Taft High School - Eagle Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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' mericanism Week The Chicago Junior Association f Commerce celebrates American- sm Week during the interval be ween Februadry 12 and February 2 You will undoubtedly agree hat thanks should be offered ev erv ay rn the year for the privilege f being able to live rn this great ountry of ours You the high chool students of today are gorng o be the lawmakers of tomorrow rth this responsrbrlrtv rn vrew rt ecomes your duty to make your elves famrlrar with the concept of hat Amerrcanrsm means now and hat you are going to make rt I ean rn years to come The Fate nd Future of this country lres rn our hands Make them capable I ands' Let us thrnk of what American rsm should mean to you It rmplres 'r wholehearted desire on your part to take an 'rctrve interest rn your community your crty and your country It also means that you wrll take an active part rn carry ing out these desires and not be rust thinking about them It means being a good neighbor It means practicing the spirrt of fair play that we all pride ourselves on hav mg It means the land in which everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed It means free educa tron for one and all It means everything that the dictator nations do not stand for In short rt means FREEDOM But let us never take advantage of this freedom or take rt for granted Let us cherish and protect rt as our most precrous heritage Always keep this thought rn mrnd that you will be a good citizen and do everything rn your power to further the interests of your country as long as you lrve The Junior Assocratron of Com dents to redouble their efforts at this time rn selling bonds and rn urging their parents relatives and friends to assist in the Red Cross Blood Donors Drrve We must never forget the boys who are los rng their lrves so that we may retaln our freedom Amerrcanrsm rs your birthright protect rt Chorus Chimes The Grrls Chorus under the di rectron of Nlrs R Lrno rs starting the year with a membership of 86 grrls The frrst business at hand was the electron of offrcers which was held on XX ednesday January 31 The following officers were chosen Presrdent Jewell Stens land vrcepresrdent Dolores Tole son secretary Lois Ixuper and treasurer Arlene Nelson Keeping the music rn order IS the Job of the lrbrarrans Jeanette Nloqurn Alma Enger and Dolores Snow Do rng a excellent Job as they drd last year are the accompanrsts Phvllrs Finlayson Ethel Dahlqurst and Jewell Stensland The Chorus whrch sings at the PT A nreetrngs con certs graduation and other social and educational affarrs should be commended for therr numerous ex cellent performances Taft Trib HQ V 12 No 1 TaftH1gh School Chrcago Illmors February 20 1945 Clubs Meet, Actrve Semester Ahead ll rth the begrnnrng of the second semester all of Tafts clubs re opened with a bang From lang uage clubs to athletic clubs have them all here at school The meeting of the French Club ordrnarrly held on 'Vlonday took place on Tuesday February 13 trrst period It was an organrza tron meeting held rn room 219 All French students are rnvrted to at tend all meetings Mrss Luede mann our popular French teacher rs the clubs sponsor Vrce president Roger Ginger as sumed the presidents place rn the German Club The former presi dent had transferred to another school Club prns have arrived and shall be issued at the next meeting The German Club meets the last Frrday ot every month and has gifted Dr Buchwalter as rts faculty sponsor Spanish Students Plan Ahead Pleasant Mrs Andrews keeps her students occupied rn class with a Pan American Srngrng Club which they all enjoy Mrss Johnson an other one of our well lrked Spanish teachers has an Espanola Club which meets in class wrth all stu dents partrcrpatrng '1 Wernstems Wizards Tafts Business Guild under the capable management of Mr Wern stern meets ev ery second Friday rn room 209 The next meeting wrll occur February 23 During this meetrng officers wrll be elected Senior Grrls Plan Semesters Work The Senior Grrls headed by ver satrle Miss Rogers had its frrst meeting of this semester on Febru ary 14 At that trme the 4A girls entertained the elrgrble 4Bs The club officers wrll be chosen at the second meeting The Junror Grrls wrll choose their officers during their frrst meetrng on the thrrd Wednesday of the month Students wrll be asked to volunteer to serve on the re freshment and entertainment com mrttees Miss Mueller Tafts well known dean of girls rs the guiding lrght of this club Our popular Physrcal Ed teacher Mr Nlrller as rn past years wrll agarn drrect the Safety Council which meets the thrrd perrod on Monday of each week Problems of safety and regulations wrll be drs cussed Recommended changes wrll be rnstrtuted Membership rn the club rs voluntary and rewards par trcrpants wrth serv rce pornts Due to the fact of lrmrted space the Trzb regrets that rt cannot give more space rn this rssue to all of Tafts worthwhile organratrozns Graduates Give Greenbacks An important part of the gradu atron exercises which took place durrn the evening of January 24 rn the school rudrtorrum was the presentation of the serrror Grtt After hrs presentatron speech Class Presrdent James Jacobsen gave Nlr Hoefer a check to be used for the furnishing of the Social Room Heretofore all graduating classes had made rt more or less a custom to purchase some necessity desrr ed by the school or else to grve a check for some specrfred artrclc to be purchased The green rug rn Mr Hoefer s office the trophy case rn the Art Room the Venetian blinds rn room 114 the loudspeaker system rn the audrtorrum the radio recording machine for the public speaking classes and the hangrngs for the stage are brrt a fevv of the gifts given by Taft graduates This year however because of the war and the drffrculty rn get ting something worth wlrrle and also because of the doubt as to what would be needed for Tatt,s Socral Room the Seniors after much discussion decided to simply present a check which would he used as Mr Hoefer saw frt rn the furnrshrng of the room In order thzft, futrye Taftrtes wrll remember what the January graduating class of 19 5 gave to Taft a Small rn scribed plaque wrll be plated on,the grft after rt rs purchased Changes In Faculty On vvrtlr the new serneste Le us not pass up the new addrtrons to the hallowed halls of our trrum phant Taft the teachers' These befrrendrng hr'rrns come from tar and near so whv not accompany this Taft Trrb reporter as she inter vrews these specialties of Lherr spe cies Mrs Kennrngton who coires to us from Lakeview when asked what she thought of Trft 'rnsvvored she lrked the burldrn verv mrrell Super Smart Students Receive Scholarships The January 45 class has come forward again Thrs trme rt was to receive honors for the grand show ing they made when 13 students were awarded scholarships to var rous colleges and unrversrtres By earning these scholarships the fol lowing students are one step nearer to the realization ot their ambr trons Danrcl Schneider rs attending lxorthwesterrr Unrversrty through its Chick Ev rns Scholarship Dan also received S300 per year from the Cook Fund to Northwestern The Unrv ersrty of Chicago awarded Daniel a scholarship too James lv rll hrt the top when he vv on er scholar ship to North Central College H1100 on turtron plus S200 gr'rrrtrnardJ 5315 per year from the Look lfund to North Central Lollege a 15100 KIWHHIS Club award and a 550 M P Hernze award thomas Craft tr winner rn a drf frcult competitive examination has been attending Purdue University since the beginning of this year he was also awarded S516 per year from the Cook Fund to Purdue Unrversrty Rudolph Kuper was a ded S300 per year from the Co d to Northwestern Unrversr y Nlargery Brgler received Kiwanis Club award and a 50 'NI P Hernze award Nlary Dalton valedrctoryn of t e January 45 class was awarded a scholarship to Purdue Unrver rty Presrdent of the classf' James Jacobsen won a scholarship t Purdue University through a com petrtrve examrnatron S e Honorary Scholarships. Too Lvplyn Evensen vvoryrfn honorary scholarship to St Olaf s College and Beverly Palm won an honorary srhol rrslrrp to 'St Therese Second highest rn the class Mar ron Doenrland received a scholar and was partrcularlv impressed bi ,ship to the University ot' Iowa the excellent pictures vvhrch ador lxorthern Illrnors State Teachers our halls and classrooms Nfrs Kennrngtou adds that she finds her Freshmen students verv respon srve Mrss Segalove rs with us another semester she rs replacing Nlrss Unseth who rs on a Sabbatrcal leave Mrs Nrsh who has taught Latin before at Taft rn the absence of Mrs Lewrs rs again teaching the same subject She replaces Nlrs Palermo Mrs Knuth who has tau ht at Fenger and Tuley before comrng to Taft replies I like Taft verv much and find the students on the whole very cooperative College awarded Ruth Bresenthal 9. sbholarshrp Carol Passovv has won arlfhonorarv scholarship to the Col lege JK rllram and. 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