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

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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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.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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7 1933 ...THE ORANGE AND BLACK... June 44 P O E T R Y w SILAS LOOKS BACK The sun was sinking behind the hill. Soon echoed the cry of the Whip-poor-will. Old Silas turned the plow around, Unhitched the team, and was homeward bound. He was an elderly man of pioneer stock. Bent was his ngure and gray his locksg Gnarled and twisted, yet firm was heg A harder worker there never could be. Dark against the western sky - The little red schoolhouse seemed to sigh For its younger days in the yea-rs gone by Wfhen Kate played there with Silas and Ly. Old Silas chuckled and then he sa-id, 'fOh Pshaw, I wish I was always a kid In that schoolhouse yonder on the hill, What looks so lonesome, forgotten, and still. When we'd hear the bell ring out When recess was over, we'd give a shout And take our sleds for one more ride Before we'd turn to go inside. Then Bert drew pictures on his slate And handed it 'cross the aisle to Kate. She, of course, was bound to laugh Wfhen something funny crossed her path. Across the room came a ball of mud That landed with an elegant thud And hit 'Red' Convey square in the ear: For about a week he couldn't hear. It was 'Squat' who did it-we knew he did. Could tell by the way his face was hid Behind a big geography book. You should have seen that teacher look! There was the time when my brother and me, Were rivals in a Writers' bee. Poems it was, and so I thought I'd find something to write about. In my poem I said how shy I was I thought as how I'd win because Jerome couldn't write no poetry, At least not half as good as me. Then I read mine before the class, But Jerry grinned as bright as glass And says, 'Si writes about beingshy But he ain't so bad when it comes to pie'. The uneasy horses brought Silas back. My mind's been runnin' off the track. I guess it ain't no use, said he, I ain't ez young ez I used to be. -JANE FARWELL, iza. COMMENCEMENT ACTIVITIES IContinued from Page Fifteen? attended and at which they sang any songs they most desired. It was originated by home room 204 in general and by Everett Carteron in particular. A committee in charge of music included Eleanor Rloisum, Morris Slav- ney, and Joseph Runey. This must be all now, as Shakespeare or someone else might say, for all good things must end. Ik 'll 'lf EVENTY SENIORS received diplomas Friday morning, January 27, 1932. In address, Mr. J. P. Butler, representing the Board of Education, stressed the serious problems of the world of 1933. Speakers chosen by the class were Theodora I-Ierfurth, salutatoriang Edwin Slightam, valedictoriang Edwin Voss, class oratorg Ernest Swanson, Advice to Juniors: Helen Palmer, Senior Farewell. High-lights of the social activities of the mid- year graduating class were marked chiefly by the attendance of the senior class in a unit to the East-Central basketball game and the class banquet. The class banquet was held at the Kennedy Manor and was attended by the majority of the graduating seniors. Superintendent Bardwell spoke in behalf of the Board of Education and the Madison public schools, while Mr. L. A. Waehler spoke for the faculty. Following the class banquet, the graduates proceeded to the Central High school audito- rium to partake in the Class Night activities, which were headed by: Harold Stephenson, Class Historian: and Velma Kennedy, Class Prophet. They were assisted by Margaret Kissane, Elizabeth Klusmann, Eleanor Loder, Eleanor Niebuhr, Irene Nigles, and Robert Wohlferd. The Only EXCLUSIVE Under-Grad I D e p a r t m e nt In MADISON . . . featuring the Latest styles in Clothing for the High School Stu- dent . . . WE HAVE WYHAT YOU WIANT AT A PRICE TO FIT YOUR PURSE 8 Specialists in Apparel for Hen 5 Boys Next to Belmont Hotel Sand Honor Sweaters O EVERYTHING IN SPORTS for Boys and Girls o FELTONIS GUN STORE, Inc. 120 E. Washington Ave. F. 472 . STYLE . FIT . QUALITY . SATISFACTION in Footwear if you get it at SA DER'S SHOE STORE 120 N. Fairchild Street SUPPLIES I ..f0r.. GENERAL SCHOOL USE Just across the street -THE- Wisconsiin Blue Print -COMPANY- l7 West Dayton Street -: 29 :-