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

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You mighT Think There's noThing hard in shooTing a riTle, buT The hours oT pracTice ThaT The Rifle Team has spenT in The Gallery cerTainly show ThaT iT Takes a loT oT eTTorT To achieve excellence. During The winTer The members oT The RiTle Team pracTiced aTTer school was ouT, buT whaT did iT maTTer if iT were dark when They goT home? They made records ThaT are worTh more Than a Tew aTTernoons spenT in The Gallery. On SaTurday mornings, when They were To Tire maTches, They were ouT aT school as early as six o'clock some- Times. They yawned and shivered a liTTle, naTurally- who wouldn'T-buT when They goT down To The serious business oT The day, They chalked up scores ThaT are really worTh looking up To. This business oT riTle shooTing mighT seem raTher uninTeresTing To an ouTsider-does iT sound like Tun To lie Tor hours aT a Time on a hard Table wiTh noThing ..Pop buT a Thin, lumpy maTTress under you, squinTing along a riTle barrel aT a liTTle black spoT on a piece oT paper TiTTy TeeT away? No? Well, you oughT To Try iT some Timel The TirsT Tew Times The sling is so TighT ThaT your arm aches Tor a long Time aTTerwards, and iT seems impossible To keep The riTle aimed aT The TargeTg buT when you've made a high score once or Twice, iT's in your blood, and There's noThing ThaT can sTop you. The RiTle Team made a Tine showing This year- They made TiTTh place in The l'learsT MaTch, when There were TiTTy schools compeTing, and in Their reg- ular schedule oT maTches They sTarTed ouT by winning seven and losing only Three. We Think iTs leaders did a preTTy good iob. We hope The juniors who will be The leaders nexT year will have as good a Team as ThaT oT This year and Those oT Tormer years. Carry On! is all we'll say. Back row: P. Brown, Olds, Barker, FleTcher, Lane, l-loTsTeTTer, l-lochschild, D. Brown FronT Row: LighT, Ensign, Perry, Decker, SingleTon, TeTlow, Mclnnis, SuTTon, Myers

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Swish . The VarsiTy baskefball Team, coached by Rocky Hampfon, ended The I935-I936 season in undispuTed Third place, winning Three of iTs firsf six and four of iTs lasT six games. Capfain RoberT WhiTe, cenTer, Virgil Van Cleave, John Kluge, and Louis Beach aT The forward posifions and Lloyd JeweTT and Charles WorThingTon as guards played The enTire season and were rarely aided by subsTiTuTes. During The firsT semesfer This Team losT To Oak Park, conquered in succession Waukegan, Deerfield, and New Trier, and losf a Thrilling baTTle To lvlorTon by one poinT in The ouTsTanding game of The season. Evansfon, losing TwenTy To nine aT The sTarT of The Third period, puT on a specfacular second-half drive To go inTo The lead, Twenfy-five To TwenTy-four, in The closing minuTes of play, and Then losT The one-poinT advanTage and game on a lvlorfon baskeT scored seconds before The sound of The gun. In The second semesfer The Team again defeafed, New Trier, Deerfield, and Waukegan, and Turned The Tables by conquering lv1orTon7 buT losT To Oak Park and Twice To Proviso lfhe evenfual winners of The championshipl. AfTer The regular season, The VarsiTy squad played hosT To Two Teams of refurning alumni. Played for The enioymenT of a large crowd of boys and Their dads, ouT for The firsf Boys' NighT, The game ended wiTh The VarsiTy five poinTs behind The grads. Those seniors who won major leTTers were: Elmer Anderson, Louis Beach, William Sayles, Philip Han- son, John Kluge, Virgil VanCleave, Roberf A. Whife, Samuel WhiTe, Elmer Wood, and Beverly Wilcox. FirsT row: l-lanson, Koscielak, RaTcliffe Second row: Anderson, Kluge, Beach, WhiTe, WorThingTon. Coach l-lampfon, JeweTT Third row: S. WhiTe, Wilcox, VanCleve

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I I I ' The time . . The place I I I IT doesn'T Take :much To amuse inTanTs, someone has said: so aTTer The commiTTees in charge oT The Iqib Senior Evening had ouTdone Themselves To Think up games and sTunTs To please andydeIighT The seniors, iT was a Toregone conclusion ThaT The inTanTiIe upperclassmen would indeed have a Tine Time when ThaT well-known evenT rolled around. To sTarT oTT:This long-awaiTed evening oT pIayTuI pasTimes, each arriving senior wenT To room I2I Toyenroll, Tor purely social reasons, in The college oT his choice. There he pinned To his Iaplel-or she To her blouse-a small card bearing his name and The name oT one oT sevelral well-known universiTies, DarTmouTh, BeIoiT, eTc. I-IenceTorTh Mr. or Miss Senior cavorTed in The seIecT company oT Tellow classmen in The same insTiTuTion. I Then Tollowed aln educaTion Tour oT The beTTer known haunTs oT The TirsT Tloor, lead- ing The Tun-seeking :senior Trom a volley-ball game aT The back oT The building To a Mickey Mouse comedy deluxe in room I33. From room I62, where a beauTiTuI TorTune Teller experTly read The secreTs oT his palm, To The I64 corridor where he sTooped low as ,he sTreTched his legs in an undigniTied newspaper race wenT The prospecTive graduaTe, glad To be able Tor ohce To laugh, shouT, and raise Cain in his school's digniTied corridors. -Following These: perspiraTion-provoking pasTimes, The mob Then made iTs way To Social I-Iall, where .lames Chapman, sporTing a gaudy bow-Tie in The mosT approved Tashion, inTroduced IS. WaITer WhiTe, humorisT, IecTurer, and raconTeur. As The lighTs were dimmed, The speaker delved inTo The hidden pasTs oT many oT The leading charac- Ters oT The class oT II936, mercilessly exposing TacTs hiTherTo conTined To dusTy Tamily archives. As succeeding baby picTures smiled Trom The silver screen upon The hushed audience, The crowdl enioyed such rare TreaTs as seeing how Kevil Thomas wore her ears away back when and how our besT aThleTes looked beTore They sprouTed beards. Then came The TradiTionaI mellerdrammer. The audience held iTs breaTh Trom suspense as The blodd-ThirsTy Indians, souITuIIy inTerpreTed by John Anderson and STan WhiTTemore,,whose.haIT-naked bodies were sTreaIced wiTh painT and wiTh such slogans as BeaT Oak Park, y sTaI'ced ruThIessIy across The sTage in pursuiT oT The beauTeous hero- ine, TanTaIizingIy played by Newell McCabe. All looked hopeless Tor a while, buT aT lasT The handsome hero, Tom Gehr, eTFecTed a Thrilling rescue and Lady Ronald Vere de ,CouTTs made The supreme sacriTice Tor The man she loved. Thus ended The arTisTic producTion, neaTIy masTer-oT-ceremonied by The superbly-clad Bud Carver, and The sen- iors, sTiII conscious, dug inTo The reTreshmenTs. Having saTisTied The eTernal craving, all eyes Turned To The dance Tloor, and as Earl SIeeper's inTernaTionally known dance-band commenced iTs serenading, The wearying upperclassmen Took To The Tloor, where The dancing conTinued u,nTiI shorTIy-very. shorTIy-aTTer Twelve. AT This poinT The Senior Evening oT I936 passed inTo hisTory, and The merry-makers headed relucTanTly Torhome. I I I