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

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Published by Students of Wessington Springs Iligh School VOLUME SIXTEEN Thursday, November 16, 1944 NUMBER NINE THE ADORABLE . GE TO BE PRESENTED FRIDAY 'EWENETY-FIVE REPORT 5'Q'M'm'M1Qvg:g,'ff:2a2i1'g'lfg'M 'u'?.?Performance Scheduled to FOR BB PRACTICE Basketball season is oH to a, good start with 25 boys out for' the first practice. Coach Holland will have his first five chosen by next week, when we can really settle down to a practice program every evening from 4:00 to 5:00, in preparation for the opening game with Forestburg December 8. 15 were out for the first meet- ing of those interested in cheer- leading and we will probably be hearing from them before long. Superintendent Holland secured some new equipment for the team. Practice games have been arrang- ed with the local college team ex- cept that definite dates are to be scheduled. That's That Long faces and sharpened pen- cils were the fashion last week, when students wrote nine-weeks tests. As the zero hour f9:00 a. m.J approached, faces were still longer, pencils were re-sharpen- ed, and they were ready to begin. At 9:45, students were almost through with the first test and be- gan to sing, An Hour Never Pas- ses: and at noon, weary and de- pressed, they burst into, Show Me the Way to Go Home. After a hearty dinner and more book cramming, students began writing again. The fashion of the afternoon changed to locked doors as teachers vainly tried to correct test papers. At 3:00 p.m., a call for stretchers echoed through the halls as one teacher after anoth- er was carried away. Finding that Texas, South Dakota and Calif- ornia were three states in which matter existed, was too much for the general science teacher and her condition was reported critical. Friday was a welcome day with tests over and a free week-end, but there is still one thing to face-a very gruesome ordeal- report cards. The G. I. club entertained a group of classmates at a farewell surprise party last Thursday in honor of Paul Bauer at the Dale Newcomer home. Games were played and lunch was served. i..L....L.-1- Miss Mary Kearton and Miss Audrey Hanson took the Girl Scouts bowling Thursday evening. . 1 l l l i I 1 J 9:0.g..g..g..g..g..g..g..q..q..q..Q.....g..g..g..g..g..g.....g..g..g.gzg MISS MARILYN SCHNEIDER Miss Marilyn Schneider comes from Salem and teaches our third grade. There she attended high school and was graduated in '42. Then she attended Augustana col- lege two years. For a hobby she likes to knit: she also likes music. She says she is a Sinatra fan and that she likes to hear him sing, 'AI Walk Alone. She is the best of friends with people who like hamburgers with onions, but'she hates those who eat crackers and milk. E... -0.-Q..q..5f:E.:i.EE..NqE-Wg.:-0-.g....,E .tg4......ug..g.....g..g....................g.....g..,..g--o..g....q:g There will be no school next week, November 20-25, enabling teachers to attend SDEA. Mr. Holland will act as judge for the election of SDEA officers. November 15, Coach Lester Belding will arrive to assist with basketball for that day. He is from Dakota Wesleyan, Mitchell. Mrs. L. E. Gerber entertained the women faculty members at breakfast and bridge Saturday morning. Waffles and sausages were served. Begin Promptly at Eight o'clock The Adorable Age a delight- ful, scintillating, three-act comedy will be presented by the junior class Friday evening at 8:15 in the high school auditorium. Ad- mission will be 35c, tickets being reserved at Buck's Pharmacy. Besides the evening perform- ance, a special matinee will be given at two o'clock Friday after- noon to which children not hav- ing activity tickets will be admit- ted for 15 cents. Mary Gay, Betty Wickre, at 15, begins to see the possibility of her life-long ambition, the at- tainment of a father becoming realized. This only strikes terror in her heart when she finds her mother, Helen Raabe, has chosen the wrong man. Mary, with the aid of her own ingenuity, attempts to right the matter by training Uncle Jim lAlan Sheppardb so that he will be the successful candidate. Complications arise from her discovery that Grand York fKen- neth Kieserb is attentive to her mother only to further his own business schemes. It happens that Mary's enthusiastic rehearsals with Uncle Jim are mistaken by Bert Parnham, CGlenn Burchfieldl her own youthful romance, who believes she has an affection for someone other than himself. Her mother also becomes angered in discovering Mary's meddling. Mrs. Colby, the mother, saves the situation by her expose of York, whose every move she has analyzed and she confesses that she has used York only as a means to stir Jim into speaking his heart and mind. Mary Gay is the adolescent child, with Bert and Jinny tAlex- a Grieve? completing the youthful picture. Harriet Ayers, friend of Mrs. Colby, will be enacted by Mary Lou Anton. Clarabell, iPat Pinardb the colored housekeeper, contributes to the delightful com- edy with wit and humor. This comedy by Dana Thomas is produced by special royalty ar- rangement with the Northwestern Press. Richard Bradley will play a cor- net solo between the second and third acts.

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With the Editors EIGHTH PERIOD '3 SIXTH WAR LOAN The Sixth War Loan drive op- ens November 16. For the 6th time your country is asking you to give till it hurts-and yet, you're not really giving anything because you're going to get it back, and with interest. Don't say, Look what happen- ed in the last war. The Liberty Bonds were paid o1I for a lot less than they were worth and the same thing is bound to happen again. Every bond you buy as an individual, private citizen of the United States of America, is just that much more assurance that they will be paid at maturity value. A Here's why: If every individual in America possesses a share of these bonds, everybody is interest- ed enough to pay very close at- tention to what is done about them in Washington. If any sen- ator or congressman would dare suggest repudiation of War Bonds, or vote for any measure to pay less than maturity value, he would commit political suicide, because nobody would vote for him again. As the gentlemen in Washing- ton value their political necks. your bonds are more than reason- ably safeg and the more every cit- izen buys, the safer they become. The goal for this drive is S14 billion. Maybe one school's pur- chases won't amount to very much but, pile all the bonds and stamp' that every school can buy and if will go quite a ways toward filling that 14-billion-dollar bucket. Just think to yourself what you have spent in the last week that would fall into the recreation and miscellaneous expense col- umns. Cou1dn't you have just as well gotten along on half of it? Think it over! Get a little note- book or memorandum and jot it down every time you make a purchase. You will find it sur- prising what you buy that you could get along without. Figure it out. You owe it to yourself. You owe it to your country! ALW Mr. Theodore Hodwalker was ill at his home Monday. Mary Swanson visited in Win- fred Friday and Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Solem spent Saturday evening at the home oi Mr. and Mrs. Hilding Gadda. . i Q j i? I While you are sitting in study hall With nothing to do, You'll find that the teacher is Always watching you. And if you throw a nice spit wad. Or a pencil, or a book Without even casting a wee little look ,At the teacher who sits at the back of the room, Boom! ' That will be three nice eighth periods for you And right soon. And if by surprise While thinking you're wise, You're touched on the shoulder Or informed otherwise That you must stay eighth period For swatting some flies That were on Smitty's head And on a few other guys. Apparently, ah, shall we say, The little gentleman we see above iWasn't so wise. ' Anyhow, there he sits in the as- isembly. Gee! I wonder if they let them put their feet on the desks like that. H-m, he looks . pretty comfortable. Or, is he? 1See the look on his faceg wonder I why he is there. Couldn't be that he didn't get his spelling words in 5 or could it be that he happen- ed to mention the little incident about folding chairs? Maybe he lspoke a little loud in Mrs. Law's journalism class. Maybe he sang a wrong note in boys' glee club. He looks like he's got the Limehouse Blues. Say, I knowg I bet he was the one who brought that fish into assembly from biology. I heard that Miss Hanson gave him a week of eighth periods. Well, in closing I will add: Eight periods are nice: Eight periods are fun: fThe guy who wrote this Must have never had one.J CT. Mrs. Lester Greener, Mrs. Phil- lips Crew and Mrs. Robert E. Buck played bridge at Mrs. Mark Law's Friday evening. The Misses Virginia Webb, Alta Rogers and Doris Clifton enter- tained Rodney Flannery, James Anton and Herbert Wickre at a wiener roast Friday night. Games - were played. 2 CHIT CHAT g9O'.'.W. f CW.?.Y'fT T'4 . . . . . 'f l'g. Apparently the gentleman in charge of the sophomore English class is getting tough, Didn't I see Bob Wolting writing 420 words last night? The students' idea of a perfect class was portrayed in World History Monday afternoon during the absence of Mr. Hodwalker. Two crap games and a football game, along with a little dicta- tion. Did you see that flashy Ish Ka- bibble hair-do around school? Merely to prove that boys can change their hair-dos. Junior class play is progressing rapidly with a few minor casual- ties and several major bruises! This week we have Blondie and Dagwood. Blondie is a sophomore, lives west of town, sings in glee club, and has recently been in the hospital but is back in school. Dagwood is also a sophomore: has been active in sports and lives in the north part of town. He is frequently called Dan. . 'E' omcs News There has been a change in schedule this week to permit the 7th and 8th grade boys to have physical education on Tuesday and Friday, and the girls to have it Monday and Wednesday. While the girls are having physical edu- cation the boys will take shop: and the girls will have home econ- omics while the boys are taking physical education. Miss Ethel Swenson of Wessing- ton Springs is replacing Miss Ruby Doering as secretary this week. Miss Swenson attended State col- lege two years, majoring in home economics. Jack Anton returned to school Tuesday after being in St. Joseph hospital, Mitchell for observation. First Grade This week the first grade had a Halloween party. Masks were worn and the pupils surprised the other grades by going to their rooms and singing. This grade is divided in two reading groups. One group reads mornings and the other, after- noons. Wayne Haijsman treated the room to cookies in honor of his birthday Friday.

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4 With the Editors 2 M c'i'fift'?:'1F1 .3.'T ? ' Y 9 BY PAT Q TH I 'J-0--o--0--o--0--0--0--m-o--o--v-e-o-4-0-v-0--0-one--o--o'o:e Guest Editorial The festival of turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, or, in other words, Thanksgiving! Though we here in the middle west enjoy the day with family gatherings, and the West and south, along with the turkey, go to the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl and Orange Bowl football games which have recently become an outstand- ing Tnanksgiving tradition, yet does Thanksgiving mean the same to us of the middle west, west, and south, as it does in New England, where Thanksgiving ranks second to none? In New England we recall, was the setting for the first Thanks- giving Day, wnen the Pilgrims gathered at Plymouth in 1621, that first autumn, to give thanks lor an abundant harvest. Thanksgiving Day is fixed by proclamation of the President and state governors. The President's proclamation makes the oay a le- gal holiday in the District of Col- Lunbia and the Territories. The governors' proclamation makes the day a legal holidays in the states. Congress recommended days of thanksgiving annually during the first revolution, and in 1814 Ior the return of peaceg as did Presi- dent Madison in 1815. Then let us 'observe Thanksgiv- ing as our Continental Congress and President Madison recom- mended, of giving thanks and praying for the return of peace. Since 1863, the President has always issued proclarnations ap- pointing the last Thursday in No- vember as Thanksgiving Day. We recall President Roosevelt pro- claimed the third Thursday of November Thanksgiving Day. A number of governors proclaimed the fourth Thursday of November as Thanksgiving. A great deal of confusion was the result. So Pres- ident Roosevelt, to avoid further confusion, reconsidered and again proclaimed the last Thursday as Thanksgiving Day. Then last year, Congress passed a law proclaim- ing the fourth Thursday Thanks- giving Day, so that is why we ob- serve the fourth Thursday, the 23rd of November, this year. -MRS. FRANK WARTA. Ag I class in crops and soils is studying soil, including what soil is, its contents, origin, agents of formation, and classification in order to create a greater interest and understanding of the scienti- fic aspects of soil, from which all things come. In Ag shop, each boy in making a woodworking pro- ject of his own. Freshmen in agriculture have made their final selections for this year's projects. Oh, happy Sadie Hawkins Day! A day when every girl has an op- portunity to catch herself a mang that is, if there is enough to go around. Who knows? It may be the beginning of some startling romances. Junior play practice is having a bad effect on the castg especially when they take to putting the mantel on the vase instead of the vase on the mantel. Little Boy Blue, Come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow, The cow's in the corn. Where is the little boy who looks alter the shee 'P p. ,He's in the army, driving a jeep! Maggie and Jiggs of this week are a junior and a freshman. Mag- gie stays at the dorm and as sub- jects takes English, American his- tory, biology, and typing. Jiggs is short, dark, and -. His sub- jects are: ag, algebra, general science, and English. He stays at the dorm. Editor's note: Any similarity to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. IWIARION' JOHNSTON SPEAKS TO LOCAL FFA GROUP The Wessington Springs FFA was greatly honored at its second meeting of the year by a visit from the South Dakota American Farmer, Marion Johnston of Brookings. Addressing the group, he told of his work since he had entered high school and what it meant to him to ,receive the American Farmer degree. He also gave an account of his achievements in agricultural education. He was accompanied by Mr. Wilmer Davis, agriculture in- structor at State college, formerly of the vicinity of Wessington Springs. Mr. Davis spoke, com- plimenting the chapter as a whole on work done and the name it has created for itself. He advised the group to continue the good work. Armistice Day Twenty-six years ago November 11, just one minute before 11:00 a.m., the long battle lines were still shaking with the roar of great cannons, the hum of bullets, and the sound of machine guns. Then a stillness settled over the scene, for the armistice with Germany had been signed. We, as did others, believed that the signing of the armistice meant the end of worldswars. Today, however, brave men are again dy- ing for the same cause which men '26 years ago died for. This year, as Armistice Day was observed, a sober world was re- lmembering those who have brave- ly fought and died and those who are dying for our freedom. Beginning November 17, our country is asking us for the sixth time to buy War Bonds. Let's dig down deep and buy all we possibly can to bring the unconditional surrender for the present war nearer. Last week, the sale of War Stamps amounted to the grand sum of S27.30, which is a little more than some weeks. However, there could be more stamps sold than have been in the past. There have been many appeals, yet the sale has not increased as it should. If each student will buy one War Stamp each week, it would boost sales to a new high. What would be better than breaking our own record? The sacrifice is small, .the dividend is great. 2 Library News 0: -0-so-0-Q-0:0 A new book, Building Ameri- ca, , volume 9, has been added to the library. This contains interest- ing, up-to-date material on our neighbors in North Africa. Another section, Our Minority Groups: Italian-Americans, des- cribes the Italian immigrant, his problems, his background, and his adjustments. The third section tells of Elec- tronics, a new branch in science used as a weapon in war against disease and accidents, and a creat- or of marvels in the home. Dairying, the fourth section, shows by pictures and words, that the industry is a round-the-clock job and necessary to American 1 e. The Consumer in War and Peace, describes the consumer and tells how he spends his in- come. The problems confronting him and what he can expect in the future, are also discussed. Labor and Management, . pro- vides interesting material in sec- 'tion six. American Democracy in War- time, discusses everything from financing the war to the public. The last section of the book is, The Challenge to American Youth, which should prove inter- esting to high school students, the builders of America. Miss Audrey Hanson was a din- ner guest at the Charles Hatch home Sunday. Miss Marilyn Schneider and Miss Rose Beitz were Sunday din- ner guests at the Fred Dunham I home.