Assumption High School - Assumption Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Homerooms Offer College “Where should I go to college?” “What are my chances for a scholarship or other source of financial aid?” These are some of the questions that AHS stu- dents — not only seniors — are ask- ing themselves. The answers for some will come slowly, for others they are already clear, but all can get help right here within the walls of Assumption. In the girls’ division, for instance, the homeroom teachers are equipped with college catalogs and vocational ma- terial which is rotated frequently from room to room. In the boys’ division, however, help can be obtained in Fr. Raymond Schwank’s room, A-4. Father Schwank attend St. Mary-of- the-Lake College in Mundeline, 111., St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul, Minn., and received his MA in education at the University of Notre Dame. In his room he has information from the various colleges, scholarship funds, and vocation- al guidance centers in this area and around the country. He says the pur- pose of this set-up is “to give students an opportunity to inquire into their own college prospects and to get a general idea of the costs and offerings of col- leges.” Most of the material is sent by in- stitutions, funds and associations interest, ed in scholastic achievement. The Pru- dential Life Insurance Company has sent two booklets. Facing Facts About Col- lege Admissions and Facing Facts About College Costs. In the first booklet they explain that the door to college is not closing as rapidly as one might think. Also they talk about the many kinds of colleges and how colleges look at prospects through pre-college tests and past grades. They tell you to ask yourself the questions: “Should I go to public or private school? In state or out? Coedu- cational or not? Large or small?” And finally they explain the steps to take in order to get into the college of your choice. Also, the New York Life Insurance Company puts out a number of pam- phlets dealing with various jobs and professions. Several sets of these are on order and should arrive soon. In explaining the various material available, Father points out, “Not every- one is suited for college by disposition, background or ability. The principal idea is to identify: 1) if the student should or should not go to college, 2) if college is in order, what the best college for him is, and 3) if college is not indicated, that the selection of a career is made.” He concludes, “It’s advisable for stu- dents, in their earlier years, to give consideration to working for college of a career. When a student has an idea as to what he wants to do, he is more affected by these things. He has a pur- pose, and the sooner he selects a field the sooner he will start to work toward that goal.” When it comes to scholarships the guidance counselor says the best and most numerous opportunities are those offered by individual colleges. When a student selects a college his first in- terest should be to make inquiries as to the means for assistance from that col- lege which usually takes shape in three forms: (1) direct grants and scholar- ships; (2) loans; (3) campus jobs. What students usually forget is that assistance comes as a combination of two or all three, and not just in the form of scho- larships. Some of the forms of aid available to students in this area are: The Nation- al Foundation health scholarships, the National Defense Student Loan program, General Motors’ scholarships, Naval Re- serve, Osteopathic Hospital, and Iowa- Illinois Gas and Electric Co. In most of these cases, and in apply- ing for college admission, certain tests are required. Some of the more im- portant are: American College Tests (ACT), Nov. 10, Feb. 23, April 20, and BARB BEYER ’64 admires the trophies collected in Sr. M. Joanette’s home room for SS day. (See story on oppo- site page.) Scholarships June 22 at St. Ambrose and Marycrest Colleges; College Entrance Examination Board tests (CEEB), Dec. 1, Jan. 12, March 2, May 18, Aug. 14 at Central high school; Preliminary Scholastic Ap- titude Tests (PSAT), Oct. 20, at Assump- tion; National Merit Scholarship Qualify- ing tests, March 9, also at AHS. All the information mentioned above, plus help from Father Schwank for in- dividual cases, can be found in room A-4 for the boys and in homerooms for the girls. AHS Incommutative by John Genzel Mathematically speaking, phone num- bers are interesting digits. Paging through her new AHS Connections (scheduled for November distribution), Sr. Laurent, CHM, would define them as a set of rational or perhaps irration- al numbers with two binary operations. The result may be a musical “ring” or a rasping “buzz.” The big question is, “Does this set form a number field?” As Pat Feeney ’63, star algebra pu- pil knows, to form a number field, phone numbers must follow certain rules. First, does the set follow the law of closure? Obviously yes. Dial any com- bination of numbers and you get an answer, whether it’s Joe’s Bar and Grill or an oration ending . . this is a recording.” Second, the law of associativity. Yes. (355) + (3838) and (3553) + (838) equals Bob Motto ’66 in anyone’s issue of Assumption Connections. Third, does it comply to the laws of commutativity? Unfortunately, no; the first postulate hits the dust. Any novice knows that sophomore Kathy Frater (355-6558) doesn’t equal Frater Kathy (6558-355). Fourth, is there an identity element? Chalk up one for the yes’s. After any conversation, replace the receiver and there’s the same dial tone that you heard before. Fifth, that all important inverse: “a” (dialing number) plus “-a” (replacing the receiver) equals the identity ele- ment (the dial tone), the process nec- essary for Jack Hogan ’63 to arrange a date with Pat McGivern ’63. Finally, the distributive postulate — another law hits the dust. Both 32(6-3408) and 32(6-3) + 32(408) do not equal Pat Carpenter ’64. This ends all chances of a number field, but who cares? A phone plus two people still equal an enjoyable conversation in any equation . . . you can even call a faculty member (a BVM will answer 326-0412, a CHM 323-1333, Father Conrad 323-7195, and Mr. Derouin 323-4617). 34

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Sportlite by Joe Kehoe Instead of battling for just a winning season this year, the Assumption bas- ketball team has an added incentive. Starting Dec. 7 against Muscatine, the Knight roundballers will shoot for the Little Six Conference Basketball Champ- ionship. The team and the student body, I am sure, are eagerly anticipating As- sumption’s entry into Little Six com- petition in a major spectator sport (the wrestlers may dispute this, however). The varsity football team left their towels laying on the locker room floor one night after practice. The next night Coach Sundcrbruoh informed the squad that they couldn't have any towels that evening. He warned them that if it hap- pened again they wouldn’t get any the next night either. Roger Cawiezell ’64 protested, “But Coach, if we don’t get any towels tonight, how can it happen again?” • • • After high school some prep football players don’t stop making names for themselves. Last year’s Knights sent three top college prospects to various schools around the country. Karl Noo- nan, an All State end last year, is now catching passes for Iowa University’s freshman team. Stan Maliszewski, who played tackle last year, is now bang- ing heads with the Ivy Leaguers at Princeton. Mick Trinite is presently tot- ing the pigskin for Ohio’s Dayton U. Mick was a top back on last year's club. • • Don’t be too surprised if you don’t see goalie Terry Grabbe ’64 whistling a tune through his teeth any more. You see, Terry hasn’t got any front teeth. It isn't that Terry zigged when he should have zagged, but rather he had an unpleasant experience with a harmless looking goal post, knocking out three front teeth. The only bright spot is the fact that school insurance covered the dental work, which gave him false teeth. Maybe he should take up a softer game, like checkers. Well, anyway, who wants to whistle? • • Just as a student prepares for an exam, Assumption’s football team boned up for the season. Many of the boys ran, lifted weights, worked out at the “Y” and watched their diets. Others occasionally played touch football. But Tom Fennelly ’63 found a possible voca- tion in building muscles for the foot- ball campaign; he worked as a sanitary engineer (garbage man) this summer. HALFBACK Dick Braun skirts around the River Kings’ end as Clinton ties the Knights 12-12. Bowlers Roll Thirty five Assumption girls have en- tered Congress. The Assumption Strik- ettes, GRA bowling league is a mem- ber of the American Junior Bowling Congress. The “Gutterball Queens,” “Unbow lables,” “Holy Rollers” and “Fireballs” roll in league competition each Wednesday at Midway Lanes. ‘The Strikettes will enter several tournaments again this year,” stated League President Mary Bea Snyder. “Tournament competition begins during Christmas vacation with mother-daugh- ter, father-daughter and singles com- petition. The teams will also participate in several spring tournaments,” Mary Bea added. The duties of the league president in- cludes keeping record and standings on the tournaments and league competi- tion. She is also a GRA board member. Schedules and average scores are com- piled by secretary Jenny Walatka ’63. Treasurer Marge Walatka ’65 collects the weekly game fees and is in charge of awarding game prizes. “Since I like to bowl, my sister Barb ’62 encouraged me to join the league freshman year,” stated Carol Lewandow- ski '65. Carol is captain of the “Fire- balls.” Round Bailers ‘This could be a very successful sea- son but it all depends on the boys,” af- firms Bill McAfoos as he looks forward to his first year as head basketball coach at Assumption. Although the non-footballers began practice on Oct. 27, the football players will not join them until Nov. 10, just 13 days before the opener with East Moline. Coach McAfoos will have six senior letter winners back, along with the nucleus of a strong sophomore team of last year. The senior lettermen include Jim Kellenberger, Steve Tullis, Jeff Greg Paces Frosh After gaining an early season 2-1 record the AHS Little Knights closed out the season against the Muscatine West and North Scott frosh. The frosh squad opened the season against the Bettendorf Bullpups with a 13-7 victory. Bettendorf took an early 7-0 first quarter lead. The Little Knights came back to tie the score 7-7 before the half, with Greg Ander- son '66 scoring the touchdown. With two minutes left in the game Ander- son again went over, from 40 yards out for the 13-7 margin. The team from Muscatine Central proved too much for the Little Knights, as the Central frosh shut them out 20-0. A surging running attack enabled the Little Knights to defeat the Alleman frosh 40-7. They took a first half lead of 27-0 with Anderson going over four times. The final half saw Pat Stol- meir ’66 and Steve Shumate ’66 score the final two TD’s. Alleman’s only score came in the third quarter of play. The starting backfield is lead by the running attack of quarterback Mike Dockery ’66, Jack Peacock at half- back and Anderson at the fullback position. Head coach Fr. Arthur Perry, with assistant coach Dave Skemp, selected the present squad members at the Freshman Jamboree Sept. 20. Take To Court Gadient, Joe Connell, Tom Derouin and Mick Prochaska. The upcoming juniors are Mike Seider, John Loihl, Phil Pash and Jim Dunn. Besides the usual Quad-City clashes with Central, West, Alleman and East Moline, the Knights will also compete for the Little Six Conference champion- ship with Bettendorf, Ottumwa, Keokuk, Burlington and Muscatine. Jeff Gadient, a senior letterman and part time starter last year says that the Knights will be short, “But we’ll hustle and make the most of what we have.” 33

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Using the walkie-talkie at homecom- ing festivities Father Mann asked, “Pater Kraus, ubi es nunc?” This may be Greek to some of you non-Latin scholars, but it serbed its purpose — getting Pater Kraus’ attention during the recent Homecoming parade. Some people feel that Latin is a “dead lan- guage” — however, it kept homecom- ing festivities for ’62 alive. • At the beginning of a recent geometry class in the girls’ division, 23 girls jump- ed out of their seats, ran up to their teacher’s desk, each placed an apple on the teacher’s desk, and returned quick- ly to their seats. The teacher: Mr. Her- man “Babe” Derouin (one of the few successful male violators of co-institu- tionality). Could it be that Mr. Derouin is the apple of the class’ eye? • “But Sister, what do elephants have to do with electron affinities?” in- quired the seventh period chemistry class. Undaunted, Sr. Mary Diana, BVM, explained, “There have been on- ly five elephants born in this coun- try. It’s good to know these little facts.” So ended another chemistry class with the students muttering as they filed out of S-7, “Great is Diana, great is Diana . . (referring, of course, to the Ephesians (Acts 19:35) who said this as they triumphantly en- tered the city of Ephesus. • • • “Anyone seen an old pickup around here? No, no — I mean a truck!” ex- claimed Tom Duax ’64 the night of the AHS-West High football game. Earlier that night, Tom had loaned the truck to one of his fellow classmates who, af- ter discovering that the headlights worked only in second gear, (and even then they blinked on and off), left the truck (christened by Tom, “Bertha the Mechanical Misfit”) and parked “right over by Kellenberger’s place.” Now these directions are fine if you know where “Kellenberger’s place” is; Tom didn’t. • Fr. W. J. Stratman didn’t tell sen- ior Joan Berendes to go climb a tree, but she did. The physics assignment had been to find the height of a tree by comparing shadows. Joan wanted to check her answer so she climbed the 15’ tree and dropped a tape mea- sure to the ground. Yes, she got a high grade on her homework. Teens Flock to Study Day Race relations, lay missions, Catho- lics in public schools . . . these topics and many more combined under the central theme “The Bishop and His Flock on Oct. 21 as the annual YCS fall study day convened at Assumption. After the introductory speech by Davenport Federation President Ed Fitzpatrick. Fr. Louis Colonnese spoke on national and social problems. “A correct and fundamental concept of Catholicism must underlie our solu- tions to problems,” explained Father referring to the YCS methods of study- ing present day problems. Following Father’s speech the students from Ft. Madison, Ml. Pleasant, Muscatine, Clinton and Burlington separated and went to similar discussions led by As- sumption and Central YCSers. These discussions were social in- quiries that participating students themselves wrote. Assumption students and one Central student who led these discussions were: Agnes Mohr, Mardi Gaydos, Barb Lewis, Mary Ann Soen- ke, Joan Berendes, Peg Pohlmann and Kathy McDermott and juniors Darrell Warta and Pat Dray. The Central dis- cussion leader was senior Tom Fritz- cshe. Following these discussions and lunch, workshops were held through- out the school. Two of the more popu- lar ones were a workshop on race re- lation by Mr. Joseph Dulin, a Negro teacher from West Point, Iowa, and Fr. Marvin Mottet’s on lay missions. This latter workshop included numer- ous slides taken by Father Mottet and Father Colonnese during recent visits to Latin America. A general assembly with a speech by Fr. Lawrence Mullins on “The Bi- shop and His Flock,” and a dialogue Mass celebrated by Msgr. L. C. Sterck, closed the Study Day. Girls Stock Zoo “E-8ers, don’t forget your dearly be- loved!” This reminder appeared on the blackboard of Sr. Mary Joanette’s home- room. It referred to their homeroom pro- ject — a zoo. E-6 pioneered the homeroom project plan with their trophy case, and not to .be outdone E-8 formulated their ideas for a project. A doll collection, autograph curtains, and a stuffed animal zoo were the three ideas finally put to a vote. When the stuffed animal zoo won the election, a new problem arose. Does anyone have any animals “I’ve got a pink elephant, my sister has a cat and a dog. I’ll bring a llama,” were the ex- cited comments of the girls as they re- called their childhood playmates. The zoo now had its occupants. But where was the zoo? All eyes suddenly fixed on Sister’s shelves, piled high with books and papers. A delegation was promptly elected to find a new home for Sister’s belongings. With the vicious lions and tigers on the shelves, the students decided they needed bars to protect fellow students from the dangerous animals. So crepe paper bars were built to keep the an- imals on the shelf. Sister added the final touch with her own doll as the zoo keeper. “THEY’RE NOT FEROCIOUS” explain juniors Judy Cook, Carol Burgonjon and Carol Brune as they cuddle the stuffed animals in E-8’s zoo display. 35