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

Page 12 text:

page 10 THE DOME AFRICA - SQUEAKS N ALL my seventy odd years of exploring unknown tracts, our expedition to Africa was the most intriguing, for the first thing that was necessary for us to do was to find out where the confounded place was located. While con- sulting a map of Switzerland my chief aide sug- gested that Africa might be somewheres around Yonkers but the rest of us knew better, for Af- ricans are reputed to be semi-civilized and no one could live about the vicinity of Yonkers and still be anywheres near civilized. Conse- quently we looked farther west on the map but were still unsuccessful in our search, altho we did come across such places as Nacegdoches in Texas, Okmulgee in Oklahoma, and Kalamazoo in Michigan, not to mention my Uncle Obathes- thia in a gingham kimono with suspenders to match. Failing to find either the Worlcl Al- manac or the Oswego Telephone Directory help- ful we were just about to cancel our expedi- tion for a game of pinochle when we hit upon the happy plan of consulting the Fall and Will- ter number of Sears, Roebuck's Catalogue. Here our efforts were rewarded when we looked on page 6,853 and there was Africa located be- tween the Red Sea and a pair of ladiesi em- broidered ear muffs which were marked down from three dollars and twenty-nine cents. Please place your orders early and don't forget to send your name and address as well as the number of last yearis hose license printed plainly on the reverse side of a salted herring. If herrings aren't in season a few old phonograph needles will serve the same purpose. Two years later found us on the African coast, each and every one of us crazy to con- tinue the journeyg in fact, we were crazy to start it in the first place. Here we were delay- ed for some time, which we spent putting our truck together. In order to avoid the expense which storage on the boat would have incurred, every members of the expedition had carried a part of the truck in his suitcase. Our delay was slightly lengthened due to the fact that our suitcases did not permit ample facilities for transportation of the entire vehicle and so we were forced to wait a few more days for the rest of the motor and the chassis to arrive by tele- graph. Assembling the truck was not an easy task, altho my past years of experience as a peanut vender had provided me with considerable knowledge of machinery and came in quite han- dy at times. Eventually we succeeded in getting the truck together and you may imagine our ela- tion in discovering that we still had enough parts left over for at least three more trucks which we immediately proceded to construct. At last we were ready for our journey into the jungle-the mysterious, unfathomable depths of the primitive jungle where men are men and people are not told to see their dentists at least twice a year. Travel here was difficult, for we encountered impenetrable spinach growths and cranberry bogs which were so thick in parts that we who had artihcial teeth were obliged to remove both sets and by manipulating them with our hands attacked the plants from the roots, thus practically neatingi' our way thru the jungle. 7 As we pushed on fand we were afforded plen- ty of opportunity for so doing, particularly when the truck approached the marsh landsj we met and photographed countless species of ani- mal life such as buffalo, zebras, tigers, apos- trophes, polar bears, night club hostesses, straw-

Page 11 text:

THE DOME Page 9 The Dome of thought, the palace of the soul 5 E lm r rw . T H E D O M E 5 9 PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF RICHMOND HILL HIGH SCHOOL Issued Qaarterly RICHMOND HILL, N. Y. C., JANUARY 13, 1931 Price 35 Cents Editor-in-Chief Helen Segall I Editorial Eight Term, Edmund Fleck Mildred Mesurac Rowena Poliner Donald Schwind Fifth ,Term Seventh Holman Robertson Eleanor F. Eclney Board Term Sixth Term Sam Lawder Ruth Whelan Donald Schwind Fourth Term Samuel Ussak John Helen Manthey Edward Wi Annex 56 Herbert Leaf Alice Jacobs Eleanor Storck Lenore Bergman A Third Term lVIileo Leonard Fortgang nderman Annex 90 Carolyn Kaplan Dorothy L. Miller .Circulation rt Secretaries Marian Skinner, Mgr. Sidney Pacht Rosalind Bob George Michelmore Fred Mohr Hazel James .lames Lomax Helen Cohn Treasurer-3 Faculty Adviser AflU6TI5iSiH-g Elizabeth Bolde Suzanne Lent Richmond Advertising Service P. 0. BOX 7 R. H. There is within us a faint longing-the sort of discontent that comes from wishing one had ordered a chicken salad sandwich instead of the inevitable ham on white. This time, however, it concerns magazines-not sandwiches-from the viewpoint of a Senior. Since the Dome publishes club pictures and Senior activities besides stories and poetry, it has been criticized at journalistic con- ventions for being a conglomeration of literary and scholastic events. The ten- dency in most high schools is one which has been adopted in all colleges: a publication by the senior class of a year book, entirely Separate from the literary magazine, well-bound, and con- containing-in addition to Senior pictures and activities-whatever a graduate would want to have in a permanent form. Pictures of teams, clubs, the faculty, the 'building itself might he included. Under such an arrangement in Rich- mond Hill, each Senior class could devote an entire term to the compilation of a really artis- tic book, while the Dome could proceed with one objective, the perfection of its literary standard. Wliether or not a Senior class could finance a publication, whether or not capable super- vision and reliable editorship could be found, are problems. It is not an easy job-this sub- stitution of a chicken salad for a ham sandwich, but here's luck to some future Senior class that has courage enough to make the 'waiter change the order!

Page 13 text:

THE DOME Page 11 berries with stewed ketchup and prunes. Strang- est of all the creatures we saw was the bzu-bzu fpronounced Hbzu-bzu as in mustardj. Unlike the Babylonian bzu-bzu, to which it is related only by marriage, the African bzu-bzu never wears rubber boots and hates chop suey. It spends a large part of its time practicing the oboe and enjoys a good gameiof solitaire with anyone. Its main constituents are grape-nuts, whole wheat bread fendorsed by Alfred W. IVIC- Cannj, and insurance agents. The bzu-bzu is particularly noted for its ability to whistle Gershwin7s 'alfihapsody in Bluei' in the key of 'GDN with an ash barrel balanced on each el- bow and frequently walks upside down in or- der to avoid getting blisters on its feet. In its wild state the bzu-bzu is very uncouth and eats its soups with a knife, but the domesticated bzu-bzu can be taught to be very helpful. I have known them to wash dishes, read the funny sheet out loud to the old folks, and peel sausages for supper. One evening we came to a native village where we were accorded a reception the like of which Grover Whalen would have considered it a pleasure to wear a pair of spats tog as a mat- ter of fact I still am reminded of it every time I sit down. You have no idea how sharp those spears can beg if you get the point. Their hos- tility soon changed to friendship when I stepped within the circle of natives that surrounded us and showed the chief my nice shiny button which indicated my membership in the Iodent Big Brother Club, To show his approval the chief presented me with a beautifully engraved napkin holder upon which were emboldened the words: '4'I'o Professor I-Iossenpheifer with love. CROSS COUNTRY