Taft High School - Eagle Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Page 24 1 ' ffl-- rl A f ,e w Ofvo f 1 ,Q - .-4' DHQQL' . it V A ...U W f Amid icicles on their noses, and the blood freezing in their veins, Taft's mighty nine took to the field for the first time this season for a lrit. of infield and fly-slmggiiig prac- tice. Among the brave youths that turned out to participate in this mass murder, we picked out Walter Mikos, Perry Mehan, Tom Leach, Dawn Fahrlzach, and Bill Klein as possessing exceptional fielding prowess Oh, we forgotg the date of this auspicious occasion was Tuesday, March 2-1. ak Pk Plf The following day gave the fu- ture Eagles their first batting at- tempts, with Norbie Pilch, Earl Belzer, Bill Hotze, Hack Daniel- son, and Jocko Congdon, leading the Hit Parade. HK 2? Sk By the time you read this, the first game against Steinmetz, on Friday, the 31st of March, will have either been played or canceled. We predict, today, Tuesday, March 23, that Paul Johnson, one of last year's pitchers will start this opener. Mr. Galland will depend upon five pitchers this year. They will be: Johnson, a right-hander, Carl Read, who also throws from the third base side, Jack Berry, Ted Dobrowski, and Al Walker. Walker is just a freshman, and shows a great deal of promise. The last three mentioned are southpaws. if Pk vii The catching department will be taken over by Hack Danielson and Jock Congdon who will also see action at third. The first string infield and outfield positions, are at this date, wide open, but will be potentially filled by the Monday, after you get the TRIB, possibly sooner. The boys are whipping into tip-top shape, as a result of Mr. Gallands' Commando Course. Dk wk bl: Every day, Art Goldbrick Wegner, manager of the baseball team, goes thru the motions of what the well mannered manager will do. We almost overlooked the name of Dick Nelson, a first- stringer from last year's team, who is expected to be a great help in putting the Eagles high up in the North Section. rl: Sli ik Some new equipment is expected to arrive in the near future. It will consist mainly of complete uniforms, caps, new baseballs, and a few fungo bats. With this, the team should be all set for the sea- son. Taft Tribune Read, Fahrbach HighMen Tankers Find -Boat in Pool . by LOU GIBBS Won by Read, Fahrbach, Michels and Stullmis one of the most fam- iliar announcements heard at swim- ming meets, for it is these four tankers along with Dick Bergsund and Hal Scholle that fo1'm the back- Here is a boy who should get two letters this year. He had to trans- fer from the Juniors to the Seniors because of grade increase at the end of last semester. He made his 25 points as a Junior and will by the end of next meet have 25 more Top row: Bill Nemic, Dick Carlson. Capt.. Erwine Pickett, Glenn Rum- say, Bob Ray, Larry Wcxlquist. Center row: Bernie Miller, Ed Stunell. Ray Norman. Bob Zielke. Herb Schirmer. Bottom row: Chester Mathison, Bob Munsell, Richard Tomlinson Ted Spath. bone of the Senior swimming team. Now we shall go into detail for all Senior mermen: Carl Readg all we have to say for Read is that he is one of the best swimmers Chi- cago has ever seen. Carl feels equally at home when traversing either the 200, 100, or 40 yard Free Style, and is the daddy of the team with four years experience. At the present time, he has 83 points to his credit. Don Fahrbachg meet the 40 yard Free Style man. He also likes the 100, and occasion- ally is found practicing l00 back. Don is at present pacing the team with 90 points, and will be back again next year. Lou Michelsg Lou has 40 points to date this season, which is March 28, all received for his efforts as the 100 yard breast- stroker. Lou has also been on the team for four years, and is one of the spark plugs. He missed out on the picture, so you can't see what a handsome man he is. Ed Stull: as a Senior. Dick Bergsundg Dick didn't have much chance to show April 6, 1 he was worth his mettle vt back-stroker like Dick Reidel was undefeated this year, ai It was after Reidel graduat February that Bergsund took off, and he now has 30 1 Harold Scholleg The man to Reads' place next fall in th Free Style. Scholle is getting every meet, and, while fini seccnd and third most of the is getting those points that meets. A good guy to have al He has about 25 points, rigl the head, for his letter. Others that should receive are Dan Vrabec, who does a job on the 100 breast: Perri han, who was out most of th- son with a stomach injury, bu' his letter last year: and Bob ' er, an all around man. Jim H is also a fine addition. Juniors Also Excel As Tank With the Juniors: Glen Rai High point man on the team close to 60, one of the finest back-stroker. Don Normang A event man of high caliber, wh 50 points. Dick Carlson, The tain of the Junior team who develop into another Norlie or in time. Thirty-five points him in good stead. Ed St: Anotherone of Mr. Miller's with 23 points. Herb Schil Herb should finish up with about enough for his letter. The Diving Department is down by George Zima of the S team, who placed high in the city meet. Ted Spath and Zielke perform for the Junior Back row: Carl Schill. Mgr.. Dun Vrabec, Perry Mahan. Iimmy Harse Stull. Front row: Dick Bergsund, Don Fahrbach. Carl Read. Capt.. G Zima. Missing is one of the stars. Lou Michels. Locker Room The boys' locker room is the scene of many thrilling incidents, now-a-days. Hank Anderson 2A, is seen joyfully putting his hand thru one of the unfortunate loc- kers. Stan Giese 3A, is always found combing his golden locks after swimming. Loud shouts of anguish sounding like this: get your 1f72oZxX8r hands off the water temperature, are heard daily. You naughty boys. Mr. Gallands' 8th period gym class, taking their swimming test like men. Larry Lynch trying to convince Mr. Kreutzer that he has been faithfully attending his class. He has been, too. Jack Berry bragging about the best shower he ever took after a baseball workout. It doesn't look like the same old locker room anymore, as the locker formally held by Norbert Arsh Paulish, Bob Bojangles Flum, and Al Ollie Schmidt is vacated: a di- rect cause of a disease called grad- uation. Those suitless swimmers had to wrap towels around the: the pictures on this page. ' will they learn? Bob Miller ing thru the other day-good 1 you back Bob-it looks more , what the same with you again. George Greek Dayi running into the gym righ time every day. Wish we coul the same. An un-identified freshie walking thru the locker roon other day had his head bashc

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,1-i1 5, 1944 Taft Tribune Page 23 follege Day Is tnjoyedg Very -ig Success niversities Attend Affair :presentatives From 16 College Day March 22, for xft High Sch0ol's 5 held Wednesday, and 4A students. 'he seniors were auditorium for the first period l heard the guest speakers- ,rk Gilmore representative from ight Jr. College and Laverne utt, representative from Wash- 'ne Trade School. After these eresting and enlightening talks, 1 senior girls remained in the litorium where they saw a movie Nursing entitled R. N. They o heard Mrs. Esther Nelson R. representative from the Illinois lte Nurses' Association, speak on e subject of Opportunities in rsingf' The remainder of the -rning, from 9:00 to 12:00, was ent in individual interviews, that 1 been scheduled for tl1e seniors ih various college representa- es. All interviews were held in e library. Phe following schools were repre- ited at Taft on College Day: loit College-John B. Laing ickburn College--Phyllis Harper ntral YMCA College-C. M. Law- son icago, University of-M. Eliza- meth Johnson icago Teachers College - Dr. Dmer S. Williams nois University of-Edward E. Stafford lnois Institute of Technology - Ruth R. Shellito lnois Wesleyan University-Ray- nond Dooley .lamazoo College-Leroy D. Reed lox College-Edward W. Seay ke Forest College - Robert D. Amaden lndelein College-Mary Lou Wal- :ers -rth Park College--Oscar E. Ol- son lrthwestern University-Georgia Bayless, George Seulberger sary College-Gloria Shepanek 9Dhens College-J. Scott Memry assembled in . rench Club Meets The French Club held their first :eting of the semester, 5th per- l, March 27. Robert Moreau, 4A, ,s elected President. The race for ce President is between Leslie kinson and Wanda Rutherford. e Vice President and Secretary ll he elected at the next meeting. The French songs Marsellaise , Canada , and Un Canard were ng during the remander of the riod. Miss E. Luedemann, spon- r of the club is planning French mes for the next meeting. INQUIRING , gseponren This week the column will be de- voted to Women Only . The ques- lion is: What Do You Dislike Most About 'MEN'? Bette Shultz, 3A Crew-cuts on certain people! Laurel Perkins, 3B You can't believe what they're saying half the time. Sue Harper, 3A I don't like those dumb hair cuts. Marge Beesley, 3A They're Either Too Young or Too Old. Nancy Vogel, 3B Seeing there's a 'Man Power Shortage' there's nothing I dislike about MEN right now! Lorraine Kohler, 3B Some of them are tooooo con- ceited, but most of them are pretty swell. Shirley Lou Steiskal, 3B Those who are too fickle and always changing their minds. Laura Swanson, 3A There's not enough of them! Bonnie Weidman, 3B What men?!! . . . If you mean those males walking around Taft . . . Super! ALSO . . . an anonymous person who doesn't wish to be ganged up on!!! 7 2 7 Miss Berquist's Division High In Buying Bonds Once again Miss M. Berquist's division has walked off with top honors in the sale of bonds and stamps. To date they have sold 69,300 The following eight divisions complete the list of the honor div- isions, namely the ten highest in the school: Mrs. V. McConville's division, with 546753 Mr. C. E. Johnson's with 2889.905 Mrs. Klugs division with 52187509 Miss J. Carleton's division with S2012.25g Miss H. Unseth's division with 51856505 Mrs. Paulson's division with 185650, alsog Miss Bea.ver's division with 51726503 and Miss Straight's division with 31725. Taft's grand total is now 586,- 09635. Come on, students, try and put Taft at the head of the list of bond sales for all the high schools in the city of Chicago! Names 'Pursuit Ship The members of division room 216 were honored recently. They were permitted to suggest a name for a pursuit ship. This honor was given them because they were one of the rooms which sold the most war bonds and stamps for the past year. Many names were suggested, but Colin Kelly was their first choice and The Fighting Fury placed second after considerable voting. Xazzf PA HAD .f ' , -211 Z sipna v 5-7 tg we ' V 5 . f , k Ki- Z .. WI 'Qs . 1 .Mtn g 0,0991 'tix r A' 'IW 9 t 't im ' f 65 gf v gg SOLID! WZ ji v llfg 2 Z oo 0.0 ' APJQ Q fQGS HIE 004, HOUSGQ I' Cof N.. Q- ullih -t--QT Did you freshies look for the Freshie Doghouse in the last paper? Were you puzzled because it was'nt there? Theres a reason for it, be- lieve it or not . . . Look kiddies, your poor browbeaten reporter asked you for news, remember- And what did 1035 get but six lonely items in two whole weeks. Now you know you can't get to be a social butterfly around this ln- stitution without getting your name in the Trib fplugj. So, fresh- ies, support this column 'cause we want you to feel at home here. P. S. Not too much Suzie Jones loves Tommy Smith stuff. Now We will start all over again. The Freshie Doghouse by 1025. Somebody tells me you're a wolf, Clarence Mueller . . . Tsk! Tsk! Who is known as the baby in the 301 p. m. division? - Two little 'tellers fyou know who you are! serving 2 encores in the Trib office 1st an 2nd periods- with no teacher. Incidentally the happy little jun- ior who told them all about the advantages of the home of your Taft Tribune as a supervised study is still running. tThey were big freshiesll 4F Paddock at the Pickwick one Saturday . . . mind keeps run- ning back to Ebinger, huh, Forry? Lois Cody chewing an enormous wad of precious Juicy Fruit gum daily and wailing because teachers don't appreciate its value. How did Willie get the name Trunk? He aughta be something littler . . . No, not bag! Marion Grey fworking with the photographer! says some of her pint-sized classmates were so dumb they didn't even know where the center of the stage was. Inciden- tally, some of the other business managers said that it was practi- cally necessary to club you freshies to make you stand still for pictures. Along the more serious lines, We welcome Barbara Heckel back to Taft. This 1B has just returned to school after a very serious oper- ation. Ruth Anderson, after a grim encounter with the strep bug, has won and has returned, too. Alice Kanist, June Schreiber and Betty Madsen supplementing as cub re- porters for the Trib. These people will be glad to take any choice bits of dirt off your hands and see that it gets to this reporter too- that's in case you a.ren't close to 1035. What freshie, initials B. H., can't think of a better excuse for habit- ual tardiness than: But teacher, I went to my locker. That, my lit-

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Q econd Paper alvage Drive roves Successful ln an interview with Mr. L. Hoe- - yesterday, April 11, he congrat- ited both the teachers and stu- nts of Taft who made the recent per drive such a tremendous suc- ss. Phe Taft quota of 10,000 pounds ,s exceeded by 1,000 pounds, and e proceeds from the sale totalled 2.50. This money has been al- ated to a War Chest Fund, which ll be used for only such purposes are dictated by the war emer- ncy. A committee of students lm the Student Council and other rresentative organizations of the lool will meet with the faculty nmittee to determine a satisfac- y and just policy in the disburse- nt of the funds. Students are urged to save all Jer during the spring vacation l during the first two weeks lowing and bring the paper to .ool on the morning of Friday, y 12th. f you have 50 pounds or more ase make out a pickup slip l give it to Mrs. M. Lukens or . C. Fuller before Friday, May vic Assembly a Be Held May 12 'he Civic Assembly, consisting of dents chosen to represent all h schools, each branch of the cago Junior College and the cago Teacher's College will be i on Friday, May 12, 1944, at the :cutive Club Grand Ballroom of Hotel Sherman. The Principals asked to select two students, from the January 1944 class one from the June 1944 class. students may be either girls or s. They must be in the upper ' of their class and their char- r rating should be excellent, on basis of his or her honesty, de- larility, industry, personal pness, good manners, and obedi- e to law. 'ie students chosen are to par- mate in school activities and ' must display qualities of lea- hip. eholarships will be offered to 1 School Civic Assembly Honor lents by the American College hysical Education, George Wil- s College, Illinois Institute of lnology the University of Chi- Northwestern University and Central Y. M. C. A. College of ago. Additional scholarships be offered and, if they are, will be announced later. le Taft representatives to the : Assembly last year were Ma- nn Jacobsen and Curtiss John- who both won scholarships. ' Ann Jacobsen was to the ersity of Chicago and Curtiss son to Northwestern Univer- it ri un Vol. X. No. 4 Taft High School, Chicago. Illinois April 21, 1944 May 8-14 IS R. O. T. C. Officers,Club Youth Week The week of May 8-14, inclusive, has been designated as Chicago Youth Week. This year the slogan Youth Serves America has been selected to focus attention upon the service of youth to our country. In order to highlight the activi- ties, specific days have been set aside to show the participation of Youth. Monday-War Service Drives. Tuesday-Physical Fitness. Wednesday-War Production. Thursday-Service to A1'med For- , ces. Friday-Citizenship in Action. Saturday-Victory Gardens. A Sunday-Spiritual Fitness. O Attention Young Men If you are nearing your seventeenth or eighteenth birthday you should read this for it is vital to you. These are some of the changes in the in-. duction procedure for the armed forces. Boys, in their last half of any school year, upon reaching their 18th birthday, will be excused from reporting for their pre-induction physical examination: instead they will be accepted for either an army or navy pool and sent home. They will then be subject to call within the next 21 days. If they are not called before 90 days a new physical examina- tion is necessary. RADIO SCHOOL The navy will accept men in the following three groups for its radio training: Q13 Those who are seventeen years of age. C23 Men who are eighteen or more but have not been called for their pre-induction phy- sical examination and Q37 Men, eighteen or more, who have been accepted for the navy pool but have not been called for actual induc- tion. A change in the navy program provides for eight months of college in a V-12 program before assignment to a flight preparatory school. A-12 COLLEGE PROGRAM The A-12 program has now become primarily one for boys of seventeen years, who are enlisted on a reserve basis. Officers of the sixth service command have explained it as follows: fly Seventeen year old boys, who are high school graduates by July 1, and who have passed the exam- ination given on March 15th, will be eligible to enlist in the reserve program. C25 To enlist they will have to pass the usual physical exam- ination given at the induction station and secure the consent of their parents. Q35 Men accepted who are less than 17 and 6 months or age will be eilgible for at least three twelve week terms of college. Those over 17 years and 6 months, not less than 17-93 will be eligible for at least two such terms. C41 Boys accepted will be sent to college at the expense of the government. If they become 18 while at college, they will complete their present term and then be sent home to be ordered to the reception center at Fort Sheridan. The reception center will then send all such reserve boys to Fort Benning, Georgia for their seventeen weeks of basic training. ARMY AIR CORPS ENLISTMENT Men over 18 and under 27, who wish to get into the air force, must make application before they are called for their pre-induction physical. Once a man is accepted for the army or navy he may not transfer to the air corps. Seventeen year old boys in the Army Air Force Enlisted Reserve, who become eighteen, will be called for duty unless they are in school: then they will be allowed to complete their current semester. r The R.O.T.C. Officer's Club was organized in Noverriber 1943 and the only qualification for member- ship is to be an officer of the R.O.- T.C. The officers of the club were elected at the first meeting and they are: Hugh Fitzgerald, pres- ident: Don Swanson, vice pres- ident: Tom Craft, secretary: and Ray Reichard, treasurer. The club holds meetings once a month at one of the members houses. The Constitution and Laws, were written by Robert Kolpek, 1st Lieu- tenant. The main project of the club so far has been the planning of the R.O.T.C. Hop which will be held April 21 at the Knickerbocker Ho- tel. The members of the club made the selection of the place, orchestra, and the Queen of the Ball. Members of the club in order of their rank are: Robert Forney, Lt. Colonel: James Will, Captain: Tom Craft, Captain: Clifford Netter- strom, Captain: Edward Ferguson, Captain: Hugh Fitzgerald, 1st Lieu- tenant: Ernest Pfaff, 1st Lieuten- ant: Robert Kolpek, 1st Lieuten- ant: John Lekberg, lst Lieuten- ant: Ralph Mueller, 2nd Lieuten- ant: Leonard Nettnin, 2nd Lieuten- ant: Raymond Reichard, 2nd Lieu- tenant: Kenneth Mortonson, 2nd Lieutenant: Alfred Ebenhahn, 2nd Lieutenant: Dale Padgltt, 2nd Lieutenant: Roy Larson, 2nd Lieutenant: and Don Swanson, 2nd Lieutenant. A - I CALENDAR May 9-Paper Drive May 12-Taft Trib May 19-Spring Concert