Wayland Academy - Pillars Yearbook (Beaver Dam, WI)

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JANUARY, 1955 l-Sat.-The morning after the night before-Happy New Year!! 3-Mon.-Welcome back to school in the really, truly centennial year. 4-Tue.-Basketball at Horicon. We come home victorious by a 47-45 score. 7-Fri.-A good, cold walk down to the Odeon to see The High and the Mighty. 8-Sat.-We win a swimming meet at Elgin, 48-26. The activity is a dance given by the town students in the little gym. Cotton-covered balloons make very good snowballs . . . and don't take the schmoos, please. ll-Tue.-Basketball at Watertown. We beat the Northwestern Preps, 55-48. 14-Fri.-M.U.S. comes here for a basketball game and goes home with a 59-37 defeat. 15-Sat.-The swimmers win again, this time by 39-35 at Lake Forest. The bas- ketball team drops a 53-50 decision to M.C.D. here. The rec room is open after the game. I6-Sun.-Miss Bridges' and Miss MoncrieFf's pupils give a recital in the audi- torium. 18-Tue.-We lose a basketball game at St. Mary's Springs, 69-48. 21-Fri.-Ice Carnival Week End gets underway with snow sculpturing in the af- ternoon. At night is a basketball game against Lake Forest highlighted by the first appearance of the girls' drill squad Cwho inspired OD the boys to a 62-49 victoryj. We all get on the radio as WBEV makes a recording of the announcement of Laura and Fred's election as queen and king of Ice Carnival. 22-Sat.-Informal lunch and broomball and hockey games. Wayland wins every event of the swimming meet against M.U.S. At night is the wonderful Coronation Ball featuring the music of the Tempelaires. 23-Sun.-Finals of the broomball series and a general quieting-down so we can start to think about- 26-Wed.-SEMESTER EXAMS. CNeed more' be said?D 27-Thur.-The big gym is almost as cold as the sub-zero atmosphere outdoors, so we all wear lots of heavy clothes. 8-Fi-, iii 'i rv ' , 5. . - , . g 2.: Rx' ns I . ,r A 5 sir,f,., ? , 3 - ,PWR -ws-uf ir' W il gf ., . ., ,.. .f it. aa:- , .,.,.',.. 3 ,V H nib l 1 l 1 f W... ' ' '.C.-.Ha - , 5 K if-A g ,.- ' x ' . fi- -

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4:5 s 21-Sun.-The impressive Y.VV. Recognition Service is held by candle light in the library. 22-Mon.-The conference eo-champion football teams of VVayland and B.D. HS. are honored at a banquet. The main speaker of the evening is Bernie lleselton, head coach at Lawrence College. 23-Tue.-The first basketball game, here . . . we heat St. Marys of Fond du Lac, 50-49. 24-VVed.-Sehool's outwfor a few days, at least. 28-Sun.-Thankful for the vacation, we reassemble to work off all those Thanks- giving goodies. 29-Mon.-Vlle get a preview of the Arthur Murray dance course watching two teachers demonstrate in the big gym. 30-Tue.-The basketball team wins at luneau, 73-38. DECEINIBER I-VVed.-Community Concert, pianist Natalie Ryshna. 2-Thur.-Oh, goodyl?? 6-weeks exams again. 3-Fri.-Basketball here . . . we walloped lXl.U.S., 68-55. 4-Sat.-Swimmers defeat lVl.U.S., 54-28, there. The W Club activity is in the little gym: entertainment is provided by the new initiates. 5-Sun.AAll the weeks of rehearsal are culminated in a beautiful presentation of llandels oratorio, The Messiah. IO-Fri.-V712 lose a basketball game at Lake Forest, 53-48. Those at home go to the Odeon to see Desiree, ll-Sat.-The seniors' Silver Bells Ball, given in a pretty setting of evergreens and bells, is a great success. Bud Wilber's orchestra plays from a sleigh. 12-Sun.-The Y.VV.C.A. Nativity Pageant. Carrie Smith is the lovely madonna. I3-Mon.-The Christmas dinner, complete with table decorations. 14-Tue.-Parties in the dorms. VVayland. Hall gets a new television set. 15-Wed.-No more school this year! Merry Christmas! Hn-

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28-Fri.-The Youth Group puts on a turnabout, the Winter Roundup, in the small gym. 29-Sat.-We win our basketball game at Racine Lutheran, 53-48, and at home there is a downtown movie party to see A Star is Born. 31-Mon.-American Emphasis Week starts with movies in the auditorium. FEBRUARY 2-Wed.-It is a beautiful, sunny Groundhog Day as American Emphasis Week closes with a speech by Wisconsin's attorney general, Vernon Thomson. 4-Fri.-Basketball at M.U.S.-we win, 73-41. Mr. Williams shows colored movies of his boys' camp in Canada, and the rec room is open. '5-Sat.-We make a clean sweep athletically, defeating West Bend in basketball, Stevens Point in swimming, and Madison's West High in wrestling. The Y.W.'s March of Dimes Masquerade is a big success. The little gym is decorated with hundreds of balloons. CTalk to the girls who blew themlD 8-Tue.-We lose a basketball game at Northwestern, 52-50. 9-VVed.-The juniors have a great day-class rings arrive. 11-Fri.-Good bye for a while. 14-Mon.-Hello, again. How was your long week end? l7-Thur.-Community Concert in the auditorium with a male quartet called the Songmasters. 18-Fri.-Wrestling meet at Stoughton. The forensics competition is held in the auditorium and is followed by a movie featuring the music of Gilbert and Sullivan. I9-Sat.-Basketball at M.C.D.-we lose, 58-43. Our swimmers take first place from Elgin, M.U.S., and Lake Forest in a quadrangular meet held here. The juniors' activity is called Jungle Fantasy. 25-Fri.-The sophomores hold a downtown movie party, King Richard and the Crusaders and Phffft.