To day's assembl y presented a pat riotic play entitled "A Birthday Present for Mr. Lincoln." Feat ured in the play were Paul Jone s as Mr. Wade, an und erstand ing father, Bobetta Betz as Mrs Wade, a semi-invalid mother, Shi rley Maser as Virginia, the seventeen-year-old daughter with a quick temper and ready tongu e, Edward Wessell as Robert, a fourteen-year -ol d son, an admi rer of Abr aham Lincoln, Dale Harp as Dr. Brown, the famil y physician, and On-al Som merstead as the thief.
Dire cted by Miss Ferguson, it was an entertaining story centering aro und Robert, Ed ward Wessel,an d his troubles that disturbed the whole family when he entered on a dramatic career.
MR. REED ENTERTAINS
The assembly held on February 17 was given by Mr. Leslie Reed of the University of Nebraska, and a student of Mrs. Thompson, who accompan ied him. For his first numb er he sang ''The B u i l d er," th e n w h i s tl e d Schube rt's "Serenade," "Nola" and "Glow Worm." Everyone liked him so well that he came back for an encore.
Mr. Reed is leaving for the Navy soon where he will be trained for the air corps.
Greenleaf Campaign Winners
Hooray for 310. They were the only 100 per cent home room in the Greenleaf Campaign. But not far behind were 312 in second place and 103 in third. Many other Whittier pupils were among our loyal supporters too! The total was 646 subscriptions, a gain of 160 over last semester which means thirty-two more dollars. Congratulations, campaign workers! You've made the Greenleaf Campaign this semester a great success.
The honored home rooms were lead by David Searle of 312, Billy George of 310, and Jack Douglas of 103.
The .Home Room Vice Presidents
If you want to know the home ro om vice presidents, read this. They are Bill McEntarffer 309, Arlene Anstine 108, Duane Sloan 318, Duane Wilkinson 303, Louis Fricke 320, Pat Daniels 203, Ruby Berlowitz 105, Betty Smith 208, Marilyn Eaton 316, Frank McKinstry 112, Bill Gillespie 102, Guy Dean 106.
Donald Cheever 205 , Arnold Davis 314, Geraldine Heaton 302, JoAnne Baker 308, Barbara Van Every 209, James Geist 220, Darli 3 Heckman 31 0, Betty McKinney 210, Ida Allen 307, Lloyd Brown 110, Martha Jane De Vore 304, Leah Jacoby 300, Shirley Maser 222, Bob Hart 312, Robert Turner 103, and Vera Schwindt 107 .
PUPILS LEA VE WHITTIER
The following pupils have left Whittier since the new semester began. James Bevington, Carson Claytor and LaFreda Martin all went to Omaha, Carl Jess to Texas, Beverly Schmidt to Irving Donald Drake to College View, and Patricia Eikenbary went to Chicago.
The Office Committee
Some of the duties of the office commit.tee are taking care of lost &nd found articles and sorting attendance slips in home room order. The girls committee also take turns at standing at the door to see that pupils who go into the office go in on important business and do not fool around.
The chairman is Barb a r a Mohler 106. Other members are: Marjorie McCorkle 220, Bonnie Mitts 303, Beverly Owens 314, Shirley Farmer 314, June Shore 304, and Donna Hoff man 304.
The chairman of the boy's office committee is Paul ProVorse 222. Other members are: Jerry Hall 300, Roderick Prather 207, Alfred Bradley 320, Kenneth Strawn 310 and Waldo Hansen 209.
Delegate Meeting
The delegate assembly of February 15 was to discuss a victory garden for our school. Many of us do not realize how very necessary it is that we all have a vegetable garden. It seems the boys especially complain about having to waste their time working in a garden when they could be playing a fast game of baseball. They do not realize that no game is half as important as a victory garden for both school and home. The products from the school garden are to be sold and with that money a defense bond could be bought.
Another thing mentioned was better behavior in assembly. Each home room would be responsible for their own behavior.
OUR SYMPATHY
We extend our sympathy to Miss Veerhusen whose father died recently.
THE WHITTIER GRE ENLEAF
Found e d and esta bli s h e d i n 1 924 as t h e offi c ial st ud ent p u blicati on o f
Wh i tt i e r Ju nior Hi g h S choo l p u pils.
FACULT Y A DV IS ORY BO A RD
M iss P eterson, Miss Ferguso n , Mr . Gam m ill G R EE N LE A F S TAFF
Ar l e n e Ansti n e
M arcia Adkisso n Ph y lli s B arr ib o M arye ll en B ol ar
I re n e Artrup
R uby Berlowitz
N orma Carroll
Betty Cederquist
Franc is Chr i stopher
Robert Chm·ch
Mary Ellen F eis
R obert Folden
D oroth y Bryant Geraldine Cooley
Twy l a D obbi n s • Mary E lll en Feis
V erna Mae Gl antz
Sheryl H utc h inso n L e ah Jacoby E mma Lofink N ata li e Maser
G R E ENLE A F PRINT E R S
H erman Gesch
John Grebe
Cl yde Harral
D orothy Hense
R osella Holman
Theodore Ka hl er
Arthur Kolb
WAR TIME SAVINGS
During the last World War , the idea of war time saving was s t a rted in order to have more da yli gh t for working hours . This wa s so successful that each spring and summer since the la st w ar it ha s been carri e d out in t he east w ith the idea of giving working people more time to enjo y d a yl ight hours No w during w a r t ime, war time saving will not be use d fo r pleasure as mu~ h as for incr e asing war productions. Everything , even daylight, is saved during t he war.
PLEASE
Quit throwing snowballs, we beg of you. You don't know what serious injuries you could cause. Glasses may be broken or eyes may be injured. This is nothing to be scoffed at, so, please, everybody try and cooperate with us.
BOYS EXAMINED
Dr. Breuer is taking care of the boys ph y iscal examinat ions. He w a s here fifteen years ago and just two years ago was in an accident that broke his back. There are eight boys helping Dr. Breuer. These assistants go around to the classes and bring the boys to him. This is a great help to Mr. Culler, for he doesn't have to be there all the time the examinations are being taken
Sam Loos
Jim Millhollin
A l fred Murp h y
Phyllis Newman
Pedro Orosco
Floyd R eifsc h neider
Lor en Robinette
Priscilla Morriso n Mary Pease
D orothy Steven s Mary Webber
Louie R oss
Raymond Sc h enama n
Don Slater
Andy Tautfest
Norman Walthers
Duane Wi l kinson
Laurence Witu lski
WHAT YOU CAN DO
P ro tec t yo u r country and do it this wa y,
Joi n t he Red Cross now, today, Buy defense bonds and saving stamps, Send books to our boy s in many camps , Say " Keep em flying" and make it stick.
Let ' s end this blood y war quick , Don ' t s p read false rumors a n d cau se tears ,
The y' re sure to get into wrong e a rs,
Let's stop all foolish bickering , Help our country win victory.
- Mary Webber and Bernese Fox
PETS
Donald Witulski has two mother r ab bits wh ich have altogether seventeen baby rabbits .
WAKE UP!
Mr . Culler recently said that bo y s and girl of Whittier like many g r own-ups haven't come to the realization that we are in the war. We should all begin to think more about the war and what we can do to help
This coming spring we are going to have a victory garden and with the money from the things we raise we are going to purchase a defense bond for Whittier
The victory garden won't be until spring so what can we do now? We can't sit around and twiddle our • thumbs-that's a
sure thing! I'll tell you what w e can do. We, and I mean each an d every one, can start a campaig n to get the pupils of Whittier interested in the victory garden Let's boost for it all day, eve ry day, and make sure Whittier w ill have the biggest and best victor y garden ever.
OUR WHITTIER
Well, I'm back again wi th more news of our school but th is time it isn't histor y It's up t o date things about Whittier. F or instance, did you know that ou r light bill for a week ago la s t Thursday was $3.18, while las t Thursda y it was only $2.02? Mr . C-uller says it's all due to th e fact that the faculty and pupi ls of Whittier we re very car efu l using lights.
Also, do you know how ma n y people heat and clean this sch oo l of ours? First of all there are t w o firemen. One comes at 12 o'clo ck midnight and t h e other betwe e n 4 and 5 o ' clock in the morning t o get t he building heated. There a re of course , a man and a woman t o take care of the girls and bo y fl showers. There are three oth e r men who work to clean the bui lding and believe me it takes qui t e a time. Just figure out for you rself all the water spilled, all t h e dust that collects, and all t h e papers strewn around everywhe r e n o t co u n t in g after scho ol activities.
If there's anything else y ou want to know about Whitti er just send your questions to 210 and the Greenleaf Class will tr y to answer as many as possi bl e.
BOYS HI-Y MEETS
The boys Hi-Y meeting was h eld on February 18 , in room 101 a t 3:15. They opened the meeti n g with the Flag Salute. David Se arl e gave a talk on Africa.
THE T HREE BHAERS
Once upo n a time, well, no t so very long a go , there were thre e littl e Bhaer s, no t counting Papa and Mama Bhaer. They were refugees fr om Po la nd a nd had been in America onl y thre e weeks w h en the wh ol e na ti on was r ouse d in ang e r b y the treac he ro us at t ac k on Pearl Har bor . •
T h e Bh a ers we re not surprised thou gh . T h ey ha d become used to such t h in gs in the old country. Mama Bha er just sighed and said , "Here too? I s it wrong we we re in feel ing that here alone th ere was peace?''
Pa pa Bha e r ju st sat smoking his pipe an d loo king thoughtful. He di dn' t sa y a w or d.
Na ta lie , the old est of three Bhae rs, cri ed t h en and said,' 'Is the Ge stapo going to tear down that b e a ut i ful la dy with the light in he r h a nd? Ar e t h ey coming to get u s'!'' T he S tatue of Liberty had impr e ssed her more than anyt hing else sinc e she had come here .
Th en J on an d P aul, wh o were alway s h u ngr y, protested in loud vo ices, "Th ey can't burn up all th e w h e at fie ld s and orchards we sa w. W ill they ?"
The y all turned to P apa Bhaer as if fo r an an s wer . He was always t he last on e to say anythin g and he al ways gave them a wise answ er. H e stood up and walked to the kitchen window where the sunli ght streamed in and the ci t y at t he bottom of th e hill on whic h the y li ve d , sm ok e d industrio u sl y. T hen P apa Bhaer spoke slo wly in a low voice
''D own there are steel mills. Men are working , sacrificing for thei r cou n try. They are mostly old men. The young ones have gon e to fi gh t. Everywhere in Ame ric a i t is lik e this. There are differ en t i ndustr ies-not just the steel m ills. Th ey ar e all cogs in a grea t w hee l. N o, a s long as it islike th is , the Gestapo nor any other s uch organ ization will destroy the beauti ful la dy or the orcha r ds or the fiel ds of grain.' i
-Mary Pease
Feb ruary 2t 1942
WHAT ABO UT YO UR NAME ?
Vegetable -Lola Be an
Jewelry - Viriginia Ring
Animal- P at Fox
Nobilit y-Howard E arl
Pickle -Dorothy Dill
Detec t i ve- Bill Tra cy
Scho ol- La Vera Haw thorne
R i v er-Gladys Jordan
Sleep - David Knapp
Liberty- Fletcher Bell
Boy - Betty Russell
Valentine-Marjorie Hart
Night-Donald Moon
Sea-June Shor e
Do you have a na m e so mething like this? If you do, sen d it to 210 and perhaps you'll get y our name in the Greenleaf.
SONGS THAT R EM I ND US OF YOU
Margie Margi e Walin
Rose O'Day Ro se Lintt
Marie Elena Marie McGuire I'm Nobody's Baby Lois Heater
Jim Jim Geist
Lazy Bones Bill Sc human
Mary Lou Mary Lou Reason
Pop ''Pop'' He ston
Small Fry Mar t in Wil s on Careless E ffi e Glanz
Big Bad Bill F rom the Bad Lands Bill Sundet
SCH OOL
School is some t im es an awful bore
But Whi t t ie r School I just adore; T he tea ch e r s and pu p ils are aw full y nice
I wouldn' t m ind go in g to school her e twic e.
- I da Allen, 307
Miss S c hofi e ld : Why do you h ave g r eas e all over your face?
F re s hie : The recipe said to grease my p a n before putting any t hi ng i n it!
CAMPING
Wind , s no w, rain ( or \\ hat have you) cou ldn ' t keep K enneth Buck and Kenne th Strawn from camping six m i 1e s east of H a velock. Ro ger Hosfield a n d Ernest Dietze already have bi g ideas about going on a week's camping trip this summer on their bikes. But these are just ideas !
WINS AWARDS
Frank Smith of 106 won a pair of binoculars and a wrist watch on his paper rout e. F rank is also doing very well with selling d efense stamps. He has sold sixtyfive dollars worth during th e three months he has h a d th e route. Frank has a m e rit b a dge and a silver bar for selling the stamps.
GUESS WHO GIRL
She is a member of home room 107. She is 5 ft. 2 in. taU and weighs 113 pounds. Her hair is blonde and her eyes are green Her favorite subjects are p h ys ed and algebra. Her pet peev e is boys and her hobbi e s are colle c ting pictures of her friends. Phyllis Harris and Hazel Johnson are her best pals. She is a member of the 9A c l ass
B OY
He is a member of home r oom 300. He is 5 ft . 2 1-2 in. tall and weighs 115 pounds. His hair i s black and his eyes · are brown Hi s f a vorite s ubject is orchestra an d hi s pet peeve is algebra . His favori t e hobby is s w imming. Chris Lyberis is his best pal. He is a mem be r of the 9A cl as s.
J im mi e : We are going to g ive Ja p an half of the Pacific.
Bobbie: Ho w' s that?
Jimmie: The bottom ha]f
' Japan is making her new boats with glass bottoms."
" What for?"
" She's looking for her fleet."
LITTLE MARIA
Maria De Cordoba was an extremely rich child in the small town of Khabarorsk, Russia. Her father was one of the richest men in their community and was considered highly· among his neighbors. "Little Maria," as she was called, didn't have a mother, for she had died just two years before. She wanted to live freely without being afraid of having their money stolen. Also, she was avoided by her playmates frequently because they considered her as a person who thought too much of herself. This wasn't true at all. Many nights Maria sat in her room crying her heart out. "Why do they treat me as an outsider?" she'd sob.
Her father was so entranced in his popularity he didn't notice how his little daughter was suffering. Then came the greatest blow of his life. Maria disappeared. Naturally her father was puzzled and didn't know what to do. Sear_ching parties were sent out for her, police investigated the matter. No, she hadn't been kidnapped. She was just an unhappy neglected child who had run away from home.
They found her three days later, hungry, worn out, and sleeping in a large forest ten miles from the city. Maria told her father why she had run away and he suddenly became understanding and decided the best thing to do was give his money for some .deserving purpose and live just as the people in his community. ''If this will make you happy little Maria it will satisfy me just to see you that way.''
-Leah Jacoby, 300
MEMORIES
OF HAW All
Remember P e a r l Harbor?
The r e is one gfrl in Whittier who aiways will. She is Evelyn Jackson from Hawaii. H e r father is a chemist and is still
on the islands. Evelyn and her sister left Hawaii as their father wanted them to and went to their mother who was on a visit in Lincoln.
On that Sunday morning Evelyn was preparing to leave for Sunday School when she heard a strange noise. Everyone thought it was the planes at their flying base only a half mile away. Then they realiz ed it was the real thing. Planes were showering bombs and bullets from the sky. Evelyn and her sister ran across the park to their neighbors. All the way there bullets were flying about them. When they re a ched t h e other house they found that it had been hit fifteen times or more by machine gun bullets. The attack lasted from 7 :45, Sunday morning until 11 :30. The very next day there was another raid.
Everyone likes pineapples and Evelyn told us how they grow. Pineapples grow on a plain that i cultivated thoroughly. After the land is s}.llooth, a heavy paper is put down to keep the ground moist. Holes are made in the paper large enough to hold a pineapple plant.
There is something especially interesting about the fisherman in Japan. A round glass ball is put on the fisherman's fishing net to help keep track of the net. These glass balls are taken • up to Alaska during a storm and brought down to Hawaii in the current. They are green, blue, and a very pale green that could be called white.
I know all of you children are curious about those beautiful leis and how they are made. It really is a very simple matter, according to Evelyn. The flower that is used mostly is the carnation. Its petals are strung through a piece of thread until it is long enough. All the stems are broken off and ferns are added to make it look more attractive.
Evelyn went to a private schoo l in Hawaii. Her subjects wer practically the same as ours. We hope that Evelyn soon can give us more information abou t her life on the islands.
DELICIOUS TREAT
The other day while playin g ''truth and dare,'' Geraldin P Knaub dared Shirley Cook to ea t a date on the calendar. So Shirle ~ -chewed Jan. 3 with her gum.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT
J o y c e M i t c h e 11, 107, 8 A Whittier pupil vvas at one tim e assistant publisher and editre s ~ of a home - made newspap er
• elling at two cents a cop y according to the Weekly Arh o1 State, April 7, 1939, of Wymor e Nebraska, where she used to liv e .
NICKNAMES
Margaret Danielson- Meg
Barbara Hanning- Bobby Jeanette Lovelace- Net
Howard Schnieder - Howy
Leah Jacoby - Blondie
Marcia Adkisson - Marsh
Marilyn Martin Tiny
Shirley Maser- Peanuts
Virginia Seiler-Seilow
Mary Pease-Frankie
Leonard Rebensdorf -J ughe a _!
Marvin Provost- Pee Wee
Robert ReifschneiderWeenie Cutt ( r
Shirley Will - Wee Wee
Delores Glantz- Suzie
Virginia Loos- S ince
Richard Haar- Whitie
Dorothy Burback - Dots
Eddie Schneider-- Half Pint
Bernice Fox - Foxie
Don Ringstmeyer- Fatso
George Wilcox - Whitie
Delmer Montague - Pinky
Paul ProVorse - Pep
Bob: Why are kittens alw a y crying?
Jim: 'Cause their mother is al ways licking them.
THE WHITTIER GREENLE AF
TATTLETALES
Hi neighbor! We haven't a garden fence to gab over so we'll . just have to use our imaginations. While learning a new song in girls glee club-
Mr s. White: What are the words to the next line?
Pat Moffett: The sage in bloom smells like perfume.
Mrs. White: I wonder if there's a tax on that too.
One day a farmer sat down to hie table and began scribbling somethi ng. Then suddenly he cried , "Wife, I've learned to write. "
His wife asked, ''What did you write ?"
"I don't know," replied the farmer, ''I haven't learned to read yet."
Wh o was it that went to her first period arithmetic class in the g ym 6th period. Who was it that got a nice drink of water out of the fire extinguisher? Who was it who ate her breakfast while we ate lunch? Since you don't know, I'll tell you. She's the gal who went to bed at ten-thirty regular time and got up at six-thirty war time. Say freshies (and others) this is a little bit of information that may come in handy when you want to find which name belongs to wh ich teacher . Miss Helen Madse n is known for her "Aw shaw' ' while Mrs. Shike is famous for being all of the characters in the plays she reads to her classes.
This is Mrs. Childress ' favorite question which stumps most of us, "Is it not true, boys and girls? " You will be sure to recognize Mrs . Riley by the way she giggle s when she makes a mistake while playing the piano. (I hope for my sake she has a good sense of humo r .) Snapping her fingers is Miss Peterson 's way of showing you that she really means what she say s.
Mis s Hooper has a habit of adjusti ng her glasses. It is very seldom that Miss Schofield is seen February 27, 1942
without a piece of chalk in her hand which she shakes as she talks. Miss Sc hem el al ways has a cute lttle poem to speak. Miss Mary Wilson when asked about costumes usually says, "I don't know but we'll fix something!" Mrs. White plays with the buttons on her blouse while she asks you if you're tired, then adds, "Say no.''
Who was it that went from room to room the other day with some camphor for her nose in her handkerchief and left an unpleasant smeil behind her? We'll let you in on the secret. It was Florence Rhodes. We hope for Florence and our sake she gets over her cold soon.
I hope this column dosen 't sound like a rundown phonograph record but don't miss the next issue.
COINCIDENCE
In Miss Miller's first period civic s class when she was giving OLlt the ci vies books to the pupils, she asked that each one write hi name in the back of the book. In the book that Frank Smith got he found his brother' name. The book had been ch ecke d out on the same day an d month, Februa:cy 17, 1937, five years before. Frank checked it out on February 17, 1942.
TEACHERS NAMES
Zoka
Erty
Tpreseno
Rosenh eeuv
Lalmimg
Eithw Enjso Sors
Tailor - Do you want the shoulder padded, my young man? Oliver- Naw , pad the pants.
It' i funny an elephant never dresses but he al ways carries a trunk with him
DO YOU?
Do you ever get scared when you're home alone,
When the wind starts howling and begins to moan,
When the doors and the floors begin to creak?
Your knees start knocking and you get all weak,
Then maybe a chair accidently will fall,
You seek refuge in a corner close to the wall;
The door of the cupboard loudly bangs,
A cup falls from its nail where it usually hangs,
You think you hear footsteps and look all around.
Then you find it's only the clock making that sound;
There's a knock at the door
Which makes you jump,
You open the door and there stands Mother,
Never so glad were you to see any oth er,
You don't dare to tell her how scared you were,
The next time she goes away
You say, "I'm going with her ~" - Leah Jaco by
TEACHERS IN THE NEWS
Mr. Ross and his wife were at a square dance on President Roosevelt's birthday. If you read the society page on Sunday you probably saw their pictures.
PUPILS ENTER WHITTIER
We welcome these pupils: Gail McKie and Earl Bumgardner have reentered. Dorothy Watson has come from Northeast. Bob Brinton came to us from Everett.
THEY ENTERTAIN
Marilyn Delehant, Martha Jane DeVore and Barbara Strubbe entertained the boys in Flying School with their baton twirling, February 5.
SPORT SHORTS
Your sports editor begs an apology for not predicting the winning volleyball teams.Anyway 314 won. In the finals there were three teams left. They were 314, 308, and 316. The~ 314 played 308, in which game 314 emerged victorious, 15 to 8. Then the finals! 316 had won the volleyball tournament before. 314 was out to wre~k this title. 316 had lost many of their best players since last year. But the final score of the game was 15 to 3. Winner 314! Let's give 314 a hand.
John Poulos has been hitting the basket about every time on his long one-handed shots. Alvin Hoff man shows that he is one of the best dribblers and setup players that Whittier has had.
Also Delmer Montague is doing very well. He made thirteen points against 302. 316 will miss him when he moves to California.
Here are some of the players who spark their home room teams . .They are John Poulos, 105; Guy Dean, 106; Bob Hubbell, 102; Bob Walters, 112; Alvin Hoffman, 207; Lupe Areans, 310; Junior Kirkendall, 314; and Delmer Montague, 316.
Home room 310 has become a smooth, fast defensive team. There have been only two points made against them in three games. LeRoy King is their captain.
Here are some additional members of the playground crnmittee. They are Donald Hays of 320, Joe Gallagher 314, Bob Hubbell 102, Paul Jones 212, LeRoy King 310, Guy Dean 106, Bill McEntarffer 309, Torn Avner 302, Harold Fisher 105, John Poulos 105, Ronald Gallagher 310, and Lupe Arenas 310
"Say did you know you can't buy any more pop corn?''
"No- why not?"
''The colonels have all gone into the army."
A HOT PLACE TO BE
Billy Bouman, brother of lVIay Bouman in h.r. 210, seaman first class in the Coast Guard, was on duty on the N ormandie when the ship caught fire. He tells of his experience in a letter home.
The first time around, he went to the engine room which was filled with smoke. He reported to the fire control and asked where the fire was. They told him to get all the men off the ship and keep on making his rounds. The third time around, he went down into the engine room. Then all the lights went off. Badly frightened he borrowed a light from a coast guard fireman.
He wa s the last one to get off the ship and then he helped with the hose and carrying the stre t chers. He enlisted on April 4, 1941.
SKATING PARTIES
Shirley Glantz had a roller skating party on February 9. There were many Whittier pupils who attended. Also Jerry Hall held one the sixteenth of this month.
UNCLE SAM
Uncle Sam is knocking at your door,
Are you going to make him knock once more? He's asking for help which you can give, Help him if in freedom you wish to live!
- Leah Jacoby
ANSWERS TO TEACHERS NAMES
Mr. Koza
Miss Tyre
Miss Peterson
Miss Veerhu.sen
Mr. Gammill
Mrs. White
Miss Jones
Mr. Ross
LIVE WIRES
Mary Ann Weatherly has ch osen three sub-chairmen. They ar e Barbara VanEvery for baske t ball, Marian Loos for volley ball , and Joan Eberhart for kick pin . Miss Jennings has tried differen t home rooms playing against eac h other in basket ball, but no t enough children showed up. No the girls who volunteered a n ; playing on teams. The name s were drawn from a box to S e(' what teams they were to play on
The kick pin tournament w ill start soon. We are happy to we l come a cadet from the Unive rsity of Nebraska. She is Mi s s Roberta Seng. She will teach th e seventh and ninth grades fro m • 9:20 to 11 :06, Tuesdays an <; Thursdays.
The eighth and ninth grade bo y " and girls play volley ball toget h · er according to grades.
The third period gym cl as · has been practicing shooting fo ,· basketball and they are rea 1] keeping the basket busy. B t· side s that they did the forwa rr! roll, backward roll, headstan c handstand, and tip up. They h a l1 very little trouble. Also th e .built pyramids, which Miss Je n· nings said were very good. They have been learning t<) pass the basketball too. A L ' they have danced. Some of t h , othe r grades have played mix e , l games, boys and girls togeth e 1 The girls seemed to be having , t grand time of it all. •
COUSINS DIE IN HAWAII
Two cousins of Glen Hancoc k 208, were killed at Pearl Harb or. According to word just receiv e r', Glen's brother is thought to be ia Australia.
ANSWERS TO GUESS WHO Jackie Greer
Jerry Hall
''What is an icicle?''
''A drip caught in the draf t.'' THE WHITTIER GREENLE AF
The Whittier Greenleaf
Volum e 19
Number 11
March 13, 1942
Lincoln, Nebraska
Mr. Lefler Speaks
In Assembly March 4
Mr. Lefler, city superintendend of schools, at an assem bly Marc h 4, told of his recent visit to the West Coast, where he atten ded a convention which discu ssed the responsibili ty of the schools in the present emergenc y. He impressed us with the idea that we are at war and mu st all do our part. He told us of th e heavy guards along the coas t and the bombers constantly patroling the San Franci sco Bay.
Mr . Lefler's talk was one of the finest we've had this year. Eve ryone was interested and gave the best attention.
NEW BADGES
Everyo ne has been looking at the memb ers of the girls playground committee recently. Why? Well, they are wearing new badges , dainty ones too. They had only a few badges last semest er and many had to go withou t. Twenty-five new ones have arrived and they ought to be well supplied from now on.
SPRING VACATION
Oh boy! Have you stopped to think what's going to happen on Friday , March 27? Well, it's Sprin g Vacation beginning at 3:15. We'll have five whole school days without counting the two week- ends for fun. But we'll have to be back on the job, Monday morn ing, April 6.
AWhittier Garden er
Now that we're thinking so much about gardens, we want to tell you about a Whittier pupil who is a real gardener. He is Herbert Greiner of 300, who is quite a veteran
Herbert has been growing a garden for five years, and his family has had one for nine years. He says it is a very interesting and healthful occupation. In case you boys think you won't have time to play baseball or swim if you have a garden, don't worry. Herbert says he has p lenty of time for both. Working early in the morning and evening while it is cool seems to be very satisfactory. Then he ca·n play in between times. "A lot of children do not go away on a vacation during the summer and a garden is a •good way to spend your time," says Herbert.
Herbert's most profitable crops are radishe s, peas, and corn. The other crops he grows are cucumbe rs, parsnips, turnips, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, beets, carrots, and tomatoes. His garden is grown on eight lots of level land. He said he needed no special information, but his father helped him along.
Now, if you want any infomation about your garden, you'll know whom to ask
P. T. A. SPONSORS PROGRAM
Last Tuesday evening the Whittier P. T. A. sponsored a State Day program commemorating the 75th anniversary of Nebraska statehood.
Featured on the program was a play about Nebraska from the Civil War on up to the present day. Costumes were also shown. Pupils participating in the program were Virginia Boberg, Delwyn Shasteen, Bob Chase, Sam Engle, and Barbara VanEvery, also the glee clubs with 180 boys and girls. In addition to this, a film entitled "Plows, Planes, and Peace" was shown.
HOME ROOM TREASURERS
The home room treasurers are as follows: Hellmut Sienknecht 303, Norma Niederhaus 309, Berniece Hilliard 107, Josephine Gandara 108, Herbert Fricke 318.
Donna Mae Bell 320, Vern0n Brown 105, Myron Weideman 203, N adyne Minchow 208, George Wilcox 316.
Robert Palme 112, Marilyn Yowell 102, Loren Robinette 106, Dorothy Patterson 205, Alfred Mendoza 314.
Charlotte E 11 is 302, Valoy Brown 304, Sanford Downs 307, Kenneth Bowman 210, Lupe Arenas 310.
Margaret Danielson 220, Lois Umberger 209, Ruth Ailes 308, Robert Turner 103, Ruby Berlowitz 105, Jerry Hall 300.
Robert Leuhr 312, Walter Wallen 207, Gladys Jordan 212, Jack Berlowitz 222 .
PUPILS ENTER AND LEA VE
We welcome these pupils to Whittier. Floyd Meahan has reentered. Frank Murphy has come to us from Aurora and Sherrill Von Berg from York. Lois Norton had come from Cody, Wyoming. Barbara Byrum has also entered. These pupils have left Whittier. Billy Dolan went to Columbus and Carol Nicholas moved to Yankee Hill.
IS IT TRUE?
It has been noised around school that the Spring issue of the Greenleaf will have eight pages of enticing features. Just think, eight pages with a special spring flavor, out on March 27th.
WHITTIER DEFENSE WORK
Mr. Heston's woodwork classes are making model airplanes for the Army and Navy . . They will use them to practice shooting and to teach civilians the difference bE:tween our own planes and the enemy's. Pupils who complete models which pass inspection will be given certificates by the Navy department.
THE WHITTIER GREENLEAF
Founded and established in 1924 as the official student publication of Whittier Junior High School pupils.
FACULTY ADVISORY BOARD
Miss Peterson, Miss Ferguson, Mr. Gammill
GREENLEAF STAFF
Arlene Anstine
Marcia Adkisson
Phyllis Barribo
Maryellen Bolar
Irene Artrup
Ruby Berlowitz
Norma Carroll
Betty Cederquist
Francis Christopher
Robert Church
Mary Ellen F e is
Robert Folden
Dorothy Bryant
Geraldine Cooley
• Twyla Dobbins
Mary Elll en Feis
Verna Mae Glantz
Sheryl Hutchinson
Leah Jacoby
Emma Lofink
Natalie Maser
GREENLEAF PRINTERS
Herman Gesch
John Grebe
Clyd e Hanal
Dorothy Hense
Ros e lla Holman
Th e odo r e Kahler
Arthur Kolb
ARE YOU GUILTY?
Tiny bits of yellow and white paper have been seen under desks, on floors, and in the halls. Some may think it - is decorative but-the teachers do not agree! They believe you are more interested in what was in the papers than you are in your work! If you are starving and must eat something even few minutes, report to Mr. Culler. He will gladly take the situation in hand. In fact, he may even have you sit in his office and eat. Instead of wasting money for candy, •save it for defense stamps.
SIX WEEKS GRADES
Grades to the right of us. Grades ,, to the left of us. Good grades and bad grades, for a lot of us the latter. Maybe they didn't come up to our expectations, but at least they have shown our work good or bad. If your grades were very, very low, get down to some good hard studying. It isn't any fun to fail. Besides, if you work hard enough, you'll come out with flying colors.
PUPILS GO PLACES
Mari an Obermeyer visited down at Plymouth, Nebraska 1 recently. She was interested in the fact that their school still goes by the old time, beginning at ten in the morning and closing at 5:15.
Randall Renken recently went to Iowa.
Sam Loos
Jim Millh:>llin
Alfred Murphy
Phyllis Newman
Ped
Floyd
Orosco
Priscilla Morrison
Mary Pease
Dorothy Stevens
Mary Webber
Loui e Ross
Raymond Schenaman
Don Slater
Andy Tautfest
Norman Walthers
Duane Wilkinson
Laurence Witulski
HOW NOT TO CHEW GUM
Have you ever seen a boy or girl swaggering down the street with a big wad of gum in his mouth? If you have, you know what it looks like, and if you have not, I believe you can probably imagine.
The incorrect way to chew gum is to get three or four sticks in your mouth and then to get in conversation with someone. It is indeed a beautiful sight to see some one whose jaws are flapping and wagging both in conversation and in chewing gum.
Another incorrect way to chew gum is to pop and snap it, (also to put your fingers on one end, your teeth on the other end, then pull and then wrap it securely around your tongue as you take it back into your mouth.) I am sure you have at one time or another seen someone do this. In closing I wish only to say that if ever you wish any instructions on how not to chew gum, just call on me.
- Barbara VanEvery
An Irishman saw a sign saying,' "Everything sold by the yard,' He thought he would stump this man so he went in and said, "Give me a yard of milk."
The store man wouldn't let him get the best of him. He put his finger in the milk, drew a line a yard long.
Silenced for a moment, the Irishman finally said, ''And wrap it up please.'' .
OUR WHITTIER
Three cheers for Whittier caf eteria, the only place in the whol e school where you can buy an ything from soup to nuts for a nick le. Yes, you can get good foo d for only a nickle. If you have t o buy your dinner from your ow n allowance, why just go to th e cafeteria and I'm almost positiv e you'll be well satisfied.
Whittier's cafeteria takes i twenty dollars every day. Thre e fourths goes for salaries an d supplies. Notice, I said salarie s for I'm proud to say that th cafeteria, though u n d er th e supervision of the school board , is self-supporting. Amazing , isn't it?
• You will probably get a lot of service in the cafeteria, for asid e from the two full-time wome n employees, Mrs. Sacrider, th e director, and Mrs. Lohr, ther e are nine student employees. Th e cafeteria can seat from fiv hundred to six hundred peopl e Be a booster for our cafeteria 1
DIZZY NOTIONS
Desk: Place to put your junk . Headache: Something teacher .. give students.
Tardy Bell: Time to start t o worry.
3:15: Students' delight. Halls: Place for chatter.
Shirt Cuff: Place for histor y answers.
Pencil: A thing to borrow. Waste Paper Basket: Dumpin g place for gum.
PRIZE WINNER
At the Nebraska theate r , Amateur night, February 27, Merlene Bouldin, a former Whi ttier pupil, received the five dolla defense stamp prize for her cowgirl sing ing. You will rememb er her in ~hittier's Variety sho last semester.
THE WHITTIER GREENLEA F
TATTLE T.ALES
Here we go again for another hot spin in the news.
Here's a little conversation that might interest you.
Barbara VanE very: I'm knitting a sweater for Britain.
Charlo tte Ellis : For Bob Brinton? .
Rver yone in home room 103 would have noticed a small group of boys gathered arou nd Miss Madsen 's desk one da y in February. It seems she was showing them how to knit. Jus t thought I'd let you know in case you have a hole in the toe of your sock the day you are to be weighed and measured.
Nata lie Maser has a new system for getting her arithmetic in on the dot when she hasn't enough time to ge t all her problems done. She does hers on the installm ent plan when ever she finds a few spare minu tes. We only hope she doesn' t get mixed up and put down tha t the sum of one plus one equal s t he th irteen colonies
Here is a small additi on to the hints on how to tell which teacher is which . Mr. Cu ller likes to add a "You see " on the end of his statemen ts, while Miss Schofield's favor ite statement is "All measu remen ts in home economics are lev el mea surements." Mr. Gammill w e ars a familiar frown which we know he doesn't mean, or does he?
What's this that's been going around about your home room having a treasure (treasurer)? Why not let us in on your secret too? Has some luc ky person found a gold mine or is there a pirate running around loos e? Any information regard ing these questions will be greatl y appreciated. If you will send them to 79 Wistful Vista in care of the Lone Ranger they will be in the next issu e. Shirle y Bolen of 108 has had her share of bad luck. February 24 her mothe r packed her lunch in a bread wrapper and told Marc h 13, 1942
Shirley to put it in a paper sack too. She then came merrily to s chool and was almost late. When lunch time rolled arou nd she found a loaf of bread in her lunch. To top it all off, she had to take out four inches of knitting. Better luck next time, Shirley.
Instead of carrying thei r utensils for eating with their lun ch or get ti ng them in th e cafeteria, some smart person st arted the fad of wearing spoons for bra clets. Mary Pease wears her · fork just to be different. There's likely to be something poppin' if Mom finds where her good silver has been going.
Gum
We sit and sit and chew away On the gum we' ve had all day; Every day that pa~ses by We sometimes think we're very sly;
The teacher says, ' 'Spit out your gum,"
And then we feel like, " Gee we're dumb."
Thanks a lot, Dorotha Kuhn of 312. for this cute little ditty. That's all for now, but I'll be back in a flash wi th a flash for the next issue.
PETS
Cha rles Steward has told us something about his pets. He has tame white rats and when they get loose they run around the yard, then come back to their pens. Also he has two chickens, one red and the other brown. Both are tame. His pigeons are King and Homers and their colors are brow n, white and black. One of them comes to him and sits on his sho ulder.
HERE'S YOUR CHANCE , GIRLS
A movie producer is coming to town to look over the Whittier girls. He would like to have a girl apply who looks like this :
Hair - Betty Jamesson
Eyes - Pat Moffet
Eye lashes-Shirley Bennett
Dimples-Velma Schwindt
Height-Virginia Lampshire
Figure-Diane Lantz.
Skin - Bonnie Fitzsimmons
Teeth- Lois Gillett
Mouth-Barbara Mohler
Nose- P hyllis Harris
Hands- Mary Ellen Feis
Profile- Marian Wolf
Clothes- Lois UmbergE:r
Neatness- Pat Graham Can anybody apply?
GUESS WHO GIRL
She is a member of home room 106. She has light brown hair and blue eyes She is 5 feet tall and weighs 99 pounds. Her best pal is Jeanette Lovelace. Her hobqy is sewing and her pet peeve is washing dishes. Her favorite subjects are typing and newswriting.
BOY
He is a member of home room 320. He is 5 feet 9 inches tall and weighs 140 pounds. His hair is l ight bro wn and his eyes are blue. His two best pals are Jack Applebee and Paul Blumer. His favorite hobby is radio and his pet peeve is English. His favorite subject is science.
Mother: Melvin , are you spitting in the fishbowl?
Melvin: No, but I'm coming awfully close
Dad: What is ' 60" on your re po rt card?
Bud: Maybe it 's the temperature of the classroom.
Porter: Could I brush you off, su h?
Passenger : No thank you. I'll get off the usual way.
John: I have a stamp that has the Japanese Army on it.
Ja.ck: What did you do with it, tear it up?
John: No, I licked it.
A REGULAR FELLER
(In response to numerou s requests for a continued sto ry, w e present this one. It was wr itt e n by May Bouman, Mary Pease , and Phyllis Barri bo.)
Johnny was hustling hom e from school because the gang • was meeting for basketball prac t ice Hurrying around t he corne r, he bum p ed into a bo y, an d looki n g up he saw that it was t he new boy who had started school that day.
Johnny said, " Hi ya , " and started to hurr y on , but the boy put out his ha n d and stopped him.
''Where a r e y ou going?" he inquired. Johnny looked up because the ne w bo y was quite tall. He remembered t he boy ' s name then. It was Ricky. He was thinking , " Mayb e he can play basketball, " but h e didn ' t say that. With a qu ick re ply he started on , but again t h e h and shot out. " Ma y I go with you ?''
Johnn y thought , " Gee! He must be all ri ght, " but he answered, " My mother wan t s me " Then he ran off down the street.
The reason th at Ricky was being shunned was t hat his parents were Germans. Ricky was reall y an American citizen , and his parents were studying to become citizens also , bu t the boys didn't inclu.de Ricky in their games.
As Johnny continued on his way, he had a feeling that something was wrong. As he neared the door of the barn, the feeling became stronger. H e p u shed the door open and yelled for the gang Suddenly he felt someo n e grab him from behind and a sack was thrown over his head. He thought hat the gang was playing a trick on him but then he heard men's voices. One of them said in an angry tone, ''Herr Wilks did not say that this boy would come here." Another said, "We will have to eliminate him and his friends; then we shaB continue
with our plans to destroy the Middletown plane factory.''
A new vo ice said, "They will never suspect us as we are old and trusted workers. With these uniforms we can go anywhere in the plant."
Then Johnny heard the click of heels as they said in unison, ''Hiel Hitler "
They left the barn and Johnny heard the clanking of chains as they barred the door. Then the roar of a high-powered limousine faded into the distance.
(To be continued)
A COLD SHOWER
Skating and swimming are not so hot,
When you are swimming and wish you were not. (So says Hazel.)
Hazel Johnson, Martha Jane DeVore and Marilyn Delehant were having a wonderful time ice skating on the lake at Lake Street one day not long ago. They had been skating about th r ee hours when Hazel decided to do some exploring. She was on some ice that was really hard (she thought). When she stooped over, there was a terrible crack. When the others looked around to see what it was, they saw Hazel swimming around and yelling, "Help, I'm drowning" and "Hey, you kids, . do something!" Martha started•. running and Marilyn just stood there and screamed while poor wet Hazel flopped around a while until she got out.
TRIPS
La Vera Hawthorne of 21 0 attended a hockey game in Omaha on February 21.
Ralph Weber recently went to Omaha to visit his grandmother.
Ralph: Why is Ireland the richest country in the world?
Art: Because its capital is always Dublin.
AN INTERESTING HOB BY
Plastic seems to be all the s ty le. Kenneth Strawn's hobby is m ~keing interesting figures of p la st i c. . It all started when he rec eiv ed some plastic molds of Ge ne r al Grant, an Indian, red w i ng ed black bird, cat, dog, ow l, Ji on and tiger heads, a rabbit a nd a monkey for Christmas.
When the figures are t ak e n from the molds, they mu s t be sandpapered and whittled off t o ·make them perfect. Afte r th e y are painted, they are all re a dy t o go.
The set is called "H o bb y Plastic.''
NEWS FROM DIFFERE NT SCHOOLS
In Roosevelt Junior Hig h School of Aberdeen , S o u t h Dakota, the Victory C o u n c i I has been very active. The h em e rooms had a contest to see wl" a t room could bring the most s r,·ap iron . The g old cup wa s given to room 207 for bri n g:n g over eight hundred pounds . Th e school total was 3,150 poun d s. Northside Junior High of Bcu lder, Colorado, is having a p ape r and waste material drive. La s t fall the students of Boulder p.1 blic Schools raised about four hu ndred dollars for a milk fund an d other worthy causes by colle c tm g waste paper, cardboard, t in fr.1i l, and other materials.
LETTER FROM ENGLAN I
Dorcas Pitney received a le tte r from an eight year old boy li v in g in England. His name is J c,h n Reed. He wrote about his s iste r , Jean, and Evelyn, an ev a cue e who lives with them.
We noticed especially tha t on on the outside of the env el op e was a strip of paper with th e words "opened by exam i ne r 9099'' in black letters on it.
Jerry: What's experience?
Billy: That's what you have lef t after you've lost everything.
THE WHITTIER GREENL E A F
VICTOR IOUS HOPES
Miss Jon es' third period music class was given an assignment to write patr iotic words to the tune • of ''On The Mall.'' Florence Rhodes promptly set to work writing a song. These are the words:
We the pe ople of the United States fight for Vic tory As the Arm y, the Navy, and the Marine Corps Fight for victory and peace at Pearl Harbor ; Raise your gun s to fight for our nation 's peace, Keep your hopes up and be at ease
So that this will be a new nation once agai n
As it was before the war began - Good Work, Flore nce!
VICTOR Y GARDE N
Oh, Victor y Garde n, we sing of thee;
For you'll help us win this fight to be free: We'll toil all day in your soil so black , To raise eno ugh spuds to fill everyo ne's sack ; Now, it takes boys and girls with hear ts loyal and true To work day by day the who le summer through But Whittier can do it. We can do it! You bet!
'Cause in all things started we have neve r failed yet!
- Alice Jo Smith, 208
WON A TRIP
Jack Dougla s and Jack Fricke of 103, and Dale Harp, 203 won a trip to Omah a, Febuar y 18, to the Golden Glove Bo xing finals. They won the trip throu gh a contest sponsor ed by the Omaha World Herald.
Mies Peter son: Now Willi am, why do you put a hyph en in birdcage?
William: It 's for the bird to sit
March 13. 1942
TWIRLING A BAT ON
Lois Gille tt, Whittier's baton girl, who makes everyone dizzy twirli ng her baton, was recently inter viewed by a Greenleaf reporter about baton lesson s at Woodman's Circle. She said that she took baton lessons just for a hobby and that she now helps teach baton twirling to children under twelve on the first and third Saturdays of each month. A univE~rsity man teaches children over twelve every second and fourth Saturday.
She also said that not everyone can learn to twirl a baton and that the number of lessons one must take to be good varies according to your ability. So if you have hopes of becoming as good as Lois you'll have to practice and practice every day for it takes lots of twirling to be handy with a baton.
A GOOD TIME
A barn dance was attended by a nu mber of Whittier pupils, February 18 at the Ralph Leavitt farm. Most of the evening was spent square dancing. Whittier pupils were the only ones to know all of the calls-thanks to Miss Jennings.
Numbers were drawn to get partners to eat the box lunches brought by the girls.
Whittier pupils who went were: Lois Umberger, Beverl y Owens, Marian Wolf, Barbara Mohler, Virginia Hartman, Wanda Jones, Bonnie Smith, Lois Gillett, Pat Graham, Lois Richmond, and Phyllis Ross, Bi 11 y George, Wesley Morrison an d Harold Fisher.
WINTER GET-TOGETHER
Epworth League had a skating party, March 2. Norma Carroll and June Shore attended. The annual winter institute of the Methodist Churches was held on Saturday. A number of Whittier pupils attended.
SOCIAL GAMES COMMITTEE
The Social Games Committee has charge of the games room. They see that children understand games. If they don't, they expl ain the games to them. They also keep the games room tidy and neat. These are the people who make a pleasant noon hour when we can't play outside. The chairman is Diane Lantz, 106. Other members are Shirley Hoback, 310; Vern a Glantz, 103; Marilyn Barton, 318; Jean Bracelen, 310; Dorothy Preece, 302; S h i r 1 e Y Lovelace, 304; Barbara Portman, 208; Patricia Venard, 203; Helen Glantz, 212; Dorothy Keller , 310; Shirley Maser, 222.
SOME YEARS AGO
(Taken from the Greenleaf, March 17 , 1933)
An all-girl assembly was introduced nine years ago. The quotation for the theme was: ''I can assure you, however, that just as long as beauty is the only gift you possess, just so long will I refuse to bow to you."
An operetta, ''The Purple Pigeon," was given here. In leading roles were Jean Fischer, V i c tor Stanley, and Vernon Heiliger.
Eight girls were taking drafting with the general mechanics boys. The boys thought it was a joke but the girls laughed last. The boys had a hard time keeping up with them .
TEACHERS NAMES
Eirk
Asendm Ehlne
Teshon
Chsfledio Noiwls Ymra Ede Ningnjes Yeblsi
Mary Ellen Feis: That man has a wooden leg.
Freshie: Aw , that's nothing. My uncle has a cedar chest.
SPORT SHORTS
Many boys are found going into the girls' gym every Friday to dance the Virginia Reel, Square dances and Little Brown Jug. Miss Je~nings has told us that if more boys r~spond there will be an open gym. If there is an open gym, there will be volley-ball playing in which the boys and girls will play together. Also there will be baketball playing and dances. If you like this idea, come to the girls' gym every Friday.
208's mighty mites, Eddie and Howard Schneider are responsible for bringing 208 within striking distance of the championship. Howard's specialty is a long one-handed shot from the center of the floor. Eddie's is a left-handed long shot. 208, with these players, is a fast o·ffensive team.
Now for the dual stars of the leading home rooms. They are John Poulos and Harold Fisher 105; Bob Hubbel and Frank Damian, 102; Ray Aguirre and Martin Wilson, 220 ; Leroy King and Lupe Arenas, 310.
Well, the smoke has cleared away from one of the c]osest games we have had this semester. From the beginning it was close. The game went on until the score was 4 to 3 in 220's favor. Then Lupe Arenas snatched the ball from one of 220's men, dribbled up the floor, and made a basket.
The final score, 5 to 4! 310 our new basketball champion!
-George Wilcox, Donald Hays
ANSWERS TO TEACHER'S NAMES
Miss Kier
Miss Helen Madsen
Mr. Heston
Miss Schofield
Miss Mary Wilson
Miss Dee
Miss Jennings
Miss Sibley
THE SHOPS
. The boys in Pop Heston's building trades class are thrilled because they have a star football star as their a s sis tan t on Wedne saays and Fridays. He is Ray Prochaska, who attends the University of Nebraska and plans to teach shop work when . he is through at the University. You all remember him as a member of the Husker team which p]ayed in the Rose Bowl.
Not many of us, especially girls, know much about what goes on jn the shops. Take Mr. Heston for instance. He has three classes in building trades and two classes in wood work.
In his building trades class they d i s c u s s architectural work plumbing, electricity, plastering: and decorating. Then in the beginning wood work class the first problem is a one-piece job like bread boards, memorandum pads, what-nots, book ends, letter holders, and book racks. Second problem is a several-piece job. Third is curved work, and after that the boys do whatever they want to.
In wood work classes the boys also do whatever they want to such as tables, tabourets, and repair from the home.
Aren't these boys really learning something?
NICKNAMES
Helen Eirich- Eirich
Shirley Will - Wee Wee
Mildred Mons - Butch
Bernice Schaffer-Bee
Florence Hahn - Honey
Lillian Geier-Tootsie
Alva Kehling- Kirk
Marie Hoffman - Dimples
Anna K i]dow-Annie
Darline Pappas- Dolly
Delores Glantz- Suzie
Marilyn Y owel1 - My eye
ANSWERS TO GUESS WHO
Emma Lofink
Sam Engle
LIVE WIRES
The third period gym gi rls have been doing lots of tumbli nosuch as handstands against th: wall, handstands on the kne e-and a backward roll going wi th~ out stopping into a headsta n <l. Besides that they got on th eir hands and raced across t h e floor. It was the funniest thi n,r The second period class learn : d a new game a while ago, wh ir h they say is the best ever.
The kick-pin tournament 1s well on its way. There jg da ncing in the gym every Frid av now, and the girls really like rt . The basketball teams are giv i ng each • other lots of competit i<Jn and a tough battle.
. . The second period class h ;.-:_S been tumbling too. They did tl,e dwarf walk, which is hold iJioyour feet behind you and wa ll~ ing on your knees, and t:: e double walk where one pe r sl n stands on another's feet, <- ,;d they walk together. One of tne funniest ones is bouncing a b ri -1. That wouldn't be funny if it were an ordinary ball, but :t isn't. One girl is bouncing wi i h the other pretending to be t:, e ball.
Boys can come up on Fd d,iy during the noon hour wh D there is d a ncing if they want -i ,J Miss Jennings says that sb e would rather they came thro u ~ h the locker room on the first fl L,,.ll' than through the second fi e H' doors.
Paddle tennis has been p n :ticed by the third period clas s for the first time this semes frr They practiced serving and v <l lleying the ball across the m-t . Well, that's about all for i l1i time, but we'll be here next !sue and, remember, you cm have a victory garden and si ill have time for sports.
Caller - Is your Mother in? Oliver- I'll say she is! I' d never be shoveling this wal k i f she wasn't.
THE WHITTIER GREENLE
T e Wh itt·er
Green eaf
Volum e 19 Number 12
March 27, 1942 Lincoln, Nebraska
Whi ttier's Honor Roll
"M ansfield J. Rohrbaugh, 26, seama n first class, has been lost in action with the cifi c fleet." With this announ ent we start an honor roll ich will be a record of former i ttierites who have died f t we migh t live or have oth' been honored.
Ma n field Rohrbaugh att ed Wh ittier between 1927 a ,1931 and his brnther, Bob Roh1 baugh , is attending now. Anothe r brother, George, is with the ar my in Tennes see.
Warr en E. Dever e, pharmacist' s mate third class, was among those honored for bravery at Pearl Harbor. He has been in the medical division of the nav y s in ce September 8, 1940, and at Pearl Harbor about a year. Warren was graduated from Wh ittier in 1937.
As we pay tribute to our brave boys, may we resolve to keep faith with them.
WHITT IER GOES
HILL BILLY
Th e boys i n Miss Jones' 7A music classes made fine cowboys for ou r assembly last Friday. Thei r skit was entitled "Roundup Cam p at Nigh t" and was built around the many different song s the cowboys sing. Miss Jenning s helped with the square dance s which were ladies to the Cente r Back s to the Bar and All Fourth Gents to the Right of the Ring. The solo parts for the mu s ic were taken by Lawrence Emery and Dan Noble while George Wiltshire played
the piano and Mi s Jenning s called the dance The assembly was under the direction of Mi s Jones and Miss Mary Wilson
ABeet Knows It's Onions
f1- beet to a carrot once did say, 'Hello, old boy, and by the way I hear those Whittier children are Planting a garden to help win the war;" "Suppose they'll plant us ?"
Said old Mr. Lettuce; ''Don't know, but they might, I'm sure we're all right;" "If they do, let's compete," Said the little red beet, "To see who can make
For our country's sake, The most money to buy Bonds for our junior high; We'll be glad in our hearts That we did our parts
Two Assemblies Given During the Past Week
Two assemb lies brightened the week for us. The Red Cross assembly under the direction of ML s Schemel featured a play entitled "The Boy Who .Thought He Knew." In it were Bill Derrick, Jack Brodie, Pat Moffett, Darlene Daharsh, Waldo Han sen, Richard Tj ecka, Bob Chase, Don Ringstmeyer, Jane Brown, and LaVera Hawthorne. There were talks about the beginni ng of the Red Cross by Joan Eberhart and Randall Renken. The girls octet sang.
On Thursday, Rev. J. J. rm• ,,___-.::v~old talked to us. He was a
To help our country Win its just victory." ionary in Africa for fifteen ars and is now here on furugh. He is a relative of Roderck Prather.
Spring Vacation Trips
Many Whittierites are planning trips for Spring Vacation. A m o n g t h em a re t h e s e. Marguerite N ootze is g oing to Omaha. Mrs. Swisher will spend P· her spring vacation with her 30 daugh ,~er Dorothy in. Chicag_o Bilt -~~l~~~~IIPAC' • it Kansas. will be v1s1ted Nata· en et awn. Lupe Ericso 06, d o --"'.~~\L~1ll~-,L.J4- •is uncle in Pauline Bolm 102, Vernon Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Helen Brown 105, Weldon Linke 203, Schultz will travel eighteen Dorothy Schwartz 108, Connie miles to Bennet, Nebraska. Have Crosbie 210, Elaine Carroll 308, a good time!
Lupe Arenas 310, Betty Smith 209, Raymond Schenaman 314.
Gilbert Hudson 208, Charles Null 303, Valoy Brown 304, Dorothy Patterson 205, Mary Lou Reason 312, Jerome Schmidt 207, Jerry Hall 300, Jack Berlowitz 222.
Velma Schwindt 316, James Boyes 320, Lola Bean 103, Ruby Berlowitz 105, and Lorraine Strasheim 107.
PUPILS ENTER
These pupils have entered. Dorothy Ahlstedt has come to us from Washington. Nita Berggen has come from Superior. Victor Felsing is from Sioux City and Douglas Ahlstedt is from Washington. Edward Loos has reentered. Marjorie Moore has also entered.
PUPILS LEA VE
So long to these pupils. John Foster has left for Sidney, Nebraska. Floyd Meahan moved to California. Irene Artrup left for Bushnell, Nebraska. Donald Allen and Darlene Allen moved to St. Louis, Mo. Robert Waugh has left for Bethune, Nebraska, and Homer Knapp moved to Council Bluffs.
THANK Y(JU
Have you noticed the design on the front of this issue? We want to than k Ronald Barnes and Dick Laughlin for it. They made it in Miss Ferguson's commercial art class.
TH E
WHITTIER GREENLEAF
Founded and established in 1 924 as t h e official s tud e nt publication of Whitti e r Ju nio r Hig h School pupils.
FACULTY A DVIS ORY BOARD
Mi s s P eterson, Miss F ergus on, Mr. Gammill GRE E NLEAF STAFF
Arlene Anstin e Ma r cia Adkis s on
Phyllis Barribo
Mary e llen Bolar
Irene Art r up
Ruby B er l o witz
No r m a Carro ll
B etty Ced e1·qui
D o rothy Bryant
G
D obbins
Mary E lll e n Feis
V er na Mae Gla n
Shery l Hutchinson L eah Jacoby Emma Lofink Nata li e Mas e r
P r iscilla Morrison Mary P e a s e
eo thy Steven s l\la r y Webber G REENLEAF P RINTERS
H e rman G es ch
Sam Loos
Jim Millh:>llin
Murphy
Phyllis Newman
TIME TO BEGIN
Humph. Time to get up. Whoo p s ! This i s spring vaca t ion. I can roll over an d go back to sleep for a few more days. Ho hum.
Say! I just re membered. I'm way beh i nd on th e times. That's what I did la st s pring vacation but thi s i s war time. W hy I should have be e n up two h our s ago. "Hey ma! Pl e as e call me th is we e k jus t like ther e w as school. Ge e! I've got work to do."
Well here I am all wak e d up. No w what can I do to aid National D e f e nse and really do somet h in g during th i s vacation? Wish I was old enough to join the Navy. Whoa! No time for that. Guess I'll clean out my closet. There are lots of things in t h e re I don't want any m or e and c a n g ive to the Red Cros s .
Let's see. Then I can clean out the garage and the basement. There are lots of aluminum pots and pans down th e re that mom can't us e any mo re I'll ask dad if I can donate that old co o ker he keeps nails and things in. Then ther e a re some old papers in the attic. Why if som e of th e gang go t together I'll bet we could get a ton of paper Well, alm ost. And then I can start our garden. SayI'll bet the gang would like to do that too. We can earn some money too, to buy defense stamps by running errands, and maybe we can deliver groceries for the groc ery store arou nd the corner.
Well, what am I waiting for? If I keep on, I'll have all of su m mer vacation filled. Look out, J aps; it's Spr i ng vacation and here I come.
OUR WH IT TIER
Attention, bookworms! This time I have something that should interest the heart of each and every boo k wo r m! It is about our li brary w hic h has 5,048 books, 100 unclassified boo k s, and a lot of pamphlets. From 125 to 175 books are checked out each day. Amazing, you say? Well, perhaps it is; nevertheless i t is the truth.
I am giving you a fair warning. If you wish to be library assistant, don't eve r t hink you can get by withou t work because a libr a ry doe s n't run itself without faithful and in t erested assistants. I enjoyed my time as an assistant and woul d n ot object to helpi n g any time.
There are t wo assistants who come at eight o'clock i n the morni n g . They are really early birds. The fl r st peri od assistant p laces bo ok s on the she l ves mos t of the time and that is no lazy job! Se~ond period assistant does a var i ety of things. Third period assis ta nt stamps books out t o teach er s, types, and care s for overdue books . Fourth p eriod assistant is on duty through the lunch hour when Miss Bethune is out to lunch. This is t h e only per iod w h en Mi s s Be thune is not on d u ty i n · t he libra ry So the fourth period ass i stant c h ecks
book s to t h e t eachers and p up!l s oth e r s on the shelves and t al. s care o f things in general. T h,,r e are tw o noon assistants . (. n e work s unti l 12: 55 a n d the othe r com e s on duty at that t ime .n d works through the ac fo, t y period The fifth period assi st 11t p la ces cards in the books. Si· ~h p eri od assista nt p ut s t h e car ch in book s an d p lace s them in al phabetical order.
The two eveni n g assis t t s come on duty about 3:15 aml em ains until twenty-five till f J r or later.
Now that you know all t l s e things and are still enthusi as ,c, why give you name and h< ne r oom number t o Mi ss Bet h:•t1 e and she will call for yo u r wl .: n assistants are needed . I hop e m enjoy the work; it is really in reS t ing!
Her e is something else! id you know that by reading , equired number of b cJ oks o n f1e efficiency list and taking a l 1k exa m ination you can gain a n -fl ciency c redit if you pass a } ,) d test?
Patronize the library! 1\ 1 k e books your friends! Read ri d broliden your outlook! Brow ::- i n the l ibrary and keep up to , ·• t e and know what is taking pl a< i n t his old world!
JUS'l' IMAGINE
Paul Provorse weighin g 40 pound s . Dorothy Hense withou t 1er lessons.
Howard Schnieder gro n g tall.
Hazei Johnson not ch e, ,ng gum.
Mary Ann Weatherly n o in the gym
Marian Loos getting her }i. ~· ebra.
Alan Farmer without "'.a m Engle.
Helen Glantz without he 1 li pstick.
Betty Jamesson not h a i ng curls.
A REG ULAR FELLOW
(Cont inued from last issue )
John ny did n ot know that Ricky had followe d him or that Ricky had know n that he was lying and that his cur iosity had prompted him to follo w Jo hnny to see what the gang would do. And now Ricky had seen ever ything as he stood on tiptoe an d peeked through a crack in the barn.
He recogn ized three workers of the Middle town plant where his fathe r worked. Ricky also recognized eleven badly frightened boys from school, all neatly tied up in gunny sac ks. He heard the new plans for destroy ing the Middle town plant, which had just accepte d a large defense order. Then he gasped in disma y. They meant to blow up all the workers with the plant.
He lef t the window and started to run , but just as he reached the drive , a big black limousine drove up. Jus t in time he ducked behind a bus h. The men came out, got into the car, and drove away.
Rick y ran to the window of the barn and tried to climb in, but it was too high.
"I'm afraid I can't help you much now," he called to them, ''but I'll be back. ''
The n Ricky started running. He ra n past where his mother was hanging up the clothes. She called to him. "Ricky! Where are you going?"
He didn't pay any attention but kept on runn ing.
When he rea ched the drug store , he saw a police officer's motorc ycle stan ding there. It was still runn ing becaus e the officer had ju st stopped to report to his station from the policeman's patrol box . With out thinkin g Ricky jumpe d on to the motorcycle and sped a way. A bout a block away he looked over his shoulder and saw the policema n standing in the middle of the stree t frantically shouting and waving his arms , but Ricky kept on going. Whe n he reached the plant, he j u m p e d off the motorcycle and started running into the March 27, 1942
plant, but the guard pulled him back, saying "Hey! You can't go in there."
Ri cky yelled back, ''But I gotta get in!"
The gua rd hesitated and then called another guard over. They talked in low tones and then turned to Rick y and said, " Sorry , Bud, but no one is allowed to go in except the workers .''
(To be continued)
LITTLE DITTY
Spring's a season, Short and sweet
I think I'll write
About my feet.
The nails are long, They're not so white, 'Cause I don't wash them
Every night. •
Don't mind me , It's only spring That makes me want To sing, sing, sing.
- A Spring Fever Victim
GUESS WHO GIRL
She is 5 ft. 2 in. tall and weighs 100 pounds. She has brown eyes and black hair. Her favorite subjects are typing and English. Her pet peeve is washing dishes. Her main hobby is tap dancing and her best girl friend is Barbara Mohler. She is a member of home room 205.
BOY
He has brown hair and hazel eyes. He weighs 90 lbs. and is 4 ft. 10 in. tall. His home room is 300 . Algebra is his pet peeve and band his favorite subject. He has no special hobby. Carroll Brown is his pal.
LADY SPRING
Lady Spring has come again
Tripping o'er the land, Bringing back the birds In a happy band; Butterflies and bees Are hovering near the flowers Replacing winter's dreary days With springtime's sunny hours.
-Phylli s Ba rribo
YOUR RADIO NEWS
Have any of you Geenleaf readers ever seen Henry Aldrich in the movies? If you did, y ou probably laughed over the wa y he got into and out of scrapes He comes over W O W every Thursnight at 7:30. He ' s a wow!
That new program called ''The Brewster Boy," which comes over KFAB every Wednesday at 6:30, is something like Henry Aldrich so if you can't listen to one, listen to the other and you'll be well repaid.
If any of you have read "J unior Miss,'' the novel that is the basis for a motion picture, you can hear Shirley Temple over KF AB from eight to eight-thirty, Wednesdays, dramatizing the novel. She's colossal!
I'm sure that most of you have heard of that nation - wi de hero '' Superman.'' You can hear him over KFOR every other weekday evening at 5:15. If you don't have any othe r program you especially want to hear, you might just listen to Jack Armstrong, who comes at 5:30, and Captain Midnight who comes on at 5:45.
VEGETABLES FOR VICTORY
If you know your "onions" you'll bring your hoe, For we're in to make our garden grow,
So come on, kids, don't ''squash'' our hopes , I'm sure you'll all catch on to the ropes;
Some say "I don't ' carrots' not at all fun, ''
But what will be if our victory's not won?
So "peas" come and "lettu ce" help buy
A Defense Bond for Whittier Junior High.
-B erne se Fox, 300
Boy: I don'tt want my medicine
Mother (giving up): Oh! My little boy will die.
Boy: Don't cry Mother. Daddy will be home and make me take it.
Nan, Tom, and Sam were walking briskly down the steps of Centerville Junior High. School was out and there were broad smiles on each of the three scholars' faces: Did I say scholars? Well, they might be called that, but if Nan, Tom, and Sam ever do m u ch studying outside of school, especially during vacation, they have changed quite a lot.
''Boy, what a swell vacation I'm going to have," said Tom looking triumphantly at the other two.
''Oh, don't go so high-hatted about it," said Sam. ''I'm going to have a pretty good vacation myself what with a bit of roller skating-, tennis, and baseball."
"Well, now I'll tell what I'm going to do. It's the best of all so I've just been waiting 'til last," Nan said proudly to the others who were her older cousins and always acted a bit superior. "I'm going to my Aunt Jane's in Boston for a whole week. I've never seen her but I hear she's just grand."
"Hey, hold on a minute! cried Tom. I haven't told where I'm going yet.''
"Well, don't keep us in the dark. Where are you going?" Nan and Sam shouted.
"Now don't rush me. I'm going to see my rich uncle and aunt in New York. From what Mom has said, they throw money around as if it were waste paper."
''If both of you are going away, maybe l'rn not going to have such a good vacation after all,'' replied Sam, •'but I think I can get along without either of you. In fact, I'll make a bet that I have the best time of all. Whoever can prove that he had the most fun on his vacation will be treated to a show. How about it?"This was greeted by a hearty reply and each of the the three walked off home sure of success.
It was exactly one week later when the three met in front of the school house steps. But I must admit they didn't look as
happy as they had at their last meeting.
''Who wants to start telling about his vacation first?" said Sam with a not too pleasant expression on his face.
''I guess I might as well tell what I did," said Tom. "I spent one night on a train which must have been an extra because I never had such a bumpy ride in all my life. When I got to New York there was no one at the station to meet me. and believe me. I had one sweet time even finding my aunt and uncle's house. When I finally found the house, they weren't at home and all week they were at the house exactly twice. They didn't even ask me to go with them. To tell the truth, I was glad to get home.''
"That's just about like my story," said Nan. "But my Aunt Jane is the opposite of what I'd heard. If I even moved in the wrong direction, she was afraid I was going to hurt the house. It goes ditto for me about getting back home.''
"Well, kids, I hate to lose being treated to a show," said Sam, "but I had an awful vacation too. It rained all week and I was in bed sick with a cold. Why don't we just all go "dutch" to the show?''
"That's the best idea I've heard in a long time,'' said Tom·
"Well, there's one thing I can say," said Nan. "This is one vacation when I'm glad to get back to school. ''
"Ditto for us too, Nan."
- Marcia Adkisson
Small Jane: Mama, there's a man at the door to see you!
Mom: Does he have a bill?
Jane: No, he's just got a plain nose.
SPEAKING OF HAIR-
WHAT IF
Marian Wolfe had blond h air ?
Barbara Mohler wore ban gs ?
Paul Blummer dyed his h a ir black?
Di an e Lantz's hair wer e straight?
Bob Walthers lost his hair?
Jacky Greer were a red he ad ?
Sam Engle wore long cu r ls ?
Jerry Hall's hair were wh ite ?
SOME YEARS AGO
A new type of assembly wa s held for the boys on March 15 , 1933. Mr. Gammill entertai n e d with two vocal selections. Th es e •·numbers were ''Shipmates U ' Mine" and "Trader John." He nn t only proved to be a good prin t i1 :g teacher but also a good sin g H·. An address was given !n "Athletic Rules,'' and Mr Wiltshire entertained with t;.v o piano selections. One of th e ~e programs was given every mo n th
An enlarged program of sp o rt s was gaining great popularity :-1 t Whittier. The following is a glimpse of the plan. Home rO Ol!, 8 were divided into four equal pa r 1 s, Red, Blue, Green, and Bla c\ . Each team was a cross-sectio n nf the whole school. By winnin g a game, points were awarded to F. e team of which the home r oc,n was a member. This sys t e• n seemed to be a very slicces s f a l plan.
Whittier received 45 sc h cJ l papers from junior and se n i :, r high schools of 22 states in t i1 e union in exchange for t l • e Whittier Greenleaf. One pa p.-- r was received from Nena na , Alaska.
INTRODUCES SPEAKER
Employer: I demand strict honesty from my employers. You don't tell lies or steal, do you?
Anxious AI?plicant: No sir, but I can learn.
Marilyn Martin oi Whitt ie r i~troduced the speaker, Mr. Si ck , at the 8B Civic League Trip. THE WHITTIER GREENLE AF
TATTLET ALES
Since Spring is in the air everything seem s to be in quite-~ hubbub but we ' re all wound up and ready to go.
Were you wonde ring why there was so much co nfusion over in one corner of the audi torium the other Friday morning? Since you weren' t able to sleep that night becaus e of curio sity, I'll tell you. Virgin ia Seiler suddenl y discovered she had an awful hole in her bright red stockin g. So removing her shoes and stockin g she calmly proce eded to sew the hole up with white thread. Som e fancy stitches , Virginia!
A bl undering young Green leaf reporte r in search of the very latest news foun d her way to 110 and Miss Mary Wilson "Miss Wilson, I would like the latest news about the dog family in 110, please, '' said the young reporter .
Miss Wilson almost swallowed her tongue in her astonishm ent before she asked , "What-what do you mean?"
"Why, don't you know?" inquired the report er. Receiv ing no answer she explai ned, ''Some of the girls in this room have given them selves the nam es of the Bumst ead dog fami ly.''
Mis s Wilson still did not unswer, only stared with a wonderi ng look on her face.
''I would like to ha ve this news about the doggie s," said the reporter and left.
The next day the poor reporter met one of the hu man dogs in the hall and whew! Some bawling out!
Since Miss Wil son of 307 didn't want to cau se any confusion when giving her hom e room their six weeks grades she said, ''When you get your grad es you \Vill pa s out." How did she know you got a seven in your easiest subject?
Jerome Schmid t has a waste paper collection of all the paper wads shot in one of his elasses when his teacher had something importa nt to sa y. His teacher March 27, 1942
(~lways read y to help) let him ~ick up all of the paper dropped 111 the third floor hall. Now was n't th at nice! Or was it Jero me ? '
Do you remember when we told you those queer thing s about teachers? So many pupils asked why we didn't do the same with pupils that to please our faith ful readers (if we have any) we have ~ade a stab at it. Phyllis Harris is ah:vays on the job while Sam E_ngle is known for his mo·ving picture skill(running- the machine is what I mean). The space in front of the mirrors is usually occupi ed by Pat Graham. Fresh from New York hair sty list comes our own Diane Lantz with. those new fangled hair-does. Did you ever hear . anyone who talked constantly and never said a thing? We are sure that was Jack Hoff the human chatter box if you did. Mary Pease and Phyllis Barribo are ju..,t bubbUng over with new ideas for the Greenleaf while Leah Jacoby spends her time trying to find words that rhyme for her poems . Shirley Maser can scribble off a note to her best pal before you can say "Jack Robinson." Why don't you try daring Virginia Seiler to do something silly? I'll bet she will do it. Last and least come I, having trouble with this dull column as you surely have noticed.
I'm so badly fizzled out that a drink of water won't revi ve me so I'll have to take a rest cure until next issue. Toodle-Oo.
START ING TONIGHT
Tonight is the opening night. Opening night of what? Spring vacation starts tonight, and the Greenleaf class wishes you a whole week of fun and a very happy Easter to end it.
HATS OFF!
If you see a platter of fruit, a phonograph record, or a pancake walking down the street, don't be alarmed. It is probably just some woman's crazy hat. How anyone ever thinks of all of them is more than I can see. They range in size from tiny things as small as a doll's saucer to gigantic affairs that look like parachutes. You can make your own creation out of a plate or a head of lettuce. On the other hand if you are more particular, you can have one made, maybe a fountain shooting perfumed water to keep you cool on a hot day. If you are naturally helpful, you would like one with red and green lights; just in case electricity should be turned off you could help the policeman direct traffic . -Connie Crosbie
THE U.S. A.
Be a wise young owl, And you will find Not a better land Of any kind
Than the good old U. S. A. With its mountains high And forest greens, With summer suns And winter scenes , There is none to compare With the land that is fair
"Dad," said the kid, "w hat is an undercover man?''
"It's your father, son, when he thinks he hears a burglar in the house,'' snapped his mother.
Barber: Haven't I shaved you before, sir?
Customer: No, I got those scars over in France.
SPRING IN HAW All
Let's take a spring trip to Hawaii made possible by an interview with Beverly Jackson. The only difference between spring and winter there is that the weather· gets just a little warmer and there are mor e rains. The first signs of spring here are the birds, flowers , and out door s ports and game s but in H a w aii they ha v e these all year around. Baseball i s a favorite gam e with both grownups and child r en. Most white child r e n up to si x teen work in pineap p le canneries during th e su m mer months while the natj ve s or Oriental children wo r k in sug a r cane fields. St y les of clothing do not · change at all. Everyone wears cotton dresses the year a r ound and a store that sold coats would ne v er have a great r ush. The people of Hawaii tr y to keep up-to~date a s far a s st y le s are concerned but a re about six months behind us. They don't r eally have a s pring crop becau s e e ver ything grnws the year around.
Some of the early bird s are the Mina, imported ca r dinal s , sparrows and rice birds. However, most of their bird s remain there during the winter months. Papia, bananas, blackberries, mulberrie s, mangoe s , and guava are a fe w of the early fruit s .
Many lawn par ties and picnics are held but they are not unusual because they have them in winter too. Here in the United State s we change from potatoes and gr a vy to sandwiches but their food stays the same. Flies must be continually sprayed both on fruit trees and in the homes.
Farmer: I thought you said you were going to plow that ten acre field.
Hired Man: Oh no. I just said • I was thinking about plowing it.
Farmer (grimly): I see. You were just turning it over in your mind.
9A'S TAl{E TRIP
The 9A' s w ent on a CIVIC league trip, March 19. All pupils met at the Stuart Theater where they he a rd Dr. Ralph C. Beddell, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology a n d Measurements of University of Nebraska, speak. The teacher s from Whittier who a t tended ar e Miss Hult, Mi s s Wilson, Mis s Curley, Mr s. Swisher , Miss Kier , Mr s. Boschult, Mr s . Childress , Miss Veerhu s en, and Miss Miller.
LUCKY BILL
Bill Derrick was lucky enough to be able to go to Omaha to hear Vice-President Henry Wallace speak. Bill said he was most impressed by the vice-president' s confidence in the corn belt fa r mers' ability to carry their share of the job in winning the war.
Bill also entered s ix items in the Lincoln hobby show. They were three coin boards, an arrow head , a primitive knife, and some samples of petrified wood . He received five certificates fo r having "excellent" exhibits and one for a "good" exhibit. Congratulations, Bill.
FROM OTHER SCHOOLS
The February 20 issue of Washington Hi-Lights, Honolulu, was the first paper we have received from them since the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This · paper was published through spec i a 1 military permission. Some of the interesting items were : " Men Teachers Learn How to Shoot Pistols," "Students Lose Homes in Dec. 7 Attack," "Several Teachers Have Narrow Escapes," and "Classes Help Dig Trench Shelters." And to think that some of you crab about having to dig a little in the Victory garden.
Barber: Haven't I shaved you before, sir?
Customer: No, I got those scars over in France.
QUE.EN OF AGRICULTUR E
Ben Alice Day, who was 1-..., cently crowned "Queen of A g riculture," was a former pupil a t Whittier. She took quite a f ew courses in home economics a n d was very much interested i n them, so one of her hom e cc teachers says. She also s ai d that Miss Day was quiet, r e liable, friendly, steady, and a J,-, o ready to do more than assig1w d her. Altogether, Miss Day ,va the kind of girl both pupils a•1d teachers liked to have arou n d.
WIN ART AW ARDS
. At the Nebraska Regional Ar t Exhibit held at Miller & Pai n e' s recently, several former W h ~ttier pupils won prizes. A lic e Jean Fowles won second pri z In oils and an Honorable Men fa: n in water color. Hobert H av s won two second prizes in p-:rn drawing and advertising ar t ;t s well as an Honorable Menti on n advertising art. Bill Schlae b·~z won an Honorable Mentio n m charcoal.
LINCOLN HIGH BRIEF ~
Some former Whittier p u r-: ls participating in Joy Night W ! l'e Connie McBride, Peggy Hu d s( ,n , Marylouise Brodie, Phyllis P i. tterson and Fred Langenh •)' , who took part in various darn·1• . Dorothy Muelhausen h •. s taken the position of circul a t:, m manager on the Advocate S t ·.ff , and Arden Means is one of '. ~1e new reporters.
Janis Pochop, sopho m t•··e , holds high score in bask e t1 ,ct ll between the four teams in th e interclass tournament, wit h a s co r e of seventeen points in vo games
SPRING IS HEliE
Spring is here, spring is her e , Let's give it a great big che esi--; It brings trees and flowers a n ,.1. a week's vacation
But most of all, we hope it brings Victory for our na t Jt m .
We'v e look e d at some Engl i sh papers and foun d some mo r e news a bout pets for you.
Mar y H uts on tells us she o nc e had a li tt le dog that liked ice crea m, ca k e, and candy almost as much as we do, which is a lot. A rab bit· led him astray one day by divi ng into his hole with Micke y (that was his name) follo w ing close behind. Onl~·, h•J got s t uck and could n't get out. One of their friends 1eSl't1ed him and sai d he wish ed he had Lad a camer a with him. I bet that would have been some picture.
Virg inia Seiler' s pooch is eallt•d Browni e. He sits on her lap like a baby. He sings (howls) to her accompa niment on the piano.
Donda ldeen Barlett harl a l et sheep n s.med Pedro. Her c,,us111 gave h e r a bridle for the l t)e ,.
Ho wever, Pedro objecte t0 i: 1•• dutie s of a horse and bncked ~o they fi nally gave him a :va.).
FOR T HE VICTOR Y GARDEt
Keep' em water ed! Keep ' em hoed!
And you will reap far more Than you've sowed.
Come on, you girls , Don't be stiff as rails
The di rt won't hurt your f-ing- •r n a il s.
OK, boys, .you're not so fine Why n ot step in tlw V1ctor~· Ga rden Line? - Mari on Obermeye •
Bob: Did you h edr about tl.e man who fell out o f an airvlane !
Jack : How unfortuna te.
Bob: Y es, but there was a hays tac k .
Ja c k: How fortu nate.
Bob: Yes, bu t there wa~ a pitch fo r k in the h aystack
Jack: How unfor tunate.
Bob: Yes, but he didn't hit the pitchfor k.
Jack: How fortuna te
Bob: Y es, but he didn't hit th'.} haystack e ither.
March 27, 1942
AN INTER K TING HOBBY
John Grebe has an interesting hobb y of making crystal sets. Man v of the sets can get only o·ne station but one of his latest models brings in two stations, K F AB and K FOR. All you have to do is to turn a knob and you can get either one of the ~tations. ''This kind of radio set is \'ery easy to make," says John. ''All the material t 11:: t yon need is three sc rews, five naiL. a crystal, t ~o pieces of ;vire, the end of a cheese box·, and a cat whisker. A cat whisker is rnmething- like a wire and as big as a hair. As in most rad io sets vou nePd ~L11 aerial and a ground wir . Often a speaker off of a tube radio could be used; best results f'Oll e from a pair of ear phones."
~\ilisc: Holley' , Miss Fe rguson's, and :Miss Ralston's classes have made blackboard posters boosting the Victo ry Garden. Each class was re pon sible for ten home rooms. The pupils first made their d ·a wings on a small piece of paper, then worked them out on the blackboa rd with colored chalk.
Cet: I can do somethihg you can't.
Frog: What can you do that I can't.
Cat : I can die nine times.
Frog: That's nothing. I croak every minute.
8B CIVIC LEAGUE TR I P
March 12 the 8B's went on Civic League trips directed b y Mi s H. Madsen, Mr. Bailey o f Everett school, Mr. Gamm ill , Nrs. Ross, Miss Ferguson, Mrs . Martz of Everett, Mr Bimson, Miss Noll and Miss Hord, bot h from Irving. All of the childre n met at the .1. ebraska theate r where they heard Mr. T . A. Sick , Vice Pr es iden t and T r e asurer of the Security Mutual Life Insu rance company speak.
SPRING IN AFRICA
(As told by David Searle) There is no spring in centr al Africa, but there is a spring i n South Africa Africa co\'ers a large area somewhat the same as North America. You have tropical climate in the South but we have tropical climate in the North and central part. Where I came from (Belgian Congo) it is now the end of a very hot, dry seaso n After the hot season, there is a rainy season and it rains every few days or every day. A black cloud comes up and there is a cloud burst. It rains for a half hour to an hour and the · sun comes out, the skies clear, and it is cool and fresh.
This is what correspon d s to spring in tropical countries. While we have extreme cold here, in Africa they have extreme hea t.
A WINNER
Bill Kosmos of 303 was the winner of the checker tournament which lasted about three weeks. There were thirty-six pupils in the tournament. The runner-up was Bonnie Mitts, al o of 303 .
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
A party was given by Marjorie Neff on March 13. Many Whittier pupils attended. Darlie Heckman's birthday comes on Easter this year which will be the second time. Her brother's birthday has been on Thanksgiving twice.
SPORT SHORTS
W e 11 , champions can be beaten. This phrase holds true because 310, the champion, was defeated by ball-tossing 318 . 318 came on the floor defeated befo r e the game st a rted. Del ·w y n Shasteen and John Wagne 1· didn't think so though, but Lupe A~·enas and Leroy King we r e gomg to make them lo s e. W e ll! th e final score of this r iproarmg game was 2 to 3 in 318' fa vor
If you see a lot of sprained thumbs and tap~d-up fing e r s , you know that qmt e a few people are talking ba eball seriou s ly.
You home room captains had bet t e r look up some of these 7B' s becau s e if you r te a m is in a tight spot, these 7B ' s may help out a lot.
314 , the team with height in ba s k e tball, the team with hitting p ow er in baseball, and alw a y s a w ell-balanced team! They a r e the team th a t will show up all other champ i onship teams. Watch 314, you championship te a ms.
Your sport s editor is going out on a limb when he start s predictin_g the baseball champ, but he 1s , by saying that 220 will repeat and grab the championship. If you want to s a y something about this prediction, s end a note to Miss Peterson in 210 and your spo r ts editor will r e ceive it.
When D e 1 m a r Montague moved to California there had to be a new playground committee chairman. To this position Le r oy King was chosen Let's support him in every way.
In one of the former issues your spol't s editor gave much p r int to John Poulos. John Poulos des e rved this but anoth e r long - shot a r t -i s t ha s a r i s en. He is Charies Bolus. He has helped 103 win many of their games.
Who is Rufus "Red" Ruffing? What! You don't know! Well he ' s a right handed pitcher for the New York Yankees. This kind of question is being asked
by Mr. Wells in his phys ed classes . In some of his classes • he has had you write out your answers. If you have been caugh_t without the right ones, look m your daily papers and read the Sunday sports page as well.
NIGHT WAS SO LONG
. (This story was written by two girls who refuse to give their names. It was done when we should have been working in class. It was written by taking ~urns at writing a line, not knowmg what the other one had written.)
It was a beautiful spring day and Buster got lost in the crowd but they saw his tail sticking out:
As he approached it exploded and he was last seen flying over a house in Mexico.
Wasn't it simply awful?
The sun was setting in the west.
Please keep your nose out of my business and tend to your skunk farm.
He killed it with a stick.
As for the jitterbugs found in your bed; don't be ridiculous!
A long dark object was lying- on the floor near the door.
A pelican of your age should he ashamed!
The wind whistled around the corner of the house and the two boys dr e w closer to each other.
There with th thunder roaring and lightning slinking across the sky with its sinister intent, the creaking house swayed under the • impact of the beating hail storm.
And so they lived happily ever after.
- By Anonymous Authors
ANSWERS TO TEACHERS NAMES
Miss Sibley
Mr. Culler
Mr. Wells
Mr. Jent
Mrs. Barrows
Miss Cross
Mrs. Shike
Mrs. Childress
Miss Scheme!
Miss Ferguson
LIVE WIRES
Well, the gym girls have b e e n playing outdoors. It looks a s if spring is really here. I'll be t it feels good after being insid e s o long. What do you thi n l ?
Those girls will hit that base b a ll a mile; they'll be so full of energy. You're probably tired uf my opinions so I'd better o-nt back to facts. 0
They h~ve been punting. T hct t 1s somethmg that takes a stiff .ankle. The soccer-baseball s ea -• son is coming and they are p 1·(~paring for it. As they were i n the gym they couldn't let lo o~e but they still hit those b all~ hatd. The drop kick was a l ,o practiced. It's harder than pu nting but they managed it in foie ·shape.
They also played kick- p i.1, longbase, and endball with tl •e boys . "Pickin' up Paw-Paws" an 1 the "Tucker Two-step a 11 11 Waltz!" Could anybody a k for better dances ? The g y 1·i 1 girls don't think so. They h a \.' been dancing them and ha v ir v a lot of fun doing it. They h a · e played soccer ba s eball and vol h ~7 ball too. The volley ball is ov e 1~sj zed, to put it miidly. The g i1 •.., don't mind though as it is t w i1 , the fun.
Better tie a string aro m , l your finger so as not to for g t your gym clothes. I heard t h <L whoever did might get the pr i \ ilege of telling why on b o t i l sides of a notebook paper. I hope I haven't bored you t o-) much this issue. That's all f <••' now, but I will be seeing all y ou good sports very soon.
ANSWERS TO GUESS WH (
J
Marion Wolf
Marlin Bolar
Champ: What's my tempe ruture, Doc?
Doc: One hundred and three . Champ: What's the wo r lrl record?
The Wh ittier Gree nleaf
Volu me 19
Numbe r 13
April 17, 1942
Lincoln, Nebraska
WHITT IER'S GARDEN REALLY BEGINNING
• Wh ittier's Victory Ga rden is reall y beginning. On Tue sday of las t week a class was star ted that is w orking in it. Mr. Ross has this class fourth period and most of t h e boys are from the library readi ng and general reading cla sses. As yet there are only fift een members.
Th ese boys work in th e garden on n ice days, but when the weather is bad, they stay inside and clea n up the tools. They will be grade d on work just as in any other subject. By next spring· it is hop ed that a class in gardening can be offered as an elective. How ever, many things will haYe to be worked out first.
Ove r one hundre d pupils have signed up in the Victor y Garden camp aign.
FIRE BOMB FILM SHOWN
A film, "Fighting the Fire Born b , '' was shown in an assembl y on April seventh The pictu re showed the composit ion of th e incendiary bomb and the righ t way and wrong to extinguish it. Afterwards Mr. Fetters, the state fire instructor, gave a talk on how the pupils of Whittier could help in preventing fires. He impr essed us with the fact that if w e have gasoline in our homes, we s hould have it in a red can plainl y marked "gasoline" and it should be outdoors. He also said that we should not keep trash in our h omes because it can cause fire.
South of Our ·Border
Presented in Asse mbly
A Pan American assembly was giv en April 14, directed by Miss Ferguson, Miss Jennings, and Mr. Wells. Flag colors from the Pan American countries were shown to start the program off with a bang. Sixteen narrators to 1d some interesting facts about these countries. The art classes s howed th ings they ha VA made having to do with Pan America. The girls octet sang and there was Pan American dancini!. Miss McFie then showed us some things she had secured while visiting Mexico
Keep 'Em Smilin'
The date set for our Spring program is May 15 . The theme chosen for the program by vote of Whittier pupils is '' Keep 'Em Smilin'." A number of students will participate and we are hoping for a large crowd. The details have not been definitely arranged, but we can be certain of seeing a swell show. Be sure to keep May 15 open and tell all your friends about Whittier's Spring Program.
SYMP HONY CONCERT GIVEN
Three hundred Whittier pupils attended the concert given by the Lincoln Symphony orchestra on April 9. The program consiste d of five numbers and was u n d er the direction of Leo Kucinski The numbers were "Overture" from the opera Mignon, " Pavane," "Jazz Pizzic a to ," "Music Box," and "America Fantasy," "Jazz Pizzicato" was the arrangement most liked by the audience and was played again after the program for the encore. Many pupils say that this concert is the best yet. Most of them were humming the new ''Jazz'' as they left the theater.
The Gi rl Delegates
Here are the girls that bring back the news from delegate assemblies: Betty Clark 30 9, G wen Mitchell 320, Marilyn Martin 316, Mildred Thompson 222, Eva Herrick 300, Shirley Glantz 207, Bobetta Betz 312. June Remple 2 0 5, Dorothy Rosenthal 304, Evelyn Pochop 303, Shirley Warburton 314, Alice Shilhan 209, Dorothy Keller 310, Lorraine Stewart 108, Barbara Hanning 308, Noreen Pettet 210, Marguerite Nootz 203, Geraldine Kelley 105, Ruby Hock 102. Sarah Uribe 212, Shirley Bennett 106, Marjory McCorkle 220, June Brown 307, Mary Lea Ferguson 110, Pauline Fox 107, Lillian Eichler 103, Betty Cederquist 318, Jean Mann 208, Marilyn Catron 1 l 2, Patricia Gove 302.
This Isn 't Bragging
We don't mean to brag, but we just have to tell you of the compliment Whittier received. You see it was this way. Albert Todd, who was graduated from Whittier in nineteen twenty-five came back for a visit during the spring vacation. After looking in on all the places that had become familiar to him during his attendance, he commented on the cleanliness and order of the building. I guess the reminders of putting paper in the waste basket instead of in the halls and on the floors in classrooms have helped after all.
STYLE SHOW HELD
On April 14, a style show was presented in room 110 for the P. T. A. Mothers of the girls in home economics classes were sent special invitations to see it. The garments shown were blouses, play suits, skirts, pajamas, jerkins, dresses, housecoats, and slacks. The clothes were all made by the girls.
THE WHITTIER GREENLEAF
Founded and est a b lis h e d in 1924 a s th e official stud e nt publi cati on of Whittier J u n ior High School pupil-s.
FACULTY A DVISORY BOARD
Mi s s P eters on , Mi ss F e rguson , Mr Gamm ill GREENLEAF STAFF
Arlene Ans t in e
Ma r cia Adkisson
Ph y llis Ba rr ibo
M arye ll e n B o la r
Rub y B er l o w i tz
N orma Carro ll
B etty Cederqui st F ra n c i s Ch r i stop h er
Robert Ch ur ch
Ma ry Ell en Fe is R ob e r t F ol de n
Do rothy B rya nt
G er al d ine Cooley
T w yla Dob bins M ary Elll en Feis
Ve r na M ae Glantz Shery l Hu tc h i n s on Leah J ac ob y E m m a Lofink Natali e Maser
GREENLEAF PRINTERS
H e rman Ge sch J ohn G re b e D orothy H en
IT WON'T BE LONG
Well here it is two weeks after Easter ' without anothE-r vacation in sight until the summ e r holi d ay s seven w etks away. Seven wee ks! It s eems an awfully long time to wait but it isn't so long after all. J ust 1 think how fast th e last eleven we e ks h ave gone. If so me of y ou haven't be e n do ing y our best thes e la s t eleven weeks , there is still t im e to make a final effort before the semester en d s
ASSEMBLY CONDUCT
We were ver y happy to hear Mr. Culler say our conduct during the a s sembli e s is improv ing. Pupils should remain in their se8:ts until the civic league officers dism iss them b y rows. Candy should not be brought to the auditorium to be eaten during assern bly. When we laugh or clap we should refrain froI? doing it very long because 1t sometimes keeps oth e r s from hearing. After thinking it ov er ,. if you try you can make your t ries worth while.
HIP! HIP! HURRAH!
Hip, hip, hurrah for the spring variety show! I suppose y ou all know that Whittier is going to have a big spring show and that it isn 1 t very far away. If you don't kno w, I advise you to wash ?Ut b e hind y our ears and start makmg p lans because I'm prett y sure y ou want to help the show be a great success. I ·know what you're saying, " So what?"; and I'm saying th e following, ''Get your fr e inds interested in our variety show and then the re st is easy." As soon as they're inter e sted get them to come. In that way you
can be a booster for Whittier's variety show
OUR WHITTIER
Ever play p i ck up sticks, Chi n e s e checkers, or shuffleboard? In fact have you ever gone to t he games room? If you have, what do y ou know about it? Nothing! Well , I am surprised. I guess I'll have to tell you.
First they have two game rooms. Two hundred can be seated in one and enough in the other room to total almost three hundred. Of course, they hardly ever have that many for even in winter when it's cold and snowy, quite a few stay out doors to have a snow ball fight or something like that.
It's re a 11 y astounding that they don't lose a lot of equipment but they just don't. Maybe the pupils on duty are Irish and most of you have heard of the luck of the Irish so y ou know what I mean. Now le t' s g e t back to the games room : Bes ides Mr Gammil1, who sup e rvises the g ames room , there are . si x other pe ople on duty. Diane Lantz is head of the social games commit t ee.
You've all heard about the checker tournament, haven't you? I'll refresh your memory. Bill Kosmos came in first and Bonnie Mitts second. Three cheers for b oth of them!
Ma y be you haven't been to the games room. If you haven't, you're missing a lot of fun. There are from 200 to 300 games and you can play shuffleboard in the hall. Here's another bit of information. The games room stays op e n in the spring until the pupils stop corning, so you still have pl e nty of time to go, for there are still quite a few pupils going there.
PUPILS GO PLACES
During the spring vacati on many of our Whittier pupils we n t to different cities or states t o visit.
Muriel Ericson spent her vac ation at Wahoo, Nebraska, whe r e she worked for her uncle in h i s ca f e. Norma Carroll w en t t ,) Seward and Ardel Prath e r visited Sioux Falls, South Dako t a. Kenny Strawn spent four da y • in Kansas where he found h steady job as a tractor man fo r his uncle who is leaving for t h e army, July 1. Aline Leupold a ls c spent her vacation in Kans a s
CLASS DAY COLORS
The 9A colors, blue and whi t e , blew in victorious with the sc or e of 135 votes. Green and wh ite ca me in second with 73. The la s t, red, white and blue, had only 27. Well, 9A's, you have chosen yo u· colors and we hope you are a ll sati s fied.
8A CIVIC LEAGUE TRIP
The 8A's went on their Ci v i,· League trip, April 16. They m et at the Stuart theater where Mr ., John E. Curtiss, District Ma rn,· ger of Consumers Public Po w e: District; Vice chairman a n :1 coordinator of the Lincoln 0. C D. was the speaker. rhe tr i p.:were directed by Mr. Koza, ML , E. Madsen, Mrs. Childress, Mi -: Peterson, Miss Hult, Mi s~ Zamzow, Miss Hooper, and Mi s·• Cross .
NEWS FROM DIFFEREN T SCHOOLS
Loud groans arose in Bran c1~ forte Junior High School, San ti_;\ Cruz, California , when th e :; received word that they would n o;; get any Easter vacation. T b, ~ reason for this is that the childr e~; are needed for crops and will be dismissed a week earlier f o Y summer vacation
Washington Hi Lights fro ni Honolulu tells us that the gi r ls are digging trenches and a r~ doing a good job of it. Blacko u t3 are no excuse. The teachers s t ill give home work. The Junior F ire Fighters will be leaders to p ut out any incendiary bombs.
THE WHITTIER GREENLE A F
(By Evelyn Jackson)
T h is is a little bit from a diary whic h I kept during my trip on·a Uni ted States Army Transport whi ch left Hawaii sometime in Ja n u ary.
We woke this morning at 6:45 and at 7 o'clock the dressing bell rang Our breakfast bell rang at 8:05 and that was the second sittin g. The passengers are divided int o three groups as the dining roo m is so small. Orange juice is not a very good substitute for wat er but it was better than dri nking the over-dosed water. It seems that the army doctor told someone to put 100 measures of something in the water and 300 measures were put in. N othing much happened after bre akfast. lt is almost too cold to st ay long on the decks. I spent most of the morning reading. Ab out 11 :30 I went down to the m ess hall and watched several ca rd games and then joined a ga me of rummy. At 12:05 our lun ch bell rang. Lunch was un eventful until the boat hit a swell and some of the chairs slid back and tipped over. Some ha d soup set in their laps withou t the dish and it was rather hot and wet. Order was at last rest ored and people cleaned off sou p and lunch was resumed.
L ater I went down to the cre w's mess hall, which had been turn ed over to the use of the pas sengers, and it was the gathering place where we played gam es and sang. It got too hot and stuffy so I went above tot he deck and read in · the doorway. It h as been foggy and rough. The dec ks were wet with spray. Sud denly a sailor who had been calm ly walking down the deck slip ped and scooted down past me on hi s seat.
We hadn't had a bath for several days so we decided to take one. One of the girls went out to secur e some fresh water from a larg e canvas bag hung on the dec k. The bag was nearly empty April 17, 1942
so she tried to tip it to get the water. A sailor saw her and came to her aid. She told him that she wanted the water for a bath and he offered to get a bucket of hot water. We all had a hot bath. Since our tub is out of order, we placed a small tin basin in the wash stand and bathed from that.
There are four others in my cabin besides my younger sister and me, and we are in a room eight feet by six feet. There isn't much room.
Every night from six until six the next morning no light of any kind can show.
At seven we went below for community sing and then bingo and cards.
An army transport isn't very bad. Of course we don't have many luxuries but who can expect them during war? I enjoy the life on board in spite of the constant danger of enemy subs, but I will be glad to get to the States.
WHAT ABOUT YOUR NAME?
Pickle - Marilyn Dill
Fish - Dale King
Old - Robert Beard
Run-Robert Chase
Bible- Donna Moses
Chinese- Geraldine Cooley
Vegetable- Mary Pease
Book- Lona Story
Irish - Eddie Micheal
Boy - D~rlene Allen
Christmas-Madaline Yule
CURRENT EVENTS TEST
Whittier pupils are really interested in what is going on in the world, according to Miss Bethune. They keep up with the news so well that twenty-one have passed a Current Events test and have received efficiency credits.
Following are the names of those wbo accomplished this job: Mary Webber, 300; Waldo Hansen, 209; Mildred Wilborn, 208; Mildred Quick, 105; Howard Schneider, 208; Harold Fisher, 105; Jack Lange, 308; Junior
Rempel, 20 5 ; Roland Cartwri gh t, 205; Eva Herrick, 300; Bonni e Jean. Smith, 310.
Dorothy Schwartz, 108; Ma r y Hutson, 208: Marie Hoffm a n, 300; Mary Lea Ferguson, 110 ; Jean Maser, 208; Marjorie Hart, 102; Rosella Holman, 314; Barbara Portman, 208; Bernese Fox, 300; Rodney Garner, 310.
MR. AND MISS WHITTIER
Miss Whittier Mr. Whittier
Hair: Jean Johnson, John Wagner
Teeth: Barbara Portman, Jack Prescott
Clothes: Alice Berry, Jerry Hall
Smile: Velma Schwindt, Junior Kirkendall
Dimples: Marie Hoffman, Orval Sommerstedt
Figure: Barbara Strubbe, Kenny Buck
Eyes: Shirley Glantz, Jack Applebee
Height: Alva Kehling, Myron Weideman
Complexion: Shirley Bennett, Loren Robinette
A SUNSET
''The sun was like a golden coin
Dropped by the hand of the dying day;"
I think this is a convenient spot
For me to pause and say, I saw this in a book
And thought it a wonderful way
Of describing a lovely sunset
At the close of a summer day, And so I'm passing it on, Passing it on to you, For I enjoyed it very much
And thought that you would too.
-Phyllis Barribo
Sniff: My wife is so very tender-hearted she won't even whip cream.
Chuzz: That's nothing. My wife won't beat rugs and tears come to her eyes every time she has to skin those poor little onions.
TATTLETALES
How did you like having this tattletales two columns in the Spring issue? If you did, just keep sending- in those little happenings and it will always be that long if not longer. Now to get down to business.
It seems that some of the girls in the sixth period girls glee club don't care about singing alone. One girl wrote us that Mrs. White called the number of her friend to sing a solo. After the song Mrs. White c:tlled the number of another girl but the poor scared soloist started looking through the book to find the page that had been called. Mrs. White then noticing that the girl belonging to the last number called was absent called another. The first soloist thinking she had changed her mind and wanted her to sing • a different song, started looking for that page. Now, you really didn't want to sing another solo, did you?
We of the Greenleaf class want to express our sympathy to Dale Harp by telling his sad, sad story. While he was on top of a barn shooting his rifle (funny place to be) his foot slipped. After falling nearly fifteen feet and receiving a terrible cut on his knee, Dale rode his bicyle seven miles borne pedaling with one foot. Dale was absent from school a week and returned with torn ligaments in his thigh, maybe a fractured bone, and last but not least, crutches.
Alva Kehling ought to be the radio announcer for the ''Betty C r o c k er" o r t h e "Arnold Grimm's Daughter" program. This is the opinion of many of the pupils in Miss Peterson's first period English class. On Friday one day not so long ago they were having a Truth or Consequences game when Alva received the q u e s ti o n, ''W h a t are Nebraska's state bird and flower?" Trying to think of them both at the same time, she answered, "Go I d meadow flower." (Gold Medal Flour.)
Mildred Edwards was walking down the hall with a friend when she said, "Wait a minute, Wanda, I stepped on my foot." Her friend. Wanda McKee, laughed and said, ''What do you usually step on?''
Here are a few "What If's" sent in by a Greenleaf booster.
Darlene Daharsh and Pat Graham were separated? Robert Townsend would talk louder, Marian Obermeyer and Lois Umberger didn't eat together every noon, Marian Wolf weren't a 1 ways flirting, Pat Moffet weren't the best clarinetist in the band, Bobby Betz weren't always late to her classes, Sam Engle weren't al ways showing off, Phyllis Harris weren't always smiling, if Mrs. Boschult didn't teach science, if Mrs. White weren't always standing at the center stairs, if Mrs. Riley weren't so swell, if Miss Kier weren't always saying "Get busy" and the Greenleaf class weren't always drawing on the black boards.
During her vacation M is s Emma Madsen went to the picture show "The Courtship of Andy Hardy.'' She told us she learned more up-to-date adjectives describing girls than she ever had heard of before. Maybe she will pass them on to us later.
Miss Schemel told her home room just before vacation that she expected to ride a bicycle to Fairbury, but when asked about her trip by some of her pupils she said she did not have enough time to go. (Believe what you like.) •
TEACHERS NAMES
Satolrn
Eilmlr
Isnolw
Aemm Dsnmae
YJeloh
Obchlust
Mzawzo
Pohore
Hsweirs
Come on you kids, don't be saps, Plan a Victory Garden and help beat the Japs.
• -Marian Obermeyer
SOME YEARS AGO
The pupils who didn't enjo y watching teams p I a y game s went to the cafeteria to pla y quiet games such as checkers an d jig saw puzzles. That was befor e we had the game room. Everyon e learned to appreciate it and too k care of all the games.
On April 12 a style show wa s given for the 9A girls. The purpose was to show the girls wha t would be appropriate to wear o n graduation day. Girls from Mis s Wilson's home economics demonstrated the type of dress a tall , stout, or short girl should wear . Speeches were give·n on the different accessories. This show proved it is more important to b e simply dressed than over-dressed
• Did you know that ten year e ago we had eleven pairs of twin in Whittier? The list is too big s o we won't write it down. The firs t two names of the twins usuall y started with the same letter.
COME ON, KIDS
We want our Victory Garden t r go over big, So, come on, kids, get -your ho E and start to dig; You won't have to work all day , Only an hour or so we'll say, Instead of sitting around and doing nothing, Come on, kids, and be worth something.
- Rosella Holma r
NICKNAMES
Martha DeVore
Dale King
Margie Neff
Bonnie Burback
Marilyn Delehant
Shirley Glantz
Dale Harp
Jean Barton
Barbara Strubbe
Jean Johnson
Jean Hergert
Phvllis Newman
Alice Berry
Pat Marshall
Barbara VanEvery
Bright Ey e t
King Fis r Hon e :'r
Dimpl e i Dill ~ Cu fo Harpoo r Jean i · Peanu t ! Johnn i, Jean i, Philberr
Short 1 Patty L Ol So-Swe e
A REGULAR FELLOW ( conclusion )
Pan ting, Rick y gasped , ''C an I see my father?''
The guard answered , ''Well-I-I, all right," and called Ricky 's father .
"Papa! Quick ! They're going to blow up th e plant.''
"Vas is this? Vat do you say , Rick y? Who iss going to blow up the plan t?"
''The men! They ar e in there now l Hurry, papal Hurry! " Papa looke d alarmed. Takin g Ric ky's hand he hurried past the protesti ng guards to an offi ce in the back of the plant. All this time Rick y's heart was sinking for they were wastin g so much time. Once there Ricky had to tel1 his story to Mr. Martin, the he ad man. When he had finish ed, he wa lead to a big windo w. Mr. Martin lifted the shade covering it and they cou ld see the whole plant. Rick y was asked to show them the men he m e a n t, and he po nt ed to two men down by the boilers
"Why , I know those men," said Mr. Martin. ' ' The y are trust ed men in the plant."
"Bu t I saw them and heard their plans! They 've got Johnny and Bob and a lot of other boys tied up in Mr. Wilk 's barn. You'v e got to stop t hem. "
Mr. Martin smiled. ''Thos e youn g rascals ought to be tied up. They run th is town wild with their shouti n g an d their practi cal jokes.' ' Sudden ly he stopp ed smiling and fro wned. "Sa y! Those men . are putting someth ing into one of the open mach ines! Come on! We 've got to stop them!"
Jus t as they reached the door to the production room , six chatterin g boys and a ver y angry polic eman rushed past the guards. "Hey! Mr. Martin! Som e men are going to blow up the plant!"
"I alread y knew that." replied Mr. Martin. "Rick y followed you to the barn and heard the plan, so he hurried over here.''
A pril 17, 1942
" Well, wha t are we waiting for?" asked R icky. " You saw them put something into one of the machines. '' With thes e words he rushed into the producti on ro om and reach ing the machine, he reac h ed in "ide and drew out a bomb. He ran outdoors and just reached the out "' ide of the plant and let go of the bomb when it went off. The force of the explosion knocked Ricky to the ground. He tried to get up but everything went black while he was on hi knees.
When Ricky regained co nsciousness, he looked a r o u n d him He was in a \vhite room.
Later in the afternoon he was allowed visitors. Johnny came in o the room and said in a soft voice, •'Ricky, do you play basketball?''
Ricky grinned and answered, "I sure do, Johnny. "
''W ell then if you play basketball, you'll have to be a member of our club ."
P..o Ricky became a member and the gang surely was proud to have him for he was almost a whole ba ·ketball team by him"elf. Anyho\v they wouldn't have won the tournament if it hadn't been for him.
The End
FEELI Gg FOR A LOCK
Li tle clock upon the wall, IIow I wish that you would fall, l ways going tick, tock, tick, Golly, but you make me ick. When you once reach threefl fteen, I would like to make you qu een, But at 8 A. M. each morn, by heck, I think I'd like to break you r neck.
- Mary Pease, Phyllis Barribo
WHAT IF
Marilyn Hamm were Marilyn cheese.
June Shore were June Sea.
Betty Legler we re Betty Armer.
orval Emery were Norval File.
Junior Dean were Junior Pr ffessor.
Barbara Summers were Barbara Winter.
Shirley Farmer were Shirley City.
Gene Rice were Gene Oats.
Pat Graham were Pat Cracker.
Marvin Bean were Marvin Pea.
Robert Turner were Robert traight.
Marie Ring were Marie Bracelet.
Cecil Hall were Cecil Room. Phyllis Newman were Phy11is Oldman.
Mildred Quick were Mildred Slow.
Elaine Derr were Elaine Wolf.
Jane Brown were Jane Green.
Marjorie Hart were Marjorie Liver .
Jack Wild were Jack Tame.
Pa ul Blumer were Paul Pants. P au l in e Fox were Pauline Wolf.
LeRoy King were LeRoy Queen.
Bob Chase were Bob Follow.
Shirley Dahl were Shirley Toy.
GUESS WHO GIRL
She is a member of home room 106. She has brown eyes and brown hair. She is 5 ft . 3-4 in. tall and weighs 108 pounds. Her favorite subjects are phys ed and algebra and her pet peeve is doing housework. Her favor ite hobby is dancing. Her pals are Lois Umberger, Marian Wolf, and Bonnie Smith. She is a member of the 9A class.
BOY
He is a member of home room 308. He has brown hair and blue eyes. He weighs 136 lbs. and is 5 ft. 7 1-2 inches tall. Phys ed is his favorite study and his pet peeve is girls. Swimming is his hobby. His pals are Jack Applebee a.nd Sam Engle. He is a 9A
SPORT SHORTS
220 has finally won a basketball championship! After playing in the finals for a number of times without any success, they finally copped the tournament by beating 112, 2 to 1, in one of the most exciting games ever seen by Whittier students. Ray Aguirre and Martin Wilson led the playing for 220 while Bob Walters did his best for 112.
Here are some of the teams that might make Baseball Champion 220 keep on their toes. They are 103, 314, 310, 208, 105, and 207. The dark horse of this race could be 102 .
Has the Spring Fever got you? Are you kicking your heels and letting out a war whoop? Are you swinging your arms and commenting on the ladies' hats? If you are, you have Spring Fever.
Speaking of spring, as your sports editor was out on a pleasure ride (purely accidental, Mr. Henderson) well, back to the subject, as we were passing Oak Lake, we saw two girls swimming. Is that dumbness or Spring Fever?
The boys as well as the girls like dancing in the gym. So we thought we'd better mention it in the boys sports column too because many Whittier boys really look forward to Fridays. If you think you're being left out of things, Remember Friday.
- George Wilcox
PUPILS LEA VE
We are all sorry these pupils have left: Robert Luehr 312 , has left for Salt Lake City. Loretta Foreman, 210, has joined Northeast. Barbara Byrum has moved to Washington. Phyllis Cameron, 222, has gone to Fort Crook. Alice Smith, 314, has gone to County District 134, and Clyde Harral , 205, has entered College View.
Keep them goin' with our hoein'!
- Jack Lange
PUPILS ENTERTAIN
The Beacon .club went on a hike, April 3, to Antelope park. They also had a party, April 10, at Muny park.
Bob Clarke gave a party on March 27, to which fourteen Whittier pupils were invited. Among them were Cecil Hall, Darlene Pillard, Junior Kirkendall and Jerry Rauch. Say Bob, were you celebrating something?
APRIL CHRISTMAS CARD
On April 6, N o r m a J e a n Niederhaus received a Christmas card from her uncle in China who has been captured as a prisoner by the Japanese. He mailed the card November 16, 1941, before we entered this war. He is in the Marine Corps and had planned to come home in May.
PUPILS ENTER
We are glad to have these new pupils at Whittier. A wand a Suiker, 316, h a s come f r o m Everett, while Patricia Eiken bary, 320 has reentered from Chicago. Ell~nna Rogers, 310, came from Wooster, Ohio and Nancy Sine, 212 has come from LoR Angeles. John Barnes, 316, came from O'Neill, Nebraska.
ANSWERS TO TEACHERS' NAMES
Miss Ralston
Miss Miller
Miss M. L. Wilson
Miss Emma Madsen
Miss Holley
Mrs. Boschult
Miss Zamzow
Miss Hooper
Mrs. Swisher
John; bring the shovel and pick.
Jack: Why?
John: George is stuck in the mud.
Jack: Let him walk out.
John: He can't. He's wrong side up.
LIVE WIRES
Well, I'm back again w it h more news and talk about gi r ls sports. The ninth grade gi r ls have learned a brand new d an ce called Tantoli. Miss Jennin g s is teaching it to the boys on Fr id ay noons in the girls gym. It loo ks like a lot of fun.
They played soccer three - ba se too. Just between you an d me almost every kick hit agains t t he back wall. It is a good thing th at the lights in the gym are cov er e d with wire. The girls are re a ll y good at catching flies too. T h at 's how most of the outs are m ad e.
The phys ed classes had a pa rt in the Pan-American pro gr c1. m. Miss Jennings chose e leYe n children from one of her sev en t h grade classes to do a flag dr i1L
One of the seventh g ra de classes has had a lot of t u n playing donkey dodge -b a ll, dodge-ball and soccer bas e -h a ll with the boys.
The third period gym cla , is starting somthing new. The y a re planning to jump rope. The y a r e going to practice different n utmes until they know them vt:r y well and then put on a demon s t r ation. So if you see girls bri n g in g jumping ropes to school, do n ' ; b e surprised.
The volley ball games h ,., ve started again and many girl s 1re glad because of it. Some of t h e phys ed classes have been pl a y in g basketball.
On Fridays the girls gym h as been overcrowded because of t h e boys coming in to dance. S om e girls couldn't get into the g y m. Some girls that I have ta lk ed with suggested that the ro y s gym also be opened on Fr ida y. I think this is a good idea. Ma y be this will have been done by t he time this issue comes out.
ANSWERS TO GUESS W H O
Barbara Mohler
Bill Tracy
The Wh · ·tie Green a
Volu me 19
May 1, 1942
Number 14
Lincoln , Ne braska
SAL OM RIZK SPEA KS TOWHITT IER PUPILS
On e of the most inspiring talks of th e year was presented by Mr. Salo m Rizk at the assembl y, Apri l 20. His talk proved to be ver y interesting and everyone paid close attenti on . Mr. Rizk esc a p ing from starving Syria after the last war, made his way to A merica. His talk inspired in us s tudents a n ew faith and ' enthu siasm for democracy and mad e everyone of us glad that Ame r ica is our home .
TAL KS ABOUT ANI MALS
On April 18, David Searle gave an int eresting talk on the animals of Afr ica . He told us of some of the m ost interest ing ones such as the el ephant , giraff e, lion, tiger, ostr ich and man y othPrs. He ended by telling about the African snake s . He explained to us that mos t of the jungle animals appea r only at night, and that you migh t be disappoin ted if you expect e d to see a lot of them.
PUP ILS ENTER AND LEAVE
Hell o to these pupils. Nancy Sin· h as corrie to us from Los Angeles. Venetta K uskie and Marian Kusk ie came from Everett. Jean Sev ie r is also from Everett. La Freda Martin has reentered. Goo d-bye to thes e former Whi t ti er pupils. Victor Felsing left fo r Sioux City. Dorothy Leek and N oreen Leek have gone to Iowa.
COME ON, LET 'S VOTE
Next Monday, lVIay 4, you'll be going to the polls for Whittier's primary election . Then two weeks later, May 18, you'll be seen there again casting yo ur vote in the gene r al election. It's your duty a s a Whittier pupil to vote. Be there!.
Thes e are the girls running for office: President: Barbara VanEvery and Lill i an Eichle1·; Vice Pre s iden : Eberhart, Betty Bol for i ~~~~~.Iai
The Boy Delegates
These boys bring back the news from delegate meetings: Wesley Barton 302, Harry Fox 212, Ro b ert Wilson 309, LeRoy King 310, Chris Lyberis 110 , Howard Earl 220, Norman Walthers 107, Jack Prescott 307, Robert Hubbell 102, John Poulos 105, Richard Eirich 203, Fred Herzog 210, Bill Tra cy 308, Wesley Morrison 108. John Wahl 318, Robert Walters 112 , Frank Smith 106, Bill Wilson 303, Robert Simpson 103, Darwin Anderson 300, Wayne Lubke 207, Arthur Morey 304, Orland Hulbert 312, Francis C h r i s to p h e r 2 0 5 , Ed ward Schneider 208, Jack Applebee 320, Lawrence Gerdes 316, Bob binson 222.
The Victory Garden
, e Victory Garden is doing e· well since it has been nted. Every Saturday twenty ,.,..~..~ie,.-.rm.1pi ls go and work in it. So far~ · an ou will also ish. The Girls
Glee who are looking for the lost chord. To e n d this program there will be various kinds of tumbling acts. Doesn't it sound exciting? We'll all be waiting f r May 14 and the spring program.
THANK YOU
We want to thank Mary Lemke , 309, of Miss Holley's art class for the illustrati on on the front of this issue
dur ing shoal Miss Zamzow, Mr. Koza, and Miss Schemel's classes have gone out to work in the garden. On April 22 the garden class planted three and a half rows of p o tatoes, fifteen rows of peas, seven rows of carrots and fl ve rows of onions. All together about 40 rows have been planted. The rows are about 300 feet long. The girls have planted flowers. Some things needed to be planted are corn, tomato plants and cabbage. A great many seeds have been donated and the school didn't have to buy very many. Let us help bring the rest that is . needed for the Victory Garden.
SOMEONE NEW ELECTED
Something new has been added. The Beacon Club elected new officers. They are: President, Carmen Olson; Vice President, Mary Lou Reason; Secretary, Bon nie Mitts; and Treasurer. Bon nie Fitzsimmons.
Congratulations, winners!
THE
WHITTIER GREENLEAF
Founded and established jn 1924 as the official student publi cat ion of Whittier Junior High School pupils.
FACULTY ADVISORY BOARD
Miss P eterson, Miss Ferguson, Mr. Gammill GREENLEAF STAFF
Arlene Anstine
Marcia Adkisson
Phyllis Barribo
Ma r yell en Bolar
Verna Mae Glantz
Ruby B er lowitz
Norma Carroll
Betty Cederquist
Francis Christopher
Robert Church
Mary Ellen F e is
Robert Folden
Dorothy Bryant G era ldine Cooley
Twyla Dobbins
Mary Elll en Feis
Sheryl Hutchinson
Leah Jacoby
Emma Lofink
Natalie Maser
GREENLEAF PRINTERS
H erman Gesch
John Grebe
Dorothy Hense
Ros e lla Holman
Theodore Kahler
Art hu r Kolb
CAFETERIA MANNERS
Cafeteria manners have improved lately, eRpecially on the boys' side of the room There had been unnecessary laughing and loud talking, but the boys have improved quite a bit. Mr. Culler and Miss Jennings have shut down on let.ting pupils · eat ice cream outside of the cafeteria because girls have carelessly let it fall on the locker room floors. Let's be more careful about these things and not slip back into our old disorerdiy ways.
OUR WHITTIER
Did you know that Whittier is about the only school in Lincoln which trains boys to be movie operators? They are Bob Walters from home room 112 who works first period. Bob Chase in home room 308 who works it second period, Sam Engle from home rome 320 who works third period and next is someone from home room 220 who works fourth period. His name is Don Ringstmeyer. After fourth period comes fifth period. Bob Maxwell from 303 does his work this period. Last but not least by any means comes Bill Robinson who works sixth period and is a member of 106. Three cheers for each and every one of them.
We have a lot of apparatus for film and other programs. There is the microphone, silent movie mac h in e , sp ool film, s l i de machine, and many others too
Jim Millhollin
Alfred Murphy
Phyllis Newman
Pedro Orosco
Floyd R e ifschneider
Loren Robinette
Priscilla Morrison
Mary Pease
Dorothy Stevens
Mary Webber
Louie Ross
Raymond Schenaman
Don Slater
Andy Tautfest
Norman Walthers
Duane Wilkinson
Laurence Witulski
numerous to mention. These many machines don't just stand around and get dusty. No, indeed! Nearly every class in Whittier sees some kind of films once in a w bile. Miss E. Madsen has a schedule which she keeps on the blackboard which tells which rooms want to use the dark room at what t i me. Then too, we see quite a few films in assembly. It has certainly paid us to have apparatus for movies and sound effects for lots of films help us with our lesson s. We ought to especially thank General Electric for it is through this company that so many films have been presented.
Mrs. Boschult spends a long time trainin~ the boys after cshool, before school, and at noon. Therefore she deserves much credit. Most of the real work comes in learning to operate the machine and that's some job. The boys must learn all about every machine and learn how to thread with ease and how to operate them. How many of you boys who read the Greenleaf are in Mrs. Boschult's science classes? The operators are taken from her classes and are only the ones which are most interested. Mrs. Boschult trains ten people at a time and the six who are best are chosen for operators. It usually takes about one half of a semester to train them. The next time you see a film just remember how hard a lot of people have worked to make it possible for you to see it.
WHAT IF
Dorothy Bryant were Dorot h y Bryuncle.
Harriett Berry were Harr iet Plum.
Nellie Wilson were Nel1i e Won'tdaughter.
Phyllis Newman were Phy ll is Old woman.
Shirley Cook were Shirley Ra w.
Gene Rice were Gene Wheat. Pauline Fox were Pauline Bea r.
GIRLS.' OCTET POPULAR
Our Whittier Girls' Oct e t seems to have been quite po pular the past few weeks. Cha rice George, Betty Jean Dod d, • • Virginia Boberg, and Hel e n Glantz are first sopranoes. Carrying the second soprano par t s are Rose Lintt and Dorisan m , Michael. La st but not least, b y far, are the altos, Pat Moffe t t. Marian Oliver and Helen Ha h n: On last Apri l 14 they sang at: the School Forum at the boa rcl rooms and did a swell job. Y ou will remember how gr a nd th ey sounded when they sang for t h e Whittier assembly of April l f. The 8A's who went on th e ir civic league trips on April 117 enjoyed their group of son gs that were arranged so nicel ~ , , especially "Shortnin' Bread."
We hope this little bit of p opul a rity won't make you thi n •·~ you have outgrown Whittier a ':', we would like to hear from y o u again, and soon .
Mrs. Riley, you did a fine jo b of dire ct in g during Mr .-. White's absence.
A shipwrecked sailor had be en on a desert island for three yea rs and was overjoyed one day to seP a boat coming in to shore. A n office r stepped out and threw hi m a bundle of newspapers. ''T h e captain's compliments," said t h e officer, ''and will you please re a d these and let him know if you st ill wish to be rescued?'' THE WHITTIER
TAT TLETALE S
A lo t can h appen in three week s, and I'm n ot sure I can remem b er every thing but will make a stab at i t.
Wh ile looking thrn ugh so m e files the othe r day we fou n d that som e people h er e in Whittie r have name s t h at are just abou t or e x ac t ly a like. Did yon kno w that th e r e are two Betty Smi ths and t ha t they are no relati on ? Don't get t h e two Bob Ch ases mi x ed u p. J ust remember that one i s in the eighth grad e and one i n the ninth. Je rald and Ge rald Chaffin are twin s and cou ld be easily confu se d. The B ell twjns' names are so much al ike that even the teach ers have a hard time telling the differenc e . One is Donna Mae and th e other is Donna Mar y Jane and J u ne Brown are not re l ative s, b u t ·v:ouldn't you have a mes s if t hey were in the same class, a s they were in Engli sh last s emester? Don't lea ve off the "t " on Fern Egg e1 t or y ou will p robably get Fem Egge r Can you tell Jen:v and John W agne r a part? Alice Jo Smit h and Alice Smith are both 7A' s but are n ot hard to keeJl strai ght.
H ere's one on Miss Peterson. It a ll started when she decided • to g o out to th e diamond where her h ome room boys were playing. Coming ou t of the side door it d idn't look so du sty and wind y, but just a s she got abont to the diamond, t he wind came up a n d blew sand and what have you in he r di rec ti on. She turned arou nd and d ashed for the door whil e the win d gave he r a new hai r -d o and th e sand powdered he r nose (th ere's ·where being so s m all help s because the ,,·ind blew r i ght on) and Mjss Peterson ju st stpppe d long enough to say t o me, "Pu t that in Tattletale s , Sheryl." So here it is.
In Miss Zamzow's second period science class, Patty Lou May 1, 1942
Sch mit t was report ing on trees \Yhe n s he finally ende d up sa ying, "I will now repo r t on the Dagw ood tree." The c 1 a s s roar ed w it h laught er. She look ed pu zzled and wa nted to know what was the ma t ter. W hen Miss Zam zo w finally caug ht her breath s he said, "Patty Lou, don't you me a n the dogwood tree?"
The 9A issue of t h e Gree nleaf would never be complet e vYithout the usual pictu r es But ,,·e needn't ,rn1Ty because Friday, April 17, they were take n (and the camera wasn't broken either). Don't miss the 9A issue which will have approximately 600 pupils and teachers of Whittier whose pictures will be ;:;hown.
Crime does not pay. Yes, now that ·Helen Boydston has proved this to those on the Greenleaf staff and mostly to herself, Jet·s see if you believe it is true al3o.
On Wednesday, April 1 5, thinking she would be late t o sixth period, Helen broke int o a desperate nm. Since no one wa s in the hall, (she thought) why not nm just a little? Sud d en like, everything looked a litt le s hady, and the r e was a t hud The results of th i s little accident were for Helen a brnke n nos , a bruised lip, and a b la ck eye. The unfortunate boy who was innocently i nvolved s u ffered only a badly b ru ised che ek. Believe what y ou li k e.
Although t he war seem s far away
It's really ve ry cl os e to da y ; Let's make ev er y min ut e pay, For the goo d old U S. A.
-·Elaine Carroll
A fl oor walker tired of his job gave it up and jo ine d t he police force. L a t e r a friend asked him how h e li k ed it. " We ll , " he rep lie d , "what I like best is that the customer is always wrong."
SNAK E ST ORY
A cousin of Annalies e Diet ze , who lives in Brown county, whic h is densely populated with ra ttl es nakes, told Annaliese this story . On a day not too long ag o h e w i bed to go hunting, so takin g a large stick, w h ich p r oved t o be a good idea , he s t arted off. Spying a baby rattle snake h e followed it until it disappea r ed into a hole. After poking the stick into the hole he had a visitor that was not altogether unexpected. This rattlesnake , that w as longer than any he ever seen, was promptly followed by at least thirty more, a trifle smaller than the first:
Now you may think this sn ake st ory sounds more li ke a fish story, but It's th e hon e s t to goodness tr u th (they say) .
EXTRA DONATIONS
Miss Schemel ' s home ro om made an extra donation of seeds for the Victory Garden. The pupils br ought an assortment of forty packages of seed s They cut a ''V" out of cardboard and fastened some of the packages of seeds onto it. They placed t he " V" in a basket and put the re s t that were left around it. The n they took them to Mr. Culler
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Clean your ears so you can hear, Mother's Da y is drawing near; Make y our bed every day, Wash the di s hes-it will pay; Clean your feet every night, Tha t will keep the b e dsp r ead white; Brush your teeth after every meal
And a span k ing you won't fe e l, Save your allo wance every week So a gift for mother you can seek.
- Marcia Adkisson , Mary Ellen Feis
Quizz -minded child; '' I am going to have a nick e l. Tru e or false? ' '
KNOW YOUR INDIANS
For the last two or three issues we have had interviews of interesting pupils here in Whittier. For this issue we have interviewed a new girl who with her sister Roberta has just come to Whittier this semeter, Joretta Ingersoll.
These two girls c am e from Gordon, Nebraska, where there is an Indian Reservation. The tribe or origin is unknown, but we have a description of their dress. The men wear braids with bright colored ribbons on the ends, beaded moccasins and the rest of their clothing resembles that of white men. The women wear leather dresses, bead e d moccasin s , and brigh t shawls Their fo od consists of man y things we would never thing of eating such as dog soups, snakes , and unusa b le meat from packing houses and freight stations. The y usually hang their extra meat up to dry for future use.
They _pay little or no attention to the white people but are friendly. If when you see them on the street you say , ''Hello Co 1a," which means, "Hello friend,'' they will grin, grunt and lo and behold you have made a new friend. Dances are given for the whites ' benefit only if they pay highl y in either money or food. If it i s a d a nce for rain, they wear eagle feathers in their hair, bells, and hold snakes in their mouths because they believe that snakes are the animals most like lightning and can travel to the .rain gods faster. When a person not in their t ribe kills or hurts a member of their tribe they go on the "War Path" with a very gruesome war dance where they carry knives, tomahawks and so on.
The first outstanding or unusal thing noticed about a new baby forms the foundation of his name. The chief of this particular tribe of Indians is usually the man who can hold hot coals under his arms and in his mouth the longest.
The work of the Indian woman is somewhat harder than the white women in Lincoln do. A few of them are al ways carrying home the groceries, taking care of the papooses, cooking the meals, plus doing most of the work in their fields such as hoeing and weeding . The girls weave baskets, bead moccasins, take care of the small children, and make cloth. Boys are rather lazy but help in t he fields and bead moccasins to sell to white people. They make their living mostly by the dances they give for the tourists and sight seers. A little money for groceries is given them by the United States government and a few surplus commodities.
The new babies are very small, have a lot of hair and J oeretta says that they are kind of cute. Cradles are hung in the trees so that the mother of a crying bab y may put him in it and swing him to quiet his cries.
A few of those so-called nativ e s speak the English language but would rather grunt than take the trouble to say so many words . The children speak better and learn our language more quickly than the older Indians. Those who are educated don't care to carry on a conversation with people of other races so they just answer "No savey" meaning they don't understand.
·The landlords of Gordon, . Nebraska, don't like to rent their • houses to the Indians as they have lice and bedbugs.
When Ingersolls first went to Gordon, they rented a house that a family of Indians had also wanted to rent , so when Ingersolls went on a vacation the Indians simply went in and moved them out in to the yard. However most of them live in tents.
Thank you, Joeretta. We have enjoyed our trip to Gordon.
It's easy to say and it's easy to do, There's work to be done in the Victory <;;arden too.
- Marian Obermeyer
RAIN
"Rain, rain everywhere," In gloomy despair
On a cloudy day Is that what you say?
Or do you say, ''Swell, This just rings the bell, I like to hear rain
On my window pane; It gives me a thrill
When things are so still, A chance it gives me
My new book to see.''
And when I go to bed
It's true when it's said That I like the rain
On my window pane.
- Mary Webber, 3,) 0
GIFT FOR MOTHER
• Mother's day will soon be h ere,
And though you know that s h e' s a dear , It wouldn't hurt to tell her s o , She would like it, I just kno w :
A little gift of anything
To her great happiness would bring,
Make her a present, right no start,
She will be happy in her he art .
- Mary Weber , 30 0
HATS
Did you see the exhibit of hat s in the show case recently? T he y belong to Diane Lantz who h a s received hats from sixteen s t ate s and from one island.
Absent-minded Prof. (to s ervant): You say there is a coll e cto r at the door? Did you tell h i m I was out?
Servant: Yes but he didn' t b elieve me.
Prof.: Well, I guess I will h a ve to tell him myself.
Don't spend on candy and g u m, Save it; it will buy a gun.
- Delores Gla11t z
Get your rake and hoe, And make your Victory Gar d en grow.
- Delores Glan
WHITTIER ,S PRIZE WINNER
Carl Summers ha s been entering contes ts in which he does imitation s on his siren. One of these conte sts was the Liberty Companio n Magazine contest where he was tied for first place. He al s o placed first in the Nebr aska Theater contest of April 3. The prize was five dallars in defense stamps. This enables him to take part in the finals where, if he is lucky, he will win the twenty-fi ve dollars first prize. Following his performance at the Nebra ska Theater a man from an Auto Insurance Compan y asked him to entertain them with his siren im it ations at their co nvention.
GUESS WHO BOY
He is a member of 105. He is 5 ft. 8 in. tall and weighs 135 lbs. He has bro wn hair and brown eyes. His pal ii! John Poulos and hi s favorite subj e ct is English His pet peeve is girls.
GIRL
She is a me mber of 314. She is 5 ft. 6 in. tall and weighs 115 lbs. She has red hair , freckles , and green eyes. Her pals are Betty Legler, Norma Carroll, June Shore, and h er favorite subjects are type and gym. Her pet peeve is boys.
SONGS THAT REMIND YOU
Two of a Kind-Ve ra Schwindt, Velma Schwindt, Gerald Chaffin, Jerald Chaffin.
You' re Pretty as a PicturePat Moff et.
Deep In · A Dream - Barbara Mohler . I Love To Whistle Sam Engle. Dark Eyes - Marion Wolf. Angel s With Dirty Faces - Bob Walters , Paul Blume r, Norval Emery , LeRoy King. You Couldn't Be CuterPhyllis Harris.
May 1, 1942
OH , HAP PY DAY
When Mothe r woke up on May 10, she was astonished to see the famil y standin g beside her bed. "N ow Mothe r," said Father with an air of bestowing great riches upon her, ''y ou just stay in bed thi s morning. We'll do all the work around the house in no time.''
''At last! One day when I can sleep as long as I like!'' she said with a sigh of relief. '' This will be the happiest Mother's Day ever.''
"Now children, we'd better get started. Johnnie, you get out the broom and Betty, you can dust the furniture. I'll get some breakfast for Mother."
The family wo rk ed at a great pace for the whole ten minutes. Then •Betty went running into the k it chen where her father was wrestling with an egg beater which had somehow gotten mixed up with Mother's best tea apron An omelette was doing its best in the confines of a waffle iron. ''Papa, Johnnie knocked the goldfish onto the floor and all the dust spilled out of the vacuum cleaner."
Sweat began to roll down hiR forehead. ''Just clean it up the best you can and come help me fix breakfast. You can watch the toast while I ta ke this tray up to Mother."
Five minutes later Father went down to finish his task when he saw smoke pouring out of the kitchen. In alarm he shouted , "Mot her! Mother! Something is wrong with the stove! He grabbed a pan of water and threw it onto the stove."
Mothe r h u r r i e d rlown the stairs with a worried look on her face. She took one look around the kitchen and saw what the trouble was. "Sh oo!" she cried. ''I'll have your dinner started in less than half an hour. Now keep out of the kitchen until I call you '' Then she turned off the toaste r, took two pieces of charcoal out of it, opened the window,
and as if by magic, the smoke disappeared. An hour later the family was seated around the dinner table.
''Well, dear, it certainly helped to have us do the work this morning, didn't it?" said Father "You look at leas t five yea rs younger."
"It certainly did!" exclaimed Mother, but to herself, "Whew! It's a good think Mother's Day comes only once a year,'' and she thought of the gray hair she had plucked out that morning.
-Marcia Adkisson, Mary Pease
NICKNAMES
Mildred Thompson-Tillie
Helena Alfrey- Henie
Betty Johnson-Johnnie
Kent Wassung-Buz
Betty Bollen - Sparks
Phyllis Mericle- Phil
Beverly Thompson-Woo Woo
Shirley Hoback - Blackie
Norma Bailey-Bangs
Dorothy Keller- Mousey
Florence Hahn-Honey
Richard Eirich-Buck
Bernice Shaffer-Bee
Helen Eirich-Corky
Kenneth Hulbert- Minney
Mary Lou Daniels - Blondie
Mildred Ed wards-- Micky
Dorothy Patterson - Pat
Harold Fisher- Fish Hook
Bernice Hillard - Drip
Joan Eberhart- Ebby
Marilyn Kerr - Pinky
9B CIVIC LEAGUE TRIP
The 9B's went on a civic league trip, April 23. They met at the Nebraska Theater where the speaker was Mr. John M. Alexander. There were three teachers from Whittier in attendance: Mr. Koza, Miss Kier, and Miss Mumford.
The optimists in Italy say, ''We are going to lose this war,'' and the pessimists say, "Yes, but when?"
SPORTS SHORTS
How many times has your home room forfeited? Once, you say? Well, that is just once too many. Come on, fight for your home room. You may not do a spectacular feat yourself, but just bringing yourself out there will keep up the spirit of your home room and insure you of more victories. To play, a home room mu st have five players before 12 : 30 or it will be a forfeit.
In the last issue your sports writers predicted some of the winning teams. Well, after thinking it over, I believe that we can add three home rooms to that win column, '212, 108, and 203. Champions 220 will have to fight some battle to stave off these threatening home rooms.
· Flash - Boys gym classe s p lay girls g ym classes.
Miss Jennings has just told us that the boys are playing b aseball and other games with the girls. This all happens in phys ed. classes, not at the noon hour.
If anything happens in Whittier Boys Sports that thi s column doesn't write up, will you write up the data and send it to 210? Your sports writers will do what they can about putting it in the Greenleaf.
-George Wilcox, 316
Donald Hays, 320
LETTERS SENT
Several · letters have been written to children in England by Miss Hooper's English classes. They are expecting answers very soon.
These same pupils, after hearing the assembly by Salom Rizk, wrote to him of their reaction to his talk. Mr. Rizk left his address with Mr. Culler so that their notes can be sent to him.
PARTIES
A group of Whit tier pupils had a swimming party, Friday, April 17. Among those who attended were S h i r 1e y Bennett, Bill Gillespie, Marilyn Yowell, Orval Sommerstedt, Diane Lantz, Bill Tracy, Jack Applebee, Betty Jamesson, Shirley Chandler, Bill Derrick, Vfrginia Lampshire, Warren Weston, Paul Blumer, Phyllis Harris, Kathryn Geist, Bob Walters, Barbara Mohler, and Sam Engle. It was held at the Y. M. C. A.
Recently Marion Wolf harl a slumber party. Those who attended were Barbara Mohler, Bonnie Smith, and Lois Umberger. The slumber part of the party was on Sunday morning.
CREDIT FOR BOOK TESTS
Out of twenty-three Whittier pupils who took book tests , twenty-one received efficiency credit. Our average was very high, but still, maybe we ought to hide our heads somewhere. Miss Kah m's eleven-year-old brother took the test and received a higher grade than anyone in Whittier.
NAPKIN HOBBY
Geraldine Wart has a hobby of collecting napkins. She now has over two hundred of them. Geraldine mounted her napkins on cardboard. They were displayed in the show case recently. If you would like to trade napkins with her, she would be very · happy to obiige.
LIVE WIRES
Several classes practiced throwing. They threw the baseball at targets painted on the walls. There are five different scores they can get if the ball hits the target. You can be sure that only a very few of the balls don't. These are called accuracy tests.
fun just the same. The girls all seem to like it.
Dancing in the gym is usua l ly on Mondays and Wednesdays a s well as Fridays now. There are many there even though so m e stay outside because o f t he warmer weather.
Here are the results of th o .;;e accuracy tests I spoke of be for e. For the ninth grade May Bonman, Dona Hoffman, Ilah P oi tman, Norma Schleiger an rl Mary Ann Weatherly were b es L. · For the eighth grade Darl e ·e P a ppa s and Margaret Wil s, in get the highest scores. For t 1 e 7B class Betty Wilson, Pa t i y Hudkins, Barbara · Johns to 1 1, Anna Ledoux and Phyllis l\if p 1icle were best. There are so r, 7 A's in this class. For the 7 :\ ~class Evelyn Carr, Evelyn Poch op, and Geraldine Niederh m· were best.
The games are mostly outd ocr ones now that the weather is • nice. Volley ball is being pla y._ d outside some of the time ins tc. • l of in the gym. The gil'l s ha v c a new bat to replace the cra cL •i one.
The second period gym cl ~ s has been playing a game whi h they claim is really fun. I t ,: called base-baseball. It remh , .~ me of kick-pin in several W h.There is a catcher, pitchel', fir -;t , second and third baseman a .., in baseball. The pitcher pitches l 1e ball and the batter catche s 1t and throws it into the fi e (l. There aren't any strikes. l~· n a thrown ball is caught, the b, tter is out . The batter run .. U the bases as in kick-pin. T 1e baii also must be thrown to }111 bases. Th e batter may be 1 1t out on any base.
ANSWERS TO GUESS WHO
Marilyn Kerr
Vernon Brown
They also played baseball, one of their favorite games. The home rooms are playing baseball with each other.
Deck tennis_ is not played as often as baseballi but it's a lot of
The cadet from the Uni " j,rsity has been teaching sev e1 J exercises such as lying on t htir backs on the floor with t heir hands clasped above t h e i r heads and then sitting L1 P quickly touching their feet with their hands. The girls cert ai n 1y h a v e been exercising t l' d r muscles.
The Wh itfe Gree nleaf
Volume 19 N u m b er 15
May 15, 1942
L incoln, Ne b r aska
VICTO RYGARDEN PROGRESS ESWELL
Thi rteen pup i l s, Miss H ult , Mr. Culler, an d Mr . R os s worke d Saturda y morning, l\lay 2, fro m nine t o eleven in our Victo ry Ga r den . They hoed the wee ds and p r ep a r ed a seed bed for corn. Mi ss Hult sa id th£ peas and onions are d oing fine and t hat they can be seen from the r oad. Whil e Mr. Culler and the gi rls planted flower seeds, the bo ys set out fi ve dozen tomato pl ants. Ml'S. Ross, gcuden chairm an of the P . T . A ., is going to b r i ng more tomatoes to be plante d. This i s ju l a sample mornin g's wor k in our garden.
Thi s su mmer ap proximately 110 pupils are goin g to work in the garden. T hey ha ve agreed to wo r k certain hours of the day and wh ile g l anc ing through the files we' v e noticed that there a r e some ch i l dren willing to work si x d a ys of the week for a time. Wi th all these pupils helping, ou r g arden is going to turn out a winner .
9B's Nomin ate Offi ce rs
The 9B class ha v e no minat e d these 9 B pupils for t he ir class officers for next semes ter. F or president are Joe Gallagher and Geraldi ne Knaub. Phyl[is Newman a nd Bi 11 Gab lehaus are runnin g for the offi ce of vicepresiden t. Those run n i n g for secretary a re Bob Ro b in son, Ed Schneider , a nd Charles N ul l.
ELECTION RETU RNS
T h e s e p upils re ce i v ed the h i ghes t num b er of vo tes in the p rima ry el ect i on s.
F or the girls presi dent Barbara Van E v e r y rec eived 180 votes and Lill ian Ei chler <rot 1 86 . Vic e -p r e s i dent, Betty Bolle n 10 4 v ote s and Joan E b erhart received 2 35 Yote . Th e t wo highest ru nni n g for se crnta ry were Ch arlotte E llis wi th 20 6 votes and Gernldine Tubm a n with 11 2.
The boys that came o u t ,,·ith highest votes were: Pres i dent , Guy Dean receiving 62 rntes and Alvin Hoffman came out ahead with 1 62 votes. Vicepresident, F rank Damian got 216 and Kenneth Slravm received· 102 votes. Sec r eta r y , harle Bolus came out ahead \\ith 208 Yotes and Duane Sloan got 67.
Only 727 votes were cast in Friday's elect i on. This means th at 200 p upi ls di d not vote The final electio n s will be held on 1fay 18. Let' a ll be t her e to vote and may the best ma n win .
Pupils Enter and Leave
We h ave only one new pupil in Whittier si n ce our la st issu e. He is Keith Wrig h t and h e com e s to us from Te xa s.
Whitt i e r h as lost t hes e pupils: Betty Johnso n to Eagl e, eb raska , Evelyn Carr left for Milferd , La F re d a Martin has moved back to Om aha , Gerald Higgins has {ef t fo r California, and ,Jack Voss moved to Omaha
PRIZE WINNERS
W hit ti e r pupils ar e prize fisherm en a nd we can pr ov e it. Jean Ba ll ance and Myron Weideman were t he g rand pr ize wi nners for t he girls and boys at the fi rst kids' fishing day, Sunda y, A p ril 26, at Oak Cre ek Lake . They ca ught the firs t fis h of the d a y. The prizes were fishin.g rods and reels. Congratulations, Jean and My r on .
Pupils Present Garden Assembly
The assembly last Friday , Ma T 8, was a V i ctory Garde n pla y given by some of the 8A pupils. It was an ori g inal play Uncle S am wa s p lay ed by R andall Renke n . Ot h er p up i l who took part were Shirley Ma ser , Ma nuel filler, Bill Denick, Ba rba ra Haning , Doris Basler a nd Bob Riefschneider Gerald i ne Kelley played two numbers on h er violin. Recognition wa g iv en to Mr . Ross' fourth pe r iod cla , pupils vvho measured the g ar den plot from fr. Koza's cl a s s , boys who are building t he t r e llis, and th e girls in ho me ec wh o made g a rden clothe s Bo ys ' Glee sang "Buy a Bond To d a y ." The announceT was Pat t y Mo ff ett . Closing the assemb ly the audience s ang "The St a r Spangled Banner."
KEEP 'E M SMILI N'
Prese n ted on l ast n ight's " Keep 'Em S mil in' " program were the following acts : Johnso n b r other s rodeo, gi r ls' octet, combined girls' glee, boy ' glee, tumblers, Tizzy Lish, orche s tra, Me x ican hat dance, chaipinecas (Mexican clap dance) , fancy rope jumpers, baton twirle r s, jumping rope, cartwheels a nd hand spring (wi t h hand turning).
Tap dan es with ropes, a skating act and a skit-"Super S a lesmanship.' '
SWEET AF TE RNOONS
Suga r r a t io ning w as really sweet for pupi ls. Sc h oo ls w er e dismissed every a f ternoon from May 4 to 8 so that teachers could re g ister applicants for rationing card s . Registeri n g was done from 2 :00 to 7 :00 P .M
WE AR E SORRY
There were a couple of nam e s omitted in boy delegates last issue - Max Hansen of 314, and Jerry White of 209. We hope you don ' t feel sli gh ted .
THE WHITTIER GREENLEAF
Founded and established in 1924 as the official student publication of Whittier Junior High School pupils.
FACULTY ADVISORY BOARD
Miss Peterson, Miss Ferguson, Mr. Gammill
GREENLEAF STAFF
Arlene Anstine
Marcia Adkisson
Phyllis Barribo
Maryellen Bolar
Verna Mae Glantz
Ruby Berlowitz
Norma Carroll
Betty Cederquist
Francis Christopher
Robert Church
Mary Ellen Feis
Robert Folden
Dorothy Bryant
Geraldine Cooley
Twyla Dobbins
Mary Elllen Feis
Sheryl Hutchinson
Leah Jacoby
Emma Lofink
Natalie Maser
GREENLEAF PRINTERS
Herman Gesch
John Grebe
Dorothy Hense
Ros e lla Holman
Th e odore Kahler
Arthur Kolb
VACATION DOINGS
Whoopee! Here comes the heat wave and summer vacation. We can just feel the cool water of the swimming pool as we sit there on the beach toasting our backs in the sun. If you tire of this, then you can play a hot game of tennis and sweat like a Turk. Visiting the mountains is surely a lark. Often we get so hot we just lie in the shade all day. But there is work to be done too. Spending a bit of each week in the Victory Garden would be a great help. By doing various other kinds of defense work too you can make your vacation very helpful to your country. You may even find this more fun than loafing. The Greenleaf class is hoping all of you will have a wonderful vacation.
SUMMER DELIGHTS
Summer vacation is drawing near, Swimming and fishing (no drowning!) will be here: Ice cream and candy most every night, This will meet your heart's . delight; Trips to the mountains, a fish or two, Stretch your fingers with a story not true; So do be careful and watch your step, · Or school next fall-well, we won't mention it.
- Marcia Adkisson, Natalie Maser
Jim Millh-ollin
Alfred Murphy
Phyllis Newman
Pedro Orosco
Floyd R e ifschneider
Lor en Robinette
Priscilla Morrison
Mary Pease
Do r othy Stevens
Mary Webber
Louie Ross
Raymond Schenaman
Don Slater
Andy Tautfest
Norman Walthers
Duane Wilkinson
Laurence Witulski
YOU CAN HELP!
Do you want to help your country win this war? You can, and here's how. If you give up the idea that you have to have things you don't need and buy stamps with this extra money you save, I'm sure you'll find yourself happier. You can be proud to tell your friends that you are helping your country by buying war savings stamps and you may even encourage them to try it too. There's a lot more to it than just sitting back and predicting we'll win the war. You have to give up a few comforts and make that prediction come true.
Baby Face-Wesley Morrison. I Always Walk With BillyBill Gillespie.
Dark Eyes - Betty Cederquist.
Margie-Marjory McCor kle.
I Dream of Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair-Jeanne Barton.
Big Bad Wolf-Jerry Rauch.
WARREN MYERS HURT
A former Whittier pupil, a brother of DeLoris Myers, was hurt recently in a plane crash at Pensacola, Florida. He was Warren Myers, rear gunner on his plane in the Navy Air Corps.
He had some ribs broken, h is eye and his shoulder were hu rt , and he had twelve stitch es taken in his head.
OUR WHITTIER
Physical fitness is importa nt in our national war effort. Man y hundreds of people are now e mployed by our government to improve the health and physic a l standards of American boys in the service . Pupils of Whitti er should be proud of their gy m for it's not only the largest on e in Lincoln but it provides ente l'tainment and fun for everyon e
During this last semest r many new games have be en tried out and they have ma de quite a hit too. Quite a few of the girls in physical educati on classes have been jumpin g ropes. They think it's lots of fun. Some have learned to j um D with two ropes at once. Othe rs have learned to dance whi le jumping. Another game th e t has gone over big is somethi n g they call pitching horseshoe ;-: . They pitch washers into a ho ]e in the ground. Miss Jennin gs would certainly like to ma ke this one of the noon activiti e·-· but so far she hasn't.
There is no end to the equi 1 -:ment in the gym but much of it is old and worn. There are so ccer balls, volley balls, baseb all bats and balls and basket ball s, also paddle tennis balls and net :-; , beanbags and batons for tra c1< work.
In warm weather there a re about 125 to 150 pupils in t he gym and even more in the wi nter.
In bad weather tumbling a nd basketball are played quite a lot. When it's warm there a re other games like baseball. Everyone enjoys dancing ju the gym, even the boys. It really is lots and lots of fun so if you don't go dancing in t he gym you certainly ought t o. You'll enjoy yourself, and y ou might make some new frien d s . Don't forget to go to the g ym and dance. It's swell!
TATT LETALES
A lot can happen in two weeks time between the issues of the Greenleaf and our list is long, so let's go! Bang, bang, bang! Yes, it's coming from 310. N o, i t's not murder; it's just Mrs. Boschult' ninth grade scien ce classes experimenting with explosives. What. You'd like t o bang too? OK, here's the r e cipe. Take a little potassium chlorate (powdered form for be st results). Now pour on a lit t le phosphorou s which ha s been dissolved in carbon disul p hi de. When the carbon disulp hide evaporates, s t a n d back !
Fro m a 9B English cl a ss come s this little stor y , T h e mem b ers of the class have b een wri t in g plays and givin g them for t he rest of their classmat es. Barb ara VanEver y, Shirley Hoback, Marian Loos, Phyllis N ewrn an, Betty Clough, and Shirle y Cook made up a play in which the butler wa to announce the visitor or other calle rs . Now the clock in their Engli sh class is a little behind the t imes and is ahvays wrong and the teacher found it necessar y to ask Mr. Martin, the custodia n, to have it fixed. Getting back t o our story where the butl er is ann ouncing some gue sts-"Mrs. Jones and her little boy," said the butler. Bu t before Mrs Jones and her little boy coul d come in, Mr. Martin walked into the room with hi s step ladder unde r his arm ( whi ch seems a queer place to car ry a little boy) to fi x the clock. Mrs. Jone s has a ve1·y quee r looking child, I'm thinkin'. H ow about you?
Her e is some "Hot Snow." The other day in Mr. Ross' third period Metal Trades class some one re marked, ''One hot summer I wa s cultivating my popcorn with ho rses and you know it was May 15, 1942
so hot that the popcorn popped and when the horses saw it they thought it was snow and froze to death."
In our last issue you will remember we mentioned the "Bell Twins." It so happens that the "Bell Twins" aren't twins. We are ver y sorry, girls.
Have you noticed that in the halls when a group of girls fly by they usually have a loose phrase or a ''hum de dum'' of the Marines Hymn? ls it because they enjoyed the show entitled ''Shores of Tripoli?"
We would like to thank Barbara Settle of 110 who wrote the pledge that went around to home rooms with the minute men. We are sure it helped to put thi campaign over in a big way.
VACATION PLANS
Barbara Strubbe is planning to go to California this summer to see her father.
PARTIES
Betty Hergenrader had a katjng party on May 11, and Kenneth Bowman entertained at a birthday party on May 1.
B. Mohler: What did you have fo r lunch?
.M . Wolf: Three gue ses.
l3. Mohler: No wonder you're so skinny.
The little worms were digging in dead earnest. Poor Earnest.
A certain man had trouble remembering names. He was eating his dinner one day when looking up from his paper he saw a famiiiar face. He shook his hand and invited him to join him at dinner. The embarrassed man replied, "But I'm the waiter sir."
Get your hoe and get your rake, Get busy for goodness sake.
-Betty Denny
OUR GOAL
One Sunday when our backs were turned,
An awful lesson that day we learned;
For while we were not t hen on guard,
The enemy struck us very hard .
Japan had two trusted men
To plan for lasting peace, and then
That very day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and destroyed the pact.
What if the going now is hard?
Our nation's honor we must guard;
To retreat at first is not defeat,
In the end Japan we' 1l beat.
Washington's little army too,
Retreated, now and then and through
The days so long and cold
The men grew tired of battles old.
From Washington now let us take
The lesson of his cou rage great; Wave high the banner of the · free
As we march on to victory.
- Jan ice Cochran
THEY WON
In the amateur show on fay 1 at the Nebraska Theater, Ralph Wilson and his sisters, Betty, Nellie, and Hazel won econd prize. They sang "I'm a Soldier," and ''White Cliffs of Dover." Their mother p layed the piano. A band won first prize, but they didn't take the reward because they couldn't · divide it up. Because of this, Ralph and his sisters were awarded a twenty-five dollar Defense Bond and ten dollars in Defense Stamps.
Natalie: Boy she sure gave you a dirty look.
Marcia: who?
Natalie; Mother Nature.
ON THE RADIO
Here's a little something I wrote. You can ca1l it a story if you like but I'd call it something else. Anyway this story, if you want to call it that, takes place over radio station F U N at two o'clock in the morning.
"This is station F U N. It is now two o'clock war time. We now give you two pals of radio , Butch and Mugs. Here they are."
"Hello, Mugs, I'm awfully sorry but I didn't get my money yet and I don't have ten dollars."
"That's what you say, wise guy, but maybe you're telling me a fib."
"Now, Mugs, just hold your horses. Let's give the people s o m e n e w s f o r L i n c o I n, Nebraska, May 15. Quote: The people here are raising corn by wearing tight shoes. If their corns tassel out, there won't be so much dancing because everyone will be afraid of being tickled. Unquote. Say, Mugs, you read this one ."
''Okay. Say this is hot potato! It comes from Grandpa Snazzy. He says that the other morning he had biscuits for breakfast. He took a bite of one and started to set it down but it flew back and hit him in the snozzle. His wife said that the biscuits were made of dandelion stems.''
''Yesterday I went into a store and asked for a pair of garters and they gave me sleeve holders with b~lls. When I was walking home wearing them, someone asked why I didn't give the garters to national defense and wasn't I a little out of season with jingle bells?"
''I went into a store and asked for a guart of milk and a yard of bread. The clerk didn't even know what I wanted. Say , I .want that ten bucks."
"Just a minute, this is station F U N signing off. Here's your old money "
SAMMY'S SAYING'S
Ev'body has done been talkin' 'bout dis hyar Civ'k League 'lection now days and ah'd lak to know wat it's all 'bout. One guy says ta me he sez "Vote fo' Al Hoffman. He's sho to get 'lected pres'dunt."
Anudder guy sez, ''Vote fo' Kent Wasun' or sompin' lak <lat. But ah don't eben know wat votin' is so's ah kin vote. They's a guy who sho'd me when~ ah c'd vote. It sho is a lot o' fun. Ab's tellin' ev' body ''be sho to vote fo' som'body."
- Waldo Hansen
VACATION PLANS
I van Mills is going to his uncle's ranch in Kansas. V/ esley Morrison will spend a month in camp. Bud Klippert will go fishing in Colorado. Orland Hulbert is also going fishing. Weldon Linke will be on a farm in northern Nebraska.
Jo Ann Baker plans to spend her vacation at Denve r o r Scottsbluff. Aline Leupold is going to Missouri and might go to Kansas also. DeLoris Myers plans to visit her grandmother and from there to Kansas City, Kansas, to visit her aunt and uncle. Marion Kuskie is going to California.
Delores Glantz plans to go to Madison City to visit her brother. Then from there she •is going to Bayard, Nebraska. Marie McGuire plans to go to Chicago where she will visit her brother and his wife. She will see for the first time her niece who is now three months old.
PRESENT RECITAL
E l a i n e C arr o 11 , Shirley Bennett, and Jean Mann from Whittier presented a piano recital at Walt's Music Hall, April 26. Nancy Pierson and Sonja Christophersen of Irving also played. They are all studying under Margaret McGregor.
SMALL TOWN SCHOOL
Our interview for this issue i: with a boy who is quite new t< Whittier although he was here a: a 7B. His name is Wayne Barkl e~ and he is in 8A. Wayne com e: from Atlanta, Missouri, where h1 attended a small school.
Atlanta has a population o about five hundred people. Ea cl pupil has only two teachers. /. home room teacher taught al subjects except music which w a : handled by a music teacher. T h , pupils of this school have only on, class room which .they also u s, .for a place to eat their lunches Atlanta's school does not ha v1 a civic league as does Whittie r Patrol boys are at all crossin g near the school to direct traffi t Arithmetic, English, he a 1t h music, social studies, readi n i and science were the subjec t Wayne took.
Their school week does n c· end with Friday becau s Saturday is also a school day f c them. At recess and during t h noon hour the boys usually pl a soc c er ball and basketb a 11 School starts at 9 :00 and closes r: 3:00. Wayne said that he lik < .., Whittier better and we are g la , to welcome him back.
"I'm stepping out in socie t tonight. I'm having dinner wi t the upper set.''
"The steak may be toug h Better take the lower set too . '
A busboy once inherited $5,0 0 ' Asked if he would quit his job h answered, "No, but I'm going t be awfully impertinent."
Absent-mined professor (goi n; around in a revolving doo r ~ Bless me, I can't rememb e whether I was going in or co rr ing out
Once there was a Scotchm a who let his boy have only on measle at a time.
NERTZ
Aoohum mmm. (Yawn) Nearly twenty m in u tes till this period ends. Thre e more periods today. Hmm. I'll figure out on English paper how long it iii till school 's out.
I'm surely glad I've got a seat by th e window. What a breeze! Wha t a day! Wish I was ou tsi de . Engl ish! What u se d o birds have for English? Too ba d I'm not a bird .
Sa y that would be somet h ing If I had wings of a robin! Oh, oh- t eacher is looking at me. Guees I'll go sharpe n my p encil. No I can't do that. We'r e supposed to be using pens . Ma ybe it will help to pass time if I pretend I'm wading in the creek . This water feels good and the nice soft mud . Ahhhh h. U ght Missed the ink well an d got my fing er in it. Well , no w I can go waBh it off.
Goo dy, Good y. The well's leakin g. That will cause a nic:e juicy disturbance. Oh dear. There goes the bell and I've got this mess to clean up.
We ll, if this was only twenty one d ays from now. Summer vaca tion ought to come a mont h earlier becaus e it's just a waste of time to go to school duri ng May. Ao ohumm (Yawn).
JU MBLED NAM ES
Obb Laetwrs -boy
Y hplsli Rarshi - girl
K a j cy Rgere -g ir l
Ua pl Mublre ~boy
El Y ro Gkin - boy
Zeha l Nhosnj -girl
R baraba Op amtnr- girl
Msa Glene -b oy
A brbraa Rmh loe -girl
N v r e no Emd am-boy
Work in your Victory Garden no w, Come on, and get behi nd the plo w.
- Delor es Glantz
May 15, 1942
NICKNAMES
Maxine Royce- Max
Connie Pitzer- Pitty
Donna Scott- Scotty
Bob Rosenquist- Rosie
Kenneth Bolus- Penny
Wendell Dean-Snooky
Harold Fisher-F ish Hooks
Junior Dean - Dimples
Donna Moses - Mosey
Bernice Hil1iard__.:__Dr ip
Dorcas Pitney- Parkey
Diane Lantz- Nelly
Arthur Morey-Bugs
Valoy Brown- Dizzy
Junior Kirkendall-Kirk
Shirley Standley - Sticks
Beverly Thompson - Tommy
Doris Landess - Do Do
Donna Clymer-Blue 'Eyes
Lona Story- Dimples
Merialice Bull ockDolly Wiggens
GUESS WHO GIRL
She is a member of hom e room 102. She is 5 ft. 1 1-4 inches tall, and weighs 105 lbs. Her hair is coal black Her favorite subjects are phys ed and typ e. Her favorite sport is tennis. She has lots of friends, and her pet peeve is washing dishes. She is a member of the 9A class .
BOY
He is a member of home room 209. He is 5 ft. 5 in. tall and he weighs 110 lbs. His hair is brown and his eyes are brown. His favorit e subject is metal trades. His pet peeve is washing dishes. He is a member of the 9A class.
SEV ENTH GRADE TRIP
The seventh graders went on their civic league trip , April 30. Whittier teachers going on this trip were Miss Mill er , Miss Scho field, Miss Ralston, Mrs. Barrows, Miss Tyre, Miss Hooper, Miss Jones, Miss Madsen, Miss Zamzow, and Miss Holley. The speake r was Dr. F. D. Keim, profe ssor of Agronomy, College of Agriculture.
•CONVERSATl ON
No w it all happened one day vVhen just one little radish started an uproar,
The radish you see, was just so full of grovving pep
That he couldn't keep quiet anymore.
Now the carrot asked the radish what the trouble seemed to be,
And the radish replied, "I just can't help admiring my beautiful coat of red."
" Yes," said the carrot, "And think of me, I have vitamins A, C, D, and B."
The tomatoes, the lettuce, peas and beans all entered this little discussion,
They were all so very proud of themselves they really began to brag,
Together they said, "You weed us and hoe us and water us and give us necessary care,
And we'll show you what pride really is,
So come on and give us a cheer."
-Shirley Guelker, 207.
WHITTIER FASHIONS
Have you noticed the twi n broomstick skirts and blouses walking around school? Excuse, I meant to say walking around school on two girls. The girls said the y weren't sisters, only girl friends.
Say girls, coming back to broomstick skirts, how many of you have seen those broomstick skirts made from scraps from mother's ragbag? They certainly are cute.
Quite a few girls are wearing plain white shoes. Maybe the girls decided to get white shoes for school even if it did mean lots of polishing.
Miss Madsen (to first period science class studying astronomy): What is it that makes our days longer now?
Boy: Right now it's Roosevelt.
SPORTS SH ORTS
The track season has opened, and the Sport Shorts column has closed. Yes, thi is the last issue of Sport Shorts. Charles Bolus has just made almost a record leap of- 5 ft. 1 in. in t~e high jump. Walter Murray still has the record with a 5 ft. 3 in. le a p. Charles hopes to break the record and we think he will.
Other track events will be 5 lb. shotput, broadj ump, baseball throw, hop, skip, and jump, two hops, skips and jumps, plus other things.
If any pupil th ink s that he would like to write this column next semester, would you please stop in at 210 where Miss Peter.son will interview you.
After a s king for more information from my loyal readers, some mate r ial has come in. Here is what has come in. "The Great Emery-This is a story of Norval Emery. It was the final game H. R. 103 was to play. After telling everyone before the game how great he was and ho w he wa s going to knock a home run, just like that, to make a l_ong story short, did he make a home run? No! He struck out every time he was at bat ."
Here is another story. "102 and 220 were going to lick each othe r in baseball. That is what both sides thought. The specta tors just knew that 220 would slaughter 102. The score? 5 to 4, 102. In the first stage of the game it was a pitchers' duel between Raymond Aguirre and Frank Damian. But later . 220 weakened to let 102 go on to victory."
This writer has enjoyed bringing you the reviews of Whittier Sports. So, until next semester, as Tom Daley of WOW would say, "It isn't whether you won or lost, but how you p laye d the game.''
-George Wilcox
ANSWERS TO JUMBLED
NAMES
Bob Walters
Phyllis H arris
Jacky Greer
Paul Blumer
LeRo y King
Hazel Johnson
Barbar a Portman
Sam Engle
Barba ra Mohl er Vernon Damme
L'IVE WIRES
The third period class has been trying the sound machine to see where it will sound the clearest. This is being u s ed fo r dancing at noon. They a r e_ bot~ered with an ec ho makmg it hard to hear This may be taken care of by having so many more people at noon than are in the third period class.
The girl s are workmg u:p a good rope skipping ro~tme. They are doing it to m~1s1c. It is a mixture of tap dancmg and skipping.
. . Socker three-base 1s bemg played between home room~. It is an exciting game and bnghtens the noon ho ur a good de a l.
The kick-pin tou rnament has ended with 107 ri ding high as kick-pin champs .
The second period class has been racing outdoors . They a r e rela y s. There were fonr s 0,p'lrate races and fou r sides . fJne of the s id es won two of the races and tied another Don't you think that was a pre~ty good record ?
Some more tricks those girls have learned to do with the jumping rope are jum~ing with two ropes at once, domg cartwheels, and twirling a baton while jumping a rope.
They have been playing basketball, too. Many of the pa s ses are intercepted which makes a far more exciting game. If you heard thos e groans when time to stop was announced, there wouldn't have been any doub t in your mind whether the girls liked that game or not. In case you haven't heard, th~re are some new blue neckerchi efs for basketball.
The free afternoons because of sugar-ratio ning are giving Whittier pupils a chance. for more games and other thmgs If the ones I know are any sign, they aren't wasting any time. That's all for now, but if you take the Greenleaf next semester, you will find some more Live Wires in it .
EARN FIREMAKING CREDI TS
The Girl Scouts of Troop 4 h a d a nice time on a picnic at An telope Park on April '27 in spite of the high wind that ~ay. Th e_y earned their firemakmg cr edi t by learning the correct way. t o build a fire. Those atten d mg were Bonnie Smith, Jackie Gr e er , Hazel Johnson, Wanda Jon es . Barbara Mohler, Barbara VanEvery, Lois Umberger, a1 ;d Lois Gillett.
PLEASANT SURPRISES
La Vera Hawthorne of 210 j ust found out that her cousin's p i1·ture was in the Life Magaz ine of January 5. He is in the Na vy and she has not seen him for three years . . . Donald Bish, a former Wh1 t tin .pupil, is coming _home on fu r - · lough in June. He 1s a brother of Jane and Kathleen Bish.
NEWS FROM •OTHER SCHOOLS
According to "Washing hn Hi-lights" which comes fr oL.1 Honolulu, Hawaii, there hq been an epidemic of typ ho i(l fever in the Washington In tt ·mediate School. The health ,:tperintendent in Hon_olulu_ s ai 1 l, however, that the ep1dem1c w·i' now under contro l.
The Junior Red Cross ·.t Branciforte in Santa Cruz, Ca 1ifornia has started a "War <111 Wast:." Points are given for things which are brought to school such as aluminum, in n tubes and paper. The cla ss ur pupil~ who get the most po ints get a p r ize of $2. $1 is. the n ~ t prize, and 50c is the third p rn:.-.,.
In the "Re-Echo" from K er. 1ney, Nebr ., it stated that a Ct,-rent Event Club has been o:ganized. The paper urged ev e1 Y pupil in that school to be p re ~ent at the meeting.
We aren't the only sc h o ll which celebrated Pan-Ameri c. n Day. Teachers College H if ·, Lincoln, did too. The Eng h" 1 classes saw films on the P a~1American countries. The pa p r said that the films were v e· r intere s ting.
• ANSWERS TO GUESS WH O
Dorothy Bryant
Jerald Ch a fUn
Wh ittier Gree ne
Volum e 20 Number 1
October 2, 1942
Lincoln , N ebraska
TWO GR EENLEAF ASSEMBL IES HELD
• T wo Green leaf assemblies marked this week's activjtie
The first, on Monday, f eaturecl an advertising skit in which the following took part : Pat.~1lie Maser, Mary Ellen Bollar, TwyJa Dobb ins, Marcia Adkisson, :\ Lee Jo Smith, Ma rgaret Craige , Grac e Haskins, Mar y Pease, and Phylli s Barribo.
Mr. Culler ga ve a five minute talk to the new pu1)i]s and in troduced the n ew teachers. Vi rgi nia Seiler pl ayed her acco1·dion.
At the awards assembly today th e winning ho me morns were honored and th e follmving program was prese nted. Leola Willa rd and D oris Gill ett ma<le us dizzy twirli ng the ir batons, Ardel Prather played the hn·monic a, Nor een Pettet and Patty Rankin dan ced, Phyllis arribo played her guitar, anc1 Twyla Dobbin s gave a reading. D orot hy Kelle r was the accompani st for all the performers exceptin g Alice Jo Smi th and darcia A dk i s son who sang a comic duet. Grace Ha skins \ as their accom pani~t. Mrs. White's girls 1 gl ee sang, and p rinters and reporte rs were introdu ced .
OFFICERS INSTALL ED
Civi c League Offic ers were installe d at assembl y on Sept. 25. The Flag Salu te and Civic League Pledge were given by
Joan Eberhart. Miss Hult's introductio n of Lillian Eichler girls' civic le ague preside nt wa~ follo,ve d by her sp eech of acceptance Alvin Hoffman was int~·o? uced by Mr Culler as boys' c1v 1c leagu e president . Lill ian Eic h 1 e 1· introduced Joan Eberhart, gfrls' vice president, and. Charlotte EJlis, s ecreta r y Alvm Hoffman mtroduced Lhe boys' vice president a nd bo. 'S' sec1·etary, Frank Damian and Charles Bolus. Introduction of chairmen then took place. l\Iiss Sibley played some cello selections Mrs. White's orches tra accompa nied and the program clo ·ed with the sing ing of "G od Ble s America."
Enrollment Increases
Whittier is larger by fifty-two pupils more than were here last spring. Then there were 952 of us, but after registration had been completed this fail, there was the grand total of 1.004.
Whittier wants to welcome its new pupil , especially those who came from out of town. From other places in Nebraska came Geraldine Chester, Dist. 47, Burt Co.· Audrey Flood, Ragan; Darrel Thorn p son, Strang; Bonnie Wiedman,an d Dorothy Dahlgren, York; Duaine Way, Dist. 126; Bradley Dirks, Auburn; and John Ha 11 from Aurora.
Bradfo rd Mumby, Fair mont; Kenneth Smith, Battle Creek; Donald Hendricks, Albion; Kathryn John s on, Ex eter; Romona Dirks , Auburn; Donald Hansen, Jack Lancaster and Jim Kasser from Beatrice; Earl Faulhaber, Walton; Gene McCartney a nd Elizabeth Gardner, Eagle; Harold Rexroth, Humboldt; Richard Ems, Arapahoe.
From place s out of the state we we lcome Helen Op pie, Julesburg, Colo.; Patricia Rankin, Los Angeles , Calif.; Betty Henderson, Topeka, Kansas ; Gi lbert and Milton Garner, Council Bluffs, Iowa ; Bur t Long Jr., Guthrie Cente r, Iowa; Keith Mills, Olwein, Iowa; Carl Beam, Council Bluffs,
Iowa; Alice Bald win South Whitlly, Indiana. '
.Victor Anderson Jr., Osborne City, Kansas; Barbara Morey ~u~alo, New York; Em m ..;;m1th, Narka, Kansas; Maril yn R o gers, Sidney, Ia.; Norma Easter, Dehator, Ia.; Betty Morgan, Republic, Kansas; Rollin Marsh, Gardner, Kans.; Betty Alley from Ia. ; an d Robert McCullough, Concordia, Kans.
Vegetab les To Victory
We have been waiting anx10usly for news about our Victo_ry garden. Here it is. The Victory garden is expected to bring in ninety dollars. Forty dol~ars is its estimated expense. It 1s planned that a War Bond will be purchased with the proceeds.
The project was supervised by Miss Schemel, Mr. Culler, and Miss Hult. Mr. Heston was to direct the planting but could not because of an ope ra tion. Mr. Ross served in his place. The over 150 pupils who work ed in it are to be complimented for their good work. Often they were out as early as seven a. m. so that they could finish before the heat of the day. However, it was a good healthy pastime atid filled up many of those leisure hours that just seem to drag by during vacation. They also learned les s ons in thrift and good salesmanship for they sold the vegetables themselves.
Vegetables raised were green bean s, carrots, beets, cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes, sweet corn, onions, and so me dill. Everyone w ho tried the sweet corn said it was "dee-licious !" There are till carrots for sale.
Much of it was sold by the peck or bushel for canning. Some of the surplus was given to the Salvation Army too. The hail nearly ruined the tomato crop, and the bindweed choked out the peas, but it is considered a very successful project, and one that Whittier can be proud of for a long time.
THE
WHITTIER GREEN LE AF
Founded and established in 1924 as the official student publication of Whittier Junior High School pupils FACULTY ADVISORY BOARD
Marcia Adkisson
Phyllis Bar r ibo
Mary Ellen Bolar
Mariali~ Bullock
Rob e rt Reifschneider
K e nneth Bowman
Rob e rt Church
Rober t Folden
Floyd R e if s chn e ider
Lor e n R obinett e
Miss Peterson, Mi ss F e rguson, Mr. Gammill GREENLEAF STAFF
Norma Chubbuck
Betty Lou Clark
Margaret Craige
Elain e Derr
Twyla Dobbins
Jan ice Ehl e rs
Grace Haskins
Irene Holter
George Wilcox
GREENLEAF PRINTERS
Emerson Ro g e r s
Raymond Schenaman
Alvin Schwartz
Andy Taut fest
WELCOME TO YOU
Here we are beginning a new semester with just as many or more freshies than we have had before. I talked to a few of them before school started and they told me that they were a little scared about knowing what rooms to go to. But when I saw them walking down the hall the first day of school they had broad smiles on their faces. From what I've seen I believe that Whittier p·upils are making it as pleasa;nt as possible for this year's fresh1es because they remember what it was like when they first came to Whittier. We want a11 freshies and all new pupils to know that the Whittier pupils welcome them in the heartiest way possible.
BACK TO SCHOOL
September, October, November, December, January too, That's the length of this semester That's beginning for me and you.
June, July, and August, Our vacation months have flown, Each day packed with fun and laughter
And a brightness all its own. Now Whittier has thrown open her doors
And we've come gaily in Bringing our books and pencils A new year to begin.
- Phyllis Barribo, 307
"What are you doin' ?"
"Writing to my brother."
"How come you write so slow?'' ''Cause my brother can't read so fast.''
Anna Ledoux
Natalia Maser
Mary Peas e Alice Smith
Joan Eb e rhart
NOISE, NOISE, EVERYWHERE!
''Hi, say where have you been this summer?" or "What have you been doing?" are the natural phrases on the first day of the semester. Of course you want to hear what the other fellow has to say about his vacation, and probably they want to hear about yours I'm sure you could hear about different vacations if it wasn't shouted in your ear, and it wouldn't have to be shouted if everyone would talk a little softer.
The enrollment for the year in Whittier has increased and the noise in the halls has increased also. The teachers have a bigger job with fuller home rooms and classes. Isn't it provoking to have someone shout through the house while you are trying to study? That's just the way the teachers fee I when you go shouting through the halls . As school goes on week after week, l et's see if we can't quiet our halls.
J UM BLED NA MES
R eva Wntichsd
Slhyeri Mrho
Ggreeo Xlicwo
Libl Sksomo
N aj o Teerbrha
Tytbe Snsjam oe
Hdricar Aha r
Hclatorte Lelse
Pharl Ubtreghuab
''Hello Johnnie. How did you like your first dancing lesson?'' ''It's easy. All you have to do is turn around and keep wiping your feet.''
SAI LOR T ELLS EXPE R
Although he was in the battl es of Midway and the Coral Sea a nd was awarded the Navy Cross at P ea rl Harbo r , h is greate st thr ill c ame wh e n he g ot t o return ho m e on leav e, Warr en De Vere t old t h Greenleaf Class
He said that he was asle _ when the J aps attacked Pe a l Harbor on December 7. The noi ~ awoke him and at fir~t he thoug h it was a play war until he saw a • plane go down in flames. Th e 11 they were too busy to even sle <. D during the next six days. He w c·1 the Navy Cross for ''Distingui s Jed service beyond the line I f duty--" though he was ve 1y modest about it. He said, ' I • guess I got it for running t} ,e fastest.''
Warren spent sixteen mon U s in Hawaii and though it is a pa rdise for tourists, according '" O him it's no picnic for men n service. They have blacko u s every night there. Civilians a- e off the streets at eight o'clock a 1. d service men at six o'clock. 1' o traffic is allowed at night. The Japanese airmen d 01. :t seem to care at all whether ,r not they die. They dive right .-1 t their enemies regardless of fir 1, g and keep their machine g l'n s going until the last. Warren \\ l S here on leave because his s h ip, an aircraft carrier, was sun k ,i t Midway. He swam for an h1 ir and a half before he was resc m d His ad vic e to t h e boys is, "If y•J u want t o join t he Navy , le arn t o swim first.''
Warren is a former Whi ttie r pupil having joined the m \' Y upon his graduation from Lin c,) l n High in 1940. He is a Pharmi ci.;t s Mate, First Class.
Er n est Loudner (Slap pm g George on the back): G u ~s s who's back.
George Wilcox: I don't k n e w. Ernest Lounder: Yours.
Duan e Wilkinson
Polly S e dam
Phylli s N e wman
Erni e Workman
Joanna Gatto Ral p h W eber
Ruth Grein e r Arthur Kolb
A CAT TALE
'For land sakes, Child, where did you get that? "
"Don't worry, Mom, it's only a poor stray cat I found. I sn't he cute?"
"Young man, you take that thing out of here right away!"
"A ww gee whiz. Can't I keep him Mom?" His mother merely stood there tap ping her foot. Johnn y went out canying his furry bundle.
"Hi Johnny! What have you ther e?" the new voice was that of F reddy, Johnn y's best pal.
"Hi Freddy. It' s a tray cat I foun d Just loo k at hi s eyeand his for! Bet he's a pedigreed cat, and he l1kes me too. See?"
The y took turns petting it. Then Freddy aske d, "WLat m·e you going to n ame it?"
"Hmm? Oh! Oh gee I forget. Mo m won't l et me keep j t."
"She won't! Gee , that's tough John ny."
"Yeah !"
"Well, we've got to figure out a way so that we can keep him. No w let's think. "
Th e next mornin g, Johnny'.: moth er was in the kitchen baking a cake when a mouse ran acro ss the floo r. "E eeeeee !" she screamed and wru ng her ha nd for she was afraid the cake would be ruined before she could get down. The frightened li~tle mous e scurried around bumpmg into things as it looked for an exit. By a strange coinciden ce, a g r ay cat sprang into the room, re sc ued the lad y in distre~ by capturi ng the tormentor, a~d with neatn ess and efficiency, dlsposed of it. . Joh nny's moth er pi cked it .up and hugged it. "O h you clarlmg thin g!" she excl aimed.
Th e stray cat purred a nd so did Johnny and F re dd y. Outside the kitchen window they shook hand s.
"I guess we ought to get rid October 2, 194 2
of this mou se trap now," said Johnny as he picked up the wire cag e.
Natalie Maser.
WHITTIER VACAT IONISTS REPORT
Betty Jamesson pen t her vacation in Calico Rock, Ark. She enjoyed swimming, horseback riding, and square dancing beside.s a lot of \Yalking. Darlene Barcu went to Pueb lo, Colo., for her vacation. Darlene. was three miles from the top of Pikes Pe ak and in the Garden of the Gods. She climbed the Kissing Camel Rock and the famou ..• Ship Rock
Another vacationi t, Eileen Roemrnick, spent part of her summer in North and South Dakota.· She ti-aveled on the Yellowstone trail that \\ as used by th early pioneers. On the \Vay home she saw the Corn Palace at l\Titchell, South Dakota. Eileen also visited in lowa.
:Marcia Adki.., on with her sister spent a week of their vacation on a farm near Rising Cjty, ebr. Geraldine Wart spent a \\ eek in Kans a . Alan Farmer took an interesting trip through Missouri and Arkansas.
For some Whittier pupils their vacation \Vere not all play. Ardel Prather worked on his· uncle's farm tripping the bmder. He spent a lot of time horseback riding Another vacation worker was Robert Lunsford. He was on a far m near Staplehurst, ebraska, helping threshers pitch bundles . Kenneth Straw n and his father fell into quicksan d up to their knees do,Yn in Kansas .
Dorcas Pitney spent her time horseback riding while v isiting a few days in Inavale, Nebr. This ummer Richard Mason of 310 vacationed in Phi 11 i P s ' rebr., fishing an d working. Maxine Royce played in the snow for two days in Colorado. Lillian Eichler visited in North Platte for five weeks.
Another Colorado .vacationist was Shirley Maser last August. Leonard Rebensdorf spent some of his vacation in Scottsbluff . Robert Hart went to a farm near York. Lloyd Garner visited relati es and friends in Colorado. Jean McCauley went to the Elks Convention in Omaha. John Luebs of 312 went to Lake Geneva, Wind Lake, and Milwaukee, Wis. John stopped off in Chicago for a few days too.
larieanne Schwab spent five weeks on a farm near Emmet, Nebr. Jack Douglas was a visitor to ew York, Canada, iagara Fall , Washington, D. C. He saw the capitol, government buildings, and other interesting places.
B etty Legler spent part of her vacation fishing in Tuxedo Park at Crete. Betty Gartner of 320 visited her aunt in Colorado. Shirley Chandler went to her grandmother's for a week and th en on to Nebraska City to visit her girl friend. Randall Renkin went to the Black ~ills. Russell White spent the summer working on a farm driving a tractor. Helmut Sienknecht with s ome friends went on a three-day hike.
Elaine Johns took a trip to Thermopolis, Wyoming. She spent some of her time at Hot Springs Park. Dale Harp spent the summer at his grandfather's in the central part of Wyoming. Galen Simmons took an interesting trip to the Black Hills, Mt. Rushmore, Crystal Cave, Wild Cat Caves, Devil's Tower, Loo~ou t Mountain, and the place Bill Hickok was shot. Eileen Irons visited her aunt and uncle in Elmwood, Nebraska.
Natalie Maser: Did Douglas enjoy the party?
Dorothy Alstead: I guess so. He wasn't hungry till the next afternoon. 3
SPORT SHORTS
The chairman of the boys p]ayground committee this semester is Bob Hubbell. Helping him referee the games are Ronald Ga lagher, Leonard Rebensdorf, Bob R~if s chne ider-, John R e it t er, Wayne Lubke, and Stanley Ernst, Dean Hobson, Dale Harp, Ray Aguirre, George Wilcox, Alfred Mendoza, Joe Galagher, and Edward Schneider.
Mr . Gartner, our new phys. ed. teacher, is introducing new calisthenics in the gym classes. Starting Sept 21 was a two game elimination in baseball. Some of the best home rooms this sem e ster are 207 , 220 , 102,103, and 310.
THESE TEACHERS MISSING
- Whittier has had many changes in faculty and many famila r faces are now missing. Two of th e men have ent e red the service. Mr Koza is now training for a quart e rmaster in th e N3:vy at Newpor t, Rh ode Island. Mr. Wells is a Second Lieutenant in the Coast Artill e ry in the Ballo o n Barrage Division in Tennessee. Mis s Jennings is working for the U. S. 0. and is probably in Washington.
M i s s Miller i s now Mrs. Updegraf t. S he married Mr. Updegraft, who taught at Whittier a f e w y e a r s ago. She no w teaches at Hayward . Mr. Callen is te a ching in Havelock this year . Miss Holley married the superintendent of Schools in Eustis, N ebraska, w h ere s h e now li ves.
A RECORD
Willard Glantz of 105 has sold ~ince " Pearl Harbor" $21,000 in war stamps and bonds
Freshie: My aunt gave me the tenderest part of the chicken last night.
Maxine Royce: What was that?
Freshie: The gravy.
LIBRARY NOTES
A bout 175 students are registe r ed to spend a period daily in the library. Miss Buchanan hopes t h e remaind er of the students w ill come often . The library is o pen from 8 :20 to 4 :00 except f r om 12 :00 to 12 :30 at n oon. A iarge order of new books arrived , among them many good story books. They are ready for circulation now,
PATRIOTIC!
We have all been interested in pa s sing 208 the la s t few days where Mrs Shike has mo u nted the pictu r es of Neb r aska Service men cut out of the papers. At fir s t she put them in a sc r ap book, but t hen she thought , "only m y home room boys and girl s can s ee them." So she asked at the office for a large ca r d board and now the whole s chool can see them. Many of th e m en pictured are pa s t Whittie r pupils and we a re v e r y proud of them. Mr s Shike sa id, "It took a long time, but it w a s worth it."
WHAT IF
Marjory Moore had black hair. Marian Ekblade were tall. Shirley Hoback were Shirley Hofront.
Da l e King w e re Dale Queen. Jerry White were Jerr y Black. John Knight were John Day. Eleanor Meyers never chewed · gum.
Mar cia Adki s son we re du mb Va loy Brown d idn't wear moccasins.
ANSWERS TO JUMBLED NAM E S
Vera Schwindt
Shirley Mohr
George Wilcox
Bill Kosmos
Joan Eberhart
Betty Jamesson
Richard Haar
Charlotte Ellis
Ralp~ Buterb au gh
L I VE WIRES
The members of the pla yground committee include Barbara Ven Every as chairm a n , Betty Jamesson, V i rginia Lam ps h ire, D ar l ene K u ip er , Shirl e y Benn ett . Mar i a n Lo os, V era Sch win d t , Dona Hendrix, Barbara Strub b e , Vi r ginia Loo s, Alice Be r ry, May Boum a n, Velma Sch w indt, D elori s Meyer s, Nor e en Pet t et.
Mari l y n Yo w ell , Maril y n D e leh a n t, Id a All en, Lo r r a ine S te ,ra rt , Ruby Ho ck, Fe r n Egg er, V al oy B r own, Betty Smith.
The girls baseball ·tournam e nt started on Monday, Septem b er 21. Paddle tennis gam e s w e re held up b e cause of the condit ion • of the playground.
NEW TEACHERS
We have three new teachers ;:,t Whitti e r this semester. One ! E t h em is Miss Alta Jackson, w ho formerly taught at Hunting t on Scho ol at University Place. Sh e s a ys that s he finds Whi tt ie r a ver y fri e ndly school and enj o} s being here.
Mr. Gartner is the Phys ic a l Education teacher for boys f- i e has taught in Ewing, Nebras ka, and came to us from Havelo ck . He enjoys the fine cooperatio n uf both teachers and students.
Miss Buchanan, our new lib r a;• _ ian, is a graduate of the Scho ol ,) f Librar y Science of Columbia U niversity. Before she came t o Whittier she was t h e librarian a t Colleg e View High Schoo l. S h e a lso enjoys t he coo p eratio n of teachers and students. She ap p reciates the way teachers a n d students have helped to get th e library started under new m anagement.
Leola Willard: Can that gir l b e trusted?
Rosemary Horn: Sure, I'd t r ust my life in her hands
Leola: I mean something of value.
Volum e 20
Number 2
October 16, 1942 Lincoln, ebraska
\VHIT TIER
ME ONORS IN SERVICE
Mi ss Hooper's 9B soc i a 1 stu dies and Engli s h classes put on an assembly, Monday, to ho nor Whittier boys in the se1 \·ice The theme of the program wa s "Sail on; carry on : fight on." Boy Scouts give a fiag drill and the pledge of allegiance was giv en by the school. Maste1· of ce r e monies, Jack Douglas, introduc ed Connie Crosbie, ,,:ho g<-tve a t alk on Columbu s and the leson he gave America to "S::iil on."
Bo b S impson, Leah Jacoby, B01mie Wiedman. Phyllis Banibo, Arno ld Davis, and Dor othy Sch wartz explained the im portanc e of th e Salvage Drive and ou r part i n it to "Cany on."
Th e boys ' glee club sang approp riate songs and a partial li~t of n ames of th e Whittier boys now in the Army, Navy, l\,fa_rin es, and Air Corps \Ycre read by F rank McKinstrey, Roger Hosfie ld, Robe rt \Vil ey, anrl Kenn y Bu ck. Since time did not pe rm i t the read ing of the comple te list, one v, ill be posted lat er for pupils to read. The list of casualties was read by Jack Do u gl as.
T o close the program the glee clu b sang taps and we left with the spirit of "Fight on."
FI RE DRILL POOR
A s ur prise fire drill wa s held at W hi t tier on Thursday, Oct. 8, and the answer to how we be-
haved is a sm1) rise too. According to Mr. Culler and the Fire Inspector, it was a ve1·y bad drill We were too slow getting out and even in some cases went out the wrong ,, ay. Teacher and students together hope that next ti me \Ye can break a reco1·d by being quicker and more efficient than ever before .
SCRAP DRIVE NEARS END
As you already know, the scrap drive end~ ~1ext l\Ionday, and Whittier has r eally been doing her part. By l,he third d ,y of the drive over 14,000 pounds had been contributed, and by the end of the first week more than 25,000 pounds were in.
Jini Heaton and Y enny Carlson of 212 re ted an auto trailer for their 800 1 )Otm d do nation. But most of the contr ibutions were brought r n foot. :\Ii.:s Hult says that the children look like refugees Ve cuating their country with their scrap iron. Ernest and Charle, ,, der, hnd Bob Saddoris and Harvey Lowell rolled three ,rnter tanks two miles to join the Vhittier pile. They ,tarted out with one and a they were merl'ily rolling along a \\ oman cctlled to the m and offered them two more. .t: ian Farme.1.·, t ting a la\ ' n pre ser tied with a rope to his bike, was questioned by the police as to his honesty.' He had to prove that evervthing was all right, before being allowed to go on to Whittier. D., tty Gartn er and her brother traded a 650 ge llon oil tank v eighing over 1,000 pounds to s me coll ege boys in exchange for 500 pounds of scrap apiece. T 1ey couldn't get the tank to schoo l. Many other pupils have had similar experiences.
Are you doing your part? We hope so . 1 Ionday the nineteenth is the deadline, so hurry. Get that home room spirit. Help your home room ,vi n !
OFFICE COM MITTEES
Ot1r vi ce -pr eside nt , Joan E berhart, is chair m a n of the offic e committee this semester. Other rnP.mbers are: Janice Cochra n 318, Geraldine Knaub 220, Joyce Mitchell 107, Dortha Kuhn 312, and Elaine Derr 210 . Frank Damian is QUr boys' chairman of the office committee. Members are Jimmy Liggett 220, Kenneth Buck 308, Roger Hosfield 220, Ord Jones 208, John l\Iontgomery 307, and Kenneth Strawn 310.
NEW HIGH REACHED
A new high was reached this semester in Greenleaf subcrip- tions with a grand total of 665. 'Ihe winning home room was 222 w ith 41 subcriptions. This was more then 100 per cent and the extra ones are being sent to former Whittier teach2rs now serving our country, Mr. Koza, Miss Jenni:1.gs , and Mr. Wells. The home room teacher is Miss Scheme], and the home room president is Shirley Maser. In second place was 205 with 36 ubcriptions. They were 100 per cent too. Mrs. White is the teacher; their president is Bill Wiison. 310 took third plac e with 32 sub c rip ti on s. The teacher is Mrs. Boschult and their president is Virgi nia Lampshire.
VICTORY GARDEN NEWS
We are still hearing abo u t the victo1·y garden. La st week pupils sold carrots at fifty cents a bushel. The popcorn has already been he rvested and there v·ill be parsnips to harve st after · frost. The Victory Garden assembly will be held on next 1 fonday, October 19.
ASSEMBLY HELD
Wednesday, October 7, we saw a very interesting film on ''The Home Place." This picture showed old time homes from New England to the haciendas of California.
THE WHITTIER GREENLEAF
Founded and established in 1924 as the official s tudent publication of Whittier Junior High School pupils FACULTY ADVISORY BOARD
Marcia Adkisson
Phyllis Barribo
Mary Ellen Bolar
Marialice Bullock
Rob e rt R e ifschn e id e r
K e nneth Bowman
R o b er t Church
Rob er t F old e n
Miss Peterson , Mi ss F e rguson, Mr. Gammill GREENLEAF STAFF
Norma Chubbuck
B e tty Lou Clark
Margaret Craig e Elain e Derr •
Twyla Dobbins
Jan ice Ehl e rs Grace Haskins
Irene Holter
George Wilcox
Anna Ledoux Natalia Mas e r Mary Peas e Alice Smith Joan Eb e rhart GREENLEAF PRINTERS
Em e rson Ro g e r s
Raym o nd Sch enaman
Alvin Schwart z Andy Tautf es t
WEAPONS
"Lookit him rollin' that old tire to school!"
"Yeah, and that old inner tube 'round his neck."
"S'pose he's gonna win the war."
"I'd never be so dumb, by heck."
"Just as if an . old tire and tube are good as a petition
• To make Hirohito retire
And put Hitler out of commission."
Similar words to these are spoken
By Americans who think nothing need be done,
By Americans who think it's an easy victory
And the war is practically won. But those of us aware of our danger
Help out all we can, We're each an American soldier With our weapon an old tire, or a pot, or a pan. -Phyllis Barribo.
NICKNAMES
Mary Ellen Bolar- Tootsie
Maynard Cheuvront-Iceball
Marilyn Greer-Juny
Eleanor Myers-Short Stop
Shirley Mohr - Shirt Tail
Norma Jean Chubbuck-Bucky
Jan ice Ehlers - Jan
Kenneth Hulbert- Ninny
Leah Jacoby-Cleo
''I suppose the gas rationing has slowed down the pace of life for you people in the East?''
"Not at all. I used to walk to the car. Now I run for the bus."
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE
Irene Holter corresponds with Khorshed Mullain of Bombay, India, whose name she received through her church. This Indian girl is thirteen years old, and Irene has some most interesting letters from her. She told in one of her recent letters of the following exciting experience on a night when a tiger attacked their camp, as she traveled from Rangoon, Burma, to Bombay, India. They took a couple of shots at him but she didn't know the results. She says that a tiger never attacks a human unless he's too old to catch other game.
FIRE DRILL
Mr. Cullerfelt that the fire drill on September 29, was very good. It took only two minutes and fifty seconds.
WHAT IF
Donald Hayes were Donald Straws.
Betty Gartner were Betty Carpenter.
Dale Harp were Dale Fiddle.
Bonnie Burback were Bonnie Burfront.
Mary Lou Carr were Mary Lou Auto.
Roger Sharp were Roger Dull. Barbara Poppe were Barbara Dandelion.
Gene Shipps were Gene Boats.
Marilyn Newbill were Marilyn Oldbill.
Jean Marin were Jean Woman.
Guy Shore were Guy Land. Darlene Crook were Darlen e Thief.
HE LIKES THE NAVY
H e r o om e d with Fredd y Bartholmew ! Of course we mea n Jack Tilton, the sailor whom Mr. Culler introduced in assembly. (Freddy is now nineteen an d in the Navy.) He also saw th e President and Mrs. Roosevelt an d their party on their tour of inspection. Jack likes the Navy life an d advises Whittier boys that it's a good branch of the service to b e in. He was fifth highest in his service exam and hopes if he's luck y to be sent to Pensacola, Florida , for training with the Navy Ai r Corps.
Jack was graduated from Lincoln High last spring an d from Whittier in 1938 where, h e says, Mrs. White was his favorit e teacher. He has been in trainin at Great Lakes.
PUPILS LEiA VE WHITTIER
Several pupils have alread y left since school started. Bett} Parsons, Chester Stieber, Martin Wilson, and Robe rt Wend e ll have gone to Northeast; Donal d and Erma Blade have gone t o Yankee Hill. Delores Jackso n and Duaine Way are now a t Everett. Charles Dickens, No rma Easter, and Opal Martin a n now at Hastings.
Dick and John Taylor ha v e left for Oregon. Kenneth Joh nson transferred to Harvard, Nbraska. Betty Alley has left th e city, and Robert Higgins anc: Ethel Whitebear have a 1 s o dropped from Whittier's enro llment. Margaret Danielson h a s left the city.
1st teacher: I'm in an aw fu predicament.
2nd teacher: What's th e trouble?
1st teacher: I've lost m y glasses and I can't look for the m till I've found them again.
THE WHITTIER GREENLEA
CHA TTER
Now I as k you! What good does Engl is h d o a person anyhow?
Miss Pe terson, an authority on the sub ject, was aski ng how to spell b allon - or was it baloon - or balune ?
An d who says girls are sissies - afra id of worms and such ·t Wau nita Bodfield carries a real live turt le in her pocket. Of cour se it is only two inches long.
Mi ss Dee is i;.eally ''hep.'' Wh e n her classes were mak ing gin ge r bread, she of ten warned the m to ''catch the drip.''
Da vid Knapp was asked by Mis s Jones to tell the difference betw een "may" and "can." He made a brave start, h esitated, and sa id, ''Well, can is so mething you can in.''
By the way, who was i t that put a large, green , very limy wor m in the pocket of my j a cket? It w as a lovely thou ght, but how did you know that it was just what I wanted?
P upils in Miss Sch emel's fifth pe r i od English cla ss were studying about subjects and predicate s. The first word in the sentenc e was "Indian s" and Dick Br adley was asked to tell what it was. As he coul dn't, Miss Sch emel said, "But what are Indi a n s?"
" W ild, I guess, " answered Dick.
A nd then there was a certain girl wh o stood up to recite in home economics. Much to her emb arrassment, a kernel of corn which she had previously put behin d her ear for future reference fe ll out on the floor.
"S ay Bill, you didn't marry that girl back home while you were on vacation , did you?"
"A lmost ·Joe, two of us were willin g-me and the minister.''
Fir st moth: Come with me into th e cl othes closet.
Seco nd moth: Why?
Fir st moth: Let's go and d.o some cutting up.
October 16, 1942
GUESS WHO GIRL
She is 5 feet 3 i nches tall and \Yejg hs 118 pou nds She has blue eyes and light brown hair. Her ho me room is 10 6. Her favorite s ubj ects are civi c s and typing. Her fav ori te spo r t is baseball. She is seen usually wit h Eleanor Meye rs , Shirley Mohr, and Marcia Adkisson. She is a memb er of the 9A clas
BOY
His weight is 61 pou nds and he is 5 feet 5 inche s tall He. has bro\'m eye and black hair. His favorite sport is football. His p als are Wesley Barton and Jack Brodie. He is in the 9B class, and his home room is 310.
PARTIES
Jane Simpson is a member of the Farragut Je wels Junior Club. A weine r roast was planned for Thursday after school at Antelope Park but rain rather dampened t heir spirits.
Marcia Adk i sson's mother gave a surprise birthday party for her on October 5. She invited the whole cl ub of wh ich Marcia is president
A party was give n on Oct. 2 for Mildred Mons b y J oan Nuss and Donal dee Joh n s Among those who attend e d were fi ve Whittier pupils. Refr eshments were served and the gu ests were entertained with dancing and games.
JUMBLED N AMES
Girl: N arlyim Low l ye
Boy: Lalen Amr er f
Girl: Hiseyl Entnebt
Boy: Ldoyf Eihrfcsidneer
Girl: Teytb Olbne
Boy : Ulep Rean s a
Girl: Nlilial Ihclere
Boy: Utrisc Ebll
Girl: Hrlotecat S elil
Boy: A,vyne Lwkaer
F ATHER' S PEACE FU L DAY
The war certainly has chan g e d Father's life, hasn't it? For instance, Father comes whistlin g up the walk to discover th at Mother is working for the Re d Cross . He lifts up the door m a t to find the key. It is n 't there. Elsie, his daughter, has probab l y taken it for the scrap drive. So in through the window goes Father.
When Mother comes home he has dinner but no meat for it's a meatless day, coffee but no sugar because of rationing. After supper Mother and Father decide to go to the movies. Father goes out to get the car humming a little tune. He soon finds out that his son Bill has taken his car and that the tires are gone from it. Since there is nothing else to do it see ms , Father goes to the house and starts upstairs but Mot her has other ideas. First s h e pract ices her first aid on him, and then she demands the fifty cents that Father borrowed from her.
Finall y Father starts upstairs after he explains that Mother must get the money from Ellen, his other daughter, who borrowed it to put in the Red Cross box at school. Father looks for his pajamas and finally has to put on an old night shirt because Bill has taken it to donate for the rag drive.Father yawns and climbs into bed. It is then that he discove rs the straw that broke the came l's back. The springs on the bed have been taken for the scrap dr ive. So ends Father's day. Poor Pop! -Twylla Dobbin s
She: I met a very polite man today.
He: How was that?
Betty Lou Clark: What is a river bank?
Mary Ellen Bolar:A place where the fish keep their m oney.
She: I must have been carrying my umbrella carelessly, for I poked him in the eye. I said, ''So sorry." And he said, "Don't mention it. I have another eye left." 3
LIVE WIRES
These people hardly ever get any publicity so get a look now. The girl captains on third floor are: 302 Mary Akers, 304 Valoy Brown, 305 Dorothy Patterson, 308 Barbara· Haning. 310 Virginia Lampshire, 312 Dori s Oldemeyer, 314 Fern Egger, 316 Velma Schwindt, 318 Anna Kildaw, 320 Betty Gartner.More captains next time.
Baseball seems to be the main sport so far in girls gym classes. Different squads are having tournaments against each other. Tournaments against the home rooms are also going on. In the lead so far are 304, 212, 107, and 205. Basketball and tumbling tournaments are beginning again. Mrs. Ross and Mr. Gartner have been talking about having the boys and girls gym class es play together at various games. It's something to look forward to.
LIBRARY NOTES
The following pupils have the privilege of being library assistants. Desk assistants, Curtis Bell, Laverne Whitmarsh, .8 on n i e Craft, Betty Gibbs, and Richard Rader. In the morning Geraldine Wart, after school, Leah Jacoby. About twelve other pupils help in the library during the day.
Later these will exchange duties with each other so that everyone will have a chance to wol'k in each position.
A libra ry club has been organized •and all students who are helping- in the library are members. So far they have been busy learning their roufne work, but they plan soon to have meetings to phm other activities.
HOME ROOM PRESIDENTS
These are the people who have the honor of being home room presidents this semester. Bob Hrooks, 302; Duane Sloan, 318; Merle Debus, 105; Marian Loos, 4
212; Shirley Glantz, 207; Edward Schneider, 208.
Margery Franks, 210; Barbara Haning, 308; Gwen Mohler, 107; Cress Forney , 103; Barb a r a Strubbe , 209; Richard Stansbury, 108.
Marilyn Yo well, 102; Lawrence Gerdes, 316; Esther Atkins, 307; Arnold Davis, 314; Mildred Yates, 320; Bernice Schaffer, ll0.
Shirley Maser, 222; Marguerite Nootz, 203; Bill Wilson, 205; David Ward, 305; Arthur Morey, 304; Raymond Aguirre, 220.
Virginia Lampshire, 310; Lillian Schafer, 312: Bev erly Thompson, 112; Shi rley Bennett, 106; Delores Paulsen, 303.
PUPILS ENTER
Several new pupils have entered Whittier since school began. Here they are Mary Lou and Vivian McGerr have enterd from Everett, as have Marylu Ramsey and Pet e Kortum. Roselen Keller is from West A. George Westerhoff h as transferred from Colle g e View and Merle Riggins from Saratoga. Deiores Kuhlman is from Ashland. Roy Wilson has entered from Auburn.
HO E AGAIN
Several 'hittier ites were very happy to see relatives home on furlough recently. Harold Schamp r the United Sfates Cavalry wa s here la st Sunday. He's a cousin of Gerald Carter of 307. Patricia Hudkin's brother, Junior, was home from the Army and Sh irley Loveiace's brother fro the Na v y. Bill Lovelace is going to A via tor Machinist Mate's school at Navy Pier, Chicag , Illinois. All a re former hittier pupils. Alice Jo Smith's brother, Roger, a Lieutenant in the Navy, flew through Omaha Monday. The family met hi there. He is also a forme- • Whittier pupil.
ANSWERS TO GUESS WHO
Girl -Jo an Eberhart
Boy-Rodney Garner
SPORT SHORTS
Here are yom· boys' hom eroom captains. The captain's j ob is to line up the players' po s itions, see that the players ai · out there, and see to it that th e , · play ball. 102's captain is B ob Hubbel, 103's Charles Bolm , 105's Merle Debu s, 106's Ral p h • Buterbaugh, 107's Rich a r l Haar, 108's Floyd Reifschneid e·, ll0's Manuel Miller, 112's J oln Reitter. The s e are the first flo o.· ' captains. More next time. R,member, if you forfeit a gam you are out of the tourname n . So get out and play'.
The Whittier football tourn hment i s on its way . As usual \Y ,, will go out on a limb to predi u the winning teams. We pred ic that 102 will win the footb a J championship. Also we pred ic c that either 220 or perhaps litt' ·~ 320 may surprise us. 220 has lo st receiving end in Martin Wils o1: but the captain, Raym01 Aguirre, may find some mater i· ; elsewhere.
TREASURE HUNT
We like to go on treasure hunt s Let's make them worth our time,
For scrap iron is a treasure no \, , To hoard it is a crime; So search your basement and your yards
And all your scrap iron brin g fhe clang of every piece of it , Will help make freedom rin g -Marcia Adkisson, l (·i
ANSWERS TO JUMBL ED NAMES
Mar ilyn Yo\. 1 ell
Allen Farmer
Shirley Bennett
Floyd Reifschneider
Betty Bolen
Lupe Arenas
Lillian Eichler
Curtis Bell
Charlotte Ellis
Wayne Walker
THE WHITTIER GREENLE ,~.F
Wh it • 1er
Gree n eaf
Vol ume 20
Number 3
November 6, 1942 Lincoln, Nebraska
Victory Garden ers
Honored in Assembly
The Victory Ga rden Assembly was held on Tue sday, Oct. 27. Pupil s in the openi ng skit were Lesli e Campbell, Merle Debus, Kenn eth Hulb ert, Helen Boy dston, and Ellen Jean K arras . The three boys in the pri ority skit were Kenne th Hul bert, Geo rge Loder and Le slie Ca mpbell. The announc er wa. atalie Mas er.
The se were the speakers in the Victo ry Garden group: Rub y Hock, Edward Wessel, Betty Bollen, Marilyn Del ehant, Ba rb a r a Hanni ng, Virginia Seile r, Shirl ey Maser, Mar y Web ber, Charlotte Elli and Alic e Jo Smith.
Ga rden certific ates for hom e victo ry garden s were awarded to Wallace Barne tt, Shirle y Bole n, Earl Bumg ardner, Bob Clark, Darlen e Crook, Mile Diehl , Twyla Dob bin , Polly Esquivel.
Rich ard Fr ickle, Elizabeth Gam er, Shirley Guelker, Phylli s He aton, Iren e Holter, Betty Ja mes so n, H elen Lamb, Jack Mil es, Velma Mosher.
Bruc e Nelso n, Calvin Perry, Dor cas Pitne y, ·Alvin Price , Leon ard Reben sdorf, Bob Reifschne ider, Ge rald Thompson, Shi rley Van Me tre, Duane Wilkin son, and Tom my Wil on.
WARDE NS ELECTED
Air raid wardens and their assista nts have been elected in our classe s, and the pupils shown where to go in case of an air raid. Our practi ce drill will help the pupil s in ca e of an emergen cy.
Scrap Drive Ends
When the scra r, drive ended, a tota l of twenty -nine tons had bee n brough t in by Whittier pupils.
Home room 302 t ook top honors with 7,629 lbs. The home room teacher is Miss F er guso n. 212 was the runner-up with 6,847 lbs. 103, 105, 110, 203, and 210 all brought in at leas t one ton.
The drive end ed with an assembly for tho s who brought in scrap metal. All but twentyfl ve pupils in th e whole school attended.
OPEN HOUSE SUCC ESS
The night of Tuesday,· October 20, if you happened to be passing Whittier School yo would have seen lights in all the rooms. It was the night of our annual open house. Mr. Culler e sti mated that we had five hund re d vhtors. The fir t thing on t he schedule wa a program in the auditorium honoring former Whittier pupils in the ervice. After t he program we visited our six p eriods. From all angles, open h o use wa s very successful.
TEACHERS IN WA R WORK
Many of the Lincoln teachers are spending thei r Ppare time in war work. Seve r al of the teachers sold bonds and stamps at the Fair this s ummer. Also during the summer many teachers raised Vic Lory gardens and two women t e ,. hers helped to pick potatoes r om these gardens . First aid :: lasses have been held which q t ite a few of the teachers att en ded . Entertain in g so 1die rs, ~on tributing blood, sewing, and knitting are still more things t ea chers have done.
During the school scrap drive and other scrap dr i •es, teachers donated many ar t icle s. Some teachers drove t ruc ks to aid businesses unable to get help regularly. Tea ,... hers were em p 1o ye d at th ,~ Burlington
s t ops. They attended air warden ~lasses. They donated magazines to our own Lincoln Air Base. There are many, many thing s teachers have done to help our fighting forces.
VICE PRESIDENTS
The people who preside over home room meetings when the presidents are taking a vacation are, Marvin Provost 102, Norma Neiderhaus 103, Lawrence Emery 105 , orma Mitchell 106, Dean Hobson 107.
Elaine Derr 210, Frank Newcomb 220, Bernice Schwindt 222, A 1 ice Ba 1d win 302, Ralph Weber 305, John Montgomery 307, Ruth Ailes 308, Ronald Gallagher 310.
Betty Boll en 312, Raymond Schenaman 314, Darlene Feis 316, Janice Cochran 318, Don Hayes 320.
PUPILS ENTER
These pupils have entered W bittier since our last issue. Rose Marie Locke of 320 came to us from Yankee Hill. Dorothy Zimmer of 106 and Robert Zimmer of 108 came to us from Iowa. E ugene Graham, 112, came from · out of town and Martin Wilson reentered.
From Eagle , Nebraska, Betty Johnson of 207 entered and from Belmont, Howard Cook, 203. Doris Kauffman, 316, has entered Whittier from Seward, Nebraska.
LT. WELLS GUEST
Lt. Wells of the Coast Artillery Corps was the honored guest at assembly, Wednesday. H e told about his work in the Balloon Barrage division. The attention the pupils gave whi le he was talking was proof of their happiness to se·e him and their interest in his experiences.
Also in the assembly we saw two films, "The Fight Is In Our Hands" and "Keep 'Em Rolling."
Marcia Adkisson
Phyllis Bar r ibo
Mary Ellen Bolar
Marialice Bullock
THE WHITTIER GRE EN LEAF
Founded and established in 1924 as the official st udent publication of WhiWer Junior High School p upils
FACULTY ADVISORY BOARD
Miss Pet erso n, Miss F erguson, Mr. Gammill GREENLEAF STAFF
Norma Chubbuck
B etty Lou Clark
Rob ert Reifschneider
K e nneth Bowman
Robert Church
Robert Folden
Fl oyd R eifsc hn e ider
Loren Robin ette
Twyla Dobbins A nna Ledoux
Janice Ehl e rs
Margaret Craig e Grac e Haskins
Elaine Derr Ir ene Hol ter
Doris Kauffman
George Wilcox GREENLEAF PRINTERS
Em erso n Ro gers
Raymond Schenaman
Alvin Schwartz
Andy Tautfe st
THOSE SIX WEEKS BLUES
Our first grades came out last week and some very unhappy people were seen walking down the halls. Grades don't mean everything, but it makes your heart sink to your stomach when you have to show Mom a seven. Right now it probably seems to a lot of you that grades aren't going to count much when you grow up. But don't you believe it. They are going to count now more than ever because we need to be prepared now more than ever. During the next six weeks why don't we all try to bring in the best grades we have ever had in Whitter?
GOOD CITZENS WE
Did you feel bad when the teacher said, ''Put all your sunflower seeds in the waste basket?" I'll bet you all thought, "what a shame to waste such good food.'' But did you notice the first day seeds were restricted how nice the hall and classroom floorslooked?Now, really wasn't it worth it?
DID THE CAMERA BREAK
"Sunflower," "Litt 1e Red Riding Hood," and "George"those were some of the names the photographer called us when he took our pictures on October 9. It was hot, and the sun made our eyes water so that we could hardly face the camera. But we didn't mind because we were posing for the 9A issue of the Greenleaf.
Duan e Wilkinson
Natalie Ma er
Mary P ease
Alice Smith
Joan Eber hart
OUR WAR EFFORT
Whittier pu p ils are doing all they can to sa v e precious materials needed in war industries. Among the many things being done are the scrap drive, victory gardens, and canning of foods. Another thing I am sure everyone is doing is wearing clothes longer. A patch now-a-days is a sign of patriotism.
A survey of Whittier pupils further reveals these things being done: buying war bonds and stamps, not going on so many pleasure trips, not going down town so often, using less and less rubber and saving fats.
These are just a few of the many things Whittier pupils are doing. Good going Whittier; let's keep it up!
KEE'P OFF THE TRACKS
The other day Mr. Lefler, Superintendent of Schools, received a lett e r from Mr. Jeffers, the President of the Union Pacific Railroad. In his letter Mr. · Jeffers said, "Many of the railroad accidents are caused by unpatriotic children who put railroad ties and angle bars acros s the tracks 'just to see what the heck wo u ld happen'.'' For instance, a nine year old boy put a piece of railroad tie on a track "to see what it would do" and due to this, the engineer was killed.
Acting in this fashion is merely another unpatriotic way of working against your country. A "stay away from tracks" campaign is now under way. Why don't we all make a pledge
to follow this rule ? If you oft en loiter around the tracks, rem ember that you ma.y be doing so m ething to hinder the war eff 0 1t. Keep this in mind, and tell your friends that we can't be soldi e r s but that there are many ot h er ways like this in which we CH n help.
BLACKOUT
One night as I was sitting h y the radio, there came the orde r t o black out. This meant that an en• emy ship or plane was near. T l" e city darkened.and in a hurry. W e lived two blocks from the oc e a n at Venice, California, and on e block from the oil fields, a d c1ngerous spot. Scores of Dou g la s bombers flew over-then, sile n ce Jt was an eerie silence, black a n d frosty. The tide was high, an d a stiff breeze blew.
We waited, waited for f Oi t y mmutes. Then in · the dista fa~~ , planes we re heard. 0 i t of the night came lo n g fingers of iight flooding the s k_v Suddenly they played back au d forth over a certain area. Pla n f. s , but whose? On they came. Our s a t last! The J ap plane had fled. H o,vever, we continued to have bl a ckouts and alerts from that time on - Marialice Bul k,c k
WERE YOU TARDY.?
Since the article in the B rn letin about tardiness there h ~·; ve been more pupils coming in Lt te than there were before. f course it is better to be t m dy than not to come at all, 7J ut most of the time there ar e n o reasonable excuses. If ge tt P1 g up late is the reason you h ~v e beeri tardy set the alarm fo · a half hour earlier. This nex t s i x weeks let's all try not to h a \c a single case of tardines s i n Whittier.
VICTORY GARDEN NE WS
There are still more carro ts t o sell. They are selling at the :e r y cheap price of 50 cents a bu sh el. Fifteen or sixteen bushels h av e been sold. There will be par s ni p s to sell later.
Phylli s Newman Ernie Workman
Joanna Gatto
Ralph Weber
TRA GEDY AT MI DNI GH T
Loo ming out of the inky blackn ess of th e n ight rises the mansio n of ' ' L ost Rushes . '' I t has been aband oned for man y years since Thom as Ho lburn died. But tonight flic kers of light can be seen com i ng t h ro u g h th e shut ters. · In side the tumbling mano r sit twel ve people crowded arou nd a hug e t a ble.
''Say, it w a s a pretty go od idea havi ng a hallowe 'en party in this spook y place. A t least it gives the right atmo sp h ere," said Vera Lane , who was e ntertaining a grou p of her fr ie n ds in the house left by her Ullc le.
"Quiet, ever ybody!" popped up Loui se King " I know a swell gam e to play. It's called 'Spiri t s.' Now every one p ut their li tt le fingers together s o that all hands are conn ecting a rou nd the table. Then you, Jo sey, get up and turn the lamp out. " Josey got up and put out the lam p, then resum ed her place at th e table.
"I shall su mmon spirits from the other worl d , '' Louise said. ''Qui et everyon e. Listen.''
Suddenly a sl ow monoton ou s voice boomed out of the darkne s _, "I ha ve been s ummoned,)' t h e voice said. '' This is to tell you a treasu re is hidd en in this house . " The voice beg an to die away. "Loo k behind the clock, the old clock - ," and there was silence.
''T urn on t he lights quick , ' ' said Louise.
"What's the matter?" everyone shouted
''I didn't do that. You see I was going to fa ke it and make it look as if I was getting people from the spiri t world. But before I had a chanc e t o start, that awful voice beg a n. ''
"You mean yo u didn't do it?" asked Joyce.
"Most certain ly n ot! What did it say? " Vera r epiied.
''I thought i t said , 'Look behind the old clock'.''
''Do- do yo u think we ought to?" Jerry whi s p ered. ' 'It migh t November 6, 1942
lead to som ethin g we don't want t o be led in to.''
•' You ' r e just an old fradie cat," Vera snapp ed. " Well, if you girls ar en't g oing to look, I am. ' '
"Now don't be in a hurry," Jerry ca lled after Vera as she disappeared dO\ v n the moldy corridor.
"We can ' t jus t ·Jet h e r go like that, girls. She's t he only o ne who knows he r way aro u n d here," Joyce cri ed "Come on!"
Half way dovYn t he corrid or the girls came t o a pa r t in it where it branch e d off into a lot of small hall way s
"Now what? " Be rnice wh ispered.
"We'll all take a s epa r ate hallway and try t fi nd Vera "
So each girl s tarted down a hallway. For the meantime le t 's follow Jerry and see what happens to her.
" Golly, this hallway's dark W i8h I'd never come to this old pa r ty . " Suddenly when Jerry turned to look beh i nd, strong hands dragged he r into a small enclosure.
''What in the , vorl d d o you think you're do in g ?" said t he familiar voice of Ver a.
''We -we wer e look ing for you."
"Well, you do n' t hav e to look any farther. Look wh a tI'vefo und. Give me your small flash li g ht. I think I've stum b led onto something big " The fl ash soon pl a yed upon an old clock stand in g i n t he corner of t he ha ll a y . ' 'Come on over he re, '' sa id Ve ra. '' Take hold of t his li tt le c or d a nd p u ll." Jerry will ingly p ull e d and to he r amazement a s i d e o f the hall wa y opened revealin g a s mall pass a g eway
Now t o ge t back an d see what the ot he r gir ls ha ve been do i ng a ll t h is t ime. Eac h ha d followed a h allway and fin ally all of them met in one ro om. ' 'D idn't you find Ve ra?" Lo uise a ske d , a worried expressio n in h e r v es.
"N o w e didn't a n d no w we ' ve lost Joyce.'' Just t he n a r.reaking
no ise was heard behind the girls and the y saw Vera and Jerry step out from the wall. In Vera's hand was a small sack.
" It's about time you got back , " said Joyce. "Where hav e you been and what's that you have in your h and?''
''Girl s , we're in the money. I ' ve stumbled onto a bag of ru b ies.' '
"What! " everyone shouted. Vera ' s mother walked in at that t ime and said to the surprised g ir ls, ' 'I gue s s my joke went over pretty big.''
" You don ' t mean you were the voic e , Mom ?' ' asked Vera .
'' Yes , dear , I had to do somet hi ng to liven up the party. But w h at have y ou there?"
"Oh, 1 thought I'd found a bag of ru bies but I guess that w a s ju st anothe r joke."
"W hy no, I don ' t know what you ' re talking about." At that Ver a s howed her mother the je wel s
•' Why th e se are priceless,'' said Mrs. Lane. '' I guess my jo ke wasn ' t a joke after all."
" Thi s i s l ik e a story I read on ce," said Joyce , "called 'T r ag ed y a t Midnight', but no t r a g ed y happened here."
" Oh no?" said Jerry. " What a tout this scratch on my finger?"
- Marcia Adkisson
A hill b illy seeing a motorcycle rider g oing along the road below t he hou s e ( and never having seen an a utomobile or a motorc y cle before) g rabbed a gun and took a shot a t it.
His wife called out, ' ' Did YO\J • get the varmint?"
" No/' he said , "I didn't kill it. I can still hear it growling, but I sure made it turn that man loose.''
Betty · Bolen: I can ' t imagine anything sadder than a man without a country.
Barbara Strubbe: I can. How about a country without a man?
PUPILS LEA VE
Mr. Culler says that this year more pupils are entering and leaving than there have been for a long time. Rodney and Patricia Garner have left for California and Dorothy MeAtee for Indiana. Milford Craig has gone to Washington.
Arthur Robinson, Ila Sorge, and Dorothy Watson are still in the city but have gone to different schools. Harold Willshire has gone to Omaha and Fane Feis to Reynolds , Nebr. Robert Carlson is now going to Military School. Charlotte Curtin has left Whittier also. We were sorry to see them leave.
TRIPS
Junior Zimmers , 110 , and his father motored to Arnold, Nebr. , where they hunted for pheasants. Junior shot two. He also saw two rattlers and a horned owl. Junior shot the owl , and the rattlers were shot by other hunters. Margery Franks, 210, w ent to Arbor Lodge and John Brown's cave over the week-end.
J olm Lu e bs sp e nt the week en d a t a fa r m ne a r Wood Ri v er, Nebra s k a . He and his famil y we nt huntin g and got six pheasant s . He b r ou g ht ho m e fifteen pounds of pop-corn , one ca s e of eg g s, a n d t w o chi c k ens . He also sp e n t a li t tl e ti me a t h i s g r an dmothe r ' s in Grand Island.
R ece n tl y , Mr. Ga mmil, Mr. Ros s a nd M . Ga rtner w ent on a hunting -trip. They shot thirteen pheasants.
THANKS TO THEM ALL
Thanks to the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, They'll see to it that we win this war; You too can help those galent men , Let's back them all again and again.
-Twyla Dobbins, Irene Holter
NOTES FOR BOOKWORMS
Groups of seve nt h graders from several home r oo ms at a time have been going to the library activity periods to learn more about the library and how to use it. Some of the information has been given in th e form of a quiz game which th e students play. The remainder of the time is spent in talkin g about different books and looking at the new ones and book jackets.
GUESS WHO Girl
Her home r oo m is 304. Her hei g ht is 64 inch e s and her weight 123 pounds. She has dark hair and large brown eyes. One of her favorite subjects is algebra and she likes to play bas e ball. A couple of her friends ar e Eleanor Myers and Joan Eberh a rt.
Boy
His height is 63 1-2 inches , and his weight is 94 pounds. He is a member of home room 305 and the 9B class. His pet peeve is dishes. He has blond hair and blue eyes. Warr e n Dunn and Wesley Barton are two of his pals.
NICKNAMES
Fred Vance - Fritz
Patty Hudkins-Huddy
Jean McCauley-Golly
Ed Cole - Zike
Mildred Mons - Monty
Kent Wassung- Lanky
Bill Matthews- Willie
Betty Rus s ell - Rusty
Joan Nuss-Blackie
Donalee J ohns-Blondie
Bernice Schwindt - Bright Eyes
Mildred Thompson - Midge
Jane Simp son - Mumps
Elmer Means: William the Conqueror landed in England in 1066 A. D.
Miss Hooper: What does A. D. stand for?
Elmer Means: Um, er, after dark!
MONKEY SHINES
I was sitting at my desk one day , Not listening, I fear; The teacher called my name aloud,
But you see I didn't hear. She called it once; she called it twice,
And to my senses I came; She asked me once; she asked me twice
If I didn't know my name. The teacher asked, ''Are you, my dear, By any means eleven?
And if you don't get busy now, Your grade will be a seven."
So now I'm telling you, my friend
It's simply for your sake, Whatever you do in any class, Be sure you keep a wake.
- Alice Jo Smit h SONGS THAT REMIND ME OF YOU
Dream Girl Barbara Haning Mary Lou - Mary Lou Carr
Irene - Irene Holter
You Couldn't Be CuterDona Hendri x Lazy Bones-John Wabel
Blondie- Leah Jacoby
Playmates - Betty Bollen and Charlotte Elli s
Margie- Marjorie Moore
Jeannie-Jean Mann
ChatterboxMarjorie Englebrech t
WHAT IF
Natalie Maser didn't wea r ribbons.
Alice Jo Smith were small.
Twyla Dobbins were quiet.
Norma Chubbuck we!'e loud. Fern Geist were ugly.
Marcia Ad kiss ion didn ' t whisper.
Janice Ehlers weren't so timid
Dorothy: What are you doin g with that red lantern?
Donna: I just found it. Som e •foolish person left it beside a ho le in the road.
CHATT ER
"J ohnny, b r in g those seeds up here to th e waste basket. Hurry up, and thrnw them all a wa y too ." N ow doesn't that soun d famili a r ? If you're caught e a ti ng them, you'll probab l y be pa ying Mr. Cull er an unexpected vi s i t.
N ow, this isn' t sensational, bu t you kno w w h at they're we aring in Ne w York? They're we aring clothe s ! Well, what I s t arted to sa y was that they're wea r ing g r eat bi g hair bows, n ot the kind we have here, but g reat big ov er- grown ones. The s mallest one h as at least two yards in it, and if the boys pu lled them off, they'd really h ave somethin g on their hands. We all thought t hat one first name was th e limit, bnt it seems as if Natalie Maser has two, N atalie and Na talia. Natalia is th e name u se d by two of her te ache r s. We all hope Natalie, or N atalia, doe s n' t mind two names. Here's ne w s of another letter. It' s from Donn a Lee Anderson wh o wa s in Miss Curley's home r oo m but now lives in San Diego. L i k e Pat Mars hall she's subs cribing for t he G r e e n 1 e a f. Don na Lee would like to hear fr om pupils he re at Whittier.
H ere' s some thing • for "Beli v e It or Not. " There are five B e tt y's in 32 0; Betty Pethoud, Be tty Egger, Betty Amos, Betty Gartner, and Betty Garner. I won der how m any answer when Miss Curley s ays "Betty."
D an Noble a nd Ard el Prathe1· s t ruggled along h auling a sewing machine to school on a bicycl e. When th ey got it to the bi ke racks th ey discovered it h ad wheels, Donald Oliv e r , Dick Michael, an d Jim Gie s t certainly did th eir part. One afternoon after school they br ou ght some scrap from Donald' s home and on the way home a la dy stopped them an d asked t h em i f they would ii ke to take som e scrap to school.
Novemb e r 6 , 1942
On t h ei r way home the second time, hi s to ry repeat ed itself Anoth e r w om an gave the m enoug h for two m ore trips, a nd so i t wen t un ti l 600 pou nd s had been carri ed to school by th e t hr ee boys
Miss Madsen was demon s trating th e lift pump and t he force pump in her sixt h per iod, and during the demons tr ati on of the force pump an in qu is i t iv e s tudent got in the ,my just in t i me to receive a nice s h ower His name was LaVern K auer
What were th e feeli n gs of those fifteen boy s w ho reporte d at the police st at i on for ridi n g through a red l i g h t? Well, we can't say, but I'll b et it hasn't been very often that •a po liceman has given out so many tickets at one time. We heard that he ran out of tickets and p i eces of cardboard had to be substituted. It all happe n ed on North Seventeenth Street Besides going through a red light there ,ms some riding double too.
Charis George brought s ome old newspapers to M i ss P e t erson's English cl a s s. She had found them in an ol d farmhous e Shfrley Maser wa s surprised t o find that the first one she pi cke d up had been prin t e d on the day she was born, May 17, 19 28 . Startling events happened on that day. Some of the head lin es ,vere "Beautiful S panish D an c er Mm·dered by Arg e ntinia n L ov er " and "Chinese Mus t Keep Out of Manchuria by Or der of J a p s ." The paper was Th e Colu mb u s Daily Telegram p r in ted i n Columbus, Nebras ka
We j us t got ne ws of a let t er to Miss Kier from Ed ward Schuckma n , a fo rmer Whitt ie r pupi l wh o's i n Di vis i o n fo u r a t the Nava l Air St ati on in Anacostia, D . .C . Ana cost ia , D. C. is three mile s from W a s h i ngton , D . C. H e say s th at t he m en g et liberty eve r y o th er n i g h t from 4 : 30 un t il 8 :00 t he n ext mornin g. H e w a s told tha t t he y will go to a n ai rp lane school in t w o or t h r ee mon t hs.
I suppose you've all seen the po s ter in the hall for Navy D ay It was designed by John Falter, a cousin of Alice Jo Smith's.
D u ring a s cience class Mrs. Klippert was discussing ventilati on and fresh air. She told the •p upils tha t one bo y in another p eriod said that he wanted a job where he could get plenty of fresh air. That was the reason he isn't going to take up the profe s sion of his two brothers, who a r e both foot specialists.
He r e' s one fo r y ou. Not so v ery l ong ago, Miss Jones was arr anging the pupils alphabeticall y in her sixth period English cl ass She told the s e cond row to m o ve back a s eat. Jim Monk mus t n o t h av e been paying much attent ion, for w hen he sat down it was on Mary Lee McGinty's la p. W ere their face s red!
W e've found out that Natalie Mas er, who announced for the Victor y Gard en as s embly, Tuesday , didn't know s he wa s to be in the a s sembly until second period , Tuesday morning. Very nice, Natalie, for s uch short n otice.
On the day when the P. T. A . ladies were selling pop corn , Miss Schofield g a ve some to a little brother of one of the girls. As Miss Schofield poured it into his hands, one of the girls said, "All measurements in home economic! are level measurements.''
TEACHERS JUMBLED NAMES
Ndea Amzzwo
Tehel Ojens
A]u Tepseron
Ramy Onsilw
Tala Ckasjon
Aelh Coshesifld
Duwigl Rtangre
Adlygs Satroln
Ermia Sorsc
Alice Jo Smith: What is a river basin?
Jean Mann: A place where the fish wash themselves.
SPORT SHORTS
The captains for the second floor are Dale Harp, 203; Frank Burden, 205; Bob Rohrbau~h, 207; Holbert Bradley, 208; Billy Gab]ehaus, 209; Allen Farmer, 210; Jim Sheldon, 212; Raymond Aguirre, 220; and Richard Rader, 222.
Hail to 220, the fall champion of baseball. With Ray Aguirre pitching, 220 beat 106 by the score of 6 to 2. Ralph Buterbaugh was the losin~ pitcher. Some of 102's home room team looked on wishing that they were out on Diamond 1, wishing that they were playing. That was in their minds because just previously 106 had won a hard-fought battle over 102.
Again the next day 220 beat 102 disqualifying them for the race. With 102 out of the . tournament, 106 and 220 were left to play in the final. As you know 220 beat the second game, 6 to 2. The first game also was won hy 220 , 3 to 1. Hail to 220, the champion.
The football tournament is here. Last time we picked 102 to win the tournament. After seeing some of the other teams in action , we must predict a threat to 102. We believe that 220 will give 102 lots of tro.uble.
ANSWERS TO TEACHER'S JUMBLED NAMES
Edna Zamzow
Ethel Jones
Ula Peterson
Mary Wilson
Alta Jackson
Leah Schofield
Ludwig Gartner
Gladys Ralston
Marie Cross
I have often regretted my speech; my silence, never.
- Seneca
YOUR COMMITTEES
ANSWER TO GUESS WHO
Girl-Shirley Mohr
Boy-Jack Brodie
Here are the folks who help and also order you around in the games room: Dorothy Keller, chairman, Shirl e y Maser, Shirley Hoback, Delores Hoback, Dorothy Preece, Alice Jo Smith, Shirley Lovelace, Connie Pitzer, Betty Ray, Romona Cameron, DeLone Fillman, and Barbara Baragar.
An order often repeated on the playground is " Keep off the terrace." This comes from the property committee which includes Betty Bollen, girls chairman, Roselan Smith, Do rothy Schwartz , Mary Ellen Bolar, Betty Ann Gibbs, Norma Mccaslin, and Patricia Hoadl e y, Ernest Dietze, boys chairman , John Luebs, Leo Hansen, Leonard Betz, and Charles Steward.
SOMETHING NEW
Three of Mi s s Scheme]'s social studies classes are having a contest. They have a chart on the board for each class and each time they ha ve their shoes halfsoled they pu t their names on the board. All three classes together have had a total of nineteen pairs of shoes half-soled since school started. The purpose of this contest is to save on leather. Each class sees which can get the most. They are also having a War Bond contest. Only one person has gotten a Bond so far.
TEACHERS CONVENTION
Pupils are always glad to have Te ache rs Convention come around. That means vacation for the pupils but only more work for the teachers, who must attend endless meeti n gs.
This year's convention occurred last week. Three Whittier teachers and Mis s Hult took special parts in the convention. Miss Hult, Miss Schemel, and Miss Zamzow participated in a panel discussion. Miss Schemel had charge of luncheon tickets. Miss Ferguson presided as president of the art section.
LIVE WIRES
These are the second floor home room captains for the girls 203, Beverly Maser; 212, Jackie Boeka; 209, Shirley Cook; ~07 , Bonnie Burback; 210, Marilyn Delehant; 220, Natalie Maser ; 208, Leona Shepard and Colleen McCracken; 205, Evelyn Pochop. Next time we will put in the first floor captains.
The girls are starting to pla y different kinds of soccer an d paddle tennis. A cadet from the University, Miss Dorthy Martine , assists Mrs. Ross during first an d second periods.
The first baseball ·tournamen t is over and the second one wi ll be under way. Remember, girl s , this is a one-game elimination . •• 212 and 205 battled it out fo r first place with 205 scoring a 3 to 2 victory over 212. Evely n Pochop was the winning pitche r and Darlene Pappas, the losin g one.
We would like to kno whether or not a third tournam e nt is wanted or if you woul r ather play in the gym. Th playground committee would b e grateful for any suggestions.
The playground committe E' would also welcome constru ctive criticism.
OCTOBER 31st
I was walking along one night With only the glow of the pale street light, When up in front of me appeare d The wildest face, a thing to be feared.
Its eyes they glowed with a flickering light
And I was filled with terrible fright;
Then I stopped and remembere d the worst-
This was October 31st.
-Alice Jo Smit h
One of the greatest lessons of life is to learn not to do what on e likes, but to iike what one doe s , - Blac k THE WHITTIER GREENLEA F
Whi • 1e r
Gree n ea
Volume 20 Number 4
Novem ber 20, 1942 Lincoln , Nebraska
Program is Given On Arm istice Day
A:t _11 :30 ?n Armistice Day Whittier pupils gathered in the audito rium for the following program: The girls' glee club opened the program with • "America , the Beautiful" and "Hol y, Holy, Holy," Charis George singing the descant as a solo. Mrs. Allen was the accompani s t. Mrs. Robert M. Armstro ng was the speaker. School was then dismi ssed for the afternoon.
PUPILS ENTER
We welcome th es e n e w Wh ittierites. Deloris Jenkins ent ere d from Wyoming. Darlene Kapke has com e from Pleasant Dal e. Patricia Cappen has moved from Northsi de and Jacquelyn Waltermine has come to us from Sioux City, Iowa. Dorothy Bu rbac k came to us from out of town . Lor etta L ewis is from Blue Springs, Nebr.
Alvin Beasle y has moved to Li ncoln from out of the city. Dal e Kauffman has moved from Se ward. Fletche r Bell has come back to school a ft er being i11 and Arthur Robinson has reentered. Leigh Tuttle has moved her e from Washi ngton and Jimmy Artz has come to Whittier from Rokeby.
NAVY SHOW S FILMS
At th e assem bly held on November 2 here at Whittier, two
interes ting films from the Naval Recruiting Station were shown, Warrant Officer Green welt of the U . S. Navy gave a short talk on the advantages of Na vy life
These Pupils Leave
David Ward and Eleanor Roenfeld have left for California. Bob McMasters has gone to Kansas and Betty Lou Smith to Hastings. Richard Ems went to Arapahoe from here and Rollin Marsh to Grand Island. Geraldine Aldrich left for Tekamah and Dick Moni for Ravenna. James Kasser has left Whittier for Beatrice.
To Everett went the following: Bonnie Wiedman, Warren Atchi on, Ielvin Watkins, and Charmaine Kalal. Northease,'s gain but our losses are Dorothy Watson and Mary Pease. Junior Zimmer has left for a private school. Polly Esquivel, Billy Mitts, Donald Wilson and Wayne Walker have al 0 1 left Whittier.
PUPILS PATRIOTIC
Whittier pupils are being patriotic by doing a number of different things for the Air Base. Some of Mi s Ralston's classes made little, red, white, and blue cannons from red mending tissue spools, wood scraps, and dowel sticks. These were used for tray favors for the men in the hospitial on Armistice day at the Air Base.
Miss Ferguson's cl asses made book marks as tray favors for the Red Cross to be used by the Air Base. A few blot ters were made and cut in the shape of stars and decorated with designs in red, white, and blue. Miss K i er's type classes have been making some joke books to bring laughter to these boys.
Mr. Ross' metal trades classes are making ashtrays out of old tin cans and Mr. Heston's industrial wood classes have been making ping pong paddle s for the boys.
Home Room Secretaries
The home room secrectaries are: 320 Lona Story, 318 Evelyn Daharsh, 316 Marilyn Martin, 314 Joan Watson, 312 Dorotha Kuhn 310 Kenneth Bolus, 308 Robert Chase, 307 Sanford Downs. 305 Dale Betz, 304 Shirley Lovelace , 303 Irene Holter, 302 Betty Legler, 222 Bob Robinson 220 Phyllis Bridger, 212 Donald Moon, 210 Ard el Prather, 209 Jo Ann Leaming, 208 Wilbur Weideman, 207 Eugene Fast. 205 Bill Kosmos, 203 Shirley Will, 112 Janet Carr, 110 Vernon Heckel, 108 Marvin Livingston, 107 Marcia Adkisson, 106 Guy Dean, 105 Bob Chamberlain, 103 Ruth Williams, and 102 Ruby Hock.
SEVE TH GRADE TRIPS
The seven th graders met at the Nebraska Theater for their civic league trip. Mr. Ray Rice, who ha8 spent many years in India, gave an interesting talk on vocations.
Miss H.Madsen, Miss Schofield, Mrs. Barrows, Miss Mum ford Miss Ferguson, Miss Jackson 1 Miss M. L. Wilson, and Mis~ Zamzow, went on the trip. Mrs. Swisher,Mr.Gammill, Miss Jones, and Miss Hult also went.
9A C. L. TRIP
The 9A class went on their civic league trip, October 22. They met at the Nebraska Theater where Dr. Scott of the University talked to them about their vocations. From there they visited places connected with their vocations. Some of them went alone and introduced thtmselves. These were really interviews. The teachers from Whittier who accompanied pupils were Mrs. Childress, Miss Curley and Miss Hult.
RATION GAS
Gas rationing let us out of school on Thursday and Friday of this week at two o'clock. Our teachers were scattered about the grade schools helping
Marcia Adkisson
Phylli s Barribo
Mary Ell e n Bolar
Marialice Bullock
THE WHITTIER GREENLEAF
Founded and established in 1924 as the official student publication of Whittier Junior High School pupils
FACULTY ADVISORY BOARD
Miss Peterson , Mis s F er guson , M r Gammill GREENLEAF STAFF
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YOUR THANKSGIVING
Turkey and cranberries and mince pies! I can smell them how, and there's pumpkin pie too. What are you going to do on Thanksgiving? Are you going to Grandma's and munch cookies or are you going to stay at home'? Anyway you'll have something good. While you're eating your holiday dinner, don't forget those brave fellows who are out there on the battle fields punching for us so that we can have a free Thanksgiving and keep on having them. Nor must we forget those suffering people in war-torn countries w.hen we say or Thanksgiving prayers.
THANKSGIVING, YUM, YUM
A turkey likes Thanksgiving as well as people do, He likes the gay excitement just as well as me or you, He may be on a platter and later in a stew
But turkeys like Thanksgiving as well as me and you.
A turkey's main ambition is to be upon a table
And he l~ves up to that as well as he is able ; This year turkey costs as much as mink or sable
How "turkeys like Thanksgiving" is just a little fable. -Alice Jo Smith.
SINGIN' THE BLUES?
Are you down in the "valley of despair" ? Are you singing the blues? Then perk-up, sing, and be happy, for next Wednesday all of "us'ns" are going to get out of school for Thanksgiv-
ing vacation and we don't come back till Monday!! So perk-up and be happy!
GUESS WHO
Girl
Her home room is 318. She is 5 ft. 1 3-4 inches tall and weighs 112 1-2 pounds. Her favorite subject is type and her favorite sport is baseball. She is usually seen with Virginia Lampshire and Betty Jamesson. She has brown eyes and blond hair and is a member of the 9B class.
Boy
He has brown hair and hazel eyes. His home room is 207. He weighs 100 pounds and is 5 ft. 6 inches tall. Bob Brooks, Dick Stansbury, and Jack Bloom are the boys he pals around with.He has no favorite subject and his pet peeve is home work. He is a member of the 9B class.
I'M THANKFUL
I'm thankful I don't live in Europe
Where bombs scream and towns burst into flame, I'm thankful for clothing and warm homes and food
And for friends who are always the same.
I'm thankful to live in a country Where Thanksgiving comes once a year, I'm thankful that I'm in America
And can say what I think without fear.
-Marcia Adkisson.
THANKSGIVING REPRIEVE
Judith was in that half-awake, half-asleep state that always preceded the time when she knew her mother would call to
her from downstairs, where sh e would be getting breakfast.
Suddenly Judith sat upright in bed. Today was Thanksgiving ! They were going to Aunt Cindy' s for Thanksgiving dinner. Oh , heavenly days, wouldn't that b e fun!
"Judy, Ju-dy, time to get up Do you hear? It is time to ge t up!"
"Yes ma'am " Judith a nswered her mother's dreamshattering call meekly enough. Judith started lacing her sho e : then mid-way through her tas k she stopped. What if Cousi n Lucy were there? Oh, dear, a m t she had never said a word t o Father and Mother about brea k ing Cousin Lucy's best Wedg ewood plate! Oh, well, she ha ci paid for that last summer whe 11 she had pid- ed straw berries fo :c Lucy. So there!
Riding along the highwa y Judith was sunk dejectedly i r her seat. If only somethin [: would happen so they needn't g ri on to Aunt Cindy's, but 0 1 course nothing would. Sudden t there was a horrible screechi n csound, a ttat tire. Of all thin g ~ to happen! Judith brighten e ~1 perceptibly because she kne v,1 Father had no spare tire. Bu t Father calmly got out, open e d the trunk, and there he had a can of tire-patching. Judith 's hopes sank. Now they woul d b,~ able to continue on to Au nt Cindy's, darn it.
When Judith, her father, a nd her mother arrived at Au ut Cindy's later that afternoon, su 'e enough, there was Lucy!
She looked at Judith significa n tly and then at Judith's moth e t . When she came toward the m, Judith wished ardently that s be might sink through the flo or But no such thing occurred.
Then Cousin Lucy said to Judith's mother, "Cora-" b u t just then Judith's father ca m e up asking, "Cora, what did y ou do with the apples we broug ht? We want some."
When Father had been t o;d where the apples were, L u cy continued, ''Cora, here is five dollars that Judith worked out las t summer. She forgot to ask fo r i t when she left for home. You s ee , she was all upset over break in g what she thought_ was my We d ge -
woo d plate, but which was rea lly only a good imitation . ''
A t dinner Judith gave up a hear ty prayer of thanks for an understand ing Cousin Lucy.
- Doris Kauffman
CHATT
ER
No w who did that? Who got th e unique idea of having plants gro wing out of our water fountain s? Someone dropped a grain of wheat in one of the fountains and it sprouted over the weekend. Vases would lo ok much bett er even though having plants in th e fountainR solves the prob lem of watering them. Wheat in a dr inking fountain? Tsk'. Tsk ! If it had been corn, the nearness to t he Greenleaf class might have e xpl ai ned it.
Th e other day in her first period En gl ish class , Mrs. Shike was tea ching punctuation . She wrote thi s statemen t on the board: ''Woman withou t her man is a .,. b east.'' She then punctuated it to re ad: "Woman! Without her, m an is a beast. "
Miss Mary Wilson received a lett er from a former Whittier pu pil, Richard Aker who is in t h e Navy at Fort Sutter, s~n Fra ncisco, Califo rnia. His sister, Ma r y Akers, is in home room 300. H e says he has gained 19 lbs . si nce he has been in the Navy wh ich answers that old question " I s the food good?" Richard said h e would like to have his old fri ends in Wh ittier write to him. If you are interested, send your lett ers to Miss Wilson in 110 and sh e will mail them for you.
We have an apology to make. In listing the names of the offi ce committe e, we omitted Jo An ne Hollingsw orth. Our apologie s , Jo Anne. Even we make mi stakes.
A pparently Whittier has a ne w name. It 's Whittier Greenleaf School. That' s the way a pap er coming from another sch ool was addres sed.
A t least someone really appreci ates the Greenleaf. As one o f t he reporters was bringing a bunc h of Greenleafs up to class, a cu stodian stopped her to ask if th e paper came out that night . He wanted to make sure th a t h e'd get his. He then addNovemher 20, 1942
ed that he thinks our paper is really good. If the reporters' chests bulge a little more than usual, you'll know they're not hoarding scrap but just swelling with pride.
It seems that one of the latest amusements for some of the boys at noon i having fights riding horseback, piggy back, in other words. It's all right as long as the horses don't sprain their backs 01· throw the riders off.
The Greenleaf has made another mistake. We had Jean McCauley nicknamed "Golly" when her nickname is really "Dolly " We're always glad to correct our elTOl'S.
Home room 22 2 received an inte1·esting letter about the Navy from Mr. Ko za. He is now an instructor in the Quartermaster Corps and likes the Navy very much. He said, "More power to Whittier and I liked every part of it." Pupils in 222 are answering his letter because he says it makes him Yery happy to hear from home
Former Whittier pupils are really going somewhere in footha1l at Lincoln High. Gene Kirkendall is rated as the best prep pa::,ner in the state. Other former Whittier pupils on the team are: Arden Mea ns, Ralph Leikam, Ernie Lee, Dick Hudkins, Bob Jacobson, Harry Fox, Dave Ki cmarik, and Tom Morey. Alex Fink ,ms moved up from the Reserve squad to the Varsity squad.
Stisian Eastman had quite a time getting her sister and ?-usband on a train for Des Momes, Io,, a, \Yhere they. live. They tried to go on a tram, but there vrnsn't any to get them there on time, so the Eastman family took them to Omaha to catch a bus. They found that they were thirty-five minutes late for the bus and seven minutes late for a train. Knowing that the train goes slo,Yly over the river, they crossed to Council Bluffs, and arrived just before the train pulled out. I'll bet there were a couple of very relieved people on that train.
Betty Gartner has had her name in the Greenleaf every lime this semester. We don't want to spoil her record so here it is.
USHER COMMITTE E
Here are the people who kee p us from stampeding, the ushe r committee. Virginia Seiler is the c:hairman of the girls ush e r committee. Other members are: Marjorie Dingman, Eleanor Meyers, -Charis George, Conni e Crosbie, Patricia Gove, Betty Clough, Patty Rankin, Je an Mann, Patricia Venard , Reth a Brant, and Marilyn Mart i n . Chairman of the boys usher committee i3 Kent Wassung. Other members are: Charles Applegate, Edward Wess e 1, Duane Wilkinson, Bill Wilson, Jack Brodie, Galen Simmons, Melvin Keller, Helmut Sienknecht, Hobert Rosenquist, and Dan Noble.
PARTIES
Twyla Dobbins had a Hallowe'en Blackout party, Oct. 29 . Fourteen Whit tier girls were there. Donna Yates was one of six on a Slumberless party. No one slept much, and everyone had a good time. Oct. 31 a party was given by Norma Niederhaus, Norma Hergenrader, and Florence Hahn. Five Whitti e r students were there.
John Luebs tells us he went with a party out to Robbers Cave recently. Girl Scout troop 18 had a party at Rita Trumble' s house. Most of the members are in Whittier. Elizabeth Ann Garner reports that her Sunday School class will have a party soon. November 7, a party was held at Herbert Greiner's home. Five people were at the party.
JUMBLED NAMES
Obb Arht
Ettby Olen bl .
Hry lsie Enbtetn
Bbo Rnbtnoi
Odtahro Hukn
Ornene Tepett
Lainee Rerd
Oniecn Orcbeis
Onda N egrixd
SPORT SHORTS
207 is the winner of the first fall football tournament over 102 to the tune of two yards. In a scoreless tie they had to run it off. A rough affair, it was not uncommon to see the players sprawled on the ground. 207 displayed tremendous po w er led by Alvin Hoffman. Bob Hubbell could not seem to get his passes off to Frank Damian, but 102 also showed some good defense. Hail, 207, the ne w champs!
The second football tournament is under way. Sport Short s was flustered when 207 beat 102 while our prediction was 102. We still predict 102.
Sport Shorts will add a ne w feature to our column. It is entitled "Memories of the Playground." Our first victim will be Guy Dean of 106. His 'forceful language and swaggering attitude entitle him to the Silv er Cup.
The boys ' captains on third floor are: 302, William Schleicher; 303, Ralph Wilson; 304, Randall Renkin; 305, Robert Reifschneider; 307, Billie Lange; 310, Ronald Gallagher; 312, Bob Hart; 314, Alfred Mendoza; 316, George Wilcox; 318, John Wahl; and 320, Don Hay s .
TRIPS
Richard Mc Williams is going to spend Thanksgiving in South Omaha with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tago McWilliams. Galen Simmons went hunting two days up around Albion, Nebraska. His father, his uncle, and himself bagged twenty-four pheasants. Galen also reported going on a camping trip with Boy Scout troop eleven. He tells of one interesting thing which they saw. It was two beavers building a dam.
ANSWERS TO GUESS WHO
Girl: Darlene Kuiper
Boy: Bob Herbert
JUST IMAG_INE
Betty Jamesson without curls.
Marilyn Yow ell and Shirley Bennett not together.
Alice Tunks without her lipstick.
Phyllis Barribo loud.
Polly Sedam with short hair.
Ruth Sorensen talking out in class.
Kenneth Lebsack trying to please his teachers.
Bob Hart quiet.
Rodney Keller with black hair.
Shirley Glantz having dark hair.
Alva Kehling short.
Esther Atkin s a peroxide blond.
JUST SUPPOSE THAT
Charice George had red hair.
Marilyn Yowell didn't flirt.
Jack Bl'Odie didn't put wave clamps on his hair.
Jean Hergert didn ' t wear red.
Alvin Hoffman didn't play football.
Darlene Kuiper were a brunette.
Bob Chase talked fa s t.
Mrs. White couldn ' t sing.
Bob Herbert were short and fat.
George Wilcox were tall, dark, and handsome.
NICKNAMES
Ruth Sorensen - Rowdy
Jack Evans - Red
Dennis Kratochvil - Whitey
Richard Skamser-Butch
·Howard McKinney - Howie Wing ·
Jo Anne Hollingsworth - Jo Gee
Barbara Johnston - Johnny
Mary Lou Carr- Mousie
Barbara Maseman - Maizie
Evel y n Pochop - Poc
Richard Shonerd - Shonerd
Marcia Adkisson - Marsh
ANSWERS TO JUMBLED NAMES
Bob Hart
Betty Bollen
Shirley Bennett
Bob Brinton
Dorotha Kuhn
Noreen Pettet
Elaine Derr
Connie · Crosbie
Dona Hendrix
LIVE WIRES
These are the first floor captains : 102, Marilyn Yow ell ; 103, Elma Schlegel; 105, Wauneta Bodfield ; 106, Mildred Mons ; 107, Vera Schwindt; 108, Donna Johns; 110, Shirley Chandler; 112, Alva Kehling. In reporting captains these names were omitted : 303, Betty Maser and 222, Mildred Thompson.
The soccer-baseball tournament is well under way now • ·with several games already having been played.
We try to play two games a day with the first one scheduled to begin at 12 :20 and the second one at 12 :40. If you are schedul ed to play at 12 :20, be there a t 1'2 :20 and not at 12 :30. When . ; the fi r st game doesn't start until 12 :30, it makes the game run into the second time thus depriving the home rooms schedul e d for second game of some of their time.
J\faybe you haven't noticed , but Whittier has some feminine football players. Marilyn Delehan t , Betty Jamesson, Barbar a Strubbe, a n d Barbara Va n Every are the ones who hav e been pas s ing around the pigs kin .
NEWS FROM DIFFERENT SCHOOLS
Perhaps some of you Greenleaf readers didn't know but ou r Greenleaf is sent to othe 1· schools and that we recei v school papers from all over th e country.
From Sacramento, Californi a _ comes the "Sutter Static" whic b tell s of how the pupils helpe ci jn the harvest. One boy picke c~ thirty-four boxes of tomato e s . another thirty-three boxes, a nc1 two others forty-three boxes.
"The Craftsman" from t h e Boys' Technical High Schoo l Milwaukee, Wisconsin, broug ht b a ck memories to Mr. Cull e r Mr. Schriever, an instruct oJ' there, was once one of Mr. Cu l• ler's pupils.
"The Blazer" from Niagar:--1 Falls, New York, reports th a ., the pupils there have purcha s e d an SB2C 1 Dive Bomber w i t 1 Defense Stamps. It took $10 0 ,000. Three cheers for them.
The Wh ittier Gree nleaf
Volu me 20
Number 5
December 4, 1942
Lincoln, Ne braska
PUPILS CLEAN UP THE PLAY GROUND
T he clean-up campaign got off to a bang-up start on ovember 19. For the fir st day the attendanc e was ver y good . The refuse wa s brought in faster than l\Ir. Cu ller was able to bum it. Sume of the trash was left fo1· the cu stodian to burn. Mr. Culler said that he hoped the playground would be clean by the tim e of the fir st snow flakes. A ver y good job was done. L t'.~ ke ep it up!
S AF ETY COMM !Tl EE
T he chairman of the girls Sa fety Committ ee is Geraldine Tub man Others of her committee are Eileen Roem mich, Lillian Schaff er, Joan Leami ng, Dori .., Su lli v~m, L eah Jacoby, Marilyn Ne wbill, Barbara Wil on, Phylli'Ne wma n , and Phyllis M ricle. F ra n ces Chr istopher, is the boy s chairman. Others of hi· comm ittee are Robert imp on, Ken ne th W imm er, Bill Derrick. Bill K os mos, Ard el Prathet', Jack Dou gl a s, and R onald Jacoby.
CHRI STMAS PRESE T EAR LY
The sto rk sen t a package C. 0. D. to St. Elizab eth's hospital for Mr . an d Mrs. L. Gartner, Sunday m or ning, No v. 22, at 9:30. It conta ined a sev en pound haby boy whi ch was named Timothy (Tim fo r shor t). Tim hau a brother Torr, who will be six nex t March. Tim anrl Tom shoul d make quite a pair. Congratulat ions, Mr. and Mrs. Gartne r .
C. L. Candidat es Me et
Candi dat e fo • Civi c League officers hav e b(:.e n meetin O" re~ently to be in ·tru cted con°cemmg the Civic League itself. The e meeti ng~, conducted by Mr. Culler and l\Iis Hult hav'e tried to teach the candidates where the Civic League came from, the authority of it and L\1e constitutional · rights. 'Candidates have also practi ced conducting a make-beli eve deleg a te assembly. ·
The campaign meetings will be held dming the week of December 14 to 18. and the primar election d , te has been set for Decemb er 21.
The candidates for girls' p,.-e ident are Shi rley - Bennett 106, B tt~r Jame son 210, Leah Jacoby 302, Virginia Lampshire 310, Virginia Loos 203, Jean McCauley 105, Shirley Maser 222, Lillian Schafer 312, Janice Cochran 318.
Vke presid ential candidates are Marilyn Yowell 102, Jo Anne I llmgsworth 220, Alice Berry ln:2, Darlene Feis 316, Chari George 107, Vera ch win t 107, Yi1 giniB Seiler 314, Marilyn Barton 318, and Maxine Hart 106.
Candidates for secretary are ";\lanlyn ::.Vlartin 316, oreen Pettet 210, Pat Rankin 212 , Yiarilyu Delehant 21 , Marjorie Dingman 305, Shirley Glantz 207, Barbara Haning 308 and Durothy Keller 310.
For the boys' candidates for president \Ye have Raymond Aguirre 220, Denny Davenport 205, Jack Douglas 103, Dale Harp 203, Bob Hubbell 102, Geo1·ge Wilcox 316, and Kenneth Buck 308 . For vice president-Bill Derricl 106, Don Hays 320, Randall Renken 304, Leonard Rebensdorf 203, Duane Wilkinson 205, and ielvi n Keller of 320.
These boys are runni ng for secretary : R o n a l d Gallagher 310, Bob Hart 312, Edward Wessel 304, and James Bo ys 320.
The Girl Delegates
These are ou r girl deleg a t es. Marjorie Wagner 10 2, El m a Schlegel 103, June Killian 105, Dona Schacht 106, Joyce Mitch e ll 107, Barbara Johnston 108, Marian Ekblad 110, Joan Inbodv 112, Connie Pitzer 203, Betty Clough 205.
Georgia Moren 207, Betty B a rnhill 208, Betty Smith 209, Betty Jamesson 210, P at R ankin 212 Virginia Brinkworth 22 0, DeLon~ Fillman 222, Bernese Fox 30 2, Betty Maser 303.
P o 11 y Sedam 304, Elean or Meyers 305, Elaine Arenson 307, Rita Trumble 308 , Shi rl ey Bottcher 310, Jan ice Ehlers 31 2, Fern Egger 314, Norma McCaslin 316, Delores Hoback 318, Marjorie Englebre cht 320.
PUPIL HEAR SYMPHO Y
The Lincoln Symphony Orchestra's concert for pupils vva s held this year on Wednesday, Decemb er 2, at the Stuart Th e ater The progr a m included "Symp hony in B Minor," sometimes called "The Unfinished Symph ony" by Schubert, "Entrance of the Little Fauns" by Pierne, 'Country Gardens'' by Grainger, Waltz "The Sleeping Beauty" composed by Tschaikowsky, and Polka and Fugue "Sch wanda" by Weinberger. Henri Pens is \\ a the conductor . Approximately 350 Whittier pupils attended.
GOOD TIMES
Alice Smi th went on a hobo hike, Friday night, with a group of twenty boys and girls from the Second iethodi t Church
Randall Renk.in took a weekend trip to Iowa.
Arlene Givens spent her Thanksgiving vacation with her family in Omaha.
Turkey, cranberry au c e, pumpkin pie-that's what fills a s oldier clear to the ear Fern Giest had four from the Air Base at her hou e on Thanksgiving.
Marcia Adkisson
Phylli s Bar
Mary Ellen Bolar
Marialice Bullock Barbara Van E ve
THE WHITTIER GREENLEAF
Founded and established in 1924 as the official
publication of Whittier
ADVISORY
BE ON TIME
Too many pupils fail to return library books on time. When you fail to do this, you aren't being fair to your classmates, and you aren't being a good citizen. At this time when we all want to s h ow our patriotism, go o d citizen sh i p is increa s ingly important. Consider the other fellow and at the same time save yourself some money by not having a fine to pay. Come on ! Get those books back on time!
HOOKY PLAYERS' DELIGHT
Since Whittier pupils have been given a few vacations recently, some of the pupils have evidently decided to take a few more of their own accord. As a result, attendance has been very poor. These pupils will be awfully sorry when their grades come out and say that they missed out on some import a nt tests. Thanksgiving vacation is the last we have had and will have until Christmas. Let's all wait until then to rest and try to be a hundred per cent in attendance from now on.
Pete: What is the difference between a slice of ham, a soldier, and a lady?
Mike: I don't know.
Pete: The lady powders her face and the soldier faces the powder.
Mike: What's the slice of ham for?
Pete: For you to bite on.
GUESS WHO
Girl
She is 4 ft. 9 inches tall and weighs 76 pounds. Her home room is 210. She has gray-green eyes and brown hair. Her favorite study is typing and her pet peeve is dish-washing. Special pals are Geraldine Knaub and Darlene Pappas.
Boy
He has blond hair and blue eyes. His weight is 145 and he is 5 feet 7 inches tall. His pet peeve is English and his homeroom is 207. His favorite study is civics. Frank Damian and Wayne Lubke are his special pals.
WATCH YOUR STEP
Here they come! Watch your step, for twelve weeks grades are coming out next week. I hope you did your best on those tests, for if you didn't don't be surprised at the comments that are written on your report slips. But don't be downhearted. Y011 still have time to improve before the semester ends.
BRUSHING UP
Bang! Crash !
"Jim! Wake up! There's burglars downstairs."
"Huh -h? Go to sleep, Nora " "Jim! Aren't you going to do something? I tell you there's burglars downstairs."
"Burglars! Nora, why didn't you wake me up b e f o r e ? Where's my slippers?"
"I'll go and see if the children are all right:"
"No, Nora. You stay here Joe and Mary are all right. My revolver's right here in thi s drawer. Here it is. Now d on't t u m on the lights and stay righ t here.' '
"All right, only hurry!"
"I'm doing my best . Wher e are those blasted stairs ?"
Thud! Clatter! Crash!
"Jim! Are you all right What happened?"
"I found the stairs. I als o broke the vase at the bottom."
"Never mind that now, dear . Just catch those burglars."
"If I had eyes like a cat ma ybe I could see something. Oof ' Who's that? Someone bumpe d into me. Get 'im ! Turn on th f lights, Nora!"
"Just a minute. There. Wh y Joe! What are you doing dow1, there wrestling with you i father?"
"Dad ! P l e a s e , I can ' breathe.' '
"Jim, get up! That's Jo e :',· y ou're s itting on."
"Joe! Well, young man! E xplain yourself "
"Well, I was just going to t h t kitchen for a little snack a n i.;
"
"Nora, what are you laughi n / at?"
"Oh, ha, ha! If it had real t been a burglar I don't think y oH could have done much with th at hair brush in your hand."
"Hair brush? Oh I do hav e n hair brush, don't I? Must \ ,;_, picked it up instead of my r ,!volver. Well, I might as we1 l use it since I carried it all t l e way down stairs Joe, you m r, i7 be fifteen, but you're not too ,d to be spanked. Turn over."
-Phyllis Banibo .
A big business man was go in g to have his photo taken with hi s son. His son laid h is hand on Da d' s shoulder whereupon Dad obj e ded saying, "It wou ld seem m or e real if it were in my pock e t. ' '
CHATT ER
Well, d on't lo ok n ow, b ut here 's y ou r d eah ol d chatte rbox again . You a ll kn ow t hat g a s rati on i n g has st a r ted h e r e i n Linco ln , a nd th er e p roba bl y a r e pu pi l s ( ver y very fe w, min d you!) t h at ar e of t h e opinion that yours t ruly sh ou l d have sign ed up to o. We ll , I don't min d.
A nimal s an d our li t t le feathered friends have s t arted visiting us her e at Wh ittier now . Ther e wa s a sp ar row flying dow n the hall the ot he r day, and it whizzed p a st my head so fast I th ought it was a B-1 9 until it cam e back an d an d st arted making a nest in my h ai r .
Miss Pe terson w as pleased wi t h her h ome ro om when a dog w a lk ed in duri n g th e fh1g salute an d the chi ld ren p aid no attentio n but wen t ri g h t on without an y giggl e s or smil es. We unders t and that th e dog was especially inv ited in to t he building by a gr oup of bo y s t h a t morning·.
Whittier g i rl s have starte<l w earing fr i e ndshi p bntcelets. Th ey buy link s and have their nam es engrav ed on them, and th en exchang e with friends
W hen first st arted, t he li n ks are s t rung on a ribbon which is tied ar o und the w ri s t . I started one w h en they fir st came out to p r ove I ha ve a lot of fr i end~. Th re e ribbon s ha ve rotted away an d still no li nk s.
We're reall y h av ing a hot time a r ou nd Wh i t tie r here lately. A fi re was sta rted on the playgroun d recen t l y. • Boy , did that bu rn me up!
W hat ne xt? F ires on the pla yground and now teachi:'1·s ba re ly e s ca pin g bei ng hit in the he a d. Ye s , i t h a ppened, well, nearl y happ e n ed, t o Miss Zamzo w on the pl aygroun d one noon. Let' s be mor e car e ful or somethin g will be going "Z a m ! Zow '." and i t won 't be a te a ch e r's nam e. Perh aps we'd better ex pl a i n. It all happen ed when Decemb er 4, 19 42
te ache r s and p up il s w ere working to g ethe r o n t h e clean-up campaign.
You certai n l y ca n 't deny that Whittier h a s so me r e al w orkers. During the s um m er K enn y Carlso n of 212 had t wo p a per rou t es of one hundr ed and t hi rty - s even c u s t om ers bu t qu it them t o go to wo rk help i ng a p a per han g er fo r $2 a d ay. Afte r quitting th at job, h e started w orking at t he Ro ot Beer i\Iug b ut was fired beca us e h e \Vas und er sixtee n. H e is now working at a Mobil stati on an d has been wo r king th ere si n ce J nne sixth My, it even wears m e out to wr i te about it.
From v.rhat I' ve heard my o-pin-ion is that w e have a human.pin cushion running around loose The way I "heerd" it a g irl . in Miss Schofie l d ' s class dropped a box of p in s a nd the pins stuck right in her swe a t er i\Iy, was that gir l stuck u p!
It see m s like \Ye're a h vays picking on J e a n l\1cC a u ley, now doesn't it? The l as t t ime w e nicknamed her "G oll y" and we had no business d oing i t either, and now \Ve left h er out of the list of home ro om captains. Sh e is the captain i n 10 5 instea d of Waunita Bo d-fi eld, whom we reported.
A baseball fr om the gir l s' d iamoncl II w ent crazy t h e oth er day It s idetracked a nd w en t over the fe nce into th e a ll ey and landed on the top of a p assi n g car . Yes , that's rig ht. It bou n ced off and we g ot o ur ball back.
JUMBLED N AMES
Hleacrs Nk e ce m
Army Ulo Grer cm
Ve e ynl ~op p co
Onadn Msoes
Aijnec Lh ee rs
Yeev ln Raa s dhh
Mot Scmht it
Ug u Ero h s
R ca im a Dss ikano
Moarn K hc ububc
CIVIC LEAGUE TRIP
The 9B's went on their ci vi c league trip , Nov. 19. They met a t t he Nebraska Theater. A gr oup of ninth grade girls fr om Whitt i er including Patricia Gove, Charis George, Jan ice Cochran, Doris S u 11 i v an, V i r g i n i a Lampshire, Helen Lamb , Lillian Eichler, Barbara Settle , Geraldine Tubman, Dondaldee Bartlett, and Eleanor Schlaebitz, dirPcted by Mrs. White , sang ' ' White, Christmas" and "Holy , Holy , Hol y . "
There were thirt y -four trips. Whi t tier teachers accompanying them w ere Miss Hooper , Mrs. K li p p e rt , Mrs. White , Miss P ete rson , Mr. Ross , Mr. Culler, an Miss Ki e r.
WORKS FOR BONDS
Alan Farmer of 210 is the p roud poss ess or of ninet y -three d ollar s worth of War Bonds whi ch he earned la s t s ummer. He w orked at the old Air Craft facto ry w here the y made grain bin s fo r the arm y , b ins cap a ble of holding 3,000 bu s hel s . They p ut out fi f teen to twenty bins e ach d ay
Alan worked eight to ten hour s a da y for t w o we eks unloading w ood from box cars. The next t w o wee k s he w or k ed on a saw He s a ys the unloading wood w a s the hardest work, but w hen he got on the sa w , the thing made too much noise and he couldn 't talk to anybody. That's sort of hard on Alan not to be talking to a nyone
In thi s w a y he earned eightyfi ve dollar s. H~ t h en did la w n w or k, earning fift y -fi v e dollars. With this mone y he bought the ninety-three dollars wo r th of War Bonds. He s ays t h a t he enj o y ed e v er y bit of w o r k he did.
Nothing is certain but d eath and ta xe s.
- Be njam i n Franklin
SPORTS SHORTS
Pre-season dope was that 102 would be the leading contender, but they have again faltered. 205 upset the dope bucket the last time, 7 to 6. Your reporter has twice predicted 102 as the probable winner, and this just goes to show that no one knows what is going to happen in a ball game.
Sport Shorts is now gazing into the crystal ball for more dope. 205 has been the fly in the soup all along, mainly sparked by the all-around playing of Frank Burden. However 205 is a well -balanced team. Frank, a 7 A, should go far in football.
Next honorable mention in our "Memory • of the Playgrounds" is Frank Damian of 102. He is the gent that :receives those sharp passes of Bob Hubbell's. Frank is a fine player in baseball, basket ball, and football. Good luck, Frank.
EXCITEMENT
One evening while at my aunt's house in South Bend, Nebraska, I was tired and lay down to rest a bit. Just about the time I was asleep I heard a loud noise and a rumble. Mother was yelling, "Here he comes. Look out! There he goes."
When I heard that, I jumped up and ran into the other room to see what was the matter. But I was too -late. They had already caught the mouse.
-Betty Joan Denney.
RECIEVES PROMOTION
Warren Eugene Myers, brother of DeLoris Myers, was recently promoted to an Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd class. He is in the navy and was a former Whittier pupil.
I'm fond of children, except boys . - Lewis Carroll
NICKNAMES
Norma Jean Fr eehlin g-Shorty
Doris Oldemeyer-Doddy
Barbara Haning- Babs
Jeanne Pillard- Lucy
Jean Karras-Lucky
Mary Lou McGerr-Peaches
Gwen Mitchell-- Blondie
Dorothy Wimmers - Dot
Irene Holter - Peanut
Coleen McCracken -Tiny
Charlene Fuller- Char
Kent Wassung- Buzzy
JUST SUPPOSE
Shirley Mohr were Shirley Less.
Don Moon were Don Sun.
Louis Whitebear were Louis Black bear.
Jean Mann were Jean Lady.
Bob White were Bob Black.
M a r y G u e s t were Mary Company.
Noreen Pettet didn't dance.
Grace Haskins didn't play the piano.
Ima Jean Kuhn wore small ribbons.
CAN YOU IMAGINE
Lillian Geier not acting up.
Jo Anne Hollingsworth making noise.
Sheldon Kushner sitting still.
Mildred Yates flirting.
Betty Clough without her lipstick.
Ruth Williams with black hair . .
Virginia Loos not laughing.
Eloise Gandara having blond hair.
Norma Free ling being tall.
ANSWERS TO JUMBLED NAMES
Charles McKeen
Mary Lou McGerr
Evelyn Pochop
Donna Moses
Janice Ehlers
Evelyn Daharsh
Tom Schmitt
Guy Shore
Marcia Adkisson
Norma Chubbuck
LIVE WIRES
Well, they did it again. 205 won the scond bas ebal l tournament. They beat 203 by an 8 to Ovictory. Th e pitcher of the winning team was Evelyn Pochop. We cannot truthfully say that she was the winning pitcher, because she walked 9 out of 10 batters. If 20 3 had had better fielders the gam e would have been theirs. 205 alB o won the first baseball tournament . Patricia Venard and Virginia Loo s were the pitchers for 203. If Evelyn Pochop had more contro l over the ball, she would be a fin pitcher because she has speed.
The 9B's and 9A's have bee n playing baseball. Ida Allen' . ..team (9A) was defeated b y Marilyn Yowell's team (9B) , and Mae Bouman's team (9A ) beat Vera Schwindt's (9B) Then Mae Bouman's team defeated Marilyn Yowell's tea m making them the undispute d champions. Three cheers f 01 Mae Bouman and Company. We cannot have dancing iI' the gym unless we have mo rr: cooperation on the part of th girls There is entirely too mu cl ·talking and confusion. One ca n not give directions when the r •1 is so much noise. So, pleas e , girls, if you want to dance in th 1 gym, you will have to be mo r , quiet.
GOOD WORK
Mr. Culler stated that the fi r . drill held, Nov. 11, was exceptio n ally good. The firemen we r, pleased with the order and t h , business-like attitude of th ,· students.
ANSWERS TO GUESS WH
Elain Derr
Alvin Hoffman
Salesman: These dogs are fl \ e dollars apiece.
Henry: I don't want a piece , I want a whole dog.
Gr e- e
Volume 20 Number 6
December 23, 1942 Lincoln , N ebraska
PRESENT CHRIST MAS
ASSEMBLY TODAY
The Christma s program was p resented this morning by the girls' and boys ' glee clubs, under the direction of Mrs. White and accompanied by Mrs Allen. The program opened with the traditional proc essional, th e girls' glee carr ying lighted can~lles, the boys back stage singmg "Oh Come All Ye Faithful."
The rest of the program was as follows : "An gels We Have Heard on Hig h''-Girls' Glee; Scripture read ing-Girls' Glee· "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem'; -Melvin Keller , Helmut Sienknecht, Don Ha ys, and Robert Wilsey; "The Little Lord Jesus" -Girls ' Glee; "While Shepherd Watched Their Flocks"-Girls ' and Boys' Glee; "There' s a Song in the Air"-Girls' Glee.
"White Chri stmas" - Janice Cochran, Virginia Lampshire, D oris Sullivan, Eleanor Schlaebitz, Charis George, Geraldine Tubman, Donal deen Bartlett, L illian Eichler , Helen Lamb, B arba ra Wil son, and Patricia G ove; "Gesu Bambino" (The Infant Jesus) ''-Girls' Glee; Duet sung by Chari s Geo1·ge and Barbara Wilson; and then "Silent Night" was sung by everyone.
ASSEMBL Y HELD
A clever and amusing film in Basketball Techni que was shown i n assembly, Friday, December 4. Th e film was shown twice as it was supposed to be a twenty-five minute feature but was only a ten minute one. It was thoroughly enjoyed both times howev er. Be -
tw een showin gs Mrs . White led in sin ging a chorus of God Bless Am erica.
WHITTIER FIRST IN SCRAP DRIVE
According to a recent report Whittier School gathered th~ most. scn1p in the scrap drive, totaling 52,390 pounds. Lincoln High was second with 33 040 pounds;.Park third, 29,260; No~theast High four th, 21,260~ and Everett fifth with 18, 190. The total amount received from the Lincoln Schools was 289,770 pounds for whic h the y were paid $819 . 08.
PUPILS LEAVE
These pupils have left Whittier recently . Eleanor Rosenfeld has moved to California, and Alice Newburn has gone to Utah. Polly Esquivel and Elsie Starkwe ather have also left.
George Westerhoff has moved to Omaha . Don Witulski has left Whittier for Valparaiso, and Bill Ide, Kenneth Knott, and Billy Lange have moved to California. Jimmie Hunter has transferred to Capitol school. Duane Nelson has moved to Topeka, Kansas.
ART CLASSES BUSY
The Junior Red C r o s s in Whittier through art classes is still carrying on to make thing more pleasant for the soldiers. Miss Ferguson's art classes are making carnival caps to be worn by the soldiers in the hospital at their Christm as party. The caps were designed by 7 A and 88 girls. M i s s R a 1 s t o n ' s and Miss Ferguson's classes are making Christmas carol booklet covers to be taken to the air base. Miss Ralston's classes are also making Christmas posters. Mr . .Heston's classes have finished their ping pong paddles and are awaiting further orders
9A's CHOOSE COLORS
The 9A's on December 10, chose their class day colors. Red and white were selected by a large majority.
BOY DELEGATES
The following are the boy delegates: 320, Warren Dunn318, Clifford Linke; 316, Harold Davey; 314, Charles Applegate; 312, Wayne Bills; 310, Ronald Gallagher: 308, Milton Garner; 307, Cecil Luthultz; 305, Robert Reifschneider; 304, Earl Bumgardner; 303, Harland Huppert; 302, David Knapp.
222, Gerald Ayres; 220, James Geist; 212, Robert Church; 210, Keith Van Arsdol; 209, Dale King; 208 , John Rebensdorf; 207, Dan Noble; 205, Denny Davenport; 203, Don Petty.
112, John Reitter; 110, Richard Shonerd; 108, Earl Innes; 107, Wayne Robinette; 106, John Grebe; 105, Richard Ferguson; 103, Jack Fricke; and 102, Perry Lewis.
PUPILS ENTER
W h i t tier welcomes these pupils. Lupe and Kenneth Arenas have reentered from Cozad Nebraska. Richard and Raymond Churchill have come to Whittier from Wyoming. Robert aad Russel Starkey have entered Whittier from Everett. Dale Kermmoade has come from Hastings, and Harold Shepard has been transferred from Belmont. Norman Wondra has moved here from Scottsbluff. Edward Leikam has also entered.
CHRISTMAS VACTION HERE
Hooray! All you chillens get out your skates and sleds! ' Ca use this afternoon at three o'clock • P. M. we, the students and teachers of Whittier Junior High, are going to leave school knowing that we won't be back until January 4! Ten whole days of fun and frolic! ! Seriously ·though, we do hope you will have lots of fun, but remember the other kids whose Chirstmas won't be quite so merry. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Kids! We'll be seein 1 you around January 4, 1943.
THE WHITTIER GREENLEAF
Founded and establis he d in 1924 a s the official stud e nt publication of Whi t t i er Junior High S c hool pupil s FACULTY ADVISORY BOARD
Marcia Adkisson
Phyllis Barribo
Mary Ell en Bolar
Marialice Bullock
Barbar a Van Eve r y
Miss Peter s on , Mi ss F ergus on , Mr Gammill GREENLEAF STAFF
CAMPAIGN FOR ALL
"Hey, Betty, wait for me," yells Ilene as she races down the corridor knocking people outofher way. When she catches up with her pal, they link arm@. What's wrong with this picture? Plenty! In the first place, Ilene yelled at Betty, second, she ran in the hall and then linked· arms. Was this a picture of you? We've learned to keep our corridors clean. Now let's each one of us launch a campaign to have better order in the halls.
CAFETERIA MANNERS
Most of us have just recently found out that eating is supposed to be done in the cafeteria Apples, candy , cookies , and ice cream too are not supposed to be eaten in the library and gym. But now don't start feeling sorry for yourself because who wants to read stick y books anyway or play knee-deep in papers? Still there is a brigh t side to this question. Candy is still allowed in the games room.
IT COMES WITH SNOW
Splash ! Yow! Another icy sno wball! It's quite a temptation when there is snow all around just righ t for sno wballing. But keep this in mind. People are often seriously injured by snowball s , e y esight lost or noses broken from such carelessness Next time you are tempted to throw snowballs at some un s usp ecting person, remember that you may disfigure him for life.
HOBBIES
Mary Lou Carr of 302 has an unusual hobby. She has over 200 different kinds of salt and pepper shakers which she has been collecting for several years. Nearl y every kind of fruit , vegetable , bird and animal are represented. Th ey are made from china , glass , metal , or wood. Several are from Ch ina , Mexico, Canada, and her ambition is to have a set from ever y state in the country. Mary Lou lives at 3411 W, and she would be glad to show her collection to anyone who is intere s ted.
Jan ice Ehlers, 312, also has an interesting hobby. She has over 600 post cards from every state in the United States and also from France, Italy , England , and Germany. She would be glad to trade. Jan ire has been saving post cards for about two years .
CHRISTMAS JOY
Christmas is so . full of cheer I like it best of all the year, Holly branches , pine trees, lights, Candles burning in windows at night, With snow outside, and inside good heat, Plum puddings, candies and nuts to eat, Everyone humming carols so gay, I wish that Christmas came every day.
- Marcia Adkisson
Fireman returns to the station to find small nephew who says, "Please Unc, the next time you burn down a house, can I go along?''
BOYS COME HOME
Staff Sgt. Warren Gil1ett of the U. S. Army and 2nd class seaman Bob Gillett of the U. S. Navy were both recently home on leave. Warren was traveling from Seattle, Washington, to a camp in North Carolina when he got word that he could stop off in Lincoln for a few days . Bob has just had four weeks training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station to which he returned for further training after his nined a y l eave. They are both former Whittier boys. Doris Gillett of 210 is their sister.
Shirley Lovelace's -brother Bill, may get a forty-eight hour leave to fly home during the Christmas holidays. We hope so , Shirley. Pat Hudkins ' brother, Junior, was sent somewhere overseas and was heard from December 1. Pat was glad to hear that he was all right.
GOOD TIMES
Margery Franks had a birthda y party, Saturday, December 5. A few of the people attending were Jack Douglas, Dorothy Stevens, Shirley Shultz, Caro l D e W i t t, Ro n a 1d J a c o b y , Geraldine Heaton, and Marjor y Dingman.
At least one person we kno w of is going away for Christmas Gailya Sindt will spend her vacation on her grandmother's far m in Elk Horn, Iowa. Gailya reports that she sang for th e soldiers on the twentieth of thi s month.
Boy Scout Troop 50 to which a number of Whittier boys belon visited the Military Depot on th University of Nebraska campu s The thrill they received cam e when they took apart a Garan d rifle. This rifle was invented in 1939. When it first went in t o production it cost $132 but no w costs only $82. The boys al so looked at aerial and army map s and learned how to work with ~1. mapmaking kit that is nsed i n the field.
THE WHITTIER GREENLEA F
CHATTER
Me-e-rr y Chri stmas! Me -e -r ry Christmas! Yep, Christ mas is nearly here. Hop e I have better luck then I didla styear. I borrowed a stocking fromm ymotherbecause I thought it would be full next morning and I'd really have something. Well, Chri stmas morning I jumped out of bed and ran into the living room and there was the stocking hanging there with nothing in it but a run.
Now if you've read this far, dear reader, you'll be convinced that we need ga s masks even away out here in Nebraska.
Here's an inciden t I think you'd like to hear about. One morning when Betty Russ ell was walking to school with Arlene Givens, Mildre d Th ompson, and Bernice Schwindt, she asked one of the girls to hold her lunch \vhile she put on her glov es. While Betty was tuggin g at her gloves, Mildred told her to look back on the sidewalk an d she'd see her lunch. Betty turn ed around to see a torn sa ck and a sandwich wrapped in wa xed paper lying on the !Sidewalk. She rushed hack and started stuffin g the sanrlwich into the sack wh en one of the girls let Bett y in on the secret. They had been holdin g her lunch all the time . Betty must have seemed terribl y hungry to passers- by.
Well , we 've finally figured it out. We're ju st good, that's all. Remember me telling you about the custodian w ho wanted to make sure he'd get his Greenleaf? That isn 't all. Not so long ago when the same reporter was bringing Gree nleafs up to class, two unidentifi ed boys offered to pay twenty-fiv e cents for a copy. Now, that 's really something when the regul ar price is just twenty cents for a whole semester. (I though t I might as well get some adverti sing in here since I had the chance.)
At least we can 'ay the Greenleaf class has one person who isn't afraid of the cold and snow. Whe n Miss Pet erson asked December 23, 1942
for someone to go after stamps, there was one lonely volunteer, Betty Lou Clark. I would have volunteered, my self only I gave all my blood to the Red Cross. Well, I was going to, but my pet mosquito got hu ngry and drained me before I got there.
I guess we all forget about that drinking fountain on second floor that gets wate r everywhere except in your • mouth. Lillian Eichler, the girls' civic league president, got spri nkled the other day. I had quite a shower too. It always does a good job of sprinkling your pan when it should be fillin g your mug. Funny? No? We ll don't bla me me. Blame that drinking fountain. It's the one that made me all wet.
Don't be surprised if you see a shoe shop going up somewhere around Whittier.
From what I've heard, Mr. Ross may be starting a shoe repair business. Ralph Wilson was going down the hall wit h his soul, no I think that should be sole, flapping, and he said he was going to have Mr. Ross fix it for him. Say, I don't think I should be writin g this. Imagine! A run down heel like me talking about soles
When the 8B's went on their Ci vie League trips, Mary Ellen Bolar went to the police station. She said she was afraid they would look up her record, but no such thing happ ened. We don't really think they'd have found much if they had.
I've been chatteri ng so long, Christmas may be over for all I know, so I'll just say, "Happy New Year," and don't wear yourse lf out making reso lutions. The only way to keep them, I mean .i.f it were possible, would be to can them up.
Mother : Hank , you never come in the house without making a raid on that dish of doughnuts. Hank: That's all right, Mother, because when a feller makes a home run he has to hit the plate.
WHITTIER PUPILS BROADCAST
Four of Whittier's pupils, Francis Christopher, Geraldine Tubman, Bill Kosmos, and Leah ,T acoby we re interviewed, Monday, December 7, at the Police Station over station KFOR on a safety program. They wer e asked questions concerning habits of safety around Whittier School grounds. Lieutenant Britton of the Lincoln Police Force aske d them how they were ch osen and some of the duties they performed during their memb ership on the Safe ty Committee. Lieutenant Britton was a l s o interest ed in how the committee was formed, their opinion of riding sleds in the street. Two of the four pupils were asked to return some other Monday for another interview.
Teacher: If there is anyone in here calls himself a dumb-bell, please stand. (After a moment of hesitation , a little boy timidly stood).
Teacher: Do you call yourself a dumb-bell?
Little Boy: No, but I hate to see you standing all alone .
Mother: Johnny, why are you feeding the baby yeast?
Johnny: She's swallowed my nickel and I'm trying to raise the dough.
Betty Clough: How much will you charge to drive me to the station?
Taxi Driver: One fifty.
Betty: How much for bags?
Taxi Driver: Nothing.
Betty: Take my bags and I'll walk then.
'' So you found out for yourself that it is wrong to fight? 11
''Yes, '' replied the small boy with the black eye and bruised lip, '' I found out that it was wrong for me, but all right for the other fellow."
CHRISTMAS 2942
Jon awoke that morning, one day of a year long in the future and remembered that it was Christmas. But this Christmas was going to be different. Fat~er, Mother, and Aletha were gomg with him to · the new theater after dinner to see that play about what Christmas might have been like back 1,000 years ago in the year 1942. It might prove to be amusing.
When Jon took the escalator downstairs he was surprised to see Aletha and the rest waiting breakfast for him. As they were eating breakfast a news flash came on the television set. It said that a man was going to speak after the play at the theater who claimed to have been buried alive in 1942, and to have hung in suspended animation until he had been released by an earth-quake the day before.
After the family had eaten dinner and opened their presents, one of which was a new airplane for Jon because his old coupe had refused to run anymore, they all climed into the family plane and started for the theater.
Just as the family slipped into their seats and took a quick peek at their programs, the house lights dimmed and the play began. The play was called ''Christmas of Yesterday.'' It took place in the home of a rather well-to-do family with two children. It emphasized the fact that the girl of the family didn't get the diamond bracelet and mink coat that she wanted, that the boy didn't get his new tuxedo or convertible coupe. It also told how the V an Emily family ridiculed their ''poor'' relation for wanting only world peace from World War II, release from suffering for the world and just a few inexpensive things for themselves.
When Jon came out of the theater he was thoughtful. How much better it was to have peace in the world, peace in the family, and democracy throughout the world. How much better it was to be content as was the second
family in the play and as was his own family.
As for that man who had told about Christmas, 1942 during World War II, he would soon learn their new ways, new names, and the world peace which had come after the U. S. had won the war in 1944.
Jon was glad that he lived in a peaceful world where everyone was united where no one thought of war and everyone had a Christmas that in truth was full of ''Peace on earth, good will toward men.''
CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
Joan came out of the department store her forehead puckered in a frown. What should she get Mother for Christmas ? Here she had a pipe for father, a cap for her brother John, and she couldn't think of a thing to get for Mother. Oh dear! Christmas shopping was such a bother.
At thi.s point Joan's thoughts were interrupted by a rather large woman who bumped into her with the force of a steam engine. When Joan came to herself, she and the woman were hopping from their right foot to their left and back again trying to pass each other. Both soon gave up. Joan uttered a weak, "Pardon me," while the steam engine grunted and went puffing on her way.
"Well," Joan thought, "I suppose you can expect such things, especially at this time of the year, but why couldn't she pick on someone her own size."
As Joan walked along the crowded street, she stopped to look in the show window of one of the larger stores, and there in front of her hung a beautiful housecoat, just what Mother needed. Yes it would make a wonderful present and there would still be plenty of her Christmas money left, for of course she would be expected to buy something for U n c 1 e George. He \-YOUld be off ended
if she didn't and then Uncle George was awfully nice. Joan bought the housecoat and also a jacket for Uncle George. On the way home, she mailed one of the packages to Uncle George in California and the other she placed under the Christmas tree for Mother.
Christmas morning-the family has just finished breakfast and are going into the living room to open their presents when John says, "Oh say, Mother-oh-"
"Yes, John. What is it?"
Well, we got a letter from Uncle George the other day. Here .it is.
"Oh, fine! Let me see it."
Joan looks interested and asks . 'f he says anything about the present she sent.
"Why, yes, he does. He says 'ask Joan what she means by sending me a pink and blue housecoat for a Christmas present'."
-Phyllis Barribo.
SONGS THAT REMIND ME
You Couldn't Be Cuter
Vera Schwind t Pretty as a Picture
Natalie Mase r I'm Getting Tired So I Can Sleep John W abl Elmer's Tune Elmer Mean There'll Never Be Another You Marilyn Y owe l1 Dark Eyes Shirley Moh r Chatter Box Eleanor Myer : At Last Francis Christophe1
NOTES FOR BOOKWORMS
The 1 i bra r y club held f1 Christmas party in place of the i1 last re~ular meeting. Membe r saved their sugar to provide ju s 7 a little candy for the event.
Boy: Dad, the barometer h a ;·• fallen.
Dad: Very much?
Boy: ( very guilty look) Abo u 1 five feet. It's broken
THE WHITTIER GREENLE A f
W H I TTIE R'S CHRISTMAS
T he sc en e is "Ni ght before Chr istmas a nd all through the hou se not a creatur e is stirring, not even a m ouse.' ' Yo u see. there ha s been a bad snow storm and no ne of th e teach ers or pupils can get hom e for Christmas. Mr. Cu ller , pl aying Sa nta, and iis Hu lt , who i supp osed to be Mary Ch ri st mas, are get ting ready to ta ke their reinde er, Mr. Ross Mr. Gartner, Po p Heston, and Mr. N e v in out in the sleigh.
We hear a slig ht noi se like s o me o n e turning over in his sleep. A ha! It 's Miss Schofi eld sle'-~!J walki ng. "All measurem ent in h ome ec onomic s are level measu r e me n ts. ' ' By some stra,:ge co inc iden ce , the stocki ng Mr. Culler l ea ves for her is on ly level fu ll. Le t' svi sitMis s Emma Madsen to o. Th ere's San ta delivering her a pac kage. He 's saying, • Tll lea ve t h is bomb here so that Miss Mad sen ca n find what it's made o f. It ' s to o bad it hasn 't gone off y et. We ll, anyway , I'd better g Merr y Christmas. " Mrs. Ros g ets a b ic ycle wit h rubber 1,vheels. o n which to pa trol the halls, and Miss S hi ke re ceives a new broom.
Nor ar e the pupil s forgotten . Al ice J o S mith donat es a fo w in che s of her hei ght, to Shirley Will. Ph y lli s Barr ibo gets a voice fr om E dw a rd R oller. Dona Coy re ceiv es a rea m of note-book pa per from Betty Hansen. 1o Marcia Adki sson , ob Hart gi ve ii a n ew set of p encil s. Miss Ralston giv es Tom Av ner a new bottle of hair oil. S ev eral Whittier boys are receivin g new sets uf manne rs. Keit h Van Arsdol gives his sp ellin g a bility to Miss Peterson. And no w th ere is a shout from all the Whittier pupils who are a wake , "We pro mise never to do · an ything we shouldn't do. We w ill keep halls and auditorium cle an fro m pape r and waste, keq1 or der in the halls, and nev~r do on e thing Mr. Culler doe sn't want us to.' ' Now we know this is a dre am .
De cember 23, 1942
NE WS FRO l\I DIFFER ENT SCHOOLS
The Student Cou ncil of Sutte r Juni or High , Sacramento, California, recen tly drew up a set of rules for assembly conduct. This reminds us of our campaign for better as sembly conduct. The same problem s arise whether it' ~ California 01· Nebraska.
Skinner Junior High, Denver, Colorado, hopes to have an army pursuit plane named after. her. They are ·working to get $50,000 in war bonds and stamps by April 1, 1943, .so they may receive thi s hono :.·. A tank can be purchased for $13, 000, a reconnaisance car for $3,909, and an anti-ail-craft submachine g·un for $350. Let's hope they can g;et enough.
UNC'S BEEN STREAMLL. ED
Last Christmas n y uncle played Santa Claus, '"Vith a red coat and a white beard; But when he got stuck in the chimley;
He made the worstest noise you ever heerd,
My cousin went up on the roof, And grabbed my uncle's head; While I pulled and tugged on his feet, Till he said he wi sht he was dead.
He looked so funny when we got him out,
We wisht we'd a left him in; He useta was short and stout, But now he's tall and thin.
-Phyllis Barribo
''Say, how close did that stroke of lightnin g come to you?" said the farmer joining his hired man under a tree during a thunder storm.
Her we ig h t is 108 pou nd s and she is 61 inche s tall. P hy s ed is her fa vor ite su bj ect and base -ball he r- favorite sport. She is usually seen wi th Ma r ilyn Yowell an d Virginia La mpshi r e. S he has brown hair and dark eyes. Sh e is a member of the 9B class. 106 is her home room.
Boy
He is also a me mber of the 9B class. He has blond hair and bl ue eyes. His pet peeve is Englis h, and algebra is his favorite subj ect . He is often seen with Milto n Gardner. His home room is 312. He weighs 100 pounds and 64 inches is his height.
THIS YEAR'S DIFFE RENT
The trip this year to Grandma's And the ride just for fun Will have to be postponed Until the war is won. For gas has been rationed And rubber-what's th a t? Then, oh dear, there's sugar, But that only makes you f at But don't think I'm crabbing And I know I'm not alone; If we can't go away this Christmas We'll have some fun at home.
-A. J S.
JUMBLED NAMES
Ereni Ltoreh
Leenh Chteumei
Ttyeb Esonsajm
Esjam R acr
Werste Snkita
Mot Mtithsc
Yrper Iswel
Wdien Olec
Esrachl Eneckm
Lerda Rthapre
Gu est: The ram 1s pouring through the roof into my bed Clerk: We ad vertized running water.
SPORTS SHORTS
Since this is the next to the last column for Sport Shorts, we will try to give you a better understanding of what goes on in the boys' gym these last few days. The basket ball season has begun and we will have to go farther out on a limb than u s ual since we predicted 102 in the football twice and bo t h tim e s they los t. So we will not ag a in predict 102. Our favorit e th i s t i me will be 220 with Raymound Aguirre leading the team. Hi ~ sharp passes and his sometimes lucky or may we say good shot s gi v e him the title of "Star."
Again our "Memories of the Playgrounds " This time we will ha v e to remember the g y m instead of the playground. Our victim or hero will be little Donald Hays of 320. 320 has no A-1 team with or without him, but his valiant playing wins him the Gold Cup.
There have been many players w ho when losing, lose their tempers, shove, push, gouge, all the things that good players should not do. Also, one of the bad things that pupils are doing is booing. If you cannot appreciate good playing without booing, you should not see or play a game. Remember this.
It isn't whether you won or lost but how you played the game.
CIVIC LEAGUE TRIP
The 8B's went on their Junior Civic League trip Thursday, Dec. 10. The teachers attending were Mrs. Childress, Miss Cross, Miss Ferguson, Mr. Heston, Miss Emma Madsen, Miss Jones, Miss Veerhusen, Miss Scheme!, and Mr. Culler.
NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS
I resolve ( ?) -
To take off my hat when I enter school, (instead of Mrs. Shike taking it off for me.) - Earl Bumgardner.
To lose my voice so the teachers can have a rest for at least one day a week.
- Leonard Rebensdorf.
To stuff my paper wads with cotton to cut down on injuries. - Marvin Ficken.
To quit powdering each other's faces with er as er s. - Ed win Crocker, Elmer Faust, Marvin Provost, Jerry White, Marvin Ficken and Perry Lewis.
To quit following girls home from school. - Elmer Means.
To attend school at least once a week. - Lewis Ross.
To give my poor jaws a rest from chewing gum. - Charlotte Quackenbush.
To preserve my rubber soles by slowing down in the halls. -Geraldine Cooley and Polly Sedam.
To give our stomachs a rest from giggling. - DeLone Fillman, Barbara Barager.
To give myself a break and get fatter. -Shirley Standley.
Tongue wagging is out for the duration so I'm going to quit.
- Virginia Ring.
NICKNAMES
Shirley Bottcher Two Ton
Fern Geist Toots
George Ward Georgie
Katherine Hollingsworth Kathie
Katherine Barnes Kay Ardel Prather Adah
Dick Michael
ANSWERS TO GUESS WHO
Shirley Bennett
John Luebs
LIVE WIRES
The conduct in the girls gym has been nothing to brag about. the girls are too noisy and do not stay behind the black Ii n e. Hereafter if a girl's conduct is not all it should be, she will be sent out of the gym.
Be sure you get into the gym to play on time. If you are an eighth or ninth grader and would like to play basketball at noon, . turn your name, home room, and grade in either to Mrs. Ross or to a member of the playground committee .
MR. JOHNSON GIVES TALK
Mr. Johnson, Physical Educa• iion supe r visor, gave an intere st ing talk on December 11 about how young boys and girls should develop strong bodies. He explained the reason tha t schools in Lincoln should have more calisthenic training. Th e pupils seemed to enjoy Mr Johnson' s speech very much an d we hope he will speak to u s again sometime.
ANSWERS TO JUMBLED NAMES
Irene Holter
Helen Mutchie
Betty Jamesson
James Carr
Ester Atkins
Tom Schmitt
Perry Lewis
Edwin Cole
Charles McKeen
Ardel Prather
Mike
Dan Noble Dun
Merle Debus Shadow
WHAT IF
Gwen Mitchell never smiled.
Lona Story didn ' t have brown eyes.
James Geist didn't flirt.
Marvin Provost were tall.
Tom Avner were short.
Ralph Wilson were quiet.
AN APPRECIATION
A letter from Keith Ryme r who was graduated from Whitti e r in June, 1939, gave Mr. Cull er and faculty quite a lift. Keith is now in the Army Air Corp s ground crew learning to be an ai rcraft mechanic. He wrote espe cially to thank the Whittier teac hers for the fine schooling h f• received here.
