Aquinas High School - Trumpet Yearbook (La Crosse, WI)

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NATIONAL CONTEST WINNERS AND PART OF THE CAST FROM A TALE OF TWO CITIES Lelt to right- Pearl Goerdeler, Brooklyn, Charles Woodhouse, Kent, Ohio, Claude Gillingwater, as Mr. Lorry, Isabel Tuomey, Aquinas High School, La Crosse, Wisconsin, Olin Dandurand, Kankakee, Illinois, Donald Woods as Charles Darnay, Sonia Harding, East Orange, N. J., Henry B. Walthal as Dr. Manette, Sydney Cahusac, Brooklyn. CHRONICLE The year of '35-'36 was characterized by a number of events which will remain indelible in the annals of Aquinas history. Ari unprecedented enrollment of 575 students necessitated the im- mediate utilization of the new wing which was completed in early September at the cost of S37,000. Besides providing for a number of new class rooms, it afforded one large honor study hall and a boys' new shower room. Faculty changes resulted in Sister M. Loyola, Civics and Modern History, Sister M, Matilda, American l-listory and English, Sister M, Gertrudis, Mechanical Drawing and English, Sister M. Lina, English, Sister M. Inez, Public Speaking and English, and Sister M. Gervina. The Reverend .lohn Pritzl, after receiving his Master's Degree from Washington University, re-joined the faculty to teach Latin and Religion. Of athletics, basketball was the most prominently lime-lighted Completing a record smashing season of fifteen victories and three defeats-one to Campion and two to Central-the Golden Avalanche, coached by George W. Schneeberger, received a bid to the National Catholic Tournament at Chicago. Though they didn't bring home the coveted Cardinal Mundelein trophy, they captured a beautiful cup for making 14 out of 17 of their free-throws. Publications waxed mightily in the nine months of school. The News and Trumpet for 1934-5 won All Catholic honors. The year book likewise received the All-American rating. The two news editors, Thomas Dugan and Kathleen Rossiter, and Trumpet editor Albert Funk, with the help of the combined staffs staged a one-day press conference November 11. The conference was widely attended, and boasted such speakers as Father Daniel Lord, S..l., Dorothy Day, and Dean J. L. O'Sullivan. Ten Aquinas students attended the National .lournalism Convention in Milwaukee in early December. As the annual Lenten play fostered by the staffs, Barter was presented under the direction of Fathe Leuther, March 29, 31, and April 2. The topic of the day was Isabel Tuomey's trip to California anc Sequoia National Park as one of the six winners in the contest spon, sored by M-G-M Studios. Several students garnered awards in contests during the year: l-larolc Walsh placed second in the State Art Contest, Fay Gallagher was presented with the Quill and Scroll Creative writing Key for her excep- tional skill in headline writing, Mary Skemp being named one of the winners in the Wisconsin Anti-T B Association contest, broadcastec her theme on Tuberculosis, the Foe of Youth from WTMJ in Milwaukee. Twelve prizes were won by Art students in a local contest. P Forensic activities flourished under the tutelage of Reverend .lohn ritzl. The Dramatic Club presented The Ghost Parade January 17, and feted the new members to a hair raising initiation, October 23. Sister M. Dolorette accomplished a great deal with a mixed chorus, organized a short time after school opened. It was under her direction that Aquinas' first operetta The Finding of the King was presented December 19. Mission activities were resumed with the new enthusiasm as the C. S. M. C. was reorganized on a different basis, Director Father Pritzl, and presidents Virginia Lemay H9351 and Emil Wakeen 11936, made the Crusade more alive than any of previous years. One of the profitable arrangements of the year was the use of the local radio station WKBH. The studio was frequented by play-announcers and potential musicians who considered the student broadcast feature rifun-ir . . . This winds up another year-but it will have to be unraveled again so that the scholastic year of 1936-37 may add its piece of string and knot together the past and future .,.. 14

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