Englewood High School - Purple and White Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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FESTIVE WELCOME FOR FRESHIES There are dances for various purposes among various peoples. There are rain dances, harvest dances, reconciliation dances, war dances. Some are gay, some weird, some poetic. Some are accompanied by chants, some by shouting, some by prayers. ' On Tuesday, February l7, in our girls' gymnasium, Englewood had a dance ol its own with a purpose. Of course, all our dances have a purpose -- the purpose of promoting happiness, companionship, good cheer and school spirit. But the February l7th l'hop had, in addition to this, a special purpose - that ot festively welcoming the newcomers to our school, the latest crop of freshmen. This was done gloriously with the aid ot popular tunes played stirringly by a peppy dance orchestra.

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MEMGRY LING'-ERS ON Long will be remembered the gaiety and glamor, the rhythm and harmony, the song and laughter, the romance and folk feeling which made the stage of our old auditorium a place of pleasure-giving magic on the night of No- vemloer 2l, l952. Then it was that, under the creative direction of Ioseph C. Thompson, our principal, a cast of Englewood students, gave a triumphant performance of the ildouble- header operetta, Meet Arizona and False Fernando. George Wakefield Cadman come posed the music and George Murray Brown 1-:rote the lyrics for the Arizona piece. The Fernando score is by Roy Stoughton, its lioretto the work of David Stevens. Gay scenes from delightful Arizona-Fernando Operetta. l6

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QUIZ KIDS SHOW THEY'RE HUMAN AS WELL AS SMART Students and teachers of Englewood who were curious as to what the Quiz Kids are really like have had their curiosity satisfied - with a bang and a hip, hip, hooray. lt happened on December 9, 1952. That day CBS brought five of the youthful luminaries - Pat Conlon, Naomi Cooks, Sally Ann Wilhelm, Iohn Carroll, and Frankie Vander Ploeg - to our auditorium. The Kids were accompanied by announcer Ed. Scott, by Larry Woolf, manager of their program, by Ioe Kelly, their suave and folksy quizmaster, by Howard Peterson, their pianist. Engineers came too, and brought along all the equipment needed for a radio broadcast. Mr. Kriewitz opened the assembly with a characteristically good-natured introduction of Ed Scott. Mr. Scott, in turn, gave all the neces- sary instructions. Then the program got under way. The students and teachers of Englewood did their part by applauding at the appropriate time and by singing School Days. And this was tape-recorded as an integral part of the show. The assembly was rounded out with a salvo of cheers for the Quiz Kids, led by Regina Brown and Irene Harrod, two of our cheer- leaders. And in a letter to our school paper, the Englewood News, the Quiz Kids enthusias- tically thanked Englewood for the reception given them in our school. On Ianuary 4, 1953, when the Englewood Quiz Kids program was broadcast over WBBM, the enthusiasm and the gratification came to life again with an added glow. UI-Ie ISocratesl said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge, and one only evil, namely, ignorance. - Diogenes Laertius