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Published Weekly by the Students of Lincoln High School
NUMBER 1
LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SEPTEMBER 25, 1923.
STADIUM WITH CONCRETE WALL AND BLEACHERS ABOUT COMPLETE
SEVENTY-FIVE WOULD-BE GRID MEN REPORT FOR PRACTICE WHEN FIRST CALL IS GIVEN
ContI"actors E'.\.ped to Havt' Field Ready for First Home Football Game with Kearney on October 6. LOCKERS AND SHOWERS TO BE BUILT ON SOUTH SIDE
Lincoln High Schedules Nine Battles) Five at Home and Four Away-North Platte at Lincoln Is Turkey Day Game.
Tbe permanent concrete wall around ruption of school schedule.
the athletic field and concrete bleach· It is expected that the cost of the ers with lockers and showers is near· stadium will be paid off by 1925. The ing completion. The contractors ex- money has been raised, not by taxes pect to have wall and seats finished in or by subscription, but by regular time for the first home athletic event, student activities and from the funds the football game with Kearney, of graduating classes. Some of the Twenty-three Men Are Selected to Bowe r, Eddy and Kipp. graduating classes put their money Practice With the Fi rst Nine hundred dollars was spent for October 6. Squad. The stadium is the outcome of a into war bonds and this was kindly new football outfits for this season. long contemplated plan, which origi- turned over to the fund. New trousers, shoe s and jerseys were IS nated when the school board bought FIRST GAME SATURDAY ordered by Coach Browne. Some or The plans include lockers and the veterans were given new equipthe present site-about 1911. showers for the girls taking physical Sei)t. 29-South Omaha at Omah<l ment. The n ew j erseys this year 1t is urged by some that the stadium education as well as for the boys. Six Oct. 6-K~arney at Linco ln. w!ll be black with red numerals. Coa ch makes it possible for the physical I hundred and ninety·three boys and Oct. 12-Ailia nce at Lincoln. Browne hopes this will make a much training program to do all and more girls are registered In the physical Oct. 21>-0maha Tech at Omaha. neater and more trim looking team tha·t military training would do for education classes, and eighty-eight Oct. 27-Grand Island a t Lincoln. than before. high school boys and girls. More pu- boys have turned out for football. - Courtesy of The Star. pHs in the schooi can be given outdoor Nov. 3-St. Joe. Mo., at Lincoln. Those reporting for practice follow: L. H. S. SfADIUM exercise and a greater variety of The men who have signed the notes Nov. 29-North P lat~e at L incoln. F irst Squad. This shows the east tier of seats on the stadium now nearing completion. All that remains to do is some games and sports can be offered with for payment on the stadium are the Nc-v. 17-Beatrice at Beatrice . J ohn Brown, Guy Cook, John Curtype who are intere&ted in high school minor work on the stands and the concrete wall around the field. It will be ready for the Kearney game October 6. . Alt hough ove r sevency-five candi· ran, Gail Corrick, E verett Durisch, proper prot ect ion. . . Two needs are met b~· this Iatc8t. boys and gll"ls. 1\fan~· of ~hem have dater; are reporting for practice to V>'ordsworth Elliott, Walter Fo~s. 1 i it' f L' 1 h' h F'rst it sons or claughters of their own in Coach Browne, only e ight of las t year's William Flem ing, Bernard Good, Geo. acqu s 10n o rnco n ig . 1 • . school. lette r men were a mong the warrio rs Go~ de , Me r le Hatch, Charle s Kitch en, pro" ides a place for all sorts of phys1 · 1 cal training activities for the city _'l'he organizations which have con· who donnecl the moleskms for the Newton Lesh, Stanley Lewis, ~rsey ,,;ehools, it provides housing on L. H. S. tnbuted are : Mcintyr e , Curtis Quinn, Phil Teal, George Johnson has left Lincoln t o Inaugural practice Sept. 10. John H. Slothower. a former teach· Dur ing t he first week twenty-thr e e Ernest Tindall, Ral ph Wagner, Delmar campus of its own athletic contests. Student funds (from Carnival). Girls He <l,tt end school in Superior , Nebr . er in the Lincoln high school, died Prohibition Has Come to Stay men were selected for the first squad. Wa rde. It has always been a disadvantage to Athletic Association, Student Club , Sei>tember 15 at North Lake, Wis., has been a ~tudent of Lincol n high Last week ·the remaining candidates Says Judge in Constitution have to depend on the University for Advocate, Forum, Round Table, HouseSecond Squad. Week Assembly. school for three y ea rs, 'but now is were divided into two bunches, twenal! athletic field on accont of the ex· hold Arts Club, Mummers, Physical where Mr. and Mrs. Slothower were Martin A itke n, Henry Blum, Don completing his cour se- in Superior. ty-two pla yers maki ng up the second Belkamp, Sam Benbrook, Reuben Burpense in money, the loss of school time Training Exhibitioon, Classes 1911, visiting his siste r. ""\Ve have maintained s ince the G'eorge figured_ last semes ter as squad unde r Assistant Coach Gautsch, bach, H arry Bor wn, Willia m Brown, to pupils and faculty, and the inter- 1916, 1919, 1921, 1923, 1924. Mr. Slothower taugh,t here fl"Om time of the form1ng of the constitu- one o f Lincoln's cret>aters. H e joined and the remaining men under Black Ralph Blodge tt, Harvey Bauer, Car1918 to 1921, at which time he was tion, the best gove rnment t hat has the squad as a junior, having had no in the third squad. roll Black, John Brochu, Sam Carter, agricultura l supervisor. During the ever been given to a people," de. previous experience. During the sea · E arly season calisthenics made u p Ern est Cla ry, Louis Custer , Vernon semester he was forced to quit be- clared Judge E. P. Holmes in the son he participated in a ll the major t he program for the fir st week. Swim- Carlson, Ja mes Davis, Marion De· tirst asembly of the year, T h ursday. d e bates and in a majority · of the ming and work on the d ummy, passbecause of poor health. Vilbiss, Ralph Davison, Lewis. E d The assembly was called in honor Mr. Slothower came from Elwood minor ones. ing and signa l practice made up the wards, Archibald Eddy, Pale Eaton, Mr. Ferguson Issues Call for More of constitution week, to draw the He also main,tained t he position of wo rkou ts for last week. E uge ne Flyn n, William F olger , LaTenors and Second Tenors in to Lincoln in 1914. 'l"he first two attention of the students; to the conpresident of the Forum la st s emester, In the first squad, Captain Brown verne Gronquist , Harmon Heed, Ha rry Boys' Division. years he attended the University of stitut ion to its faults and to its ' after being a member of that organ- an d Curtin a re the main factor s in Hickma n, Gordon Hager, Earl J ohn, Nebras ka. J!'or five ·years he was virtues·. H . o. Ferguson now has one hunizatlon only three semesters. George the backfield. Corick, Lewi s, Teal, son, Vearle J a cobs, Glen Ku rtz, HowJudge Holmes r e·aa what he call- was largely responsible for action Wagner and Walte r Foss are con- a r d Kitclien, Je rold Kohn. Robert supeirntendent of schools at Elmwood. Candidates Selected by Repre· dred and seven members enrolled in ed "'!'he · Cons titution". Here were taken by r ndio fans in organizing the testing for t h e other rear pos itions . Krug, Harold K ipp, Arnold Lange, 0 0 Reuben Lebsack, Don Linder , Clyde sentati'::tf Radio club "last ye;r. Laymon, Ra lph L eat h, Maynard Mills, 1 Arth ur McCoy, Bud Mc Bride, Lloyd Mitchell. Roy. Mills:. ~ MfU-<'11d il~; FORTY PUPil,S ATED j 1 ! J ohn McGreer, La wrence Mccarthy, \Ya r de a nd Gohde. Tindall came from H arold P eterson, H a ny Pe ~ lc, Fre<i Student council nominations were twenty-seven sopranos , twenty-six sec· m any house 1:1thOUl t he consent 1 th Ell ' t J . All Editorial !.ppointments Ex- 1of the owners, " o granting titles of --e wt umor high anrl Gohde Parshall, William Pra wl , Leslie Reed·, made last Friday after school by a ond sopranos, and nineteen altos. The from Te mple high . Vale Rice, Henry Schmidt, .Toe Still, joint committee, consisting of five members are: cept That of Another Asso- [nobility, equal citizenhsip r ights Smallest Number of Changes on At present the secont'r team back- Don Shankland, Harold Scherme't·ciate Editor Now . in all states. The e nttre constituHigh School Record Since field posoitions a r e being held by horn, Ralph Townsend, Douglas T ims apranos. hnn;e room representatives and three I · I 1 B Ul"Id"mg of p resent I ' Made. tion was based on maJor ty rue. Carroll Black, Lefty Leath , Dale merman, Bill U ngler, Don Underwood, members or the faculty. Miss Muir, 1 _ Evelyn L.inderman, DlJrothy. Mar·!, "Proh1'bition ha• come to stay" Building~ l . " ' "' Eaton, Bob King, Sam Benbrook, Fred Eugene Wise, Julius Waite, Steven 'll88 P d d 1'I SI ll ' ["'hall, Beatrice Marshall, Ernestme Mcdeclared the judge He believes that " oun an ' r. iep erh repreNEED MORE REPORTERS · Parshall and L awrence McCarthy. The Watkins, Henry Zieg , Ralph Collins, sentEld the faculty, and Gordon Hager, Neil, Helen made. Mureldin e Schmidt, it ·is the du ty of every- ~Itizen first NO NE\V MEN TEACHERS M · L l -, th · L 1 line positions a re held down by Le b- Harold Peters, Harold Hussey, Ben Wm. Fleming, Bernard C11.mbell, Keith ; ane essen iop. • c a erine aw or, to ob'ly the laws and then to cor·1 Wallace Lamphere John Mann sack, •robin, Blodgett, Brochu, Clary, Zifkin , Don H a rding, Horace Williams, N 11 D I E l Bl h d L Miller and Archibald Eddy from the • e e a y, mi Y anc ar • · uci e ' r ect defects in thBse laws by conOnly seven ne w teachers have been Brown, Cunningham, Henrietta Dierks, and Louise Freeman Are Jud ...~ added to the faculty t his year. T his "Watkins, Scherme rhorn, L ew is Tobin . home room representative body. N A . t t stitutional means. .,~ Holmes The committee worked until after Frances Hunt, Mary Kimball, Phyllis ew ppmn men s. stated that ·b efore woman suffrage is the sm allest number of changes o n six o'clock before the list or nominees Keck, Louise Ludden, Elizabeth The Advocate staff, which has not became a fact he was o.pposerl to re cord s ince the building of the was completed. The fOllowing is a Raguh, Irene Martin, Katherine Mayf'iving the women the vote, but after present high school. The English, h ew, Esth er Peterson, Marjory Paist, yet been completed, includes the fo l- d-. e amendment was .pass~d there wa~ s cience, physical education, comroster otthe candidates: "~-Ia1·garet Decker, Lo!use Gardner, lowing members: , noth ing for him to do but to bow m er cial, household arts, Latin, and SENIOR BOYS Ivadale Stauffer, Hilda Ullstrom, GenRichard Smith, ne ws editor. E igh t prospect ive d ebaters are r egVote for six Doris Lanning, associate editor. to th e law. He gave as his reason social science depa rtments each have evieve Freeman, Margerite Hochreiter. far hi;; opposi tion his tirlief t hat one n ew teac he r. istered in a class w11Ich meets in Sam Bignell Baily Allison, managing e ditor. Second Sopranos. Bernard Campbell Norman Anderson, assistant manag· we.man suffrage would d<i3troy tha t Miss Marjorie Urq uhar t is the new Room 427 t hird period TuITTldays and Two Representatives from Each Marie Lintt, Ma'~·guerite Comfort, Senior Home Room Compose p:'ticular personality belonging to dramatic coach. She has a ttended the Otho DeVilibiss women alone. American Academ y or Dramatic Art F r idays under T . S. Dunn . The class Committee. Inez Coffman, Mignon Dort, Margue· ing editor. Archibald Eddy Archibald Eddy, assistant managing h b. d'1 1'd d · t f d rite Rutenbeck, Lucile Hensley, Mable J udge Holmes called attention to in New York City, a lso Huron collei:e, as een e Ill o our squa s --:"-. v Deibert Judd Keyex, Betha Mitchell, Rachel editor. th e three cla:sses whom the obSouth Dakota, where she received her and members are already working on ELECT NOMINEES TUESDAY Wallace Lamphere Sylvia Siastny, business manager. Schmidt, Doroothy Slater, Ruth May· servance of constitution week is A. B , degree, later taking a g·r a duate two questions. Kenneth Loder Erma Bigger, advertis;ng manager. Nomina t ions fo r the senror class of· hew, Louise Wohlenberg,. Gail Mcsupposed to reach. course. in expression at Columbia unie b IV. Keith Miller 0 ·t ho DeVi'l biss .8 t h 0 1 John Mann, assistant advertis ing I e n Y m m er fices wer e m a de by c ommi tt'0e Thu rsCandless, Janice Walt, Jane "Wilson, l!'irs t, the classes of people with versity. Miss Urquh art has had prac' ·Harold Schermerhorn manager. grnwn irnd mature minds who may tical work in production in one of the of last y ear's s chool squa d who is in day which was com posed of two r epLillian Roth, Ethel Kundra, R0ma RidJohn Skiles ·wallace Lamphere, circluation manclass th i y M b 0 f th e c 1a ss resenta.tives from each ot the senior nour, \Vinona Ayres, Ruth Brakey, be classed as conservatives-these New York theaters. She taught Engs ea r. em e rs Chari.es S'p eedie ager. Anna Southworth, Dorothy Gould, are op,po·sed to progress . lish a n d dramatic ar.t l ast year in t he are Otho DeVilbiss, E ver t Hunt, J ohn home rooms. T he committ ee selected Frederkk Van Valin Louise Freeman, s pecial reporter . Crystal Conover, Eddis Lindsay. .Second, the class that is forever H uron, South Dakota, high school. Skiles, E merson Smith, Charles SENIOR GIRLS t he follow ing no minees. Richard Smith, news editor t his se· Altos. longing for some change, the reMiss Urqu hart states that she is Speedie, Clyd e Laymon, R ichard Vote for six mester, served on the s taff las t sePresident- Geraldine F leming, DelDorothy Welch, Ruth Zimmerson, Helen Anderson mester as assi tant managing editor. volutionists who seek to destroy pleased with the outlook for the year, Hou se, and Sterling Hatfield. bert J udd. Lois Harris, Gertrude Rowe, Cornelia He has been vice president of his government and society hoping that a lthough the plans for the progr am Ethelyn Ayers Rankin, Mildred Jensen, Blanch Baum· out of the chaos they may obtain have not yet been perfected. Vice pres ident- Otho DeVilbiss, Ruth Clendenin class, president of the boys glee club, gart, Betty Elmen, Edvarndine Hillyer the power to rule society. Miss Lucile Overnian, a new teache r Marie Curran Archibald Eddy, Ca therlne Lawlor, business manager of "The Jolly MusMabel Miller, Genevieve Miller, ArThl·1·d. th e fntur·e citizens-the high in t he Latin department s tates that Grace Eliza.beth ET._ J ohn Skiles. kei.eer," was in "The Quaker Girl," and Th . d ' lene Sherfey, Margaret Masterson, . ,school s tudents of today. e JU ge she is favorably impressed with . Geraldine Fleming Secretary- Ethelyn Ayres, Kenneth 1s now president of the Orpheons and . d h t d t ft t d I ,., Elizabeth Wilson, Clara Olson, Thelma Dorothy Howard the Hi-Y. invite t e s u en s a er s u Y ng Linco ln high. So far her experience Loder, Sylvia S tiastn y, Frederick Van Coe, Frances Hallett, Minnie Decker. the constitution to ,propose some has bee n in smaller schools. She has Ha:.i:el Olds Valin. Doris Lanning, who will fill the No fre shmen h ave been a dm itted t o Boys Glee Club. furt her amendment tha t, in their taught two years at ·western, NebFern Pringle T r easurer- Kenneth Drain, Sterling position of associate editor this sejudgment, .might be for the better- raska, and two years at Benne t, Neb· senior high school this year except Hatfield, Phillip Smith. In the boys glee club there are Gertrude Rowe mester, held the position o f special thirty-three members: roent of the government. He said h e raska. Miss Overman is well a c· thos e graduating from Prescott, Ev· S'Ylvla Stiiasitny Editor-Louise Freeman, Edvarn· reporter on her class paper last seRicharcl Bjorkman, Carl Sterkel, would be glad to discuss the matter quainted with ·Lincoln , for she is a erett and Capitol s chools. All other dine Hillyer, Dorothy -Wetch. Katherine Walters mester. 'She is a member of the stu· Roscoe Hildreth, Aleyn Perlman, Mead with them at any time. graduate of the University of NebEX-OFFICIO MEMBERS dent standard c lub and was a member freshmen must a ttend the junior high "I want you to get a oopy of the araska. Wilcox, Eugene Robb, Ray Hummell, Richard Smithof her frehsman debate team . She at Twenty-sixth and O streets. Ther econstitution and read it," the judge Miss Alma G. Swans on replaces Mrs. Elected from Advocate Herbert Witte, Richard House, Henry (Continued on Page Two) said in closing, "Discover something Lore tta Babich in the commercial de- fore L in coln high has a reglsration John BrownGoodwin, Gordon Hager, Lawrence Mcthat will help the most of the people partment. She lives in Lincoln and somewha.t lower th is year than it has Captain ot football tea.m Cormick, Evert Hunt, Sterling Hatfield, of the United States. Discuss it taught last year in t he Bancroft junior had for some y ears previous. Arthur McCoy, Wm. Newens, Richard JUNIOR BOYS Six for mer h igh school students with your ·parents and then bring high. She was a graduate of the UnlVote for three Smith, Don Underwood, Hal Win · In spite of the fa ct t hat most fre sh- motored t o California t his s ummer. it to me." verslty of Nebraska in 1922. Frank Corrick chester, Geoge Schmidt, Henry Goebel, men have b een barred from Lincoln The party was composed of Douglas At the first meeting of the band, Miss Ruth O~e son is taking the place Keith Davis Norman Anderson, Howard Vescelius, Orr, Frederick Teal, J ere Mickel, Hugh William Fleming Lyle Johnson, Nicholas Sharp, Glenn Sept. 11, officers for the first semesof Miss Ballard in the household arts h igh, ~'he registration tb1• year is Gordon Hager Alexander, John Brocb.ur, Ernest Clary, ter were e lecte d. The are. department. Her home is in St Paul nearly as heavy as it was l ast. This Cox, John .Allison, and Wendell Berge . Captain, Merle White. Nebra s ka.. ::>lie attended the K~arue; is shown by the fact that last year The boys started J uly 28 and wen t by .John McGrcer Harold Hyde, ohn Schmidt, Ralph Robert Trullinger Wagner, Adrian Newens, Howard Adjutant, Delbert Judd. state n ormal and was graduated from at the en d of the first month 1().55 way of t he L incoln highway a nd re· Stroup. First lieutenant, Bill Fleming. Gymnasium classes at the Y. M. C. the Un iversity of Nebraska. She has girls were enrolled while the recor ds t urned by t he southern route. Some JUNIOR GIRLS Second lieutenant, Keith Miller. A. met for the first time this year ·taught in the North Loup high school in the office this year show that 1027 Vote for three The glee clubs will sing for the Ne· poin ts of interest which par ticularly girls are enrolled. Margaret Adams First sergeant, Edward Walt, Jr. Monday, Sept. 17. The Y. M. C. A. and t he H ayward school in L incoln. braska teachers association. The largest registration L. H . S. pleased them were Lookout Mou ntain, Gertrude Koster Second sergeant, Mau~ce Sharp. is expecting a larger numbe r of boys Miss Adelheit Dettman, the new has ever had was in 1 921, which was Lake Tahoe, Salt Lake City, Pueblo Gail McCandless · Third sergeant, Carl Ebner. than attended last year and has re- science teacher, said, "The first th ing Joy Mickel Fourth sergeant, Don Linder. vised the schedule so that It can ac· th.at impressed m e in Lin coln high just b efore the m os t of the junior sunset and sunrise In the Grand c anClara Olson The corporals are Paul Philippi, commodate more. boys. Many students school was the unusual disciplin e. high s chools were o pened. In the yon. While they were in California, Elizabeth RaQh Joseph Cariotto, George Hutton, Paul are registered t or Y. M. C. A. gym· Here the honor system works better year 1921, 2035 students were in the relatives of the boys entertained Rupert Warren, who was graduated Bieberstein and Francis Wilson. nasium and will get cr edit for t his than in any o t her h igh sch ool where pr e sent bu ilding; 1138 of these wer e SOPHOMORE BOYS and 915 boys. Last year t her e them. In San Francisco they saw girls with the class of 1923, entered the New members of, th~ baai are work at the hig·1 sc~ .• 101. I have visited or taught." Vote for one Martin .Aitken University of Nebraska, last week at ·Ernest Clement, Ben Fowler, Howard The classes tilis year will accomShe is a graduate of the Unive rsity were 1933 senior s, juniors, sopho· Jane Cowl in "Romeo and Juliet." On \Villiam Ungles the age of fifteen. Rupert completed Foreman, Paul Grand, Bill Larimer, modate grade school boys, junior and of Ne braska. For three years she has mores a nd freshmen in school. Now t he way home they passed t he moving SOPHOMORE GIRLa his high school course in three years Howard Kitchen, Terrence O'Neil, En· senior higb schooi boys, ,and junior assisted Dr. Whitney in l aboratory and most of the freshmen have been elim- picture lot on which was constructed • Vote for one with an average of 90. While making gene Robb , oho Schmid, Don Shank· and senior e,mployed boys . 0. B. class work This summer she h ad inated and In a year or two only the the "Mayflower ." This a rtificia l ship Ruth Colton this record, he has also carried a land, George Shonerd, and Bernard (Andy) Anderl\jt;t will nave charge o1 charge of his quizz sections and of the thr ee upper classes will be, housed in is to be used 'in a forthcoming pro· Ruth Mayhew the senior b uilding. duction of " Miles Standish ." paper route and taken up golf. I Wahlin. the classes as mmal. (Continued on Page Two)
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California Visited by Former Students
Band Elects Officers for First Semester
High School Boys Att d G • en ymnasium Classes at Y. M. c. A.
Goes to University at Age of Fifteen
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