Roxbury Memorial High School for Girls - Laurel Yearbook (Boston, MA)

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CURRENT EVENTS CLUB The Current Events Club is on the road up. Though only two years old, it has already accomplished n great deal. Among our activities are lectures and informnl discussions on world affairs, which sometimes develop into debates. Through this club, the members are enlightened as to current events at home and abroad. For example, two of our lectures were concerned with Present Day Spain and Social Security. We have an interesting bulletin hoard of our own on which are posted the events of the week. The club is divided into two divi- sions: Junior and Senior. The Senior officers are as follows: Prexidenl, Martha Mctterg Secretary, Evelyn Birnbaum: Treasurer, Hope Weisentaner. The Junior ofiicers are as follows: President, Lilliun Zahkag Sec-relnry, Sara Kuntrovitzg Treasurer, Ann Sternherg. We are proud to announce that the club has grown so quickly that it has been neccssury to use one of the largest rooms in the school for our meetings. We wish to express our sincere thanks to our able sponsor, Miss Burns, to whose efforts u large pnrt of this success is due. Evelyn Birnbaum, Senior Secretary 56

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THE WOULD-BE TEACHERS CLUB President Eva Pasquale Vice Presidrni Frances Jones Srfcreiury Eugenia Owens Treasurer Nettie Hunt Sponsors- Miss Mary Antonia Mclnnis Miss Arsene Cressilov The W, B. T. C. welcomes to its membership all seniors who plan to teach and some seniors who have not definitely determined upon a teaching career. Each member of the club is required to read the life of a great teacher. This year the members read The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer, and discussed the story of Good-bye Mr. Chips for the charm of its delineation of a delightful teacher. Miss Sophia Palm, our English teacher, and Dr. Mary Cadigan, a teacher of English at Jeremiah E. Burke High School, spoke to us of their experiences as students for a year at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The contrast which they offered to each other and the greater contrast which both offered to American university life fascinated the girls. In March we had a. tea for members and were honored by the presence of Miss Dickson, our headmaster, and Miss Ellen Greany. At the May Tea we welcomed our old members who were at Teachers Col- lege. The program for this tea was a Kindergarten observance at which Miss Mary Shute, professor at Teachers College gave the address. Plans for a club attendance at the Pops and a June picnic were made in May. The club members regret leaving the club and its activities. Tliey wish the organization success in future years and hope that it will influence the girls to become interesting, capable, and noble teachers. 55

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THE SERVICE CLUB Sponsor Miss Bllllllfd President Edith Moskin Secretory-Trmsurer Marion Nathan The Service Club of Roxbury Memorial High School lms made gifts for the many hospitals of Boston. During the Christmas vacation this club supplied the childrens' wards of the Boston City Hospital, Childrens' Hospital, and countless others, with toys and games. Our service also extended to our little neighbors in our own school family. We have received many letters from those in charge of the childrens' wards in the many hospitals, telling us of the shrieks of joy that filled the air on Christ- mas morning when bright eyes looked up and saw hanging on the bed-post the long-awaited stocking, bursting its sides with gifts from Suntu Claus. This is why we, the members, serve earnestly and long, to lighten for just one moment the sufferings of these afflicted children. The impulse to serve others is inherent in most of us, but before we cnn ex- press the best that is in us in any form of service, we must have a training to develop that spirit of willingness-for-service. The Service Club of Roxbury Memorial High School is liberal and broad in its interests-an organization which provides opportunities for character growth and friendship through a program of recreational work and service for others. 57