Evanston Township High School - Key Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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X A VACATIONS How versatile is our upper Four Hundred when it comes to vacations! Its occupa- tions are most diversified. It goes from town to camp, from our own to other confines, and from school to summer school. Some of the school society fmay no freshman read thisj found occupation as business men, truck driveris assistants, messenger boys, and soda jerkers. Frequently we heard, calling to us from one of the Public Service Company's rolling repair shops, the cheery voices of our erstwhile schoolmates. It was quite disconcerting to ' be walking calmly along the street and be suddenly surprised by hearing one's name called from within the depths of a huge truck Q laden with tools, wire, and men in dirty overalls. Of course, somc :of the Four Hundred would have to be different. One of our prominent scholars, a :shining example of a young man of letters, worked as a ditch digger for a time, but the Qcruelx foreman, seeing the ink stains on the scholar's fingers, and the wistful look in his ieye, gave him his walking papers and thus added another name to the long list of the iunemployed. He had had experiences with that type before. 1 Dick McKnight, employed by a downtown bank last summer, nonchalantly carried :thousands of dollars around in the Loop. Dave Truman also worked at tl e beginning of the summer, alndhthen went up into Michigan with Bill McKinnon and Claxton Howard: The three of thenffrcontrived to set the style for boys' winter headwear when they re- turned with their hunter's caps. There are rumors that several woodsmen found their 1,Hudson Bay coats corduroy breeches missing. This is no insinuai ion, but many of them appeared this winter. 1 A Stanley'Midge1e'y4came back last fall from his . H. . . land of the mighty mountains x 'VU' I - r Whose peaks are tipped with snown 'withia .healthy tan'and a'-mountaineer's stride. Anne Wineberg was also in Colorado for par'tV'b'f1the stimmerfbut' rettrrned later to go to a northern camp for girls. Anne Nicholasfwas at Red Cedar 'Lake' for a while, but was here in Evanston for most of the summerff-7 A l A 1' 5' Some 'of our soldiers, furthering their military education, went to military camps. George Harrisongwent to Fort Sheridan, and Chuck Roy and others went to Camp Logan, where they shouted orders and got shouted at. Some b.oys-'Qspent their excess energy stored up during the winter in unlimbering their' muscles.: 'Fenton Kelsey went to Minnesota where he played golf, swam, and in- creased' his physii:ial5abilities in other ways, in preparation for the coming skating season. Tom Twerdahl played tennis, went to Wisconsin, and in addition, worked awhile. Charles Huston played golf in the National Open Tournament in Minneapolis. He played in other tournaments, and was another who went to Wisconsin. Bill Davidson went to a farm in Kentucky where he rode horseback. Bill Walrath, in addition to going to the coast on an automobile trip, played some golf, too. Some of us had just as good a time here at home as we could have had anywhere else. Cornelia Pace got in a lot of swimming at the beach. Bonnie Schnur was here for the summer. And to one of our more literary members belongs the recognition for hav- ing had one of the most novel adventures of all. Robert Bretall read Spenser's Faerie Queen'-a tremendous undertaking. In 1930's summer heat, peering through the grime of the faces of the red-capped Air Race ushers, we were surprised to recognize more of our erstwhile schoolmates on an interesting duty. What will our Four Hundred' do next summer? Perhaps it shall have still more exciting experiences. Phyllis Smith expects to skate all over Europe. Some will go back to Wisconsin. Some will go West. Some will stay at home. And some will continue to further their education for to catch up-which?j. Twenty-one

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Twenty QA Class Jidfeditation O PEN SIVE shadows that mark the passing school-day hours On graceful lawns that stretch to Gothic halls and towers, To these symbolic peaks so bleak against the jagged heaven Idyllic tenderness from a loved hand is given. Endure, poetic fortress of great brooding willows- Whisper of young lives, building for what follows. Ah, Delphic willows, as you sway, do you dream? Ah, Class of Thirty-one-be God's stars upon Life's Stream! I n The ,Library OLTEN gold, in oblique streams of light From far, tall windows, slanting always toward The calm brown silences around the hoard Of volumes, gives a mystic, chrysolite Radiance, with which to read aright The books wherein the centuries are stored. The pages where 1nan,s groping truths are poured, Give birth to dreams in sudden upward flight As, in a forest, where night does not cease Yet welcomes here and there a shaft of day, Or as in some cathedral's darkened peace, Where sunlight falls by chance on those who pray, Dreams come, here too, the shadows can release Elusive thoughts, and reverie holds sway.

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SENIORS IN THE MUSIC DEPARTMENT Ninety seniors have been active in the various branches of the music department. This means that about one-fourth of the graduating class has been following up the exceptional opportunities which are being offered. This year 'a good many senior girls have entered classes in individual singing instruction under Miss Frances Hunter. Evan- ston Township High School has not experimented before with such singing classes. They are proving successful quite beyond expectations. The seniors in the band are Simon Wesley Eyer, Buell Kenyon, Archer Elliott, Raymond Smith, Theodore Lundgren, Wilbur Smith, and Hubert Visscher. The band is always in the Beardsley Gymnasium for the general assemblies. It does make an excellent showing, in spite of the loss of mighty Robert France at the drums band leader, and struts around the field during football games There is also the orchestra in which are the following seniors Mary Louise Hughes, Robert Lindberg, Lois Visscher, Raymond Smith, Wendell Tarkoff, Janet Wray, Wilma Conger, Nancy Johnson, Marie Schank, Wilbur Smith, Victoria Swihart, and Lucille Tyler. Marie Schank is a gifted violinist, and was one of five people chosen last year as representatives of our school to play in the National High School Orchestra. The seniors who are in the different choruses are Jean Cameron, Ellen Carroll, Jane Chesley, Margaret Dewart, Caroline Doyle, Anna Mae Ferguson, Lois Franz, Virginia Gerkins, Dorothy Hesketh, Kathryn Howard, Elizabeth Hunt, Winifred Jackson, Irene Jetton, Janet Lee, Linnea Lindquist, Kathryn Mahan, Patricia McCarthy, Frances Mel- lick, Margery Milam, Cornelia Pace, Catherine Ralph, Gertrude Singleton, Laura Smith, Margaret Strickler, Mary Thomas, Elizabeth Wallis, Elizabeth Webster, Charlotte . . l F' N Now a well-known senior, he has been promoted to the position of , z' . ' if , ' . Z Twenty-iwo