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nile H I lite
Vol. IX, No. 5
Skokie, 111.
Friday, December 12, 1947
Nilehi Students Send Gift Boxes
Through Red Cross to War-Torn Lands
Snow Ball Is Theme of
to help make up the scarcity of such
items in these war devasted areas,
should be included with gifts.
The Gift Boxes include such items as
pencils, paper, tooth brushes, tooth
paste, toilet soap, rubber balls, yo-yos.,
cambs, and wash clothes. The boxes will
be packed by 25 active members of the
Junior Red Cross at Nilehi.
The school also sends five represent
atives downtown to the monthly meet
ings of the Junior Red Cross which
operates in Chicago area high schools.
The representatives are Jo Anne Eberhardt and Barbara Lange seniors, Ed
Beebe, Ted Eckert, and Angela Voznos
Juniors. Angela will also take part in the
Junior Red Cross “Citizen of Tommorrow” broadcast on December 18 at 7:00
A CANDLELIGHT PROCESSIONAL p. m.
will mark the beginning of the fourth an
nual “Christmas Vespers” of Nilehi next
Sunday afternoon, December 14, at four
p. m.
According to Miss Clara Klaus, Nilehi
music director, the choir, Glee Club, ON SUNDAY, MARCH 21, a-possible
and Madrigal Singers will be featured at 125 Nilehi students will be aboard the
the program. The song presented by the Baltimore and Ohio’s train, the “Col
Choir will be “Song of the Holy Night,” umbian,” leaving the Grand Central
a cantata based on the theme “Silent Station for points east.
Night, Holy Night.” Songs by the Glee
This train ride will begin an escorted
Club include “Christmas Snows of Swed tour of Washington and colonial Virgin
en,” with violin obbligato by Armin ia, under the direction of Miss Grace
Watkins, “The Birthday of a King,” “I Harbert, problems teacher. The , trip
Wonder as I Wander,” and “The Christ will last through the week until Friday
of the Snow.” The Madrigal Singers when the pupils arrive back in Chicago
will contribute two numbers—“Out of by the same railroad.
the East” and “Carol of the Birds.”
The cost of the tour will be 95
The cantata soloists will be Evelyn
Mahnke, Marian Mueller, Eleanor Dyrs- Nilehi Play is Financial Success
“A Date With Judy” seems to have
sen, Frances Tomszak, Nancy Thieil,
been a great financial success, according
Kenneth Gengler, and Don Verlenden.
The final number will be the “Halle to Miss Doris Tillman, head of ticket
lujah Chorus” sung by the Choir. Alum sales. Miss Tillman said the first dra
ni who have sung with the choir in pre matic show at Nilehi ever to have scenery
vious years, will be invited to again played to a full house of 350 seats both
sing the Hallelujah chorus, and the Friday and Saturday nights.
Figure son the total gain were not
audience will join in the singing of sev
yet available at the time this was written.
eral favorite carols.
SNOW BALLING will be allowed for
the first time at Nilehi on the night of
December 20, when the school’s annual
Christmas dance will be held in the as
sembly room.
The name of this dance will be the
“Snow Ball” according to Miss Mary
Thurman, head of the G.A.A., who is
sponsoring the affair.
A new twist will be added to the dance
this year as it is to be semi-formal. This
means, says Miss Thurman, that the
girls should be dressed in formals or a
dressy suit or dress, while the boys
should definitely be attired in suits.
Plans have been formulated to decor
ate the assembly in blue and white, and
the music for the evening will be furn
ished by the Shoreliners.
THE NILEHI CHAPTER of the Ameri
can Junior Red Cross, under the super
vision of Miss Alice Line, which began
its “Gift Box Project” for children in
war devastated lands on December 1,
will bring the campaign to a close today.
A treasurer was appointed in each
home room to collect the students’ con
tributions. These contributions will go
to buy gift boxes which are valued at
two dollars apiece.
Since the war, the Red Cross has em
phasized that school and health supplies.
Candlelight Processional
To Open Christmas Vespers
School's Xmas Dance
Six-Day Washington Trip Promises Experiences
To 125 Nilehi Juniors, Seniors Planning Journey
Hi-Y Discusses ‘Boy and Girl Dating’ at Meeting
With Girls From Tri Hi-Y at Evanston Y. M. C. A*
“BOY AND GIRL Dating,” was the sub
ject four students from Northwestern
University discussed before the Nilehi
boys Hi-Y Club at a recent meeting in
the Evanston Y.M.C.A.
Twenty-one boys from Nilehi and 30
girls from the Girls Tri-Hi-Y and the
Y. W. C. A. attended the meeting.
Many phases of “Boy and Girl Dating”
were discussed. While they were dis
cussing how long should a girl keep a
boy waiting, Bill Kella, Nilehi senior,
dollars, which includes every neces
sary expense, with the exception of
personal items and service. A deposit
of 30 dollars in January will insure
a reservation; payment must be made
by March 6. AH reservations are to
be made through Miss Harbert.
Highlights o f . the trip, according to
Miss Harbert, will be a visit to the
Bureau of Printing and Engraving, a
trip to the Washington Monument, and
an excursion to the tomb of the Un
known Soldier. Students also will spend
two nights on the steamer “District of
Columbia” during an excursion down the
Potamac River to visit the Mariners
Museum and then to Jamestown Island,
site of the first permanent English
settlement.
After stopping at the Smithsonian
Investigation, will precede a trip to
White House. A tour of Annapolis and
the United States Naval Academy
will set the mood for an evening visit
to the Lincoln Memorial. A tour
through the most modern of crime
laboratories, the Federal Bureau of
Investigations, will procede a trip to
the United States capital, where the
group may have a nopportunity to
see Congress in session.
The students will next visit the
Supreme Court, which will be the last
point of interest visited before the re
turn trip home.
said that sometimes he enjoyed talking
with the parents more than he enjoyed
the date with the girl. The discussants
also came to the conclusion that it was
not necessary to go on “expensive”
dates.
Mr. George V. Roth, advisor, announc
ed that the Hi-Y Club was going to man S ym pathy
age a checkcroom during the Nilehi
The staff of the Nilehilite extends
home baskerball games. According to Mr.
its sympathy to Loretta Donaldson,
Roth, the purpose of doing this is “to
senior, whose mother died recently.
raise some money for the Hi-Y Club.”
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SHORT CUTS
N I L E H I L I T E
Friday, December 12, 1947
Ten New Inhabitants in Biology Room;
Mother Hamster Bears Brood at Nilehi
Math Award to Be Given to Senior TEN TINY, hairless creatures were born is not uncommon among rodents, but is
Mr. T. J. Kiviluoma, chairman of the
math department at Nielehi, announced
recently that the math department has
decided to present a mathematics award
to the Senior student who is considered
most worthy.
Mr. Kiviluoma believes that the honor
will be bestowed at the senior breakfast
along with the other awards for school
achievements. The final judgment will
be based on the winner’s math grades
throughout his school career plus his
other scholastic accomplishments and his
extra-curricular activities.
S.C.C. Visits Maxwell Street
Last Sunday, December 7, the “See
Chicago Club” under the direction of
Miss Grace Harbert, problems teacher,
visited Chinatown and Maxwell Street.
This was the fourth in a series of trips
planned for the club this year.
According to Miss Harbert the S.C.C.’s
next trip will take place on January 17,
when an excursion is planned to the
Rosenwald Museum of Science and In
dustry.
LaVeau Shoots Three Deer
The hunting reputation of the LaVeau
family was upheld by Phil LaVeau,
senior, who has recently returned from
a two-week deer-hunting trip in Iron
River, Michigan. Phil not only got his
deer, but also shot one for his father
and brother.
Phil plans to mount the head of
the largest deer, a ten-point, 225-pound
buck, and from the hides of the three
deer, Phil will have a jacket made.
Dramatics Club Tryouts Start
Something new has been added! Yes,
in the dramatics department at Nilehi a
new club has been formed, under the dir
ection of Miss Muriel Higgins, dramatics
and radio teacher.
The dramatics club is open to any one
in the school who can pass tryouts which
are based purely on talent. Miss Higgins
hopes that the club will progress far
Thursday, NoVember 15, and formally
took their places among the inhabitants
of the biology room at Nilehi.
The new enroll ees are golden ham
sters, a type of rodent, weighing when
fully grown, from two and one half to
four ounces, measuring about five inches
in length, eating grain, bread and green
vegetables, and making a tame, clean
safe and easy-to-handle laboratory pet.
Orginally there were ten little ones,
but now only four remain, because Moth
er Hamster got into a tizzy and nipped
the heads off the other six—an act which
as yet unexplained.
The golden hamsters which live in the
biology room were purchased for the
class by students taking the course,
taught and directed by Mr. Charles
Hussey.
Among other animal life in the labor
atory are frogs, captured in nearby la
goons, a horn toad, which has the coy
habit of playing dead when visitors are
around; also many crayfish and turtles,
obtained by the students on their field
trips.
One of the strangest of the plants in
the nature nook at Niles is a tropical
enough this year to produce one major one, always thirsty and constantly stret
play and also join the National Thes ching out tendrils in search of water,
pian Society. They will meet every two which it obtains by suction from plants
weeks.
nearby or other aquatic sources, such as
the turtle tank. These tendrils have
reached a length of 8 feet.
Party Given for Gridmen
AFTER A BUSY football season, Nilehi’s gridmen were given a few hours
relaxation at the expense of Miss Jo
Driver Education Ready
hannes’ home room, 121.
The boys were invited to a swimming
party given from 3:30 to 5:00 on De For 'Old Man Winter’
cember 2. After a dip in the pool, the
gridders were escorted to the cafeteria WITH“ OLD MAN WINTER” here to
where hamburgers and cold drinks were stay, Mr. L. P. Babcock, head of Nilehi’s
served to them. The cooking and serv driver-education program, reports that
ing were handled by chefs Dick O’Brien his classes are ready for him.
When foul weather is on hand the up
and Jack Nixon, aided by Busboys Bill
Permer, Willy Hardin, Tom Fitzgerald, per-classmen will then have the pleasure
and John Heinz. Of course, Katie did her of marching to the Tower Room and re
ceiving their instruction in the 22 mock
part to help too.
up-cars made by head custodian, Charlie
Brunke. These mock-up cars are ready
Nilehi Teachers Aid Europe
for duty expect that Mr. Mackey, cheif
The teachers of Nilehi are doing their engineer, has yet to install the controls.
part in helping underprivileged teachers
Mr. Babcock, while commenting on the
in Europe.
progress of his driving course, said, “The
Reports from various sources in Europe students are showing a great improve
state that many teachers are carrying ment in handling the car. Their confi
on in spite of such hardships as scarcity dence, also, which comes from more
of working materials, crowded rooms driving, seems to be helping them to con
and unheated, poorly lighted rooms.
quer the general weakness of lack of con
Voluntary contributions from teachers, trol over the car.”
sponsored by the National Education
Movies expected to arrive soon will
Association, are to be used to rehabili add a newslant to the course, says Mr.
tate and ease the hardships of the Babcock.
European educators, according to Mr.
Anton T. Schubert, president of the
Language Clubs Hold Parties in Assembly;
Students Provide Wide Variety of Entertainment
WITHIN THE LAST four days, two of
Nilehi’s language clubs have had their
annual Christmas parties. The first, held
on December 9, was the Latin club under
Mrs. Dorothy H. Hind and Miss Marjorie
Ronalds, Latin teachers. The second was
the Spanish club on the following day,
December 10, under the direction of
Miss Jean Small, Spanish teacher. Both
were held in the Assembly room.
The Latin department was entertain
ed on Tuesday by the play “Io Saturn
alia,” given by the second year students.
According to Mrs. Hind, the main cast
members were John Krupka, Barbara
Daly, Bob West, John Young, Ronald
Peterson, Louis Keesey, Charles Jones,
and Joe Donavan, and Deane Liesveld.
Other activities at the party consisted
of two Latin contests and community
singing of Latin Songs.
The Spanish party, with Howard Sie
gel as Master of Ceremonies, was a var
ied program, with a series of acts, songs,
and dances, the songs being in Spanish.
Betty Loefgren gave a report on the orgin of Christmas customs, and Beverly
Slack entertained with a Spanish dance.
M ÎÏH JÏÏ t ï
»U U
i he stu dents Of the Niles Townshi
High School, Skokie, Illinois.
Dr. A. L. Biehi
superintendent - principal.
STAFF MEMBERS
Editor-in-chief: Bill Comstock
Feature Editor: L y le D ye
Sports Editor: Don Brown
Sports Writers: Don Brown, Bill Neuson, and E
Linskey.
Girls’ Sports: Doris Bernges
Circulation Manager: Gertrude Brua
iixc lange Editor: June Sprungman
Reporters: Marcia Connell, Bill Heveran, Lee
Harrer Sandra Ravencroft, Dianna Barbour,
Bill Neuson, Don Brown, Ed Linskey, Donna
Korsmo, Eileen Rodley, Bill Fortman, Roger
Coverly, Gertrude Brua, Nancy Borneman
Doris Bsrnges, Don Dadigan, Phil LaVeau[
Dick O’Brien, jack Nixon; Mary Morse, Patty
• • Meyer Deane Liesveld, Rudy Schmid, Carol
Schuler, June Sprungman, Bill Wokoun, Ken
neth Gregor, and Joanne Day.
FACULTY ADVISERS
Paul Eberhardt
Clement Meier
�Friday. December 12, 1947
This ’n That If the students at Nilehi were asked
to give their “John Henry,” the popular
name would probably be “Schmidt”, with
variations of spelling. It seems that nine
students from Nilehi were blessed with
this last name. “Carlson” and “Peterson”
tie for second place with seven students
each.
Nilehi has surpassed its 1938 student
body enrollment by 491 pupils. In 1938,
the opening year at Nilehi, 449 students
were enrolled and now the number has
increased to 930.
Mr. Harold Isaacson, Nilehi athletic
director, is one of few people in the
world who can boast of a third set of
teeth. No, it wasn’t in Ripley’s column,
but it could be!
N I L E H I L I T E
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Vacation Is Almost Here;
Merry Christmas to All
The long-awaited period of freedom
is almost here! Yes, Christmas vacation
is right around the corner, so, as jolly
old Saint Nick would say, “Merry Christ
mas to all!”
Variety of Birthplaces
Among Nilehi Students
From Germany to Hawaii! No, it’s
not a trip offered by a travel agency.
This great distance represents the area
throughout which Nilehi junior and sen
ior students were born.
Stanley Anderson has returned from
Wilderstadt, Germany, was the birth
his cruise to Haiti and has a real tan place of Louis Nachbauer, senior. He
to show for it.
is one of three juniors and seniors born
His cruise lasted for two weeks and outside of this country. Raymond Casson,
according to all reports he enjoyed him 1a junior, was born in Winnepeg, Canada,
while Nancy Watson, another junior,
self.
Stan is a member of the Naval Re claims as her birthplace, Honolulu, Ha
serve and he went on the battleship waii.
Nilehi upper classmen were bom
“Wisconsin.”
in 20 of our 48 states. Of course, the
For the first time since 1919, Mr.
state which is the birthplace of most of
C. W. Selden, Nilehi woodshop instructor,
these students is Illinois, having a total
has sent his car to a garage for reNote: To students who have t poirs. Always before this, he has made of 381. Wisconsin runs second with 11.
Chicago is the city with the highest
signed petitions for the return of
all major and minor repairs himself.
rating, which is 224, and Evanston is the
Kitty Korner, we shall be glad to
Maybe the tired and drawn faces winner in the suburban "race with a total
revive the cat if you, the students,
around N.T.H.S. are resulting from that of 87 Nilehi students claiming this as
will give suitable contributions. The
Thanksgiving vacation. Could it be that their birthplace. Second place in cities
Black Box is still resting in room
some people didn’t stay home, rest, and went to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with
216 waiting to be filled.
do their homework?
four, and Skokie was second in suburbs
with 15 students.
Even Washington D.C. was represent
ed in this student birthplace inquiry
along with such states as Oregon, Geor
gia, Pennsylvania, Utah, and many more.
By Lyle Dye
Who says it isn't a small world?
The annual reindeer, snow, pinetree,
and Santa Claus season is here, and no
So you think its a breeze to put a
matter how grown-upish we become in
our high school days, nor how many highschool newspaper, do you? Well it
major awards we’ve won or complicated, might be a breeze, but is seems more like
worldly novels we’ve read in English, a hurricane! The average non-partisan
there are still a few times, especially has little comprehension of the many
during Christmas, when the green-eyed jobs which have to be done to turn out
monster of jealousy rears his head in the 6500 words of the school’s bi-weekly
This week, victims were given the
publication, the NILEHILITE.
quite an undignified manner.
first three lines of a poem and were
Yes, during the gay holiday season
Work on a current edition begins over then asked to write a fourth. Here is
many a teen-ager finds himself gazing two full weeks before it is ready for
the poem and some of the answers your
at a four-year-old at play and definitely, distribution by the weekly report of Inquiring Reporter received:
but very secretively, reminiscing.
news beats, which the 32 members of the
“The cleanup drive is in full swing,
It’s fun now to look back on all our staff cover in order to keep up with the
Pick up the paper and that thing.
childish Christmas beliefs, and get a gig current happenings around school, and
Let’s keep our school cleanest by far,
gle from them, but why do we all heartily to give the editors tips for stories.
J>
agree with our little brother or sister
A story, after the editor reads it and
when they proclaim old Saint Nick to
Jim Wiedler, junior; “Where the heck
be the most wonderful man in the world makes any changes necessary, is then do you think you are?”
and the fir tree to be the most beautiful sent out to a professional linotypist, who
Pat Olson, senior: “And we’ll all de
tree in the world? (Especially when it’s sets the story up in type. After the serve a big gold star.”
! story is returned to school it is rechecked
got lots of bright lights on it!)
Barbara Kokum, sophomore: “For it’s
Although all these things seem long for errors, equipped with a headline, the best in the land, by far.”
ago and far away, the memory of dashing fitted into a page, and taken down to
Jane Heath, freshman: “Our lovely
into a warm house with a runny nose and the print shop for printing.
school we should not mar.”
smelling cookies baking and getting up
You may think that after the paper
Gene Coleman, freshman: “And not
after an almost sleepless, exciting night is out, the staff members can sit down
to tear downstairs to see the tree and and take it easy for a few days, but this as dirty as a junkman’s car.”
A. Halbrendt, freshman: “They’re
all the nice things Santa brought to put is a very false impression because their
under it, is still a pretty happy one.
work is never done. By that time work wastebaskets, remember, there really
It’d probably break most of our mature has already started on the next issue are.”
hearts to admit it, but as we grow older
Bruce Harris, junior: “We aren’t run
So if you have any ideas as to what’s
and more ancient (after all, seventeen
ning a circus hyar.”
is no young age in an atomic world!) wrong with the NILEHILITE and what
Mary Lou Schey, junior: “As all the
year by year, we think more and more you would like to do about it, why don’t Army barracks are.”
about how maybe it wasn’t so bad being you enroll in journalism next year, or
Al Wdowicki, junior: “And don’t
a mere youngster and not quite so grown write a letter to the editors and take it
Aup to room 216 ? The NILEHILITE is al throw away your old love letter.”
up.
Bill Kella, senior: “For the hall is
ways glad to hear any criticism or com
But no matter how old we are, every
no place to throw cigars.”
ments from its readers.
body still loves Christmas.
Seniors Slightly Sad
As Years Roll Quickly On
S
Publishing N ilehilite
Is No Easy Task
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N I L E H I L I T E
Friday, December 12, 1947
Senior Pat and Freshman Dave Interviewed; Classes Choose Pupils
Represent Classes on Cabinet and F. B. A. With Outstanding Traits
Dave Tegtman, freshman, and presi
dent of the Freshman Board of Advisers,
is slowly acquiring a “lone wolf” nick
name due to the fact that he is the
only male on the board.
After graduating from Our Lady of
Perpetual Help grammar school, Dave,
upon entering. Niles, immediately went
out for football and is looking forward
to swimming and baseball season.
Dave’s ideas of a perfect evening is
a dish of spaghetti, that “special” fresh
man girl, and Harry James’ orchestra
with Dorothy Shay as vocalist.
Little do we know how lucky we are
to have Dave with us this year because
way back in fifth grade, while on a
fall on him, almost enrolling out FBA
?arm, he had a twenty-foot load of hay
president as a permanent student in
the School of Angels.
Time Flies Back and Sees
Teachers as Teen-Agers
One of our prettiest and most active
senior girls is Pat Hartung.
Pat takes twirling and belongs to the
See Chicago Club, G.A.A. and the Senior
Cabinet. Her favorite sports are bas
ketball and bowling.
Being a dance fan, Pat puts Tex
Beneke at the top of her list of dance
bands. Pery Como is her favorite crooner.
Her likes are Kentucky and eating
sandwiches between classes. Her pet
peeves: the styles (because she hates
o lengthen skirts) and people who
don’t like to listen to hillbilly music.
Pat is taking the commercial course,
md afcer graduation she hopes to start
working for a tall, dark, and handsome
boss who is both young and single.
JournalismStudents
Interview Crooner
By Gertrude Brua
If you’ve been wondering for the last
three weeks why you filled out a certain
paper in homeroom and who won this
student opinion poll, the Nilehilite now
has the answers for you:
Bill Comstock was selected as the
best-looking boy in the senior class, and
Eva Lou Michel as the prettiest girl. The
two students with the best personality,
Biehn and Polly Wettengel. Don Chrisaccordingly to the questionnaires, are Don
tensen was chosen by the senior class as
the person most likely to succeed.
The junior class nominated Jack Heurlin and Joan Harrer as having the best
personalities. Ed Beebe was chosen as
the person most likely to succeed, while
Donna Korsmo was chosen as the pret
tiest girl and Carl Bjorkdahl as the most
handsome boy.
The sophomores nominated Jim Ken
nedy as the boy having the best person
ality, the most handsome boy of the
sophomore class, and the person most
likely to succeed. Beverly Dilly was voted
the prettiest sophomore girl and Marilyn
Reiland as having the best personality.
The freshmen followed through by
selecting Alan Weisburg as the person
most likely to succeed. Donald Walters
and Joyce Baumann have, according "to
the freshman cass, the best personalities.
Astrid Halbrendt is the prettiest girl and
Ray Spencer is the most handsome fellow.
Although you may disagree with the
results of the poll, the people chosen
were selected by the majority of the
students of the casses, and who are you
to argue with the masses ?
Mel Thorme, baby faced, blue-eyed
By Deane Liesveld
idol of the bobby soxers, gave a coke and
Turning back the dusty pages of
Father Time’s Almanac, to pages not so milk interview party November 25, ex;dusty, we checked up on the adolescent elusively for high school journalists.
This party was held in the Bamboo
years of our teachers. Here are a few
interesting facts that may help you to Room of the Hotel Sherman’s College
Inn. Those representing the “Nilehilite”
know your teachers better.
All time Hit Parade tunes then were who were there were Deane Liesveld.
“Margie”, “Whispering”, “Sleepy Time Doris Bernges, Marcia Connell, Dona
Gal”, “Red Sails in the Sunset”, My Korsmo, Carole Schuler, Lyle Dye, Rudy
Schmid, and Dick O’Brien.
Blue Heaven”, and “Harvest Moon.” The
To open the session, Mel sang his
faculty hepcats cut some pretty mean
two-steps, charlestons, and cariocas, not extremely popular composition “Christ
to mention the big apple, to those tunes. mas Song” and closed after about an
The clothes styles were about the same hour of intensive questioning with the
as today’s long skirts. As for popular song everyone begged him to sing, “Bal
lerina”.
fads, we discovered galoshes unbuckled
at the top, (the wearers were known as Laughing, clowning, and at times blush
flappers) large black taffeta hair bows, ing to the roots of his blond hair, Mel
bobbed hair or hair wore in buns on proved a very likeable and interesting
either side of the head. Model-T flivers personality to interview.
A Chicago boy, he attended Hyde Park
instead of the hot-rods were all the
High School for three-and-a-half years
rage.
Each and every bobby soxer still has
Ah yes! Then too did fair Cupil let go until he left Chicago in 1942 with Chico
Marx’s band. He was graduated from a place in her heart for the brown and
his little arrows of romance into their
white saddle shoes of the “good old
normally palpitating hearts to make high school in Los Angeles.
All along the hallway on the way out days,” but the original version is now
them flutter and quiver like little “boidseldom seen, having been taken over by
ies”. “Bunny” Ryden’s got that way to the street you could hear faint, fe
red and white or blue and white ones.
over redheads. Many other o fthe facul minine sighs,“Didn’t he look adorable
Gone too is the simple loafer, that
when he sang?”
ty sacrificed class rings and DeMolay
for many years has been a headache to
pins to the sweet song of high school in chemistry class; Mr. Schubert drove
all mothers of teen-age daughters. The
lo v e ------------sigh!
across a sidewalk and was expelled from simple reason for this isthat when
The inevitable jive talk went some school; Miss Harbert throttled her con
worn by high-school girls they sound
thing like this; “Baloney.” “What’s the science and threw bee-bee shot at the like a suction pump.
difference as long as you’re healthy?” desk in study hall (but she never con
Into the halls of our school has also
and “Shiek” (for a cute fella).
fessed); and Miss Atkinson upon dis appeared the “flat” which in former
To the question “Did you ever ditch covering a Latin “pony” got good grades
years was seldom seen on girls. Any flat
school?” most answered with an abrupt for a week and then was called on to
is acceptable so long as it has the “look”
“no” or refused to answer at all. Mr. recite.
which means heel and toe in. The balleri
Van Arsdale, however, can remember a | These high school hepcats from yester na or plain flat is very popular.
few blank days on the calendar and Mr.! day, for the majority, feel that their
However, here are some styles that
Eberhardt and a couple of buddies made charges from 8:15 to 3:11 every day are go on and on. They are the fellas’ fash
a day of it—once.
more mature, less interested in school, ions, and good old saddle shoes and
A few miscellaneous details found in and more bold than they, themselves, students of the classes, and who are you
our research: Miss Tillmann sat in acid! were at our age.
best dressed males.
Fads in Shoes Change;
Feet Now Prefer Dress-up
�Friday, December 12, 1947
N I L E H I L I T E
104 Trojan Athletes Receive Letters;
Heiniger Named Most Valuable Player
c
Coe, Bob Cook,
Bob F
One hundred and four boys received J aick a rd F e rris, F re d GBob r,D uBois, G erber,uller,
R h
a tte
C lark
Bill
athletic awards on November 26 in the G ra fk e , Bob H arw ood, W a rre n Jones, D on K etiel,
K en L a P la n t, Tom M erle, W illiam N elson, Tom
fall awards assembly at Niles Township Reed, C harles k i^ u g iT , Clyde Schultz, a n d R ic h
a rd Voss.
High School.
Twenty-six Freshman Shields were
Harold Isaacson, boys’athletic director awarded by James Phipps, new addition
and varsity football coach, gave out 27 to the Nilehi coaching staff. They were
aw
ed
ary A bbott,
B a rMajor “N’s”. Those award winners were rowardH owto G B a u m h ^ rd t, DickBB aker, Elm o Berg,
,
ard
Ed
edony, D on
K ay B atz, Ed Beebe, Tom B lack, J im B lessing,
C on C arlson, Bill C om stock, B ill F o tsch , Tom
F itzg e ra ld , Lee G a rn e r, L a u re n c e H all, Jim H einije r , P a u l H einiger, H erb Jo n es, Ed K adlec, Jim
K ennedy, N eel K iefer, Ed K u tz, L enny Lange,
Ed Linskey, A rt M iller, W ard N ipper, D ick N or
m a n , D on Siegel, H o w ard Siegel, Ed Soergel,
R a lp h W aiberg, a n d Jam e s W ead. '
The varsity team won six games while
losing to Arlington and Lake Forest. Art
Miller was named Honorary Captain,,
and Jim Heiniger was elected Most
Valuable Player.
. L. R. Mackey, school engineer and
shop teacher, awarded 29 Minor “N’s”
and 17 Frosh-Soph sheilds to his Jay
Vees, who complied a four and four re
cord for the season.
T h e m in o r le tte r w n n e rs w ere E d A rchibald,
G eorge Eussey, W illiam C am pbell, D on C arlson,
c v n r a a C ornell, J im D avis, Jo e D onovan, D ie*
E rick so n , B 11 F ru en d , B u rt G e rh a rd t, A1 H a rtig ,
Jo h n K ad lec, L o u K eesey, G il K luesing, A1
K ru eg er, J a c k L arso n , G lenn M eyer, K m M uto,
R oy N elson, P e te P asek , Jesse P o rte r, D ick P ro
vost, N ick R ollick, D ick Shiley, M a rtin Seidler,
B h r l i Sie-nsen, Al S tillm an , Lee Struebim g, D ean
W h itto n , Bob W itte, Ed B u tte rw o rth , an d C harles
Voss,
.
t'
4
• * ■
Roy N elson w as n a m e d H o n o ra ry C ap tain .
'iiis F io ..h -S o p h w in n ers w ere Jam e s B rophy,
Trojans Out-classed by
Wildkits 46 to 22
The Evanston Wildkits flipped 21 bas
kets through the hoop and sank four
free throws to roll over the Nilehi Tro
jans 46 to 22 in a non-conference game
on Evanston’s floor Friday night, No
vember 21. It was the opening game of
the 1947-48 basketball season for the
Trojans.
The Trojans tried 47 shots at the
basket, but sank only six against the
tall Evanston team. The Trojans also
sank 10 free throws out of 17 tries.
Tritschler of Evanston was high
scorer of the night with 13 points, while
Gordon Anderson of Niles had five points
to be high man for his team.
Evanston scored 25 points in the first
half, while Niles could score only 13
Robinson and Tritschler led their team
in scoring with three baskets apiece.
Anderson and Jim Blessing each collect
ed four points for the Trojans.
Evanston racked up 21 more points
in the second half while the ‘Men of
Troy’ made only nine.
>
L a rry B rite n s tin e , B ill C a tte rn , W alter D eStories,
Don G aw rys, B uddy H lld eb ran d c, K a rl Holzl,
D ick H a lla p p a, W arre n H olcomb, L ester Ja c o b
son, Nick Jostock, P a u l J c rg t nsen, E lliot K enny
R o n ald M eilicke, Ed M eyers, Bob R av e re t, Jam es
Schell, R ay Spencer, Jam e s Suckow, D avid T egtm an , a n d F re d Yocum .
Don Berg was named Honorary Cap
tain of this team which won two games
while losing five.
The cross-country team, coached by
Arthur Ryden, won two out of five
scheduled meets. The only major letterwinner was Carl Schrimpf. Bill and Ed
Hutchings won minor “N’s” and Gorden
McKinley and John Gerich were award
ed frosh shields.
Page 5
Cag emen Improve, But
Lose to Terriers, 47-36
New Trier’s Green Wave quintet
jumped off to a quick lead which they
never relinquished, as they conquered
the Niles’ Trojans 47 to 36 at Nilehi
on Wednesday night, November 26.
The Trojans, trailing 11 to 4 at the
end of the first quarter, played better
ball in the second period but so did the
Terriers. The score at halftime was 20
to 11.
Although L. R. Mackey’s boys showed
quite a bit of improvement over the
Evanston game, they were still unable
to consistently drive past the New
Trier defense.
Heiniger of Niles and Krantz of New
Trier were high-point men for the
night with 14 apiece. Christenson and
Moore, both of New Trier, scored 13
and 11 points respectively.
Swimmers Divide With
Mermen Outs wim Morton Highland Park, Steinmetz
Two Records Broken
The Nilehi Varsity and Jay Vee swim
teams both won their first meet of the
1947-48 season, Thursday, November 20;
by out-swimming and out-diving their
opponents from J. Sterling Morton High
School.
The Nilehi varsity lost only one race
and gave a splendid performance in its
42 to 24 victory over Morton’s varsity.
On the other hand, luck was with our
Jay Vee squad as the boys nosed out
the Jay Vees of Morton 32 to 31.
Two of the varsity lads, dissatisfied
with some old school records, went out
and put some fresh ones in the book.
Herb Jones set a new record by swim
ming the 50-yard free-style in 26.4
seconds, beating his own record by one
tenth of a second.
The other record was broken by
Charles Lindahl, who swam the 100yard free-style in 59.7 seconds, 3.2 se
conds faster than Ted Ebert’s old record
of 1:02.9
Jay Vees Drop Close
One to New Trier
In dual swimming meets with the
Highland Park and Steinmetz High
Schools, the varsity aquamen of Nilehi
broke even. They lost to a tough High
land Park squad 50 to 25 on November
26, and then outswam and outdived the
Steinmetz swimmers, 4f to 33, on De
cember 1.
Herb Jones and Dick Provost account
ed for the two firsts against the High
landers. Jones won the 50-yard free
style in 27 seconds, and Provost placed
first in diving.
The Jay Vees did much better against
this same opponent. They captured four
first places and four seconds to beat the
Highlanders, 35 to 31.
In the meet with Steinmetz, however,
it was exactly the opposite, as the Jay
Vees were defeated 34 to 31 and the
Varsity was victorious, 41 to 33.
Herb Jones, Rudy Schmid, and Bob
Lindahl took first for Niles, while Jones
and Provist tied for diving honors.
Bill Nickel and Gordon Smale shared
diving honors for the Jay Vees.
Baseball Prospects Will
Condition During Winter
In a hon-conference contest the Jay
For the first time in the history of
Vees of New Trier won a thrilling game
28 to 27 from the Jay Vees of Nilehi N.T.H.S., baseball will be practiced in
when Ronnie Samaha scored two bas the crisp of winter, not actually out in
kets in the last minute of play after the snow, but in the school gym after
Niles had led all the way. The game was school. It will be under the direction of
played at Niles Wednesday night, No Mr. James Phipps, new varsity baseball
coach who was formerly on the Chicago
vember 26.
New Scoreboard in Gym
Coach Hussey’s boys led 11 to 6 at White Sox and now under contract with
A Scoremaster Basketball timer and the end of the first quarter and 19 the New York Yankees.
scoreboard has recently taken the place to 13 at the end of the first half.
Mr. Phipps thinks that the boys who
of the old scoreboard which has been
After each team scored four points intend to play baseball in the Spring
in use since the school was built.
in the third quarter, New Trier came and who are not participating in a win
The new scoreboard, which is made back to notch up eleven points to Niles’ i ter sport need exercise—and that this
by M. D. Brown and Company, has been four points.
extracurricular class, which will con
installed on the south wall of the gym-1 Fred Brei, center for Niles, was liigh sist mostly of running and calisthenics,
nasium.
scorer for his team with nine points. Iwill do the trick .
�Page 6 -
N I L E H I L I T E
Friday, December 12, 1947
I
Soccer is a thing of the past, these
days, and the Glamazons are slowly but
surely recovering from their bruises and
bumps.
Basketball is the new “darling” of
the junior and senior girls’ gym classes.
The captains have been elected and
things are going strong. The freshman
and sophomore gals are playing captainball.
Many girls are passing their swim
ming tests in all the classes. For junior
and senior mermaids, a life-saving
course is being planned. This course
will be held after school, according to
Miss Mildred Schaefer, girls’ phys. ed.
instructor.
Following this, a course in water
safety has been planned. This will be
of special interest to girls who intend
to teach in summer camps.
A home nursing course is planned for
the senior girls for the second semester
Everyone should find this course valu
able, no matter what their interests may
be. Who knows ? It might inspire some
girls to go farther in the field.
The cheerleading uniforms have ar
rived at last. The girls have navy blue
pleated skirts, worn with school sweat
ers. The boys are sticking to their white
'‘sailor pants” and their school sweaters.
It seems that a couple of our “pepsteam” kids have almost dislocated their
sacroiliacs during cheering practice. At
that rate they ought to develop some
thing really spectacular.
All girls who have swim make-ups
are warned to do it soon, since time is
growing short for that sort of thing.
Varsity and Junior Varsity Basketball Schedule
Friday
December 12
7:15 P.M.
Crystal Lake
Friday
December 19
7:15 P.M.
Woodstock
Friday
January 2
7:15 P.M.
Alumni
Friday
January 9
7:15 P.M.
Liberty ville
Friday
J anuary 16
7:15 P.M.
Lake Forest
7:15 P.M.
Leyden
Saturday
January 24
Tuesday
January 27
V
4:30 P.M.
Warren
Friday
January 30
7:15 P.M.
Arlington
Friday
February 6
7:15 P.M.
Crystal Lake
Wednesday
February 11
7:15 P.M.
Woodstock
Friday
February 13
7:15 P.M.
Libert yville
Tuesday
February 17
4:30 P.M.
Lake Forest
Saturday
February 21
7:15 P.M.
Highland Park
Friday
February 27
7:15 P.M.
Leyden
Saturday
February 28
7:15 P.M.
Maine
Trojans Face Tough
Crystal Lake Team
The Niles Township Varsity and
Junior Varsity basketball teams
journey to Crystal Lake on Decem
ber 12 where they‘1 meet the Tigers
1
in a game that is promised to give
the fans a good run for their money.
Of all conference opponents, the
Tigers have given the Trojans the
most competition, by succeeding in
licking our boys six times. We have
also beat them the same number of
times.
The boys from Crystal Lake are
not expected to be as tough as the
team that took the Conference
Championship last year, but it will
“still be tough,” says L. R. Mackey,
Trojan Ccach.
Cagemen Win First Two;
Get Off on Right Foot
The Nilehi cagemen, who finished in
there a two-way tie for fourth place last year
in the Northeast Conference, started
here
off on the right foot on Friday night,
here December 5, when they defeated the
there Arlington Cardinals 29 to 23 in the
1947-48 Northeast Conference opener
here at Arlington.
On the following night, the Trojans
here
overwhelmed the Warren Bluedevils 44
there
to 14 in another conference game. 'The
here game was played on the Trojans’ floor
here before a small crowd.
Tonight, Friday, December 12, Coach
there Mackey’s boys will be going after their
here third straight conference win when they
there play the Crystal Lake Tigers, who were
undefeated last yea rin the Northeast
here Conference. The game will be played at
there Crystal Lake.-The Jay Vee game will
here start at 7:15 p.m.
Jay Vees Drop Opener
To Wildkits, 35 to 23
from the Sports Section
The Nilehi Jay Vee basketball team
lost their initial game of the 1947-48
season to Evanston’s Frosh-Sophs 35
to 23 on the latter’s floor, November 21.
Bell was high point man for Evan
ston with 13, while Captain Tom Black,
Bill Leeming, and Dick Erickson led the
Trojans with five apiece.
Alum ni Can Join Choir
Resolve 1o See the
ALUMNI GAME, January 2
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By Dona Korsino
For the first time in Niles Township
High School history, the school choir is
extending an invitation to any alumni
who are former members, to sing the
“Hallelujah Chorus” with the choir at
the annual “Christmas Vespers” on Sun
day afternoon, December 14.
Anyone wishing to participate should
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contact Miss Clara Klaus, music director.
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NILEHILITE, December 12, 1947
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