Riverside Brookfield High School - Rouser Yearbook (Riverside, IL)

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ACT.....QNE Earth's crammed with heaven and every bush afire with God. 0 And amid the flaming autumn colors of the Forest Preserve, the glowing banks of the Des Plaines River, and the wonders of the Chicago Zoological Park, the young people of Riverside and Brook- field trekked back to the Riverside-Brookfield High School last fall to delve into the depths of its studies, enter whole-heartedly into its activities, and be enriched by the friendships formed there. The autumn scene at R. B. H. S. shows the freshmen struggling to find their way around the building, the sophomores enjoying their new superior rank, and all students becoming acquainted with their new teachers, adjusting themselves to new courses, and eagerly following the fortunes of the football teams. SCENE ONE .... ...SEPTEMBER SCENE Two... .... OCTOBER SCENE THREE. .. ...NOVEMBER

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R. R. H. S. OPENS WITH RECORD ENROLLMENT The curtain rose on a crowded scene at Riverside-Brookfield High when the drama School Year of l936-37 opened on Sep- tember 7, l936, that warm autumn day when six hundred nine upper classmen trooped backed to R.B.H.S. and two hundred forty- two freshmen appeared, eager to join the ranks of high school students, making a to- tal enrollment of nine hundred forty-one, the largest in R.B.'s history. Skillful directing and a carefully planned sched- ule offset the crowding effect of the large number of students. The upper classmen, for the most part, have begun their school day at eight fifteen this year and have finished in the early afternoon. The lower classmen have come later in the morning and stayed until four fifteen. But the new schedule was not the only change that took place this year, four new teachers joined the faculty to take the places of teachers who were either married or accepted teaching positions in other schools. Miss Daum of the home economics department and Miss Pauline Smith of the com- merce department, Mrs. Orcutt of the English de- partment, and Miss Brainerd of the music depart- ment were new teachers whom we welcomed to our school this year. Mr. Carlson of the social science department was also made a regular member of the teaching staff. Did you know that Riverside was one hundred years old in 1936? Last October a week was set aside to celebrate this memorable occasion. River- side's birthday should be mentioned in this school- news review, because so many of our student body took part. One night the high school chorus to- gether with the combined choruses of the village put on an out-of-door musical program under the direction of Mr. Peebles. A colorful pageant por- traying Riverside's history was the climax of the birthday party. Some of the boys from school so realistically portrayed Indian braves that many a maiden's heart fluttered. The girls of the Usher Club donned old-fashioned dresses and did their bit towards making the Centennial a success by usher- ing at the various events. No convincing sales talks were needed this year to sell the dime-a-week Student Activity plan to the thrifty students. We have been fortunate in having some especially fine lyceums through our Student Activity Plan this year. Among them were Mr. White, a scientist who showed us beautiful colors painted by light, a marionette company who gave The Taming of the Shrew , Al Priddy, a circus man and animal trainer, who thrilled us with tales of animal heroism, amused us with tales of ele- phant's antics, and proved to us that Animals Can Think , and Von Hoffman, an explorer whose inter- esting lectures and moving pictures took us into the jungles of Africa. Men Against the Sea, a thrilling full-length movie, was quite an innovation to the Plan mem- bers. lt played to two packed houses during its one night stand here. One of the enjoyable assembly programs of the fall was the band and chorus concert. What was all the excitement here on the evening of October 27? Oh, it was only our parents trying to find their way to our classes on Open House night, the first meeting of the High School Associa- tion, when the teachers explained the type of Work done in the various departments and got ac- quainted with our parents. Now to turn to something lighter. A masquerade dance, held near the opening part of the season, was a huge success. Artists, hoboes, farmers, Spaniards, buccaneers, Dutch girls, baby dolls, boys with peaches and cream complexions and high heeled sandals, and girls with size twelve shoes and hairy chests, all these danced and made merry at the ball. Some of our best assemblies this fall have been pep meetings. Several plays depicting the R. B. students scrubbing floors and darning stockings to earn the twenty-five cents needed for an out-of-town football game ticket were especially amusing. One morning Mr. Haack's home room snake-danced into the auditorium sporting white paper soldier hats with Beat Downers in big blue letters on one side. They made them in home room and passed them out at the pep meeting. Of course we all marched to the game the next day wearing our cocky soldier hats, and what chance had Downers Grove whose students were without such equip- ment? Of course the most exciting incident in the autumn act of School Year l936-37 was the winning of the West Suburban Heavyweight Football Champion- shipl It was quite wonderful last year, when we shared the championship with our old rival Maine. But to have the championship, undisputed, was really enough to make any R. B. student crow. Oh, yes, it was really a double sweet victory because this was the first time in history that R. B. had cap- tured the heavyweight football championship. We may be small in size, but we make up for it in spirit. We had two big victory parades of about 200 cars each, one after winning from Maine, and another after our final triumph over Hinsdale. Our last game is to be remembered not only for our vic- tory, but also for the souvenir programs and a public address system. All this action and just think! 'This is only the beginning, folks! Only the beginningl' The rest of the drama stretches before us with activity galore.