Proviso East High School - Provi Yearbook (Maywood, IL)

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WHAT MAKES THE WHEELS GO -ROUND? The auto-mechanics department goes modern in a big way with much new equipment, including motors, lathes, and a new Ford chassis. The boys themselves have fallen victims to that fickle femina. Fashion, and are now wearing new white overalls decorated with their own names in unmistakable characters. A new general course is offered the music-minded by R. Lee Osburn. It will include unison and chorus singing, vocal drill, and elementary theory, and will lead to later chorus work. Mr. Osburn believes this will prove a popular course, and that it will offer very valuable preliminary music training. The landscaping of the inner court has been com- pleted during the summer. Flagstone walks, grassy lawns, bright flowers, and evergreen shrubs make the scene an outstanding attraction of the school. A com- posite plan, embodying the best features of individual ideas submitted by botany students, was used. V. G. Catlin and Miss Grace McAuley, both of the science department, and A. J. Offermann, school custodian. supervised the work, which was financed by a fund left by the Class of 1930. NEW FACES: Sixteen new teachers have been added to the faculty, which now numbers one hun- dred sixteen. The commercial department ' s new instructors arc G. H. Parker, Arthur Krause, A. L. Fry, and Carl Fiske. Miss Charlotte Jackson is the new member of the home economics department: V. C, Lingren, of the science department: Alfred Sabin, of the manual arts department. The six new English teachers are Miss Pauline Croessmann, Miss Beatrice Yates, Miss Virginia Hayward, Miss Beatrice Bonine, who will also teach art, G. F. Haddock, and H. A. Graver. A short time later, Merrill Chris- topherson also joins the English department. Miss Gertrude Grisier will teach girls ' physical education: Selmer O. Storby will coach the varsity basketball team and teach boys ' physical education: H. L. Rider, new mathematics instructor, will also assist with athletics. Principal and Mrs. H. H. Eelkema are at home to faculty and board members on Sunday afternoon. September 1, at 41 6 South Second avenue. May wood. More than one hundred fifty teachers, board mem- bers, and wives take advantage of this opportunity to meet each other again after the long summer vacation, and to greet new members of the faculty. Light re- freshments served by girls of the office force conclude a pleasant afternoon. The cafeteria, formerly under the direction of the administration, receives a new manager in the person of Harry T. Smith. This addition to the business personnel of the school is deemed necessary since other duties of the administration have become more numerous. Forty-three upperclassmen, transplanted from vari- ous high schools, are grafted upon the Proviso tree. Of this number, fifteen are full-fledged seniors, and twenty-eight swell the ranks of the junior class. Real policemen, with shiny brass buttons on their coats, have been stationed at the intersections of Madison and Warren streets with First avenue to aid in handling the heavy traffic and to protect students. Special bulletins to the home rooms emphasize the value of co-operating with the officers to promote safety. NEW PLANS: The Board of Education begins negotiations for improvements early in the year. A WPA application is filed for a project that will com- plete the under-stadium and provide dressing room facilities and a concession stand. New practice fields, tennis courts, and a stadium tunnel are also included in the project. STEPPING STONES Page 20

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SEPTEMBER Summer light fades as the lights of the new year go up and the curtains part. The optimistic jangle of hundreds of alarm clocks sounds on the ether. Sleepy students roll over in bed, realize that today is Septem- ber 3, the first day of school. Somewhat reluctantly, somewhat eagerly, they converge toward the focus which is Proviso, 3538 strong. Take hundreds of frightened freshmen, ditto sophisticated sophomores, jolly juniors, and superior seniors: mix with a dash of carnival spirit, the joy of meeting last year ' s classmates, a recuperated faculty, and a new slant on life. The result is a perfect pic- ture of the pandemonium which reigns the first day of school. The new year opens with the traditional welcom- ing assemblies. In order to accommodate the increased enrollment, three are held. H. H. Eelkema, superin- tendent, greets the students. The auditorium once more resounds to the hearty strains of America, and On, Proviso. Freshmen gain their first knowledge of Proviso traditions, and upperclassmen renew old first-day customs. New features, new faces, new plans, new year! NEW FEATURES: Good news and happiness attend the marriage of Text Book to Rental Plan, with the hearty approval of Pocket Book. The bride is given in marriage by the matchmaker, the Board of Education, which engineered the whole affair. Under this new plan, students may now rent their texts at the rate of one dollar and a quarter per semester, a fraction of the amount needed to purchase books in former years. A new advisory system has been created. Instead of two deans, there are six advisors in charge of the students. The council consists of H. E. Carr, H. A. Graver, C. W. Failor, Miss Beatrice Yates, Miss Pauline Croessmann, and Miss Elizabeth Oakes. Small group conferences are planned to help the stu- Page dents and the new advisors become better acquainted with each other. The Proviso Blue Book, prepared by last year ' s junior and senior English classes, is distributed to all pupils: every one learns something about Pro- viso ' s standards and ideals he never knew before. Crammed full of the most interesting and accurate Provisoiana a student could wish for, the Blue Book is guaranteed to eliminate such queries as Where is the elevator? and How do I get up to the roof gym? The days of domination over the freshman are fast fading into oblivion, since it is now no longer necessary for him to address his queries to a sophomore. The College Division of Adult Education is begun at Proviso, September 9, with twenty-nine students enrolled. It is hoped that it will develop into a permanent and successful institution. R. W. Marshall, of the history department, is director: J. B. Davis, of the mathematics department, is dean. ADVISORS STANDING: Clarence W. Failor, Harold Graver. H. E. Carr. SEATED: Pauline Croessmann. Elizabeth B. Oakes, Beatrice Yates. 19

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Activities The limcliglit glows brightly on Proviso as the panorama of various activities begins to unfold. The first organization to get into ac- tion is the Senior Guard. Wearing white dresses and information badges, its mem- bers serve as information bureaus in the halls during the first week of school. It ' s hard to tell just who are the more bewildered, the fresh- men or the Guard girls, in regard to some of the ques- tions hurled at them. The Girls ' League board of directors is announced. Offi- cers for the coming year are: president, June Lueck: first vice-president, May Clement: second vice-president. Lesley McBride: secretary, Betty Young: treas- urer, Dorothy Peters. Lesley is the only junior officer, the rest of the girls being seniors. The committee chairmen are: finance. Gcraldine Rupietta: service. Elsie Dons: friendship, Charlotte Skop- nik: art. Alice Prine: publicity, Pat Hayes: social, Carolyn Fuller: program. Lorna Pollitz. Miss Elizabeth B. Oakes is once more sponsor. Officers of the German club, which meets Septem- ber 10, are: president. Abe Weinberg: vice-president, Leona Fritzler: secretary, Evelyn Lahm: treasurer, Eleanor Noffs. Miss Gertrude Schlueter and Ruben R. Kuster, as sponsors of this club, seek to devise ways of increasing interest in the study of German life, language, and literature. That ace of lucky days, Friday the thirteenth, is redeemed by two lucky events. The Proviso Pageant makes its 1935-36 bow to the public on this day. The well-known Voice of Proviso has a wardrobe of brand new headlines in the ragged style, and sev- eral new and sparkling features. Responsible for the weekly are Carolyn Bludorn and French Hardesty. co-editors: Floyd Leverette, Glenna Miller, James Ostler. Alice Prine, and Edna Ricker, assistant edi- tors: and a flock of more or less enterprising reporters. Bertha Sandro is advertising manager, and Henry Schmidt is in charge of the circulation. Big sisters meet little sisters when the seniors entertain tlie freshman girls at the annual party given by the Girls ' League. Sundry amateurs appear before THE BOARD TAKES TEA BIG SISTERS ON GUARD HOT OFF THE PRESS Radio Mike and King Gong in the auditorium: danc- ing and refreshments follow in the spacious gym. And all on the thirteenth. This party is mother to a brood of parties which the Guard will sponsor for the freshman girls through the year. The Senior Guard is made up of girls who act as big sisters to freshman girls, and help them become acclimated to high school life. Page 21