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LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1938.
Four Day Sales Campaign to Start Tomorrow Morning All Three Classes Represented as Early Purchasers Receive Their Tickets for the First Football Game
Dorothy Weirich Elected President Of Student Council
All Plays, Advocates, Eight Home Games and Basketball Included in This Semester's Activity Ticket.
Other Offices Filled by Romulo Soldevilla, Vice President; Gene Bradley, Secretary·Treasurer; And George Blackstone, Editor Dorothy Weir ich will pilot the student council 's course this semester as a result of the election of offic ers held at their first meeting last Wednesday. Romulo Soldevilla was elected vice-president; Gene Bradley is the new seer et a r y -treasurer, and George Blackstone, editor. Council Has Many Duties. Patricia Herminghaus, as temporary chairman, presided over the first-part of the meeting until turning the gavel over to the new president. Miss Helen Dunlap faculty advisor, ended the meeting explaining duties of student council members. Each person is to keep a re cord of hours spent on council work as was done last yea r. As part of the safety program hall guard positions at the various stairwells were discussed, also. Color Day is September 30. The color day committee, appointed before school started, wail announced. Patricia Herminghaus as chairman has the follow;.ng committee working w ith her: Dor othy Weirich, John Jay Douglass and George Blackstone. The · color-day a ssembly is to be held September 30, the day of the Crete game . The council has planned a surprise for the student body on that date.
Nominations Held F'or Class Head!il Nominations for class officers of all classes except lOB and lOA will be made in home rooms this morning. Sophomores will, instead of electing officers, be represented by a cabinet composed of all their junior civic league presidents of the preceding cabinet. The cabinet consists of: Robert Wilson and Esther Ruby, Everett; Robert True and Betty Hertzler, Irving; Richard Mahaffey and Helen Bennett, Whittier, and from the preceding cabinet, Gilbert Ryder and Ann Seacrest. Nominatious for junior and senior class officers will be made from the class at large, not primarily from the home room. Each member of the class may nominate one pupil. Nominations will be made by ballot. The names of the t en candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be rotated on the final ballots.
Bell Ringers Give One Performance Lincoln' s campanological organiza tion, better kn own a s the Society of High School B ell Ring ers, g a ve one public perform ance during the summer months. On August 26 they rang a peal of twentyfour cha nges on four bells of the chime a t St. P a ul's church. The club's chief interest is in change-ringing which is the m a thematical method used in Engbnd for ring ing the large, swinging bells in that country. The society was organized last · J a nuary ·by four pupils of Lincoln high: Rich11rd Putney, presid€nt; Sa m Wiggans, George . Werner and Robert Luebs. By June they had doubled their membership by adding Dan Bernd, Allan Menefee, David Good and his brother, Robert. They hope to increase their m embership and give a bigger perform11nce on New Year's day:
Former Links Awarded University Scholarship To go to university has been the ambition of Alfred Norling, '33, for the past four years. So det ermined was he that last spring he sent in to the University of Chica go an a pplication for a tuition scholarship. In June ,he was notified that h e was one of thirty chosen from fou r h un dred to r e ceive this scholarship, which is worth six hundred dollars. Dur ing the · last four years Alfred has been running his father' s general store at Litchfield, Nebraska.
Activity Ticl~ets , On Sale Thursday In Hoine Roollls
Activity tickets will go on sale
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Left to right: Richard Arnold, senior ·; George Lobdell, junior; H elen Pierce, sophomore, buy first installments on their activity tickets from Lucile Gngen .
Eight Receive Highest Mark.s Of Last Year -Townsend.
Five Boys and Three Girls Carry 25 Hours Making All l's; Two Make All One's in 23
DOROTHY WEIRICH.
New School Mav Be Bmlt Board Calls Election For Bond Issue And. New Levy Increase To vote for a bond issue and levy increase to build the proposed northeast high school, a special election has been called by thPbva.rd of e Guca lio .n .fo r .Sev t o .'.lL . . . r
27. The board has asked the PW A for a gra nt of $270,000 which is forty-five per cent of the total cost. This $270,000 is a direct grant, it is not a loan and does not have to be repaid. To provide for the r em a ining fiftyfive per cent a bond issue of $330,000 will be required. Northeast Highs Combined. The proposed high s chool will be located between Adams street on the north and Baldwin avenue on the south; between 61st street on the west and 63rd street on the east. Bethany, Havelock and University Place high schools will be combined in this building. An a uditorium, gymnasium, library, rooms and facilities for industrial arts and home economics, rooms for economics, rooms for commercial subjects special provision for art, music, drama and visual education an d a swimming pool will be had, besides the standard rooms and f a cilities. Vocational Agriculture Added. The educational program will be vastly improved through the provisions cited for music, art, commercial subjects, home economics, industrial a r ts, libraries and auditorium. The academic work will also be extended to provide additional courses in English, mathematics, science and languagecourses which cannot now be offered because the enrollments in the separate buildings are too small. Of specia l importance is the work in vocational agriculture which will not be duplicated in any other high school in the city. The board proposes to raise the money to pay the bonds and interest by levying ~ tax of i,~ mill in addition to the present tax of 15 mills for all school purposes.
All pupi~s appearing on the ·honor roll last semester received all l's, all 2's or all l's and 2's, and each one carried from twenty to· twenty-five hours. The eight highest pupils carried twenty-five hours and received all l's.
These are: Robert Alberty Frances Keefer
Margaret Hedstrom Bob Weil
D a vid Good .John Welch P11trkia P eterson Richard Wilson Students carrying 23 hours r eceiving
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Dorothy A. Dworak H elen Snyder Eloise Fricke Dorothy Weirich Martha Wimbe rly J anis Ha gelin Raymond Hickman R lchard Yost Students ca rrying 23 hours receiving 1's a nd 2' s are: Phylis Olson Mary Becker Clifford Opper Newman Buckley P eggy Opper Katherine Ki esselbach Emma Robins on Mary J o Lat sch Ma rjorie Sadle Adah Lav end er Emma Seifert Roberta Statn Ca rl Leonard J ohn Thompson Ro bert Luebs Ard is L yman Nor ma West J ean Mc clou ghan Students carry ing 20~22 hours and re· celving ·all l's and 2's are: George Blackstone Delmo Koop Marcia Bec kman Marjorie Lee G ene Bradley Maxine Maddy Arleen Burkett Betty Jane Mallat N o rma Jean B ob Marcotte Campbell l.fa rilyn Ma x ey J ean Ca rna han June l\oicMeen Leol a C arter Je a nette Micke y Ruth Cook Marion Moffett George Cr a ncer T om Nic kelson Helen Ewin g. James Nickerson Chester F eber Ben Novicoff Gail F erguson Mary Louise Oakley Eugene Fire.s to ne Elinor Paulson J ack F ord Gene R emington J a net Gal bret h M a xine Richards Miria m H a ckm an Jea n Sandlovich Jean Mari e Holtz R oland Schneckloth J ean Hump hr ey Ruby Schriber Eliza beth Inhelder Richard Sill Lucile Jennin gs Jea n Edith Smith Marj orie J ohnston John Stewart Marion Jon es Elizabeth Wagn er Betty Klin gel B a rba ra White Rob e rt Knott Dorot hy White Doroth y Ann Koenig Dorot by \VJnd A udr ey Koons Liilian - Wind Thos e ca rr yin g 25 hou rs w it h all 2 ' s~ Dorothy An n Ma rtin Ca r rying 22 hours w lth all 2' s: J essie Moore Carryin g 20 h ours with all 2's: Mary Rabe l Trudell Downer \\res le y B ernha rdt Barba ra Ernes tf Helen Brown M. Elizabeth Gr een
First of Seyen lOB Meetings Held Tuesday Activity tickets and assemblies were discussed yesterda y in the first of a se~ies of Tuesday morning lOB m eetings presided over by H. C. Mardis, principal. Subjects offered, vocational guidance, requirements for graduation, permanent records such as citizenship and school laws will be discussed in the six future meetings. Parents are cordially invited to attend these assemblies from 8:15 to 8 :45 Tuesdays.
Kathryn Park Takes Four Weeks Journalism Course at Northwestern A most enjoyable part of the summer was passed by Kathryn Park, senior, when she took an extensive four weeks course in journalism for high school students at Northwestern university in Evanston, Illinois. Students were admitted only by acceptance of application. Sixtyfive of 450 applications were ac· cepted, Nebraska having the largest number, with seven deleg at es. Classes began June 14 and continued into July. Reporting classes were three hours long and all classes continued through the day. News was telephoned in by
Lookle! Lookie! Lookie! For the meagre ~um of $1.75 you can be the proud possessor of a student activity ticket - an Aladdin's lamp to entertainment. Rub it! A panorama spreads before us. I see the galloping gridders spilling and thrilling as they battle for Lincoln high school . I see the neophyte Garbos and Gables thrill the audience across the footlights as they portray that tender story that never grows old. But that is not all. Every Wednesday thos.e who have beheld our magic lamp's revelation shall be reading an Advocate and keeping up with the world. Wait no longer and purchase an activity tlcket.
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Jean Robinson Ma'rjorte Rollins Students carrying 23 hours receiving all l 's a nd 2's ·are: Betty Ann William John J a y
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councilors and to perfect realism, sound effe·cts were used. Sound effects for fires included women screaming a nd rstling sounds. Shipwrecks were a ccompanied by fog horns. Classes were very informal. Many fascinating tours were t aken including one through the slaughter house of the Swift Packing company. During this tour it was necessa ry for the young la dies to carry handkerchiefs "fumigated" with sweet smelling perfume. Other tours included a trip to the Edgewater Beach hotel. No high school credit is given, but K a thryn received a certlficat!l of merit,
Complete Staff · Is Appointed Kathryn Park, Sidney Ann Gardner, Patricia Clinton Are Heads First pla n of the new Advocate staff at the beginning of the semester was to streamline the Advocate, results of which a re showing in this issue. Those English 17 pupils who make up the editorial staff of the Advocate for the first semester are: managing editor, Kathryn Park ; a ssociate editor, P a tricia Clinton; news editor, Sidney Ann Gardner; page two editor, Leslie Dienst; page three editor , Elwyn McClary; .sports editor, Robert johnson ; girls sports, Deloris Jones; copy editors, Ruth Bstandig, Barbar a Ernesti, Benny Kohout, Dorothy McVey, Barbara Stewart, Dale Strass er; editorials, Dorothy Ann Ma rtin ; librarian, Mary Burr; exchanges, Molly Bronstein; liter ary, Althea Ware ; features, Janet Lehr; column, Pat Herminghaus; reporters, Ma ry Eliza beth Bees on, Jack Cfarke, Robert Conkling, Isabelle Drieth, Norma Heffley, Janet Lehr, Jo Ann Macoy, Robert Metrakos, Constance Rathburn, William Robinson, Miles Philp, Geraldine Smith; circulation, Shirley Spalding. Although the Advocate won highest ratings, Pacemaker AllAmerican in the National Scholastic Press a ssociation critical ser vice last year and first cla ss in the Nebraska High School Press association rating, the staff declares it will not rest on past records, but improve the paper. The paper is wider and as a result it is better balanced. More white space Is being used and column bars omitted. This is bein~ done to put out a more perfe4 and modern pa per.
Hugh Rangier Has Big Hopes for Choir '¥it h two engagements planned f or the near future, Hugh T . R angeler started his Lincoln high school choir off on vocal exercises the first thing Monday morning. After vocalizing for a while, Mr. R angeler expressed high hopes· for this year's choir, also saying, "In all r espects except one, the average high school choir should be better tha n their fellow univ ersity singers because of the youthful tone which · prevails in the sub-college ages."
Pupils Choose Representative For Semester Representatives Begin Semester's Work As Activity Tickets Go On Sale Thursday. Forty-three boys and twentynine girls have been elected to make up the hom e room representative body for this semester as the result of elections held last Friday in home rooms. Their duties and obligations we re discussed at a meeting held last Monday at 2:30 in 306. Following are the n a mes of the home room representatives and alterna tes: J OO, Donald B eel<, Bryce Alberty; 101, John Angle, Jean Marie Austin; 102, Shirley Binford, James Baylor; 103, Benny Kohout, JoAnn Macoy; 105, Marjorie Brotherton, Stanley Cohen; 107, Carrol Bulwan, Jean Bowers; 109, Dorothy Carnahan, Deane Dowell; 117, Don Bettenhausen, Charles Wheeler; 120, Milton Bockoven, Eileen Campbell; 121, Roxanna Brown, Clifton Bloom·; 125, Betty Ann Kendall, · Dar leen Francke ; 130, Manuel Fisher, Jocelyn Crandall; 133 , Charles Thorne, N elda Ottma n; 135, Mark Sheffert, K a thryn Hudkins; 136, Norman Ca ps ey, Dorothy Clark; 137, Marjorie Clark, Mary Eileen Cochran; 139, James Deffenba ugh, Joan F erris; 140, J a ck Frost, Dorothy Brow ne; 141, Betty Jean Evans, Ma rjorie Jones. 200, Edwa rd Barrett, George R e bseforf; 201, William .1ennings, Marilyn Lawson; 203, Robert Leonard, Charles Fisher; 204, Miriam Keeley, Harold Grossman; · 205, (Continued on Page 3.)
Thursday in home rooms. Cash tickets will be $1. 75 for the semester. Installment tickets will be 50 cents down and ten cents a week until paid for. Tickets, which were ~ quarter to see the "A" vs. "B" game last Friday, will apply on the activity ticket. $1.75 Buys $5 Value. According to H. C. Mardis, pupils will get not less than $5.00 worth of entertainment for only $1.75. The activity ticket admits the holder to the junior pla y, Mummers play and all home games. It also entitles him to all issues of the Advocate. Five "A" football gam es a re scheduled and not less than three "B" games. There will also be four basketball games this s emester. Big Sports Schedule Included. The first t eam football g a mes are: Lincoln "A" vs. "B" Sept. 16. Crete vs. Lincoln, Sept. 30. Be a trice_ vs. Lincoln, Oct. 21. Omah a South v s" Lincoln, Oct. 28. Omaha Tech vs. Lincoln, Nov. 4.
The home ba sketball games are: Omaha Centra l vs. Lincoln, Dec. 16. Gra nd lsJand vs . Lincoln, Jan. 7. H as tings vs. Lincoln, Jan. 13. Omaha T ech vs . L incoln , Jan. 14:.
"B" football games are: Lincoln "B' 'vs. College View, Sept. 23. Lincoln ''B" vs .. Creighton Prep "B". no date. L incolr. "B" vs. E a gle . r.o d at e.
C. 0. Morrison Acquires License Acquiring his first-class radio telephone license is the way C. O. Morrison spent his summer vaca tion. This license legally qualifies Mr . . Morrison to operate a commercial broadcasting station. The first few weeks of summer vacation, Mr. Morrison spent studying to pass the federal examination he took in Kansa s City. The last part of August. Mr. Morrison attended a conference for vocational teachers in Omaha. P a rt of the summer, he was an electrician at the Lincoln Municipal Power plant. Mr. Morrison also has a class "B" amateur radio license which qualifies him to operate his own amateur station. W9EMC are his call letters.
Clyde Dean Returns From England After a Steady Diet of Fish and Tea After a six weeks diet of fish and tea in Engla nd, Clyde "Diz" D ean is back aga in to his home land and "plenty glad of it," according to the reports he has given in classes. Traveling with the U. S. Baseball Congress, a team in which two former Links, George Binger, and Leo Benson were also featured pl~yers, "Diz" arrived Augu st 3, after a thirteen-day trip, in the British Isl es, ready to play the English All-Stars at Liverpool. With la rge numbers of British enthusiasts wa tching this great American sport, our home lads brought to victory six out of the ten scheduled games, with "Diz" doing his part by pitching one no-hit, no-run game. Touring the cities of England, "Diz" saw such sights as Westminster abbey and Buckingham p a lace in London , where he viewed the ela borate spectacle of the changing of the royal guards in front of the palace gates. He related, "They go through this formal procedure every day w ith the band playing and the guards marching in their tall black fur h a ts." English People Hospitable. While staying at Sheffield, "Diz" and his party w ere entert a ined at the city hall by the lord m a yor of Sh effield. "Diz" rem a rked that it seemed as if everybody had a title attached to his name and no matter what the titles were, the people were al-
w ays extremely hospitable. He remarked on the fine sportsmanship of the British durin g the games, both players and spectator s. When the team r eturned to London they spent ten days in just traveling around. One of their first days was spent in visiting the royal air force, where more than 5,000 young men are being trained in the aviation fi eld. Their next place of interest w as the House of R oths child, so noted ·throughout the country. "It is a sight to see/' described uDiz ," "with miles a nd miles of beautiful garden sur rounding it, and we had the privilege of eating dinner in the Gold room." While "Diz" was on the subject of eating, he continued, "It made no difference at all where we went to eat in Eng land , we were served fish three times a day, every day of the week. Another thing which seem ed strange to us," he added, "was t h eir lack of serving water with meals. We g ot used to it, but it took a little time." When "Diz" was asked if the English were really such tea drinkers as is always said a bout them, he replied, "Yes, they cert a inly are. Every day, at 10 o'clock and 3 o'clock they take time off to drink their cup of tea and eat a sweet roll. " J okingly "Diz" sa id, •'We w at ched the Internationa l cricket match between Australia and England (Continued on Page 3.)
Increase In Enrollment 36 Pupils More Than Last Year Shown In Attendance Statistics Enrollment in Lincoln high school was 2.631 pupils at the end of the fir st day of school, an increase of 19 pupils over last year, and at the end of the first week total enrollment was 2,739, an increase of 36 over last year, according to Miss Dorcas Weatherby, attendance director. Girls Outnumber Boys. Senior enrollment was 756; junior cla ss, 933; sophomores, 1,008; part time, 22; post graduate, 20. Girls outnumbered the boys by fifteen, with 1,377 girls and...1,362 boys. Registration for the first day in all public schools was 14,441, a s compared with 14,045 last year, a gain of 396, r eported M. C. Lefler , superintendent of schools. The increase was partly due to the poliorr. yelitis sca re last September which kept the children out of school for the first we'ek or so. Few Changes in Faculty. Mrs . Gla.sJ~vs Temple is assigned· as an a cling teacher replacing Miss Lucy Geiger, who is on leave of abs ence for the first semester, doing gra dua te work at Wisconsin. Miss Mariel Gere returning from leave of absence will take Miss Margaret Jo Prouty's place. Miss Prouty is on a years leave of absence doing graduate work at the medical coilege, University of Nebraska, at Omaha.
Locker and Hall Guards Chosen At the beginning of each semester a group of students is chosen to s erve as hall guards, locker inspectors and locker guards; Under the di r ection of Miss Helen Dunlap, those chosen to serve this sem ester are as follows: Hall Guards: Ruth Grant, Marilyn Lawson, John Edwards, Jean Sturdeva nt, Betty Talbot, Jack Be a uchamp, Wendell Briggs, Mary Jo Latsch, .Jack Ford, Lillian Wind, George Bla ckstorie, Helen Crabb, Robert Farmer, Louise Lee, Don Buterbaugh, Elw·yn McCla ry, Rich Rwitt, Arnold Butt. Locker inspectors: V i r ginia Ford, Thomas Morse, Harold Cullinan, P a tricia Clinton, R obert Osborn, Carolyn Held , Fred Me• theny, Ma rtha Ann Bengtson, Howard Debus. Locker gua rds: Robert Mar· cotte , Lawrence Vaughan, Bruce Pendleton, La v erne Deyke, 'V'arren Burkhalter, Harry Lemly, Clifton La mbert, Harry Blum, Don Albin, Truman Clare, Carl Lind, LeMoyn e Jones, Roland Schneckloth, Robert Ru n nails, Howard Shirley.
Pepper Uniforms New This Year New uniforms for the Peppers wer e decided upon at a special meeting Tuesday, September 13. Black w ill domi n ate this yea r 's costume, the sweater s, wool skirts a nd sport shoes being of that color. R ed will be found in the kerchief w orn about the neck, the ankle socks, and the over-seas caps. Mar tha Ann Bengston, Georgia Covey and Janet Walker selected four different styled sweaters of w hich one wa s chosen by un'ani· mous vote of the club. The club rules w ere reviewed by one of the spons ors, ·Miss Dorcas \V'eatherby. School songs and cheers w ere practiced , led by the cheer leaders, Evelyn Clark and Patricia Herminghaus.