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

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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

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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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tl-9' Chemistry class tours Museum of Science and Industry under guxdance of Mrs Komar FIELD TRIPS FAVORED AT ENGLEWOGD The educational value of appropriate field trips is greatly appreciated at Englewood ln line with this various groups of students from our school have been taken by their teachers to industrial plants, to famous libraries, to a settlement house area, and to museums. Since the beginning of the present school year, for example, Mrs. Munson has taken a group of Spanish students to the Hull House area and Mr. Goldman and Mrs. Komar have taken groups of physics and chemistry students on planned tours of the Museum of Science and lndustry. At this world-famous show place of tech- nological progress our boys and girls saw draf matic demonstrations of some of the latest developments in nuclear physics They wit nessed the bringing forth of atomic sound artificially They observed the radioactivity which resulted from the 1n1ect1on of radio-active strontium into frogs. They saw an artificial hand being used in hazardous demonstrations involving radioacti- vity. They saw lightning being produced ar- tificially by means of the Westinghouse Million- Volt Lightning Generator. They saw a high fre- quency induction furnace in operation. The guide put both his hand and a nail into the furnace. His hand came out cold, the nail red- hot. A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, ac- complishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form. - lohann Wolfgang Goethe 19