Amundsen High School - Viking Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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,pw UA OL! Gow gone but not forgotten for Auld Lang Syne while and they ll be back to sing the gang s all here, tra la pill, S0l0lPlgnJ of ,AP llllllll Richard Iohnston Iohn Peters Arnold Cronin Henry Witt lst President 2nd President 3rd President 4 h President The early days were difficult The depression was at its height and money was scarce. Under these circumstances the first ALUMNI ASSOCIATION was started with Richard Iohnston taking the helm as president. Meetings were held at the River Park Field House in a small back room. The Viking Spirit was always shown in the co-operation of both the faculty and stu- dents. Dancing and interchanging of correspondence among the members were the hobbies of the moment, but a roller-skating party, inspired by Marjorie Blankford, Sue Bobzien and Poppy Paleologos, was the social event of the season. One icy, winter day Mr. and Mrs. Boetticher, Albert Johnson and Dick Iohnston rode to Elgin to plan an alumni picnic: the two boys freezing, stiff and stuck in the rumble seat. Everyone laughed merrily when the picnic was called off, but not Mr. Boetticher. The second year brought reform with Iohn Peters as President. Culture was the key note and the ex-presidents basement was the site. Feverish attempts were made to have Wright Iunior Twentybthree College give a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta for the Association the whole effort was a failure. The members had no interest in such a watery form of culture. ln Iune of 37 the society was organized once again. Then began the popular Alumni vs. Amundsen football games. Annual Christmas Dances and summer formals were so suc- cessful that the Association donated a set of book covers to the school library. With the spring of l94l came the draft, so the traditional spring frolic was replaced by a card partyeedue to a serious man shortage. Of course the gals all have good times, but they miss the men who have gone to fight. More than once a bridge session has turned into a literal buy, buy bonds, bye, bye Axis and send the winners home session. Now the social program has been suspended until Victory, but the Alumni have not forgotten Amundsen nor will Amund- sen forget its Alumni.

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'itil' Ffa QQ' V wir Herta Kracher lune 1935 La Verne Tess Ianuary 1936 Raymond Stone lune 1936 l'l'l6Ll !lQJ Ruth Wallschlaeqer Florence Carlson lanuary 1934 Ianet Hennxq lonuary 1938 Mary Berexter June 1941 une 1934 Glona Morris lune 1938 Dorothy Barns Ianuary 1941 they set the pace top notclhers never bored of educatlon a step ahead of tlhe others lbram trusts Charles Baker Richard Hagen Esther Schumm lanuary 193 13lllfl1Y 3 lune 1937 Dorothy Bronson Ioseph Rood Mary lane Wxchser lanuary 1939 lute 19 9 lanuary 1949 Allan Lonncz Adelme Hess Mane Exde lune 1941 1 ruary 47 lune 1942 e prcture the VALEDICTORIANS as brams w1th glasses grave ooks and brtef cases Few of them wore specs cmd none carrled brret cases Hlqhest o all the vals was Herta Kracher wtth an average of 97 25 for tour years Second tn lme marched the SALUTATORIANS 1934 Allce Halversen Ian and Ruth Nelson lune 1935 Posme Ecklund lan and lacquelme larman lune 1936 lean luerqensen lan and Martha Campbell Iune 1937 loharma Feld lan and lulran Dale lune 1938 Leona 1-l1rscl'1 lan and Mane Dvor acselc lune 1939 Aureha Motto lan and Robert H1rscl'1 Iune 1940 Lots Tumwall lan, and Ruth Gut1'11er, lune, 1941 Audrey Plaatle, Ian, and lrerle Sassmannshausen, lurte, and 1942 Frances Bernhardson, lan, and Dolores Colllqnon, lune Twenty two , iii? I El , . 'E Q 9' 3' V7 - H, I ,f ' 'fa Q li .Q , , , . thi wt .Q 1 1 'X 5 , zz AA J ' f ' - ff K 1 , 1 . fu 11 I 19. 'fl t , 3. , r 3 ' ,a 1 19 . , , 1 H H . 1 . .1 . o o 0 o o o : 'W' ' t . 1 0 0 0 0 o Q 1 H ' l' A ' ' Y 1 .1 . I 1 -f ' U 1 1 ' a Y 77 L . f 1 ff . , O O Q Q O I I I . I 'PY 1

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LUZ J masters of the three R s no erammmg for exams always on the beam n November 1933 some two hundred students gathered 1n the g1rls gym to hold therr llrst HONOR SOCIETY meetmg lt was not however untxl May of 1934 that Amundsen establrshed the Honor Roll Merlt System whereby students were to be awarded w1th pms rn accordance wtth the1r scholastxc achteve ment lt was declded that bronze s1lver and gold plns should be average work respect1vely Speclal recogn1t1on was also to be made upon graduatton by way of a scholarshrp fob The desrgn of the p1ns IS characterrzed by the Amundsen Seal and thrs was adopted by the faculty comm1ttee for the February 1934 graduatmg class The sprlng of 1935 brought w1th 1t a memorable event that IS Amundsen was accepted by the North Central ASSOC1Gl1OH as an accredtted h1gh school Through the years the sporsorshrp has been shared by the capable advtsers Mrs Davts Mrs Garrlott Mrs lnd Mr Boet ttcher Mrs Avlchouser and Mrs Kelso lt has b en therr partlc ular respons1b1l1ty to take charge ot the award assembl1es each semester to keep track ot the boolckeepmg that accompames the purchas1ng ol plns and to hold meetlngs ot the chapter 1n order to d1scuss what can D9 done to 1mprove the organtzatton 1-lrrsch and Iune Fagerstrom were sent to the Nat1onal Honor SOC191Y meet1ng held at Moot Court tn the De Paul Law Bu1ld tng to d1scuss the more dehghtful srde of scholasnc aftatrs Up untll that ttme Amundsen had been asleep to the ga1ety that was added to other school chapters by 1n1t1at1ons slct s and amuslng avt ards assembl1es Thrs was the begrnnmg of a new era whlch has made the GCllV1llGS ot thls organlzatron as attrac t1ve and well l1ked as those ot any other club A 22111618 O! ADHD? SOCIPW .S,90l'l10l'J Mrs Mary M Kelso Mrs Helen K Ind Wilson K Boettxcher Mrs Edxth S Garnott Mrs Grace S Davis Twenty tour I I , O O 0 O O O 0 0 0 0 L fi awarded for two, tour, and six semesters of eighty-eight per cent In December, 1938, three delegates, Evanthia Lambros, Robert ' ' ' ' ' 'L . J