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

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COME AND GET IT CAFETERIA Between 11:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m., the thoughts of the many actors in the PAGEANT OF YOUTH turn to food. Meals are prepared in the cafeteria every school day by eight women employees, and served to more than three thousand students and faculty members by a personnel of twenty-four employees. Keeping abreast of the times, the cafeteria has installed a Welsbach Hot Zone food preparation unit, which prepares food in a modern and scien- tifically correct manner. This unit makes possible the preparation of eighty hamburgers at a time, more than twice the number possible under the old conditions. Another machine new in the cafeteria this year is the frozen malted milk machine, which permits the selling of a healthful food drink for five cents a glass. H. T. Smith, manager of the cafeteria, says of this drink, You will find our malted milk to be a balanced ration, packed full of energy and rich in vitamins. IANITORIAL-ENGINEERING STAFF The duty of the janitorial-engineering staff is to keep the scenes of the PAGEANT OF YOUTH attrac- tive, the stage properties in good working condition, and the school buildings heated to a comfortable temperature. Three groups of men compose this staff: the maintenance men, the janitors, and the boiler-room engineers. The maintenance men replace burned-out light bulbs, repair broken furniture, and take care of the many jobs necessary to keep up the general condi- tion of the school. The janitors keep the buildings clean by emptying waste paper containers, wash- ing windows, and sweeping the floors. In the boiler room, licensed engineers control the supply of heat to the whole school. During the year A. I. Offermann, superintendent of buildings and grounds, directed the work on the tennis courts, the walling in of the stadium under- structure, and the rehabilitation of the girls' gym- nasium. In the last project a new floor was put in, and the running track on the second floor removed. THE MEN BEHIND THE SCENES

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igagmntrg When kmghthood was 111 flower pageantry was also blossommg In the old world sense a pageant was a spectacular street processxon whxch was mounted on movable platforms sumlar to wagons The first recorded pageant 1n Eng land was 1n 1236 on the occas1on of a royal marr1age For a long mme pag eantry was an xmportant part of coronatxon ceremon1es Pageants such as the festrval at Kemlworth Castle 1n honor of Queen Elxzabeth were famous for the1r lav1sh splendor Modern pageants follow much the same pattern as d1d the earllest ones F1rst a herald appears and presents a prologue or overture wh1ch serves as an mtroductlon to the mam part of the pageant Then comes the first epzsode whlch IS a dramatlc scene dep1ct1ng some mcxdent relatxve to the subject of the ludes whlch mtroduce the next group of epxsodes Concludxng the pageant IS the epllogue or finale whxch m allegorxcal form summanzes the mam theme or moral of the pageant In the Umted States such festlvals as the Mardx Gras 111 New Orleans and the flower festxvals of Cahfornxa are descendants of the older forms of pag eantry In 1905 pageantry whxch had been l1terally k1lled by the C1v1l war was suddenly reborn Smce then pageants have steadlly become more popular unul now almost every c1ty and orgamzatxon celebrates centenmals and other xmportant occaslons wlth a pageant Provxso On Parade presented at the iieldhouse dedxcatxon last January was an example The Qlllass nf 1938 presents s ' ' 9 a , ' ' 3 pageant. Between every two episodes, there are symbolic or allegorical inter- . , , . . . . . , ' ' ' xc ' as ' , , .