Madison Central High School - Tychoberahn Yearbook (Madison, WI)

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.Tune ...THE ORANGE AND BLACK.. 1933 WHY I AM STUDYING FRENCH AU- - ACTIVITY HE: VERY first reason, perhaps, that I am studying French, is that I want to go to France some day. Ever since I can remember, France has been the one European c o un try that I would like to visit. Maybe it's because Joan of Arc lived there Cshe's my favorite heroine in historyli maybe it's becaus-e French people are stylish: or maybe it's just because I liked the looks of France on the map. Anyway, I want to go there. When I arrive in France I will naturally have to speak the French language. It would be very embarrassing if, for instance, someone would come up and say, Il fiat chaud and I should reply, Yes, so do I. In Paris I would attend the cours libre of -the University since the cours libre do not require registration fees. Cours libre are very educational and are given by talented professors. I would want to see French plays and operas at the Opera Hous-e. They are cheaper in France than in Americal To understand these plays, I would have to know French. While in France I would want to see the provinces. I am interested in their dialects, costumes, customs, histories, litera- tures, and arts. In order to get anything out of what I saw, I should have to know French. When our family was discussing the ques- tion of, Would French or Latin be the more beneficial? the fact that made them favor French was that it is a living language and Latin is not. I asked a Latin student how to say, How are you? and he immediately began to explain that Latin is not spoken. It is merely translated. Its only use is a foundation for other languages. This would not be necessary for me because I am not going to make a life study of languages. French, because it is a living language, would be much more useful. It is spoken now by a nation. It is possible to carry on conversa- tions in it, to argue in it, just as in any other language. As I couldn't see the use of learn- ing a lot of names I never could call any one, I took French. REALLY need French. In order to go to the University, a foreign language is quite necessary. I am taking French for four years in order to get the two points credit. The study of French itself is helpful. Much grammar is brought in. French gram- mar is greatly different from. English in some ways, but it is markedly similar to it in others. French will help me in later life. I might be a buyer of dresses in some depart- ment store and go to France in order to have the most stylish dresses. French would then come in very handy. I could be an interpreter for someone who understood no French. If worse came to worse, I think I could translate French books for a living. French gives a general education. I have been learning European geography, history, politics, and literature. Almost a whole semester is spent on each of these subjects. III would have to be quite thick-headed if some of this did not penetrate my head. I have quite convinced myself that French is an essential part of my education. I like French. Just the sound of it charms me, especially the nasal sounds and the u sounds. French is not hard if the teacher does not give out too much home - work. Some classes are rather boring, but French isn't. Most of the stories that I have trans- lated in French class have been interesting. So are the plays. On Fridays, sometimes, when there is no work left, the class sings songs and plays games. If I didn't like French, I should most certainly drop it. :Is wk vs I-IE FRIENCI-I people themselves are charming. They have nice complexions and wear stylish clothes. When they talk they make faces, especially when they make the nasal sounds. They gesticulate so much they seem like a pantomime. They are good cooks- the best in the world. They are very home-loving. Their shops close for about two hours at noon for the men to go home and enjoy their families. Someone has said that the only way to get into a French family is by a bomb or marriage. This is true because the French people are so wrapt up in their families that they have little time for new friends. If I wanted to make the acquaintance of some of these people, I .should have to know French. French literature I especially like. But try to translate it, especially poetry, and some- thing seems to be missing. What is beautiful and touching in French is sloppily senti- mental and silly in English. France has pro- duced some of the best writers the world has ever known. Who hasn't heard of or read I-Iugo's Les Miserables or Hunchback of Notre Dame ? Then Dumas with his Three Musqueteersn and Count of Monte Cristo are very well liked. Daudet's Tartarin of Tarascon is very amusing. There are a great many more writers like these. In order to fully appreciate these books, though. I would read them in French. French history is fascinating. Look at all the great men France has produced! Napo- leon was the greatest man of his time. Henry IV was the noblest figure in history. Ver- cingetorix, who, in spite of his bravery, had to give himself up to Jules Cesar. France is such an old countryand has so much history that I can never stop studying it. Now, perhaps, you can see why I am study- ing French. But, I am ashamed to tell you, all these reasons are not the one that really started me to take French. These are mostly reasons for my continuing it. After the fam- ily had all decided in fa-vor of French, they left the final decision to me. I was just vacil- lating between French and Latin when in came Aunt Sarah. She literally ordered me to take up Latin. I cou1dn't bear to be told what to do, so I immediately decided on French just to Vex her. Aunt Sarah is prob- a-bly,the real ,reason that I'm taking French. -MIRIAM BAIRD, lla. - f-: 27 :- ASSOCIATION HE ALL ACTIVITY Association, a new system at Central this year, has been a remarkable success. The plan commonly known as the A. A .A. originated at East High School. At that school they paid so much money for a card which admit- ted them to all of the school activities. This was a little hard to do this year because of economic conditions, so at Central a plan was worked out w h e r e b y every member paid twenty-five cents to join the association, and ten cents each of the following thirty weeks. Coupon books could be purchased in the office which contained all the tickets if one desired to pay the entire sum at once. The plan was responded to ea gerly. Exactly 844 members join.ed the A. A. A. Of these 844 members, 257 were Junior High school students and 587 were Senior High school students. A few of the group dropped out because of graduation, but most of them completed the payments. Under this system tickets were given out for each basketball game, each football game, both of the school plays, the spring band and orchestra concert, the Junior High. school operetta, the boxing tournament, and the performances of Tony Sarg's Marionettes. Besides admission to these affairs, member- ship in the All Activity Association included a full year's subscription to The Mirror, and a- copy of The Mirror magazine. The easy payment plan that was adopted was so attractive to the students that many who had never attended the games or plays before did so this year, and greatly increased the backing customarily given the athletic teams. The A. A. A. has been so beneficial to Central High School this year that it will surely be continued next year.-LURA SALTER IN THEKLAND OF ' MAKE-BELIE VE iContinued from Page Fourj has long been a leading extra - curricular activity in Central and undoubtedly will con- tinue to be. Officers of the Dramatic Club were: first semester-president, Romance Cowgill: vice- president, Frederick Gillette: secretary, Lor- ene Nelson: s treasurer, Gale Clark: second semester-president, Gale Clark: vice-presi- dent, Walter Bond: secretary, Frederick Gil- lette: treasurer, John Deards, The cast for Tiger House included Cath- erine Fowler, Jane Farwell, Sue Ogden, Jean- ette Ashton, Gladene Manwaring, Charles Willis, Donald Trachte, Sam Rabinowitz, Robert Genske, and Cyril Klingele. Students in Twelfth Night were Jane Priestly, Russell Shaw, Romance Cowgill, Don Trachte, Glenn Arnold, Joe Runey, John Deards, Doris Jane Johnson, Jay Ashbrook, Vernon--Barber, Donald Edwards, Marvin Schwenn, Sam Rabinowitz, Frederick Gil- lette, Fred Baxter, and Eugene Moran. -FREDERICK GILLETTE.

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June ..iT1-IE ORANGE AND BLA 1 , CK... 1933 HCWDY F OLKS NNOUNCER GRAHAMUS Mac- NAMEOLANUS: Well, here we are, folks, up in the top of a big tree beside X' the road leading out of Egypt. gag -6 And this is going to be some spectacle, believe me. It ought to be a wow, if we can believe my friend, Waltus Winchelonius, who broadcasts on the Lucky Dromedary program. According to Walt, the Israelites are scheduled to march by this very tree on their way out of Egypt. Your good old announcer has made a monkey of himself, long enough to climb this piece of lumber and broadcast a step-by-step account of the march. It's going to be tough going for those poor Israelites. Yes, siree! Because the sun is hotter than the inside of Pharoah's harem, heh, heh. But what's that I see in the distance? It looks like the Israelites! It is the Israelites! Folks, here they come, a raggedy rabble, led by an old gent in white whiskers. Just a min- ute till I look at my score card. It's Moses, folks, Moses himself, leading the Israelites out of Egypt! You know they claim they've been oppressed, and Moses has induced the Pharoah to allow them to go free. But not without a struggle, folks, not without a struggle. And away off there in the distance I can see the army of Egypt, mounted on horses. Not pursuing the Israelites, you under- stand, because the Pharoah has given his word of honorg but just tagging along, hop- ing something will happen. Well, this is certainly a hot affair, folks, but it looks as though it will be all over in a few minutes. The Israelites have come up to the shore of the Red Sea, and they're all confused about what to do next. Better go home, boys, and more luck next time. Ain't that tough, folks, stopped by a lot of aqua-ae feminine. And just when they had almost got away. But wait, what's the feller Moses doing? He's waving a stick around at the water. Maybe he's telling it to go dry up, ho, ho, ho. But just a minute, folks, some- thing is happening out here. The water is all excited. It's raging and foaming about. Look at the water, will you? Folks, you wouldn't believe your eyes if you were here. The water has just separated itself and made a path through the middle, just as dry as the sands of the desert. And the Is- raelites are going through it! Imagine that, folks, the waters of the Red Sea have sep- arated to let the Israelites cross out of Egypt! Boy, oh boy, what a spectacle!!! They're almost across now, just a few stragglers left, and the Egyptian army is going through the gap in the waters. Holy man, what a sight, folks! Yes sir, the pride of the Pharoah is following right up on the bare heels of the Israelites. And now they're -oh, oh. Boy, what a show this is!! That water has tumbled right back into place again, and the Egyptian army is all wet. The Israelites have finally reached the other shore and and are now standing on the beach, making long noses at the embar- rassed Egyptians. I must be leaving you, folks, for my time is limited. Certainly was some spectacle we witnessed out here. yes siree. This is your favorite, announcer, Gra- hamus MacNameolanus, who has just given you an account of the exodus of the Israel- ites out of Egypt. And boy, what an exodus! Boy, oh boy. In case some of you more ig- norant folks do not know what the term exo- dus means, I'll tell you. Exodus means departure. Don't forget, folks, tune in on station RBS Monday night for the play-by-play report of the Egypt - Constantinople basketball game. Your favorite announcer, Grahamus Mac- Nameolanus, will be the one to do the broad- casting. Hmph, hmph. Sl SI Ik OOD evening, folks, this is your fav- orite radio entertainer broadcasting tonight's program from ZXY hotel in Syene. As you all know that I have such a wonderful silver-like voice for broadcast- ing, I will tell you my secret. I smoke. The first number appearing on our program is the Blosh Sisters' quartet, which we will skip. We have another distinguished per- sonality on this program whom I know you will enjoy immensely. I take great pleasure in introducing Professor Z. Z. Sweinstein, noted scientist of the Sweinstein Theory, and also the head professor of English at the University of Podunk. O. K. Sweiny ol' boy, ol' boy, ol' boyg do your stuff. Arumph--ahg howdy all youse guys who's tuning in on me. I ain't got no special speech to make, but I's awful glad to talk to youse. Dis speech I have got is on my famous, ever-popular theory, de great Swein- stein Theory. By de way folks, I just re- membered dat I left my speech in my od- der pants. But just de same, folks, I ain't a goin ter dissappoint youse. I would ex- plain my theory to youse only I can't re- member it because I ain't got my paper wid me. But I usta be a darn good singer in my younger days and I ain'-t losted my voice yet, so I'l1 sing for youse. Oh Floyd, is dere any especially song youse wants me to sing? What? None? Well I'll sing Anna Lorna- and for darlin' Anna Lorna, I'd lay me down an' die- Pardon me folks, this is your announcer, Floyd Gabby Gabbons. I just want to ask you a questiong is Mis Lorna in the radio audience? If she is, I would appreciate her coming over to fulfill Mr. Sweinstein's wish. I'll now return you to the professor. . lk lk if Well, I'm sure all youse guys enjoyed my singing. I ain't got much more things ta say ta youse all, but dem guys dat can't speek cerreck American will regret it in later years. Dosedat can speek cerrect American will sure be repaid awful much. I'm sure --: 26 :- youse who's listening to me will be inter- ested to know a few facks about my life, so I'll give youse a auto-biography of me. I was born in a small house in Syene. At de age of three I begunned to write liturshure. Dat's how I got my start on de road ta success. At seven. I had wroten m.any short- stories-in fack they were very short. I writ one story dat was a wow. I don't exackly r-:member what it was but b-oy, oh boy, it was a wow! At nine I graduated from kin- dergarten. Dat was de proudest minute of my life, I hung up a great record in first grade by being a member for five straight years. De rest of my school years was easy for me, because at de most I never stayed in a class for over three years. I made a awful good record in fifth gradeg I only flunked three semesters. In de sixth grade I married my English teacher. I guess dat's de reason I talk such awful good American! I entered high school at de age of 28 and graduated at 42. , wk ll: vlr URING your school years you don't appreciate scool but when you get out of scool you appreciate. I'm tell- ing youse folks whose listening in dat a ed- ucation is de thing dat counts. now a days. Youse dossent realize wot a education means to youse. I got one, look at me now-good job, good home, and good family. If I hadn't a gotten a education I might a notten had de job which I am now holding. I ain't got no use for dem people who dossent want a education. A education is de finest thing in life. If youse have a good vocubary and knows how to pernounce wirds cerrect, well den, youse have everything dat counts in life. I'm printing a book, which'll be pub- lished sumtimes in de next four years, on hows ta speek cerrect American. Well as I were saying a education is your mainstray in dis world. Dose who ain't got no-er I shouldn't use de double negative--does who aint got any--. W'el1, folks, I am sure all of you enjoyed Professor's Sweinstein's talk: but due to the fact that another program is to be heard over this station for the next 15 minutes, we will have to hear the professor some other time. Now, for the next 15 minutes, we will hear the famous, nationally known team- the Gloch-Zilch Boys who will entertain you on their phonograph. I am sure all of you are very sorry to be deprived of Professor Sweinstein's elegant speech. Immediately after the Gloch and Zilch program we will rejoin the ABCD network for the Lucky Stiff program, featuring Walt Lynch. Please remember that Lucky Stiffs are always kind to your throat, Adam's apple, and pocket- book. They are bloatedg not a cough in a carload. Oh, pardon me, that isn't our slogan. Luckies must be good for Professor Swein- stein smokes them. Here is what he thinks of Luckies: I have smoked Lucky Stiffs since I was 11 years old. I find that Luckies stimulates the voice. All youse who smoke Luckies will find that youse- We are now signing off. Be with you again some other time. -PHILIP BAKER, nb.

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June ...THE ORANGE AND BLACK... 1933 THE MANNER OF SUNDAY MOTORISTS ,ik UNDAY MOTORISTS make up a class ' of their own-a class which is sub- divided into several groups. Let us consider these groups separately as bacteriological specimens, an d per- haps the reason for this classification as an individual order will be divulged. Consider first exhibit A, those motorists who tear along the highway at full speed while, as they say, They are just taking a little ride to enjoy the scenery. Experi- ments have proved that this class numbers the victims of the strange malady called take it-all-initus. They are so afraid of missing something -that their continually speedy efforts to see all result in their see- ing nothing. Exhibit B is comprised of those motorists called by rural dwellers city folks, and by city folks rural dwellers. These people suf- fer from inertia with complications. It is the inertia that produces the slow, rattling pace of their old Ford or Chevrolet, as the case may beg but it is the complications which cause them to motor down the exact center of the road and get stiff necks rub- bering at everyone or everything they see. It is not terminologically exact to say that out of' one hundred accidents eighty-five are the unconscious ravages of the specimens in Exhibit B. Exhibit C is the one that should be stressed. It is comprised of motorists who think they drive for pleasure or work and who remember the other tourists. They are the ones who make motoring a pleasant pas- time. 'When all the exhibits are intermingled, the result is a conglomeration. This conglomera- tion makes up the many motorists whose peculiar habits and idiosyncrasies give Amer- ican drivers the honorable title Specimens -LURA SALTER. 89' FEBRUARY GRADUATES lContinued from Page Seventeenl FRANK AUDINI: No Activities. DOROTHY BAKER: Chorus. LEWIS FISHER: No Activities. ROBERT HILTON: No Activities. VELMA KENNEDY: Social Committee: Hospitality Committee: Girls' Club: Mirror Session Room Rep- resentatlve: Class Prophet. ALBERT LIEBERMAN: Entered from Fond du Lac as 12b: Mirror: Debating. IRENE NIGLES: Girls' Club. SAM SHAPIRO: Football: Basketball. EDDIE STANEK: No Activities. CHARLOTTE VETTER: No Activities. JOHN WILLIAMS: Hi-Y. N 3, Masquer Keep a stiff wooden face Greeting the morrow, Keep a gay laughing face Mocking at sorrow, Keep a set smiling face When the knife's striking deep, Tears are for cowards, And only fools weep. -JANE PRIESTLEY, lla. A DISSERTATION UPON DEAD FISH - 'l COPY-BOOK says, Be sure your handshake is firm and hearty: avoid Q the limp dead-fish hand, or words to I that effect. For once the copy-book is right. There are various types of handshakes. Some should be avoided like the smallpox, others merely scorned. Under -the first category, there are three that are outstanding. These are the pump, the dead-fish, and the angle- worm. The pump is a sort of hail-fellow- well-met-how's-your-muscle affair, w h i c h leaves your victims with a sprained shoulder. It will tire you if you meet many people dur- ing the day. The angle-worm is the direct opposite. To receive it you raise your arm a little, bend it at the elbow, and drape one or two fingers in the general direction of the person you are supposedly shaking hands with. This gives the effect of quick-the-dis- infectant-I'm-about-to-touch-a-worm. Excel- lent if the man is a leper, but hardly necessary under ordinary circumstances. The worst is the dead-fish. This looks all right, but alas, when a dead-fish hand meets yours, you feel as if you were shaking an oyster. No grip, no warmth, nothing at all exists in a dead-fish handshake. The pump at least has grip and warmth, and the angle--worm is at least probably disdain- ful, but beware the man who proffers a dead-fish. He is neither sincere nor warm- hearted. - -JANE PRIESTLEY. CC D7 JUNE GRADUATES fContinued from Page Fourteenl ROBERT ANDERSON: Class Basketball 10, 11: JOHN MORE. Chorus 12a: Glee Club 12a: Class Baseball 10, 11, 12: Social Committee 11. WILLIAM CORCORAN: Class Basketball 9: Foot- ball 9a: Home Room Officer 10a: Science Club llb. EDWARD DEBS: No Activities. EMMA LEE DIXON: Basketball 11, 12b: Girls' Club 11: Girl Reserves 11: Tennis 10, 11. MAYNARD FRYE: Boys' Quartet 12: Chorus 12: School Play. Nativity : M Club Minstrel Show. EDA GASSNER: German Club 9a, 10: Girls' Club 10, 11, 12. HOWARD GAUKEL: German Club 10, 11, 12: Class Baseball 10a, 11a. ROLAND GEIER: No Activities. ANNA GHIRINGHELLI: Girls' Club 11: Hospitality Committee 12a. ANNA GODDING: Girls' Club 11, 12: Sunshine Committee l2b. ELMER HAYES: No Activities. RUBY HELLECKSON: German Club 10a: Girls' Club llb, 12: Candy Committee 12b: A.A.A. Moni- tor: Orchestra 9, 10, llb. RUTH HENNING: Girls' Basketball 10, 11, 12, Cap- tain 11b: Baseball 9, 10, 11, Captain 10a: Volley Ball 9, 10, 11, 12, Captain 9b. LAWRENCE JOHNSON: No Activities. SYLVIA LEVIN: HUGH MOORE: No Activities. JOHN NEE: Football 9b, llb, 12b: M Club 11, 12: School Play, M Club Minstrel Showg Track 9a, lla: Social Committee 12a,: Boxing 12a. JOSEPH REIS: Class Basketball 12a: Football 9b: Class Baseball 10b, lla, 12a. GORDON RUTEL: Class Basketball 10 ,11, 12: German Club 10. VITO SCHIRO: Class Basketball 11, 12: Boxing 12a. WENSEL SPELLUM: -: 28 :- wg Cl o ID om li mag Concern This issue of The Orange and Black has been made possible by the cooperation of the following firms: BARON'S BROWN'S BOOK SHOP BURDICK 8a MURRAY CO. CAMPUS SODA GRILL CARDINAL PUBLISHING CO. COMMERCIAL STATE BANK CONKLIN 8: SONS CO. CRESCENT CLOTHING CO. FELTON SPORT STORE FORBES-MEAGI-IER MUSIC CO. GILIJS CLOTHING STORE HOMMEL BROS. KARSTENS KENNEDY DAIRY CO. 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