Taft High School - Eagle Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Page 8 A Taft Tribune .. Stas 5 ,O O63 C62 HANK GREEN Taft gridders defeated Lane in the tightest game in prep history with a score of 2 to 0. The Lane game put Taft in the lead for the North Section. The coin was flipped and Lane kicked off to Taft. Taft made a first down on a pass, another pass and another first down and Taft was in scoring position. Just then the linesman stepped in and penal- ized Taft. The next play failed to make a first down and Lane took over. Lane failed to make much progress but did penatrate the cen- ter of Taft's line to bring the ball back to the 50 yard line. Lingen- felder caught a pass while he was in the open but had to reach to far and fell. In the second quarter, Taft tried a pass but was fumbled. Lane picked it up on a bounce and went for a touchdown but it was called back. In this quarter Srednicki reached for a long pass that would have meant a touchdown but it was inches away from his fingers. Lane passed a long one in the third identical to Taft's long one, except the Lane end had his hands on the ball and dropped it. Taft was in scoring position once dur- ing this quarter again but was again penalized for faking a center. Byrdy punted from his own 10 foot of Lanes 1 foot line. Lane then attempted to punt out of this but Gilgenbach, Killoran and Srednickl blocked it and it resulted in an automatic touchdown. In the fourth quarter the game see-sawed back and forth on the fifty yard line. Taft was penalized about 20 yards for too long in the huddles. During the last few mln- utes Lane made futile attempts to complete long passes but all were knocked down. The game ended with Byrdy knocking down a Lane pass on his own 1 yard line. Three weeks ago Taft over- whelmed Sullivan 33 to 0, two weeks ago Amundsen 10 to 7. Last week Lane 2 to 0 and next week, we predict defeat of Roosevelt 20 to 7. BASKET BALL As basketball practice begins we find Taft with a new coach, Baro- nowski, taking good care of the team. Many last years players are back again this year. On the senior team there is Dave Whittier, Ed Thompson, Norb Paulish, Greg Kllwitz, Hank Jurgenson, Del Ko- towski, Kenny Davis, Ross Whit- After Basketball Practice Our practice grind is over, And from the gym we go, A score of sweating, heaving, bodies Down the stairway flow. But as we reach the lower landing We see to our dismay, That the Blue and Silver pigskln squad Lies squarely in our way. If you think that team is really tough On a Sunday afternoong Then its a cinch you've never been with it In the same little locker room. The air around the lockers You reach your locker with a sigh And finally get undressed. You jump into the showers To perish with the rest. A million swinging arms and legs Greet you when in you come Your chance of getting out alive Is seventy-five to one. But it won't be long till winter comes, And then gridiron days will cease And over our lovely locker room Will fall a slumberlng peace, The Basketeers will reign again After the passing of Fall. And just the smell of the Cager's Is blue with unholy sounds, socks Jerseys, ggckgy and antle wraps Will menace the lives of all. Are dropped in fuming mounds. Bill Beyer War Department Kills R. O. T. C. Hopes for Taft Unit War emergency necessitates mili- tary training to prepare the men in the armed forces for actual com- bat. In view of this fact Mr. Hoe- fer has been trying to procure the installation of an ROTC unit at Taft for some time. Colonel W. F. Morrison, of the Department of Military Science and Tactics of the Chicago High Schools recently sent a letter to Mr. Hoefer, stating that although the War Department is not estab- lishing any new ROTC units at this time, they are keeping his re- quest in mind, and will do any- thing they can toward the installa- tion of a unit at Taft, should the opportunity arise. 1,iL.l. . Ws. Eat Department Needs More Operators Mr. Charles A. Buell, sponsor of the Visual Education Department, is putting out a call for movie ope- rators and secretaries. The qualifi- cations are few and service points will be awarded. If you have study or a free period between the 2nd and 9th periods, can type, have a G average or better you may become a movie secretary. Boys that wish to be movie opera- tors need have no experience, but have to be a 1A or higher and have G average marks. ney, Al Retenmier and last and most important West tSwishD Parker. The juniors have from last year Steve Kuflewski, Bill Beyer, Hank Anderson, Jack Berry, Ted Bujew- ski, plus a few newcomers. Mr. Baronowski says he thinks Taft will take city championship this year not only in football but also basketball. Taj? Bowlers Compete For League Title Bowling at Taft is becoming a popular sport. The student body has responded exceedingly well, with a membership of 112. Of the 112, 72 are girls. After much trouble, Mr. Puippo secured the Rolaway alleys on Tuesday afternoons. Two leagues of girls are battling tooth and nail for the championship, which will not be decided until next March Another battle is being fought at Garden Recreation in the Friday league. There is one boys league and one league for the girls. There is still room for four boys on this day. It is not necessary to know how to bowl, as special instruction is given. The bowlers are really in there knocking 'em over. Games rang- ing from 180 to 210 has been chalked up. At this stage of the game it is hard telling what will happen. Some of the old faith- fuls are going strong but they have plenty of competition. All members receive white cards which enables them to bowl for 15 cent a line any afternoon until five, on Saturdays until two. Anyone interested in securing a blue card, which enables them to bowl for 20 cent a line, get in touch with Mr. Puippo. Saturday's league for freshmen boys and girls at the Rolaway Rec- reation is in need of twenty-two boys and nineteen girls for a full league. Boys bowl at 10:30 a. m. and girls at 10:30 a. m. Bowling league does not interfere with the football games as there is plenty of time to get to the field afte you have completed your three games. League 1 of the Tuesday girls is lead by the Foul Line Fems : Liss, Weidenhoeft, Ranke, Zoll. In second place are the Gruesomes g Schu- bert, Chulay, Cleven, Lowry. October 30, 19- 1 . I5 :ross 5 Bly Floyetta Wheeler Boxes for the Red Cross, 1 the motto for the G. A. A. l week. Appeals for small arti4 such as: ties, tops, ribbons, ha kerchiefs, etcs., were made thro1 gym and health classes. The bo were sent last week to be Chl mas presents for the youngsi across the seas. The G. A. A. membership dx is over! A total membership over 700 was attained. Have you some extra GMA. points somewhere around, if l0 may have them recorded by R MacGregor, Ist and 2nd period, by Dorothy Benson, 7th period. Handle With Care If you see any of the gym tel ers running around with a bas ball or football tucked neatly der their arm-don't think they balmy or trying to steal them, 1 are just trying to conserve tk The gym departments are api ing to the student body to l them save the present supply equipment. Shuffel Board repl ments are definitely off the lin The physical fitness program being stressed this year lnsteal team games. Swimming has I intensified. In order to pass 1 swimming requirements you r be able to tread water a design length of time and be able to s two lengths of the pool, using different strokes. - Exercise and development of three main parts of the body now being practiced. In the cl: soon, games such as: relays active group games, will be i' mingled with the callisthenics. Members of the Kingpi Fara, Rudnick, Brooks, Holden holding first place in League 2. Pick Ups : Lindsay, Whe Rohner, Tess, are a close secon. At the Garden Bowl on Fr four teams are tied for first j each with five wins and foul feats. The teams are the Knot Rollers, Waacs, Lucky Stri and Gutter Gals. In fifth the Spiffy Spares are four ahead with five losses. The: Friday league of boys a Garden Bowl is led by the Dr Peterson, Norlie, Zueschner, Hi De Maria. The Strikers : Ii Kaphammer, Hanke, Schneider Carrol are second. With five and four losses each the Pell and the Stinkos fight it ou third place honor.

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ctober 30, 1942 Taft Tribune Page 7 Vlzatfv New P1 Fa.s'hions round Taft shlon Flash- rn Sadie Hawkin's Day No- nber 5, every Daisy Mae will wear in blue jeans, plaid shirt, L plgtails . . . you're on your 1 that day, girls! an While Snooping- .ed flannels in every size and :ription-for the fairer sex at L! .ed box coats everywhere and where . . . Iam'selle has her choice of ,ring cotton hose, or the latest ,ld leg lacquer to keep her ity gams warm . . . ispectlon tags on wood clothing :ing more and more like iues, with 10092: new wool as appetizer and milk wool as a arage. . . ee cream pastels made partly the new wool-like aralac sub- lce and partly of rayon-they washable and sporty: tops for vol or dates . . uttons replacing priority trim- g on suits and dresses. . . alluloid sequins of every color ering on evening wear . . . all heads from top to toe . . . Latest in Sweaters Stuff- atty Cameron's 3 new knobby sweaters--the favorite a olate brown that looks good igh to eat . . . prole Choltz' latest, an inde- xable, but beautiful tint of n . . . itching sweaters and socks, as Charlotte Zlmmer's sea n ones-she knitted them her- too . . . eaking of sweaters, you haven't anything till you've cast your on Fat Smlth's green plaid d Oscar RudoIph's mosaic ...- anne Wayne claims to have xagglest sweater in school, but res Comerford runs a close ld . . . -hoppers and Carry-alls- yllis Lange has the largest col- rn of purses: one for every I: . . . lda W3gIl6I',S brown felt bag e biggest one we've seen . . . ne doubting this may see Velda .g along a monkey wrench, she be a bit hard to convlnce3. rtha Nlestadt's scotch plaid bag is the brightest and at of all . . . lgator is more popular than for both bags and shoes, and o a sadly deflated budget G. V. have decided to raise their Anyone possessing a real live tor please note, Korzen's Classes Discuss Problems Concerning War Friday, October 2, the students of Mr. Joseph Korzen's history class- es held a forum on subjects of ln- terest to all. Students were picked by Mr. Korzen to speak on: Eighteen and Nineteen Year Olds in the Draft, The Effect on Schools and Col- leges, All Out for War, 'fF'ind- ing the Road to Victory, Com- munity and School in Defense, and The World After the War. These subjects were divided between four or five pupils from each of the third, fifth, sixth, eighth, and ninth period classes respectively. This is something' new in the way of enlighting the student body with what is being done to aid our war effort. Some subjects such as were found in the first topic gave rise to much debate. Also a sub topic of Community and School in De- fense, namely, Compulsory Mili- tary Training. qCont. from page 33 Leslie Robinson and Henry Bieber. Every student will have an oppor- tunity to win a scholarship. E From Broomsticks to Checkers Most of the art classes are mak- ing beautifully decorated tray mats, colorful letter or stationary con- tainers, and checker sets for the soldiers in hospitals. Anyone hav- ing stray broomstlcks around please bring them to school as the checkers are made from them and then colored. Art Classes Helpful in Making Posters What we would do without the art department is beyond me. They sketch posters, posters and more posters for school use. Recently Esther Klein has made some for the P.T:A. -membership drive while others have drawn posters related to the scrap metal drive. Patches Patriotic- The be-patched person is no longer a hobo but a patriotic cit- izen . . . Instead of throwing away that navy wool dress, which persists in fraying on the edges and cuffs, bind or stitch them in bright colors . . . To pep up that old thing that mom insists you wear, replace or reinforce the pockets and armpits with bright patches . . . For something really gay, pur- chase a skirt made completely of bright colored patches-but please don't flaunt them with striped or plaid blouses! . . . Miscellaneous Mention- Examples of morale-boosting col- ors shown this season are Barbara Frederick's french' violet, and Jeanne Kirkland s kelly green suit. What the Other Schools Have in Their Corn Dept. Teacher' fto small pupil3: Spell straight. Pupil: S-t-r-a-i-g-h-t. Teacher: Correctg what does it mean? Pupil: Without ginger ale. --The Hyde Park Weekly l ll 3 lst stoolie: Why don't you buy your boy an encyclopedia. -2nd stoolie: i'I can't afford lt. Let him walk to school like I did. The Creston Echo as 1 4 Recognition Said one fish to another as they saw an empty salmon can: Your Uncle Humbert-may he rest in peace. . . The Shore Line l K ! Fond Father: I can't understand my son. Always while going to school here at home he gets hun- dreds, and now he's in China he gets 'Zeros'. The Campus Corral fCont. from page 53 DONNIE PEDLER doing the same thing in the girls' red sweater he had to wear on a bet. . . LOU GLEASON, 3B, keeping the injured backfield company, by get- ting her knee thoroughly hurt .... Sudden Toughts . . . How does PHYLLIS COYLE, 3A, manage to remain so calm and col- lected when everybody else is dash- ing around .... LOCK, EHCELL, DICK SCHOES- LING, 1B's now you know better than to ask me to count to a hun- dred. . g. . BILL HOWELL, 1B, is either out- side counting the minutes till he can come in or inside counting the minutes till he can go out .... Wonder why the Daily News and the Sun always call us the Taft Presidents . . . Have you ever noticed how much banana caramels taste like nail polish smells .... We always thoughts those classy leather suspenders were a joint possession of DAVE and JOHNNY DALTON, but we've changed our tune 'cause the other day they both showed up with a pair .... In English 7, per. 8, the class was reading oratorles aloud. One boy had trouble in pronouncing Armistice, and Miss Carleton told him to pronounce it in syllables, zum-is-tis. JIM CONCANNON quickly replied and whose arm is 'dis? . . . All boys should beware of the deadly hair clippers of MARTHA RETTINMIER, 3B, after seeing the Ishkablble job she did on her brother. Groups Hold Elections of New Oiiicers By Dorothy La Gorio We really feel that we have been neglecting the Junior Girls' Club, and so this issue we'll put them first on the list of club news. Vir- ginia Kissel has been chosen to lead the club this semester and Jean Young is the new vlce-presi- dent. The recording and corre- sponding secretarles are Evange- line Dayiantls and Jean Rabbe. Suzanne Simpson will serve as treasurer, and Roza Ohanison as sergant-at-arms. The club, which is primarily a school-service club, will try in some way to contribute to the national war effort. A mem- bership drive will shortly follow the tea to be held on Oct. 21. Time Will Tell The election of officers of the Honor Society was held on Tues- day, Oct. 27. The votes have not been counted as yet, but it's certain to be a close race. A program ar- ranged by Betty Hodous and Rob- ert Smith, followed. Miss Ber- quist thinks it's a good idea to combine business and pleasure, and plans to have more entertainment soon. The Business World The Business Gulld's meeting on Friday, Oct. 16, was the time and the place for the Guild's discus- sion, The Effect of the War on Food Supplies and Prices. fSounds like important stuff doesn't it-3 Officers will be elected at the next meeting. Going Up ' Miss Gladys Pascoe's 10th period on Thursday stunt club ls really going to town! Marilyn Fisher, one of its members, told us that in ad- dition to learning how to perform various kinds of stunts, the class is now being taught the pyramids . Knowing how to stand on top of each other without falling is really an art-believe me! No, I didn't try lt. fCont. from page 33 All this has been about 320, but now, let's switch over to 301 where Mrs. Lino rehearses her chorus. The fifth period is the girls' chorus. These girls work hard, and the wonderful results they get show lt. Then the sixth period the Mixed Chorus under Mrs. Scanlon takes over and they spend a happy period singing patriotic melodies and choral pieces. For most of these young mu- siclans the happiest minutes of their school day are the ones spent in the instrumental and choral groups. They are creative and ln- structive minutes as well as enjoy- able, and students only regret that they are minutes instead of hours.

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'agles North Section Champ Meet Your 0 Taft Trib Champs H t Q Dec. 4 ll. VII. No. 4 Taft High School, Chicago, Illinois November 13, 1942 AFT MEETS AUSTIN areers Day to ielp Taftites 'ecide Future War Brings Changes 7aft will hold its annual Careers y on Tuesday, November 17. All liors will be given badges to -ntify them on this day. This ,r it was very difficult to set up irogram for the students because the war and its effect on the as of each boy and girl. A pro- .m of the day will be provided each of the two hundred boys l three hundreds girls involved this program, and speakers will announced at this time. ill students will assembly in m 304 the first period to hear resentatives from Wright Juni- College and Washburne Trade tool. Movies Help Choose Work The second period in the audito- m two movies: Finding Your e Work and Choosing Your :ation will be shown to all who interested. tirls can obtain tickets of admis- 2 to a discussion of either Office chines, Home Economics, Nurs- . or Civil Service during the fd period. Mechanical, civil, elec- cal. or chemical engineering, iicine. and defense work for s will take up the male inte- ES. Call to Arms peakers from the Army and Na- will talk to the boys in the gym ing the fourth and fifth periods. ese men will also discuss the Air xes, Coast Guard, and the Ma- ss. During this double period all ior girls will go to the audito- n to hear a panel discussion on amen in War Work. A question iod will be allowed at the con- slon of the above discussions. dents who ordinarily have :h fifth period are excused to e lunch the sixth period on this As We Have Proudhl Known Them Freshie Division Leads Scrap Drive Everyone is aware that there is a nation-wide scrap drive in prog- ress. Taft is also doing quite well, but the results could be much bet- ter. Leading the drive is Miss Grif- fin's freshie division, 106 p.m., with a total contribution, up to date, of 450 pounds. Second in the race is Miss Nel- son's junior division, 319 A.M. with 274 pounds to their credit. Next in line is Mrs. Perry's sophomore division, 113 P.M., with a total of 250 pounds. Some divisions should be a little ashamed of themselves for contrib- uting exactly nothing. If the fresh- ies can do it, why can't the sopho- mores, juniors, and seniors pitch in a little more? This is everybody's war and every one should do their share, without being urged constantly. Let's have a scrap pile so high, that we have to call a rescue squad to dig Mr. Fogli out of his office, Boys Must Take Pre-induction Work In February many new courses will be open to the students of Taft. All 4A boys must take these courses, pre-induction courses, be- fore graduation in June. The Army will provide the course of study. 1. Fundamentals of Electricity- this is a course in addition to physics - a semester course that will count as a majorg given five times a week, a single periodg re- quired of all 4A boysg open to all boys from 3B through 4Ag labora- tory to be provided for nine periods in semester: since preparation is required, the work will carry a major creditg can substitute for physics 23 to be credited as Fun- damentals of Electricity if not sub- stituted for physics 2. 2. Fundamentals of Shop-1 se- mester course, given five times a week, 1 period a day: a minor cred- it: since there is no preparation, compulsory for boys, but optional for girls. Here's How Taft Fought to Fameg Austin Comes Next In the recent game against Roose- velt, which ended in an 18 to 6 vic- tory, Taft's mighty eleven clinched the North Section Title, after a sea- son of seven consecutive wins. Taft's first victory came from a practice game against Waller, in which they showed their superiority by the score of 19 to 0. Schurz was surprised when Taft gridders beat them by a 9 to 6 score, thereby halting their chances for the North section crown. Taft ac- cepted this victory with cheers as the school regained the self confi- dence it lost after last year's defeat, from the rival school. Lake View, whom the papers thought to be an equal to the mighty Taft grid men, tried hard, only to lose by an overwhelming score of 50 to 12. Then came Sullivan, the last game coached by Joe Kupcinet be- fore his departure for the Army. The tcam's farewell to Joe was a 33 to 0 victory. Just about this time people began to sit up and take notice of a school that had once been insignificant. AmuI1dSen's Vikings came along and played a tough game but they too fell prey to the Taft Eagles by a 19 to 7 victory. Lane, the so called school of champions, was defeated hy a, score of 2 to 0 after a tense and exciting battle. Taft was now right up on top to struggle with Senn for first place honors. If Senn had not been beaten by Amundsen, the decision for champ would have been left to the tossing of a coin. Tomorrow Taft plays Austin, the West Section winners, in a game that will decide who will play in the city finals at Soldiers Field on November 21. Our school has a good chance of coming out on top, and our chances are even better if a large crowd turns out to support the team. Don't forget-Hanson Park at 2:00 p. m.