North Shore Country Day School - Mirror Yearbook (Winnetka, IL)

Page 17 text:

THE PURP Through close cooperation among business, advertising and editorial staffs, this year ' s Purp was able to produce a paper that will be a worthy addition to the school ar- chives. The editorial staff has presented to the school a more complete, concise and ac- curate account of school activities than has been given in former years. They surpassed former achievements in presenting diversified features. Several innovations were made which improved the quality of the Purp. The alumni column proved very popular as it kept the school in closer contact with our men in the Armed Forces. The Editorial column, noted for its crusading, was widely read for its timely and pertinent content. Bat ' n Banter kept the school ' s jivehounds up with the latest musical gossip. The Purp rounded out its edition with humorous articles of high caliber. Next year ' s staff will have the difficult task of living up to the quality of this year ' s publication, produced by co-editors Betsy Shanklin and Carolyn Kuehnle. However the task is not at all an impossible one, if the underclassmen use their available talent. 13

Page 16 text:

STUDENT GOVERNMENT This year ' s Student Government has faced several new problems. In each case it has tackled all obstacles, and produced gratifying results. Our first problem was that of the janitor shortage, a result of manpower loss. Every class was given the responsibility of cleaning up its rooms, and the remainder of Dun- lap was taken care of by paid high school boys. Our solution to the problem proved a success. Our next innovation was the student proctor system in study halls. In order to insure desirable studying conditions, the Council devised several degrees of penalties, the last of which was a review of the student ' s case if he had received two disciplinary slips. The system has worked very satisfactory. Another improvement was the establishment ofall student activity funds in a separate student government account. By this plan we prevented the usual confusion in the school account books. This year ' s Vaudeville success insured a substantial fund for the year ' s activities. We also accumulated enough reserve to buy $200 in bonds, as our contribution to the war effort. In summary, this year ' s Student Government proved itsel ably all tasks that confronted it. worthy of handling cap- 12

Page 18 text:

THE VAUDEVILLE The Vaudeville, this year, set a new precedent for these annual Talent shows . The reversion to a typical Gay-Nineties ' type of production was overwhelmingly re- ceived by an enthusiastic audience. In former years our so-called vaudevilles were made up of various skits and acts put on by the different class groups. This year the var- iety element was still present, but the whole thing was tied together by an old-time vaudeville theme. The curtain rose on a bevy of beautiful girls and handsome gents, made up of senior classmen, who immediately put everyone in the proper spirit with their rendition of In Old New York . Three Senior couples brought down the house with an original ar- rangement of the old favorite, Mary . Another old time hit, By the Sea , was pre- sented by the Freshmen girls who daringly appeared in 1890 bathing suits. A breath- taking chorus-line was presented by the Junior boys, in their riotous Can-Can dance, and three black faced hoofers went to town on Dark Town Strutter ' s Ball . Mr. Duff, as a typical vaudeville M. C, not only held the skits together, but also added to the hilarity of the whole show with his continuous stream of humorous remarks. The highlight of the comedy acts was the Junior boys ' burlesque of Abdul the bulbul Ameer , which literally rolled em in the aisles . There were many other acts that added equally to the spontaneous gaiety and laughter of the evening, and those, with a number of amusing between act skits, made up the rest of the program. The curtain rang down on the entire cast in a Grande Finale Musicale of Give My Regards to Broadway . We hope that such a successful Vaudeville this year wi for an even bigger and better production next year. prove to be an incentive 14