Pius XI High School - Journal Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Up Beat One of the best smooth mstrumentals to h1t the stores lately IS by Llonel Hampton and ltS called Mldmght Sun The melody ltself has been recorded very well by Les Brown and the great June Cr1sty Hampton really puts everythmg onto th1s one and xt IS a must for collec tors of mstrumentals and dance muslc A new album by Hamp Waxlln at the Tr1anon conta1ns such master pleces as Perdxdo and Mark VII Whlle we re on the subject of the vlbraharp I mxght as well plug one of Hamptons most terrliic recordmgs It s called Hamp s Boogle Woogle and It features Hamp ton Ray Brown Herb Elhs Oscar Peterson and the great Buddy Rlch on drums An old Ellington Long Play Ellington Uptown CColumb1aJ IS startlng to regam 1ts long lost popularlty The tunes mclude Take the A Tram Ccomplete wxth Betty Roches completely gone two chorus vocall Per dxo Cfeaturmg the fantastlc hlgh note techmques of Cat Anderson on trumpetl Skln Deep CLou1s Bellson dolng a hlgh speed four mlnute drum soloj and The Moochle If you l1ke Jazz at It s best this IS for you For those of you who llke the sweet and cool Jazz there s always Autumn ln New York by Sal Salvxdor and hls boys The s1de features a vxbes gultar duet on the hauntingly beautlful melody If you l1ke music to klck around a lot theres a com pletely gone sax solo on Blow Llttle W1ll1e by Llttle Wlllle on an off label Try the Jerry Gray album files for one called Flag Waver There s great drummmg by Buddy Rlch Whlle you re ln the record shop llsten to Lester Leaps In wlth Lester Young and hlS crowd Charles La Force 314 These Angels Were Devzls Well make Plus too pooped to pop' Such was the war chant of a group of Raclne St Catherlnes cheer leaders We glowered darkly at them as we slowly threaded our way through hostlle terrltory and captured s1x seats on the thlrty yard hne To the rlght our gladla tors were already crashlng helmets wlth thelr red and black garbed foes Suddenly through the shower of confettl we saw that the pass from center was too h1gh' The klcker could not handle It and the so called Angels recovered h1s fumble The loyal Plonxans let out a collectlve groan that no doubt could be heard by the good nuns at home We grltted our teeth and sat through the rest of the game IH a daze while St Kates boys scored five touch downs m rapid successlon We came out of lt long enough to cheer Francis Mmette along h1s 79 yard gallop to pay d1r After the game we wearlly trundled aboard bus No 770 only to be trundled off agaln Thls bus was bemg used by our fallen heroes R1d1ng home we were serenaded for the full 30 mlles by four freshmen s verslon of Someone ln the crowd yelled Yay yay for Plus Thls added to the general atmos phere of the day and caused us to admxt that we were mdeed too pooped to pop' Patrlcla Grassel, 212 Me? Th1s IS gomg to be a you asked for 1t type of thlng Of course Im Just gomg to school because I have to and I really hate school and all the teachers ln xt Im takmg the easlest course I can thlnk of and study IS somethlng I never do My homework IS slopped out the qulckest and easlest way I know how and causmg dlsturbances and an tagonlzmg teachers are my favorlte pastlmes I cheat whenever I get the chance and get away wlth whatever I can When school IS out I run for the nearest door knock1ng down people and scatterlng books and papers all over the stalrs When I get to my car I start the motor w1th a roar that sounds l1ke a duet composed of a Sabre Jet and Hurrlcane Carol Takmg off ln a cloud of oxlsmoke gravel and dust I send a score of mnocent students runnxng for thelr 11ves as I try to set a new speed record from school to home d1sregard1ng all traffic laws and road courtesy 1n the attempt Work IS a word I know httle about and I do so only when 1n dlre need of money My mghts are spent 1n beer Jomts wlth a gang of ruthless Juvemle delxnquents who are contlnually startmg gang fights and beatmg up old ladles Home IS nothlng more to me than a place to eat and sleep and I do l1ttle or nothlng to help my parents A 11v1ng home 1n the wee hours of the mornlng I throw the nelghborhood 1nto a state of pandemomum as I come rap pmg down the block presslng 5 000 R P M 1n second gear Thls IS me Jerry Venhaus 302 Sllhouette Lone stock standmg stralght and bare Framed before blue fire Cold and trembllng Bleak alone Autumn at dusk Janet Kessemch 204 - - ' 1 u ' ' YY ' , . , - ll ' ' Y ' YY ' - Y Y ' ll ' Y! KK YY , . . , . . . Y , . . Y fl Y I ' YY ' Y Y Y 'Y Y ' CK ' YY Y Y ' ' KK I Y ' YY ' Y fl ' 1 . ,, . . . . Cl YY ll ' YY ' Y . . . H - Y - v Q . ,, . . . , . . . , . , - - - U Y ll ' YY ' , 1 . Y - . . , . Y . . . , U - I i , n 11 u - - - 1: u ' . , , - - 11 . . . . u 11 2 ' , ' 1 ' ' xc , . . y, n u Y a ' ' , . . ' 1 Y g . . Y u 1 - YY ' ' ' Y Y ' . , . . g A r- Y 4 n 1 n . . , ' ' ' , . . . . . ' 1 . . , ' t ' 0 , . - 1 1 , . 1 ' n ' - 1 4 - 1 YY ' - 1 1 - 1 - . . . . . ' 9

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The Me That Is Actually there are two me's, one of which is the me that is, the other is the me that was and will be. The latter is my past and my future. Since I'm too young to have much of a past, and old enough to know that I can't predict my future, I shall speak of the me that is. I am me. I guess the me that is, is pretty average, if anyone can be so called. I have idiosyncrasies that would be con- sidered just that by most of the people, and faults that would amuse some of the people, and theories and ideas that would shock a few of the people. I consider baseball the ideal way to go pleasantly batty, if one is so inclined. I am so inclined. When the Braves saddle a kill or dispatch a clincher into the bleachers, I lose my inhibitions somewhere along the line, and really stomp up a storm, so to speak. Often I wonder whether the me that is at the ball park shouldn't be less prone to such vociferous praise of the pitcher with the spitter. But its fun! The tension the thrills the beauty of the ball game give me a feeling of being almost complete So why shouldn t the me that IS give a yell once in awhile? I also love writing Cwhen Im 1n the moodj singing books foggy nights rainy days school arguments the thought of going to college planes sports and every once in a while there come into my life boys who get boring after a few weeks They Just dont know how to think' I maintain lndlfference to vanilla ice cream dancing horses alligator shoes and blonde members of the mascu line element They Just dont phase me I absolutely abhor to the point of whatever point one usually abhors to Communists Democrats Socialists and kQQasllf ' A Labor Unions. I can be very hard to get along with on some of these points. I have any number of moods, all of which I am pro- ficient in portraying. I can be happy, grim, sad, and downright miserable depending on the occasion, the de- mands of society, or what side of the bed I got up on. That pretty much covers the me that is. Like I said, I'm pretty average. Most likely, I'll leave the world with- out pomp and join the earth's alumni in the hereafter without causing much of a stir. But, when I get there, I'll be able to look back and say that I had an awful lot of fun being me, even considering the times when everything seemed just a little bit out of focus with happiness. Judy Werner, 212 N I I , t,.! r xt X t M,,.,, I b Q I 1 I I A 35, I IAA , I -0, 1 T it 1 4

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Is Plus a school of CIIQUCSQ Yes th1s school IS a school of cl1ques but 1n a school thls slze It lb entlrely unavoldable When I g1adu ated from hlgh school there were 18 of us ln the entlre class and we were Just one llttle cl1que and we all knew each other In a school of 1 900 th1s IS 1mposs1ble so the maJor1ty of stu dents gather a group of fr1ends around them A cl1que IS not bad unless It 1nter feres Wlth school Splflt smce a cl1que should be a cog ln the mach1nery oper atlng the school CIIQUSS cease to be beneficlal when they become uncharl table to others A cl1que does not have to be frxendly to all but It has to be charltable to all Mr Rlegert I belleve there are few actual cl1ques at P1us Naturally there are varlous groups w1th1n our school but all of us certa1nly couldn t go around as one crowd We ve become too large At a blg gathermg such as a dance however I don t th1nk there are any nlcer k1ds than those at Plus when lt comes to belng frlendly and assoclatlng w1th others from outslde thexr own groups or from dlfferent schools Jan Kessemch 204 No all the glrls and boys I know make fr1ends w1th everyone not Just certaln people I myself don t belong to a cl1que and I know lots of other klds who dont Sandy Gengler 403 I th1nk there are a number of cl1ques ln school, but none are too bad People who hang around cl1ques are elther weak or they try to act blg Ronald Groeschl Plus to a certam extent IS a school of cl1ques They are qulte prevalent among the upperclassmen but I do not know much about the fresh1es and sophs They are good 1n some ln stances because the partlcular groups do a lot for the school betterment In most cases they are only concerned w1th the lnterest of those 1n thelr 1m medlate group For th1S reason they serve as a source of unhapp1ness for many students Marge Powers 202 Yes I th1nk that Plus IS made up of a serles of cl1ques Personally I th1nk that there are too many Thus some of the klds who are not popular are left out of group act1v1t1es If T ey Say . I th1nk that our school has only the normal amount of cl1ques Ive notlced many new klds who were taken lnto the crowd wlthout much trouble It 18 only normal to have cl1ques because certain types of peo ple stick together These people usu ally have the same types of charac ters and therefore get along together very well Rlchard Schnelder 208 6 we could ellmlnate the cl1ques of the school, I th1nk we all could get along a lot better Dlck Burgmeler 212 Yes I th1nk there are cl1ques at P1us It IS so hard for a new student 1n school to make frxends and to be fectly good when you re on the 1ns1de lookmg out but I certa1nly don t envy the pos1t1on of one on the outslde look 1ng 1n Unfortunately many people Slmply dont rate a H1 or an 1nv1 tatlon to Jo1n the crowd so they re left at the s1del1nes and I don t th1nk there 1S anythlng more p1t1ful than a k1d lost and hurt lookmg try 1ng to find a place and people to eat Wlth 1n the cafeterla Dona Hefter 202 I don t exactly thlnk the school IS a school of cl1ques but I do th1nk that there IS a partlallty to the frlends you plck Although you find this ln all schools lt doesn t help the school at all Kay Graeff 404 There are groups of CIIQUGS 1n PIUS xn my op1n1on There are cer tam groups that th1nk they own everythlng If a person doesnt get along or lsn t popular he has hardly any chance of gettlng 1nto a group Carolyn Stublnskn 106 D , , 9 ' 7 , - 7 Y . . . , 0 , 'Tiki' Q I . . , 9 ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 . , , 9 . 1 I l , . . , . 1 1 3 ' . . . , , ' accepted, it's a shame. It's all per- 9 1 , 9 - - . 1 , D 1 1 , ' 7 o 9 . - ' Y ' Y Ki 'li ' '- . . . , , . . , , . . . . . t . . , - . ln . ' , . . ! I 5 . a , I I f 9 0 , 0 . 1 n ' a ' ' - - 1 . . , , ' 1