Richmond Hill High School - Archway / Dome Yearbook (Richmond Hill, NY)

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Page Twenty-four T H E D O M E SWIBHHNG Orchestra The advent of the Orchestra into school life means the beginning of the enjoyable part of the term. The Orchestra, with its fifty-odd members under the most able leadership of Mr. Wood, expects to give a Grand Concert in connection with the Gloria Trumpetersfl a group of women trumpet geniuses who are world famous, on December 8, 1922. The Orchestra needs a few more instruments, as a bass, a violist, a flutist, an oboeist, in fact any sort of an odd instrument. The officers for the following term are: Burgess Morlious, president, Florence Nickels, vice-president, Roland Kestler, secretary, Francis Schwickhardt, G.O. rep- resentativeg John McCuen, librarian. Roland Kestler, ,23. Glee Club The Glee Club is at present working, in unison with the Orchestra, preparing the music for the Fall Concert, which is to be given Friday evening, December 8, 1922. The club feels certain that its program is one which will not only bring honor to R.H.H.S. but will also prove interesting and delightful to the audience. Among the numbers to be rendered by the chorus will be Rendegger's 15oth Psalm and Hear My Prayer. Both these selections are well known in the musical world. The special attraction will be a few numbers by the celebrated Gloria Trumpetersf, In order that the club may realize its ambition to make the concert a success, it is imperative that the club obtain the loyal support of every student in the school. Each student can show his school spirit by buying and selling tickets for this event. The first meeting of the club was held on the second Tuesday of the new term. It was a business meeting, at which officers for the new term were elected. They are: Ethel DeGroot, president, Luella Cisney, vice-president, Howard Tiffany, secretary. John McC11e:1. The Chess Team -At the present time neither the Chess Team nor the Chess Club has been organ- ized for the fall term. Last year much attention was given the team, and the club was really neglected. But this term we in- tend to have a live and active club, both for the pleasure of the student players and for a firm support to the Chess Team. Any one who knows the moves of a set of chess- men is earnestly requested to join the club,

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T H E D O M E Page Twenty-three , 5: , ,:.. ff. .r we as aw 2 ' ui 'ft 'W' . . 1 emi- 'xi X 2 . S , I I f .-.Z ,uviilvlmw ,px X I - ,jillllllgliiiiliw ' 1, D ..nlllllIIllis:w' i H' K an X 3' some of the members in the school who had .4 1 ..,:-RT . . . 4 'Y'G.tQmSQ..,..:,u attended during the previous summer one Xi ,li--1 of the Y.W.C.A. Camps. Its membership ., C-if 9 I G'f3,,:, was at Hrst limited to those who had at- The Debating Club Debating as an interscholastic sport, al- though here still in its infancy, is one of the most prominent activities in Richmond Hill High. The interest in the Debating Club is not confined to the school alone. It is a member of the New York City Interscho- lastic Debating League. According to the schedule prepared by the League, Richmond Hill anticipates some lively debating. At the opening session this term Pres- ident Arthur Segall appointed himself and his friend and classmate Bittner as tellers, and proceeded to the electiion of officers for the new term. The ballots showed for Alu Ecke IO, for lVIary Storer 7, for Lois Penny 7, for Eva Jacobi 5, and for Fritz Kort- lucke 7. A President Segall then declared the elec- tion of Arthur Segall, President, Eva Ja- cobi, Vice-President, Albert T. Ecke, Sec- retary, Fred Kortlucke, G. 0. Represent- ative. The club has scheduled three interscho- lastic debates before Christmas: November IO, Curtis at Curtis, November 24, Town- send Harris at Stuyvesant, December 15, Stuyvesant at Richmond Hill. For the bal- ance of the school year Morris, Evander Childs, and Wadleigh are in line. Debates with local schools and in Brooklyn are being arranged. V The Girl Reserves One of the comparatively new societies in Richmond Hill High School is the one known as the Girl Reserves. Although this is only the second term of this organiza- tionls existence in the High School, it has become known to everyone through its var- ied aetivities. lt was started last term by tended such a camp, but this ruling was soon eliminated and other members taken in. The club soon organized, with the help of a Y.VV. member, and became an estab- lished society with lVIiss Chapin as faculty adviser. A constitution was drawn up at once. The club stands for health, knowl- edge, and worldwide friendship. Its motto is, Give Service, and by its activities in the past term one can easily see how its members have lived up to it. Last term the club held several candy sales at noontimes in the various rooms and in the library. The members of the club were engaged during part of the term in making scrap-books, etc., which they car- ried to the inmates of the Blackwell's Island Hospital. This undertaking involved quite a good deal of labor, not only in the actual making of the books, but in the selection of stories for the older patients and of pictures, rhymes, paper dolls, and toys for the chil- dren. That they performed this task well, however, was evidenced by the appreciation of those in the hospital. As another way of living up to their motto, the members of the club served tea, candy, and crackers to the teachers during Regents' week. I This summer the club sent a delegate to a convention of Girl Reserves members held at Altamont, New Jersey. At the first meet- ing of the club this term, held on lVIonday, October 2d, in Room 211, this delegate, Natalie Russell, gave a report in which she set forth many new ideas for the improve- ment and extension of the club and its ac- tivities. The eorning term promises, there- fore, to be a most interesting one for the Girl Reserves. If you want to share their work and fun, come to one of the meetings any lVIonday in Room 211, and then give your name to a member of the membership committee. Flormzre Pirfeering, '24,

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T H E D O M E Page Twenty-Jive however inexperienced he or she may be- and we want to see just as many boys as girls at our meetings. VVe must organize an entirely new team this term, and from entirely new material. If you play chess we need you. Watch for the announcement of meetings on the daily sheet. It is up to you chess players to give your team just as much support as any other school team receives. W. J. Baker, Captain. COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY Top-Nagleschmidt, Watson. Third-Deasy, Seibert, Thomas. Second-Robinson, Miss Hubbard, Wolff, Strong, Roecklein. Frovzt-Phillips, Schussel, Lleinecke, Dawkins. One of the active clubs which has arisen out of the interest in one of the studies in Richmond Hill High School is the Com- merce and lndustry Club, which has grown up through the cooperation of the members of the commercial geography class in the Main Building. This club is under the leadership of Miss Hubbard, and is meeting this term on Friday afternoons. There are talks at the meetings on various businesses, with now and then a debate on a live prob- lem, such as the Great Lakes to the Sea project. g YVith this term there has come a new idea in furthering the purposes of the club. This is the Commerce Reporter, a modest newspaper distributed by the members of the club to the various classes. It aims to do three things: to collect definite news of the industrial world, to keep in close touch with the alumni, and to acquaint the stu- dent body with the facts of interest along these lines. It is very interesting, not only to the members of the club, but also to those who are not in the club. The club is starting on an active year. lt plans for three issues of the paper, for a trip on November 23d to the American Sugar Refining Company, for an evening meeting 'at the Brooklyn Institute to see Alaskan pictures, and possibly for a trip to one of the large steamers when in port. The officers for this term are: President, Theodore YVolffg vice-president, Amelia Jaeger, secretary, Edwin Deasyg treas- urer, Albert Shpetner. Clzrzrlfs S. Strong.