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Volume 17, No. 6
nileHI lite
Niles Township High School, Skokie, I1L
Final E x a m
«Next
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday, January 20, 1956
Nilehiers To Take
Exams Next W eek
“HOPE I pass!” “ I studied six
hours last night!” “I can’t even
add two and two!”
These are familiar cries around
Nilehi as final exam time ap
proaches once again, in all clas
ses that carry full credit. Exams
will be given next Wednesday and
Thursday, Januuary 25 and 26.
ON WEDNESDAY period one
will meet from 8:15 until 9:15,
period two from 9:15 until 10:10,
period three from 10:15 until
11:10, and period four from 11:15
until 12:10.
Thursday’s time schedule will be
the same for periods five through
! eight.
BUSES WILL leave the school
at 12:15 on both days. There will
be no school Wednesday and
Thursday afternoon, and all day
Friday.
xik f . many other Nilehiers, Sandy Bain, senior, is tackling her
.
books for final exams next week. Look familiar?
Cabinet Gives Dance
A fter Game Tonight
sentative.
Tickets may be purchased at
the door for 25 cents, and a fee
of five cents will be charged for
checking coats.
THE JUNIOR Cabinet also is
planning to give a dance next
weekend following the basketball
game to raise money for the Prom.
Faculty sponsor for the dances
is Mr. Nick Odlivak.
“CASHMERE CASUAL” will be
the name of the dance which will
be held in the old cafeteria fol
lowing the Niles-Evanston basket
ball game tonight, January 20.
“The dance will be given by
the Junior Cabinet to raise money
for the Junior Prom which will
be held this June,” commented Senior Cabinet To Give
Lela Heim, Junior Cabinet repre- Valentine's Day Dance
Junior Red Cross Holds
January Stamp Drive
NILEHI IS considered one of
the outstanding high schools in
Illinois in reference to Red Cross
and other charity drives, accord
ing to Miss Elizabeth Lawson,
sponsor of the Junior Red Cross.
Nilehi was one of the schools
picked to have a drive to collect
stamps for hospitalized veterans.
THIS MONTH the students are
bringing all types of stamps,
cancelled and uncancelled, for
eign and American, to the Bed
Cross representative in f t d f
homeroom.
THE NILEHI Valentine’s Day
dance, will be held Saturday, Feb
ruary 11 in the boys’ and girls’
gym.
The dance, sponsored by the
Senior Cabinet, will be held in
place of the usual senior Spring
Dance.
The following seniors are in
charge of the dance: Dave Chev
rier, publicity; Bette Vosnos,
bids; Bob Schroeder, decora
tions; Sandy Bruening, tickets;
and Marilyn Horn, orchestra.
The cabinet hopes that the
dance will be a success.
These representatives will then
turn over all the stamps to the
Chicago Red Cross Council.
Remodeling Work
Is Completed
In Locker Room
WHILE NILEHI students were
busily enjoying themselves during
the Christmas holidays, remodel
ing work was being completed in
the boys* locker room.
A committee, headed by Mr.
Harold Isaacson and the P. ^ . de
partment, was assigned the initial
task of tearing down the wall near
the varsity dressing room and al
so providing an entrance at the
north end of the shower room.
Professional work was then cal
led in for the task of filling up the
old shower room entrances near
the lockers.
THE BOYS WILL now enter
the shower room at the north
end, take their showers, and
then exit by a new door-way at
the south end, where they will
receive their towels. They wffl
dry by the varsity room and
leave their towels as they go
to their lockers.
This new system eliminates wet
floors in the locker room and
mildewed towels. Also the boys
who were unfortunate too have
lockers near the shower room will
no longer dress on wet floors.
�Page 2
N I L E H I L IT E
Friday, January 20, 1956
To Have or N o t to Have Final Exams
That Is a Question for A ll N ilehi
WELL, that time of the year is here again. It’s the time when
we must substitute for the problems of our own lives the problems
Dear Editor,
(
Thank you for putting my pic of an American democracy or a difficult geometry problem. That‘S
right; you’ve guessed it. Exam time is here again!
ture on the front page of the last
issue of the N ilehilite.
Exam time is like the weather. “Everybody talks about it, but
“Heidi”
nobody does anything about it.” For the past few weeks around
Nilehi, teachers have been listening to questions like,, “Why do we
have to take exams?” , “I have an A-average. Why must I take
exams?” , and “I know a school where they never give final exams.
Dear Editor,
In the past two months a great Why must we have them?”
deal of discussion has resulted in
It seems that nobody likes to take exams. But let’s face it;
different organizations concerning
there is nothing that you, as a student, can do about it. There
“over affection” in the halls.
fore, instead of complaining about them and not getting anywhere,
The student body should realize
look at the problem of taking exams objectively.
that this type of display does not
There are at least three good reasons why all students should
belong in the school and will try
to act as is proper in a public take finals. One of these reasons is for review. Review is the key
to all learning. If you go over something and learn it again while
school.
you’re studying, that is half the value of taking final examinations.
Marcy Pritikin
A t.hing learned only once is easily forgotten. However, if this thing
Junior
ED. You’re not the only one who is repeated several times, you are more likely to remember it for
has begun to notice this problem, many years. We are, you must realize expected to remember some
Marcy, and Niles is not the only of the things we learn in high school for the rest of our lives.
A second good reason for final exams is that you learn how
school in which such conditions
exist. The following is the reply to study, or perhaps, how not to study. After you have studied for
which Edan Wright, columnist of several final exams, it will be easier to study for those of the future.
The Daily News, made to several Studying for and taking final exams helps us to realize the important
students in high school who wrote parts of chapters, paragraphs, and units. This in turn helps us to
to her in regard to this problem. organize any reading material that we may come in contact with
The editors feel that this will per as we grow up.
IF YOU are planning on attending college, and most Nilehi
haps cast some light on this sub
students are, you will be taking final exams. These will be harder
ject.
Let me give you these thoughts and much longer than those exams which you are going to take
on the subject. Good manners and in the next few days. Therefore, it is good to know just what a
a sensitive personal regard for af final exam is like so that you will know how to handle a more difficult
fection between boys and girds do one in college.
Those students who get straight “A” report cards have a
dictate that demonstrations should
good argument for themselves against taking exams. However,
be private.
most “A” students attend college, and if you don’t know how
I don’t include holding hands
to take final exams then, you will find you won’t be in the “A”
in this so long as it is done with
student category very long.
a minimum of notice and a proper
These are just a few things for you to think about as you “burn
time and place. There are oc
casions when it is just as ap the midnight candle” , and we hope they’ll pep you up a little. Any
propriate and socially acceptable way, good luck, and remember: your editor has to take final
as a kiss given in greeting or exams, too!
leave-taking in a station.
But this isn’t the case here.
This is a school. No matter how
you look at it, it’s not a place or
n i l e H I lite
time for holding hands. Besides,
by doing it in numbers you are
making it a public show and des
The NILEHILITE: Is about th e students
w ritten by the students, and primarily
troying the very specialness of its
for the students. I t is intended fo r the
personal meaning.
enjoym ent of Its readers and to stimulate
pride In Niles Township High. School,
I think you should know, too,
Skokie, Hllnols. Dr. Joseph A. Mason,
that in some schools this harm
S uperintendent-principal.
less demonstration of affection has
Editor-in-Chief: Janice Jack
F eature Editor: B arbara K itch
led to necking in classes. So you
Sports Editor: B arbara Neuman
see that once you let down the
News Bureau Chief: B arbara McKaig
Girls’ Sports Editor: S andra Jacobsson
bars on the old-hat views of your
S taff P hotographer: L arry McWherter
oldsters, you’re opening the door
A ssistants: Doug Wold, Allan Land,
Chief Typist: M arcia P ritikin
to trouble and criticism. As high
C irculation M anager: M arilyn Bsoher
school students you also have a
Exchange Editor: B arb Simon, L arry Last«
C artoonist: Jerry Kucera, Judy Burt
responsibility in leading the way
Faculty Adviser: Paul M. Eberhardt, Gak
for the step into the adult world.
Wesley
�Friday, January 20, 1956
N I L E H I L I T E
Radio Club Builds
Own Transmitter
Page 3
W Kê ê K
êm
BUILDING THEIR own trans
mitter is now the current project
of the boys in Mr. George Fink’s
Radio Club.
The parts are being paid for by
donations and club dues. They are
assembled as each one is pur
chased
RECENTLY THE school bought
an SX 100 receiver; and with the
new transmitter, the school will
have its own ham station.
The station will be operated by
the licensed operators of the club,
while the new members are work
ing to obtain their licenses.
Paper to Feature
New Nilehi Senior
JUDEE GELMAN, new senior,
was recently chosen to represent
Nilehi’s new students in a Chicago
Sun Times feature story to show
i how the school welcomes new
comers.
Appearing in the Chicago paper
near the end of this month or
sometime next month, the article
will show various phases of
Judee’s first days in her new
school.
PHOTOGRAPHERS took pic
tures of her with Mr. Harold
> Ohlson, senior adviser; Miss
Joan Coon, her homeroom teach
er; a few close girl friends;
variouus club representatives;
and a few Nilehi athletes.
T h e numerous photographers
were taken in the cafeteria, home
room, classroom, and student
1 lounge.
A STUDENT from Chicago’s
Austin High School, Judee said,
“This was an exciting experience
and one I shall never forget.”
KEEP your eyes open for
Judee’s picture in the Chicago
Sun Times. It will be appear
ing one of these days.
HERE Lois Adelman, senior, tries out Mr. Babcock's conditioning equipment.
Buzz and Squeals
Are Due To
Electrical Gadget
IF A LOUD buzz and then some
yelps and squeals are heard in
room 217 during the first or sixth
period, it’s most probable the con
ditioning equipment of Mr. Leo
Babcock’s psychology class is be
ing used.
The conditioning e q u i p m e n t
shows how people, as well as an
imals, associate one thing with
another.
THIS ELECTRICAL contrap
tion, which is 8 by 10, by 2
inches, was made by Mr. Carl
Burgener, physics teacher, eight
years ago. Every year since,
Mr. Babcock has used it in his
psychology classes.
The device has two individual
switches. One turns a buzzer on;
the other sets up a slight electric
shock. In using it, a person puts
two fingers on two metal projec
tions.
THE TWO switches are thrown
simultaneously. This is repeated
a number of times, the person
j getting a slight shock each time
I the buzzer sounds,
j Then the buzzer is sounded alone,
| but the person will jump away as
| he did previously because he has
associated shock with the buzzer-
Sophomores Collect
Food For Orphans
SHOWING THE true Christmas
spirit, the Sophomore Cabinet col
lected over 400 cans of food for
an orphanage’s Christmas, accord
ing to Mr. Marvin Ihne, cabinet
sponsor.
The food was collected from the
sophomore class during the first
part of December. It was taken
to the Angel Guardian Orphanage
in Chicago on December 16, just
in time for Christmas.
SOME OF THE cans contained
vegetables, some com and beans,
while others contained fruits or
other dessert items. Fruit juices
and soups were also included.
Astronomy Club Elects
Officers; Makes Plans
THE SECOND semester officers
of the Astronomy Club were elec
ted at the weekly meeting January
4.
The following were chosen: Joe
Stout, president; Terry Stark, vicepresident; and Russ Kofoed, secre
tary-treasurer.
PLANS FOR the second semes
ters activities were also discussed.
They included a trip to the Planitarium, various projects, and ob
servations.
�Friday, January 20, 1956
N I L E H I L I T E
Page 4
Noisy Room Reveals
Fun, Hard Work
Have you ever wondered exactly
what goes on in Room 21? If you
don’t take metal shop, all you
know is that its pretty noisy.
But actually students who take
metal shop learn a lot more than
you probably realize. They learn
1. 2, or more of 6 fields: foundry
and forge, machine shop, welding,
art metal, and bench metal in ad
dition to regular textbook assign
ments and tests.
Students learn to use their
heads as well as their hands in
applying them to worthwhile
projects. In foundry and forge
the students learn the fundmentals for furnaces and foundry
work and make projects such as
cast book ends, paper weights,
and cold chisels.
In machine shop he works with
complex machines such as metal
shapers, engine lathes, vertical
mills, horizontal mills, and sur
face grinders. The projects that
come out of these machines are
punches, hammer heads, and vari
ous tools and accessories.
In welding there aren’t many
projects to make but the student
still learns how to gas and arc
weld. In art metal he learns how
to make beautiful etched aluminuim serving trays, wall trays, and
ash trays. In bench metal, the
student learns, as his first project,
the making of a dust pan or a tool
tray, which is made out of gal
vanized iron. All in all a student
who takes metals comes out with
a knowledge that should be help
ful in later life.
M eet Your Editor
NEW STUDENT, new editor, all
in a few short months.
THIS MAY apply to senior Bar
bara Simon, who is a new student
at Nilehi this year.
When Janice Jack, present Edit or-in-Chief of the N ilehilitb,
told Mr. Paul Eberhardt, facul
ty supervisor, that she would
graduate at the end of the semes
ter, immediate action had to be
taken. A new editor had to be
chosen.
A FEW weeks ago the decision
was made and Barb Simon, as an
apprentice editor, began her work
with the N ilf . h i l i t e staff.
BARB HAS previously had a
semester of journalism in the
school she attended before coming
to Nilehi, Central High School, in
Detroit, Michigan.
For the coming semester, Barb
Simon will act as News Editor,
and Barbara Neuman will act as
Editor-in-Chief and Sports Edi
tor. The rest of the staff will re
main the same.
BOYS IN metal shop work eagerly at their projects.
Introducing
Leo Wotan
.
.
WITH A BIG broad smile on his
face and a happy “Hi, there!” , is
friendly senior, Leo Wotan, as he
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walks down the familiar Nilehi H 1 .
halls.
IN HIS activities around Nilehi
t
these past three and one half
j
years, Leo has proven himself to
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be both a loyal Nilehier in his
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school spirit and also as a good
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student.
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AMONG HIS many activities
Leo has been in Hi-Y for three
years, the Secretary of the club
last year, and Senior Co-Ordinator
this year. He is in Student Council
this year and was an alternate
last year. This ♦year he is also
monitor captain of the period 7
monitors and is on the Union
Board. Participating in wrestling > ^
and tennis for two years, winning
j.
his Major N in tennis, and being
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in N-Club helped to make school
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life all the more active for Leo.
HIS LIKES include fishing, good
food, especially salads, dancing,
and playing tennis. And his dis
likes, like most high school stu
dents, include weekend homework
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and poor school spirit.
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“ My main ambition in life is
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to make worthwhile contribu
s
tions to whatever occupation I
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enter,” he commented. “I’d like
to attend the University of Mich
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igan or Wisconsin and major in
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some phase of engineering,” he
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“IF I HAD it to do over again,”
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stated Leo, refering to his years
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at Nilehi, “I would take every ad
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vantage of the opportunities of
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fered at Niles such as clubs,
sports, and activities, because
these experiences are invaluable
to a person in later life. Moreover
one should not be satisfied with
i
his schoolwork unless he is doing
his very best.”
�Friday, January 20, 1956
N um ber O n e W re s tle r
Is Lee M in Soo
Introducing .
Janice Jack
“221 WILL shine tonight, 221.”
Ever hear those familiar strains?
If so you probably immediately as
sociated them with the very lively,
full of school spirit girl, Janice
Jack.
WHEN ASKED what organiza
tions she had been in while at
Nilehi, Janice began her long list
with Editor-in-Chief of the N ilehilite, Thespians, Golden Galleon,
Spotlighters, National Honor So
ciety, Reflections, “ Goodbye My
Fancy,” and other plays, choir,
and then smilingly added, “I’m
also a 221 member.”
“I’ve got thousands of secret
ambitions,” excaimed Janice!
To name a few, to be inter
viewed by Jack Eigan at the
Chez Paree and to own a “real”
mink coat.
AMONG HER likes are reading
the Bible, “Heidi” , tall boys, pump
kin pie, Chinese food, the Nilehi
cafeteria and janitor staff, and
Stormy’s in New Orleans.
Her dislikes include German
food, boys who smoke, messy
lockers, and people who smile
continuously.
“WHEN I graduate at the end
of this semester, I plan to work
at an insurance company,” re
plied Janice. Then I would like to
attend the University of Wiscon
sin, Indiana, or Michigan in the
fall and study to be a nurse.
I HAD MANY exciting exper
iences at Nilehi,” she said. “One
was when I was admitted into Na
tional Honor Society; when I got
a part in the play in my freshman
year; when I went to press con
ferences with Marlon Brando and
Harry Bellefonte; and when I was
chosen Editor of the N ilehilite.”
“If I could have one wish, I’d
wish for three more wishes,”
laughed Janice. Then she soberly
added, “All I want in the world
is for 221 to move onward and
upward in the social scale.”
Page 5
NILEHILIÎE
LEE MIN SOO, Nilehi’s adopted
Korean orphan, is now 13 years
old and lives at the Taeja Orphan
age in Kuman. There he is heal
thy and a good student, and is the
number one wrestler.
Lee Min Soo has no family. His
mother left their home when he
was four, his father died in 1948,
and his twin brother Lee Min
Choi disappeared shortly after his
father’s death and is believed to
be dead.
clothing. In the morning of Sept
ember 8, the director told us to
write good letter to our foster
parents in the States.
Encephalitis is now g o i n g
around in our country. Newspap
ers reported many children had
been killed by the disease. Our
school principal told us not to work
hard to be tired and not to go to
the waters, and not to be in the
crowd of people. Our school is
suspended for one week.
I am sending a drawing here
with.
Thank you and good bye for
now.
Sincerely,
K-1168 Lee Min Soo
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favorite subjects befog science,
language, mathematics, music,
drawing, geography, gymnastics,
and history. He hopes to be an
aviator some day..
LEE MIN SOO mourns the dis
appearance of his brother, and our
adopting him in April 1954, has
helped him forget some of his
sorrow and loneliness.
The following is Lee Min Soos
last letter to Nilehi dated Septem
ber 1955.
Dear my foster parents of Niles
Township High School;
I believe you are doing very
well in the school. We had a happy
time yesterday, that the director
in Korea and a gentleman from
the Foster Parents’ Plan visited
our orphanage. They compared us
with the pictures taken last year
and said we had been grown up
very much, and we wore nice
�Page 6
N I L E H I L I T E
Friday, January 20, 1956
couples are wives.
*
AS MISS Dorothy Lungmus ex
citedly opened the Christmas gift
her homeroom gave to her, she
exclaimed, “Oh, they’re cultured
pearls!”
To this exclaimation, John Faust
replied, “Yes, they are cultured;
we kept them in school for quite
awhile.”
* *
*
IN CASE any of you are look
On New Year’s Eve at about
ing ahead, spring vacation starts
March 23. And for those who real 12:10, Mrs. Marjorie Schwab*
ly look ahead, school ends offici junior adviser, was quietly celeb
ally June 15.
rating at home when her phone
*
*
*
rang. The party on the other end
MUSCLE GIRLS at Nilehi? Re said, “You don’t know me and
cently during period 7 problems I don’t know you but Happy
class, Sandy Hagan, senior, got New Year anyway.”
up to pull the shade down. In
♦
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*
doing this the whole shade fell
DID YOU KNOW that Roundy’s
down with
a clatter,
makinga Shop serves lunch to ap
Snack
howling disturbance in the class proximately 450 personsa day?
*
*
*
room. To this Mr. John Hallberg
asked, “Do you tear telephone
IN DR. John Betts’ period 7 prob
books in your spare time, Sandy?” lems class, Mary Kohls, senior,
was giving a speech. Mary was
Also seen on the blackboard
evidently not speaking loud en
In this same room:
ough, and one member of the class
Now Hear This!!
spoke up, “Talk louder we can’t
hear you.” Mary became very in
All Hands 5, 6, and 7 periods
dignant and shouted back, “Okay,
Keep Dadgummed gum and
just tell me what you didn’t
paper off floor!
hear.”
John Betts
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*
MRS. Priscilla Baker stated in
In Miss Betty Schmidt’s period
her period 4 English class that 1 first aid class, the girls were
she had a real play for the class learning how to make different
to read. “Someone wrote it,” she kinds of bandages. Each girl
said.
had a partner on which she was
BEFORE Christmas this same to practice the bandages.
class sang Christmas carols, and
* *
*
Joan Gutowsky sang the solo,
Liz Carter, senior, who had
Beautiful Savior. They also sang
songs in French and saw colored Miss Schmidt asher partner,
slides of Hamlet’s castle in Den tied her arms and legs and then
gagged her. Miss Schmidt al
mark.
most didn’t get away.
♦
According to Mr. Bernard
WARREN Hanson, senior, has
Welch, chemistry teacher, “To
day is the tomorrow of yester just made the brilliant observation
that 50% of all American married
day.
You get up as usual
And go on your way,
But it isn’t quite right,
It’s a different day.
As you walk into school
And the outside door slams,
It finally dawns,
TODAY! FINAL EXAMS!!
*
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*
IN ONE of Miss Hall’s algebra
classes, one :>f the students asked
if he would work the problem to
eternity, meaning infinity.
*
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*
“I WANT my money back,”
could have been the cry of senior
Judy Reiter as she took a bite
from her taffy apple one lunch
period, not long ago. After eat
ing part of it she noticed that
she had bitten into something
quite unlike an apple, it was a
worm.
„-ALUM
(BWNEWS
DONA BAUMANN, ’55, belongs
to the Iowa State Singers.
Wedding bells will soon be ring
ing for GREG WOLD, ’52, senior
at West Point Military Academy.
Greg plans to marry Iline Wolff,
a sergeant in the WACs, in July
after he graduates in June.
DORIS SMITH, ’52, is in the
Dancing Varieties of ’56 at Iowa
State University.
TOM HIRTE, ’55, is singing in
the Men’s Glee Club at Lake
Forest College.
Attending Carleton College at
the present time are four boys
whose last name is BONEBRAKE.
The boys are DAN and BOB, who
are brothers; but cousins to GIL
and DOUG, who are brothers. If
this seems confusing to you think
how it is at the school.
Do You Do This ?
�Friday, January 20, 1956
N IL E H I L I T E
THE QUESTION your Inquiring
Reporter asked the students and
faculty at Nilehi this week was
“Do you think chivalry is really
dead and why?”
MARILYN KAMIN, junior, “No,
because I still see boys leading
the girls down the halls.”
HOWARD GORDON, sophomore,
“I don’t think so because most
boys will open doors or pick up
books for the girls.”
LARRY LASKE, junior, “No, be
cause I stood for 20 minutes
after I gave an elderly lady my
Blossom, Gravel A re
seat on the bus.”
MR. CHARLES HUSSEY, biology Symbols o f Loyalty
teacher, “Only in some individ
uals it’s dead. The older people
SCHOOL SPIRIT may be said
still maintain it.”
to originate in the homeroom, or
BARBARA OOSTEN, junior, “Yes, so it seems in Mrs. Priscilla Bak
it is partly because woman try er’s period 5-B, senior homeroom.
DID YOU ever hear of a home
to be like men so men have
taken us off the pedistal we used room having a slogan, three songs,
a flower and a stone, and a mas
to be on.
K A R L MAIERHOFER, junior, cot? 221 has all of these, which
were written and are emphatically
“What’s chivalry?”
NANCY LOTZ, freshman, “Yes put into effect by the inhabitants
and no because when you start of that room.
to open a door the boys will
“Our slogan,” according to
jump to open it for you then Janice Jack, an active home
will walk through first.”
room member, “is ’A 221er is
WALLY BORNEMEIER, junior,
2-2-1-derful.” Their stone is
“Who” s he?”
DONNA VANDERWALL, senior, gravel and their flower is tan
“The chivalry of the coat and gerine blossoms.
the mud puddle is dead, but not
“ONE DAY Jim Beddia, senior,
that of holding the door or help
its original sense. The situation
ing on the coat.”
is just about reversed now.”
JOYCE OLSON, senior, “It’s still
alive, only in most girls imagin- ELAINE COSLEY, junior, “It’s
not dead, just leaving.”
tions.”
MR. DON BLAIR, Spanish teach
DONNA SEARING, senior, “I don’t
er, “Yes, it died with the im
think it will ever die, because
perfect subjunctive.”
there’ll always be pretty girls.”
MR. EUGENE NAPIER, business MAL MACLEAN, senior, “In wo
men, yes. Men, never!”
education teacher, “If it is, it” s
because of the growth of inde MR. JAMES MICHAEL, history
teacher, “Not quite, but it’s
pendence in the women.”
about ready to administer the
NANCY COX, senior, “Not dead,
last rites.”
just got one foot in the grave.”
PHIL QUIGLEY, senior, “By no JOHN MENEILLEY, senior, “Yes,
because of the lack of fair maid
means, why just the other day
I saw a lady give her seat to a
ens in distress and knights in
shining armor; this has caused
man.’”
BOB MARTIN, senior, “Yep. The
the death of chivalry ”
men are finally learning to train I MICKI TATMAN, junior, “Chiv
their women.”
alry seems to be a part-time
JUDY HANELIN, junior, “Yes, in I job these days.”
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put some tangerine seeds on the
windowledge, now we keep a
watchful eye open to see if tan
gerinetrees will
sprout,” re
marked
Phil Quigley, another
homeroom member.
THE SONGS are as follows:
WHO’S THE leader of our home
room, who’s known from near and
far, M-R-S (period) B-A-K-E-R.
* *
*
F ar above the first floor office
Here’s the place to come,
Some say it’s Priss Baker’s
English
We say 2-2-1.
In our homeroom, in our
homeroom
We have lots of fun,
When the tangerine trees
grow up,
Come to 2-2-1.
221 will shine tonight, 221.
She’ll shine in beauty bright
Won’t we look swell tonight
Dressed up so fine
When the sun goes down and
The moon comes up
221 will shine.
*
*
*
THEIR ADOPTED mascot is a
small bug named Prune, which is
enshrined on a shelf in a Ju-Ju-Be
box.
HOW’S THAT for an ambitious
homeroom?
Caps and gowns will be donned
early for a mid-term graduation
by seniors Janice Jack, Kathy
Krause, Bill Valaski, Robert Nel
son, and Gary Ward, who have
earned enough credits to graduate
a half-year before the rest of their
classmates.
�N I L E H I L I T E
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Friday, January 20, 1956
S fo R T ^
WQUIRf®
1
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THIS WEEK the Sports Inquir
ing Reporter asked Nilehi stu
dents, “What specific sports event
makes you proud to be a student
at Niles?”
Dorothy Platt, junior, “When
Dave Winchester made a basket
from center court to defeat Ley
den. On the scoreboard the clock
showed the game was over, but
apparently the scorers clock
still showed a few seconds.”
Debbie Rothholtz, junior, “If I
had to pick one special sport
event I couldn’t but it’s the good
sportsmanship shown at the
games which makes me proud
to be a student at Niles.”
Micki Tatman, junior, “When
Niles kids keep their school
spirit and good sportsmanship
whether they’re ahead or be
hind.”
Penny Hibbert, junior, “The home
coming game this year against
Oak Park. Tying it boosted the
school spirit.”
Nancy Phillips, junior, “I think
all sports events are great and
they all make me proud to be
a student at Niles. As long as
the guys on the teams stay out
there and fight and keep their
sportsmanship it will remain
just as great.”
Karen Holmberg, senior, “Wrestl
ing definitely!! Nothing interests
me more in sports than watch
ing two quick-thinking individ
uals in a wrestling match.”
Jay Wollin, junior, “The sports
events we lose. To me this shows
tremendous character in those
who are in this sport. To go out
for a sport, do your best, and
still lose takes a better person
than to be on a winning team
continually knowing you will
win.”
Frank Kiszely, junior, “After our
football team falls behind in an
athletic contest then spirit de
termination and teamwork pulls
front.”
our team out in front to stay in
Hap Wittkamp, junior, “When I
made a tackle on the kick-off
asainst Morton in front of even'
one this year.
Myrna Zlatos, senior, “The night
A1 Kamatz broke the scoring
LARRY VAN MERSBERGEN sinks a basket to add two points
to the junior-varsity score against Morton on the home court last
Saturday. Morton defeated the Trojans 51-43. Hal Neimer led the
Trojans in scoring with 12 points. Neimer has made 19 out of 27
free throws, to lead the team with a .709 percentage. VanMershergon’s percentage of .429 sets the pace in field goals.
New Trier Downs
Varsity Grapplers
Arlington J -V ’s
Top Niles, 60-57
THE JUNIOR-varsity basketball
A STRONG New Trier wrestling
team handed the Nilehi varsity squad was defeated by Arlington
grapplers their second defeat in January 9, 60-57, on the victor’s
six meets January 6 as they down court.
The Trojans were leading by
ed the Trojans 26-14.
one point when Arlington passed
The loss was the first in four them and scored two baskets, thus
meets for the Trojans and it broke ending the game.
their winning streak.
LARRY VAN Mersbergen and
Henry Feuerzeig, 95 pounder, Bill Pegausch were high scorers
won his sixth straight match by for Niles.
a score of 4-2.
NEW TRIER got the lead right
back and made the score 6-3 in last years state-finals, John Mar
favor of the Indians when Ron tinson.
Johnson, 103 pounder, and Bill Di- a Wright fought hard but dropped
decision 2-1. This brought the
Gilio, 112 pounder, dropped close score to 9-6 in favor of New Trier.
decisions by a score of 7-4 and 8-5,
Len Miresse, 138, got three
respectively.
points for the Trojans as he
Jim Esbrook, 120 pounder, tied gained his sixth straight victory,
the score at 6-6 as he got his decisioning his opponent 4-0.
ED JASTER, 165, regained the
sixth straight victory by defeating
Trojan’s lost five points and his
his opponent by a score of 6-2.
DALE WRIGHT, 127, drew New fifth straight victory by pinning
Triers captain and a contestant of his man.
Bob Nordlie lost to Hardy Will,
third in state last year, and Bill
record with 336 points.”
Enke, heavyweight, was defeated,
Joan Courtney, junior, “I think to end the match.
winning the first football game
this year.”
The Nilehi wrestling team gain
Liz Hiby, junior, I can’t just pin ed recognition in the Chicago Tri
one particular sport event down bune as the only squad to d e fe a t
because I’m proud of Niles just Palatine this year.
the way it is!” ’
�Friday, January 20, 1956
N I L E H I L I T E
Globetrotters Play
For 1600 in Gym
Varsity Swimmers
Sink Proviso
SINKING THEIR fifth opponent
of the year, the Nilehi varsity
swim team beat Proviso with a
47-30 victory, Thursday, Decem
ber 15, at Proviso.
Breaking an all school record
of 2:03.7, seniors Craig Penrith,
Doug Stryker, and Charles Mark,
swam the 200-yard medley in 2:03.2.
Other swimmers taking first
place were Bill Yant, junior, in
the 100-yard free style; Jim
Hartman, senior, in the 150-yard
individual medley; and Skip Nel
son, junior, Roland Larson, jun
ior, Jack Thornton, junior, and
Jim Hartman, senior, in the
200-yard free style relay.
CRAIG PENRITH, senior, took
first-place honors in the 100-yard
back stroke, and Doug Stryker,
senior, in the 100-yard breast
stroke.
Placing second were Don Minkley, juunior; Charles Mark, sen
ior; and Roland Larson, junior.
Swimmers taking third were
Don Minkley, junior; Jack Thorn
ton, junior; Tom Ohler, junior;
and Dick Holzl, senior.
Sophs Defeat New Trier
For Third Straight Win
NILEHI’S SOPHOMORE basket
ball team won its third straight
game of the season by topping
New Trier 39-31 on the loser’s
court.
A lay-up shot by Mike Sheahan
put Nilehi ahead 12-11 at half
time, and for the game.
Sheahan put in a one-hander
with 3 seconds to go in the third
quarter to increase Nilehi’s lead
to five points, 25-20.
THE FOURTH quarter saw
Niles racking up 14 points as com
pared to 11 for New Trier, and
when the final buzzer sounded,
Nilehi’s sophomores had won the
game.
Coach Jim Phipps’s squad’s
only loss was to Proviso 45-44 on
December 2.
The freshman A and B squads
lost to Arlington on January 9
with scores of 47-38 and 40-30,
respectively.
Page 9
Presenting. ..
Chas Mark
TO BE FIRST in the state in
diving is the main ambition of
senior Chas Mark.
Chas has been a diver on the
Nilehi swimming teams ever since
he entered high school.
Besides diving, Chas is a
member of the 200-yard medley
relay team which was undefeat
ed until the Riverside Invitation
al which was held last Saturday.
The relay team holds the school
record of 2:03.7.
“When I was about five years
old, a lifeguard showed me how
to jump from a diving board. I
learned to dive by watching others
and by trying myself,” Chas
stated.
“Winning my varsity letter
sophomore year was the most
exciting thing that ever hap
pened to me,” he admitted.
ANYTHING CONNECTED with
water interests Chas. His hobbies
include water skiing and building
racing boats. Last summer, he
worked as a lifeguard.
Chas’s likes include jazz (especi
ally drums and drum records),
J. H., desserts, and pizza.
Sloppy dresses, kids wearing
jackets during school, and peo
ple who don’t come to swimming
meets rate very low with Chas.
WHEN ASKED what his most
embarrassing situation was, Chas
laughed a little and said, “I’m al
ways walking up to people I don’t
know and talking to them, thinking
they’re people I do know.”
Chas plans to attend college at
Ohio State because they have the
best swimming team in the Big
Ten. He hopes that they can help
him achieve his secret ambition,
which is to dive in the Olympics.
A SELL-OUT crowd of well over
1600 jammed Nilehi’s gym Wed
nesday, December 21, to see Abe
Saperstein’s Harlem Globetrotters.
The team, which is in its twentyninth successive year of basket
ball, took on the Honolulu Surfriders.
Once again the Globetrotters
walked away with a victory as
they downed the Surfriders by
ten points, with a final score of
65-55.
THE TROTTERS, who have
toured in over 52 countries and in
all continents of the world, started
the show with Tony Lavelli. A
former All-American basketball
player at Yale, Lovelli gave an
exhibition on the accordion.
He was only one of six acts
which included a trampoline per
former, two of the world’s champ
ion table tennis players, and
Miss Honolulu, who did an Hawai
ian dance.
Once the game started the
crowd roared over antics of
Meadow Lemon, clown of the
Trotters.
LEMON WAS backed by Bill
“Rookie” Brown, and Willie Thom
son, two veteran Trotters.
The game ended when Lemon
perched on Brown’s shoulders and
dropped the ball through the hoop
as the buzzer sounded.
New Trier Grapplers
Overpower Trojans
NILEHI’S SOPHOMORE wrestl
ing team under Coach Nick Odlivak just wasn’t quite strong en
ough to hold down New Trier’s
well-balanced squad as they were
defeated 35-10 on January 6.
The defeat was the first in four
meets and broke the Trojans
string of three victories.
Jack Cooper, 95 pounder, and
Bob Dilg, 103 pounder, got Niles
off to a quick start as Cooper
drew 2-2 and Dilg won 4-3.
NEW TRIER picked up 3 points
in the next match to make the
score 5-5.
Phil LeTourneau, 120 pounder,
then picked up his fifth straight
victory, and the last Trojan vic
tory of the game, pinning his op
ponent and making the score 105 in favor of the Trojans.
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NILEHILITE
Friday, January 20, 1956
by Sandy Jacobsson
PUT ON YOUR fancy party
dresses, gals, for soon you’ll be
in “Seventh Heaven.”
If you missed your chance on
Sadie Hawkin’s Day, don’t fret;
you’ll have another chance in
April.
The G. A. A. is sponsoring
their annual turnabout dance
which will be called “Seventh
Heaven.”
BILL IHNE tries to keep the ball in the Trojans* hands last Fri
day night at Morton. The little Trojans were ahead of the Ponies
until the last quarter. The Ponies kept the sophomores out of
first place as they won 55-54. Tomorrow night the little Trojans
will host the Evanston Wfldkits at 7 p.m.
Mustangs Trample Trojans
•
*
*
THE MASS MEETING held on
January 16 spotlighted the movies
which were taken of the gals dres
sed in their fine array at the in
formal initiation last fall.
*
*
*
THE SECOND semester at Niles
really holds a tight schedule for
our G. A. A. One of the tops on the
list is giving a party for the Nor
wood Old People’s Home.
THE VARSITY basketball squad will host the fourth place Evan
The G. A. A. gals will display
ston Wildkits tomorrow night in an attempt to win their first Suburban their talent in on original 8-act
League game.
skit, the theme of which will be
The Trojans controlled the
memories.
*
*
*
bafl during the first quarter.
ALTHOUGH THE opening jump Green Wave Bests
went to Morton, Niles regained the
DON’T FORGET the “ Parent’s
ball and Joel Febel scored.
Playnight” coming soon.
The Trojans’ lead, which was 6 Trojan Varsity
points at one time, dropped to a
THE NILEHI five was defeated
1413 margin at the end of the first
THEY PULLED away again and
by New Trier last Friday night the Trojans couldn’t catch them.
qdarter.
Dale Kaiser made the first 64-54, on the victor’s court.
New Trier’s Green Wave was
The second quarter of the game lead by John Magnuson, senior,
basket in the second quarter.
From that point on, Morton held proved to be the Trojan’s down who is threatening to break A
1
on the ball. At the end of the half fall.
Kamatz’s Suburban League scor
New Trier had been leading ing record of 336 points.
Morton led 30-25.
by only one point at the end of
Niles never regained the lead.
Magnuson scored 32 points
They got within three points of the first quarter, but the end of
during the game, equal to New
the half saw them ahead 32-19.
victory in the last few minutes
THE TROJANS became a team Trier’s points for each half.
of the game, but they could
DALE KAISER led the Trojans
the second half.
never overtake the Mustangs.
Dale Kaiser and Roger Peter in scoring with 17 points.
ALTHOUGH THE height of the
Nilehi starters was over an inch son fought to keep the ball away
taller than their opponents, they from New Trier after it hit the
failed in their efforts at rebound backboards.
DURING THE Christmas holi
Ball handling improved, and
ing.
the number of baskets made was days, the Trojan basketball squad
The Mustangs were deadly at
the free throw line, making 32 increased. New Trier’s lead was journeyed to Pekin and LaSallePeru, two high ranking teams in
points on the 21 fouls committed cut to 5 points.
Southern Illinois.
by the Trojans.
game with 32 points, annd his
The Trojans made only 21 successful rebounds kept the ball
Pekin, Nilehi’s opponent on Dec
yoints on free throws for Mor in his teammates’ hands.
ember 29, defeated the Trojans
ton’s 24 fouls.
Rog Peterson was high scorer
TOM DORE, 6-foot Morton for for Coach John Sheahan’s men 63-61. following night LaSalle-Peru
The
ward, lead the Mustangs to vic with 17 points.
(topped the home team 62-60.
tory. He was high scorer of the
For N ilehi’s Fifth Defeat
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