University High School - Bisbila Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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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

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Victory Editors Credit is due to the Bisbila stall members this year for their victory year book. Because of the war they have had to cut the year book in size, and use both sides of the paper so they wouldn't be wasting valuable material, but still every party, club, anti activity is well represented. Much of the material in the feature section was done by the junior class and many of the feature pictures were turned in by University High students and faculty members. The assistant editors were chosen mostly from underclassmen. They included: lack Kigler, Sue Nesbit, Jean Scammon, Shirley Knobloch, jean Brcidcnbach, Nancy Holmes, Janet Ahrens, Charlie Jensch. Hill Burn. Avelcigh Read, Kathleen Quigley, James kamiske, Bill McGee, Lil Rumble, Sandra Spaeth. Paul Berrisford and Mary Merrill. BISBILA BOARD-STANDING: Dunn Critchficld Murray Sturre F. Harm Tucker Abbott Fcatter Thori Hubbell SEATED: Michel Strong M. Seiton Mn. Mcndeth Learned BREEZE STAFF- STANDING: Gavcr Mitchell Schmidt Kamitke Fnedell Nel»on SEATED: 6. Xing Brink Mr. Carlicn M. Boberg Voice of the People Under the skillful direction of Marge Boberg. editor-in-chief, the Breeze staff spent many Saturdays over at school preparing to put the paper to press. Lowry Nelson was the news editor, Nora Brink was in charge of the feature page, Gil Frie-dell anil Barbara King served as layout editors, Wilson Schmidt directed the sport page, and Mr. ( arisen advised them all. During the winter quar-ter Jane Gavcr and Marion Mitchell, two senior girls, became the fourth page News editors. The Breeze printed many articles to promote war interest, to help raise funds for the Red Cross and the War Relief Chest, and to help collect old stockings, records, and coat hangers. In the Christmas issue the Breeze published an editorial concerned with the wiping out of T. B. and for their efforts they received a special award from the I Icn-nepin County T. B. Association.