Rider University - Shadow Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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TOP ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: RoberT STamI:mugh, Jack Weldon, Herb BenTIey. Henry PieTras. SECOND ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: James SmiTh, James Pancoash RoberT Mowry, AnTonio Andrade, William Carlano, George Paferson, Daniel Facc-hiano. FRONT ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Leo Riva, RoberT Cox, Guy Chiarello, Miss Schmale, SaIvaTore Musumeci, Ramon Rojas, Joseph Cerio, Karl Schmidf. Harry HorowiTz. The purpose of The Spanish Club, La Tropicana is To give To The Spanish sTudenTs addiTional ConTacT wiTh phases oT The lan- guage which would be impossible To cover in every day class work. Reorganized lasT year, aTTer a period oT inacTiviTy during The war, The Club has progressed in membership and acTiviTies as well.. The Clu'b is now ranking high among The oTher sucCessTul organiza- Tions aT Rider. The meeTings oT The Spanish Club are Tor The mosT parT held in Spa-nish in order To give The members The opporTuniTy To apply The language To every day circumsTances. Group parTicipaTion is achieved by singing Spanish songs and The presenTaTion oT Spanish plays. MISS SCHMALE. Advisor I7I SPA ISH CLUB

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FLYT G CLUB BACK ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: John Simon, Minforcl SmiTl1, Bernard Belofslcy. James Dow. SEATED, LEFT TO RIGHT: Vicfor Ambrosino, Russell Plunlrelf, Nor- man Smifh, Tommie Meyers, Edward Kibriclr The Rider Flying Club was organized in The Tall oT 1946, wiTh headquarTers aT Mercer AirporT in WesT TrenTon. The purpose OT The club is To Tosler an inTeresT in privale Tlying. The original Ten members were mosTly velerans who Tlew during The war and wished To conTinue Their Tlying. The club rapidly expanded and soon included many non-veTeran members. Anyone inTeresTed in Tlying or in learning how To Tly or who already has a license and wishes To conTinue his Tlying is eligible To ioin. Club members are carrying on an acTive program oT in- sTrucTive and pleasure Tlying. BrealcTasT TlighTs To poinTs all over The sTaTe are common occurrences. Dances are hel.d in coniuncTion wiTh The TrenTon uniT oT The AircraTT Owners and PiloTs AssociaTion. Those are only Two oT The many evenTs held under The program. Several Rider Flying Club members are acTive in The TrenTon Squadron OT The Civil Air PaTrol. IT is also oT inTeresT To noTe ThaT Miss Tommie Meyers is a member oT The club, a TrequenT Tlyer, and an oTTicer oT The group. s f . -. no K T 1

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BAD .5 TOP ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT:: George Hovencamp, RoberT Bauer H Felix Ricco, Edwin EclcerT MIDDL , arold Bush. . E ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT Hill, Tony Capauolo BI : Bill LaFon, George , anche Shiller, Ralph Crelin J lr lmins. BOTTOM ROW , ac BaTTersby, Russell Jen- , LEFT TO RIGHT: Jay ClemenT, Sandford Hershlxowih, Thomas Weiner, ErnesT Radvany, Edward Redmond, Hank GiTomer. The as ounded in The Tall of I947 by a group oT ambiTious sTudenTs who saw The need oT a musical group in school acTiviTies. The Rider AdrninisI'raTion recognized This need and helped greaTly by providing Them wiTh an appropriaTion oT money Tor insTrumenTs, music, eTc. The T948-49 college year was The TirsT in which The band parTicipaTed Tully in school acTiviTies, making Their TirsT appearance aT a home TooTball game. IT highlighTed The baskeTball season by playing aT all home games, in addiTion To Travelling To Three awa engagemenTs. Y ln May, The Band presenTed Their TirsT concerT oT modern and classical selecTions aT Moose I-lall, and were received enThusiasTi cally by a recepTive audience. During The TooTball season The Band perTormed in Purple and Gold uniTorms and won acclaim by inTricaTe maneuvers on The Tield. Music in The sTands aided The TooTball Team in achieving iTs besT record in many years. The Band received much praise Trom The coaching sTaTT Tor iTs splendid supporT. Rider College Band w T