Winchester High School - Aberjona Yearbook (Winchester, MA)

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ABERJONA . 1947 25 First Row: N. O'Rourke, N. Nutter, A, Albree,j. Read, B. Gaffney Second Row: B. Collins,j. Millett, K. Cox, E. Shaw, L. Fielding, Dana, P. Blake Third Row: Santo, H. Fry, F. Strawbridge, Mr. Nash,J. Mathewson, R. Parker, C. Enright, R. Keeney 1, Z, 3, 'Testing The Radio Workshop, first organization of its kind at Winchester High School, was organized shortly after school opened last fall. The response to the call for members was instantaneous and so large that the Club membership had to be limited to thirty students. A constitution was drawn up and officers elected were Edward Shaw, President, Charles Enright, Vice'President, Barbara Gaffney, Secretary, and Klaus Halm, Treasurer. Guidance Director Mr. Nash became Club sponsor and faculty adviser. Behind'the-scenes activities connected with broadcasting -- script writing, casting, production, and sound effects, as Well as the technical processes connected with radio - were outlined to the group in a series of Weekly lectures. Trips through the WBZ studios and to a Sunday at 4:3O broadcast culminated the study of broadcasting. Auditions, open to the whole school, were held to aid the casting department in typing voices for roles in future productions. These auditions provided a file from which characters could be cast quickly, Without staging separate tryouts for each production. Several actual radio broadcasts were then planned. The various departments of the Workshop -- technical, publicity research, writing, and production - were set in order, and Work began in earnest. The first radio broadcast was given March 5 over WHDH. The program was in the form of a panel discussion - the topic: Should one mix a partftime ob with school work? The organization Was called a Workshop because it is just that, not a club. It is one of the most active organizations in the school, with meetings held every week,

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24 ABERJONA . 1947- First Row: R. Bunten, M. Norris, S. Luitwieler, E. Moses, A. Mathewson, C. Zimmerman, 1. Noble . Second Row: Millett, M. Meigs, Mathewson, K. Halm, Dr. Alley, C. Enright, B. Howe, J. Keefe, N. Bigelow ' Third Row: R. Keeney, R. Swanson, C. Phippen, P. Sorokin, B. Coe,j. Slocum, M. Smith, F. Smith, Wentworth, N. Moore Fourth Row: S. Wallace, F. Strawbridge, R. Eckberg, Holdsworth, T. Barrett, D. Goss Fifth Raw: P. Livingston, Williams icrohe Hunters . With the many new scientific inventions and developments brought on by the War, science has grown to be one of the most important subjects of the present day. But don't let this faze you, the Science Club is not made up of future Einsteins - though there may be one or two hidden among us - but of fairly normal human beings who get a thrill out of experimenting with the unknown. Each meeting has been turned over to an officer of the Club in charge of getting a program ready. The officers for the Science Club are as follows: President, Klaus Halmg Vice-President, Charles Enwrightg Treasurer, james Mathewson, and Secretary, Barbara Howe. The Executive Board, chosen to help the president in planning and carrying out the meetings, consists of Ted Barrett, Libby Moses, Marjorie Norris, Edward Shaw, and Peter Sorokin. The Club has been ably supervised by Doctor Alley and is much indebted to him for assistance and helpful suggestions. One of the most interesting experi' ments of the year was presented by James Mathewson, whoishowed the exothermic reaction between zinc and sulfur, and who also gave a demonstration of the highly ex losive property of ammonium iodide. At another meeting Ted Barrett showed how power can be transmitted, through air by using a Tesal. Ted showed that a fluorescent tube can be lighted by power transmitted through three people holding hands. An evening meeting was held at the home of the secretary, .Barbara Howe, and there the Club was shown an elaborate setfup of electric trains. The Club was also introduced to Slinky, a narrow flat coil of steel that can walk downstairs, along with other feats. The members of the Club were told of various lectures to be given at Massachusetts Institute of Technology that would be of interest to high school students. There are many Club members who have taken advantage of the opportunity to attend these lectures.

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ze ABERJONA . 1947 First Row: B. Snyder, A. Albree, D, Rotundi,j. Dana, A. McGonagle Second Row: Dade, C. Doughty, R. Ebens, S. Aitlcens, R. Laverty Flash I Once more we find among our various school activities the Camera Club. After a three'year absence because of the war, the Club appeared once again upon the calendar of events, those intensely interested in photography having made the resumption of activities possible. Under the guidance of Mr. Reed, President Dominic Rotundi, and Secretary'Treasurer Sidney Aitkens, the program for 1947 has been most interesting, The group's first project was to obtain a dark room. A basement room in the Wadleigh Building seemed suitable, so the Willing members Went to Work and outfitted it themselves. The next step, logically enough, was to start taking pictures. The Club as a group Went on tours of the town, taking many snaps of different scenes and trying different timing and lighting. Some members attended Vaudeville dress rehearsals and the shows, taking pictures which proved interesting to the cast as well as the photographers. All the camera fans have enjoyed getting good camera experience and are now ready to put it to expert use. The Club has invited any students in the school interested to enter with them in a National Eastman Kodak contest. We may now find among our camera fans a master of photographic excellence and technique. With such a successful reappearance, the Club cannot fail to play an important part in school life in the years immediately ahead.