South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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tory material for Swedish classes and clubs in Minneapolis, the Swedish Bureau of Information helps to give the group an idea of the economic and social progress in Sweden. Under the supervision of Miss Bo-strom, the South I ligh classes have visited the American Institute of Swedish Arts, a museum that is the exhibit center of the Northwest. Recently I)r. Hclgc Kbkeritz, visiting professor of English at the local University, was the honored guest at a joint meeting of the foreign language and English classes, sponsored bv the Svithiod Club. Dr. Kbkeritz is regularly professor in English literature at the University of Sweden. His interesting talk included facts about the school system and the government of Sweden under the present administration. South’s Swedish classes have noted that the interest of Sweden in world progress has found its expression in the five Nobel prizes which were awarded annually until the beginning of World War II. These prizes, given to the best piece of creative work in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and the promotion of world peace, have been made possible bv the fact that the great Swedish industrialist, John Nobel, left his huge fortune as a fund, the interest on which is to be given yearly to those five men or women whose achievement is greatest in one ot the five designated fields of world progress. The first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature was Selma Lagerlof, a Swedish novelist whose works are studied and read by South High classes. The students have found that her inspired books, legends, and novels, written in a poetic and romantic style, are, however, distinctly Swedish in both contents and feeling. The works of Eric Axel Karlfclst and Verner von I leidenstam, other Swedish winners of the Nobel Prize of Literature, have been read by members of the Swedish classes. The Svithiod Club has studied the early Swedish writers and has concentrated on some of the contemporary novelists. FIRST ROW: Hoycf, Berglund, Berglund, Gerguson. Berg. Tomte, Running; SECOND ROW: Peterson, Feuk, Lindberg, Grun-deen, Larsen, Larson, Holman, McGinnis, Bielkc; THIRD ROW: Austin, Erickson, Nelson, Nyberg, Landberg, Olson, Andcr son, Thorberg; FOURTH ROW: Anderson, Jocobscn, Lind, Swanson, E. Olson. Larson, Anderson.

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Swedish Students Act in OWI Film To Be Shown in European Countries LIGHTS! Camera! Action! • The scene is Miss Signc Bostrom’s Swedish classes. The event is the filming of the Office of War Information picture showing how the Swedish people of Canada and the United States have adapted themselves to New World conditions. The OWI camera crew, sent from New York City, spent five hours at South High School filming the Swedish classes in action. Several scenes featured Patricia Carlson, eleventh grade student of Swedish ancestry. One week later, the OWI film crew completed their picture by photographing Miss Ingrid Bergman, Hollywood star, who came to Minneapolis to be filmed in a sequence at the Lindstrom farm located sixty miles north of the citv. In her role as American farm girl of Swedish ancestry, she tells of the achievements of Swedish Americans in the Northwest. The OW I will not show the film in this country; it will be sent directly to Sweden as a part of its program for knitting international goodwill and counteracting Nazi propaganda in neutral countries. But participation in an OWI film does not mark the full extent of Svithiod Club services. Its members have given substantial contributions to the Red Cross, to the South 1 ligh book drive for soldiers, and to the defense stamp program. “Svithiod Serves” is the slogan adopted by the club in connection with its program to serve South by helping the teachers and janitors during the present emergency. Ever since the Svithiod club was organized in 1919, it has upheld the fine heritage that belongs to all Swedish-Americans. Meeting every second Tuesday, the club studies the customs and contributions of Sweden. Miss Bostrom, Svithiod adviser, is of Swedish descent. She has been the adviser of the club in the absence of Mrs. Ruth Peterson. Miss Bostrom, who is regularly a member of the social science department, is a graduate of the University of Chicago. By providing films, exhibits, and cxplana- • C 203 XJi

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min A PANORAMA of world events, “The American Way, ' outstanding current event column of the “Southerner”, South I ligh newspaper, has won high honors and distinction for the part it has sought to plav in extending international goodwill and understanding. Students have expressed their views on current topics in the news, the second front, the African invasion, the battle of supply. Much credit for the success of the “Southerner” belongs to Miss Helen Blais-dcll, who, for nearly a score of years, has been the energetic adviser and friend of the staff and of the paper. With an international background. Miss Blaisdcll was well equipped to organize a paper that would portray American youth in high school life today. She has visited the Orient, the near I Last, and Europe, and is familiar with the American continent. .Miss Blaisdcll's resignation from the teaching profession last January left a position difficult to fill. Miss Ruth Petri, formerly of Edison High School, has taken Miss Blaisdcll’s place temporarily. South High Newspaper Whose Purpose Is An able aide of Miss Blaisdcll in the past two years has been Robert Cumbcy, editor of the “Southerner” until this spring. Robert's sincere efforts have helped the “Southerner” achieve its platform of glorifying the true school spirit. The “Southerner” has participated in every student and war effort sponsored by the school. The Red Cross and its work have been featured in every issue. Also featured have been letters and news of South I ligh boys and girls in the service of their country. 1 folder of the Quill and Scroll International Superior Rating, Medalist from Columbia Scholastic, and All-American from the Scholastic press, the “Southerner” has attained the highest honors to be obtained by a school paper. Mitt BUitdell «nd Robert Cumbcy t 223