South High School - Tiger Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Swedish Students Act in OWI Film To Be Shown in European Countries LIGHTS! Camera! Action! • The scene is Miss Signc Bostrom’s Swedish classes. The event is the filming of the Office of War Information picture showing how the Swedish people of Canada and the United States have adapted themselves to New World conditions. The OWI camera crew, sent from New York City, spent five hours at South High School filming the Swedish classes in action. Several scenes featured Patricia Carlson, eleventh grade student of Swedish ancestry. One week later, the OWI film crew completed their picture by photographing Miss Ingrid Bergman, Hollywood star, who came to Minneapolis to be filmed in a sequence at the Lindstrom farm located sixty miles north of the citv. In her role as American farm girl of Swedish ancestry, she tells of the achievements of Swedish Americans in the Northwest. The OW I will not show the film in this country; it will be sent directly to Sweden as a part of its program for knitting international goodwill and counteracting Nazi propaganda in neutral countries. But participation in an OWI film does not mark the full extent of Svithiod Club services. Its members have given substantial contributions to the Red Cross, to the South 1 ligh book drive for soldiers, and to the defense stamp program. “Svithiod Serves” is the slogan adopted by the club in connection with its program to serve South by helping the teachers and janitors during the present emergency. Ever since the Svithiod club was organized in 1919, it has upheld the fine heritage that belongs to all Swedish-Americans. Meeting every second Tuesday, the club studies the customs and contributions of Sweden. Miss Bostrom, Svithiod adviser, is of Swedish descent. She has been the adviser of the club in the absence of Mrs. Ruth Peterson. Miss Bostrom, who is regularly a member of the social science department, is a graduate of the University of Chicago. By providing films, exhibits, and cxplana- • C 203 XJi

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Six G. A. A. Girls Earn 1250 Points; Names Are Inscribed on Silver Cup PATTY Ticknor, Barbara Nordstrom, Margaret Yiruni, ivian Olson, Lois McHough, Phyllis McKnight — these girls, as members of the G.A.A. at South, were honored bv having their names inscribed on a silver cup. This award was bestowed upon them after their having acquired 1,250 points in G.A.A. activities, and better than a “C” average in academic work. A few of the G.A.A.’s outstanding activities in the spring are ping-pong, badminton, tennis, horseback riding, and soft-ball tournaments. These games arc played after school on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Many of the girls belong to the hiking group that meets each Sunday morning for breakfast hikes which are highlights of the club’s activities. Last semester, the “A senior girls were more active than the other girls; however, this semester, the sophomore girls are the outstanding members. Letters will be awarded this semester to Betty Jo Balcom and Marjorie Johnson, seniors, for having acquired 600 points. Officers of G.A.A. last semester were the following; Patty Ticknor, president; Vivian Falkman, vice-president; Marilyn Keating, secretary; Donna Ticknor, treasurer. Officers this semester are Betty Jo Balcom, president; Marilyn Keating, vice-president; Donna Ticknor, secretary; Martha Hcnncssy, treasurer. G.A.A. is under the supervision of Mrs. Mabel Tangcn and Mrs. Eunice Nyquist, Mgvm” instructors at South. Mrs. Tangcn believes that probably the most outstanding and beneficial quality of this club is that it provides the opportunity for girls to become intimately acquainted with so many girls with similar interests. G.A.A. is a club in which informality is predominant. This club provides a healthful and enjoyable pastime for its members. FIRST ROW: Nordstrom. Keating. Me-Knight. Ticknor. Jones, Ticknor, Falkman; SECOND ROW: Solberg. M.tchell. Olson. Mellgrcn, Simcoi; THIRD ROW: Davis. McDonald. Dicks. Johnson, Gardner, Wan-berg, 8alcom; FOURTH ROW: Banham, Beatty, Green, LaMont, Berg. Virum. Ku-bias. Opsal. CI'JD

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tory material for Swedish classes and clubs in Minneapolis, the Swedish Bureau of Information helps to give the group an idea of the economic and social progress in Sweden. Under the supervision of Miss Bo-strom, the South I ligh classes have visited the American Institute of Swedish Arts, a museum that is the exhibit center of the Northwest. Recently I)r. Hclgc Kbkeritz, visiting professor of English at the local University, was the honored guest at a joint meeting of the foreign language and English classes, sponsored bv the Svithiod Club. Dr. Kbkeritz is regularly professor in English literature at the University of Sweden. His interesting talk included facts about the school system and the government of Sweden under the present administration. South’s Swedish classes have noted that the interest of Sweden in world progress has found its expression in the five Nobel prizes which were awarded annually until the beginning of World War II. These prizes, given to the best piece of creative work in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and the promotion of world peace, have been made possible bv the fact that the great Swedish industrialist, John Nobel, left his huge fortune as a fund, the interest on which is to be given yearly to those five men or women whose achievement is greatest in one ot the five designated fields of world progress. The first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature was Selma Lagerlof, a Swedish novelist whose works are studied and read by South High classes. The students have found that her inspired books, legends, and novels, written in a poetic and romantic style, are, however, distinctly Swedish in both contents and feeling. The works of Eric Axel Karlfclst and Verner von I leidenstam, other Swedish winners of the Nobel Prize of Literature, have been read by members of the Swedish classes. The Svithiod Club has studied the early Swedish writers and has concentrated on some of the contemporary novelists. FIRST ROW: Hoycf, Berglund, Berglund, Gerguson. Berg. Tomte, Running; SECOND ROW: Peterson, Feuk, Lindberg, Grun-deen, Larsen, Larson, Holman, McGinnis, Bielkc; THIRD ROW: Austin, Erickson, Nelson, Nyberg, Landberg, Olson, Andcr son, Thorberg; FOURTH ROW: Anderson, Jocobscn, Lind, Swanson, E. Olson. Larson, Anderson.