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n il e H I lite
Vol. VI, No. 2
Skokie, Illinois
Wednesday, October 18, 1944
C.A.P. Officers Here
To Recruit Flyers
The students and faculty of Niles
iownship High School were shocked
to hear of the sudden death of Walter
(Norman) Hall early in the morning
On October 26, there will be an assem
of October 8, 1944.
bly at 2:30 in the assembly room. This
Norm Hall was rather a quite type,
assembly will be for the recruiting of
new C.A.P. cadets. Any junior or senior but those who knew him know what
a wonderful character he had. His
interested in flying is urged to attend.
Among the speakers at the assembly generosity and high ideals were an
will be: Lt. J . Ds Ohrnstein, flight leader inspiration to everyone who had con
of the patrol; Lt. H. S. Barrettsmith, for tact with him. He was always ready
to help the other fellow and his ad
merly of the U. S. Army Air Forces; Lt.
A. Blake, assistant leader of the patrol vice was always given with the best
and also formerly of the U. S. Army of judgment.
In addition to his fine character,
Engineers; training officers, U. S. Army
Air Pilots, and WAC officers from over l he possessed tremendous physical
strength for which he was greatly
seas.
They will talk on C. A. P. training and admired.
“Norm” loved football, but did not
its advantages for those who intend to
join the air corps reserve or the Air Wac. go out for it until this, his senior
In the C.A.P. students receive free pre year. He made the first string and
flight training, including navagation, would have developed into a powerful
metrology, and C.A.A. rules and regu player if he could have been with
us longer.
lations, plus military training, radio, first
Besides all these fine qualities,
aid, and other courses prescribed by the
Norm was a good scholar and an
U. S. A. A. F.
For all those who are actually inter excellent mathematician.
Norm Hall will always be with us
ested in flying lessons now there is the
in our memories and one so fine as
flying club which enables one to receive
he can never die.
instruction at redeemed cost.
Several students of this school already
are members; Betty Burns is a regular
member. In order to be a regular member
a student must be 18 years of age. Until
that time you are a C.A.P. cadet. The
The dramatics department of NileHi
cadets from Nilehi are Katie Clark, Anne once again has been chosen for the
McKeever, Jan et MacCleary and Betty premiere of William Davidson’s new
Risinger.
play “A Little Honey”. Two years ago
Mrs. Esch directed the premiere of “My
Heart Beats for You” and it whs a great
success.
In all the printings of the play after
the premiere will be the cast of the
On the 14th of October, within sight NileHi presentation and also pictures of
the historic Arlington Park race course, scenes from the school’s production. All
the Trojans of NileHi staged a bitter of the lines will be memorized from the
battle to knock the Cardinals from the author’s scripts instead of books as the
top of the conference standings. They play books will not be published until
after the premiere.
missed by 2 points, losing 14-12.
“A Little Honey” is the story of Diana,
The game, which was witnessed by a
large body of people, was really an affair. a girl who really was a little honey but
Arlington with their sleepers, spreads, just had the wrong technique with the
wide sweeps and fancy shifts and Niles boys, especially Tom, a“Fellow On a Fur
with the T, which at times caught Arling lough”. Diana’s grandmother finally
ton napping, provided the crowd with shows her the way to dress herself and
thrills from start to finfsn. To say the set the stage for a proposal. The setting,
game was bitterly contested is putting it however, is interrupted by Jerry, the kid
sister; Albert, her heart throb; and the
rather mildly.
Niles kicked off and on the second play rest of the bobby sox brigade. Albert puts
from scrimmage, Arlington formed a Tom wise to Diana’s intentions and
quick huddle hoping to catch Niles un literally ruins everything.
But, Diana’s troubles are minor com
aware of their sleeper on the western
pared to Grandma’s fights with the maid,
sidlines, but this sleeper as well as the
others attempted came to no good as the and father’s trying to figure out a south
ern widow’s income tax and the widow
Trojans were alert for such things from
the start. Sparked by a flat screen pass at the same time. Believe it or not,
everything is straightened out in the
Arlington edged the ball from their own
end, but in order to discover how, wait
40 to Niles 10 but at this point their |
ujitil November 30, or December 1 or 2
Continued on P age Six
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when the play will be presented.
"Glad Rags" out for
Hobo Day Friday
Hobo day is here again. That integral
part of homecoming is only two days off.
Everybody dig up those jeans and that
purple and red plaid shirt that has been
put away for a gala occasion. This is it!
A boy and girl hobo will be selected in
each home room to represent it in the
parade. These couples will be chosen dur
ing second period Friday. Regulations are
almost the same as last year; but just
in case of a lapse of memory, here they
are:
1 Girls may wear slacks, jeans or housedresses.
2 Boys may wear slacks, jeans, or old
suits. ■
3 No neckties should be worn on this
day, unless part of the costume.
4 Shorts are not permittted.
5 Hats, if worn must be removed in
all classes.
6 Pipes, cigars, liquor bottles, and
things of that sort are not to be brought
to school.
7 Do not be late to classrooms. Regular
school routine will be followed.
8 Costumes representing characters in
fiction and comic strips are rec
ommended.
Last Year’s Monarchs
Esch Players Selected
For World Premiere
Luck Against Trojans;
Lose Bg Two Points
Dance; Assembly Marks
Home Coming Plans
Our great Homecoming Day is soon
here. On October 20 N.T.H.S. will view
one of the most important events of the
year.
The seniors are sponsoring all the
entertainment. Before the football game
and between the halves they have plan
ed a special program. The program is to
take the place of the usual snake dance
which the school has been asked not to
have.
The dance will take place at night
from eight-thirty p.m. to twelve p.m. and
promises to be a special attraction for
the day.
Chuck Kramer with his eleven piece
band will have charge of the music.
His band is well liked all over the coun
try.
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Wednesday, October 18, 1944
B ig D ay A rriv es — Stu d en ts R u n Sch o ol
(At Least For Hour If In Dream Only)
Twenty-fifth Hour
Ho, hum, I ’m so tired, I wish Mr.
Would Be Helpful,
Collins would hurry and get the band
Students Admit Y ou r D a te B ook together so we could get gome practicing
What would your reaction be if a
stranger dashed up to you and asked
you how you’d spend an extra hour. Well
the reaction so fa r has been . . sleep!
One revengeful character whose name
might be Herbert Jaehnke wants to
sleep an hour at school, without interrup
tion! It looks as though summer vaca
tion did more harm than good. (?)
The other 37% has a little more am
bition in them as those boys who sighed
passionately and gazing out into space
said “Necking’’.
There must be some hidden secrets
in someone’s heart or else why would
Lorrie Shade say, “Oh, my goodness, I
can’t te ll!”
Also there are those romantic little
girls who want to “be with Bob” or
“write longer letters to Roily”. .
But the rest would be contented if
they could sleep. N.T.H.S., wake up!
October 14, Saturday
Arlington Heights game, 2:30 there
October 16, Monday
Arlington Heights J . V., 3:30 here
October 20, Friday
G.A.A. Hayride, 8:00
October 19, Thursday ,
Maine Frosh game, 3:30 here
October 20, Friday
Libertyville game, 3:00 here
October 20, Friday
Homecoming Football Dance, 8:30
October 23, Monday
Teacher’s Meeting (no school)
October 23, Monday
Maine Frosh-Soph game, 3:30 here
October 26, Thursday
C.A.P. Assembly, 2:30
October 26, Thursday
Freshman Party, after school
October 27, Friday
Crystal Lake game, 7:30 there
W IT H
W W
hat ould You Do ?
What would you do if you were the
head of an expedition which has come to
grief in the desert? There is enough food
and water left to enable three people to
get to the nearst outpost of civilization.
The rest must perish. Your companions
are (1) a brilliant scientist, 60 years old,
(2) two half-breed guides, ages 58 and
32, (3) the scientist’s wife, age 39, inter
ested mainly in social matters, (4) her
son, age-six, (5) the girl you are engaged
to marry, and (6) your best friend, a
young man of your own age who has
shown great promise in the field of
science. Which would you choose to live?
The following are the answers given
by four boys:
Bob Force: “I ’d take the young man of
my own age because of the good he
could do the world through science and
of course I would take one of the
half-breed guides so I could find my
way back to civilization.”
Herbert Jarosch: “I would naturally take
my girl friend and the young man who
is interested in science”.
Robert Cleary: “I would also take my
girl friend and the old scientist.”
Allen Karlove: “I ’d take the old scientist
and the girl I was going to marry.”
All those interviewed seemed to think
the young boy should be left to die with
his mother. One can also see by this
how much the boys respect the lives
of their girl friends.
This question was asked in the 1930
Edison test given to high school students.
TH E
ARMED FORCE}
A
Bill Kaiser, in the amphibious train
ing of the Navy, says he is playing
football. He is learning to be an elec
trician’s mate the navy way. He sends
greetings to all his friends and wonders
especially about Les Galitz. How are
you doing, Les ? Let all of us know.
What about a note for publication in
the servicemen’s issue in December.
From Camp Robinson, Arkansas, Lee
Bollow, Jim Ransdell, Rollie Poehlman
and Gordon Brown say thanks for the
NileHiLite. Gordon acted as secretary
and he mentioned the seniors taking
over the cafeteria and the splendid co
operation of all the classes. He said
it showed the old Niles Twp. spirit.
Thanks for the kind words, Gordon.
Bob Baumhart is still in Bruning,
Nebraska, learning to be an airplane
mechanic. Keep them flying, Bob.
Rollie Piastrelli, who was stationed
at Paris Island, South Carolina is now
home on leave. You’re keeping Marion
pretty busy, aren’t you, Rollie?
Pvt. George Lutz who was stationed
at Fort Bliss, Texas in the anti-aircraft
unit is now at Camp Rucker, Alabama
in the combat engineers. That’s a tough
job, George, but we all feel sure you
will make it.
done, (yawn) I never do really wake up
early in the mornings.
I think 1*11 take a walk in the hall to
pass time. Everything seems so changed.
It looks as if a student had put his ideas
in about the school; gosh, all the changes.
Here’s Miss Berry’s room, I ’ll drop in
and see her. I wish every room would be
like this! I t ’s even got cushioned seats.'
I bet they’re comfortable. There is even
,a coke bar.
I ’ll go up to the third floor now..
H-m-m-m, I wonder where these stairs
lead to. Why, they go to the roof of the
school. I t ’s a penthouse with dancing and
everything. But wait, there’s a sign up
ahead . . . “No Teacher’s Allowed”. Say
this “is” going to be good. The band
that’s playing is certainly marvelous.
The band leader looks like Harry Jensen.
Why it is! He certainly is sharp. I bet
the students arranged all this. I t ’s really
grand, and I have to leave, darn it, or
Mr. Collins would be very angry if I
weren’t there.
I ’ll drop in for a few minutes and see
Charmaine. Heavens to Betsy, what’s
that “thing” sitting next to her ? She
says its a gremlin, to do homework for
her. (That’s an angel, not a gremlin)
Gulp, there’s Mr. Collins coming down
the hall, and . . . ahem, he looks slightly |
. . . angry. He’s saying something, but
I can’t make it out.
“Renee, wake up, wake up, you can’t
sleep and dream all of the time.”
ImEHiufE
The NileHiLite is written, printed, and
published by the students of the Niles
Township Hijgh School, Skokie, Illinois.
Dr. A. L. Biehn, superintendent-principal
News Staff
Editor: Beverly Markus
Reporters: J . Flavin, B. Harris, B. Mar
quette, S. Martin, J . Paolell, L. Shade.
Feature Staff
Editor: Shirley Lawrence. Assistant, Bar
bara Horton.
Reporters:, Lois Heineger, Murial Hend
rickson, Herb Jarosch, Bob Marquette,
Jerry Rochow.
Sports Staff
Editor: Shirley Rohrer
Reporters: F . Bernard, E. Fisher, J.
Lane, G. Oakley, B. Schwabe, B. Wel
don.
Production Managers
All students or faculty members who dis
Art Even
John Kircher
agree with the answers given should
drop their answers in the Contribution
Faculty Advisers
Box.
Mr. Blanke
Mr. M
�Wednesday, October 18, 1944
K itty K o rn er
~ g . a .a . Hayride
Proves to be an anticipated event
Down a dark hall comes a big black cat,
And what do you know, he smells a rat,
Dashing around, then to room 216,
With paper in hand, his eye has a gleam.
That paper is taken to the head of the
rank,
Who, you dear readers, is Sir Kitty
Blanke.
That paper’s a list of the names of each
“goner”
Better known to Trojans as the “Kitty
Korner”
So getting down to business, we have
gossip that,
To be perfectly honest, would scare any
cat.
What was the big commotion in the
library 6th and 7th period a week or so
ago. Mary Jane looked awfully happy
and Ernest was a little red.
And, by the way, who is planning on
getting the car, Mary L ou :
For those who are wondering, just ask
Miss Schaefer about the “New Order” of
that 4th period swimming class each
Wednesday.
The major dramatics class was brigh
tened considerably a few days ago when
Laura Breckinridge brought an English
visitor to class. Her name is Petal Tay
lor, a pretty name for a lovely girl.
Why does poor Barbara Bernard look
so forlorn ? Could it be a man ?
More people are upset about Kenny’s
injury. Isn’t that right, Marilyn?
According to our survey, we find more
female interest in George Riha. What
is this magnetic attraction for the fair
sex.
Why does Laurance Hall always blush
so much when he passes by a certain
table in fifth period lunch?
What was that commotion going on in
study hall eighth period the other day?
It couldn’t have been that Fred Bernard
was complaining about our cafeteria— !
Have you noticed how nice the girls
have been to the fellas since they heard
about the G.A.A. Hayrack Ride ?
Where did Mary Ann Ziegele get those
Navy Wings, M arty?
Who’s this fella named Bill that we’re
hearing all about from Lorraine Nelson ?
It seems that we’ve all been hearing
how much Dolly Gustafson would like to
go to St. Paul— ! Couldn’t be that Bob
Sandin’s there— !
Whose ring is Carol Rugen sporting
now? Could his initials be G. H. ?
Junior Wieder didn’t seem to like his
brown strollers. He painted them yellow
and was still dissatisfied. Last but not
least he decided to try white. How often
do you paint them, Junior?
Ronny Bair is very interested in some
one who sits at the sixth table and second
row from the west side of the cafeteria
during the fifth period. Her initials could
n’t be L. R., could they, Ronnie?
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Say m g ox* cu e w o e k : i o u uoooi
Sight of the week: Richard Dobroth
playing his bass horn.
Song of the Week: The Trolley Song.
I f things turn out the way they are
expected to, a new senior fellow is going
to have quite a few dates to the first
Turnabout Dance.
Myra Schuett and Norma Lange were
having the time of their life singing in
their eighth period gym class the other
day. Whose great big beautiful eyes were
you singing about, girls?
The freshmen are having quite a time
trying to get to using cafeteria passes.
Nancy Scanlon, a freshman, was deter
mined to get her pass right before
school so she would be admitted to the
lunch at noon. She was finally informed
that the pass really wasn’t necessary.
Most of Ted Stockfisch’s friends call
him “Binky”. Ask him where he got the
name.
What has happened to all of the
freshmen boys ? They come to their
fourth period classes in a state hardly
worth mentioning, Could it be the Nilehi torture, the obstacle course? Tough,
freshies, tough.
Do you know what junior girl got
herself into some trouble last week? It
has something to do with the accident of
a certain famous radio announcer’s car.
You might ask J . M. C.
All of you interested in modern art
shouldjirop in room 216 and feast your
eyes upon “Clyde’s masterpieces”.
Ju st fair warning for all you loud,
boisterous characters. Aside from caf
eteria guards, you’re going to be pen
alized in study hall too.
What is the attraction around Home
Room 121? It sems that all the fresh
men boys are gathered there. Could it
be because P at Olson is following in her
sister’s footsteps?
Say, Don Brown, who’s that junior girl
you seem to be talking to quite frequent
ly? Don’t you know upper classmen are
“untouchable” ?
What was one of the freshmen, Keifer
by name, doing running around in front
of Schirra’s ? It looked like his legs were
bare.
P ro file s
You once knew this cute sophomore as
Mary Louise Larson; now it’s Linda Lar
son. (She’s done changed her name.).
Wuzzy, as everyone calls her, is a
lass 5’ 6” tall with green eyes and brown
nair. Her hobby, which is really super, is
collecting story book dolls.
Wuzzy’s favorite cinema stars are Van
Johnson and Greer Garson, and when it
comes to radio she sort of likes that
little splinter of wood, Charlie McCarthy.
She is simply crazy about “Oklahoma”!
(who isn’t).
The one thing that makes her as mad
as a hornet is to be awakened in the
morning by her noisy sister.
Her problem of the week is one that
is worrying most girls: Whom to ask
.
to the G.A.Al hayride.
Richard John Mack, Dick to you, was
born on May 27, 1929 in Chicago, Illinois
(in case anyone wondered). Some of you
may know him as “Danny Mack’s little
brother”.
Dick is a “Tarzan” of 5’ 9” tall and 160
pounds with green eyes and brown hair.
He is a sophomore slightly on the grue
some side for you see, his favorite movie
star is Boris Karloff and his pet program
from the air-waves is the “Adventures
of Sherlock Holmes”.
He says that Mr. Kent is still his fav
orite teacher even though he isn’t at Niles
Township anymore.
Dick would rather go horseback riding
than do anything else (except eat), and
his favorite subject in school is swim
ming. He wouldn’t say what he thought
of the others.
D id You Know?
It seems this year the students are not
as fam iliar with each other as they
should be, so this article was written
to acquaint them with one another.
Did you know —
— that Betty Kennedy has a hobby of
collecting spoons?
—that Bob Bennett is a very bashful boy?
—that Vivian Oslund likes green eyes?
—that M argaret McClaire is 4’ 10” tall?
— that Tom Podraza has blue eyes?
— that Gertie Detmer is especially inter
ested in tall and handsome boys?
Mademoiselle Berry got a super birth
day present from one of her French pu
pils. A nice big watermelon.
It looks like this year Mr. Collins’musical proaigees are few and fa r between,
and what there is of them are mostly
Lynn B ari— Katie Clark
freshmen. The squeaks and squacks com
Laraine Day— Betty Weldon
ing from 101 must come from the fresh
Jane Withers— Carolyn Harnden
men. They couldn’t come from the up
Dennis O’Keefe—Bill Harris
per classmen — or could they?
Raymond Massey—John Lane
What’s so outstanding about the dimple
James Cagney—Jim Tagney
“Dean” has on his chin that makes the
Paulette Goddard—Anne McKeever
girls swoon so?
Orson Welles— Mr. VanArsdale
Some of these sophomore girls seem to
Herb Jones seems to have been the
Van Heflin— Mr. Meier
he so much in love th at they’re actually main topic of conversation during a little
Bette Davis:—Marilyn Burns
writing poetry about it— isn’t th at right, ( ? ) telephone chat. Isn’t that, right
Peter Lorre—Any bewildered fresh
Charlie ?
Eileen ?
man boy
Nile Hiers Represent
Hollywood Stars
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Choir, Girls' Glee
Club Plan Program
The choir initiated its program for
the year at a recent business meeting
when officers were elected for the first
semester. They are: Dorothy Gustafson,
president; Don Sandin, vice-president;
Sally Porter, secretary; Lorraine Nelson,
treasurer;
Phil Egebreeht, librarian;
Beverly Pearson, assistant librarian; and
Muriel Hendrickson and Norma Lange,
accompanists?
Members of the choir are now being
organized into small ensembles, a double
mixed quartet and one or two girls’ sex
tets. The double mixed quartet or a sex
tet usually perform in the majority of
the choir’s outside engagements. Already
the Douglas A ircraft Corporation has ex
pended an invitation to the choir to pro
vide thirty minutes of music for the
entertainment of war workers. The choir
is also scheduled to sing at a P.T.A.
meeting.
The first major musical event here at
school will be Christmas Vespers, held
on Sunday afternoon, December 10. The
choir plans to give a cantata at that
time if a suitable one can be found.
Girls’ Glee Club Election
The girl’s glee club which meets every
Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, the first
period, elected the following officers on
September 8: Joan Trietsch, president,
Shirley Rohrer, vice-president, Pat
Hanegan, secretary, Margery Plummer,
teasurer, Gertrude Scheidecker, librar
ian, and M argaret Donavan, accompanist.
These officers, with their committees,
will plan the social and musical activities
of the club.
There is another section of the girl’s
glee club which meets on Wednesday and
and Friday the fifth and seventh periods
for those girls who cannot come the first
period. Girls who like to warble will pro
fit by joining the girls’ glee club.
Sane Questions Get
Rare Replies
Questionnaires were distributed to the
students recently with the serious inten
tion of obtaining useful information for
this paper. However, serious replies were
rare. Now, don’t run away, this is not an
editorial. A cigar store Indian couldn’t
help but chuckle at some of the answers.
One embryo Bob Hope said his home
room is 459. Someone ought to make him
find it.He also stated that he was born
in no man’s land, weighs 94% pounds
and is 10 feet, 6 inches tall. He has
rainbow eyes and the color of his hair
is bald. From this description of his
appearance the reporter assumes that he
must have escaped from the Field Mu
seum. His favorite teacher is experience
—he needs it.
When mentioning their favorite tea
chers, some freshmen turned in unique
attempts at spelling. Miss L. Ronnels,
Miss Johans, Mr. Rickerd and Mr. Ick
are a few examples. Those poor teachers!
Friday, October 13, 1944
Nilehi To Hold Own
Presidential Election
Tne scuooi library' aiready has .232 new
books ready for circulation and 200 more
•are being prepared for circulation. They
include books about the war, both fict:on
and non-fiction; sport stories; career
stories; and interesting biographies and
plays.
For those who need information about
authors for book reports try the Twen
tieth Century Authors or Webster’s Bio
graphical Dictionary which can be found
m the reference shelves.
The library is now receiving The Chi
cago Sun in addition to The Chicago
Tribune and the Chicago Daily News.
Cranks And Bugchasers
In N.U. Summer Drama
E arth worms and romance was the
theme of the Northwestern University
Summer Theater’s play called “Spring
Green” in which two of Nilehi’sjuniors
participated. DeForest Hamilton was a
girl shy, bug chaser who finally decided
that girls weren’t so bad after all, when
he fell in love with Eula. Major Todd,
little realizing he was walking into the
home of an old flame, came to the Cassle home in search of an apartment for
him and his son T. Newton Todd, the bug
chaser.
Howard Haynie took the part of Mr.
Putnam, the old crank of a grandfather
who knitted when confined to a wheel
chair, smoked a pipe and found fault
with the world in general and the Major
in particular.
The only trouble between Newton and
Eula was that Eula decided she liked
something else better than a biological
phenomena. So—a happy ending
in
cluded a reunion of the M ajor and the
widow, Eula arid the boy down the block
really cutting it up at a masquerade ball,
and DeForest returning to his earth
worms.
The sen ors in the problems classes of
Miss H arlert will hold an election this
Nov. 7th to determine whether Gov.
Dewey or President Roosevelt is more
popular in the minds of to-morrow’s
voters. This idea, suggested by Miss
Harbert, was popular with the students
at once, ju st as last spring’s nominating
convention was with the seniors of ’44.
It will surely prove interesting as to
how the national election compares with
the election at N.T.H.S., both of which
will be held on the same day to add to
the realistic background. Let’s see
whether it will be Tom or Frankie who
does the better job of swinging N.T.H.S.
over to their side.
Pictures For Pupils
Will Aid Education
There is an old Chinese proverb which
states, “A picture is worth a thousand
words”. With this in mind and knowing
that the army and navy training schools
have demonstrated the great value of
pictures in instruction programs, the
board of education has given N.T.H.S. a
lot of new equipment for picture project
ion. There is a delineascope, for project
ing pictures from books and magazines,
a new seoscope for projecting microscope
slides, and a new 16' mm. sound projector
in addition to the one of last year. Three
new glass bead screens, which are very
easy to erect, have been purchased.
Students who have expressed a desire
to act as operators for these machines
are receiving instructions from Mrs.
Hind who is head of the visual aids pro
gram. These students will be responsible
for the running and good care of the
machines.
A definite schedule of films has been
set up by the science, social science, home
economics, and language departments,
and more will be planned from time to
time.
Everyone will learn more through pic
tures this year.
Frosh Girls Score All
Benette's Students Give
Wins in Name Contest World New Dictionary
A contest was held in freshman home
homerooms on September 29 for the pur
pose of helping the newcomers here to
increase their acquaintances. Each stu
dent wrote as many names of other home
room members as he could think of in
seven minutes.
Elsie Tamminga 108, Eileen Rodley
112, Lois Wilson 121, Barbara Ballantine 209, Joan Scheme 216, Dolores
Paulson 221, and Hilda Bonagura 313
are the freshmen who identified the
greatest number of their homeroom
classmates.
Incidently, what happened to the
freshmen boys? The results of this con
test indicate that they are not too good
when it comes to linking faces with
names.
Mr. Benette’s “lunch period” biology
class experienced an unusual incident.
A certain student, anxious to get
through with an assignment made sev
eral foolish and amusing mistakes in
spelling. Mr. Benette asked him if he
would like to write a new dictionary and
dispose of Webster’s Unabridged Dic
tionary. The out come hasn’t been decided
but if you ever see a “Benette’s Diction
ary” you will no doubt find some of these ;
“accurately” spelled words.
I f you find any of these words on your
next spelling list in English, don’t le t'
any one tell you you are wrong.
Recitation ws.s spelled resetation;
accuracy spelled accrecy; Assignment,
assinment;
g rl shopper,
grashoppe;
maybe, mabe.
�Wednesday, October 18, 1944
Page 5
N ILEH ILITE
V a rsity B re a k s E v en In Tw o B a ttle s
Scouts use T Formation
Lake Forest
Niles
Hall
L. E.
Roman
Conover
L. T.
Harrer
DePauw (capt.) L. G.
Stief
Evans
C.
Dean
French
R. G.
Frederickson
Jones
R. T.
Bogner
Lynch
R. E.
(capt.) Schmidt
Rose
Q. B.
Witte
Ryan
L. H.
Riha
Baruffi
R. H.
Alterini
McGovern
F. B.
Christensen
Scoring:
Lake Forest, McGovern 6,
Baruffi 6, Conover 2.
Niles
0
0
0
0 - 0
Lake Forest 14
0
0
0 - 14
Niles travelled to Lake Forest on F ri
day, September 29, only to be beaten
14-0 by a very speedy and aggressive
Lake Forest eleven led by half back Baruffi. The game, featured by Lake Forest’s
strong line play and Baruffi’s 70 yard
punt return, was never in doubt. It was
of interest to note that the Scouts ran
from a T; somewhat more successfully
than Niles, however.
The Trojans received and lost the ball
to Lake Forest on a fumble near the 50
yard line. It took only 6 plays for Lake
Forest to score, McGovern ran it over
from the 8 yard line and Conover conver
ted. The highlight of this drive was a
30 yard pass prior to thé touchdown play.
After an exchange of punts Niles was
unable to gain and punted to Baruffi on
his own 30. Picking up blocking as he
went, Baruffi scampered 70 yards foi
another Scout score. Conover’s toe was
once again good for a point. In the
second quarter the Trojans were unable
to get control of the ball and the only
thing that kept Lake Forest from scoring
again was excessive penalties. The third
quarter was uneventful with Niles pass
ing desperately. The last period found
Niles deep in enemy, territory several
times but lacking enough sustained drive
to carry it over.
One bright spot of the otherwise
gloomy afternoon was the unexpected
school spirit at a road game such as this
and the student body should be congragulated on this. We certainly hope it
keeps up. With good school spirit our
team may gain the self confidence it
needs.
Fellows Wanted For
Cross Country Team
The following boys have put in an
appearance for cross-country running :
Francis Klein, ^Hank Meinke, Raymond
Hoglund, Bill Hohs, A1 Schroeder, and
Lloyd Elkins.
They have been working out each
evening under either Mr. Rickard or
Mr. VanArsdale’s supervision.
It is to be hoped that more students,
Particularly freshmen, will come out for
the team in the near future. A full
schedule of meets is being prepared with
Schools in adjoining territories.
J . V. Takes Maine
In First Game
Alterini Sprints 55 Yards
A new passing combination, Woodstock
throwing and Niles receiving, enabled the
Right halfback Don Sandin plowed Trojans to record their first 1944 victory
thru left tackle on the opening play of on Friday, October 6. The score, 19-0.
The Trojan line outcharged their op
the game to score as the J Vees squeezed
position for the first time this year and
past Maine Twp. last Monday, 6- 0.
The Trojans kicked off to Maine and as a result Woodstock was able to gain
after failing to gain on three tries, Niles only 18 yards by rushing. The entire line
blocked the Pioneer’s punt and recovered played well, though Bogner and Roman
it on their 19 yard line. The first play especially, played an outstanding game
spoke for the game. Niles, operating from all afternoon.
Niles’ win was highlighted by long
a “T ”, caught Maine off guard, and
runs. Alterini and F arr each galloped half
Sandin taking the ball from Cook, sped
thru a hole big enough to fly a B-29 the field with intercepted passes to score.
Niles was penalized 90 yards else they
thru and over to score.
may have easily run up a larger score.
Maine tightened up and neither proved
In the first quarter, Niles received the
any threat until the fourth quarter, when
kickoff and for the 3rd time in 3 games
Sandin let loose with a 45 yard romp
gave the ball to their opponents on a
down to the Pioneer 12, where the losers
fumble in the first play from scrimmage.
held, aided by two Trojan penalties and
An exchange of punts followed and
a fumble.
neither team showed any abililty to gain.
The closing minutes were exciting as
Late in the quarter Niles had the ball on
Lindstrom kicked 30 yards to the Maine midfield, Christensen gained 10 yards
2 yard line, where the whistle blew while Witte connected with two short
ending the game.
passes to work the ball down to the 20.
Stezkal, Miller and Martin sparkled
F arr broke loose and scampered down
on defense, whereas Sandin and Williams to Woodstock’s 10. On the next play F arr
highlighted the Trojan offense.
skirted right end to score standing up,
The little Trojans next victims will be 2 minutes after the second quarter had
Evanston on October 20.
begun. Schmidt’s conversion was perfect.
Maine
Niles
Woodstock filled the air with passes but
Yost
L. E.
Stezkal could not score as the half closed.
O’Brien
L. T.
Kenny
The third quarter started rather omin
Wenzell
L. G.
Boznos ously for Niles. Woodstock had the ball
Tolf
C.
Klump on Niles 9 yard line, 2nd down and 1 to
Yardly
R. G.
Walmsley go. Niles ended this threat by pushing
Calvy
R. T.
Nepstad the country boys back to the 20. Later
Smith
R. E.
Swanson Woodstock threatened again but Bogner
Brown
Q. B.
Cook got through to hit a Woodstock back hard
L. H.
J enkins
Miller enough to make him fumble and Niles re
Anderson
R. H.
Sandin covered. The Trojans punted and WoodTank
Robinson stock passed. The pass was intercepted
F. B.
Scoring:
by Marty Alterini, who made a jack rab
Niles
0
6
0
0 - 6 bit run down the eastern sidelines for a
Maine
0
0
0
0 - 0 run of 55 yards and a touchdown.
In the middle of the 4th quarter, which
Touchdowns - Niles; Sandin
was full of fumbles and penalties, F a rr
intercepted another Woodstock pass and
sprinted 45 yards to score Niles’ last
touchdown. The game proved one thing.
If Niles can shake loose some of their
fleet backs they’re not going to get
caught by much less than a group of
P-40’s.
Lineups
Woodstock
Niles
L. E.
Thomas
Roman
Due to the acute man-power shortage Saghs
L. T.
Harrer
this year, “Mr. Ike” has sought the aid Larson
L. G.
Stief
of some athletically inclined upperclass Rogman
C.
Dean (c)
men to assist him with the freshmen gym Frizbe
R. G.
Berens
clashes. In response to his request, Handson
R. T.
Peschke
Ernie Reiman, A rt Anderson, Joe Paolell, Aavang
R. E.
Schmidt
Don Christensen, Jim Tagney and Don Pugh
Q. B.
Witte
Lyons are helping instruct the freshmen Lappin
L. H.
Riha
in the fundamentals of swimming, bas Mansfield
R. H.
Alterini
ketball, touchball, and baseball on Jurisch
F. B.
Doetsch
all five days of the school week. These Scoring: Niles, F a rr (sub for Doetsch)
six boys should be congratulated on giv
12, Alterini 6, Schmidt 1
ing help to a teacher who is certainly in Woodstock
0
0
0
0 0
need of it. •
Niles
0
7
6
6 - 1 9
Help For Isaacson
From P. E. Classes
.
�Page 6
N ILEH ILITE
Wednesday, October 18, 1944
1945 Annual Under Way
New, Old Leaders Frosh Open Strong;
Down Two Foes Senior, Group Pictures
To Help Schaef
The. freshmen football team started
Made This Week
The Leader’s class this year will be
under the able supervision of Miss
Schaefer.
The type of work these Leaders do
is to take roll, help the teachers to teach
the different gymnastics and games.
They also help in the swimming clas
ses.
The Leaders from last year are: Shir
ley Gregor, Dorothy Gustafson, Helen
Kuehne, Evelyn Lang and Carolyn Mil
ler^
The new Leaders this year are: Lois
Bornemeier, Nancy Perrin, Marion Schae
fer, Betty Weldon, Delores Paulsen
and Leslie Meyer.
Any other girls interested in being a
Leader should present a request to
Miss Schaefer stating, their name, age,
year in school, and a short paragraph
on why they believe they would make
good Leaders.
Needed: Three More Points
Continued From P age One
attack sagged. Ju st before the close of
the quarter, Alterini slipped away for a
gain of 20 yards for Niles.
In the second quarter Arlington heaved
a pass which Alterini batted away from
the intended receiver and into the hands
of Witte on Niles 10. The play following
this found W itte cutting away for 45
yards on a quarterback sneak. Late in
the period Arlington punted to Alterini,
who fumbled the ball and the Cardinals
recovered on the Trojans 40. Another
screen pass into the flat moved the ball
down to Niles 10. On the next play, a
pass to Webber standing all alone in the
end zone netted Arlington their first 6
points. Stroker ran over the extra' point.
A Niles pass was intercepted and Arling
ton sent McDonald around right end for
a run of,about 30 yards and another T.D.
Stroker again converted. His conversions
proved the difference "between a tie and
a win for Arlington.
In the 3rd quarter Niles fumbled
another punt but held Arlington. Both
teams seesawed back and forth through
out the period. Arlington was not gaining
as easily as they had in the first half
while Niles showed renewed vigor.
Niles drove to Arlington’s 20 before
Witte fumbled the ball over to Arlington
early in the 4th quarter. Jim Ehmer
happened upon an Arlington fumble and
Niles wasted no time in flinging a touch
down pass to Abbink in the end zone.
Abbink’s attempt a t conversion was
blocked. Later, Niles recovered another
Arlington fumble but its attack staled
and Riha punted to Arlington’s 5 where
the receiver was nailed on a shoestring
tackle by Swanson. A poor pass from
center rolled behind the Cardinal goal
line and at the bottom of the pyramid of
players Ollie Berens recovered for Niles’
last points as Abbink’s kick was low.
their seuson on Sept. 28th, by defeating
the Maine freshmen team 7 to 0. They
continued their winning ways on Oct. 7th
by defeating Arlington Height’s fresh
men 19 to 0. In the Arlington game, Mr.
Rickard started the second string team
and played them for the entire first quar
ter. At the beginning of the second quar
ter, the first team went in. On the first
play in that quarter, Arlington brought
the ball down to the 2 yard line. The
yearling Trojans made a good line stand
and took the ball over on downs on
their 10 yard line. Soon after, Bill Kelly
took the ball and ran 60 yards for the
first touchdown. In the 3rd quarter,
Bill Comstock grabbed a pass from
Heiniger and ran for a touchdown. In
the 4th quarter, Comstock again took
a pass from Heiniger and ran for Niles’
third and last touchdown, and the final
score was 19 to 0. As a whole, the
freshmen football’s prospects look very
good.
Biehn Praises Seniors'
Work in Cafeieria
The seniors had their first assembly
on October 6. Dr. Biehn spoke and com
plimented them on their work in the caf
eteria. He also suggested other things
the seniors could do in and around school
to make it a better place for all con
cerned.
Mr. Benette introduced the senior
home room teachers to the students
present at the assembly. Miss Line, Miss
Klaus, and Mr. Selden were welcomed
back again as home room teachers. Mr.
Shanaberger and Mr. Kiviluoma were
welcomed for the first time as home
room teachers of Niles.
The homecoming, which is to be spon
sored by the seniors, was discussed in
full. At two o’clock there is to be a pep
assembly. Hobo Day will also be then.
Between the halves of the game a very
interesting program is planned. Then,
of course, the special feature is the
dance at night.
Pair Of Speed Demons
Unearthed in Typing
In such a short course of time as five
weeks, two experts have developed in
the typing room. Th credit goes to Sally
Fjellman and Dorothea Sandberg. In a
one minute test Sally typed 109 words
with not one mistake. Dorothea is close
behind with 106 words and only one mis
take. Be sure and keep up the good vfork,
girls.
Excuse It, Please
The last issue of the NileHiLite con
tained several errors. No headline for
the story on Miss Tess’s speech to the
East Side property owners was carried.
Mr. Selden’s name was mis-spelled. The
staff hopes to improve each issue of the
paper and will appreciate having errors
called to its attention.
This year Miss Bloxom is going to head
the senior-faculty division of the 1945
yearbook. On her staff are: Rosie Lutz,
Pat Lannert, Dorothy Lacy, Beverly
Pearson, Joan Trietsch, Shirley Gregor,
Anne Schirra, Dolores Johnson, Virginia
Kish, and Bernice Stoll.
At the present time they are arrang
ing-the time for the senior pictures and
are having the teachers check a list of
activities in which the seniors have par
ticipated. Later, this list will again be
checked by the individual students and
any corrections needed will be made.
The senior pictures will be taken be
tween October 16 and October 20. The
proofs must be returned by November 1
or the pictures to go into the yearbook
will be selected by the staff.
This group will also take care of other
jobs which concern the faculty or the
seniors and are necessary to produce an
outstanding yearbook.
The financial staff of the year book
meets each and every Friday at 2:30. The
outcome of the last meeting (Oct. 6) was
the settlement of the date of the sub
scription drive which is October 23-27.
The tickets are $2.00 and will be sold in
all English classes. They are also plan
ning a dance, which they hope to have
November 3rd.
They have not elected officers because
they prefer to work in a group.
The general section of the yearbook
this year will be under the direction of
Mr. Blanke. On his staff are: Nancy Hall,
Shirley Hoddinott, Margaret Donavon,
Dona Bishop, Mary J . Brandt, June
Maier, Marilyn Herkert, Pat Byron, Bar
bara Hall, Marelyn Hertzberg, Dorothy
bara Hall, Marilyn Hertzberg, Dorothy
Steek, Lorelie Meilicke, Francis Klein,
Shirley Lawrence and Howard Haynie.
This staff will meet twice a week.
They are now doing three things: se
lecting a cover for the yearbook, deter
mining how many pages it is to have, and
getting ideas from other books on which
pictures to use.
This division of the yearbook staff will
also handle all other material not under
the direction of the senior-faculty division
or the financial section.
G. A. A. Board Chooses
Shirra As Prexy
The G.A.A. officers for the year 194445 were elected at the board meeting
Sept. 25. They were chosen on their past
experience in G.A.A. work, ability to get
along with other girls, and sportsman
ship, which is the main thing the G.A.A.
trys to promote.
The new officers are as follows: Ann
; Marie Schirra, president; Eleanor Nelson,
vice-president; Jackie Perrin, secretary;
Carolyn Harnden, treasurer; Mary Jane
Nelson, publicity; Donna Wilton and Pat
Olson, food chairman; and Pat ScMfra,
who has charge of the G.A.A. lounge.
�
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NILEHILITE, October 18, 1944
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