Mishawaka High School - Miskodeed Yearbook (Mishawaka, IN)

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Science Club Officers STANDING: Mattmiller, Dahl, Bacon, Clement, Weimer, Huys, Smith. SEATED: Birtwhistle. went through the Miles Laboratory in Elkhart, and in the spring they held a picnic at which officers were selected for next year. This year sponsored by. Mr. Ulmer. They alternate be- tween laboratory night and having a speaker for their meetings. Doris Birtwhistle spoke on officers were: Morris Dahl, president; Bob Ba- con, vice-president; Jack Clement, secretary- treasurer, and Mr. Wood, advisor. fluorescent lighting, and Joan Taggart talked about poisonous gases. Mr. Went, a local drug- gist, talked on the relationship between chem- istry and pharmacy. Mr. Wood spoke of gems and their chemical structure. The club has un- dertaken such projects as: building a miniature sulphuric acid plant, studying the chemistry of cosmetics, the destructive distillation of coal and wood, an analysis of stone, the making of synthetic rubber, experiments with plastics, and growing plants with chemicals. Mr. Wood also advises the Physics section of the club which has Dean Trump as chair- man. This section has fifteen members. They have been working with sound photography, black light and polarized light. The Chairman of the Chemistry section is John Smith. It has thirty-four mempers and is English V FOURTH ROW: Howland, Garrison, Overpeck, Porter, Dahl, McNutt, Ghyselinck, Downes, Biltz. THIRD ROW: Vannoni, Hahn, Milten- berger, Kase, Kersh, Otterstein, Smith, Price, Kendall, Obenchain. SECOND ROW: King, Fettens, La Cava, Harmon, Christoph, Grade- less, George, Harrold, Steinke, Weimer. FIRST ROW: Hirsch, Abberger, Dorn- sife, Moran, Weaver, Weis, Stoeck- inger, Fulper.

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THIRD ROW: Mazurkiewicz, Morti- SECOND ROW: Baugher, Troyer, FIRST ROW: Rohrbeck, Wallace, De- CLUBS Give Way to Wartime Activity This changing world is nowhere more changed than within the social circle. Clubs more or less social in character have thinned appreciably or disappeared completely in the face of first aid classes, part time jobs, and gasoline rationing. The Chess Club has ceased to meet evenings. Mr. Nygard’s departure left the Forgers Club without a leader. Home Eco- nomics girls failed to get under way. The Engi- neering Club held its first meeting on April 7 after night school had closed. The Biology Club gave up after Mr. Kuhn's departure. Miss Crav- en's Big Sisters simply couldn't find time on a groaning schedule to hold their party for the incoming freshmen girls. They hoped that a diminishing high school enrollment would com- pensate for their lack of hospitality. A club might be formed from among those students who arrive at school anywhere from 6 a. m. on. These early birds ride to school with parents or neighbors and, since only the study hall is open to them, they roam the halls looking for something to do. Such energy really should be harnessed to some useful activity. Seniors customarily take an intelligence test, but this fall they were subjected to a battery of them. On appointed days, beginning at 8:20 English V more, Whisman. Myers, Hummer, Darr, Townsend, Magrames, Miller. Haven, Sack, Snyder, Stanton, Longfellow, Housand, Hittig, Mah- ler. Page 14 a. m., they assembled in the study halls and were seated checker board fashion. Other stu- dents remained away from school until ten o'clock so that the seniors might not be dis- turbed. This testing program was carried on in part at the request of the army so that draftees would be to some extent catalogued before in- duction. There were IQ tests, an achievement test in science, mathematics, English and social science, and a math screening test. In a screen- ing test those persons unfriendly with figures, drop right through. Then the boys took an ad- ditional test in physics. All of these occurring during the sponsor'period shut out all other ac- tivities, and club meetings suffered accordingly. The Science Club, made up of four groups: Physics, Chemistry, Physical Geography, and Biology, meets once a month. Since the club sells scrap paper which is collected around school, and earns money in so doing, the dues are only ten cents a semester. A big event was the meeting of the Junior Academy of Science in the fall at Notre Dame. Mr. Smith, biology teacher at Central High School in South Bend, spoke before the biology section. Movies on the spider, the turtle, and “War on the Campus” were shown with the Parent Teacher Association as guests. The club

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Sterdh (GbT STANDING: Stuart, Eggert, Erich, Vanderlin, Matchett, Brady, Hess, Van Dusen, Prackleit. SEATED: Groff, Taggart, Greenfield, Harrold, Stanton, Stein, Miss Davidson, McClure. 7 BOYS ON STEPS: Celie, Mattmiller, Nevel, Light, Burns, Roberts. The Speech Club, headed by Don Burns as president, Maxine McClure as secretary, Eileen Freeze as vice-president, and John Hess as treas- urer has always been a large club and an active one. The picture above doesn't show all the reg- istered members, but neither has the club been so active as usual. Miss Davidson, whose main interest is play production and the associated Thespian Club, is advisor. The Club took part in pot luck with the Thespians late in the spring. English V FOURTH ROW: Ward, Geisler, Mc- Gowan, Marvel, De Volder, Breun- lin, Skoog, Fitzgerald, Lamb. THIRD ROW: Goen, Nome, Kimmel, Galbreath, Smith, Thiem, Thomas, Tagliaterri. SECOND ROW: Burk, Kalil, Swean- ey, Smith, Ferrettie, Brenneman, Simms, Rupp, Norton. FIRST ROW: Deo, Carter, Federnok, Heckman, Moore, Chamberlin, Demske.