THE ADVOCATE VOL. LI
NO. 1
LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL, LINCOLN 8, NEBRASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1945 .
FIVE CENTS
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Student Council, Representatives, Elect H.R.R. Elect M:h:::~,p==~:: '° .Battey, Evans,
·1·lcox, Ass'ume· Du.ti•es
New Officers ~:r!~ve:n:h~e:::: :n~:~f:a~: A1.tlz-en,· :'t.... Positions Held By One Junior, Two Seniors
-Photo by E. Grone.
New sophomore cabinet members, reading from left to right, are: Leonard Schneider, Virgil Jacob, Miriam Sinner, Dick Phelps, Ru th Starke! and Roxanna Elias.
Sales Sophomores Activity Break Records Organize For AFull Year Rate School As Different Roxanna Elias and Richard Phelps from Irving, Virgil Jacob · and Miriam Sinner from Everett, and Ruth Starkel and Leonard Schneider from Whittier are the incoming pupils on the sophomore cabinet this semester. Jim Tomasek0hairman, Shirley Mahr, who was secretary of the sophomore cabinet, and Dick Stehr are the three remaining council members from last semester. During the meeting which will be held in the near future, this cabinet will discuss the sopho-:morc party, . .v-~:i ~h ~_:1;.~E1 te
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sometime during the third or fourth weeks of school. Miss Ethel Bryant and Carl Manthey are sponsors of the class. Opinions of these incoming sophomores relates that Lincoln high is well liked. Roxanna Elias, who is a mem· ber of Mummers, stated, "I like Lincoln high much better than ~rving."
With a total of 1,619 activity tickets sold Friday, Lincoln high bested its sales last year by 185. High . rooms in the sales were rooms 120 and 139 with 32 sales, and rooms 112, 312 and 315 with 31 sales. Other rooms and number of tickets sold are: 101-28; 102-25; 103-24; 105-30; 200-8; 201~15; 203-27; 204-30; 302-29;_ 303-27; 304-26; 305-30 ; 107-24; 109-29; 112-31; 116-27; 117-26; 120-32; 121-26; 124-16; 128-28; ' 130-26; 132-24; 132B-27; 133-25; 134-29; 135-26; 136-28; 137-21; 139-32; 141-29; 205-30; 207-30; 208-23; 212-28: 213-28; 214-26; 215-30; 216-26; 217-30; 220-26; 221-23; 224-29; 225-26; 226-29; 306-18; 307-24; 309-28; 312-31; 313-30; 314-27; 315-31; 316-24; 317-29; .320-25; 321-17; 325-25; 326-2B; 32.i-:Gv; -t00-47; 401-24; 402-20.
Enrollment Total 2,026 Since the opening of school on Sept. 5, the enrollment of pupils in Lincoln high has reached 2,026, an increase of 87 pupils during the first week of classes. This is an increase of 85 pupils over the enrollment a year . ago at this time. At present the lOB's make up the largest percentage of the' school, with 723 pupils. The lOA's have 94, llB's 586, llA's 119, 12B's 431 and 12A's 73. Approximately 100 seniors will be graduated in January and there will be no incoming 'lOB class at that time.
Dick Phelps, who is on the re· serve football squad, replied, "I like the sehool system fine ex· cept for the short lunch periods. Marian Sinner said, "I like Lin· coln high because the students are.friendly." Virgil Jacob, stated simply, ''Everything is fine." Ruth Starke!, who is a mem· l:>er of the home room representa; 1 tives said, "I like the system of !: Lincoln high school," and Leonar·d :Schneider answered, "It is differ· ent from Whittier because the :work is harder." "What is your home room?" "Where do I find room 402?" "How do I get my locker open?" were a few of the many bewilBy having guards stationed at " dered remarks of sophomores on the east and west doors of the their first day in L.H.S. ·cafteria, the confusion that was After several days our won· in the cafeteria during the first dering reporter gathering opin· ,; ions of L.H.S. from the 10 B's got few days of the semester has '. '· many frank replies. "Too far to been remedied to a great extent. · · walk to all the classes but I like Pupils are to enter the side doors it," Mary Reinhard says and of the cafeteria and leave by the :. Bonnie Lou Albert's opinion is center doors. The guards are :~ "Lots better than junior high." Helen Lamb and George Wilcox. Mary Russell exclaims, "I got ' · kinda lost but I have lots of fun." This work is being done by the Brief and earnest was the answer health committee under the di· of Dick Clark, "Swell" and Dick rection of Miss Ethel Murray. Changes in the lunch schedules ~sen thinks, "It's ok, I like it during third period were made -8tl right." : (ft;.!. Wednesday to relieve the congestfon of the cafeteria. Council Petitions The health committee held its •;;~~..Die Tomorrow In 305 first meeting Thursday, Septem· mer 13. Lola Bean, Patsy Bald{" htitfons for lOB student coun· win, Sunya Cole, Norma Hild, ~ · ·en/nominations are due in room Sue Holland, Bob Kurth, \ ·3ri'i tomorrow, September 20. Mary Helen Lamb, Frank Piccalo, Mary · .. ~phomores will nominate from Russell, Dick Russell, Shirley Se; ttie list of petition candidates, two right, George Wilcox and Ardyth ;..,'~Ys and two girls on September Wilcox make up this committee. Helen Lamb is chairman while .:; -_ ; '; The entire school votes in the George Wilcox is secretary. Nor· . ~al election October 3 to choose ma Hild is editor and Mary Sue . ; ·one girl and one boy to complete Holland and George Wilcox are the student council membership to handle all sound announce· , for this year. ments concerning this committee. ', Petitions may still be secured Discussions of the topic of .J; in room 305. A candidate must se- health in school for the faculty ; cure 100 signatures from his class and students were held and a .{ ! membership to complete his fil- health exhibit for open house is ing for office. being planned.
Cafe Guards Keep Order
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Seventy-£our Students on Honor Roll Received l's, 2's Last Semester
The home room representatives elected officers during their meeting held Sept. 12. The new president is Jack Campbell, with Ed Donegan as vice president and Nancy Noble, secretary. During the meeting, volunteers were made for the pennant com· mittee and the stairwell commit· tee. It was decided that until armbands were recejved there will be no one on stairwell duty. One hundred and twenty-four boys and girls will serve as home room repre~entatives and alter• nates this semester. Among the duties of the representatives will be to attend meetings and report t.o home rooms the topics discussed in the meetings and to sell a ctivity tickets. The alternates will have charge of subscriptions and passing out Advocates in the home room, as well as assisting the representa· tives. Only 10 B rooms and rooms in which the officers elected last spring are ineligible held elec· · tions this fall.
Four pupils received all l's in a schedule of twenty-five hours last semester, the best scholastic record possible. Anthony Good, junior; Harris Graves, senior; Joan Raysor, junior, and Cather· ine Hinrichs, senior. The following students are also on the honor roll: Pupils carrying 25 hours and re· ~eiving all l's and 2's Mary Aitken D oris Bonebright Paul B urger J ack Campbell Marjorie D a hlman
Sar ah Kistler
Jeanne Malone Delcres Opp Arlene P ark Robert Pfeiler
Kay D:J r~ i ngt.m~.
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Katbleen Donovan Louis G!llet D onald Gish Mary Sue Holland
R ichard Russell Carmen Shepard Kat hryn Swanson B et sy Yoder
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Pupils carrying 24 hours and receiving all l's and 2's: Barbara Ebright Lydia Nekuda Robert V anderslice
The following carried 23 hours and received all l's: Norma Fischer Dorothy W111iams
Pupils carrying 23 hours and re· ceiving all l 's and 2's: Nell Atkinson Alice Babst Marlon Boswell Marlon Battey Charlotte Bricker Valoy Brown Phyllis Cadwallader Annette Carnahan Helen Colberg Dorothy Estes Phyllis H aley David Leonard
Anne Miles Ruth Ellen Moll Joan Moorberg
Joan Phlllpsen Dorothy Speer Phyllis Stark Mary Lou T hompson R oseanel Van Strom Anne Wit h am
D oris Worthman Gregg Wright Faye Yankey
One pupil carried 22 hours and received all l's: Mary Desmond
Pupils carrying 22 hours and receiving all l's and 2's: Virginia Koch Patricia Buch Lou McConnell Carl Burges• Donna Papke Margaret Chamberlin Fred Pflug · Hassy Davis Mary Ann B orgaa rd H arold Engstrom Jeanne Branch June Fis lar
Pupils carrying 21 hours and re• ceiving all l's and 2's: Helen Morita Shirley Seright Aleta Snell
Elizabeth Marie Wacker Marjorie Walker
One pupil carried 20 hours and received all l's: Ted Sorenson
Pupils carrying 20 hours and re• ceiving all l's and 2's: Maxine Felton Pat Feglar John Kirsch
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JACK CAMPBELL
James .Lyne Shar on Nuss Gordon Pauley
H.R.R. President The following list of r epresenta· t ives and alternates was an· nounced for the year by Miss Esther Montgomery and Miss Elsie English, representative sponsors: Representative Alternate 101 William Bauman Donn Davis 102 Valoy Brown R uth Bergstraesser 103 Shirley Seright Bruce Bergquist 105 Betty Ba rnblU C atherine Worcester 107 J ack Campbell Joan Williams 109 Marg. Chamberlin James St roud 112 Bon.nie Albert Wallace Barnett 116 Fern Egger H a rold Davey 117 Charleen Fuller Bruce Evans 120 James Beal Richard Clark 121 Robert Black D'thy Fahrenbrucb 124 Joan Clausen R obert Becker 128 Norma Fischer .James Geist 130 Edward Donegan Lillie Ga nnon 132 Phyllis Cone Robert C. Becker Grace Haskins 132B William Greer 133 Jeanette Smith Dorothy W ledersp'n 134 Robert Clark Janet Hanneman 135 J a ck Kidder P aul J ohnston 136 George H itz Richard Cordell 137 Marian Sanden Ge ra ldine T ubman 139 Jo Jen Loder T homas Ludwick 141 Dorothy Jennings Bruce E m mons 200 F rank Gorton Richard F is cher 201 Jack Deffenbaugh Walt er Scheele 203 James HeJdenbr'd Sarah Fult on 204 Robert Packard Betty Olson 205 Jack Vant Lou McCon nell . 207 Bonnie Green field J im Hergert 208 Maxine E ckhardt Edith Freitag 212 Nancy Wagey Neil Overt on 213 Joan H ogue Kenneth Johnson 214 Hazelle House Marjorie Walker 215 June K ilian Frederic;lt Mayer 216 Nancy Noble Harry Amen 217 Richard R ussell Jean J ohnson 220 Marcia Johnson Samuel Whitworth 221 Duane Olson Jeanne Malone 224 F r anklin P iccolo Barba ra Holloway 225 John Wilson D orothy Fowler 226 Ma ry Russell Roger Runion 302 Dorothy Osterman Sue Kimball 3 03 Jo An n Ruehke Charles Lowder 304 E la ine Robinson Marian R oh r ig 305 Richard Langdon F r ieda Wacker 306·, Marilyn Hegel Kenneth Steinm!ller 307 Twila Otoupalik Sally Turner 309 Grace No rton Sue Walrotll 312 Fritz Squyers Ruth Speer 313 Shirley Fried · ·\ Daniel Burback 314 Charles Rohan Joan Mockett 315 Jane Simpson N orma Nordahl 316 Larry Connealy E leanor Miller 317 Ruth Starke! D wayne Sm ith 320 James Mikkelsen Bruce Waddle 321 Patricia O' Hara Jean Bartizal. 325 Louise St am Darrell Thompson 326 Richard Wakeman Ma rgaret Thompson 327 George Nutt Patricia Rankin 400 Kathryn Swa nson Loretta Wa line 401 Thomas Wilson Dorothy Williams 402 Marcia Snow Beverly Williams
"George Washington Slept Here," to be given on October 19 and 20.
Fifty-one Mummers tried out Tuesday and Wednesday, Septem· ber 11 and 12. Nine girls and eight boys were selected by Miss Irene Martin for the seventeen characters in the three-act play. The cast is tentative and no an· nouncement of assignments of roles will be made for several· weeks.
Members Of Girls' Octet Announced
Keith Pierce and James Hush both belonged to the national honor society and the camera and travel clubs. All three boys had high averages in mathematics, Hush having all l's in six semes· ters as well as l 's in p~ysicS. ~ . •·, Pierce went to the Univr<?rsity of California an: •?bfained' dcii;t6r's degree; Jar,nes {i.ush - att(:nded the University of ·Nebrflskn and grad· uated with s:pecl.U dist~nction and memb<::n:hii dn.·three honorary so· cietie,s:· p.e .r eceived his degree from tii;~_. college of science. Ben Gr aha~ . ·.was one of the 30 out of 400 ·cho:' to attend the Chicago urii~ersf. ty for special training. kttet' gradu•cio11 from Nebraska
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Marian Battey was elected president of t he Lincoln high stu• dent council last Wednesday at . the first meeting of the year, with Evans, vice.president ; David Mary Aitken, secret ary-treasurer, and George Wilcox, editor. A commitee of committees is formed from the officers and two elected members, Mary Sue Hol• land and Bob Hinds. In charge of elections was Mar• ian Battey, chairman of the stu• dent council for this summer. Serve In Vadous Ways Special recognition was given Dorothy Borgens and Halcyon Coble by Miss Helen . Dunlap. faculty adviser, for fixing t he building directory in t he lower front stairs hallway. A wide and varied program is planned for the coming year by the student council which will include safety projects, activities connected with the st udents of Lin coln high, pr operty, and Joy Night, talent night for Lincoln high. Sopho• more elections will be the first of the many activities to be directed by the student council. Marian Battey's school record is an impressive on e. Sh e h as during two years of school been in the Peppers, th e Mummer s, elected president in her junior year, the High Spot committ ee, home room repr esentative, on The Advocate staff, in Joy Night. Last year she w as a junior member of the student council. Start Work First Day By helping the 10-B's and the pupils who are new to the school to open their lockers, the council began its duties Wednesday, Sep• t ember .5. Members of the council repor ted to 305 before school Wednesday to check out their arm• bands and to receiv e their assignments. Members were placed in the halls near any group of lock· ers where 10-B's w ere assigned. They were able to be a great help to many newcomers.
All of the eight members of the girls octet have been chosen for this year. Under t he direction -Grone Photo of Miss Dorthea Gore, they will MARIAN BATTEY Council Pre!!ident make numerous personal appear· ances through the next two se· mesters. The following were selected: First Sopranos: Pat King and Helen Adams; With plans already under way Second Sopranos: Catherine for semester activities, the L inWorcester and Joan Williams; coln high school choir under the First Altos~ Mary Sue Holland direction of Hugh Rangeler held and Alice Babst; an election of officers. Second Altos: Marcia Johnson Those who will serve during and Lydia Nekuda. Miss Adele the first semester are: president, David Evans; vice-president, Ed Loder is accompanist. Donegan; secretary-treasurer , JaMiss Gore wishes to express her nice Cochran; m anager, Bruce gratefulness to all the girls who · Bergquist. tried out for their fine attitude New members are: and spirit and wishes everyone t o First soprano-Patti Wieland, know how hard it was to choose Louise Carter, Marian Sanden, Lois Johnson, Barbara Kaiser, from all the splendid talent. Norman Hild, Lillie Gannon, Wil· lesta Ogle, Catherine Worcester, Leona McClure, E1eda Starch, T heresa Lar.d, J oyce Steele, Mar;,r Aitken, · Helen Adams, Esther Beynon, Phyllis Bottum, Willa Bubb, J oan Butler, P atricia DavThe Advocate staff this se· ison, Marjorie Dingman, Norma Jean Hock, Kaye Moore. mester is composed of 20 jour· Second Soprano-Leah Jacoby, nalism students ··,rho hav e com· Hazelle House, Dorothy Calkins, pleted their first semester of Norma Carlson, Lucille Brownjournalism, English 8 in Lincoln son, Shirley Maser, Mary Wil· high, with the exception of Pat Iiams, Joan Williams, Mary Sue Burt. Pat came to L. H. S. from Holland, Lillian Schafer , Roma, J ohnson, Rosemary Kimball, Alice the Or ange and Black publica· Babst, Betty Barnhill, Roberta t ion, Sioux Falls, South Dakot a. Bauman, Marilyn Sue Beck, Doro· Only a few changes l}ave teen . Managing editor is Alice Babst; thy Borgens, Ruth DeBaufre, made in th~ faculty: thts yea'I"'. Benews editor, Forrest Mozer; as- Mary Alice Dosek, Geraldine Tub· cause .~: the increased enrollment. · ' ·teachers ' who · .reti•red. resociate edit or, June Fislar; page man, Lydia Nekuda, Peggy Ha. .c.k:- ' cthz:ee barth. . ' ~ntly· have retu::ned. t wo editor; George Wilcox; page First Alto-Phyllis Cone~ .Mary · Miss Margaret Davis, who three editor, Louise Carter; sports Helen Mallory, Sally Turner, Lataught at Lincoln high school un• editor, Don Braynt ; girls sports Verne Laird, Ruth Saunders, Vir- til several years ago, is t aking the editor, Dorothy Lutz; Static edi· ginia Seiler, Phyllis Cadwallader, classes of Mrs. Grace Hyatt, who tor, Betty Guidinger; exchange Gretchen Klein, Aleta Snell, Ja· is on temporary leave due to ill• editor, Ruth Saunders; copy edi· nice Cochran, Sunya Cole, Mar- n ess. Miss Davis is to teach so• jorie Devoe, Marilyn Newbill. cial studies on. a full schedule this tors, Nancy Howey and Leah Second Alto-Marcia Johnson, semester. Jacoby. Betsy Yoder, Pat O'Hara, Rosalie Another teacher welcomed back School circulat ion is under the Sherman, Barbara Ebright. at Lincoln high school this year is direction of Ruth DeBaufre; mail First Tenor-Edward Wessel, Miss Jessie Jury, formerly head circulation, Randall Renket\; re· R obert Bartlett, Paul Sheldon, of the Latin department , who now is in charge of all periods in the porters are Pat Burt, Norma Carl• Helmut Sienknecht. Second Tenor-Lloyd Garner, ·study hall, 226. son, Mary Gibson, Norma Hild, Don Hayes, Charles Hughes, Bob Miss Mary Jackson, matheHazelle ·House, Knox J ones, Joan Dekoltz. matics teacher, is t he third fac• Lockard and Duane Sloan. First Bass-Ted Schultz, Ed ulty member to return. These positions will be. held for Donegan, Jim Hill, Mark New· Miss Dorthea Gore, new voice the first six weeks, then will man, Bob Keiber, Richard Russell. instructor, is a graduat e of Lin· change. Second Bass - Bill Gibson, coln high in 1932, has a bachelor's Secretaries for the staff are George Wilcox, Bruce Bergquist, degree from Nebraska and a mas• Ross Marie Brown, Eleanor Kra- Francis Christopher, David Evans, ter's from Northw estern. She has jicek, Betty East, Evelyn J aeger Amos Jennings, Milton Hoffman. taught at Pawnee City, Nebraska, · The cl:i'oir is now preparing a. and La Porte; Indiana. and Willesta Ogle. These posi· program for the Nebraska State tions will be kept all semester Mrs. Lillian Lawson, former Education association convention withou t change. on October 26. faculty member, is E n g 1 i sh teacher in 105 for first and secShirley Valent iner will also ond periods. keep her position as business manager all semester as will Kaye Miss Margaret O'Rourke is the :Mbore, advertising manager. new English teacher in 213. She transferred from College View Thirteen girls were chosen to high school. She has also taught in North Platte and Holdrege, Ne· become P eppers, Friday, Septem· ber 14, after t ryouts were held braska. Miss O'Rourke h as a B.S. Thursday, September 13. Taking degree from the University of Ne• their places in t he group are braska. The new office clerk is· Miss Hush received an assistantship to Bonnie Albert, Jackie Bek er, Pat Hinds, Susan Kimball, Joan Moc- Opal Boerrigter, a graduate of the Up£LV\f.' sity of Wisconsin! · , k;;tt., Marjorie Van Pelt, Mary Hickman , high, . Hickman, Newhere he b&(an his work 'Otti'he Rejnharq, Mary Russell, Joan braska, in l944. atc-:r;.ni_c bomb -proj~ct..· ' "' .. '-~':: ,"~ .. sa1eck, Mary Sidner, Jane SimpMiss Emma Beekmann, social _James, , alon;; wit;h his wife · son, Margaret 'TI1ompsen, and studies teacher, is on ieave of .Victoria went to Los Alamos, New Margaret Trimble. They were absence to do graduate work on a Mexico, in 1943 for further ·re.: notified Friday, fifth period, so fellowship at the University of search on the bomb. While work- 'that they would be able t o attend Chicago. ing under strict military secrecy the first ,game. Mrs. Helen Bretz, voice teacher, has left to join her husband who he was one of the scientists w ho has returned from overseas servwas present on J uly 17, 1945, Orientation Begins for ice. Mrs. Bretz is now living at when the first atomic bomb went lOB's, New Students 5445 Dair y A venue, Long Beach, off at Alamogordo bombing field , in New Mexico, and was six miies For the first six or ten "weeks Calif. Her husband expects to be every Tuesday mor ning d uring discharged from the army soon. away at the time of the e7·.plosion. · He remarked the intensity of the horn~ room period, the IOB's and Mrs. Evelyn Carlson, formerly heat being "Hotter than any des· all new students to the school office clerk, is now living in Be· ert afternoon sun." have an orient ation assembly. atrice, Nebraska.
Evans Heads Senior Choir
Advocate Staff Begins Worl\:
Three Lincoln High Graduates Worked On Development Of Highly Secret Atomic Bomb Working on the development of the atomic bomb were thre~ graduates of Lincoln high-Keith Pier ce 1936, Ben Graham 1935, and James Hush 1936. Pierce worked at a plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Graham in Richland in Washington and Hush in New Mexico. Hush began this confidential work about the time the United States entered the war, Pierce has been working on the bomb for a year, and Graham started a year ago this June. Graham worked as a chemist. Pierce worked in the Radiation laboratory, and Hush did general resear~h and experimental work.
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Faculty Adds New Members
10 B Peppers Join Ranks