Taft High School - Eagle Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Taft R. O. T. C. Rates Recognition On Saturday, March 25, 1944, the Dhicago High Schools held their innual platoon competition at the Illinois Reserve Militia at Kedzie ind North Avenues. The competi- :ion began at 9:00 A. M. and con- :inued through 3:30 P. M. Each of :he twenty-nine high schools that iave R.O.T.C. units sent their thir- ,y best cadets to drill in the contest. Taft was the twenty-third pla- .oon on the floor at 1:20 P. M. Af- .er all the units had been reviewed ind marked on their appearance, cadence, and drill, they were as- .embled on the floor and the win- ling units were announced by Lt. Iolonel Robert Forney who acted ,s Master of Ceremonies. The first ive units, Tilden, Lindbloom, Lake View, Austin and Lane, were pre- ented with medals by Brigadier leneral Davis. The winning units hen passed in review. Tilden Tech, he first place winner, was presen- ed with a trophy by Mrs. E. King. Taft placed tenth out of the vventy-nine schools entered. This avery good considering the age fthe u11it and this was the rst time we have ever been en- ered in competition. Capt. James fill, leader of the platoon. Lieu- enant Donald Swanson. second-in- immand, and all the other cadets ho worked hard for this victory 'e to be congratulated on their shievement. Colonel W. F. Morrison was in large of the Competition and our lstrict Supervisor, 1st Lieutenant . A. Calder was very pleased with e results. Where were all the Taftites on e day of the Competition? The rmory was filled with students om other schools giving their pport to show their boys that ey were behind them. Our fellas Jrked hard to keep Taft on the gh level it has always been. Don't rget how proud we were when we are North Section Football Cham- ans. Now let's keep Taft on the p and show our school spirit in erything we try. The non-commissloned officers of e unit, who have received their rmanent appointments, are as fol- fvs: 1st Sergeants: Theodore Es- r, 3A, Henry Hand, 3A, John Dan- son, 3A, and George Zima, 4Bg rgeants: Ralph Sogge, SB, Jack iehle, 3A, William Parenti, 4A. .ward Erickson, 3A, Ronald Ad- lczyck, 3A, John DeSantis, 4B, Jbert Warner, 4A. Donald rlwarz, 3A, William Dopheide, 315, rman Sommer, 3A, James Coch- 1, 3A, David Uitti, 3A, Harold idberg, 3A, Edward Marum, 3A, ward Erickson. 413. and Robert Lck,3Bg Corporals: George Bond, , Gene Mason,3A, Rudolph Kuper, . Harry Rafal, 2A, Jerry Guth, . Donald Benedict, 3B, Gerald lder, 3A, Merlin Marcy, 3A, Rich- L Hanisch, 4A, and Adam Szwaj- 't, 3A. aft rib Vol. X. No. 3 Tait High School. Chicago, Illinois April 6. 1944 Second Salvage Drive Held The second paper salvage drive will be held, Wednesday, April 5. A quota of 10,000 D0l1I1dS, 01' all average of five pounds per person, has been set. Names of divisions and the amount each contributed will be posted in the lunchroom. Students are requested to bring their contributions to the northeast entrance where, they will be re- ceived by representatives from the Clean-Up Committee. Money re- ceived from the sale of this paper will be used for the War effort. If students know where paper amount- ing to fifty pounds or more is avail- able, please give the necessary in- formation to Mrs. Lukens or to Mr. Fullmer. Instruction For Packing Paper should be tied in bundles 11ot more than twelve inches high. NN aste paper should be compressed and flattened before tying. Old paper boxes, magazines, store bags, newspapers, magazines and waste paper are all acceptable. The No. 1 need of the country today is PA- PER. First Drive Successful In the first campaign a total of 5,475 pounds of paper was collected. This is an average of 2.7 pounds per person. Miss Luedemann's divi- sion topped the list with a total of 1,100 pounds. Other divisions bring- ing in large amounts were those of Mrs. Lascher, Mrs. Holterhoff, Miss Fink, and Mrs. Lukens. Several large contributions were received, but many students did not bring anything. , Please remember that nothing is too small to contribute. lf each one would bring at least five pounds, the quota would be reached. Don't come empty-handed on April 5. Remember-i'Prevention of Waste Can End the War in Haste! unior Girls Announce Activities The Junior Girls, sponsored by Miss E. Mueller, meets the third Tuesday of each month. The pur- pose of the club is to help the school and at every meeting methods of assistance are discussed. The business meeting is followed by en- tertainment and refreshments. At the present, the girls are col- lecting jokes, puzzles and pictures which will be put into scrapbooks and sent to servicemen. Each Junior division room should try to collect material for as many scrapbooks as possible. Back row: Icrmes Mein. Ed Ferguson, Robert Forney, Tom Craft. Front row: Dick Tholin. Marion Doemland. Delegates to Attend Youth On Thursday, April-20, of Youth Week, Taft will send nine delegates to the third Vocational Convention at the Morrison Hotel. The 4A delegates will be Robert Forney, James Mein, Carol Gronau and Janet Zawislak 4B delegates, Marion Doemland and Tom Craftg 3A delegates, Lois Johnson and Richard Tholing the delegate at large will be Edward Ferguson, 4A. The Convention will begin at 9 o'clock A. M., and continue until Carol Gronau, Icmet Zcxwislak. Conference 4 o'clock p. m. The morning and luncheon sessions will be of a joint nature and the afternoon program will be divided into section meet- ings for boys and girls. These sec- tion meetings are planned so that there will he one delegate from each school at each meeting. The luncheon will be held in the Terrace Casino of the Morrison Hotel. Mr. L. A. Hoefer, principal and Mrs. M. Farrell, placement counselor, are invited to attend the meeting and the luncheon. R. O. T. C. Only Formal This Season Have you bought your bid for the ROTC Hop yet? If this dance does not go over, there will be no more formal dances at Taft for the duration. And, remember 4A's, there is not going to be an Alumni dance this coming June, so the Hop is the only formal affair this spring. All junior and senior boys and girls may buy bids. If you want a bid just see any of the following girls: Dolores Kane, Carol Gronau, Lou Gleason, Marge Soper, or Jan- ice Youmans. Bids may also be ob- tained from any officer in the ROTC. Book Drive Successful Taft's drive to obtain books for the Servicemen proved to be a. huge success as shown by the final results of 702 books and 39103.35 in cash. This drive was sponsored by the G. A. A. and some of its members, especially, Dolores Toleson, Rosalie Otters, Loris Syverson, Geraldine Shramek, Arline Szorc, Dorothy Walters, Mary Jane Patti and Phyllis Roth are to be congratulated. The G. A. A. has sponsored many different activities such as Victory Dances, Bond and Stamp Drives and now the book campaign. All of these activities have proved to be successful because of the splendid coloperation of the students and faculty. Each student was asked to bring one book or one dime. The division managers were to make the collection and brnig the books and money :o the library. Orchids go to Mrs. Irma. Dahlquist's division C201 A. M.J whose busi- ne.-,s manager, Phyllis Roth, turned in 87 books and 32.60. Business Manager Leonard Noldan of 217 P. M. accounted for 72 books and 55.80 in money. This gave his division the second place. Division 221 A. M. placed third with 47 books and 32.50. To William Reiff, business manager of 121 P. M., a 1B division, is accorded the honor of collecting the greatest sum of money. Other divi- sions that contributed 53.00 or more were 207 A. M., 219 A. M., 307 A. M., 211 P. M., and 212 P. M. The Servicemen will be very happy with these books as they will help to pass away many a lonely hour and Taftites are to be congratulated for their wholehearted cotioperation.

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Page 16 Taft Tribune March 24, 11 Cagers Wind -up Season Walden, Berns, Piekarski, Mikos Pace Scorers It was on February 25, 1944, that Taft's cagers wrote the final chap- ter of the '43-44 basketball season. A double defeat at the hands of Roosevelt was the occasion. The scores read: Roosevelt 35, Taft 26 and Roosevelt 46, Taft 26, Juniors and Seniors respectively. In league cometltion the Juniors didn't do so well, finishing in a last place tie with Stelnmetz. The little black book shows a record of 1 lone win against 9 defeats. The Seniors, while not very high in their league, fared somewhat better than the Juniors. Their record of 3 victories and 7 setbacks was worth a spot in the North Section. Seniors Win 10 Out of 18 As we sum up the season as a whole, one of the most interesting things we find is the complete status of the Senior ball team, in- cluding the pre-league schedule. They won a total of 10 games out of the eighteen played. This gives them a better than average per- centage rating of .556. The Juniors on the other hand won but one of their eighteen en- counters for a rating exactly five hundred percent points under their Senior brothers, or .056. Find Team Statistics Interesting The mainstay of the Senior team this season was Harry Berns. His 14 point average was a great help in all of those 10 wins they garner- ed. To be sure, don't forget Lennie Plekarskl, Hank Jurgenson, who graduated ln February, Patsy Lindgren, Jack Berry, Paul Anda, and a host of others. The only play er that will return to next year's squad will be Piekarski. Some players on the exceptionally small team didn't play very much, but still deserve a great deal of credit. They were: Tommy Thompson, Da- niel Zurkowski, Harold Sieberman, Phil Nelson, and Leonard Bunge. Of these Bunge and Zurkowski will be the only players returning. Walden Stars for Juniors Bob Walden made a good ac- counting of himself this year. Even in defeat his 10 points a game helped a goodly amount. Not far behind Walden was Wallie Mikos, who proved himself a fine player for his first time out for the team with an average of 6 points. Four other players, Williams, Tholin, Avery, and Bill Mikos, who were instrumental in this year's varsity, also deserve a lot of back patting. Others that proved themselves worth their keep this year were: Duane Dean, Skip Ekdahl, and Chuck Clarke. Fouls Run High Between two players, one on the Seniors, and the other on the Juniors, 99 fouls were executed. Jack Berry with 49, and Wallie Mi- kos with 50. That just shows what happens when a player gets to anx- ious. The record for the most Free Throws in one game this year is shared by Harry Berns and Wallie Mikos with 6 each, and Hank Jur- genson with 5. Scoring Streaks One of the oddest games played this season was the Junior Schurz- Taft game on January 18. The final score was 37-7 in favor of Schurz, but at the end of the first period of play, the score was tied at 1 to 1. The hottest individual scoring pace of the season is held by four players. Bob Walden leads the pa- rade wlth 18 points in the second half of the Senn game C10 of them in the last period, Mikos with 10 in the 3rd period of the Lane game, Berns with 9 in the last period of the game with Holy Trinity on January 14, and Paul Anda, who also rallied for 9 in the 4th period of the tussle with Amundsen. Last year, Tommy Thompson totaled one point for the entire season. It was in the game with Amundsen. This year he also made one point, again against the Vikings, Players' Season Averages The scoring chart follows: FG FT TP AG 1. H. Berns 100 50 250 14 2. B. Walden 72 16 160 10 3. L. Piekarski -ll 26 108 7 4. XV. Mikos 40 23 103 6 5. H. Jurgenson 18 14 50 5 6. P. Lindgren 24 20 68 4 7. J. Berry 25 17 67 4 9. Il. Sicberman 21 2 44 4 10. R. VVilliams 16 16 40 3 12. E. Schmidt 5 2 12 3 13. W. Avery 12 9 33 2 14. B. Mikos 10 11 31 2 15. C. Clarke 6 7 19 2 16. J. Alleman 1 0 2 2 17. R. Esterquist 1 0 2 2 18. D. Deane 8 2 18 1 19. J. Ekdahl 5 5 15 1 20. L. Bunge 5 2 12 1 21. D. Zurkowski 4 3 11 1 22. D. Murphy 1 1 3 1 23. K. Reinert 1 0 2 15 24. G. NVleklinski 1 1 3 54 25. T. Thompson 0 1 l 0 26. P. Nelson 0 1 1 0 27. L. Lynch 0 0 0 0 McQua1g NowCoach Rest your minds, dear Taftites, for we will have a tennis team. It was recently announced by the Gym Department that Mr. Malcolm Mc Quaig will take over the coach- ing position for this season. Mc Quaig has a fine record as coach of various spokrts at Roosevelt, a few years ago. SPORTS N In Genera By Lou Gibbs, Sports Edii As previously intimated by writer in this column, Mr. Mi Galland is now pulling the st for the baseball squad. Mr. Ga is happy to report that his will be composed of from twer twenty-four players. At the meeting on Friday afternoon ll 3, held in room 320 a great was accomplished. Quite a fevs faces appeared among the exc nally large turnout. The new will have a problem on his l though, because very few pl are returning from last year': sity. at 8 ,F Contrary to what was stat the last issue of the Tum, will he a very fine golf team senting Taft this season. Gt you might know, was abanr supposedly, for the duration was recently revived. We wls golf team all the success of it decessors. it 3 3 The swimming team has noi receiving the amount of publir deserves. This situation is go Le remedied, effective lmmed Results of meets held recent not available to us at the p time, but the so-called Joe names are. It seems apparen the mainstay of the tankers 1 Carl Read, assisted by Lou M a fine endurance swimmer Stuhl, Dick Carlson, Larry quist, Dick Bergsund, George Harold Scholle, Don Farbacl reams of others. A complete of the swimming team will in the next issue. the Board are stretching their Surface Dive to Recover Ol ' ' ' ' 'right arms forward'? . . . Show- ,Group D: Hair Carry am Girls Athletlc Association ,,,,, mg, 0, C,,,,, ,,,,.,, ,,,,,,, That's our point! cried an amazingly good athlete from Amundsen. The score keeper marked down the point, while the ball continued to fly, full-speed, from one side of the net to the other. The forty-two girls who were participating in this volley ball game were warm and perspiring, and after the whistle blew, they were glad to get into the refresh- ing, cold showers. A little later, these same senori- tas were seen in the social room. Refreshments! Yes, they certainly did taste good after that hectic game. Six representatives from the G. A. A. of seven schools were gath- ered together on this occasion, and afterwards were entertained by skits, songs, and speeches. This affair was held March 3 at Amundsen High School. The girls who represented Taft were: Arlene Scorz, Edith Wickstrom, Shirley Seaholm, Alice Schieser, Dolores Toleson, and Marilyn Fisher. Everyone, including Miss Mc- Guire who went along as chaperon, had a grand time, and are patiently C25 awaiting the day it will be their turn to invite the different schools to Taft. Board Girls Get Chevrons Have you noticed small grey chevrons on the right sweater sleeve of the gals on the G. A. A. Board of Control? How could you miss seeing Edith Wickstrom's and Marilyn Flsher's? Each with fivelj Yes! The chevrons are re- wards for being on the Board. One semester, one chevron!-Now do you wonder why all the girls on Test to Be Given for Effi- ciency Records A test will be given to all swim- ming classes between March 20 and April 6. The results are to be sent to the Central Office of Physical Education. The purpose is to secure facts of the physical condition, and the amount of strength, speed, lim- ited skills, and endurance of the individual high school girls and boys. The test is divided into five groups, with one period devoted to each group. Group A consists of: Breast Stroke-one length and Side Stroke -one length, or Free Style-five lengths. Group B: Float and Scull-five minutes and Treading-three mln- utes, or Entering Water without submerging. Group C: Under Water-one length and Babby Across Pool, or That's what the test f4 swimmers will consist of. The gymnasium test, to bf to ALL girls who take gym, on: Push Ups, Pull Ups, S Leg lift Lying, Standing Jump, and Jumping Rope foi seconds. The grades of these tes help decide the average 1 efficiency of the lndivlduz school pupil. The harder yoi complete these tests in perfe -the higher the average wi Average Junior Mis: Say gals! Would you know who the average Jun is? The gym department, ur direction of Miss McGuire, trying to determine the height and weight of thi Watch this column for the cement of Taft's Average Miss !

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Page 18 Taft Tribune Musicians Tune Up For Spring Classic Festival Don't forget your date for the Spring Festival!! At the time this paper went to press the date was set at May nineteenth so watch this column for further info'i. Yes! The four music organizations are working intensively in preparation for this annual concert. Judging from past performances, it ls an- ticipated that there will be the usual sellout. This festival makes it possible for the neighborhood to hear the artistic work done by these different organizations. The Band, under the direction of Mr. Rapier will play the National Anthem by Bagley: Dedication by Frankheiserg and Rienzi Over- ture by Wagner. The Orchestra will do the pieces, Dream Panto- mine , from Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinckg Cavalier Overture by Issacsg The Allegro Conlrio g and the First Movement of Beet- hoven's Fifth Symphony. There will be a Trombone and Flute Quartette. Diana will be played by Dick Lawson, Bill Dop- heide, Ralph Sogge, and Larry Ran- son, on the trombones. The latter will also solo to the tune Thoughts of Love with Valentine Morales accompanying him. The Flute Quar- tette will play Valse Staccato by Rubinstein, and it has as members Barbara Wawfalt, Juanita Pruska, Peter Neukirsch and Vera Fiedler. A trio, consisting of Lenny Pie- karski, John Porkorney, and Dick Stahl, will beat out on the drums the ditty, Dawn Patrol by John J. Heney. Kenny Tomkins will solo on the marimba, but his number has not yet been decided. Leaving the instrumental groups, we next take up the performance of the choruses. The Mixed Chorus, under the direction of Mrs. Helen Scanlon, will sing We're On the Job , by Russelg Fred Waring's ar- rangement of The Erie Cana1 : America the Profit Stream , by Van Groveg Verdant Meadows by Handelg and Mill's arrangement of Star Dust . There will also be a. The students and teachers that deserve special recognition for helping in the paper drive are: Mrs. Lukens, Leonard Nettnin, Tom Thompson, Bob Sherman. Louis Wahl, Ed Stull. and Mr. Fullmer. Girls' Gym Classes Condition Students Through Calisthenics double quartette and maybe a solo or two. In the Girls' Chorus there will be twelve Umadrigal singers who will sing madrigals as they were presented in the sixteenth century. This type of singing is presented informally, for in that century ev- eryone could sight read very Well, and after dinner they would sit around and sing, informally, these songs. The madrlgals which this group will sing are: Weep 0 Mine Eyes by Wilbyeg Come Again, Sweet Love by Dowlandg Cease, Sorrows, Now by Weelkesg and In These Delightful Pleasant Groves by Purcell. These will be unaccompanied, as they were in the 16th century. The entire group of girls will sing: From Hills of Dream by Deu Malin: A Bird Flew by Clokeyg A Prayer from Othello by Verdi, and A Spring Night by M. Luvaas. This Spring Festival promises to be a. most delightful musical per- formance, worth your attendance. You'll soon be able to purchase tickets from your business man- ager!! See you there!! Remember- It will be a lovely way to spend an evening! The Taft Tribune ' Published Bl-weekly by the Journalism Students of the William Howard Tait High School 5625 North Natoma Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. APRIL 6, 1944 PRICE FIVE CENTS Editor-in-chief ,.,,,..,, ....... . .. ............. Betty Petersen Assistant Editor ...... ........................................................ . ..... M arjorie Soper Feature Editor ......... ..................... ............................................................ F a Y Mayer Sports Department ...,...,..,...., Lou Gibbs, Editor: Gerry Shramek, Girls Sports News Department ........ Beverly Anderson, Lou Gibbs, Shirley Gleason, Carol Gronau, Bette Krohn, Jean Love, Madeline Matern, Fay Mayer, Carol Moston, Shirley Nancarrow, Ruth Olson. Ella Osinske, Mary Jean Pfis- ter, Frances Quan, Gerry Shramek, Betty Lou Schultz, Jackie Thomas, lt aril 'n Vtfenzel 'I 3 . Typists ,,,,,,,.,,,,..,,,...,.,,...,,,...,., Madeline Matern, Ruth Olson, Betty Lou Schultz Photographers Ralph Sogge, Hartly Kopke, Richard Kueker, Eugene Nugent Artists ,.,,,,,,.,,,..,,.,....,...,.,......,..., Dan Schneider, Dan Vrabec, Richard Bergsund Business Adviser ............ ........................--.... . ...................-...........-.... M F- P21111 Blglel' Editorial Adviser ,,,, ..,.............. .......... ............... M i s s Hattie Marquardt Oh, look! A gymnasium class getting their daily routine! See how straight they stand while roll is being taken? The whole group looks so nice and neat, standing there at attention, with their unwrinkled, green gym suits and their white socks and shoes fexcept Charlene Schmolt who has bowling shoes on, but we don't talk about thatj. Giving the group a second look we notice Bernice Ranyard chewing gum-Just wait until Miss McGuire sees her! Finally Miss McGuire steps into the center of the room, shouts a. few commands, and the girls are on their way, marching in military fashion! Did I say mii- itary fashion-or doesn't that 1n- clude all those giggles I hear com- ing from Buzz I-Iuclds direction? Running for a full minute comes next--Everyone has such stiff mus- cles they wonder if they can pos- sibly continue. 0Ops! That did it! Poor Evy Evensows muscles won't let her run another step! After arranging themselves, the gals sit down and rest a bit While Dorohty Ewing demonstrates the Hanging Half Lever , hanging from the Stall Bars and raising her legs to a sitting position. Loris Syverson is at it now, Chear those grunts and groans?b. Well, she only raised her legs 24 times Cafter doing it 50 times last year-an- other one of the unmentionables J Later comes play time! tlf you want to call exercising, playj. Faith Metzler took to perfecting the art of broad jumping. Bang! She must be top heavy-she fell on her face kinda had too much push behind that jump! And speaking of push that's exactly what all the kids ln the waiting line are doing to Lcwerene Velton It seems as though April 6, 194 she just can't get started! Looki over to the extreme left corner ' notice Mary Ann Halverson a Muriel Gephart falling on tht faces-it might sound silly,but c you ever try doing push-ups ? B Dara Wawfalt just gave up tl1e it of doing them. She is laying th' watching the other girls work. L Gleason is kinda sick of playi volly tall, but like a good sp! she is there playing to the b of her ability. Ouch 'I ball just hit Irene Spreclrcr her headg Irene, who feels like magnet because no matter in wl part of the gym she is, the ball 1 lows her, only to hit her on head! Eeeeek! Who should we doing cartwheels across the flt but Joan Van Kirk, and withou gym suit on-Shame! Stiff rn cles? Just try and find a girl v hasn't got them. We see Lorra Bruns and Lorraine Kruger tou ing the floor with their har fThey say that this may loo their muscles-little do they knc Miss Kruger is now trying to her fingers to touch the grou withoutbending her knees. We an evil look in the eyes of li Bruns-over she goes. Lorra Kruger couldn't have done a be somersault if slte Wanted to, Q she didn'tJ. What's all that no' Oh Look! Esther Paior is ttryl to jump rope, while Marge Be times her. Just think, Es! jumped fifteen times in a min i0f course, we won't mention fact that the average per girl is Oops! Did that scare me! seems as though every time the minute bell rings, it frightens girls and myself half to death! whistle blew, meaning that tired girls may get their st clothes on! Once in the locker rt and looking once tfor who stand a second lookj in the mir there is a general shriek left Yes! Most of the persons who take in these gym calisthenics like perfect Zombies ! When want to see what's going on, part their hair at the nose look through. After everyone completed their task of don their duds, we notice Nancy V running around the locker 1 like mad, trying to find 1 clothes to put on. Clothes, Clo any clothes just so she won't to go through the halls like fSomeone's idea of humor!J l ing Nancy in this mess, we leave the Locker Room, and a ical gymnasium class! Mrs. Walker to Detroit Mrs. Walker, gym instruc will be absent from school on 12th, 13th, and 14th, as she l ing to attend a convention ii troit. Mrs. Walker thinks shf leave Tuesday evening. She i ing by train. The name of The Mid-West Health and Ph E du cation Convention , ' Physical Fitness in War al Peace will be discussed.