Assumption High School - Assumption Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Helmut Steiner Says It With An Accent; by Helmut Steiner War was raging in Austria when I was born in 1944. Though I cannot remember these years I know a lot about the troubles my folks had in this time. The war was soon over, but the life did not become quite better because all Austria had been occupied by the Russians, Americans, English and French. This I can remember because it stayed so until 1955. But after 1955 all this, and my life also, changed. We were allowed to do what we wanted. We had our own Austrian Army and Police. We school children did not have to take certain subjects anymore, which had been ordered by the Allies. I was lucky that I was allowed to take English since 1954. Many children had to take Russian in our school for “better colla- boration and understanding between Austria and Russia.” My study of English hasn't stopped, especially as I have the opportunity now to learn practical Ameri- can English. I hope that it will be a kind of second mother language to me. The slang confuses me — you use guy for boy, stuff for things, okay (O.K.) for all right. I wanna go for I want to go, auto for car. Two years ago I had my first idea to go to the United States by the NCWC exchange-program. I read an article about it in our newspaper. The authorities told me that I was one year too young, but that I should apply for the scholarship next year. Although I nearly forgot the whole thing, I remembered it again in September, 1959. I filled out all the formulas which were needed. (These accumulated papers were almost a little book.)

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TV Stimulates NBC Television Network’s Continen- tal Classroom opened its fall semester yesterday, Sept. 26, 1960. It is being televised each morning, Monday through Friday 6:30-7:00 (Channel 6). This year’s college credit course is Contemporary Mathematics covering the subjects of modern algebra the first semester and probability and sta- tistics during the second. Both Marycrest and St. Ambrose colleges are offering credit for this course. Instructors are Dr. John L. Kelley of the University of California at Berkley and Dr. Julius Hlavaty of DeWitt Clinton high school, New York City. NBC’s objective is “to strengthen the teaching of mathematics in Amer- ican schools — decisively and quickly — and to encourage new numbers of students to undertake a career in mathematics.” Last year’s presentation of Modern Chemistry will be repeated at 6:00, prior to Contemporary Mathematics. Two other prominent educational TV series are making their appearance Oct. 21, at 7:30 pm. Our American Heritage begins an- other season presenting dramatizations of critical periods in the lives of Alex, ander Hamilton and Theodore Roose- velt. These historic presentations will be carried by NBC (Channel 6). CBS will begin a new series at the same time presenting adaptations of classic novels — All Family Classics (Channel 4). Included in the series will be Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield and Great Expectations, The Three Musketeers and The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexander Dumas’, Sea Wolf by Jack London, Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and R. L. Stevenson’s Kidnap- ped. “SORRY, you’ll have to sit at the ta- ble,” says helpful Carole Westphal '61, as new students Jack Hippier ’61 and Mary Pillipick ’61, relax in the ver- boten faculty chairs. Steve Milkakich ’64, also a new student, seems uncon- cerned. Grads Find Vocation Enter Religious Life Eight Assumption graduates are training for the religious life. John Berntsen, Art Johnson and Ron Reh- mann, all ’60, are attending the dio- cesan minor seminary at St. Ambrose College, while two others, Jack Mc- Dermott ’59 and Joe Bryant ’60, are experiencing the Redemptorist novi- tiate. Attending Clarke College in Du- buque, are Roberta Ellis and Ines Friedrichs, both ’60, who have entered the order of the Sisters of Charity, popularly called “the BVM’s.” “LOOKS PRETTY GOOD” decide As- sumption ’60 gradu- ates John Berntsen, Ron Rehman and Art Johnson as they grow nostalgic over their Alma Mater; the three are en- rolled in the St. Ambrose Seminary Department. Ne w Students Arrive From Far And Near Students from as far as Prairie Du Chien, Wis., and as near as Davenport High are among this year’s new upper- classmen. New seniors are Robert Finneran, Paula Griswold, Jack Hippier, Marilyn Mara, Joseph McNeil, Mary Pillepich, and Steve Sayre. New juniors are all girls: Margaret Briegel, Barbara Bubany, Mary Jo Owens, Roxanne Virgil, and Diane White. Paula Griswold, who transferred from Bettendorf, says about uniforms “It’s kind of shocking to walk down the hall, and see yourself over and over.” Band Toots Horn Designs Program No . . . the noise heard during first period study hall does not emanate from the boiler room, but from the raucous Assumption bandroom — and it’s music. Presently the band, under the direc- tion of Mr. Carl Paarman, is busily readying itself for an all-school as- sembly in December. Featured will be Janet Barrett, pi- anist, playing Warsaw Concerto with band accompaniment; a woodwind quintet, with one clarinet and four sax- aphones, will play Five Mellow Winds, also accompanied by the band. A Country and Western Girls Trio will render TV Suite. A brass trio will trill Concerto Grosso. Mr. Paarman says that “having fin- ished performing at football and bas- ketball games, the band will be able to concentrate on their concert music.” 7

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But He Really Likes Assumptions Spirit In December I had to give a speech in English about Vienna. Not until the end of May did I receive the letter which told me that I was chosen. Then a time of great preparation began for me, and altogether took me longer than I will stay here. But I am glad that I did; this will not be a wasted year. In this year I will try to live and to learn with my class as well as I can. Certainly I will have a lot of difficulties, but I hope to overcome these difficulties with the will power I have learned during my whole education. This year is my only opportunity, during perhaps my whole life, to live in an American society with people of the same age. In English grammar I hope I will not have great difficulties because I have already known it for six years. Literature will be a little harder for me, especi- ally modern American literature. Shakespeare and other older English writers we read in Vienna, and I am a little used to it, but I want to also learn this kind of literature. I am very glad to have the op- portunity to learn in this country. A great difficulty will be to stop thinking in German and to start thinking in English. But after I have done this, everything . . . grammar, literature, writing and speaking . . . will be much easier for me. Latin class is very difficult because I have to translate from the Latin to the German and then into the English. I translated half this book from Latin to German last year. The students in my classes are all nice to me; they helped me in the beginning to find the different rooms. Mike Ceurvorst and Buster Hobein took me to my first football game and tried to explain to me the rules. Mike brought me also to the YCS which I wanted to join. So far I’ve met few girls. Pinging Cheerin 3