Southold High School - Snuffbox Yearbook (Southold, NY)

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Grades Seven and Erght HIS year the seventh grade organrzed rtself rnto the Young Amerrca Vrctory Club Its cf ticers are presrdent Jean Newbold xrce presrdent Emrly Kaelrn secretary Marjory McCaffery They campargned for tooth paste tubes but had to grve that up after the l'1w was passed con cernrng turnrng rn an old one when a full tube rs purchased Therr other patrrotrc work consrsted of leadrng a drrve for money for a McArthur ambu lance They had a Chrrstmas party rn Wh1Ch a play xr as presented Seventh grade also had an Arbor Day program vtrth storres and another play and orrgrnal poems For hrstory and geography pro jects the class collected prctures In art they made therr chref study the drawrng of brrds The marn actrvrtres of the erghth grade be gan rn December wrth a Chrrstmas party rn whrch grfts were exchanged On February 6 the grade adopted a constrtu tron rx hrch h rd been drawn up by the students ard later some by laws were passed 'Ihey also el cr ed the followrng officers presrd nt Wrllram Grr gonrs vrce presrdent Madelerne Donahue secre tary Vrrgmra Hunter Judge Joseph Rernhart at torney gener rl Spencer Petty On February 19 the erghth grade musrc class entertarned the seventh grade wrth a radro pro gr m On Arbor Day sex en students performed an other radro show for the rest of the class Durrng the year a record of the demerrts of each person was kept and the penalty for havrng twenty fixe or more per week was to wrrte a composrtron Thrs year the boys rn shop have been makrng model arrplanes as the government had requested The grrls rn therr home economrcs class sewed skrrts and dresses They have all been patrrot rcally salutrng the Hag every mor nrng before el rss Assembly Programs F a hrgh school student were asked what he would lrke most to happen durrng the day rn school he would surely answer an assembly pro gram Southold Hrgh was exceptronrlly fortun ate rn the programs presented thrs year The first speaker was Nrlkranth Chaxre '1 natrwe of Indra who recerx ed hrs educatron at Ox ford and at the Unrxersrty of Mrchrgan Mr Char re told the students about the home lrfe and govern ment of the mrllrons who rnhabrt Indra Mr Chat re brought wrth h1m some very beautrful preces of materrals which he draped Indran fashron on a few hrgh school grrls Albert Payne formerly a page boy rn the Unrted States Congress spoke later rn the year He presented a pages vrew of the Senate and House of Representatrves The pages run errands take phone calls and perform the many other tasks the Congressmen ask of them The pages go to school rn the basement of the Caprtol burldrng rt self Mr Payne related some rnterestrng tales about the rrxalry between the House and Senate pages Julra Shlemon came to tell the puprls of Southold Hrgh School about her home land Per sra Persra now called Iran has recently under lone some drastrc changes The unverlrng of vto men rs one of them Before 1936 all women had the r faces cox ered at all trmes Mrs Shlemon ex rr.: ted cm of th fine Persran handcraft whrch she has collected Among them were small rugs rnlayed Jewelry and hand hammered metal trays deprctrng ancrent scenes rn hrstory Mr Lane Newberry an Amerrcan artrst vrs rted the school wrth a group of hrs own orl parnt rn s on the Morman mrgr rtron He rs famous for hrs hrstorrcal parntrngs Mr Newberry explarned that rt must work It must be useful 'rs well as decor rtrxe Mrss Sybrl Shearer assrsted by Mrss Allrson Cho rte demonstrated the scenes backstage of the modern dance Th dancers performed and repre sented the symbols or rmrtatrons of objects rn lrfe such as the lrftrng of a derrrck or the swayrng of a tree rn the wrnd Mrss Shearer concluded her progr m wrth an amusrng dance Learnrng to Jrt terbuv by correspondence At Chrrstmas time a xery rnformal assembly rr as held The band played some numbers and 11 so accomp rnred the school body srngrng some car ols Santr then gate grfts to all students In the sprrng Burton L Jackson thrrlled the students wrth hrs marrmba an rnstrument srmrlrr 11 some wrys to the xylophone Mr Jackson played a xarrety of selectrons rncludrng some by B eh Mozart and present day composers Some of the scrence classes had the pleasure cf hearrng Sergeant Constance Weygand a former S H S student speak on the weather Conny pornted out that the scrence and math courses hare helped hrm rn hrs study of meteorology Thrs year the school had an excellent xarrety of entertarrm nt Each program has grren the students a peek rnto some drfferent field of art or educfrtron twenty three n . 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EIGHTH GRADE twenty -two sf Q- SEVENTH GRADE

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LATIN CLUB twenty four FRENCH CLUB