CRIMSON AND WHITE
Friday, Dec. 6, 1985 s i
THE MILNE SCHOOL
Albany, N. Y.
Volume VI, Number 8
JUNIOR|NEWS
CHRISTMAS PAY MILNE STUDENTS TO SEE
TO BE IN ASSEMBLY A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM"
An original play, "Clristmus in Approximately one hundred students
Early Albany", will be presented in the | of Milne Junior High will see Shakes-
joint assembly at 1:00
ember 20, The play was
otclock on Dec=
written by a com-=
mittee from Junior and senior High
school, The cast of characters chosen
es a result of the try-outs on Tuesday
will be published next week, Miss Shoor
and Miss Studebaker of State college
will direct it.
HOMEROOMS ORGANIZE
BASKET BALL TEAMS
Eighth grade homerooms hive recent-
ly organized basket ball teams to begin
practice soon, The three room teams will
play against each other, Homeroom 227
has elected Robert Stevenson captain and
LeRoy Smith manager of their team, Home-
room 127 has elected Fred Regan mamager,
SOCIAL STUDINS CLASS
TRIES EXPERIMENT
Last week one of the ninth grade
social studies classes had a new type
of test. Arter reading the questions
the pupils looked up the material in
their books and then wrote gor their
answers, The purpose of the test was
to see if the pupils could find the ans-
wers of the questions in the textbooks,
This showed pupils how to use textbooks
instead of memorizing the material,
Miss Woodruff's social studies class
prepared a basket of food for one of
Albany's poor milies, This basket was
delivered before Thanksgiving day. The
committee in charge of the basket con-
sisted of Genevieve Williams, Elizaboth
Parsons, and Shirley Keneston,
BIOLOGY CLASSES
MAKE PROJECTS
The ninth grade biology classes ure
working on projects about insects, Tach
member of the class is making a notcbock
of the life history, the habit nd the
food of grasshoppers, butterflies, house
flies, ond mosquitocs, There
ure of the
students 1
peare's "A Midsumaer Night's Dream" at
tho Madison theeter next Thursday at the
matinee performance, They will sit ina
section of seats reserved for them.
The Thursday matinee performance is
especially for the school children of
Albany. It is a three-hour picture but
there will be an intermission, It has a
fine east of characters which includes
James Cagney and Joo E, Brown,
CLUB NEWS
The Boys' Cooking club has learned
to cook creamed chipped beef and to bake
potatoes,
* * OK
The Excursion club went to the
Schuyler Mansion last Monday. The guide
shoved them oll the interesting rooms,
including the one in which Alexander
Hanilton and Elizabeth Schuyler were
married, and the nursery.
x * OK x
The Etiovette club had an outing
last Saturday night, They went to the
Palace to see "Mary Burns, Fugiyive" and
then went out to eat before going home,
Miss Laurita Seld, sponsor, accompanied
the students,
* OK OK Ok
The Dancing club is going to have a
party before Christmas vacation,
* OK OK OK
The Model Airplane club is planning
to join the Junior Birdmen of Albany,
Members are going to make Rise Off the
Ground planes during club periods.
* OR OK OK
The Art club expects to give a pley
in en assombly later in the year, The
members are covering vases with colored
papor now.
Ok Ok OF
The Dramatics club had an interest-
on Wednesday, They had a
Fortune Teller", The char-
the fortune teller, Anita
Tiyman, and
her secretary, Stanley Swift,
other entertainment was a poem by
Phillips, a song end dance, by Leah
ein, and imitations by Adele Buch-
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