Sewanhaka High School - Totem Yearbook (Floral Park, NY)

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PICA CLUB The Pica Club is made up oT sTudenTs who are inTeresTed in prinTing and wish To beTTer Them- selves aT iT. The advisors are Mr. R. Wipper and Mr. J. McPherran. BeTTy Thorvaldsen served as The presi- denT and Jimmy Walker, Marge Y -My W Lynn and STeve Romanski were vice-presidenT, secreTary and Treas- urer, respecTively. . The Pica Club publishes The Sewanhaka Handbook and is now working on The STudenT DirecTory. The members work aTTernoons in The prinTing shops and receive awards Tor saTisTacTory work. The purpose oT The Pica Club is To be OT service To The school and To improve The craTTsmanship, in The Tield oT prinTing, oT iTs members. THE PURPLE QUILL The obiecT oT The Purple Quill is To promoTe an inTeresT in creaTive wriTing and To increase TamiliariTy oT pasT and conTemporary auThors. The club parTicipaTes in STaTe and NaTiohal liTerary conTesTs as well as being The sponsor oT The Arrow supplemenT To The ChieTTain. AT Their meeTings There is muTual reading and criTicism oT wriTing done by members. During The year They wenT To see Two Broadway plays in New York CiTy. The club is open To all sTudenTs. Members are chosen aTTer a Trial period oT 6 weeks in which They musT prove Their abiIiTy. The officers are: PresidenT, Phyllis Meyer: Vice-President April Welsh: SecreTary, Edna DeIven+haI, and Treasurer, DoroThy Brus. The Purple Quill is under The direcTion oT Miss KaTherine lrilpm- mersly. , T' 'T My ryvfrrf' gr' fi' y -it T' lzi xy My ED ': if xl QT 'v ri Tl 55 , A31 ll QT , 'S .' T 'Q K, VN is rr 2 fir is Q M I8

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l Los COMPANERAS IT you were To lisTen in on one of The meeTings oT This group, you would probably hear iTs President Lois Deering, wiTh help of Vice- PresidenT, Virginia BenneTT: Secre- Tary, Do:-oThy Brus: Treasurer, Craig BrighT and iTs Advisor, Mrs. Zenobia GilberT, encouraging iTs members To speak Spanish and To develop an inTelligenT inTeresT in Y Spain and LaTin America. Besides having made visiTs To Spanish movies and resTauranTs in New York CiTy, The second, Third and TourTh year sTudenTs oT Spanish began The proie-cT of wriTing To SouTh American sTudenTs. The members oT This club exchange leTTers wiTh These Spanish boys and girls wriTing Theirsfin Spanish and receive answers in English. Their beTTer undersTanding oT our neighbors To The souTh has been more Tully developed in This manner. GERMAN CLUB LisTen carefully and you undoubTedly will hear menTioned The name DeuTscher Verein, Sewanhal4a's German Club. During The course oT The meeTing, German liTeraTure, culTure or you may be TorTu- naTe enough To sTumble in on one oT The social meeTings aT which reTreshmenTs are served and enTerTainmenT presenTed by members oT The cl b. During The pasT year DeuTscher Verein has ee ably, uided by DocTor ForsT, Advisor: Burgess Jamieson, President Mar are cud Vice-President Marion r l ecreTary and Anne Herr- N A K nn.LJ1rgQ,sv0Qer. 55 f y . D l ' 0 A T lil l .T . V lx! 0 X I 1 ir il

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l , l SCRIBES CLUB Those children down in The mounTains oT KenTucky cer'Tainly were a happy group This ChrisT- mas. Why? Because The Scribes Club sponsored and carried Through The collecTion oT Toys Tor The children. The girls senT Them To The Coney Creeds CenTer aT Pipper Pass, KenTuclry, where They were forwarded To The children. The club, under The excellent ' guidance oT Mrs. Mary C. DeMaTTia has TwenTy-Tour members. They also supporTed The school's war Time acTiviTies. Their Trips inTo The ciTy were educaTional as well as social in naTure. The PresidenT oT The club is Adelaide Buningh who said The main purpose oT The club was To serve as an educaTional and social organizaTion. OTher oTTicers are: Josephine ScaTurro, Vice-President Marie Piozza, SecreTary, and Ann Johanson, Treasurer. FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA This organizaTion is under The supervision and advisory head OT Mr. Furbeei while iTs presidenT is Richard WilTor, iTs vice-presidenT Boyer DeleormaTT, iTs secreTary and Treasurer is Earl Wilson and iTs sergeanT aT arms is John STeinhauser. This club sTrives To loeTTer develop leadership, cooperaTion, ciTizenship and paTrioTism. Also To promoTe a much greaTer inTeresT in agriculTure by The sTudenTs oT The agriculTure class and by all seeming inTeresTed. Too, To go on Trips-To see The many diTTerenT Things concerned wiTh agriculTure. As acTiviTies The club has sTarTed a bee colony in The l-ligh School argriculTural orchard and sponsors Trips To The NaTional PoulTry Show, BoTanical Garden, Bronx Zoo, Model Fair, and To The CounTry LiTe program aT The AgriculTural School of Farmingdale. This year iT also sponsorecl a landscaping conTesT To improve The enTrance To The l-ligh School parking Tield. A I9 l l l