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

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W'th Ed't ujvo--wo--0--Q.-o--o--o--o--o--o--o-o--o--o-o--o--o--o-o-o-o-o:n 'qoavvwamawomwa-evra-va--s-me-zvwmw-maze I e I ors - S CHIT CHAT I 5 Future Almnm I MUSIC APPRECIATION WM f'YffT Mwmmg, Guest Editorial Perhaps I should call this Mu- sic Appreciation or Defense of our Modern Musicf' It is true that music appreciation does in- clude the development of an aesthetic appreciation of the work of the great masters Bach, Beet- hoven and Brahms. We say that great music is music that endures the test of time. Today, in our modern world we may appreciate for a time the popular nits of the day 5 the songs that live only for a brief moment and die. Tiiis music, if you wish to call it sucn, does not endure. Few of us remember the hits of even a month ago, while Tchai- kovsky's Pathetique symphony, written in 1893, is played and an- preclated by all wno love sym- phonic music today. This does not mean that great music is no longer being writteng lor it is. We Americans have not only the greatest but the young- est country in the world and, al- though we may wish to call it so or not, our swing, jaaz and boogie- woogie, along Wltfl the cowboy ballads and Gay Nineties songs, are our own American folk music. All American modern music had its beginning in the Dixieland jazz OI the deep south. Negroes are basically rhythmic, Caucasians basically melodic, and out of this combination has come tile birth oi modern music-ou: American musical heritage. lvfusic in the modern mode that will stand the test or time is that of George Gershwin, whose com- position, Rhapsody in Blue, for piano and orchestra, and his nvu- sical comedy, Porgy and Bessj are considered by some to be the greatest of our modern music. An- other modern composer Whose music has held popularity through the last 20 years, is Hoagy Car- michael, composer of the peren- nial iavorite, Star Dust. Yes, modern music has a defin- ite place in our lives. It is mu- sic that will live. We like it be- cause we understand it. We can- not live on an entire diet of swing any more that we can live on nothing but meat. We must have all kinds of music: old and new, as we must have all kinds of food. In this way we will have a well- rounded musical diet. --RNF. Ag II is studying the feeding and management of dairy cattle and also a unit on dairy products for war use. Farm management class has just completed a study on farm tenancy and leases, and are now receiving work on farm financing. Well, how is everybody getting over the tournament? All right, I hope. By the way, how many steps are there on the water-tow- er at Woonsocket? A certain sen- ior boy says there are 126 to the iirst landing butlhe didn't go any farther. If you're interested in the total number, see Doodles. Clair Tiede asked Bob Winegar- den how he would like to go witnl a girl with a picture face. It would be fine, he said, if she had a frame to go with it. Flash Gordon and Dale are a freshman and a senior. He is tall, brown-haired, and they tell me he is very bashful. He stays at the dorm and is known as Bean Pole. Dale is as I said, a senior: has brown hair, brown eyes and sings alto in glee club. She stays at the dorm, being an active mem- ber of the Sing Sing Wildcats. Mamie and Willie of last week are Ethel Jane Powell and Ron- ald Salter. By Phyllis Wood Below are a few plans or de- cisions made by the big three at Yalta: Destroy the military power in Germany and eliminate her war- making industries by cutting off areas having resources needed by those industries, and by military occupation and control of her ter- 'ltory. Create a new league of na- tions within the framework of which, settlement can be sought for the potential war producing issues that will arise in Europe .nd in the Far East after this war. war. Russia will give the U.S. and Britain help, at some point, in the final stages of fighting against Japan. This decision for obvious reasons was not announced. The United States has reversed her policy and has agreed to take an active part in current settlement of issues inside Europe as they arise. This country will join with' Russia and Britain in holding e- lections to permit liberated peo- ples to choose their own govern- ments. The Japs predict an invasion of Formosa in the near future. ,Formosa is approximately 100 I dislike my name: it's entirely too long, and some day I intend to change it, though not necessarily through marriage. This outburst issued forth from red-haired, blue eyed Jeanette Rumelhart. Such nicknames as Nettie or Nettle really disgust her. Nettie came from Portland, Ore., earlier in the year to com- plete her senior year at WSI-IS. English IV, typing, economics and bookkeeping keep her busy, but she still has time for glee club and mixed chorus. Her hobbies are many but writ- ng to pen pals, making scrap books of movie stars and attending mov- ies are her favorite pastimes. The latter one has a setback though --she wishes that there were un- limited numbers of double feat- ures. At the present Jeanette's future plans have not entered the pic- ture. A flashy brunette who can dance well and is full of fun would suit Lloyd Reindl. Of course, as all boys do, Lloyd mentioned the fact that wise cracking and unfaithful- ness would never dog so beware girls, especially if you are a flashy brunette. Curly is a pet nickname for Lloyd and describes him very well, for he has dark curly hair, and brown eyes. He intends to farm until Uncle Sam beckons, but at the present Lloyd is busy studying Ag IV, English, economics, and bookkeep- ing. His extra time he divides be- tween basketball, glee club and chorus. Lloyd's hobbies are any kind of sports, especially nshing and hunt- ing. His pet peeve is trying to make up today things that should have been done a week ago. miles closer to the mainland of Japan than Iwo Jima and would provide many valuable naval and air bases for an invasion of Indo China and the Japanese home- land. The new ruling that all places of entertainment will be closed at midnight went into effect Monday. This will have a definite eiect on many businesses, but if the living conditions in Europe are taken into consideration we can easily see why such a move is nec- essary. We will naturally be ex- pected to contribute as much as Dossible to the reconstruction of Europe. The air war in Europe has been speeded up, probably to aid the Russians and also the new oifen- sives on the Western front.

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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.

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Monday in phys ed the sopho-1cal1ed off because of wartime con- The SP RTO IA Published by Students of Wessington Springs High School VOLUME SIXTEEN Thursday, March 8, 1945 NUMBER TWENTY TWO WSHS SPARTANS END SUCCESSFUL SEASON With the district tournament at Woonsocket February 22-23, the Spartans closed a successful bas- ketball season, tallying a total of 537 points to their opponents 409, in ten victories and six defeats for the season. Although WSHS failed to place in the tournament, these figures show that the Spartans more than 1 held their own, and the entire stu- dent body extends congratulations to Coach Holland and the team for the excellent work done. Total individual points scored by the top six for the year are as Class News 'HS MUSIC CONTESTS Z- ARE CANCELLED Biology students are beginning1 I the last unit of their text, entitled1 SUD61'111'G6Dd6I1t Holland has re- Th6 Biology of the Hum2m1ce-ived official word that the high Body. The first chapter, Pre- - historic Man ,, deals with the his-1school music contests scheduled tory of mari, his deve1opment1f01' April is, will not be he-ia, due through the ages, his power 0f1l30 all order of 12116 011166 of De- adaDtati0n, and the P31135 alldffense Transportation. All music funcmons of the human body- 1contests and festivals have been mores and seniors played the freshmen and juniors, the soph- omores and seniors winning by a 'large amount. ' Typing classes are making art- iistic pictures. follows: -1 Player FG FT 1 Shorthand I students are Fitzgerald ------ ---- 1 45 50 1 bringing transcription of new Bradley ...... --- .... 112 13 R. Winegarden --- --- 86 16 V. Winegarden --- --- 52 16 Roush .......... ...... 8 3 Salter ...... ...... I - - - 2 3 There are two seniors in the first six, Vernon Winegarden and Ronald Salter. Winegarden play- ed center and maintained an av- erage scoreg Salter ipiayed guard. The following lettermen will be on deck next year: Bob Winegarden, Richard Bradley, Fayne Fitzger- ald, Lester Roush, Bob Wolting and Dick Wade. l.l.-l...-- iz'-Q--0004-O-'0 O O-'Q 0'-O-'O i--O'-O lMO-'O-'O-'lw0 O O'0::0 2 Office News av-O'-OwQ-fO'-0-vO'-00O'-C'-Q'4-QwO0OMO0O'O'-O-fO'vOvO-0'0:C At an assembly held at 3:00 Fri- day afternoon, Miss Jean Rey- nolds and Miss Maxine Westall of Dakota Wesleyan Universityl read several selections, including The Night the Bed Fell on Fath- er, Traveling with Children, King Midas, and 4'Life with1 Father! 1material taken by dictation. 1 1 ' English II classes are reading 1short stories. English III classes 'are studying the west and south- ern sections of America. Mr. Franklin is reading Am- 'erican Guerrilla in the Philip- .pines by Ira Welfert, to his Eng- lish classes. Project plans in agriculture for the coming year are being com- pleted. A summary of all projects shows that 48 ag students will raise 829 acres of crops this yearg 20 sow-and-litter projects, 123 ewes, 58 beef cattle, four dairy cattle and 716 chickens and tur- keys. These make up the 116 in- dividual Food-for-Victory projects this year, as compared with 115 a year ago. Three ag students have made application for the State Farmer degree this year. They are: Ira 1Cashman, Duane McMillan and An army-qualifying test for1George Krog. the army specialized training re- serve program will be given April 12, for all students whose 17th birthday is between October 1,l 1944, arid August 31, 1945. Fayne Fitzgerald and Ve1'non1 1 M4 1 War Stamp sale for all grades 1last week amounted to 54125. lparty at Ethel Jane Powell's home Friday evening. Winegarden played at the all-starf - basketball game at Fedora Tues- day of this week. SPARTAN SPOTLIGHTS 1 Gladys Leischner was an over- night guest of Pat Pinard Sunday. 1 James Ward, Donald Will, 1George Krog and Duane McMil- lan made a trip to Minneapolis last week and returned Sunday. Miss Audrey Hanson was a week-end guest in Watertown and ,Lake Norden. ditions. 1 Mr. Holland is awaiting word as to whether it will be possible to hold a music clinic in place of the music contestg this to include only nearby towns. 1 1 1 1 1 ASKING TOO MUCH? What is it that you did today 1 To save a soldier's life? 'Or is it asking for too much 1 To make a sacrifice? ,You say that things are tough for I you, 1 With rationing and allg But if you see what our boys do, Your troubles would seem small. 'So help that flag of Minute Man To fly for us anewg And keep it up to proudly wave Neath our red, white and blue. For an extra stamp, an extra bond, . An extra helping hand, Will always add a little more To save this blessed land! 1 -GINO BOSCARINO Henry Barnard Junior High, Hartford, Conn. 1 1 1 GIVE EVERYTHING 1 The following poem was writ- 1ten by Marine Pic. Charles R. Mc- 1C1ary, as a tribute to his friend, Cpl. Charles Fontaine, who was ,killed in action. Ten months later, 1Pic. McClary died. Both were irom Indianapolis, Ind. 1America, he died for thee, Wilt thou forget him then, ,When this holocaust is over 1 And peace shall reign again? He gave his life, his love, his allg He died that thou mightst live. !What hast thou then, America, 1 In fair return to give? 'Give not a mere regretful cardg 1 Give not a sad, sad sigh, But GIVE! Give everything you have: The cost is not too high! -ARSENAL CANNON Mi. I ,T..,T. I Beverly Breland, Mary Swanson1 Mrs. Mark Law visited in Sioux 1Arsenal Technical School, and Leanha Thompson attended a1Fal1s over the week-end. llndianapolis, Ind.