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

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The Latin club, composed of advanced Latin students, is not content with going back 100 years into the past as the Centennial observers have been doing. Under the sponsorship of Miss Al- verda Doxey, they delve into the realms of Cicero and the days of the Roman Empire. Latin plays, discussions of cultural material and a picnic for next yearls members featured the bi-weekly meetings this year. Because the Centennial theme has been in the limelight many of us are realizing, for the first time, how interesting are the traits of people whose ideas and customs are not like our own. German club members discovered this long ago. They use their bi-weekly meetings to acquaint themselves with German culture and language. You don't have to take German to belong to the club. There is only one thing required of it's members and that is a genuine interest in the culture and language of Germany. LATIN CLUB Row 1. Mary Sandberg, Betty Terry, Verna Starofsky, Emma Franck. Row 2. Ruth Koch. Mar- garet Kline, Kathleen Schmiers. Laurel Blumberg. Row 3. Ted Grevas, Phyllis Volkmann, Edwin Cohen, Harley Gross. Miss Alver- da Doxey. GERMAN CLUB Row 1. Miss Violet Munter, Martha Gundelach, Dorothy Har- togh, Bob Van Zandbergen. Row 2. Nathan Avrick, Arlene Eckhart, Edward Lemon, Gene Heber, Charles Marshall. The Latin club officers are Betty Terry, program chairmang Ruth Harriett Koch, president: and Laurel Blumberg, secretary-treasurer.

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The latest Rock Island Centennial news flashes . . or Spanish-Mexican-Pan-American situation . . . one is as familiar as another to the very intellectual Spanish classes. What with joining the student Pan-American League, a first-hand acquaintance with affairs has been developed with their friends south of the border fto coin a phrasej. Then, too, the synthetic Spanish speak- HZ, Habla Espanol? ' Glad ers have gone the way of all cinemaddicts with three all-Spanish movies, one uMeXico Lindo , another, a double-feature bill, '6Carmelita and This Spanish Speaking World , and last, a full- length flicker with all the trimmings at the Moline Orpheum theater. However unintelligible, the movies are enjoyed for their atmosphere and picturesque method of presentation. Row 1. Lovena Clark, Zal- man Gellerman, Dorothy Katz, Verna Starofsky, Arleen Die- rolf. Row 2. Seymour Dal- koff, Alice Levin, Marvin Pes- ses, Bobby Vernon, Florence Gaylor. Row 3. Dick Hearn, Barbara Sala, Arlyne Wiss, Bill Bradley, Jean Saltzman. Row 4. Nick Parashis, Jack Payne, Howie Dort, John Frost, Arnold Karon. Row 1. Kermit Kelly, Mar- jorie Joseph, Evelyn Barch- man, Inez Dobbs, Anne Caleo, Beverly Wiesman, E d w a r d Schweiss. Row 2. Phyllis Fo- bian, Mary' Wells, Elizabeth Baumann, George Dunlop, John Whisler, Bernice Jaeke. Row 3. Adelaide Gest, Barbara Farrar, Don Gipple, Dorothy von Ach, Betty Lou Ellinwood, Jack Manglesdorf, Jean John- son, Row 4. Wayne Burton, Natalie Harris, Jim Bruner, Bill Millett, Harry McCarty, Ray Mahlo, Miss Malvina M. Caloine. Row 5. Bill Schro- der, Bill McCaffree, Bill Car- ney, Charles Erickson, Ray Laisner, Robert Jordan. The Spanish Club of- iicers are, seated, Lu- cille Vernon, secretary. second semester, Arlyne Wiss, president. second semester, and Alice Le- vin, secretary, Hrst se- mester. Standing, Jack Payne, president, First semester, and Bill Brad- ley, treasurer. Another link in the 1941 chain of events was the super-deluxe banquet for all quad-city Spanish classes at the Lend-A-Hand Club, introducing the new theory of quantity and quality. An added attraction was the trip to the Davenport Museum for Peruvian art study purposes. A paper in the strictly accepted Spanish form is another class- room innovation which seems to follow the for- mula, don't get it write, just get it written, and includes, of course, a maximum of typographical GITOTS.

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,if A, Business training in accounting, shorthand, typing, and the operation of business machines comprises the Work of the com- mercial departrnent. ln the Spring senior commercial students are placed in down-town offices for a period of two weeks and thus are given practical experience in the business world. CHARLOTTE STONE-B.A., quiet, in- structor of accounting. MARTHA MILLER-B.A., hobby is lecting antiques, once wanted to come an artist, likes tomatoes. ffm 4 45-' 'CMJ' ,. 7 .AQ ,,.f .vi .1 Q 2' w .1 wil? I .ri slid'-3 ,ff ,mf .. ,, . , ,Mrs it col- be- CARRIE EKBLAD-B.A., head of Com- mercial Department, stately, hobby is her new home, likes to travel. JOHN HUCKINS-B.A., hobby is his garden, likes to play golf, friendly.