Fenger Academy High School - Courier Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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ELWW' t ' mm! 4A CLASS HISTORY At last, classmates, we have the opportunity to praise ourselves and to make known our accomplishments, abilities, and talents. In September, 1926, we became Freshies in numbers live hundred strong-the largest Freshman class ever registering at Fenger. Startled, fascinated, and bewildered by the new- ness of high school life, we were just getting adjusted to our division rooms when we moved to the new Fenger. What a glorious time we made of that exciting parade. Weren't we joyous and carefree in those green stages? But, alas, how times have changed! With the willing aid of our division room teachers, who included Miss Crum, Miss Stevens, Miss Grace Thomas, Miss Smith, Mrs, Whitworth, Mrs. Borst CMiss Trisselj, and Mrs. Diamond QMiss Deanj, we soon settled down to work. From the beginning we branched out into a championship life, which we have continued throughout our high school career. The girls' team of room 244, with Stella Derkacy as captain, started us off in glory by winning the School Championship in Girls' base ball. How proud the girls of that victorious team were in having their pictures taken for the Courier and in receiving individual G. A. A. bars! The Phorex Honor Society's membership was greatly increased by our brainy classmates. Many of our number served the Students' Council faithfully. Adeline Knapp, delighting even then in gathering news, was one of our enthusiastic room reporters and the little carrier of absentee slips. Remember? Then came vacation, and in September, 1927, 'we returned to school as Sophomores. Wasn't it keen to be able to lord it overvthe new Freshmen? That, too, was an eventful year in our history. We began to study Geometry fob! oh!j and how terrified we were of Miss Kurtz. But no longer! Now we reserve a special place in our hearts for her individual, pleasing, and admirable personality. The Biology Club was organized, and among other interesting meetings a wonderful excursion to the Sand Dunes was enjoyed by many of the members from our class. The Junior Drama Club also first began its existence. Our basketball teams beat Pullman Tech decisively, and were we proud! Our junior year was one of our brightest and most important ones. Many boys who had entered athletic life in their Sophomore year became distinguished. Tom Kennett gathered in the swimming honors, having been declared the best all round swimmer in Chicago. Nick Maravolo broke the high jumping record and since then has attained new honors. Miller, Riddell, and Stuebing also figured prominently in track. Flesvig, Strain, Cedergreen, Crosaro, Fialkowski, Riddell, Westman, and Stasewicz shone in the football world. Westman, Kopac, and Schoenwald featured in baseball. Greek, Mer, and Schoenwald went out big for basketball, and did they make it big! In tennis Fenger was represented by Mer and Jamison. Mer was elected B. A. A. President, also. In the girls' athletics Marion Badgley became G. A. A. President and was the first girl of our class to receive her school letter. Scholarship, as well as athletics, means a great deal, for is that not our main object in attending school? Consequently, we are proud of our brainiest and most honored members who include: Marion Pederson, jane Alexander, Nicholas Kuehn, Helen Keller, Nick Maravalo, Anna Penn, and others, too many to name. Many girls of our ranks joined the junior Girls' Club. Both boys and girls joined the Glee Club and helped to present the operetta, Lotta, and the May Festival held each year at Orchestra Hall. The G. A. A. Pageant of many nations was one of the most gorgeous and interest- ing events in which our girls displayed their athletic and artistic skill. Then, also, the Style Show brought some of us into the limelight. As we turn back in our memory book, it is with sad hearts that we think of two of our dearest classmates, Helen Giroux, who died in 1927, and William Perry, who died in 1929. They both had many friends among our ranks who every day miss their kind confidence, cheery personalities, and eagerness to please. William Perry's drawings and cartoons were continually brightening up the English classrooms' exhibits. We shall grieve because of their absence Eiglzl w

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lilizabeth Campbell lh'r111 of Girlx Frederick XV. Sehaeht l,l'iIIl'lflll Louis Atthauser .Alriffiilzetir-Cfv11i'1'i1I Srieiiec George F. Aiken ilIt't'1IllIIIiL'tll l?1'1m'i11y Jessie F. Anderson Cfirls' Gyzizluisillin XYilliam Anderson .lle1'l11111in1l l,1'l1'Ix'ilIfl Walter H. Brill illllfflflllllfl-L'S VVIHIELIII Burnham 13111111 Harriet A. Byrne lvtifllfltllltll :id'Z'I'.S'c'l' Congetta Change lluliurl Sgt. Carl Christofferson K. U. T. Lois A. Conner 1511gli.vIi-Sricizce Lena M. Crum Conlciziy-.AlIyrlvra George F. Dasher Plzysirs Norma A. Diamond Zoology Alice C. Eddy illnsiv Clara T. Fenn .-1111v1'i1-4111 I1isfo1'y Wesley XV. Foteh Courli, Pliyximzl Ifmliiculizvrz Charlotte Fowler .fl lyeliru Harriette Freeman 1,lIvVSllIll7jjj'115Iljlll-XII May Froom Girls' Gj'1llIIClSi1lHZ Sayers A. Carliek CllllllllFf'L'ltIl Geoyrtifiliy Fanny Hall ,lIt1fl1t'llItlfl't'S Heber M. Hays IIi.vfo1'y Ida A. Henieksman Co111111v1'i'ii1l Margaret Hill Ilisl oigx' Leo P. Hopkins CiI Z'I'l'.Y FACULTY ROSTER Dorothy Huebner lfofuizy Luella Kettelhon CUlHIlI1'l'L'llIl Frank XY. Knight Conrfz George H. Knight illizxit' May H. Kring' C11PllllIll'l't'l'tI1 Lillian li. Kurtz .lli1!l1e11111f1'r.r lirnest li. Lange Ct7IlIllIt'I't'itIl Grace 13. Lincoln ,SiL'I'L'IlL'L' Amy Lobstein Ifllglllijfl listher Lundquist lfilgflixfi lidna Marlin llmizuiiig Marie MeCutehe0n Co1111m'1'4'1'a1l Isabelle Meliirdie Iflljlllijfl W'ilfred MeI'artlin Lllflvll-l'i7'l'!lt'l1 Hildegarde Meisekothen f:t'I'lIl41Il-ilftlf1It'lII4lflt'X Anne Milburn lfiigflixli litiie XV. Miller Cl7lllIllA'l't'flIl lfthel j. Miller CrJlIIIll1'l't'llII Grace Cv. Murray FI't'lll'fI XN'illiam F. Musick .rlrt Ingeborg Olson piVfflllllfflt'-fJ!'t'Ilfll1lIDJHIX Helen M. O'lXlalley CI7ll!ll1F7'Fil1l Flsie Parsons Iioiiivxtif Sririire Shelley Peters Priiitirur Gorman Piekard .S'rii'11v4'-Clieiliixfljv Marguerite Plummer CI7llllIl4'!'t'ltll lfdna M. Randall UIIllIllIFI'L'it7l XVilliam C. Reich I1l1y.rir.r Ruth VV. Robinson Ellglisli Norma Schroeder Girlx' G,l'lIlllt1.YllI7lI Gertrude Sehuessler .ll11fl1v11111fi1's-Ifiigllisli llerniee Shine CUl!Ill1t'I't'itII Ruth Smart Ltllllllllljll' Charlotte J. Smith 1.1!fill-CTT'TLV-lIl'SfllI',X' james H. Smith PlIj'.Ylf7,l7-111' Claude Smitter l?o11kL'vi'f1fJ1y Ferdinand Zinf .I.v.r1'.vti111f l'1'i11i'ij1t1I Jessie Solomon Cnilirzieruiul tfeoifriijilzy Hazel P. Steinfeldt il111.9fi'-Ulla' Clllll lfdna M. Stephens Ifiiglixli Katherine M. Stevens 15113115511 lulian Sykes .info Sliofi Margaret Taylor lfliglisfi Mildred Taylor illuflzz'mai'ics-!o111'11f1lis111 Evelyn R. Terry lfllgllldll Grace A. Thomas Latin Sarah J. Thomas lfiilolisll Katherine Uehtmann Cn111111e1'rii1l Thomas Van Seoyoe ll'ood Shoji Laura Verhoeven Eizglislz Helen Vizard iflrf Ira VVagenman l1'isto1'y h'CI'3. H. VVertheim l.Uf:ll-lflljllliill Ruth VVise Euylisli Myra VVhitworth Sfanislz Frank Young Boys' G'x'1111111s1'11111 Rita H. Morris Cleric Sarah li. Sehiuidt Clerk litta B. Fluke l.iI11't11'ii1i1 Irma F. Clarke I,f1H'tI7'AX' .-l.vsi.r!i111l Mae A. Mundstuk '.il11'111Qv :l.f.fi.r!i111t Harriet A. llyrne l'11r11Ii111111l . ld':'f.vi'r Sei ie

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at Graduation, two chairs shall be in our minds dedicated to our fond memory of them. Never shall we forget their loyal friendship. In this, our noble senior year, we are striving to uphold our reputation of being Hmost honorable. Service for Fenger has been our chief motive and the theme of our high school days. Surely, the Fenger News Staff renders to us one of the greatest items of service-that of preparing and distributing our weekly school paper. Many of our class QAlbert Saxe, Alma Anderson, Marian Schuh, and Teresa Schmidtj aid in this production. Elizabeth Jackman, pianist for the Glee Clubs and many Assembly programs, ranks high in service to her school. The Students' Council is ofiicered by seven from our class, elsewhere mentioned. The library is ably assisted by Marian Schuh, the lunchroom by Lyle La Croix, and the office by Sophie Bartus, Esther Levin, Antoinette Klesen, Ruth Steinman, Lillian Raklovits, Helen Kulan, julia Du Fresne, Florence Fox, and Dorothe Johnson. In fact, all school activity and accomplishments, as you see by looking through this book and too much for me to give in detail, are based on the giving of service. We are glad of the opportunity to offer to Fenger our service in return for the benefit we have derived from it. All of these cham- pionships we have obtained and good times we have had in Fenger have in- spired us to keep up this effort for Fenger. We rejoice in being the largest class Fenger has ever produced and the first one graduating under Principal Schacht. Truly, our four years at Fenger will be memories that will ever live with us. We hope that our teachers may be justly proud of us. For their splendid co-op- eration we are thankful, and hope that, after leaving Fenger's friendly portals, we may be of better service to the world. GREATER CHICAGO SClI-lIOlLASTllC PRESS GUILD In june, 1929, the Greater Chicago Scholastic Press Guild, of which Fenger, represented by Adeline Knapp, is treasurer, was organized to promote better jour- nalism in high school publications in Chicago. At each of their monthly meetings at the Medill School of journalism, Northwestern University, the Guild has a prominent speaker who talks on problems confronting the high school journalistg and after his talk there is open discussion, followed by round tables, each dealing with a different subject. Through the cooperation of the Guild the National Con- vention of the N. S. P. A. was held in Chicago, December 5, 6 and 7. A banquet was given at the Hotel Knickerbocker December 6. The most prominent jour- nalists and writers of the day spoke at various lectures given during the three days at Northwestern University. A student attending these monthly meetings can learn how to make his stories more effective, how to find new sources for material, 'and, especially, how to gain interviews with such prominent people as jane Addams, Frederick Stock, and Donald McMillan. JUNIOR RED CROSS COUNCIL The Junior Red Cross Council of Chicago is composed of two student rep- resentatives from every public high school, private academy, and parochial school in Chicago and surrounding territories. Its purpose is to organize and develop better Red Cross service. Meetings are held the first Saturday of each school month at 10:30 A. M. in Room T of the First National Bank of Chicago. The officers are Chairman, Maurice Ramm of Harvard School for Boys, and Secretary, Jeanne Baumgartl of Francis Parker Private School. At the meet- ings the discussion of school plans for Red Cross work, the pledging of indi- vidual service and the hearing of speeches by famous civil workers contribute to the interest of the work. Luncheons are planned usually once every two months for the purpose of helping members to get better acquainted. Dele- gates are chosen by members to represent them at the National Red Cross Con- vention held every year the first week of May at VVashington, D. C. This year three are being sent. In the Council for this year 1929-1930, Fenger's representatives, who were chosen by Miss Campbell, Dean of Girls, were Marian Shirran and Jane Alex- ander. ivflllf