Central High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Marilyn llainm, Florence Adam», and Catherine Geert . left to right, looking over the ru animal» made for toy» by girl» In home economic». Catherine Geert and Florence Adam» playing with rag animal made by the girl in home economic . From reveille (8:00) to first call (8:30), the trenches of the D. II. S. battlefield are just coming alive, filling up with first, second and third class soldiers. The usual morning drill in the trenches begins. Between first call and assembly (9:00), some of these combatants rush around getting their mental maneuvering prepared for the drill which follows in the day. A visit to study rooms A and X or any of the various home rooms will be enough to convince the onlook- I loving by boy ' gym »tudcnts i a popular morning activity. Marjorie I)avid»on and Alberta Hell, left to right, playing badminton, a popular before school activity. Sick Manda» and Flmer White revive the ancient art of fenc- ing in before school practice.

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••Jeff (Mr. Monty) and “Mutt'' (Mr. Kvan ) jumping it up at the Krd Croaa faculty gamr. “Dr. Swrnnon pour- ing “it out for “Patient Day while “Sharpshooter Wood- rode look on at the Red Croat faculty game. Members of the Quill club who presented an original play before the student body arc. left to right: Norman Peters, Margaret Bormann. Lois Kutslcr. Marly» GoetUch. Kenneth Stephens, Ann Neill. Marian Wuestenfeld and Warren Kuehl. Ever ready in disaster, fire and flood, the new- ly formed Junior Red Cross Council of Davenport high school kept constant guard during the past year. Miss Soller and Mr. Hitchings, faculty ad- visers, agreed that much was accomplished dur- ing the first year of its existence. Over one hundred gift boxes were packed by the privates of this military thought camp and sent to European countries at Christmas time to cheer the little folks “over there.” Some twenty different designs were put on 150 menu covers by the art battalion and shipped to the Navy to be used at their Christmas dinner. First aid classes to accommodate nearly 200 students were organized in the spring. Lessons taught to the tune of “Clicking Needles” were taken by both girls and boys to knit a sweater for that soldier friend in camp. The season’s climax was the benefit basketball game given to raise money for the War Relief fund. A total of $602.83 was realized. Enter- tainment included a Davenport vs Sterling var- sity game, faculty vs “B” team game, band con- cert, and Red Cross nurses’ review. Fall council officers were Marian Wuestenfeld, president; Rosemary Malloy, vice-president; Ruth Trainer, secretary-treasurer. Presiding in the spring were Patricia Jansen as president, Katherine Brownlie as vice-president, and Mar- garet Lord as secretary-treasurer. Council mem- bers consisted of one representative from each home room.

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MORALE BUILDERS ers of the seriousness in which the enrollees take their intellectual drilling. Others go to the gymnasium to build up those muscles for oncoming attacks. Under the command of Mr. Johnson, boys’ gym in- structor, the boys engage in boxing and fencing, learning how to defend themselves from their foes. Reading the orders of the day, Miss Gib- son, girls’ gym instructor, sends her squads off to duty on the gym-floor ground. The girls delight in fencing and playing badmin- ton and ping pong. The draftees of the home economics regi- ment, preceding their Christmas furlough, made stuffed toys for the orphans’ home. This regiment is in constant active duty be- fore assembly. Sometimes such special business as a press conference is held at general headquarters. All journalism students were ordered to be present by Commanding Officer Clarence W. Hach to hear the excellent instruction given by Floyd A. Arpan, professor of journalism at Northwestern University, and Earl Eng- lish, professor of journalism at Iowa Uni- versity. Work on the parallel bars Is a favorite sport of many student gymnasts. Below: l.eft to right: Jean Krabbenhoeft, editor of the Blackhawk. Professor Floyd Arpan. Northwestern I'niveraity journalism professor, and Kathrtn Schroe- der, assoeiate editor of the Blarkhawk. Above: Registration scene at Eastern lowa-lllinois Press ronferenee held in October. Below: I.eft to right: Clarence W. Hach. adviser; Jean Krabbenhoeft. student chairman, and A. I. N'aumsnn. principal, greeting visitors at the Press conference.