St Scholastica High School - Scholastican Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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4167771 W-Z:lllly6'f'l'! cjlflllp f M. T, Boehme CAbner Simpsonlg P. Geisel Ueremiah Cobbly A. D. Arthur CMiranda Sawyerlp M. V. Ullrnann Uane Sawyerlp P. Loftus CAbijah Flagglg T. McGarry CMrs. Simpsonl: A. Cleary flziebecca Bandalll. f glifffllfl .f J72'!?b7z .f Pollyanna, produced by Freshman Thespians in November, was the tirst play presented to the public by the drama department this year. Soon atter, came The Silver Swan, also given by members ot the class of '40, as one of the headliners of the Christmas assembly. Unique in the annals of the high school was The Kitchen Gods, dramatized by ,Miss Eleanor Park, director of dramatics, from the story of that name by Gulielma Fell Alsop. The plot concerned the complications which ensued when the rich Chinese Honorable Master, Poh Kyung, who had a great wife and a small wife, decided to worship the Iesus way . ,When the play was entered in the Mun- delein College Laetare Drama Contest, Alice Dorothy Arthur, a senior, taking the part of the Mandarin, was awarded a year's scholarship in dramatics, tor her excellence in character interpretation. The large audience which viewed the Iunior High-School production ot Sir lames M. Barrie's Peter Pan, coached by Sister lgnatia, was delighted with the staging as well as the acting of this whimsical but complicated phantasy of fairies, mermaids, pirates, and lost boys. Spring brought the Iuniors' comedy, Thursdays at Home, with its amusing situations resulting from a would-be-philanthropist's desire to be kind to women business agents. The same group later produced Frances Homer's three-act drama- tization of Beauty and the Beast of Lorelandf' Though the story was essentially the same as that of the age-old legend, new characters and situations added interest to the original plot. Seniors chose the ever-popular Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm as their class play, given Tune 6, under the direction of Mrs. Catherine Wallace Hennessy. The mis- chievous pranks ot the sprightly Rebecca, played by Ann Cleary, drew thunderous applause from the appreciative audience. .L tl Qmwfffy rmrf Mr- -Avnif M. L. Shannon tfleautylg P. Bren nan fthe emperors motherlg M. I Heyl fthe beast, emperor of Lore landl.

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24114-'1' f6fJfr'fAlWQZ'fll1o Boehme, E. Lambrechts, G. Power. a fy lfrmhv' brosia, K. O'Reilly. J 5? C927 life Jayne Roaring bonfires and sizzling wieners were the genial aftermath of the Athletic Club's October meeting, at which Mary lane Boehme was chosen president, with lean Tracy, Mary lane D'Ambrosia, and Rita Peter named to assist her. Mercedes Weldon and Patricia Monahan, of the class of '39, captured the first laurels of the season, when they were for the second year declared champs in the doubles tennis tournament. Hockey sticks and goal posts, not to speak of countless bruised Shins, came to the fore in the fall inter-class tourney, from which Seniors emerged victorious for the third consecutive season, after a hard battle for supremacy with the luniors. The winds of the hockey field proving too nippy, athletes traveled to the more tem- perate clime of the gym, to hold the basketball color rneet. Prom the best players of the multi-hued teams of this match, Miss Leona Tinnes, sports coach, chose the contestants for the Annual lnter-Class Basketball Tourney. Crowds of loyal fans from each class cheered their teams at the hotly-contested games of this spectacu- lar tilt, until the last whistle of the final game, when the Seniors were declared blue- ribbon Winners. Baseball, volleyball, and tennis prctctice in the spring led up to Play Day, when the tourney finals of these sports, as well as broad-jump and high-jump contests and relay races, were held. Pulses beat high in the evening at the annual banquet, when, amidst enthusiastic applause, outstanding athletes were awarded white sweaters and blue chenille letters, emblematic of the Athletic Club's ideals: fair play, good sportsmanship, and clean fun. 1 V - Fishleigh, I. Buslee, M. I. A. Buscher, R. Haefel, E. Gannon P. Busscher, S. Decker, P. Byrne P. Monahan, P. Gould, M. I. D'Am

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fwllffll fgrflffffhf l TOP ROW- M. l. I-leyl, E. Fla- herty, M. Flaherty. SECOND ROW-M. E. 'Warner, R. Van Heule, P. Loftus, M. A. Balis tedi- torl, H. Brunk, C. Sullivan, M. Walsh, E. Goessling, M. Petty, L. Shay. f fffznff rflgnf .? Who took Miss Park's head? Did you fix that other ear? Kill that boldfacel No, dear reader, not a barbers' college gone wild,-merely another issue of the .Raven going to press-but not merely, for the monthly issue of the Raven is a real event at St. Scholastica, and, on the day of publication, an unwonted air of silence reigns throughout the building, as each student eagerly scans the pages to find out what's the news. News, however, is not the only aspect of the paper, as any Ravenite, as well as the critical associations, which awarded it All-American, All-Catholic, and Quill and Scroll International Honors, will explain. There are literary contributions, feature stories, pictures, and cartoons, not to speak of a humor column, Raven Ravin's which is all that its name implies. A pert little feature, Streamlines, tells what's going on in the world of art, music, fashions, sports, and science, while chatty bits about girls are found in Between Belles. That the publication might prove a vital exponent of Catholicism, news stories, guest and student editorials on ways of promoting Catholic Action, and lively inter- views with still more lively Catholics have had a prominent place in every issue. Improvements both in the format and content of the paper, noted in later issues, .indicated that the editors were putting to good use the many ideas they had gained at the National Scholastic Press convention, in Detroit, and the Catholic School Press congress, in Milwaukee. Toward the end of the year, Quill and Scroll pins and C.S.P.A. keys were formally presented to students distinguished for their work on .the paper, as well as for their class work and general school spirit. -4111171 -ZILJIQHJJ 7 F. Tangney, K. McDonald, G. Gro- gan, A. Aschenbrenner Ccopy xnanagerl, C. Buyse, M. Gillen, B. Sommers, I. Tracy Cbusiness manaqerl, A. Carroll.