1Jjaurr Vol. 9-No. 6
WESTSIDE HIGH SCHOOL, OMAHA, N EB., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1964
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Holiday Plans Made All students are urged to attend the Omaha Invitational Holiday Basketball Tournament and to support the Warrior team and Tournament Queen candidates. Westside's first game is with Creighton Prep on Monday, Dec. 28, at 9 p.m. Warrior fans will be seated on the west side of the Civic Auditorium, with the Pep Club sitting on the main floor. The Invitational Holiday Tournament will be held on the 28, 29, and 30, of December. Westside is among eight schools competing, the others being Bellevue, Benson, North, Creighton Prep, Central, South, and Tech. The times set
Seven Boys Invade WHS
usty Welch Selected or Senate Youth Trip William Randolph Hearst, the celebrated entrepreneur and rnalism pioneer, is helping send Westsider to Washington, D.C. Rusty Welch is the Westsider, of two Nebraska youths chosen participate in the United States ate Youth prpgram. A $70,000 from the millionaire Hearst's prompted the organizaof the program nearly three ago. Rusty was chosen for the Senate program on the basis of the qualities he has exhibitschool government. The afjunior is Vice-president of
eachers Busy is not unusual to see Westteachers and administrators tc''"'u" 15 outside of the WHS classActually, they are very busy with numerous activities. WHS teachers and administeach at a university in one night a week. Mr. Jack coach and counselor, is to teach next semester He will called
Westside's Student Council and recently added to his laurels by being selected Vice-president of the Nebraska Association of Student Councils. He is an active member of Interact and Key Clubs, and Westside sports fans have watched the fiery letterman participate on baseball, basketball, and football teams. The third annual Senate Youth program will . begin Jan. 30 and last until Febr. 6. Rusty will join 101 other delegates from all parts of the country for a first-hand glimpse at the sights of the capital and a closer observation of the working machinery of our national government. If possible, he will meet and talk with Nebraska Senator Roman Hruska. Also on the itinerary is a visit to the White House where Rusty hopes he will be given the chance to see President Johnson.
Reminder!
A group of seven boys from Mexico City visited Westside Monday, Dec. 21. Their visit that day, which was arranged by Student Council and International Club members, included a workout on gymnastic equipment and a chance to visit several classes. The boys, who will start college in Mexico after the first of the year, are spending two weeks in Omaha to visit schools and also visit with some of the Westbrook students they showed around Mexico this summer. Last Monday, Dec. 14, at 3 p.m. the Mexico students attended a reception for them held in the student lounge. Also present were the Westbrook students who went on the trip to Mexico, the chaperones, Mr. Vaughn Phelps, District 66 Superintendent; and Mr. Kenneth Hanson, Principal. John Buller, Student Council president, extended a welcome to the students, and refreshments were served.
for the six different sessions are, 1:30-3:30 and 7-9 p.m. From each of the competing schools four girls were chosen as Tournament Q u e en Candidates. Five hundred tourney tickets were presented to each of the 32 girls to sell. The Queen will be determined by salesmanship alone as the crown goes to the queen hopeful who sells the most tickets. The Tournament Queen will be announced the last night of the games. Westsiders may purchase their tickets from any one of the Warrior candidates: Chris Calandra, Sally Cockle, Nanci Shook, and Carolyn Simmons. Tickets are 50
December 23-January 3 Christmas Vacation! ! January 4-Pep Club- 3 p.m. Math Club-7:30 p.m. 5-Wrestling here with Abraham Lincoln K Club-7:30 p.m. Z Club-7:30 p.m. 6-Y-Teens- 3 p.m. 7-F.M.A.-3 p.m. English In-service 8- Jr. Red Cross- 3 p.m. Wrestling h e ~ e w i t h Boys Town-4 p.m. Basketball with Central here Sock Hop after the game 11- International Club-7:30 p.m. 12- D.E. Employer-Em p 1 o y e e Luncheon-:!.2:30 p.m. Wrestling with Benson- 7 :30 p.m. Hi-Y-7:30 p.m. 15-Gymnastics at Central- 4 p.m. Swimming with Bishop Ryan and Thomas Jefferson, here Wrestling at North with North Basketball at North 16-Basketball, Beatl'i _,) here. It will be broadcast on the radio.
Westside's debaters, coached by Mr. Rod Hansen, have been working hard to prevent any shortage of gold or silver in District 66. T he most recent additions to the team's booty a re a trophy and a medal from the William Chrisman Tournament.
Chris Pinali and Betsy Raskin, seniors, received the trophy as they won first place in Regular Debate at the tournament in Independence, Mo., a small town near Kansas City. Betsy also won the medal by placing second in Girls' Extemporaneous Speaking.
Six Westside seniors will appear on WOW-TV on Jan. 3 at 11:30 a.m. Organized by Mrs. Elaine Limbaugh and Mr. Rod Hansen , the program will center around the Project English course which is presently being used in Amencan Literature classes at Westside. The Westsiders participating are Bob Bucholz, John Buller, Steve Calvert, Chris Pinali, Betsy Raskin, and Rich Young. These seniors, who took this course last year, will discuss America's attempt to live up to its early ideals. A basis for this panel discussion will be the works of such authors as T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, F. Scott .Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis. Herman Melville, He n r y David Throeau, and Mark Twain.
Six other debaters competed a William Chrisman. Bob Bucholz and Steve Calvert, seniors, and Gary Neid a nd Stu Sorenson, juniors, represented WHS in the exceedingly difficult Cross Examination Debate and several individual events. Sophomores Wally Dean and Warren Whitted received their "baptism of fire" as they competed in Regular Debate. "This tournament is one of the ten most difficult in the country," commented ~r. Hansen, "and this is the first year a Nebraska school has won at it." Held Dec. 11 and 12, the William Chrisman Tournament was sponsored by the Independence chapter of Rot a r y Club International. About 50 schools in Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska sent nearly 350 competitors to the annual event.
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intermediate, and adsculpturing and Mr. Gloor Beginning Algebra.
Program Reviewed
Debate Team Hoards Gold
Information concerning the curriculum changes for second semester will be announced in the morning announcements following Christmas vacation. Any student wishing to have his curriculum changed is urged to do so as soon as possible after vacation. A list of the courses being changed will be published in a future issue of the Lance.
December 14 a disrupting and unusual incident took place in Mr. Calvin Delano's Chemistry room. During an attempted experiment involving liquid oxygen, the beaker containing the substance exploded, sending glass around the room. Seven of the class memb~rs sitting in the front row were injured just seriously enough to warrant being sent to the hospital for treatment. Those students injured included: Steve Abrahamson, Jim Arundel, Bill Browr., Debby Browne, Jim Farley, Ron Manow, and R oger Neumann.
cents for children and high school students, and $1 for adults. Profits from the three-day tournament will be evenly distributed among the school entries. Another holiday event, already past, was the Christmas Prom 'Qeld last Friday, Dec. 18. The Christmas Prom was sponsored by John Kuhns and Steve Nelson from Central. A semi-formal dance, it was held from 9:30 to 12:30 p .m ., and the music was supplied by the Vibrations. The Prom Queen Candidates from Westside were, Micki Freed, Kathy Kelley, and Nanci Shook. Reigning together as Prom Queens were Ellen Bank and Kathy Eichorn of Central. Benson , Beveridge and North also had q u e e n candidates representing them.
Westside's debate team has attended the tournament for the last four years, but it has never before returned victorious.
Phot o by John Macintyr e
Chris and Betsy show results of debate effor ts.
One week after the team went to Kansas City, four novices attended another tournament at Creighton Prep. Tom Barton, Wally Dean, Warren Whitted, and Susan Wurl received fine records of four wins and four losses with high speakers' points. Nevertheless, a team from Central won the tournament.