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,, _ &hoOl N~ws 'l'--==La=te.='S=t==3 Published weekly by the school chtldren of Wilmette undtt aupervision of Wilmette Plav~1rouni and Recreatior'l Board. VOL. I, NO. 17 WILMETTE, ILLINOIS MAY 11, 1928 8th Graders Study ·I Planets in Visit Biography to Observatory .___________, ~la~· ~. 1n:?, 8D and 8C went to the Northwestt'rn uniYersity Observatory to see the ditferent planets. We left at .s o'clock in the evening. Before the observatory was opened we went star gazing outside, we saw the constellation::; of the Big Dipper, Draco, the Dragon, Leo, the Lion, and the Little Dipper. " re saw lat er th e twin stars, Castor and Poilus. Next we looked at the ··pointer" of the big dipper and following them right down is the North Star. At 8 :45 o'clock we entered the ObserYatory. "'hen the dome was opened, Prot. Fox, put the telescope on the third star in the constellation, Leo. 'l'he telescopt· is 23 f eet long, thE> diameter at th t' t>nd t·f the large lens is about 2 feet. The moon waR "full" and we all hoped we would be able to see the moon from the largest telescope but there were too many people there so we had to look at it from a small 4 and one-half foot telescope. The large r t e lescope was shown on th planet Neptun , which is the farthPst of e ight plaQets around the sun. It is thirty hundred times as far from th Run aR it is . the earth. Neptune i:-; a n·ry green colored lllanE>t. · -Yance Soule. ~n .Atolp I INQUIRING REPORTER Question: How are you going to spend your summer vacation? Answers: Edmund F. Wittmann, 7A: I expect that I will go to some lake up in Wiscon sin or in Michigan , ei the r that or stay at home. Stolp 8th Grades Enjoy Party Given by Pupils in 8C CllARLES A. LINDBERGH Lindbergh's father was born in Sweden but was brought to this country as a very young child, and his mother was born on February 4, 1882, in Detroit, Mic higan, shortly after they moved to Minnesota, remaining there until Lindbergh was five years old. At that time his fath er was elected to Congress and after that, they seldom spent more than a few months in any one place. Up to the time h e entered the University of Wisconsin, he had never attended for one full school year. Apparently through so much traveling he developed a desire to travel. His chief interests in school lay along mechanical and scientific lin es. While attending the University of Wisconsin he became inte rested in aviation. After the thrd semester fie took up aeronautics in earnest. If it seemed worth while, h e decided h e would take it as his life work. Afte r the firs t half of his sophomore year, he hef'ame a flying student at the Nebraska Aircraft Corporation. He spent a Jittle more than a year there and the n did somt- barnstorming-, short flight s from town to town, with differe nt men . Late r ht- bought a plane· for himself and did quite a g·ood d ea l of flying, defraying· (·x ne nHf's h~· ca rrying passengers at $5 a ride. Having con-red a good part of the L'nited States aft<·r two years of this sort of lift?, he C'n lbtt:"d aH a flying cadet at Brookfit'ld. C'nming through s uccessfully at B rool<R, in 1!!24, he entered K t> lly fi e ld, on<> of thC' world's finest flying schools. H e graduated with a pilot's wings and a commissioned second Lieute nant in the Air Service Res<·ne C'o rps . H e later joined the air mall. In 1919, Mr. Orteig offf'red a prize of $25,000 to the first one to hop the Atlanti c and to Lindbergh the idea first ca m e in the fall of 192G. On February 28, 1!l27 he had an ord e r in at Ryan Airlines in San Diego for hi~ plane, the "Rpirit of Rt. Louis." He called for the plane, then rt'turning hy wa~' of St. Louis and N ew York . H t· finally hopped off alone on the morning· of the 20th of May, 1927 from Roosevelt fi e ld, N<>w York on his gr<'at tlig·ht. The total distance was 3,610 mil es, 1,850 miles over the Atlanti c. On the evening of the 21st he reached PariR. "We" had been succe:;;sful. Lindbergh has given great Impetus to thE> cause of aviation and is now Col0nel C'harles A. Lindbergh. -Margaret F.bE>ling, 8A Stolp TIIf'JIARn F.. RYRD · Young· Dh k wns b orn in hi:-:; fatlwt ·'s house in 'Vinchester, Va ., in l .~S:l. He SA Howard Wins Over St. Joseph Ball Team Howard played St. Joseph ~chool and SA Howard won. It was pretty cold that day. But Laurie McHale, captain of the SA Howard braved the cold to win the game so it would help win th e shield we are trying for. Others as well as Laurie played good ball, among them: Johnny Jordan, fteldeJi Robert Golden, ss, "Hank" Specht, pitcher. The St. Joseph had two pitchers and they were Bennie Brown and Buddy Shuett. They changed off pitching. SA of St. Joseph also had good players, e. pecially the pitcher. "Hank" Specht pitched all through the g;1me. The score was 8-7 in our favor. Both teams put up a good fig_ht for the game. But "Hank" brought fn a home run the last thing and that saved the game. The umpire was "Hap" Gathercoal. -Ross Skelton, 8A Howard ~A Howard SA played S~. Francis SA and St. Francis won. That makes one game Howard SA has lost. On Howard's side, "Lenny" Wolff and "Hank" Specht changed off pitrhing and on St. Francis' side Laudie Paulman was pitching all through the game. The St. F rands tE:>am showed a good gamt' outRide of a few fumbles by the shorh;top. The Howard team got rather hot h aded sometimes during the gamt>. The catcher of the Howard t.:;tm is ".-\!tie" Boyajian. 2b "AI" Lindt, 3 b Erwin Foslund. Th e fiE>ld e r s were "Hank" Spt-cht, .John .Jordan and Robe rt Gold, n. Outside uf that both teams played w ell. The Q(·()rt · WHI' n-s in Rt. Francis' fa \"Or. -RosR Skelton, 8A Howard 'fht- St. Francis Ball Team Hands LacinJ? to Howard 1'\ll (;JHLS IX FIRE gil'ls' baseball team of SB has startt'd the St'ason fine. Their firl't game was 8D vs. SA and was won ~~~ · RR, 20- H. Tht' line-up was as follows : R..-\ : \\'ilson, C'ulver, Bower, "~egne r , YoHburgh, Miller, ;Leach, Hawley and Popp. 8B: Burpee, Bower, <'rawf<,rd, Laut·r, Orwig, Brashears Kampm f' il·r , Thaleg, \\T hite, :\louat, Tan~ sill and Spinney. Their ~eeond gamt> was SB vs. 8D. Of cours 8B won 41-2 in a two-inning game. Tht- reason for a two inning game was fire. SB wasn't quite through with their st'cond inning whE>n the game was broken up by thE> firE>. When we camE! back frvm the fire half of the players were missing but since we were so far ahead, we agreed to call It a game. -Mary Lauer, 8B Stolp SHOWS CAMP :!\IOVIES Lester F. Ball, our manuel training teacher, has Interested some boyE ir Camp "0-wa-kon-zee" by showing n . ?·· ing pictures of camp after school a few days ago. It sounds interesting. Let's hope it isn't as cold as the Cabin-in-theWoods .. -Paul L'Amoreaux and his two brothers Tom and Harr~r even then formed an cffic:i<'nt gang- of young dar devils. None dar ed tamper with a Byrd boy, or stenl an apple from their orchard back of tht>ir house. After a grammar school E:>ducatlon he bec':l.me a studPnt at the old Virginia Milft.'l ry Institute. He learned there to be a soldi~r lJy the same system and und er the same roof that had turned out the ~.n· ·: :'lt t>S t of the confederate army g e nerals. One day late in spring his fathe r asked him if he wanted to go to Annapol;s. "Sure,'·' cried Dick. He went and in the summer of the year 190S, he became midshipman Byrd. U. S. navy. His delicate features showed to advantage framed between a neat white middy blouse and a man-o-,var'sman's cap. Byrd broke his left leg in two placE's in a football game in November 1910. · A year later' Byrd broke his leg again, this time to far-reaching consequences. He was now a star member of the Navy Gym team ancl rliverted most of his time to hatr·raising stunts for use against various C'u1lf'ges which competed Annapolis that year. To beat Yale that year meant winning the championship. To do this Byrd developed a "Byrd dislocation," which is a double whirl and· a ca.tch on the Hying rin~s. one of the most dangerol,ls and difficult pieces of acrobatics evt>r tried. One day before the · meet ht> fell from the rings. By the grace of God he landed on both feet but again his left leg and ankle were shattered by the impact. Dreary months in the hospital followed. He was advised not ~o try to graduate but he did, by catching up in his studies. In June, 1912, he received his diploma from the President of the (rontinued on Page 33) Friday, April 27, 8C entertained all the eighth grades . of Stolp at a party in the gymnasium. Th~re . were about 18 tables of games of all kinds. All the girls were giyen white talli e~ and the boys red ones and they matched up Jean Munro, 7B: for partners. · After playing thr e or I believe that I will go to Chambers four games all the girls and boys were Island in Wi .·con sin or Devll's Lake, lined up·- on opposite sides of the gyl)lwhich is also in 'Visconsin. nasium and marched toward the center. In this way, everyone got another Vance Soule, SD: partner. I am going to s pend my Yacation Then Mrs. Ga sh played the piano and at . the beach s wimming-. the leaders led the w~y up and down stairs and all around the building, until Ruth Nordberg, SD: at last they arrived at the gymnasium I expect t o ~tay home thi~ .·ummet· again and were divided into groups of and go swimming. four. Each four occupied a table. Th e hostesses, 8C gh:Js, served what the boys Bob L eonard, SC: call "the eats." . I intend t o go t o cam p for two During the evening the boys and then weel<s a·nd the n -I might take an autothe girls had three-legged races. There mobile trip.- Robe rt Hess. SB Stolp was one pair from each room. It seemt-(1 that 8D has pretty good runners or e l~~· they'd been pra cti cino- because both of their teams won. After the refreshm f' nt ~ the prizes for th e ~ames were distributed b~· Margare t H.£11Tis and Bob Ht-~ s "wound up" the E:>Vening- by giving chec·r~ for the parents of 8C, Mrs. Jones ancl the SC cla~s. It was a very successful l~i.fe party and everyont> had a good time. Bob Hess was chosen editor in chief -Elizabeth Balhatchet, SA Stolp ot" JuNIOR LIFE at Stolp school, Friday, April 27. The following Friday a m eeting wa s held. Those present Wt:'re the .JT'·!'<IOH LIPg staff of Stolp school. The editor announced the following staff, whom h e has chosen for his helpers: Boward SB played St. Francis 8 on Elizabeth Balhatchet. assistant editor; Vance and Chester Soule, sports editor 1\Iay 1 at Stolp school. Waters, .Howarcl for boys, Jane Engel, and Mary Lauer, and Pohlman, St. Francis were pitcl1 . ::;ports editor for girls; Personal editors, ing. St. Francis was ahead at the end r,f Jun e Anderson, Rose Marie Gash ; InTht· quiring R eporter, Bob Hess; Mazie the first inning, leading 1 to 0. Mouat, society editor; Emma Bickham, score at the end of the third innlm~· \O~ Hugh Boyd, Lawrence Buckmaster, 7 to 0, favor of St. Francis. Jn th.:> first Elinor Culver. Room editors as follows: of the fourth St. Francis dirln't sf'orc·. up and made five· runs. inSD. Jack Starkhouse; BC, June Ander- Howard came "Swede" Waters' six th hom t>r son ; SB, l\Iary Lauer ; SA, Helen Bower; cluding this year. He is, so far, ah ead of HalJI' 7C, Oti s Gooch; 7B, CheRter Hanson; 7A, Jane Eng- 1. - Bob Hesl': , 8D Stolp Ruth. The fifth gave Howard thn'r> runs aml St. Francis one. The scorf' was th e n 8 to 8. "Swede" made his SI?Vt=·nth hom e r in the fifth. The pitching was f'X<'£' 11 e nt in the sixth, the inning being ~orC'le~~. St. Francis did not makf' any runs in In sehool Wt' han a littl e band. We the seventh. Then the climax came. Last inning! Scorf'd ti ed! OnP rmt! A have quite a lot of instruments. There are bells, jingles, triangles, cymbals, man on third. "Rusty" Dernehl comes drums. sticks, tambourines, bird whistles. up and socks the first ball for a singiP. Miss Smith turns on th t> victrola and bring·ing· in thC' man in third . 'l'h ~' gam r we play the instrumentR. I like to play was over. The final score was !l I o ~ in the band Yery much and so do the f~vor of Howard . -Dick Huck and .John Dernt·hl, 88 other children. Howard Each ,· hild has an instrumtnt and a paper, then Miss Smith puts on the record and each child plays his instrument when it says his time on the paper he has. One day a. man from the Ludwig Drum The Stolp school is expecting to h ear company came to hear our band. In the morning w e pra ctised th pieces we Dr. Hermann N. Bundesen, of Chicngo were going to play. Until we should who is to give· us a health talk. Dr. Bundesf'n was to come to the Stolp study arithmetic. W~ left the instruments lln our desk till the Yisitor came. 'gymnasium on Thursday, May 3, but will Then we played pieces for him till he he delaved until the next week, probably 1\Jonda.v or Tu esonv. Tlw hov ~ :111ri f!il·l~ h::~d to go. gi E>e ciubs are to · sing at 'the time or -Ruth Ann Hoegel, 3rd Grade C'E>ntral th e lecture. Vh are all looking forward to h ea ring Dr. Rund esen. -; ,\ !i\1'0L P WIXS -Luria Hollister, SA Stolp 'l'uesday, :\fay 1, 7B. Stolp lost to 7A Stolp. Thi~ i~ the third gam e 7B has Gf' FA,'OR~ INDOOR BAI,J, played, and the third one they have Th e hoys of 6C are playing- basebal lost . The score was 33 to 19 at the ntl in th e gymnasium. Th ey are diYided into of the seventh inning. The game was two t en.mR. The captains arE> Di ck Hall one of many good plays, also of some '1n<'l Robert Kiel. 'fhe teams nre as fol bad ones. Tht're were three or four low~: home runs on each side due t ·) eri'Or.·. Dick HRll's t~>nm: Dirk Hall, Billy This is the first g~me this season "that Katz, Richard Preston, Wilford Blarlf'. 7B has been beaten this badl\·. ·rhl'v Howard Fogg, Elmer Young, Tom are going to have a game with · 7C Stolp Tuesday, May 8. They are going to try Antrim, Billy Melchior and .Jack Sin~ ton. very hard to win this one. Robert Kiel's h >am : Robert Ki~l. Rich C'hester Hanson, 7 B Stolp 'lrd Born. Frank Har<Hn, Billy Bowan . Warrf'n Cozzens. John Bf'nm, Jam Ps PIJAY J>RACTICE GAllE nonahuP, Warre·n Young, Charles WilThursday, April 12, a practi ce base- 1iams, Locke RogerR, and Evert Wa 1 ball game was held between 8C and 8D .:;hawskv. Tn 6B they are doing tht> samE> thing-. St ·l,), the result of whi ch was a ::;core of 8-3 in the fifth inning, in which the game 'l'he two winner~ play fl no th~ two loser~ was broken up by Mr. Stohe, as the game l)]ay. -Jnck Slayton, 6C Centra l wasn't scheduled and we hafi to give the field to the scheduled team . FollowPLAN SPRING CONCERT ing is the lineup for both teams: 8D: 'l'he bovR and girls Glee clubs are Ebers,. 1b: Soule, 2b; Saxon, p; Riley, P."oing- to have a spring concert. May 11. cf; W1throw. c; Larlee, rf; Stackhouse Both Glee clubs have been practicing ss ; Miller, 3b ; Robertson, If. 8C : Me~ vpry hard. The orchestra is also to Kay, 1b; Jones, 2b; Matthews, lf; l'Jave a concert at the same time. A 11 Finlayson, p; Pnrker, 3b; Ford, c; Ar- ·mpils nre 11rged to come. dt'n, ss ; Leonard, 2b ; Hopkins, rf. - Chester · Hanson, 7B Stolp Bob Hess Chosen Editor · in · C hie.f of Junior Howard 8B Victor Over St. Francis bv 9 to 8 Third Graders Have Own Band and It's a Dandy Dr. Bundesen to Give Health Talk at Stolp