West Side High School - Legenda Yearbook (Saginaw, MI)

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of the business clubs. Mr. Boardman and Mr. Haggard have backed the club ever since it started, not only by being present, but also by offering constructive suggestions. The membership of the club is as follows: George Alderton Arduino Ardussi Wallace Ardussi Donald Boardman John Cronk Jerry Chambers Clifford Currott Albert Dersch Russell Frost Reginald French John Ferguson Charles Grube Raymond Hart Charles Johnson George Kaiser Robert Lynn James Lutzke Edwin Myers Ralph Mannion Tracy Maynard Edward McKinnon Hewett McDonogh Donald Metcalf Walter Richter Russell Spaulding Carl Simley John Steele Stanley Seagen Gilbert Smith Russell Whyte Ben Wells Rollin Waite William Wagenals Franklin Winchall

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THE HI Y CLUB The Hi Y Club The Hi Y Club organized early in the school year and elected Raymond Hart, President; Wallace Ardussi, Vice President; George Alderton, Treasurer, and Arduino Ardussi, Secretary. About a month later its first bi-weekly dinner, served by the Domestic Science Department, started. Some time before the Michigan State Older Boys ' Conference took place, Mr. Humes, the general manager of the convention, issued a challenge to us in which he stated that the Saginaw Hi Y Club had subscribed twenty-five dollars toward the financing of the conference, and asked us what we would do. By a unanimous vote it was decided to subscribe fifty dollars to the fund. Besides furni shing funds for the conference, eleven of our members were on committees. The club is divided into teams of four men each. Each meeting is in charge of one of these teams. They arrange the program, provide the speaker, and the captain of the team in charge conducts the meet- ing. The team always arranges to have some well known speaker at each meeting so that they never lack novelty. We owe our hearty thanks to the girls who, under the capable supervision of Miss Wells and Miss Thomas, have cooked and served us such excellent meals at each meeting. In fact, our speakers tell us that our dinners are just as good and are served just as well as those

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Debating Several people have made the remark that Arthur Hill has been giving too much attention to the athletics and not enough to literary vifork. But this year, much to the credit of the school, this aspect has been changed and we have the interests just about evenly divided be- tween the physical and mental development of the students. This change is partly due to the merits of the debating teams and their coaches, Miss Lillian B. Smith and our principal, Mr. Haggard. The affirmative team, composed of Ben Wells, George Alderton, and Everett Winslow, won its first debate. The debate took place with Bad Axe, December 12, at the Annex. Both teams showed excellent preparation, but our team received a unanimous decision. The second debate was between our negative team and Flint ' s affirmative, and was held at Flint on January 13. Our team was com- posed of Lawrence Raymond, Ellen Ryan and Albertine Schmidtke. The decision was two to one, which indicated a very close contest. On January 17, our affirmative team went to Bad Axe for a return debate. Bad Axe misunderstood the debating regulations and pre- pared to debate our negative instead of the affirmative. The result was a forfeit to Arthur Hill, which, in actual points, is equal to a unani- mous decision. The return debate with Flint took place February 11, at the Annex. Flint showed some improvement since the first debate but our team showed more and we were honored with another unanimous decision. Our affirmative team was to have a debate with Tawas at Tawas City on February 24, but for reasons unknown to us, the Tawas people forfeited to us. This was as good as another unanimous decision.