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Parents, Students
Will Shift Places
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Eight-par-old Northeast Conference Gasps Last Breath
At the ripe old age of eight years th e , . Lion of new members, or by soliciting
Northeast Conference is reeling on its | games at random with schools which
Again, as in past years, parents of feet ready to gasp its. last breath and j ^ave °Pen dates for suen “fill-ins.” The
Nilehi students will be given an oppor
present schedule of the Northeast Con
tunity to change places with their sons fade into oblivion.
ference will extend throughout this
The conference was staggered by the sehool year.
and daughters at annual Parents’ Night
to be held this year on Thursday, Novem formal withdrawal of three components,
Harold Isaaacson, head coach and ath
ber 13.
Lake Forest, Libertyville, and Warren, letic director of Nilehi, says: “This is a
A feature of the program, according
who have combined forces with Zion serious situation and we must endeavor
to Miss Ada Immel, head of the Parents’
to correct it immediately.” Niles has al
Night committee, will be a music pro Benton and Grays Lake to start a new ready petitioned the West Suburban
gram at 7:15 p.m., supervised by Miss league. Crystal Lake and Woodstock seven-team conference, and is investi
Clara Klaus, Nilehi Choir director. The dealt the final blow by notifying the re gating down-state possibilities in an allactual classes will begin at 8 o’clock.
maining participants that they also will out effort to procure an adequate number
The usual hour of class will be con probably drop out, because they have of opponents to shape a satisfactory 1948
densed slightly to ten minutes per sub been invited to join the new combine.
athletic schedule.
ject. Parents will follow program cards
Niles, Leyden and Arlington, the
mads out by their son or daughter.
three remaining members of the North
To top off what the teachers hope east Conference, are up against the pro
will be an enjoyable evening, ice-cream blem of securing sports competition for
and cake will be served to the parents in ’48-’49, by joining another league, by
the school cafeteria.
forming their room league with the adIf you’ve ever been on a merry-goround you can understand exactly how
this year’s Junior Council members feel.
Besides helping to get the “Clean-Up”
campaign organized and started, these
members have been making plans for
Vol. IX, No. 3
Skokie, 111.
Friday, November 7,1947
the most important social event of the
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Prom.
friend; Dick
A Date with Judy ’to Be Ooogie, isher harrassed boy little brother; year, the annual Junior committee, con
Martin Randolph, Judy’s
So far a ballroom
Confusing in Nilehi Play and Mr. and Mrs. Foster, Judy’s parents, sisting of Elaine Esch, 315; Tom Cleary,
are played by Shirley Hawkinson and 306; Ed Archibald, 316; and Marilyn
If you had “A Date with Judy,” you’d Lyle Dye.
Blrkmeier, 314, has been selected, and
The play will be presented two weeks its members are inspecting ballrooms in
probably end up being just as confused
as Judy’s family and boy friend usually from tonight and tomorrow night, No 'he Chicago area. In previous years the
are. Just because Judy wants to be queen vember 21 and 22, in the Nilehi Assem Prom has been held in many places
bly room. Plans have been made to use throughout Chicago, and it is hoped that
of her club dance, and therefore enters
new scenery and lights but at the time this year it will be closer to school.
herself and her parents in all sorts of this story was written no other definite
contests to earn money, it seems to her information could be given by Miss Mur Miss deBooy stated in a late anouncement that the Junior Prom will be held
to be only an innocent little task. But iel Higgins, dramatic teacher and direct in the Michigan Shores Room of the
the consequences and the prizes that or of the play.
Edge water Beach Hotel.
come rolling in from the various con
N ilehi Extends Sympathy
No orchestra has as yet been selected
tests are far from little or innocent!
Joyce Matthews plays the part of
The Nilehi Staff wishes to extend but several are being considered.
Miss Margaret deBooy, Junior Adviser,
scatterbrained Judy; Clayton Merrill is sympathy on behalf of the student body
and faculty to Miss Grace Harbert, Nilehi has high hopes for the forthcoming
teacher, whose mother passed away re event. She says, “This Junior Council
cently, and to Marilyn and Paul Reiland, is one of the grandest councils I have
Nilehi Student Exhibits
sophomore and first-year college stu ever worked with, and junior homerooms
Talents at Orchestra Hall dents, respectively, who are mourning should be congratulated on their wise
choice of representatives.”
the recent death of their father.
Nilehi has been honored and thrilled in
the past by the achievements of athletes
Words Lacking for Mr. Collins3New School Song;
and scholars. Now Nilehi is honored and
thrilled to have an accomplished musi Melody Presented on Nilehi Program over F.M.
cian, 16-year-old Armin Watkins, a jun
ior at Nilehi.
Listen, my children, and you shall
“Oh, there is a high school that really
Most of his classmates have heard hear of the midnight work of Mr. Clif
is quite great,
him finger “boogie woogie,” at the Skokie ford Collins, Nilehi band director.
And that is a statement that no one
Youth Club, but Armin’s musical talents
Mr. Collins, composer of many songs,
will debate.
go much farther than this. He will soon has written a new theme for Niles. This
It sure is the one school that’s best
demonstrate these talents at Orchestra song has no title as yet, but Mr. Collins
in the land.
Hall in Chicago where he shall play a feels that “this song may be even better
We know it is really most grand.
piano solo, a movement from a Grieg received than ‘Nilehi’ and ‘Gold and
‘And what is the name?’ you’re al
Concerto, accompanied by the Chicago Blue’ (Niles’ original school song).”
ways sure to ask.
Symphony Orchestra. Armin will make
Mr. Collins’ latest version of the song
To find out it should not be any
two matinee performances on October 21 was heard Monday, October 20, on
great task.
and November 4.
“N.T.H.S. Presents,” Nilehi’s radio pro
To see this great high school most
Armin doesn’t believe he’ll be scared gram broadcast every week over FM
folks will travel miles.
playing for such a large audience but station WEAW. At that time, students
The name of it is just our good old
to keep his spirits high, all the students were asked to write words and suggest
Niles. Hey!”
that are majoring in music at Nilehi a name for the song.
If you’d like to write words, Mr. Colace going to be at Orchestra Hall to see
Here are some words written by Tom line will be glad to provide the tune for
and hear him play.
Madden and Jay Dahm:
you, he says.
J. C. Works Hard on
Clean-up and Prom
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Pressure Gauge
N I LE H I L I T E
Action Is Plotted
For Nilehi Clean-up
Friday, November 7, 1947
SHORT CUTS
From time to time the editors of the
Fall is here and the sidewalks are Cafeteria Saves Meat, Poultry
Nilehilite get letters from student readGiving up meat on Tuesday
ersi, either criticizing, complimenting, cluttered up with leaves from the trees,
Isn't too hard to bear,
or just commenting in general on things but that’s no reason why the halls of
'Cause it makes us very proud to say,
pertaining to school. Below are some of Nilehi should be littered with paper
and debris.
“We are doing our share"
the letters we received recently.
This could well be the motto of the
The homeroom representatives got to
The Nilehilite is always glad to hear
from its readers, so if you have any gether with the advisers and mapped Nilehi cafeteria as it falls in step with
ideas which you feel concern the school out a campaign to rid Nilehi halls of the rest of the nation in the food-saving
and its students the editors will be happy these articles which distract from the program. Meatless Tuesdays and eggless
beauty of the building.
and poultryless Thursdays became an
to consider them for publication.
The seniors, headed by Polly Wetten- important part of the lunchline schedule
Letters to the Editor may be placed
in the “Black Box” in room 216. AH con gel and Sam Boznos, will have charge of when President Truman asked us to
tributions must be signed by the author, clean-up campaign assemblies; the jun save food for the needy countries in
iors, headed by Elaine Esch and Tom Europe. Katie Kestenholz, Nilehi cafe
but names will be withheld on request.
Cleary will handle all printed publicity; teria manager, reports that fish and
Dear Editor:
Why do we here at Nilehi charge the the sophomores under Irene Holtman and macaroni dishes are being featured as
students from visiting high schools more Jim Kennedy will take care of publicity substitues on these days.
to get into the games than students over the P.A. system; and the freshmen
students get a chance to buy their ticket«? are handling the posters in the halls.
Russell Elected President
Sam Boznos was elected chairman oi
from our own school? Here at Nilehi our
The forty members of the Student
the group and he feels confident that if
for 30 cents, but the visiting students
Operators Club at Nilehi elected two
who come to the game that night must the students will back the campaign it officers for the year recently while Mrs.
will be a huge success.
pay twice as much for them.
Dorothy H. Hind, director of the club,
According to Miss deBooy, junior ad
For the game at Woodstock we re
appointed the third.
ceived 100 tickets at 30 cents each. This viser, and Miss M. Ronalds, freshman
The officers, Stuart Russell, president;
:s what I call good sportsmanship. Why adviser, the campaign is already show Don Kettel, secretary-treasurer;, both
ing definite signs of progress.
can’t our school do something similar?
elected; and John Ahrens, the appointed
—P.L.V.
Ch ef Operator, have swung into their
Editors note: Last year Nilehi’s office
G.A.A. Magazine Sale jobs for the school year with great zeal,
fr-vt -tudev.t tickets (30 cents') to all
according to Mrs. Hind.
opposition for our home games. Most of Is Most Successful Drive
Almost every morning before home
them just sent the tickets hack unsold,
“All G. A. A. members should feel room period they can be seen preparing
so the service was discontinued this sea pretty proud of themselves,” announced projectors and screens for the class
son. Student tickets will still he sent Miss Mary Evelyn Thurman, sponsor, rooms where films are to be used that
upon request.
“since this year’s magazine subscription day as part of the teachers’ visual edu
campaign has been more successful than cation program.
Sir:
. Why doesn’t our school cafeteria get any other year with a total of $1,728.85,
state aid to help bring the cost of lunches of which the G. A. A. receive approxi
New Hi-Y Club Organized
down? Several other schools in the area mately 30 per cent.”
The Hi-Y Club, a function of the
The first prize for selling $74.50 worth
have cheaper lunches than we do under
of magazines was a red portable radio Y.M.C.A., is in full swing at Nilehi.
our system.
The first meeting was held Tuesday,
won by Doiis Starzynskis, a freshman
—J. N.
Editors note: This is all very true, of room 101. The second prize, a Bobby October 21, and a Northwestern football
but when state aid is given, the students Sox doll, was given to Pat Clemens, movie was shown. Mr. G. V. Roth, su
can have no choice in food. They must another freshman of room 108 for selling pervise^ believes the program will be
a success.
take just what is prescribed for them. subscriptions totaling $64.50.
Most of the activities will be held at
Nilehi considered this system during
Nilehi and some at the Evanston Y.M.C.
the ’b5-46 school year. Lunches which Parents in Night School
A. All jun'ior and senior boys are eligible
would he served under the state system
were shown for all students to view, Desire Practical Courses to belong. Sports, social events, trips
The 80 parents taking part in Nilehi’s and many other activities will be held
and a poll was taken to see which they
during the year.
preferred. Over three-fourths of the adult evening education program show
students wanted the kind of food that a definite desire for practical courses,
and a lack of interest in general educa
is served in our cafeteria today.
tion, according to Mr. Marvin Ihne, in Todd Joins Wig and Masque
Among the sixteen chosen to join the
in charge of
Wig and Masque dramatic society recent
Debate Club Under Way structorLine’s sewing the program.
Miss
class rates highest
The Forensic Club of Nilehi is once in enrollment with 25 women, all of ly at Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio, was
again under way. The club, now en whom want to make their own dresses Jim Todd, a Nilehi graduate of last
tering its second year, is a debate organi and suits because of the high cost of year. Jim was the only freshman chosen
^arnpng the 45 candidates for membership.
zation whose aims, according to Mr. John clothing.
L. Betts, faculty adviser of the group,
Other popular courses that poipt out
are: to develop skill in public speaking, a solid trend toward practicability are Parent Visits Civics Class
efficiency in thinking, and intelligence Mr. Selden’s wood-working class, Miss
Mrs. Francis Ellis, Golf, was a guest
in citizenship.
Johanns’ typing class, Mr. Fox’s account-; of Mr. A. H. Ryden’s fourth-period civics
Mr. Betts says that no outside debates ing, and bookkeeping class, and Mr. ,class last October 7.
have as yet been planned because few Phipps’ recreational exercising class.
tJpon the request of the students, Mrs.
of the schools near Nilehi have debate
Mr. Ihne thinks the night classes haye ^Ellis' participated in a discussion on home
groups. However, later in the year Mr. a solid foundation and that they have life in order that a parent’s views, along
Betts plans to enter the club in the thus far proved to be a source of en with those of the class would be pre
Illinois State High School Debate Con lightenment and practical, value to the sented. Her son, David, freshman, was a
test.
grown-up students.
member of the class.
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N I L E H I L I T E
Name of Trojans Chosen
Many Long Years Ago
* Ooh, aren’t they cute!” “Golly, is
With a T, with a T,
t.' at Jim Heiniger?” “Gee, here’s Ed
With a T, R, O—
Kadlec, too.”
With a J, with a J
These and many other remarks were
With a J, A, N,
heard from girls who looked over the
T—R—O—J—A—N—S—
bulletin board in the library. The objects
Trojans, Trojans, Yeah!
of interest were the baby pictures of
You probably have heard this cheer
every member of the Varsity football many times, but have you ever stopped
squad. It just goes to show that time to think of how our teams got the
doesn’t change them too much.
name of Trojans ? It all began quite a
few years ago when the school held a
Another step toward making new contest to see who could think up the
friends at Nilehi for the Frosh was best name for the N.T.H.S. teams. The
taken October 24 in the form of the “Get- winner of the contest was Bernard Hohs,
Acquainted Party.” It featured an after who turned in the name — yes, you
noon of contests, dancing, and refresh guessed it — Trojans.
ments. The party was planned by the
Freshman Board of Advisers and man
aged by two freshmen, Bill Perrin and
Roszika Carroll, under the supervision
of Miss Ronalds.
Virginia Hogan, homeroom 208, is
dong her good deed by collecting the
sealing bands on the wrappers of cigar
ettes for a blind girl.
The 13-year-old girl lives in southern
Illinois, and when she has collected 5,000
sealing bands, she will get a Seeing Eye
dog free. She will also be sent to a
school, and get advice on how to train
the dog.
Biology Proves
Fun for Students
Even though the biology class seems
gruesome at times, according to some of
the students around Nilehi, it really is
interesting.
One of the most unusual specimens
studied in the class is the flat worm. It
can be cut into three sections, and the
head will grow a new tail, the tail will
grow a new head, and the middle section
wil grow both a new head and a new
tail. Now that’s cooperation!
Also, the water in the balanced aquar
ium hasn’t been changed for about four
or five years, according to Mr. Charles
Hussey, biology instructor.
If you’ve never seen an octopus, the
biology class has a miniature one, called
the hydra. It has from five to ten arms
and is one-fourth inch long. Really, you
can see it.
An interesting thing that happened
last year was that a bull frog ate one
of the smaller frogs and died a couple
of days later of indigestion. There’s a
moral for you. Always cook a frog be
fore you eat it.
Among the animals that are experi
mented on are frogs, rats, worms, grass
hoppers, perch, and crayfish. There are
also experiments on blood typing to de
termine the heomoglobin percentages in
various animals.
After School Is Fun
But It's U to You
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‘W illie’ Shakespeare Is
Still Alive and Kicking
Shakespeare has once again been
brought to life in the Senior English 17
classes, which have *>een studying
Shakespeare and his plays.
Jeanette Oehring translated current
commercials into the way Shakespeare
would have said them, while Roger Coverly translated Shakespeare quotations
into modern advertisements.
From Jeanette Oehring’s paper, “Duz
makes good all those garments,” means
‘ Duz does everything,” while “Root-beer
ere of the father the ale of old,” means
“Dad’s old-fashioned root beer.”
It was found on Roger’s paper that
O'hello said, “This hand is moist, my
lady.” Desdemona answered, “It is be
cause I have forgotten to use Jergens,
the new improved anti-clammy hand lo
tion.” Macbeth asked Banquo, “Do you
not hope your children shall be kings?”
The prophecy came true because Banquo’s great, great, great grandson was
bubble-gum king.
Marilyn Pearson used the popular quo
tation, “0 Romeo, Romeo! wherefore
art thou, Romeo?” as the closing line of
a soap-opera—“Will Juliet find where
Romeo has gone ? Is he out with another
woman ? Be sure to listen again tomor
row to ‘Juliet Faces Life/ ”
The remaining students brought out
their artistic (? ) inclinations by tran
slating Shakespeare through drawings.
The results were put on the bulletin
b ard in room 221.
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By W illie Hardin
Seems like stag parties and hag par
ties are becoming a lot more popular.
‘Buck’ Brown threw a quiet little gettogether a few weeks ago as did Joyce
Matthews, and the Phi Betcha Cants
rented a room in the Edgewater Beach
Hotel for a ‘celebration.’ However, just
plain dates or mixed parties are still
running an easy first in popularity!
Is Your Date Rating
Quite Up to Standard?
If you think that just because you take
a bath once a week and occasionally put
on shoes you’re definite date-bait, you’re
wrong! Let’s see just how your date
rating is. If you can answer the quali
fications given by Mrs. Curl’s sopho
more English class, you can be pretty
certain to fill the requirements for that
certain someone any boy, or girl, would
like to spend an evening with.
The girls first said good looks but
hurried to add that this is really of very
little importance. What’s more necessary
than broad shoulders and curly hair ?
Good grooming, say the girls. Next
in line came personality. Good manners
are essential but shouldn’t be obvious.
The girls also prefer boys that are wellliked and careful with money, but gen
erous on dates.
The fellows insist that “blue jeans are
If we could conceal ourselves within
a locker after the 3:11 bell we might
hear, “I’m sorry, Jim, no coke today—
synchronized swimming —”or“— Gosh,
Jane, I ’d like to, but I’ve got football
practice until after five.”
If being rejected sends a pang of
anger through you, don’t feel bad be
cause you too can find a way to spend
you:' lonely afternoons.
Miss Higgins, the dramatics teacher
of Nilehi, is now organizing a dramatics
club which welcomes new members with
talent and willingness to work. “A Date
with Judy” is also in production and
will be given November 20 and 21.
If you are interested in sports, there
are always football and cross-country
for boys, and archery along with twirl
ing for girls.
Being a second Cicero can also be
achieved by joining the Forensic club
under the direction of Mr. Betts, Nilehi
history teacher. There are also the lang
uage clubs which will soon be organized
along with the Hi-Y club.
With all these organizations and out
side activities which make your highschool years your most memorable ones,
if you’re not busy after school, just
blame the one who is behind your grin!
never approved on a date.” They dislike
girls that are all painted up with cos
metics and girls that talk about other
fellows and other dates all the time.
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N I L E H I LI T E
Members of Senate and Council
Tell Prominent Facts of Their Lives
One of the most active members on
the Junior Council is a gal with big
brown eyes who answers to the name of
Marilyn Birkmeier. Trying to find a
room for the Junior Prom is her main
activity now and it has her on the go
from morning till night.
When asked how she liked the new
length of skirts, Marilyn didn’t seem too
enthusiastic. She also hates to rake
leaves and has no use for conceited boys.
Dick Haymes and Perry Como rate the
highest on Marilyn’s hit parade with
Como’s “Surrender” as her favorite song.
She has a great fascination for Lake
Geneva (His name is Ed).
Marilyn thinks that the football team
would greatly improve if they had a
mascot (blonde or brunette?), but says
it’s entirely up to the team.
A Few Rooms in Nilehi
Are Still a Mystery
by Doris Bernges
No, Nilehi doesn’t have any cata
combs, but we do have, among other
things, a tunnel under our swimming
pool. How many of you Jacks and Jills
knew that?
That’s just one of the “little known
comers” in a well-known place; prob
ably the most mysterious, though. We’re
sorry to spoil your gory little day
dreams, but we can’t show you anything
in torture chambers either. Not even
behind those ponderous wooden doors
in the basement.
By this time everybody, including the
freshmen, should know about the Rotary
room, at the north end of the cafeteria,
but how many of you, including upper
classmen know about the passage from
there to the assembly? Yep, there is
one. It comes out “back stage.”
Even that fascinating little passage
at the foot of the stairs leads only to
the custodians’ lounge, Mr. Mackey, the
Jay Vee coach’s office a receiving room,
a walk-in ice box that would take a
landing party to raid, and last, but not
least, “Katy’s” domain, the kitchen.
That door at the foot of the center
stairs just before you dash madly into
the cafeteria has intrigued many people.
It conceals nothing but some pillars
that hold up the entrance and those
little white fences which are used for
so many different things all over school.
The “secluded nooks” on the first and
second floor are awfully hard to find.
The third floor is much more interesting,
from our point of view, with one heavy
door concealing the photographers’ dark
room, the tower room, containing prac
tically nothing but air, and the biology
department growing room “peopled” by
any animals Mr. Hussey and company
may collect, along with many interesting
plants.
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The president of the Sophomore Sen
ate is a tall, six-foot, red-haired boy
who will answer to the name of “Red.”
His real name is Ashley Craig, and his
main interest in school is the basket
ball team.
One of his pet peeves is girls who
'moke. He also voiced a distaste for the
new style of long skirts.
There is nothing that he likes to do
better than go on hikes during the week
ends or to go on a long bicycle ride
out in the country. He does this during
' is summer vacation.
His ambition in life is to be able to
settle down on a farm and be able to
raise everything he will need during
his lifetime.
Tomorrow Often Comes
Too Soon After Today
Friday, November 7, 1947
Students Reminisce
About G. A. A. Haqrack
by Joanne Day
“Oh, boy, a hayrack, you say? Golly!
You bet I’ll go. Oh, you mean with you?
Well, now, I don’t know, something aw
ful might happen at home and I wouldn’t
be there.”
Such was heard from one of Nilehi’s
young heroes. But it all turned out all
right, didn’t it, Myrtle ? He finally said
yes, and just because you had to per
suade him at the end of a pistol has
nothing to do with it.
Myrtle and Butch must have had a
lot of fun becouse she turned in her
report and it sounded like this:
‘Butch was so cute and nice. He cer
tainly was a gentleman for he told me
that if I’d walk over to his house, which
is only about four miles away from mine,
hs’d think about using his car, and of
course I had to pay for the gas. But he
was so wonderful about evrything I
didn't mind. When we got to the hayaek it was already moving, so he jumped
:nto the space left and let me run beside
him. He made me so happy. Finally he
decided to let his feet hang so there was
enough room for me.
After the hayrack we went to Cooley’s
and I had a sundae and Butch had a
steak. After I paid the bill, Butch kindly
put me on the “L” and drove home.”
Who says chivalry is dead ?
by Lyle Dye
“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomor
row,” wrote some author called Shake
speare and this word “tomorrow” seems
to have become one of the most famous
ind most used words in all teenagers’
vocabulary. For instance, let’s look in
on Joe Mudwunk, a typical boy.
Joe had just finished a hard day at
school and is drowning his sorrows at the
Youth Center when he hears of a big
party being thrown tonight at which
all are invited. Being included in the
general term of “all,” Joe takes this
as a personal invitation and decides to
by Danna Barbour
go.
Are you of a sentimental nature?
The facts that Joe has an English
As a contributor to the discussion re
theme due in two days, a problems test cently in one of Mr. Eberhardt’s English
tomorrow, and 234 more pages left to iclasses, one of the students added his
read in a book by next week fazes him own comments to pharses, ordinarily
not at all. “Tomorrow,” mutters Joe. taken as pleasingly descriptive but bor
“Tomorrow night I’ll do it!”
dering on the sentimental side.
As all nights seem to do, this one also
A few of those that got the highest
passes and poor Joe finds the party laugh-meter rating were: “A warm
isn’t so good after aH. He seems to be smile on a cold night” (Keep both hands
the only stag there, and before he can on the wheel); “Bubbling laugh of a
get to the table all the food is gone.
clean spring” (boil it first, its got germs
These things alone don’t bother Mr. in it); “The cotton puffs of clouds”
Mudwunk as much as the thoughts-of (vain cornin’ ‘Maw, take in yer wash’);
all the work he hasn’t done.
“Smell of fresh linens” (I smell bleach);
Coming home to piles of books isn’t “Sweet odor of a bouquet” (Ouch, a bee
exectly pleasant for Joe and he finds in the lunch); “The hushed expectancy
himself wishing that some author had just before a concert” (Usher! This guy’s
written a phrase something like, “Today sitting in my seat); “Long, silken
and today and today.” The power of strands of hair” (Aw! yer father’s mus
suggestion, you know!
tache!).
Sentimental Sayings
Are Sometimes Dull
‘Short Skirts’ Are Theme of Poem
But from us men folks’ point of view,
by Bill Heveran
“Down with long skirts; they’ll never
(with apologies to Joyce Kilmer)
do.”
I think that I shall never see
Those exorbitant prices for something
A skirt that’s “Kttle-below-the-knee.”
crummy,
The skirts they seem to trail the
Girls pay out for that “something
ground;
yummy.”
You can’t see a leg for miles around.
Skirts are made by a fool designer.
They used to be short; they used to
But God gave legs which are a darn
be nice;
sight finer!
Now nothing but long ones will suffice. I
�Friday, November 7,1947
Trojans Defeated;
Beat Woodstock
NI L E HI L I T E
Glamazons
_
An alert Arlington Cardinal eleven ________ By Doris Bernges _____ _
handed the Nilehi Trojans their first de
New quarter, new game — seems to
feat of the season here Friday night. be the motto for Miss Schaefer’s and
October 17, when they scored a 13 to 6 Miss Thurman’ gym classes. Both in
victory. It was the Trojans' annual home structors have started soccer tournacoming game.
nents in their classes.
However, Nilehi out-gained Arlington
There have been some gorgeous black
in rushing 100 yards to 63, and on for and blue bruises, but no fatal injuries.
ward passes, 125 yards to 110. Five
The bowlers are doing very good work,
costly fumbles and two intercepted according to “Schaef”, the faculty spon
passes led directly to the Trojan defeat. sor. Handicaps have been established to
keep the teams evenly matched. Thus,
Trojan Rally Beats Woodstock
teams with high scores will have fiercer
It took the Niles Trojans one whole ’ompetition.
The girls with swimming excuses are
quarter before they started rolling Fri
day night, October 24, up at Woodstock. finished with archery and are now learn
However, from then on, they poured it on ing various types of dancing, including
and the result was a 28 to 8 victory over tan. folk, and modem.
There have been definite plans for
the Woodstock Blue Streaks.
Bill Comstock, Jim Heiniger, Ed Soer- home nursing courses for the senior
gel, and Herb Jones scored for the Tro girls during the second semester.
jans, with Heiniger making four extra
points.
Jim Nelson and Amie Miller accounted After School Activities
for Woodstock’s eight points.
Make Points for G.A.A.
Three Alumni Resume
Football in College
i
Perhaps a few of you are wondering
what the boys who made the football
headlines at Nilehi last year are doing
now.
Here are some of the present positions
of some of the big cogs of last year’s
Trojan grid machine:
Jim McNeely — attending college at
the extension branch of the University
of Illinois here at Nilehi.
A1 Miller — working at his dad’s
greenhouse.
Bob F air — earhed a four-year schol
arship to Washington University. Was
first string freshman halfback there
until injured.
Ollie Berens — working at Baxter lab
oratories. Also is taking a course in
Chemistry at the night school at North
Park College.
Ray Carlson — working at Baxter’s.
Bob Pearson — attending Augustana
College. First string halfback on the
B-team.
Phil Horton — working in his grand
father’s pickle factory.
1
A
4
Bill Witte — star quarterback of the
Frosh football team at Cornell College
in Iowa.
Mr. Leo. Babcock has been testing his
psychology students’ mental ability with
riddles.
Here is an example: The man who
made it sold it. The man who bought it
never used it. The man who used it never
saw it. What is it ? .............a coffin.
Girls, are your muscles sagging? Do
your feet feel tired and listless? If so,
out down that knife, because we have
just the solution for you.
According to Miss Mary Evelyn Thurnan, sponsor, new after-school activi
ties are now under way for those mem
bers wishing to earn points toward
getting their G.A.A. letters.
Each gal will receive four points for
'‘very hour of participation in one of the
current activities, or a total of 25 for
the entire event.
If a member has from 600 to 1200
ooints, she is entitled to a local award,
but if she has a total of from 1600 to
2000 points, she will receive a state
award.
Sophomore, junior, and senior gals
will receive a certain number of begin
ning points depending on their year in
-chool, but the freshmen must start at
the bottom.
Current activities are tap dancing on
Tuesdays after school, and tumbling on
Thursdays.
Dates have been set for the three
most important dances sponsored by
Miss Thurman and the G.A.A. board.
The Jean Jump will be held tonight at
^:15 in the school gym. Saturday night,
December 20, is the date of the semiformal Christmas Dance, and March 12
has been set aside for the annual Turn
about Dance.
Frosh Swamped by Tigers
A 55-yard pass from Paul Jorgenson
to Don Berg gave the Nilehi Frosh six
ooints in their struggle against Crystal
Lake.
However, the Tigers had the ball most
of the time and crossed the Trojan goal
line no less than nine times to give them
a 61 to 6 victory over our hapless Frosh.
Page 5
Six Seniors Make
All-Girl Team
Reports from the girls’ gym classes
are that the girls should have an excel
lent football team with all the AllAmerican material on hand. Here is their
lineup which should rank with the best
in the country.
ALL-FEMS
Left End — JOYCE ASH
Left Tackle — LAURA LAMB
Left Guard — NANCY LANE
Center — DOLORES PAULSEN
Right Guard — JACKIE SEELEY
Right Tackle — FLORENCE MIETHKE
Right End — JOYCE OLSON
Quarterback — MARY MUSSON
Left Halfback — MARILYN PEARSON
Right Halfback — JOYCE MATTHEWS
Fullback — EILEEN RODLEY
Co-water Girls — DONNA KORSMO and
MARY MORSE
Coach — MILDRED SCHAEFER
Strong JayVee Mermen
Foreseen by chubert
The Nilehi Frosh-Soph Swimmers,
minus swimmers out for football, had
fheir first meet October 22. This was a
practice meet with Evanston’s FroshSoph and Junior swimmers. The battle
ended with a 29 to 29 deadlock.
According to Mr. Anton Schubert,
Nilehi swimming coach, the Jay Vee
"Men of Troy” will have the strongest
squad the school has ever witnessed. Al
though the Trojans have had one prac
tice meet, regular swimming practice
doesn’t start until November 10.
At this time the Varsity and Jay Vee
"pigskin warriors” going out for swim
ming will shed their grid equipment and
slip on their swimming trunks.
The first two meets are scheduled with
Morton and Highland Park high schools
on November 20 and November 26 re
spectively.
Maine Stages Comeback
To W hip JayVees 21-6
The Nilehi Jay Vee football squad was
unsuccessful in their final home game of
the 1947 football season. They were de
feated 21 to 6 by Maine Township. The
game was played at Nilehi Thursday
afternoon, October 30.
After a scoreless first period, Keesey
plunged over from the 2-yard line for
the Trojans’ only touchdown of the game.
However, Maine came right back when
Right End McFarland caught a 30-yard
pass for Maine’s first score. Dick Irving’s
extra point put Maine ahead for the re
mainder of the game.
In the second half Niles was held
scoreless while Maine registered 14 more
points. Touchdowns were made by McFarand and Irving, while Tom Ziemek
booted two extra points.
�Page 6
N I L E H I L I T E
Brothers are all H alfbacks
For the first time in the history of Niles Township High School, two sets of
brothers are on the same varsity football team. They are, left to right, Howard
Siegel, Don Siegel, Pete Heiniger, and Jim Ileiniger. They are looking at the
b iby pictures of the football players on the bulletin board in the school library.
. Howard and Jim are seniors; Don a junior, and Pete a sophomore. Pete is one
three sophomores on the Varsity team.
Trojans Will Bid for
Jay Vees Lose to Maine;
First Grid Crown Today Defeat Cardinals 12-0
Football is the only sport in which
Nilehi has never won a Northeast Con
ference Championship.
This, along with the fact that 1947-48
will probably be out last in the confer
ence, should give some of you more of
an incentive to back our boys when they
meet the Lake Forest Scouts this after
noon at Lake Forest.
The Trojans came closest' to this cov
eted position last year when they dropped
only one game. That one was lost to the
Scouts, a team we haven’t beaten since
1943.
However, the “Men of Troy” have
done very well in other sports and are
tied with Crystal Lake for conference
crowns. Each school has nine to its
credit.
The past champs have been:
Football
basketball
La fa Ftp *S '* "
Crystal Lake
1947
1946
Lake Forest
Arlington
1945
Crystal L.
Niles & Crystal L
1944
Lake Forest
Niles
1943
Libertyville
Niles
1942
Liberty. & L. Forest
Niles
1941
Warren
Woodstock
1940
Crystal Lake
Libertyville
1939
Crystal Lake
The hard running Jay Vees of Maine
overpowered the Nilehi Jay Vees 21 to
0 on Maine’s field on October 23.
Rod Lonsinger scored two of the three
touchdowns. The first one was an 8-yard
dash early in the second quarter, and the
other touchdown came on a 36-yard run
in the fourth quarter.
Left Half Duke Lowery scored his
touchdown on a 20-yard reverse play in
the third quarter. Tom Ziemek booted
all three place kicks for the extra points.
A pass and a pass interception were
all that the Junior Varsity needed to
whip the Arlington Cardinals 12 to 0 last
Friday night on the Nilehi field. How
ever, the red-shirted lads proved to be
a much stronger opponent than the score
might indicate.
Seven Senior Boys
Will ‘See the World*
Siegel Wins Touchball
“Join the navy and see the world.”
Nine Nilehi senior boys have joined
the United States Navy Reserve, and will
see part of the world before the school
year ends. The boys scheduled to make
a two-week cruise in the near future are
Stan Anderson, Bill Kelly, Tom Coleman,
Dick Minor, Louie Henning, Danny Liveris, and Dick O’Brien.
Baseball
Niles & Arlington
Niles
Niles & Arlington
Arlington
Leyden
Arlington
Warren
Arlington
Track
Niles
Niles
Crystal Lake
Lake Forest
Lake Forest
Crystal Lake
Crystal Lake
Crystal Lake
The 1947 Intramural Touch Football
champs have been crowned. Howard
Siegel’s “Cardinals,” eighth-period win
ners, captured the crown by defeating
Frank DeVito’s “Rockets” (ninth period)
13-0 in the championship game.
Sparked by Captain Siegel, the “Car
dinals” took control of the situation
quickly and triumphed twice, having
beaten Don Biehn’s (5-6 period) Bull-]
Friday, November 7, 1947
Spotlight Shifts
From Grid to C age
As the mercury begins its annual de
cline, the sports spotlight at Nilehi be
gins to shift from the gridiron to the
cage, where the Trojans will begin their
eighth and last year of competitive bas
ketball in the Northeast Conference.
The varsity coaching duties will be
handled this year by L. R. Mackey, school
engineer. “Mac” coached the varsity in
1944 and 1945. He had conference champs
both times and in 1945 Niles won its
first and only Regional Tournament at
Waukegan.
Mr. Charles Hussey will pilot the Jun
ior Varsity squad, while Mr. James
Phipps and Mr. Harold Isaacson will
coach the Freshman team.
“If someone can be found to manage
the equipment rooms,” says Mr. Mackey,
‘practice for those not out for football
will begin on Monday, November 3.
Otherwise, official practice will begin on
the tenth.”
The first practice scrimmage is
scheduled with Proviso on the afternoon
of November 18.
The season will open on November 21
when the Trojans meet Evanston on the
Wildkits’ floor. New Trier will provide
the opposition for the first home game
on Thanksgiving Eve, November 26.
New uniforms are expected to come
in about the middle of this month. The
Jay Vees will inherit the old varsity
uniforms and the JayVee garments will
be passed on to the Frosh.
Gordon Anderson, Bill Comstock, and
Ed Soergel are the only returning lettermen, However, a lot of action will prob
ably be seen by minor letter-winners Ed
Kutz, Howard and Don Siegel, Lee
Garner, Jim Blessing, Don Brown, Dick
Norman, Wayne Piehler, Tom Black, Bob
Witte, and Ed Beebe.
It is also more than likely that Jim
Heiniger and Don Carlson, varsity ma
terial at the beginning of last year’s
season, will see considerable service.
After the Game
by Bill Comstock
The lights go out on a cleat-marked
field;
The crowds go on their way.
The football thrills of the gridiron
Are gone till some future day.
The coach can feel at ease again;
The players can heave a sigh,
’Cause they’ve done their work—done
it well,
And will remember in years gone by.
The fans will forget the stars of the
game
In a year or a month or less,
But the player who’ll remember the
game till the end
Is the one who just played his best.
dogs in the semifinals and De Vito’s
Rockets in the playoff game.
Other teams in the tournament were
Don Brown’s “Dodgers”(second period)
and Jesse Porter’s “Illini” (fourth per
iod).
�
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