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

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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

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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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award for 1500 points was a silver initialed pin. A blue and white chenile N. D. was given for 1000 points and a charm bracelet for 500. Another part of the physical educa- tion department was the newly estab- lished Leaders' Club. Members of this club were chosen from among ap- plicants who evinced special qualities of leadership, physical fitness and scholarship. Duties of the group consisted of assisting in the gym classes by teaching and demonstrat- ing tactics previously taught them in their weekly meetings. The urgent demand of our country for more extensive physical training programs was met by these two organ- izations in the programs they offered. Every season was crammed full of activities in which everyone interested had a chance for active participation. Many were the after-school sessions of volleyball, basketball, badminton and every other sport. Those who were new at the games soon found willing and able teachers in the more experi- enced players who later struggled to hold their own against their fast- progressing pupils. TOP, THE A. A. BOARD, STANDING: Mary Therese McNeely, Head of Special Events; Dorothy Goebel, Sophomore Repre- sentative; Virginia Kramer, Head of Badminton; Shirley More- house, Sophomore Representative; Gerry Avalon, Head of Base- ball; Dawn Phillips, Head of Volleyball. SEATED: Margaret Creadon, Head of Bowling; Mary Clare Gorman, Head of Ice Skating; Corinne Laurienzo, President of Whirlo; Eileen O'Leary, Head of Basketball; Jean Marie Cushing, Assistant Whirio President; Nancy Brady, Head of Riding. THIRD PICTURE, SENIOR AND SOPHOMORE LEADERS, STANDING: Dorothy Wolf, Eurydyce Compensa, Corinne No- vak, Mary Feran, Ruth Schumacher, Mary Jane Gut, Dorothy Goebel, Marilyn Gluvna, Sara Robusto. SEATED: Virginia Ver- hunce, Marjorie Palenschat, Eileen O'Leary, Agnes Kirchner, Eileen Gunther, Mary Therese McNeely. SECOND PICTURE, JUNIOR LEADERS, STANDING: Margaret Kirchner, Jeanette Artl, Virginia Bondi, Dawn Phillips, Rose- marie Morelli. SEATED: Anna Rita Rieman, Therese Cywinski, Jean Dick, June Gerak, Virginia Manthey. BOTTOM, the newly elected Freshman Leaders and the A. A. advisers, STANDING: Maryalice Ryan, Helen Rabatin, Sue Ochs, Dorothy Wank, Florence McBride. SEATED: Vonna Mobily, Mary Eleanor Koch, Sister Mary Paulette, Sister Mary Elise, Marie McCaffery, Rita English. 41