Clibe lDottweeklyVol. VII.
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Po1tWVashington High School, Wednesday, March 18, 1931
Room 107 Sets‘No. 21
Port Weekly Wins
(the llbort weeklyPublished weekly during rlie school year bywudents at xlie Port \X/asltington High School.l'nrr \V:x.hinglon. New York.
TH E STAFFEditor - I n- ( llue l
Winifred E. Crouclicr. ‘:11Associate EditorLouis R. Kent, '3]
Circulation: ManagerFrank Jenkins, '30Facu lty AdviserEthel 1"}. Prohst
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l . is t of contributors———Robert I.’-irch—all . Lysbeth Tnrkington. George Mar-golin, Marion Mchan. Dorothea Rose.Margaret Augustine. Thomas Lucy.Robert Gre lg. Carmine DlGiac.omo.Robert White. Olive r Margolin.
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Member of Columbia ScholasticPress Association
EditorialCommentAfter the American people are
shown how, they do things well. Thiswas the statement made by the uni-versally celebrated George BernardShaw.Shall we accept this‘? Shal l we
meekly agree that we have no inge-nuity or init iat ive of our own? No!was it a doggml and mechanical peo-ple that. chafing under the leadershipof a. foreign nation. rebelled. and ded-icated a new Republic to the ideals ingovernmental contr ol to which a l lf re e thinking people and nationsaspirc?
O11r aggressiveness in athleticscannot be challenged. The OlympicGames, of which we a r e invar iablythe victor, prove this.But does this statement pertain to
us indiv idual ly? Are we doing ourpart in preparing to uphold the i n -tegrity and premier position of ournation? Cer ta inly we have every op-portunity. Our country is the l eade rin conmulsory public school educationfor a l l . It only remains for us totake advantage of the opportunitiesso liberally offered us in educationand noble precedents.There remains one a ttr ibute in
which we are out-ranked b_v many—-—that priceless attr ibu te of sportsman-ship. it is here. as a standing tr ibuteto the inestimable gallantry ofothers. as so clearly portrayed by SirThomas Lipton. tha t America oughtto be content to fo l l ow where be tte rfootsteps have led.
Enviable RecordAfter report cards for the fi rst six
;weeks of the second term have been‘issued.a, few computations on the re-sults a r e in order. From the to ta lenrollment of three hundred nine -teen, one hundred ninety-one are onthe self relian t l ist. This is approx-imately sixty per cent.
Again the 12B-1 section has the‘highest average . there being no fa i l -iing marks in this section. This is ar ecord which they have kept sinceSeptember as they have had no fail-ing marks this year. The recordsshow that no one in this group haseve r had a failing average through-out his high school career. while thenumber of failing marks is negligible.The 11B-1 group is next in l ine f o r
honors , there being 35 honor markswith only two failing marks in thissection room.This is a splendid record which the
upper classmen have set and is a goaltoward which other groups m a y wellstrive. 0 ‘
Work On Mikado lsProgressing Day By Day
Work on the “Mikado" is progress-ing rapidly. The production isscht-,duled f o r Friday eveninz. March27th. Settings, scenery and costunmsare being arranged in an unusual andattr active manner. The entire cast isrehearsing daily, during the eighthperiod and a fte r school. in additionto the regular Glee Club periods.Mr. Patof .o loca l violinist. is‘suD—
nlemr-nting the orchestra at a l l re -hearsals. Both Miss Hawthorne andMr. Bergan,as we l l as the Glee Clubs.ar e striving to make this production"something to remember" Port by.in the light of Por t' s previous a c -cmnnlishments, great confidence isfelt for the success of this enterprise.
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Library Adds LatestVolumes To Shelves
Spring has already ar r ived in thelibrary in the shape of bright coloredposters. They are extremely gay andfestive pointers to the d ifferen t class-es of books. “Mickey Mouse." whoshows the way to go f o r animal stor -ies. is irresistib le. A great deal ofcred it is due the a r t students whodesigned the posters.Furthermore, the library has re-
ceived a great m a n y new and enjoy-able novels and biographies. Below isa l is t of some of the best:\Vhitney———-“Pigeon City"Vi1liers——“Falmouth f o r Orders”Winkler—“William R. Hearst"Jones——“Down the Fairway"Broster——“The Gleam in the North"Tilton—“Cap’n George Fred”Sullivan——“Our Times”Johnson——“Andrew Jackson"Ludwig-“Napoleon"Asbnry—~“(‘arry Nation"
The Columbia Scholastic PressConference was he ld Friday and Sat -urday March 13 and 14 at ColumbiaUn iversity. The delegates from PortWashington High School. represent-ing The Port Weekly, attend the ex-hibition of high school‘, and juniorhigh school newspapers and maga-zines, which was he ld in Casal ta l iana, one of the buildings belong-ing to Columbia University.The Port Weekly’ was awardedfou rth place in Class 1 ) . Class I) in -cludes papers from schools with anenrollment of less, than 500 ‘pupils._The ratings 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th
designate the quality, of Work of the‘paper.
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In 1929 the Port Weekly won thi r dplace, while in 1930 it was not r a ted,and a l tho a higher r a ti ng was hopedf o r this year ’the\ fou rth place rankwas awarded. -It is in teresting to note that “lnk
Spots". the Sea Clif f High SchoolPaper gained third place in class I) ,and the Manhasset “Cub Reporter"was awarded a place similar to thePort Weekly. The Chatterbox, Dan-ville, Virg in ia, and the UniversitySchool News, Cleveland, Ohio .wonfi rst place in Class D. The GuidePost of Grea t Neck High School wonthe splendid rating of second placein Class C. I __The Po rt Weekly feels justly proudthat the Columbia judges awarded ita place since it was thefonly two page
paper given a ratin.g in the contest.However the goal f o r next year will
be fi rst place._ _ _ 4 , _ .
Gay Crowd EntertainedBy Celerity At Dance
' Last Saturday evening the highschool g y m was the scene of the an-nual ‘Celer i ty Dance.‘The ha l l was decorated in green, in
keeping with the season. while eachof the dancers wore a small sham-rock given to him as he entered.With the possible exception of tho:
orchestra, the affair was a succes.-'.both socially and financial ly.The sparkling punch and «laintycakes were more than, “A pause that
refreshes.’Mr. and Mrs. Mer r ill , Mr. and Mrs.
Dimmick. Mr. and Mrs. ’_,'o_I:mv.-iii zunlMr. and Mrs. Rich cnaperonml thedance. ——~oJr. Red Cross Invites DelegatesA few days ago Mr. Mer r il l receiv-
ed a l e tte r from the Junior Red Cross,asking him to send at least one girland one boy to their meeting at Mine-ola. .Although there is no chapter inthis school, the school belongs to the‘organization. Each year a collectionis taken up and sent to them f o r fur-thering their work. It is probablethat Herbert Irwin. Nancy Lowry andChloe He lf r ic h will be sent as repre -fsentatives nf this: hinrh c s n h n n l
Award In Contest ‘
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The FratryColumnThis Friday evening, March 20 th .
at the Flower Hill G y m the AlumniA. C. will sponsor an athle tic showfeaturing i ts s te l la r basketeersc hamps of a few years ago, in a ba t -tle with the strong Va l ley Stream A.A- A preliminary contest, wrestlingand boxing, will round out the pro-gram.Remember the tr icks of Wiry T om
Leyden and Lofty Jack Leyden,011I‘1y-headed Frank Jenkins in theforward l ine, and Dan Sull ivan andJoe Teta in the r e a r lines? Well,this same quintet will undoubtedlyenter ta in you as of yore. That i s,they Will positively send everyoneaway extremely contented.
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Perhaps if Mr. » Mer r ill wouldchange the rules for passing throughthe ha l ls to the effect tha t we aresupposed to run through the ha l ls onthe l ef t hand side and that we a r esupposed to make a l l the noise tha tis possible, we would see the studentbody quietly walking down the ha l lson the right hand side.
___}'>____,At the Fratry meeting las t VVe(l-
nesday, John DeMeo sta ted verymodestly that he was too busy dur-ing the we e k to give a treasurer ’sreport. '
No doubt John has been very busyaround Room 103.
PAfter dinner comment~—That girl
eats just like a canary-—a peck at atime. >
P“Peg" l)eMeo will soon be carry-
ing a portable glass around with him.“Peg” was seen the other day de-liberately turning on the waterfaucet so that a certain femme couldget a drink.
pmNow we know w h y “Chip" flunked
his advanced algebra test. Ask himwhat he was doing in Sea Cliff on aschool afternoon with that Blonde.
' . :‘ .' PNo, Nellis didn’ t run i nto a bedpost
in the dark. He was just harmlesslywalking along the street when heventured upon a furious gang war,and our Nellis was the innocent vic-tim, of a stray snowball.
p_.._.Bob Read says that if Mr. Merrill
would lower the honor mark to 40,he might get two or thr e e stars.
PSteve Aylward has the chess bug
so hard that he carries two pawnsaround with him a l l the time. Healso attributes his being sel f-r e l iantthis month to the brainy g a m e ofchess.
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Schedule For The WeekFollowing is the schedule for the
week of March 23-28, 1931.“Monday, March 23 Aviation‘ Club.Tuesday, March 24—‘Retor t.Wednesday, March 25--La Tertulia._Thursday, March 26-—Red l)omino._Friday, March 27-——THE"MIKADO.
Matinee at 3:00 for‘ junior highschool. Public performance’ at 8:15 .
F. Jenkins LeadsList of Scorers
An analysis of the boys’ basketballseason shows the following individualscores.
G. F. P.F. Jenkins 29_ 2] 79Enscoe 22 4 48E, Jenkins 7 12 26Polk ‘
15 8 38DeMeo '
5 4 14(‘urtin ' '
7 5 19De l l
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1 0 ,2Karazia ’
0 2 2Palmenteri 1 0 2
Total..................... .87 56 230Por t’s tallies. as compared with
those of her opponents, are as f o l-lows:
Pts. Pts.P or t Vvashington 16 Alumni 5“ 26 Glen Cove 18“ 17 Manhasset 15“ 27 Great Neck 16
“ 24 Sewanhaka 12“ 16 Mineola 28“ 20 Glen Cove 13“ 18 Manhasset 16“ 19 Great Neck 18“ 32 Sewanhaka 14“ 15 Mineola 2]
Total 230 1760
Junior Quintet Takes. Game From Senior Boys
The boys’ interclass game betweenthe juniors and seniors resulted in awell-earned victory for the juniors.
Although the battle was close attimes the juniors held the rulinghand throughout the entire game.Beautiful fi eld goals were ma de bythe respective teams am o n g which“Turp" Te r r e l l led. The defensive ofboth teams was, at times. very loose,but the juniors proved more capablew h e n serious matters presentedthemselves. The junior classmenpresented quite a smooth attackthroughout the entire af f ai r . Thecombination: Terrell, Bronner, Bar-bieri, Birchall, and Lausen scoredenough points to beat the combinede ffor ts -of the seniors, Williams, Lan-man. McLoughlin. Valdetara_ E.Vvalker, Messenger andMcCarthy bythe score of 24-12.
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Sophomores TriumphLast Tuesday in their second meet-
ing this year the sophomore girls tr i -um ph e d over the juniors by a scoreof 10 -8 . In the first encounter thejunior -girls were victorious to ‘thetune of 6 -4 . ‘
In the g a m e last week the juniorss ta r ted of f in the lead and, at the endof the fi rs t half, were ahead‘ by twopoints. Soon a f te r the beginning ofthe third quarter the sophs forgedahead and, as the final whistle blew,the score stood at 8-8 all-. An0VeI‘-time period waslplayed in which thesophs, by virtue of two successfulfr ee shots from the foul line, won thecontest.
‘ .On Thursday the sophomores a g a i n
defeated the seniors by a Score Of18-13. ' '
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Colorful SeasonEnds for Port
, Title Eludes LassiesThe defeat of the Port girls onMarch 6 ended a most co lo r f u l and
interesting basketball season. Al -though the championship was snatch-ed from their hands by the Manhassetsix the season was most successful.When Coach Burnett issued the
ca l l f o r candidates about 30 girls i n -cluding a l l but one member of the1929-30 varsity turned out. Withsuch good material at hand it wasevident that a successful team couldbe expected.
F irst Tilt. to Va l ley StreamAfter a few weeks’ practice the
girls opened their season wit h ValleyStream, a new non-league rival w h ounfortunately defeated them by anarrow margin. Undaunted by thisstar t the team journeyed to GlenCove and easily triumphed. The fi rstg a m e a f te r the Christmas holidayswas played with Manhasset who evenat that early date had shown them-selves to have a rather formidableaggregation. Never theless, Port o v er -came them by a score of 26-15. Thenfol lowed a row of more or less easyvictories ove r Great Neck. Mineolaand a non~league ti l t with Sewan-haka.
Manhasset Wins ChampionshipThe second half of the season was
practically a repetition of the fi r s t.P or t overcame Valley Stream and reg-mained undefeated in the league un-t i l the second meeting with Manhas-set. At this point Port bowed to heropponents by a narrow margin of 4‘points.Thus affairs stood, with Port and
Manhasset tied, for the’ championshipat the end of the season. When thetwo teams met f o r the 3rd time onthe Roslyn cour t both put up a stiffbattle but in the end Manhasset cameout the victor . .
Every member of the team fromCoach Burnett and Captain Alexand-er down deserves a great dea l ofpraise f o r the season's work. Cer-tainly the results are ones of whichP or t High can be justly proud.
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The Archery GirlsStart Early Action
A surprising number of the f o l-owers_of Diana, the goddess of thehunt, turned out to the fi rst meetingof the Archery Club this season. Themembers decided to f o l low the sameplan of procedure as that of las t year.As formerly, each class of" girls"hasi ts o w n manager. Peggy -Augustin,seniors; Frances Cornwall, juniors:Martha Messenger, sophomores.The c lub plans to have inter-class
meetsevery two weeks. Gradually,archers will be selected to r epresentPort Washington in inter -scholasticmeets. 0
The Weather Forecast .
With the increasing warmth’ ofspring there will be battles 'on thecour ts , a shower of p i l l s. over‘ the“diamond, and a whirlwind on thecinders.‘ ' I
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