Evening star., 1946-01-06
lust Between
Yourselves
BY Phiib II. Lone

Betsy Korson, author of the prize
winning story bit to the right of
here, is a reporter for the Central
High School Bulletin. And the sub
ject of her contribution, Thomas
Beale, is business manager of the
paper.
In the current issue, Betsy tells
of having overheard this exchange
in her Spanish class:
Teacher-Why do they speak
Spanish in South America?
Student - Because they don't
know English.
Betsy also reports on "a girl who
has the makings of an ideal wife"
When asked why she had decided to
drop out of the speech class, the
girl explained, according to Betsy:
Il won't have any use for speech
after I leave school,"
Speaking Of the Bulletin, one of
its associate editors, Cecile Bridg-
cite, native of Princeton, N. j.,
began six-year tour" of Europe
at the age of 8. She returned to
the United States at 9, after living
in England, France, Germany and
Switzerland.
And speaking of Central, Alan
Benjamin has been named editor
of its Review-Washington's only
high school magazine. Other new
members of the staff are: Emily
Basshe, Barbara Buschmeyer, Bill
Crassas and Elizabeth Vaughan, as
Isociate editors; Peggy Dawson, Girls
Dell, Betty Gustin and Peter Hard
ing, literary editors; Audrey Sond-
heimer, secretary, and Marguerite
Lenwell, typist.
Woodrow Wilson High Schools
Aviation Club includes half-dozen
members with 16 or more hours of
flying to their credit. They are:
Keith Martin, Al hours; Irwin May,
40; Paul Mattos and George Sachlis,
30 each; Phil Best and Dick Hill
dreth, 18 each, and Bob LoWery, l6.
Their teacher, Mrs. Pearl Thruber
Robinson, was the first woman pilot
to solo over the Northern Rocky
Mountains in the lightest type of
airplane, without radio.
Junior jottings: Macf ar la n d
Junior High School students bought
$5,l56 worth of Victory Bonds in a
single day, Martin Kamerow, 16,
reports Mary Francis Devlin,
g, Catholic University campus
school, draws unusually we'll for
girl her age. HyattSville
High School has bought a mascot,
panda-stuffed, of course Incl
dentally, The Junior Stars cor
respondent there, Janet Hilferty. is
writing a column called "Panda
Patter' for one of the Prince
Georges County weekly newspapers,
the Prince Georgian. Tommy
Kindness has been elected presi-
dent of Montgomery Blair High
Schools new Camera Club. Other
officers are Albert Carl, vice pres
ident. and Eddie Griffin, secretary
treasurer. A poll at Eastern
High School has revealed that 33 2
/ per cent of the boys and 293 per
cent Of the girls are working after
school and on Saturdays. Their
pay ranges from A to so cents an
hour. And, to give you a chance
to do a bit of arithmetic, Eastern
has 1877 boys and 1,08S girls.
Memberships in the Quill and Scroll
national honorary society for high
school journalists, have been won
by four members of the staff of the
st. Johns College paper, the Sabre
Cesar A. Caceres, editor; John P.
Hayden, associate editor, and Joseph
Kenkel and James Roberts. feature
writers. Mary Dixon was voted
Dunbar High Schools "Gridiron
Queen" for 1945. Her attendants
were Joyce Meadows, Helen Saun-
ders. La Verne Clark, Altheadoshia
Waller. Frances Williams, Dolores
Cerndon, Dolores Collins and Ann
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