Sabin Junior High School - Sabinite Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Page Thirty-six The Nineteen Thirty-three Graduation Number SABINITE ANNUAL june, I933 THE HIGHLIGHTS OF l93Z-33 A LOC Compiled by Min Annan and Pupil Committee September 12. Pupils of Sabin come gayly back to school. 28. World Series Game broadcasted in Sabin Auditorium. October 13. Miss Cummings gives radio talk on uMyths.n 15. Patrol boys see football game-U. of C. vs. Knox. 19. Metro Politan Opera Company pre- sents concert in Sabin Auditorium. 21. Gymkhana draws crowd. 24. G. A. A. organized 28 Mrs. Watson of the Art Institute talks to Sabin. November 4. Bow Day celebrated at Sabin. 9. Miss Annan presents Thanks Awfully and Lemme See Yo' Tongue. Miss McCormick gives Armistice Day Program. talk for eighth grade. Sabin vs. Farragut Basketball-Score: 11, Farragut 12. pupils go to World's Fair 10. 10. Radio 15. Sabin 17. Sabin Grounds. 22. Sabin vs. Farragut fBasketballJ Score, Sabin 20, Farragut- 8. 23. Sabin vs. Von Steuben. Score, Sabin 7, Von Steuben 7. 30. Sabin vs. Phillips Score, Sabin 10, Phillips 13. December 3. Court officers attended Red Cross Luncheon. 3. Sabin vs. Phillips. Score, Sabin 31, Phillips 36. 6. Character and Folk Dancing presented by Miss Byman's Dancing Club. 6. Sabin vs. Herzl. Score, Herzl 16, Sabin 14. 8. Sabin vs. Herzl. Score, Herzl 14, Sabin 13. 13. Broadcasts on Myths over WMAQ bv Miss Veatch. Sabin vs. Graham. Score, Sabin 26, Graham 14. 15. Sabin vs. Manley. Score, Sabin 24, 13. Manley 4. 16 and 17. Sabin pupils go to Yankee Circus. 19. Christmas in Many Lands fLee, Levin- son, Annanl. 20. Chamber of Commerce sponsors party for fiftv Sabin pupils. Dance in Sabin Gymnasium. . Sabin vs. Phillips. Score, Sabin 13, Phillips 13. School closes for Christmas Holidays. 21. 21 21. January 3. Sabin vs. Phillips. Score, Sabin 31, Phillips. 26. 7. West Section Chamnionshin Game- Snbin vs. Harper. Sr-ore, Sabin 26, Harper 15. 16. Defense Partv organized. 18 and 19. Minstrel Show. 22. Death of Mrs. McGrath. 23. Sabin vs. Herzl for Championship- Score, Sabin 13, Herzl 14. Graduation Prom. Volley Ball Game-208 vs. 209. 24. Graduation. 28. New Semester starts fContinued in Third Columnl 23. 24. REDUCTION OF EXPENDITURES lContinuedl to complete and efficient use of space avail- able. This statement is not true. Each semes- ter since 1924 the Bureau of Research and Building Survey in the oliice of the Super- intendent of Schools has prepared a short- age and surplus report listing every ele- mentary school building in the city with the following data regarding it: the pupil capacity: the number of divisions of pu- pilsg the number of vacant roomsg location of these vacant rooms in the building: the amount of seat shortage: how this shortage is taken care of, e.g., by portables by half- day sessions, double sessions, rotary divi- sions, or use of basement roomsg the num- ber of portables, and the pupil membership -separately, in kindergarten, grades 1 to 6, grades 7 and 8, and total. Similar semi- annual reports have been prepared for the junior and senior high schools. In addition the Bureau of Research and Building Sur- vey has on tile data regarding every room of every building in the city-its size, its shape, its location and its use. The exact location of every building is given in the directory. During the survey of the Chicago schools by the Columbia University staif, Dr. George D. Strayer stated that in more than fifty surveys conducted by him, he had never found a bureau from which he could obtain such complete data as at the Bureau of Research and Building Survey in the Superintendent's ofiice. Furthermore, on p. 7 of Vol. IV., of the Columbia University Survey Report, Dr. Strayer states that the work of the Bureau of Research and Build- ing Survey is in line with best thought and practice. Statement No. 2 With an increase of about 60,000 pu- pill faince 1925J there was provided an in- crease in seating capacity of 105,820 seats. This is true but misleading, for it is not the whole truth. In February, 1925, there was an accumulated shortage of 61,248 seats in the elementary schools alone- due to the fact that there had been very little school building construction during or following the World War, although the enrollment had increased by leaps and bounds. The 61,248 accumulated shortage, plus the 60.000 increase in pupils, make a total of 121,248 seats needed: only 105,820 seats were built. Furthermore, these 105,- 820 new seats are not a net increase. be- cause nineteen elementary school buildings and branches with 10,272 seats, have been abandoned since 1925. Statement No. 3 The new Lane technical high school huicling is a typical example of waste and extravagancef' lt is said fl, that the cost of construction is shocking-81,100 per pu. pil and f2l that school building costs in other cities range from a minimum of S250 per seat to a maximum of S400 per seat. The educational staff deplore the cost of the new Lane, but although the Superin- tendent's staff has no control over the con- tracts there are a number of factors aifect- ing this cost which should be generally known. First, the present Chicago Building Code governing school building construction is the most rigid in the country. Newer meth- ods and materials introduced in recent years have reduced building cost in other cities but are still not permitted under the provisions of our code. However, when we read of the dstruction of the school build- ings in southern California due to the re- cent earthquake we can readily appreciate February 7. Schools closed because of blizzard. 11. Miss Veatch talks over radio. Eighth grade volley ball tournament starts. 27. March 3. Teachers give tea to celebrate Miss Levinson's engagement. 9. Moving pictures of Byrd Expedition. 16. Hi-Y Club organized. 17. Hail and Farewell Party for Mr. Moynihan and Miss Dopp. Pupils strike for teacher's pay. 23. Mrs. Pattison's octette sings over sta- 20. tion WCFL. 23 and 24. Volley ball semi-finals. P. 2 vs. 110. 28. A. party for members 1206 vs. 28. Volley ball championship. 110 vs. 206. 110 receives medals and banner. April 2. Mr. Sanger taken ill. 3. Movies in Sound at Sabin. 4. Miss Irwin's Courtesy Pageant. Band concert at Sabin. ' Teachers and pupils stage giant de- monstration. 20. Miss Irwin presents Clean-Up Play. 25. 10. 15. Miss Levinson becomes Mrs. Preskill. May 3. Sabin plays first game of Central Sec- tion at Stuart Park vs. Franklin. 4. Miss Shanley leaves Sabin - Miss Weyer comes in her place. 4. Volley ball championship game. 8. Gilbert Salazar, student of Sabin, drowned in Des Plaines River. 9. Mr. Boehm gives play. 8th grade championship baseball game. 102 defeats 305, 14-13. 10. 11. 211 girls vs. 211 boys-score large- girls won. Mr. Moynihan umpires. 13. Sabin band plays for American Legion. 15. Teachers get three weeks pay. 16. Sabin sees American history slides. 18. Huge Youth Week Program by Phy- sical Education Department. G. A. A. Hike at Thatcher Woods. June 7 and 8. Graduation Play. CContinued from preceeding columnj a rigid code. For example, Los Angeles has been known as a city where the cost of school buildings has been exceedingly cheap, as low as 22c per cubic foot. Since the earthquake seven of the Los Angeles school buildings were ordered wrecked as a men- the Engineering News 1933, reports that 85 Long Beach valued at were estimated to be Chicago fire and panic 27. ace to pupils, and Record of March, school buildings in about 350,000,000 75'k damaged. In are our hazards. Second, contracts for the New Lane were let during the period of prosperity when materials and labor were at the highest peak ever attained. Union labor has been employed exclusively in the erection of Chi- cago school buildings. Even so, the best estimate of the final cost of the new Lane will be 31,050 not 51,100 per pupil. Al- though the rated pupil capacity of the new Lane is 6,191 the building will house in ex- cess of 8,000 pupils from the day it is opened for occupancy. On the basis of 8,000 pupils the construction cost is S812 per pupil. Third, Lane is a special technical school for boys, and the large amount of shop work requires special building facilities fContinued on Page 371

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june, i933 The Nineteen Thirty-three Graduation Number SABINITE ANNUAL Page Thirty-five DISHING THE DIRT FOR 306-105 By Ella Mae Jones The handsome Romeo, Walter Bednarz, has just become engaged to the society deb, Blanche Schor. Miss Schor, you recall, made her debut at the Ritzmore, the fa- mous hostelry owned by the equally famous Misses Kirsch and Schneider fEthel and Annette to yousel. Mary Pels has received her diploma from Normal College. It won't do her any good because she has eyes and ears only for Robert Daehler. That tall hero, Louis Chezewski, who starred on the Yale football team has re- turned from his vacation to finish his sen- ior year. It is rumored that he has been whispering sweet little nothings in the pink ear of Michalina Elash. Henry Sarnowitz, Henry Frietag, Ray- mond Rieck and Alexander Goldfisher have become prominent members of our great American Institute, Sing Sing. Naughty! Naughty! Mustn't play with other people's money. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Herdzina fWanda Zydorczak, that 1945 Olympic champj are going on their second honeymoon. Mr. Herdzina is in the art business with Roman Tomaszewski, who recently wedded Nora Schwed, his model. Emil Gadowsky and Teddy Makowan have agreed to disagree, so they left their slot machine business fiat. The world's greatest criminal defense lawyers, Gertrude Freeman and Evelyn Arkove, lost a case to Leon Perlmutter and Jennie Mostykowska, cooperative District Attorneys. They were defending Chester iBig Bossi Michalowski and two of his associates, Bill Lantz and Casimir Kali- nowski for eliminating Michael Tymuz for squealing. Roman Buola has gone into the fruit business. His favorite fruit is a peach. fJeanette Adamowskij. Mme. Lucy Rozewski, the designer of beautiful gowns, is said to have gone into bankruptcy. But you know how people can talk. The town's most prosperous bottle and cork makers fnot saying what's in the bot- tlej, Harry Lorrek and Edwin Sowinski, have been hitting the high spots with Hen- fContinued in next Columni 301 SABINVILLE--Continued get there rapidly. Off we glided to Jupiter. Why, a base- ball game was going onl Elizabeth Krebs was pitching, Victoria Danelick catching, and Grace Dingillo was at first baseg she tosses the ball, Leonore catches it,-why, it isn't a ball, it is a planetoid! As we didn't wish to interrupt their ex- citing game, we swiftly descended to Mars, expecting to see a battle there and we were not disappointed, for there was Ber- nice Rozner all dressed in helmet and shield, fighting Esther Jacobs, with Anne Novak and Lillian Shiffrin acting as refer- ees. Eva Sherman and Edythe Kutchinsky were out-talking each other. I was sure Eva would win. When we finally reached Uranus, whom should we see but lonesome Mrs. Wilmes looking around her as if she were lost. If she had only known years ago, what future mischief she was getting her girls into by arousing their curiosity in scientific phe- nomena, she might have arranged surface ears to run from planet to planet, so that they could visit each other without being blown from the mouths of cannon. Helen Krzanowski EINSTEIN? WHO'S HE? Clear a space in the Hall of Fame . . . shine up a couple of gold medals . . . dust off the laurel wreath . . . tell the General to fire a salute to Sabin's Room 306 We haven't yet acquired quite as many decorations as Colonel Lindbergh, but you'l1 have to admit that we've made a good start. For although our clam numbers only twenty-two, we shall lay claim, on gradua- tion day, to eighteen of the pins awarded for honors of various sorts. Heading the list of notables is our Jennie Mostykowska, who has the highest average of any graduate in the June 1933 class. She will be awarded a gold key for five semesters' membership in the Honor So- ciety. Gertrude Freeman and Wanda Zydor- sczak will receive gold pins for three and four semesters of membership respectively in the Honor Society: Michalina Elash and Evelyn Arkove get silver pins for one se- mester's membership in the Honor Society. Wanda, who already has more pins than a pincushion, is also about to add to her col- lection a gold pin celebrating her superior speed and accuracy in typing. Not to be outdone, Jean Adamowske, Evelyn Arkove, and Ethel Kirsch will re- ceive a silver pin in typewriting. We are so accustomed to honors and awards of merit in 306 that we are not even going to bother mentioning the names of the ten girls who have been recommended by Miss Wales for silver pins in library serv- ice. Nor do we intend to take up more of our reader's time with praises of our Ella Mae Jones, whose splendid acting you ap- plauded in the Sabin Minstrels of 1933 and in Who Wouldn't Be Crazy? Then there are the girls who starred in baseball and volleyball not to mention- but say, we could go on like this for another hour. We're good, we are. If you don't believe it, ask Miss Roehl, our home room teacher. 306- l05-Continued rietta Steinke and Lucille Klopotic. Interviewed Eleanor Horvath, our sweet little sweet pea and Frances Lukas who were co-starred in The Dance of the Cen- tury. Can they tap dance! Jimmie Maropoulas fThat man Jamesj has just socked Dorothy Silberberg cross- eyed. Jimmie, you recall, has replaced Clark Gable in the cinema world. Dorothy is his leading lady in reel life and real life. Edward Mix and Irving Klein, private detectives, are piling up millions looking for Gracie Allen's brother. Yeah, he's still lost. Sabin's own gal, Stephanie Szymanowski and Steve Polak got hitched this morning. When interviewing Mrs. Polak fif you pleasej she said she was the happiest girl in the world. Our American business man, Peter Michael, and his efficient secretary, Char- lotte Bademian, have gone into business- well, that's their business. Virginia Jazwiec has returned from Eu- rope with her financee, Fred Bura. Mr. Bura was in Vienna studying medicine- and Virginia. Henrietta Novak has just told Maurice Lawrence that she was free, white and twenty-one and gave him back his ring. So that's why Maurice was looking like a sick bloodhound. SABINVILLE BEQUESTS JUNE, 1933 Now, listen dear schoolmates, and you shall all hear What to do with our treasures when we dis- appear, For surely, ere now, most all of you know That soon to Big Tuley we'e planning to go. To calm Mr. Moynihan, head of our school, And lloving Miss Taylor, who enforces each ru e, We leave model students who always obey, And try mighty hard to please, day by day. To tiny Miss Cummings, so small and so sweet, We leave a step ladder to raise her three feet, That over the heads of the students most tall She can see and can talk without reaching at all. To dear Mrs. Wilmes, in Three Hundred One, We will other gym groups just chuckful of fun, Small groups to come promptly to order when told With no more than forty-eight members en- rolled. We have left Mr. Fisher a group that will work, An artistic young bunch that never will shirk But splash on its rhythm without ever a stop, Until it's so brilliant it ranks at the top. For Monsieur Jacques LaForge in Three 0 Three A class speaking French far better than we, Knowing how to decline every nown and each verb. But whose gab and disorder may always be heard. To patient Miss Larson we wish to be- queath A class that's on top and never beneath, A group that on fractions and formulae dotes And factors the hardest equations she quotes. To 'cute Mrs. Mayer, of etiquette fame, We leave a fine club to honor her name, Who'll always remember when serving a guest Just what to do, and why it is best. There's Miss Marie Sullivan in Three Hun- dred Four, The one who likes clippings and pictures galore, With radio, wireless and what-not to scour, We leave her to follow the News of the Hour. For jolly Miss Lee, so sweet and so small, Experimenter, scientist, friend of us all, We leave jig-saws, and checkers, and chess, and all that, Tall boys, and small boys, and thin boys and fat. Good-will and good government, both of renown, We leave to the coming 9A's of our town, That all our ideals may be carried on still, To keep up the standard of Fair Sabinville. Sabinville Graduates

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june, I933 The Nineteen Thirty-three Graduation Number SABINITE ANNUAL Page Thirty-seven REDUCTION OF EXPENDITURES lContinuedl which make it more expensive per pupil tremendous demand for this type of educa- tion, particularly from poor boys. In 1920 the enrollment at Lane was 1,5785 in Feb- ruary, 1933, it was 8,084. At the present time this great army of pupils is in school under unbearable housing conditions-at- tending a main building with only 1,600 seats four branch buildings, two rented halls, five public park field houses, and six- ty-three portables. ls the statement true that the cost of school buildings in other cities ranges frow- a minimum of S250 to a maximum of S400 per seat? This statement must have referred to rural academic high schools-not to met- ropolitan technical high schools. Even so, the New York State Educational Depart- ment states, It is safe to say that per pupil costs of 5200 to 5400 for high school buildings are entirely impossible. We do have in rural sections of New York State many combined elementary and high school buildings of small capacity and rather mid- dle age construction that range from 5200 to 5500 per pupil. These small rural high schools have an average enrollment of less than 200 pupils each. The statement that 5400 per pupil is the maximum cost of school buildings in other cities does not check with the facts as the following table shows: Schools City Cost per Pupil Brooklyn Technical High School, New York, N. Y. ............................ 81,052 Textile High School, New York, N. Y. .............................................. 1,054 Gorton High School, New York, N. Y. ......... ................. .................... 1 , 094 Longfellow Jr. High School, New York, N. Y. .................................... 1,132 Roosevelt High School, New York, N. Y. .... ........................... .... ........... 1 , 0 68 Newton High School, Newton, Mass. 1,745 Columbia High School, South Orange, N. J. ..... . ....... . .................. 1,100 Inness High School, Montclair, N. J... 1,328 The costs of these buildin ran as high cost KS as 77c per cubic foot. The average of the last ten high schools erected in New York City is 53c per cubic foot. The New Lane cost is 50c per cubic foot. A survey by the Board of Education at Yonkers, N. Y., which included 107 school buildings in 35 states, revealed that only 38 buildings cost less than 5400 per pupil. Statement No. 4 The statement has been made that the school tax levy was less drastically reduced than the city tax levy. For this statement to stand up with a semblance of accuracy, it is necessary for the present appropriations to be compared with those of a particular year 119301 when the school levy was the lowest and the city levy the highest of the past five years. That is both unfair and misleading. In 1930, the educational rate was so low that a bill had to be rushed through the state legislature in a special session to keep the schools from closing. On the other hand, the city corporate rate was adequate in 1930 and was later reduced by the legis- lature. The fact is that the school appropriations have been cut far more drastically than appropriations of other local governments. The school building fund levy was reduced from 519,000,000 to 52,500,000 in 1932 616,500,000 reductionj and it was almost completelv wiped out in 1933 618,680,000 tContinued in next columnl Last Will and Testament of the Graduating Class We, the graduating class of June '33, hereby declare this our last will and testa- ment in the presence of Time, the Master of all our Destinies. Clause I-To Mr. Moynihan the honor of having seen his first graduating class through safely. Clause II-To Mr. Boehm, a fencing part- ner that is shorter than Blackie lalias Clark Gablel. Clause III-To Miss Veatch, a club of re- porters who will get news and news and plenty of it. Clause IV-To Mrs. Pattison, an alpha- bet of more letters to take off for de- portment. Clause V-To Miss Northgraves, a So- cial Hour class that will not be made up of dumb clucks. Clause VI-To Miss McGurk, a 9A class that will hand its Career Books' in on time. Clause VII-To Miss Wier, a class that she will not have to keep 10 minutes from lunch. Clause VIII-To Miss Manton, a Latin class that won't translate too freely. Clause IX-To Miss Kelly, a class who will know the difference between mono- mials, binomials, and trinomials. Clause X-To Miss Skudnig, a class that will place on fold and cut according to in- structions. Clause XI-To Mrs. Edmonds, a class that will clean up the sink at the end of the hour, and put the boards away. Clause XII-To the freshies, the destruc- tion of all red ink. Clause XIII-To Miss Reynick, the joy of having an automatic robot to run all her errands. Clause XIV-To the 9B's the dignity of being Qbecomingj 9A's. THE GRADUATES. This is to certify that on the 16th day of May 1933, A. D. the last will and testa- ment of the graduating class of June '33 has been signed in my presence. Josephine Duda. Witnesses: Shirley Maizel Mary Crouse QContinued from preceeding columny reductionl. Even the educational fund levy was reduced more severely than the city corporate levy. On the basis of the statutory rates, fixed by the state legisla- ture and now in force, the city corporate fund was cut from 542,000,000 to 540,000,- 000, and a reduction of only 52,000,000. The educational fund levy was cut from 550,500,000 to 544,500,000, a reduction of 56,000,000, three times the city cut. In the light of these facts, it is evident that the schools received very unfavorable treat- ment as compared with other public func- tions. The school budgets for 1932 and 1933 were reduced 525,000,000 and 530,000,000 respectively below the 1931 budget-a two- year reduction totaling 555,000,000 No other local government can match this rec- ord of retrenchment. The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. 2lI GIRL BORN IN IAPAN Autobiography of Larissa Kostenlro I was born in Tokio, Japan, on the night of June 10, 1917. My father, who was a Colonel and Commander of the Russian Imperial Mountain Artillery was at that time in the diplomatic service of Russia in Japan. I lived in Japan until I was nearly four years old. For a time we lived in a house in Tokio built in the Occidental style. Then we moved to a low rambling Japanese type of house with a big garden around it. The garden was full of flowers, cherry trees, for which Japan is noted, peach trees, and had a small Japanese shrine placed in the middle of some maple trees. In the summer we went to the seashore to Kamakura, where the biggest Buddha in the world stands, or to Oiso, where at times you can see the fishermen bring in a whale. Then in August, 1920 we went to Yoko- hama where we lived for a few weeks be- fore leaving for the United States. On the way we stopped at Honolulu for a short visit, then went on to San Francisco. Until we came to America, I spoke only Japanese. I started to go to school about a year after our arrival, and gradually learned the English language. We lived in Chicago, and here I started my school career. Then to New York and later to Washington, D. C. where we lived for about a year, returned to New York and remained there almost three years. At that time my father was a member of the Scientific Staff of the American Geographical Society of New York and went to South America for several months. While he was there he went over the ex- isting maps of Chile, Uraguay, and the Ar- gentine, and made the necessary changes no bring them up to date. Upon his return we moved to Washing- ton, D. C. again. Life in Washington was full of interesting happenings. We went to the egg-rolling at Easter on the White House grounds, to all of the many places of interest in the city, one of the most beautiful in the world. We went up many times to the top of the Washington Monu- ment from which you can see the whole of Washington and some of Virginia and Maryland on a clear day. We went to the Lincoln Amphitheater and the buildings of Congress. Washington is full of small parks and squares with famous statues of noted men. In the autumn of 1928 we returned to New York where my father died on August 21st. After his death I came to Chicago, and my brother went to school in Connecticut. He joined me a year later in Chicago, where I attended the Wicker Park and Columbus schools. In September, 1931 I came to Sabin and after having passed an interesting and valuable three years, I am now g'raduating. BIOGRAPHY OF PEARL SPIEGEL, By Marshall Zeman, 208, 8A Pearl Spiegel was born May 25, 1919. She entered the LaFayette School at the age of six. After eight years of good work there, she was ready to advance into a higher institution of learning. It was indeed her good fortune to be able to transfer to Sabin where she chose the Latin course. Pearl intends to go to the Roosevelt High School where she will continue her Latin course. When Pearl completes the three years there, she intends to enter the Illinois Pharmacy School, as her ambition is to be- come a Registered Pharmacist.