University High School - Bisbila Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADES—TOP ROW: F.rth, Sowycr. Humphrey. Rebney. D. P«fk. H. Ruchta. R. Setter. Melter. Mrt. MeCart. SECOND ROW: Maurer, Upgren. James Prest. Arlington. King, Marcus, Martin, Schwarts, Peper, Gronvall. FIRST ROW: J. Parke. Kunin, Christianson, Hcdback, Finnerty. Miss Oay, 2ietlow, Johnson, J. Nelson, Schoonover, Hoctger. . . . Not in picture: Avnck, Faetkcnhcucr, Hillhouse. R. Riglcr. Rookies The seventh and eighth grades may have been the youngest in the school, but they were right up on the top this year, as far as being important was concerned. Miss Day and Mrs. McCart, seventh and eighth grade advisers respectively, agreed heartily with this statement. Not to be outdone by the senior high, the girls, under the supervision of Miss Seabury, organized a Junior I Jigh Dramatic Club. They held the audience spell-bound at the homecoming party, while they acted out Blackout! The club also gave a skit for assembly, in which members portrayed various teachers when they were young. Following the tradition of the school, the girls of the two classes cooperated to give a Mothers’ Tea, the fourteenth of April. Their program consisted of a skit given by the Junior Dramatic Club. Judging by the applause, the mothers enjoyed it a lot. Eighth grader Jocelyn Mar- tin and seventh grader Susan 1 ledhack acted as chairmen for their respective teas. The Little Rookies are also social minded. The seventh grade attended the plays .Ihce in Wonderland, Treasure Island, and Darnel Boone, and had a party after each play. At the beginning of the fall quarter they gave a dessert luncheon for the faculty, so that the teachers and seventh graders got to know each other early in the year. The eighth grade had a picnic at Clcnwood Park during the fall quarter. Because of gas rationing, the class rode streetcars to and from the park. The object of the picnic was to study nature, hut they found time for games and eating, too. With the start these Rookies have, there is no telling what grand things they will do by the time they arc seniors. SEVENTH GRADE OFFICERS President .. . . Ted Finneity Vice-president . Susan Hedrack Secretary-Treasurer Tom Hoetcer EIGHTH GRADE OFFICERS President March Firth Vice-president ... Jim Prest Secretary-Treasurer .. Jack Rf.bney 25

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President Vice-president Secretary Treasurer I low IE Lorbi kb aim Imocene Boberg Stanley Gabav Mary Goepiert Little Corporals Not to l c out done by the other classes, the freshman class has also contributed to the war effort. Several of the girls in the class have done Red Cross knitting, and we arc sure the soldiers will appreciate the atghans and sweaters they made. Other members of the class kept busy making scrapbooks and cribbagc l oards. In the fall quarter they had a skating party at the Norris Gym which turned out to l c a great success, and, taking advantage of the huge snow storms Minneapolis had this winter, they had a sleigh ride on the farm campus. Several of the members of the class participated in the Junior Dramatic Club, which gave a clever skit at the Homecoming Dance. The senate representatives were Nancy Riglcr and Mary Goepfert. Evelyn Sexton served as chairman tor Mothers' Tea which was held in April. This class did a fine job this year and some of the praise should go to their class adviser. Miss di Giambattista. FRESHMAN CLASS—TOP ROW: Kmncbcrg, Well. Tntter, Sweet. J. Petraborg. John Preit, Wood. SECOND ROW: Kubik, Macey. E. Seiton, Krmtky, Litton, Ludwig. Lorbetbaum. Raucn. FIRST ROW: King, Parle, N. Riglcr, Laucr, Page, Kaplan, Marcck. TOP ROW: Dwortky, R. Harm, Himker, Gruner, Fleming, Docrmann. SECOND ROW: Burton, Joan Cranston, Gregory, J. Holmct, Ellerman, Gorman. FIRST ROW: I. Boberg, Getcll, Ccrney, Mitt di Giambattista, Gabay. Endrett, Goepfert. . . . Not in picture: Baer. 2-1

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Assembly THE STUDENTS at University High School en- 1 joyed a season of varied assembly programs this year. Most of them were varied, interesting, just about all of the students agreed that they were the berried.” As a matter of fact, almost all of them could very easily have been buried. One feature of each assembly was the community singing, led by Mr. lames F. Nickerson. University students strolling outside the Museum of Natural History were astonished to hear the baying of sup-| osedly-stulTcd wolves. The janitor o! the museum (they let him out last summer) rushed upstairs to turn off the water, which he imagined was Hooding everything. President (Coffey sent a petition to the Hoard of Regents, demanding that those Spanish exchange students hold their ceremonial dances somewhere else. When told of these occurrences, Mr. Nickerson promised that he would tone the singing down a little bit. This year, instead of each class putting on an as scmbly program, they were divided amongst the various departments. The most important of these assemblies were those put on by the English, Science, and Social Studies departments. The English assembly, which was all in English, consisted of parodies on four works of literature. Before the parodies were presented it was explained to the audience that the word “literature is compounded from two Latin words, lit. as when my eld man comes home every Saturday night all lit up, and “tcraturc, which bears a faint resemblance to the Anglo-Saxon torture. Therefore, literature is nothing but exhilarating torture. The first parody was on “Young Lochinvar, by Sir Falter Rott. (Walter Scott to you.) Next came a Po-cm. Cannibal I-cc. by A. Nonymous. This was followed by “The Courtship of Miles Standish, which had nothing whatever to do with Miles Standish. There have been many more famous courtships, such as the Courtship “H. M. S. Pinafore, and the Qnirtship 'Hie State vs. Al Capone.” The English assembly concluded with the Tomb Scene, from Romeo and Juliet. In this scene two things Ik-camc apparent to the audience; first, that Romeo wasn’t kilt in a day, and second, that the reason Juliet didn't recover consciousness in time to save Romeo's life was that Juli et too much. Two weeks later the Science IX-partmcnt presented that epic drama, The March of Science. The members of the science department decided to put on the assembly in March because they realized that The April of Science would have sounded ridiculous. The March of Science” depicted the lives of some of the great men of science. Among them were Archimedes, Pasteur, Mendel, the Wright Brothers, Morse, and many more. ( I hc way Men-dally dilly to make up puns is way Pasteur me.) The final assembly program we shall talk about is the one put on by the Social Studies Department. It consisted of two parts, a round-table discussing the question, I low is the war affecting the people of the U. S.? (it was a very animate round-table) and a scries of skits telling alx ut the numerous wartime pests. One of these jKsts was an arm chair strategist. How he managed to get on the program arm chair I don’t know. I hc reaction of the students to the assembly programs can Ik best typified by the remark of an eighth grade pupil. He remarked, “Huh??? The reaction of the faculty can best Ik typified by the remark made by a teacher. 1 Ic remarked, Assembly no questions and I'll tell you no lies. 26