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

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Published by Students of Wessington Springs lligh School VOLUME SIXTEEN Thursday, October 12, 1944 NUMBER FOUR NEW SUPERINTENDENT TAKE OVER OCTOBER 2 JUNIORS TO GIVE 'THE ADORABLE AGE' Oh, heavens! I'll never be able to learn all that! Are you sure I am suitable for that part?'i Gee! I can't act! Well, by now you must have guessed that the juniors are beginning on their class play. The title is, The Adorable Age, a comedy in three acts by Dana Thomas. The main character, Mary Gay, is the in- carnation of delightful adoles- cence. Bert and Jinny, her little friends, complete the picture of youth with its aspirations and dreams. With clean, wholesome, riotous laughter as a background, a sweet love story running through, and confident, eager youth in ev- ery scene, it is a play everyone can back. Remember the juniors are part of our school and give them support. The play will be directed by Miss A. Hanson, and will be pre- sented in November, the date to be announced. . Music Groups Organized Election of mixed chorus offic- ers was held in a special meeting last week. Elected were: Velma Schuettpelz, president: Dorothy Gregory, vice presidentg Phyllis Butterfield, secretary: Beverly Knight and Hermine Wheeler, li- brarians. Mr. Franklin has announced the members of the girls sextet as Velma Schuettpelz, Ila Thompson, Ruth Bidleman, Dorothy Camer- on, Pat Pinard and Helen Raabe. Boys' octet will be composed of Alan Sheppard, Arthur Webb, Glen Burchfield, Dick Wade, Don- ald Stratton, Rodney Engelen, Donald Will and Bob Winegarden. Boys' quartet: Dick Wade, Alan Sheppard, Arthur Webb and Rod- ney Engelen, Band ofncers elected are: James Ward, presidentg Ruth Bidleman, vice president: Dorothy Gregory, secretary: Betty Fenn and Alan Sheppard, librarians. ! WAR STAMP SALES Tuesday, October 10 Seniors .................. 330.75 Freshmen ....... --- 8.85 Sophomores .... --- 7.30 Juniors ...... ...... - -EEE 4.00 7th and 8th grades ......... 1.10 FRESHMEN SURVIVE With the yelps and howls of the freshmen on the stage, and wor- ried looks of the yet uninitiated, the freshman initiation of 514-5 got .off to a good start Tuesday evening. They were called up on the stage and required to do certain things. Monte Powell came from behind a screen screaming and shouting, chased by the vicious Amazon, Alice Fenn. Rodney Flannery looked very nice as the wife of Doris Clifton, the hand- some husband Ruth Gravel Gertie Hodgson made a most dramatic proposal to Curtis the Brow Younie. Bob Pieface Miller fed Robert Hau- ge pie blindfolded, and vice versa. Freshmen were first sent through the terrors of the wind- ing stairs and the boys were made up at the door as the judges pick- ed out those who were not so well made up. Lunch of pop and cookies was served to the freshmen and soph- omores at the end of the perform- ance. Benny Fenn, sophomore presi- dent, was master of ceremonies. Clair Tiede, wise and sober judge, conducted kangaroo court for of- fenders. The teachers attended the affair in a. body. SPARTAN SPOTLIGHTS Miss Audry Hanson attended a home economics conference in Aberdeen Friday and Sat- urday. She spent Sunday vis- iting at her home in Lake Norden. The faculty members of Wes- sington Springs high school and grade school were entertained at a pheasant feed last Wednes- day night in the high school dormitory. Mrs. Law was absent from school Friday by illness. Mr. Hilding Gadda was chosen as South Dakota State chaperon for F.F.A. He left here for Kan- sas City last Saturday and will 0:0 I i 1 l 1 I v C. T. HOLLAND OF ARTESIAN WILL HEAD SCHOOL AND COACH BASKETBALL Mr. C. T. Holland, superintend- ent at Artesian, has accepted the superintendency here to take ef- fect October 2O, when Mr. Gerber leaves. After four years work here, Mr. Gerber will take up work in a new field as USO camp di- rector. He is to report November first. Mr. and Mrs. Holland and three children will move here in a week to establish their home, prepara- tory to beginning work on the 20th. Mr. Holland will be coach as well as superintendent, and basketball will get off to a good start on his arrival. The school has been without a coach up to the present time this year. Mrs. Gerber and children will remain here until Mr. Gerber gets located. Faculty Entertained at Pheasant Supper Were you there to see the girls give their curls an extra brush and twist, or 'the boys flashing around in Sunday-go-to-meeting white shirts and their best man- ners ever so apparent, and then just as they entered the dining hall give their hair a super slick cow-lick? Well? Tuesday evening the faculty of ,both grade and high school were guests at the dormitory for pheas- ant supper. The meal, prepared by Mr. Wing and the cooks, was very delicious by all reports. Near the end of the meal, Mr. Gerber expressed the appreciation of the entire faculty for the fine supper. TROPHY AWARDED EUGENE CHRISTENSEN ARRIVES The Wetmore trophy won by Eugene Christensen in the oratory division of declam last year, ar- rived this week and will be pre- sented soon. Inscription on the trophy reads: Wetmore Trophy. 1943. State Declamatory contest, won for Wessington Springs High School by Eugene Christensen with, fWhat About 1953?' It is a large silver trophy which will be placed in the school trophy return Friday. ' I case.

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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.

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With the Editors GRADE NEWS TRAFFIC RULES On different occasions, students have been seen carefully picking their way up the west stairs and down the east, some walking straight ahead, others, that the teachers in the halls directing trafiic might think they are obey- ing the traffic rules, walking back- wards. Clever! Q av PAT 5 o:o-o--o--9-4no--o..o--Q.-0--o--l--0--0--0-0-0--O--O--0--O--0-0-0:1 A new form of mathematics is being used in biology class. Mrs. Greener says, There are eight tentacles on one side of a grass- hopper and eight on the other. Eight and eight made 143 there- fore a grasshopper has 14 tenta- cles. They also study about red- winged grasshoppers. Youyre get- ting your birds and grasshoppers This, and other regulations the mixed, aren't you? faculty has found necessary to en- force, to prevent congestion be- tween classes, are the oil on the cogs of an efficient school system. To list a few: In regard to the stairs: up with the sun and down with the sun. Don't enter a classroom unless the preceding class has filed out. No running in the halls. Cooperate with the janitor in keeping the building clear of pa- per, mud, etc., in adverse weather and the unsightly rubber streaks so easily left by wartime rubber. We will find that by cooperat- ing with these regulations, each of us can get where we are going more quickly, in spite of the fact that it may be a longer route. A.L.W. HELP TO PREVENT FIRE CGuest Editoriali October 8 to 14 has been set aside for Fire Prevention Week. Each year millions of homes and acres of land are destroyed because of someone's carelessness. maybe yours. That oily cloth in your basement might some day be responsible for the destruction of your home. A careless toss of a match may destroy your favorite picnic grounds. Defective chimneys and faulty wiring have been the cause of many fires and though they are minor causes, the destruction which they cause is immense. In public schools throughout the state students are prepared for fire drills. Reading materials have been distributed throughout the country, but all of this will do no good unless each and everyone of us follow the few simple rules of fire prevention. Most important of all, use and follow your own common sense and help to rid your city and country of future destruction by fire. D.C. I asked a senior girl if anything dumb had happened in the senior class and she said, 'We1l, just the wnole class. Mr. Franklin has taken to beat- ing English into the students' lheads but I think you need some A lthing more than a book. Try a I drumstick! Shaky of this week is a jun- ior. He plays in band, sings in glee club, octet, and quartet. His subjects are English, American History, journalism, and advanced algebra. 'tSnowIiake is a sophomore. She is fairly tall, loves sports and lives in the north part of town. Class News Cries of ugh and oh do we have to do this? were heard in biology room during 5th and 6th periods Friday. The students were engaged in killing grasshoppers by sticking pins through the in- sects' heads and then making a .complete examination of them. ' After the inspection the hoppers were torn apart in order that the various parts could be drawn. In some cases the hoppers wou1dn't die so they were gently i?l knocked over the head iwith a pencil. Occasionally someone would go dashing across the room after an escaping specimen. With the return of Mr. Hilding Gadda October 13, all agriculture classes will resume regular class schedules. General Science students wili study the principles of the Bun- sen burner in lab Wednesday. English IV students have fin- ished their course in Tennyson's writings and are studying lysic- al poetry. Chemistry students will collect hydrogen in lab Wednesday. Advanced Ag class plans a field i Q First Grade The first grade is now begin- ning the story of the Three Little Pigs in their Reading Readi- iness books. Gary Bell celebrated his sixth birthday Friday. Donald Ocean entered this grade last Monday. ' Second Grade In language class the second grade is learning the poem Use- fulness . They have made cats, jack-o- lanterns, and witches to decorate their room. A Hallowe'en pos- ter has been made for the bulle- tin board. In science class the second gra- ders have planted corn seeds in glass containers to watch them grow. Dale Leischner won the arith- metic contest. Third Grade The Marines reading class is studying about Fairy Foot, the Lonely Prince , and the Navy reading class is studying the Story of Milk. Letters were written in langu- age classg a book on poetry is going to be started soon. Fourth Grade YCL met Friday and oflicers were elected. Those elected are: Dan Kaske, presidentg Russell Van Buren, vice president: Jerry Cameron, secretaryg Dean Kearns, treasurer. Betty Santee has moved to Hu- ron and the fourth grade was very sorry to have her leave. Danny Lowther has been ab- sent because of illness. Fifth and Sixth Grades Defense stamp sales have begun in the grade school. The total amount sold last week was S41.60. The 5th and 6th grade sales total- ed 51630. Robert Santee of the 6th grade moved to Huron last week. Mrs. Kludt visited 5th and 6th grade room last Tuesday. trip to test hens for Pullorum dis- ease when Mr. Gadda, who is act- ing as chaperon of delegates to the National FFA convention, re- turns. Physics students will study and prove Archimide's principles in lab Wednesday. Home ec students are continu- ing the study of the care of the sick.