Crimson and Wbite
VOL. XIL No. 14
THE MILNE SCHOOL, ALBANY, N. Y.
MARCH 26, 1943
Frederick Outlines Program
Conducted
To Better Annex Cond itions
Fathers and Sons V-12, A-12Exams
To Dine Tonight
Annual Banquet to be Held
At Trinity Methodist Church
Charles Cross, ’43, will be the
toastmaster at the annual FatherSon Banquet tonight, which will be
/held at the Trinity Methodist
Church, at 6:30 p. m.
At this banquet the captain of the
1943-1944 basketball team will be
announced as well as the presenta­
tion of letters to the varsity and
jayvee players, and sweaters to the
senior members of the varsity.
Coach Harry J. Grogan will make
these presentations and give a
resume of the season as well. The
various players will be introduced
to the fathers and guests.
Guests Invited
The guests at. the banquet include
Ellis Chapman, New York State Di­
rector of Athletics; and Dr. Hiram
Jones, New York State Director of
Health and Physical Education, who
will address the gathering. These
guests will be introduced by Charles
Cross, toastmaster. As part of the
program, movies will be shown.
To be
April 2 in Milne
The Army and Navy tests for
A-12 and V-12 respectively will be
conducted Friday morning, April 2,
in Room 20, Richardson. It is for
any boys 17 or over, or who will
be 17 by July 1, 1943, wishing to
enter the army or navy reserve
programs. The test is the same for
both branches of the service.
Even though a boy may take the
test, he is under no obligation to
join the armed forces under this
program. From those who success­
fully pass the test, students will be
sent on to college with government
pay, uniformed, on active duty, and
under military discipline. A boy
may state his preference to a cer­
tain branch of the service, but this
rests with the army.
Under the army program, a boy
selected for college must first un­
dergo the thirteen weeks basic
training before entering a college.
During this period, he will receive
additional selective tests. Those
candidates who complete selection
successfully will go on to college.
These who fail will be returned to
the regular army.
The navy V-12 reserve requires
no basic training. In addition to
scholastic requirements, a boy must
be a citizen of the United States;
morally and physically qualified, in­
cluding a minimum visual acuity of
18-20; unmarried; evidence poten­
tial officer qualifications, including
appearance and scholarship records.
A student may state a preference
for the navy, marine or coast guard
service.
However, this choice is
not binding on the navy.
Any student interested in taking
either the army or navy tests should
see Dr. Kenny immediately.
James Lockman, custodian, Dr.
John M. Sayles, president of State
College, and Frank Hansen, a junior
student at State College, who has
refereed most of the junior varsity
games and aided in the coaching
duties when Grogan was out, are
also guests at the banquet, as are
Mr. Wilfred P. Allard, supervisor
in French, Mr. Paul Bulger, assist­
ant principal, Dr. Edward Cooper,
supervisor in commerce, Mr. James
Cochrane, supervisor in English,
Mr. James Fullager, supervisor in
chemistry, Dr. Carleton A. Moose,
supervisor in science, Dr. Daniel
Snader, supervisor in mathematics, Senior Class Debates
Mr. Roy York, director of music,
Dr. Ralph Kenny, guidance director, Simplified Commencement
Dr. Robert W. Frederick, principal
The senior class discussed plans
and Coach Harry Grogan, physical
for a streamlined graduation at
education director.
their last meeting on Monday,
Golding Is Chairman
March 22, in the Page Hall audi­
David Golding, ’45, chairman of torium. Charles Cross, class presi­
the event announced that the theme dent, led the discussion.
centers around “sports.”
A plan was submitted by which
Tonight will be the first time in the ceremony will be simplified, but
many years that the Father-Son still keep the traditional dignity of
banquet is being held on Friday previous commencement exercises.
night.
Formerly it was held on The class weighted the merits and
Tuesday or some other week night. defects of eliminating speeches,
prizes, etc. They are to vote on
Another innovation is that the the final program at the meeting
fathers of girls have been invited on Monday, March 29, in Page Hall.
to the affair. Dr. Frederick sug­
The class has also decided upon
gested this.
the dedication of the yearbook, the
He said that no one will be ad­ Bricks and Ivy. All committees for
mitted without a reservation. The the yearbook have been chosen and
committee of fathers and Milne boys their reports are due this week.
has worked hard on this and hopes
It was definitely decided that caps
that it is successful. At noon on and gowns will be worn. The boys
Wednesday, over 230 reservations may wear maroon gowns and the
were received.
girls, white gowns.
System May Be Installed
For School Next Year
Honor C & W Staff
At Annual Banquet
The retiring staff of the Crimson
White will be honored at a
farewell banquet tomorrow night,
Saturday, March 27, at 6 p. m. in
the Green Room of the Hotel Wel­
lington, on State Street. This is
the fifth annual banquet held by the
newspaper, and at it the new staff
for 1943-1944 will be announced by
Melba Levine and Natalie Mann,
retiring co-editors.
and
New Staff to Take Over
The present staff will publish
their last issue of the paper this
Thursday morning before the spring
recess. After the vacation, the new
staff, made up of sophomore and
junior editors will take over the
duties of putting out a newspaper.
Miss Katherine E. Wheeling, su­
pervisor in English, and adviser to
the Crimson and White, and Mr.
James E. Cochrane, supervisor in
English, and business adviser to the
Crimson and White, will be the
faculty representatives there.
Johnson, Guest of Honor
Guest of honor is Mr. Victor
Johnson, printer and publisher who
prints this newspaper.
“The situation in the annex is
intolerable and disgraceful, and is
a blight on Milne’s otherwise grand
record,” stated Dr. Robert W. Fred­
erick, principal, during an inter­
view, which took place in his office
recently.
Dr. Frederick explained that he
has been campaigning for the im­
provement of annex conditions for
several years.
This year a faculty-student com­
mittee was organized, which was to
investigate the possibilities of secur­
ing better conditions in the annex.
The committee, under the direction
of Dr. George York, head of the
Commerce Department at State Col­
lege, worked out a plan and this,
in turn, was submitted to Dr. John
M. Sayles, president of the college.
However, because of lack of funds,
their ideas for reorganization were
unable to be carried out.
Another remedy to the problem
has now been proposed by Dr.
Frederick and has been recom­
mended to the faculty for their con­
sideration.
The plan is as follows: There will
be a one-hour period, probably be­
tween 11 a. m and 12 noon, which
will be split into two parts. The
junior school, for the first half, will
go to lunch. Then, for the second
half, they will have homeroom on
Monday, assembly on Tuesday,
clubs on Wednesday and homeroom
on Thursday and Friday. The
senior school will follow this same
pro.gram in the opposite order.
This procedure would undoubt­
edly alleviate the congestion which
usually occurs in the annex. There
would be no crowding, no hurrying
and seats for all.
If the faculty approves of this
plan, it will be put into effect next
September.
Held, Taylor Win First
Prizes in Art Contest
There will be a short resume of
the year by a member of the staff,
Royal Held, and Ruth Taylor,
and a short program. The banquet
will be over in time for the Hi-Y seniors, won firslT prizes in the
Northeastern New York Scholastic
Carnival.
Awards Exhibit recently held at
Following the dinner, Melba Le­ Whitney’s. Heid won first prize in
vine will give a short resume of the the oil class and took third prize
year’s activities.
Then, Natalie in the watercolor class. Ruth Tay­
Mann will announce the members lor won first and third prizes in the
of the new Editorial Board.
Ceramics sculpture class.
Other
The program will be short be­ Milnites won prizes in the contest
cause of the H-Y Carnival, which too. They are: Ceramics sculpture,
begins at 7:30 that same evening. second prize, Jean DeProsse. Cera­
mics, first, David Herrick; second,
Approximately thirty staff mem­ David Packer; third, Pheobe Heidbers will attend the banquet.
enrich.
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Friday, March 26, 1943
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MARCH 26, 1943
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THE NEWS BOARD
Betty Baskin, Jane Curtis, Eleanor McFee, Dorothy
Rider, Marjorie Wright, Ruth Ketler, June Brookman,
Harriet Hochstrasser, Doris Spector, Roberta Smith,
Sue Hoyt, Joyce Knapp, Inez Warshaw, Herb Lucas,
Elaine Fite, Janice O’Connell, Frances Morah, Lucia
Swift, Shirley Odell, Betty Fettig, Robert Blum, Allan
Reagan, Muriel Welch, Helen Huntington, Barbara
MacMahon, Paul Distelhurst, Laurel Ulrich.
Guilty or Not Guilty
by a State Student
In their judicial chambers, cloaked in the
garb of intellect and wisdom, 900 “Statesmen
sit weighing the merits of 425 Milne students.
Each day, a half hour “pause that refreshes”
turns into a damning bit of evidence against
Milne. Empty coke bottles, half-eaten sand­
wiches, cake crumbs, and ice cream turn the
lunch room floor into a windblown city dump.
A voice of protest rises from the jury: “Who
are these, raised in average families, and taught
the rudiments of clean living, who apparently
slice their manners life a loaf of bread, and
take only the “crust” to school? Other voices
soothe him with the remark: “Indeed, this is
not what we hope to see, but what we expect
to see, because they are in high school.
Some jurymen, aroused by a lack of respect
shown them in classes they are teaching, indig­
nantly asked for a verdict, “Guilty!”
They
remained silent after others had proven that
students are all right if a teacher is worthy of
respect.
“But the snobs think they own this institu­
tion of learning,” splutters a youthful-looking
juryman.
Ah, yes! Then a wise old fellow
explains that youth has little understanding
or appreciation of the values of others; that
these particular students thrive in a particular
set-up, different from that employed by most
high schools. Here, Milne and State share a
lot of the same things; each thinks it owns
them.
Now the lawyer for the defense stands and
asks for an acquittal on these grounds:
Can not some of their actions be overlooked
on grounds of immaturity?
On the whole, aren’t they friendly, willing
to cooperate, and ready to serve?
The jury smiles, nods thoughtfully,' and
retires to reach a decision: “Guilty” or “Not
Guilty” ?
milne merry-30-round
Senior Spotlight
-------------- by Mike--------------
Four more days and then vacation.
Even the
thought of it is wonderful . . . Before vacation, ban­
quets seem to be taking the spotlight. Between the
father-son, senior mother-daughter, and Crimson and
White banquets, you’d never know that food was
scarce. Food, food, food, all day long. It’s remarkable
how well you don’t do without it . . . There was a
dance at the Aurania Club last Saturday night. A
few of the Milne twosomes present were Ruth Short,
Tom MacCracken, Dottie Hoopes, Bob DeMoss, Ruth
Taylar, Dick Bates, Meg Hunting, Royal Heid, Joan
Merselis, Stogie DeMoss, Janet Rausch, Corny Heidenrich, Betty Brown, John Mosher, Nicky Mitchell,
with his patch over one eye, and Harvey Holmes came
in later._ Fay Metcalf sapg with Gordon Jones’ Orches­
tra. ’Twas quite a dance, so we hear , . . That
afternoon, the Milne seniors surprised the practice
teachers of State with a sound drubbing in the Red
Cross basketball game. They say it was an upset,
but we knew Milne would win all the time.
Russ Langwig was up to the Sub-freshman week­
end at Union this past weekend. What’s his interest
up there, anyway? Fred Detwiler, Milne alumnus,
was wandering through the halls last Tuseday. We
hear that he is going into the Marine Corps soon . . .
We know that Hal Game had many talents, but never
realized what a good physics teacher he’d make. The
kids say he’s all right, and that ain’t hay . . . Speak­
ing of physics, Dr. Moose has been 'demonstrating
static electricity in class by rubbing balloons on his
hair. It’s a very interesting experiment to watch . . .
Tomorrow is the night for the boys to show their
stuff . . . Hi-Y Carnival, and the Theta Nu-Adelphoi
championship game. The boys want everyone to turn
out and they should, because it promises to be fun.
There will be dancing after the program until 11:15,
as an added inducement . . . Hitchy is back in school
again after a short case of the German measles. It
is getting to be the “thing” to get the measles . . .
At the present time Nancy Eddison, Fay Metcalf,
Vilma Tubbs, Arline Palatsky in the senior class have
those little red spots. No casualties have been re­
ported in the junior class. There are the usual num­
ber of cases scattered through the junior school.
Charles Cross
Charles Colvin Cross was born in
this fair city on the tenth day of
March, 1924. He attended School 19
and entered Milne in the seventh
grade. Chuck has lived in Albany
all his life, but his home is now
in Atlantic City, N. J. He is now
living in Sayles Hall.
During his junior school years at
Milne, he was very active, to say
the least. He was a member of the
Student Council for three years and
was president of the Junior Student
Council when he was a freshman.
Also, during this time, Chuck took
part in the Christmas plays and
dance committees galore He was
a member of the Crimson and
White, and of the Red Cross Coun­
cil.
Hi-Y Member
The last pictures for the yearbook are finally being
While Chuck was a sophomore
taken. It took the Sigma girls about the longest to and junior, he was a member of the
get ready last Tuesday. They were there, in the Hi-Y Legislature. He became cam­
Little Theatre for over an hour . . . The eighth paign manager for Ed Bookstein in
grade finally found out why they didn’t have their the elections of ’42, and also during
pictures taken. The homeroom representatives thought that year he got his famous Model A
that the photographer should make the appointment Ford. This year, Charles has the
with them, not they with the photographer. If the pleasant task of being Senior Class
mountain won’t come to Mohamed, then Mohamed president, and consequently presid­
must come to the mountain . . . Tommy Borthwick ing over those riotous class meet­
is being accused of being one of Adolph’s new doubles. ings.
Borthwick and Hitler, it’s all the same . . . Schmeck
Chuck’s ambitions is to be a
Mosher and the Theta Nu boys are all through with doctor, and he hopes to be able to
their initiations and are having the horse laugh on attend a medical school at some
the Adelphoi boys, who have their little fun tomor­ time.
He will be working for
row morn . . . One of our newcomers to Milne, a cute Uncle Sam this summer in the
blonde by the name of Betty Brown, is leaving us for Likes Them All
Colorado. That’s a long way away, agree, boys? . . . Army Air Corps.
His likes are Model A Fords,
Wednesday morning, bright and early, the first signs
of spring really appeared around Milne. Out on the blondes, brunettes, redheads, and
front campus the boys were throwing baseballs back blackheads, movies, Gilbert and
and forth. That is a sure sign to be sure. The next Sullivan, meat, and anything to eat,
sign is spring fever, but that very rarely effects Miln- namely food. He likes to study first
ites.
They develop an immunity after so many aid, aid medicine. He also likes
years . . . Angela Snare is having a twelve-day ope^ hiking.
His dislikes are slacks on most
house party from April 1 through the 12th. Everyone
and anyone is invited. Chatham Center is the girls, masquerades and polka dots.
Chuck has several ambitions. One
place . . . What would Dr. Kenny ever do without
his cowbell? . . . Ruth Welsh, the well-known dancer, is to drive around the country in a
has already received her first fan letter. After her Ford, taking about ten years, with
picture appeared in the paper last week in the talent tires, gas, and tools to spare. An­
show, some gay, young Romeo became enchanted other is to present a plan in a class
with her, and poured his heart out to her via Uncle meeting, have it approved and
passed by the boys and girls in five
Sam’s postal service. . . .
minutes.
^ Report cards come out this Monday. Exams were
Chuck likes his women small,
the cause of those circles under everyone’s eyes. fresh, good looking, and with nice
Everyone studies so-o-o-o hard. It’s a shame.
legs.
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CRIMSON AND WHITE
MARCH 26, 1G43
Milne Girls Prepare for Coming Gym Night Program
Girls to Participate
From Every Class
The girls of Milne will present
the fourteenth annual gym night on
Wednesday evening, March 31, at
7:30 p. m. This event, under the
direction of Miss Margaret Hitch­
cock, instructor in physical educa­
tion, was planned by the Girls’
Athletic Council at their recent
meeting on Tuesday, March 23, in
Miss Hitchcock’s office.
Each girl from the seventh grade
up to the senior class, inclusive, is
to take part in this program. The
girls will sell tickets to the rest
of the school for $.20 per person.
Ketler Tells Committees
Committees for the event have
been released by Ruth Ketler, presi­
dent of G.A.C. The committees are
as follows: Tickets, Melba Levine,
Natalie Mann; Ushers, Lee Mapes,
Shirley Atkin, Mike Welch, and Meg
Hunting; Music, Mrs. Stowel at the
piano, George Edick, ’43, on the
drums, and Earl Snowe from State
College on the trumpet.
The program will open with the
Grand March, which will be led by
Margie Wright, Barbara Hewes,
Roberta Smith, and Dorothy Rider,
seniors. Ruth Ketler, will carry the
American flag, and Pat Peterson
The Milne Red Raiders will be
will carry the G.A.C. flag. For the
first time, gymnastics will be in­ represented in an eight-team base­
cluded in the grand march. They ball loop, which begins its season
will be led by Margie Wright and on April 30, and closes on June 4.
Roberta Smith.
Other teams in this loop are Al­
bany High School, Philip Schuyler
Basketball Follows
Following the grand march will High School, Albany Academy,
be the last half of the freshman- Christian Brothers’ Academy, Cathe­
sophomore basketball game. The dral, St. John’s of Albany and St.
hrst half of this will be played after Joseph’s. Only schools in the city
school some afternoon before gym limits are admitted to this new
league. This omits Bethlehem Cen­
night.
tral, from Delmar.
Girls Present Dance
The league will be divided into
The seventh and eighth grades
will present their dances in that two divisions, with each team play­
order after the basketball game. ing teams in its division twice, and
teams in the other division one
Each class is doing two numbers.
game each. In this way, each school
The next event is the first half of
the championship basketball game will play a ten-game schedule.
between the juniors and seniors.
Probable divisions will be Albany
Last year the class of ’43 defeated High, Schuyler, C.B.A. and the
the class of ’42, to become the school Academy in one division, and Milne,
champions.
They are defending Cathedral, St. Joseph’s and St.
their titles in this game.
John’s in the other. This is not
The last half of the game comes definite, and is just a probable
after the ninth and tenth year girls division.
Join Eight Team
Baseball Loop
Hi-V to Present Annual Indiuidual Scoring Honors
Carnival Saturday Night
Tomorrow night the Milne Hi-Y
presents its Annual Carnival. The
affair will commence with a Grand
March at 7:30, followed by calisthe­
nics until 7:45. At 8:00 there will
be tumbling. Senior school boys
will wrestle at 8:15 and box at 8:30.
The main attraction of the eve­
ning is a basketball game at 9:00.
The Adelphoi Literary Society’s
team is composed of Bates, DeMoss,
Soper,
Mitchell, Casner, Jones,
Holmes, Mendel, R. DeMoss, Foley,
Kelly, Golding and Heid.
Members of Theta-Nu who will
play are: Harry Culp, Hal Game,
George Edick, Morty Swartz. This
is the probable starting lineup for
Theta-Nu. Other members of the
society who are likely to see action
are: Stanley and Cornwell Heidenreich, Ed Rickels, Ed Muehleck, Jim
Detwiler, Bob Baldwin, John
Mosher, and Sanford Bookstein.
Theta-Nu seems to hold the balance
of power and it is very likely that
they will take the contest.
They
have won for the past three years,
and thereby take the inter-society
The
Albany
Academy
field, cup.
present their dances. The sopho­
After the game there will be
mores are doing a parody on the Ridgefield Park, and Bleecker Sta­
cheerleaders, entitled “queerlead- dium will be the scenes of most dancing!
of the games.
ers.”
After the game, girls from all
classes will present a tumbling act.
The junior class will then dance,
and this will be followed by the
presentation of awards, by Miss
Hitchcock.
Two years ago, the class of ’42
presented a March to Glory. This
proved so popular that it is being
repeated this year, by request, by
the seniors.
The girls and Miss Hitchcock
have worked hard on the program,
and hope to have a large attendance.
A permanent five-man commis­
sion was selected to divide the
circuit into divisions, submit a
schedule, contract umpires, and act
as judges in any disputes.
All this was decided at a meeting
of baseball coaches, athletic direc­
tors and principals at the Joseph
Henry Memorial on March 23. The
commission will meet again next
Wednesday at 3:30 p. m. to conclude
plans for the league.
BONDS OR BONDAGE?
Junior Varsity
Meulick ............................................
Baker .................................................
Aronowitz ........................................
Detwieler ..........................................
Dyer ...................................................
DeMoss ............................................
Mendel ...............................................
Rickies ...............................................
Jones .................................................
Kelly .................................................
Foley .................................................
Phinney ............................................
Varsity
Ted DeMoss ...................................
Hal Game ........................................
Morty Swartz .................................
George Edick ........
Harry Culp ......................................
Hawk Holmes ...............................
Chuck Hopkins .............................
Dave Ball ........................................
Bill Soper ........................................
Jack Casner ...................................
Nick Mitchell .................................
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Pictures Taken Monday
Pictures of all Milne students,
which will be used for the files in
the Guidance office, will be taken
Monday in Room 224. The pictures
will be taken all during the day and
students will be excused from
| classes to be photographed.
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MARCH 26, 1943
Milnites Enter
Oratory Contest
Three Milnites have entered the
Thomas Jefferson oratorical contest.
They are Richard Bates, ’43, Joyce
Knapp, ’44, and Harriet Rypins, ’44.
From these three, one will be se­
lected to enter the group contest
on March 29. The contest is spon­
sored locally by the Albany Times
Union and nationally by the Hearst
newspapers. The oratorical contest
is to honor the 200th birthday of
Thomas Jefferson, third president
of the United States and great be­
liever in the common man.
The local winner will be selected
in the finals of the contest, April 2.
The winner will be sent to the New
York State contest, all expenses
paid. He will also receive a $100
■tfvar bond. Three students will com­
pete in the Albany finals. They will
be chosen from three groups of
schools. The first consists of Al­
bany High School, Philip Schuyler
High School, and Milne High. The
second group consists of private
schools. They are Albany Boys
Academy, Albany Academy for
Girls, and St. Agnes Academy.
The third group is: Christian
Brothers Academy, Vincentian,
Cathedral Academy, Holy Names
Academy, and St. John’s of Albany.
The winner in each group will re­
ceive a $25 war bond.
CRIMSON AND WHITE
Juniors Select Books
For Milne Library
The junior class has selected 17
books, bought from the library fund,
for the shelves of the Milne library.
These books are now on order and
should be in the library in the near
future. These books will be on re­
reserve for the juniors. They will
then be put in the regular library
collection. The list of books include
the current best seller.
This plan is similar to that of the
eighth grade except that the money
used by the juniors was supplied
by the library and not the students.
The books were selected by ju­
niors in their English classes last
semester. They were assisted by
student teachers and Miss Mary E.
Conklin, supervisor of English. The
list of books is as follows: War:
Suez to Singapore, Brown, Queen of
the Flat Tops, Johnston, Guadal­
canal
Diary,
Tregaskis, Flying
Tigers, Whelan; Drama: Best Plays
of 1941-42, Mantle; Humor: Past
Imperfect, Chase, New Yorker War
Album, New Yorker, My World and
Welcome to it, Thurber, Subtreas­
ury of American Humor, White;
Fiction: Keys of the Kingdom,
Cronin, The Robe, Douglas, French­
man’s Creek, DuMaurier, Men of
Albermarle,
Fletcher,
Gaunt
Woman, Gilligan, Seventh Cross,
iSeghers; Mystery: The Uninvited,
Macardle, Murder by the Yard,
Yates.
American History Classes
Study Tost-War Planning7 Senior English Students
Students in the American History
classes this past week have been
studying the problems of “Post War
Planning.” The students are using
books loaned to them by the Milne
library. Other materials used by
the classes are speeches delivered
at the New York Herald Tribune
Forum on current affairs with the
theme of “The Fight for Survival in
a Free World.” A series of ad­
dresses which ran in the Christian
Science Monitor under the name
of “The World We Want,” was also
used.
In connection with this general
topic of post war planning, the
library will exhibit a display loaned
to it by the Albany Public Libraries.
This exhibit will contain materials
that were on display in the Albany
Public Libraries recently. The ex­
hibit will be here all next week.
Perkins Silk Shop
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15 So. Pearl St.
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Write Letters to Soldiers
The Senior English classes are
writing letters to Milne alumni in
the service as part of their English
classwork and study of the friendly
letter.
The members of the class picked
names out of a hat to determine
who would write to whom.
Miss
Katharine E. Wheeling, supervisor
in English, said, “There are many
boys from our school in service who
do not receive much mail.
This
would help keep up their morale,
and still help the students.”
The letters are being written
about events around school and
Albany. The addresses and names
are being supplied by Hi-Y and
Miss Elizabeth Shaver, supervisor
in History, respectively.
Betty Gallup Elected to Ten
Prettiest Girls at RPI Dance
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Band Briefs
By Art DeMoss
We witnessed a few weeks ago
one of the best stage shows to hit
Albany in quite a while, consisting
of Lucky Millinder and his orches­
tra, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Peg-Leg
Bates, Gordon and Rogers, and the
Ink Spots. All collaborated to give
a great performance.
In our opinion, it was the Sister
who was the hit of the show. This
solid singer, accompanied by a
guitar which she strummed beauti­
fully, did a superb job of rendering
her three numbers, namely “That’s
All,” “Rock Me,” and “I Want a
Tall Skinny Papa.” Her voice has
a captivating, inimitable quality
which makes one want more. She
seems to shout rattier than sing,
and the effect is not only different
but enthralling as well. Through
her great voice and personality, she
readily communicates her religion
and her jass feeling to her audi­
ences.
Millinder, the dynamic maestro
with the
dynamic
personality,
proved that he can play sweet as
well as hot by doing a first-rate job
of such numbers as “Stardust,”
“Don’t Get Around Much Any­
more,” and “When the Lights Go on
Again,” the last two featured by the
immense sax playing of Tab Smith,
formerly with Basie and now Millinder’s very capable lead alto man
—incidentally one of the best in the
country on hot alto.
Highlighting the band’s hot num­
bers was that old favorite, “Savoy.”
The boys just got on the beat and
rode. Heads began to bob and feet
stomped as the audience was car­
ried away by the terrific beat of the
red-hot rhythm, which featured a
couple of sizzling solos, notably one
by Joe Guy on the trumpet.
This number was followed by the
appearance of those two zoot Har­
lemites, Gordon and Rogers, who
did a little of everything, and at
break-neck pace. Their divers’ an­
tics, although nothing new, were
rather amusing to watch.
Peg-Leg Bates was probably the
most original part of the entire pro­
gram. He handled himself as well
on one leg as most men do on two.
He has a unique style, although we
imagine anything done on one foot
would seem unique to us. Never­
theless, Bates displayed dexterity
and proficiency in performing a
very difficult routine so capably.
Rounding out the program were
the well-known Ink Spots. Handi­
capped somewhat by the absence of
one of their group, , Deek Watson,
who contracted pneumonia recently
and is being cared for in Detroit,
the remaining trio harmonized on
“Feet’s Too Big,” “Every Night
About This Time,” and the number
which skyrocketed them to fame
some years ago, “If I Didn’t Care.”
During the showing of the pic­
ture Harvey Holmes, Dick Bates,
Frank Ryan, and I cavorted about
backstage, causing a general dis­
turbance but having a great time.
We looked up “Sis,” as the boys in
the band affectionately call Miss
Tharpe, and she was nice enough
to give us an interview as well as
rendering for us a couple numbers
which we requested.
We learned that she first appeared
with the Count in New York’s
famed Paramount Theatre many
years ago, and has since been with
almost every great sepia band of
the past decade, including those of
Father Hines, Andy Kirk, and Cab
Calloway, wiht whom she sang for
five years before joining Lucky two
years ago. Among the places in
which she has starred are the old
Cotton Club, the Savoy Ballroom,
and the Ritzy Cafe Society, Uptown
and Downtown.
The Sister has been accompanied
throughout her career by her
mother, whom she credits with the
enormous success which she has
achieved. However, we believe that
her fascinating personality has
ployed no small part in her climb
to fame.
Red Cross Receives 94.55 Things to Come
From Benefit Ball Game
Friday, March 26
3:30—Intersociety Council, 321.
The Milne High Red Cross or­ Saturday, March 27
ganization netted $94.55 for the
10:00—Adelphoi Initiation.
present Red Cross drive through
6:00—Crimson and White Ban­
the benefit ball game held last Fri­
quet, Hotel Wellington.
day afternoon between the Milne
7:30—Hi-Y Carnival.
and State seniors.
There was a Monday, March 29
good crowd at the ball game.
8:30—Report cards distributed.
9:30—Faculty meeting.
The Milne contribution to the Red
3:30—G.A.C. meeting, gym.
Cross this year is approximately
3:30—B.A.C. meeting, 130.
22 cents per person, which triples
the average contribution of former Wednesday, March 31
years.
7:00—Girls’ Gym Night.
One of the ten most beautiful
girls at the Spring Soiree at R.P.I.
on Saturday, March 20, was Miss
Betty Gallup, of the junior class.
Betty was chosen from approxi­
mately 700 girls to be a candidate
for the Soiree Queen. Miss Gallup
lost out to Mona Freeman, a Powers
model.
Miss Gallup was the guest of
Jack Agar, of Albany. She wore a
white nylon formal gown. The
prize for the queen was a $25 war
bond, instead of the traditional cup.
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