South Side High School - Totem Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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THE TOTEM 1940 THEY SWING A MEAN SPATULA By ALICE POPE Don't look now, boys, but hereis your chance- W7o-Ho-Ma girls, for the meaning of Wo-Ho-Ma is Worthy Home Makers. All joking aside, this club has three very valuable aims which are: 1. To train girls to be active and eHicient leaders in home, school, and community life. 2. To furnish an opportunity for social life, with programs and social gatherings. 3. To promote more interest in home economics. All girls who have taken any home economics or who are taking home economics at the present time are eligible for this club. While this club had only a few members when it was started, it now has a mem- bership of fifty-three girls. The present adviser is Miss Helen Bean. Miss Pearl Rehorst and Miss Crissie Mott also rotate as advisers. The oncicers for the first semester were Norman Sprunger, president, Ruth Fuhrman, vice-president, Eileen Hofmann, secretary, Louise Buesking, treas- urer, Margaret Geroff, Inter-Club Congress repre- sentative, and Eileen Kiessling, Times representative. During the second semester, Marjorie Gerding reigned as president of Wo-Ho-Ma assisted by Helen Dicke as vice-president, Flora Sauer, secre- tary, Lorraine Dicke, treasurer, Margaret Ger- off, Inter-Club Congress representative, and Katherine Bulte- meier, Times represen- Hanock. of Wolf BL Dessauer, A Vacation Trip to New Yorkw by Miss Susen Peck, a Christmas play by members of the club and a Christmas story by Miss Emma Kiefer, a trip to the Holsum Bakery, a skate at Bell's Rink, and a Mothers' Day tea. One of the most interesting and impressive meet- ings held by this club is the initiation service. Officers and an outstanding member of the club who is cho- sen as the Spirit of Economics take Part in this serv- ice. This is a candlelight service, candles being held by officers, Spirit of Economics, and new members. New members are tolcl the aims and values of this club before they take their pledge. To the accom- paniment of soft music, each new member takes her pledge of membership and is welcomed into the club by old members. In addition to the study of every day problems, the club furnishes adequate advantages for the girls to become eiiicient in the social graces that are so necessary in the managing of homes. Of course to have a home is a dream of every Wo-Ho-Ma girl. This club gives a girl practical knowledge that will be helpful to her all of her life. Even those girls who clon't marry or have homes of their own will find many occasions to use this knowledge. First Row: B. Kyvik, M. Frede, M. Geroff, N. Keel, Schleiger, M. Gerding, A. Meyers, B. Sprunger, I. Hege, Strahlem, B. Burns, S. Wiliam. Second Row: R. Maggart, E. Sauer, V, Klopfenstein, C. Long, A. Dolin, V. Ormiston, ifliss Helen Bean, M. Brinker, B, Brubaker, M. Baumgartner, M. Adler, L. Buesking, B. Third Row: B, Brindle, N, Sprunger, M. Sauer, I. Montgomery, E. Upclike, M, Glander, D. Siples, H. Lori, B. Porter, D. Peel, M. Bullerman, P. Fry. tative. Fourth Row: M. Barrett, V. Applegate, L, Bonebraker, L. Dicke, Knippenberg, B. Bender, H. Lisius, N, Haley, H. Dicke, M. Merkel, K. Bultemeyer, L. Nahrwald. This club helps to H- nance its programs by serving at school ban- quets, by giving skates, and by collecting dues. The club chose as its yearly theme Every Day Problems of the High School Girl. Ar the first meeting of the year Wo-Ho-Ma girls were entertained with a talk by Miss Pittenger. Some of the other meetings were as fol- lows: Initiation services for new members, an inter- esting talk, Clothes for the High School Girln, given by Miss Jane Latz 96