Assumption High School - Assumption Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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'60 Grads Admonish College Hopefuls Educational exploration is under- way at Assumption. Two special events — College Night and Career Week — are coming up on the schedule; the Booster Club Parent’s Night was held Sept. 21. Because of student comment last year that College Night and Career Week should be held earlier, school authorities have moved these events to mid-October. (Last year Career Week was held March 6-12.) Grad Mary Sue Schwietcrs ’60, now at Marycrest says, “College night was held so late that most of the students had already made a choice as to which college to attend.” She also thought that it would be profitable to have a sep- arate night for the juniors in April. Pat Deluhery, another ’60 graduate now at Notre Dame comments, “Career Week was really valuable because near- ly all the students actually participated in each workshop. Even if you’ve al- ready decided on a career or college to attend, just hearing about it is en- couraging.” Some of the careers represented last year were: (for girls) cosmotologist, airline stewardess, women’s armed services, medical technologist, and re- ceptionist; (for boys) architects, law- yers, teachers, coaches, doctors and engineers. Colleges represented last year were: Notre Dame, Catholic University of Washington, D. C., St. Ambrose, St. Mary’s of Winona, Marquette, Loyola, St. Norbert, Georgetown, St. Louis University, Rosary, and Marycrest. These schools will participate again in this year’s College Night. Nearly one-half of the ’60 graduates are at- tending college this fall. Fr. Francis Bass, diocesan director of vocations, will give a religious voca- tion talk in November, which will be vocation month for the diocese. Last Wednesday evening the first public meeting of the AHS Booster Club was held. Mr. R. M. Keefe, Direc- tor of Admissions of St. Louis Univer- sity, spoke on the growing need for academic excellence to insure success. SISTER CLAIRE MARIE, CHM, who replaces Sister St. Edward, CHM, form- erly taught at St. Ambrose Academy. Exchange Student Assumption Annexes Helmut Assumption has 963 students plus one. The extra is Helmut Steiner. Hel- mut, Assumption’s first foreign ex- change student, comes from Vienna, Austria. His arrival in America last July climaxed months of testing, filling out questionnaires and obtaining a visa. Helmut was concerned about the visa which “came only 14 days before I was to leave.” Leaving Austria in the early part of July, the foreign student boarded a “WE HAVEN’T GOT A CHANCE!” moan Judy Scott ’62, and Pat Friedrichs '62, in mock dismay. Marycrest freshmen Mary Denise O’Brien, Mary Ann Sunder- bruch and Mary Sue Schwieters, amused at the juniors’ reaction, find that many of the Guidepost rules are unwritten laws in college. train for Frankfurt, Germany. He then flew to Washington, D.C. where he and 147 foreign exchange students at- tended orientation periods and toured the Capital. He came to Davenport by train and is now living with the Richard Scheblers, 2132 Frisco Drive. The tests included giving a speech in English and answering questions concerning Austria, Europe and Amer- ica. Also he was quizzed about his health, family and school records. Speaking of the differences in our educational systems the Austrian not- ed, “You learn as much as we do but in a longer time.” Just sixteen, he has already studied religion, German, Eng- lish, Latin, French, physics, chemistry, math, art, history, music, shorthand and geography. Helmut also stated, “We must take art and music in our pub- lic schools, but here you do not have to.” He remarked that there are few private schools in Austria. A senior this year, Helmut is study- ing Latin, English, advanced algebra, Spanish, religion and American his- tory and government. One of his main problems in Latin is that he must translate first from Latin to German and then into Eng- lish. (See Helmut’s own story on page 8-9.) During his spare time, Helmut en- joys reading, the theatre and movies. “In Vienna we often get the Ameri- can movies before many of you do,” he says. “The translated movies are usually sent to the foreign countries two months after their formal pre- miere.” Before he returns home in the latter part of June or early July, he will have a more detailed tour of Washington and New York. 2

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 X Vo!. Ill—No. 1 ' Assumption RUNNING THROUGH the cheering student body gathered on the gridiron. the knights, lead by John Fennelly. School, Davenport, Iowa Sejrt. 27. 1960 symboMlt Assumptions burst into the new 1960-1961 school year.

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Student Council Tables Homecoming Oct. 21 The executive committee of the Stu dent Council (the top four officers) will work with Fr. John V. Ryan in planning Homecoming activities this year. Although listed as a home event, the game will be played in the Brady Street Stadium. West High will handle programs, ushers, and other details. The Council is seeking permission for halftime activities and extension of the normal homecoming to include a Sat- urday night demonstration and dance. Committees are forming; interested volunteers should contact their home- room representatives. Vince Neu is general chiarman of the student council bus committee this year. Busses to the Clinton ($1.10, Sept. 30), Wahlert ($2.10, Oct. 9), and Burlington ($2.15, Oct. 28) games must be chartered a week in advance. Fares will be collected in homerooms. “No one can charter late. Once the order goes in, it will not be changed. Therefore, your money must be turned in before we can order,” says Vince. Jane Mumey’s student directory com- mittee will produce the finished pro- duct soon. A service to the student body, the directory will be sold for a nom- inal price, tentatively set at 25c. CNO Of- hlO J,4i DISCUSSING PLANS for this year’s SGA activities are officers Kathy Ceurvorst ’62, secretary, Judy Egger ’61, vice-president and Mike Ceurvorst ’61, president. Dave Huyette '62, treasurer, is not pictured. Parents Night Introduces YCS Two big events herald the begin- ning of another year for YCS at As- sumption. Seniors had the chance to “show their stuff” as they took the responsibility for the annual Parents’ Night; YCSers at Hayes High School in Muscatine will try their hand at the Fall Study Day. YCSers will travel to Muscatine for the Fall Study Day in late October. Intent upon making this the most suc- cessful study day yet, Hayes’ YCSers are enthusiastically preparing the pro- gram. The countless jobs include lin- ing up speakers for the general as- semblies and the workshops as well. Attendance is expected to top 250 stu- dents. Popular and informative, the Par- ents’ Night was held in the fall this year so that the parents of both old and new students might “know the score” at the beginning of the year. Suggested by the parents themselves at the Parents’ Night last spring, the idea was effected by the students. The YCS bookstore at Assumption will continue to function this year as usual. Students looking for books for classes, or for just plain good reading will find values in the book- store. Senior YCSer Don Perry will be in charge of the literature. Expansion will be a key word at AHS this year. Typical of this theme is the new group being taken by Sis- ter Ann Marita, CHM. Sister, who help- ed organize the Regional Study Week during the summer, is looking forward to having her own group. “We have high hopes for this com- ing year,” said Father M. Mottet, ex- plaining that YCS will have 100 mem- bers this year. Father, who is the YCS chaplain at Assumption, stated that this is indicative of YCS activity throughout the Federation. Encompass- ing the Diocese of Davenport, the Dav- enpjort Federation has approximately 500 YCSers under chaplain Father L. Colonnese. Referring to Assumption’s plans for the coming year, Father Mottet said, “Most of our efforts will come about as results of actions decided upon by our groups. These actions wll revolve around politics, international life, and leisure time. The national program. Change, divides the school year into three sections, each section taking one of the three topics. As a result, YCSers throughout the nation will be concen- trating on the same problems.” X-mas Comes Early Assumption’s cafeteria will undergo a startling transformation Nov. 19-20 as the Mothers’ Club sponsors a Yule Carnival. Members will erect booths contain- ing bakery goods, toys, Christmas dec- orations, and clothing. The mothers will manufacture all articles. Chance games such as, Bingo, Cane Toss, and Penny Toss are being plan- ned. Also, the Club intends to sell Christmas trees during the bazaar. A rummage sale will be held Octo- ber 6-7-8 at the Eagles building in Davenport. 3