Latin School of Chicago - Sigillum Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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SIGILLUM FRANK, Eats, SEIPP, Editors THE FOLIO The Fofio first appeared in the fall of IQOI, started by Arlene K. Niiller, it was a small magazine, which carried both literary material and notes about the school activities and athletics. The cover was designed by A. IC. Bates, and the magazine was financed through subscriptions and advertisements. The Folio was intensely popular, and it quickly developed into a very complete magazine. Nlr. Bosworth and R, P. were instrumental in its development, helping out and improving it. The Folio was soon made larger, continuing to run literary contributions as Well as write-ups about the school activities. The magazine provided a line stimulus for literary development and was edited by many persons who have since become notable. When, in 1926, the school moved, the format of the Folio was changed, the cover utilizing the bookplate of Rock- well Kent which had just recently been presented to the school, was adopted, as well as a change in the style and size of the mag- azine. The content, however, remained much the same, and was not changed until the adoption of the News which allowed the Folio to become a purely literary magazine. As such, it is indeed unusual, especially for a school of the size of Latin. It is certainly hoped that the high literary standard can be maintained.

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SIGILLUM letic Association. Other responsibilities, such as the football dance and gym night, were assumed by the Council and have since been continued. The following year, 1935-36, Gordon Spens discovered the effect of stern and rigorous discipline, supervising a well-run Council. After him Robert Antonsen and Charles Ford made the Council popular while accomplishing its work. The way in which the Student Council can succeed to govern the school is to command the cooperation and respect of every member of the student body. The Council is hampered by not having a suitable Way of punishing a boy in order to gain respect. This respect may be gained if the boy is taught to have greater respect for the school. It is on this theory that we have endeavored to fulfill our duty this year. I believe that we succeeded to a certain extent, but not nearly as well as if we had had a more interested and earnest group. I also believe that the Council should be smaller, and this we have tried to accomplish. So with a smaller Council and more earnest and sincere boys coming up from the Junior Council, you are destined to have a fine Council next year. The Student Council of the Chicago Latin School will be a well-respected and well-liked body of leaders. EDWARD BENNAN, Senior Prefect ,38 DRAMATIC CLUB The Dramatic Club was formally initiated into the school in the fall of 1935. Naturally dramatics was nothing new, for plays had previously become an important part of the school's extra- curricular activities. It had been the precedent that both the junior and senior classes present a play each year, and plays were also produced by the lower forms and the lower school. However the need became apparent for the organization of some formal group, created not only for presentations, but also the reading and studying of plays. Mr. Darrow consented to supervise its activities, and weekly afternoon meetings were held. The success of the club since its inception can be measured not only by its productions in assemblies, but also by work and study accomplished during meetings. Although hampered by an inadequate stage, lack of proper lighting, and limited scenery, the Dramatic Club has pre- sented plays ranging in scope from John M. Synge's Riders to the Sean to George S. Kaufman's comedies and A. A. Milne's The Man in the Bowler Hatv. The proposal to establish a fund for the purchase of necessary scenery, costumes, and stage and lighting equipment should be carried through, so that the Dramatic Club may become an even more vital part of the school than it already is.

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SIGILLUM B1,ossoM, SEIPP, CROWE, GREENEBAL'M, Edilor, Lavinia, EELLS, PETERSEN, BRENNAN, GRAHAM. THE NEWS The Nfws was first published in October 1933 as a supplement to the Folio. Although it answered the primary need for a news organ, its purpose was manifest. The aims of the first board were, briefly, to create school spirit, to strengthen student government, to voice and give voice to undergraduate thought and opinion, and lastly to publish general and sports news that is timely. Here is the program which has changed but little in essence, but which, through interpretation, has embraced many diversified and chang- ing subjects. ln that first February it was found necessary to change the size of the paper from that of the Folio to one similar to today's. The editorial columns boosted the Athletic Association and urged mem- bership, while the Alumni Association found a voice in an Alumni Column. Several complete letters from graduates or travelling under- graduates were published. These proved so successful that the following year also found interesting travel talks in the Nfwf. In passing the paper on to a new board, Philip VV. Seipp Qfounder of the Nfwsj, Richard Florsheim, and Jere Patterson expressed the wish that the same ideals would be striven for. In taking up the challenge for the first News Board, Francis Broomell and Robert lWcCracken, co-editors of the News in 1935, added a new principle. They attempted to form a closer relation- ship among faculty, alumni, and students, through an exchange of ideas and opinions. Toward this end a series of Brief Biographies