Wessington Springs High School - Spartonian Yearbook (Wessington Springs, SD)

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Published by Students of Wessington Springs High School TLOLUME SIXTEEN Thursday, October 5, ,1944 NUMBER WCTU 85.00 AWARDS TO BE CONTINUED Freshmen are reminded of the unique project of the local Wom- an's Christian Temperance Union, Pioneer Union, in which for a per- iod of about 20 years, five-dollar cash awards have been made to boys who abstain from the use of tobacco and intoxicating liquors over the full four-year period of high school. the years this award made, since 1923 when Through has been there was but one to receive it, up to last year when seven were recipients, an average of about 340.00 per year has been present- ed, reaching a grand total of close to S1,000.00. Up to the time the United States went off the gold standard, the five-dollar gold piece was the traditional prize. Thereafter, sil- ver currency was given until World War II, when U. S. Gov- ernment War Stamps were pre- sented. But, in all, it amounts to the same thing: a big scale, hard- hitting effort to reward strength of character and will power, on the part of Pioneer Union. ,i.,..l.i-- SPARTAN SPOTLIGHTS Miss Marylin Schneider, Miss Audrey Hanson and Miss Mary Kearton spent the week-end in Mitchell. Miss Gene Nolan and Mrs. Law- rence Eagle spent Saturday at the Corn Palace. Mrs. Warta went to the Corn Palace in Mitchell Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Solem spent Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Hilding Gadda. Miss Ruby Doering attended the Corn Palace Saturday. , l.....l- CLASS NEWS English IV students are study- ing the writings of Lampon. Home economics II students are studying the care of the sick. G.A.A. girls have been unable to start kittenball games due to the weather conditions. Chemistry students collected oxygen in lab last Wednesday. Their next experiment will be the collecting of hydrogen. Government students are stud- ying principles of the electoral college' and how it works. TWO REELS SHOWN ' TO STUDENT BODY High school students were treated to a movie Friday morn- ing, the first of a series to be shown to the student body for en- tertainment each month. Two reels were shown: White Hope , the story of a fictitious boxer and his trainerg and a full length movie, My Son, The He- ro , story of a returning war cor- respondent. Both were greatly appreciated by the students. FRESHMAN INITIATION i COMMITTEES AT WORK' There has been little activity concerning initiation by the soph- omores, but beware, freshmen, the committees for the occasion have been chosen. The general committee consists of Phyllis Wood, who acts as chairman: Gerald Tanquist and Foster Warnke. Beverly Knight, Beverly Breland and Lois Hawley are the food committee. Bob Wolting, Clair Tiede, Betty Fenn, and Hermine Wheeler were chos- en for the entertainment commit- tee. 1 Result, Music? Three mornings a week, Mr. R. N. Franklin calls his weary slaves into the band room and for one hour tries his best to produce mu- ,sic from the gruesome sounds is- sued forth. Band leaders are always looking for pieces that suit the students and Mr. Franklin, trying to do his best, brought forth a selection called, The Donkey Serenade. It's nice that someone under- stands us. I always thought drummers lwere queer but hadn't decided for sure until I saw one throwing his arms around at a speed dangerous to everyone. When questioned about his actions, he replied, But, Mr. Franklin insists I play that wayi' Every band has to have saxo- phones but I'm sure we could do without one if she insists on wear- ing such bright-colored shirts. It blinds the French horns: and what's a band without them. Do you suppose you could remedy the situation, Butterfield? If anyone should happen to pass the band room and see Mr. Franklin floating around the room don't be alarmed. He's only show- ,ing the trombones how to play ACTIVE RED CROSS WORKERS IN WSHS Wessington Springs high school has been accepted as a member of the National Junior Red Cross organization. The junior high has started working on favors for soldiers for Christmas. Home economics clas- ses are making bean bags to be sent to children overseasg they are also bringing the service flag up to date by adding new stars. Shop classes are working on the following articles for soldiers: lamp stands, watch holders of wire, ring toss, diet card holders. maple canes, cribbage boards, writing boards, and clothes hang- ers. The high school English classes are to begin work on booklets to be exchanged with students in foreign countries. Defense stamps will be sold to students again this year and the class buying the most will receive an award. FFA Activities Include Wiener Roast, Field Trip Activities in the FFA during the past week included a field trip and wiener roast. September 27, the ag II class took a field trip to the farm of Clifford Hotchkiss and judged hogs of various classes. The wiener roast was held in the municipal park, September 28, and was well attended. Mr. Gadda as secretary-treas- urer of the SDEA will accompany state FFA officers to Kansas City as chaperone. These officers are representatives from South Dako- ta to the national FFA conven- tion. when he tells them to play light- ly. Each and every band has its licorice sticks: clarinets to you. and Wessington Springs is no dif- ferent. One of the clarinets furn- ishes no end of amusement for us. At each high note, she rises half-way off her chair. Why don't you try glue, Ruth? The only way, so Mr. Franklin found out, to get music from the cornets, is to stand over them with a drum-stick and threaten. them. And there's evidence to prove it. All in all, we're not so bad and some day we might surprise youg but don't for heaven's sake wait for us.

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With the Editors LADDER TO SUCCESS Have you ever thought ofcom- paring your studies to a ladder? Each day you learn a new and val- uable lesson, which, if left out would mean a missing rung on your ladder to success. When you start any kind of a job, you must start slowly and get the fundamentals. You wouldn't start building a house in mid-air would you? You've got to have your foundation first and it must be firm and strong. Without that you're sunk! The same comparison can be can be made in school. Some pu- pils think they can lay oif the first nine weeks and catch up later. But to their dismay they discover it isn't that easy. Good grades are difficult to obtain if you don't have your fundamentals well in mind. Why not apply yourself now, at the beginning of the year? It is not too late yet to form the right habit of having your lessons pre- pared. Use your free time to the best advantage by preparing a time budget. Don't wait! Next week may be too late. Start building your lad- der of good grades now and make it strong and sturdy. You'll find it reaches much higher if you do. R.L.B. o:0-Qv-ow0-o-0-0--o--o-o--o-o-o-o-o-+-o-4-0-o-o--o-o-o:v Y 2 Last Year s Faculty p.o-o-0-o--r-o--o-w-Qwo--onowQ-0-o--o-0-v-o-o--v-O-04:a Have you been wondering what has happened to our last year's faculty? By doing a bit of re- search work, we discovered that they are well scattered through- out the country. Mr. William Miller is superin- tendent of schools at Iroquois. Miss Susan Clemen is a dietician in Washington, D. C. In the em- ploy of Montgomery Ward 85 Co., in Mitchell, we find Mr. Walter Miller, last year's 7th and 8th grade instructor. Mrs. Charles Burchfleld, formerly Miss Maxine Caskey, is traveling with her hus- band. Two other members, Mr. Henry Coolidge and Mr. Wilbur Brown are serving in the armed forces. Mrs. Wallace Patten is a teacher in the Scotland high school. Miss Mabel Nielson is teaching in the high school at Mitchell. Mrs. Theodore Hodwalker and Mr. Hilding Gadda are back in WSHS again. Mr. Gadda made a trip to Hur- on Saturday to visit Mr. William Miller who is in the hospital there. Mr. Miller was senior principal here last year. Miss Audry Hanson spent the week-end in Salem visiting friends there. Q0-o-O-0--0-0-0-0-0-0--9--QwOv0wo-o-0-o--0-Q--o-o-04:o New Faculty Members o:o-o-o-o-so-o- -o-o-9:1 Mrs. Frank Warta, Mrs. Warta, freshman English, math, and advanced math teach- er, attended both high school and the University of Nebraska, in Lincoln, Nebr. Her hobby is her eight-year-old son Bobby, who is in the third grade. She believes, of all the sports, she would prefer to engage in hiking. In the culinary department, she puts fresh bread, fresh butter, and applesauce ahead of anything else and anything in the line of blue and green takes her eye. Her pet peeve is indifferent, d0n't-care students. Miss Rose Bietz ' Miss Bietz, 'lth and 8th grade adviser, hails from Armour. Her hobby is singing. She likes to watch fast-action basketball: and although she likes red as a color, she looks best in blue. Miss Bietz said when asked what she liked in the line of foods, everything in general, watermel- on especially. The thing that gets on her nerves most is a noisy classroom. G.A.A. CHOOSES CAPTAINS The G.A.A. iGirls Athletic As- sociation? has chosen captains for their four teams. Team I has cho- sen Hermine Wheelerg team II. Donna Knight: team III, Ada Faulhaberg team IV, Pat Pinard. There will be three weeks of kitten ball on the diamond behind the grade school. The committee for gym suits is as follows: Phyllis Wood, Chair- mang Lois Hawley, Beverly Knight, Alta Rogers. Blue was chosen as the color for the gym suits. After soft ball season is over, there will be about 12 weeks of basketball. ? 2 :+HiN'ii'.3Fi: W '? 9 av PAT Q l:O'O0OvOl'O O'lC O QWO0O-'ONC'Q OWOvO OWO0O O O'-O4:O I'll admit there are many an- noying things which go on in var- ious classes and study halls, but about the most annoying is to have the teacher jingling money, tapping the desk, squeaking the chair, and racing up and down the aisle, while the studious class is trying to write a test. Result: nineteen out of twenty-five received A's. It could- n't be the students. Do you sup- pose Mr. Franklin just felt sorry for us? Just to show you how corny the sophomores can be if they really try is this little ditty, as told to me by a sophomore bookworm. Hickory, dickory dock The mouse gnawed on the clock. The clock struck three And fell on me. Bong! As we were discussing speech Monday morning, someone stated the visual characteristic which demands the body. As an example Mr. Franklin gave out with that come hither look of the eye. Just as an example of course! Wouldn't we have a perfect set- up if: Phyllis were steel instead of Woodg Beverly were day in- stead of a Knight: Alexa would smile instead of Grieveg Lorraine were a door instead of a Wahl: Alan were a bulldog instead of a Sheppardg and Dick could swim instead of Wade! SPARTAN SPOTLIGHTS Mr. Robert Franklin visited at his home in Mitchell over the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Solem were guests at the Hilding Gadda home Saturday evening. The C. B. club was entertained at the home of Gladys Leischner last Friday evening. Games were played and lunch was served. . FOOTBALL IS OUR WAR CASUALTY .. RQ J 4' 5 I 1 ,gall 1-Q f 4 I cagef.- , Y- ki - . CT 15.-3fs.....- s..' 51-:ll

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With the Editors fmW-----'W-M-We--4+-W? . This is war STUDENT RESPONSIBILITY Seemingly, it is a common prac- tice among students to assume that the school belongs to the su- perintendent or to the faculty: therefore, the care and mainten- ance of the building and its furn- ishings should be left wholly up to them. ' But, students, in reality, it is your school and likewise your privilege and duty to take over the responsibility of caring for it. Its whole purpose now, as it was at the time of its erection, is to give you a chance to build your knowledge and character for the futureg certainly not just to pro- vide a job for the faculty! If you should stop to realize these facts, you would undoubted- ly take more pride in its protec- tion. Perhaps it was not you who broke the top from the desk in the assembly, or walked carelessly down the hall making marks with your heels, but certainly you are Justified in reporting the acts of one who does, to proper author- ities. Let loyalty be your guide and protect the school, your property, irom destruction. In other words, let's all be dood Witto kids and quit frowing paper wads what stick to the bwak-boards-should us? -PJB. PRINCIPALS JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND-OR DO THEY? . SG Ygg ! HSYET w E ix i CHIT CHAT One of the most stale knock- knocks that I have heard is this one pertaining to two junior boys: Knock, knock, who's there? Hiram. Hiram who? Hiram I doing?? Mr. Hodwalker in fifth period study hall gave Myron Kleppin and Vincent Kearns permission to bring toys to play with Tuesday, but he hoped they would bring rubber ones so they wouldn't hurt themselves. While running through a mag- azine fordinarily I walk? I ran ionce in a while I skip? across this little joke: Prayer of an ad- vertising man's child: Give us this day, our daily, golden crust, slow baked, vitamin-enriched bread. Speech class is getting to be quite the place. In a speech given the other day, they were mention- ing the breaking of minor laws by minors. One of them, the break- ing out of street lights so as to kiss your girl in the dark, seemed to have a certain significance to a few of the kids. How about it? This little bit of corn is James Ward's advice to the lovelorn and I quote: Me love has flew, Her did me dirt. Me never knew Her was a flirt. To they in love, Let I forbidg Lest they be dood Like I been did. GRADE NEWS First Grade The first grade went to Shakes- peare garden last Thursday. Mrs. Shay made a grandmother for them from a daisy. Mr. Shay gave each a flower. Second Grade l The second grade pupils made spool toys in art. They have made a collection of leaves in science and health posters have been made in health class. Those receiving gold stars in spelling last week are: Josephine Atkins, Marlene Brown, Patricia Carr, Dorothy Christensen, and Joan Neuharth. Third Grade The third grade is going to make Indian papooses for social studies. In science, they have be- gun work in their new science work books. Fourth Grade Spatter designs with leaves Editor's Note: The following nar- rative is one staff member's con- ception of the activities in a re- cent seventh period study hall. Well, it's morning and it's rain- ing. Due to the bad weather CMiss Hanson, teacher in chargel there isn't a shot fired. But wait! The weather's breaking! The sun's shining 1 she leaves the room.D Bang! So the Japs have fired the first shot, eh! Bang! Bang! Bang! More shots from the Japs. Quick! You pilots man your planes. Ah! We'll show 'em. There go three of our best pilots. See . . . Didn't I tell you we would show them? We have sunk one of their warships already. Oh, oh, look! One of our planes is go- ing down .... darn that ack-ack. Say, there goes one of our des- troyers tBob Woltingl after him. He's just about there. O, darn it. Bad weather is setting in again Cteacher comes back.l They will both be lost at sea. iAnd I'm not kidding there: they both go to the office.J Well, they are our first casual- ties. Don't feel too bad about it because there is more where they came fromg that is, we get more where they are going . . . to the office, I mean. The weather is clearing up again. 4Either the teacher is studying for home ec., or has fal- len asleep.J There go three more of our planes. Look! They have sunk two more warships. But don't worry, there is still our tanker left. Boy! He will surely.take a lot of bombs. Say, they're bomb- ing it now. Oh! Poor Sheilield . . er, that poor tanker. There it goes. Hey fellows! Did you no- tice it, too? When that tanker went down it raised the ocean three feet. Well, that is the end of those Japs. There goes the cease-fir- ing signal fthe bellb. So long un- till next seventh period. have been made in art. The fourth grade has a spelling chart. Each time the students receive an a-plus grade, they re- ceive a star. Kathleen Wahl, Betty Jean Santee and Betty Leischner, were absent a day to attend Corn Pal- ace. Fifth and Sixth Grades Robert Santee and Deloris Winegarden attended the Corn Palace. Those having perfect spelling grades for the first three weeks are: Norma Kludt, Berdyne Har- ris, Richard Hille, Eleanor Tan- quist, Ava Lee Theurer, Marie Kopke and Beverly Palmer of the fifth grade: Edward Wickre and Deloris Winegarden, sixth.