Kelvyn Park High School - Kelvynian Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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v.,.....1............ .sn .1 ,.. 'lm IIHUH 5 and UHIIHESTHA Oh, those sounds! Could that be music? To members of our orchestra, it is -- produced from hard work. The eighth period, students carry niusic cases to 3l3 to learn funda- mentals of music, Membership is voluntary what talent we havel The first step is tuning up to Then our able director, Miss Fischer, gives a tap-tap for silence. Out come inusic sheets, and things get into full swing. We all remember familiar strains of American Patrol and Stars and Stripes Forever: for the Spring Festival, Beethovens Fifth Symphony. Russian Sailors' Dance and Malequena: finally, the song that graduates depend upon for that notable night, Pomp and Circumstance. Carry on, orchestra, alwaysl Sounds of do- re mi float from 3l4, and another eighth period is spent in blissful singing by the song- stresses of the Girls' Choral Club. A group of smiling faces greeted the return of Mrs. Love, but the girls could scarcely express their inner feel- ings on seeing their beloved directress back again. Practice makes perfect --with this motto, the girls entered city-wide choral competition, singing Whil o' the Whisp and By the Bend of the River, for which they received an excellent rating. Club officers are: Delores Pose, presidentg Dorothy Nelson, vice-president, Dorothy Davidson, secretaryg Alice Greenberg, treasurer: Sonja Carlson and Colleen Tondrow, librarians, lrene Eckert, historian. Three cheers for the Choruslll HARRIET KOENIG and ANITA MARGOWSKI

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1 1 1 I 1 1 1 t 1 1 HETHIJSPEET Colorful is the history of Kelvyn Park, for where our school now stands, Pottawatomies crouched on a ridge of sand to look at what was to become the future school grounds, gypsies in caravans camped on the same site, and covered wagons of early settlers crossed its fields of white daisies and violets. Later, a band of Scots gathered, settled, and named the wooded section Kelvyn Grove, after a grove in Glasgow, through which the small Kelvin River flows. As time went on the bustling community needed educational facilities. The Nixon school, in 1917, was granted a branch which was destined to be our school site. The construction of the building began in that year and was completed on St. Patrick's Day in 1918. Students and teachers entered, but it was still a branch of the Nixon and not until September, 1918, did it open officially as the Kelvyn Park Elementary School. lt served as a community center for adults as well as a school for children. From 1921 to 1925, Schurz had a group of 9B and 9A students studying at Kelvyn. ln 1925 Kelvyn was transformed into a junior high school. Grammar school pupils still con- tinued to be housed in the building but soon left as other schools were made ready. ln 1930 additions were made to the school, equpping it for regular junior high school work. ln September of 1933 the building was converted into a senior high school. When first organized, Kelvyn Park Senior High School shared the building with the elementary school of approximately 500 pupils. ln order to provide adequate facilities for the high school students these elementary pupils were gradually removed. This was completed in the spring of 1936. And so, where began a branch of an elementary school, opening the way to a grammar school, continuing as a junior high, now, since 1933, stands the Kelvyn Park Senior High School. Miss Pesta, as principal, guided it through the depression years: Mr. Klinge, as assistant, was succeeded by Mr. Lederer in lanuary, 1941. Time passed with the usual baseball, basketball, and football games, swim, track, and tennis teams, weekly and annual publications, new teachers and students, new rules made and old ones discarded, new subjects added and old ones dropped, organization of new clubs-disbandment of old, the senior farewells and freshmen welcomes, until we, the class of lune '45, entered in September 1941. As freshmen we remember electing Charlene Umbright as Miss Kelvyn, we remember riding in double decker busses to WGN as Kelvyn appeared on the Citizens of Tomorrow program, we remember a top- notch swimming team in city finals. The war brought a sudden interest in math, canned goods were collected for needy families, and the Red Cross had a button drive. And, we remember Pearl Harbor . . . We organized a new Red Cross chapter, Kelvyn's enrollment dropped, and Friday night dances were discontinued. Very shortly, air raid drills were practiced, scrap drives were carried on, and alumni news was G.1. Soon paper and rags were carried to school, gifts were sent to war-torn lands, and preflight classes were inaugurated. War stamps were sold in divisions, a Minute-Man flag was earned, and Annette Alexander was elected our Victory Queen. We recall cheering a city championship basketball team in March, 1943. Soon A12 and V12 tests were given, servicemen issues of the Life were published, and Kelvyn's war hero, Cal Lichtenwalter, returned. lobs soon occupied after-school time, teachers left to help Uncle Sam, and with our bond purchases we launched war equipment tagged Kelvyn Park. Paper drives began, the Life staff appeared on the air, and Kelvynites participated in Chicago's Youth Council. Miss Pesta left us for a year on her sabbatical. The Soap For Poland campaign was carried on, we won several paper drives, and were rewarded with a party and the election of Paper Queen, Virginia Frank. Though we entered Kelvyn in peacetime, we now look back upon the hanging of a service flag, patriotic spring festivals, and red-white-and-blue home talent shows. With the knowledge and experience gained here, we go forth to help make victory and peace a living reality! -LILLIAN E. WEVIK

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LEEIU The Legion of Honor, an honorary society sponsored by Mrs. Ioyce Wilhelni, awards to students points for participation in extra- curricular activities, giving all a chance to be among the forty highest-ranking scholars in- cluded in tlie Legion every semester. lts duties are to boost stamp sales and paper collecting. AN The Student Council is dedicated to the purpose ot bringing problems which confront individual students to the attoniion of a dis- cussion group that consists of a representative from each division. Under sponsorship of Mr. Edwin Lederer and Miss Helen Mercer, the Council convenes every Wedriesday morning. EUUNEIL 1 1 J