Rock Island High School - Watchtower Yearbook (Rock Island, IL)

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Thirteen courses in Latin, French, Spanish, and German are offered to students at Rocky High who are preparing for col- lege and to those desiring a cultural background. MALVINA CALOINE-B.A., likes work- ing in garden, teaches French and Spanish, dislikes curious questioning. ALVERDA DOXEY-M.A., Latin and English instructor, likes to play bridge, faculty adviser for Latin Club. VIOLET MUNTER-B.A., graduate of Augustana, interested in church work, faculty adviser for German Club, friendly.

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Talented Students Get Chance Looking over some student themes are the members of the English Magazine committee. Seated, Mary Ann Willett, Natalie Harris and Adelaide Gest. Stand- ing, Charles Johnson and Bob Bergstrom. When students are dejectedly laboring over es- says, themes, or any other form of prose or poetry, there is one thing they can remember that may compensate for all their efforts. And that is the English Magazine, with the purpose of affording them a chance to have their articles published. The articles to be published are chosen for their originality, cleverness, and interest, from the scores of class contributions. The job of selecting the Worthy originals falls upon the English Maga- zine committee, this year composed of five seniors. Articles from every field of imagination and every field of realism confronted the committee, and this year, many commemorating Rock Islandis Centennial year were written by students. Miss Sarah Laraway, editorial adviser of the magazine, Miss Carolu Schutz, circulation and financial manager, and David J. Borth, technical adviser, are the faculty sponsors of the magazine. The circulation of the English Magazine runs around 600 copies, and the contents include some 35 different student articles. The sponsors of the 1941 issue of the English Magazine are pictured below. On the left is Miss Carolu Schutz, who managed the business matters, and on the right is Miss Sarah Laraway, who supervised the editing of the magazine.

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ll ll l Parlez-vous Francais? 4 GMA Besides following with breathless anticipation the local Centennial news which has all les bour- geois of Rock Island interested, the French Club has been keeping up with the latest European status quos through its correspondent in unoccu- pied France. With the co-operation of the Quad- City French Club, information along cultural lines is absorbed the easy way, via a movie, La Vie To all those philanthropically minded students, the contribution box was passed, at the first of the month, for the benefit of their French protege. The results of this subtle suggestion were far above par. Another phase of activity finds all those concerned breathlessly awaiting the arrival of their weekly French journal, L'Amerique, which, in the language of a bewildered student, baffles, but intrigues. de Beethoven, an informal get-together at Mary- crest, and an upper-crust banquet at the LeClaire Sky-Hi. And getting down strictly to high-minded motives from those of the intelligentsia, a study of French etchings at the Davenport Museum and the reading of 4'Les Miserables and L'Abbe Constantini' are a propos to the matter at hand. ' Row 1. Charlotte Curtis, Blanche Geddes, Lelene Geller- man, Marivene Millett, Jeanne Herndricks, Jackie Campbell. Row 2. Frances Davis, Marilyn Johnson, Becky Morris, Miriam Cutkomp, J u n e Krueger, Whitey Barton, Calvin Nelson. Row 3. Barbara Hult, Adelaide Gest, Gerry Miller, Betty Ge- genheimer, Jeanne Banich, Cheral Welch. Row 4. Mar- jorie J. Anderson, Lois Sher- rill, Harry Althouse, Dick Cam- eron, Don Sutierrez, Ralph Bussard. Row 5. Steve Coin, Bill Carney, Darrel Weinstein, Bill Roth, Miss Malvina M. Caloine. Row 1. Bette O'Farrell, Dar- lene Crapser, Genevieve Van DeSample, Judy Mitchell, Mar- tha Johnston, Dottie Wilson. Verna Starofsky. Row 2. Charlotte Fells, Shirley Myers, Norma Snyder, Shirley Platt, Melissa Neal, Adele Page. Row 3. Carol Karr, Donna Miers. Bette Schneider, Ann Mihail, Peggy Eichelsdoerfer, Marjorie A. Brown, Vivian Shipman. Row 4. Gus Coin, Ruth Koch, Beverly Suglian, Natalie Har- ris, Kathryn Zarub, Phyllis Stoit. Row 5. Paul Pearson. Don Hubbard, Lyle Lynch, Carl Hartman, Kenneth Peterson, The French Club of- ficers are, standing, f Barbara Hubbard, vice- president, second se- mester, Geraldine Mil- ler, president, second semester, and Shirley Myers, vice president, first semester. Seated, Betty Schneider, vice president, second se- mester, and Donna Miers, vice president. first semester. Bill Owens. Vi