Aquin High School - Veritas Yearbook (Freeport, IL)

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7 OPERATION SOPHOMORES N 'Tenshun! All right, you guys and gals, you're no longer brash tenderfeet. Having graduated from the ranks of lowly Fresh- men I'll expect you to act like there are some brains in your heads Companies 206 and 207 are your assignments. Courses will be taken fn biblogy, religion, geometry, and English. OH! by the way, you might welcome Private Dwayne Illes who transferred from Camp St. Joseph's High in South Bend, Indiana. See that he gets acquainted with everything. That's an order. Dismiss! H HHow do you do, I'm the court recorder. Who's on trial, you ask? The Sophomores. HTheir crime?n Failure to understand geometry. The prosecution has just taken the stand. First witness Pfc. Bob Schramm.H His it true that during the month of October you were so busy getting magazine subscriptions that you had no time whatsoever to study geometry?N UIt's true that I did get a lot of subscriptions-eighty-seven dollars worth to be exact, but as for not studying geometry, well, it soon became apparent that after a month of it I, and everyone else in class were tunning into mixed-up squares trying to figure it out. All we did was go around in circles.N NAnd so it goes....Alas, the Sophomores are sentenced to a mouth of concentrated study on geometry during which time all out- side activities are forbidden.H nMy name is Sergeant 0'Rougke. I'm here to brief you on your basketball team-the puppies. It ought to be a good team, a real good team with such capable men as Jerry Munda, Jerry Cassidy, Jim Walz, Ronny Sharp, leading the field. I want you to attend all of their games and cheer them up on to victory. That's an order.n The Christmas formal is the social highllghg of the year. Karen Trunk escorted by Andy Hutmacher, and Brian Donahue squiring Carol Medley are among those attending the yuletide dance.

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u March--A near riot occurs when Mike Steffen displays his orange sock amid the many shades of green on Saint Patrick's Day. April--Steve Rodemeyer and Marilyn Mook take a two-hour Latin test to be entered in a contest sponsored by Rosary College. Science fair and iunior Academy of Science Convention is attended by: , Steve Rodemeyer, hichard Ziebol, Mike Steffen, Sheila Bach, Bill Eel- quadrigae Gratias. Judy the first sheets of Mclloes, 'rom Nlalone and Sisters Coleta and Paulinus. -In Latin the much read about Lucius finally wraps his around Ceasar's victory column. No more Lucius. Deo 0'Connell, Helen Rohde, and Frances Ciganek are busy in aid room patching up the blisters they acquired in folding paper for the year-book. June--Freshmen have the vacation jitters. Special talents among freshmen discovered in the past year: John Woods crashed the four minute mile lhalf-mile, that isl. Future track star? Anne Cunningham seems to be quite a shutterbug. Has she put in her application for Pit Cassidy's job? We are looking forward to Dick Ziebol, John Reitinger, Billy Merchant, Dick Bendick and all the other rising young stars of the Fresh-Soph basketball team bringing home the State Championship in future years. The passengers have left ships 106 and 205 and are enroute to Satellite Sophomore, revolving on orbits 206 and 207. Can these passengers be the same Hidiotsn who registered at the Start of the trip?

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8 January, tentatively called NGet to work month or it's the guardhouse for you,N comes, and takes an eternity to pass. Mid- term exams bring thoughts of going A.w.O.L. to less hardy Sophomores, but, thank God, 1t's over. Congratulations are extended to Sheila Bach on her accomplish- ment of being the first of her classmates to attain a 3.0 average on the honor roll. The Villa Fund is a huge success as everyone from assistant mess boy to commanding general tries to out do each other. And shall we ever forget Father 0'Neill's wonderful Valentine party. Practically every Sophomore from Aquin shows up at one time of another during the evening. The welcoming committee is again put into action upon the arrival of Private Dave Nilles, and two weeks later Peg Heckler, at the fort. - Basketball season ends with a chorus of cheers for our fine team which was victorious in almost every game theyplayed. The fast approaching Mardi Gras engulfs us in a wave of ten- sion and excitement. Pat Downing and Bob Schramm are chosen to represent us. Decorating the gym is a great honor, and we go at it whole-heartedly. With the aid of two Seniors the gym is trans- figured into the most beautiful ballroom ever. Our Candidates weren't king and queen, but the pride in all of our exercises, soon fades away. We find ourselves left with only the month of May. Prepara- tions for the Spring musical are in full swing with Angela Vincer, Janet Duray, Joan Smith, and Sheila Bach in good voice. And how about that lucky Jim Martin getting a special preview of the Junior Senior Prom? The Senior Sophomore breakfast is eagerly awaited by all. Then we can feast in style. 'At last the day arrives when companies 206 and207 start the big push. Destination-104. Password-Juniors.