Bishop Miege High School - Hart / Miegian Yearbook (Shawnee Mission, KS)

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Rita Hildago, exchange student from Guatemala City, gets help on the puz- zling English grammar from classmate Pat Murphy. Buenos Dias, Senorita Rita! Rita Hidalgo, exchange student from Guatemala City in Central America, is a charming addition to Miege this year. Rita, a senior, was 17 years old the day before she flew to the U.S. Her home in Kansas City is with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Aita and their five chil- dren. A little sister, Sonia, 9, misses her back in Guatemala, where Rita was president of her class. She is also the great granddaughter of Manual Gabrera, president of Guatemala for 23 years. Does she like the U.S., Kansas City, Miege? “Oh, yes, it is won- derful!’’ she exclaims in her delight- ful Spanish accent. In Guatemala, the school term is from January to October, and at noon everyone goes home for lunch, returning two hours later. Half of the classes are in English. Here, Rita is anxious to see her first snowfall. She was thrilled to see her first football game, too. A conscientious student, Rita is quite busy, since sbe had a part time job in a Mission pharmacy. Now that she has been here for a while, she feels “each day less like a foreigner,” but she doesn’t have to worry. After reading a feature on Rita recently, one Miege student said to her: “I thought you were just one of the kids!” Indeed, that’s exactly what Rita wants to be. Miege is truly proud to have her. Janet Schmitz How Sharp Are Your Math Wits? Some of the math students are entering a tournament on Novem- ber 2. Sponsored by the Future Engineers of America, the tour- nament offers students from fresh- men to seniors an opportunity to test their matematical potentiality. Previous to the tournament, self- study kits containing ideas from calculus, set theory, topology, etc. are sent to participants. On No- vember 2 the students are tested on the ideas presented. Try this one: A room has four corners. In each corner sits a black cat. Each cat sees three black cats. On every cat’s tail sits a black cat. How many cats are there? (Less than 8.) As a result of the enthusiasm and work of the members of the Math Club several new books have been added to the 510 section of the library. Some of these are: Anderson, Romping Through Math- ematics; Kasner, Mathematics and the Imagination; Courant and Rob- bins, What Is Mathematics and Lieber, The Einstein Theory of Relativity’. Norman Chaffee Kathy Holland is congratulated by Nancy Myers and Patty Rubclmann for winning a journalism award at the Kan- sas City University. Award Captured By Miegian Kathy Holland, junior received second place in the senior division of feature writing at the Jackson (Continued on Page 7) Freshman Conquers As an extremely naive and green “freshie” I imagined high school as being a sort of “glorified grade school”—all parties, games, and fun, with little or no work. My first day certainly straightened me out! High school, I learned, put em- phasis on study and work—with a few parties and games sand- wiched in here and there. This naturally came as a slight shock to me, but, attracted by the nov- elty of lockers, classes, and kindly sophomores, I did an astonishing about-face. I sailed home, my head reeling with glowing accounts of my initial step into a new world. The next day, however, I was not steeled against the invasion of the upperclassmen—the big impor- tant juniors and seniors who really knew the ropes. Nevertheless, I was not too con- cerned as I tripped lightly down the stairs, paying no attention whatsoever to a sign that said “UP.” At the bottom I was met by a very nice looking boy (Aha! Upperclassman, I thought, and speaking to me, too!), who in- formed me that as I was a fresh- man I had probably long since learned to read; and didn’t I know that I was coming down the “UP” stairs and would I please turn around and come down the right way. Meekly, I nodded “yes,” and just as meekly turned around and stole unobtrusively down the hall to my locker. Gone now was the self-assured little freshman who had painted school in such vivid terms the day before. I was just a small cog in a big piece of machinery, pain- fully aware of my insignificance. Then, sighting another freshman lost as I was in a bewildering world of upperclassmen, I sud- denly realized that I wasn’t alone. Slamming my locker door to as- sure myself of my own importance, I breezed down the hall rubbing elbows with the best of the big wheels. After all I figured, a fresh- man is a pretty important person! Barbara Bremser Molly Ziegelmeyer 6

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by Barbara Bremser In the local newspapers at the turn of every season, there are big, bright, eye-catching ads publicizing that rather abstract thing called “the new you'' that seems to go with the new season. These ads are so tempting that maybe you yourself have followed through to find out just how to be a “new you.” If you did, you probably found out that what is called a “new you” is really just an old friend—personality. It’s not necessary to have a new per- sonality to go with every season, but since few of us are the personalities we’d like to be, maybe a few tips would help us brush up and get nearer to our goals. Sit down, take honest stock of yourself, and decide where you need improvement. Maybe sarcasm or tardiness or gossip or griping is your Waterloo. Once you’ve found your problem spot, half of the battle is won! Plan a campaign to correct your fault. (Try sticking signs in strategic places to keep you on the straight and narrow.) But don’t put too many fingers in the pie; go after one fault at a time. (You may find that when you’ve solved one, the others disappear.) Slow and steady wins the race, so don't be discouraged if your ef- forts aren’t rewarded immediately. They will be and, when they are, you’ll be mighty proud of the “new you.” WINDOWS FOR THE CROWN PRINCE by Elizabeth Gray Vining Imagine this! You are teaching the Crown Price of Japan. He is completely shut in from the out- side world; he is allowed to as- sociate with boys his own age only three times a week; he may not take an active part in games. Yet, Prince Akhito is a normal boy, intelligent, of good charac- ter, and possessing a fine sense of humor. You feel that he belongs with other youngsters rather than with chamberlains and courtiers. What would you do? Give up and go back to the United States at the end of one year? That might leave a bad impression of America on your pupil’s mind. Or would you stick it out like Mrs. Vining did, leav- ing after four years of tutoring? This is a unique biography describing the adventures of an Ameri- can woman who is asked to teach Crown Prince Akhito of Japan immedi- ately after World War II. Much was learned by student and teacher as thoughts representing Eastern and Western cultural blended. Try the book yourself! Elaine Hunter (freshman) PROFILE IN COURAGE by John F. Kennedy Wanted: Respectable fool, well educated, to risk future and good name on the battle between conscience and ambition. Possible reward: loss of friends, ruined (Continued on Page 11) =L ’ — LIKELY =T = Illustration by Penny Ronnau by Jeanne Beyer Illustration by Dot Snyder by Molly Ziegelmeyer Wanted: Janitoring job for Mary Ann Thesing. Poor girl! She was elected to this post at Girls’ State and has been out of work ever since. Fifty Miege girls took Paola by storm on the weekend of October 9, when they gathered for the sec- ond PoVo meet of the year. The faculty and students of Miege enjoyed a real treat when Mr. Jerry Heintzelman and Mr. Bruce Nelson from General Motors presented a chemistry program en- titled “Previews of Progress.” In- cluded in this performance were demonstrations of gyroscopes, mi- crowaves, electricity and as an added feature, the baking of a foam rubber “cake.” Here’s hoping that the sanity of all Stags has returned since the gnats have been driven from the basement. A Mother-Daughter Tea was given Sunday, October 18, by the members of Mrs. Garrison s and Sister Marianne’s Foods and Cloth- ing classes. Cookies and punch were served at the Tea, which was held in the Home Economics de- partment. Janet Schmitz On October 15, Barbara Bremser, Dixie Doll, Jeanne Beyer, and Bob Ferkenhoff attended a luncheon given by the staff of the KAN- SAS CITY KANSAN. These rep- resentatives of Miege toured the presses in order to find new ideas for improving our school paper. Good luck to all the math mas- terminds who have entered the Future Engineers of America con- test to be held at Miege on No- vember 2. 5

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Illustration by Nancy Pfeiffer IT'S A DATE . . . by Mike Fitzgerald ART—Nelson Galleries: Norwegian Tapestry, an internation- ally known exhibition on loan from the Smithsonian Institute, will be on display Nov. 7-30. A modernistic exhibit, “Ten Modern Masters of Art,” will be ex- hibited Nov. 4-24. On Sunday, Nov. 7 Dr. Thorvald Krohn-IIanscn. will lecture on modern painting. Movies to be shown at the Gallery during November include: “The Golden Age of Flemish Painting,” Nov. 1; “Lust for Life,” Nov. 8; “The Eddy Duchin Story,” Nov. 15; and “The Last Bridge,” Nov. 22. SCIENCE—Kansas City Museum: A natural science series, “The Original Drawings of Mark Trail” will begin Nov. 9 and run through the remainder of November. MUSIC—Kansas City Philharmonic: Nov. 3 marks the open- ing of the 1959-1960 Philharmonic season. The eighty- four piece orchestra is under the direction of the dis- tinguished Hans Schweiger. Jorge Bolet will be the guest artist at the Philharmonic’s second appearance on Nov. 17. The Cuban-American pianist has played before every orchestra in the world. “The Connoisseur Series” of the Philharmonic sponsored by the B’nai B’rith Temple begins on Nov. 29. THEATRE—Kansas City University: The University Play- house presents “Waiting for Godot” under the student direction of Samuel Bekett on Nov. 12-13-14. •Ward High School: “Stage Door,” the Kaufman-Ferber dramatization of life as a budding New York actress, will be presented by the dramatics club of Ward High School on Nov. 22-24. AWARD CAPTURED BY MIEGIAN (Continued from Page 7) County Journalism Convention held at the University of Kansas City on September 26. Also attending the convention were: Carolyn Cody, Jeanne Beyer, Molly Ziegelmeyer, and Barb Bremser. Jeanne Beyer Hobby Hobnob By Pat Venneman Short Wave Radioing My interest in short-wave radioing was first aroused a year ago when I read a short story in BOY’S LIFE magazine featuring short-wave listen- ing. This appealed to me and after talking to a “Ham” friend of mine I became really enthusiastic. What fun it would be to listen to all those foreign stations! My next step was to find a radio. After several months of searching, I found a “Want Ad” which of- fered a good second-hand receiver for sale. I feel that my summer’s earnings were well-spent that time. However, my trials were not over. For months 1 tried to pick up foreign stations-just any foreign station—but with no luck. Then came that great day in December when at last I heard “Radio Moscow in Russia. Since that time I have picked up over twenty-five different stations, including at least one on each con- tinent except Antarctica. Of the ten European sta- tions I listen to, Warsaw, Poland, is the farthest away. Other distant stations on my listening list in- clude Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa; Quite, Ecuador; and the latest received, Melbourne, Aus- tralia, and Peiping, China. Someday I hope to be a Ham operator so I can talk as well as listen. Short-wave radioing takes a lot of patience and time, but it is very rewarding. Why don’t you try it? David Staab (freshman) 7