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

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Camera Club ATEST addltron to the ever grovvrng 11st of Hams socretres, the Camera Club fills a long felt Want Founded at the beglnnrng of th1s semester by Messrs Martrn and Taub to strmulate mterest rn the art of photography and to eventually take over the photography of the Cnmson and Gold If me wrth rrnmedrate success W1th1n tvvo weeks of the call for members a constr tutlon was drawn up, officers elected, and plans gotten under way for a snap shot contest and an exhrbxnon of the entr1es 1n the lrbrary Both were subse quently held and were very successful Nor was the Work of the club confined to strlls Motron prctures were grven therr full share of attentron and at almost every meetrng a showmg was made of the work of one of the members of the club The ofhcers who so ably conducted the affa1rs of the Camera Club dunng the past term are MYRON HOWARD P165I6ll6'7Qf Jl:ROME COHEN S6C16f6l1jl ARFHUR KRIVIS Publicity Mmwgef . . Z ALFRED BERGER ......,..........s....,............ ........................,,.....,..,.... V ite-Pfferidenz Page One Hundred Nine

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. . . - -V4 C ess and Chee er' Club O those students who are fond of the lung of sports and sport of lungs the Chess and Checker Club offers excellent opportunrtres Save for one or two exhrbrtrons by noted experts, the meetrngs were grven over to tourna ment play An unrque rnnovatron was that of conductrng a separate tourna ment each week Thrs was made possrble by playmg several matches at th same trme The chref advantage of the rdea was that 1f any member had to stay away from a meetrng he drd not lose a chance to play the next week One of the chtef reasons for havrng these tournaments so often IS the need for preparatron for the rnter scholastrc tournament next fall Of last year s team, only aretsky, the captarn wrll be here for the tourney Realrzrng that practrce makes perfect, or nearly so, he has decrded to grve everyone plenty of rt The officers of the club are DONALD JARF rsxx P1 emiefzt JESS WHITLIAN Seiji T16dJZl76l MAX SCHOENFELD Pzzblzczly Mmmgw 7. 1 . ,,, , . SEYMOUR SHERIFF ,,.....,,....., . ..,,........................................... Vice-President Pugp One Iizmdrcd Eight

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-L -' I Library Squad UE to the constant growth of the Library the Library Squad has of necessity been so enlarged and has had its duties so increased that it is now one of the most important organizations at Harris Were it not for it Miss ames would not have been able to care for the library in her usual efficient manner and as a result only a small portion of the six hundred and more students who visited it during the past semester would have been able to avail themselves of its services Although by its constant growth it has become one of the largest high the move to 23rd Street its quarters will be so enlarged that it will surpass in size even the DeWitt Clinton library the largest in the city When this ha pens the Library Squad will be again enlarged and its importance to the Harris students will be still more increased T e students who composed this squad during the past semester are Narins DeKorp Fensterstock Wolfsky Oris Seidenberg Fliegelman Whitman Gross Ordman Moses Ginsberg Arriessohn Lavrne Hewitt Klatzlxin and Schact 0 . 7 . 7 7 ' J 7 school libraries in the city, still brighter days are in store for the library. With I 7 . . , I P , . . . h ' ' : K 9 7 9 Q i 7 ' a I 7 . 7 7 7 7 A 7 . 7 . 7 , V. I Page One Iltutdrcd Ten