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Voi. IX, No. 2
Skokie, III.
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Friday, October 17, 1947
Hall Clean-up Drive
Don’ t throw that paper on the floor.
Last Night s Snake Dunce and Bonfire
Open festivities of Homecoming Week
L ast night, under the lights of the
N.T.H.S. field, the 1947 Nilehi Home
coming week-end was officially opened. 1
Tonight a t 8 o’clock, the Trojans will
meet the Arlington Cardinals on our
field, in the annual Homecoming foot
ball game, and Saturday night the Home
coming dance will be held in the school
gymnasium
m&eMkmtm
Of cluthered halls, we’ll have no
more.
If everyone would do his bit,
entertainment committee, announced that
one dance will be held in the school gym
No work would be involved in it.
Many students and faculty members
have a t long last awakened themselves
nasium tomorrow night from 8:00 to
to take notice of the condition of our
11:30.
school corridors.
Hie Shorekners, made up of eight
Dr. A. L. Biehn, school superinten
pieces and a singer, will^provide the dent, sums up the feeling of many pu
music for the evening.
pils and teachers when he says, “One of
The decorations committee headed by the few weak points, and perhaps the
Miss Helen Johanns, announced th at the weakest in our fine school is the condi
According to Dr. A. L. Biehn, Nilehi
iecorations for the gym are to be kept tion of our halls.”
superintendent, Nilehi students will have
in secrecy until 8 o’clock Saturday night
an extra day of rest after the Home
Mr. Charles Ahrens, school caretaker,
coming week-end.
has noticed a slight improvement in the
On Monday, October 20, there will b<
waste-paper situation this year. This
no school, because the North Shore Di
small change, however, is not enough
vision of the Illinois Education Asso
if Nilehi is to keep its fine reputation
ciation will .hold a teachers’ meeting
of being one of the neatest, cleanest, and
a t Evanston High School.
most beautiful high school in the area.
Now and then in high-school journal
Never before has a great deal of a t
The snake dance, under the direction ism, opportunity knocks hard.
tention been focused on the state of our
of Mr. A rthur Ryden and Jim Heiniger
Bill Comstock, Nilehilite editor-in1 halls, but Nilehi has started to take ac
student chairman, showed the school
chief, was recently assigned to cover tion!
spirit of the students and the will to
two meetings of the General Assembly
A t a recent meeting, the class ad
win of the players. Although the team
of the United Nations a t Lake Success
visers discussed a plan to divide the
was not able to participate in the actual
New York. Bill, along with 74 other edi
school into four sections with one class
dance, they were present a t the rally
tors of high-school papers in Cook Coun
n charge of each. Under this plan the
and bonfire.
ty, will enjoy a four-day trip with all
juniors would supervise basement and
Coach Harold Isaacson issued orders
ixpenses paid by the Chicago Sun.
entrances; the seniors, the second floor;
fo r the players not to enter into the
A special train on the Pennsylvania
freshmen, the third floor; and sopho
dance, but rath er to conserve their en
R. R. will take the students on Novem mores, the third floor.
ergy for the contest tonight with the
ber S to New York where they will be
Cardinals. When “Ike” issued these or
Although no definite steps have been
put up at the Paramount Hotel. Enterders he was remembering an accident
taken, it is apparent th at the time for
ainmentt along with room and board,
th at occurred several years ago involving are all provided.
action has arrived. A meeting was held
one of his star players.
in the assembly on October 8, attended
The player, Ed Krupa, had been riding
Up to this year, the staff members by the homeroom representatives and
on the outside of a car during the parade rad never got out of Metropolitan Chi- their alternates. Ed Archibald, junior
Suddenly the car stopped, throwing Ed ,ago on their Nilehilite assignments. epresentative, led the discussion on the
to the ground. The fall had torn his ..ast year, however, such famous person corridor maintenance situation.
leg wide open and that finished the sea alities as President Truman, General
son for Ed.
Eisenhower, Milt Caniff, and Jack BenThe 6:15 kick-off of the J a y Vee game ay, along with many others, were introwill start the evening’s activities rolling. viewed in Chicago by June Pence, then
he Varsity game, number one eveni editor-in-chief.
of the evening, will be further brightened
June was the Nilehi representative
Hear ye! Hear ye! All Nilehi students!
by entertainment between the halves
to the Keen Teens, a weekly column
provided by Miss Mary Evelyn ThurAre your parents wasting time and
in the Chicago Daily News conducted
man, girls’ P. E . instructor, and a group
getting under foot? Now you can stop
by Val Lauder. Lyle Dye, feature editor,
of her advanced baton twirlers.
this condition by sending them to school.
is this year’s Nilehi representative to
That’s right, night school a t Nilehi be
According to “Ike” we have played
this column for teen-agers. Jim Schilling
Arlington at two Homecoming games
ginning October 20. Evening classes
will be the photography representative,
previously. We weren’t victorious in
will be offered to your parents and any
and Bill Comstock will handle the sports
either of these games although the last
other adult who wishes to attend, Ac
department. Doris Bernges and Gertrude
one, played in 1939, ended in a 7-7 tie.
cording to M r Martin Ihne, Nilehi facui
Brua are the alternate news representa
ty member in charge of the program.
Miss Marie Green, chairman of the tives.
Opportunity Knocks on Door
Of Journalism Classroom
New Night Classes to B e
Held for Nilehi Parents
Instructor Builds House
The Downtown Shopping News is
again sponsoring a high-school section
entitled the “Hi-Shopper.” Phil L a Veau
will be Nilehi’s representative to this
column, succeeding Dolores Wells, last
year’s Nilehilite feature editor.
The housing situation is a universal
problem and Mr. C. W. Selden, Nilehi
woodshop instructor, is one man who
has done something about it. Mr. Selden,
with the help of his wife, has made all
the window and door frames in their
The moral for this story, if there were
new house now being constructed in such a thing, might be: “If you study
Skokie, three quarters of a mile south of
journalism a t Nilehi, don’t think you
school.
won’t go places and see people!”
Classes will be held once a week and
will be two hours in length. Courses will
be offered in mathematics, foreign lan
guages, history, business education,
sciences, home mechanics, physical fitr
ness, and recreational sports.
Some of the same teachers th at en
lighten Nilehi students from day to day
will teach a t the night sessions along
with others imported from neighboring
schools.
�Page 2
Office Tells Total
Nilehi Enrollment
The total enrollment a t Niles Township
High School this year, according to
Miss Agnes E. Harte, office manager, is
929. Of these there are 207 seniors, 241
juniors, 257 sophomores, and 224 fresh
men.
Although the tuition this year a t Nile
hi is $228, $38 more than last year, there
are 97 tuition students over last year’s
80 tuition students, Miss H arte says.
In the ten years since Niles Township
High School has opened, the number of
tuition students has been, successively: 1,
1, 5, 0, 9, 11, 25, 51, 80, and this year 97.
Most of these students come from Chicago.
The number of Nilehi students from
the newly formed Northfield Township
High School district, formerly non-high
students, total 102 as compared with
last year's non-high total of 92.
In the past ten years the number of
non-high students a t Nilehi has been
successively: 1, 9, 18, 35, 52, 69, 85, 92,
and this year 102.
The number of students enrolled in the
University of Illinois cooperative ex
tension program at Nilehi is 35 compared
with last year’s 62.
N I L E H I L I T E
First Dramatic Production
Planned for Nov. 21 and 22
A fter many weeks of wondering and
suspence on the p art of the dramatic
students, Miss Muriel Higgins, dramatics
and radio teacher, has announced the
cast and the name of the first dramatic
production of the year to be presented
November 21 and 22. The play is “A
Date With Judy” which is a new comedy
play and the Characters are well known
because of the weekly radio program
of the same name.
The cast includes:
Judy Faster
.
»
Melvin Foster
.
Dora Foster
Randolph Foster
Hannah
.
Barbara
.
Oog-'e
.
.
Mil zi Hof "man
Mr. Martin dale
Sirs. Hotchk'ss
Elouise Hotchkiss
Mrs. Shlutzhammer
Rex O’ Conner
.
Susie
.
.
.
Announcer
,
.
.
»
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t
Joyce Matthews
.
Lyle Dye
Shirley Hawkinson
.
Dick Martin
.
Kaye Haefel
.
Doris Bernges
.
Clay Merrill
. Joanne Day
Bill Graefen
Marilyn Corduan
.
Evelyn Cole
Nancy Lane
.
Ted Eckert
.
Lois Lenberg
.
Bil Wokoun
Rehearsals for the play have already
started and the various committees
under the headship of Gertrude Brua,
Jeannette Oehring, Dick O’ Brien, E va
Lou Michel, Bil Wokoun, and Nona Bartoiini are organized and working. Mar
ilyn Pearson and Nancy Thiell are the
Eleven girls from homeroom 121 play assistant directors.
ed hostess to the entire class of senior
girls on October 10 in the assembly
room of N.T.H.S.
“This action was prompted,” announ
ced Miss Helen M. Johanns, homeroom
teacher of the hostesses, “when these
If you happened to be awake early
girls decided that they wished to have enough to tune in station W .J.J.D . last
the experience of a tea to prepare them Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m., you
for college and social activities after heard the premier of a program on which
graduation and to provide for a get-to many fam iliar Nilehi voices are sched
gether of all senior girls.”
uled to be heard.
“Women faculty members, Dr. and
It was called “Teen Problem Board”
Mrs. Biehn, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold and the fam iliar voice heard on the first
Oh Ison also attended.
of the series was th at of Dolores Wells,
The hostesses served tea, sandwiches 1947 graduate of Nilehi and last year’s
and cake, and) took charge of the games feautre editor of the Nilehilite.
.
which were played, later in the a fter
Along with four others, Dolores dis
noon.
cussed current teen problems on the
half-hour ad-lib show and gave out with
some good advice. Dolores was asked to
appear on the program because of her
position last year as the guest editor for
one edition of the Hi-Shopper section
The Nilehilite Is written, printed and pub of the Downtown Shopping News.
lished by the students of the Niles Township
Asked to recommend' some active
High School, Skokie, Illinois.
Dr. A. L. Biehn,
superintendent - principal.
students from Nilehi to be put on a list
STAFF MEMBERS
Editor-in-chief: Bill Comstock
which will make them eligible to be
Feature Erlitor: Lyle Dye
called to serve as members of the “Prob
Sports Editor: Jim Schilling
Sports Writers: Don Brown, Bill Neuson, and Ed lem Board,” Dolores named Lyle Dye,
. Linskey.
Bill Comstock, Bill Wokoun, Marilyn
Gir’s’ Sports: Doris Bernges
Circulation Manager: Gertrude Brua
Pearson, Lee Garner, Bill Fortm an, Dick
Exchange Editor: June Sprungman
Reporters: Marcia Connell, Bill Heveran, Lee O’Brien, Clay Merrill, Don Biehn, B a r
Harrer Saudra Ravencroft, Danna Barbour, bara Ballantine, Marcia Connell, Marilyn
Bill Neuson. Don Brown, Ed Linskey, Donna
Korsmo, Eileen Rodley, Bill Fortman, Roger E ngert, Jo Ann Eberhardt, Shirlee Hall,
Coverly, Gertrude Brua, Nancy Borneman, Shirley Hawkinson, Mary Ann R itter,
Doris Bernges, Don Dadigan, Phil LaVeau,
Dick O’Brien, Jack Nixon, Mary Morse, Patty Rudy Schmid, Howie and Don Siegel,
•• Meyer Deane Liesveld, Rudy Schmid, Carol Joan H arrer, Marlys Lawrence, Nick Rol
Schuler, June Sprungman, Bill Wokoun, and
lick, Pete Heiniger, Chuck W agstaff, Car
Joanne Day.
FACULTY ADVISERS
Paul Eberhardt
Clement Meier ole Stockenberg, and Kaye Jaeger.
Senior Girls Hold Tea
Familiar Voices
To Be Heard on Radio
Friday, October 17, 1947
SH O RT
CU TS
The monkeys a t Brookfield zoo are
going to get a big thrill when the “See
Chicago Clubers” visit them soon.
Members of the “See Chicago Club,”
sponsored by. Miss Grace H arbert, prob
lems teacher a t Nilehi, will visit the zoo
Saturday, October 18. This, the second
in a series of trips planned for the club,
will begin at 9:30 a.m. and be over at
4 p.m.
A Pictorial History of the Second
World W ar in four volumes was present
ed to Nilehi recently by the Skokie Val
ley Post No. 3854, Veterans of Foreign
W ars.
The four books each contain approxi
mately 500 pages of illustrations and
maps which cover the period of time
from September 3, 1939, to September
2, 1945.
The books, now in the Nilehi library,
were given to the school by the V .F.W .
so that students present and future may
have a better idea of the causes and
campaigns of World W ar II.
The boys of the senior class have again
taken over the control of the school’s
traffic problem, according to Miss Grace
Harbert, senior problems teacher.
Chairman of the traffic committe*,
Jam es Deily, hopes his group will be
able to carry on where last year’s grads
left off. He also expects the parking
plan to operate smoothly as it was
drawn up by a traffic engineer who is
an authority on parking problems.
Miss Harbert said she was grateful
to the boys, who took over the job with
out any help from herself.
If you hear some singing from Room
101 th at seems to go “way back when,”
you haven’t wandered into a gay nineties
review but chanced upon a rehearsal
of the newly organized Barber Shop
Singing group of N.T.H.S.
These 12 boys meet every Tuesday
and Thursday and they are advancing
at such a rate, according to Miss Clara
A. Klaus, music director, that they soon
will be able to compete with the S .P.E.B .
In case you haven’t heard, this means:
“Society fo r the Preservation and Encouragment of Barber Shop Quartet
Singing in America.
Nilehi now has a weekly radio pro
gram , each Monday afternoon a t 4:15
o’clock. The show, heard over station
W EA W , broadcasting on frequency mod
ulation (FM ) a t 104.3 megacycles, chan
nel 282, had its first airing last Monday,
October 6.
Some of the features of the series,
according to Miss Muriel K. Higgins,
radio instructor and supervisor of the
new show, include an interview of one
Nilehi student each week, a comedy
skit, and the playing of a popular
“Record of the Week,” selected by a poll
of N.T.H.S. students.
�Friday, October 17, 1947
This ’n That You can tell a freshman by the way
he walks,
You can tell a sophomore by the way
he talks
You can tell a junior by hie dignified
touch,
You can tell a senior, but you can’t
tell him much.
The cheerleaders are more than a
little troubled about the lack of school
spirit concerned with cheering a t the
games. Other schools have it; so can
we! L et’s follow our cheerleaders and
yell. Come on, Nilehi, let’s go!
Don’t you think the seniors ought to
know their teachers b etter? Well, any
way, at least the monitors, for one sen
ior boy down in the cafeteria mistook
Miss Higgens for one of our high-school
gals and told her to “get in line with
the rest of the kids”. Nice going, Miss
Higgens!
Shakespeare may be 500 years old,
but we have a senior at Nilehi who was
117 years old last September 18.
Jean ette Oehring’s birth certificate
states that she was bom in 1830. Due
to old age, “Grandma” Oehring forgot
to mention it in time for the last issue.
It seems Kay Jaeger, Joanne Day.
Marilyn Reiland and Jean Yotava were
three days late for school! Well, they had
a good eycuse since they’ve been oh a
month’s dancing tour fo rM argot Koche
this summer.
A u er wearing the soles oft one pair
f shoes, your inquiring reporter came
ip with these bright answers from eight
eniors as to what year they liked best
a Nilehi and why.
Jeanette Tolzien: I liked my junior
ear best because of the fun we had in
lr . B ett’s history class, and of course
here were the senior fellows.
Carole Medlin; I liked my junior year
lecause then yau had something to look
up to.
Bill Bierbaum: I like my senior year
best because I know everybody.
Marice R ay : I like my senior year be
cause I am looking forward to my col
lege “daze.”
Marian Mueller: I liked my freshman
year because it was so much fun to join
the G.A.A. and to meet all the new kids.
Laurence H all: I like my senior year
because I ’m getting out.
Nancy Lamberg : I liked my junior
year because of the fun we had in fourthperiod study.
Sam Roznos: I like my senior year be
cause you can sit back and look a t all
the freshman, sophomore, and junior
girls and take your pick.
N I L E H I L I T E
Fires A re Used
At Cold Football Game
Page 3
Cafeteria is Famous;
Parking Lot is Safe
A t the Leyden game quite a few of
The N.T.H.S. cafeteria system is fast
the spectators seemed cold and showed
it when they built fires on the walks becoming world famous— well, a t least
district famous— ! With such finesse has
near the stands.
the system been worked out th at sur
W ere you a t the first dance? Y e-ah ? rounding schools want to know how
Did you like it? Y e-ah ? Good. Our fel we are so capable of maintaining it.
icitations to the sponsors. L et’s have Leyden H. S. appealed to us for an ex
planation, and a few of the head buns on
another before the prom.
the lunch line, under the direction of
Miss Harbert, went over to offer advice
Good news! Jean Goodrich is back with recently.
us this year and seems as spry as ever,
Who will be next to ask ? Maybe a few
after so many months in the hospital
of the restaurant greats. But just think,
resulting from an accident last year.
we don’t have to wory about eating at
a table covered with yesterday’s gravy
anymore, (not insinuating th at we ever
did) and we don’t have to anticipate a
bashed in skull from a misplaced scoop
of mashed potatoes, or an odd piece of
This isn’t a nursery tale, but let’s wiener. Also the freshmen don’t have th«
pretend anyway. W e’ll pretend th at all burden of carrying 100 trays to the rack
the beginning boy typers are in the same anymore; this law is now called pee-wee
class (Miss Green and Miss Johanns protection.
are very thankful th at they’re n o t!),
All this Safety F irst in the Niles din
and th at we’re all standing outside room ing lounge is insured by a definite set
114 watching the 32 little darlings “do of rules which should be followed faith
their stuff!”
fully: (a , don’t sling trays at your neigh
F irst the bell rings— th at blow always bor; (b) refrain from targ et practice
has to come— and our eyes fall upon a t the wastepaper basket; (c ) do not
Don Baier, Gene Suckow, Roger Green whistle or sing unless asked to entertain;
land, and Tom Fitzgerald, all running (d) speak kindly to and respect the cafe
back and forth and into each other try officers; (e) suppress instantaneous com
ing to get their folders out of the drawer bustion of the lower lung and do not
and get to their seats without being seen. trip an innocent passer-by; (f) do not
Oh, look— poor little Bob Hogan almost pay in checks and stage-coach money,
got trampled in the rush.
and always observe the code of the cafe:
Finally all is quiet except for the “A clean meal goes a long way.”
loud, famous giggle of Jack Nixon which
A close competition to the Niles Cafe
was prompted by a wise-crack from Ed system is run by the fabulous new Park
Soergel. Now the boys are settled com ing Patrol, also under the capable direc
fortably in their seats and are eagerly tion of Miss Harbert. The new Park
awaiting the turn of events when what Patrol is coming along in a fine manner.
do their wandering ears hear but music! We must give credit to the students th at
We spectators in the hall glance at participate in the duties, who maintain
each other wonderingly as we hear the constant vigilance and make it safe for
little record give out with, “Click, click, old and young alike to walk across the
click, the keys are tapping,” and then the lot without fear of losing limb or life,
dawn comes! The boys are supposed to or just being terroized by one of
type in rhythm with the music. It looks N.T.H.S.’s safe drivers. “Merciful Heav
like, fun but Ronald Schultz, Paul Rugan, ens,” quavered a woman pedestrian the
Bill Fortm an, and Louis Triebold are other day, “th at daredevil just put a run
in my brand new nylon!”
finding how easy it is to be off-beat!
The motto of the P.P. is: take it slow,
Suddenly the little man quits and
guy. H ats off to Caf and Parky!
orders are quickly passed to s ta rt speed
Masculine Typers
Have Tough Work-out
drills. Reconversion is accomplished easi
ly but not before Wayne Piehler is blind
folded to keep him from looking a t the
keys. However, everyone isn’t hard a t
work as we see Wally Krysher turn
around to ask Ken Gengler how he keeps
his mustache trimmed so neatly. Then,
believe it or not, all is as it should be
for the remaining few minutes of the
period.
Now the bell has rung and we all
quickly leave the halls so the boys won’t
know we’ve been spying on them and
make them become self-conscious. As
the door swings open and the class pours
out, we hear Jim Wead mutter, “This
is worse than football practice.”
Teachers' Picnic
Is Strenuous Affair
~ We walked up to the double doors,
and barely managed to dodge a disheleled
Nilehiette as she draged herself out
the door. As the door slammed and the
noise was toned down to an uproar, she
was heard to mutter, before collapsing,
“Oooooh! Never again will I try to
crash a teacher’s picnic!”
“The old faculty members and the ten
new teachers were getting acquainted, it
seems, under the spreading assembly
room roof last September 30.
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W S rp s Hs
ar u lu a
NwHm at N h
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ile i
If the pupils of Nilehi haven't bought
any war surplus m aterials themselves,
they may unknowingly be served by some
of these arm y leftovers right here in
school.
Here’s why.
Mr. Charles Selden, wood shop in
structor at Nilehi, on a request from
the school office last July, went down to
Alton, Illinois, where there is a big arm y
surplus depot, to do a little shopping
that was eventually to benefit the auto
shop “hot rods” of our school.
The sole purpose of the trip was to
purchase some extra supplies for the
school auto shop, but what he came back
with made Santa Claus look like a piker
and what he found would have made a
junk man think he had passed into the
great beyond— a heavenly junk man’s
paradise where iron and steel and rags
were not picked up from door to door
but were stacked in immense heaps in
great warehouses.
Mr. Selden, not being a junk man, was
not thrilled. He was bewildered! “Take
your pick,” he was told. “All you pay
for is the handling costs.”
It was like setting a mouse loose in
a cheese factory, and with bargains like
this starring at him, Mr. Selden com
pletely forgot his original assignment.
Instead of just a few supplies for the
auto shop, he managed to untangle about
50 different items from the hugh pile—
everything from monkey wrenches to
dunce caps.
He also picked out an oversized pho
tographic tray which some members of
the faculty mistook for a new swimming
pool.
Departments benefiting from »Mr. Selden’s pilgrimage are home economics,
photography, art, all the shops, science,
and the school maintenance department.
Student Spelling
Is Teachers’ Woe!
As Nilehi teachers look through stu
dent theme papers, sometimes they come
upon amusing quirks that bring a chuckle
or two, but these are really mistakes
th at should be avoided, the teachers
think. Misspelling of simple words is
a fault in most classes, the instructors
report.
According to a recent Nilehilite
survey, the m ajority of the teachers
believe students do have faulty spelling.
It has been agreed th at most mistakes
take place in words such as there and
th eir; w rite and rig h t ; to, too, and two;
and words th at contain “ie” or “ei”.
Also confused are words of possessive
forms with plural forms.
Mr. Harold Ohlson, like his chemistry
students (not to mention others on the
third floor during laboratory periods),
has to put up with strong odor on oc
casion. But the smell is even worse, it
seems, when so many students persist
in spelling it “oder.”
N I L E H I L I T E
Friday, October 17, 1947
Cheerleader and Football Player
Hit Spotlight This Week
By Don Dadigan
By Carole Schuler
The cheerleading squad this year has
A fter runnning around in circles for
among its bright new faces Polly W etthe last two days, we were finally able
tengel. Polly stands a normal five-feet
four inches tall with stunning green eyes to corner Ed Kedlec.
Ed is five feet, eleven inches in alti
and blonde hair.
tude, weighs 180 pounds, and has black
Her warm personality Is as outstand
hair. Besides his interest in football,
ing as her pretty green eyes. Polly’s
Ed has some very definite likes and
willingness to work and her zest of
dislikes.
natural energy should give a big lift
His dislikes include the current trend
to the cheerleading and to the Spirit of
of longer skirts which he considers a
the school. Polly’s main ambition right
waste of material.
now is to be a good cheerleader.
Ed is really a congenial fellow, for his
She takes an active interest in that
favorite pastime is playing the accordian.
new one-semester course, psychology,
Although Ed hates to admit things,
taught by Mr. L. P. Babcock, who is
also Polly’s favorite teacher. When it we’ll venture to admit th at he’s a val
comes to meal time, Polly will eat any uable unit of our Varsity football team.
thing as long as it’s food.
Ed’s ambition after he graduates is
Her pet peeves are conceited boys uncertain, but he’s thinking highly of
and girls and people who talk when going into the electrical trade.
other people are trying to talk (espec
ially in psychology). She likes 1937
Fords, but it’s probably not the car she
likes, but the driver.
Finance Dance
Is Happy Memory
Popular songs are her favorite diet
of music, with “Near You” a t the top
by Marcia Connell
of her personal hit parade. Polly has her
With the Finance Follies ahead, I was
own opinion about the shoe-duster skirts.
She says, “The styles are swell, espec putting on my Red Silk Stockings and
Green Perfume when the doorbell rang.
ially if you haven’t got nice legs.”
Mother, I Believe there is someone
The thing th at discourages Polly most
Knocking at my Door. Could it be that
in school is having to walk from the
Solid Old Man, My Bill? I yelled “Dear
second floor to the first floor and then
ly Beloved, Hold Tight! Ju st Five Min
to the third floor.
utes More and I ’ll be Sweet and Lovely.”
A fter A While, I entered the 18th Cen
tury Drawing Room in my Alice Blue
Gown, ready to raise Whoopie with My
Man.
Snake Dance Is Over;
'Hangover Is Here!
Whispering he said, “Isn’t this a Lovely
Way to Spend an Evening, Love of my
Life? Those Dark Eyes are Temptation
and My H eart Tells me I’m In Love With
You, Honey.” I thought to myself Maybe
I t’s a Sin to Tell a Lie, but th at’s The
You may be suffering now, but re Sweetest Story Ever Told and I guess
member the good time you had last I ’m just a Prisoner of Love.
night. F irst you met all the kids and
A fter the Ball was Over, being Sweet
went to the Pep Rally. That was loads Sixteen, there was no Rum and Coca Cola
of fun, and then the big moment came! or Moonlight Cocktails but just One
Someone grabbed your hand and' before Meat Ball and Tea for Two. We couldn’t
you knew it you frantically snatched the stay until Daybreak so Flying High down
nearest person’s hand and you were off. Willow Road a t 11:60 P.M., with My
Okay, you can stop moaning now.
I t’s been practically 24 hours since the
snake dance , and just think, you’ve got
a whole year to rest before you go
through the whole thing again.
You were sure you were doing all the
pulling, at least it felt like it, so you
turned around and screamed to those
back of you to help a little. While you
were turned around, there just hap
pened to be a curb in the way, so you
were dragged for a couplé of blocks.
But wait, the night still wasn’t over.
The wise guy who was leading decided
to do some tricky turns and all of a
sudden, snap! Yep, that was your arm,
but you’re not quite sure if you’ll ever
be able to claim it again. And so, you
trudged home tired and weary but still
happy, for what on earth is more fun
than a little harmless snake dance?
Head on His Shoulder and Stardust in
my eyes I whispered, “You’ll always be
the One I Love.” When we finally got
Home he said, “Don’t be a Chatterbox,
Gimme a Little Kiss, Will Y a H uh?”
I answered, “No, No, a Thousand Times
No. Remember Me, I’m Yours My Hero,
but Once In a While, I Ain’t Misbehayen
so Touch Me Not.” But Fools Walk
Where Angels F e a r to Tread and I soon
Surrendered to a Kiss in the Dark and
a Little Huggin and a Chaikin. I m u r
mured, “Goodnight Sweetheart, I’ll See
You in My Dreams” and being a S catter
brain I went in singing the Victory
Polka.
�Friday, October 17, 1947
Trojans Win Again;
Leyden Loses 3 3 -0
N I L E H I L I T E
Page 5
G LAMAZONS
by Doris Bernges
From the starting whistle to the final
he girls gym four-week
gun, the Niles Township Varsity foot plans is in full swing. The Indian clubs
ball squad showed power through the are also under way, being manipulated
rythemically, ?) by both junior and senior
air and on the ground as they whipped
girls. Maybe this explains some of the
the Leyden Eagles 30 to 0 on Friday, lumps and bruises on the heads of our
September 26. The game was played un fa ir damsels.
der lights on the Niles football field. It
The senior girls have also been playing
was the Trojans’ second straight shutout group and individual games. Lots of fun
they are, too, while subtly exercising varand their first conference win.
oius obscure muscles. Therefore many
The Trojans kicked off, and after an
gals can attribute their slim waists to
exchange of fumbles, Ed Soergel, quar
playing “drop the handkerchief” or “pom
terback, intercepted a Leyden pass to
pom pullaway.”
set up the first of five touchdowns. On
The girls with medical excuses from
fourth down with four yards to go,
Soergel passed to Bill Comstock, captain swimming who have gym during the fifth
and left end, who stepped over the goal and sixth, and ninth periods are moaning
line for the score. The play covered a because there are only three more weeks
total of 19 yards. Jim Heiniger missed of archery. Some of these kids are get
the extra point, which marked the first ting pretty good with their bows and
of five failures in extra-point attempts. arrows, Miss Mary Thurman, archery
The first quarter saw another touchdown
by the Nilehi team— this one coming on
a pass from Soergel to Heiniger, who
raced 11 yards into the endzone.
Babcock Believes Human Frosh Bow to Arlington,
Element Affects Driving Season's Second Defeat
Aided by a Leyden penalty in the
According to “E ssex,” in the last
second stanza, the Trojans drove to the
issue of the Nilehilite, driving education
E agles’ eight-yard stripe. Soergel sprint
was a lot of fun. Well, it can be fun,
ed: between right tackle and right end to
but it is also a very serious m atter, as
make the score 18 to 0 a t half time.
Mr. L. P. Babcock, psychology and
The third quarter was extremely hard- driver-education instructor, pointed out
fought and neither team was able to in a recent interview.
score. In the last period, however, it was
It is not something new, but a pro
all Niles again. A long drive sparked by
gram that has been developed over a
Jim Blessing and Lee G am er was cli
period of years. Its originator was Dr.
maxed when Garner plunged over from
Amos E . Neyhart, consultant on road
the two-yard line.
training, American Automobile Associa
The final touchdown was made by tion, who instructed Mr. Babcock while
Howard Siegel, right half, who streaked he was an instructor in Independence
48 yards around right end for the tally, Junior College, Independence, Kansas.
making the final score Niles 30, Leyden Mr. Neyhart taught driving at P itts
0.
burg, Kansas
Second Quarter Gives
JayVees 18 to 6 Win
A fter a scoreless first period, the
Niles Township Junior Varsity football
team struck twice in the second period
and once in the fourth to defeat Crystal
Lake 18 to 6 last Friday night on the
Nilehi field.
The visiting Tigers managed to score
once in the last quarter, which marked
the first time th at a conference Junior
Varsity team has scored on the Trojans
this year.
With time running out on them, Crys
tal Lake successfully took to the air.
From the 2-yard line, Franz passed to
Jenner for their only tally. They also
missed the conversion and the game
ended with the Nilehi team on the long
end of an 18 to 6 score.
The Ja y Vees will play Arlington to
night in the annual homecoming event,
the game starting at 6:15.
teacher, says, One of the students lost an
arrow and lots of the girls started to
help her look for it. Finally they gave up
and called Miss Thurman who promptly
found it back of the “bulls-eye.” It had
gone all the way through.
Miss Mildred Schaefer, girls’ physical
education instructor, tells us th at she
has the best group of freshmen swim
mers she’s had in years. Fifteen of them
have passed all their beginner’s tests
in their third swim.
“The frosh are showing g reat enthus
iasm and wonderful cooperation in all
gym work,” says “Schaef.”
The freshman leaders are supervised
by Maryanne R itter, a senior, and include
Bernice d ark en s, Donna Groll, Shirley
Meyer, Emma LouCopeland, Helen Nachbauer, and B eatte Bomemeier.
Mr. Babcock believes th at there are
ceratin basic elements th at influence the
quality of our driving. The main influence
is the human element.
A person who has some mental barrier
is more likely to cause an accident than
one who is concentrating on his driving
rather than some other problem.
The weather, bad roads, reckless driv
ers, and many other things also make
driving hazardous, Mr. Babcock related.
In view of these things, Mr. Babcock
believes the 120 Nilehi students he has
i
tested have not done too badly. -How
ever, he said, the boys hold a natural
edge over the girls. This, he stated, was
probably due to the fact th at boys are
more mechanically inclined, and have
had more driving experience than girls.
The test consists of five main p arts:
parallel parking with five feet to spare,
driving forward and backward for 100
feet, zig-zag forward and backward
through standards, braking exercise,
and turning around on a two-lane road.
While the students are taking the
test, Mr. Babcock points out precautions
and maneuvers th at will aid their driv-
The Nilehi frosh dropped the third
game on their current schedule 25 to 0
when they played against the Arlington .
Cardinals a t their home field on October
9.
On the first play Arlington fumbled
and the Trojans recovered. On the next
play the opponents intercepted a pass
and marched down the field to score. The
try for the extra point was good.
In the second quarter neither team
scored. A t the half Arlington led 7 to 0.
In the third period the Arlington Car
dinals scored three touchdowns in the
first five minutes of play but the conver
sion after each goal was no good. A r
lington remained on top till the end o±
I the game and won over the Nilehi frosh
25-0.
Nilehi Frosh at Maine
A fter losing their first game to Ley
den three weeks ago the Nilehi Frosh,
coached by Mr. Jam es Phipps, beat the
Maine Frosh by a score of 18 to 7, on
the Nilehi gridiron.
A fter marching
down the field, Guenther of Niles re
ceived a pass from W alter on the 12-yard
line and went over for the touchdown,
the conversion, however, was no good.
In the second period W alter threw a
pass to left end Gawrys, who went over
to score once again for the Trojans.
The try for the extra point was in
complete.
A pass from W alters to Gawrys in the
third period' netted Nilehi another touch
down. The conversion failed. The Maine
team threatened the Nilehi Frosh but
their line held and stopped the thrust.
ing. He is trying to teach defensive
driving for the other’s mistakes. He also
believes any driver should know the
mechanics and care of his car, and not
just be able to step on the gas.
�Page 6
N I L E H I L I T E
Friday, October 17, 1947
Trojans Face Arlington Cardinals in Homecoming Contest Tonight
First row: Howard Siegel, Tom Black, Don Siegel, Ed Linskey, Bill Nenson (Manager) Bay Batz,
Lee Garner, Ed. Kntz, Jim Wead. Second row: Roger LaPlant (Manager), Pete Heiniger, Jim
Heiniger, Ed. Kadlac, Ralph Walberg, Herb Jones, Jim Kennedy, Jim Blessing, Tom Fitzgerald,
Ed. Soergel, Dick Horndasch, manager. Third row: Harold Isaacson, coach, Bill Fotsch, Lawrence
Hall, Ed. Peterson, Dick Norman, Bill Comstock, Noel Kiefer, Ed. Beebe, Art Miller, Ward Nipper,
an 1 Charles Hussey, coach.
Gridder Tells of Ordeals
Met by hootball Players
by Ed Linskey
To the few of you who don’t know
what a football player a t N.T.H.S. goes
through from 3:11 until 6:Q0, here is a
little example.
Well, after a hard day with the 3R’s,
we journey; to the locker room. We hear
the friendly i boyish pranks of fellows
snapping vfench other with towels and
talking on their subject (football? of
course!).
A fter putting our clean and fresh
smelling uniforms on, we are ready for
a nice soft practice. A fter stepping out
side we notice it has got a bit w arm er;
it is now 15 degrees above. But we drink
three gallons of anti-freeze and are
ready to begin.
But before regular practice begins,
everyone jumps a t the best liked as
signment of the day, calisthenics. A fter
everyone has dropped from exhaustion,
calisthenics are stopped and practice
begins.
A fter a short scrimmage of three or
Tour hours is over, we return to the
locker room. Then the few (about ninetenths of the squad) who have not re
ceived clean towels calmly race to the
towel room to find th at all the towels
are gone. But th at is the first of many
surprises.
As they are ready fo r a nice, hot
shower, they are met by an icy blast
th at freezes them in their tracks. That
just means th at the H 2 0 was not as
warm as they expected. Then they give
themselves a going over with an ice
pick and are all thawed out.
A fter we finish dressing, we trot
home to find we are just in time to
hear the “ Supper Club.” We eat, do our
homework, and then grab about two
hours sleep and are fresh as a daisy
in the morning. But don’t let anybody
fool you, the “Men of Troy” love-football
practice.
JayVees Nose Out Leyden
In Hard-fought Contest
Two bullet-like passes thrown by Len
ny Lange, Nilehi quarterback, to Bob
j W itte, cinched the game for coach Robert
Mackey’s junior varsity 12 to 0 when
they played against the Leyden Eagles
on the Nilehi gridiron September 26.
Both team s fought hard and much
of the game was played a t mid-field, as
both teams showed th at they possessed
strong lines.
The Trojans lost some yardage dur
ing the first quarter but showed th at they
could give as well as take, and they
proceeded to let the Eagles know of
their intentions.
Frank W agner of the Eagles proved
somewhat of a th reat to the Ja y Vees
when he made a sprint fo r the Trojans’
goal line. During the second period of
the game, his efforts were brought to
a stand-still when the Jay-V ee players
brought him to an abrupt stop.
The last period found the J.V .’s play
ing hard, stopping the Eagles cold. The
game ended: Nilehi 12, Leyden 0, thus
making the second win on the schedule
and the first conference win this year.
Tigers Fall Third Victim
To Nilehi Onslaught
Playing on the Nilehi field last Friday
night, the unbeaten Trojan Varsity team
scored their third straight conference
victory when they downed the Crystal
Lake Tigers 25 to 6.
Tonight, the Trojans will be hosts to
the Arlington Cardinals in the annual
homecoming game. The Cardinals have
a record of two wins and one loss.
Niles scored three times in the first
Ihalf on runs by Jim Heiniger, Jim Bless
ing, and Lee Garner. Heiniger made the
only ex tra point of the game on a 2yard plunge.
The second half was evenly played,
both team s managing to score once. Mur
phy sped by five would-be Trojan tacklers for 55 yards and the Tigers’ only
touchdown.
Ed Soergel passed 25 yards to Jim
Heiniger for the Trojans’ last touch
down, to make the final score: Niles,
25; Crystal Lake, 6.
Frosh Lose First Tilt
The Nilehi Frosh-football team lost
the first tilt on their fail schedule when
they bowed to the Leyden Eagles 26 to
6 on the Leyden field Thursday, Septem
ber 25.
Mascia of Leyden proved to be the
top asset to his team because of his run
ning ability.
REMAINDER OF NILEHI’S FOOTBALL GAMES
Friday
Friday
Friday
Friday
VARSITY FO O TBALL SCH ED U LE
October 17
8 :0 0 p.m.
Arlington
October 24
* 8:0 0 p.m.
Woodstock
October 31
8 :0 0 p.m.
Libertyville
November 7
2 :3 0 p.m.
Lake Forest
Friday
Thursday
Friday
October 17
October 23
November 7
Thursday
Friday
Thursday
October 23
October 31
November 6
JU N IO R VARSITY
6:1 5 p.m.
Arlington
3 :3 0 p.m.
Maine
6 :15 p.m.
Leyden
FROSH SCH ED U LE
3 :3 0 p.m.
Crystal Lake
6 :1 5 p.m.
Arlington
3 :3 0 p.m.
Maine
Here
There
Here
There
Here
Here
There
There
Here
There
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NILEHILITE, October 17, 1947
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Comstock, Bill, Editor-in-chief
Dye, Lyle, Feature Editor
Schilling, Jim, Sports Editor
Sprungman, June, Exchange Editor
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