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

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With the Editors BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS Buy War Bonds and Stamps! Does that really mean anything to you? It's fired at you in every theater you attend. Along the highways more than half the signs display it. Every newspaper you pick up shouts it at you on almost every page. You pick up a pencil to write your daily assignments, and it's all over the side of that. Posters on bulletin boards stare at you at every turn. You hear it every time you turn on the radio. Yes, we've all seen it, hundreds and thousands of timesg seen it so much that we cease to see it. As Bert Van Dyke, well known gradu- ate of 1943-4 said, when he found it impossible to concentrate on his Government chapter, It just goes in one eye and out the other. But there is one thing we can't forget. There's a war on. And our military leaders, men who ought to know, say that the tough- est fighting is yet to be met in Europe, and there is no idea as to the time required for Japan. Every one of us has some close relative, brother, sister, cousin, uncle, or perhaps even father, in this war. Many of them are over- seas. They're giving everything they've got-even life itself-oh, yes. maybe some of them didn't want to go at iirst, but you don't hear of them griping. A lot of us will be in this thing before very many sheets come oiT the calendar on the wall, but that's no excuse for doing nothing now. The one way we can help, the best way We can do something about it and not just talk, is to get on the bond wagon. The average income of school students has almost doubled. Surely we can all invest at least ten cents each Tuesdayfor a War Stamp. This would total more than S20 a week for the school, and if carried through an entire year, would mean a S720 contrib- ution. Nobody would miss my dime? Don't kid yourself. Get in the fight. Back the attack. Buy War Bonds and Stamps! -ALW gnc-0-e-nv-0-9+-env-94--wma-4wr++o4-0-ge ? Office News 2 9 9 o Q' Mr. Holland attended a meet- ing of the State Music Council in Huron, Sunday. Plans were dis- Zzussed for a Regional Music Con- est. New books have been ordered for the World History class. Miss Rose Beitz and Mrs. Bertha Eagle were supper guests at Bert Kidman's Friday evening. 1 I l 0:04-o-4-any-o--o-4--of-0-a--awww-m-o-s--0--s--Q--Q--0-02 l ci-ur CHAT Starkle, starkle, little twink, What the -- you are I think, Up above the world so high Like a flashlight, maybe, huh? S p r i n g s - that's the way you spell it. Here's the way you tell it! Somethimes me tinks I will go crazy. OK, OK, youse knows am. Then there was the Scotchman who fried his bacon in Lux to keep it from shrinking! One day I overheard Betty Wickre hollering to her mother. CDon't worry I live only a block away.l 'Come down off that raft- er, motherg that's not the way to 'get on the beam! I Fibber and Mollie are freshman and sophomore and have been seen around just the past couple of weeks. They are both dorm kids, Blinky being a sophomore and Mick a freshman. Last week's Kitty and Kayo were Beverly Knight and Bob Wolting. Luella Krueger was a guest of Paul Bauer's in Wolsey, Saturday Declamatory Contest Held at Woonsocket Seven towns participated in the district declamatory contest held at Woonsocket Wednesday, Nov- ember 29. Three students from Wessington Springs took part and all received ratings of good. In the humorous division, Beverly Hein recited The Waltz by Dorothy Parker. Mar- garet Waybright took part in the oratorical division with, Shall We Have Two More World Wars? by Dr. D. F. Flemmingg and Joseph- ine Schroeder's reading was, The American Way, by Kaufman and Haut. Randall Fisher of Woonsocket received a superior rating in the oratory division. Margaret Smith of Plankinton, superior in the poe- try divisiong Dessie Hutton, Let- cher, superior, humorous: and Shirley Duncan, Mt. Vernon, su- perior, dramatic. FFA OFFICERS HOLD MEETING F.F.A. ofhcers met last Thurs- day, November 30, and with the ,aid of Mr. Gadda, decided to have a play on any date available in January. Plans were made for par- ants night, an annual affair which is usually held in the middle of February. Copies of the newly-arranged F. evening. i F. A. Constitution were distributed. SPRINGS vs FORESTBURG 0 Friday December 8 A 7:30 At Forestburg 1 O LETCHER ..... . . . . NEXT TUESDAY 1l ilq 11-1 u :xi-v 7 ii: 0- -1 -.11 n-1 ,,,.--1 '-1-.. . 1 --1 1-1 1-it

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' ' 1928-Phil Rae-bel. V Published by Students of Wessington Springs lligh School VOLUME SIXTEEN Thursday, December 7, 1944 NUMBER ELEVEN GOLD STARS' ADDED 4 SPARTANS PLAY FIRST TO SERVICE FLAG 2.............,..-......,...-..,.....,.......,,2.1 GAME FRIDAY NIGHT The high school service flag has 1 been brought up to date, throughl the work of Mrs. Greener and Miss Hanson. There are 174 stars on the flag, with three gold stars. 1 Those represented by gold stars are: Don Kleppin, Raymond Schmierer, and Paul Fildes. Don and Raymond were killed in action 1 in France, and Paul in a plane 1 crash 1 during training in thisg country. , 5 The graduating class of l938,g with a total of 17, leads the classes 1 and one of the stars is gold. 1 The complete-list of those rep-' 1 1 resented is as follows: 1915-Harley Holcomb. 1 1918-Maurice Zink. 1 1920-Albert Russell. 1924-Marion Burchield. 1 1925-Genevieve Vessey. 1 1927-Coye Hulfman, Frank Whitney. 1929-Vincent Buoye, Glen Hall, Donald Gibbs. 1930-Loren Carlson, Roy Wahl, Robert Jones. 1931-Robert Buck, Ralph Fer- ren, Lyle Lass, Junius Morehead, Lawrence Petrosky, Clark Zink. 1932-Allison Dunham, William Hatch, Robert Monteith, Everett Schwarm, Herbert Creighton. 1933-Wyeth Van Buren, Robert Cowan, Harold Olson, Ralph Hill- mer, Richard Monteith, George Pinard, Alwyn Robinson, William Srstka, Carol Whitney, Elvin Rum- elhart. 1934-Bob Austin, John Bowar, Roy Jones, Bernard Posey, Paul Setterstrom, Elmer Schmierer, Douglas Dunham. 1935- Bill Bowar, Maurice Burchlield, Virgil Harbert, Gerald Tupper. 1936- Howard Bill, Chester Brown, Richard Bryson, Harvey Christensen, Hilding Englund, Ar- vid Shulenberger, Ruth Palmer, LeRoy Huether, Donald Nighbert, Oscar Holmgren, Leonard Had- dorif, Everett Rumelhart, John Waybright. 1937-Wallace Churchill, Robert DeLay, Roger Dunham, William Flittie, Eugene Habicht, Leslie Hanson, Raymond Hendricks, Carl Jensen, Bill Munson, Robert Pal- mer, Philip Romig, Curtis Schwarz, 1 Raymond Schmierer igoldi, Har- old Voorhees, Walter Schmidt, Vernon Young. 1938-Milo Ballard, Merle Cow- THEODORE HODWALKER Mr. Theodore Hodwalker, senior high school principal, is a Neb- raska man. He attended Doan College, Crete, Nebr., University of Chicago, and College of Education, Greeley, Colo. His hobby is col- lecting Oriental art objects. He appreciates all music except jive. WAR STAMP SALES Tuesday, December 5 Seniors .................. 337.90 Juniors ............ ..... 2 1.00 Sophomores ......... -- 8.25 Freshmen ............. -- 2.95 7th and 8th Grades ...... 4.50 TOTAL 874.60 nie Hins, Hubert Holcomb, Donald Kleppin Cgoldl, Curtis Reedy, John Schmidt, Vernon Schmierer, Kenneth Schryer, Raymond Sef- rna, Kenneth Van Buren, Ervin Huether, Curtis McFarling, Robert Baltzer. 1939-Billy Bell, Bob Cameron, Charles- Fischer, Paul Fildes rgoldl, Merlin Hodgson, Everett- Hinrichs, Milton Horsley, Arthur Maxwell, Dean Schryer, Eugene Strachan, -Ivan Kieser, Wyman Whitney, Keith Bidleman, Donald Myers, Avery Thompson. 1940-Maynard Bill, Keith Brid- nour, Everett Dean, Milo Erickson, Harold Arnott, Douglas Flittie, Douglas Jones, Paul Jones, Eugene man, Franklin Fite, ReubenlKauble, Newell Patton, Charles. Fuerst, Harold Hemmelman, Con-'Reedy, Donley. Swanson, Marvin 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 . 1 1 1 1 Friday, December 8, the Blue and Gold will clash with the For- estburg Orange and Black on their home floor for the roll-off in the 1944-45 basketball season. Let's all help the team get off to a good start by attending the game. The squad will probably be made up of: Richard Bradley, Bob Winegarden, Vernon Winegarden, Fayne Fitzgerald and Ronald Sal- ter, Iirst flveg Bob Wolting, Ben Fenn, Clair Tiede, Lester Roush, Dick Wade, Lloyd Reindl, Roy Pal- mer and Rooney Flanneryi Tney will go by bus. The first game starts at 7:30. First home game is Tuesday, December 12, with the Letcher Tl- gers, at 7:30. Letcher was last year's conlerence winner, so it should be a very interesting game. Prices this year are 280 for ad- ults, l2c for students. Students, be sure you have your activity ticket with you. because it's either tnat or 12c to see the game: no exceptions! In the alumni game last Thurs- day, the score was: 1944-5 team, 8, alumni, 26. Friday, the college team came down for a practice game. Powell, Harold Schaefer. 1941-Dick Costello, Clarence Hainy, Bob Jobe, Leo Jonnson, Howard Kopke, Elmer Schnabel, Bob Wood, Don Zink, Elmer Haw- kins, Leonard Lenr, Eldon Beck- man, Louis Wolting, Don Jensen, Bob Adams,'Edmund Bauer, Mur- iel Carson. 1942-Alvin Dey, Joe Hanks, Vernon Luckey, Ralph Sheppard, Wilbur Schmierer, Manford Bill, George Stidworthy, Bob Oates, Francis Rumelhart, Arnold Zink, Milton Reimer, Roland Powell. Clinton Hern, John Hanks, Clif- ford Flittie, Robert Moorman, Ar- nold Runestad. 1943-Gail McDonald, Bob Pin- ard, Raymond Raabe, Ted Webb, LeRoy Winegarden, Arthur Han- sen, Robert Snultz, Russell Ben- nett, Rayburn Zink, Jack Pfeifer, Vernon Olson. 1944- Jack Younie, Gaylord Raabe, Arthur Fenn, Abe Ritch- hardt, Eugene Christensen, Ryland Moorman, Lynus Krueger, Albert Schaefer. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Leischner and Twila were Monday evening guests at the Hilding Gadda ' home.

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The SPAR TO IA Published by Studen ts of Wessington Springs High School QYOLUME SIXTEEN Thl1I'SCl2.y, D6C8II1b6f 14, 1944 NUMBER TWELVE l SPARTANS DEFEAT HANKS WOUNDED BY FORESTBURG 30-17 s......f?fff.TEEfllEii--.5. SHRAPNEL AT BREST In the first game of the season, Springs Spartans smashed the Forestburg Buccaneers 30-17. Fitzgerald was high point man with a total of 18, while Olson topped the Forestburg list with six. Lefler, right guard for the Buccan- eers, fouled out. The Spartan five led by a fair margin throughout the entire game, proving their ability for fast action and quick thinking. Substitutes were: Wolting, Wade, Line-up: FG FT TP 12 V2 50 5 Reindl, and Tiede. Springs Bradley, rf ........ Fitzgerald, lf ...... 43 18 Winegarden, c .... 33M 25 3 Roush, rg ......... B. Winegarden, lg --40 4 The second teams played a dou- ble overtime game with Forestbure winning 11-9. T116 line-up: Flannery, rfg Tiede, lfg Wade, c: Palmer, rgg Reindl, lgg substitutes: Fenn, Wolting and Weber. Pal- mer was high-point man with 6. Local Teachers Enroll 100 Percent in SDEA The state headquarters of the South Dakota Education Associa- tion in Sioux Falls reported today that the teachers of Wessington Springs are enrolled 10070 as members in the association for the school year 1944-45. In announcing this fine record of the Wessington Springs teach- ers, the association officers state that this is the best evidence of the professional attitude of the lo- cal teachers. This year the SDEA celebrat- ed it's sixteenth anniversary. It was organized and held its first meeting in Huron in 1884, five years before statehood. General W. H. H. Beadle, founder of the SD- EA, was its irst president and ser- ved as such for the first three years and again in 1909. The association held it's an- nual 1944 meeting in Mitchell. November 20-22 with emphasis up- on consideration of the schools' part in the war effort of the na- tion and the problems of education in South Dakota. The theme of the association this year, chosen by the SDEA president, Dean W. W. Ludeman of Southern State Normal, was South Dakota Schools Prepare for a Changing' World . ' . 1. .. .1:s:e:s:a:':ag:z:a:1.an :-2.222 z::'s:'f ::....., ,.,.,, , A U.S. Army General Hospital, England 1Delayed1: Wounded by 88mm. shrapnel at Brest, France. while giving another wounded in- fantryman first aid, Pvt. George J. Hanks, 21, of Wessington Springs, South Dakota, is recov- ering at this U. S. hospital in Eng- land. He has been awarded the Purple Heart. 4 'X 4 S Y , '35 , av O' I 4 w e We I 'if' all he xt 4 N, il . ' ' : ' -' : .- 2: 5 E5E if-: I ,,, ::.,:,., ,::5:ag::5:.::::. 1 , 1 l V V , ' 55:5if 5 1 ' :I'2f'.f. if 1 .- , P ' , 3 -1152255231 .ji . l ,. .,.. ' 1 MRS. THEODORE HODWALKER Mrs. T. Hodwalker hails fromg Alliance, Nebr., where she gradu- ated from high school. She re- ceived her BA degree from Nebras- ka State Teachers College, Peru. Nebr., and her MA degree from the Colorado State College of Educa- tion, Greeley, Colo. Mrs. Hodwalker teaches all' commercial courses. Her favorite color is blue, and for recreation she prefers bridge. . WAR STAMP SALES 7th and 8th grades ......... 34.55 Freshmen ...,....,.. .,.. 2 1.2 Sophomores ...... - - - 15.10 Juniors ,... -- ,... 1.00 Seniors ...... .,.... ,,..., 8 . '75 Total ...... ...... ...... S 5 0.65 H CORRECTION! The names of Elizabeth Keene, of the class of '33g Ralph Palmer, class of '38 and Harry Palmer, class of '42 were omitted from the list of WSHS alumni in the service published last week. . A great deal of work and effort was spent in compiling the list, which we now believe to be com- plete. However, if anyone knows of any other name that should be added, please notify us immed- .iately. THE EDITGRS. We were attacking heavily for- tified German positions on the outskirts of the city, the South Dakotan said, when we were pin- ned dowh by machinegun fire. As if that wasn't enough, the Jerries zeroed in with 88s, and shrapnel was flying all over the place? As he gave first aid to a man al- ready hit by shrapnel, Pvt. Hanks was hit in both legs by flying shell fragments. Treated by medics and taken to the battalion aid station, he was later brought by plane to England. Said his Ward surgeon, Lt. Alexei N. Berk of New York City, Pvt. Hanks' condition is satisfactory but he will require more hospitalization to achieve the best possible restoration. A 1942 graduate of Wessington Springs high school, he worked on the farm of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ora Hanks before entering the service in March, 1943. He has a brother, John, 20, in the Navy in Oklahoma. fEditor's note: The above dis- patch, as indicated, is directly from a hospital in England and came undated, passed by censor, and evidently delayed, as Pvt. Joe Hanks, as he is known here, is at the home of his parents here on 30 days furlough from the army hospital at Topeka, Kans.J ,-,i,.-i - FIRST PEP MEETING A pep meeting was held at the weekly assembly Friday morning. Several numbers were played by the pep band under direction of Mr. R. N. Frankling and yells led by our four cheerleaders, were giv- en. Coach C. T. Holland gave a short talk, during which he intro- duced the baskektball boys mak- ing the trip to Forestburg Friday night. Following this, Mrs. Law gave a pep talk which she conclud- ed with: It seems pretty bad in a way, but I think we're really going Ito beat Forestburgf'