Notre Dame Academy - Tower Memories Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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5 6.4 $47 Wd'ctg meteorology, radio, air traffic ruies, airline dministration and positions in aviation. An- ther course offered was model building, in- luding the art of making silhouette models or identification. The last course was an air- raft spotters program. These future avia- trices make aviation a full-time hobby by reading numerous books on this subject. The Sky Club worked on various projects in cooperation with the Cleveland Press. At he celebration of the club's first anniversary r. Ed Clark, from the Cleveland Press, gave brief talk to the members. This year the Sky Club received an un- sual honor for a girls' club: it was given he task of planning and developing the heme for the aviation display at the annual portsman Show of Cleveland, held each year t the Arena. The purpose of the display, 5 worked out by the members of the Sky iub, was to show the place of women in viation. Another project of the club was the sil- houette scrap books in which 222 outline iews of planes were assembled, cut, identi- ied, and mounted with pictures, making a total of 72 complete American and foreign lanes. These scrap books were given to the avy for use in training inductees in the fund- mentals of airplane spotting. In the course f the year, several games were introduced in rder to make plane spotting an entertaining ield as well as an educational one. The last activity of the club was the span- oring of a bake sale to raise funds for awards. irst and second prize winners received a pecial pair of wings and an airplane flight. he other members made a field trip to the irport. Interest in the Sky club has aroused new nthusiasm in aviation. Some of the mem- ers have decided to seek employment in arious fields: as airpiane mechanics, stew- rdesses, pilots, WAFS, or manufacturers of eronautical equipment. Notre Dame is again in the front line of the ight on the home front, thanks to the Nieuw- and Sky Club. TOP: This year the Nieuwland Sky Club celebrated its first birthday. Mr. Ed Clark, editor of the Junior Aviators' column in the Cleveland Press came to the party and cut the cake. Margaret Zboray, Coletta LaIIy and Ethel Knapik are the eager on-lookers during this process. MIDDLE: After an extensive study of the different types of planes, Catherine McDonald, Mary Ladutko, Ruth Helen Korb, Germaine Covieilo, and Mary Therese Keehn demonstrate how, as spotters, they might help their country. BOTTOM: To make their study of planes more interesting these enterprising Sky Club members used many different games to test their skill at recognizing the different types. Here we find istandingi Rosemary Ryari, Genevieve Blaskevica, Col- etta Laily, Grace Lanza, Rose Ann Eichenberg, iseatedi Evelyn Farkas, Louise Bartak, Ethel Knapik and Jane Simko having a game of cards. 39

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mag; in Me Clamat, The Nieuwlond Sky Club, an organization that has played on important role in the Air Service Division of the Victory Corps, has com- pleted its first successful year. At the beginning of their first year, the charter members studied model building tech- nique and simple aeronautics. They spon- sored an Aviation Week, featuring Mr. Ray T. CrOWeH from the Cleveland Press as a speaker and model-airplcme motors demon- strotor. eei m tie wanna During the summer of '42, the Sky Club assembled and purchased a gas model kit. One of the members visited the Lewis School of Aeronautics Cit Lockport, Illinois; two others made an inspection tour of the Cleveland Air- port in October. This year the club introduced a modified pre-flight course, which includes the study of the ports of planes, the theory of flight, air- craft classification, methods of flying a plane, types of motors, instruments, navigation, TOP: Learning the intricacies of an airplane ore Colette Lolly, Rose Ann Eichenberg, Margaret Zboray, Ethel Knapik, Jone Simko, Rita Stachuro, officers of the Nieuwlcmd Sky Club. BOTTOM: Seeing is believing proved by Rosemary Ryan, Florence Bilek, Grace Porch, Eleanor Gaglione, Genevieve Bloskevico, Charlotte Goggin. TOP: Recording progress in aviation we find, istandingi Louise Bartok, Grace Lonzo, tseatedi Evelyn Farkas, Germaine Coviello, Beverly Fee, Catherine McDonald. BOTTOM: An unending tide of knowledge is inculcated in tstandingi Eileen Hahn, Dolores Abood, Ruth Helen Korb, Agnes Pollock, tseatedi Mary Lodutko and Helen Schwarz.

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Miss Helen Komp Physical Education Instructor Notre Dame's share in the nation's physical fitness program during the past year has cen- tered around the varied activities of the Ath- letic Association and the Leaders' Club. This year, the association emphasizing good sportsmanship, honesty, truthfulness and co-operotion, boosted its membership to 400, elftet aimezimi Miss Helen Komp, instructor in physical educc tion and ardent advocate of good sportsmansh and fair play. . . A smiling combination of pen poise, and personality, she is on idealist and 0 all round athlete who promptly inspires interest sports through her own zest and ability for then Very often and very easily mistaken for a hig school student herself, she is a native of Canto Ohio, and on alumna of Notre Dame College. Chief among her personal preferences are gol chocolate fudge sundaes, and beautiful flower A keen photographer and dancer, Miss Komp mc often be seen either snapping pictures or instruc ing a group of eager students in top or soci dancing. the largest enrollment in its history. A! members were eligible to try out for the var- sity squads chosen after each season's procu tice sessions. Awards were given to those who eornec points by making the teams and participating in the affairs of the association. The highest Dorothy Wolf Vice-President Mary Feran President 40 Constance Griffith Treasurer Gloria Karpinski Secretory