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

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With the Editors BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT As the days of the basketball tournament approach, students begin looking forward with excite- ment and optimism. It's a good thing to be optimistic as long as it is sensible optimism and not the kind that affords such remarks as Oh, we'll win the tournament easily3 or, We haven't a thing to Worry about. People making remarks as these are over-coniid- ent and that's bad as it influences students and team until they really believe they're going to walk right off with that trophy without half trying to win it. We can win the tournament, but our team will have to put up a good iight and we'll have to stand with them and support them all we can. Just being over-conlident or too optimistic isn't going to get us a thing. It's been shown before when over-confidence lost us a game. Let's all cooperate-with the cheerleaders as well as the team. Those of you who will be going to Woonsocket, be representative of your school. The actions and deeds of the students give the school its reputation and name. Let's make our name a good one. Remember the Victory can be ours if we stand together and fight for it. R.L.B. Q.......,.......................-.. ............-........... Mg. CHIT CHAT 2 9 av PAT Mary had a little lamb, Her father killed it dead: Now Mary takes the lamb to school Between two slabs of bread! A Mexican had been staying in this country for some time and was adjusting himself to our ways of living. One day he exclaimed to a neighbor, In thisa countree whena you try tooa neck and don't have zee HDRCKU youa get nicked. As Mamie and Willie of this week, I have chosen this junior and senior: Mamie is small, has dark brown hair, and hazel eyes. She lives on a farm and goes home every night falmostl. Willie, a senior, also lives on a farm. 'He eats at the dorm but has a room downtown. He played on the first five at Alpena last Fri- day night. Can't you guess? Just as a hint Willie is frequent- ly Called Slingin'. I Last week Henry and Henrietta were Paul Patton and Florence Loveless. FRESHMEN PRESENT ASSEMBLY PROGRAM Friday morning, the ireshmen presented as an assembly program, a one-act comedy, Who Gets the Car Tonight? by Christopher Sergel. A Mrs. Janes tVirginia Webb? was wa pleasant-mannered woman but was almost driven to desperation by Mr. Janes' fMichaelMagee1 dull nature. According to his wife, he cared Ior nothing but a little peace and quiet. His chances Ior this small request seemed dim with two teen-agers such as Mary 1Doris Cliftonl his daughter and Paul 1Rodney Flan- nery: his son, causing his quiet nature to become an uproar, with wheedling and bribery every hour of the day. lt seemed that Mary and Paul were staying out too late and too otten and as a result, their father reiused their requests for the use of the car, which, at that time, vas just about as bad as a death sentence. Mary was certain her Jack lHerbert Wickrez would' lnever again be the same if Fath- er stuck to his reiusalg and Paul. playing the part of an indignant and misunderstood son, deilnitely knew that Janie would never speak to her Palsy Wa1sey again. 1 All this time Father was getting himself in very deep, for Mrs. Janes was planning to drag him over to the Simmons' for a bridge party, since the children couldn't use the car. 'I'he climax came when the ga- rage phoned to say theie was a leak in the radiator which couldn't be fixed before morning. To bring the program to a close the freshman members of the girls' glee club dedicated a few numbers to various students in WSHS. The entire production was under the direction of Mrs. Frank Warta, freshman adviser. I Class News Probably more important to U.S. 'fu-o-v-o--o--o--o-o--o--o--o--o-u--'--o--o--o--o--0--0--0--0-0-9:0 I Future Alumni I 9 av Dorrls CAMERON 6 Ronald Salter is a tall, brown- haired, blue-eyed member of the senior class and is one of the first five on the basketball squad. Per- haps this accounts for Salter list- ing athletics as one of his favorite hobbies. He also enjoys dancing. eating, and sleeping. Of course. these are merely habits and not hobbies. Salter's ideal girl is one who is definitely not snobbish, and pos- sesses a pleasing personality. She should preferably be dark-haired and short. As Salter puts it, Just a girl who is a lot of fun to knowf' Ronald's future plans, like so many fellows', are directed toward some branch of the service. At present it's the infantry. Until then, Salter will occupy his time with ag, economics, English, and solid geometry within WSHS. Pork chops and bananas, of all the combinations of food that have passed through this column, is, I believe, the strangest, and it all belongs to blonde, blue-eyed, Velma Schuettpelz. Schutt'sl' hobbies are writing to her soldier brother, taking pic- tures iwhen nlms are availablew, and keeping scrapbooks. She def- initely dislikes conceited people, washing dishes, and surprise quiz- zes, and states these as her pet peeves. Velma's future plans are to be a stenographer outside of Wessing- ton Springs. At present she is studying at typing II. shorthand II, English, and bookkeeping, in preparation. ment or not, to avoid unreason- ably harsh and perhaps unen- forcible peace terms against the Axis. Such a peace would un- questionably lead to a repetition of World War I's unsatisfactory peace settlement. 1 Economics class has been tak- ing stock of its sales resistance citizens than we can realize at lln invoicing, it was discovered present, are the facts about Sov- Fthat resistance to the lure of at- iet Russia, discussed in history ltractive merchandise in blondes is and economics classes the past week. The fact that Russia great- ly surpasses the U.S. in popula- tion, especially young man and 'woman power below 305 in area, .being as large as the U.S., Cana.- 'da, Alaska, and Mexico combined, and as yet undeveloped in resourc- es, should make us aware that she iwill undoubtedly be a commercial, gas well as a military rival of both the British Empire and the U. S., in the years immediately follow- ing her reconstruction. Political- ily, she will be stronger than either Britain or the U. S., at the com- ling peace conference, when Brit- iain and the U.S. must stand to- lgether whether in perfect agree- fin direct proportion to the amount of money they have in their pock- ets at the time. Such iindings prove conclusively that budgeting is in order for girls and fellows who are about to stop draining pop's pocketbook and begin filling and emptying their own by cal- lousing their own paws. Unable at this stage to determine their expenses during a period of say four normal months, seniors are not likely to get far in making plans to stretch paychecks from one payday to the next. Most will admit that after long heckling, even for 18-year-olds soon to go' on Samls payroll, stretching pay- checks may soon be in order.

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Published by Students of Wessington Springs High School VOLUME SIXTEEN Thursday, February 22, 1945 NUMBER T WENTY F EDORA AND LANE OPEN TOURNAMENT District 21, including Alpena, Artesian, Fedora, Forestburg, Lane, Letcher, Wessington Springs and Woonsocket, will hold its an- nual basketball tournament at Woonsocket February 23-24. Fedora and Lane will open the contest Friday afternoon at 2:30, and Wessington Springs and Ar- tesian are to play at 3:30. At 7:00, the losers of the first games will play the first round of the consolation fight. The next game starts at 8:00 between Woonsock- et and Forestburgg and at 9:00, is the last Friday game when Let- cher is to meet the Wildcats. Saturday afternoon at 1:30, the consolation finals will be played: and at 2:30, the semi-finals will be played between the winners of the Fedora-Lane and Artesian- Springs games. At 3:30, the winner of the For- estburg-Woonsocket game will play the winner of the Letcher- Alpena game. Climax of the tour- ney comes at 8:00. The consola- tion and championship finals will then be played. Referees are G. W. Vail and Harold Goodell, both of Rapid City. The tournament band is to play for all sessions, under direc- tion of bandmasters from all the towns represented. Student season tickets are on sale at the oflice at 90 cents. There will be no adult season tickets on sale but general admis- sion is 35 and 40 cents including tax: with the exception of the final session which will be 40 and 50 cents. Coach I-Iolland's Spartans have a good chance of copping the ti- tle. In the first bracket are Wes- sington Springs, Artesian, Lane, and Fedorag while Letcher, Al- pena, Woonsocket and Forestburg make up the second group. Spartans meet Artesian in the first game. We tripped Artesian 36-12 and 32-10 in the two games we played them. BAND MEMBERS TO TOURNEY The following band members have been chosen by Mr. Frank- lin to play in the tournament band at Woonsocket February 23- 24: Alan Sheppard, snare drumg James Ward, tromboneg Dorothy Gregory, cornetl Betty Fenn, clarinetg Hollis Grieve. bass. These will be admitted free if they present themselves for the first game of the tournament on Tribute to Washington Once again, February 22, thei birthday of' ,our famous George Washington is here. Exactly 146 years have passed since our na- tion mourned this great rnan's death. George Washington was born February 22, 1732 near Pope's Creek in Westmoreland county, Virginia. He attended school at! Bridge's Creek where he received what was equivalent to a fair common school education. Ini 1748, at the age of 16, George, ac- companied by George Fairfax, set 'forth for the frontier where they lsurveyed the vast Fairfax estates. After three years, his brother 'Lawrence procured for him an ap- pointment as one of the adjutant- lgenerals withnthe rank of major ,in the Virginia Militia. At the wage of 27, he was united in mar- Qriage with Mrs. Martha Dendridge Curtis. He was elected one of six delegates to represent Virginia in the First Continental Congress. On June 15, 1775, Congress unan- ,imously voted him commander- in-chief of all the continental forces raised during the Revolu- tionary War. - After the end of the war he was sent by the State of Virginia as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention where he was chosen to preside over the body. Then, after the Constitution was adopt- ed, he was unanimously elected to the presidency. At the end of his second term as president, Washington returned to spend his last days at Mount Ver- non. He died December 14, 1799 in perfect peace, from acute laryngitis. This tribute of his old friend, Lighthouse Harry Lee, was al- most worth dying for: 1 First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his country- lmenf' Friday afternoon. i The tournament band will be .composed of members from all schools participating and they are to play throughout the games both days. Junior English classes have been working on Red Cross pro- jects this week, which will be ex- changed in foreifn countries. The 'seniors have already completed ,their project with Margaret Dus- iek as illustrator. ALPENA WILDCATS DEFEAT SPARTANS In the last conferencegame of the season, the Springs Spartans lsuffered a four-point defeat at the hands of the Alpena Wildcats on the Wildcat floor Friday evening. After clipping the Wildcats 10 points for their first season game ltogelher, the Spartans succeeded gin gaining only 25 to the Wildcats' 29 in their second struggle. Fighting hard, both teams held a steady score with setups and plays being unsuccessful. Springs igained several baskets on fast :breaks while Alpena's accurate ishooting proved more than skill. During the first quarter, both l 5teams fought hard to pick up a '10-6 tilt for the Wildcats: but the next period the Wildcats sank another five points and held the Spartans who gained four baskets lin the last few seconds of the iperiod, making one previous free lthrow and tying the half-time lscore at 15. s Action in the next period was fsteady with a very slow-moving score and giving a third quarter score of 21-20 in the Spartans' favor. ' During the last period, the Wildcats picked up another nine points, while the Spartans took only four, ending the game in a 29-25 victory for Alpena. Spartan high-point scorer was Fitzgerald with ten: while Koth of 1Alpena was high with the same total. l SPARTAN SPOTLIGHTS Miss Marilyn Schneider and lMiss Rose Beitz were dinner guests lat the Lewis Anlness home Sunday ievening. Pat Pinard was a guest of Zil- pha Sholi last Thursday night. Q Mrs. Mark Law was ill last Thursday and Friday. Mr. Robert Franklin was in ,Mitchell over the week-end on jbusiness. i Velma Schuettpelz spent the 'week-end with Luella Krueger. Luella Krueger, Velma Scnuett- ,pelz and Vera Schwabauer were in :Huron Saturday. 1 Ruth Bidleman spent Monday :afternoon in Mitchell on business. ' Gladys Leischner was a business lcaller in Wagner Tuesday after- inoon. l The Boy Scout troop played a .game of basketball with the WS jCollege team Monday evening for la defeat of 35-11.

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Published by Students of Wessington Springs High School VOLUME SIXTEEN Thursday, Marchll, 1945 NUMBER TWENTY-ON E SPARTANS SMASH ARTESIAN RAMS For their first game in the 44-45 district 21 tournament, Springs Spartans smashed the Artesian rams 40-15 Friday. The Spartans held a danger- ously high score while the Rams struggled hard to hold the Spar- tans and pick up a few points. Quarterly action gave the Spar- tans an easy lead during the first period with an undecision 12-2 victory. During the next period, the Spartans gained another six points to the Rams' five. . After the half, the Spartans opened up and easily sank anoth- er 17 points with field goals, while Artesian sank two buckets for a total of four. ' l , The last quarter was close, the Spartans gaining six to the Rams four. Fitzgerald, high-point scorer for the Springs, sank six field goals and two free throws, while Michell for Artesian held four free throws and Dean had a field goal -and a free throw. All-Star Game to be Played at Fedora At Fedora Tuesday, 'March 6, the district All-Star basketball game will be played. Fedora will play a team made up of two rep- resentatives from Alpena, two from Woonsocket, two from Wes- sington Springs and one each from Letcher, Artesian, Lane and Forestburg. The two from here are Vernon Winegarden and Fayne Fitzgerald. Another game will be played between teams made up of super- intendents and coaches from towns in the district. Tigers Defeat Spartans Springs Spartans suffered their tournament defeat from the Fe- dora Tigers Friday at Woonsock- et, Undefeated in the conference season, the Tigers were very strong in the first periods, sinking nine points to the Spartans' foui in the opening quarter. In the next, the Spartans rallied to sink nine to the Tigers' five, bring the half-time score to 14-13. During the rest of the game. both teams settled down, the Tigers holding a steady gain. High scorer for the Spartans was Fitzgerald with nine points, while Kothe held 23 for high- point honors for Fedora and the game. . H. S. Students Filling Ten Red Cross Boxes ALPENA EX-CHAMPSg LOSE TO FEDORA Students of WSHS are donatingl Fedora Tigers met the Alpena money and material for the filling of Red Cross boxes for foreign children. The junior and sopho- more classes are each filling three boxes and the senior and fresh- man classes two each. 1 Scrap books are being made byl English classes to be sent to for- eign countries also. These will cover the material being studied in classes. I The following went to the court- 'Wildcats for the District 21 cham- lpionship Saturday night at Woon- Esocket, smashing them 28-14 in lthe final game of the 1944-5 bas- 'ketball tournament. I Letcher Tigers clipped the Lane Trojans 41-21 for the consolation gfinals, also played Saturday night. ! After defeating Springs Spar- Qtans, the Tigers were all set for the Wildcats who had defeated Letcher by two points in an over- house last Tuesday afternoon andtime game- helped Mrs. Jensen and Mr.l Alpena, who has held the Chem' Rhodes get the supplies ready for Jerauld county field workers: 'Robert Wolting, Joyce Eddy, Ila Thompson, Maxyne Hensen. Les- Iter Weber and Keith Robbins. 5 Class News l Seventh grade arithmetic class is studying the art of writing up accounts and balancing budgets. Eighth graders are working on their, income-tax problems. Junior high science class is studying electricity. They experi- mented with the dry cell and found tnow and when an electric current 'flows and also experimented with an electric bell. Homemaking II class is fin- :ishing their dinner units. They have been working in groups of four and have served dinners for linvited guests. They will begin their clothing unit at the end of this week, the project being a gar- ment of wool or rayon. Homemaking I is beginning a new unit on clothing. The project will be a cotton garment but be- fore beginning the project a study of color line, harmony, and how to select materials will be taken 1up. ' English I is beginning the study of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar? 1 Advanced typing classes are learning how to use the mimeo- graphing machine and how to make stencils. Ag I class in crops and soils are studying seed. They have just completed the study of common barberry and black stem rust of grains. Having completed a unit on reconstruction in the South after the Civil War, American History lclasses are currently determining how the United States won so high la rating as an industrial nation 1 pionship title for a series of years, ,was out to regain it while Fedora, .undefeated in conference games jthroughout the season, fought a lharcl battle and snowed a great ideal of superiority to the Alpena squad. Action was fast during the game but scoring was limited. lQuarterly scoring was steady dur- ing the first two periods, resulting -in a halftime score of 12-9. After the half, Fedora picked up -several hot shots and held the Wildcats, gaining in the third quarter. In the last period, both ,teams fought hard but tlie Tigers were unusually accurate and suc- ceeded in taking the 44-45 trophy with a 14-point victory. FARM MACHINERY COURSE TO CLOSE TODAY, MARCH 1 The farm machinery course, under provisions of the Food Pro- duction War Training program, which began January 18, closes March 1. This scnool has met two nights a week for three hours each night, making a total of 36 hours for the entire course. Nine tractors were repaired, one disk reconstructed, and one 'Briggs-Stratton motor recondi- tioned. Average number of mem- bers present each nignt was ap- proximately 15. The course was sponsored by Wessington Springs high school, 'under supervision of H. W. Gadda, in the basement shop of the P. D. Newcomer garage. Charles Ben- nett was instructor. when immediately previous to the War between the States four- Iifths of us were dirt farmers or gentleman planters living in the sort of genteel luxury so elegantly ,portrayed in the first chapters of gMargaret Mitchell's Gone With Stlle Wind.