Toms River South High School - Cedar Chest Yearbook (Toms River, NJ)

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Flffy THE CEDAR CHEST ESPERANTO CLUB gan: largest memb rshlps o the clubs ln the school The club has so many enrolled that 1 r r C1 ne who IS the faculty adv1so1 and also the teach r of th1s language hopes that tle members of the club may b able to CODVSISC sllghtly by the end of th1s year Frcm t1m to tlme thls club wlll have t sts to show th standmgs of the 1nd1v1duals Th1s language whlch has been ln exlstence slnce before the World War has many advocates throughout the world so that by learnlng the language a p rson w111 be able to corre pond wlth people 1n many count s RUSSIH and France are two countrles that have a great number of followers of the language Some of the club members expect to correspond with people ln chiferent forexgn countnes by the use of th1s languag as soon as they hav progressel far enouffh 1n It , .., ...H , . -.! ' .' - . ll , . . 'K-W ,6:1,f,,'j1-1-P-. 5 l 1 I I - e t . 2, My , ' Q : 'u1'N5g.,:Q A T ' . . K ., f J.3,h2tf- The Esperanto Club, which was organized by popular demand, has one of the . c e ' e f ' , . . -0 I . ' . . . ' , ' ' . V9 ' - 7 .4 I ' ' ' Y , l ' -e ' 3 ' ' rie . ' . ' ,rx ,Q - ' ' . e c ,, .

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CLASS OF 1937 Forty-nine FRENCH CLUB Presldent George Schrader Vice President Mxrth Tufts Secretary Dorothy Miller Treasurer Arthur Hotahng The members of this club are students who have already taken French or are at pr sent taking it The dues are fifty cents per member yearly Meetings are held every second Monday At this time a comnuttee lS 1n charge of the entertainment which usually conslsts of French games or contests This year the club held a masquelade dance in November It also has planned to have a beach party on June fourth The senior members may bring a guest talklng picture to be glven at some future date All those members who wished to correspond have recelved the addresses of French ch1ldren This helps them to better their French and the French chlld to better his English This year dliferent groups of French students printed a French paper monthly The title of it IS Lecho du Cercle Francais providing they pay an additional twenty-five cents. The club plans to secure a French

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CLASS OF 1937 Fzftyone PUBLIC SPEAKING CLUB lil 25 gm Hia AM: After a lapse of two years the Pub11c Speaking Club was reorganized 1n the high school Its chief purpose IS to lmprove the speech poise diction and grace m speakmg ThlS club was called the Debfxtmg Club ln former years and featured mterscholastlc debates The club thls year has been named the Public Speaklng Club but as this is its first year nothing was accomplished in the way of mterscholastlc debates However the club was very active 1n other ways all year After its first meeting it had an electlon of oficers who are President-Arnold Tversky Vlce President-Howard Sprmger Secretary Olive McLaughlin Treasurer Jack Beddow At thelr meetings members acquired practlce ln oral diction by telling short stories recltmg poems and anecdotes and also by relating thelr experiences They had several lively dlscusslons on current topics one about the General Motors Strike and another on chlld labor Several reports were glven by the members and from these the entlre club derived a great deal of benefxt The success of the first year of this club was due mostly to the capable supervision of Mr Johnson Members closed thelr club this year with an oratomcal contest at which t1me members dlscovered how much or how little they had acqulred in the art of public speaking