Assumption High School - Assumption Yearbook (Davenport, IA)

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Student Council Many Activities To Highlight Year “This year we hope to promote a better knowledge and understanding of student council,” said Student Gov- ernment president, Bill Kurtenbach, in the opening meeting of the student council this year. During the summer both Bill and Kathy Frater, SGA vice-president, at- tended a student council week at Ce- dar Falls to gain new ideas. “We plan to fill this year with worthwhile pro- jects and make SC a more active or- ganization,” Kathy explained. Student council also hopes to strengthen the foreign exchange stu- dent program and to stress academic application among the students. • • This year’s student council modera- tors are Sr. Mary Diana, BVM, and Fr. Louis Mulligan. Both are new to the student council this year. • • • On Tuesday, September 22, Officer Phil Axelrod of the Davenport Fire Department spoke to the student coun- cil on the Muscular Distrophy drive to be held November 22. All student coun- cil members have signed up to collect donations. Any interested volunteers should contact a student council rep- resentative. • • • Freshman elections were held last week. In charge were Bill Kurtenbach and Kathy Frater, both ’65. See next issue for the new representative’s names. • • Connections: “Early publication of these is our aim!” proclaimed Jack Peacock and Jan Ruge, both ’66, in unison. “Cover sketches have been submitted and names typed up so it looks as though we should receive them soon,” Jan continued. • • Foreign Exchange Project — Lee De- Julius ’65 is chairman of a committee assigned for the year to take care of the various projects to finance our pre- sent exchange student. Any ideas should be submitted to Lee for student council consideration. • Hall of Fame: In response to last year’s inquiry by Mr. Ambrose about a permanent all school Hall of Fame the student council is looking into the prospect of setting one up. • Football programs for the remaining home games will be sold through the student council during the homeroom periods and at the games. Joe Barnes and Bill Kurtenbach, both ’65, will layout the copies for the remaining programs. CHANGES MATERIALIZE ... as new uniforms are modeled by Cindy Rolston '67 and Jill Meyers ’65. The bust of John F. Kennedy and the mosaic tile behind the statue are gifts of the class of ’64. Knights Head For Homecoming underclassmen in some of the home coming activities. Freshman and sophomore floats, an innovation of this year’s Student Coun- cil, will decorate the school during the homecoming festivities. Approximately five by three feet in size, these minia- ture floats will be displayed in the cafeteria, gym hall, by the bookstore, and possibly at the dance. There will be four floats in all, one each by the frosh and soph boys and girls. The purpose of this idea is to involve the Requiescat In Pace LARRY ADAMS ’65 Homecoming weekend will begin on October 30 with the parade through downtown Davenport in the afternoon and continue with the game against Muscatine that evening, climaxing with the Homecoming dance on October 31. As in previous years there will be three floats for the Homecoming par- ade and game, the Queen’s float, the Senior float, and the Junior float. At the game the mayor, Mr. Raymond O’Brien, will again crown the Home- coming Queen during half-time. Senior Student Council members sponsor the Homecoming activities. SC moderator Fr. Louis Mulligan is in charge of the parade, floats, and half- time ceremonies, while Sr. Mary Diana, BVM, is in charge of the dance. Senior committees named were: Buttons — Teresa Schwab and Lee DeJulius, Queen — Mary Kaye Derouin and Mike Pracht, Cars — Tony Navarro and Bill Kurtenbach, Queen’s float — Michelle Chenoweth and Steve Huy- ette, Senior float—Joe Barnes and Jill Meyers, Dance — Kathy Frater and Bill Kurtenbach, and the Junior float — juniors Shelia Shanahan and Tom Fennell. 3

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Boosters Bring College To We the students of Assumption High Soon to college must apply We know not where, or how, or when, But that’s where College Night comes in! This year on Wednesday, October 15, at 7:30 Assumption high school’s annual College Night will take place. A college atmosphere will be enacted when over 40 colleges, universities, technical colleges, and nursing colleges will send representatives to the event. Being sponsored by the Boosters Club again this year, a rewarding night is in store for everyone. Sophomores, jun- iors, and seniors are invited to come, compare, and judge the colleges so that they can make a good decision on a specific college. Again this year the colleges will be in seperate rooms and all will be on time schedules. This enables the rep- resentative to start his presentation at a certain time for one group of people. Fr. Charles Mann, boys’ division vice- principal noted, “The system worked well for the colleges that used it last year, and we hope it will work again this year.” Three new additions arc foreseen in this year’s schedule. Those schools are: The College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, Minnesota, Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa, and Edgewood College of the Sacred Heart, Madison, Wisconsin. Besides Marycrest and St. Ambrose, to which most AHS graduates apply, there will be other schools which have participated in College Night before. Among these are: John Carroll Univer- sity, Cleveland, Ohio; Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois; Ottumwa Heights Junior College, Ottumwa, Iowa; Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois; Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois; High School St. Mary’s College, Winona, Minnesota; and St. Thomas College, St. Paul, Min- nesota. Refreshments will be served in the cafeteria during the evening. Knite Lite s I’ll bet everyone’s eyes were on Sr. Mary Ambrosina, BVM, when she said, If you’ll pay attention, I’ll go through the board.” • • • Four for ’64 was the call when Tom Gehlsen and Tom Ketelar found voca- tions as diocesan priests and entered the seminary at St. Ambrose last month. Jo Ann Machol joined the Urse- line community in Cleveland while Mary Beth Coleman entered the BVM’s. ♦ • Did anyone notice the blond sopho- more boy vainly trying to hide his scarlet and orange potted marigold as he came in the door early last month? • • Tuesday, September 8, during eighth period the senior boys began their guidance program. Throughout the year on the first Tuesday of each month the Boosters club has planned vocational talks for them. • • • As the seniors are now in their last year at AHS the CEEB (SAT) and the ACT tests are approaching. Below is a schedule for registration and admini- stration of these tests: CEEB: Test date: Nov. 7; Registration: Sept. 8 to Oct. 10. Test date: Feb. 20; Registration: Nov. 9 to Jan. 23. Test date: April 24; Registration: Feb. 22 to April 3. Test date: June 19; Registration: April 26 to June 5. Test date: August 7; Registration: June 21 to July 24. SAT: Test dates: Sat., December 5; Sat., Jan- uary 9; Sat., March 6; Sat., May 1; and Wed., July 14. • For the benefit of those who have no way of getting to the Keokuk foot- ball game there will be buses. Mary- kay Derouin ’65 and Pat Stolmeier ’66 are in charge of getting the buses. This is a project sponsored by the student council. 2

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Blue Beacon Beams Involvement For '65 Roses are red, but violets are blue; This year the Knight Beacon cover is too. This change in the portfolio cover from the tradi- tional red or white is just one of the many changes inaugurated by this year’s KB staff. The ’65 port- folio cover is of a blue linen cloth, inlaid with three silver crosses and the student’s name. As a result of last year’s Knight Beacon Press Assembly, another change was enacted to make the portfolio more similar to a yearbook. Acting on this student request, the KB is publishing a four-page colored insert of pictures depicting the different phases of school life: apostolic, scholastic, athletic and social. This addition will serve as an introduction to the portfolio, and combined with an elaborated graduation issue, will give the portfolio a finished yearbook quality. This year the general theme for Assumption’s monthly publication is “Student Involvement in the World Around Him.’’ Although revolving around a central axis, the school, the student’s world branches out to include community, national and international affairs. Every teenager during his high school years, stum- bles across dozens of activities in which he is able to become involved. He may have the opportunity to participate in interscholastic or intramural athlet- ics, or to do volunteer work at one of the three area hospitals; to help “stuff” napkins on his class’s Homecoming float, or to take part in religion or soci- ology class discussion; to obtain membership in the Chiefs Fire Lightens Path Riding his faithful, shiny-blue pony, Impala, the Chief thought of his many great deeds that would long be remembered around midnight campfires. Ever since 1958, when he had moved to the AHS reservation, his tribe had adapted to a new strategy in battle, the portfolio format. It had served them well through the years — winning the All-Catholic and All-American Press Awards in 1963, and the Knight Beacon Trial that same year, when his braves warded off an attack by the savage Pius X Journal- ists from the land of Milwaukee. Those were the years of plenty for the Chief — plenty of work, plenty of arguments, and plenty of writing and rewriting. But those years are not over for his tribe. He instilled into the KB staff a tradition, gave them pride in their work, taught them to learn from experience and to enjoy creating something worth- while. Yes, Chief Fr. William F. Wiebler has passed on to the happy hunting grounds, a parish. He is gone, and yet frequently in the years following, his spirit will stalk through his old village. His “teepee” will remain standing in Assumption high school, and his flaming campfire which searched for the truth will never be extinguished. Catholic Interracial Council, or to write a letter of protest to his state senator, representative or gov- ernor. During the six years since its beginning, AHS has produced numerous “in” (short for “involved”) young men and women. One of these people, recently in the news because of her involvement in racial justice, is Carole Gross. Carole graduated from Assumption in 1960. Upon finishing college she volunteered her services, free of charge, to helping SNICC, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, to teach the people of the all Negro community of Harmony, Miss- issippi, to read and write. Currently she is helping to set up a library with donated books for the people of that town, since they are not allowed in the pub- lic libraries. Carole and people like her will be the leaders of our generation. They will be the ones who shape the history of our time. They are the ones who are “in”. LDJ Knight Beacon Staff Advertising — George Allen, Kathy Herd, Noreen Kivlin, Peg Parker, Kathy Morrissey, Barb OeZorzi Art ............................................................ Joe DeCook Business —.................. -............................... Mary Hartkop Editorials........................................ Lee OeJulius, Barb Kruse Features Kate Schaffert, Eileen Figel, Larry Geisler, Mary Gimbel, Marcia Welch News George Mitchell, Marykay Dudek, Bill Fischer, Nancy Nagle, Bill Schutfe Pictures Chris Wahlig, John Dunn, Steve Huyette, Daria Olmsted, Don Wolf, Greg Dohrn Sports.. Bob Townsend, Jim Dower, Wayne Hunt, Maureen Judge, Marty McCarthy, Denny Shinners Adviser Sister Mary Annetta, BVM Printer......................................... Gordon Printing Company 4 t rxo KNIGHT BEACON As a Beacon in the Sight” M»»‘V The Knight Beacon is published eight times a year by students of Assumption high school. The yearly subscription rate is $1.50. The Staff of ’65