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CRIMSON AND WHITE
ALBANY, N. Y
FRIf>AY. A P R I L 5. I©40
THE
VOL.UMC X
EDITORS TO HSVEAL STA!^?
or NEXT THAR AT ' BAlTQjrST
TOMORROlif AT J0I3TS0i:'S
Another nev/ precedent
for Milne vdll make its
delDut tomorrow evening,
as Crimson And White journalists attend a "banquet
at Howard Johnson^s on
Central
Avenue
at six.
iv J HoriibcrG
of tho news
staff, past ^.-.nd present,
including the Sophomores
of the cu"b reporting class,
and the business staff of
the paper v/ill attend.
MILNE
SCHOOL
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ATHLETIC CLIDS SPOHSOR
BARN DAITCB IN COITOISIS
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Arthur Bates, president of the Student Coun»*
cil, announces that in
the near future I^v.OJhoodorrt " Sohreiber of the
Aloany Camera Shop will
take moving pictures of
Milne
activities.
The
purpose is to prepare a
talking picture to circulate
about the United
States as a sample of student life in a model high
school, Mr. Schreiber is
an expert cameraman, v;ho
has taken pictures of the
Ban Amorican highway in
Central America,
The "barn dance, sponAt this affair the new sored "by the Hi-Y and
staff of the newspaper G.A.C., "boys' and giils"
will "be rove&led,
and
sports organizations of
mem"bers of this yearns Milne, will take place
staff will officially pass this evening in the State
on their positions to their College Commons from nine
"The Senior
English
successors» Jane Phillips, to twelve, Suzanne Robclasses under Miss V/heelJosephine
Vfilson,
and
erts and Robert Stevenson
ing, supervisor of EngRobert Kohn ajre in charge are co-^chairraen.
Bill
lish, will arrange the
of
reservations.
Kohn Ilannan's
script, sets, and continorchestra will
states: "Vfe have made a furnish music.
uity,
working hand in
few more reservations at
hand i-dth Mr. Schreibef,'V
Committees assisting
Johnson's than we have
Bates
stated.
Every
the
chairmen are: decorafilled, so it's not too
phase of student life Clements,
scholastic work, clubs,
late for students to noti- tioni Bruce
fy us that they're coming." Helen Cooper, Prank Hewes, athletics, and dances v/ill
Laura
become a part of the movie,
Price of the dinner is Armon Livermore,
Mr. Schreiber pxans to
seventy-fivG cents, (.75) Lyon, Jane Vedder, and
Doris Vogatski; orchestra, take pictures at
the
Fred Regan and Tlor- Virginia
Brown, Donald
Crimson And White
and
ence Ilerher, co»^editors, Faucault, Edward langwig,
i'athor M3~Son
5anquot
and Doris Holmes, asso- Betty Mann, Ruth Selkirk,
tomorrov/
evening.
He
Josephine
Wilson;
ciate editor of the news- and
will shaot all other actitickets, Mary Baker, Marpaper are in charge of
vities in one day
at
tin Edwards, Betty Miller, Milne.
arrangements.
Miss
Katherine I'Jlieeling, facul- Shirley Rubin, and LeRoy
publicity, Rita
Bates also announced
ty adviser of the paper, Smith;
Miss Sally Young, State Figarsky and Marilyn Potter, that the minimum finances
College
adviser.
Miss
needed
to prodaco the
Victoria Woiciek,
the
Mtp.. Wilfred P'.' Allard^ movie are assured.
The
newspaper typist, and Miss ^as'''Both Hitchcock, and
Senior class will contriDetty Darden, last yearns Miss Grace llartin will
bute $100, the (h;araatic
chaperone.
editor, v/ill attend.
club, $50; the Student
Council, $32(Jthe surplus
from the mural fund made
FATHER
BA':TO;lIEIT TAKES PIuVCE TOMORROW
by the card party); and
Milno^s amimal Father
The award of basketball $24( made on the Milne
and Son dinner will take letters and sweaters, spec- student pictured^,
placo in the Fellowship ial,Twnsic, a fow very short
P^.r^nh'^
N
iriflt
Hall of the First Rcfor-^cci: talks, and a presentation
iLlJ^lil^
J
IV..V oh t oDXir r ow
e vev Ingof the G-eneral
Electris
IS
S;."'jLrda3% April 6, at^ sjix House of Magic, wi.Tl be v i
/
0-clack. Price of the inoal special features "Tof the
P f i c l c i y
evening
program.
is one dollar, ($1,00)
T^GE 2
SENIORS
I-LIRSIL^LLG,
PHEP.\EE F i l m DCCUMSLTS
The
.Scr^idr.s
h'i-3
eUected Ruth Llartin and EJwaid Lang\;ig to the highly honored position
of
marshalls. The marshalls,
J^jniors, lead the tv/o
lines of Seniors into
the auditorium on "both
Class ITight and Commencement.
The last official documents of the Class of
1940 are now in the preparatory stages. Margaret Chase and Doris Mochrie are
v/riting
the
prophecy
v/hile Sally
Devereux, Eotelle Dilg,
and Virginia ISrovm v/ork
on the will„ The Cla.ss
History is in the hands
of G-il'Dert Dancys -^^-lora
3oik,; and Roocrt Vheelcr,
T]rv3Ee documents v/ill iX-ive
iheiv dehut in the Class
Hight exercises on June
14-.
Class l^ii^'ht plans are
once more miderway. This
year they are headed "by
Armon Livermore* His committee includes G-il"bert
Dancy, Doris Holmes ^ An-^
ita Eyman, Edv;ard Steriifeld,
Rol)crt l^aeeler,
and Evelyn Win3er,
K'RSTP^
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Thursday, March 7, 1940
Dear Milnites
I am ashamed to see how fast it is possible to
get behind on the news of the school• Thiii society
arrangement, from what I can see of it, is a good
answer to a problem than made me lose sleep from time
to time last year^ Me and some other guys, too»^ 1*11
never quite forget those hectic meetiings, where the
walls bulged and the floor- sagged v;ith the crov;d» But
it seems like this year's senior class is going to put
the JOG Milnites out of the spotlight as far as being
live goeso
Ah^ well, H i s ever thus—there could bo
no progress if 'twasn-t.
The University of Michigan is located in a toi-m
named i'^n Arbor, not 'Unn Harbor", You see, once" upon
a time., back in the dim days of the 1800's. a girl
named .Ann had a gr>ape arbor somewhere on State Street
and it was a pretty hot spot^ I guess, because the
Indi©.ns and trappevs all visited Ann in her arbor, on
the way up the H-jron river. Wsll, the nevrs finally
go^to Detroitf which is where the University of Mich>igan was located in those days, and the college boys
got to coming out to Ann^s Aibor, or Ann Arbor, as it
began to be called (instead of the origir^il Indian
name, Sacrospinallusooglutis,,) so regularly that the
professors decided to try it themselvesy and have been
there ever since. The arbor itself is gone, and in
its piace is what they call the Arcade, just like in
Albany, lined with soda fountains and stores4 But the
University has flourished, and liow theie are some 12,000
students w h o U l tell you that it^s the best school in
the country, excepli Milner Seriously, though, it is
a swell schoolf and if anyone waiits to get a student's
slant on the thing, with the idea of coming here> I'll
be glad to write*, I hope to be in town from the 5th
to the 15th of April, and if school is in during that
time, I^m sure as heck going to drop around and do a
little visiting,
Thiere's what almost amounts to a drive here to
get beautiful coeds, inspired by a remark made famous
by one of last yearns footbal].ers^ "Pour out of five
g&ils are beautiful,„and the f3 fth one comes to Mich-igan.i^ 'ft^hich is not strictly true—I saw a pretty girl
once, I3ut she might have been one of the high school
girls here. But, all kidding aside again, I*11 tell
you that we have a top-notch school here in every way.
I am at the University of Michigan, which is in
,the Indian country to the west of Buffalo, After a
semester of hardships, I was last week initiated into
Phi Gamma Delta, which, of course, is Uie fraternity
in any school, bar none, even the DU's and Psi U^s at
SQCJETISS COlDuCI LUHC-nON Union, Succeeding in making my scholastic olig^'i^ill"^
ty, I went out for activities this year, conccntratjng
Quin and Sigma will
on the business staff of the yearbook, the Michigancomljine
and attend a
anensian,
or ^Ensian,for short. There is so much gojoint luncheon for tlio
ing
on
here
that nobody gets to be much of a frog,
two societicf.} at Ilov/.jrd
without
playing
football, but it»s a lot of fun being
Johnson^s on Central Avean
embryo,
just
the samet, Ify best claim to fame is
nue,
I'm on nodding terms with Tom Harmon., one 01" our All-»
Jane Phillips^, froui
Americans a and am related to his gal-, He and I both
Sigma, and Eatelle Dii:;,
work up at the Phi Gam house, though he isn't a Fiji,
from Ouin, are in charge
of arrangements for the
Hope I havenU taken too much of your time, r.nd
eveT)t* It will "bo on
that you^ll drop me a line sometime soon* I-ve got
ipril 20.
to tear now.
Good luck.
If you look clo?5o-V
y ly rii-t front,you can see"
8 'D'v'. grass. Ife
should*/
Ui-.e to see a lavm. 1, ,
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SPRINGTII® COIES TO MILIIS
With the advent and timely arrival
of spring to Milne this week, the school
halls were once more filled with saddle
shoes and with "bright, flashing colors.
The Page liall court again echoed with the
cries of Senior high "boys playing "You
throw the ball and 1*11 clout the guy who
gets it," v/hile the girls officially opened the hand tennis season. Farther signs
of spring voro noted as we spied 3ruce
"Flash" Clements, retired checker player
now manager of the Milne "basehall nine,
as he dashed about the "building shaping
up those last minute schedule shifts with
Coach Fairbank of State ^ollege.
There was a general restlessness
that came over both students and teachers
during the last twenty minutes of school
each day and for the first time in months
a warm sun filtered through the windows
carrying \d.th it a preview of the
good
times in store fo# us this summer.
C0MING-DRAI4&.
Parents night is coming around
next Friday and this year instead o^
a speexjh being made to the parents, the
Senior high dramatics club is going to
present a three act play. The play, ^The
Late Chris Bean", which is being directed
by Miss Mary York and by Miss Jane Wilson,
both of State College, has already won
critics acibiaim by those who have seen it
in rehearsal. This is the first three act
play attempted in Milne for more than six
years.
BIG DOIHGS
An active vreekend may be predicted
for Marlnites this week with the Hi-Y
Barn Dance tonight and the Crimson and
VThite banquet at Howard Johnsons to-morrow night. There is also a Fathers and
gpfi^ banquet scheduled for this Saturday.
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EDITORIAL 3QABD
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foiTon,.
Published weekly by the Crimson And ^fnite
staff at the Milne School, Albanj", 1T,Y.
Fred Regan
Florencw Herber
Doris Holmes
Sally Devereux
Estelle Dilg
Margaret Chase
Robert ^iheeler
John VanAcker
Arthur Bates
Frank Hewes
Hartha Freytag
Harriet G-orden
Anita I^nnan
Co-editors
Associate editor
Feature editors
Sports editors
Art staff
NEWS BOARD
Betty Mann
Jane Phillips
Doris Mochrie
BUSINESS BOaRD
Business manager
Armon Livermore
Managing editor
Carl French
Mimeographers
Bruce Clements
Roy Williams
Robert Mason
Printers
Fred Detweiler
Ira Moore
Circulation
ADVISORY BQilRD
Miss Katherine E, Wheeling
Miss Grace Martin
Mr. John A, ^'hirray
Miss Sally E. Young
"The curfew tolls the knell of parting year," and we, the Crimson And White
itaff of 1939 - »40 are officially retiring from high school journalism v;ith
this issue. According to custom, therefore, this publication is the all-Senior
issue.
But what is there to say novr, about
siime last April we've been throvdng
words in ©very direction. Maybe the midnight oil has been drained once
in
a while for the all-important cause of
"the paper must come out," and granted
that once in a while a thoughtless student spoils a little scoop,- a scoop is
a precious thing.
We've had a year
crammed full of fun and journalistic
lessons.
To Miss Wheeling, r faculty advisor
of the Crimson and White, Miss Sally
Young, and Mr, Murray, State College
counsellors - to everyone who has helped
to make this year a success "Thank You!"
THE LAS
ISSUE
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BED
Tensions will ease tomorrow evening
as the new Crimson and White staff
is
announced for the first time. Just between you and us, we think it's a mighty
competibn^i stafffor next year. Congratulations to them!
STUDr
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5TH? O
And vfhat have you
where have you "been?
•r*
"been doing and
In checking up on movies we found
that instead of asking what movies our
cronies had been to, we should rather ask
how many times they had seen each picture,
Of cour^^e, you know everyone has
seen "Pino«c-l:lo, "Young Tom Bdison",
"The Road To oingapore" and "Virginia
City", not to mention all the pictures
at our favorite haunt,
the Madison,
The juniors really found vacation a
working proposition what with junior essays due last Monday.
them the seniors extend their deepest sympathy with
a ^Ve know, v/e laiow."
The Voice of Experience speaks.
There are certain people who have
"been trudging around saying "Find vacation,
work, v/ork, work," What with the
French department making one read novels
in French, the English department and
essays, the I'fe.thematics department and
cujmilative reviews, we feel we need another vacation — — just to rest!
V e W e done quite a "bit of tramping
around since our last conversation with
the feature "bugs "but there are always
some people v/e can't constantly spy upon,
Doris Iloiunes is one of these people who
escapes from the eye of your reporters.
Miss Holmes decided to go South — we
heard some mention of North Carolina,
Incidently 3ud Hill (former Milnite, now
living in Baltimore) sent Doris a positively lovely corsage for Easter — and
of course y o u H e seen his Adelphoi key
around her neck»
Another traveler who has heen telling tall talos of how deep the snow was
is Armon Livermore, who found it a "bit
hard to get out of Rochester after he
got In,
•fijv^n the grapefruit are'shedding
T/oarc ^he size of grapefruit "because
£9-tit; Morrison preferred New York State
to Flc-ida,
Everyone was overjoyed to
ficd our svmii;^^-headed,
golden-hro^Amtannei'' lass return.
•^e hear a fuumer Milnite also was
visiting Albany during vacation, Charles
'Jcr^..^ v/ho now lives "up Utica way", was
sut... bv several people.
FAC
Y
f;^OLJCf>
So the faculty are not exciting?
That a i n U the way we heard it J The way
we heard it - one feller s a i d — — Monsieur Allard, we see by society
notes was best man at a wedding.
All
Milnites planning to be best men at relatives weddings will please see Allard to
obtain formala as to how to keep knees
from knocking from nervousness and ju&t
how to keep the dainty circulet from
being lost.
Many cheery faces were about when
Miss Ifheeling,
Miss Johnson and Miss
Palmer returned to school after illnessert
The press convention served to reunite Milne delegates with two former
Milne supervisors - Remember Miss Smith
and Miss Halter?
Concerning Miss Virginia Smith, we
have heard a funny little ditty.
It
seems that one morning our faculty chap'erones at the convention were to have
breakfast with Miss Smith in the sittingroom provided for our group at the convention,
When Miss Smith arrived, Miss
Conklin called up room 667 and th^jnking
it was Doctor Frederick said that "'Gin*
is here but the coffee isnH,"
It just
happened that room 667 was not Doctor
Frederick's room but that of the Milne
boys who thought it was all quite a joke.
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I M YOEIC TRIP
RSTURI: TO HGR ulLCY
li: A raf LUES
The train dovm
a place where the
gay emlDarkees rejoiced over their good
fortune and sang (?) old favorites sach
as "She^ll be Coining 'Hound the Mountain"
and various others of their own concoction.
Arrtval at the ?ark Central — after
listening to the annoying click of the
taxis' moters,. the delt^gates were glad
to roach the hotel, scrax) over v/ho was
to keep tho .rey, and dep&.rt for dinner,
ar:i an evenr'ng of "gr.p:..ig^ at signs,
buildings p people and iiO on.
The next morning, everyone up "bright
and early, (lieh, heh) presented an un?charming picture of New Y^rk in the rain.
Shopping was fun, though, as were the
su"bs, even if there are two subway com-«
panies, and the one v;hich doesn't go to
Colurahia goes t^ Q;a-aens,
Columbia
more "big building^and a
lot of people v/earing convention tags,
stacks of school newspapers and lectures
on writing, editing, illustrating etc*
The Southern ''drav/ls" of the Caroline
representatives v;ere rauch admired.
Free time —- those wonderful occa^.
sions when Milnites acq\iainted themselves
with Hew York, it^^ ten-cent stores,
penny arcades, the Cafe Rouge, the Smorgasbord (Swedish restaurant to you) and
gljrapse of the liners Qiaaen Mary, Q^een
Elizabeth ahd Rex,
The train home
a haven of rest
for the weary» nevertheless, admiring
eyes follov^ed the troop of sailors in
uniform who walked through the car.
Z3ack to school again! That long
awaited a5)ring vacation is behind upo
Everyone was going to catch up on his
sleep, especially those sleepy^
city
slickers who attended the ^less Conv-jn^^
tionj also those ambitious Junior boys
v;ho Journeyed to the big city and did it
T:^ right. They sraw the sights and h:,t
the hot spots. And some of the boys
have very poor memories,-^onH seem to
remember where they were-^how strangoi
But now we^re back to the grii?:cl'
stone again, Shreryway yen turn you
komeone telling about) hov; hard lie iti
going to study from now on because :,t;
isn^t long until exam time, Ile^s even
going to miss Olenn Miller Just to dc
his algebra homev;ork,
(Th£tt. may sound
as though someone is cariying this study^^
ing thing too far, but it'^s true,)
There was a lot going on during vacation; several people gave parties, ''A
fine time v/as had by all" at Sue Roberte
one nighty Of course everyone went to
the movies at least once. Then goo3. old
"Herbert*s" was always a nice stand-by,
Whenever you dropped in for that-—coke,
you vrere bound to meit Just everyone.
Now that we're back to
schedule
again, we find the IIi-.Y-Cr,A, C, dance is
here. Then very soon along comes Parents' Night, And at last we'll see that
long-awaited play "Chris 3ean",
But along with everything else coming up, don't forget that this is the
time to start studying for ejcams,.and
not the night before the exam.
PRATTLIITGS
The Vicar seems to be doing a bit
of stepping these days.
Ilo-hum, 'twill
be more convenient when the Thompsons
move into Albany,
^QMe QHg
ICilx^JEl
(CM^ntinv.Gd from "other co£iin)
Spring fever is again in season.
Wif/bf^:.l glances are lost at the great
cut.v.rt-doors, and v/ere it not for snapper- bockers like Guj'- Childs, no doubt
iLjr';:) iban one teacher iirould get a "huh"
T .^-nly to her question,
.Tn the lirae-light or was it shadows,
we.a "S^y yilbcr's slightly-greenish eye.
.P":sb.ily kids, it was a door.
ni^ k.
Carl French divides his attention
between a little pink rabbit (a Hew York
relief and blonde Bette Tarnan,
(Continued in other column)