ball Field was received. That Field had been where we had cheered for Red Bank High and, naturally, it was dear to each of us. Therefore, it was hard for us to reconcile ourselves to the thought that Oriole Field would no longer be the scene of games played by our teams. It is the writer’s understanding that months were devoted by those inter- ested, in procuring another athletic field for us and it was not because their work had been anything other than hard, conscientious, and tireless

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THE ROUND TABLE 5 UNE ECOLE FRANCAISE II y a peu de difference entre les ecoles francaises et americaines mais y espere que vous voulez suivre pendant une journee une fille dans un lycee francais. En France 1’ education est donnee dans les lycees de garcons et de filles, les professeurs des lycees et ant des hommes, et dans les lycees de filles les professeurs sont des femmes et des hommes. Prenons par example une fille de quatorze ans qui s’ appelle Jeanne. Elie se leve de bonne heure et arrive a V ecole vers huit heures et demie du matin. Elie n’ arrive pas seule; la mere, le pere ou un domestique l’accompagne jusqua’ 1’ age de dix- huit ans parceque les filles de France ne circulent librement dans les rues. Tous les cours qu’ ils suivent a cet age sont obligatoires et consist- ent en; cinq heures de francais, comprenant la litterature et la gram- maire, par semaine; trois heures d’ anglais; d allemand ou d’ espagnol; deux heures d’ Jaistoire ou geogra- phic. II y a aussi, comme ehez nous, les mathematiques, le dessin, la couture et la gymnastique. Tont ee qui donne a peu pres six heures de travail par jour avec 1’ exception des jendis et les dimanches qui sont entierement libres. Jeanne s' occupe heaucoup aussi chez elle parcequ’elle etudie son piano une heure par jour et a en outre plusieures heures de travail et d’ etude a la maison on dans la salle d’ etude a Y ecole. En France on ne permet pas que les filles aillent au teatre comme aux Etats-Unis. Les filles ont pen de liberte pendant leur jeunesse. Soyez Heureux, mes amis, que vous demeurez aux Etats-Unis, que vous avez les avantages dy une edu- cation liberale, et que vous avez 1’ opportunity de devenir de bons citoyens de ce pays. Aimez beau- coup la France mais aimez mieux les Etats Unis. Soyez fideles a votre ecole et a vos amis. Leonora Hodgdon,