THE ADVOCATE
Get Activity Tickets Early VQL. XLV.
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See Night . FootbaU Games
LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL, LINCOLN, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1939.
FIVE CENTS.
Activity Tickets Go On Sale Friday Morning Campaign to Last Seven Days; Fine Values Are Offered
Virginia Ford Heads New Student Council; Toren, Vice-President Schaufelherger, Meyer, Bettylee Cronn and Constance McCauley Also Hold Offices Virginia Ford was t1lected presid.e nt of the student council at a special meeting held Thursday. Other officers chosen are: vice pr~sident, Paul Toren; secretarytreasurer, Robert Schaufelberger, and · editor, Bettylee Cronn. Those elected for the committee on committees were Donald Meyer and Constance McCauley. '
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VlftGINIA FORD.
Virginia
Ford,
president,
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been on the student council, iP. :home room repre,!!eritatrve, member ·of Mimes, 1113 cla lll! president · - - ·arrd - ·a:rr-rrxc nn:11t· &rtice:t. ·Bl'le·-u1·
on the girls debate team and wa.~ the goyernor of Girls State during the summer. She · partiCipated in Joy Night, and has been a member' of· Peppers tor four semesters •nd is one this semester. Work of assigning hall guides, hall guards, and ·locker inspectors to . go on duty the first day of achool, and of making. corrections on the building directory was accomplished by the student council before school opened. New. Membe,r on Council. B ettylee Cr onn is tal5ing the place of Dorothy Clar k who was elected t o the council la st spring, but who is attending "Our Lady of Angels" in ClintoP,, I.owa. Bettylee received the next high est vote 1n the elections last spring. Committees will be announced at the next regular meet ing and work for the year will begin at once. J ohn Provost, who was elected last spr ing as-t emporary chairman until officers could be chosen in the fall, p r esided until the n ew president was elected.
A re }' ou a Bargain Hunter? Here's one bargain fo r which you won't have to do muc h hunting! An activit y ticket ls the easiest possible w a y of savin g money. Following is a list s howing how much you will spend if you don't. buy an 11ctivity ticket : Sept. 29 Crete . .. . .. • ·' · . . soc Oct. 6 Scotts bluff .. .. . .. 75c Oct. 13 Sioux City Centra l SOc Nov. 3 " B" vs. College View . .. .. . . : .. 25c Nov. 3, 4 Mummers play .. 2Sc Nov. 10 Omaha Ce ntra l .. SOc Nov. 17 "B" game . . ..... .. 2Sc Nov. 24 Grand Is la nd •• .. SOc Oec. 8 Senior pla y . ..... 25c Jan. 19 S ioux City Central 25c J a n. 26 Sioux City East . . . 25e J a n. 27 Omaha Centra l .. . 25c ALL IS S U ES O F T H E ·.ADVOCATE ..• , .• . . . .. . SOc $S.00 paid -in-full activit y ticket .costs only $1.75 or a n insta ll. ment ticket costs $2.00. If you attend a ll the events , you will save at least $1 .75, so even if you go to only ·a few you 'll stH.l save c onsiderable m oney. Remembe r , get you r activity tic ket from yiiur home room represe ntative unless you a re in 200 or 213, and in that case get yours from Miss oo.rothy Beever in th e office. T he cash a cti vity ticket will be sepia ~ l or; the weekly payment t icket w ill be green. A
Advocate Staff Is Chosen
Representative Elections Held
Turney Sharrar, Joanna Radke Are Staff Heads
Equal Number of Girls And Boys Are Chosen Thursday and Friday Elections for home room repr es·e ntatives w ere held ni.urs day and · Friday in all h ome r ooms. Res ults show that a n equ al number of boys and of girls were chosen, in contrast to the large n umber of boys and comparatively s mall group· of girls feat uring iii last semester's elections.
Advocate armbands identify the new staff on the Lincoln high pa· per as it swings into action to giv• pupils enterta inment and satisfaction with an iBsue every Wednesday. · Pupils wearing the black armbands lettered in white of the editorial staff and their positions are as follows: Managing editor, Turney Sharrar; news editor, Joanna Rad ke; associate editor, Harold Grossman ; second page editor, Elaine Rosenblum; third page editor, June H elmstader; spor~ editor, Craig Hubbard; girls' sports editor, J ean Schleuning; librarian, Elizabeth · Schnell; excha nge edi· tor, Ferne Dreith; column editor, Ralph Sears; feature e.dltor, M ar• ian Priest; literary editor, Edith Schuchman ; editorial editor, John Goe; copy reade rs, Roy Erickson, Quentin Allen; Helen Crabb, Lucena Churchill, Annajean Ray, M a r g are. t Stoddart; reporters, B ettylee Cronn, J erry He nderson, Marilyn Fulton, Elinor Robinson, Donald Schmidt, Howar d Shirley, Lynette Tofsted and Donal? Tucker; circulation manager, Betty :M:a.c:Millan. White armbands lettered in black are worn by the business -inan:a:gm-;--Va·f illiI "Berncl'.; -a n d"' 'th·e a.dvertising manager, Paul Rehmar . Secretaries, Leeola Hefti, Wallace Provost, Lucy Martm Ruth Delehart and Doradene Reed wear the. white bands also. Tn.e editorial staff will s hift positiol18 each six weeks.
Stan Breuer Dies of Fall Slips on Treacherou§ Colorado Glacier; Was Very Active. In School Activities Stanley Breuer, class of '38, died Sunday•. September 10,. as a result of a fall from !Sabel Glacier which is about seven miles f rom the parking area at Brainard Lake, Colorado. While in Lincoln high , Stanley was active in debate a nd he was also Lincoln high correspondent for the Lincoln Star. Hi-Y, Radiolinks and writers club numbered among his other activities. Cllarles Anderson, junior, who visited this section of Color ado in the middle of August said, "The t rail has a warning sign put up there by the rangers indicating that the glacier is very slick a nd dangerous ." T he trip to Lake Isabel a nd up to it s glacier is a beautiful h ike if one keeps on the marked trail. Th e hiker parks his car at Brainard Lake, the beg inning ol' the trail near Ward, Colorado, and continues to Lake I sabel which is about five miles.
Sophomore Class Boosts Enrollment Eight hundred and twenty-one new sophomores are registered in Lincoln high school this fall bringing the total enrollment t o two t h ou sand seven hundred and twenty. This is an increase of eighteen pupils over last y ear . The 1934· class has as it!! sponsors Mrs. Frances R ein and Mrs. E laine Smith. T he cabinet consists of J an ice Marx, George H owa rd, Lincoln high ; Lenore Beeh, Frank Mar:sh ; Everett ; Betty Jo Leadley, Ed Ha ll, I rving ; Carr<-1 Lea Ander son, John ·Benmel, Whittier . T he cabinet wi:ll have its .fir.st meeting next Thursday . when plans will be made for the sophomore party which . will be held Friday, October 6, in both gymnasiu m$. This party is for l OB's and l OA' s. T here will be a program in t he auditorium. g ames in the gym nasiums, and finall y refreshmen t11 in th~ cafeteria.
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Room R epresentative Alternative 100 D on B~ck J ean Berg Robert A dams 10!. Jean· Aust in 102 Betty Bintz LeRoy Luers 103 Paul Arthand Margaret Bumstead 105 Marj orie Brotherton Glenna. Buck 107 . Betty Brinkman Edward Brownson 109 Malcolm· Allen Mar y Helen A lexis 117 Betty Garey John Coulter 120 Lenor e Beck R amey Beachley 121 P a u l B urke Deane Dowell 125 · Helen Freeborn Ma ry Ann Greenwood 128 Manuel Fischer Ma r y Lou Neal 130 133 135
Margaret W!ld A rthur Schmale Barbara True R obert True Robert McCracken J osephine Thursto11 Leo Beck Roberta. Buell Karem Shahee:i· J ohn B lumer Mark Dulin P hyllis Duncan J ean H a zen R o::iert Owen
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Perry Bra nch
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Herma n Greenwalt
N orma. Neu Jean D ishman Edward H&ll Richard Harpham Milford Epp '204 Mary Jo Gish Patrid a Cu rry 205 Hoyt Yow ell St uar t Goldberg ~07 H oward Koupal L or raine H eaton 208 Betty Ga ge Rem• Heiny
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Holb rook Ma r y Louise Kennedy Betty J o Leadley Dorothy James Rich a r d Hay R u th Grant B a rbara Wise .Donald · Stewart Mary Lou Holtz Ma r vin Haa.e Tho;:nas H y land Gloria Ma rdis Robert Jern er Kathr yn House Virginia McCulla Albert J ohnston J ea.nne Rotton George . H oward J ohn J\:Iessrnore Shirley K ing G eorge L:rber i,s Char les Munson
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Miss M11ir Is N.E.A. Officer
Five Faculty Changes Mnde
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Miss Sarah T. Muir, English department head, was elect ed 11. vicepresident of the National Education association during the San Francisco convention h eld early this 1mmmer. The N. E. A. was star ted in P hiladelphia in 1857 and h as grown from a membership of 43 to nearly a quarter of a m illion. T he N. E . A. in resolutions adopted .at the San Francisco meeting in June "reaffirms its ·Unswerving loyalty to American ideals of democracy and its determination to strengthen dem ocracy in all its school activities, inciuding the practice of the democratic way of we in school management. It views with concern the growing activities of certain agencies which seek to spread in the UniteJ States the racial ha tred and intolerance which have imperilled the peace of other na tions. The association, therefore, urges · tha t brot herhood and an appr eci· ation of t he contributions of all races, creed's, and nationalities be actively promoted by school assemblies, by classroom teaching and by the personal influence of the members." Miss Muir i~ a life member of the National Education association. She has been cha irman of the national committee "ethics of teaching profession," for s ix y ears, presid ent o f. Lincoln Teachers association, of the first dist rict .state association and t h e N . S. T. A. Miss Amy H . Hinrichs, president of the National E ducation a ssocia tion has as k ed Miss Muir to help with the appointment s to the 12 standing committees and to serve for t he next · three years on the appra is al· commit tee.
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MISS SARAH T. MU IR. (Story a t Left.)
Leave of Absence Granted to Bimson 0. H . Bimson, assistant superintendent of schools, was granted a s ix months leave of absence to serve as a special worker in a nation-wi.d e survey , to determine the modern type of citizenship education for s chool children. The honor to attend this survey came from the educational policies commission of the National Education association. According to M . C. Lefler, superintendent, who recommended that Mr. B imson be granted the leave, the Lincoln educator is to meet with the commission in Philadelphia , this month. Mr. Lefler said that Mr. Bim son's position would not be filled in his absence. The su perintendent will t ake over the other 's duties in cooperation with the school principals. Mr. Bimson h as been assistant superintendent since University P la ce was taken into Lincoln. Up to that time he had been sup erint endent of schools in University Place.
• Teachers Engage in Var ious Activities During Summer Vacations, Some Teach Like a bus driver spending his v acation taking a bus r ide, so n umerous t eachers f r om Lincoln high spent their vacations t eachi.n g or stu dying. E . B . Phillips went to the west coast , vis iting from Los Angeles, California , to Victoria , British Co· · lumbia, Canada. He attended summer school for s ix week s in Portland, Oregon. Miss Esther Montgome1·y spent m ostof her summer at school at t h e University of Nebra sk a. She also a ttended, as a r epresentat ive, the A. A. U. W . nat ional co1wen ti.on at Denver . Mis11 Gra.ce Ann Mor gan spent
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With the opening of t he new sem ester, four new teachers; Miss N ancie J ane Wallace, Miss Betty Barker, Maurice Milliken and Gilbert Rogers have come to Lincoln high. Harry Kuklin who t aug h t here ·formerly has r eturned to join the sports staff . Miss Walla ce, who will t ake Mrs: Lucille H ellmer 's p la ce, ha s t a ught at R osa lie, Nebraska, and at E verett ju nior high school h ere m Lincoln. New Dramatics .Coach Mis s J ane Schaible, who resig ned la st spring, will be replaced by Miss B ar ker , a former teacher in the hig h school a t Gerin g , N ebra ska. Miss Barker will have t wo Eng lish 7 classes and one clas s each of English 3 .a nd 4. She will coach dramatics. As Wilfred G. Slayton has obtained a civil service position at Kansas City, he will be replaced by Mr. Milliken . Mr. Milliken has had teaching experience at Jamestown, Kansas, and Cedar Bluffs, Nebraska. He will have two physics 1 classes and a physiology 1, algebra 2 and geometry 1 class. Two ·on Leaves of Absence. During Miss Mary Hullhor st's year's leave of absence, her cla sses will be taken over by Mr. Rogers. He ha s t aught at the Congregational Mission school for Sioux Ind ians a t Santee, Nebraska, and was superintendent of a Consolidated h igh school in Scottsbluff county. As Miss Margaret Jo P routy 119.s t aken a second yea r's lea ve of absence f or study in the college of · medicine at t he University of Nebraska in Omaha, Mrs. Gladys Temple is teaching in her place.
nine weeks teaching physical educat ion at Kea rney state teache1·s college this summer. She was ent h usia stic about the ample supply of equipment t here and fine r ecreational facilities. Mis.9 Dorcas Weatherby and Miss Irene Martin s tudied m ost of t he summer at Northw estern uni· versity. working toward their maste r 's degrees. Mr.:;, Gladys Temple also att ended s ummer school at the University of Nebraska. The two Fairs attract ed a larg e per cent of Lincoln high t eachers this summer. Miss Dorothy Beever, Miss E lizabeth Grone, Miss Marg uerite Gundermann and Mi.ss Helen. Dunlap were among tho:se g oing to New York City.
Miss Grone motored eas t and drove from New York t o New Orlea ns and F lorida to Quebec. Miss Grace McMahan enjoyed her summ er on t he Western coa..~t. Some Of the points Of inter est She Visited were Bry ce Canyon, Grand Canyon, Zion National Park, Los Ang eles a nd San Fra ncis co.
MaYvelling .a t the ingenuit y of t he yolUlg refugees from Austria. who contrived a nd p r esented the m usical revue., "From Vienna," Miss Emma Beekma;nn returned from a trip to New York City and the F air this SUfi?.mer, most stimulated by this show. Miss Belle l!~arman , besides visiting the New Yor k f air. tool\ a 10 day cruil!e (Continued on FagP, ;t. )
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Sou thwor th E v elyn Gart on Barbara Smiley W illia m Schlalb it z Jack ·F rost J ean Leslie Dorothy T ilton Margaret St oddard Ba rbara Sch later William Cordell 317 J a n n a McBride Noreen Sch a lkopf " 321 Phyllis Overman Waiter P eterson 325 R icha rd Mah a!fey Elaine Lebsocl< 327 Jack Zum winkcl Elfaabet h Sma ha 400 P a ul Hyla nd William Schaumberg 40 1 N ora P ollock i\>Iargie Weyglnt 402 Robert Wilson Leo Sou!mp 4 03 Gordon Johnson True Wetzel 3~0 D o rothy Ade;1 N orma j a ne Brittain 326A D a r leen F r anke · 32GB Marian H unt E lizabeth Hochriter 226A J ean Ma son Willia m Loeffel 226B R ober t MarJorie Schuman PeterSGn 226C Cecil (Ju nior) Cassie T aple y St rawn A ud . 1 Qu en tin Rus:Jell Beam 313 '.J H 315 316
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June D or othy Huffman Helmstadter Aud, 6 J\f eJvin M a ry Jo Latsch Johnson Aud '1 Ger aldine Maurine Mer t z .M aser Aud. 8 Joseph Ona Bet h · O' Con nell O'Conner Aud. 9 Marjor ie Jack R ok ahr Rollins A.-J d. JO Charlotte Mildred Spomer Smith Aud. 11 William Walbridge. J ane Wat k ins Aud . 5
Artists Take State Honors Martha Simon, Jack Guenzel, Mary Aileen Cochran Participate in Annual Horse Show Lin coln h igh school had a good r epresentation at t h e state fair art exhibit this year. Many stu den t s were prize winners. Graduated s e n i o rs who won pr izes w ere Jean Holtz, Louise B oroch, Max Berquist and Maxine Simco. This y ear seniors who won were Roy Erickson, Turney · Sha rrar and Dick H einz. No soph omores were r ep9rted as winning. Hal Wilmet h, a former Links now · studyin g in Kansas City a rt i::stitute, a lso took prize money. Most of the prize winning drawing s were made by Miss Helen Wilson"s a.rt classes and the mediums used were mostly pas tel, pen a nd pencil. · Ronald Doan, a sophomore, took prize money in the juvenile class . L H. S. Equestrians Triumph Several Lincoln high school students parti cipated in the. a nn ual N ebmsk a State F;air horse show which was held Septem ber 3 to 7 inclu sive. Those taking· part we1·e Martha Simon, J ack Guenzel, and Ma ry Aileen Cochran. T hey placed first, second and thir d, respet ively, in the seat and h ands cla ss. Jack Guenzel also placed third in th € pair clas3 wi.lh Mrs. Dick Grain g;~r .
Representatives to Hap.die Sales; Night Games Are Included In Ticket Schedule Sa.le of. activity tickets Win offi• cially open this week. Tickets will be on sale through.the home room representatives in all home rooms except 200 and 213: Pupils in these two rooms s hould g et their tickets ·from Miss Dorothy Beever in the office. Price of the a ctivit y ticket when p aid in fu ll will be '1.715, ~r it may be paid for w ith a ·5 0-cent down p ayment and 10 · cents a week for 15 weeks. By paying the balance due, an inst allment ticket may be . converted into a p aid-in• ., full ticket, but not later than Oc• tober 13, if a pupil wishes to receive the ~1.75 rate. This semester's schedule is & full one with six football games, t h e Mummers play and the .senior play; all issues of The A dvoca t e, .as well as three basketball games. Added interest this year is pro• vided by night football games, This is s omething new · to Lincoln high and an exceptionally large crowd is anticipated. On t he bulletin board next to 'the office w m · be found each day t he rating of all home rooms s how· ing where they ·st and in the cam • paign. rt will . continue through next week,
Six Stude11ts Tie for High G'rude Ho11ors Three Boys-Thr ee Girls Rec.e ive Five · l's ; Many Others On Honor Roll . Heading the honor ·roll ·Of a ll t he pupils ·now -attendin·g high ·school are six studen t s, thr ee . b oys and three gfrls. · They are W illiam Bouwsma, Dorothy Dworak, Rich· ard Fi nnell, Joanna Radke, Gi lbert . Ryder and Ja.n e Wat kins. These pupils each carried .twent y· five hou rs and made thirty h ouri credit last s emester. Next on· the list, pupils who carried twenty-five h ours and received all l's or 2's:. Roxanna Brown Dorot hy Carnahan Ilobert Dewey Margaret Hedstrom Lela Lyne .Neita Oltman Mildred Penner Patricia Peterson
lllarJorle Rolllns Robert Schautelberg~ Jun Schleunlng Robert Stam Dorothy 'StnHh eim I nna . Tlngelho.tt Joeephlne Welch
P upils who carried twenty~three h ours and received l's or 2's were as follows:
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Jean Marie Auotln . M11rjorle Sadie Mary Lou18<l Bab•t Noreen Schalkopf Jean Louise E nsltn . Jea.n Sinlth . . Ma.ry Ann Hedstrom· Stella. .Ma.y Specht A lbert Johnoton Virginia Stuerm... Eugene Peery Marga.ret Weld
Those receiving all l 's and 2'• and carrying twenty to twentytwo hours were: Bonnie Amgwert N ewman Buckley A lice B urn ett J a m e• Cha ppell Mary Fredenhagen Nancy Green Betty Hertzler Mary .J o Latseh Dorothea Lemon Merriam Mann Bet t y McI;eod
K a tberlne R ice Rlchnd R ivet t ·J eann e Rotton R u th Ruby B etty J ane R yo11. Marth& Vernon Herschel Webb E lsa Weber B urt Whedon Alta. Young
The Calendar for The Years '39and '40 T he calendar for 1939-40 of Lincoln public .achoola, as decided upon by the board of education is as. follows: September 11 , .1939-Pupils report to schools. October 26-27, 1939-Teachers convention. November 29, 1939 (3 p. m.)Thanksg iving recess begins. December 4, 1939 (8 o. m.) Thanksgivlng .:~ess ends. December 22, 1939 ( 3 p. m.)...-. Christmas vacation begins. January 8 , 1940 (8 a. m.)..Christ mas vacation ends. January 26; 1.9 40--First H· mester ends.. S ECO ND SEMESTER, January 29, 1940--Second semest er begins. March 15, 1940. (3 p. m. )Spring · vacation beg.ins. Ma rch 25, 1940 {8 <i. m.- . Spring· vacation enda. , May· 30, i 940-Memorlal holiday. June 6, 1940 (2 p. m .)-Jun. ior high school p romotion exercise$. June 6, 194-0 (8 p. m . )-H igh s c hool commencements. Jun(! 7, 1940 (8 p. m.)- L!!'lee ll'! h igh commence ment.