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

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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

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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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.47 -- Y 'J - . .m, ' ' -FYT1 Lill- lltallnlaum Club HARING the honors wrth the German Club as the most successful club of the term the Iralran Club has reached the herght of IIS career It was the Hrst club to concerve the rdea of havrng luncheons rn schooldays rn some eatrng place rn the nerghborhood Four or five luncheons were held at the Lrberty ROIISSCIIC each one a great success At the Easter Assembly the Italran Club presented a school play wh1ch was an rmmedrate success 1nsp1r1n0 the players to preparatrons for a regular dramatrc un1t of the club next term The paper Dante Alegherr Chronrcle appeared at regular mtervals and although not especrally noteworthy served rts purpose 'Ihe officers were FRANCISCO M1GL1oN1co P1 erzdenf SALVATORE MIRABITO Sem T1 mmf E1 JOHN BIONDO Publzczty Mmzaffw 9 , . 7 . . I . 9 O P , . FRANCIS D1 FRANCO .,..,.............,.....,.....,....,..........,.......... Vice-President f,' . . ,. . .-.--.........--.............................................a I ' X 6 V. Page One Hundred One