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Latest $chool News VOL. 2, NO. 46 Publubtd ~tltly by tbt acbool children of W ilmttte under ruperviaion of W ilmettt Playground 11nd Recreation Board JUNIOR LIFE WILMETTE, ILLINOI1S, FEBRUARY 7, 1930 th·~ champion~hlp. The score of the first game was 8 to 10 in our favor. The fil'st game was played at Stolp. The score of the second game was 18 to 19 in their favor. ThiR game was played in tne Howa_rd gymnasium. Until now we wete unable to play the tie out. At last Miss Skidmore and Mr::;. Ball s~t a day for u~ to play. Fifteeti girls of the Stolp team showe,!l ~p, ten of whom played and six nL th·.! Howar·l team show~d. Nevertheless we won after a long hard game._ The score was 16 to 11). The girls on the Howard team were: Roselin Brown, Geraldine Bunch, Jane Lilly. Jean Perrill, Eleanor citeeu, and Lillian Hoar. Now we're out for the basketball championship and we hupe we'rt~ as successful as we were m l<ickball. -Jean Perrill, 7A Howard. · Told by the Pupils Mr. and Mrs. Max Oberndorfer presented a program on "Opera" at the Woman·~ dulJ \Vednesday, January 29, at 11 :30 o'clock for the <'hildren of the t::-ighth grades of Wilmette. Mr. Oberndorfer player the piano and Mrs. Oberndorfer did the speaking. Mrs. Oberndorfer first told us about Queen Antoinnette's adopting the idea of having their opera~ in French. The Germanl3 adopted this idea and had their operas in German. The. United States wanted something different so they carried on the old Italian method. Now days p~o ple go . to !;ee the singer not the music but in other countries they ;.;-o to st:e the whoie opera. · Mrs. Oberndorfer said that tht~ program was to teach us to hear American music first. Mr. Oberndorfer played two selections of "Na Toma" by Victor Herb:rt and 8elections from other opt~ ras. Mr. Oberndorfer also played his own opera which was very ~ood. I thina{ that everybody who was there enjoyed the program. -Elmer Erick::;on, 8A rl.nvnnl. Howard 7A Wins Kickball · Howard School Camera Wilmette Pupil Oberndorfers Give Title After Long Season Club in First Meeting Takes Medal in Opera Program for Last Fall the 7A girls of Howard school Wednesday during science period two games with the 7A girls of Camera cll,lb held its first meeting. Skating Derby Pupils of Wilmette played Stolp school to determine the kickball Being allowed only seven minuttls wo had to hurQ' and elect a presideno::. Virginia Joqes4 Betty Shanahan, Elaine Angelbeeck and Hel~n Perry were the calldidates. Virgini~ Jones won by a large majority. There are a.Jl girls i.!l the cluh although boys were admitted. Bettx Shanahan · was elected secrdarytreasur.er. Our new president then appointed Elaine Angelbeck and I:I~Jen Perry to have charge of the vrogram and social committees. Having elected our officers questions came up as to wnat we woulu call nur club. Various suggestions w,_re offered . but none so good as The Snappers. The meeting wa~ then adjourned. Most everybody in the club has a camera and Miss Stevens had promised to show us how t(!. develop pictures. We are also going to have a camera contest in a few months. -Mary Lotlise Morea,!!, 8A Howard. Social Science Pupils Studying Labor Problem Stolp Pupils Present Play This week in . social science we have Written by Vivian Grigsby been reading and (liscussing the labor Miss club which Northwestem university ha:s which goes to different parts of th·~ city un tours. She told us about one whil'h they took last Saturday to the seCltotl when· men are out of jobs. It was Yery interesting as it. had to do with what we Wf~ re · ~tudying. We have our test on this pamphlet next Friday which we all dt·ead but hope we get a good mark in it. Our next two pamphlets are, "America's March Tow~!.rd Democracy" anu we hopt · to t-njoy those a:-; much a::; we han.: the firl:>t two. - Mary Alice Ilayes, SC Stolp. que~:;tion. It was very interesting, Cha~e. our t~acher, told us abouL a Eighth Grade Children at Howard Enjoy Party Last week most of the eighth grades of Stolp elected new officers. The class offic(;'rl" for 8C are as follows: Billy Bowen, preRident; Jqhn Beam, '\'ieP.-pre::;ident; Eleanor Rha!>iro, st>cretary; Sheldon Fox, treasurPr. This el<'Nion wa::; quite interestiJ ·g. When electing the president it wa8 a tie betwe<'n Billy Bowen and .John Bcan1. The ~econd time Billy won. Tht· votilll\ for Yice-presldent was not quite as tense, though quite dQse. Eleanor Shapiro was re-elected. It may be mentioned that she was ~ecretn t·y of the class all Ja:;t year al~o. Sheldon Fox easily won the treasurer's olaee. Let's hope we have many· tntere~tin,g m~etings. Children of Stolp Eighth Grade Form Science Clubs For the 1.!.:..' ~t week, Mi~s Stevens, our general ~d .: ll(' t> teaeher, has hf'lped us ~o org-anize dubs such as Nature club, Astronnmy club, Photography dub, Electrk dub, and a Chemistry <.:1uh, of whic:t 1 shall try to tell here. There are fourteen in our club so we named it the Experimental l"ourteen. We elected Jean Burns as our presiuent, Frank Hardin, secrt>tary, and !,{.uth Solomon, trea!'urer. Our due::; are five cents a week, to be u~ed in purch.a sing a chemistry outfit whh-h we hope to get in the 11ear future. It is very expensive. We will meet every Thursday. We hone it will be a success. -Lucy A-nne Jonas, SD Stolp. - Florentine Strube, 8C Stolp. Eight-C Stolp gave a play entitled "Lord Piffleberry's Private Life" before the club. 'l'ne play was made up IJY Vivian Grigsby and was about Lord Piffleberry and his wife, Violetta Pifflebt·rry, who wa~;; always spending money. Poor Lord Piffleberry had to fire hi:-; maid and everybody else because he lost all his money in the American stock m;Lrket. His wife is just going to get a divorce when a telegram come::; from America and ;;:;ays he has made millions and or <;tlurse it ends happily. The character::; are as follows: Lord Aloysious Pitneperry, Vivian Grig~;;by; Lady Violetta Piffleberry, Peggy McCabe; Percival Vandercliffe, Phyllis Carleton ; Dorothy Evangeline, Kathlyn Halloway; Countess I-de-Goff, Ruth Bristol ; CountE;ss Ima Dodo, Betty Palenske ; tl1e butler, Sebastian, Mary Alice Hayes; tl:e maid, Bridget, Betty Smith. -Phyllis Carleton, 8C Stolp. Sunday, January 26, my mother took my brother and me down to Garfield park tv the Tribune's silver skate derby, I was entered in the girls' junior classp which was under 16 years of age, · The program started out with a dedication to the founder of W.-estern Skating association, who died in 1929. Then the races started with the boys' juvenile. You had to race three Urnes to win a prize. The first time was the preliminaries, then the semi-finals and then finals. The first five of the preliminaries qualified for the semi-finals and the first four of the semifinals qualified for the finals. In the girls' junior, 567 entered. I was to race in the third heat. We had to race 220 yarda in the heats. Mabel Swanson came in first and I came in Sf:cond. 'rhen we had semi-finals. I qualified for the finals. We then had to race a half mile. :Mabel Swanson came in first winning the silver skates. They were in a. wooden box mounted on blue velvet. Virginia Horace from the Brt rrett A. C. came in second, winning the Hickel plated skates. Third and fourth p!ace wlnuers, I do not know their names hut third place was a pair of bronze skates. Fourth place was a silver medal Hnd I won fifth place winning a bronze medal. Every !Joy and girl who entered in the race was given a little bronze button to 1·ut on your cap which says Chicago Tribune Athletic association, Sil \'er Skates Derbies. · -Else von Reinsperg, Stoll ~(·. · Girls of Howard Eighth Grades Making Dresses The ~iris of Howard SB had their flrl't sewing Jesson Tuesday, January 21. The girls ~an make any :-:t.vie nf a dres!; that they want except thos~> with an uneven hem line. Sunbacks, sleeveless, full sldrts and pleatt·d arc ~tyles :tlllllng the 8B girls. We have a rangt> of colol'" in mntPrials that would make any perso~1 color blind. We ore hot allowed to :sew on ~i lk but haye mad~ up for it by coming (IUt with the quaintest print:;; the :;tor·;s ha ,.e. lt is a. tradition of Howard f·)r t Jw girl~ to st:1 rt ~ewing at this time of th,~ year and then give a fashion show in the Spring. l\liss Woodley has a tough j ·b. She h~:-; tf) ~how every girls some tid 11g- abf>Ut layin~ her pattern on the ~01>ds. -Margrette Reynolds, How.trd 1\R. Davia Conducts Athletic Test for Girls at Howard \\.ednt>~day, Jnnuary 29, the f'ighth grade e-IJ'ls of Howard had an nth letie test which ~It·. Davis witnessed. The tf:'!<t was each ont> chinnin~ h('rself, which was hard to do if you didn't han' any musd('S. The IJPXt wa~ sitting-up exerci~e8, whil'h were the hardt>:-;t of the two. Few of the g-irls got up to 1OO.whiC'h wa::; prett~· good. For the ::;ittine- up flxe rd!'IP we lay back on mat:;; and tou<'hed our toes as many times as we could. Those two tef'ts took the whole period. We would r~ther have athletic tests inRtead of posture tests becam·e in the athletic ont>~ w<~ can "hor~e around" more. -Ruth Pavelicek, 8B Howard. Central School Sixth Grade Girls Win Kickball Title On January 30, Cen_!ral school ~ixth grade g-irls played Howard school l:> "<th grade girls for the championship voJl pyball game. The score at the end of th t' first half of the game wa · S to 13 in Ilowaru's favo1·. 'fhen tlw l"t'\'f~ nth ~uHl (:'i~·hth graders pla~:-Pd. Afte1· they played the second half wns called. Then thP Central sixth ~IT.aders went up again all fre~h with new players. Thev felt very much encouraged because they felt that Howard juRt shouldn't win. Both sides fought very hard fot· the chamt)ionshitl aH eaeh girl went up she was ('heered by the audience. At the end of the game Central had cliHJbed way . up anu won 26 t, 22. -Sue Spinney, 6A Central. GIVES RAlHO CONCEit'!' Damrosch, the leader of the New York Symphony orchestra and a very tine pianist, gave a concert for school children over the WG~ radio station at 10:30 o'clock. 'fhe program was about brass iu!itruments. 'l'he selection.· the orchestl'll played were: "Torch Dan· ," Meyer~cer; Overture to "The J..""ly1. .,; Dutchman," Wagner; "Finale from Symphony No. 4," Tschaikowsky. He explained them before playing them. -Elmer Erickson, 8A Howard. ~rr. TO PRESENT PLAYS The eighth grades of Howard are giving three plays. SA is giving one and ~B is giving one. The titles of SA's are: "The Irate Farmer" by Frank May and "The Stolen Princess" by Virginia Jones. These plays are to be given in the morning for all the children of Howard, then In the afternoon for all mothers. -James Chambers, 8A Howard. liAS BROKJ:N ANKLJ~ Miss Larson, teacher of 6A Howard, has a broken ankle and the 6A boys and girl!:! sent a basket of fruit to her last week. Three girls of 6A brought It down to her and she was very much pleased. -Helen Lindstrom, Howard 6A. VOLLEYBALL TITLE Stolp 7A girls won the volleyball <'hampionship. The last score was Stolp 44, Howard 5. -Mildred Farmer, 7A Stolp. WI~ UOUGII AND 'l'U~IDLE Monday, January 27, Howard SA ba.~;; ketball team was scheduled to play St. Francis. Since they did not show up we played some team from the StoltJ school. The game was very ragged and half played football all the way through, Stolt, had the edge by a score of 8 to 4 at the finish. . 'l'he lineup for the Howard team UOLD CANDY SALE was: George Maxwell, r.f.; Bob HermanL~u-;t Friday 6B Howard had a candy son, I. f.; Edwin Horn, center; Walter l·'oslund, r. g. ; Frederick Aschbacher, J. g. ~ale and the ones who did not bring candy would not be able to have any fun -Walter Foslund, Howard SA. '.rith the money. We selected committees to sell candy, and the committees were GOOD CAGE SEASON Jane Brandt, Marjorie Rader, Stewart The 6B Wildcats have had a very suc- Edmonds, Donald Hermanson and Carl cE-ssful basketball sea~on. Our first game F'1·ankell. We earned $10 and the money was with 6A's first team and we tied . 4 goes to the treasury and we are going to to 4. Our second game was with St. have a party. Francis first team which we won 9 to 4. -John Speredes, 6B Howard. Our third game was with St. Francis second team which we won 14 to 0. We NEW JOB FOit Alt'l'IS'l'S have one more game to play which it with Miss Donnelly, the art teacher, ha::; a f. A second team. We are hoping to get new job for her art pupils. The job is the championship. to make pictures to illustrate stories for -Clarke Kirwan, 6B Howard. decorating the lil;>rary windows. '!'he pictures are to be of the well lmown hool<~. W ATCHF~S EXEUCISES f:.dry tales and nursery rhymes. They arc The girls of the seventh and eighth to attract the c-hildren's attention to the grades have been practising the "sit up" library and make you think that you q.rc exercises for some time. Today, Mr. Da- welcom(:'. vis came to watch us do this exercise. He -Geraldine Bunch, 7A Howard. would not let us go over one hundred cnunts. Betty Schmidt, La Verne Popp AIJtMEN MEE'l' and Ruth Sanderson were some of lhe The Airj)lane club meets at the Stolp ones who got up to one hundred. school every 'l'hursday evening. 'l'he dues · -Regina Swirles, 8D Stolp. are 25 cents a month. We are work!ng· on the Baby R. 0. G. and are trying to CLASSMATE LEAVING get one to stay up 30 second~> a~,-; then we Emily Jane Gerber, a student in th·' ~n will get a ground flyer's pin. One boy In cla~s of Stolp, is going away to Calit'Ur room made his J)lanc stay in the all· fornia. We'll miss her sadly. Happy 29'-h seconds. The meetings are from 7 journey, Emlly Jane. o'do<'k to 9 o'clock. -Lucy Anne Jonas, 8D Stolp. -Howard Jones, 6A Howard. New Trier Band Director Entertains Stolp Pupils On Tuesday, January 28, the Stolp aswas entertained by Mr. Schumacher. the grammer school band director, and one of the best xylophone play('rs in the United Stl!tes. He played the :xylophone and was accompanied by Miss Winifred Mickey of New Trier on th e niann. He played sev~ral numbers, one of which WitS the ·" Pagn n Love Son~." which was a big hit. We enjoved him very much and _ hope to have him with us again.-Warren Cozzen~. ~C Stolp. ~embly DRING FOOD FOR BIRDS One day last week the pupils of the lJ oward i:;(!hool kindergarten were asked tc. bring dry bread or toast to school. ThiR sounds queer but the children had a good spirit in their hearts. They were hrlnging this bread for the birds. Each one who brought bread tied it on an evergreen tree and later they went out and planted it in the snow. It stands there yet with a sign on it, "For the Birds." I hopt> the hirds take advantage of it. -Katherine Hoffmeyer, 8A Howard. AND NO WONDEU. For the last two days we have taken 6A's program. Tuesday we went to the Art institute. Wednesday we took their J·rogram again. I wis.h we had their program because it's a change and it's mQre fun and the morning seems to pass faster. -Marion Pickard, 6B Howard. VISIT ART INS'l'l'l'U'l'E The 6B class of the Howard school went to the Art institute Ja.nuarv 28 and the CA class of the school went January 30. -Helen Pearson, Howard 6A. (Continued on Page 48)