Townsend Harris High School - Crimson Gold Yearbook (Flushing, NY)

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I-FT - , , . . . . French Club RGANIZED to develop apprecratron of French lrterature and culture the French Club has to a great extent fulfrlled thrs rdeal durrng the past term by rts varred act1v1t1es The club rnvrted several members of the faculty to speak on subjects relat1ve to French The most mterestlng talk was grven by Mr Roug1er of the Romance Languages Department who spoke on The Lrfe of Molrere and Hrs Great Contrrbuuons to the Lrterature of France Another 1mportant feature of the club s program was a French play La Marserllarse whrch was presented to an apprecratlve audrence at one of the school assembhes The cast was selected from the actrve members of the club and each played hrs part rn a real1st1c fashron The final crownrng achrevement of the past semester was accomplrshed when three representatrves of the club Frank Van Roosbroeck and Canton won prrzes rn a Clfy wrde French contest held at Town Hall The Officers of th1s term were OscAR HASKELL P1 erzdenz WILLY VAN ROOSBROECK Semezmy BERTRAM EDELMAN Publzczry Mazmzgef 3 7 7 I 7 7 7 ABRAHAM SLUTSKY ........,....... .............................................. V ice-Premienz Page Ninety-nu

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in . , , L J . - X The Law and Debatttrng Sootety OMBINING student partrcrpatron wrth talks by faculty and outsrde speakers the Law and Debatrng Socrety made some rmprowemenr over last term s club udge Hyman J Rert s address at a specral assembly of the school on March 18th was the hrgh lrght of the term s act1v1ty as the reunron banquet at whrch alumn1 and present members regathered was of last term s The Forum echted by Charles Schlang regalned IIS promlnent pos1t1on among club papers bemg characterrzed by the Stadrum as the club paper Although the club was by no means the model of parlramentary procedure that a Law and Debatmg Socrety should be 1ts drsorderlrness was somewhat allevlated by 1ts l1sts of programs Messrs Dyer Flynn and Landman spoke and many debates and d1scuss1ons were held At present the club IS makmg arrangements to V1S1I a mumclpal court room and to obta1n club prns Mr Mandevrlle gurded the club as faculty advrsor Credlt IS due to the Officers too They are as follovss NATHAN ORIS P1 efzdem' WILLIAM SEIDENBERG Vue P16j'l6Z7671l ELKIN VVIIINDKOS Secretary ISADORE AUERBACH P10g1am Manager , , .,,, ,, , W, Y, 7 - ' O 0 lg . . . 7 , , , J . , . . . , . . . 7 2 . . , 7 . H ,, . . . . . . 7 a ' ' IQ ' !7 KK 77 , . 9 . . , 7 - , . . ' . . T ' Page Ninety-eight

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,.4-k - - 'urn LSL- Spamsh Club F ALL the clubs of Harrrs there IS none so worthy of pralse and yet so una precrated as the Spanrsh Club Durrng the past term the club functroned quretly and successfully under the capable gurdance of Mr Martel who arms to grve the members an excellent command of spoken Sparush The meetrngs each Monday lunch hour were made very rnterestrng by talks 1n Spanrsh by members of the faculty and of the club Added mterest to the programs was lent by the ramophone records whrch consrst of Spanrsh songs The gramophone was persented to the club by Mr Salvatore and the records by the members of the socrety At the Easter assembly the club presented a Spanrsh play whrch was recerved enthusrastrcally by the audrence Thrs receptron so enthused the mem bers that preparatrons for presentrng a serres of plays next term have already been made The club among other numerous act1v1t1es attended a meetrng of the other New York Hrgh School Spanlsh Clubs The Officers are as follows AMADo CANTON P1 eszdenz JAMES DOWLING Secfetmy VAL GATIERREZ T1 earwer Y Q4 G4 ' 0 C. P . ' . ' a g . . . RALPH HERRERA .........,...............................,A....,,.............r...... Vice-Preridemf Page One Hundred