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

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From The wild WesT To The MeTropoliTan Opera The world has become musical- minded. Formerly music was reserved Tor Those who had paTience and TalenT enough To learn To play Tor Themselves, or Tor Those who had money enough To hire a band: now. radio, popular concerTs, and even The public schools have broughT Tine music wiThin The reach oT all oT us. OuTsTanding among Those E.T.l-l.S. pupils who noT only enioy good music buT are cap- able oT producing iT Themselves are The members oT The Musicians' Club. MeeTing once a monTh To hear The oTTerings oT Their Tellow members. They have sung and played TogeTher The greaT masTerpieces oT music. For The seniors, The highlighT oT The Musi- cians' Club season was The senior program presenTed on Monday, April 20. Here more Than a dozen seniors played and sang Their besT Tor The club They were soon To leave. As a side acTiviTy, The Musicians' Club This year presenTed The RochesTer Men's Glee Club. This program was open To The whole school, as were all The meeTings, and Through Them The school has come To know The E.T.l-T.S. Musicians' Club. Border lighTs up-house lighTs-curTain. These Terse orders Trom The direcTor and The acTions which TulTill Them compleTed, anoTher Drama Club play has sTarTed. This year again, The E.T.l-l.S. Drama Club, sharing The Wednesday lunch periods wiTh The Camera Club, presenTed a series oT shorT plays Tor The amusemenT oT Those diners who had suTTicienT inTeresT in The arT oT The sTage To parT wiTh ThaT TracTion oT Their monTh's allowance known as a nickel. The Drama Club is perhaps The only club in school wiTh deTiniTe requiremenTs Tor admission. Appli- canTs musT eiTher Take a wriTTen Technical examinaTion covering many imporTanT phases oT The sTaging, pro- ducing, and lighTing oT plays, or give an oral demon- sTraTion oT Their own dramaTic abiliTies. Once ad- miTTed. members are eligible To appear in The lunch- period plays or To assisT in Their producTion. Each year The Drama Club presenTs one longer play. This year iT was Gun-Shy, sTarring Parker Kaehler and George Slocum Trom The senior class. The playTul anTics oT The Gun-Shy casT made This play The highlighT oT The Drama Club year. Nwwf- - 'H mn,

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Ja: nein: was willsT du haben'? These Tew words consTiTuTe The working knowledge oT The German oT The average American layman. BuT Those E.T.l-l.S. sTudenTs Taking German boasT a much Tuller knowl- edge oT The complicaTed Tongue oT The Rhine-- landers. And many who are anxious To learn To speak by speaking, Tlock To The meeTings oT The German Club To perTecT Their guTTural. AlThough The German Club is one oT The smallesT oT all The deparTmenTal clubs, iT invariably holds meeTings oT inTeresT. AT one oT This year's meeTings. The members Took parT in a discussion oT l-liTler's recenT rearming oT The demiliTarized Rhineland. The TeaTure of The German Club year was The movie which The local German deparTmenT spon- sored in collaboraTion wiTh Those oT New Trier and Deerfield-Shields. l-leld in The EvansTon Social l-lall in May, Emil Und Die DeTekTive proved popular wiTh members oT The Club as well as wiTh Their guesTs. This unusual evenT capped The year's acTivi- Ties oT The German club, whose presidenT was Parker Kaehler. Spanish songs, Spanish dances, Spanish laughTerl lT's The Spanish Club TiesTa. a glori- ous climax To a wonderTul year. Held This spring on May 2I. The TiesTa TeaTured an unusual evenT-a speech conTesT in Spanish. Proifessor Brenes, TaTher oT The club presi- denT..Flaminio Brenes, judged The speeches and deTermined The winners. ln greaTer numbers Than The oTFicers dared hope, Spanish sTudenTs This year flocked To The monThly club meeTings. Seniors again played imporTanT parTs in bringing abouT The year's success, and an execuTive commiT- Tee oT seniors sTeered The club acTiviTies. STarTled 'From Their assembly-period sTudy- ing by The unexpecTed enTrance oT queerly- clad invaders, sTudenTs ThroughouT The school were surprised by The TaciliTy wiTh which These guesTs shouTed and raged in a sTrange Tongue. Many were mysTiTied, buT Spanish sTudenTs undersTood and realized ThaT They were merely beholding a Spanish Club proiecT. These sTunTs in The home rooms were only one oT The many acTiviTies spon- sored by The Spanish Club during iTs evenT- Tul l935-l936 year.

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I I I I I I I , ,, ,,.,...,., ., ,, , I George Paddock I Peggy RoberT Barbara Mari Charles EdiTor I Bear Bellamy Bellows Bishop Cleveland I DoroThy John Parker Jean James I Hill Ingersoll Kaehler Kniskern Lucado I WiTh an ouTsTandirI1g record To live up To, The EvansTonian Weekly Newspaper sTarTed The school year oT I935-I936 wiTh a compeTenT and experi- enced sTaTT To direcT'iTs pubIicaTion. ATTer several weeks oT compeTiTive'Try-ouTs held during The pre- vious spring, an ediTIoriaI sTaTF had been seT up which was To be headed by Two senior co-ediTors. During The early parT bT The season, several resigna- Tions necessiTaTed minor changes in The general seT-up, buT Throughol.IT mosT oT The year, The sTaTT was direcTed by These seniors: George Paddock, ediTor-in-chieT: Jack ITroThingham, associaTe ediTorg Jean Kniskern, news IediTor: Harry Fisher, TeaTure ediTor: Geraldine I-Iabse and PaT Kivlan, copy desk assisTanTs: James Lucado, Press Bureau ediTor: and Richard Raymond, spIorTs ediTor. I-low high school sTudenTs wiTh so Ii++Ie previous experience can manIage a weekly newspaper so successTuIIy has mysTiITied many. The TacT ThaT This year's ediTors were members oT lasT year's sTaTT may shed some lighT on The subiecT. For during The school year I934-I935 The EvansTonian made a Truly re- markable record. Be'sides earning The Quill and ScrolI's InTernaTionaI I-Ionor RaTing Tor The second consecuTive year, iT' was awarded All-American I-Ionor RaTing by The NaTionaI SchoIasTic Press AssociaTion. These honors mighT have saTisTied The sTaTT, headed by Tom Ledhy, buT insTead iTs members wenT on To acquire' TurTher disTincTions. AT The Ivledill Journalism CohTerence, held in The spring oT I935, a picked Team pT Tour EvansTonian sTaTT mem- I I I I I I I I bers besT TuITiIIed The requiremenTs oT a sTiTT news- wriTing assignmenT and earned, besides a handsome Trophy which now sTands in The journalism room, Tour scholarships To The summer session oT The Ivledill Journalism School. AT The same conTerence. George Paddock, This year's ediTor-in-chieT, wroTe The edi- Torial which Took TirsT honors in ThaT division. This year several imporTanT improvemenTs were inTroduced inTo The TwenTy-six weekly issues. A new column, Across The AssociaTe's Desk. was sTarTed by Jack FroThingham To Till The place oT BeTween You and Me oT The previous year. The second page, as always crowded wiTh conTribuTions Trom The pro- ducTive minds oT The pupils Themselves. was re- arranged To make a more pleasing impression on The reader's eye. The masT-head, ThaT boxed porTion oT The page which presenTs The names behind The newspaper, was moved Trom iTs conspicuous posi- Tion in The upper leTT-hand corner To a more reTiring IocaTion aT The boTTom. The number oT ediToriaIs was cuT down, Thus leaving more room Tor con- TribuTed IiTerary arTicles. These innovaTions gave The second page a disTincTive TormaT Tar superior To any previous seT-up. A glimpse behind The scenes may shed some lighT on The meThods used To puT ouT a Tinished publica- Tion in The shorT space oT one week. DeparTmenTal ediTors meeT wiTh Their superiors and The TacuITy adviser beTore school each Tuesday morning To deTermine whaT sTories musT be covered Tor The is- sue oT The Tollowing week. Then assignmenTs oT These news-sTories are made To The various reporTers on