FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1939
ALBANY, N. y,
THE MILNE SCHOOL
VOLUME 1x
JUNIOR NEws
NUMBER i3
HOMEROOM NEWS
Homeroom 320 has beon busy deciding
about an assombly program. They have
signed up for a date in April and are
now preparing for it. Soon they will
elect new homeroom officers.
Homeroom 224 is a little ohead of
them, for they have already elected new
officers, They arc: presidint, Rita
Figarsky; vice president George Perkins;
secretary, Charles Golding; treasurer,
Glenna Smith, Homeroom 224 is preparing
for its assembly program, They will put
on a play concerning the faculty.
Homeroom 128 elected the new offic-
ers for this semester, They are: pres-
ident, Tom McCracken; vice president,
Emily Phillips; secretary, Roselyn Mann;
treasurer, Anna Jane Rockenstyre. The
homeroom is doing something very origi-
nal, They are sending birthday cards to
the people in their homeroom. They are
also trying to start a library. They
have now 15 books and 10 magazines.
last week they had a spelling match.
The winner was Henry Gundel.
SPOTLIGHT STOPS
AT HOMEROOM 135
Around and around she goes, and
where she stops of course we know, (135)
And once again Homeroom 135 steps into
the spotlight, 750 watts, as a matter of
fact,
You might not believe it, but this
homeroom won an intramural dbasketbdall
game. Now you know what kind of a team
they really have. (That's just a tip
for the next opponent.) Of course, they
could stad a tiny brushing-up }
A word about the homeroom beauty,
(not the girls, Chuck.) as you probably
lmow, they painted their table (and is
it flashy !), but this is only the bogia~
ning. Watch DE ittle homeroom jo.
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Scouts celebrate
Many of the
troops of the Fost nge Council will
put ona play or demonstration edout
scouting. The Boy Scouts of Ancrica is
one of the three organizations incorpor—
ated by Congress. The othcrs are the
Red Cross and tho American Ueeion,
NEW READING CLASSES STARTED
Inst semester the English depart-
ment mide an experiment with the seventh
groade which pleased them very much. It
was a special class, organized something
like a club, offering a special privi-
lege to its mombers. In this class most
of the work was done in reading or any
other subject in English the students
felt they needed. It gave the punils a
chance to do a great deal of individual
work,
"The main --purpose-of this class is
to stimulate reading," says Miss Water-
bury.
The English department is very much
plensed with its progress, Miss Wator-
bury has been kept busy with this class,
which is being extended to eighth grade.
NEW LATIN CLASS OPEVED
A new Iotin co}
ss for ninth graders
has been opencd. The ones that are taky
ing the opportunity are from the new
commercial class. The ninth graders are
taking thcir latin with the eighth gra~
ders in rooms 129 and 123, Miss Mattice
former 333 homeroom teacher, is teaching
latin in room 129, A few of thoso who
are taking this opportunity are: Jeanne
French, Walter Austin, Robert Rinn, War-
ron Monthis, and Robert Leo,
CLUB NOTES
Clubs are to reopen February 16,
Tho first three in popularity are Arts
and Crafts with 38 members, Newspaper,
with 31 members, and third in line, the
Sub-Deb Club with 20 enrolled.
The main
first floor
listsd
bulletin board
has a slip, on which there
the different things which
mey do done in the Arts and Crafts club.
Sign up for one vroject soon, if you are
in that club,
on “the
DR. .TAYLOR WRITES QUIZ
Mr, Walloce Taylor, supervisor of
social studics in the Milne School, wis
recently interviewed by a representative
from the Criuson and White newspaper.
When asked the question, "How do you de-
cide which material will bo used for
your Current Events Quiz?" he gave this
answer, "It is vory difficult to ect nn
even balance of materinls, for differont
people have different idens 1s to what
is news, I try to confine m7 questions
to national and international offairs,
with omphasis on politics, litornture
and genernl culturo. The public's in-
terost mast bo takon into consideration,"
Dr. Taylor made out school testing
prograns in Iown and New York City, He
wrote for tho Des Moines Register in
which he had
writes for tho
a similar quiz. He now
Times Union, once every
week, The background for these ques—
tions he finds from papers of previous
weeks, roading periodicals, such as the
Timo Magazine and Atlantic Monthly, Tho
quiz usurlly consists of from twenty to
thirty questions, and his pictures are
takon from the morgue, This: quiz start--
ed Janusry 9, and is to continuo indef-
initely.
THE ORGAN GRIMUDER'S MONKEY
The now fangled hats the ladies are
wearing this year remind one of the kind
the organ grindor's monkey wears in tho
spring.
Some of these hats lool. like a
pird's nost filled with olther eges or
flowers, Surely there is no protection
from tho winter's wind with tho back of
the hend entirely exposed like this, and
what beauty could a sensiblo womnn sco
in them? ‘The hats scom so roalistic,
one is almost tompted to tae a watoring
can and give the flowers a little sprin-
kling. If women are wise, they will
search back into thoir old dusty hat
boxos and pick out one from a yoar or so
ago in order to be confortable.
Tako some advico, girls, be son-
sible; buy a hat that will mako you look
like a girl and not like our organ
erindor's monkoy.
WHET YOU GO OUT SKATING
~-FOR GIRLS OLY
Are you one of those who want to
. look nico,
But when you go skating you fall on the
ice?
Alone and deserted thero you sit,
Trying to outedo an ill-tempored fit,
Discouraged with skates, ice, and all,
You get up to go homo; agaia you fall.
Badly abusod and cold ns woll,
You explain to your frionds just how you
foll, 1
Everyone Imows that you can + skato,
girls
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DR. MOOSE FAVORS MUSIC
Dr. Carleton Moose, supervisor of
scionce in Milnc, has several hobbics
apart from his school work, His — foro~
most intorost is music, which ho plays
and cnjoys hoarti
Dr. Moose states ho first became
interestod in music in 1927 when ho was
an instructor in Cobloskill High School,
The music
toncher stirred up intorest
‘ school band of thirty-five
Dr. Moose rented a trumpet,
the bafid, and so startcd his abe
sorbing misical hobby,
Following this, he became quite
proficient and playod in the village
wand, Afterwards, he took some courses
at Corncll University and participatod
in musical activitics. He admitted ho
played in the Cornell band and tho Uni-~
versity orchestra,
Today Dr, Moose enjoys misic more
fully as a result of his fino experience,
One of his favorite radio programs is
the Firestone Hour with its magnificant
music and guest artists, Often at home
he turns on » good orchestra and plays
along with it.
Recently nt Milne Dr, Moose organ-
izod n band, The rosults have beon very
erotifying, He enjoys helping the boys
and girls, for it rominds him of the
time whon ho bognn his music back in tho
high school bar Milno owes much to Dr,
Moose for holping the students enjoy mu-
sic, nd his hobby is prized by him and
enjoyed by othors.
HANS BRINKER OR THE SILVER SKATES
Hons Brinkor, or The Silver Skates,
is about a young Dutch boy named Hnns
Brinker, and his sister, Gretel, Those
children were poor because Raff Brinker,
their fnther, had lost his mind in an
accident whon the dikes sprang a leak,
and so he couldn't earn any money. Bo-
cause thoy were poor, they couldn't af-
ford a doctor, Hans, however, wont to
the most fomous doctor in Holland and
bogged him to help his father, The doce
tor was touched by the boy's sincerity,
and agreed to try and help the fathor,
At first it looked hopoless, but soon
Raff Brinker regnined his memory. Hons
went to college nnd became a physician,
Tho book was written by Mary M, Dodge.
ORIGINAL VALENTING
To a Teacher From Whom You Reccivod o
High Mark
Avsnake is pretty low, ond an ant
pretty small,
But this valentine, donr teacher, says-~
My mark's below thom all,
is
So gct in and learn; it's novor too lnto,-----—Marion Horton,
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