Austin High School - Maroon and White Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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,X . :ff T if-iii ,-Riff' ESPN fig itil wk N 'ill X4 xy! C l l V fWW N li Y J .. y 5 s 2 2 .2 2 DECEMBER College Club presenTs yearly WinTer STyle Show under direcTion oT June Tracy and JaneT Peil. . . Mary Gallagher elecTed presidenT oT Girls' Glee. . . Planning oT escorTed spring vacaTion Tour oT Wash- ingTon and Colonial Virginia chaperoned by Mrs. Jacobs and Miss Rylander resumed. . . 4B TurnabouT Dance held aT I9Th CenTury Club in Oak Park. . . STudenTs aT AusTin plan Annual giTTs Tor Oak ForesT Old Peoples Home. . . Herb SmiTh picked Tor All-STaTe Championship. . . RoberTa Bachman named EdiTor oT AusTin Times. . . Howard SaTin choice Tor AusTin STudenT GovernmenT presidenT. f' - 'T' YQ' ' A 6' . n lliml 4 T ll X x pg- A ucv.. . . . BanqueT held honoring FooTball Players aT ElmhursT CounTry Club. . . ChrisTmas VacaTion a ioy To everyone. . . Friars whip luckless Tiger Cage Squad 32 To 27. . . IANUARY AusTin Team wins The checker championship oT Chicago. . . Miss NordquisT announces rise oT prices in school lunchrooms. . . DebaTing Club gives a parTy in The LiTTIe TheaTre. . . Mr. Sullivan resumes his duTies as gym Teacher and coach aTTer serving as insTrucTor in The Navy. . . January grads hold Their Prom aT Congress HoTel1 said To be one oT The besT since beTore The war. . . Honor SocieTy holds banqueT aT CenTral Plaza HoTel. . . Don SmiTh is selecTed by The graduaTing seniors as The ouT- sTanding honor sTudenT oT The mid-Term. . . Gold Quill and Scroll pins, highesT awards in The Tield oT high-school iournalisrn presenTed To Ten members oT The Times and Annual STaTfs. . . Sommersville Times on page 8 oT The AusTin Times pardons 337 Trom AusTin peniTenTiary on graduaTion nighT. FEBRUARY Friday aTTernoon socials are back again: aT The TirsT dance some lucky slick chick and some hand- some guy were To become The FirsT Lady and The Solid CiTizen g Shirley Anderson and Howard GrooT win The TiTles. . . American BroTherhood week observed by AusTiniTes. . . Mae Carlson choserliypical.. America nfgirlp at Ausiin. -. Clyde .gfx rm . Ts' -4 -.ilfifj4X T v Slapak receives rank oT LT. Colonel: now heads R.O.T.C. . . Rehearsals under way Tor Gala Per- Tormance To be presenTed by The AusTin BalleT, The Senior Girls' Glee Club, and The OrchesTra March 14. . . The arT work oT seTTings by Miss HaTley and her sTudenTs. . . Mr. Jelinek and his sTage crew assisT. . . Ron Romano, capTain oT Aus- Tin maT-men, wins in The STaTe wresTling prelim- inaries aT Tilden. . . Bob Finn, The greaT halTback oT AusTin's l945 TooTball Team To play Tor Illinois. .. MARCH Gala PerTormance in Rockwood Hall on The evening oT March I4 is shared in by OrchesTra, Girls Glee, and The AusTin BalleT. Audience gives big applause To all Three organizaTions, buT is mosT enThusiasTic in iTs expressions oT enioymenT oT Miss Wenzel's dancers. . . The highlighT of The assembly held in Rockwood Hall on Thursday, March 20, was The presenTaTion oT The l:arraguT High School Band, under The direcTion oT Marcel Ackerman

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51l..f.1.y. 1946--1947 SEPTEMBER School opens wiTh accusTomed AusTin boy minor- iTy, 3069 girls, 258i boys, 5654 ToTal. . . R.O.T.C. aims Tor 500 new recruiTs. . . Times price To go up To 35c . . Beal' Lane, cry of AusTiniTes. . . CabineT Takes charge oT Halloween show plans. . . DoroThy Jacobs wins new laurels in Track. . . MargareT -N: X l .1-A X Tlxky, T, A, ,T XX! ,,f, . fy K I H. 1 f f ll on 1 ' i 'iii -9: 'V If X . li li K l l i l l i 1 i W ix L HeTzel places TirsT in high jump oT 4' 5'f2 . . . ChieT JusTice Lynn Gunderson appoinTs courT sTaTT. . . . Junior AchievemenT presenTs sporT ediTors Warren Brown and Leo Fisher aT assemblies. . . Dance socials TeaTure new sTeps, versions oT The Rumba, Tango, Bolero, Fox TroT,' One STep, and WaI+z. . . Eva Coleman, Glee Club grad, wins role in Civic Opera. . . American Girl greeTs Val Lauder, Teen-Age ediTor oT The Daily News. . . Tigers beaT Fenwick I3-75 Take on Kelvyn. . VarsiTy baskeTball TryouTs anounced. OCTOBER Red DuPass Tells of Red Cross meeT in Phila- delphia. . . Senior Class elecTion held, qualiTicaTions Tor candidaTes: l. LeTTers oT recommendaTion Trom Three Teachers. 2. The correcT number of scholasTic crediTs. 3. A peTiTion signed by Ten per cenT oT The Senior Class. . .Joyce Anderson, HerberT Hugo win WriTing Honors aT STudebaker TheaTre. . . AusTin receives Tlag aT assembly in recogniTion oT R.O.T.C. placing TirsT in ciTy lasT spring. . . RiTa Guzzi guesT ediTor Tor Hi-Shopper. . . AusTin meeTs Crane in homecoming +il+ aT Soldier Field. . . RoberT Jelinek Tops Senior class wiTh 3.9583 aver- age. . . Donald Simmons promoTed To The rank OT LT. Colonel and commander oT The AusTin R.O.T.C. . . . Senior Class elecTs Bill OhlenroTh presidenT. . . LT. James C. WhiTTaker aT Rockwood Hall as- sembly Tells The Thrilling sTory oT eighT men whose only susTenance Tor Zl days was TaiTh and a belieT in God. . . Neewollah Yad. annual Halloween dance and show, success. . . NOVEMBER Junior AchievemenT proiecT backed .in radio broadcasTs. . . June Solomon elecTed presidenT oT Girls' Band. . . A besT-ever yearbook is on The way. . . Jo Ellen Clark is ediTor oT Maroon and WhiTe. . . RoberTa Bachman working Tor Keen-Teen deparTmenT oT The Daily News inTerviews Danny Kaye, Tamous comedian. . . Harrison wins draw To represenT WesT SecTion againsT Fenger . . . ArmisTice Day assemblies see dramaTic skiT in which Miss Sheehy, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Wallschlaeger, and Mr. Paulson have parTs. . . John Gill new Track coach aT AusTin. . . Choir and ConcerT OrchesTra presenT Annual Thanksgiving ConcerT, under The direcTion of Mrs. Pohlmann and Mr. CreiTz. . . Junior class holds dance aT Town Hall. . . 4B Class To have TurnabouT Dance. . . Tiger Eleven Tops WesT SecTion. . . College Club WinTer STyle Show rehearsals under way. . . Mr. Sommers Tells one hundred AusTin business men sTory and needs oT AusTin High aT dinner in FaculTy Lunchroom. of ff it I N-.ghd I Cnr- ssh. Br dar fig WE: i HJ ' - AB ,V Y Tis , 'a r-'TTQ? YX , W ' 'T iii! W A 1 I

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playing Tive classical selecTions. . . June Adler, wiTh a rare 4.00 scholasTic average, aTTained The honor oT being vaIedicTorian OT The June graduaTing class oT I947. . . The AusTin lunchroom geTs a new addiTion To iTs TaciliTies as iT has iusT had a new popcorn machine insTaIled. . . RepresenTaTives Trom among The sTudenT body chosen To acT as delegaTes To The semi-annual meeTing oT The Chicago YouTh Comference. . . AusTin sTudenTs hear Coe College Band direcTed by CapTain STanley Veseley. . . Philip Maxwell oT The Chicago Tribune speaks To AusTin sTudenTs. . .Jim Baer, Tormer Tiger gridman, is one oT The mosT Tamed oT American Soldier TooTball sTars in Europe. . . When The I947 indoor Track season drew To a close, Coach Gills Track Teams bowed ouT ingloriously, losing To Lane 72 To 28 Tor The Seniors and 52 To 25 Tor The Juniors. . . . AusTin wresTlers roared To vicTory 3l To I7 aT The expense oT a Schurz Team aT The AusTin gym. . . AusTin's revival oT STudenT Day, held Wednesday, March 3l, in climax oT The STudenT GovernmenT eTTorTs, was a unique Type oT Thrill To mosT oT The sTudenTs and Teachers. . . APRIL VoTing machine Tor use in The 4B class eIecTion is shown aT assembly oT April I7 and used on Friday, April IS, under The direcTion OT The A.S.G. elecTion commissioners. . . AusTin High plays hosT fc? Clif Ulm 49 if' , I 155, J ,-AW sm RMS , - swfafg u D v K 3 I5 6 9 I if 2 --1 ' F! J' 1- 3 D 4 -' 2 TTL 4- To a disTinguished guesT Trom across The seas, Mr. Yngve Haran, Teacher Trom EkTon, Sweden, who paid a visiT To AusTin on his Tour oT inspecTion oT school music groups. . . AusTin's musical TalenTs win acclaim when The ConcerT OrchesTra and The Girls' Band combine Torces To presenT Their annual Spring ConcerT. . . Mark Love, radio and opera sTar, Tells Rockwood Hall assembly oT his belieTs developed during The war years and sings several TavoriTe numbers magniTicenTIy. . . Leading divi- sions in donaTion money To The American Red Cross are presenT aT This assembly. . . On The morning oT March 3l, a Rockwood Hall assembly group hears a mosT delighTTul concerT by The Coe College Band, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. . . Bob Hansen and Bob Rylowicz elecTed new capTains oT The Tiger Track Squad. O . fb fx I , . 'T ,.,f- a Kg T 'WWII R 4, Nxhm in I I 1, I . SIE T7 R 71 , 4 1 K C 25 A MAY, AusTiniTes reTurn aTTer week oT spring vacaTion . . . Junior Olympic Games aT Key Branch STadium, SaTurcIay, May IO, under The ioinT sponsorship oT AusTin High AThIeTic deparTmenT and AusTin's VeTerans organizaTions . . . Annual Federal Inspec- Tion oT R.O.T.C. May I4 . . . Much Talked abouT 4B TurnabouT Dance aT CarleTon HoTel in Oak Park, May I6 . . .College Club girls presenT big annual Spring STyle Show May 23, aTTernoon and evening . . . AusTin STudenT GovernmenT dance Thursday, May 29, The day beTore DecoraTion Day holiday May 30 . . . TUNE R.O.T.C. in downTown parade on Michigan Boule- vard . . . CapTain Gish's Tarewell, conducTing Con- cerT Band in big concerT June I3 . . . Maroon and WhiTe disTribuTed, and The day, oT course, is AuTo- graph Day . . . June Prom held aT Medinah Coun- Try Club on June 20 . . . Class Day, Tuesday, June 24, Boys' Gym . . . LasT issue oT The Times on June 24, dedicaTed To The graduaTes . . . GraduaTion oT The largesT Senior Class in several years on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, June 25 and 26.