https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/25609/archive/files/7de41b3337a9736ba5e25d3221daf6d4.pdf?Expires=1787788800&Signature=HwR8mFRl4iMnRbc5k%7ETkLcj9DUElPmMK7PTcxqzY55edF9FRVSuQXtFjn1ZHyK0OHD0a8M4RJUtJfO84Qm3TmmuwYQBGl7Gd-%7E8Gkx0Cc-Q6Ng3GJ8VvuyxEYG-pJI49Diz5UkhHgSqD70tMVAKlh0ItyxfRa1r%7EUa7Jr64p2F7oCa%7E5q5p0PM8quVcfCPLVz-%7E81399gZvF-br0baL9tR4syWqoBZagjJLrG2EqcUfykOXttCAJQ8kFKo2rVSo3zPCZOINNnznxa7pHLS6aDv17pg3Hk1wz1bQd-MUOCtmOa4Yw6gxZx8KoLKRFyvsCaNuMWlqlG0L4gnPWFabOnw__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM df561235de059808d7339346e47727ac PDF Text Text SKOKIE PUBLIC LIBRARY REFERENCE BOOK REMOVAL OF THIS BOOK FROM THE LIBRARY CONSTITUTES A THEFT ��OCT - - 2002 1941 SKOKIE PUBUC ilBRARY �r:anipuj·--------------------------- Our Sckoo/, . . . time s, . . . in keep ing with the spiri t of the com mun ity and the in a allow s stud ent- citiz ens the max imu m liber ty poss ible with ity for well -ord ered soci ety give s them equa lity of oppo rtun frate rintel lectu al and soci al deve lopm ent, and train s them to cam pus. nize dem ocra tical ly with each othe r on and off the 1 �·--------~ • • • • ·---· · �Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Lord Brougham �m HAVE so designed this 1941 year book that it will reflect NTHS as a socialized democratic unit. The people who constitute a democracy must be awakened to their role; they must be trained to meet the complex economic social, and political problems which 1 face them. In classes and in student activities through 1 the home rooms and the student-faculty forum, in all relationships between the administration the 1 faculty and the students, social consciousness is developed. We hope that life in our school forms a pattern for successful living in a democratic world. · -The Staff �'~ - o/ lhe people, b'I fhe people, /or lhe people. " Student ::facuft';f :forum_ RICHARD P AROUBEK BARBARA RASMUSSEN President V ice-Pr!!siden t PHYUSS BRAESEKE Secretary Through the Student Faculty Forum, each student is given an opportunity of voicing his opinions in regard to school policies. The representatives, elected by the stud~nts, accept this challenge of leadership. Because they co- operate in making our democracy effective, the school. the community. and the nation profit. 6 �--------------~otne }(!ootn Cliairtnen SENIOR RICHARD W ASLEY BILL STEVENS DON FISHER JACK HEINIGER WILLIAM PETERSON SHIRLEY DILG NICK MAY ANNETTE CARROLL JUNIOR BARTLEY HEGARTY HOWARD KLEHM RICHARD HARTNEY ROBERT EICHELKRAUT BILL ROMAN OLGA KRAJCHOVICH WILLIAM KING SOPHOMORE CARL DOMAS WILLIAM CARROLL JANICE MOORE HOWARD GRANT JEAN PETERSON JO ANN McXEOWN ANN ODEN ROSANNA KING FRESHMEN RICHARD MUSSIL PAUL HOPPE EUGENE PAULSON DORIS HAMPTON CHARLES TAYLOR ANNALIESE NACHBAUER JACK HARRER BETTY 1!RAY HENRY HEINZ RICHARD CUTLER GORDON PESCHKE JOAN CUTSLER MYRL CALLMER NANCY LARSON HARRIETT HART 7 �"Democracy is a way of life; its institutions, such as government and education, exist to serve rather than to enslave the people. If democracy in education is to be achieved, guidance is necessary in the process of adapting educational situations to the individual student. Guiding does not mean making decisions for the student, but rather helping him to make wiser decisions for himself. No democracy can exist unless the electorate is capable of making wise decisions. Therefore, guidance does promote democracy." STANDING. left to right: Mr. H. R. Ohlson (Senior), Mr. J . C. Benette (Sophomore). SEATED. left to right: Miss Marjory Ronalds (Freshman), Miss Grace Harbert (Junior). 8 �------/JoarJ o/ f.:Jucalion Standing, lefl to right: Mr. P. J . Kluesing, Supl. R. E. Colanche. Seated. left to right, Mr. C. N. Miller. Mr. I. M. Paroubek, Miss Mildred Tess. and Mr. M. D. Falkner. 9 �~uperinlenJ._____________________ Colancke "This 1941 yearbook exemplifies the spirit which abounds al Nilehi. Herein we find in ·w ords and pictures the story of a year, which merely reflects the years that have gone before. Pupils, teachers, administrators, all are actively participating in the development of young men and women who will be expected to help, in a very few short years, those who will then need advice and guidance. To you, Seniors, I should like to give this message: There may be some of you who think that world conditions today are bad, that those who are responsible to a largo doqroo for your present inherita nce have not done a very good job. If you think the world is in need of improvement you should have seen it as your Dads, Mothers, and teachers first saw it. Baclc in 1900 and for some years alter, hardly anyone had electric lights and gas lights were a luxury. There were no automobiles lo speak of, nor any paved roads. A 10 d rive from New York to Philadelphia was an expedition. The generation before you built tunnels, subways, bridges. which make one gaze in wonderment, networks of highwo.vs and boulevards, parks and parkways for ·all lo enjoy; that generation gave to the citizens of your CQUntry a standard of living sufficient to permit a ll to enjoy the automobile, the radio, and the telephone to an extent fa r beyond the reach of pe~p le in other lands. The finest thing however, which the last generation has g iVen you is free education. We hope you have profited by the opportunity wh ch i has been offered to you to develop yourselves intellectually, socially. and physically. We hope also that your year s in school have taught you lo live happily ond democratically together. Will you, when you leave school. continue to believe in and live by these principles of democracy which have guided your life for these past twelve years? We, your Mothers, Dads, and teachers, hope you do. for our hope in the future of our country lies in you." �ENGLISH EDITH BRONSON See Foreign Languages. SUSANNE OSTERGREN Education: Northwestern Universily, B.S. Foreign Travel: Canada. Chief Interest: Music. CLARA A. KLAUS" See Fine Arts. ADELAIDE BERRY Education: University ol Indiana. B.A.; Radcliffe College, M.A.. Universite de Poitiers, Dipl6me; University ol Michi· gan; Universite de Grenoble; Universidad Nacional de Mexico. Foreign Travel: Europe. Turkey. Cuba, Mexico. Chief Interest: Objets d"art. RUTH C. LANT Education: Monmouth College. B.A.; Northweslern University. M.A. Foreign Travel: Canada, Cuba. Chief Interest: Interior Decorating. LUCILLE RONALDS Education: Mount Holyoke, B.A.; University of Illinois, M.A. Foreign Travel: Canada. Chiel Interest.· Freshmen and their books. MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE JOHN LIENHARD Education: University of Cincinnati, B.S.; University of Wisconsin, M.Ph. Foreign Travel: Cuba. Chief Interest: Model railroading. H. R. OHLSON Education: Norlhern Illinois State Teachers' College, B.E. ; University of Chicago. B.S .. M.S. Chief Interest: Books. LESTER E. GALITZ Education: Bradley Tech .. B.A. Chief Interest: Joy Ann. NORMAN KENT Education: University of Illinois, B.S.. M.S. Chief Interest: Collecting skulls and fossils . ALICE I. STONE Education: Northweslem University. B.S.; University of Chicago, M.A. Chief Interest: Horseback riding. JOHN C . BENETTE THERESA E. KRANZ Education: University ol Minnesota, B.A.; University of Minnesota, M.A.; Notre Dame University; Marquette University. Foreign Travel: Canada. Chief lnterest: Ari needlework. Education: Universily of Chicago. B.A .; Norlhwestern University, M.A. Foreign Travel: Canada. Chief Interest.· Photography. CAROLYN A. LUMPP Education: Norlhwestern University, B.S.; Northwestern University. M.A. Foreign Travel: Hawaiian Islands, Canada. Chief Interest: Hockey. DEAN W. FLAGG Education: Western State Normal, B.A.; Northwestern University. M.A.; Kalam0200 College; Spokane University ; University of Michigan. Foreign Travel: Canada. Chief lntecest: Civic activities. MORGAN TAYLOR Education: Grinnell College. A.B. Chief Interest: World affairs. GRACE G . HARBERT Education: University of Illinois, B.S.; University of Minnesola, M.A.; Loyola University. Foreign Travel: Mexico, Canada . Chief Interest: Swimming. 11 �COMMERCIAL STUDIES MARIE GREEN Education: Northwestern University, B.S.. M.A. Chief Interest: Current History. MILDRED JOHNSON Education: University of Iowa, B.A.; New York Univer sity, M.A.; Columbia University; Harvard University. Foreign Travel: Cuba, Europe. Canada. Ch ief Interest: Travel. HELEN J OHANNS Education: Whitewater State Teachers' College, B.Ed.; Northwestern University. M.A. Foreign Travel: Canada. Chief Interest: Music. FOREIGN LANGUAGE THERESA E. KRANZ See Social Science. MARJO RY RONA LDS Education: Vassar College, A.B.; Columbia University, M.A.; Universile de Paris. Foreign Travel: Europe. Chief Interest: Reading. ADELAIDE BERRY See English Section. EDITH BRONSON Education: Northwestern University, B.A., M.A.; Universidad Nacional de Mexico. Foreign Travel: Mezico. Chief Interest: Travel. CLIFFORD CO LLINS FINE ARTS Education: University of Illinois; Conn. National School o Music. Forei gn Travel: Canada, Mexico, Europe (U. S. Navy). Chiel Interest: Music. RUTH ESCH Education: Chicago School of Expression and Dramati Art, B.0.; M.0.; Studied under Oliver Hinsdell of North western University, Bertha Isles of. the University of Michi gan. Earl Darfler of Hollywood. Foreign Travel: Canada. Chi el Interest: Little Theafer Wo~k. CLARA KLAUS Education: Northwestern University, B.S., M.S.; America Conservatory of Music; Wisconsin State Teachers' College Drake University. Foreign Travel: Canada. Mexico. Chief Interest: Music. j OHN GILBERT WILKINS Education: Kansas State Teachers College, B.S.; Schoo of Art Institute, Chicago, B.A.E. Foreign Travel: Canada. Chief lrllerest: Travel. 12 �'' '' • • • APPLIED ARTS CALVIN LINDLEY Education: University of Illinois, B.S.; Northwestern Uni· varsity. M.A. Chiel Interest: Trmrnl. ALICE LINE Education: Stephens A. A .; Urriversity of Nebraska, B.S.; University of Nebraska (graduate study). Chiel Interest: Fashions. CLEMENT MEIER Education: De Paul Urriversity. Ph. B.; Northwestern Uni· varsity (graduate study). Chiel Interest: Graphic Arts. LIBRARIAN LOUISE MYERS Education: Central College, A.B.; George Peabody College for Teachers, :S.S. in L.S. Chief Interest: Books. COACHING STAFF HAROLD ISAACSON MORGAN TAYLOR LESTER E. GALITZ NORMAN KENT PHYSICAL EDUCATION HAROLD ISAACSON E'ducation; Western State University, B.S. Chief Interest: Boys. MILDRED A. SCHAEFER E'ducation: De Paul University. B.S .. M.A.: Normal Col· lege, A.G .U.. B.P.E. Foreign Travel: Canada. Chief Interest: Horses. 13 �~niorj __________________________________ STANDING, left to riqht: C. Blameuser, H. Horring'on, B. Williams, R. Baumbardt, Mr. Ohlson, L. Becker. E. Springer. E. Witte, E. Luxem , H. Schuett, K. Scbrambeck, J. Com£\ock, L. friend, V. Baity, M. Riser. G. Conrad, J. Berg. SEATED, left to riqht: B. Domas, President; S. Schaefer. secretary; B. Kelly, treasurer ; R. Reiland, vice-president: B. Boyk, C. Ne lson, N. Delfino. The Senior Cabinet was organized in an effort to provide a means for discussing and evaluating the problems of the senior class. The Cabinet is composed of four representatives from each of the six homerooms. This group is responsible for the planning of commencement, the selection of class rings and the arrangement of the Senior Party. PERRY ANDERSON 14 JEANNE ARMSTRONG LOUISE BAILEY VIRGINIA BAITY �---------------------------------~niorj CLARK BARTON GLORIA BARTZ LORRAINE BAUMHAIIDT RAYMOND BAUMHARDT LEONE BECKER GENEVIEVE BECKER MERWYN BECKER JUNE BERG VIRGINIA BERRY IRENE BETLINSKI ARMIN BIERBAUM CAROL BLAMEUSER MARIE LOUISE BOYD BERNICE BOYK PHYLISS BRAESEKE PEARL BUGERA ROBERT CARL ANNETTE CARROLL DONALD CECCONI JANE COMSTOCK GENEVIEVE CONRAD NORMA DELFINO SHIRLEY DILG BEN DOMAS 15 �~niorJ ________________________________ PAUL DOREMUS VIOLET EIFLER ROBERT EVANS KERMIT FAUST CARL FEBROW WILLIAM FIECH DON FISHER RITA JANE FISHER WINNIFRED FLAGG ROBERT FLYNN LLOYD FRIEND LORRAINE FULLHARD FLORENCE GABEL EDWARD GATSKE GRACE GOOD IRENE GUENTHER IRENE HAEFEL RICHARD HARMS SHIRLEY HARMS HOWARD HARRINGTON MARY HEGARTY EDWARD HEINZ EVA HERMAN JEANNE LEE HESTER 16 �________________SeniorJ RAYMOND HOHS ISAilELLE HOTH JEANNETTE HUEMMER DAVID JACOBS HARVEY JENSEN JOHN JONES AUDREY KEATING IlETTY KELLY CLARA KETTER DOROTHY KRANZ RALPH KRIER DWAIN KUHN RUTH LEACH JEANNETTE LECLERCQ CHRISTIAN UNDHOY EDITH LUXEM FLORENCE MARGALSKI NICHOLAS MAY BETTY MEUER PAUL MIKOTA HELEN MILLER CATHERINE NELSON MATTHEW NOSAL LAURA NUNEMACHER 17 �~niord--------------------------------mCHAlID PAROUBEK CAROLYN PEARSON KENNETH PEARSON VIOLA PEARSON VERNON PERMER WIWAM PETERSON KATHERINE PEWITT BETTY PFISTER GENEVIEVE PROESEL ROBERT REILAND DON RHODES MARJORIE RISER MILDRED RISINGER SALVATORE RIZZO WILLIAM ROSS SUZANNE SCHAEFER PHYLLIS SCHOTTERBECK EMMA SCHMELZER GEORGE SCHMITH KENNETH SCHRAMBECK HELEN SCHUETT LAVERGNE SCHULER VIOLA SMITH · EDWARD SPRINGER 18 �---------------------------------~niorJ ADELINE ST A CHON WILLIAM STEVENS KATHRYN SUTTER FRANK THULSTRUP FLORENCE TOMCZAK JUNE VINCENT RICHARD W ASLEY BARBARA WILLIAMS CHARLES WILLIAMS RICHARD WILSON IRWIN WITTE VIOLET YEHL JUNE GRADUATES Wi thou t Pictures: NORMAN BAUMHARDT EDWARD FRANK CLYDE HENNING BETTY VAN ARSDALE AUGUST GRADUATES ROBERT FRERES ROGER TRIMI!LE ARTHUR HANNEMANN THERESE VENTRELLA 19 �ANDERSON, PERRY WALTER Foreign Lanquage Club, Office, Student Forum. ARMSTRONG, JEANNE I. Office, See Chicaqo Club, Usher 's Club. BAILEY, LOUISE Annual Stall, Bowlinq, Foreign Lanquage Cl ub, G .A.A., Glee Club , Horseback Riding , Junior Prom Commi ltee, Monitor' s Club, See Cbicaqo Club. BAITY, VIBGJNIA NADINE Annual Staff. Foreign Language C lub, G.A.A.; Glee Cl ub, Newspaper Stall, Senior Cabinet . BARTON, CLARK A. Annual Staff. Basketball Manaqer, Bowling, Football Manaqer , Forei qn Language Club, Newspaper Stall, Oratorical Contest, See Chicaqo Club, Student Forum, Band. BARTZ, GLORIA J . Dramatics, Foreiqn Lanquage Cl ub, Glee Club, Library, See Chicago Club, Sprinq Play (I, 111), Student Forum. BAUMHARDT, LORRAINE Annual Staff, Bowling, Foreign Language Club, G.A.A. Camp. Play Day Delegate, Glee Club, See Chicago Club. BAUMHARDT, NORMAN R. Bowling. BAUMHARDT, RAYMOND Bowling. BRAESEKE, PHYUSS L. Annual Staff, Bowling, Cheer Leader, Dramatics, Foreign Language Club Executive Board, G.A.A. Camp, Play Day Delegate , G. A.A. Executive Board , Glee Club, Golf Team, Home Room President, Horseback Riding, Junior Council. Life Saving, Monitor's Club, Newspaper Staff, Red Cross Delegate to National Convention, See Chicago Club, Student Forum Secretary, Treble Choir, Twirling, Prom Committee. BUGERA. PEARL Dr amatics , Foreign Language Club, G .A .A., Gl ee Club. Orchestra, See Chicago Club, Treble Choir. CARL, ROBERT Band , Bowling, Foreign Language Club, Glee Club. Orchestra, See Chicago Club, Track. CARROLL, ANNETTE CATHERINE Bowling, Cheer Leader , Dramatics, G.A .A .- Camp. G.A.A. Preaident, Gl ee Club, Home Room President, Monitor' s Cl ub, Newspaper Stall, See Chicago Club. CECCONI. DONALD K. Basketball, Bowling, Foreign Language Club, HomeRoom President, Office. COMSTOCK, HELEN JANE Annual Staff, Bowling, Dramatics, Foreign LanguageC!ub. G.A.A .. Junior Prom Conunitlee. Monitor's Club•. Newspaper Slaff, See Chicago Club, Senior Cabinet, Spring Play (III-IV). CONRAD, GENEVIEVE B. Glee Club, See Chicago Club, Senior Cabinet. BECKER, GENEVIEVE Band, Dramatics, Foreign Language Club, G .A .A., Monitor's Club, See Chica go Club, Usher's Club. DELFINO. NORMA MARIE Annual Staff, Bowling, Dramatics, Foreign Language-' Club, G .A.A .. Horseback Riding, Newspaper Staff, SeeChjcago Club . Senior Cabinet. Spring Play (II). BECKER, LEONE M. Cheer Leader, G.A.A., Glee Club, Home Room Secretary , Horseback Riding, Library, Life Savin9, Monitor's Club, See Chicago Club, Senior Cabinet, Synchronized Swim Team. DILG, SHIRLEY MAE Bowling , Dramatics , Foreign Language Club, G .A.A.. Home Room Secretary. Horseback Riding, Monitor's Club. Office, Radio, See Chlcago Club, Spring Play (III-IV), Student Forum Secretary. BECKER, MERWYN E. Bowling, Dramatics, Football, Foreign Language Club, Glee Club, Mixed Chorus, P.A.P. Club, See Chicago Club, Spring Play (IV), Usher's Club. DOMAS, BEN V. Band, Baseball, Bas ketball , Football, Foreign Language Club, Orchestra, Senior Cabinet President. BERG, JUNE Annual Staff, Bowling, Dramatics, G .A.A. -P!ay Day Delegate, Glee Club, Home Room President, Home Room Secretary, Newspaper Staff, Radio, See Chicago Club, Senior Cabinet. DOREMUS, PAUL Newspaper Staff. See Chicago Club. EIFLER, VIOLET BARBARA Bowling, G.A.A. EVANS, ROBERT H. BERRY, VIRGINIA Bowling, G.A.A. , Horseback Riding, See Chicago Club, Synchronized Swim Team. FAUST. KERMIT Baseball, Bowling, Football, Foreign Language Club. Glee Club, Stude nt Forum, Us her's Club. BETLINSKI, ffiENE MARY Glee Club, Mixed Chorus, Monitor's Club, See Chicago Club. FEBROW, CARL A. Foreign Language Club, See Chicago Club. BIERBAUM, J. ARMIN Science Club. :;. FIECH, WILLIAM J . Foreign Language Club, Glee Club, Mixed Chorus. BLAMEUSER, CAROL MARIE Bowling, G.A.A., Horseback Ridinq, See Chicago Club, FISHER. RITA JANE Annual Staff. Dramatics, Foreign Language Club, G.A.A.. Glee Club, Home Room Vice-President , Mixed Senior Cabinet. Syn~hron ized Swim Tea m . Chorus, Oratorical Contest, Orchestra, Sec Chicaqo Club. BOYD, MARY LOUISE Annual Stall, Choir, Foreign Language Club, G.A.A.. Glee Club, Horseback Riding, Mixed Chorus , Office. See Chicago Club. BOYX. BERNICE Foreign Lanquage Club, Glee Club, Home Room Secretary , Ofli.ce, Senior Cabinet . 20 FISHER. DON H. Foreign Language President. FLAGG , WINNIFRED M. Dramatics, Foreign Language Club, G .A .A. Treasurer, Glee Club. Home Room Secretary and Vice-Preside n t. Orchestra, See Chicago Club, Student Forum. Club Pr esident. Home Room �ecorcl.~----------~~----~--~--~------~----FLYNN, ROBERT K. Chou, Dramatics, Gl ee Club, Home Room Vi ce-President, Mixed Chorus, MonHor's Club, Radio, Spring Plo:y (ITI). JONES, J OHN E. Bowling, Foreign Languaqe Cl ub, Golf Team, Monitor's Cl ub, P.A.P. Club, See Chicago Club. FRANK, EDWARD M. _ KEATING , AUDREY ANN Annual Staff, Dramatics, G.A.A., Glee Club, Newspaper Staff. FRIEND. LLOYD Baseball, Senior Cabinet. FULLHARD. LORRAINE M. Foreign Language Club, Library, See Chicago Club. GABEL , FLORENCE Dro:mo:tics, G.A.A .• Glee Club , Home Room Secretary and Vice-President, Newspaper Sto:ff, Oflice, Spring Play (II-Ill). GATZKE, EDWARD J . Footbo:ll Team Manager. Glee Club. See Chioo:go Club. GOOD, GRACE Band, Bowling , Dramatics, Foreign Language Club, G.A.A. , Glee Club , Home Room Secretary, P .A .P. Club , Radi o, See Chicago Club, Spring Play (III), Usher's Club. GUENTHER , IBENE S. Bowling, Dramatics, Foreign Language Club, G.A.A. , Glee Club, Junior Council, Radio , See Chicago Cl ub. "HAEFEI,, IRENE MARIE Foreign Language Club, Orchestra. KELLY, BETTY A . Bowling , Dr amatics, Foreign Language Club, G.A.A .. Glee Club, Home Room Secretary, Junior Prom Committee, Newspaper Stall, Radio , See Chicago Club. Senior Cabinet Treasurer , Spring Plo:y (IV). KETTER, CLARA E. Dramat ics, Glee Club, Monitor 's Club, See Chicago Cl ub. KHANZ , DOHOTHY Annual Slaff, Foreign Language Club, Glee Club, Library, Office, See Chicago Club, Student Forum. KR IER , RALPH M. Bowling, Glee Club, Mixed Chorus, See Chicago Club. KUHN, DWAIN Glee Club. LEACH, RUTH EVELYN Dramatics, P. A.P. Cl ub, Radio, See Chi cago Club. HARMS, RICHARD Basketball, Bowling , Glee Club, Goll Team, Horseback Riding, Lile Saving, See Chicago Club. LECLERCQ, JEANNETTE Annual Staff, Foreign Language Club , G.A.A .. Glee Club, Monitor's Club, See Chicago Club. HARMS, SHIRLEY . Bowling , Foreign Language Club, Glee Club, Mixed Chorus, See Chicago Club, Treble Choir. LINDHOY, CHRISTIAN H . Bowling,-Dramatics, Foreign Language Club, Mon ilor's Club Radio, See Chico:qo Club, Sludent Forum. HARRINGTON, HOWARD P. Basketbo:ll. Bowling, Foreign Language Club , Glee Cl ub, Mixed Chorus, See Chico:go Club, Senior Cabinet. LUXEM. EDITH Annual Staff, Dramatics ,Foreign Language Club Executive Board, G.A.A.. Glee Club, Home Room Secretary, Horseback Riding , Junior Council , Mixed Chorus, Moni tor's Club, Newspaper Stall, See Chicago Cl ub, Senior Cabinet, Special Choir, Treble Choir. HEGARTY, MARY H. G .A.A., Glee Club, Monitor's Club. Office. See Chicago Club. HEINZ, EDWARD F. Bowling, Football. Glee Cl ub, Mixed Chorus, See Chicaqo Club. HENNING, CLYDE HARVEY Dramatic&, Foreign Language Club, Glee Chili, Newspaper Sto:lf, Radio, Sprinq Play (III), Student Forum. HERMAN, EVA Bowling, Cheer Leader, G.A.A., Glee Club, Horseback Riding, Junior Prom Committee, Monitor's Club. HESTER. JEANNE LEE Foreiqn Language Club, G .A.A.. See Chicago Club. HOHS, RAYMOND J. Bowling, Camera Club, Glee Club, See Chicaqo Club. HOTH, ISABELLE MARIE Annual Sto:ff, Dramalics , Glee Club, Home Room Secretary, Monitor 's Club, Oratoric:o:l Contest , Radio, See Chi cago Club. MARGALSKI, FLORENCE Glee Club, Mixed Chorus , See Chicago Club. MAY , NICHOLAS J. Bowling. Golf Team , Home Room President, Letlerman's Cl ub, Office, Usher's Club. MEUER, BETTY A . Foreign Language Club, G.A.A .. Glee Club, Horseback fliding, Mixed Chorus, See Chioo:go Club, Sludent Forum. MIKOTA, PAUL Band, Dramalics , Foreign Language Cl ub, Glee Cl ub , Junior Prom Committee, P .A.P. Club , Radio, See Chicago Club , Spring Play (II, III, IV), Student Forum. MILLER, HELEN MARIAN Annual Slaff, Dramatics, Foreign Language Cl ub . G.A .A., Glee Club, Home Room Secrelary, Horseback Riding, Juni or Prom Committee, Radio , See Chicago Club, Spring Play (II. III, IV). HUEMMER. JEANNETTE CATHERINE Annual Staff, Camero: Club, Dramatics, Foreign Lanquage Club. G .A .A .. Glee Club. Home Room Secretary, Library , See Chicaqo Club, UEher' s Club. NELSON. CATHERINE ANN Annual Staff, Dramatics. Foreign Lo:nquage Club. G.A. A .. Home Room Vice-Pr esidenl, J unior Pr om Committee , Hadio , See Chicago Club , Senior Cabi net , Spring Play (II , Ill), Student Forum, Treble Cboir. JACOBS, DAVID LLOYD-GEORGE Bowling , Foreign Language Club, Swimming Manager. NOSAL, MATTHEW J . Band, Bowling, Glee Club , Newspaper Stall, Orchestra. JENSEN, HARVEY D. Baseball , Bowling, Glee C lub, Mixe d Chorus, See Chicago Club. NUNEMACHER, LAURA B. Annual Stafl. Foreign Lanquage Club, G.A .A., Glee Club , Mixed Chorus , Ne wspaper Staff. 21 �~nior /(:!ecorcl~~----------------PAROUBEK, RICHARD A. Eowling, D~oma1ics, Glee Club, Mixed Chorus, Student Forum President and Vice-President. SCHULER, LAVERGNE MAE Annual Staff, Bowling, Foreign Language Club, G.A.A. , Glee Club, See Chicago Club. PEARSON, CAROLYN eowling, Foreign Language Club ; G .A.A., Gl ee Club, tt..ixed Chorus, Monitor's Club, See Chicago Club. SMITH, VIOLA DOROTHY Glee Club, Office, Monitor's Club, See Chicago Club. PEARSON , KENNETH Mixed Chorus. PEARSON, VIOLA R. Bowling, D:amatics, G.A.A .. Glee Club, Mixed Chorus, See Chicago Club. PERMER. VERNON R. Bowling, Football, Usher's Cl ub . PETERSON. WILLIAM DALY Basketball, Football. Foreign Language Club, Home Room President, Student Forum. PEWITT, KATHERINE L. G.A.A., Glee Club, See Chicago Club. Senior Cabinet, Student Forum. PFISTER, ELIZABETH F. G.A.A .. Monitor's Club, See Chicago Club. PROESEL, GENEVIEVE L. Foreign Language Club. Glee Club, Orchestra. REILAND, ROBERT J. Annual Stall, Baseball, Bowling, Foreign Language Club, Glee Club, Horseback Riding, Junior Prom Committee, Newspaper Stall, Radio, See Chicago Club. Senior Cabinet, Senior Class Vice-President. RHODES. DON Camera Club, P.A.P. Club, Radio Club. RISER, MARJORIE A. Annual Stoll, Bowling, Dramatics, Foreign Language Club, G.A.A., Horseback Riding, Monitor's Club, See Chicago Club, Senior Cabinel. RISINGER. MILDRED L. G.A.A., Glee Club, Mixed Chorus. RIZZO, CHARLES S. Bowling, Foreign Language Club, Home Room Presi· dent, Junior Council. Junior Prom Committee, Mixed Chorus, Newspaper Staff, See Chicago Club, Student Forum. ROSS, W ILLIAM Bowling, Dramatics, Glee Club, Home Room President, Junior Prom Committee. Oflice, P.A.P. Club, Senior Cabinet, Spring Play (Ill), Student Forum. SCHAEFER, SUZANNE Band, Bowling, Foreign Language Club, G.A.A .. Horseback Riding, Junior Prom Committee, Monitor's Club. Orchestra, See Chicago Club, Senior Cabinet Secretary. SCHLOTTERBECK, PHYLLIS Annual Staff, Foreign Language Cl ub, G.A.A .. Golf Team , See Chicago Club. SCHMELZER. EMMA E. Glee Club, Library , See Chicago Club. SCHMITH. GEORGE Bowling, Glee Club, Mixed Chorus, See Chicago Club. SCHRAMBECK, KENNETH Choir , Dramatics. Foreign Language Club , Glee Club. Mixed Chorus, Senior Cabinet. SCHUETT. HELEN Bowling, Cheer Leader . Choir, G.A .A .. Glee Club. Library, Monitor 's Club, See Chicago C lub, Senior Cabinet. 22 SPRINGER, EDWARD W . Baseball. Bowling, Choir, Football, Foreign Language Club, Gl ee Club , See Chicago Club, Senior Cabinet. STACHON, ADELINE Glee Club, Mixed Chorus, See Chicago Club. STEVENS. WILLIAM W . Annual Stoff, Dramatics, Forei gn Language Club Executive Bootd, Horne Room President and Vice-President, Junior Council President, Junior Prom Commitlee. Newspaper Stoff, Radio, See Chicago Club, Spring Pl ay (I , II, III, IV). SUTTER, KATHRYN Foreign Language Club, G.A.A.- Ploy Doy Delegate. Glee Club, Horseback Riding, Monitor's Cl ub , Office. THULSTRUP, FRANK Baseball. Basketball. Football- Manager, Lettermen'3 Club, See Chicago Club, Student Forum Parlia· mentarian, Usher's Club. TOMCZAK, FLORENCE V. G.A.A.. Glee Club, Mixed Chorus, Monitor's Club , Office. See Chicago Club. TRIMBLE, ROGER Foreign Lcmguage Club, Glee Club. VAN ARSDALE. BETTY Foreign Language Club, G.A.A.. Horseback Riding', Life Saving, Newspaper Staff, Radio. (New Trier. I-III). VINCENT. JUNE M. Dramatics, G .A.A., Glee Club, Radio, See Chicago Club, Spring Play (III. IV), Student Forum. W ASELY, RICHARD Football, Home Room President. WILLIAMS, BARBARA JEANNE Foreign Language Club Treasurer, G.A.A., G lee Club , Golf Team. Horseback Riding, Junior Prom Committee, Mixed Chorus, See Chicago Club , Senior Cabinet. Synchronized Swim Team. WILUAMS. CHARLES Basketball, Football, Foreign Language Club, Glee Club, Senior Cabinet. WILSON, RICHARD GEORGE Band. Dramatics, Foreign Language Club, Glee Club. Horseback Riding , Junior Prom Committee. Mixed Chorus, Orchestra, See Chicago Club, Spring Play (!, II), Student Forum. WITTE, IRWIN C. Bowling, Glee Club , Mixed Chorus, See Chicago Club, Senior Cabinet. YEHL, VIOLET Glee Club, Library. FRERES. ROBERT Bowling, Dramatics. Foreign Language Club, l'lonilo!'s Club, See Chicago Club. Club , Glee. HANNEMANN, ARTHUR WILUAM Dramatics. Monitor's Club. Newspaper Stoll, Radio, Student Forum. HEINIGER, JACK L. Football- Voled moat valuable player 1940, Glee Club. TRTMBLE, ROGER Foreign Language Club, Glee Club. VENTRELLA , THERESE LUCILLE Foreign Language Club. Glee C lub. Monitor's Club. �StuJenf -.A-ctivilied in Review It is a well-established fact that education is not limited to the textbook. For this reason, those who have charge of the planning of the activities at N.T.H.S. have arranged for an extra-curricular program which, coupled with the academic program, provides a well-rounded education for the students in Niles Township. .. This activity program has a three-fold aspect-social, athletic, and cultural. Dances, parties, club meetings, and trips fill the social calendar; athletics of various types attract the sports-minded; clubs stressing cultural interests offer an opportunity for those so inclined. The following pages are devoted to a review in pictures of life at Nilehi. As an outlet for Junior home room opinion a council was formed. composed of the representalives of the Junior home rooms . Th~ members of the council welcome the suggestions and criticisms of those they represent. The responsibilily for class projects. class policies and Junior social activities rests with the Junior Council. Boele row, left to right: Miss Harbert, J. Yates, J. Florus. W. Barton. M. Weltengel, G. Bremner, V. Reuter, 1!. Franson, T. Thlimmenos, P. Reiland . Fron! Row, left lo right: G . Langan, 5 . Kluesing, B. Moore, D. Cotanche. 23 �The acting. writing. staging. directing. producing. and publicity work necessary for a finished dramatic production enrich those participating with a fuller understanding and appreciation of the world in which we live. Students who have worked with Mrs. Esch, our dramatic instructor. feel that under her direction the development. of self-expression, poise, and self-reliance is achieved. Our music department at N.T.H.S. includes vocal and instrumental instruction. The orchestra and band with a complement of drum majorettes have made several appearances during the year. The choruses and choir have been recognized for their performances in radio and concert work. Outstanding among their accomplishments was the broadcast of January 4 through the facilities of WMAQ. The Spring Concert in May is considered one of the outstanding musical programs of the year. A course which includes technical instruction in theory, and music appreciation, combined with vocal or instrumental instruction, has proved helpful to those interested in acquiring a musical education. N.T.H.S. Choir �Choral Groups Band Orchestra 25 �.CanJiJ Camera Capfure:J ... "Twismass Twee" foods Cleaning up Wood Shop 26 Carnival Night Print Shop �... Campw CaperJ Family Night Peasantry Chorus: by Reiland . The Perfect (?) Gent!eman Herculean feats at N. T. 27 ��T R 0 .J A N The Varsity shoots! The student activity program of N.T.H.S. includes a well-planned sports program. The boys in their gym classes participate in a number of intramural sports which include track, swimming. softball, volleyball, touch football, basketball, bowling, and table tennis. The varsity teams in football, basketball, baseball. swimming. track, golf, and tennis compete with the teams of other schools in the North East Conference. The activities of the girls' Varsity swimmers s I • ' • I • Ike speaks . . . the frosh squad listen division of the athletic department are manifold. The G.A.A. supplements the work of the regular gym classes. Bowling, horseback riding, swimming, dancing, tumbling, and golf are among the activities which this organization sponsors. We are fortunate in having the physical facilities for an extensive sports program; the pool. the football, baseball and hockey fields, the track, the large gymnasium and the tennis courts make this program possible. Frosh fish 29 �Homecoming: Varsity vs. Crystal Lake Mr. Galitz and the Varl!ity Coach Kent reveals all to Junior Varsity �Palatine here . . . December 14 Intramural basketball Nice bows and arrows 3I �Posin' . . . before school They lead us in foreign tongues Forum The bowlers roll 'em 32 Students and stairs Biology �1 Bingo!! Up goes the tree Culinary experts Benny's jungle! In all its glory Engineer, engines, engine room 33 �Lolita Hmmm!! He's tops! Cheer-full gals 34 Sink-ronized? Trouble . .. More Trouble (for C. L.) �At ease Dra-a-ama! Window-pains Daisy! Daisy! Variegated Vegetables Furriners 35 �~or&/J-------------------Here was a scene that was entirely strange to himsoft and stalely music, impressive speakers, clusters of parents, envious underclassmen, brothers and sisters proudly pointing. Yes. it w as all strange and unfamiliar in spite of the fact that only two short years before he had seen his own brother graduate from this same gym. But then ii had been different, he hadn't felt the way he d id now. On tha t occasion he'd felt sad al seeing Jim leave but it was in a detached manner. Now he felt sick, his hands were cold and clammy, the pit of his stomach had dropped out. Just like his first Varsity game-only worse. "Hmm, that game against Northbrook on September 20", he recalled. "I'll never forget that one. We were so glad we'd started the seascn right with a win. Let's see, what happened in that game? . . . Oh. yes. Ja ck Heiniger ran 58 yards for our opening touchdown. But that week spelled trouble for us. Permer. Krier and Hegarty were all in jured either in the game or in practice during the following week. Merwyn Becker had already developed his pre·season complex for 'charley-horses' and so we ha:i four experienced men out. "The next week Libertyville's powerful team took the Conference crown-overwhelmed us, but we followed with a victory over Leyden in the final minutes of our game there. Heiniger scored our only touchdown alter a sleeper pass to Domas was completed. "And then, Homecoming," he sighed, thinking of the pretty Trojan rooters in the stands. "Mr. Taylor leading cheers, the snake-dance through town. and finally the bonfire with alumni back for the fun. Then. alter a decisive victory over Crystal Lake, the very successful Football Dance, sponsored by the Senior class, was held in the gym. "And then, the draft, and with it a solemn note perhaps, but not for Nilehi. The reason?- a day off! Gee, hew we kidded all the teachers who registered. That weekend, the 19th, we lost to Lake Forest, but a week alter that we beat Woodstock. Domas and Faust really played their hearts out in the unlucky Arlington game that ended the season on November second. We captured third place and we worked for it. "Yes. that was a great football season . . . Springer's tackling and centering . . . a great frosh team . . . a lair Junior Varsity team. Remember, how they always worked so hard to avoid being beaten by that freshmen team? The Homecoming parade, with Carl Huscher's wreck taking a first . . . Dave Jacobs "totin' "water in an overcoat and fedora . .. Ted Canty hatching an egg in the J .V. Crystal Lake game . . . Those homeccming pictures that flattered us all. or did they? "We had a lot of fun that fall, lets of assemblies, too. There was George Morse on October 17, who told us all about zoos and monkeys and very effectively imitated the latter. And then on October 22 we had that interesting Science assembly with Don Fisher acting as M.C. and Phyllis Schlotterbeck, Jeannette Huemmer, Edith Luxem, Gloria Bartz and Don Rhodes explaining the different exhibits on the stage. Oh. and en October 28 we had the best of those assemblies, "Prologue lo Glory" starringwhal a girl!- Gene Bergmark, Zenon Turski and a couple of the boys got her autograph. Her name?- - Why, Ellen Hogue. remember? "Alter that?--the Halloween Dance, sponsored by the C. of C. for our enjoyment as well as lo keep us off the streets and the football players out of jail. (We had a full team for the Arlington game so ii must have worked.) We had a Jot of fun dancing that night-and all the cider and doughnuts we wanted . On November 4, the See Chicago Club opened its season of tours with a trip to WGN's studios for Play Broadcast. Bob Moore had a prize in his grasp until he forgot that water freezes at 32 degrees. The 3b next day the Problems classes voted. Bob Flynn acted as head of polling-place police. "And then, came Armistice Day with flags flying and no school, followed on November 13 by the Harmonies from Dixie. An an added attraction the band played; then Howard Kiehm and Dick Wilson swung out on Oodles of Noodles. On November 15, the GAA held the impressive candlelight initiation ceremony inducting the scared little frosh girls. 01 course, I just heard a bout this, I wasn't present, for obvious reasons. "Another successful Know Your School program, was Foreign Language Night. Each language group was represented by a skit or activity, which demonstrated class room procedure. On November 20 the basketball learns played Evanston and woeful day- we lost! Thal week-end was Thanksgiving, and we all came back to school on Monday, happy and well f~d. On November 23 we met the New Trier teams and won, the Varsity being victorious in overtime. The next week we opened our conference season with two wins over Arlington. Revenge for that football defeat! "November 30-the carnival . . . the school crowded . .. tickets lloaling around ... Jimmie Holmes 'in "The Perfect Gentleman" ... the xylophonists . . . the Keegan-Brielenbach brawl w:ith Referee Huscher being carried out with the participants . . . Betty Kelly whistling . . . faculty-hawkers in the cafeteria .. . pumpkin weight.quessing ... synchronized swimming by Wright Junior College and Nilehi . . . and finally, taxi-dancing in the Community Room . .. with everybody having a swell time. "December began with the whole school restlessly awaiting vacation. On the sixth we played Woodstock. The Junior Varsity won and the Varsity Jost by one point. Heiniger went in with 14 seconds to go and was ordered out with one second left. Still playing football, huh. Jack? On December 9 there was a Foreign Language Club meet. ing and two days later the senior rings arrived. Were we proud!- we still are, for that matter. The week-end of December 13-14 was full of basketball. Four games with Warren and Palatine; victories in all (although Paldtine gave the Varsity a scare). "On December 19 Phyllis Broeseke won the D. A. R. award; she was selected by the seniors and faculty. Catherine Ann Nelson ran a close second. Next day Miss Lani's Christmas play was presented with Bob Eichelkraul in a leading role. That night we traveled to Lake Forest and barely beat them in two games. On the players' bus we sang Christmas carols on the trip home. Christmas in the air! Next day no schcol-nor for two weeks following "Gee. I remember how tired I was the morning alter the Alumni game and dance! We really showed those oldsters how we play basketball in this school now. We beat them in two games. The dance in the Community Room followed the games. Next morning we got up early and went down to the.-.W MAQ studies. Miss Klaus ' choral groups sang and Mr. Co'tanche spoke. som:e of our students were embarrassed when they missed words in the spelling bee over the air a little later. We were back at school on Monday and two days later the seniors all looked gr;,wn up. The occasion was the taking of senior pictures. and even 'Red' wore a suit although he evidently suffered. Right, 'Red'? "Isabelle H~th. Mildred Bergmark. and Phyllis Schlotterbeck won first, second, and third place respectively in the Oratorical Contest on January 28. Were they proud! Dick Paroubek did a swell job as announcer. On the 31st the J. V.'s won but the Lake Forest team threw a scare into our Varsity. We had our first Cheerleaders' Dance, which was a great success." �--------- -o/ the 1j.ar "On the fourth of February we all attended Dramatics Night-that is, the lucky people clid who gol tickets. Jo Ann McKeown wowed 'em playing a pair of queens; Bill Stevens acted brilliantly in his own play. Footlight Fantasy; Wayne Barton and Mary Baumhardt satirized good acting very effectively. Dramatics Night has really became a fixed event at Nilehi. On February 7 a representative from Northwestern University visited our school as the first on a list of college representatives. which included Beloit, Lawrence, Grinnell, Northern lllinOi,a Teachers' and Central Colleges. "February IS was Family Night; it was, as usual, a success. Highlights of the evening . . . "Corley" Harring· ton's interpretation of "Where Did You Get That Hat?" . . . Helen Miller's Moon Goddess dance . . . Pat Reiland's dance group ... lhe bartender's quartet ... Rosanna King's long skirt getting caught in the tandem . . . and finally. the greatest event of the evening- the band in their smart. new, blue uniforms . . . and then, of course. the dance until one o'clock. On February 21 we closed our conference season with a thriller against Arlington. The J. V.'s after ten straight victories and a championship had the bad fortune to lose their lasl lwo games. On February 24 the Singing Globe-trotter. a Russian, fascinated us with his stories. songs and accent, in what was one of our most enjoyable entertainments. "Five performances of the Water Carnival held on March 20-22, sponsored by the GAA, failed to satisfy all Niles Township for many were turned away. I'll never forget . . . Carol Blameuser and Leone Becker's perform· ances at Lolita . . . the very beautiful flowers made by lhe Art Department . . . Frank Thulstrup's tumble into the pool . . . the Williams-Harrington double-dive . . . June Berg's narrative abilities ... the synchronized swimming captured by Bob Evans and Angie Weber . . . an exceptionally · enjoyable evening!" Our hero snapped out of his musing when his first name was called. Wasted effort! . . . The last name wasn't his. He drifted back into the pasl. "On March 28 the long awaited Senior Party was held. Everyone had a good lime. Ed Springer in shorts ... Dick Paroubek's flourishes as the villain . . . Gloria Bartz's perplexity . . . (by the way. I wonder if Irene Betlinski finally solved the theory of relativity) . . . the Reilands' teaming up to win the Elimination Dance Contest . . . Ralph Krier's basso profundo solo and Bill Peterson and "Corky" Harrington's antics during the quintet's singing. "The Arlington Heights seniors presented their play on March 31 and all upperclassmen were excused for the afternoon. Nice goin'! Dad and Son Night was held on April first; basketball and sw;mming letters were presented. The following Friday was Mother and Daughter Night. April 4 was Hobo and Character Day. Some of the costumes that were around school would h::tve really passed for profes· sional. Art Hannem(ln and Marilyn McKeever won the first prizes. Shirley Dilg was good as Daisy Mae and Helen Miller as Raggedy Ann. Among the casualties of the day were Jack Reiland ·and Bruce Jarrett. "The following week was Spring Vacation, which was better than usual for the upperclassme::> who climbed aboard three buses on Mcnday morning for a two day excursion to Springfield. So much happened on that trip. Let's see now: "Wagon Wheel Inn, first stop for ice cream . . . New Salem, Illinois, with its old log cabins . . . was there a barn or a cellar in the place which we didn't explore? . . . back on the buses! 23 girls and 5 boys in Bus No. 1. wahoo . . . the St. Nicholas Hotel--a delicious dinner followed by more ice cream ... phones, radios. towels, soap, ice water, all the comforts of home. and we took advantage of them . . . that night. after the show! Ed Breitenbach's new shoes! How'd he get lhem? . . . The Hag Parties in Rooms 354, 356, and 358 . . . Cliff Whittington and Bill Roman's practical jokes . . . the Calvin Clark-Bill Feich night-long wrestling match ... and then, sleep along about 2:30 A. M. for most rooms . . . Next morning ... Breakfast and then over to the State Building ... the State Museums, the Senate. the Assembly in action. I'll call it action for lack of a better term. Did I get red when the entire Nilehi group was asked to rise when our representative introduced us as a body to the Assembly! ... then the governor came out to meet us ... alter that, lhe hotel for lunch and more ice cream . . . on the buses to Lincoln's home and then to his tomb . . . finally homeward bound . . . arrived at Nilehi about 11:00 tired but filled with wonderful memories.'" Most of the seniors, in the meantime. had stepped forward to receive their diplomas. Our hero's turn had not yet come. He relapsed into bis contemplative state, an expression hall joyful, hall sorrowful on his face as he recalled those last few weeks al N.T.H.S. "Thal first day back at school on lhe 14th with the weather so nice and the grass emerald-green in the Spring sunshine - the Spinster Skip on April 19 - the "Ccke Bar!" Doris Mussil and her commillee did a swell job on that dance. On the 21 there was an all-school assembly. On the 24 and 25 we had the dramatics high light of the year. the all-school play "Don't Talce My Penny.'' This popular comedy based on the search for a movie star, played lo packed houses. Orchids to Mrs. Esch for her superb productions! "And then, May with its uncertain weather and certain school life and its abundance of track and baseball com· petitions. "May 16 was the date of Eighth Grade Night with next year's poor. bewildered freshmen-to-be getting a peek at their school for the next four years. This year's freshmen hung around and made life miserable for the newcomers. We Seniors felt old and experienced around them. It was hard to believe that we were like them four y~rs ago. On May 23 the Track team competed at Crystal Lake in the Conference Meel. May 30 there was no school. Memorial Day! June S and 6 were days of tribulation for the seniors as they suffered with their final. and I do mean final. exams. A few were smart enough to be ezempt; these lucky Seniors could stay home and prepare for the Junior Prom the next night. What a Prom! The Junior Class really outdid themselves in preparing for that prom. The music and decorations were the best ever, or was it jusl because it was my last year? Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday .. . everyone taking exams . . . and tonight, June 12 . . . Commencement!" Suddenly our hero became aware of a multitude of eyes fixed upon him. He wondered . . . "Have I been talking aloud? Is my tie straight? Why are they looking at me? Have I done something wrong? Maybe my cap's crooked." He straightened his cap but still everyone seemed to be waiting for something to happen. There wasn't a sound; no one moved across the stage. "What are they waiting for? Why doesn't somebody do something? Say, that name Mr. Cotanche just announced sounds familiar . . . Why, that's my name! He's calling me!" Our hero stumbled toward the front of the stage. pushing his way through the rows of fellow-classmen. The coveted sheepskin was in his hand. He grinned. He was free. His school days were over. He was happy as he made his way back to his place. Other names were called, but he did not hear them. ffis mind drifted back to those firsl few days in N. T. H. S. '"Funny," he thought. "how sentimental you feel abcut a place you are leaving forever." 37 �Your most difficult assignment? That passage of Latin translation? That geometry theorem? That center position on the football squad? That review for a special exam? That committee chairmanship? That leading role in the play? . Well, yes! Those were assignments to remember! But, there was one assignment vastly harder than those. It was so big it included all other assignments in its broad sweep. It was not something to be merely outlined or memorized. It never had a "solution" tucked away in an answer section. It could not be covered by writing a test. It was immensely important. In fact, your four years in a public school can be justified only in terms of this super-assignment. It was so long you didn't finish it. Indeed, by its very wording, you never can finish it. Whatever true progress you made in it brought rich reward. Now that you are leaving school, it will become even more important in your life. ... Your most difficult assignment was, and is: Citizenship." "Practic~ Good Harold R. Ohlson 38 �The staff of the 1941 year book wish to thank all the students and faculty members who in any wcry aided in the production of this book. We are especially grateful to Miss Grace Harbert, who, through her classes in Problems of Democracy, has been responsible for the choice of DEMOCRACY as the theme of the 1941 year book. Staff members for the 1941 year book include: Jane Comstock Isabelle Hoth Annelle Carroll Clyde Henning Robert Gerhardt Phyllis Schlotterbeck Sue Schaeffer Audrey Keating Dorothy Kranz Betty Kelly Paul Mikota Marjorie Riser Norma Delfino Betty Van Arsdale Phyliss Braeseke Helen Miller June Berg Laura Nunemacher Robert Reiland Louise Bailey Edith Luxem Mildred Risinger Bill Stevens Mary Louise Boyd Jeannette Huemmer Clark Barton Jeannette LeClercq Nick May Shirley Mae Dilg 39 �'I: following •ecUon of the yea<book ;, compo•ed of copies of the 1940-1 941 Nilehilite. Throughout the year the school newspaper has endeavored to present to the students the events of the year in an interesting and accurate manner. The staff, composed of students of journalism, reports for and edits the paper under the guidance of two advisors, Miss Ostergren and Mr. Meier; the printing class has full charge of setting the typ·e and printing the paper. The yearbook staff is confident that the appearance of these issues of the Nilehilite in the annual will be received with as much enthusiasm as was given each issue as ii appeared in the homerooms during the year. �"'"------Homecoming.Plans NI LE H I LI T E L~~~li~!i~dan•mal Homecoming - ' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + celebrated next weedend, Oct. 11 Niles Center, Illinois October 4, 1940 a:r..d 12, a lumni return to the secene ~----~~--------~-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~clfu~rfmmfilwnque~sandb~~ Mr. Cofonche Cites Need of Cooperdjon Supm·intende:nt Cotanche in his i'Cn"arks beforn the student.,.. body ~t t11('\ first all school asse mbly exrrcsr::cd the feeling which \Ve, 'vho t!1irk, must h o.ve deep within us. r,.fr. Cotanche said, "In a school, d· ich is g-.towing as fast as our S\!hool, many problems arise which 1 c 0 not confront a school wheTe a stability of enrollment has been l'eached. We, faculty and students i ire;" get their fi:rs t taste of high .:f ..__-:...-..;...i....i;;..,,._ _ _ _ _ __ Freshmen Embark 0 F y V n our- ear oyage schccl social life. As this is the lYos.: impoxbnt fall school activity the entire student body is urged to partidp.nte. Indications are that the rJ1·mni \'/ill be strongly l'epresented. Things stal't rolling Fl·iday night l't 7 :30 with a borrfire on the cinder track, east of the school, fo11owed by n. snake d:mce thrnugh town. Sat1c1·<l.:i..y morning an automobile parade hns been planned, staTting at the school at 10 :30. Every student who can get a car - loud homs m·e a help - is invited to join. Aftex t ol1 ring the township,. the parn.de w ill i·et<H'll to t he school. The kickoff of the first game of 2n afternoon of football will be at 12 :30 when our J. V.'s duel C:rystal Lake J. V.'s. At three o'clock, the Troj8,n Varsity will attempt to 0vc!1ge last year's ddeat by Crystal Lake. NileHi will round out a perfect weekend with what prnmises to be 2.. nel'fect dance. Jack Ketter and his orchestra will be featured at the annual football dance on Saturday evening at 8 :30. in the gymnasium. A unique door prize, in keeping with the weekend, will be given away at 11 P. M. nlike, must grow with the institution . We must build within our relves a responsibility for our own growth as individuals. We need to A you ng army of freshmen startl '"'r~~ to be more and mol'e consid- ed t h eir four yem· trip through the crate of others. We need politeness migh ty halls of NTHS. That is to m:<l courtesy at all times: in the say, we hope it only takes them c·"ss :mom, in the corridors, on the four yearn, but taking all things school grounds, in the school buss- into considerntion, as one must do f':l . We need to be loyal to the pur- v7ith a Freshman, it looks as though poses and trnditions of ou1· school. it wiiJ be an outstanding class. We need to have good students. The class as a whole started its We need to act at all times in such high school carne1' with a bang. In manner that we continue to show the music room Mr. Collins had visour community that such loyalty ions of a better onhestra. H e exists. It is only when these goals monped h is foreh ead and welcomed a1·e r eached that we can say that I:'oris Ilfimpton at the piano, Nona Language Club to Hold we have i·eally achieved." I J ane Haloppa and Bob Humburg in Ard so another day, and still an- the clarinet section, Anna Nach- v, eetinq Oct. 14 other. We sow. We reap. We bauer pla ying trombone, and Billy Refrgess of the numerous langhE>rvest. Our h arvest, MT. Cotanche Meyer beating time on a drum. Ii~ uage clci.nses will be herded into hfleives, \vill depend upon the ef- the gym some of the freshmen try- thr Assembly room on October 14, f01't each of us extends towal'd the i;·g out for cheerleading and pray- for the first meeting of the Foreign goals he has outlined for us. hlg that they would get "in" we1·e: La~gunge Club. At a recent election J nne Breckenridge, Dolores Chap- !:.ev1 officel'S were elected and will October 4 Football - Leyden, there m an, Marilyn Hynes, and J une Ohl- be i,...stalled ai the informal proson. gram planned by the nominating 5 J . V's. Leyden, thel·e Out onb thehm 'th 1.ISS 5 FJ·osh vs. Evanston, there D football field 1Grant nr.. d p1·ogrnm conmn•ttee w1 l\/''" d th . . Kuhn, Bo a , a~ severa ther :YI "rjorie ....onalds in charge. 1 e 7 Vocational Assembly-Bankrng freshmen are showmg up a1 Th ~ . ,h h d . f tu, 8 FJ·osh _ Soph Matinee Dance upperclassmen. o.,e m \\ ose an s our u 1e 11 Annual Bonfire All in a ll, if looks as if the fres h- is intrusted ai·e Don Fishe1·, presimen might lose the title of "Green- / dent, Bill Stockfish, vice president , 12 Football Home Comin g Game horns," befoI'~ _the year is up and Jeanne Nelson, secretar y, and BaT12 Ho:i;ne Comi ng Dance pr?v~ competition even for the so- Ib ·wa w rniams treas ureT. Good luck !t ' h ' , ' 14 Foreign LanguageClubDance ph1st1cated oldeT students." o ·c em. CALENDAR ° �_ __.1 Page 2 NILEHILITE ncto'Jer 4. 1941 rt ,__I- - . NILEHI NIL!HILITE The Ni!cHilite is ed'ted, published and ~ r:u ~ed b iwe~kly by the s tudents or l'iles T wns'1;;: n;i;;:1 S · ~·ool oi Skok:e, Illinois. :.i . R. E. Cota nc!:1e. Pril~cipa l. ED ITORIAL STAFP Clark Barton Etlitor Phyllis Braeske Assistant Editors Bill Steveoo Grace Lang;E:n Feature Editors Bob Reiland Sports E:ditor Annette Carroll Col len Tl· omas Activities Editors Florance Gable Hue JI Rrow•• Production Managers H •iri ~ Da.<\m Mr. Clement Meier, Advisor Repor ters I '61 Receive I insist on capital- Scholastic Awards NIBLETS Yoi·~· :Cdito~· thnt word - has bec:;i too i=ing bL:sy doir g homework , b'yirig to find o·Jt who the "it" was that "c;;;.usecl" Miss Schader to lose n Bass - in attempting to dig up a ds.tfl for the dan~e, to do much. Bat then I've had fun b1ck at school - Watching Misi:; B:}ny's pumps precariously dangle on the tip of her toe - waiting feverishly · fo1 tl•em to be Jos t in the sh:.1ffl3 . . . looking with delight at Corky Honington's rainbow shoes · · · .ri1:d just looking at Miss Bronson. Miss Lumpp had a wonderful summer divided between the soft music and quiet breeze:;; of Hawaii; . .a_nd gay sparklmg Hol~ywood parMii::" Susanne Ostergren, Advisor ties . . . The staff wishes Helen "Pec Wee" Miller happy bi1·thday, but a bit late .. . Katie Ann KelOUR. SECOND YEAR son had a "coming-out" party at a This issue rr>arlrn the beginning the Bl. ckhawk recently _ the parr.f ariothcr year in the existance of th"! NILEHILITE, NTHS's young- ty, we regret was one tentative to l":s'. publ;cation. On this, OUl' first an appendectomy ... Crutches are annivernary, we feel it is rathel' ap- quite the fad now - but I seem to propriate to acknowledge the favor- have "misplaced" mine. · h able manner in which yom paper Bill Stevens is going out wit Prid ours was received here at NileHi. We wish also to express our who again? I'll offer 5 to 1 odds desire to se1·ve you with the news that "he" takes "her" to the foot· i:i 11 d high-lights of all schools activ- ball dance . .. Ted Canty takes his football - among other things ities dUl'ing the coming year. NILEHILITE fast appeared very seriously. He calls up Mr. The on Nov. 22, 1939 aftel' weeks of pre- Kent - among other people - in paration by the journalism and the middle of the night to ask his printing classes. Incidentally, t he way 1:'bo·:t the _ (Censored) _ NILEIIILITE is one of the few !av papeTs in the Chicago arna to be ·:1 - ct~ . .. Miss Kranz has her both edited and printed by the stu- :-- .f'.SSt;S d•cwi·1 g bt!bblc gum that dents exclusively. Examining a she can save five hundred wrappel'S front page article of that first issue ·i'Qc- n 'Zt of histo:ric~I pictm·es ... we find this prophesy,_ "and the ~ W~3 n·~X\!~~s::d f~·o~ ~class to pick NILEHILITE will gro'tv with Nile- om , ,\... n.S.., • • • a f 1e.,!1man, naturHi." We believe this prophesy has . ~ ]ly, t --:015 ~1 ~l1ower with her shoes been fully realized during the past ?11 • • • Rill T<1n.g had a "tasty" meal 1 '~ Foods 2ft"'!r someone had scatyear ~ e. rr1 rnnn chips in it - he ate it . The NILEHILITE, we feel, has - [OI' ·1 whih, unknowingly - and become a real student project. The then he knew! . . . an explosion name was suggested by a student, ~:1 th: :lrort 'e1· of the third floor the design was drnwn by the mech- - Room 316 - found frightened anical drawing classes, t he office freshics v;atching the "mad 1 sci enhas handled the circulation, the tir st" CX!)ei·il:Y'enting in explosions. journalism and print ing classes, as Need we mention that he is a Finn? As I put this column to bed, I ment ioned previously, have taken care of editing and publishing. r est assured that its territory shall The1·e are other cases where stu- ne•1cr be invaded by that "demon" de: ts have helped and speeded up r11dio; nor by any bigoted biped iTCd,,ction of this publication, too who has been reading dime novels ~bo u t tough reporters. lengthy to mention. 1 .\ ·; n ·y Al l e~1. Helli y Darkow, \ Vayne n:trt on. 1 Ju·1c llc··g, ~f il1 rc ·1 Ti c r~mark, Jane Com:-=tock. '":i..11c () ·a tr;c k . Norm:i. De1fino. Dc..nice Fr:tn~nn, R id ard lla r1ney , J 01s Jaycox, Detty Kelly. r.>rm:":t K raeuet . Pat Rt:danil. Sal Rizzo. Ruth R'hcrt •, Dick S"IM. Hettv St'elow, \'V illa ni Stock· ;;c1 1. Viola Stoll, Toni Thlimr.1enos. Robert Toi· w'11 . TTuward \Veldon, Detty 'Westerlund, Maralyn \\'o ' 1 wonh. The schol "rship rn:scmblv wr.s hel<l Thur~ dny, Sept. 19. T11is n::r.embly, which traditiorrnlly is th"' fffst all-school assembly of this vear, was presided over by :.\fr. Flagg-, who presented schol:1rship ceTtificates to 39 pupils. Bronz0 Keys were awarded to 13 a!'d Silvc1· Keys to 9. Studen.ts who i·eceivcd Scholarship Ce1tificates are: Aflcle Bm·tz, Richm·d C. Boyd, Danny Dever, Dagmar Franson, Patri('ia G::ilitz, JoAnn J\1nKeowr , Rosann~ King, Virgini~ T 'l:ri::..;rn, Janet Lutkehaus, Carl Mueller, Dorothv Ririgs. Tom Sh,,1--id~n. Betty Stielow, Willard Stockfisch, Viola Stoll, Bettv Westerlund, Mar~lyn Woodworth, Gloria Alterini, Donald Baumann, Ruth Buthman, Donrn• Jean Cotanche, Ber:iic•' Franson, Wayne Kunekl, Grncc Langan, Virginia Nordin, Paul Pe;:lman, Daniel Petty, Beatrice Rossman, Armin Bierbaum, Bernice Bovk, Norma Delfino, Shirley Dilg, William Fiech, Winnifred Glagg, Flol'ence Gabel, Mary Hega1'ty, Edith Luxem, Sue Schaefe1', La Verne Schuler. Bronze Keys wern presented to: :Mildred Bergmark, Ruth Clarkens, Gertrude Dahm, Rita Jane Fisher, Marjorie Riser, Norma Heidtke, Olga Krajchovich, Lillian Miethke, Is~belle Hoth, Florence Ochs, Virginia Reuter, Colleen· Th omaR, • Lnura Nunemache1·. Those who rnceived Silver Keys, and eligi ble for Gold Keys at the Senior Commencement are: Gloria Baltz, Ben Domas, Dorothy Kranz, June Berg, Don Fisher, Edward Springer, Phyliss Braeske, Jeanette Huemmer, Phylliss Schlotterbeck. The third all-school assembly will be held in the gymnasium at 2 :00 P. M. on Oct. 17. Mr. GeOl'ge F. MoTSe of the University of Chicago Biological Department w ill speak on bird~,. wild animals, and animals in captivity. :.\fr. Mol'Se is a recognized authority' being associated with Shedd Aquarium, Boston Zoo, and the Chicago Zoo. 1 ., ? ? ., 0 Cl'rrate - the way to get up a tree P1ism - where prisoners stay. Vitamin - if someone comes to your house vit-am-in. '.':::cpyright - what students should v:hen peeking at someone's paper. �NILEHTLITE October 4, 1940 Hollyviood and Return Majorettes on Parade; Request for Drum Major T'h c marching of feet - the flash A rather familiar figme on t he nf twirli...,rr batons - and everyone Paramount lot, gadding with the kr:.ows that the drum majornttes str.rs, and dancing beforn the grind- arf) again on parade under the diinrr c;imeras and gla1·ing lights this rcction of Mr. Weidal. Seven new r..rn-1J.:'er, Wl'..S Miss Carnle Lee of 1!1aj0Tettes have enlisted in the :NTH8. class in addition t o the eight twirl1 Oae of the famous Abbot danc-1 crn of last year. An aftel' school ers, Carole spent some s ix weeks; clans is a lso being organized. in the Movie Colony during the AccOl'ding to Mr. Collins, it is rhooting of the New Jack Benny- pimmed to have the drum majorFred Allen smash hit, " Love Thy! ettes twirl at one or t wo of the footN eighbor." Wo1·king at the stud_ios b_all ga~es. G~·oup twirling exhibifrom 7 :30 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily, t10ns will be given at home basketthei·e was no fea1· of boTedom. The i bail games. maze and panorama that spells · A special request has been sent Parnmount is j ust like a little vil- out to have boys who are inte1·ested l?ge with hmdes of people scurry- in leading the band xeport to Mr. ing about the streets; the starn on Collins . The one selected will be bicycles, and huge sound sets jam- given strntting lessons and theTemed to overflowing with h ungry after lead the band on parade in a but eager extras, make-up and cos- handsome unifOl'm. tume directOTs, beautiful scenery WHOZIT? 2.nd noise and excitement reigning There's a fellow, tan and tall, supreme . The lu ncheon rendezvous of t he And when he goes th:rough the hall stai·s · is the studio commissary Anxious glances can be seen, where Carole lunched with J ohnnv For competition is quite keen. MeTcer, Hoagy Ca1meichal, and the His is t he voice you always hear Me,.rie Macs, all of the musical world. Bing Crosby, after eating Advertising t hroughout the yeal', his own, boaowed Carole's dill FOl' party, picnics, dance, or plays, pickle and smiled his thanks. Bound The latter in which he porh.ays fOl' i·ehearnal one day, on sound Begger, hero, or the detective. stage 8, she got into "10" by mis- As in last year's play, effective t ake and walked right in on t he filming of "Virginia," star ring When he called with voice of thunder, Madeline Carrol. Carole, ·a very busy gil'l, still "Give me Oxford 0100 !" found time to visit the Cocoanut G..-ove, where Eddie Duchin dedi- Kelly On Underclassmen cated some songs to her birthday. flt the Wilshire Bowl, Frankie Freshman whither commest thou Thomas, the yotmg star, stepped With thy solemn scholarly brow? nil over Cm·ole's new pumps to the Tred these h[iJls with trembling feet, accompaniment of Phil. Hanis' or- Lest some seniors t hou shall meet. chestrn; but she got even, spilling heT drink - coke, I'm sure - on Sophomore's you .aTe up a step, Frankie anot heT night at Cfros. Don't let t hat give you too much pep. While out dTiving with Jackie Two more years you have to go, Cooper, Carole saw Peter LolTe and Before you've Teally seen the show. found he was as weird off the Juniors step ahead with glee, scTeen as on. Hollywood is a movie, a book, a But do not lose your dignity, play, and a bicarbonate all mixed All traditions yo u uphold, together. When you become a senior bold. Now Carole is home rehe-.:irsing Seniors what h ave you to gain for the new show at the famed With your look of great distain? Palmer House with big ambitions, a huge scrnp book, and wonderful Work will have to go quite fast, Else a· senio1· you will last-and last. :nemories. I Page 3 See Chicago Club Plans Tours The See Chicago Club has again started its year of to urs. This club, made up of Juniors and Seniors, takes six to eight trips in and about Chicago duri ng t he school year. The final tTip of t he year is eitheT to V/ashington, D. C. or SpTingfield, [J]inois. This year a two-day trip to 3pri!1gfield and New Salem will be plann ed. The first jaunt was an all day bus trip taken Sept. 4. During t he moming t he gl'oup visited the Oriental :Museum, which is a part of the University of Chicago, and th e Museum of Science in Jackson Pa1·k. This building houses many exhi bits formerly seen at the Chicago World's Fair. In the afternoon the group visited the Field Museum and Shedd Aquarium. After a st r enuous seven hom day the weai·y sight-seers returned to Niles Cente1·. The club this year has on its calendar trips to the Historieal So:;ietv, the Ch icago Civic Opera, the Post Office, a broadcast, a nd of course the members will go to Maxwell Street to do t heir Christmas shopping. Plans are .also being made for a trip to Chinatown which will indude djnner. Trips are not made two years in succession unless requested. Other plans will include visits to places of business such as a telephone station OT a candy company. And effort will be ml'!de to take at least a small group to the Northwestern Observatory. All trips are made on Friday evePing, Satu1·day or Sunday. By l'enuest t here will be at least two Sunday ti·ips. Sho re trips may be made 2.fter school. This club, which has a membership of ovel' one hundrnd twenty, is sponsored by Miss Harbert, Miss Lumpp, and Miss Kranz. Lost And Found Found : Coach Isaacson wearing a green hat; oh well, nothing like breaking old tmditions. Found : One FTeshman in search of mom 308 at t he comer of Cicero mcl Dempster. Lost: 225 Freshmen. �Injuries Take Three Regulars Page 4 NILEHILITE October 4. 1941 I G.A.A. Start Activity The Tl·ojans, bound for Leyden The G. A. A. is initiating the new thi s afternoon, will fight their heart n· embers of their 01·ganization toout despite the fact that three good c ay. After opening doors, carrying ' meu, Hegarty, Permer, Krier, will bcoks an d buying lunches for the be unable to play due to injmies. -Jder G. A A. girls, they will have PmTcer and Krier's foot injuries ::omplcted the first step in becomwere sustained during practice ing a G. A. A. member. A hike to wh ile Hegarty's rib injury happen- Oa.kton woods has been planned for ed during the Northbrook game. ~II the G. A. A. girls after school. \'l e hope that these three pluggers This is the first event of the G. A. A. program for this yeru·. wm be back with us soon. Annette Carroll was elected The powerful Libertyville eleven weren't as tough as we expected President of the G. A. A. at a meetthem to be or is it that we are bet- ing held Sept. 23. Vil'ginia N01·din ter than we thought. Theil- hefty is the new Vice Chairman and Soline provided excellent blockin g for cial Chairman. Phyliss Braeseke is their hard running backs to beat Secretary, and Winnifred F lagg is Treasurer. They were elected by NileHi. Early in the game the Wildcats the Executive Board which consists recovered a Trojan fumble which of nine members. They are Annette staded the Libel'tyville march to a Carroll, Phyliss Braeseke, Claire 13 to 0 victory. Jt:niac, Winnifred Flagg, Virginia Om· game aga~nst Northb1·ook Nor di·'. Jane Kadlec, Rosanna King, three weeks ago was a sorrowful JC'~m M. Peterson, and Ginny Marevent to everyone that was watching. We got off to a good start with t ell. The seven class representaJack Heiniger running the first tives of the G. A. A. are: Shirely J'.' lay of the game 58 yards to a Klpesing, Eva He1·man, Florence touchdown and in the same quarter Schramn, Joan Briggs, Betty Bray, NileHi sc01·ed again with little Bart Lon-aine Splatt, and Barbar.a RassHerarty plunging t hrough the line after a long march down the field . n:.us~en. T'he schedule for the coming Banel chested Vernon Permer was a charging demon in line plunges. spm·t events in Physical Education In the second quarter North- cksses in::ludes tournaments in brook scored seven points after a :--r chery, tennis, ping-pong, shufflepunt went offsides in Trojan territory. The last quarter was our bcard, volley-ball, and soft ball. · Waterloo when Northbrook blocked TJ e winning teams from each class .a kick and recove1·ed on our two will compete for the school champyard line. They plunged over and io:1shi,. G. A. A. members will rewon the game 14 to 12. ceh-e points toward t heir letters for Karl Klein scored both touchp~.:rti-ipation in G. A. A. classes downs for No1·thbrook. NTHS gained 138 yards through n hich meet eve1·y Friday. scrimmage and completed 3 passes foT 37 yards. Nmthbrook gained Freshman Impressions 149 yards through scrimmage and completed 3 passes for 44 yards. Some of our scampering freshNiles lost 70 yaxds through penal- men have slowed down enough to ties while Northbrnok lost only 40. gulp 0•1 their impressions of NTHS .t The Trojan frosh this year are and so we find they think. .. "Too the bulkiest and most prnmising in the history of the s~hool. In their big and too much of it." .. "They first game against Maine Township don't treat you like infants here." they lost 12 to 7. . .. "Would like to have Mr. Kent The freshmen played a good game, but they have to impxove on give me a piece of gum." · · "Sort their passing defense an d blocking. of big and I get pushed around a They have a heavy line, outweigh- lot." .. "A grand place to receive and education and plenty of it." ing the varsity. 1 42 Respond to Call for Cheerleaders Attention all freshmen, new students, guests and eve1-ybody! ! We have it on first-hand informat ion that most of NileHi noise doesn't originate in the boy's Locker Room or 213 but, sti·ange as it seems, from behind the door mai·ked "Girl's Gymnasium." Some 42 enthusiastic stagers answered the call for cheerleaders sounded by Miss Schaefer, who this year is organizing a regula1· club. NTHS's bouncing pepsters \vill have to watch their N's and T's this season in orde1· to earn a letter. They must tread the straight and narrow path of rules and regulations. Phyliss Brneseke, Eva Herman and Helen Schuett, our veterans, are captained by Pat Reiland to make up this year's Varsity squad, which welcomed Doris Burkland, Connie Kohtz, Rosema1·y Meyer and Jean Peterson. Junior Varsity includes June Alson, Phyliss Brooks, Lulu Deatrick, Joe Fisher, Nona Holappa, Marilyn Hynes, Lois Jaycox, Lilli.an Krupa, Lawrence Miller. Sound good? All right, let's see if we can yell! ! huh?! UPSTAIRS and DOWN As fooball player, "What Does Homecoming Mean To You"? !\fr. Kent, J. V. Coach-It all depends upon how late I come home. If I get home late my wife is displeased. If I get home early I'm. displea~ed or broke. But if yom· referring to N. T. H. S.'s Homecoming, it means we:.:re all displeased if we don't get one hund1·ed per cent student support at the game. Ben Domas, Senior - It means we wear ourselves out in the game in the afternoon and then finish the job at the dance Saturday night. But we have a lot of fun doing it. Ted Canty, junior- Means a good football game. Hope I get to play. D uke Heznex, sophomo1·e - It's the game we want to win more than any other in the season. �NILE HILITE Volume II No. 2 Attend the Last Home Football Came, October 26 Skokie, Illinois Honors Course Offered For Seniors lCALENDAR Od. 19-Frosh vs. Main - heTe Varsity vs. Lake Forest there 21-No school 22-Know Your School Prngram - Science Dept. 8 :00 p. m. 24-Frosh vs. Woodsto~k­ there 26-J.V.'s vs. Woodstockhe1·e Varsity vs. Woodstock - lrnTe 28-Ail school assembly-Prologue to Glory 31-Halloween Pal'ty - Chamber of Commexce Nov. 1-J.V.'s vs. Axlington - here 2-Varnity vs. Arlington there Is there any way (can go to college with most of my ex~nses paid? Just what is expected of me when I enter college? Which college is best for the kind of training I want? These, and many similiar questions, are being answered for the fifteen students now emolled in the ho:r:ors course unde1· the direction of Miss Beny and Mr. Ohlson, offered for the first time this semester. Twice a week these students are being given special preparation for college work. The students are being helped to determine weak spots in theiT high school training so that From now on all teachel'S will be these can be remedied before the prohibited to give Juniors any studen.ts enter college. Review of high school work thus homework on Fridays. Such was the motion as passed by the Juniors has become one important part of at the meeting last FYiday in the the course. Under the direction of assembly room. Of couTse the meeting was just Miss Beny, English and foreign language reviews are conducted. a farce, but they can dream, can't )!Ir. Ohlson supe1·vises the review they? Another matter which caused he.ated discussion was that dancers of science, mathematics, and social at nll school affairn be rnquixed to studies. dance in a conversational position. Another important part of this The opposition, however, cleverly course js to train students for the shelved this discussion until the w1·iting of entrance, placement, and first meeting in 1941. On the lighteT side, the entertainscholarship examinations. Next ment was a cleverly written play spring these students will compete by Marie Thrnop . The characters with students of othe1· high schools wern: Bill Stevens, Gbnie N mdin for scholarship awards. Winning a and Betty Kellv. In fact the play scholarnhip award usually mearfs was so well written that there will that part, or all, of the student's be an attempt made to have it pubtuition fee is paid by the college lished. Fm all the fun and entertaingiving the scholarship examination. ment, the Juniors can thank theiT (Continued on page 4) Two-hundred freshmen journeyed to the Chicago Sanitary District last Monday, to view one of the largest sewage disposal plants in the country. The plant represents an investment of $34.75 fo1· each taxpayer and costs an additional $1.38 per person a yeaT to operate. 11 Tho first of a series of "Know Y Olli' S~hool" programs '-Vill be pl'er;ented on Thurs ., Oct. 24, in the ~chool gymnasium. The science dec;arttrcnt is in chal'ge of the eve~1ing's program. The Physics and Chemistry classes will combine their Tei:;ources in presenting six demonstrations concerned with oxidation. Inasmuch as oxygen is so essential to existence, it is certain that these demonstrati::ms will be intensely intriguing and infOl'mative. The use of thermite in incendim·y bombs and its use in welding prncesses will be demonstrnted and explained. Also included in the p1·0gram will be the production of hydrogen, demonstration of its uses, and adaptability to t he demands of modern civilization. The Biology class will exhibit preserved animals, a large collection of insects, an unusual assortment of biological fruits, and several scientific drnwings. Lectures and illustrntions on a balanced aquarium and a desert habitat, microscopic slides, and fall leaves in their new ensembles will be prnsented. Freshmen to Conduct Quiz For the acquatic minded the1·e wiH be a collection of sea shells. A vivarium and a chart showing the various elements in the human l~ody will complete the impxessive display. Three Students Attend The freshman General Science ; gi"oup will conduct a quiz to test the C lassica] League Meeting own adviser, Niiss G1·ace HaTbert . scientific knowledge of the average Betty Cummings, Mary Kay De- individual. Witt, and Virginia Reuter, accom"Prolugue to Gl01·y" panied by Miss Mal'jorie Ronalds, Three scenes from the Broadway attended the Northern District of hit, "Prologue to GlOl'y ," will be Illinois convention of the Junio1· shown at an all-school assembly on Classical league .at the Evanston Oct. 28 at 1 :15 p.m. The show is a Township high school on Sat., Oct. dramatic love story ·of young Abe 12. Lincoln and Ann Rutledge. A ttention, Juniors No Weekend H omework! "FreshmeDGet Bad Whifl" Science Department Conducts First Know Your School Program" �_L_E_H~l_L_IT_E=-~--'-~~~~~~~~O::::::.ctoberlB,19-10 . P_a~g~e_2_~~~~~~~~~~~~~N_I I r-r ~I~~~ ILE -N-- HI LITE The NileHilite is ed'ted, published and i;r;nted biweekly by the students of Niles Township High S:hool of Skokie, Illinois. ,\lr. R. E . Cotanche, Principal. EDlTORIAL Sl'AFF Clark Barton Editor Phyllis Braeske Assistant Editors Bill Stevene Feature Editors Annette Carroll Florance Gable Activities Editors Collen Thomas Bob Reiland Sports Editor· Grace Langen B 1ell brown Production Managers H•rry Dahm Mr. Clement Meier, Advisor Reporters NIBLETS I ~~~----------_,. ~ ~::;::?~-< =--::: Last Friday night hundreds of rambling wrecks drifted a hundred miles through Skokie-wildly cheering NTHS. Willkie, ar>d anythinp: else they liked. Around and arou-d traveled the line - traveling in dizzy circles and sweeping with it things that no one would h<'tve thought existed- even in Skokie ... The whole week-end was inst Tock" - and you know when ! - nobody seemed to care what time it was. . . the much sou.P,'ht after Joanne B1·jggs attended the dance Nanr-v AHen., He.11r"Y Hi.uko w, Wayne Tia.rtc"Jn. June Berg, Mil<!rcd "Berinnark, Jane Comstock. with sophomore Dick Bovd much Jane Deatrick, Norma Delfino. Bernice Franson, to the disappointment of umteen Ridalnl Jilarrncy, Lois Jaycox, Ilctty Kelly. C - Z:r.i~n1cr. Pat Reiland, Sal Rizzo, Ruth seniors ... a pail· of spil'ited young ~:Dick Solon. Ucttv Sticlow. Willarrl S tock· couples that seemed evervwhere :>t i;-. --w.b St.all, Toni Thlimmcnos. Robert Toi· zein, -rlow.ard \Veldon, Betty West erlund, Maralyn once were: Margie Burkll'l.Prl with \Voc-~wortl:. Chuck Taylor, and Kay Smith with Mi~" Susanne Ostergren, Advisor Jackie Allen ... speaking of pepp:v dancers - Josephine Murrav and Fritz Paroubek won a rncent Jitterbug contest at the Pickwick Country club. A short time ago, I discovered that more than freshmen go around Are You One? in a daze - consjder the 2nd pe1·iod Recently several students "cut" Biology class that h.::\s yet to hear school in order to have a 1·espite an announcement. The rnsult: they from studies on t heir own. Yorn· never know what'i' g-oin~ on . .. editor does not intend to preach rumo1· has it that Mrs. Esch it atan object lesson to these "way- tempting to sell Marie Throop's wai·d" students. However, these play "Preamble" (:vou Juniors Sl'l.W pupils were not fulfilling their duty it. at .v our assembl.v) ... I wonde1· to their school and classmates; in if Ruth Johantgen's ankles are as fact, they were disrupting the us- "big" as they appear in angorra ual procedure in class and school, socks? . . . and I wonder if Boh causing trouble, and making the RieJand hopes to realize an "A" forces which operate the school to in German fOl' that extrn. nrojed of his - catching - and killing 13 perform less efficiently. The case which has been men- of the flies that were bothering tioned above is not far different Miss Kranz? - The political race from the cases . of many "lack- is hot. lVIarilynn Woodworth's lustre" students here at NileHi who uncle is traveling aboard the "Willrefuse to support theil· teams, eith- kie Soecial" as a reporte1· - that er by failure to attend sports exolains a lot of things ... Mardy events, or by failurn to partici- McKeever has a Wendell, too. "Kracky" and Florence Schramm pate in these sports. By "cutting" the various sports they show ought to go out for track - after that the school is not squarely be- that exhibition demonstTating hind the teams, and the teams, in "typical" Skokie speeding - and tum, play more poorly. How can forever ending the regime of one the team put their heart in the fruit salad ... just why wasn't one game when the heart of the school shrimp salad enough for "Bobby" is not behind them? Attending Williams the other day? Will Al school functions is one of the most Johantgen ever buy Chow :\'Iein for important elements of school life. Eva Herman again? Note: Mrs. Octopus please see Many students think it is necessary to know the finer points of the the editor. games to enjoy them. This is not Athletic events and other activinecessary. The assembly last Friday gave enough "pointers," thanks tiec; wcrn nlanned fol' your enjoyto the football teams and Mr. Gal- ment, and we want you, as stuitz, fm any student to enjoy a foot- dents, to enjov them. You can't i enjoy them et home, so come out! ball game. ..--.----:~({ ------~L .----.-- 1 ' , ..,, {' . \ 1 b - -;:> ii! ( _- .- ~/~ ~ ~ 1 ,...---; / ~1 I . -. P. --1 ~~)~~~'.!g•v~-;:::; ~· . ~ l ---------------m:1 . "Let's All Yell'' From Our Readers Dear Editor: Where in the world can we buy school spirit? We certainly haven't too much here at Nilehi. When you go to a football game and look at the few students in the bleachers, you would think our school were only half the size it is. I make a motion that we get some pep into us and back up our boys. Who seconds the motion? A Nilehilite R~der Dear Editor : Have you ever been startled by a sudden "Attention please!" coming out of the loud speaker? And doe:i the "That is all" make you feel as though the announcement were a police call? Well, it had that effect on me, and I wonder if something can b::i done about it? I suggest that the announcement be introduced and concluded by melodious chimes. In this way, no time would be lost. As soon as the chimes were sounded, everyone would sit up and take notice. Needless to say, our announcemen.tq would sound much more prnfcssionat. Very truly yowrs, One Who Listens In Anagrams J oin the two words together and rearra!' ge the lettern· to form another word. ta1· ............. . - 1. ·sis ~. ::ap foi· sir 3. see ere 4. hit 5. sum love ·· · ···· ·· ·· ··· · · ····· ·· ·· ··· ...... . ... . .. . ........ ..... . �NILEHILITE October 18, 1940 i'ORCAST Page 3 :Senior DiscuEs IRuby Bowser '40 ~ New Type Annual A Look Into lhe Future The s~nior assembly, . · · Lo:o.l · · · Clyde Henmng, author of the b:ost s31Jer, "Away Went the Wind," is welcoming world conespondent Daru1y Dever back after a year abroad. . , . , Gossip ... ~ _ho is that ~o~ge~us blond that Dwam Kuhn, milhonan·e playboy, is seen with lately:,._ The initials on her handbag we1·e ".J.P." I wonder! Theater ... Helen Miller, famed New York actrnss-dancer, is dancing in the Red Cross benefit sponsored by Paul Mikota, director of the stage play, "Yesterday." Miss Mille1·'s so-star will be William Steven's, the talented star of "Lulu." Miss Marie Throop, beautiful prima donna, wore a most enticing hat to her opening broadcast. The hat, designed by Connie Kohtz, the well known designer, is a little number ti·immed with a small ft.lower pot containing real flowers. Sports . . . Frank Thulstrup, manageT of the Skokie Skyrockets, is in bed with a fractured skull. The fractme occured when he bumped his head getting into his car. Dr. Betty Holmes, eminent bone smgeon, operated on him immediately. Frank is under the care of a prntty young nUTse, Gerry ThuJstrup, his sister. Sanford Jensen is entering three hoTses in the Kentucky berby. WHATZIT ?? I'm blue and gold, And oh so small. I would not scold, Nor mind at all, If you would place, A joke inside. Answe1· on Page 4 Debits and Credits "Banking" was the topic of the gecond Vocationa] Assembly of the year, held Thursday, OctobeT 10, in the assembly hall. Mr. Willard Ga1itz, of the Niles Center State Bank, \vas the very interesting guest speake1·. Monday, Octcbcr 4, v.ras devoted primaxily t~ the discu::.sion of a new type of a:;"nual. Inst::ad of hcnring t'he ex.:;cnsH;e type of amm-.I, 12s our:> wn:last year, \Ve will hci.vc one produced bv the s_!r:dc::ts w.itho:,at ~:·ofessio1:al help .trom outside. Th1~. nmv nP!'?.ed. Mr. Cotanch:: adv is3s, will -::o~fob more lit81·ary work. mm·:photograph shots. more mt, an~ n1ore representation of all the classes. WinsFashionAward In the recent American Fashion contest, sponsored by the Chicago Tribune, Ruby Bowser, NTHS '40, won honor;:i,ble mention. HeT prize design, one of a fa ll coat, was >ele::ted rs being amopg the best of thousands of entries. The drawings of the coat are now on display in WGN's new b:roadcastirig studio, the E'ketches will be sold later. After graduating from high For You Who CJaim school, Ruby was employed during To be Scientists the s ummer by a soap company for 1. The Illinois state tree is: $16 a week-at that p1'ice we won't mention the company. a. Ame rican elm b. white oak Though well known to most for c. sugar maple her dramatic work, orations, and d. poplaT 2 . Which of t he fellowing makes as "El Gato," Ruby entered the Chicago Academy of Fine A1·ts on the grass green? a full year scholarship, which she a. water b. heat won competing in a large field of c. chlorophyl grnduates from Chicago high d. oxygen 3 . Which of these insects can look schools. Ruby rejected a partial scholarover its shoulder? a. fly ship to the Columbia School of b. butterfly Radio in order to study at t he Acadc. ant emy of Fine ATts. d. praying mantis 2 4. Plecoptern is ·"-· a mineral b. an insect OTder 7 c. a rocl( formation d. an element 5· The largest planet is a. Earth b .. Neptune c. Jupiter d. Saturn Interesting Courses· Offered in Night School Did .vou know that om; night school, beginning Oct. .15, is going to offer special classes in mathe- J .• ·n ati cs for men who are subject to 7. th e Selective Training Service un- 12. der the F ederal Drnft Act? Pr.ac- 16. tical plane and solid geometry will 18. b 2 offeTed to help those men who 21. may be required for work in the 26. tank, mechanized unit, and aviation divisions of our anny and 1. navy. These courses are also de- ?.. si g~e d to help men who seek ad- 3. 5. vancement in private industry. Our school is this taking an ac-, J..5. tive part in serving the needs of 18. our nation as well as those of OUT j J ~ ­ community. "?. 1 Hmizontal A n:illion dolla1· investment Come in Sum up 3.1416 l 'lale Sheep To f eel one's way To rock VP.rtical Pe1"ttining to certain tribes Blue Limited Hour (Abbr) .1\rre.rica (AbbT) Dccci,y Hawaiian herb Route (Abbr) �October 18, 1940 Page 4 Wanted~ Trojans Confident . . . After v·ICt or1es Noisemakers . Booming down t he home st retch I .. I I ~s 1Jf ..,1.:s1 I\ "Is everyone happy?" Of comse we are l After seeing our Trojans trample Crystal Lake and om· Freshman squad tie the Visitor's J.V.'s in the afternoon attractions of the Homecoming f estivities last Saturd.ay, how could we be otherwise? Th~ NILEHILITE ! What about it? By the display of heads-up footsenior - A little Bill Peterson, ball shown in the iast two games, less formal and scholastic articles the Trojans are favored to whip and more things for the students. Lake Forest and Woodstock in the I t hought this was a paper for and b,, the students. We demand freed t 01·1·ow and t b l om g~mes o e p aye G irls Bow linq next Saturday, Oct. 19 and 26. The dom of the press! Remembei· the Woodstock encounter is to be the League News Constitution! With many grunts, g1·oans and last home game for the Trojans. Mardy McKeever-, junior - I like Following is a running account the bigger size as it seems to de- shrieks, the Girls' Wednesday Bowlnote a larger and more important ing league started rolling Oct. 2. on how NTHS whipped Crystal school but my first impression as At the end of the second week, Lake 20-0. Eai·ly in the first quarter, Dick I opened the pape1· was, "Whe1·e Marjory Riser's team, the Lucky ·s, Strike1 are leading the league. Fanning recovered a fumble on the are the middle pages?" Danny Dever, sophomore - I Jean Holmes' team, the Gay Nine- Crystal Lake 45-yd. line. Taking possession of the ball the Trojans prefer the smaller size. Can't hide t ies, are a close second. The leading individual bowlers marched to the goal. In the same these from the teacher, but then what can you hide from the are: Dorothy Lund, 136; Carol quarter the Trojans scored th1·9ugh Blameuser, 127; and Marjory Riser, a series of running plays and t eacher ? Ipasses. Gmce Nelson, freshman - It's 113. The final sco1·e was made in the d very good. I like it better than last fourth quarter on a 40-yd. rnn by G.A.A. to ~eci .e year's paper. Jack Heiniger. Ray Nitch added J.C. Benette, professor - On the On Campaign, Today The G. A. A. executive boa1·d and the points after the first two touchwhole I thought the paper was fine, The only bad thing about it was class representatives held a meet- downs through kicks from placethe fact that my name wasn't on ing Oct. 14, at which Mr. Thompson ment. talked · to the ~iris abo~t ~aising 1 The entire squad deserves ~n·~se the first page in 'caps.' money fo1· the11· 01·gamzabon by for their splendid play. He1ruger selling magazines. The money will foi· his running, Nitch fm his kickHOLIDAy be used to send G. A. A. members ing, Springer's tackling and faultto camp this year. This plan will less centering, Domas and Dahm's FOR WAR It appears as if NTHS's faculty, be brought up during the G. A. A. pass receiving, the play of Faust, f · pe1·iods today. If the girls are in and the efforts of Reiland, Jarmuth be strictly Wednesday. is going to after last on the emi- favoi· of the idea the sale will start ar.d the other linemen and backs nine side de:serve special p1·aise. When Congress drew up the draft today and end on Oct. 28. I d t T\v~'- weeks ago e scol'ing in h ers. Honors C.ourse - cont' feated Leyden~ _3th·byTrojans debill they didn't exc u e eac 7 1 Although it cannot be expected I the last seven minutes of the game. So it now looks like Messers. Lind. Orchids and Onions ley, Ohlson, Meier, Kent, and Galitz that all students ~ho take th~ ho~it · Or chids to Ed Breitenbach who will so?n be we~ring ~h~ki. ,, . , ors course will wm scholarnh1ps,_ "kn k d- t ,, but after a few Don t get excited, ch1luns, its is hoped that some of these. stu: oc e ou • . only a joke. But for one day at dents will bring hono1· to N1leHi was least , all teachers, including the I and financial aid to themselve~ _by minutes was back m the. game. He fairer half of our faculty, . were succe~s i~ one of these competitive ~as .hit on the head (-~hich m ay be I examrnabon. At least, these stu- the reason for the quick recovery.) . t th v·n e Hall . 1 t dents can be confident that they Onions to whoever it was who .· ~ ag reg1stra1s a table radio to the ht will be well prepared to d? college b . Answer to last issue's Whoz1t: . . a por work and that they will have roug Bill Stevens and played swmg music Wh t" ·t. 1 selected the right school for the game throughout the aftemoon. Zltr:b Answilerh~olite caon 1 u t'ion Box kind of training they want. N· e L with a winning football team, NTHS is more than just .a threat to win the conference. Pepped up by I. he thunder from the grandstands, ~he t ?am is in the1·e fighting. But t here is a need for new cheers! The tcam, the cheerleaders, ai:d you yourselves have been clamormg for :iew yells. Would you help the cheerleader s out by writing down your ideas and depositing them in the Nilehilite box. I I �Dress Up NILEHILITE Volume II No. 3 Skokie, Illinois The Band November 1, 1940 East is East; West is West Calendar Our U. S. A. is Best! h 'Vi the t;:oops of ~rmany swept into t!ie kingdoms of Europe, bringing ruin and destruction with them. Such peaceful places as Chatrnu 'IhieTry, the Marne and St. l\fichiel be::ame :flaming hells with men, women and children de?.d or wounded, lying there with~ out assistance. And then in March 1917, the United States declared war and sent millions of men (yom fathers and mine) to "Save the World for Democracy." At the eleventh hou1· of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the bugle \Vas sounded, and the great war ceased. The war to end 'Yars was over, and thousands of ericans thanked God. Today we will be doing the same hanking Him that we are 3 000 es from bullet-tom Europe 'and not waiting for a second bugle to be sounded. Nov. \\Harmonies from Iljxie" 1-J. V. vs. Arlington-here 2-Varsity vs. Al'lington - To be Presented Nov. 13 there 8-Freshman Evening Party 11-Armistice Day - No School 13-Entei·tainment-8 :30 p.m. "Hannonies from Dixie" .I Two NileHi Girls Sing in All-State Chorus Proceeds to be Used For Band Uniforms On Wednesday evening, N ovember 13th, the Student Faculty Forum will present the first in a series of all-school assemblies to be held fol' the benefit of our band. These pl'ogran:s will be open to students, parents, and the public fOT the admission of 25 cents. The first of these asemblies will bring to you a negl'O quartet of Southern singers. The "Plantation Singers" will present tl)eil' own unique armngements of folk songs, Negro spirituals, and modern melodies. Harmonies from Dixie will combine with Southem swing to make a delightful evening of truly American music. Tickets to t his peTfo1·mance will be on sale Thursday. Get yours early - be sure of a seat, and back the band! For the first time NileHi had representatives in t he Illinois AllState High School Chorus. Marie Throop and Phyllis Brooks, after learning ten songs in the odd morr..cnts snatched from homework, :ang in this chorus of picked voices under the direction of Mr. Olaf Christianson of Obel'lin Conservatory. The concert, given by the chorus, was a feature of the Thfrtysixth Annual High School Confe1·ence held at the University of IlliThe annual oratorical contest nois, Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, inclusive. nsored by the AmeTican Legion, Mi·. Cotanche and Miss Klaus atwell under way. The contestants, tended. hers of the senior problems After thTee rehearsa ls with Mr. es and juniors who wish to Christianson, the chorus gave its ·cipate, will submit their writ- conceTt in conjunction with that of orations November 8, 1940, and the All-State High School OrchesNext Monday, November 4, the forthtehe1_be~t ! t. . th tra on Friday evening, Nov. 1. e 1mma ions 1n . e 1oca1 See Chicago Club will visit the t, the best orators will take In the na~e of the school we conin the zone contest. The win- gratulate Miss Kl aus and the girls WGN Broadcasting Studios. They will be guests of the "Play Broadhis alternate will then en- for this musical achievement. cast" program. $tate finals. The participants of this program five p1·izes to be awarded a1·e : a gold medal and a four year are selected from the audience. Inhip to the University ·o f teresting questions are then asked is; 2nd, a silver medal and a The faculty and students extend the various contenders. ar scholarship; 3rd, a bl'Onze About 100 pupils will attend the and a one-year scholarship; their sympathy to Mr. Meier, upon broadcast . Miss HarbeTt and Miss d 5th, bronze medals. the death of his father. Lumpp will accompany the group. dates and places of these conare as yet unknown. ------------- au . hlems Classes Select rical Contestants See Chicago Club To Visit WGN Studios �Page 2 NILEHILITE I ti NIB LETS ,_I_ __ -N-ILEHILITE The ~i l eBilite is edited, published and printed biweekly by the studen~s of :r'il~s T<:wnship High School of Skokie, Ilhn01s. .\lr. R. E. Cotanche, Principal. EDITORIAL STAFF Clark Barton Editor Phyllis Braeske Assistant Editors Bill Stevell6 Feature Editors Annette Carroll Activities Editors Florance Gable Collen Thomas Sports Editor Bob Reiland Grace Langen HBuell Brobwn Production Managers en ry 0 a m . Mr. Clement Meier, Advisor Reporters 1\'anr v Al1 en. Henr y B a rkow, \Va yne Barton, June I.ierg, Mildr ed Dcr grnark, Jan~ Comstock. lane 1Jeatn c k 1 N u1 rna Delfi no, Bernace Franson, Rich a r d Hartney, Lois Ja yc ox, Betty Kelly , E rm a n K raemer. P a t Reiland, Sa l J,lizzo, Ruth Roberts Dick So lon , Bett y Stielow, Willa rd Stock· fi•h viola Sto ll T on i Thl immenos. Robert Tolzei,;, H o war d W~ldo n, Betty "Vesterlund, Mara lyn . \.\'oor1worth , Mii:" Susanne Ostergren, Advisor 1940 -41 Are You a Critic? Every student has a c1·itical mind. He judges justly and unjustly. Everything is criticized, ranging from t~1e curriculum t o student activities. The instructors, the school board, the janitors; none are exempt from his criticism. Everything is criticized but himself ! The fault does not lie in the student's critical attitude. It is his privilege t o make inquiries, suggestions and criticisms. However, the privilege is sometimes abused. Criticisms am often made without a thought g iven to the efTect. Unintelligent criticism warps one's personality and seve1·s friendships. Unless you have sufficient reason, do not make any criticism. On the other hand, some criticism is just, and must be recognized as such. The average student is sincere and wishes to learn. Although he is critical, his attitude is usually justified due to his ardent desfre to learn. The student must, however, bear in mind his position as a student. Were it not for criticism, life would be dull. In our years at school we pass t hrough an important stage in our life. In this period ci-iticism is truly needed. C1·iticism and taken. We, as students, should - just criticism - m ust be gven strive to benefit from such criticisms. November 1, 1940 1 Y'1n people have bee1 qn ite dull the past two weeks-the only r::t"'l news was made by a dog that -T_,[' lked into school v: ith a <lead rnb-;t, in i•s rnouth-q--i ~k. Mr. Ben1 ~:-te '-['}so by 11if:s Johnson who plaved with a jumping bean all pei"iod. My, my, will Jim Rau neve r grow up. i!l Cne rnin- te left before the hell Wculd r irg and end the class. A sophomore boy snatched up his books A'1d went right through the g lass. 111or:: l: Take your time! -from a r eporter. "What b eautiful Rings" UPSTAISR AND DOWN On the side : E ditor rnceives Om Inquiring Reporter collected BI:>ck Eye. Colleen T homas, a the following answers to the quesfriend of mine-after next Tuesday tion, "What do you object to mos t our school?" - received that bruised optic from i:::;: .Johnny Henning (seniox): "N'?t 2.n enemy Republican - so she ~rnving a good swing orchestra m cleims ... the school~" Wettengel (junior): F~adcnna Evidently when the bug bites, it bites quite hard - look at "star- "YNc rlon't have enough pep assemb}jes." ry-eye<l" F rnnk Thulstrup, for inGwrge Ruesch (sophomore): "I starce ... Or Ray "Dynamo" Nitch object to the boys' gym being set who seems to have fallen hard for up for night assemblies during the a ce1t ain Shirley in spite of him- day. We fellows will lose too many g vm pe1·iods." self ... • Anonymous Fresh man: Urf't. 111ere One of t he high lights of Science are too many upperclassmen!" Night, although not viewed by the Nick May (senior): "There's too a udience, was the role of fireman much time for classes and not played by Mr. Kent during the enough time fo1· lunch." Arline Madson (sophomore): chemistry exhibition. The idea was "There aren't enough lights in the to wrap a blanket around the per- corridors for these dark afternoons. son whose clothes happened to It's too hard to see the numbers on catch fire .and smother the flames. the combination locks." He was hoping for a blond. Shucks. , .. Add Science Night: A freshNiblets continued man· girl found the label reading, And then there's the freshman "Live Bcar."-abbreviation for the who wonde1·ed what the abbr. for 'Jive bearing' type of fish-and in- abbr. was until someone told h im nocently began to look fo1· a live thct.-a bbr. is the abbr. for abbr. .::: ~:-: ::; :t. ::: bear . . . from left to r ight: R d" Cagey: Frances k ~ea mg I . 1· . Hamilton is seen . conspicuous Y Those stage_ door- johnnies who wear 1 n g 1pstic about school but immediately sheds h ung ai-ound Miss Ellen IIogue's _ dressing room door after " Prologue it upon anival at home. Back to the Dogs: It seems Mer- t o Glory" to get he1· autogr_aph and h mayhap a woi-d and a smile were d ' wyn Becker s 110 po~n ' ' mont "Flash" Swardstad, Gene Bergold puppy ( ?) Bernadme-1t s a St. mark and Keith Pike. - - They Bernard - playfully pulled Dick succeeded ! ! When Chris Lindhoy saw Miss N'elson's S7.00 football helmet apart Hogue he fell off the stage and all fol" his lunch he said when he got up and limped p s It's s~hool property. away was : "\iVonderful." • • 1 '! �Page 3 NileHi ChefsSuper Cooks ' Biology Students Wage Blitzkrieg Floriculturists? Yes, We Have Them For the past few weeks Nature's s-_,_per-snooping around Miss wo~ders have found the vicinity of Do you know that we have one Li::c's food classes for boys has Kil2Hi most dangerous enemy ter- hundred eighty-five p 1ants in brought to light -some plenty fine ritory. Firnt, ::Jfr. Bennette and his school, hot counting Miss Meyer's ~coki11g. Starting with ce1·eal, cocoa, fa:ir.cd biology class tore apart the I dying Sedurn, which is probably and appl3 compote, our boys have pitiful grasshoppel'. Now these dead now? Mr. Bennette is our rapidly advanced to the muffin merciless biology youngsters are 1ea din g fto1·icultmist. He has and cup cake stage of fine cookery. cl:.Q.rging upon the helpless butter- eighty-three plants in his solarium. About the o:ily casualty so far was fly. Where this blitzkrieg will end It se::ms that any teacher having Bob Paroubek's muffins. For. some is a questiol\ only the deep recesses a sick phnt takes it to Mr. Benreason Ol' other, Bob found ,,. that of Mr. Bennette's mind can answer. nette who nurses the invalid back baking soda doesn't have the same to health. effect on muffins as baking powMiss Green's room has a greender has! hot:se atmosphere with its twentyCharles Williams and Frank Some people think it's smal't to be one plants on the window sills. Miss thin, Thulstrup are really going places. B t t th· 1 d h . h k "th 1'Iargie Ronalds' beginning Latin Miss Line is just waiting for a u not fis . a ' e is us Y WI classes always find her plants to be 1 so vim. o want-ad so she can recommend . somefaiar; else green in the room t wo goo d ch: f s. W 1 iam Carro I, j At football he shouldern his way besids~ :h~mselves. Miss Johanns ·11· through, Lav,Tence Miller, John Anderson, nrh1c h t a k 1ot s of b rawn OT no w~ tcTS .ier plants xegularly every · n ·es and John May have all started can do. S3verch period. Miss Berry's plant to practice their cooking at lo'lks a bit peaked. Perhaps it's h ome. R eports of f ine b aking have When you sail s~ gum to his pock- lones0rne. Miss Schaefer isn't taket he ask foT already come back. Bob Brunson A d h n t . . .th ing an y chances on her plants longand Peter Conrad have been ac- r._ d ek 1 ~ets .a cer am gir1 WI ing for company. She has ten 1 s. . · · claimed the neatest cooks in the lab. H' far pig a111 h. . d "H ,, mo ther-m-I aw,s t ongues m one po t . im errnan ; . is ne n s ca The men have always · claimed Senior year he's in. Five NTHS Graduates that the world's greatest cooks are With his dark hair and blue eyes Attending N U men. Our boys' food classes seem any heart he would win. . ' · bent on proving the claim. You girls Answer on Page ~Ive graduates of Niles ~ownship 4 had betteT look to your laurels l High School were admitted to PLEA ! Northwestern University this fall. Science Classes Present Whether Artie Shaw or Mr. Miller, Dolores Gehrs, Roy Lewis Jr., Ted To us they both are killer dillers, Lindstrom, Paul Wertz, and James Interesting Progam But whenever they come on at Winklhofer are the.former students Spectacular displays amazed the night who are now "hitting the books" parents and friends of NileHi's We have to study, OH what a foi· old N.U. science students Thursday night, plight t D. Lund Leads Octobe1· 24th. So here is our wish both loud . and I Girl Bowlers The scientific-minded freshmen long, staged a "quiz kids" program with Let us hear those super songs Hats off to Dottie Lund who has Mr. Kent as the humo1·-lending proAnd so we don't our duties shi~k, been the learling i~dividual bowler fessor. A movie on sound and fuels Please make the teachers stop for fou:!' -::011seeubve weeks! Her followed by the advanced science homework. avernge is 138. Doris 1.fossil is a department's chemistry demonI close second with a 132 avernge. stration awed looker's-on. Could Be? Carol Blameuser's 121 look very The evening was concluded with Teacher: vVho can tell me what good t oo. an inspection of the various dis- the formel' ruler of Russia was The leading team of the Girls' plays throughout the room. called? Wednesday Bowling League is the Class (in unison) : Czar. White Kats. Following them are Teacher: Correct, and what was the Lucky Strikers and No Blows his wife called? in close .succession. I'm rnund and fiat, and sort fat. Class : Czarina. A Fi·iday bowling league is in the You aim at me, and laugh ·with glee, Teacher: Correct, and what was process of organization. Both the When I am struck. I cannot duck. the Czar's little children called? leagues aTe to be furnished with My legs are three. Who can I be? Jack: (after pausfog timidly): white shiTts with the school's name (Answer on Page 4) Cza1·dines. on them in black letters. WHOZIT? / 1 I WHATZIT? �Page '1 Trojans Whip Woodstock 12-0 NILEHILITE Intramural Basketball Starts Next Week Approximately three hundred tired males tra mped into the showcr3 following the :fi:rst prnctice sessions for intramural basketball which weTe held last week. This was the beginning of a schedule of nine games to be played thl'Oughout the winte1· by each of the teams. Regule.r gameG will begin next week, and will continue through the wintc1· months well into February, when the winnern in each class will cntei· in an elimination round. The final game \Vill determine the school ba sketball champions. November 1, 1940 Frosh Football Team Shows Promise Another season of football comp2tition at Niles Township draws to After a heart rendering defeat to a close. For some of the boys it the tune of 13 to 0 at the hands of means their last year of high-school a hard-hitting, hard-playing Lake football. But for forty enthusiastic Fo:tc:;t team, our Trojans came freshmen, it means three morn years of good footbal. And when back fighting and rolled ove1· the we say good we mean good, as this Big Blue team from Woodstock. year's team is by far the best frosh Although not ver y well backed we've had in recent years. Though from the grandstand, our NileHi inexperienced at :fi:rst, under :Mi·. team fought its way up and down Galitz' s coaching they developed ~nough to win thrne of their games the gr idiron Pnd into "pay dirt" while losing two and tying one. t wice. The :fi:nf!l scoTe being 12 to 0. The freshman's first game against The few who brnved the chilling Main e frosh-soph resulted in a gale sa w a peppy and eager Orange beating, 7-12, due to the afOTesaid Eleven, by a sereis of sweeping inexperience. Later in the season they gained revenge for that defeat plays with Heinige1· toting the pig- L. Splett Leads by bea ting the same team, 13-0. In skin and line plunges by Faust, their second game, the frosh put GAA Magazine Sales b1·ing the ball deep into enemy battle to the big A freshman, Lonnine Splett, is up a surprising territory. Woodstock dug in and, Evanston Freshman team but sucafter recovering a fumble, booted leading all the upper classmen in cumbed to a 7-21 scor·e. Tie Crystal Lake J. V.'s out of danger. Soon another march the individual magazine sales, up to At Homecoming the frosh took the time of the paper deadline. by the driving men of Troy, featmIf the goal of two-hundred and over a game on the J. V. schedule ing Heiniger aTOund the ends, with the Crystal Lake J. V.'s and through the line and all over the fifty dollaTs is reached today, a new fought a far more experienced field, pushing the pigskin to the radio will adorn the G.A.A. club- team to a stand-still, 6-6. The last Woodstock 15 yard line. Then, with room, Miss Schaefe1' recently an- two games of the year wt:rn "pushovers," although both. were played Keegan and Brientenbach opening nounced. within the space of thTee days, the way, Dahm wearing No . 13, something unusual in football. At '41 Football Schedule swept over for our initial score. Arlington, our freshmen whipped a Arranged very weak frosh-soph 13-0. The The attempt conversion failed. Next year's football schedule was freshmen closed the ·seasop "in the Faust Scoi·es Second Touchdown groove" by decisively beating the After a ha1·d and even fought t he chief topic of discussion at the Woodstock J. V.'s 19-0. second peroid, NTHS opened its big meeting of t he Northwest ConfeTFrosh Have Possibilities guns and started rolling down the ence held recently at Libertyville. In these last two games we could After caTeful discussion, a six see the qualities that cause us to After field in the thixd quarter. game conference schedule was predict that within at least two several line bucks, a short pass and adopted. Each school drew one bye, years this same team will capture some thrilling razzle dazzle, t he ~nd as a result Niles Township will a Varsity Conference championship. referee found an Orange No. 15, not play Arlington Heights in conThis team which rolled up 65 Nitch, and the ball at the bottom of ference competition next year. The points while holding their oppona pile of bodies right down in front first conference games will be ents to 39 points, had many outstanding players but these freshof the Big Blue's uprights. A few played on September 26 or 27. years in which to The application of the new Zion- men have three mention for staTminutes later the players and i·eceive individual coaches on the sidelines and the Benton TO\vnship High School was dGm. Suffice it to say that the shivering souls in the bleachers tabled until such a time as a va- squad as a who.le has great possiwen~ standing and clapping in sal- cancy may exist. It appears un- bilities. - · Answer to last issue's ·puzzle ute to t he happy Trojan team that wise to increase the membership of was trotting down the field to kick the conference to more than eight off and to big Kexmit Faust who schools. The present membe1·s are A1·lington Heights, Leyden, Woodhad changed the score to 12 to 0. stock, Crystal Lake, Libertyville, Play Ai·Jington Tomonow =t The entire team, line and back Warren, Lake Fo1·est, and Niles field, looked prntty fine from the Township. stands and should be singing a vie- - - - - - - - - - - - - - tory song on the return trip from AKSWERS: Whozit - Kermit Faust Arlington tomorrow afternoon. Whatzit - A1·che1·y TaTget ... GOOD LUCK TROJANS! ~ ;~ LEH �Remember NILEHILITE Volume II No. 4 November 30 Skokie, Illinois . ~ .CALENDAR Book Week and Heiniger Honared Nov. 18 - Know Your School Prngram. Foreign Language Dept. National Education Week 8 :00 P. lVI. By Teammates 20 Basketball - Varsity & J. V.'s Observed h~ School vs. Evanston - the1·e at 4 :00 Jack Heinigel' was probably the proudest and happiest boy in the wol'ld on the night of Nov. 8. The occasion was the father and son night held for the members of the football squads. - Jack was chosen by his team mates as the outstanding player and honorary captain of the squad. Fill}1S of Korthwestem University touchdown plays and colored films of our Homecoming were shown. Between the showing of the films Messrs Isaacson, Cotanche., Kent, Galitz, and Taylor succeeded in swelling a few chests by praising the spfrit, courage, and stamina of the teams. After naming the letter winners, NileHi's guests were treated to a buffet supper in the cafeteTfa. Foreign Language Club Sponsors Program 0 ~ 111onday, November ~8, the H Fore1gn Language group will con.· duct the second of th e senes of ''Know your School" p1·ogrnms planned for both students and par. ents. The mam event of the evening will be the annual "candlelight" ceremony, a formal installation of the four officers: PI·esident, Don Fisher; Vice ·president, Bill Stockfisch; Secretary, Jeanne Nelson; and Treasurer, Barbarn WilIiams. An interesting program, conducted by the four Foreign Language groups, has been planned. There is no admission charge to the evening's program, and a cordial invitation is extended by the Club, to all students and their parents. 21-22 Thanksgiving Holidays 23 - Varnity and J. V's vs. New Trier - here at 7 :30 25 Frosh-Soph Matinee Dance 3:45 29 Varsity and J . V's vs. Arlingt on - 7 :30 there 30 Carnival Farum Representatives Attend Council Convention Keeping pace with tradition and one of our very few, by the way - NTHS has again observed Book Week. During the past week the library has been quite gay - color fully deorated by the attractive bulletin boards publicizing popular books. A feature of the week was the student poster contest, open to all those int erested. Tonight the contest closes, and early next week the winner will be annuoncea. The winner will receive the book of his ch.oice as the prize. Also during this week our school observed National Education Week. June Berg began the week with an announcement explaining the program for the following days. A panel disussion on "civil liberties in a Democracy" was bToadcast on Wednesday. Mardy McKeever gave a talk on "Books in Democl'acy.'' Betty Perxin, Carol Jaycox, Bill Dickinson, and Phyliss Braeseke, accompanied by Mr. Flagg, will represent NileHi's Student-Faculty Forum at the Northwestern District Convention of Student Councils to be held at North Park College tomorrow, Nov. 16. This will be the first time NileHi has delegated students to a convention of t his kind. Featured among the day's events will be a panel discussion, and special discussion groups P ob. . · r lems which b d confront the high school . . b . govem:ng o Y wi11 . e discuss~d. Pl:yhss Brnesek~ will_ lead a _discussion group which will consider the problem of social entertainHave you contributed to the Red ment. It is hoped that the constrnctive ideas presented tomorrow will Crnss? This year the Red Crnss is facing prove helpful to our Fornm. the greatest problem in its histol'y. Ten Girls Attend Tea Over 10,000,000 children in the conquered nations of Europe are facThe ten top-ranking Senior girls of NileHi's honor rnll were ente1·- ing starvation and intense suffertained by Chapter E. V. of the P. E. ing. To meet this great prnblem the 0. soxority at a tea last Wednesday. Those present were Gloria Bartz, Red Cross needs your support more June Berg, Phyliss Braeseke, Rita now than ever before. This coming Jane Fisher, Isabelle Hoth, Jeanette week you will be asked to give yom· Huemmer, Dorothy Kranz, Laura spare pennies to help the Red Cross Nunemachei-, Marjorie Riser, Phyl- in its work of helping others. lis Schlotterbeck. GIVE! GIVE- The Red Cross Needs Your Help �Pc.~ge NILEHILITE 2 ~ Novemb::!r 15, 1940 I __. _NI LE H I Ll.___T_E I The NileHllite is ed:ted, published and rr:nted biweekly by the students of Niles Township High School of Skokie, Illinois. ~Ir. R. E. Cotanche, P.s-i.neipal. NiJehi So~fal Swirl EDITORlAL STAFF Phyllis Braeske Editor Jimmie Holmes, who has a lead Clark Barton Assistant Editors Annette Carroll in the "Perfect Gentleman" cast for Feature Editors Collen Thomas Carnival Night, danced on and on Grace Langen Activities Editors Florance Gable with "Miss Yehudi" clasped dearly Bob Reiland Sports Editor Bill Stevell6 in his arms at the Halloween Dance. Bob Freres Another hilite of the football seaProduction Managers Art Hannemann son came off the other afternoon as ~1r. Clement Meier, Advisor _ Reporters the team, with laughs and shouts, Nancy Allen, Henry Barkow, \Vayne Barto n, June Berg, M ildred Bergmark, Jane Comstock, lan e l>catr1 ck, Nor ma De lfi no, Ilernice Franson, Rici a rd H artney, Lois Jaycox, Detty Kelly, F.rm;\n K raemer. P a t Reila nd, Sal Rizzo, Ruth R"bert•, Dick Solon. Betty Sticlow, Willard Stoc k li,h, Viola Sto ll, Toni T h l irnmenos, Robert Tol>ein , H ow a rd 'Wehlon, Detty Wes terlund, Maralyn \\"n ....rlworth . Mi~" Susanne Ostergren, Advisor watched Mgr. Barton scurrying ovm· the campus in diligent search of his trnusers. . . What slender senior at N. T. H. S. is lagged with the initials F. A. "Well, what do you think you're going to do?'' T ... only teacher, to our knowThe ledge, that waits her turn in the CafeteriaBreadlinewith therestof the masses is Miss Johanns. Tip your trays to her next time, stu- Dea1· Editor: Is anything being done about the dents t Glamour seems to be on the way out at Nilehi judging from the suggestion made by "One Who paintless "phizes," drooping hair, Listens In" in The NILEHILITE of and dowdy duds of some of our sub Oct. 18? I think it's a good idea, and debs. should not be dropped without an Frosh inquiry being made into its possiProf. "Collective noun?" bilities. Frosh. "Wa.s tpaper basket!" A NILEHILILTE Reader Bob Moore came back to Skokie riding the ethei· waves the other night. Participating in Play Broad Whosit? Cast, Bob was blowing the answe1·s into the mike and sweeping in the A dark eyed Junior we talk of today money until he forgot that water Who's a good natured classmate, 1 f a ways gay. reezes at 32 degrees. Mardy McKeever cuts a mean She's varsity cheerleader, twiler of note, figure behind the wheel of Cm·ky Harrington's ti·undle buggy_ yep, With a pretty smooth line not easy to quote. a mean fi.O'ure and the fenders 0 • • · R . J. F1~her d1dn, t app1·eciate •her She "'.c uts her own . bangs with an unshaking hand. purse bemg used as a mouse's crypt - in fact, she downright hated it, (We'll expect next.to see.her leading the band !) making known her opmion in a octaves In G.A.A. Play Day an aerial awru·d t ·t h d · vboice hp~ ch eC som, e wo she felled; . . . . .a ove ig Both dramatics and- radio by her FROSH are quelled. Daffinitions - Waffle: A pancake with non-skid threads: Two brnthers in shool toward her record soar, FROSH These hints are sufficient. You Wh t · •t b a IS I a out them, anyway??? couldn't need mo1·e ! Have you ever been in the Niblets? · Answer on page 3 Why not ?, ·From Our Readers "Our Day of Thanks" f In 1621, after the : ast harvest of the New England colonists, Goveri-or Bradford proclaimed the fu'st Thanksgiving day by setting aside a day fo1· prayer and thanks. During the Revolution a day of national thanksgiving was recommended by Congress. Washington proclaimed imch a day in 1789. In 1795 Washi:rgton again proclaimed a day of thanks for the general benefits and w€lfare of the nation. Lincoln in ~864, designated the last Thursday m November as Thanksgiving day and his proclamation has been fol~ lowed by succeeding Presidents with the. exception of our pr:esent one. ThIS year, our President Franklin D. Roosevelt, has agai~ proclaimed the second last Thursday o! Novembel' as Thanksgiving d1y. Thus, throughout the past centnry andone half,toAmericans have reserved a day thank God who has so faithfully bestowed ' Tich ~Jessings upon our nation, preservmg om· peace, health and happiness. We, as students, should thank God that the schools of oul' nation a1·e not indoctrinated with any fo1·eign 'isms,'' and ask that the schools continue to develop our intellect, char.acter, and love for democracy rather than poison the young of our n~tion with any teachmgs opposed to our one 'Amei·icanism." �1\ovember 15, 1940 Upstairs And Down Five NTHS Girls Win Playday Awards While rep1~esenHng -N::r.H.S. in Our InquiTing Reporter-asked, in the-iecent A.nimaJ Play Day held-at h's best manner, "And then, sir (or the Oak Pa1·k High School, five girls mam,) .how do you ten a freshman won awa1·ds in the various sporting from a senior?" These are some of events. ., the replies: , . . Flor~nce Schramm, Doris Mussil, I.fr. Taylm~ Freshrp.en are more and Rosanna King won awards in :::tt- dio_us. Th~ fresh~~n kn?ws he tennis; Pat Reiland, in aerial darts; d:::csn'.t lmow. The semor thrnks he_ Rosanna King and Pat Cole, in does know. . . ·" speed ball; and Do1·is Mussil, in Joan Blarneu~er, Junior: ~he aTChery. freshmen look hke sheep runmng Girls representing ten other high loose in a pastme. shools were present. They all had Fred Epson, .sophomore: 1:he the opportunity to enter the tennis, best way to tell 1s that the semor aerial darts, speed ball, swimming, acts like an educated dunce, and the and archel'y events. freshman like an uneducated dunce. Pat Harms, sophomore: The sen- Symphonic Poem ior chews gum, but the freshman is too afraid of the teache1·s to Autumn is a symphony Of wind and leaves and frost, try it. Bill Roman, junioi·: The seniors Of gold and brown and flaming have side-burns! hue~, Lavergne Schuler, senior: Not Of beauty · without cost. by their looks, but by their actions. A symphony of golden corn Now gathered into shocks, Four Girls Win With yellow pumpkins hel'e and Places on Golf Team there And big fat turkey cocks. All but four girls have been eliminated from play in the Girls' Golf tournament. These girls, Phyllis Braeseke, Phyllis SchlotteTbeck, Marie Stritch, .and Barbaxa Williams, will form the NileHi Girl's Golf team. Teams from other schools will be challenged, and played when the weather permits. Miss Schaefer announced a plan for next spring, which, if eveTyone o cooperates, sh. uld stimulate inter€St in Girl's golf. This plan is a Challenge tournament, in which the names of the participants are listed alphabetically. Any girl can challenge either of the two girls above her. If the challenger wins, they change places. Thus the consistent low scorer will ultimately work to the top of the list. Every girl who owns 01· can borrow a set of clubs will be eligible. Roses are red Violets .are blue You think this will rhyme But it won't. PoliticiansIn the Making --There has been~· mUCh political discussion in Miss Harbert's Problems classes lately as a vigorous presidential campaign has been in progress. , A registration, using facsimiles of official forms, pTeceded the primary election, during which several members of the class were ungracefully assisted from the polls for intoxication, buying votes, and engaging in other illegal practices. After the ballots of the final election wern counted, only five of them were bad. To complete the scene, there were judges, committees, policemen, watchers, speakers, and all others essential to the offical conduction of an election. SOMETHING TO LOOK FOREWARD TO-- Let's all remember to be present at the Carnival that is being held on Novembel' 30. The pToceeds are to be spent for band uniforms which, as you know, are very necA symphony of cheering crowds, essary. A huddle on the ten, There are to be thrills and fun The hero plunges through the Jine, every minute. Don't forget! Come He's won the game again! and have a "swell" time on Carnival night. Ful'ther details will be A symphony of masting nuts published in the next issue of the O'er a fire warm and bright NILEHILITE. Within a friendly fireplace When cold winds blow at night Autumn is a symphony Of beauty without cost. When winter comes and snow winds blow, Alas, will all be lost? See Chicago Club Plans Opera Visit Although it is still uncertain, the next trip on schedule for the See Chicago Club is to the opern on Anagrams Dec. 16. Miss HaTbert is now tryJo:in the two words together so ing to procure the tickets which will be sold for $1.10 per ticket. as to form one word. any go ... .. ... . ...... . sly haTp ............. . . Answer to Whosit: his rung .... . . .. ... .. . rend pet .......... ... . Pat Reiland morn hay .......... ... . real the ....... .. ... . . . Answers to Anagrams: so her ... .. ....... .. . . agony, sharply, rushing, pretend, king now ............. . kin gas . ...... ... ..... . haTmony, leather, horse, knowing, �Page 4 Trojans Point To Successful Season Three questions occupy the Trojan rooters' minds as the 1940-41 basketball schedule opens. Can a team which he.s depended on individual stars maintain the same reco1·d when those stars arn gone? \'!hat a1·e the chances of M1·. Galitz's Varsity? How does Mr. Kent's Junior Varsity shape up? In spite of the fact that only two major lettermen, Domas and Williams, a1·e returning, the Trojan Varsity will be stronger defensively than last yeru-. The loss of Boyk with his 231 points may lower the point column but good teamwork and passing can make up for his absence. An encouraging note was seen in the driving offensives the Trojans showed against Northbrook and Zion Twp. High School in recent sc1·immages. Off the record, the Varsity has one of the best chances in the Confe1·ence to cop the crown. Aspirants fo:r the forwa1·d jobs are Domas, Podi·aza and Jarrett. Thulstrup and Taylor are vieing for the center post and Peterson, Williams and Anderson are after the gua:r:d assignments. The Junior Varnity is as strong in its department as the Varsity, standing an excellent chance of taking the J. V. title: Some of the outstanding candidates for regular positions are Carroll and Carl Domas as forwards, Weldon at guard, and Glauner at center. Mr. Isaacson's frosh squad, although inexperienced, has speed and power and should pick up the majority of its games this year. Some of the sixteen boys comprising the team are: Gockenbach, Meyer, and Cooke, forwards; Leibrandt, center; Poehlman, Harrer, Grant and Kuhn, guards. The Varsity and J. V. teams open the practice schedule on Nov. 20 with two games at Evanston. On Nov. 23, New Trier, whom we beat last year, come~ to our floor for two games. NILEHILITE Basketball Schedule Wed., N"ov. 20-Evanston-there Sat., Nov. 23-New TTier-here F.::i., No\·. W-A:rlington-there Fri., Dec. 6-Woodstock-here Fri., Dec. 13-Wanen-there S£.t., Dec. 14-Palatine-here Fri., Dec. 20-Lake Forest-there Fri., Jan. 3-Alumni-here Fri., Jan. 10-Leyden-there Tues., Jan. 14-Crystal Lake--here Fri., Ja~. 17-Libertyville-here Fri., Jan. 24-Crystal Lake--there Fri., Jan. f'l-Lake Forest-here F ri., Feb. 7-Wanen-hei·e Fri., F eb. 14-Woodstock-thei·e Fri., Feb. 21-Arlington-here J. V. games share the spotlight with the Varsity on all evenings exxcept the Alumni game, Jan. 3. November 15, 1940 Six Trojans Play Last F ooJ.ball Game NileHi Trojans closed their football season by dropping a tightly fought game to a spfrited A1·lington Heights squad on November 2.. A highly excited Homecoming crowd at the Cardinal sb·onghold saw six Trojan seniOl's finish their high school playing days in a disappointing 6·0 defeat. The fact that only six regulars are graduating and a good F1·eshman squad coming up has stimuk~ted the enthusiasm of the coaches in next year's Varsity. Jack Heinige1·, senior, proved that he is one of the best i·unning b'lcks in the conference with his off-bckle slants and sweeping end runs. The game, during the first three Ed Heinz Leads periods, was as interesting as a fan Boy Bowlers could wish; Heiniger's beautiful The boys weekly bowling league punts dismissing any Arlington completed its fifth week of compe- threats. In the last quarter, a mix tition. The league consists of eight up in signals caused the Tl'Ojans to lose the ball on downs on their own teams. Ed Heinz leads the individual twenty yard line. The Arlington bowlers with a 173 average and squad taking possession of the ball, Bob Reiland is running a close sec- marched to the 'frojan goal line. A NileHi threat in the closing ond with 171. Harvey Jensen is thiTd high with an aveTage of 162. minutes of play was halted on the The boys ordernd bowling shfrts Arlington 4-yai·d line. Northeast COnference Varsity seve:ral weeks ago and expect to Football get them this week. w T L 6 0 1. Libertyville 0 G. A. A. Campaign 1 0 5 2. Lake Forest Is Great Success 3 3 3. Niles Twp.. 0 2 2 2 4. Crystal Lake The G.A.A. campaign was a great 2 3 1 5. Leyden success due to the complete and 2 4 0 well Ol'ganized cooperation of all 6. Arlington 4 1 1 7. Warren the G. A. A. girls. 4 2 0 8. Woodstock The sales, reaching the amazing total of $368.00, were not only high enough to get the much desfred radio for the G.A.A. room, but also a lamp. The net profit for the G.A.A. was $117.59. The star salesman was "M:yTl CalImer whose sales amounted to $33.00. Eighty-nine prizes, rnnging from manicuring sets to TOller skates, wern awarded to the girls. Have you hea1·d the latest? Little boy "freshie" asks little girl "freshie" to a dance. Being too bashful to go by himself, he also asks his pal. The two boys buy two ·"seegars," walk to the girl's house, give their presents to he1· father, and then .ask for a ride to and from the dance. What's morn, they get . it! �NILEHILITE Volume II No. 5 Skokie, Illinois New Chimes Ring In Announcements Dress Up The Band November 29, 1940 Calendar Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Tomorrow Night vs C }N h . 1 $ arniva ig t Nov. 30 - Carnival - Cafeteria Dec. 2 - Basketball - Frosh Miss Laura Ross, our school secLibertyville - here retaTy, is at present hard at work 3 - Forum Meeting learning some new tunes with 5 "Playgrounds of the Southwest" which _ beguile sleepy students to Assembly - Mr.Mitchell into listening to the morning an-· nouncements. You've all heard the Sophomores and jumors at new chimes, but you didn't know 1:50 that over fifty tunes could be playFreshmen and Seniors at2:50 ed on them, did you ·? 6 - Homeroom meetings It all happened like this: someone wrote a lette1· to the Nile Hi Senior Class Assembly Lite. Someone else brnught it up Basketball - Varsity and Jumor in home room. Some otheT people Varitsy vs Woodstock . here staTted talking up the idea - and so what? A week ago last Satmda_v 9 . Basketball Frosh vs. Barringour Miss Tess went down town and ton here 3:45 bollg-ht the best set of chimes we 9 - Foreign Language Club Ascould get for $5.95. So students, sembly 3:45 the mmal of our little tale is this: JO - Forum if you want things which will make our school more attractive and effi- 13 - Jumor Assembly- Homeroom Meetings cient you can get them. The school is always anxious to get your ideas 13 - Basketball Junior Varsity and and act on them when those ideas Varsity vs. Warren there 7:3( !'..l'e practical. "Step right up ladies and gentlemen, get your tickets here for 'the play of the day, 'The Perfect Gentleman,' only 15 cents- little enough for .the most rollicking comedy Nilehi has ever seen." .. And in the gyrri, t he greatest battle this Trojan stronghold has evel' seen - 'Violet' :iheitenbach vs. 'Daisy' Francis Keegan fighting for the 'pansy' crown of the world." Barkers yelling, people laughing, balloons . popping ---: . it~ s 3t1St .the hum of activity as NileHi's Annual Carnival gets under way tomorrow night. Evel'ywhere signboards proclaim the faultless form of the acquatic stars. The three numbers to be presented by the Wright Junior College Swimmers are Indian Sum: mer, Waltz, and Tang·o. Miss Berniece Lorber will also direct them in an exhibition of. synchrnnizect Foreign Language Club swimming. Our VaTSity swimming. team and advanced girl swinuners · Installs Officers will give an exhibition of ·m edley The new officers of the Foreign and tandem swimming. language Club wern installed at an . What'll you have - an electric '1:1m0~f'ive candlelight ceremony · Ninety-six Nilehi students made clock, a study lamp, or a desk set? 1~$t Mo"dav, November 19. the Honor Roll and twenty- nine All you will h?ve to. do ~o win one Bill Stevens conducted the cereth Honorable Ment- of these beautiful pr1Zes 1s to gues& monv installing Don Fishe1· as ?-ame~ are on e . ·the correct weight of that enornresident. Bill Stockfisch as vice .ion List. The H?nor Roll t~tal 15 mous pumpkin now on display. P ernresident. JPan Nelson as secl'e- co..c!_posed of mneteen Semor, 21 haps you had better take another tary, and Barbara Williams as Juniors, 23 Sopohmers and33 Fresh- , squint at it, hadn't you? tl'ea~urer. . . men. Hon orable mention in cludes In the cafeteria section lucky Miss l\farJorv Ronalds, director IOSeniors No Juniors 7 Sopohmers combinations will cause excited of the club, held Latin and French d F ' h ' persons to shout BINGO and claim one of the valuable prizes. FatheT, classes on the stage, so that _the an 12 res men parents would be able to see Just mother, son and daughter will be trying hard t o ring one of the canes how regular classes are conducted . . Corning J\.'ssembly Speeches about French art anct or brnak the balloons so that they French music were ~iven by Doro"Playgrounds of the Southwe~t" may carry home some carnival thv Lund and Phyllis Brooks, re- will be the topic of Mr. Mitchell's prize. spectively. · The vaudeville prngrnm will inPhyllis SchlotteTbeck, of German lecture at the assembly on Thurs- elude twirling, toe dancing, music 11, gave a speech on German ar- day, December 5. He traves, lectures and five other atb·actions. Mr. Coltists and musi~~an~. This was fol- , . and conducts tours through _the liJ?-S confides t~at the highlights low~d bv the ..,mgmg of some fa- southwestern section of the United will be the marimba ensemble composed of noted Chicago players. --orite Gp-·man songs by the two States. Germ:>.n classes. P!ea~ e tnr n to p~ge 4, col. 2 N1'nety-s·'x Students 1 On First Quarter Honor Roll �NlLEHILITE Page 2 I rt November 29, 1940 I E LEH IL l..._T___ _N__,........I . n t::..-.. ~ __.,:e<::;:;::::::: \ ~\ -~ ~· , ·. t er h as come - an d a f ew Wm ~ ~--._ bewildered souls found themselves ~·~~~1 ,;;v ~ ) with only moccasins to walk home ~ ._, ''-~~ r _ ,""'1 in the day of the big snow! . . . . . ..:j'2,--::_ _____..__________ _:::-_ ~' ~ ~· EDITORIAL STAFF There's a ·little blue 'nd oTange box Annette Carroll opps>site Room 213 on the second . Editor ---~ /;ffi ~ Phyllis Braeske Assistant Editors ~ ., -y::::::>~, r~.=:::» Jean Dudick floo1· - don't you like it? .:C; -1. ·'!f.~~ Florence SchTamm may have ulFlorance Gable Activities Editors ~ . ) ,._~v \ ~-~ ~; Collen Thomas te1foT motives when she follows her Grace Langen bowling ball down the alley. It's a Feature Editors ~ ~\ 'f,/). ' Bill Stevens good idea, but her position is a bit ~ '. '<.f_ll I Bob Reiland Sports Editors Clark Barton clumsy . . . The other night June Ray Hohs Vincent brushed her teeth in the "Aren't we going to look nice in Production Managers Ralph Krier dark, only to find out later that she our new uniforms!" had used Ungentine instead of Mr. Clement Meier, Advisor tooth paste. Reporters Who was that ingenious little felHenry Barkow, Bernice Franson, Richard Hartney, Laura Nunemacher, D ori s Mussi l, Pat Re iland, low who lit the match during the Ruth Roberts, 'Betty Stielow, Viola Stoll, T o ni blackout in Europe's mass meetTrlemmeuos, Howard Weldon, Betty \'l.'e sterlund, ing . . . Behind the scenes of the Jane Coms t oc k, Bill R o man, ~o rman Delfino , Thanksgiving pep assembly: Sixth Editor's note: Characters or W a yne Harton, Earman Kram er, Bill Stockfisch , th period saw Ginny Nordin tearing- places having any similarity to the Mild red Bergmark, D ick Solon, June Berg, Edi to see the re- names of persons living or dead are Luxem, Maralyn W oodworth, Betty Kelly, Stanle y not just running Kendall. po1·tedly arrived "Stinky" ... Miss Susanne Ostergren, Advisor The school's population was in- purely coincidental. It was a dark Cole night in May, creased by four guppies the other day - the infants are "coming continually getting Kohler. I was along fine" according to "Kracky" alone in the Stevens Hotel. J pressMember 1940-41 Phil Braeseke turned as red ed my Roman nose on the window 2s a fire engine when rep1·imanded and looked out. I heard Gehrs shiftfor talking - again ... ing, and I saw a Green Kadlec come From the New Trier Game "Whv look it's just like football - up Racine Rhode and stop at the the "Ref" always comes up from the hotel door. Am an got· out ~nd en"Dress Up The Band!" pile on the floor with the ball." tered the lobby. I heard him pick- A Fan. What is a school band without .... Mr. Benne1t's "stick as- ing the Yale lock. uniforms? Have you ever pictured My heart was in my mouth. (Did signment" was met with grunts any band without uniforms? Our and groans from sophomores and ;t taste Good!) In the Farr corner school band must be outfitted for seniors-juniors, indifferent . . . . was a Brown Kot on which I lay the public appea1·ances which they 'When asked for his twigs, Francis until I got my bearings. My Mav complained that his "mothe1· are expected to make. thoughts were whirling. What did do had thrown them out." Immediate- the man want? What was he pickEvery student in school can ly, Winnefred Flagg, older and his bit to aid in drnssing up the wiser by two seasons of schooling. in$t the Lockefer? band. Many programs are being suggested her method of "sneakI'he lock gave; I heard him Cumplanned to raise money for the pui·- in~ them from neighbors' trees ming. I rushed into De Chambre chase of band uniforms. The pro- when they are not looking" ... On (my :F'rench!). This did no good. in already.! I was going to ceeds from the Carnival, noon the long and shoTt of the assign- He >y.ras but seeing his gun I dement to get twigs - as there al- scream, movies, and various Know Your ways is - Lulu Deatrich boasts cided not to-. · · School programs will be used for that she and he1· mother went out "Listen, sister," he said. "No uand unifo1·ms. If you can't attend at 11 p.m. with scissors and a flash- Kopps taking me to the Stachon all p1·ograms, come to one or two. light to collect twigs from the trees and put me in the Brigg. Betcher not. If you want to give Everyone must be interested in at . . . Pat Harms gathered her sticks life they're business. go on and yell in her sleep, and still ha[ them the Florus least one of these progTams. when she came to school - proving ... Now hand over them Rings." The aim of the school is to pur- that it wasn't just a marvelous For a moment I was Struck sense· less. Somehow I opened the door chase sixty uniforms, which will dream. Though we are a bit late, we ex- and ran out. A man was passing cost over $1,000. When the band is we managed to capcompletely outfitted they will play tend our best wishes to Carole Lee and together Rouse, who is in he:r second season ture the burglai.·. From then on at !: ~me basketball and football as a member of the "Holiday Re- Dickenson Tracy, the detective, was games and other school events. my hem! view" at the Palmer House. The NileHllite is edited and published biweekly by the students of Niles Township High School of Skokie, Illinois. i\lr. R. E. Cotanche, Principal. \ 'I" ,,_ . '---,/ The Perils of Phoebe �First Quarter Honor Roll Page 3 NILEHILITE November 29, 1940 Printers' Devils Work Hard ·\Freshies' Debut To Social Life So you let the little freshies get · Although it will only take a few ahead of you! Oh yes, you did l SENIORS seconds to read this article, it took What'? You didn't-heat about the Don Fisher 16 Phyllis Schlotterbeck 16 Jeannette Huemmer 15 Betty Kelly 15 the fellows in Mr. Meier's advanc- freshman class party at which 115 Dorothy Kranz 15 Donald Rhodes 15 ed printing class two and one-half of the freshmen danced, played June Berg 14 Phyliss Braeseke 14 hours to set it up in tyi.e. gam~s, and ate refreshme?-ts on the Rita Fisher 14 Isabelle Hoth 14 . . evenmg of Nov. 8? Yes, it was the Edith Luxem 14 William Stevens 14 Read~rs of our pubhcat1on who first class party.' It took the enel'Gloria Bartz 13 Ben Domas 13 Edward Gatzke 13 ... umplrun because the paper comes getic representatives of the freshLloyd Friend 13 Laura Nunemacher 13 -Sue Schaefer 13 uut too seldom ought to have a chat man home J'ooms, under the sponEdward Springer 13 with Art Hanneman or Buell Brown sorship of Miss M. Ron.aids, to realJUNIORS two of our best printers. Or talkativ~ ly ge~ theil· cl~s~ members well acquamted by givrng a party . Mildred Bergmark 16 Nonna Heidtke 15 11 . Aftel' all the "panning" our Lois Anderson 14 Bob F reres an d R ay H 0 h s cou ld te. .Florence Ochs 15 Lillian Baptist 14 Lillian Miethke 14 you that the reason 1t takes consc1- freshies have taken, we offer our Virginia Reuter 14 Gertrude Dahm 13 Bernice Franson 13 Dorothy Nelson 13 entious Mat Nosal so long to set up congratulations to them for their Virginia Nordin 13 Paul Perlman 13 an article is that every little letter, peppy way of being on step ahead 1 Daniel Petty 13 Barbara Anderson' 12 Donald Baumann 12 Ruth Clarkens 12 comma, period, question mark, Margaret Dolan 12 Richard Hartney 12 and exclamation point has to be set Eileen Heinz 12 Grace Langan 12 by band. Donna Jean Cotanche 12 There is a room on the basement Then can you understand why it floo-t that has been given little pubSOPHOMORES Adele Bartz 16 Audrey Brown 15 takes the printing class, which in- licitv and yet is dearest to the heart Dagmar Franson 15 Virginia Lenzen 15 cludes, besides those mentioned a- of the student body. That room, Ernest Nordquist 15 Tom Sheridan 15 '.)Ur cafetefri, is truly a busy place, Harold Anderson 14 Richard Boyd 14 bove, Henry Dahm, Ralph Krier, oroving again that eating is the Danny Dever 14 Dolores Grembecki 14 Henry Matchen, Herbert Mueller, Marion Hacker 14 Willard Stockfisch 14 Vernon Perm~r, Wm. Ross, vVm. most popular pastime of high Viola Stoll 14 James Watkins 14 school students. Peter Conrad 13 Ruth Hennig 13 Schnur, and Wm. Taylor, forty Our sturdy j anito1· squad takes Lucille Lindemann 13 Carl Mueller 13 man hours to set one issue of the care day after day, of the wrnpJanet Lutkehaus 13 Ralph Rentzsch 13 pings and scraps, flipped successDorothy Rings 13 Melvin Schultz 13 Nilehilite? fully (and unsuccessfully) at the "Betty Stielow 13 many baskets. FRESHMEN We have also a very efficient Joan Cutsler 16 Leota Harper 16 group of cooks whose diligence Beverly Kramer 16 Barbara Mason 16 keep us from becoming undernourJack Price 16 Alma Gatzke 15 Doris Hampton 15 William Mooracl 15 "We find the defendant guilty ished. Jack Harrer 15 Nona Jane Hollappa 15 Some interesting facts can be Marion Conrad 14 Thomas Davidson 14 of murder in the first degree." This James Keating 14 Margaret McNeill 14 was an oft repeated statement gleaned from the lunchroom. Among the vital statistics we :fin<l Rose Marie Norum 14 H elen Roberts 14 Theodore Roess 14 Frances Smith 14 heard by the Problems classes last the fact that sandwiches, those Betty Bray 13 Thomas Cook 13 Tuesday. The classes under the di- suppm·ters of student life, disapBetty Cummings 13 Richard Cutler 13 Mary Kay De Witt l~ Harriet Hart 13 rection of Miss Grace Hal'bert, pear in the following order: ham Robert Harston 13 Wilford Johnson 13 spent the day viewing several dif- salad, egg salad, and ham. What would om· Mommas say if they James Lannert 13 Robert Pasek 13 Gordon Peschke 13 Cecelia Rizzo 13 f eTent trials in the various courts knew that the pop sold daily in the Lorra;ne Spl ett 13 Marie Stritch 13 of the Criminal Court Building. cafeteria totals eight cases? These John Warakomski 13 Cooks, Cookes and Crumbs Problems Classes Go -to Jail They saw not only ti·ials for mino1· G ffenses but also such "Front Page" HONORABLE MENTION FRESHMEN trials as murder, manslaughte1·, Lois Baity 12 Frank Boufford 12 Jane Breckenridge 12 Betty Farr l2 and gl'and lal'ceny. The different Patricia Foster 12 Howard Langan 12 -erdicts rendered were subject to Grace Nelson 12 Harry Peterson 12 · J ean M. Peterson lZ Roland Poehlman 12 many heated controversies among RoegeneScholow12 Gloria Westerberg 12 the student spectators. SOPHOMORES As the Problems class walked the Patricia Galitz 12 Agnes Heinz 12 dreaded "Last Mile" to the electric Rosanna King 12 Ann Oden 12 chair, they observed the lockup Lois Ruthenbeck 12 Harvey Tolzien 12 system, the laundry, and othel' Betty Westerlund 12 parts of the County Jail. They also SENIORS noticed that every clock read difVirginia Baity 12 Clark Barton 12 ferently an addecr protection Virginia Berry 12 Armin Bierbaum 12 against jail-break! Norma Delfino 12 Iren~ G_uent.her 12 1 Aftel' · they returned home the Caroly Pearson 12 MarJonc R1Ser 12 . . d t I Mildred Risinger 12 LaVerne Schuler 1.2 semors arrive a one GOnc us1on No Junior Honorable Mention sezi11g is better th~m reading. 1 also show a definite system in their disappearing acts. Orange heads the list with root beer and cola as runners-up. We must give not e to the capacity of the under-c1assmen who did away with three-hundred and fifty turkey dinners while the seniors were away. WHOZIT?? This lad is very small in size, In fact, he's the smallest of the guys. His light brown hair and bright green eyes Really add character to his size. Come on, think now! Take your brains off the shelf! Ah, here's a clue- he dances with himself! �Page 4 NILEIDLITE November 29, 1940 G. A. A. Initiates Conference Play Girls Ping Pong Freshmen Tournament Opens Girls and their proud mothers at· Starts Tonight When Monday comes, Miss tended the formal initiation of the Tonight the NileHi basketball Schaefer will officially "open sea- new G.A.A. members on Nov. 15. teams will travel to Arlington The evening's program included Heights to open t he 1940-41 Northson" in the Ping Pong tournament. a talk and demonstration by the reThe required participation of all nowned archer, Mr. Hoogerhyde. east Conference Basketball season. girls is going to intensify the com- After showing a newsreel on trick Although Arlington is reported petition in this year's contest. archery, Mr. Hoogerhyde demon- to be one of the weakest teams in Watched by swaying heads that strated his own ability in several the conference, the Trojan offense, anxiously follow the flight of the difficult shots including shooting weakened by the loss of last year's a balloon out of Claire Juniac's bounding sphere, nervous fingers hand. aces, Boyk and Baumann, will unwill soon be stabbing futilely at the To complete the entertainment likely be able to i·un up a very large elusivep ingp ong ball in an effort part ofthe program,the Girls' Select score. "to get the paddle in the way." If Chorus sang some very beautiful Last Saturday the Ti·ojans playyou can make your opponent the selections, Pat Reiland performed ed a real thriller with New Ti·ier. an intricate acrobatic dance, June unhappy victim of your skill in two Berg proved hersPlf a clever skit The spectators saw the two teams out of three duels, somebody'll let f!iver, and Janice Moore sang to a battle on even terms for four quartern, the scme at the end of the thrilled audience. you into the semi-finals. The ma1n event of the evening, regulation time being tied, 23-23. •.. In addition to paddling about In the overtime period the Trojans on the green table, those ambitious the initiation, was very solemn and ~arne through with five points to beautiful. Thegirls, carrying lighted win enough to enter the shuffleboard candles and marching 28-25. down into the battle am to be in on quite an ex- semi·dark gym to take Following is a rnnning account of their pledge. citing bit of "pushing ai·ound." the overtime period. Domas was of membership, 'When the whistling winte1· winds will soon forget' made a picture few fouled and then sank his free drive the husky bruisers from the The evening ended throw. New Trier went into the football field, they huddle into the taking their mothers with the girls lead by making good two free to the cafete· shelter of their gym and start dash- ria for refreshments. Chatting over throws on Domas' fourth foul. ing around shooting for baskets. If tea and cakes gave both the mothe1 :lerson, who replaced Domas, Anwas the names selected by t he Intra- and daughters a chance to make fouled mural basketball teams·are lived up new acquaintances. Such an enjoy· thrnws. and sank one of his free Peters.e n received a beauto, something short of te1·io1· will able evening should make G. A. reign. · ·wm the· Bzllkiwhlfs be as mean more to all its members. A. tiful pass under the basket and made good on his shot. Williams hard to lreat as they are to procontributed the fi.nal point on a free nounce? . . . What is to be exthrow. Final score: NTHS 28; New pected of Hitler's Hermites? . . . Comp~tition Keen Tl·ier 25. Who are the 6 Hicks-and are they Williams, who was high man the only ones? . . . . T he Skokie As Boys Bow1 Competition in boys bowling is with eight points, kept the Trojans Smokies have a good idea there ... ~re Krier's Beers flaunting the getting keener as Bob Reiland and in the game with two beautiful long true reason for their agiJity? . . . Ed Heinz battle for first place, each shots dUl'ing the closing minutes And what will happen if the Com- havin~ a 170 average, Harvey Jen- .of regulation time. On defense the ets clash with the Skokie Rockets? sen w1th an avernge of 158 holds team looked very good but looked weak on offense. The boy's tournament of ping third place by one pin. The Chemistry Team is leading . . pongers has already started. with 8 wins and only 2 losses. Bob The Jumor Yru:sity. also playe? a .Reiland captains Bob F1·eres Dan close game, wmnmg m th~ closmgPetty and YEHUDI on thi; win- seconds, .22-20. Aftei- leadmg- 10-5 WE BEG YOUR PARDON n· g f at half-time, the JV's allowed New Trier to tie the score. As i11 the In the previous issue the last three m earn_. dates of the basketball schedule Vars!ty game, free ·throws played Curn}val Night - Conlinuecl should have read: · an important part in· the final score. The twelve-piece orchestra playFri., Feb. 7-Warren-here Wednesday,- November 20; the ing in the Assembly "Ballroom" Ti·ojans traveled to Evanston, Fri., Feb. 14--Woodstock-there wiJI be the cause of many pleasant where Fri., Feb. 21-Arlington-here they seemed to do everyThe J. V.'s will also play. a game moments. thing for Oh yes - refreshments! ;Katie of the wrong, The their first games with the Alumni on Jan. 3. season. teams were weak ass ures us that refreshments will Freshman Basketball Schedule be se1·ved during the entire eve- on offense, bad on passes, and inadequate on defense. One bright Mon., Dec. 2-Lihertyville-here ning. Mon., Dec. 6-Barrington-here Remember that the proceeds of spot on the Varsity recmd was the percentage throws made. Mon., Dec. 16-Ailington-there the Carnival will be us.e d to uni- The playern of free out of 14 free sank 9 Mon., Jan. 13-Libertvville-there form 0µ1· school band. · tosses. Sat., Feb. 1- Leyden-here . Mor:.,. Feb. 3-Barrington-there Answer to Whozit: Evanston won the Varsity gar.:e Mon., Feb. IO-Arlington- here : G 25 .'.'.!1'1 the JV !J?me 25-7. Jimmie Holmes �NILEHILITE Volume II No. 6 · Skokie, Illinois '40-'41 Year Book PlBilS Completed What is our 1940-41 Yeai<"Book going to be like? How does it differ from last year's book? Who is croing to get it ready for the print:r? How much will it cost? These questions are being asked by many of the students, and below are the answeTs as given to the NileHiLite. The 1941 vear book will have approximately J one hundred pages. (L3st year's book contained sixtyfour.) It will again be a spiral loose leaf book with a cover somewhat similar to that of last year's book. It will contain eight or ten pages of pictures of the building, the administration offices, the officers, and the faculty. Ten or twelve pages will be devoted exclusively to the seniors. These pages will include individual photographs of and personal comment about each senior. Then there will be some sixteen pages of school activity pictures. In addition, this 1941 year book will include copies of all issues of this year's NileHiLite specially printed to match the rest of the book. Many students will have an oppoTtunity to contribute to this year's book. All pictures, with the exception of those of t he seniors which will be taken by a commercial photographeT, will be taken Ccnt inued On Page 5 . MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR Il December 20, 1940 THE STAFF Interesting Assemblies Jan. 6 Akl~f;loti· A.;,.mbly.1:15 , Planned for Next Year J.,,;,. P. Robertson Gym CALENDAR . Jan. 3 Basketball-Varsityv!:. Alurri- Picture on page two Jan. 7 OratoricalContestAssembly Jan. 10 Basketball - Leyden - there Varsity·and J. V. Jan.14 Basketball--Varsity and J.V. vs. Crysta lLake-here---4 P.M Jan. 16 Evening Assembly-"With a Camera in Enchanted · Empire" an "My Day" I suppose you'Te wondering who I am that I have a "My Day" column in the NileHiLite. My name isn't Eleanox Roosev~lt, it's Sammy Spruce! I am a full fl.edged Christmas tree 15 feet tall. I was born in the Kadlec Nursei·y on Crnwford ·Ave., 25 years ago. About t,wo weeks ago I was cut down, and for the first _ime in my life I want t to high school. They took me to the cente1· of the building where a crowd of Juniors started climbing over me and hai: ging things on my branches. Gee, I look beautiful now! You know with Christmas comin.::;, we txees really are important. When the kids in school see me t hey forget about the coming exams . They just think about the fun they aTe going to have during t he holidays. Well, so long, and :Nierry Christm2s to all of you! J ense Phillius Robertson uill p-_·esent to NileHi students a lecture dr monstration about ancient musical instruments and their developments on January 6. Mr. Robel'tson will wear an auth:mti.c Palestinian costume throucrhout the lecture. Among the inst;uments he will display a1·e: the Symnhonia. the Long Necked Flute the Rhubabi, the Shoulder Harp ' and dozens of otheTS. Selections will be nla ved on the Silve1· Trumpet of Biblical vintage, dating back two thousand years to the hills of Judea. The background of Mr. Robertson is very interesting. He was a Pacific Coast football star ; a sing er f?r the late Flo Ziegfeld; a prnfess10nal colleague of Eddie Cantor and Victor Moore. "China" subject of Evening Assembly The See Chicago Club will sponsor a lecture on "China" on January 16, at 8 p.m. The lecturers, the White twins, have spent many years in China and have brought many interesting stories -:vit~ thel!1. Twenty-five cents adm1ss1on will be charged. The proceeds will be used to help meet the expenses of ~:e .Club's trip to Springfield in the u::::>rmg. �NILEHILITE Page2 Platter Chatter Everyone has probably been suggesting millions of things for you to give as Christmas presents. Whether or not you have record fans on your list, perhaps some of these may "hit you," literally speaking. 1\.11 of you hep cats should be in your glory with the jive that's jumping. We guess most everyone has heard "Beat Me Daddy Eight to The Bar" by Gie'1n Miller -it really isn't as brutal as it sounds-. Another good one is Charlie Barnet's "Pompton Turnpike."Have a listen to it sometime. Barnet is one of the few orchestra leaders who can play the sopran~ sax well. If you really go ~n for heavy -but mig~1ty solid-swing try Ben11y Good man·s 12 inch record of "Sing Sing Sing" or "Board Meeting". For smoothies try "I Don't Want to Cry Anymore" by Barntt, Tommy Dorsey' "Shadow on the Sand" and "Looking for Yesterday," Miller's "A Handful of Stars," an d last but not least, Erskin Haw kin's "Ashes in the Tray." If you hke novelties you will undoubtedlyenjc·y Millet's "Five O'Clock Whistle," or a honey of a solo job by Kruoa's trumret man on "Love in My Heart". It gets under your skin. These suggestions may keep you going for 1.while. hut in case they don't watch the future edition~ for more Platter Chatter. Forca.st December 20, 1940 May We Suggest- Jesse Phillips Robertson Christmas Spirit Pervades NileHi Have you seen the Christmas tree in front of the office? But of course you have; you couldn't have rr:issed it. It was transformed from :>. pl tin pine to a festive anay of b =auty by the able work of a Junior class committee headed by Toni K . · h d Ol rrhl 1 · emmer.os an raJOVlc ga and aided by many assisting Freshies, Sophomores, and Sen i o 1· s. Credit for this 2.chievement should also b2 given to Miss Harbert, Junior class advisor, who arranged the nhns; to Miss Line who draped and ..J"corat~d the base of the tree; to Mr. Wilkins who added his artistic touch bv a word of advice; and to our janitors who made the sturdy stand for the tree. Ar-other m ain point of ChTistmas inteTest you should all have noted is onr libr rrv with its Christmas tr0c (lrcornt cd with the names of good books, its wreaths, and its -ed. r rcl ca:r>dles. Glo1·ia Bartz, Evelyn Zaveral, and Muriel Fulhardt helped Miss Meyers do the work which gives us all much Loo~: ing ahead to 1950, the Nileh llite Alumni Co'umn reads as follows: Finan cial ... Messrs Clark Barton. Dick Pn.roub2k, and Edward BeH?.. executives of "Da1·ling Dimnlrn Dolle;" rnr noration, are investing- $3,000,000 in thei1· Christmas sales camnaign to put over theiT new doU "Danny" to go with "Dariing." Trnrle . . . Mr.. John Anderson and Miss Nina Simmons, · co-owners of the "Little Chick Ranch and Restaurant," have hired the famous chef, Mr. Alvin Hannemann, to nren:u·e special dishes for thefr ph~ se:re. 'The b~::i.difullv decorated winholid2~1 trade. ry were Gos3ip . • . l'A:iss Ruth RobeTts, dows opposite the libn:1 nre:--tor of the romic strip "Silly f~ p,!i' o,.., P rl bv the clever juniors Savings of Sizzling Sally" is enter- from Miss Lant's English classes. faining guests. ar..'ong them Wil- E ·..r<'rywhern you walk C11ristmas lard Stockfish., the sports - an- i~ in the air - the streamers on r om1 cer, during the Ch1·istmas the first Roor, the wreath and mist letoe (boys take note) in Miss Holidavs. Special ... Docto··s Howard Har- T ·a nt's mom - even the Cafeteria rington and Phyliss Bi-ooks re- boasts Ted and green with silver reived the "I:Iumanitarian Awa1·d" Ibdls to .help you eat your sandfoT doing the best work of the year wiches - yes sir! NileHi is in the mood for Ch1·istmas. on the cause of hunge1·. 1 vVhat do you plan to do dID·ing Christmas holidays? Yes, I know you wiU play with the toys Santa gave you, but don't forget that with all the wear and teai· the i·elativcs will give them, they won't lad long. The1·e you will be, without a thing to do. After skating a little, and falling '.1. littl ~ rr.or e, go and take six les"ons f:·om Son.ia Renie, who will nivot rond twirl from Dec. 26 to Ta•'. 5 in the "Hollywood Ice Revue" at the Chicago Stadium. Now if neither snow nor ice appeals to you, make a lunch and trot off to a good play, movie or ballet. "Life With Father" at the Black.stone Theater will make you laugh; "The J etter" at any theatre will -1f'ke ~'O'l. ::;hudder; while the Ballet :1::ss1C !'t the Auditorium will make you sigh. A:'d bv all means don't forget '.'lf' t'.2." V thh·d. On that night our 1'"'ojans will play the powerful · h::c::i team and to celebrate our •·ictory or to compensate for a loss (forbid it) there will be a dance in the Asserr..bly Room following the . game. That's all, people. If you have :::omp1eted. the round of gaities it's ri bout time to get some sleep. Good Night!! Are You A Glamour Boy? Could i ~ te that our'glamour boys' think that tl:e:ir "he-man" attire boost tl r m Et all with their fair "wench"? Ace~ ding to N.T.H:S. the "glamo-cr boy" qualifications are: 1. A gemral roughed-up appearance; that crumpled, just· rolled-out bed look. 2. Absolutely no tie ar.d for best n :sults crumple the collar slightly to give tl:at week-old effiect. 3. "-'ither thecarelsss, feather-duster hair-do or the neat shorn, shave Eetne. 4. At least a week-old beard to give yol.ir face that war:m,hidden sensation. 5. Huttoc s missing from a pink shirt with chocolate ice cream spilled on the flowing shirt-tail. 6. Garterlesi. green socks sagging wearily over dirty, tom and and worn-out "sneaks". 7. Blue striped pants, shiny and liaggy, rolled up, one 2" below the knee, the other 4" below the knee. s· A purple handkerchief streaming from a bulging pocket--but no comb, nail-file, etc. �NILEHILITE December 20, 1940 CHRISTMASTODAY It was the night before Ch1·istmas, and a11 Schon bTightly as w stood on the cornex of Wilson Avenue and She1·idan Road in front of the Drake Hotel. There were fom· in our group: Leonard, Frank, }lack, and me (Phoebe). We all had our Kohtz on; but I being more Wise, had lfikotand hat on. We were on our annual touT of singing our Christmas Carroll, for we only knew one! Leonard was a Neuman, and the son of a Taylor. Being new, his voice sounded like an Och ' Brny and he was as small as a Leach. I was really Abbott the on] real Singer in the grnup, havin Rich alto voice. We had stood the corner for an hour so I sai "Lutz Flagg a streetcar an over to Foster and Davis S I was fit to be Tiedt when wouldn't Grant me the favor fore :we d~cided to sing one and only Carroll, " King." I h.appened to Li leaning on a Stone wa My went out to him-here en stiff, but wi11ing to us until the job w Frank on the other a Lumpp in his thro size my Friend Mack and it ....,._._ e a Beny and because he was afraid of getting a Quincy throat, refused to sing. That left only Leonard and me. Not being able to do much we decided to go Holme. ,S o our sorrow we had not the Price to ride the streetcar. As this car Line was not known for its genernsity, thern was no ~uch chance of ou1· getting a free nde. Our Cook happened to come by and kindly took us home. Regardless of all om mishaps we enjoyed a very happy Christmas and we h ope you d 0 t oo. Whizzing down the chimney, Blackened all with soot, Comes old Santa---Whee, Rip! he did it again. Page 3 !Late Shoppers! HiLite Offers Suggestions CHRISTMASFUTURE It was the night before Christmas, and all through our Tuesday mansion (we have one for every day) not a creature was stirring not even om· gTeat wolfhounds. As I came downstairs on the rolling <>lic1e. I ["l~~ced rbo ut the glass room fOT the moon (we have one of those for every dav now, too) which was shining brightly through t he: glass roof. It cast a soft light on the smooth gold furnitme and set the rnom all aglow. I heard a purring sound: and, as I lifted mv lwad. I s~w S'.l.nta's rocket ship lrnring lightly on our smooth glass roof. I jumped behind m:v litt1e b··other's television set (we erch have one, fo1· they are ve1·y commo;) j ust as Santa slid down on . moorbeam. I watched silently as e placed a white piano near my '))(1-:r sister's stocking and a rocket -hip between the stockings belong~ to my brnther and myself. Of "ourse I was thrilled to pieces, so started picking them up and putmyself together, hoping Santa not heaTd me. Luckily he hadn't when I looked around, he was He must have used some of disappearing powde1· that :vas giving me foT Christmas. eciding I needed some shut eye, I s ped on the staircase and ·es e button. I slid up to my d into my cloud bed. (They lly the most comfortable ~.-~~~'I have ever slept in.) I pushed another button and my eyes closed as I pushed another button to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Christmas comes but once a year -and with it comes the joy-or burden,-of Christmas shopping. We know we're "kinda" late but in ~ase :vou have yet to finish your shopping, J1je11 l)l"ILEHILITE KM. and Home a T'.a. Guild has made crowded shopping ·ers the following. I, suggestions: e-ounce bot- wear ·ousers when b~~~r!e down on the floor thei·e, For the boy or girl friend (We're smart but not geniuses and certainly no tfoo1s. You figure it out, we're tired). But over this tranquil, festive scene hangs a cloud. Sonny believes in Santa Claus but you know better-or should. If there "ain't no S::.:nta" where will the money come from for this sudden outflow of gifts? You guessed it - start hustling, Bud- there's only three shopping days betore Christmas! I Seniors' Christmas Scrapbook 'Twas a week bef.Jre Christmas a11d all through Nilehi Every student was wondering what gifts they should buy. Then came the Seniors with energetic Miss Berry With scrapbook of gift books for our library. If questions were asked, a Senior was there To answer each question with the greatest of ccre. �NlLEHILITE Page 4 UPSTAIRS AND DOWN NILEHILITE The NileHllite is edited and published biweekly by the students of Niles Township High School of Skokie, Illinois. )fr. R. E. Cotanche, Principal. EDITORlAL STAFF Annette Carroll Editor Phyllis Braeske Assistant Editors Jean Dudick Florance Gable Activities Editor s Collen Thomas Grnce Langen F eatu re E ditors Bill Stevens Sports E ditors Bob Reiland Clark Bar ton ion Manager s Product Ray Hohs R~ lph Frier Mr. Clement Meier, Advisor K~ndall. Miss Susanne Ostergren, Advisor 1940-41 • ChflS t mas G ree t• Ings Me·~ry To the NileHiLite: We go fOT Cave Man tactics on the Football Field but not in the hal1s. We admit we are the weaker sex, so boys, please stop trying to prove it to us. (signed) Delicate. There is no mo1·e "1eft out" inclividtial in this column than that 'il' nude,,.cherub ~i th the bow and arrowR~ Today we shall ba1·e the activities of this slaphappy scamp and call the column CUPJD CAPERS Reporters Henry Barko w, Bernice Franoon, R icha rd Hartney, - ~ura Nuuemacher, Doris tfussil, Pat Reiland , Ruth R o berts, Bett y Stie low, Viola Stoll, T oni ·11 Lmmenos, Ho wa rd Weldo n, Belly Westerlund, Jan' Coms tock, D ill R o man, Korman Delfino , Earman Kra mer, Bill Stoc kfi<ch, \\'"yn e Ba rt on, " ).(;itJre~ Bergmark, D ick Solon, June Berg, Edith T ux:m, ).lara iyn W oodworth, Betty Kelly, Stan ley Christmas! NTH~ really h:>s the Christmas spirit. The Christmas free in the cente1· lobby of the building helps remind stu,'-r:ts of the spirit of the Christm~ s time. The Library with its g:.>.y decorations, makes it a pleasant place to study. Now is the time that people are busy with t heir Christmas shopping, wondering what to get thefr ~riends, and making preparntions m the home. Have you seen the <le~orations downtown or in the neighboring subUl·bs? All stores are gayly decorated for this time. . . M1my towns sponsor home hghtmg . ht th t . a we con t ests. I t 1s a s1g n.ever tire of. Without all these decorations, chimes, Ch1·istmas ti· e es, and l"k , · cro\;ds it w?u~dn t seem 1 e Christma~. This 1s a lot of fun, b~t t~rough 1t all . we must keep m mmd wI:-at Chnstm~s really me::ins - the buth o~ Chnst, and a time cf peace and JOY. December 20, 1940 Beverlv Krame1· is hanging her <'Oat and hat up in C47 now and we bet John (l want to dTiVe a truck) ·rlennino- isn't charging any rent. E • t "' F. Thulstrup strolled 1n 0 nglish the other day, after his regular expedition to 213 with Jane, looked at his "Lit" book and sighed, "Angel, you are my inspiration." Edith Luxem and Don Fisher are working hard on their Phvsics these <iavs. They don't exit from ?,13 till Ion~ after dusk has-covered the camous. Could it ·be that a Bunsen Burner has touched off the sp~rk? Ginnie Mae, between choruses of Wabash Blues," still finds time to " answel' the telephone plenty. T. c~nt.v (Soph. or Jr.?) is still r b'.vin. r to find a girl-any girl. J. BlamP.user and Ja:ne Kadlec --re to be the recipients of a fund raised bv .VAnel'Ous and kindly disryosed contributors for the purchase "If suspender~ .fOl' their downy buy rJrr.oping nantatoons. Corne on, the ~iris need a lift! ('l ~ rk Barton is, at last, taking YJote of the faiT. sex - P.S.-Patsy About Jean Bates: Between fits of snoozing and counting sheep one P.M. recently, ·our heroine found the blankets spread o'er the floor and the rag rng draped ove1· her How do fre ezing form on the bed. _ I know? Who do you thmk was cl , th blankets? e un e1 Too bad Lizzy K.'s new passion is Kerm Faust when Mme. La Pigtails is her competition. Don Rhodes, at his_ first peep at our wonderful Chnstmas Tree, didn't say anything as 1·egular as "oooh" 01· "aaah." He shrewdly squinted at it and pronounced that " . ... the cente1· of gravity of that tree is certainly low." From the panhy to the heasury, people are prnparing for Christmas. Snow is in the air and on the ground ; and until late in the day, the street is loaded with jammed civilians. As I stood there with snow piling on coat, I wonderedHow, or where do they get thek money? Allan Grover, first to pipe up, said-"I get money for Mom's present from Dad-Dad's from Mom." Pat Galitz-"I go easy on lunches from December first." . . . And looking at Pat, Doris Burkland added "I try to collect back debts." Bil! Stevens-"! stand on a corner with a beard and a little tin cup"-but his first rnply was "ask Ginnie, Paul, or Mardy." "lfracky,'' typical of Juniors, "I .iust find a dollar and pray (or was it prey) for the rest"-while in contrnst, a very deliberate freshie-J!m Lannert-claims; "I save it up all during the year." Assemblies Offer Hints For Job Hunters Attention Seniors, and you underclassmen, toot Those vocational assemblies you have been attending will prove of value when you go to get a job. Mr. Welsh and Mr.Trump, who talked to you, put forth ~ome interesting and helpful ideas. All you have to do is remember them. Here they are: Learn something about the job which is to be filled. Show interest in the business. This ,..w ill make the proprietor feel good, ·and you are ·more likely to • · get the job. Be sure you-know what vou want to do. Don't say you'll "take anything." Be specific. Don 't be too fussy. Take any honest job. It will gi ve you that much needed experience which will aid you to secure a better position - After you have your job, be sure to do your best. Remember that good references are always helpful. Don't Forget the Alumni Game �December 20, 1940 Smile Seniors Darn You, Smile! NILEHILITE We Came; '\"! e Worked; We Made Money TheStudentFacultyForumwishe~ On January 8, 9, and 10........... : .... . to extend hearty congratulation!' Of course you might know, even to the students and faculty mem1 senior girls don't comb their hair bers who made the Carnival such a that many times a day without grand success. Their splendid spirit some good reason . and the senior of cooperation and untiring effort.:i boys wearing neckties! That's a helped to net a profit .of $262.38. dead give away .... They'~e going to This money will be placed in the have pictures . taken! A sti+dio is ban d uniform fund! being set up in the school. . The Richard Ruesch, Dolores Jaehr: -Senior Faculty Committee is busy ke, Dorothy Miedtke, and Dolores scheduling what time and which day Skeining, in that order, were tbe each senior's picture will be taken. lucky four who received prizes for The pictures will be for the senicr gueEsing the~ eight of the pumpkin section of the all-school year book. the night of the carnival. Dick Each senior desiring his photograph Ruesch was only two ounces off in th e annual will pay one dollar for with his ~ess of forty-nine pounds the picture. - Th is depNit can be two ounces. Actually the pumpkin applied on the purchase price of any topped the scale at forty - nine additional photographs wanted for pounds. Phvliss Braeseke personal use. - Yep! that's the reason Secretary of the Forum our sen iors wm be looking so si:;ruced up on January 8, 9, an d 10 Year book - continued ::'.ncl d~veloped by stu dents now enrcllc<l in photography. AU comment in the book will be written by seniors selected from the various senior English classes. It is possible i.hat the art classes may cont ~ ilY. b decorative designs. The advm1::-ed Jo~unali sm students will 1 opt the book for the printer. --.:v The dncs in Salesmanship will be cdlcd t;pon to assist in the sales car.-!p "ign. And :row, whet will this all-school ;-e~r b::ok cost? It is estimated t hr.t the school will be able to sell this year book for one dollar peT copy to the student body; and, at the s:oP1s time, to honor each seni ~~· ':;ith n gift copy at Commencer. t:~t. The year book plans are about ccmplete. Arrangements have been r- '.'.de with an engraving company D: ·d a printing establishment. The 8-hool's new Speed-Graphic camera is already at work. The 1941 year book is on its way! Soon after the holitj.ays the sales campaign will begin. Plan to rnserve yom· copy of 1. hic ~11- school year book soon! Bad Santa Visits Language Club Meeting Following an old French custom Howard "Cushion s" Klebm as Santa, Paul Mikota as the bad Santa conducteJ an exchange of gifts as one of the highlights of the Language Club Christmas meeting held December 9. Each LL.ember received a gift; the Bad Santa gave switches to "bad member", Jane Kadlec, Sue Schaefer an d Phyliss Braeseke, for suppcsed:y wrong doings. Preceding this event a well-planned program included talks on various phases of foreign Christmas, by Phy liss Braeseke, Jane Kadlec, Grace L&ngan and Cherrie Neutz Also in the Latin part of the program two skits were done dy Doris Burklund, Arlene Madsen, Janice Moore, protraying the diffelrence between the Roman "Saturnalia" and our Modern Christmas. Various Christmas songs were sung by each of the 1anguage groups in their respective languages. Refreshments concluded the evening's entertainment. Page 5 IPocket Books for Sale No, we don't mean tho~e things that the girls use to cany "indispensables" around with them. What we're talking about are those swell little books of your fav01·ite movies which cost only twenty-five cents. Sure, you can get Wuther- ing Heights, L ost Horizon, Our Town, The Good Earth, Pride and Prefudice, Show Boat, The Light That Failed, and other equally good movie books for just a quar ,;er. And you scientists will find i. gold mine for twenty-five cents ii Paul De Krnif's Microbe Hunter6 Or, fol' the same price, you ge) Edgar Allan Poe's best works. Wodehouse's Jeev es, or Stevenson\ Treasure Island. Then, just fo1 twenty-five cents w-0Tth of fun. ome · ill want to try DoTothy w Parker's Enough Rope which is a bit naughty, but oh, so funny! To be exact, the books we art talking about are those pocket sized, paper b ound editions which can be bought at all the downtown department stores . Say, by the bye, you might find these littk oooks grand "fill in" gifts fo1 Christmas stockings, or things t o go with the money your panmt~· are giving y-0u. After the Christmas holidays om ceacher will be glad to take yom i:r rder for these little books. Yol' ~=rn ~'3e the list of books -posted ir the library OT on tJ-e English clasf oulletin boards. And-here's thf important thing- if we orde1· terDr more copies of these books w <: ret them for twenty cents per copy .~o, for the price ·of a movie, you ~ ~n have that story you liked lonl? after the movie has left town. 0 WHOZIT? She's cute, slim and snappy, Her favorite color--"Kelly" green, "Red" also mak<s her happy Which dearly ca• be seen. Answer on page 6 ADDITION We wish to make an addition to the "Know Your School" program article which was published in the last issue of the NileHiLite. Miss BronOne freshman to another, "How son was responsible for the very inare we going to go to the movies, teresting movies on Mexico which do our Algebra, and eat all at the were given for us in that program same time?" by Mrs. Westeberg. �NILEHILITE Page 6 Trojan Travel to Lake Forest Tonight B. Reila nd, D. Lund Lead Bowl~rs Tonight the Trojan teams will clash with the smooth working Lake Fm·est quintet on the Scouts' home floor. The Varsity will enter the game with the lingering memo~·y of the defeat at the regional tonmv.mcnt b st swing. The J .V.'s will strive to maintain tl:eir clean The 1940 bowling seaso;:i now has reached the halfway mark. Bob Reiland leads the boys with an averof 170. In secon d place is Ed Heinz and his nea" 163. The strike queen of the girls is Doroth:v Lun d with her 142 average Carol Blameuser is secolid with a 124 average. High game honors go to Bob Reilan d with 214 an d Doris Mussil with 187. Leading the boys teams is the "Printers" and "Al Frame" is tops with the girls. There is a lot of speculation as to the outcome of the much heralded match between five boy bowlers and five of our r.:en teachers. The teachers had better start practicing right away as they will fi nd ccmpetition quitr tough. E;)rtea On January 14, Woodstock wilf rlay host to the Trojan teams. Earlier in t he season 'Voodstock flef~ated the Trojans by one point. The Blue Strnaks have also defeated Lake F01·est, by a six point margin. The Trojan defeat .of Palatine last Saturday br ightened the hopes of the team. The defeat was adminizt~red to the champions of the Northwe:: t conference, who earlier i•1 the season had defeated Crane Tech, bst year's city champions. J edging from the cage season so far, the Trojans have e:very opporb· T·1 ip ·1Les T owns h' ,s f res h man astunity te capture the conference .th , crown. Coach Galitz is well pleased kctb:ill zc~rt€d last 0 ·ctobe1· 29hw1 l' th e SC 00 S \"ith the showing of the boys so ci1c largest turnou t Ill "ft . , ,~lSt o?y. r~ er severa1 ..cu t s ,, a ?['r~ . The undefeated Ponies have at- gToup of boys hns been weeded out tracted less at.tention than they de- thr.t i:hapen up as a pretty bright serve. They lead the conference with three victories and no defeats. prosp"ct for coming years. They !uwe won their only home "Hezv" We1Clon, Bill Carroll, Carl J)()mrs, Bill Stockfish and Richard rrr me, with Banington, and last Glaune1· are leading the J.V.'s on ? fon-1av they journeyed to A1·lingtl-:eir champio11ship trail. ··o:"'. r nd defeated them by the lop'Ifi~ good showing of the Varsity r .~n be attributed to the splendid- icJ::d s:ore of 36-9. The st4rting t -:1mwm·k of the- players-Bill Pe- ··c:-m Co~_ch faaacson has been putten:on, "Red" \Villiams, Frank 'ti1· g 0~1 t:he. (om· consists of LieThulstrup, Bob Podraza, Ben b~·n:· dt Gockenbach, Harrer, Peck~ Domas and Brnce J arrett . i p;iw:;h, and Kuhn. A first-year tcm!?. th~t is t~ ll and fast. Frosh EaskE. tball 1 NAME IT! December 20, 1940 Sv'limming Growing In Popularity The increased turnout for the swimming teams show that the popularity of this sport is on the upgrade at NileHi. This is but the second year swimming has been offered. Tbe teams, Frnsh-Soph and Varsity, have had two meets so far tbis season, one wit:1 Pr~viso and the other wjth E,;anston. Both Varsity meets have beenlost to schools which have h£d swimming for years. The Frosh - Soph team won thier meet witb Evanston. Some 0f the more ]:•rumising FroshSoph tankmen which Coach Taylor has coming up are \Villiam Dahm, Bud Tracy, Tom Cooke, and Howard Grant, althcugh Coach Tayler states that they all look good. Tee boys handling the divin g chores quite ably for the Varsity are: Ray Nitch and Jim Moore, Reiter Walter F h Sar.d Tom Davidson . h f th or e ros - op . · h' • . All . all ,.,," I .l·.1 es 1 owr: s 1p s sw1m1n . mmgbprospects for the future look · ht very ug · Contributions . We take great pleas ure and the !erst oc pains in introducing 0rre of our better contributions. > Best confribution of the week: Man is like a kemel of corn-stalks around awhile and then some hen gets him. (signed) ·vanderbilt 333 e I'm mt -on- to haggle but just oft' the 1·ecord . up in 221 theTe's ::;orr"e 51 Y2 yards of electrical equipn:ent being used .to light 16" of Christmas Tree. Can't something be done about those gfrls who think so much of their studies and marks they have no time for their appearance. A little soap and water, make-up and a ·comb would make them human. (signed) A Mecca Brother The automatic waterboy which Synchronized Swimmers made its debut at \Vocdstock Sv•' chronized swimmers are ha1·d hasn't a name and is getting tired at work during the eighth period beingcalled "it" all the time.Come, ·p F•·id~vc . Miss SchGiefer and Mr. on, students, name thi.;; valuable ad- Taylor ~ire developing the group 'Jf rrixed swimmers. /rny boy desiring to participate dition to the mar agers' staff. Important Lhings to remember are >hculd see Miss Schaefer or :VIr. that it's orange, rolls on wheels, T:?ylor. To be eligible, boys must carries towels and is shoved across have an eighth period study hall the floor by the rranager or team ·1nd must be a member of the swimWb .. Drop your suggestions in the Nile- r1ini:; team. The girls receive G.A. ,ozit. HiLite box at ·the head of the stair. A. credit for participating in this Answer to 1 Betty Kelly ~ctivity. There will be a prize. �Cram for Volume II No. 7 Skokie, Illinois Exams? January 17, 1941 ~~~~---,_:._=-..:::..::..::.::.._~~..::...:.:.::.::..:.:.:::.:.::.-=...:.~=--~~~~~-:"'---~~~ CALE~~DAR Dramatics Classes To Sponsor Program Jan. 20- 24- Semester Examinations At a faculty meeting held MonFebural'lJ 4th day afternoon, January 13th, it was Jan. 24 - Basketbll - away All-teacher Assembly Program Veto- d e Jan. 17 - Basketball - 7:30 p. m. Varsity and J. V's. vs. Libertyville - here Schedule on Page 3 concluded that it would be impracVarsity and J. V's. vs. Crystal Gayity and amusement will be Lake tical to promote an all-teacher asthe theme on Februru:·y 4th, when sembly this Spring. A program Jan. 31 - Basketball-here- 7:30p.m. our :-;filehi Thespians will don the Varsity and J. V's . vs. Lake .ctaged entirely by the teachers f OT greasepaint once again to enterForest presentation to the student body tain their parents and friends in an was proposed by the Student Fa- Feb. 3 Basketball - away · 3:45p. m. evening of comedy and drama. This Frosh Vf<. Barrington culty Forum on January 6th. yeaT's edition of Dramatic's Night, Forum p1·esident, Richard Par- Feb. 4- Know Your School Program with Mrs. Esch as supervising dioubek. formally submitted the pro8:00 p.m. ·Dramatics Night rector, will be different. Except for posal for consideration last week. @e Ol' two presentations, it will be S9vernl factors made rejection Feb. 7. _ Basketball _ here _ 7:30 Varsity and J. V's. vs. Warren an all-original program. This is eviof the plan necessary at this time. dence of the modern trend in DramIt was pointed out, at the faculty meeting, that had this project been Juniors Conduct atic Art - that of doing creative included in the material submitted J..-,,..t 8eotember to the calendar Quiz Program For Sophs work. The majoring Dramatics class is roF.'mittee. nroper time allowance To-day a repeat performance of going to present a typical classin the schedule of school events t he play "RIGHT ABOUT FACE" room scene with Mrn. Esch assummight have been provided for such ~rt. nIC.dertaking. will be presented fo1· the Sopho- ing hel' everyday "role." . The many activities now sched- mores assembly. Last week the 0Tiginal monologues, charact errlafi recmire such close budgeting Juniol"S of Miss Bronson's home izations, and pantomines will be of time that it becomes impossible room presented the play to the done by the students, exemplifyto insert anv new activity mate1·- junior assembly. The timi; of the ing t he · type of work they do in i:>J once 1:1 calendar is adopted. This play is in the year 2941 and shows their classes. is particularly true of the crowded . . second semester calendar, which the supenorty of the girls over the The Nile Hi Radio playel"S broad-now includes Family Night, the boys at that time. The characters casting from Studio 123 will enterWater Carnival, the Senior-spon-1 were Paul Perlman as Mother, tain with a rndio productio:1 showsored Play, the Juni01·-SeniO\ Prom, J;cnace Yates as father, and Dick ing the results of hour's work bet~e. _Yearbook, pi-e-graduation ac- Hartney as t he daughter. With this t-i'.'it ec, nnd several club and class will be ·Dick Solon as Professor Diz fore the mike. In a demonstration of extempertnns. . and his Quiz Kids. The Kids wern In 0view of. great number of JunfoTs picked from each Junior aneous Cl'eative art, a group of stut0 1"Ch ""-N•1p~~·v1sed e•re-1 ts 1'1 1reaoiv home mom and at today's quiz the deh ts act out a plot given them by some obliging soul in the audience. scheduled, it was also gener!llly contestents will be sophomOl'es. felt that t he teacheTs themselves The last t hing on the program bad little of the time needed to pre- Family Night Progrrm w:ill be "Footlite Fantasy" an pare a p1·ogrnm of worth while oTignal creation written and diquality. On February 15 rected by Bill Stevens and featurAmong Nilehi's coming events is ing Jane Cecil: Thi~ play. w~ll inH. R. 316 Tours Tribune the Family Night Program and troduce at Nile Hi -:~ mtimate And then what's youT home room Dance of February JS. A one hour theatre _work - a new type of play doing that's news?? Mr. Kent's program put on by the students product10n. . · Home Room, 316, an unusually en- will be followed by dancing in the From all a:ppear~n ces it s~ems ergetic group of Sophomorns, took gym to the music of the "Melody that th.e _eve~lfg will ~e;·a highly n trip to the Chicago Tribune on Crew", a 12 peice band. The eve- entertammg Know Your School DeceJY1ber 9. n ing's program is being well Night." . And your Home Room does planned to provide varied and interHere's , hopm.g you . ar.e l.ucky what?? esting entertainment. Ienough to receive an rnv1tation ! 1 �Page2 _ _ __,1 NILEHILITE n - - 1--I NILE HI LITE The NileHilite is edited and published biweekly by the students of Niles Township High School of Skokie, Illinois. Mr. R. E. Cotanche, Principal. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor Jean Dudick Assistant Editors Annette Carroll Florance Gable Activities Editors Collen Thomas Bob Reiland Feature Editors Grace Langen Bill Stevens Sports Editors Phyllis Braeske Clark Barton Production Managers Henry Matchen Herbert Muller Mr. Clement Meier, Advisor Reporters He nry Barkow, Dernice Franson, Ri chard Hartney, Laura Nunemacher, Doris Mussil, Pat Reila nd, Rutb Roberts, Betty Stielow, Viola Stoll, Toni Tl:lemmenos, H oward \'Veldon, Bet ty Westerlund, Jane Comstock, Bill Romao, Norman Delfino, \Vayne Barton, E armao Kramer, Bill Stockfisch, Mildred Bergma rk, Dick Solon, ] une Berg, Edith Lnxem, Maralyn Woodworth, Betty K elly, Stanley Kendall. Miss Susanne Ostergren, Advisor Member 19-40-41 A "True" Report If the students of N.T.H.S. had control of the length of days, we all know what would happen to next week. But next week has to come -and go, so let's think of after exam week. Sometime during the fo11owing week each student will i·eceive his report card with a combination Teport including his exam grades, his period grades, and his semester vades. If this repol't is unusually good - and you know it isn't your WOl'k but the wo1·k of your classmates, parents, friends, etc. - do you feel proud? Not many people would but maybe you're the type of student who pTides himself on receiving good grades, no matter how you get them. Have you thought of what your friends think when they hand you N?blel~ 0 ('") ~< _:' Dear Delicate: Ever since the world was created, women have been at the mercy of the men-and have enjoyed every minute of it! Don't tell me in this age of "wolfing" that you are going to break an ageold tradition. Elva Johnson, just off the '.'cut.. ting table," is about to start chapter I, book one of "My Operation." Clicking castanets serve as only one of Pau1 Pe1·lman's many happy memories of Cuba - a few hours of too much Spanish. WIND-UP - as defined by a Frosh: P:reparat.ory exercises pnvious to the event of indulg'ing in the activity of thrusting a spherical object t!Ji rough the atmosphere toward a definite p1·edetermined des tination. A while back, Edith Luxem opened he1· locker to find scented smoke encircling everything. Tracing it to its source, she found that her bright roomer had left incense burning . . . Gangway for Jimmie Holmes, the only man to have Ginny N, Mardy, and Betty Kelly apart from rabble all within a single minute; but maybe he chose Ginny, for later he was found in her locker -with his left ear caught on a hook ... Jane Cecil has taken on a dreamer's look ... And when did Ed Breitenbach join the G. A.A.? We an broom mates, dust we two. From the Spindle ... . On the way back to school, after Christmas vacation, Norman Drake reached out of the bus window and Editorial cont. their paper to copy? If you did, I'm sm·e you'd never copy again. Just remember that it isn't what g:rade you get, it's how you get it that counts. And .see if you don't get a little glow of satisfaction when you receive a report that is actually yours. January 17, 1941 UPSTAIRS AND DOWN Did you ever wonder what red heads thought about their car1·ottops? Recently ouT Inquiring Repo1·ter confronted them with, "Has your red hair been an asset or liability thus far?" These are some of the replies: Eleanor Schon. Liability - "It keeps me too busy dyeing it every week." Adele Bartz. Liability - "It atfracts too much attention." Robert Flynn. Asset - "All the girl:;; like it." June Vincent. Asset - "Why? Look at Ann Sheridan!" "Re1·nice Zika. Asset - "A certain boy in Kenosha seems to like it." Wayne Kunkle. "It's neither an asset nor a liability. It's just plain hair." Virginia Marten. Liability - "I just can't stand being called 'Red'." Danny Dcve1·. Asset - '"It offsets my gold-framed glasses." Paul Perlman. Asset-"It keeps my head warm." Mr. G:ilitz (half red-half blond). Asset - "It makes a good hat rest." Nlblets Cont. pulled in several flower pots from a passing truck ... I wish Mr. Rob;nson had "jammed" into a hot swing tune ... somebody unionized the knotting fingers of Ruth Johantgen, Bobby Rassmussen, and -oh you know the gang that found a remedy for boredom in as8err:blie..,5 and classes .. . Dick Wasley turned "glamour · boy" (see i·ule No. 3 of theJast is.s ue) just in time •or Senior nictnrP. week .. ." Rumor has it that Dick Pa;roubek is a member of the Lew Loyal Patriots Club . . . Ben Domas recovered from the bug which has kept his \loice at a freshman squeal long arough t o have Mr. Ohlson render: "Today you are a man" ... Already ~mticipating college life, Rita Jane Fisher wrote to Loyola regarding ---trv. Evidentlv she wants an awf·· J lot of something to herself. �January 17, 1941 Semester Exam Schedule Monday, January 20 8:50 a.m.-10:20 a.m. Problems (all sections), Room 213; Eng-lish 3 (Miss Ostergren's classes). Cafeteria; English 3 (Miss Bronson's classes), Library; Study Hall, Room 112. 10:30 a.rn.-12:00 noon. Engiish 7 and 17 (all_sections), Room 213; World Histo-ry (all sections), Cafeteria; Georgraphy (Mr. Taylor's classes) , Library; Geography (Mr. Benette's class), Room 314; Study Hall, Room 112. 12:45 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Woodshop (periods 2. 7), Room Z13south; Latin (Second Year), Room 213north; French (Second Year), Room 213 -north· German (Second Yea1·) Room 206· S"~T' isli (Second Year) Ro~m 210· Study Hall, Room 112. ' ' Tuesday, January 21 8:50 a.m.-10:20 a.m. En1$lish :t (Miss L . Ronalds' classes), Cafeteria; English 1 (Miss Klaus' class). Room 212; English 1 (Miss Bronson's class), Room ·z10; U. S. History (Miss Kranz's classes), Room 213; U. S. History (;Miss Harbert's class), Room 209; Study Hall, .Room 112. 10·30 a.m.-12:00 noon General Math (all sections), Room 213; Algebra <Mr. Galitz's class), Room 213; Algebra (Mr. Lienhart's classes) Library; Algebra (Miss Stone's classes), Room 308-310; English 5 (all sections), Cafeteria. ' 12:45 p.m.- 2:15 p.m. Shorthand (Secon<l Year), Room 110; Latin (First Year), Room 213; French (First Year), Room 2Zl; Spanish (First Year), Room 210; German (First Year), Room 206; Study Hall, Room 112. Wednesday, January 22 8:50 a.m.- 10:20 a.m. C'-.eometry (all sections), Library; General Science (Mr. Kent's classes). Cafeteria; General Science (Miss Stone's classes), Room 213; Trigonometry, Room 308; Advanced Algebra, Room 308; Study Hall, Room 112'. 10:30-12:00 noon Business Training (Miss Green's classes), Library; Business Training (Miss Johann's classes), Room 213; Civics (Mr. Taylor's classes) , Cafeteria-east half; Civics (Mr. Meier's classes), Cafeteriawest half; Chemistry, Room 308; Study Hall, Room 112. 12·'5 p.m.-2:15 p.m. B'ology (all sections), Room 213; Physics, Room 308; Study Hall, Room 112. Thursday, January 23 8:50 a.m.-10 :20 a.m. Bookkeeping (all sections), Room 213; Foods, Room 315; Electric Shop, Room 105; Printing (beginning), Room 108; Study Hall, Room 112'. 10 :30 a.m.-12:00 noon Clothing, Room 315; Auto Sh op, Room 106; Ste;iography {first year) , Room 213; Printing (advanced), Room 108; Study Hall, Room 112. 12 :45 p.m.-2 :15 p.m. Dramatics (majln-), Room 121; Music :Major, Room 212; Conflicts. Page3 NILEHILITE Sing A Song ofThern are some people for whom some songs aTe meant without a doubt. Here we give you some of the songe for some of those people. Bob Reiland, "I D1·eam of Jean· n r·th ti L' ht B H · " me VI 1 le lg Town air - La Verne Schuler and Doris Burkland, "Illinois" Kermit Faust, "Irene" - Vernon Permer, "Mary Lou" Ed Springer, "'I'here's Something .about the Girls" - J'oan Blaumeser, "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" - Frank Thulstrup, "You've Got That Look" - Helen Miller, "Faith_ full Forever" - Jane Comstock "M B dd "-S S h f "Shh' Y u Y ue C ae er, , the Baby's Asleep" - Bob O'Connell, "Katy, Beautiful Katy" Ray Rohs "Jean the Campus Queen" - Pat Reiland, "It's the Things that You do with your Feet" Florence Schramm, "Northwestexn" - Winnie Flagg, "Willie, Willie, Willie" - Henr.v Dahm, "Jeannine, "I Drnam of Lilac Time" E1·min Kramer, "'fhe La dy With the Red Hail'" Ted Cante, "My Resistance is Low" We'll _get the xest of you "pegged" later l \\The Wife of the Traveling Salesman" Featuring a play in Spanish by a group of Northwestern students, the Spanish classes mixed the ingredients of excellent entertainment and captivaLed the audience of Foreign Language club members last Monday afternoon. The play was written by Yehudi, also of the cast. Another hilight on the program was the selection of Spanish aires sung by a costumed group of caballeros and senoritas. Olga Raskow, Dick Fann ing, Donald Smyser, Nancy Larsen, Fred Epson, Winnifred Flagg, Janice Yates, Melvin Schultz, Dick Boyd, and Jerry Gafford were "the brave souls". Orchids to Miss Bronson! Bowlers! Last Day to Enter Tournament Today is the closing date for entering the Mixed doubles tournament. So if you haven't entered, put on your bowling shirts, get the girl freind and run over to either Dorothy Lund or Harvey Jensen and sign your names on the dotced line. The tournament will be run off next Wednesday the 22nd at 4 o'clock. Our Leaders of The Faculty Forum Richard Paroubek I guess you all have seen that tall, blue-eyed young man around the school. WP.II, just for your info' he is Dick Paroubek, "prexy" of the Student Forum. Afte1· a little nel's uasion we found that his favorite sports are bowling and basketball, and that his pet peeve is people who say, " 'Bye now' l" If you want t o get in his good graces just seTve him turkey and ~11 the ttrimmings, his favorite food. A.,.,d on the sly, we found that he likes to dance to the music of Dick Jmgens with a ' certain dark hafred, brown-eyed sophomore who answern to the name of Rosan- na. Barbara Rasmussen She's five foot one, dark with brown eves, - you guessed it 8Prba1'a Rasmussen, vice-president -,f the Student Forum. Here's a lit'-l B hint, don't call her up early in the morning, because her pet peeve is to have the phone Tinp. while she is brushing her teeth. And as for t.Pmnting her apnetite, 8he loves a thi --k juicv steak smothered with onions. When not dancing to the music of Tommy Dorsey with her id"'a of an ideal bov - tall, blonde. <1thktic lookin~, brnwn -eyed and tweedv-jacketed, ( pag'ing "Jerr:v" .T :3.n ·Pt). she collects Jon Whitcomb -'lr~vrings . She is also a member of t}1P. BowlinR Lea~u~ and Horseback Ridfr1g- Club - nuit.e a busv girl I would say. As for heT plans after qy2d•1i:ition. she s·aid she would like to attend Puxdue University and later become an air hostess. Phyliss Braernke One of the bnc:,iest seriiors we '<now is blonde. blne-eved " Phvll" Braeske, secretarv of the Stt•de,.,t Foxum. You would never guess it, but her hobby is aviation scranbooks and collecting aiTplane models. That hot fudge sundaes aTe quite popular with heT tells no tale on her figure, which she keeps in trim playing golf, swimming, riding and bowling. She is also a cheeTleader and is one of N.T.H.S.'s most t alented twirlers. Her favorite baPd is Dick Jurgens, too. And boys here's a tip, - her ideal boy must be a good dancer, happy-go1~1ckv, courteous and mechanically minded. As fm h ex plans after grnduation , she simply said, "Colkge, I hope." �Page4 Trojans Host To Libertyville Tonight NILEHILITE Inter-mural Champs To b~ Decided Today January 17, 1941 NTHS Swimmers Lose to Maine Last Friday the Kiles Township . Scormg records were b1:oken d~r. . Tomght the TroJans meet the mg the past semest~r with talhes tankmen journeyed to Maine TownLibertyville Wildcats in two games that ~1·e h~rd to beheve. Helm~t's ship High School for their first on the Nilehi floor. The Wildcats 11ave Hei·mits, piloted by Helm et Bieg- swimming meet of 1941. The New a fafr)y tall team and alth.ough er.t, defeat;d ~e's Kykes, Bob Year did not start any too well they are rnther weak offensively, E1chelkraut s qumtet, to the tune however, for both Frnsh-soph and they make up for it defensively of 73 to 9. Another broken rec01·d Varsity teams lost. The only events which means work for om for- was the 2 to 1 defeat of Roman's won were by the vaTsity medley words. Both J unior Varsity and Rubbish, Bill Roman's team, by the team, comnosed of H~rtney, KeeVarsity will face their biggest Streaks, champs of the 4th period ~an and Wasle',',, which won by b5-yWardltfrosRh-~otph enemy in over-confidence. The Wednesday class by that one point. ifnchest, a nd t he 7 1 a er e1 er. ree s ye, won y . f th · Th · Today the swimming team is~oe various gym e wmners. o mighty Leyden team was Ja1·gely a victim of its own ove1·-confidence dasses who will enter the playoff ing to Highland Park high ~·~ool and let's hope our Trojans will to decide the champion today are: for their second meet with".:'-. that .. school. . Wednesda:y profit by Leyden's mistakes. Tr:y and see the next home meet. l~t peri?d-Streamlmers The mighty Trojans conquered It will be ann.ounc.ed ~eforehai:id. 2 nd period-Stumble Bums the Leyden Eagles in both the pi·eRemember•. sw11!1mmg is a maJor . , (unde~eated) limina1·y and t he Varsity game. In sport .at Nile Hi, so get out there 3,rd pe1~10d-Skokie Rockets the Varsity game, Bob Podraza an? giv.e some r~al support to your 4,th per~od-S~ea~s opened the sc?ring with two penalsw.mmmg team. 7th per10d-Six Hicks t:v shots, durmg t he first mmutes . , of play. Trojan teamwOl'k and de- Thqrsday . 2 nd period- Canty s Cubes fense play far exceeded any witNTHS Pep Club . (unde~eated). nessed in earlier gaines of the seaHas l ?5 Members 3'rd period-Nick's Hicks son. 4;th pe1~od-Helmet's Hermits Leyden used a unique passing atAre we do.,,vnhearted? The answer 7,th perJ ?d-Floo~ Moppers tack, very much suited to their is a deafening NO! At this very 8 th per10d-Jack s Quacks comparatively small playing fl.ooi· moment Pep Club membeTShip toduring the entire game. At th~ tals 175. Enough Ni1el-Ii enthusihalf, the r unning onslaught ended G.A.A. Sweaters asts have joined to fiU one section with a 24-21 Leyden lead. Attention a1l G. A. A. fashion of the Trojan bleachers ! Concensus The scoreboard at the end of the game proclaimed a 54-39 Trojan lovers! The board members have of student opinion shows that the victory. Ben Domas dropped 16 spent much time in the purchase Pep Club demonstrated its ability of new G. A. A. sweaters. The price at its first public appearance - the points into the Trojan hoop. Thulstrop and Peterson outdid of these sweaters is $3.75. a rf'al Crystal Lake game. Only a few themselves, wriggling in and out value for this type of sweater. Mr. members neg'lected to wear a white of the opponent's zone defense with Vonie, the l'epresentative of Lowe sweater or shirt to the game. Toamazing agility. "Red" 'Williams and Camnbell, the makeTS of om· night the guards stationed at the did a grand job of getting the new sweaters, will be here Januru:y P"rme will rec:;erve the Pep Club sec~1 to take the measurments of t ion ::i!'d will not pe1·mit anyone to spheroid off the backboard. It's getting to be a habit fo1· the those desiring to make a purchase. sit in this section unless he is wearA fee of $1.00 is Tequest ed as the ing the Pep Club pin and the p1·oper capable J. V. squad to conquer all apparel. Anyone desiring to ioin P.Omer::; - but the encounter with down payment at this time. The purchase of sweateTS is op- these "ups and at 'em" pepsters Levden proved t oo close for commay do so duTing exam \veek. fort . Until late in thP. fourth quar- tional. ter. the ponies trailed by 5 pointsbut then their big- guns opened to ligh.t when the scorebo~1·d read 22- SP'orts Chatter tie the score 33-33 with Jess than a 10 m fovOl' of the Tro.ians, at the In the locker-room before the minute to play. A successful free half. The final score was 42-34 in fa- game last Tuesday night Bill Ca1·thrnw, and a basket to spare, completed the killing, 36-33. yor of .NileHi. Thulstrnp was cred- roll began to moan about his arm, claiming he had injured it or somete<l with 16 of the 42 points. Our Trojans piled up anothe1· 1 Th.e J.V. team went on to anotb.- thin'. The team began to feel soITy victory last Tuesday night against Crvsta1 Lake. Both the Varsity e1· t r rnmoh when they walk'l:!d over for itself and so did 1VIr. Kent, we and Junior Varsity were ti·iumph- Crvii.tal L:-.ke last Tuesday evening. imagine. But Bill showed little eviant. At the half. the Troians had a safe dence of an injured arm dming In the Varsity tiff, Thulstrop put lead. 17-9. During the third Quar- that game. After making 11 points the first two points into the Trnjan tel' .the squad slackened for a little in the :first half, t he Lakers put netting-. Rapidly gaining momen- while. but at the fin.al buzzing the t.wo men on him but it didn't ston tum, the TrQjans quintet tossed SC?Teboard read 33-24. The pony's Bill. His record for the night was several points into the "bucket." drive for the conference champion- ?3 ooints which ain't hay boy. ' Shades of Boyk! The home crowd was wild with de- ship is still unblemished! �BEAT WOODSTOCK o. ume II No. 8 .____:S~k~o~k~i~e~,~l~l~li~n~o~i_!s_....:....._~F:_:e~b~ru~a~ry~~7~,-1~9~4~1-~==========~· CALENDAR Trojans Meet Woo~stock Hour Long Program For Conference-Crown Feb. ~~r~~:~=~b; 1 ~:s~s~~~;e~ ~ii~~ Hilites Family Night " Feb. 10 - Foreign Language Club f Feb. 14th eatures 1\ssembly at 3:45 p. m. Feb. 12 - N~ School Our sixth annual Family Night Fifty !erg mil=s separate Nilehi . Lincoln's Birthday will trke place Feb. 15. The evening :ind Woodstock b··t it sho1 'ldn't I Feb. 14. Basketball. away ~rogram which will take place in daunt several busloads of loyal TroVarsity and J . V's. vs. Woodstock the cafeteria and gym, will start jan rooters nex.t Friday night, Feb. at 1 :.10 p.m. promptly at 8 p.m. Everyone is l", In what promises to bB, per- Feb. 2l . Basketball _ Here urged to :it~end thi~ annual celebrahaps, the closest of an entire schedVarsity· and J. v 's vs. Arlington ti on. ThIS is the time students, to ule of close gam~~· the_ Nilehi an_d at 7:30 b··ino- the family to your school, and Y'/ocdstock Varsities wrll battle it . . ~ :::t '-'therri .<i.cquai.nted with other O"t for the ~ortheast Basketball Feb. 15 - Family Night· 8 p.m. rarni::ts, and it will also give them a cr~wn. The 37-36 defeat dealt to! Cafctt:ria and Gym . ~·· --.roce to meet your teachers. Hilehi by Woodstock right at the The program, which will be apO"tset· of the season has c~msed a prnximately one hour-lo:1g, will Tc·. e::gefol feeling' to exist among i.H u · - onsist of selections by the High tlie Trojan . play~rs toward the 9~hoo1 B"nd, under the diTection of ' 'rocbto~k bu1~ch. Om· bucketee1·s _ . Mr. Collins. The G. A. A. will put will do their paTt if we do ours. -Five thousandreport cards.That's on. four dance numb_ers, directed by And now, what 2bout the Wood. d . Miss Schaefer, assisted by Helen stock ti:am that h"'S lost one game what we said. For every stu. ent hl Mil1er and Pat Reiland. A mixed 2·'d won cigM:? With the exception N:.T.H.S. there were approximately team of giTls and boys will put on 0· S"agri-t, Woodstock's staT six- seven ind_vidual_ report <;:ards. And a tumbling flct. Miss Klaus's "Gay i foot fi;7 e-inch cente1·, tHe Trojans all of these had to be arranged al- Nineties" will be sung by the vari0 fa·rngc fa0 Blne team. In that ' phabeticall 1.. stapled to the office ous Glee Clubs. Community singf! ~t p,"!'InE' ,-:ith Wooclstock on Dec. ' • t: lded iilg will be directed by Miss Klaus. 0 G D:bler, forward, was high man [letter of _explanatwn, There will be dancing in the gym ' with 14 points. Seagrist scored arrd pla~ed m envelopes.- Wha~ a to a twelve piece orchestra featuT8 a::d Joo!'fetz, a gu ~ rd, also scored! job! It's littie wonder that. Miss ing the music of Bill EppeTson and 8 poi~ts. The ~hree ~s~oring all ~_ut i Laura Ross had fort~ girls working "~1elody .Crew." So .b~, ready 7 cf V., oodstock s 37 JJomts. Seag11st with her for the entire past week. to trip the light fantastic. :-r:d Dibler are nea1· the top of the rh 1 f h r: es a- · Ca.Tds and bunco will be the main . C )nfereucr: s...:orers. In two games,';\, Y t1 e typmg 0 t ~ e "ve. 0 P. ".ttractiori i:ri the cafeteria for those ,- "th Leydel1 \Voodntock won b.ue consuJPed thirty precwus who wish to play after the pl'Ob t'1, one bv o:··lv one point - Sea: hours during exam week. It's not gTam. g;·ist scored 51 poi!1ts. 'just in Problems that we hear of Come one! Com~ all! Be ~reAll this excite:r'ePt over the coin- divison oflabor. Laura a ~d her belp- ~)ared for_ an evenmg of dancmg ii g co:' test w~s i creased bv an f'rs actuall . made ood theory !:'nd men1ment. Try to. ~nd yo':1r / ir po: t:' 1~t ,-icto:ry by Crystal Lake. . .g . n'A.ls among the. 225 paTtlc1pants m E en after \'f'J mrcs:::ncred them in work. the show. Brmg any one from t· o garles. t~ev c -me b'\r f\ last NTHS M k GTD.ncl.father down .. We will_gu_ara es antee you an ~venm.g of swmgmg F : ~!nv r.i~M to up::>?.t the '.7ood~'-,..c-!~ tr rm ?l-i.le w;;, were barely Debut Over Ai! ··hvthm, beautiful g 1 rls. handsome be. fr rr r ,r_k~ F3:;:;-st. 'I'l~is lifted us Fl h 1 N ""I-IS <>d •t· d' fell°'·rs, and plenty of refreshments. 1 ;.. t:-i " tie w1·th H/oo a .oto ~ k. f or fi rst . ~but ri ·r;r·'~ 'G='T Tuesday, 1Jnnu:.:ry D:m't f01·get · Feb. 15. -· · ~ ~ _ • as · me. e 8 ra 10 r-lrce. · ?1. Those of you who were Ii' t cr:. CLUB NEWS Now come on, rootem._ the tear_1 : g to the brnadcast, heard hono!·s 1 ~~as yoLJr .. support. Ticke~s for gh en to our own :fileHilite. (Is See Chicago Club's next trip wil~l.i~. g:.!Ir'e w1:1l be OT'. e nk~.nt 2o~ dur- om· face red? l) be to tbe Chicago Post Office. Febing the corr.mg we~k. Bus tickets 0 :-i the "~itize;:is of Tomorrow" · ch d t d · p M ·11 t "'"' - F o~ f"t v ~ent s :you p1 O[;"'f'~, a 100 pcl' cent s t :1 dent . · ruary 28 is e a e ' an six . . i .. ;:;:r. v~ .1 . n :::e ~ two gcod terms m action. p"r'ticipt-'tion broadcast, we had our is the 1:1.me. . . S'.l r!'lck yo:T t~rrhes . dress i!l good first "me~1tion." So puff up your I The Red Cross Krutters will hold W7"rm clothes, buy yo- ·· tickets and chests, strdi:nts, and let's hope to !their vrganizational meet'ng tonight in 214. piie aboard.We're off to the wars! t~ iT. 2: tioned :-g~in-soon. R t C-·ds. MlJ! ke . epcr Office Force Hustle 0 I I his I c �NILEHILITE Page 2 I Tl Feburary 7, 1941 UPSTAIRS AND DOWN ..... 1--- IL5HILITE -N___. Found in the Editor's mail-box •• "What eve.nt of the last semester Wanted: dands out most in your mind?" A cure for warts I I I Signed - a Sufferer Robe1t Evans - Senior - "The Jeanette Le Chez play, The Taming of the Shrew. Exams -Escapades -Excitement Maybe it was the girl in it, or was EDJTORIAL STAFF Ted Canty was in such a hurry Florance Gable Editor Collen Thomas to get to his exams that he didn't it a girl?" Assistant Editors Edith Muto - Junior - "Miss Annette Carroll even let a "little" thing like a school Bob Reiland Activities Editors Lant and one of the janito1·s standGrace Langen bus get in the way of his already Bill Stevens "indented" buggy. Could the fact ing under the mistletoe talking Feature Editors Phyllis Braeske that Ted is so agog over a different about the ventilating system." Sports Editor· Clark Barton cheerleader (this time the initials Betty Stielow - Sophomore Henry Matchen (ll'e J . O) accoun t f 01· h. " unexProduction Managers is . H rhen Muller "How the Sophomores puffed up plainable" action??? ..... . M r. Clement Meier, Advisor "Gene" Bergma1·k wishes to ex- their chests when the little Freshnress his gratitude ("?$&Th@*) to men were seen wandering about." . ~eporters Henry Barko w, Ilermce Franson, Richard Rortney, the students who SO obligingly Jane Breckenridge - Freshman G " d •d a ura. N uncmac her. Doris ?l.Iussil, Pat Reiland, 0 Ruth Roberts, Iletty Stielow, Viola Stoll, To ni stepped as1 e to witness " ene -"The G.A.A. initiation." (And ·1~lcmmenos, Howard Weldon, Betty Westerlund, a Cr 0 bat S (sommersaults, hand]aa e Comstock, J\orma Delfino, Wayne Ilarton, sp1·ings and flips) down a long flight we don't need to ask any Freshman J:rman Kramer, Rill Stockfisch. Mildred Bergmark , of stairs . . . He also wishes to gfrl why!) h• " " f k Al A Dick Solon, June Ilerg, Edith Luxem, Maralyn H, Miss Johanns, one of our newer ' ' smussen or pus ing • !Ill Woodworth , Betty Kelly, Sal Rizzo. · · . . him along. . .. . . Who's the anony f acu Ity memb ers-"Our sw1mmm~ . Inquiry Mi ss Susanne 0 stergren, Ad visor 7 mous person that has a complete pool demonstration for the Carm"monopoly" on Eva Herman's tele- v~l. Beautiful swimming is my idea of especially good entertainment." p}>one line. 1940-41 Member Information . . . Eva, someone ~l""e is b·ying to get your "number." FROM OUR READERS D:: nv Doubles: Caryl J avcox ... . ... Ben Domas .Teanne Nelson ...... Bob Reiland The Memory of "Honest Abe" Jane Kadlec . .. . Howard Kiehm Dear Editor: C11.1·ol Blemeuser. Ed Breitenbach I I am one of the many sixth-period Well, what's this? Another hol!f''rho 1•ght you might like to know lunchers who loves ram salad sandday next Wednesday. Iwiches but what happen~ ? By the Yes, Wednesday is another holi- -?~if you didn't alr~ady!') . '. two . "~have and a hai:rcut day in commemoration d the ''bits" ... That was, or at least it time ~1xth penod comes arou:cd, birth of one of our cou'l':ry·5 gr:!a ':.- ~J'>o ..](l havP heen. Jim Rau's theme there 1s not ah lm salad left. E"ery night I pray that one ham est men. It is the b"d day ot one ~011g ,,.,heP Jim skilfully maneuvred electric razor over Howie ! salad sar dwich will be left so of our best educa ' ed presidents. an But this man d idn't go to as beau- ~r;:mt's fi:>cP~ in one of Miss Oster- i please don't dirnppo:nt me a~ain. . d ,. ,...Pn'>; English clilsses last week. I , , ' d H h I 'f 1 ti u a sc oo as y J .1 o. e atten - Did Jim shave Howie just to prove I \\ on t yo~ tell our g?od cooks m ed a little log cabin scl-ool a few +0 T ... 1u Deatrich that a boy shav- i the cafeteria ~.; m 1ke JUSt a few exmonths of each year - the few that in f! in class iR no more ridiculous tra "nams"? Respectfully yours, he attended . . He had no papers or 1-n~n P J,?irl putting "her face on" in ·· have today. The Lincoln lib· n)'"'"'??? · ·the library ... Bill Dickas we [;nderweight. Seen in » rary consisted ot the few books he ;~,..rm norhig over two volumes ... . could barrow from his distant neigh- "f{"w 'T'o Be Funny" and "How To Plav B!lsketball" . . . Why, Bill, Gregg Shorthand Award bors. 1 No, this man had none of tht: WP. all tho1 ght vou knew how to I 1'3'' b-Ib IIot 1~ is our first 12.dy of advantages that we have today to pl$lv basketball!!. . . . .SePn "t the "Tick Tock" · · · Cer- '.lr.ort !rnnd tJd:'.y. S!1e is the first aid him. He l'>ad to work and bta' th lOO ,..,,, t t~m N . T. H . S . students, so i bored ,..., t i · h hi c . e e accom- with life. t'hi:>t thev have to play v._e us ~~, .r o o m ng stnve ior everyt such juvenile pastimes as "Fa1-mer '7 0l'd a rr:i··;i.t-: Gregg Shorth'lnd plished. We do not expect you to be ;.,., thP. D ll'' lOl,J'1d "Leau Frog" .. . Certificate. Kot to stop at this recanother Lincoln, but at least try to Pr"' wo.,.,ilered what this school wasi )l'd, HO words a minute by June is take advantage of what you have' comiPP,' to· · ·now W": know)··· . the goal aimed at by many of the S And th?n es the little girl sa1d ,..,_ ·th d <>t d t d h . 'h o come on 1 ere lS p 1enty t at you, 'l.n every- 1 whP.n c:;he went to bed "Now I lay ,1_01 an v u en s. one, can accomplish by a little IPe · down to sleep .. Oh, boy, oh, 'tu-dents! Let's see who is the 1 J.'i ·st to 1·each the top. bov, oh boy!!!" work. The NileHilite is edited, published and printed biweekly by the students of Niles Township High School of Skokie, Illinois. :\1r. R. E. Cotanche, Principal. l 1 0 1 �February 7, 1941 I. Hoth Wins Oratorical Contest ''We Americans are the most fortunate people on the face of the earth today. We have more liberty granted to us under the Constitution than any other people of t he world." This is the way Isabelle Hoth desc1·ibed American freedom in her prize-winning orntion, "Propaganda, the Dictators' Tool." Isabelle's oration was judged the best of six orations entered in the :finals of the Annual · American Le-gion Oratoricnl contest which was held on JanuaTy 28. In a clear, concise, and str~ightforward manner Isabelle went on to compa1·e vividly examples of civil rights under ouT Constitution and under the heel of cli:--trtorships. Isabelle, who is a s~:dor, is experienced at public ~pc:- ki'" g. L,,st yea1· she took third pln.ce, behind Bob Harms and Ruby Bowse1·. Mildred Bergmark captured second place and the silver medal. Phvllifbs Schlotterbeck was awarded third pla~e on her excellent orat:on. M...,rilyn McKeever, Howard ~to:1 rind Clark Barton, the : -~ - ·:-i :- " r . . ,_~I" cou t ~ sb::ts, were given hono rble mention. NILEIDLITE St. Valentine Day Dates to Cladius' Reign As cur id dive. bombs over our peaceful campus, we wonder, "Who started all this?" Cupid himself is more or less innoce""'t of it. The executions of St. Valentine, way back fo Claudius' reign set the date, February 14. It was common belief that birds coupled on that day. From thatnotiongrew the young people's custom of choosing a "valentine" for the ensuing year. Now, we literate creatures send written expressions of feeling. Knowing that St. Valentine's Day is of such ancient origin we must conclude that it was a go~d ideal Germany Blitzkriegs the Foreign Language Club For the February 10 meeting of the Foreign Language Club, Miss Kranz has arranged an especially interesting program on G~rmany. The German Department of Evanston Township HighS~hool will proFor NTHS vide thekcturer, Mr. E. H. MorthoJe. Window Shoppers Mr. Morthole, who traveled extenNo, no N.T.H.S. window shopper siv _ly in Germany two years ago, could possibly have missed them. will exhibit many beautiful slides But we can't expect all the girls to be that observing. So, we'll iust give made from his collection of pictures. you the low down -- in case you're Don't forget members, save Monone of those who didn't see them. day afternoon for this meetirig. It's "Them" hap-en to be the cl.ecora· " ( rth it. tions in the windf)w across rr )Ii' the Assemb y Rnrom. It's all to show you thrifty-minded girls hov. Rclcords Fall In 1 L cheaply and smartly you can re- B 1 B plenish your wHdrobes. Take, for oy S OW ing eague instance, that beautiful blue wool The Boy's Bowling League underof Gertrude Dahm's which was displayed a while back. It cost only \;ent a terrific shake-up on Janu$6.50. Anyone knows a good wool ry 21. 'l'hl·ee records fell as the dress usually runs to twice that boys knocked over the pins. Ed Springer took the lead by m ::mey. Then Anna Hoth's striped percale and white br0adc1oth now on displaved came to only $1.50. bo\vling 232 in one game. This is Going that pr;ce still 0ne better, 1 8 more than the previous record Bernice Gehrs, sailor dress of blue )f 211, s ~t by Bob Reiland. Norman pe.:cale cost the huge total or $1.30. ~:-... r.~l:ardt 2i~ d Ray Hobs also beat -=:ob' 3 record by scoring 229 and Duplicate that somewhere! With spring coming on that urge for a new wardrobe will find many 322 • :r·espectively. Harvey Jensen's "Printers" capof Miss Line's Home Ec'ers several jumps ahead of most of us. tured the high series with 1240 Well, at least we outsiders can keep ;:i'ns • . up on fabrics, colors, and coming t I~· 11,_:; Printers and Electric Shop styles by joining the N. T. H. S. -~~ glcl's are tied for first place. window shoppers. Page3 The "L'' and The Perils of Phoebe More Pe1·ils of Phoebe . · . . . · .. It all happened on a Skokie "L". Phoebe got on the "L" at Oakton h tr bl St t d f ree an , a ter some ou e, t e conductor managed to drag her off the roof and into the car. Phoebe had her eyes on two seats in the front of the car when suddenly a · man came m and sat on them. Phoebe sailed down the aisle and took anchor next to a window. Unfortunately, she cast her eyes out the window; but luckily, just as k. th · 1 t th ey were ma mg eir as. appearance on the canal, Yehudi reached out and brought them back. She turned around and happened to see a good-looking man with his eyes glued to her. As it was, he had used Stanford's glue so she could not get them off. She threw him a dirty look, but as he was a professional catcher he caught it and · t hrew l·t b ack a ther. A f ew mmut es passed, and in those few minutes Phoebe convinced herself that she knew the man. TTipping daintily (how can anyone trip daintily?), she planted herself beside him, and to his astonishment pansies began to bloom. Phoebe had known Adolph in school, so they had a grand time talking things over. Adolph made several suggestions on how she could get rid of her s::: ndpaper throat and clothespin ose which Phoebe was glad to get. Then Adolph poured his heart out _u ner and it dripped all over the scat. Phoebe couldn't say anything because she had a frog in her th;:o:it. Even when she did say something, she always put her foot in her mouth. Poor mother could never break he1· of that habit! Adolph held her eyes and then gave them back as they had reached Howard Street. By now Phoebe had it all planned. She was going to marry Adolph. As they were r bout to go downstairs a woman "cl!owed by seven children rushed up to them. Adolph beamed as he introdeced his wife and children. Phoebe's face fell and her eyes popped out. She stooped, pulled up her face, picked up her eyes, and made a hasty exit. So ends another of the thrilling chapters. in the lire. of our Phoebe. �NILEHILITE Page4 Varsity and J. V. Win Three Games Feburary 7, 1941 Girl Bowlers Shine On Alleys Volleyball Heads Inhamural Sports Nilehi Bowler s have been ve1·y The boys have that strange glint in their eyes again. It's open sea- busy of late. In the mixed doubles, The Trojan teams have gained Bob Reiland and Carol Blameuser on _ on Volleyball! d th H en ry d fi t p1 t three victories apiece since the last e 2.ce an rs Tr ·e prog·:'.·a11~ card lists the fol- cap ure Matchen-Pat Galitz · combination paper was issuen. came in second. J nnuary 17, Niles Township H. S. lowing teams and their captains : Dorothy Lund, Ca,·ol Blameuser Red's Reapers, Red Williams; ··r - The Trojan Varsity gained inth e 11.~o rtheas t conf erence b as k etba ll Monsters, Frank Thulstrup; Bruce's and Doris Mussil lead the d d w e individh · · 1~ nes ay . Sooses, Bruce Jarrett; Zips Dips, ual scoring in t e . h 'tt' S 'tties League with averages of 140, 1?.3, race by nosmg out a game, but fail- B 0 b R .1 d. 8 · ' ::ind 120 respectively. The high mei an ' c mi s . rm ·11 · . i 1 mg, L"be rtyv1 e squad . N"l es l e d a t tlividual games were rolled by Doris the half 16-15, but the Libertyville 8 Balls, T~ Canty; ~ip_itee.rs; Wildcats came back in the first George Schnntt; Ted W 0Jtk1ew1cz; Mussil (187), Carol Blameus.er minutes of the last half to captui·e Slaune; Wacks, Joe Weber; Melody 11_86) an~ Dm·othy Lund (17t9h). High series bowle1·s are Doro y h d' bo · · · • m the lead. The N ile-Hi squad was 5, Chns L' dh oy . p us - i- ys, r ., d 33A p t Harms with 315 ' spotty throughout the game, fai l- Henry Dahm; "U. S." • Bill Rand- a'na Carnl Bla~euser 312. ing to pass, and dribbling at the quist; Hawkeyes, Dick Hawkinson; Dorothy Lund's team 1-A-Frames, \vrong times. but put on a scorirg Harley's Darlings, Harley Ander- hi~s. Ruth Hennings Yehudi's ~~ur~, in the l~~t. minutes to win 37- soii ; Stock's Fishes, Bill Stockfisch; second; and Betty_ Kelly's BouncS h lt . Ro en- ing Bowlers are third. · M , -.- _ Red \i\ 1lhams, always a de- n .t D" Irene Guenther and Phyliss fcnsive star, ventured under Liber- r. .i zy ips, e1ven c u z'" s ,, Etc,.' Brrcseke are ve1·y close for indityville's brsket long enough to net tinkles, Howard Klehm; 8 noints and lead the Trojans in Cha1·Ies Art:ner; Farmerettes, Bill -·i(l1ipl high honors in the F1·iday . ~o::;s; Red Flannels, L. Miller; girls League. Their average i~ in . . . scoring. The Jum~1· Va::s1ty won th~ir Ickie3 , Sbnley Kendalls; Nicks- th" ,-hpi.tv of 127. Ma1·e Stntch seven~h straight vic~ory. from Lib- Hicks, Lloyd Friend; Hi Lites, Dick ·:anks ~hird_wi~h. an.average of 121. rrtv-:1_i!e. 32-29 . . This v1c~ory ~as Hartney; Kermit's Hermits, Kei·- ,......,,~. J-irrh md1v1dual games were r?~ cl~nched ...until the cl,?si~?" ~m- rit Faust; Spi·ingei"s Dingern, Ed ~re<li~ed to Irnne Guenther .157, u · s c th(\ b ttl; as the J r. V-1ld- Springer. Hang-overs, Vernon Per- / ' 1: vhss B'·::ieseke 152, and Shirley ~ats refused to ~we way to the Tl·?- mer; Hots-shots, Harvey Jensen; T{~rrris 1<15. Irene G.uenther, .Ph)'.l1~ns after getting an ea1·Iy lead m t"3 7 ii €:> Beauties, Ben Dom~s ; Oc- ·~~ B"'1E'S"ke :'nd Shirley Harms m 1 t -e fas t quarter. CO['..C_ti Kent s~art- taves, Eugene Bergmark; Stimas, .L}ipt OT'd~;· h w;e tonDlf'd 2 game , n -! e-'s ; Hi Ball. Dick P a:tou cl- -h of ~1 ?.. 303. and 2:3'), .. t.he f d 11 se.cond t eam, buL after L1berrr1- E' J' 1 kw C-:ts C!'lntam~d by t" 1lle piled u_o a 13-4 le'1d th~ reg- bek; Cu ties, Kenny Schrambeck; 1 ul~rs vier~ 9q1ckly s ~m:~noneq. The A-l's, Harold Anderson ; Drueke Phyliss Brae_s~ke rank first m t~e ~~-~~lars ~1d not .regam. the l~ad 1F:;:· eakes, H. Drueke; Flickers, Pa.ul t~rm competition. frene Guenthe1 s Bouncers, Darnel "-llP-V ,Rats ranked second. L t1 la~e E1 the tlnrd qua1 ter. High p:ckenpaugh; SPORT SPLATTER scorers for the ~".me w~re Glatz . Mack. a:--d Stockfrch. with 9 pomts each .~ fter htirling a challenge at HR _ _ _ _ _...,__________ .,. and Cr.rrcll with 8. 1 i 1· ·- ~ r ' 1 a d Carroll c3rried away "'06. two Representative bowling · 909 ts each. t e?ms of .. wet on the map1P t o •th lO · h January 2t1,, Crystal Lake, Ill.- I . po . _ Free shoofr g, good rebounding . s~ormg . onors w 1 . : .,. "the · f' ... tliei .. boy's tE>?m i;i.::d fast breaking offenses ch'1ra:- 1 ·January 31, Nil es T ownshiP H igh "ettle t' ..,., fr eud." The E"ClU"l whe'l 1 f'Hi's champio11ship .. ""' can"b1e r'"iP.tet rolled right on tc:iz:-d ou1· second game with Crvs- 1:-_ . <..l - - =~i t~.l 1 ·ake. The Trojans, after l>eir:.g hopes seemed far removed as the 1->.e~d t o an eight point lead in th:;) 1 ~ L quL "i.~1· b ~ga ,1ith th..; T1·0 clown thP riddle - to a two g"'P'P ti· st h lf, cm~e bf!ck to b~ild a ma-... jans th1·ee points behind in their victory. However, 209's girls wPre 1 1 the pins rnnir <Y a double wbon gi · t hat ass;~red victo:ry. The fil1al game with L ake F or~st · I n th e fi n al w-~ - • in their foirg 1 vrhPn all was 1 the Tro1ans garnered Cll'iet Pt the other end of the allev. quart e · ~-.c~ ,:e was 50-36. Point st;:i.)idin s of our wonderful "Moos~" P?dni.zzi:1's._ re b 0 u n ~ c1oug~ poi:r:ts to "vin_29-27. :...,~o: mg fo r the Niles squad was b"skctball t eamf sl:ots 1:etted h im 111, poi,;~s. Jo::l~ v:11,.rrsITY T.-1u.l..,t rnp ga:;~wre~, J.~.P~mts on ~1s quite evenly scattered. Jarre~t, 1 ' 1n-1;1 sl' ob .. 11.ed .nllwrris w~11b . Domas, and Podraza scored six Th 11 lstrup .... .. 86 Peterson ....... 35 "C01' ng 7 pomts, starred def~ns1v~- : points each. Thu_lstrnp and Peter- J Podraza ..... . . 75 Ar;ders_on ....... 7 Iv E ery p>,\, l c:c. th~ squad was m I son made foUl' pomts each. Jarrett Domas ........ 63 9ecr~n1 • • • • • • • • • 2 :! Iscored the basket that brought vie- ;~_rr~tt · · · .· ·. ·. ·. .· 4~ .:a·'.~!ngton · · · · · 2 . f'. t'c11 <luring the gr me. s "<'r , 11lhams · :rr r-~1nP. VARSITY ........ . · •t ·01 ' 1 ,J-, 1 "TT:' . s~ v rem~med un- tc:ty in the closmg seconds. .' o'tk iewicz ... 16 ~-- J. V.'s tripped the Lake For- Carroll .. .. . . . . 7S : cf -' t cd, wl"iipping Crystal Lake, est Scouts, 19-17 for their ninth Stockfisch ..... ">7 G'at'.l .......... 1 0 '."'0-19 n ' "'·-:-.~ · ' ro gh fr 'st q·.1:>rter, the ::tcry. The Trojr,ns led through- _ ?mas ,Jr. · · · · ·44 Dav' s · · · · · · · · .10 · · P o:--1::s i:u 11 .J a\-;ay t o a 14-5 l 3ad :, t t _"e g m e, a Ithoug h thi·ea t ene d P ndqu.st....... 20 ·Glauner ... .. ... 8 Wel don . ..... 15 .e;1 Chuck Leibrnndt led the Fresh ~: ear I.he close, when at the half "Butch" Glauner rraL, l: i ~ ·:: S o·,r.ts ~ i' firct ~~enl anpea1·r nce in the sco:r ~~.w pct::.ntial tying basket r~lled rx . :irr ; .,,t Ba:rrinnto 1 Monday i.-.g ~ olurp!'!, gi: ki-- g a ~~'t?ket fl'.!:l I !:.> ;_, t;:- - OJp a'.:.'~ , bo~:a?ed out JUSt ~~~h4 ' hFlkj n~ up 11 points .. . T l .: \/Cn :>9-. 5. b "" so,l. .ided. "'.:_~ -· ·fr11r f"ee to..:scs for G pou:.ts, wh1k I rn· 11 1 I I 1 �February 21, 1941 -~~~I r-i ~I~~~ Registration Questions NILEHILITE Continued from page 1 Flash: What was the idea of Bob Reiland wearing Phyllis Schlotter- 9. Where can I find out the 1equirebeck's graduation ring ove1· the ments of a vocation in which l am interGo to the vocational reading ested? week-end. room in the school library. Do this be· EDITORIAL STAFF Flash: Does Davy Jones (Caro- fore the home room meeting for enroll- Florance Gable Editor Collen Thomas lyn Pearson's find} know that Caro- ment. Assistant Editors Annette Carroll lyn walks a mysterious Mr. X to 10. Do l have to take two consecutive Bob Reiland ActiYities Editors Grace Langen the "L" eve1·y morning before com- yea:s of a foreign language in order to get college entrance credit? You must Bill Stevens ;ng to school. Feature Editors Phyllis Braeske take two consecutive years of one lanlast two games ... . Clark Barton Seen at the Sports Editor guage, but you will get credit for colOne window sill occupied by lege entrance for one year of any lanHenry Matchen Production Managers Herbert Muller g uage taken if this first language reDonna Jean and Bill Ross Mr. Clement Meier, Advisor is completed. That is, after a Pat Reiland's portable rndio over- quit·ementsequence is completed, one year two year Reporters of other languages carries college enflowing with swing. J\ancy Allen. Henry Barkow, \\'a yne Harton, credit. The Glamour Girls of N.T.H.S. t rance Are there any colleges which do June Berg, .\.fildred Bergmark, Jane Comstock, 11. Jane l>eatric k, >orma Delfino, Bernice Franson calling for "Otto" at the Wood- not require foreign languages for enRichard I1artney, l ..ms Ja> cox, Detty Kelly, stock game ... if he had come girls trance? Y cs. you can find these college:; En:ian Kraemer, Pal Reiland, Sal Rino. Ruth by going to the college catalogue room in R·•hcrts, ll1ck Solon. Betty Stielow, \Villard Stock· -then what? the 1ib1·ary and looking over the catafi,h, Viola Stoll, Toni Thlimmenos, Robert Toi· logues found there. Seen at Family Night: tt:in. Il£nward \\'elclon. Betty Westerlund, :\t:aralyn 12. Can I get credit toward graduaGordon Davis cutting a fancy tion for only one year of language? Yes, \\''or.dwort h if you are taking a general or commercaper in green stockingerl feet. Miss Susanne Ostergren, Advisor preparatory students Glen Lenzen (alumni) sitting cial course. College above. should refer to 10 morosely in a dark corner watch- 13. lf I take two years of a foreign ing ShiTley Dilg enjoy herself with language, do I have to take four years of ICl-W-41 English? Yes. a. Do you have to take four years Bill Stevens. However, Seen at the Tick Tock after Family of English? Yes. substituted a major in for fourth dramatics can be year English. Night: A large cTowd (90% of them 15. Do I have to take Problems of Nilehi Students) most of whom Democracy? Yes. Victory in Defeat 16. Is U.S. history required in the wern preoccupied with the "inter- third year? Yes. Victory in defeat? Yes, although esting" pastime of tossing sugar 17. Can a change of major subjects be made now for the senior year? Yes, at our basketball teams lost their game lumps all over the place. P.S. -15 minutes later ... No the home Iroom enrollment meeting. gradto vVoodstocklastweek, we emerg18. If need only two majors to uate but I intend to carry three, may the ed victorious in the splended back- more sugar on the tables. We don't suppose it is any of om· third major be a make-up for a past failing and spirit shown by the students business ... but what caused the ure? You may make up a failurn or reand friends of NileHi at both the sudden (or was it sudden?) break- peat a CQUrse you haYe taken in order to grade. However, you up between the long, oh, so long, get a bettermajors to be in schoolmust games and at Family Night. full carry four The large showing of students, romance of "Jicky" Kadlec and time. If I have :sufficient credits to parents and friend-> leads us to be· Howard Klehm ... Howard looked 19. by carrying only two majors, gradmay . sort of out of place behind the uate . . . lteve that enthusiasm for N1leH1 stage at Family Night . . . They I take three or four minors to fill out my program? No. Sec 18 above. activities is growing with our were such a cute couple too! 20. What are some major subjects Announcing the most widely which last only one semester? Civics, school. This showing will also impress read book of the week: . . . "The junior business, trigonometry, and solirl outsiders who are watching the de- Sl::im Book" ... a little pamphlet, geometry. 21. When should I take physics or where you can find out how you chemistry 7 If you intend to take only velopment of our school. rate with the rest of N.T.H.S... . one. it should be taken in the senior year. whether it's bad 01· good . . . it'll If you take both, physics will be taken most likely be bad ... that's human in the junior year and chemistry will be taken in the senior year. nature! My Pen 22. ~lay I take a journalism major if We've finally found out who Ye- I have had no minor in journalism? There AH! My trusty fountain penrather elusive is no journalism major offered at the hudi is ... he's been Product of the five and ten. so far . . . but we discovered his present time . any 23. Are Why is it that your ink runs dry, identity . . . He's the "guy'' who uate work? therenot atfees for post-gradNo, makes lenslless glasses so he can this policy is subject present. However, Your point won't scratch how hard to change. There read between the lines of the "Un- is a limit placed on age. The student canI try, not be over twenty-one years of age and \\~itten Laws!" You go on strike and take a rest You can't say we didn't tell do post-graduate work unless he gets special pcrmis!<ion. rust when I've got to take a test? you!!! The NileHilite is edited, published and i.r:nted biweekly by the students of Niles T· ..rns:1ip High Sthool of Skokie, lllinois. ~.! . R. E. Cotanche, Principal. 1 �2nd Quarter Honor Roll In determining the Honor Roll and Honorable Mention Roll the grades equal as follows: A, four points; B, three points; and C, two points. The ten percent of each class (This year: 22 Freshmen, 20 Sophomores, 16 Juniors, and 13 Seniors) who receive the highest average of grades for each marking- per:od make up the Honor Roll for that period providing: l. They have no grade less than C. 2. They are carrying four subjects. In case of a tie two or more students who have the same average will be added to increase the number on the Honor Roll. All students who have received an aver.age of B (12 points) or more will be fisted on Honorable Mention providing: 1. They have not already been listed on the Honor Roll. 2. They have no one grade below C. 3. They are carrying four subjects. E:~ch membership on any period Honor Ro:l counts as two Honor Points. Each membership on any period Honorable Mention counts as one Honor Point. Seven Honor Points entitles a student to an Honor Certificate. Fourteen Honor Points entitles a student to a Bronze Honor Key. Twenty-one Honor Points entitles -a student to a Silver Honor Key. Twenty-eight Honor Points entitles a student to a Gold Honor Key. Quarter grades alone determine the Honor Roll membership. Semester grades are not counted. Feburary 21, 1941 NILEHILITE Page4 A Contribution- FRESHMEN Hari.:er, 16, 4; Beverly Kramer, J 6, ; B: r bara Mason, 16, 4; Joan Cutsler, 15, 4; Alma Gatzke, 15, 4; Doris Hampton, 15, 4; James Lannert, 15, 4; L-0lita tinkled the ice in her coke. Ti obe;.t Pasek, 15, 4; Jack Price, 15, 4; Theodore Roess, 15, 4; Frank Boufford, The ice moved steadily around the 14, 3; Betty Bray, 14, 4 ; ~farion Conrad, .rrlass, and then, with just a slight 1 4. 4; Thomas Davidson, 14, 4; Marion Eichel kraut, 14, 2; Jack Harrer, 14, 4; rno, ement of her hand, the scene robert Harston, 14, 4; Nona Jane Holap- .:as changed. Small bubbles appa, 14, 4; Robert Humburg, 14, 2; Wil·red Johnson, 14, 4; James Keating, 14, 4; peared. The clea1· shapes were all W"liam :.W oorad, 14, 4; Helen Roberts, 14, but covered in the ambe1· liquid. ·I; Franres Smith, 14, 4; Lorraine Splett, Th:it's all life was, reasoned Lita. 14, 4; Marie Stritch, 14, 4; John WaraI: .·erything could go along smoothkomski, 14, 4; Lawrence ~elcho, 14, 2. Leo~a Honorable Mention "Coke Dreams" ly and then someone could step in and just look at you, turning your world into a whirlpool of bubbles. Lita hadn't cried for a long time, b:.1t she did now. How anyone could do that to anyone else was beyond her. Why, hadn't they known each other for years before she knew he was the one for her? Lita thought he had enough respect fo1· her to at 't · 11 1 east - we , anyway, JUSt wa1 , she would show him! th ed f k Th 1 t d e as rop o co e sp up e straw. Lita lifted her tear stained face to hear the druggist request, "Ten cents, please!" Lita slowly slipped down from the stool and placed the coin on the counter. She dragged her feet across the drug store floor and out onto the sidewalk. If she had only been older! Oh well, fo1· nine years of age she could come to some pretty good 1 • cone 'Us1ons. From now on Johnny could buy his own cokes. SENIORS Glor'a Bartz, 12, 26; Armin Bierg'·:aur.1, l 2, 10; Carol Blameuser, 12, 1; Norma Delfino, 12, 10; Ben Domas, 12, 25; Florence Gabel, 12, 12; Edward Gatzke. 12, 5; Mary Hegarty, 12, 8; Helen ~'liller, 12, 1; Mildred Risinger, 12, 7; Sue Schaefer, 12, 10. JUNIORS None. SOPHOMORES Harold Anderson. 13, 6; PhyHis Brooks, 13, 2; Doris Burklund, 12, 5; Lois Ruthenbeck, 13, 2; Melvin Schultz, 13, 3; Cleo Thlimmenos, 13, 1; Harvey Tolzien, 13, 'l; Robert Tolzien, 13, ~; Kathryn Winger, 12, 2; Richard Fanning, 12, 4; Virginia Gabel, 12, 2; Agnes Heinz, 12, 3; Caroline Huemmer, 12, 1; JoAnn McKeown, 12, 9; Irene Neumann, 12, 1; George Ruesch, 12, 1; Marolyn Woodworth, 12, 8; Virginia Name, rank and honor points are Wyatt, 12, 5. FRESHMEN given in order. Ted Carlyle, 13, 1; Tom Cook, 13, 3; SENIORS Mary Kay Dewitt, 13, 3; George Dorsey, Don Fisher, 16, 28; Dorothy Kranz, 16, 13. 1; Betty Farr, 13, 5; James Holmes, 28; Phyllis Schlotterbeck, 16, 29; Don 13, 1; Howard Langan, 13, 2; Marjorie Rhodes, 15, 7; June Berg, 14, 29; Phyliss Lange, 13, 1; Eileen Molitor, 13, 1; Grace Braeseke, 14, 29; Rita Jane Fisher, 14, Nelson, 13, 2; Jean M. Peterson, 13, 2; 18; Isabelle Hoth, 14, 22; Jeannette Gladys Rossman, 13, 1; Betty Cummings, Huemmer. 14, 29; Edith Luxem, 14, 15; 12, 3; Richard Cutler, 12, 3; Charlotte Edward Springer, 14, 27; William Ste- Einhaus, 12, 1; Harriet Hart, 12, 3; Jer\·ens, 14, 19; Jane Comstock, 13, 2; Lloyd r_y Heinz, 12, 1; Paul Hoppe, l~, 1; WilFriend, 13, 28; Betty Kelly, 13 15; Mar- liam Marson, 12, 1; Rose Mane Norum, Co tr•b ted b R"ta M·n 1 jorie Riser, 13, 17; LaVerne Schuler, 13, 12, 3; Robert Pearson, 12, l; Gordon · er Y 1 n 1 u 11. Peschke, 12, 3; Harry Peterson, 12, 2; Roland Poehlman, 12, 2,· Cecelia Rizzo, JUNIORS Mildred Bergmark, 16, 20·, Norma 12, 3; Helen Ruesch, 12, l; R oegene SchoHeidtke. 16, 20; Lois Anderson, 15, 10; 'ow, 12, 2; Patricia Tracy, 12, 1·, Charles Lillian_ B.antist, 15, 9,· Florence o.chs, 15, Valkenaar, 12, 1; Gloria Westerberg, 12, < "To what do you contribute your 18; V1rgm1a Reuter, 15, 18; Bermce Fran- 2; Barbara Ashley, l2, 1. high scholastic standing? son, 14, 12; Lillian Miethke, 14, 18; Dorothy Nelson, 14, 10; Gertrude Dahm, 13, June Berg - Senior: "Eating 20; Dorothy Lutz, 13, 6; Dan Petty 13, ham salad sandwiches." 12; Gloria Alterini, 12, 9; Barbara' AnMatch the basketball player's derson, 12, 10; Donald Baumann, 12, 16; Ed Gatzke - Senior: "By kee~ Wayne Kunkel, 12, 12; Grace Langan, 12, name in the first column with his ing 1JlY mind off the girls." 18; Doris Mussil, 12, 8; Marilyn McKeev- nickname in the second column. B · er, 12, 8; Virginia Nordin, 12, 11; Paul D Lucille Lindeman -- Sophmore emto omas Perlman, 12, 13; Beatrice Rossman 12, 10. Alien Thulstrup • SOPHOMORES Ding-Ding " Morton Grove Library. " Adele Bartz, 16, 12; Richard Boyd, 16, Jarrett Barbara Ashley - Freshman: Jerry 12; Dagmar Franson, 16, 12; Virginia Peterson Moose "To Miss Ronalds for triving me A Lenzen, l6, l2; Lucille Lindemann, 16, 10; Harrington e.• Betty Stielow, 16, 12; James Watkins, 16, Lard in Latin." 9; Audrey Brown, 15, 8; Peter Conrad, 15, \Villiams S h W k. J Jock 6; Danny Dever, 15, 12; Catherine Podraza op omore: at ms ames · Pete Ki:etsch, 15, 7; Ernest Nordquist, 15, 10; Faust Corky "To my super brain!" Willard Stockfisch, 15, 12; Patricia Gal- Huscher Lois Anderson-Junior: "To my Poon itz, 14, 10; Dolores Grembecki, 14, 6; Cecconi Marion Hacker, 14, 8; Ruth Henning, 14, Hush father." 8; Rosanna King, 14, 11; Dorothy Lund, Anderson Beatrice Rossman - Sophomore: ~fr. Kent, the newly appointed 14; Janet Lutkehaus, 14, 11; Carl Muel!er, 14, 12; Ann Oden, 14, 4; Ralph basebalJ coach, will soon be looking 1 "Just plain luck." ~--" p ract' WI'11 Si.o..n Ro bert p asek - F res h man: "To ..:i·d t Rentsch, 14, 5; ·Dorothy Rings, 14, 11; f ice Tom Sheridan, 14, 12; Viola Stoll, 14, 12; or can111 a es. my mental ability." about March 24. Betty Westerlund, 14, 10. · The Inqwnn'g Reporter Goes Upsta1"rs and Down SPORT SPLATTER 1 1 �NILEHILITE our Greaspaint , Miss Lillian Gish, of the sensation "Life With Fathtions fired at hel' by high ool journalists. iss Gish, a native Ohioan, " . .h ed . the theatre_ while only child m order to aid her poor ily. Her early memories of this r include that of watching b Bernhart from the wings of ~ h h lif · · Tl ! ouse; a sc ool e h~ed m ssmg rooms and damp railroad tions; and of her first movie ~at 12. Dtuing the World Wai· traveled thrnugh Eurnpe, makSEveral films lateT used as Alpropaganda. a1· removed from the footlights bustle of the play, Miss Gish mitted that frequently it makes , . sad t_o .see the cmtam c?me , endmg the show. She enJoys cting, audiences, and the sound of ir laughtel'. Miss Gish voiced a prefel'ence fol' kespeare, adding that her set e.mbition is to some day pOl'y McBeth. On the mythical fage her favorite is John Barryre - especially in a Shakespear- Platter Chatter . It must be the thought of sp1·ing that makes us feel all mellow and sentimental. As a result most of the column is dedicated to smoothies. FiTst (this is strictly off the recOTd) is Gene Krupa's "High on a Windy Hill" and "It All Comes Back to Me Now," it is a super double. Tommy Dorsey is revising _ the ~d on~s, and I a~ afrai~ St~'Ven ~ste1 would t urn over i~ lus grave if he heard "Swanee River" in tempo de bucket, t opped off with a revised edition of "Star Dust." The Ink Spots have a honey entitled "Java Jive," and a more romant~c "Do I Worry." If you want to thmk about youT long lost love try "You Forgot About Me" by Artie Shaw, OT Benny Goodman's "These Things You Left Me." Fol' a gayer mood Helen Forrest with Goodmai: will life you 1;,P wit~ "Y ~s, ~iy Darlmg Daughtel', Cootie \I\, Ilhams, B.C.'s trumpet man does the solo. Last but not least we rncommer~d Charlie Barnet's "I Hear .. a Rhapsody.'' That finishes the list of "stuff" for this issue. Here, is our thought for the day - Confuscious say "People who like jam might get sticky," we say "People who like 'jam' won't be called ickies." role. Mi ~f. Gi8h loves to trnvel, likes imming and dancing, can't spell, :ms a poor memory, and will not :p av the piano for anyone but her. Chocolate sodas, populal' with st of us, is her favorite dish. VERTICAL Malcolm, if you're still wonder- an imported Skye tenier, is 1. A blow that makes a dull, slapping sound ry familiar with the siage for all Z. Accusative of "we" 3. The most famous uncle in the l:nited his five years. States As "Vfe With Father" stal'ts its 5. Dwarfs 6. Name a school ond yem·, Miss Gish asserted 8. Devouroflistlessly club at it prnbab1.v will go on and on- 12. Leave d thc.n she dashed over. to knock 13. ~ieans of transportation HORIZON"TAL wood. When the play's run is 2. The best country in the worlrl er, she hopes to make "Life with 4. Business transaction Mother" because of he1· strong 7. Abbreviation for madamoiselle ference for comedy. Miss Gish 9. Nominitive case of "us" es comedy because "the wOTld is 10. Elliptical-shaped sad today that the sound of 11. Domesticated animal 14. Sailor 1 ~"!Jht'-'r is wondcTful." Answer on page six Swimining Clinic · With Evanston . The second year of swufuning at NileHi is now drawing to a close. Considering that this is only the second year that swimming has been offeTed, it .can be called a successful and profitable season. This year's team showed ·much improvement oveT last year's team. To begin with, it was twice as large, giving Coach Morgan Taylor mol'e material to work with. As the season progressed, the · Frosh-Soph team gave pTOmise of developing into a stTOng varsity in the coming two yearn . This is shown by the fact that they have won severnl meets against tough competition. Our t2nkmen had 12 meets this yeal', eight of which were at home. The boys who contributed so greatly to the success of the swimm.ing teams are: Howard Grant, Bud Tracy, Walter Reiter, Tom Gook, Alfred Wittorf and William Dahm. Both diving teams, Frosh-Soph and Varsity, enjoyed a fair amount of success. The boys who handled the diving are: Ray Nitch, Jim Ritter, Walter Reiter and Jim Moore. The futuTe of swimming at NileHi looks very bi·ight. However, the "ttendance at the meets could be a lot better. This afternoon the1·e will be a :>wirr:ming clinic with the Evanst on teams in the NileHi pool. The "mermen" selected RayNitsp andBud Tracy as honorary captains of the Varsity and Frosh Soph's respectively. Fad Turnabout It's probably the spring in the air, but rnall y this is what we've been seeing: the Teal he-men about school have been getting the new baby hair cuts while the girls have been letting their fall baby hair cuts grnw out. . The g irls' latest a1·e sea' ·shel1s and Lurquoise in the way of d~coration. The boys have been going in for glasstex belts, suspenders, and watch chains. Not only the girls but also the boys are going in for sloppy sweatern . And, in exchange, the gals are g etting their mannish jackets from the men-folk. At the rate the girls have been adopting the male attire, who k nows what will be next'. The boys in skirts. �Pase 6 Conference Season Ends Toniaht NILEHILITE Trojans Prepare For Regional Tourney Feburary ~l, 1941 Frosh End Basketball Season Next Monday the Freshman basThe Northeast Conference bas· Arlington's CanTinals meet the Trojans basketeers on NileHi's ketball schedule ends tonight with ketball squad wil.1 play their _last ga!11e. If ev~rythmg goes all right . . h . h thr · ht r Th T:t · oug out t e cucwt. Ni1e- this game will be a push over bee . ~Jans are on g~~es fl oor tomg . guard lest the Cardmals are under Hts last regularly scheduled game cause A1·lington lost to the Freshrated and should p1·ove to upset will be played next Saturday night men in their first encounter by 30 . when the not -so - strong Ma in e points.. their present standing. Barnn~on wa~ defeated twice, Last week both NileHi teams teams travel here for two games. as was Libertyville. Games were , . . suffered defeat at the ~ands of This will be t~e ~.V ~- last game lost to Maine 30 to 27 and to LyWoodstock. In the Varsity game but for the Varsity 1t will serve as a den 42 to 18. The frosh team is exPodraza opened the scoring fo1· the warm-up for the Waukegan Region- cellent on their offense but the deOrange and Blue. The NileHi quin- al. Toumameut which will be held fense isn't all that it should be. The l'egula~ team was co~posed tet played a man to man game from March 5 to 8. of Chuck Leibrandt, Paul Picken' . . . This tourney, which involves paugh Bud Cooke Jack Harrer b1·eakmg fast and decisively toward the Trojans bucket. At the half eight teams, will send the two final- and Chuck Gock~nbock Grant ists to Elgin where a simi]ar tour- Kuhn, Bill Meine, Bob Kl'~ge1·, Bill Woodstock led by four points. The scoring of the second half nament will determine the teams M?radt, John Warakomski, and . . shifted from team to team almost that will play for the state cham- Dick Cutler. Last Monday's game with Mame . was vel'y difficult as Maine beat the basket for baske~. The TroJa:1 ~et- pionship at Champaign. NileHi's first game, on March 5, Freshmen in an over time game up shots often failed to materiahze. Bob Podrnza held the heavy end of will be with the runnerup of the 19 to 17. the Nilehi score, tossing 18 points Wauconda District Tournament. through the netting. The final score It is predicted that this team be Bowlers on Increase either Lake Forest or Palatine. The At NileHi was 40-36 in favor of Woodstock. The Junio1· Varsity ended an un- Trojans have defeated both schools, Bowling is increasing in populardefeated season when they bowed although the Palatine game was a to the Blue and White 25-11. The close one, and the pirates are eager ity at Nile Hi. Harvey Jense:n and fast-moving Trojans were unable for a chance at revenge. If the Tro- DotLundareswampedwith requests to find the range, tossing many jans are successful they will meet ~~m fellow~ and girls who want to sure shots away. Woodstock took the winner of the Waukegan-Maine JOmthebowhngleague. Every where the lead during the first few min- contest on March 7th. The winner you go you see white shirts with utes of play, maintaining it and of this meeting will engage in the "NilesHighSchoolBowlers" written adding to it dm·ing the remainder finals of the Waukegan Tourna- in blue on the back Home Rooms are forming teams ment and will be assured of a trip of the game. to compete with other rooms for Both the Varsity and Junior Var- of Elgin. That Niles and Palatine wi11 fight the right to call themselves the sity subdued the Blue Devils from Warren, Friday, Feb. 7. Trail'ing it out in these finals is very prob- school champs. If you want to find by four points at the half, Nilehi's able.Let's help make this come true out how to knock down all the Varsity launched a tenific basket by being there to cheer for our Var- pins just ask Dorothy Lund, Irene making attack fol'ging ahead with sity. There will be busses to every Guenther, or Ed Heinz. They know amazing deliberateness. Repeated- game NileHi is in, so there's no ex- the :>ecret; they're the tops . . ly snatching the ball from theiT cuse for not going- except lack of opponents, our Trojans foiled the funds. Overcome this, start saving Cheerleaders Sponsor Dance After Maine Game opposition's plays holding them to now ! ! ! five points, while being occupied OUT Trojans will be host to Maine with piling up 24 points. The final Township March first for two nonconference games. It is expected score was 45-30. Thu1strup and that the White and Blue will prove Williams shared honors, each dropto be strong opposition. This game ping 10 points into the waiting may be considered as a preview to Nilehi netting. ' he tournament possibilities of the With 8 victories and no defeats Nilehi quintets. YouT cheerleaders are holding an the Junior Varsity met the Jittle informal dance in the assembly folBlue Devils with what might have lowing the game. The best bands in been overconfidence. They manthe land will play for you via phonoaged to eke out a 2 point victory, graph - admission 15c. Dancing ending a close contest with the wrn close at midnight. (Careful Cinderella). Be seeing you there! score of 19-17. �....______ Williams Chosen Most NILE H I LITE v:!~~~:.!.!i~~swaselect- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + e d the most valuable player by No. J 0 Skokie, 111inois March 7, 1941 L--------------=-.....:....___________.:..___ the members of the basketball team today. "Red" was also chosen honorary captain. His ste,:ling rebounding and defensive play has helped the Trojans on to a season of 15 victories and 4 d.._feats. This record includes all conference, tournament and non-conference games. Over these 19 games the Trojans have scored 746 J.iOints to their opponents' 644. Podraza Haunting melodies will come out scured 167 points during the season, of the tropical night while throbThulstrupl48, DomasllO, Williams bing ,iungle dl"Ums beat enchanting 106, and Peterson 105. The most I rhvthms. South American mood points scored in one game was 18 wm pyevai1 throughout as NileHi by Peterson,Podrazaand Thulstrup. mermaids and mermen swim into Awards were. given to the followthe second annual Water Carnival. ing J. V. players: Domas, Carrol, This year the Carnival, sponsmed Stockfish, Wojtkiewicz, Weldon, by the G.A.A., is slated for March Davis, Randquist, Glacz, Glauner, 20 and 21st. and Hallberg,frosh-soph. One will find the evening a fusion Capt. Theodore Stem Varsity major letter winners are: of well blended entertainment Williams, Peterson, Thulstrup, ranging from the practiced skill Domas, Anderson, Cecconi, Har· and grace of the syncronized group rington, Podraza, Jarrett, Barton, in a striking display of formation manager. swimming; to dance numbeYs, Monda~ Minors: Dahm, Huscher. South American style, adding to Seven seniors played their last the spell created at the water's Monday the students of NilPHi edge; and a mystic candle-light had a one-day holiday.The teachers game Friday night as NileHi lost s".Vim. 9ne of the hi-spots .of the spent their day at the Teachers In- to Waukegan by a 45 - 41 score in the Regional Tournament. mght w1U be the scene honormg the . Podrazll was bigh scorer for the Godess of Light and Darkness, in' stttute. whi~h Joan Blameuser, Rosemary The purpose of the Institute Trojanswithll points,Domas had 10 Racme, Jane Kadlec, and Pat Hari;ns is to give the teachers an opportun- and Thulstrup 7 points. Trojan are to be featured. A surprise ity to enrich their views regarding failure to hit the hoop on their many c<;>med;Y act will add to the evening's the teaching profession and world free throws accounted for the loss. In the first tournament game last d1vers10n. affairs Wednesday we defeated the Lake · . . Rounding out the show in the finale is the sacriface of I:x:-Lol- The ?ay's progra_m begms with Forest Scouts, 34-20. Nicte to the Inca Rain God. Chosen enterta.mment furnished by the ~tu­ by acclaim, Carol Blameuser and dents. In the course of the mornmg Leone Becker are starred in the a world - famous lecturer and the role of Ix-Lol-Nicte. county Superintendent of Schools This year's swimming saga prom- will speak. After lunch, ideas are exCaptain Theodore Stern will deises a wealth of talent, clever stag- changed concerning new ways of monstrate the Polygraph, popularly ing and scenery, and all around conducting classes. When the teachers are finishec! known as the Lie Detector, to stuappeal. of talking shop, they return home- dents and friends on NileHi, in the Assembly Room March 14, at baving made new friends, renewing 7:30 p. m. The Lie Detector, which Seniors Planning to attend a 0 1 d acquaintances and had a day off has been developed to a surprising extent, is now being used in college next fall should write for from the "old routine". catalogues, application blanks, and business house.> to prevent crime. Captain Stern will entertain the information this month, according to recommendations of college audience with true stories from his own experience as an officer and as representatives. Early inquiry ~ves college advis- Mar. 14 - Captain Theodore Stern a student of criminology. He will also discuss and :nustrate the use ers time to consider individual Evening Assembly Program problems adequately. Delay may re- Mar. 11 - Foreign Language Club finger printing, the study of ballistics, wood matching, etc. sults in unsatisfactory service bP- Mar. 17 - St. Patricks Day Tickets for the assembly will be cause inquiries tend to accumulate on sale at the price of 25c for stutoward the close of the school year, Mar. 20,21 - Water Carnival Sponsored by G. A. A. dents and adults. when conru...encement activites are at their height. South American Mood To Reign at -GAA Water Carnival Teachers Institute Meets Criminoloqy Subject of Assembly Friday Eveninq For Future Collegians CALENDAR �Page 2 March 11, 1941 NILEHILITE Tropic Air Pe1vades Art Department NileHi Actors Travel to Leyden Water Carnival! Water CARNIVAL! WATER CARNIVAL!! But it wam't in the pool that we saw it. We find husking corn rather diffiNo, the prrt we mean is full of six- cult alorig about this time of the teen-inch, giant dogwood blossoms, year. In the fo·st place there's not brilliantly colored tulips, dark, trop- much cotn to husk, probably beical lilies, palm trees, huge butter- cause we're all i·ather sick and fHes. It's the art depaTtment's end tired ... of the weather, homework, of the swim. Water Carnival is just ham sandwiches and frosted maltthe tvpe of occasion in which the eds, heavy cloth~s .. ._well, yo~ get am8zing achievements in art at the idea, we're Just sick and bred. N.T.H.S. get a good chance to be Yet there are some courageous souls who have shaken off these displayed. Anyone walking into Mr. Wil- first throes of sp1·ing feve1· and salkin's laboratory-for the art i'ooms lied fmth into Society. r el:'llv are scientific expe1·imental The Maine Victory Dance . . . One of the fastest couples on the laboratories-wi11 find innumerable prniects besides the Camival deco- ftoo1• (dancing) were cute frosh rations underway. Casually placed Marion Robertson and Harold around the room a1·e examples of Hvnes '40, 11ow head cheerleader work in advertising posters, mag- at DePaul, who went around in the azine cover designs, mechanical record time of 32 V2 seconds. clrf'wing perspectives. and costume To keep in ti·im between the FootdesigPs. Every aspect of art you've ball and baseball seasons, Ed ever thought of and many you Springer ... you all saw him . .. ra?en't thought of are being work- "Little Brown Jug'' does for him 1 ··Y\<'n lw one or another of Mr. wh~t a i·owing machine does for n DiMaggio. "Tilkin's classes. Glad to see Carol (Love Thy The l::.>b was so "anothe1· worldRouse and athletic i~h" that we could'l'\'t help exclaim- Neighbor) ing :tbont the gifted artists we spouse, Willie Baumann. rw·e. "Gift? Art. a gift?" expos- We ratheT like the idea of doing tulated our host, Mr. Wilkins. "Of 't he jive in the dusk but not to the rourse. but there is more than that tune of that oft repeated opus, to it. There must be the ability to "Pompton Turnpike" ... Question of the eveni;ng . . . . le:> rn plus a terrific emotional drive to create. That's what's important. When you're saying good-night to /' nd r otice this : these are the same your girl and Mother comes to the requirements demanded of the door to let daughter in, should you d~eP'iRt. the biologist, the engineer say, "Good Morning" if. it's after --!'f all workers in the professional 12 or just get by with "Nice weather we're having?" fields. Had a hard time keeping up with I want a student who is willing to experiment with himself in art. Davy Jones but as we went to Gi··e me a student who will learn press. he claimed Lois A. was the to analyze his problem-pick it to real thing. Pee Wee's philosophy ... pieces-figm·e it out. Jack and Jill went, up. the hill It is little wonder that Mr. Wi1ki·~ 's students are looking forward to pick some flowers, Jill's mother to getting jobs in art fields. '\Vhen' came along so they picked flowers. thev have learned to think in an D::iffinitions .. . Etc.: sign used when one wants ar.nlvtical, scientific manner they will bo. the kind of individuals any others to think one knows more cmplo:ver would be glad to get. To than one does. Preface: the face you had before be able to get a job in art and not _ be an expense to an employer dur- the lipstick. If Euol Flynn and Cl::l.rk Gable ing an extended learning period is the objective of such art training. can do it so can mustached J. Jones, Experimenting in art is to be done who is thl'illing the local girls and while the student is learning in straining soup with his blond eyebrow. school, not while he is being paid. F.A.T. has advertised for a blond Is th~ art for art's sake? No! e It's art for _ ducation's sake - for brown-eyed with plenty of "ompff." the sake of teaching you, regard- We think he'll find her. Sorry, no rain checks on this one. less of talent, to think. Frid av NileHi Thespians traveled to Leyden in the first of a proposed series of exchange assemblies. As part of the program, a few scenes from "Footlight Fantasy" were presented.The play'<t cast,starring Jane Cecil and BillStevens,includesClyde Herr ir. g, ~birlt) r:: ilg , Helen MilJer Chris Lindhoy, Jimmy Holmes,, M' Lou Leonard, Mtrwyn Becker, Mary Baumhardt, Howard Kiehm' Gorden Swardstad, Ruth. Roberts, Joan Blaumeuser, ard Wayne Barton. "Love Off the Record", an original radio play, completed the Leyden assembly. Clyde Henning and Marcy McKeever are the "boy" and "girl"; Bill Stevens, anc.ouncer. At the earliest possible date, Leyden will, in return, present an assembly :rrcgum to upper class men. "Footlight Fantasy" will also l:e presented to the dramatics groups at New Trier in the uear tuture. rt _ _ __,, - - l--1 NIL :EH ILITE The NileHilite is edited, published and printed biweekly by the students of Niles Township High School of Skokie, Illinois. :.Ir. R. E. Cotanehe, Principal EDITORIAL STAFF Grace Langen Florance Gable Collen Thomas Phyllis Braeske Editor Assistant Editors Activities Editors Annette Carroll Bill Stevens Clark Barton Bob Reiland Matrew Nosal Vernon Permer Feature Editors Sports Editor Production Managers Mr. Clement Meier, AdviS?r ~ Reporters Nanq• Alleu, Henry Barkow1 V.'ayoe Barton, Juue Uerg, :i.lilclre<l Bergmark. Jane Comstock, auc lka trlck . N"orma Delfino, HerTI.ice Franson, R icha rrl H nrt ney, Lois Jaycox, Detty Kelly. !;:nn:tn K t·n.emer. P at Reila nd , Sal Rizzo, Ruth ck R"hert , D o Sn J..n, Betty Stielow, Willard Stocltfish, Viola S t oll, Toni Thlimmcnos, R obert Toi· 7eln, H o warcl V.' eltlou, Detty Westerlund. Mara lyn Woo dwortb . Mi1>0 - Susanne Ostergren, Advisor Member 1940-41 �March 11, 1941 A GREAT DILEMMA When he awoke, d_.wn was creeping stealthily upon the still _world._ T~e o_b_jects in the ··oom could be d1m1y distmgmshed through the .gray fog. He was thinking .... think.:ng - knr,>wing that today_ was the day it must happen - he knew if he tried to escape it - !Us reputation would be ruined. B~ must pay for bemg a braJgart. He snuggled under the cove~s and tried to sleep. He couldn't sleep, it was useless. · The silence was broken by .five loud chimes that se;1t shhers threugh his body. If only he di~n't have ~o - but he did. He tossed and turned and at last fell into a restless sleep. "Get up !" bis mother called as _she shook him. Be mumbled what ,might ha"e beea "yes." He kiclrnd off the covers :- nd then jumped out of bed. Something troubled him ....,.... oh yes - ! he remembered. He dressed qui<;kly but with gre::it care, and went d'<rnm to breakfast. Scarcely touching his food. he grabbed his hat, muttered goodbye and rushed off to school. He w2lked down t he corridor. Voices greeted him on every side, but he heard no one. He came to the room 216. The room was :filling rapidly with gigg~g girrs and boisterous boys. He glanced m - no - lie couldn't - he must get away - he started down ; the emptying corridor, then he stopped. Squaring his shoulders, he t urned and walked back toward the room. Every step re-echoed at the far end of the corridor. In his minQ. he saw his destiny and shuddered. Closer and closer he came to the dreaded room. He walked in and sat down in his accustomed seat. There it was, sitting beside him. His heart beat fast0.r as he looked at her. She was Cynthia Von Bloire daughter of the socially prominent Von Blairs, coming to this rural high school to learn the quaint ways of the country children. But she was gorgeous and every bov in town dreamt of introducing her to his friends as "my girlfriend." He had ·bragged that he knew her so well - he could date her any t.ime he felt like it. If he felt like it. Tri.en they jeered at him ~d he grew angrier and angrier, "All nght, you'll see," he had said. "I'll bl-ing her to the Senior party.'' There he had donf~ it - now??? He poked her arm gently. She turnerl to him and her eyes met his, "Did you want something?" she asked in a well modulated voice. He stammered, "Ah - ah - no - ! Miss Lant cut him short, "Quiet, I've given you enough work to do, have you read yoPr story, Cynthia?'' Cynthi P's color rose as she smiled sweetly, "No, Ma'm." "Then get busy!" Now he had done it! He had embar.ra ssed her in front of everybody. At last the bell rang. As he gathered his nooks, he watched Cynthia out of the corner of his eye. Then he caught up his books and ran after her, "Cynthia, may 1 see you?" then his glance fell upon the g-ossiping girls who were swarming about her ;onrl he ad•led . "Alone!" Cynthia pushed her pompadour away from her forehead, said, "SURE." They walked down the corridor leaving the wide-eyed girls staring with surprise. "I'm sorry," he began, "that Miss NILEHTLITE Page3 Phoebe at The Beauty Shop Senior Playwright Producer, acto1·, w1·it~r and di~·ectoT are some of the accomplishI, Phoebe entered the Gockenr::ents accredited to one of NTHS's bock Beauty Solon, planning to get most versatile students, Bill Stea permatient wave so I would be . ens. · Wuerth looking at. When I enterSince Bill is such an outstanding ed, Iris decided to ha.ve a Frank personality, many requests llave ,...,.~rt to hemt talk with me. She been made to know the more :"in- \ s21d I sho~ld get some new. Glatz · ,, h" b t "St ". evPs (as ll'me wexe badly chipped) even '. and that if I still kept getting runs tu:r..ate . t mgs a ou personabty, etc., etc. . . So her~ in my stockings I should Luxem. goes . . • She was a Witte person but I don't Big dogs, thick rugs, chocolate · k"ovr who told hPr she could tell chip cookies and ap1·icot juice, sea- m·e · what . to do about Surh Petty side resorts (dawn to sunset '-'----" P , !_ ._rr:~ . . I looked p}e:'dir>glv at the .J h h ·T nset to dawn) and "Jf'ars" 1 "''On- m1>n,,..1.;er a"YJu t oug t: Canty make der What he means my "Jeannes~' ?) her stop? Oh Neutz to you I sajd :- -- ,1,..-. r· ~' Ql'i;,nth a'1d was .n bout to are sorrie of the things which ap- tell h!"r to Schramm when I was perl to Steve's fancy. · n't>t :. ~de·· n . wa+ing macfiine . And now, to those of you who ' '\Vho sllo11Jd."'Barg in j11st then ~aw "Footlight Fantasy," created h-- t. Mrs. C')w · An~erson Cowie by Bill, the following info' is dedi- (who w;: s a Steward from the Reil cated · · · Ianrt~ of Scotland). -~-"Cowie was Bill's inspiration for his play is holdiT'g in one · hand . a~ package of '_ accredited to a New Hampshire Kr h · ~ummer theatre where Steve spent aft's c eese, two CRQS of Heinz • vegetable soup, a can of\ Campbell's his su~~e1· '.'dabblin' around" · ·. · "flrk an(! beans and one half dozen to put it m his own words. Fi·ancis Pike. · With the other hand he was Farme~ was there one week, so.you bwjl1r feedi:rg- his face a' MilkeWay can easily see. that Steven was nght 1candy bar. About this/time the ail' at ho~e. · . · [ beran to gq from bad! to We1·tz. I Havm.g undergone tJ;te .anxiety · r>otic~d that my Hair was begina~d ~e1vo~sness ~f Wl!lmn~ .the I nirog to s:rrell queerly, but I thought Nile~i aud:ence with his ongml!-1 ""ot_ irig of tlte fact"that I had been h creabo;ri, Bill has to go t~rough it under the machine fo1· Moore than all agam for.!i ~yden audience and twentv-five minut es . Mrs. Cow the New Trn~1 student body. All screamed and I tried to H h(' we c.an hoJ?e; Is that t~ey ~ully ap- but it ·zust couldn't be don~~c Th~ preciate Bill ,~ masterpiece· fl:otmes were Risering from my A Great Dilemma - cont': Har:rer. Cowie Blewett the. flames . until they went out. My hair ends Lant scolded you, . gosh I - II S ] tt b t t "Oh, that's all right;," she said. were -a Pe U my permanen "Cynthia," he stammered, "uh-uh.' was. Weldon. · Oden I went Holme "Yes?' Cynthia encouraged. with the Deily paper over my hair He took a deep 4reath and said as so that it wouldn't become mussed quickly as possible, / 'Will ya go to the by the wind. Senior F r olic With,.nie ,Saturday .night ?" He breathed a sigh .of· relief. Now she. could say, "No." At least he has tried.."' "Do you really want 'o take m1f ?"··1 YY Cynthia asked doubtful)· "Do I want to take yt ' he repeated. I'am so very popular "Do I want to take you " · · . Y.ou just can't stay away, "Well, I'd love to Jro ·witri you!" "You woulrl really'? - OH Boy, that's For almost everyone in sch0ol swell. Say :- what. class do you 1 have Must visit me each da ' next?" As 1f he didn't know, why, he Y· had spent at least fialf of his study hall Some come to catch up on their period looking at her. sleep "Study - 213." I • "So do I-," he said. · And some Just dream about Proudly he esc<;irted her to her desk Their English Math or History :i nd sat down besi de he;r. He coulq .feel . . ' . , ' the envious eyes of his friends upon him. And gu]s wish I had mirrored walls He glanced at Cynthia. She was smiling. When they put their faces on. , She looked happy. Why should she be . .. happy??? Of course! Why hadn't he My title, folks, as you aij know, thought of that before. She wanted to Is " King of Boring- Places " go to the dance too. But everyone was afraid to ask her. He had been the brave one. Answer on page 4 _111 .. .-. ··urHATZIT I I ... �Page 4 Nitwits, Bells, Hams Trojans End Conference ~eason PiU, Jerks, The 1940-41 NcrtheastConference Basketba11 race clofcd on February 21, the Junior V asity v.. e1e ir first place with ten wins .i-d two 1r sses ar d the Varsitv i:!" second rlace in its respective division wi1h the same record. '::"hs is the third straight yeartheVarsi iy hasfi:: istedinthe runic.erup spot. . Tbe Varsity _wind -up with Arlmgton was a wild rr.d ~ oc-lly overti.rr e affair with the Trojans finally v1cto~ous,49-47. "<!cck''Th_ulstrnp's 18 pomts was h1[!c, but 1t 1 ould have go"e for no~gh t hut for I ruce Jairett's score-ty1rg free thro\\ and "Red" William's basket wflich providedthewinnirgmar:?in.TheJ.V.'s stoo~ arounc;i and watched the Car:dmal Jumcrs tra~q:fr th tm for their se~ond ~ucc~ss~ve dt;fc<:1.tafter ten straight v1ctones. fhe fmal score was 33-23. On March I the NileHi teams engaged in a post-season doubleheader with the Maine quintets. The Trojan Varsity completely reversed itsformoftheprev~ousweek and pla;ved a loos~ wild game for the first half. TroJans, sparked by Bill Peterson, came back to tie the sc_ore and take the lead. Fast breakmg, _good shooti?g and sure ~all-handlmg charactenzed the TroJan second-half attack which carried them on to a 48-39 victory. Bill Peterson, the main cog in the Tny off~nce, was high scorer with 18 pomts. The J. V. 's succumbed to a fast-moving,sharp shootir~ veteran March ll, 1941 NILEHILITE Volley ball now headlined in the gil"l's gym classes, is well underway. The teams and theh· captains are: Phil's Pills, Phyllis Braeseke; Schramm' s Hams, Florence Schramm; Mussils Mopits, Doris Mnssil; I's Cubes, Eileen Heinz; Piffer Puddles, Janet Lutkehaus · ~t. Louis Blues, Gen-y Thulstrup; Jerry's Jerks, Gei-ry Deilv; King's Gals, RosannP. King; T.N.T.'s. Pat Harm~: Niles Twerps. Anna Bork; Blue Bloomel' Belles, Phyllis Schlotterbeck: Hnl'P-""'V El.even, Virginia BelTY · Pat's Pixies Pat Reiland· Dolly'~ Dummies Dolo1·es Grem~ be>ck; Ann's Deadnans, Ann Hoth; Ciin:ny'R Gems, Virginia Nordin; Blue FairiPS, B1'\rbara Williams; ChappiP.'s Champs, Dolorns Chapman; Vanishing Cremes, Angie Weber; Jinnv's .Jitters, Virginia Lenzen ; Che Che's Peachies Elvira 7.11st; Bee's Bachelors Bernice Franson; Zombies, Norn{a Delfino· Nannie's Nit Wits, Nancy Allen! Carol's Cutie's, 9arol Blameuser; Yokems, Kathenne Pewitt; Hel's Belles, Helen Schuett· Izzie's Dizzies, Isabelle Hoth; Kr~cky's Cracknots, Olka Krajchovich · Dollie's Follies, Dolly Baumhard't; Hangovers, Jean Peterson; Janice Moores, Moamos · Berg's Bugs .June Berg· Luckett's Luckets Bar: barn Luck~tt · Katy's Ladies' Kay ' ' Sutter. R. Racine Tops Girl Bowlers at Tourney After th1·ee lines had been Tolled th':l Chicago HeTald-Americl:m Woman's Bowli-.g tournament, 18 ~Helli g-irls tallied their scores to fi.nd that Rosernarv Racine tonned ['Jl oth<:-rs with a 405 series. Close on hex heels were Dottie Lurid arid P~t H,,rms with 400 and 377 respectively. The three "chamns" we1·e awarded a pair of bowlirg iri. ~Ol"S. Tl: ~ c~rol - other entr:~rts, Ruth Hennig, a-.d JoaP Bl2me"Se1·. Shirley 1'1ilz. Janet L nth:ms, Vil'ginia Be1:ry, Dolmes Chapman, Do lo i· es T~r· k ~ Hrl~n Reeder. Evelyn 7.av-:·d. A"lene Rcchteman and Jane Saurrhardt i·eceived make-up bags. GOLF AND With spring comes Golf and Ten- nis, but Mr. Galitz, who wil coacJi bot~ teams, doesn't kriow when sprmg will come. Mr. Galitz states they probably will start around April 1, or sooner if the weather · ermits T . · enms, a _new _sport at p. 1 Nileht,ranksachamp_ onsh1pToumament at the enJ of its season, so let's see some of you "racketeers' turn out. WHAT ARE.THEY? ..J • The girls of NileHi are the most fortunate inAmerica.As they glance around their classes they see hand- Post Office Intrigues h~~ds~~:? Ao:ew~~cleet:;iaein~e~ ~:~~f~~a~dr°: !~~i~~~~;traight See Chicago Club As the member.:. of the See Chi- all. Heines!!! As the period ends UPSTAIRS AND DOWN cago Club filed into the 1'uge Chi- one sees hairy, egg like structures con- roaming through the corridors. In Have you noticed how good everybody has been lately? I knew something was in the air. Uoon investig[!tion I found it was Lent. So I sneaked up and down the corridors with my eyes and ears wide open to find out . .. What you are giving up for Lent? Dick Wasley - ''Wine, women, and song." Ginny Nordin - "Dick Solon." John Luckman, determinedly "Getting kicked out of school." June Ohlson - "candy, pop, ice cream, etc. etc. etc." Paul Doremus - "W'orld Cruising.'' Erman Kramer - "Socks.'' "Home Jeannette · Leclercq work." cago Post Office, they were f~onted by arme~ guards, protec- technicolor. black, red, and yellow. At dances, Nile Hi men are the ~mg the U. S. ma1L This scene typtfied the entire building in whkh most popular because the girls like every precaution is taken to pro- to run their hands over the'"brush". The other fellows haven't a chance mote safe delivery of the mails. the A guide led the group to a large aS"_ regular style haircut is auti· office on an upper floor which 'luat~d, obsolete, corney. Why ! handles dead li>tters. Wrong ad- Even Otto has a heine. There are two species of these dresses, lack of return addresses and postage were numerous enough to hairless creatures. Mr. Bennette keep a large staff busy day and would probably define them as the night. Long tramways for sacks "Howinheckshouldlkn"w" but in loomed above the heads 1 of huTl· phin language they are the "hairdreds of men at the sortiug ma- brush" and the "feater duster" type. . chines. Throughout the central floors of building, packages tum- ~ountmg trawa~s to collect shipbled through chutes and were raised pmg. After lt;a"?-ng the working from one floor to another on miles part of the building, the group ente!ed the white marble lobby. The and miles of conveyor belts. . In an enormous room just above 1 tnp truly awed the club with the the ground door roared trucks ·vastness of Chlcago's postal sys' 1 tem. �+----__..Water Carnival NI LE H I LI T E A~~~~ ~~tf Skokie, Illinois splashes of Wate> March 2 1 1941 Carnival rehearsing die away, the ---------------~~==~---~==~~·~~~ s~o~canbre~hea~~~~i~ Intramural Champs Senior Frnlic ::n:.d prepare to enjoy one of the year's best programs. The CarnTo Feature ~ Tops in Entertainment ival's popularity can b~ shown by Next F .. iday night, March 28, the fact that Thursday's and F1·if ath er A d S N'lg'/:ht Senior ·c1aes "coming-out" fortheir day'sand ti.cke~s are leftbeen sold will be the the performance have n 0Il when they hold out the fox The. seco~d annual Father and first so~ial event of the school year. Satm·day mght s performance only. S?n Nigh~ will be held Tuesday eve-I Dancing a melodrama a floorsh We wish to i·ecognize and applaud nmg, April 1, at 8 :00 p.m. d . : . ' . ow the teachers iolld many students On the program for the evening an iefrnshments will headlme the1 h 0 . d' tt . is the final game of the boys' infra- rntermainment at the Senior Fro]-, w are irec ng their best efforts mural basketball tournament in- ics of 1941. Admission is fifteen tow~.i·ds the programs suc~ess .. volving the two surviving teams t d . . . . ' Miss Schaefer and her swnnmmg cen s an each sem01.,is entitled to 1 ·a the ent e1""~amment · · c asses prov1 e f rom th e h ot tom·nament held earlier in the year. The opposing teams one guest. I while Mr. Wilkins and the art are: the Streamlinei·s, captained by The melodrama, a masterpiece of classes have provided decorative F. Keegan and including Nitch "com" but very hilarious, is dfrect- setting. Clark, Gatzke, D. Fishel', C. Hen~ ed by June Berg and stars such The students who piuticipate in ning, Nosal, Lutz and R. Harms: -i otable actors ( '?) as Edward the program are: Aztec Contrasts, and the F1001·moppers, led by S')ringer, the hei·o ,· Irene Bettlin- J. Kadlec, J. Blameuser, P. Harms, George Bolckwith, R. Baumhardt J. Reiland, Ahrens, Permer, Bloeth~ ski, the l;ieroine; Did< P.aroubek, R. ~acine, J. ~derl~, P. Bailey, C. ner and · Kozack rounding out the the vill::::ia and Gloria Il : n'tz. t1lC Qumcy, 0. KraJchovich, B. Abbott, team. · . he:·oine's mother. Tears, u~paid N. ~~Jen, B. Farr, V. Lenzen, M. The . .games to d~termme the rent, stiife ar::d "cul'Ses" m·e the Sch1lhng, B. Pearson, P. Cole, D. champions of the Volleyball tourna- m· · t f th "d. ,, Franson B Kramer C Juniac D ment and Ping Pong tournament . .am even s o e rama, . as ' . . ' .. ' . . will also be played. The finalists usual. Several other acts, stanmg Ch a Pm .an, ~ynchromzed Swim in these two games have not been seriors, ar0 scheduled, including a Team: G. Deily, L. Becker, V. decided as yet. The champions of series of mnsical selections sung by Beny, V. Nordin, E. Heinz, A. the Touch~all tomna~ent, decided the B ,.,,~ketb~n Ouartet. GeneTous Bock,. A. Weber, B. Williams, C. last fall w1~l 3;lso be m~roduced. . refreshments ""ill be served in the Blameusex, B. Wetmore, M. CallThe evenmg s entertamment Wlll cafeteria. mer J Briggs R H rtn R be concluded .with the showing of The cowmittee is headed bv the N"t 'h w t' R. G \ ':' w· t~e 1941 National Baseball League srnior faculty advisers, Miss Myers, i. c '. . .er ~'. . .e: ar t, . Picture. . Miss Berry, Miss Johnson, Miss ~e1te1, J. R~tte1, Sa.cnfice of Lol.A~l b?Y students and ~heir d~ds Green. Mr. Tnylor and Mr. Ohlson, ita, R. Hartney, R. N1tch, H. We11;z, ale mv1te~ to attend this evenmg "nd b'' three student chaiTmen: R. Gerhardt, W. Reiter J. Ritter of entertamment. B ettY K elly, Ca therme A nne Ne1 L . Becker, C. Blameuser; Comedy · r ' ' son, ard Jm·e CJ1m:to~k. Other NumbeT. C. Williams H. Hari·ingn-c~busDelfino. , Bob •Flynn, ::i.re: t on, J . Bexg, R . N't ch,' H. Barkow, of the committee VirNorma I ginia Berry, Jeanne Armstrnng, D. Chapman, L. Bec~er, D. ChapFLASH ··The next thrilling edition Clark Barton, Howard Harrirnrton. man, T. Cook, T. Davidson, P . Hegof your NileHiLite will feature a Dkk Wilson, Bernice Boyk, "'Ken a1·ty, J. Iyloore, F. Thulstrup ; daring expose on the intimacies of Shr~mb~ck, Marv Louise Boyd, Candle Swim. E. Anderson, M. some NileHi personalities . .. un- R2.y Hohs, and Viola Smith. Barnes, J. Bates, J . Baumhardt, B. known things about the private M . A FalT, P. Braeseke, P. Galitz, H. lives of people we all know .. . unUSlC ssembly Hart, B. Heiniger, L. Jaycox, L. censored, unabridged. Postponed to May 4 Krupa, G. La!1gan, E. Muto, J . ~ever before has our paper unPeterson, D. Rmgs, E. Thomas, H. dertaken such a startling attempt The Sunday Afternoon East< r Reeder; Dance Number: B. Franto pry into the clandestine truthc; Cc.ncert Assembly which is sp -.· _ son L. Baptist, V. Berthold, M. Conof Miss and Mr. Trojan. son, by the Music Department r.ad,. N. Holoppa, L. Maeder, E. ALSO- a revealing view of the head. Molitor, B. Westerlund, J. PermeT; achE-s and heartbreaks of an editor, this school, and scheduled fr r 1 Musical Effects: P. Donnell; P. A. "Blight of an Editor" or "Why an March 30, has been postponed until and Lighting: C. Mueller, C. ValkEditor Goes Nuts". · May 4. ena1·, A. Grover. H EXTRA Nl'leH1' ta he Exposed dj �,) ·: .i." ·~ •. ' '.;I· Page 2 NJLEHILITE f Noon Asse.fi1111e's.•: ~. );<~.:: Arouse :Stillfent Interest ;~'. · ''1 - · ~·::·~~'~ · f?F··1 5 "i1 ::f@32~ ~ :-~~ : ' ; . ' q.~ .. , •. . .. •" ~. ··)I~: ~ . , a dcuble 1if'l,"· . . wit~ cc at that ler.qs ·r' ..;;·; ' Bridz~ .is falli ·""1· d OW J'!i, .' · , Lr i:- d .n d ~ . .,, ·Fall.ing ·f>wn, faJJi..... g'd'Ow:i, Lor don Bridge is fallin g cown-, . [)oggol!e those Nazis! Scientist , 'What do ~you hav ~ 1.1 that. test tube ? "·' Student · '-'Dri Water." Scientist - " That' s imp:>ssib1e. w,11.ere'd you get j~? " Stcdent - "Im -ttc:d some d1 J. Le.". ; WHY! more you study, more you know more you know more · you forget more you forget less you know ·"' 'So Why Study 1 . The l~ss you study The Je·s s you knQ,w The ies); ·fGu know ' The less· yttu. forget The less you forget " The more you know ,, So Why Stdtt·y ? ., · A frcs!m~en readel' of the NileHi Lite · t~l:en · from a magazine ·' The The The '· . The · The The ... , .. . . 1 . . .:I " I - . :· ~~119,w ~~i.~lan't Maren 21. r9-: l r ·,;ft "reversible" ·is a . "1n ·spring a young man;~ fancy. tu~ns tq what the gi.ls have b;;en thinkm~ aEot:t r:ook whatAnd thisto some' no exccption. a 1 yea1·. it does year is fellows"Hezz" Wddon is e . ea cl·n~mg. Corky Harrinf(ton was seen _at' the local suga'r t&wl with Lo~s Jay: o.:.!. . . Wonder what happt :ne:l to Joanne Briggs? .' .. 1h-:;1·e',s <J. lot ,of b~okeiffroin2.nces. now a~d 1t 1sn t \c, J..y: To give st~dents s9me entertain- nea 1· Ch1·1stmas., .;/ . Dick Wa:sley has 1 'g;a~ our boy:;· they call ment duir,ivg ~ the spare·· mciii1:ents ,. of dr opped the{/;p' . Toha n, ~ " ,.,. ' · him "scoop". w. ·.. I sau· Ru~.h ."' - '· ,fr • '1·· their luns:.h : pe.ri? d. And th"''"e. "OU hav'e all irthe :·~ans~·ers t:g cn gettinJ featly for the Sprmg :Prive on...men . Her bk>ther, Al, isn't doi.J)g so r ~ ,,.. you Want'.'to kno\v ab'out t'}ie ngqn-jl.OUT. bayly either, he has been SW(l.mpedj with the ~Fsemb!ies' offered)' to the".students, PY. the' re'q~·ests from g'rls to take him t9 _ t ' lented·piitformers in our school. ·uifde1· Tnrnabout . . . Talking ·about the Tumivthe guia!Jttce of Mis; Macfie Green alfd bout, the refreshment committee is ,.$orkc .airman · B.ob Rt!µ- : ing on a ·Coke bar ..;S'.l' ~oQd··idea, huh,1 t he co-operatio.n. , of ch -- . . :1 . • The other evening E('l]l.an Kra.mer land, these entertaining programs ~av~ aMPrl Captain Stern if he could" borrow been put on. Credit goes tp , .Bettr;. KellY, his Lie Detector to see if Pat Galitz for hei-' '=~uperb ~whistling o,f .''1'.'renesi'1 rea~y went to Church Friday ~gh~; . . d · '-the ·Monday dancjng periods ; to Regmalcl Denley bought coke .JoJ ..~he h fellas the other day-ask Jerry for de: ' -; urmg' June B~g,,'Yho .p~s~;d her ~ay throug tails... ~ileHi ~omen ar~ ,i;ivil!g Davey a crowded bargam basemertt m her Colever. Jo)'.Ies quite a thnll:. ; Gl.'19.ce .Nel$oJ:i has Fntomine; to 'P .'.iul·' Mikota: for, ,t;h~ . en- pl.~t~re~ of cats, cats and more cats" on · able bit he d'd fo11.,115. ~ntitled "The ·the. InSJ<~ of her locker. Heard At The . Tick Tock· "She Dances Like She's ,Fly· -~.. ' JOY M~n Wit? the G:r~()ked. l\fo~~.Jl;" ~o Ir":'~n ' ing Ba\:k'ii·o Capist-on~·~~ ; ., .. ·.' Witte,, ,his accor.drnn, ·~lild .)eame ~Ith - · Pat ~nnet has been attracting more the Li~t, Brown H~r;" ;t!> pur Fresh- thah ,~ .~e'Y _ma.s('Uli~e. ~yes. ,Hmi:nm! 0 not man s61lg-bifil,' Annaliese Nachbau,er; to ba<l. · · <Jfoay •Nox.d~n· .1s, 9.PJllb~~ .o:Qe, on nl.!krnlite!' one 'pvho'sM Carol and Jo~rl Blameuser,.ior tlfeir ·de- _t~.e thhi·t;:!'jl'ad ~a,<l~. ~,,c:.s~ • '.,,. 1• • •• · h . on e np paraue . au1 1 o a :was .. i"·f. · light!,~ ' pit of 'c omedy, Muppe itt t e s"en .'v!~ki11g- 1 to\..:li.rd>th~ ?~· _Won_del Movies" and.'fHepnan;" and last but not why? . .. ~ Our Spies have seen Bill Dicki least;; ~o Dick Wilson :: ~o fi~s supplied enson ;hanging ' out at ttte: ~ormai~e,.. th~ muMcal accompanjpient.for these as- ¥ost 6opular phone IlUJll}il,er\!J?- ~he ne1ghc f • h' l . t .~. ~00. rh'rTd l~Be 3--;,{:IJarcfOr us ), SKOKIE sern.~hes. ' -The ' comm1t~q 1 i;.s~I ~~es . . t 0 l:lorho0rl~N. ~. t<i ~~ow1.~,Jimru.y H 91rpps ,ngmg, Arlefie •s sutndmg 1n a liole .or,wu.~t kn!feling. . . tha'n k Fred Epson for·his s1 What: Why· t'li.e noon-hour a~s3mbiies,'.of · '- ". ', . course! · . ,. :l.- · ·: · · · When: Ever~ . ,o.~er Monday dun~g th·e last fi fteen,,mim,Ji.tes of the luntih period. Where: N9, ,lj!l3,~~ 1)1it ·the Asse:npJy ~a~l: \.' /ho: Stude:nf J.>Crforme~ of -Nr~ei> ,T~\\'.P; · , . ,.:.r . , . ship. :c-n: r,. . . : . ' llli ·N l ·L H I • 1'TE .· . ' . r-t. ~ .!..ii. , " ' ., . ,'.fhe~~ile.JI , I ' J . . " an~ r .,.1 .. l· llite':is e.d:ted, p'uhlished i11r a·1 · do . . . d Lala.,sh{s:.· (or her ...;tap ;·. andy.{. itu.mber, Boyt/.. v..rhat a .· 11 · t iI b' · kl by the students of Niles C 1 -' r'T '.Anrr · McKeown· ~or $:er dramatic pad~l-e and U\e ~:.rnston .. style ida,ncmg: . • •. ·• , . " · · . ·, -, ·. Her by Mueller and J~ck Alle,;n's pig-eons pn1;1 e . '?.~e Y .. · . ' a_r · )1 /f.'.. . P!llseh'.;il;ion concermng,,S~.,.J>eter: .. · have ·:been draft~cl., bY.,,~~«i .Army;' . QJ W.e Tcwn,sh1p :ij1gh School ~f ~kokie, Ilhnou;. , ._ ·. v . ~here',ll: be more ,of &~~se: yr?gi;~s to 1?10. .; ~.f couple ot· ot1ie.r • b1t'lii:f.rwe ~IJld :.ir.. •R. E. Cota.nche, · Prmc~pal. ,. . follow, s\) ·don't fofg~t 'tppt ~ ~pur, five- hl.: e to see drahted~Sli.9·.:· i;·,. bu~ .. wliat .... , .., EDlTORIAL• STAFF c~~~;~t'ick€t boujtht ·on M<;mda'y ~ptitles woi•td ' a school '~~ m.t.l:i~ut te~~hets'? · · · '(' 'Edi~qr " · . . ·' . . . Grace Langen . Fiprance Gable · · 'cl1 t 0 · PAN~A~J;>LE:R. BEAU'J!Y · EXPERT Assistant Editors'. -~ .. t. · J\ iff hd d · Collen Thomas• · . , ... -· · . . . LOST·:"' One blotter:bY;,hlond~, ,,~':'eyou cr~ t e · <> ay ,. ancmg ...:i,>EJ,9~ .· ' ~ Ph}llis Bra1!.Ske, the fine talent programs and to th~ mter- foot-fo\lill11." 'lue ,eY,~s; . swe11 personality;- Activities Editors , .Annette Carroll. est;nO' noon-hour movies for the ·rest of smoot.h d ancer. Phon~~KOKIE '780 . '": Bill Steyens· ,; . a l~ .co:itr_ diction of · ~enei::i:l'.!l?D\nion y;e Fe~ti'i'i:e, Editors -, · · ' 'I;. · the ;eek. ;qlµ,rk B~rton .,; , . ' ' · · wt!>h ,to ·.state that ·.D1f~ ,So)on. doh not ,_, . ..., . .. . • . Bob Reiland '~'-.... ..:.~ lf.ff:~· S!).!:.prq,qdy,. <l\d. note; Dick Sblon Sp.orts Editor · '. . ,1 t.loatrex· Nts I Production Managers · No · l"\j 1"3[~...'.fiot llirow ev~ybod)!.) 1 1 14 UPSTAIRS ; AND DOW . " •11'.r: . <:: <' ·:;):}l .1 . • ' 'Ve'l'i'IOn•P.t:rmer '· · ;j, Q¥estion: "Are you a hypoch~nifd'a'~i" !J9!1 'J;II~ .<(~-":fS · MEO.W'J " : Lerore Pete.r s, ft'.resh,i:nan. , ·,,Just a min- i. Hear -that Cb~rl.texr\.Villiatr's·' · · ··'i: .,,th~ ·,;;· ... ,J-J' fu· d l · ··1,. "'•~... ute. I'll ask Webster. :l .. '' - · se , a h c;o,mers .ior . e, Turnatiout . . . P.P,y)1~s ~fPi'!k~, Sophomore ... Of course, "·.I ff:o• · - . ,: . ~ :• . 'c!Jren t t ~-· IOC8:1 gal~ ?:?,~.~ en?ugh in fact I'm (two of tliose.· ·; . .. ·. . ,· :f, r. ·'' -~. . Bill Stockfisch Sophomore .. Ab~olutely. fur you,' R~.c!.? , -.· , 0 Mr. Clement Meier, Adviso1· R'. tirt ·~~·- ' (. ;r : ~· .I. .. ' ..:. ep ~ re- ll,arkow :\anq• .\l \li red Ju•~e iJeqr. ien. l<illeu1yBcr11:11;ark,, ·f .;J-;,,..i.. • ·-, Split .:.- she's taking Duke 'irenz~r to Ir 'I · ·.., '> b t · h ~T t :e 1 ro lC. :1 Die~ .',l'o\1,1 Jl~liuimenos, . Mi~" ,Susanne I Osterg ren,' Advisor •;. ~ L. · '·"' . . :. I Snrprise of the week!!!!! D<>n Smyser, Junior ... I'<l h&\ e to look Soph, Claire Juniac, beating all -----.... it· ·ui:i"first. · others, JLniors included, to asking i Mr. Kent;· Teache1· 1 Is it something Dick W asley to the Turnabout· good to eat 1 I '1~:tnff( trn~'tlll, h.1 ae1; e •. l';:t ~etlani1~ Sal R 1n·o. Ruth Sn'oni llcf.ty•·Sticlo.w, Wil km.I Stock Robert' i'!'o"· ii , h, \ ' iol a Stoll; "'1f1} ;jj<Jw~rd \ \el don: De try \V.es terlaml, M~rali·11 "t"' \\.oo·d wor "· • · •·· . , f·1111aJJ ' i'l.' s ',lmr. , Evidence' r· of . tb5 ,;Neµtz - 'iVIO<'>rc R urna ·ou . . '·. . 1 .:·· .'~"Jf· · · Mor~· surpr.ises:,pune B~~g and Jack Kristoff, a pair for the Senior ·J1_. · F r Wayne H" rton . Jane Co!nstock. 11.:it r ck, ' XO!:_Ula •. q.r.lti;t,o.i ! .1ni•~y, \01~ , Jay:ox, nClt1t;- Kell\'. l( .d·a·<I ~ii· J f . ' .. By the way' what does it :.m~an? Barbara William~.. Se,nior:'. . If I . a~. I · /~ · haven't"- noticed it. . Vernon Permer Senior .. . l'd-0n't:!O'iow. ..J I'm just a seni~r. · · Pat Reiland, Jun:o:- ... I'll h:::.ve to think about it. . 1940-41 �March 21, 1941 NILEIDLITE JUST CORNEY Corny stood before his mirror admir· ing himself and wondering if he shouJd comb his hair for t he seventh time.; he wanted to look especially well dressed for this occasiOn, because he was escort: ing Elaine to the fair. "Ah! Elaine--!" he mused as he smiled at himself in the mirror. His mother's voice floated shrilly up the stairs internipting liis reverie, "Corne-e-Jius! You'd better hurry! It's_getting . "' late!" Corny took one last glance at himself and rushed down the stairs three at a time. He dashed out onto the porch and stopped short. He gr.oaned in dismay. There, instead of their new car, stood the old Ford truck that his father used to take vegetables to market! He ran back into the house yelling, "Mother! Where's Dad 1 He said he would leave the car in the drive for me, but it's not there!" "0, yes," said his mo.t her calmly, as she straightened Corny's tie, "Dad took the ca.r to town and said that you'd have to take El.3.i.ne ·to the fair in the truck." What bk!w ! Imagine! ',raking Elaine to the fair iii. that rattley .old truck! It wouldn't have been so bad if Elaine was somebody ordinary, but Elaine was the Phoebe Hid1·0 Phobia, was born belle of the countryside, and Corny felt on October 9, 1885, in the little mighty proud that he was taking HER town of Skunk Hollow. She was to the fair. But if Dad said that he f ·d should take the truck, well . . . what the only daughter o Johantge~ .an could he do. Cherie Phobia, and the only sister Later that day a certain ~tarry-eyed little Otto ever had. Phoebe (proCorny was seen at the fair with Elaine. nounced Fee Bee as you have pTobNow and then he would steal a glance ably surmised is a little eccentric.) at the beautiful c~ature beside him. Of . . the' fact that she comes Corny thought Elaine was the most com se . .georgeous creature on earth with her red from a respectable feeble-mmded hair shining like burnished copper; and family and is an old maid, has nothwhen her big, sparkling brown eyes look- ing to do with it. Phoebe got her ed coyly at him from underneath their middle name from her aunt Hidro c~nopy of long dark lashes Corny's heart who was Aunt Petunia Blameuser's did cartwheels. And her figure! Corny . . I "d 1 couldn't remember the time he had ever sister (and dtd she sme I.). As1 e seen one more graceful! from all this, Phoebe is just a careThe judges thought she was beautiful, free old maid having her fling after too, for Elaine went home that evening twenty-eight years of hard work. wearing best looking blue in the county! Phoebe is five foot five. She has ing the a beautiful cow ribbon for be- Phoebe-- a Thumbnail Sketch yellow hair streaked with red, that is brown on the ends. Her eyes a1·e a deep brown as are her two teeth. Her favorite pastime is: sitting I'm full of things so weird to see, in her high chair smoking heT pipe Their shapes are of every size. with a copy of "Superman" in her In order to get an excellent grade, hands. Phoebe was one of the origYou must be very wise. inal Quiz Kids of 1910 and still Sometimes l'm neat, CU)d sometimes knows all the answers. Hope this messy. clears up all your questions conNow think, you gaJs :and guys. ceming Phoebe. If not send them Al\swer on pag~ in for the answer. WHATZIT? Page;t A Busy GroupThe Junior Council Though a few scattered Frosh have not yet heard of the Junior Council, this year's Junior class has witnessed plenty of action from their cabinet. Ueeting each week, the cabinet argues and wrangles over problems concerniag Juniors in much the same manner that the Forum handles all-school affairs. In addition to this routine, ths coun· cil has arranged many class entertainments, and also sponsored most of the sophmore assemblies. 1 The year's activities began earlyin October when the group met and offici~lly elected Bob Moore president, and Donna Jean Cotanche "ecretary. Other members, elected as representatives by their home rooms arf': Janice Yate~, Ruth Roberts, Pat Reiland Glenford Bremner, Bernice Franson, Virginia Reuter, Jean Floros, Shirley Kluesing, Grace Langan, Madonna Wetting~ gale, and To-i Thlemennos. Etiquette program, a probable class party, and the Junior Prom have been featured topics. Pace making in Prom preparations, the JuniorCouncilhas been established as the cental"power plant". As six Prom committees· begin their race against ti.me, rough organization already promises a super Prom. Plans .... sketches .... detail ......scripts .. ......and layouts keep the general chairman-Pat Rielan<Ir-de-e-...oration; Jean Florun, programs; Glenford Bremer, lighting; Grace Langan, advertising; Shirley Kluesing, Prom King; and Madonna Wettingal, ticket sales busy biting their fingernails. Junior home room teachers form the coordinating staff of social advisors. All aboard! Next stop June 7... ... WHO ZIT? She's blonde, she's m her second year. She tumbles, swims, can lead a cheer. We found that her favorite meatjs pork. Her hobby is collecting "cork." Her older sister calls her 'small fry.' We say "She may be- short; out- Oh my!'' �NILEHILITE Page 4 Tracksters Start Practice The second year of track at NileHi opened Wednesday, March 12, '\vith a record turnout of 65 candidates. The freshman class, which has already proven itself sports· minded, was represented by nearly 40 candidates. Although the outlook at this date is uncertain, we venture to predict that both teams, Varsity and Frosh-Soph, will be better than last year's teams. Coach Morgan Taylor states that meets-hav~ been scheduled with the following ' schools: Crystal Lake, Lake Forest, Arlington, Waukegan, Proviso, LyG.en and Libertyville (triangular Meet!. The Trojan tracksters will compete in the Palatine Relays and will' close the season at Crystal Lake in the Northrast Conference Track Meet. The first meet for the Varsity_will be on April 17 at Crystal Lake. - ear Book Dummy Y Nears Completion Senior are working on this year's annual with renewed zest and feverish activity as thedeadlinemoves to a position only a few short v. eek!? away. . While walking· past 221 almost any period of the day, such phrases as: "6 picas equal 1 in. ;""where is that dummy?" " could I see the composite,please?" ; give ample evi· dence that staff members are hard at work. "Democracy in the School" is the central theme for the 1941 yearbook. It is planned to include the co.i.plete volume of NILEHILITES }Vith the yearbook, so you will have timely ai.:counts of the year events. CALANDER March 21 · 22 Water Carnival -8:00 ,, and 0 :30 p.m. March 28 - Senior Party / .pril 1 - Father and Son Night .t_pril 4 - Mother and Daughter . l\ight Spring VacationBegins A Tough Guy March 21. 1941 Faculty Notes Slow.Iv t.he boy wandered along, thinking. Could he get away with Costa Rica Ho! it? He wondered. Boy! if he only Miss Edith Bronson has received could. If he did, the fellows would a rare honor. She has been chosen have to let him in the gang. It by our government and the Costa wasn't everybody who had enough Rican government to represent the nerve to do a thing like that! They United States at the Costa Rican needed a guy like that. And beUniversity. Miss Bl'Onson will do sides there was Maisie. He'd be resea1·ch work on Central Ameritops .with her if he did it: wn literature. She will leave in Of course there was a lot of i·isk June for a six' month stay. She to it. If he were caught . . . He plans to be back at the beginning of ihiveied.,to think what would hapthe ~eco_ild seinestex next February. pen if J:i~ :were caught. iHe~d p1·ob1bly g~t five years in ' jail _,. or . Get Set - Go! maybe .mote". ·· Gee! But then he F. Morgan Taylo1· will officiate thought .of . Maisie again ·and the tomorrow night, MaTch 22, in the sure-to-come admfration of the fel- Chicago Relays at the International lows"' 0.K. then, he'd do it. Amphitheatre. As a prelude to this, His steps took him over to the Mr. Taylor acted as finish judge for fajr_g;roq,nds. That was the logical the Central A.A.U. championships place to go. The1·e w.e1·e always lots held March 14 at the University of :>f them on the fairgrounds. - He Chicago field house. looked around for a few minutes. Then he saw just the one he wanted. Beny-Lant Conti·ibute A little red car. Convel'tible, too. Honors for the faculty a1·e just Ther~ were ::. lot of other cal'S floating around at present: Miss around it, but no one was paying Berry and Miss Lant were asked to any attention to this particular one. contribute discussion topics for the It was really a honey, he thought. Language Arts Conference to be His b.reath came faster as he held at ]'Torthwestern _ University. looked a1:ound to -see if anybody Theil- topics will help make up wa$ watching him. The coast was the discussion material for the Conclear. Now was the time. He dart- ference which meets on Ma1·ch 29. ed toward the car, hopped a low fence, and-jumped behind the wheel of the car. His foot pressed down on a pedal. Nothing happened. He Q pressed again, ha1·der. Still the car didn't move. He looked around to . , '-·. • . see \Vhat was wrong, and saw a - ~tttmg rema1ms the unknown uniformed man coming t~nvard hifil. jquantity after a discussion ot the Panic seized him "Cops , " he said , 1 . 1,mrrent • baseball setup. Mr. Kent j "I gotta get outta· here!:.'. As he 1coacp of-the baseb_ l squad, prea ran back the way he had come, he ' dict~.~ J1!a! ...._~his year's team will heaTd the man shouting something •probably show up· bettet in the he couldn't understand. He doubled !field t?an last year's bunch, but he his speed and was soon out of sight. lwas "doubtful as to hitting. To aJl The maR in the uniform drew up, 'indications the team will not lack puffing. pitchers and catchers. The first "Darn kids I" he said, "they're turnout for this department found always trying to get on the merry- lf pitchers and 4 catchers. go-round for nothing." The schedule includes ten conference games and two practice games. Answer to Whatzit: Biology Room Baseball Team p · pens raqtice 1 Answer to Whozit: Lois Jaycox �Summer School Foreign Language Bowling page 3 " 3 " 4" 4 Also Pressroom Pandemonium" 3 Niblets " 2 NILEHI EXPOSED!! NILEHILITE Skokie, Illinois Volume II No. 12 'Girls Host to Mothers and ·Guests Tonight Tommy Freshmen Represent NileHi in Panel Discussion DOTis Hampton and We bring you this "daring expose" on D~vidson, fresh~en, xepresented !li_e intimacies of some. Nile Hi personal- 0~1r high _sc~oo l m a panel discus1t1,s .... Thes:! clandestine truths am now SlO!l, "Bndgmg the Gap between un~~li~~ April 4, 1941 I I maze IGrade and High ~chool," on March ·starlng into the tangled of paper, pens, pencils, pads, pictures 25, at 8 P. M. m _the ~ssembly etc, the assorted rubbish buried in the Room. The panel discussion commurky depths of your locker .. did you posed of members of the Niles c.ver wondei·, "What ~ mess-Are other Township Pan:!nt Teachers Associalockers as bad as this one ?-What se- . . crets must lie undisclosed in their dark t10n, headed by Mr. Flagg, d1scusenc:losures." Not wanting to keep you in sed two main topics: homework the dark, we have found the switch and and social adjustment between pulled it ... let th~re be light! ! ! eighth grade and high school. Doxis "C"' 104. Owner Dick Krewer d T k d t h · Contents : One Cafeteria pepper shaker an. omm:y as e. e_n. of t e1r with the pepper. . . (all Dick needs now friends to give their opm10n on the is something t.o ftavo~ with the pepper) amount of home work given fresh. · · One red. tie · · · JUS~ one red tie. · · men· three said they spent over an Pa mplet entitled : "BlueJaek~t's Manual h ' · •t "d . . . United States Navy _ 1918" (All our. every evenmg on l ; one sa1 that's changed about the navy is the he liked homework and the rest ships . . ., the s,ailors ar~ still the ~me didn't think they were given too ... at least thats what Dick must thmk.) much or at least they didn't spend "C" 15 Owner Ed Stowe ' · . ' · Con tents: Two ties of questionable too much tirr.ie on l~. . color (the design was a mixture of CampAt a prevwus d1Scuss1on, fresht:ell's Tomato Soup and Heinz' Pork and man Jam es Holmes repTesented Beans) . .. Two feathers-one brown and the school the other white (Who wants the feathers · . . . we want the fowl!) . . . About 12 ts · old lunch wrappers (First he had feathers l S e IllpS without the fowl, now he's got lunch wrnppings without the iunch . ·. . it's i;etting to be too much!) . . . Brownie Don't step this way Gentlemen Camera (and he isn't going to take the and Ladies if you want to miss the "Annual" pictures with it either.) "~3" 117 Owner ~orma Delfino worlds greatest dance. And when Her locker is similar to a miniature I say the worlds greatest dance I rhoto parlo1-. . . Two pictures of Errol Flynn . . . One picture of Tyrone Power underestimate it. It's gigantic; it's with this inscription: "With all my Love" colosal; it's the one, the only, the (She can dream, can't she.) . . . Third, original TURNABOUT. The date: one Varga di-awing . .. (It's taken from April 19. Purchase your tickets imthe Esquire Magazine, so you can guess what it looks like . . . ask any boy he'll m ediately, 01· sooner. Tickets are 70c per couple. and tell you!) ... Fourth, -one s ign, No Smoking, Please! (That's sort of silly . . . no will go on sale Monday, April 14, in one could get in her locker. . . except Jimmy Holmes . . . and he doesn't the cafeteria. smoke?) "A'' 14.5 Owner Jack Heiniger We Beg Your Pardon Contents: One jacket-No books- No papers-No pencils-(Soon 'twill be Apologies to Mr. Bennette and the halmy- then his locker will be in total sophomore class for the statement obliteration.) "C" 75 Owner Paul Mikota made in the last issue of the NileContents: One prayer book, "The Key to Heaven with Epistles and Gospels" Hilite.We were mistaken in saying (Gosh! now he's gone wholly "holy" on that juniors have sponsored sophous.). . . One pair of woman's gloves( My what diminuative hands you have, more assemblies. Sophomores have Paul!) . . . One woman's coat-(Do you presented their own assemblies, have a girl in your locker, or do you alwhile juniors have invited sophoways wear feminine clothing, Paul?) mores theirs. Continued on page 4 P"k R Tickets on Sale Tonight at eight o'clock, NileHi girls will entertain their mothers or woman guests with an evening of athletic feats, European trave] slides and refreshments. The program, as planned, will include two semi-final volley ball games, two semi-final shuffleboard games and two semi-final ping pong games. In additio..... there will be ex· hibition buck jumping and tumbling. Misses Margaret and Meta Greiner physical education teachers in the Chicago schools, toured Europe last summer. They will show slides and recount the highlights of their journey. There will be a lOc charge per person for refreshments. Don't for get to bring mother and be here at 8:00 P.M. to-night, 40-41 Synchronized Swim Team Selected Selection of 24 girls and 12 boys for the.synchronizedrswima.lingteam of next year has been announced by Miss Schaefer. The following girls have met the requirements and earned a bank with the crew: Dolores Chapman, Pat Harms, Charlotte Einhaus, Joan Blameuser, Beverly Kraemer Rosemary Racine, Jean Peterson, Charlotte Quincy, Betty Farr, Evanne Th-Omas, Evelyn Anderson, Joan Pike, Betty Bray, Pat Cole, Claire Juniac, and Nona Jane Hollapa. Boys selected are as follows: Jim Moore Tom Davidson, PeterHegerty,Jerry Heinz, DuKe Hezner, Henry Barkow, and Tom Cook. This year's regulars who will return next year are: Ginny Nordin,Angie Weber, Anna Bock, Eileen Heinz, Micky Callmer, Jo· anne Briggs, Betty Wetmore, Gerry Deily, Dick Hartney, ,Jack Ritter, Howard Wertz Ray Nitch, and Robert Gerhart. Continued on Page 4 �i"1 . . __;.........:N~IL_E=--H ~~,~ITE~-.,-~71 ~~--~~~~~~P-age2 ~L ~ ·, April 4. 1941 EDITOR.IAL; ... Phyliss Braeseke 1Honor~d ~ Befd1-'e your edltdr· entE!Ted. high school everyone said;" "Oh ·don't worry about your grades--they're not important. : Sur~" high 'School is hard. put g.rades .aren't -everJthing. .Don't \,Vo,rry." . M~yp_e. SOflle of vou have hefrd t.h~s' adv,ice ·t bo!. a:t:d weren'it so un~Ilhpg· to follow it. Son:e of .you d1dn·t even need this rn-ouragement to neglect ycur . . stl:d1~. ' It 1s , ~ well known f act that h11m~ns;a~e naturaJly la_y, but z when t1rnr.,.'Become of .h igh school age, they re ol~ enough to know b2tter! r! .: -.. \ •· . .. ·-~ The anc~en.t adage still appli~s: "You get J~st a~ much out· of J1f~ rs vou, put mto it, a~d n<;>t II).Ore. .And that .most certa1!1!Y, goes for schoO'l work t~_. ~f you plan to gb to college you ":"JU .have· to wo.rk. Remem~r also· if• you have;;a high aver~{) .,.Jt:OU t' ar~ exempt_ from exams. . '•· I " Even if yoti (lon't plan on college, good mru.·k.s· ru.;e ~ valu=;bJe. asset a.r.d sometimes -a necessity. m obtaining that J0b you're looking for. . . About the , OJ_ily .oc.cupat1~n '!'hich ~oes not requ1i::~ .ftP educ~tion is be-: mg a bum;_w~o wa~ts. to be a bum -there's .no' fut~re 1~ i~. · . · . So ~a:y heed ~o this htt_e ~di~orl ial, and 1f your marks haven t been as good aS"'they,"ShouI~· be-rememher a new quarter ·is starting. .. And if you r~ll!.~ant \o you ~n · start all over ag~jl, ]O~ _ e got the ten v of the hardE'.St wee~: a.~ead of ,YOU, so make t~e ,~est..<>.~ it. .by · Cross Watch the feathers- fly !! All the Recl . ,. . . ., . . . · ., girls are running around gettmg Optstandiflg ,ac.tivity in the Niletheir · riien for the ·"Tilrnabout." hi unit of the Junior Red Cross has (Thus far a few have been success- netted Phyllis Braeseke the impresful.) Such as Grace Langan, who sive title of Official Student Reprew;iJL .t read the -b!:>,ards..with, Buddy sentative to the· Annual Junior Red Geerc,lts.. , . Oh ves ! who is this Ted . . . . L' h rt th t -r..v·a He man is tak- Q~os:;; Convention. This convention IP .. .c.. rr. . ·u ,.,e . ing .~a Too abad Jurre. Vmc·e nt's rn- w1 !·b h eld m w ashingt on, D . c., vite to) the Tunfubout is playing A,.p:r;il .,21 to 24. in1 Kleb'm's .band .. ; Why was Art ' .. J;>hyllis and t.he othe1· representaHannemano<mt of school f?r tw..o tives 'i~om the Chicago area met weeks? We've been wondering... 1 • 1 ·•M~ .,i .. · , ~ • frene Haefel has ·bee~ free to wi,!1k la;st. ~l:i.~l!~da7 to pl?n all the details at tne opposite ·seX"' while Kei:m~t of the trip for w.h1ch, ~Y the .way, Faust went to Tennessee to fry and . the-1Redi .Cross is paymg all exbecome a "Volunteen." . ·: Talk .pens·e s: With sight seeing, tea with about con~iste11cy, the t!iree gentle· El~gfi·&; me~tfogs, lun,cheons, and men Solon. Luckman. and, Jonant- · .. . .· ; h .. Ph · gen; have been seated at Ute sam~ d.a,ncmg . 0 1.1 , ~ e ~ro~5L~'. . ! 11J~ -. table at the "Tick ' Tock" ·Fi·t and - ~hou~d have s..op:te mtere;;;bog:thrng~ Sat. nights for the.1last sir:Weeks. to relate upon..rretum.ing. we.stuAnd we're not kidding... At Bill dents of Nilebi feel greatly honored Stoc~fish's party, more peopJe ;we~e to sehd our ·first representative to hanging o:h the tree out-side his . . . d " Jiouse,, t1.. ~ · we1.e 1~~1 ' ~-"'·' .,. ..r . Cot- q·tconvent.ion which soun, .s so,, ex, " r!-dn ' · ··d .. in . , ·· •'· ... 1 anche's tux was hanging 6n tlle 1me c1,,H-!f·. , -.. , .. ! , last Sunday 1 mo1·ning/ with ·FdinK ; ; f .·. .. Th.ulstrup hanging; next . to.: it. . . Springfield It .WW> like old times seei~g Ufok · Wilson. wit~ his Jane., G. ~t thlil Here We Come! Water Carnival. .. Young or olCI . E " ,.ht ·. f I' · ... ~iid they 'g et ·theit·man: 'Marlyn Hynes . . . }fr ~- .ou.r eage s_emors . V.S. Jerry Jarrett... Angie Weber JUn~9rs with:. scrubbed face.s and and.,,Howard W~rtz, ,well ;.well. . . p~cked bags await the commg of It is i·ummored around that ~ane April seventh, the day of departure Kadlec is working on her .outfit- for on the Springfield trip. They will tl;i.e Turnabout. :4~methmg' "new, be transported in three busses. different, and original. . \ What has • ·. · · · f th tri ___r1- -... · n 1 · ' last year's Alumni got that the gals 01le of t~e h1gh]1ghts o e P for? The Turnabout is . going to will b~.a .. v~sit to the House o! Relook'IJike a class reunion! ! . .' ''Jeep" p1·esentatives, where. they will be The NileHilite- iii ed!ted, pnblished and Paulsen brought up· in "Ii.is' -home- ~ntroduced. to the members of the printed biweekfy by the students. of Niles rnorn, the idea of having : a flQ.Or llouse. 'l'h1s feature has. been planTownship Higk Schoohlf Skokie:· Illinois. shqw in the study h~ll. Paulsen ned .by M~·s. :Van der Vne~, t~e reprobably needs something to keep presentabve from our d1stnct to Mr. R. E. Cotanehe, Principal. him awake. . . Spanish student~ the General ~s~m_blr. . . EDJTORIAL STAFF · A pooklet, <:<mtamm!S the itinerEditor ~ :t.c,' . ,; r.~" Grllee Langen faci:riate 'me-'.-everytime I see the'rn Assistant Ed,i.tOris ·1· 0 , . lillorance Gable thev ·h ave a different Spariislt bbok ary, and other. m;forrnation, has been .LCc>llenr Thomas under their,· arins....;....they seem to priilted by th. p~inting classes '!111e Activities Edi~o.rl!I l'liyllis Braeske \lavt; a.whole library... - )on't chew der, the ~µpe.r:v.1s1on 9f Mi-. Meier. ] Annette Carroll your gum so ha1·d C~r~ Mueller, .. The trip :will _be ehape1·oned by Feature Editors.1' 'Bill Stevelll8 ,, Clark Barton theorems don't take that mut;h ef- Miss. H;arber,t, M~~s Lumpp and Mr. Sports EdiU:t_ ·; Bob Reiland fort and conqentration. . -~ ,· Flagg. . , ,, . ·~ · Production Managers Mathe~ Nos11.l " VernorrPermer · "Tlie'J otchestra'. · leader of the j J ' Mr. Clement Meier, Ad·v is0r ' sch<>?l finall:y m~ss~d ope, tqo many , . J· ~:Reporters Was ous~ from · Nanc y Allen, E;c.nry llarkow, Wayne Barton, reh,~rsals and. • June Berg, Mildred Bergma rk, Jane Comstock, h oe Dcatrick, Norma ' Delfino, Bernice F'ranson, "Don't Take ·My Penny.'' h Richard Hartney, Lois Jflycox, Betty K;elly, . Discovery of· the week-boys Erman Kraemer, 'Pat' Reiland, Sal Rizzo, Ruth Roberts, Ditk Sol.arl, Betty Stielow, Willard Stock· fi •h, Viola Stoll, ' :l"oni Thli~l'lenos, Robert Toi· worry and get a few gtey hairs too zei u, Howard· Welifon. Betty Westerlund, Maralyn when invitations fo· dafi~es', such' as. Wondworth. Mii>Q Susanne Ostergren, Advisor 1the Turnabout, are slow in eoming. 1 : • 0 .NILE t1 l 'LIT~ E 1 1 '·" • ' 'f • • •• �April 4, 1941 Summer School Plans Formulated Pressroom Pandemonium A MIRAGE Did you ever think of what an "Gee, it's bad enough to go to editor goes through so you can read :;chool all day-and now a dancing Have you considered Summer this paper at your leisure? Yes, the school! I'm glad it's Friday-no School in your plans for this sum- ·editor has a hard job. Every Tues- school tomorrow,'' said Jean to hermer? To judge by the number ~f day and Thursday, 4th and 5th per- ;;elf r.s she got off the street car. irquiries heard each week, this iods, I go to the editorial i·oom. The Still feeling sorry for herself, she f;nr:mer's sessions will show con- st:::ff comes in and settles down to 'IY?lked 011 down the street. tinued grnwth in attendance and do their homework. I yell. They In front of an empty lot stood iderest. stop. Thea bedlam starts. People benutiful Pac-kard coupe. It was "What will be offered?" is fre- start flying around the room, each >hiny blue with a California top r:t~ently asked. Probably the best trying to think of a novel idea to ' !' d whit~ w ~ll tires. "Gosh, is that ::.-sw?r to this query is to quote ~he amuse you. I tell you next week I'm a honey," thought Jean. "I wonder workmg rule: courses for which going to ask for a traffic cop. Bill who owns it? Why should it be sufficient demand is shown will be Stockfish yells to find out who J.C. parked there? There is so much cffered if possible. The following or who W. B. ·-is. You see, we keep room to park, so why park in front l'f'-. e been included i:1 the pa~t an.d track of every name published so of the o:ily two vacant lots in the will undoubtedly be given agam this that we wm have the name of every block?" su~ir::i~~~. Geography, World His- stuC:cnt in the school in the paper Every F1·iday when Jean went to tory, u. s. History, Problems of at kast orce. Someone is always ::landrg school the car was there. DemocTacy, General Mathematics, ti·ying to dig up some NIBLETS. "I can just imagine who owns it," Beginning Algebra, Plane Geome- . The deadline is the Thursday of Jean said to hereself, as she went try, Trigonometry, Advanced Alge- the week preceeding publication. d · · t ld bra, Typewriting (personal use), on reammg as six een-year-o Photography, Swimming. Effort Nobody ever pays attention to that g-irls will. "I bet HE is about nineteen, .and has dark, wavy hair, and will be made to add other courses though. We try to make this YO\.\r paper is about six feet tall, and-and has according to the needs of the pupils. as much as pos$ible. Would you brnad shoulders. Of course HE is If a particular course is wanted h 1 b tti · f which is taught during the regular e P me Y pu ng some rn orma- terribly handsome. And he wears school . year and cannot be offered tion about your gang in the box on snazzy sport jackets, and he goes during ~he summer, program ar- the second fl.001·? You see, the to to-to Northwestern. He must rangement can usually be made straight news is the easiest to ob- have loads of medals for his athletic whereby a required course can be tain. but news about the students ability. Whee, I wish I could meet covered durjng the summer to re- themselves is often overlooked. him. He probably has a swell name lease time for the desired course like-Richard Halliday. I'll just during the other school months. . call him Dick." Thus, either directly or indirectly, Foreign Language Club Weeks passed. The car was alSummer School can help student& , . ways there parked in the same seeking an emiched program of If last month s meetmg of the }'.llace. No matte1· how tired Jean study. Foreign Language Club sets the was, when she saw the car she beBesides opportunity for program precedent for this month's meeting, lieved in and d1·eamed of Dick. The enrichment, Summer School gives non-members of the club ai·e in- dreams seemed to take all the tiiedstudents who need it a chance to deed missing something! On March ness away. do make-up woi·k. r• • One Friday Jean was walking Some neighboring high . schools < 5. PiofessOI A. V. Roche of North- past the car when she saw an elderreport as high as thirty-five percent western University brought seven ly man walking toward the car. She of the student body reporting fot gii·ls from his French Club here to stopped, paralyzed. She watched summer school work. Our enroll- entertain the Foreign Language him get out some keys, open the ment has not approached that (;lpb with French songs. Pi·ofessor doo1-, and ru·ive away. Crashfigure yet, but each summer has bang - boom went Jean's dreams. brought out an increasing propor- Roche made a speech on t~e Ad"Oh, I wonder if he owns the ti on of interested students. ver: tu res of .a Straw Hat, his own car? . He mustn't . . . he can't!" Plans are already under way on experiences in France. It was due Jean felt as if she had lost a dear the summe1· schedule. Particulari to Miss Bronson that this splendid friend . This was life at its worst. effort is being made to expand the program came to Nilehi. ··· She just couldn't go on without program to include added sports This month's meeting, Ap1·il 14, Dick. Then suddenly she smiled to activities. promises to live up to the high hereself and said, "I know, that Later, announcements as to cost, standards set by previous meetings. must be Dick's father. The family beginning and closing dates, and The program, which will be under car broke down, and he has an improbable list of studies and activi- the sponsorship of the Latin group, portant business appointment. ties offered will be released. Mean- will commemorate the founding of That's it. So he's using Dick's car." while, make your inquiries of Mr. Rome and the establishment of Pan Jean walked on down the street Flagg, director of NTHS Summer American Day. Virginia Reuter with a confident smile on her face. School. will be in charge of the meeting. "I'll meet him yet," she said. n �NILEHILITE April 4. 1941 A-Ones and Streamliners . . Boys And Girls End . Bowling Season Wm Intramural Champrnnsh1p 'l he finals of the boy's gym classes in intramural basketball, volley ball and table tennis were played last Tuesday night before 250 fatberc; and sons. The first event of the evening was volley ball match betwfen "Kermit's Hermits" and the 'A ones' the game was won by the 'A oneH', captained by Harold Anderson, and including B. Podraza, D. Friese, D. Dever, R. Kirscht, G. Bremner, P. Hegarty, F. Tolzien, L. Ba'lou, B. Mohrbacher and J. Glennie. In table tennis Bob Reiland defeated Nick May, two games to one, winning the title for the second successive year. The basketball game was a sewsaw match through the entire first half. However, the second half s'lw Francis Keegan's " Streamliners" pull away from the"FloorMoppers", captained by G. Bolek. The final score was 23-20, quite close, due to a rally by the losers in the closing minutes of the final quater. The game had quite a few thrills and also quite a few laughs. Members of the winning t ~am are, in addition to Keegan, R. Nitch, C. Clark, E. Gatzke, D. Fisher, E. Henning, M. Nosal, G. Lutz and R. Harms. In addition to these events, members of the winning touch football team, the winning bowlers, and the athletic award winners were presented. The evening was closed with the showing of the official National League film, "Winning Baseball" followed by refreshments in the cafeteria. Small Turnout for Golf and Tennis Eleven boys turned ont for golf to vie for positions on the eight man team, and twelve candidates reported for tennis totry for positions on the four man tennis team. Mr. Galitz claims that this is only an average turnout and expressed dissatisfaction that there is an apparent lack of interest in these two interesting sports. The tennis squad will consist of a doubles team and two single players. The single players will not be play in the doubles ~11owed to matches. Four men will compose the golf team for all matches, except with New Trier, when six players will be used. Last week the boys, bowling teams wound up their season with the singles sweepstakes. Ed Springer, a 143 average bowler, led the boys with a three game total of 576 pins.Bo'1 Reiland took second place with 549 and Henry Matclien third with 537 pins. These totals include handicaps. The girls finished their season a few weeks ago with a sweepstakes. Dorthy Lund proved herself NileHi's best girl bowler with her high total, 334 pins. Ruth Henning and Rosemary Racine snatched second and third places rtspectively. Expose - cont. "C" 77 Owner Carol Pearsons Six pads of utility slips (now all she needs is six lessons in forging teachers' names.) Pencil sketch of Jerome Zeidman (wonder if that's a "non de plume" for Davy Jones, ex-student.) "D" 64 Owner Art Hanneman Contents: One colored photograph of a gorgeous blonde dressed in a scanty pink bathing suit with this inscription in the corner, "To Art from Sally" (Come now, Art, you're holding out on us . . . that "ain't" fair.) "D" 26 Owner Mabel Curtis One item . . . a single piece of frayed lingerie . . . dusty, very dusty, pink .. . (who knows, maybe she dusts her locker with it.) "D" 107 Owner Jean Dudick Contents: One flower hair clup... One solitary picture . . . of President Roose\ elt (Save it, maybe you can use it in the next Presidential campaign!) Chocolate Bar (would have eaten it, but didn't like the color of the wrapper) ... 9 Bobbie pins... One bottle of Olive Oil Face Cr eam for Dry Skin ():Io remarks needed on this item) .. . Social SecUl'ity Ticket No. 246-12-5735 (Nor on this either!!!) .. Two Match Boxes, pardon, three. . . (Don't tell me you're guilty of "a1·son?") . . . One letter from M. McNamee of Butte, Montana (Asking him to the "Soinster's Sprint," Jean?.) "B" 21 Owner D. Burkland Contents: 500 Queen Anne Facial Tissues (You and Jean Dudick should get together . . . she's got the face cream!) . .. One letter from Personel Finance Co. of Evanston, lllinois, with the return address made out to J. Bates (Don't tell me, you have to borrow money to take G. B. to the "Turn-About.) " B" 42 Owner Phyllis Breaseke · Contents: Two scantily clad damsels . . . (and I don't mean, in person) . . . 4 Acco11nt books from the Illinois Brick Co. ("):J"ow girls are entering the Brick business .. , next thing we know they'll be "laying" them, too!) . . . 22 Atlas Cement Blotters (Ye man, now it's CEIVIENT l ! ) And now the moral to our little expose . . . DOJ\'T SET YOUR LOCKERS!!! Page 4 Special Turnabout Etique~te So you've been asked to the Turnabout? Good! Here are some helpful h ints to the lucky boys who are being escorted to the "Spinsters' Skip." First of all, invite all your relatives to yoUI' house to be present on April 19. Invite gi-andfathe1·, csnecially if he's hard of hearing, then uncles who have been through the warr then aunts and grandmothers whose pet passions are cats, and don't forget small cousins who spare no wol'ds in their opinions of others. Have an these assmebled in the front room when the girl arrives, for of course the Rid arranges the transportation. Let he1· in, mumble a few introductions, and disappear on the pretext of "getting ready." Next, come back :fifteen minutes later with no noticeable improvements. Be sm·e to bring along such things as keys, combs, wal1ets (with no money in them, of course,) nail files, "L" tickets, marbles, eic. Upon arriving at the dance sweetly say, "Will you please take care of these things for me?" While at the dance be sure to step all over her feet and forget to apologize. Be sure to get tired and say, in a loud voice, "I just can't dance another step~" Then, when a good looking girl asks you for a dance jump up immediately. About this time the girl will be getting tired and want to go home, but not you. ::-;fo, you are as fresh as a daisy. You want to go some where! Once there, Ol'der a big dinne1-, leave half of it, be as noisy as possible, 21nd :fina1ly, pay very little attention to your date, after all, she only brought you. On the way home 1·emember, boys, this is a turnabout. Swimmers - cont. Any student who was unable to attend the tryouts during the past week must see Miss Schaefer before the end of school today, if they are interested in gaining admis· sion to the class. Yesterday the team presented their rythmic swimming numbers at Lakeview High School in a demonstration before adults enrolled in Physical Education and Swimming there. NileHi will be represented in the Central A. A. U. Meet, April 17, at the Shawnee Country club by our first year synchronized squad. They will attempt to capture the Water Ballet Championship. Good Luck, Kids! �In This Issue Niblets Platter Chatter Honor Roll Inquiring Reporter Horse Show Concert PrograTD Page 2 ~~~~~~~-..&..' " 2 " 3 " 3 " 4 Volume II No. 13 " 4 Spring Concert -~ . G · M 4 Ill ymnas1um ay With the lifting of his baton on Sunday afternoon, May 4 at thTee o'clock, in the gymnasium Mr. Collins will open the annual Spring Concert with the bTisk, snappy music of-"American Youth." Mr. Collins and Miss Klaus have collaborated for many hom·s to try to make thl·s concert the b1'ggest and best this school has ever given ... and to all appearances they are going to succeed in that aspect! Not only will the orchestra and the band Play several well-known numbeTs, but the boys' and girls' choruses and the choir will add to the atmosphere by vocalizing on many popular numbern; thus the whole music department of NTHS is going to participate in this festival. Not only will the progTam itself attract attention but also one memher of the audience should be given special notice. 1frs. Elliott, comPoser Of the Pl·ece "Three Little Maids" which she dedicated to the students in Niles Township's music department, plans to be present vou look at the fine proWhen " gram, see the many varieties of types of music and then notice that about 200 students will participate ' You must surely agree that this· i·s one event at our school that you shouldn't miss. The program is given on page 4. Prom King Elecion Next Week Prom king election for the Junior ·ng to b e held M ay 1 Prom l·s go1 · · · J unwrs an d seniors must give a 11 nominations to Miss Harbert before '\pril 29. Only a senior boy bringng a junior or senior girl is eligible ~'~~~~~~~-'" NILEHILITE Skokie, Illinois Clean-up Campaign Starts Next Week April 25, 1941 "Don't Take My Penny" Is Delightful Comedy Once again, clean-up week is here. The annual clean-up campaign will All NileHi is l'OCking with laughbegin on Monday, under the super- ter at the "scrnwball" antics of the vision of Mr. Galitz. A new and orig· P1·ingle family who made thefr deinalpJstercontestwillbe held. Post- but last night in "Don't Take My ers will be submitted by homerooms Penny." The 400 little theater goand not by individuduals, therefore ers, who turned out for the openeveryone in the winning homeing of our Spring play, filled every room will be entitled to share in seat in the Assembly. the prize. Posters are due not later Ffrst nighters saw Pat Reiland than 9 o'clock Tuesday morning, d th . 11 f H 11 d and turned in to Isabell Hoth in un er e mag1c spe o o ywoo the library. It is the hope of Mr. stardom; ·Grant Kuhn, the boyGalitz that every home room will friend, on the brink of retiring to a submit at least one poster. hermit.age; Jane Cecil and Bill On Tuesday and Wednesday the Stevens building a farm right beposters will be displayed in the f th . d p l M"k t cafeteria and judged sometime OTe eir eyes; an au I o a Thursday. Homeroomers may sub- modeling a $150 sp1·ing suit from mit any number of posters. The Paris-complete with coiffure. winning homeroom will be treated The cast for both evenings, Thursday's to a party on Friday· 'l'sted first, is: Sally, Jane Cecil, Shirley Shop Classes Tour Harvester Plant On Tuesday, April 22nd, the boys in Mr. Lindley's Advanced Shop, Wood Shop, and Electric-Auto · "t Sh op c1asses v1s1 e d th e I n t ernationa1 Harvester T ractor W ork s in Chicago. A tour of the plant demonstrated the steps in industrail production beginning with h f · hi t e manu acture ot mac ne parts and ending with the assembled products. Both gasoline and Diesel tractors are bu1'lt · d · · d th & The stu d ents v1s1te e ioun ry, drop forging, machine shop, assembly, painting and testin,g depart· ments. Visitors are barred from d · I . t h e pattern, too• d ie an expenmental departments. Items of particular interest were: multiple drills which drili 96 half's at one time, newest type of tempering machines electrically heated and huge Diesel "caterpillars"labeled •·For U. S. ARMY, paint olive drab". Dilg; No!'man, Don Smyser; Penny, Pat Reiland, Helen Miller; Caleb, Chris Lindhoy; )'lark, Bill Stevens; ltavis, Donna Cotanche, Marilyn McKe1!ver; Lydia, Betty Kelly, Marie Throop; Joanna, Mary Lou Leonard, Patricia Donnell; Kerry, Grant Kuhn, Gordon Davis; Greg, Paul Mikota,· Harrison Day, Lawrence Miller, h Joseph Fisher; Gram, J\fa1·y Baum ardt, Lois Anderson; Monsieur Henri, Calvin Koller; Claire, Jane Comstock, Connie Kohtz; Elsie, Evelyn Meyers, Cherie ~eutz; Lucille, Elizabeth Krysher, Jo Ann McKeown; Yvette, Pat Dickinson, Mary Lou Leonard; and Red, Jack Price, James Holmes. Members of the va1·ious committees i·nclude: Irene Guenther, Jane Penner , Peggy McNeill. Lillian Baptist, Helen Reeder, Marie Stritch, Ba1·bara Ashley, Catherine Ann Nelson, Jane Ohlson, Betty Farr, Betty Kelly, Delores Chapman, Mervyn Becker, Buell Brown, Marilynn Hynes, Jane Kadl ec, Joan Blameuser, Kathleen Smith, Florence Schramm. and Virginia Nordin. Mrs. Esch may well feel that this 1941 Spring play can go in the al'Chives with the best of them. The play is to be given again tonight to an expected capacity crowd, and if you miss it it's your own fault because we warned you against staying away, �Apri: 25, 41941 Page 2 NIBLETS 1 WHO'S WHO At NileHi 11 ~~-r-1~~ -1~~- NILEHl LITE De31· Reade1·s: Do you know people at NileHi Please do not ask the Nilehilite The biweekly is the students of and Box ful'ther questions about Ben who do interesting things outside printedKileHilite by ed!ted, publishedNiles omas. WE know no mOTe than of sch ool? No? Then we'll intro- Township High School of Skokie, Illinois. D duce a few people whose activities ~Ir. R. E. Cotanche. Principal. you do. EDITORIAL STAFF Paul Perlman who has been rib- !.'re deserving of notice. Collen Thomas First, there's Howard Wertz. ~~;~~~ant Editors bed unmercifully for blowing "an" Ph~lii~kB~~~k~ fuse in the physics lab, hereby "Howje" is the fellow who has Bill Steveoo r::osts legal notice that he will as- suread his talents over a wide field. 1 Feature Editors Grace Langen . sume i·esponsibility for his own He fr, one of OUT school's outstand- 8 1 Bob Reiland inp- Boy S~outs, being a Life Scout A~~l;lti~~ ~dftors fuses only. ~~r~~~ecG~rb~l~ Phyliss Braeseke had to take the well OT\ the way to Eagle s~out. BeWm. S::hnur blame for t he condition of he1· sid<:R working for his own awards Production Managers mW. Ross brother Johnny's locker. Pardon 1-~owie has coached his troop's first Mr. Clement Meier, Advisor 2'iven a first aid 1 us, our eri·o1·. (See last issue of : 1d te2,m who have Reporters demo:1sfration to a freshman as- Nancy Allen •. Henry Da rkow, W a yne Bartnn, Nilehilite.) Has anyone noticed, pe1·chance, c-emblv. Tvrn other sidel1'nes w1'th fune D eatnck, ~ormaBergma rk, BerniceComstoclc, Franson, Delfino, Jane ~oe Berg,_ ~lilrl_red ty , Hartney., Lois _Jaycox, the ·ponderous list Of subjects offer- him arcd WOI'king with the syn- ~tdiard K1~aemer. I at Reiland, Sal Detzzo, Kelly, Ruth R1 1man . · · h ed m summer school? Well, what c l'O!lJZC sw1mm1ng team and de- Robert,, Dick Snlon. Bettv Stielow Willard Stockr.,h, Viola Stoll, Toni Thlimmen~s. R obert Tol· . . Ing PIC t Ul'eS. (R e- ze,t n, Huward Weldon, Betty Westerlund, Maralvn I'd 't' are we Wal Ing f Or; W h ere (I we veloping a Il d pnnt' < · r.:-f'mbc1· him as Water Cal'nival's \\ o~,iw(ll'th put those books? Mi"" Susanne Ostergren, Advisor rr)p-htv hunter?) S(Hingfield Notes N"Pxt we nresent Eileen Heinz. Wish we could print the i·esults of indoor photography done in the Eileen doesn't build toothpick pal1940-41 f' ~.es 01· collect soap •..v1·appers. She hotel Dorothy Lutz and Ginny McClure files. Lessons that began with Ed kept D:S confused by frequently ex- Hedler last September started changmg hats on the trip. Which F.Heen on her glorious adventure. was which? ... We'll never know. She is now flying a GTeat Lake's Please inform us as to why Eddie tr~ining ship at Pauwaukee airport. . .· Brnitenbach was able to buy a E1~ht hours of dual flying and Well spimg ts here ??? And so pail' of shoes in Springfield and still thirty-fi".e hours of solo flying are figu1·e that the trip cost him exactly the rcqml'ements Eileen is working are some hot and sweet new platto meet for he~ private license. tel'S. Hany James has been going 30 cents. Charles Williams has found it an .f\ud1·ey Brown is OUT final presen- to town on his record making most ·"tte' · easy matte1· to relax on the lawns tat1?n. (She's the girl who won the of his new disks ar e wn n m , . of our fair campus with the aid of Latin contest.) Eight years of Jesa pillow. Is it possible that the sons lie behind Audrey's piano :M~sic Makers style, such as "Eli marks on it a1·e those of the St playing. Practice with Winnie Elt," and "Flatbush Flanfiigan." · Flagg's orchestra keeps Audrey It seems that the records with the Nichol~s Hotel, Chas? . Placid Clark Barton, when ques- busy on ~aturday momings. Fre- CTaziest titles ai·e best sellers: boned about the trip home said quent i·ec1tals take up more time. "When the Quail Come Back to San Add saxophone and oboe playing to Quentin" by Artie Shaw's Gramplaintively, "Nothin' happened." the piano work and you know why The Turnabout: Wasn't it a tluill to see our ath- Audrey is busy. To her summex va- ercy 5, "Ambercrombie Had a Zomletic "he-men" parading the latest cation means attending the Univer- bie" by Larry Clinton Shaw's "Dr s.tyles and om· lovely ladies tack- sity ?f Wisconsin Music Clinic. Livingston, I P1·eimme ?",and "Bea~ 'Ihc:re s no need to wonder why Night in Hotchkiss Corne1·s" by lmg each ~the1·? See Chene ~eutz foi· explanation Audrey has chosen music as her Les Brown. Fol' slow and easy l'~ythm try "The Spfrit is Willin' " of the fact that Gordon Davis and future profession. dished out by Miller. The amature Jane Cecil entel'ed the doors with soTigwriters have gone to towri on Language Club Party an abundance of tickets. "Oh~ H 1'he annu al party o f th e Foreign y· h Look at Me Now," and "You There is a great deal of debate as to why the stag line retained its Language Club will be held on ~1.Jg t ave Belonged to Another" length at this, t he dance of dances. Monday, May i2th, at 7:30 P.M. in both by Tommy Dorsey. :Miller has two smoothies: "Ring Telephone Seen tripping gaily across the the assembly room. floor was "Iii" Eddie Breitenbach . ~11 Ja~guage groups are to par· Ring," .ond "It Was Wondel'ful weaTing one pair of "Springfield tic1pate m the evening's entertain- Then." He has, of course, the two ment, the last half of which is to standbys of "Song of the Volga shoes." Boatman" and "I Dreampt I Dwelt Te~ us why some "genius" had be dancing. Students may come in costumes In Ila1·lem." T. Dorsey and the Pied to brmg a water-laden baloon onto the~ most original receiving prizes'. Pipers with Frank Sonatra shine on the dance floor .and step on it. Charles Artner developed a sud- Re,reshments may be purchased "I TTied," and "Delores." ~en yearning fo1· cokes . . . could I for .a sma11 sum at booths typifying ~as~, but not least lis~;n to B1·adFm· the 1t be that he doesn't dance? 480 eatmg places of different countries. ley s Strange Cargo. cokes were bought for the Spinster Members of the club will be able scoops of the week we suggest T. Do~·.sey's "Eve1·ything Happens to to bring guests for ten cents. Skip. Me and Gene Krupa's "Who." PLATTER CHATTER I �NILEHILITE April 25. 1941 ~~ ,,~ ~ N~/ ' Page 3 Yearbook Subscriptions Qua1~er Sta1ti.ng May 5th Third Honor Roll , NileHi is proud to report that 96 students have attained the distinction of being on the Honor Roll and 53 on the Ho;:wrable Mention for the third quarter. The school is equally pttmd of the 12 seniors who are eligible to r:!ceive Gold Honor pins at the end of the semester. The students are listed according to their rank. The number following the name gives the total honor points. SENIORS Dorothy Kranz (30), Jwie Berg {31), Phyliss Braeseke (31), Don Fisher (30), Jeannette Huemmer (31), Don Rhodes (!)),Rita Jane Fisher (20), Lloyd Friend (30)) Irene Guenther (4) , Isabelle Hoth (24) , Edith Luxem (17), Laura Kunemacher (25), :.\farjorie Riser (19), Phvllis ~ hlotterbeck (31). · JUNIORS Mildred Bergmark (22), Kornm H2idtke (22) Virginia Reute1· (20) Florence Ochs (20), Paul P erlman (15), Gertrude Dahm (22); Doris )fossil (10), Dorothy Nel!'.On (12), Dan Petty (14). J anice Yates (6), Barbara Anderson (2) , Liliian Bapt ist (11), Donald Baum ann (18), Marg~ret Dolan (9), Be:cnice Frnnson (14), I:hcharcl Hartney (8), Olga Krajchovich (16), :Ma1·y Lou Leonard (2), Dorothy Lutz (8) , Virginia McClure (10). Marilyn ~IcKe~ver (4), Virginia Nordin (13), Beatrice Rossman (12), Marie Throop (7). SOPHOMORES Adele Bartz (14), Lucille Lindemann (12), Tom Sheridan (14), Betty Stielow (14), James Watkins (11), P eter Conrad (8) , Dagmar Franson (14), Virginia Lenzne (14). Willmd Stockfisch (14) 1 Harold Anderson (8), Richard Boyd (14) Audrey Br~wn (10), Danny Dever (14); Ruth Hennig (10), Rosanna King {13) Janet Lutkehaus (13), Ernest Nordquist (21), Ra !ph Rentzch (7), Dorothy Rings (13) , Lois Ruthenbeck (13), Viola Stoll (14). FRESHMAN Joan Cutsler (6), Doris Hampton (6), Leota Harper (6), Jack Harrer (6), Nona Jayne Holoppa (6), James Lannert (6) Barbara Mason (6), Margaret McNeid (4), ~obert Pasek (6), Jack Price (6), Lorrame Splett (6), Barbara Ashley (3) ~etty Bray (6). Tom Davidson (6); Har~ i:1 e~ Hart (5), William Moorad (6), Marie Stntch (6), Ted Carlyle (3), Richard Cutler (5), Marion Conrad (6) Ma1·y Kay D~Witt (5) , George Dorsey '(3), Ji.farion E1chelkrnut (4), Charlotte Einbaus (3 ) Bett:,: Farr (7), Alma Gatzke (6). Jame~ ~eating (6), Beverly K ramer (6), Wilham llfarnon (3), Eileen Molitor (3) James Moo1·e (2), Gordon Peschke (5)' Jean M. Peterson (5), Ted Roess (6)' Roe~e~e Schalow (4), Frances Smith (6/ Patr1c1a Tracy (3). ' The Annual Staff proudly an::iounces. that the 1941 yearbook is nracbcally complete - save for '1 few fi nishing touches. This .vear's annual will contain, in addition to the moTe f OTmal pictures of seniors and the administrat ion, several "shots" of the building, school life, and outstandin1r events of the veal'. E 'lch seriior be presented ,-;ith a yearbook on commencement "'ven i n~ as a paTting gift fr om N"i10Hi. Subsc1fotions will be taken for the vearbook the week of May 5th. A, t t l1is tire a d~po::;it of 50c is required. The cost of the vearbook i q $1.?5 to Nilehilite s11 bscribers $1.50 to nol1-subsc ribel's. Blue suede cove1·s lett'-'red in gold will inclose approximately one hunrir"d pages. A complete set of Nilehilites will be incol'pornted in the back of the annual so you'll have the complete school ye.'.lr in pictmes and words. will '",:i Synchronized Swimmers NT HS girls Synchron ized Swim Team captured 5th place honors at the Shawnee Country Club Water Carnival and Swim meet on April 17th. UPSTAIRS AND DOWN What do you think about in your spare time'! aetty Kelly-Senior-"Otto !" !Ji]] Ross--Senio1·-"THE Woman." !\lier le Iverson-Junior-"Summer." Leo Mueller: Junior - "Sports." Maxy Lou Heinig·er : Junior "Oh, a lot of t hings." Burt Pea1·son-Sophomore-"Vacation time." nny Wyatt - Sophomore "Whethe1· or not Mr. Lienhai·d is going to pass me in geometry." B~ttie B1·au~h: Sophomore "Knitting." Zenon Tarski: Sophomore "That's a personal question." Dolores Bobowski: Freshman "The mystery sto1·y I'm writing." Rcbel't Denley : Freshman "Nuthin'." James Fnres: F reshman "Horseback Tiding." Hckn RcbeTts-F1·eshman-"Conv ertibles." Ted Carlyle-Freshman-"Oh just girls!!" · Miss Jolmson-"School and otheT little things." The girls presen ted a water ballet to the tune of "Jealousy", a t ango rhvthm. l''B US h League/1 Miss Schaefer was extremely pl eased with their accomplishment. Swings into Action Honorable Mention SENIORS :Tane Co~~tock (3). Ben Domas (27), Mildred R1sm~er ( 8 ), Edward Springer (28), Gloria Bartz (27), Genevieve Conrad (3), Mary H egarty (9), Betty Kellv (8) , Paul Mikota (1), Sl1e Schaefer (11), J.<>..,erne Schuler (12), William Stevens (20). SOPHOMORES P atricia Galitz (11), Dolores Grembec.ki (7). Mar ion Harker (9), Katlle,,ine Kretsch (8), Carl Mueller (J3), Kay Winger (3), Doris Burklund (6) , Agnes H eiri.z (4), Dorothy Lund (5\, Robe 1·t Tolz1en (3), Harvev 'l'olzien (3) . FRESHMEN PaLricia Bennett ( 1), Frank Boufford (4) , John Braesl•e (1), Jane Breckenr idge (2). Joseph Byron (1), Thomas Cook (4), Patr icia Cole (1), Robert Harston (5), Robert Humburg (3), Wilford Johnson (5), Howard Langan (3), Anna Nachbauer (1), Rose Marie Norum (4) C~celia Rizzo (4), Helen Roberts ( 5 ); M1lan Voyvodich (1). John Warakomski (5 ), Lawrence ~elcho (3), Gloria Weste_rbe rir ~.3) , Luc11I.e Anderson (1), QuentHm.Blev.(it)t (lJ), Richa rd Hazen (3), Jerry ernz 2 , ames Holmes (2) , Nancy La~sen (1) , Grace Kelson (3), Charlotte Qumc~ (1 ). Ca r ol. Remus . (1), Dorothy Stewa id (1), Bermce Tolz1en (1). NileHi's "bush league" swung into action last week, a long with the Cubs and Sox. PTactically every l h d 'd d c <JSS as ec1 € upon the 12" baJl, four teams to a class, three base., and a variety of screwy names'. Some of t he novel names are: Binge1·s, Bongers and Bangern, cart.ained by Peterson, Jarrett and Iiams, respectively. The members of the varsity baseball team will act as umpfres. Other teams and theil' captains are: Knockern, Davis ; Yonkers Ha~lb3rp.- ; Yankers, Husche1· · Daub~ e1·s, Schmitt,· Rhumbas, 'Dal1m,· l\for~ns, Car roll ; Wangers, Krier; Mamacs, Stockfisch; Jerks, Heinz; Erro1·s, \Vise; Bats, Rodgers; Zippei·s And D · B , ' . ernon; nppers1 aurnhardt, Droopers, Ceccom; Flubhers, N. May ; Ringers, Roll; Wolves, Haner; Peppers, Rizzo; J agons Leibrandt · Putlets IIargt ' ' . ' . . rm on; Baggers, Fieck; Fa1r1es, Hezner; Socks, :VIuelleT ; U . S., PodI"aza ; and Wackers, Reiland. I· 1 �Novelt~ Horse Show Open to All Students Novelty Amatem Hor<>e S~:ow to b2 held at the Flying V.F. Ridirg Academy is open to all rid~rs of NTHS. The HoTSe Show is snonsored by the NileHi Riders; Those 'd 'L3Y 9 , a t 8 :00 p.m. F :.·1 ::i..y, J\ic interested in entering should make I J-. dr rf'S"Tvations with Virginia Nordin, BeveTley KTamer, or Joan Cutsler not lateT than May 5. The object of the demonstration is to re-c1·eate and furthex intexest in the11nt-of-dooT by means of outdoor snort, a11d to acquaint parents with the stables, and to see the prorrress our hol'Seback riders have mrde. The fr·kets to see the show will go on sale starting May 5, at 25c each. The program for the evening will include several novelty rides (dipper i·ide--stall ride, something like musical chairs on horseback), and formation riding by the w entire group. lVfr. Casey · ill have a ten year old boy jump his champion horse. This hoTse is shown at Rodeos, and it jumps ove1· cars. Movies will also be shown on the various paces of horses. Refreshments, doughnuts and coffee, will b~ served. To complete the evening there will be dancing to the music of a iute box. All students entering the show must be present Monday night, May 5 to practice. The Golf Team-Five boys will represent NileHi in the first golf match of the season against Evanston today. Last Tuesday and Wednesday the members of the squad were detennined by an elimination tournament. The :five players are: Ray Keegan, Bob Podraza, Nick May, Henry Dahm, John Braeseke, Charles Leibrandt. Girl Champs Schr.amm's Hams captured the Girl's intrnmural volley ball championship, defeating Nannie's Nit Wits. The winning team members are: Florence Schramm, captain, Pat Dickins !Tene Neumann, Cecelia Rizzo, June Mack, Dorothy Nelson, Florence Ochs, Kay Reasland, Ge1·maine Moenning, Leone Becker, and Dorothy Kranz. April 25, 1941 NILEHILITE Page 4 Track Squads Lose Meets The Frosh-Soph trnck squad bowed to Palatine, 641/2 to 441/2 in their first meet of the year. The youPg Trojan team proved to be especially strong in the field events and dashes. Biegert was high scorer with 12 . pomts, capturing first in the broad jump, seconds in the 110 and 220 yard dashes, and a third in the 50yard dash. Other scorers were: L. Kuhn, 8 Y2; Rau, 6; G. Kuhn, 5 !/2, Langan, 4; Coursey, 3; Alecson, 1; and Wareham, 1. On April 18, the Trojan vru·sity t~·ack squad was defeated very dec1sevel~ by Crystal Lake, last year's champions. The squad was com~osed of 12 varnity men and 12 Frosh-Soph squ~d members. George Schrmtt took second in the 44.0 yard dash. ·Other points were accounted for: by Ted Canty, who placed .second m the half-mile, and .Ray N1tch, who captured second m the shot put. Tomorrow t~e NileHi team will ti-ave~ to Palatine tio compete in the Trojans Open Conference Ball Season Todag Trojans travel to Le1den this afternoon to play their first Conference baseball game. They have playtd t 110 practicegamcs,although loosing both they are confident of a good game at Leyden. The team has Leen under handicap through injuries and a few ineligibilities. Everybody was sorry to hear that Ben Domas was through for the year. Doctor's orders. The first game at Waukegan ended 5-0 and New Trier won here by a 6-0 score in the second game. Victory hopes now rest in the pitching of Frank Thulstrup. Nilehilite Contributions I want clean "utinsuls" to eat off of, Please. Distressed P_al_a_t_m_e_R_e_la...::.y....:s:.:...·-------~------------­ CONCERT PROGRAM Orchestra 1. March - "American Youth" .. ................... F. Gauer 2. Overture - "Mosaic" . .. . . ........... Arr. by J. S. Seredy 3. "Dancing Moonbeam Cap1·ice" . ..... . ... . .... . .. ·... . Ward 4. Ballet Suite from "Rosamunde" .. .. ........ Franz Schubert 5: Waltz - "Remembrances of Waldteufel" ............ Seredy Combmed Choruses 1. Cornfield Melodies - Negl'O Folk Songs ..... Arr. by Rieggel' . 2. Beautiful Dreamer ............................... Foster Gll'ls' Chorus 1. My Lover is a Fishe1·man ... .. . .... ............ Strickland 2. The Cloud ..................................... Fletche1· 3. Chanson de Marie Antoinette .................... Jacobson 4. Three Little Maids ................................ Elliott Boys' Chorus 1. S ong of the Road ... ........ . ... . ... .. ...... ... . .. Potter 2. Sing Me A Ch~ntv With A Yo-Heave-Ho . . O'Keefe-Wellesley .3. Stout-Hearted Men .......... ~. . .. ........... ... Romberg . . 1. In These Delightful Groves ............. ... . : ...... Purcell 2. When Children Pray .. .. .. ........... ~ ....... .. .. Fenner 3. Rain and River .. . . . . .. ..... . ...................... Fox 4. Gold and Blue - School Song ..... . .. ..... ... C. W. Collins Twirling Number ........................ Drum Majorette Sextette Elva Johnson, Bernfoe Franson, Annalise Nachbauer, Olga Raskow, Arlene Rechterman, Pat Reiland Band 1. March - "His Honor" .. . -........... .. ... ....... Fillmorn 2. Overture - "Mantilla" .. ....... .. . ........... Paul Yoder 3. Novelty - "Clarinet Polka" .. .. ... . ... . .......... Echtner 4. Overture - "Crusaders" ......................... Buchtel Combined Choruses ' 5. March Song - "I Am an American" .............. Schuster Combined Choruses C~IT �In this Issue See Chicago Club Summer School Tennis Baseball Track Reunion of 1961 Niblets Inquiring Reporter Ideal Couple P~e~ "---N_l_LE_ L_l'T_E------i - H_I " 6 Volume II No. 14 :: ~ Skokie, Illinois May 16, 1941 Students Visit Hull House, Fart SheridaD, Great Lakes CALENDAR " 3 MJ.y Hi-Eighth Grade Night I 23-Northeast Conference " 6I Track Meet The annual Junior field trip ta::en 30-No School; Memorial Day on May 14, to Fort Sheridan and June 1, 6-Review Week The United States Naval Training 7-Junior Prom; Gym at Station, added much to the student 8 :30 p.m. comprehension of national defense. 9, 10, 11 - Final ExaminaA '">rief, but informative tour was tions taken through the Hawthorn~ MelThe soft lights dim and ti.rough U-Senior Breakfast ody Dairy Farms, where each stuthe still night comes the Thyth12-Commencement; Gym at dent received a bottle cf chocolate mical beat of a tom-tom. As the 8 :15 p.m. milk free. 13--Senior Picnic Although the students were conf rom king and queen slowly emerge fined to the buses at Fort Sheridan opposite ends of the brightly light- International Night because of military reasons, the ed anchored steameT, the drum be- Pl C d Juniors w~re able to view and comgins to beat gayer and gayer. The eases rovy , prehd14.'!!'}any interesting si~hts. Last Monday mght the AssemJ:>l;,. . Aftet"~ending about 45 mmutes royal pair slowly approach the tiny Ro_om ,vas the . scene o~ festive at Fort Sheridan, the group chen island, where they meet and then gaiety, as Spamsh senontas ;and continued to the Naval Traininl?" glide to the colorfully decornted dashing caballeros, peasants from Station where the students were alaltar, where thefr attendants ex- the Rhineland, gay Parisians and lowed to leave the buses. Escorted citedly await their arrival. "bet~gged" Romans . d::inced . ~he by several petty officers of the navy, To the strains of a Hawaiian mel- evemng away to the hlfmg strams the pupils were shown the interiors ody, the leis of red carnations are of Artie S~aw's "~tardust." of several buildings; the swi~ing dropped to the shouldern of Irwin In~erµat10nal Night, the annu~l pool, the armory, the new mess Witte, prom king, and Helen Foreign Language Club party, is 1 hall" and old armory were a huge Schuettt, his queen. Robert Rei- the only costume party of the regi~ental parade took place. land, runnerup, and his partner, school's social program. The Hostess House was turned Ba1nara Williams and members of The bright, canopied sidewalk over to the navy's guests, and many the iunior Council ad as attend- cafe featmed French pastries; hours sped away hurriedly in playants. cokes at the German "Bierstube" ing checkers, drinking "cokes",buyPalm trees with real cocoanuts, quenched many a thirst; little ing candy bars and ice-cream and brilliant colored flowers, ferns, Latin ladies sold litters of lilacs and talking to the sailors. Hawaiian figmes, and an anchored lilies-of-the-valley to the lads and Uisses Kranz and Lant and Mr. ship in the harbo1· create for you lassies; many were attracted by Ohlson accompanied the students. rn atmosphere of enchantment. the vividly decorated Spanish lotOne hundred Seniors particiThis is just a preview of what teTy booth-prizes were won by pated in a tour of the Hull House will actually take place June 7, at Phyllis Schlotterbeck, Robert Ger- in Chicago last Wednesday, May 14. Niles Township's South Sea Island ' hardt and Wayne Kunkel. I Guides from the Fl.'ee Educatioi;iPrnm. The entertainment featured a al Tours Bureau conducted the trip galaxy of stars: Bob Reiland and through the Jane Addams Housing 11 Bob Krier in a German comedy; Project. The students visit Hull Betty Kelly whistled; JoAnn Mc- House and chmches and stores in Cuxtain ! Curtain going up on Keown gave another of her novel the vicinity. "June Mad!" This hila1·ious tlu·ee readings; Marie Throop sang and They attended a movie on the act comedy which played so long Bernice Franson danced; Roberto Hull House activities and late1· had on Broadway, will be presented at Barton translating for Bill (to luncheon there. NileHi in our Assembly Room, May mucho) Stevens, Mildred Bergmark Tuesday the freshman class spent 29 at 8 :30 p. rn. by the Chicago as flower girl and Paul Perlman as the entirn day viewing some of the School of Expression. the comic station master were fea- wonders in Chicago. BToken down The play is directed by Ruth tured in the play given by the into five groups, each group visited Rossiter and features Bob Harms Spanish group. Mexican street two of the following places: Shedd and Barney Brauch, two foxrner dancing wound up the program led Aquarium, Field Museum, I.C. StaNileHi actors. Also in the act will by the Razkows, Olga and Gene, tion, Rosenwald Mus e um and be Bill Stevens of NileHi. and songs by the Spanish grnup. Northwestern Station. Tickets can be purchased for 35c The advisern, Miss M. Ronalds, The groups were under the guidfrom Helen :Miller, Katie Nelson, Miss Bronson, Miss Berry, and Miss ance of the following teachers: :Miss Cherie Neutz, Pat Harms or Mrs. Krnnz, must ce1-tainly be thanked Stone, Mr. Galitz, Miss L. Ronalds, Esch. fOl' the festive occasion. Mr. Kent and Miss Johanns. -------------- Soft Music, Dim Lights " Junior Pram 1 \\June Mad �Page 2 ~ILEHILITE A Senior Comments Class Reunion Of 1961 On The Draft Every boy, sooner or later, must serve one yeaT in military training. '.:. hnt time will soon anive for many of oul' s eJ1iors. The age limit, 21 years, seemingly places the present gr a du ates at a disadvantage. \ / ouldn't it be bettel' for the young r::en to spend their yea1· immediately afte1· completing high school and then return, going to work or college. Numerous advantages may be seen in having youths enter before they are 21 years of age. Many promising jobs and positions will be filled by high school graduates this summer. Most of these youths will progress for two or t hree years, at which time their advanced position will be inte1·rupted or lost by the law. Life in the army is a great physical builder-as attested by many local youths who have spent some time in that life. Along with physical development, the1·e is great character development through the ligid exactness and qualifications of army life. These would undoubta bly aid the youths in leading a better life as a citizen of this coun- May I6, 1941 Just Imagine u ita Miller with a heine Anr. in Beirbaum w itho ut a blue sweater Phyllis Brneseke without a smile Pat Reiland without Dick Waslcy Jane Ka delac not looki ng cute Paul Doremus leading a swing band Rita Jane Fisher without a rruestion Phyllis Schlotterbeck with cui·ls Ben Domas without a girl J car:ette Huemmer dancing with Frank Thulstrup A Prnblems workbook without nursery 1·hymes "Good afternoon , ladies and gentlemen, th is is yoUl' society newscaster, Isabel Hoth, bringing you the season's big event: the twentieth reunion of the class of '41 of Niles Township High School. This year the event is being held in the new Supe1· Elite Country Club of Skokie. As you know, the club was built in honor of the '41 class and is open only to them and thfir families. "'Ihe alumni are beginning t o "nire. Here comes one of our prnminent citizens, S'.11 Rizzo, in his chauffer-d1·iven hearse. He annually attends t his banquet in hopes of bringing more customers We would also like to announce to his Morte de Salon Funeral that this year's Bob Hope is Don Shoppe. Riding with him is Bob Rhodes. His two stooges a1·e Armie Fre1·es who has spent his yeal'S Biei·baum and Don F isher. stuffing hot bread in his chain of "As feature attrnctions we have bakeries. Following in this great procession is t he newly elected Gloria Bartz and Chris Lindhoy, mayo1·ess, Carol Blameuser, who the world famous dance team, who has carried on the tradition of the came direct from Hollywood by Blameuser family . .. We now have truck. We ~.re still waiting foi· several famous personages arriving in Charles Williams' armored Miss Bartz to name the day she car. Mr. Williams, now owner of will become Mrs. Paul Mikota. Mr. a large chain of " restam·ants," is Mikota is now assistant onion accompanied by his most efficient grower at Richard Wasley's Maison connoisseurs, Ralph Krier, vVilliam de Produce. And here comes June Stevens, .and Dmothy Krnnz. As Vincent who took a night off from ·cry. have Kermit The1·e is the slight possibility guest of honm we the Aj ax Tool Producer Merwyn Becker's "Gay Faust, president of that war situations will necessitate "Ild Die Company. :Mr. Faust has 40's Review" where she is now remaining in service longer than head. making a great success as head one year, but in that event the nevel' let success go to his He still keeps his first job of Can Can gil'l. draft age would also be lowered and putting nuts and bolts in hammer selection would follow. "Coming up the walk is Frank ~1cads. Coming next are Dr. How:-ird Harrington and newspaperman Thulstrup who is Skokie High's Kuhn. Mr. Kuhn still occupies his HistOl'y teacher. Oh, just a minStarved Rock spare time by throwing papers ute l We now have another celePeterson, now known second story windows. Next See Chicago Trip through H ere comes Lol'l'.aine Full- b1·ity, Williamfamous designer who as Rene, the "Oh t Starved Rock State Park will be hardt and her "Swing Crew" runs-.the Chic Gown Palace. Some host to the annual outing of the truckin' down the avenue. The " Swing Crew" is one of the more of his models arti Eva . Herman, See-Chicago Club on Saturday, famo us bands of the year. Such Jeanne Armstrong, Grnce . Good, May 24th. School buses will take notable musicians as Winnie Flagg and La V ~me Schuler. And there's club mem1Je1·s to the park to spend i-'nd Irene Haefal playing the hot Helen Miller, the featm·e dance1· the day. Those who are interested fidd le, Irwin Witte and Nick May of t he Ballet de Wolf, followed by may take a boat trip along the playing accordian, Jeanette H uem= Roger Trimble who, incidentally, scenic river on which the grounds mer playing bass viol, Sue Schaefer supplies the community with goats' are situated. Sta1·ved Rock has playing clarinet, and Phyllis Braes- milk. Another use for this product long been a mecca for students of eke playing tuba am included. was found by Kenneth Schrambeck Indian lore as it was t here that With the group am soloists Mat- who owns the Salon de Bath. Mr. one of the gi·eat Indian battles of thew Nosal, w histler, and Clyde Schrnmbeck says, "A goat's milk Illinois took place. The trip should Henning, bird call imitator. Direct- bath a day keeps . . ." (Oh, no, pmve of wide "interest to the club ing this parade aTe mounted police- that's Lifebouy soap!) members as it embodies both plea- women Katherine P ewett, J eanne Continued on page 6 sure and historical backgi·ound. Lee Hester, and Barbara Williams. �NILEHILITE May 16, 1941 NILEHILITE The NileHilite is ed'.ted, published and t r:ntcd biweekly by the students of Niles T wd'.1ip High Sehool of Skokie, lllinois. :.i·. R. E. \otanche, Principal. · EDITORIAL STAFF Bob Reiland Editor Grace Langen Assistant Editors Feature Editors Phyllis Braeske Annette Carroll Activities Editors Bill SteveBS Collen Thomas Sports Editor· Florance Gable Clark Barton \~m. Ross Production Managers Wm. Schnur Mr. Clement Meier, Advisor Reporters Xanrv Allen. H enrv B:irknw, \Vayne Barton , T•me l~erl.!. Mil•lre I -Ti er1?n 1 a ~k 1 Jan~ Comstock, i ~me Deatrick , Xonna Delfino, Bernice Franson, Hid·anl Hartney, I.ms Jaycox. BeitY Kelly, r rm "t '1 Krae111er. Pat Rei la:-t~ l. Sal R 1zzo 1 Ruth R~ bert - , Dick Snlon. Jle1tv St'elow, Willa rd Stockfi <:)J, Vi ola Stoll, Ton i Tli limrienos, Robert Tol7Ci n, 11 nwanl Weldon, Bet t y \Vesterlund, Mara Iyo \ . 'n · nwnrt h 4 Mil"" Susanne Ostergren, Advisor ;!.\l)\~r.lS010[45 ~ ---~~" mJtf,n,'F' "----" r::,i .,,~£'.~£:!~~'::/ 1940-41 .lb Upstairs and Down "What is yom favorite expression?" Betty Meuer, Senior-That's tough. David Jacobs, Senior-Strike three! Adell Sell, Junior-For "Pete's" sake. :Ma.i·y Abbink, Junior-Oh to be on the honor roll. John May, SophornOl'e-Ah ! Shaw! Virgin~a ~nzen, Sophomore-Hi Kid. James Kozak,SophomoTe-TooBad. Lorrnine Betlinski, F1·eshmanMonkey. Patrick Bennett, Freshman-Nuts. Canie-Be sure and turn in your suit and towel. Don't forget to use soap. "Don't Take My Penny" A combined cast of "Don't Take :Niy Penny" entertained the lington Heights student body Monday, May 5, with an exchange assembly. The complete cast with Mrs. Esch and Mr. Cotanche were guests at a luncheon which prnceded the entertainment. NIBLETS Page 3 Leyden Assembly Thrills NileHi The first of a new type assembly Well, well, here we are again all ready to get the latest lowdown on w.as witnessed by NileHi students Miss and Mr. NILE-HI. Whistle when Leyden Community High 1 foT the Gestapo reports and let's School presented a novel musical, go: Davey Jones has been consideT- Wednesday, May 7th. Om guests ing joining the Canadian Expedi- : from Leyden were really a little tionm·y Force (we're not kidding) dubious about their ability when . . . Next time Lois Jaycox gives a comparing it to the acting that a party she ought to pull the shades group from NileHi demonstrated all the way down . . . Harvey Jensen a few weeks ago at Leyden. Desand Jack Heiniger were seen last pite their fears, the ninety-four Sunday night and they weren't piece band and the originality of alone. da da ... Sniff! Ginny Nordin theil· program really made this is going to move to Pittsburgh next assembly one of the best we've had July. Oh "ca-ruel" fate . . . the all year. Kadlac party was enjoyed by both The assembly was sponsored by the invited and the uninvited guest Miss Ostergren's Home Room, No. • •• we of the latter wish to extend 214. our gratitude for Jane's hospitality. This exchange assembly pleased Admirnl Williams likes splash paxt- the facu lty and students so much ies so much he tried to make one that programs of this type will out of a lawn party. . . Ask Jean pl'obably be canied on with several Holmes or Joe F isher if it worked schools next yeaT under t he sponor not. Glub, glub ... Home room sorship of the Fornm. 210 should be congrntulated for their Chewing Gum Parking Spaces H. R. 206 and their backboards fo1· waste- Wins Poster Contest paper baskets with the words "in Home Room 206, Miss Kranz's it not .a t it" w1·itten on them. . . Jean Nelson was seen by agent No. room, canied off top honorn in this 48Y2 weal'ing Bob Shure's class year's poster contest. The winning pin ... Pat Reiland, not to be out postel' was made by Lillian Meithdone, was wearing Dick Wasley's ke, Ruth Clal"kens, Norma Heidke, ring. . . Chuck Liebrant led the and Merle Iverson. Honornble menlist of people who owed money to tion went to Ann Oden of Miss the librnTy last week. Total $1.43. Line's room, home room 315, to . . frv (Prom King) Witte is going Genevieve Becker of room 209, Miss to take Helen Schnett as his Prom Harbert's home i·oom and Clark Queen next June... Jean Bates has Bal'ton of 313, Mr. Ohlson's i·oom. Everyone who has seen the magbeen running away from "Muscels" nificent display of posters in the Jones . . . At the Cheer Leader's cafeteria will agree that the homeParty there wexe more people tak- rnoms of NileHi shower very coming walks than there were at the mendable participation in this pa1ty. I wonder why?... And at year's contest. Betty Pauin's, Margy Berklund people have suggested that Niles and Torn McClerry established a put on a show like the one Leyden new record. They we1·e outside for put on for us instead of plays ... four hours strnight. . . Jane Cecil the Ge1·rnan Club fooled a lot of is veTy obliging to people on scav- people by selling coke at their Bie1· anger hunts. . . Claire Juniac Stu be. International Night ... Question of the Week? Why do Bobby couldn't make up her mind whether Rasmussen and Mardy McKeeve1· to use the Brake or the Gas on her watch the hack team pl'actice caT. So she used bot h. The out- every night? What Sophomore has come wasn't the bestA nurnbel' of what Senior's Major letter? Ar-1 �NILEHILITE What are your vacation plans? . "' •' • • • Travel? A Job? Play? Not Sure? No doubt, when SPRING FEVER was epidemic, you vowed, along with most of the rest of us, to spend the vacation days at the luxurious business of catching up on your sleep. But, by now, you are busy scheming schemes and planning plans for the good old summer time. Why not budget your tilne so as to include one or two courses in the Niles Township Summer School of 1941? THERE ARE REAL ADVANTAGES! Summer school attendance will enable you to a. cover required courses to allow more electives during the regular school year; b. learn to swim, or impove your swimming, during the~season when swimming is most enjoyable; c. make up lost credits; b. graduate with a June Class if you are a midyear student; e. learn typing for personal use, or improve your typing speed in a review course; f. enjoy the benefits of individualized instruction. All of these advantages are available to you at low cost. ... and, you will still have thirty eight days of vacation time after the summer term closes ! 1941 N T H S SUMMER SCHOOL 5th Year June 16 to July 25 Ask At The Office �NILEHILITE Page 6 Golf Team Meets Evanston This afternoon the Trojan golf t eam will be matched against New Triex's very strnng team in a six man 18 hole match on the Mission Hills Cou1·se. The Tr'..ojan squad is particulaTly good this year and the future should be better with five of the eight boys on this year's team returning next year. In two matches· the Nilehi team has defeated Evanston (12-3) and L~yden (11-1). Besides tonight's match, Mx. Galitz announces more meets have been scheduled with E vanston, Main, New Trier and finally, the Conference Meet . The top-flight Trojan · linksmen a re: Bob Podraza Ray Keegan Nick ' ' May, Chuck Leib1·andt, Hem;Y:, Dahm and John Braeseke. Nilehi's tennis squad, in its--firsf year, has drnpped two meets to Barrington while taking one from Leyden. Only on~ more event remains, the Conference meet on May 24th. Members of the team a:re: Red Williams, Bill Peterson, Bill Stevens, Chris Lindhoy, . Lennie Christiansen and Dick Hadney. Most of these boys will graduate this year and with no undercJassmen out for tennis the outlook for next year's squad is pretty dark. Reunion-Continued · "And here comes Bob Reiland, the man to consult if you have patent leather hair shine. Bob now works for Norma Delfino in her House of Delfino hair tonic concern. "We are vel'y sony to have to leave you now, but our broadcasting time is up. Don't forget to tune in to hear "Night Owl's Platter Club" with Betty Kelly, another distinguished alumni, in her natural element. Until this time next year, this is your Skokie broadcaster, Isabel Hoth, signing off." Ideal Couple Of NileHi May 16, 1941 Trojan Nine Seeks Fifth Victor~ This afternoon the Troj an nine c:::eing the same old faces will travel to Arlington seeking of Nilehi day 2fter day, our slightly unbalanced minds began running their fifth consecutive conference ove1· the different faces and figures victory. The NileHi squad leads of the student body and from them Warren in the conference rnce by we assembled the following ideal one game. Frank Thulstrup's 3-hit pitching specimen with: featmed the Trojan victory over Gene BeTgmark's hair, Leyden by a 13-1 score. Kenny Schrambeck's eyes, Moore, Reiland and Faust are Bobbv Brunson's smile; leading the onslaught against enFrark Thulst:rup's teeth, emy pitchers. Today's starting lineRay Nitch's physique, up, besides the aforementioned Dwain Kuhn's posture, three, will include: Druecke, Friend, Ted Crmty's sense of humor, Hegerty, Jensen, Gockenbach and Don Fische:r courtesy, Thulstrup. "Red" Williams' line, ' Kermit Faust's charm, Northeast Conterence Bill Stevens' speaking voice, Ben Domas' athletic ability, Track Meet - May 23 Jerr y Janett's dancing, The Northeast Conference Track Paul Mikota's clothing, Meet will be held at Crystal Lake Dick Wasley's vooming, on Friday, May 23, at 1:30 P. M. Stu. Tl;ten have you got? Why, Nile- dent Tickets may be purchased in h1's "supermale" ! ! Now let's see how the feminine angle figures in advance at the office at reduced rates . . with: Nilehi will be represented by a Jane Cecil's hail', stronger squad than last year . ExMard_y McKe;ver'~ eyes, pected point makers ar~: . Ch~ne N e~tz s smile, . Nitch, Kramer, Canty, Kendall, Clan·e Jumac's complexion, Clarke, Eichelkraut, Biegert, Bair, Nancy Allen's nose Miller, Dever, Aleckson, Kitteridge Jean Armstrong's teeth, Dahm, Nelson. Rau, and Coursey. Caryl J aycox's hands, The First Place Club [boys who Carol Blaumauser's figure, have won a first plac".! · in cqmpetiBarbara Williams' posture, tionl has now increased to 7. They Betty Kelly's sense of humor, are: Katherine Ann Nelson's courtesy, Miller, mile; Nitch, shot; Aleckson, Mary Lou Leonard's sweetness, low hurdles; Kitteridge,low hurdles; Joan Briggs' "come hither" quality, Kramer, 1,4 mile; Biegert, !Pole Doris Burklund's charm, Vault; Coursey, 14. mile. Shfrley Dilg's speaking voice, Gerry Deily's athletic ability, Play Day Ginny Nordin's clothes, Ten membern of the G.A.A. reJanice Moore's grooming, Don't you agree that these qu:tli- presented om· school Saturday, ties would make up the Nilehi May 10, from 9 a . m. to 1 p. m. at "supergal" to go with the "super- Elgin High at the Annual Play Day. Each G.A.A. class elected two male ?" She would also be some hese girls we1·e: competition to our Phebe at the repi~sentatives. T_ Carol Jaycox, Bettie Penin, BeveTsame timer ly Kramer, Patricia Bennett, Mru·ilyn Bennett, "Ruth Hennig, Dorothy Horse Show Neumann, Pat Ha1:ms, Doris Bm·kNo causw.alties were reported as lund, and Arlein Madsen. hoofs flew at the Flying VF Riding The theme of this years Play Stables last .Friday evening. The D.ay was "Hit Parnde." The gil'ls participants in formation and novel- rnced to the numbe1-, "Beat Me ty rides were: V. Beny, C. Blam- Daddy" and played volly ball to the euse1·, B. B1·ach, B. Kraemer, G. tune of "I'm Putting all My Eggs Langan, J. Custler, ~- Luckett, L. (balls) In One Basket." "Little Holbeck, F. Schramm, E. Kl·ysher, Red Riding Hood and The Wolf," B. Kelly, P. Dolan, B. Williams, D. as a modern comedy, was presented Kolen, E . B1·eitenbach, A. Maye1-, by the girls of this school. Skits R. Hal'ms, R. Freres and D. Rod- were presented by r epresentatives ge1·s. from each school. /~.ftc:· � Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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