Cleveland High School - Beacon Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Sept. 19 Sept. 21 Sept. 24 Sept. 27 Oct. l: Oct. 2: Oct. 4: Queen and ten Maids got under way. The beginning of two exciting weeks! Good luck, girls. V I saw a reet boy today, climbing out of my dreamboat, a red convertible, and wearing one of those horrible crewfcuts. How' ever, his head has passed from the velvet stage into the freshly cut grass period. He breezily announced that he has just blown in from Blow! QOuch!D The hardffighting eleven lost to Manual High School of Louisf ville, Kentucky, 4197. The team's trip to this mountaineer state has been completed safely, but they certainly ran into trouble when they hit that Manual Backneld! A double feature Aud Session was presented today! The candif dates for both the Football Maids and Queen, and the Cheer' leaders were introduced to an enthusiastic student audience. The applause rocked the chandeliers, honestly! Dr. Ethel J. Alpenfels, noted Anthropologist and lecturer, com' pletely won over Cleveland students and faculty in a talk entitled Facts Explode Myths. Her excellent speaking ability plus comprehensive knowledge made it easily one of the most out' standing assemblies we've ever had. Take a lesson, gals, it will work on a smaller scale, too! T'was a close fight, Dutchmen. The Cleveland Eleven lost to Belleville, 14fl3. An angling course opened this evening at 7:30, sponsored by St. Louis casting clubs. It is available to students of several high schools, including Cleveland, and movies will be presented, along with individual instruction and wellfknown speakers during the weeks to come, making the class very worth while. After the boys finish this subject, we should really hear stories about the big ones that got away! Over a thousand students saw the movie El Navajo in the aud today. It is a very good picture, contrasting the ancient living modes with those of the present. The audience also saw an exhibit of the arts and crafts of these Indians. Some articles were over a hundred years old. This was one time the Freshmen actually had an advantage over us, but we'll get even with them! Now where did I put those butterchecks? The Social Night of the Year! Ten beautiful maids advanced to the throne on the auditorium stage, regal and lovely. Yes, it is the night of the Coronation! Then, the moment of moments. The Football Queen for 1946f47 was introduced, and she was none other than Myrleen Golfinopoulos. The way her votes rolled in during the election, I think she is a Republican! Marcia Anderson, the retiring queen, flew here from Texas for the occasion, from the nation within a nation to the L'49th state in one jump! 16

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rouncf the year with the Eutcfzmen .vlzrflzofs Nuff: Any rcsezzzblaizce to Cleveland Clzazncfcrs, living or asleep, Sept. 2: Sept. 3 Sept. 4: is jmrrly 1'1'1fm11'i01zal. Labor Day. I tucked away my pedal pushers and midrilfs, washed off my luscious bronze suntan, and set my H202 QPerf oxide to those uninitiated to the horrors of Rooms 205 and 2090 streak just so, because tomorrow cometh but soon. Ch happy day! The long looked forward to date finally has arrived, and Cleveland corridors echo and refecho with the milf lions of assorted resounding noises that 2163 students can make during their first school day. By the way, 384 of the said stuf dents are those lovely innocents we engagingly call Nu Jays. Poor things! You can't do this to me! My constitutional rights! How do I fill out this card? And where will I find Latin l? You've got her? Lucky joe! Look who I was stuck with! I can't take both Algebra and Spanish the second period, can I? But I have to take that science, I'm graduating! Look at that line for World History, there can't be that many 3's ss ss ss ss You've guessed it. Registration Day! Sept. 9f10: Books, books, and more books! Mr. Davisson, our Book Room Sept. 11 Sept. 13 Sept. 14 Sept. 16 Sept. 17 Custodian, says that between 27 and 28 thousand text books have suddenly come to life and gained new owners during the beginning of this second week of school. Think of the stack they would make piled on top of each other! Um, work began in earnest today. Those Geometric theories -- how can I memorize them while the girl in front of me keeps jangling all those silver bracelets? Now I ask you. And oh! what a cute blouse she is wearing, with the tiny black shoestring bow at the collar. The Hrst Pep Session of the term was held today as a rally for our Football Team. One of the features of the Aud was the super twirling of two Drum Majorettes. The Dutchmen defeated McBride for the first time in four years! Congrats! The technicolor score was 24fO, a wonderful season beginner. The January '47 class met and chose its class colors and pin design. Even the manliest males were seen pouring over shades of primrose yellow, wedgewood blue, and geranium red! P. S. Redfviolet, and gray were chosen the winners. Preliminary balloting for the candidates for Cleveland's Football is

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Oct. 8: Oct. 11: Oct. 12: Oct. 14: Oct. 15: Oct: 18: The entire school listened to a talk by Pvt. Gaffney of the St. Louis Fire Department. The importance of fire prevention in the light of the present housing conditions was stressed. Careful where you throw that match, son! And even if you are a Chem whiz Care there such people?D don't call that four alarm catasf trophe a rapid oxidation plus heat and light! Hear that trumpet, the beat of those drums? The jivy Novelty Orchestra plus countless jitterbugs assured the success of the Hrst school dance of the season. Sponsored by the S-tudent Counf cil, everyone spent a most enjoyable afternoon. Did you notice the ballet slippers competing with the snow white bobby socks and saddles group? As for me, when the next dance comes around, I'm going to wear steelftoed safety protection boots fplus iron armor, too!D. Oh, but the dance wasn't Friday's only contribution to the week. It had another, and we don't mean the lost weekfend ahead, either! During the afternoon, a snappy Pep Session was held, in honor of the forthcoming Southwest game. Ummm, weren't those Queen's Men good, but def? Natch, and most elef mentary, Watson! Our fellow inmates don't even rest on Saturdays, that long cherished day of festivities. This morning some of our students, including our newly elected football queen and one of the cheerf leaders broadcast Cleveland conversation and chitchat on the Teen Thirty O'clock Club. Nice work, to think, I'l1 be able to say I knew them when! The score we love to hear: Cleveland, 13, Southwest, O! In the second half, the Dutchmen mounted the horns of the longl- in the front hall trophy case! fDon't they look lovely thereffj I wandered down to the lunchroom at noon, by way of the nearf est banister, of course, to buy a few vitamins, and found that they have jumped the high hurdles. Yes, they are worth 6c each, except those beautifying the main dishes, which snobbishly await the huge amount of 12c. Exclusive little creatures, aren't they? I-Iave you gone by the swimming pool today and heard those funny sounding gurgles. Rest assured, no one is drowning-yet. It's the swimming team beginning their practice for the coming season. Coach Ballin expects a good team this year, so watch out! Of course, the nonfexistence of a Springboard doesn't help matters. I offered to let them do leapffrog over my back, but Coach merely threw-glub, glub, glub! Being inquisitive by nature fand don't tell me I can't blame nature for thatll I journeyed once more to the lunchroom to see how hungry you and I and those other 2161 students get every day. Since Monday and the price rise, the main dishes sold have dwindled somewhat-to an average of 1000 eaten daily! Shades of my leaping tin lizzie, that's a mountain of food! 17