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

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Fe pafman PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE WESSINGTON SPRINGS CITY SCHOOLS VOLUME SEVENTEEN THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1946 NUMBER TWENTYEB? MUSIC FESTIVAL T0 BE APRIL 12 The annual Music Festival will be held April 12 in the Wessington Springs high school. During the morning the rehearsals for the mass groups will be held. Immediately following in the af- ternoon, the individual groups from each school will participate for the purpose of criticism. The evening will finish the festi- val with the singing of the mass group and playing of the mass band. Nine schools are participating, Lane, Woonsocket, Forestburg, Let- Cher, Alpena, Artesian, Plankinton, White Lake and Wessington Springs. The program during the afternoon and evening is open for the public. Fitzgeralds Bombers Enter Grade Tournamentf Coach Fitzgerald's Bombers en- tered the grade school basket-ball tournament by defeating Fedora in the first game but losing to Lane in the semi-finals. The eight teams carried out the following schedule: Alpena vs Woonsocketg Alpena Won. Artesian vs Forestburgg Artesian won. Springs vs Fedora, Springs won. Lane vs Letcherg Lane won. Semi-finals: Alpena vs Artesian, Alpena won. Lane vs Springsg Lane won. Champ: Lane vs Alpenag Lane won. Consolation: Letcher vs Forest- burgg Letcher'won. CLASS NEWS Algebra I class is studying graphs and equations. Trigonometry class is reviewing the various formulas for finding the area of a triangle. English'II class is studying As You Like It', in literature and the forms of verbs in grammar. American history class is studying the First World War. World History class is studying the unification of Germany. Ag. I class is studying the diseases of beef cattle. Advanced Ag. Class is working on the study of diesel motors and igni- tion systems. Freshman shop class is working on blacksmithing. Biology classes are studying the transportation system. , Business English classe are study- ing the various uses of punctuation marks. l l n I 1945-'46 FACULTY l l l Miss Marilyn Schneider Teaching third grade this year is Miss Marilyn Schneider. It is her second year of teaching in Wessington Springs. She went to high school in Salem and receiv- ed her teaching certificate after attending two years at Augustana college. Her main ambition is to travel, one section of which is Mexico. Her favorite food is cherry pie a la mode. Her pet peeve is the im- promptness of a student. GRADE NEWS First Grade: Five children are absent because of measles. They are: Gary Will, Donnie Christensen, Patty Burg, Harold Short and Jaclynn Lamb. Robert Osborn returned to school after being absent for two weeks. One group is reading the fourth primer, one the third and the other the second. Second Grade: Animals are being studied in so- cial science. Mrs. Leslie Hanson visited Tues- day afternoon. Donald Wenzel was absent last week because of chicken pox. 1 1 1 i JR. HIGH COMPETES IN PRELIMINARIES The seventh and eighth grade had their Preliminary Declamatory con- test on Friday, March 22. The results of the contest are as follows: Poetry: Richard Anton, Darline Schmidt, Deloris Winegarden. Humorous: Bruce Kidman, Robert Santee, Max Hawk and June Rousch. Dramatics: Keo Shoff, Anne Bidleman and Jane Ballard. The final contest will be held on Wednesday afternoon, when the con- testants will be chosen to represent the grades in the District contest to be held in Woonsocket, April 7. The judges of the Preliminary con- test were Helen Raabe, Margaret Waybright and Beverly Hanson. SIX TYPING II GIRLS RECEIVE CERTIFICATES Six girls in Typing Il received their Typewriting Progress Certifi- cates for high marks received on the Competent Typist test. Those receiving their certificates are, Elaine Bender, Helen Raabe, Mary Lou Anton, Lorraine Pfeifer, Pat Pinard and Genevie Hendricks. One of these tests is given every month. Margaret Waybright of Shorthand I received the Order of Gregg Ar- tists for superior writing. week. Mrs. Leonard Leischner was a vis- itor Friday morning. Fourth Grade: The Final Declamatory contest will be held March 29. The District Declam meets at Woonsocket April 6th, The Preliminary contest will be held for each respective grade on Tuesday and Wednesday. Fifth 8a Sixth Grades: The Declamatory contest will be held on Wednesday with eighteen contestants participating. There are two divisions in humorous and dra- matic. The ciasses' science project is a scrapbook on Wild Life. .f-.-1.-6--.. Spanish classes are. continuing their work on conjugations and on 1 their projects. 1 Third Grade: - Q Mrs. Robert N. Hooper, formerly The class helped Patricia CarrfGladys Green, recently requested a celebrate her ninth birthday, Tues-,transcript of her credits sent to the day. She treated the class to cake. lUniversity of Kansas. She was grad- Florence Wenzel was absent last uated from W.S.H.S. in 1929.

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.. -. . ....a.r-ri... -..gvnvvrwr,.....-.1 ,.,. Yanni!!! . JL.. KEEP OFF THE GRASS With the annual Spring drawing nearer, and the usual amount of showers, we must resort to the fa- miliar old slogan Keep off the Grass. Although the grass will seem far greener, and the distance so much shorter, we must remember that the shortest way is not always the sweetest way and thereby tread the long and steady sidewalk. After all it is much better when the school year has ended to be able to look at the nice green lawn that doesn't have paths leading away from every door. So again, as before, let's remem- ber this with the understanding that we will keep off the grass. G.S.B. - I I I The Bookshelf I I By Mary Lou Anton I I I I The first novel of Frank Yerby is The Foxes of Harroww which char- acterizes the riotous life of New Orleans in the early frontier days. Stephen Fox, upon arriving in New Orleans in 1925, was bent upon adventure. Ambition to own a large plantation prompted him to work like a slave to achieve this goal. By careful saving he was able to build a magnificent estate that he called Harrow. His bold tactics finally won for him Adalie Arceneaux, the loveliest girl in New Orleans. There was little warmth in Adalie's nature for Stephen. To Stephen married life seemed a failure, and thus he spent more and more of his time in the sinful city of New Orleans. It was at New Orleans that he met Desiree, whom he greatly admired. To Tante Caleen, Stephen's negro slave, the marriage of Stephen and Adalie seemed a crumbled ruin be- cause of Desiree. It was Caleen who helped to solve the problems of Adalie. This exciting romance by Yerby includes many thrilling experiences, which will entrance you throughout your reading. GRADE NEWS First Grade: Robert Osborn has been absent flue to measles. I Second Grade: . Dennis Christensen and Dorothy Costello treated the class on their birthdays. I , Gary Bell was taken to the hospi- tal Friday. Donald Wenzel is sick with the chicken pox. ' I The arithmetic class began divi- sion. Fifth 8: Sixth Grades: I Science class is studying the science life. For the project each pupil is making a scrap book includ- ing pctures of mammals, insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds and fish. A large percentage of the students are interested in declam and will begin the memorizing of their pieces. I E I F-If FY M'-JYWI WITTY-WITS I I By Wickre I Be- I I Oh gosh, here it's test Week again, and me unprepared as usual, but,- oh happy thought, only nine weeks left. Congratulations to the grade school for putting on an excellent performance in their annual operet- ta. Well, that's over with. What's next? I guess you know this is hard work Cespecially for mel to 'think up this column, so if you have any- thing you want in it, it's most cer- tainly welcome. If you saw any juniors walking, or should I say crawling, slowly through the halls Friday, it wasn't any fault of theirs that they didn't cripple themselves up so they could not be in school. You know they had a skating party Thursday. Fitzgerald's Bombers are to play in the Y.C.L. tournament at Lane Saturday. They meet Fedora in the first game. Snow is gone. Rain has come, Streets are wet, And this is dumb. Contributed by Peachy Hemmelman. But, as the fuse said to the TNT, let's blow. So that's all for this week. SPRING APPROACHES Looking into my crystal glove I see, approaching a dark and gloomy week for you, fellow students of W. S.H.S. . Possibly you wonder why it is to be so dark and gloomy. My globe discloses many, difficult nine week's tests in store for us. Not only this, but a few more days of rainy weath- er to take the curl out of our beau- tiful tresses, girls. And not only this, but a few more days of extra cleaning for our valiant janitor, namely Swede. I'1l bet he appre- ciates that . But, towards that end of the week, we find a light shining that will change our view on life, that will brighten everything and awaken us from the sleepy repose in which we have been reclining. Well! Imagine me using all those lo-o-ong words. I must have swallowed that diction- ary that disappeared from the school library-anyway, you've been held in suspense long enough-that bright light shining at the end of the week is CCan you take ith Thursday, the first day of Spring! That means that the grass and the flowers will grow, and the sun will shine, and, above all, it's the time of the year for tahem!! love. '- .... N .- oun MIG!-I'rY SENIORS 'I I By Zilpha Shoff I Ira Cashman Agricultural-minded Ira Cashman finds that his hobby is raising a herd of Hereford cattle. He enjoys fish- ing and hunting and also horseback riding, which fits in well with his hobby. ITO many this senior is known as if ke.77 After he is through studying En- glish IV, government, Ag IV, and chemistry he likes to listen to the radio, Ike prefers waltzes and Sigmund Romberg. He is also an active member of the F.F.A. Ira's favorite actors are Tim Holt and his pal Ike although he doesn't like cowboy movies. He doesn't care for mushy ones either. His future plans depend upon what Uncle Sam says. He planned on going to State College at Brook- ings for at least two years or more, then he planned to come back to continue farming. By the way, he will need a cook! -1.,...-Q.- - - DORM DITTIES By Arlene Kraft It was dark! in fact, it was very dark! In fact, it was midnight. It was so silent I cou1dn't sleep. And then they came, one after another, tr'pping along, their feet not even touching the floor. There was a powdery white mist all about them. A strange light was showing in their very center. My teeth would have been ready to jump down my throat, but I was in on it all. It was just some of my so-called roommates, haunting the dormitory. 'Artillery at work! Ready! Aim! Fire! Almost everyone is glad that the snow is gone, especially the dor- mitory girls. Last week there was always a mad dash for the door. Woe unto all boys at arms! If you want to fight, join the army. ---3-Q..-T. Fourth Grade: Ronald Jensen's name was acci- dently omitted from the honor roll last week. W , E A D. ,-5. -1 124 . 5 .IT , ' .MA ' f , I W i if . O 96 I MARCH 21

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x START YOUR PROJECTS NOW Spring! Ah, yes, beautiful spring! Just what does spring mean to us anyway? To many of us it means that it wonyt be long until we can get the faithful rod and reel down from its hook and oil it up and try our luck at the art of fishing, but it should mean more to us than that. It should mean that school will be out before long and that means some thing else again. Yearly projects. Yes, those headaches that we spend hours and hours on and write and rewrite and finally success, the pro- ject is done, but that isn't all, you get one done only to find two or three more staring you in the face. Now, yes, right now, is the time to start to think about such things. You may ask, Whats the use of starting those things now when we have a whole nine weeks to do them in? Well, you see, it's this way- Later on there will be other things to occupy our minds besides projects. There will be the senior play, the music festival, spring vacation and finally, for the juniors and seniors, there will be the prom. The object of this is not to nag as it may seem, but merely to inform you of what is ahead of us. ALS lil H I WITTY-WITS 1 1 By Wickre H- I Howdy!! I'm Wickre. Now you can all cheer. Bless you, sonny. Don't tell me, I know. The fresh- men are a bit childish. A certain person, while looking for a pencil in a freshmans desk, found the book Mother Gooses' Nursery Rhymes, Yuk, yuk! I lr Could Miss Bietz be well? A week ago Monday night I happened to look into her room, and what do you think I saw? There, standing by her desk was Miss Bietz, going through all kinds of motions and talking at the same time with nobody in the room. Hm! Maybe she was practicing up- on how to get mad and bawl some- one out, or could she have been prac- ticing a speech for declam? You guess, I wouldn't want to try. I quote Jim Anton on saying this, I wish I could see my report card so I could tell which subject I need to study in. Unquote. I think that there are a few more in the same situation,-Me for instance. Junior, how did your shoe get on the stage Monday morning? Did it fly there? - Springs Scouts defeated the Woon- socket Scouts for the third time. The N oua MIGHTY SENIORS I By Zilpha shoff 1 Richard Haddorff Sitting up most of the night and talking with 'Burch and Fayne is my hobbyj, says Richard Haddorff. I wonder when he finds time to study Typing I, advanced algebra, Ameri- can government, English IV and phy- sics? He is very commonly known as Haddy,' or Dickie',-It depends upon who is talking to him. He has many pet peeves, but the one he de- spises the most is silly girls. Haddy likes nearly every kind of food with the exception of salad dressing. In the line of colors, brown is his favorite, but he defintely likes red too. His future plans haven't been made yet. He's been thinking ser- iously of them, though. Could red . have anything to do with them? Alexa Grieve Alexa Grieve, the second mighty senior for this week is, dark-com- plexioned and has brown eyes. When asked her nick-name, she re- plies, most anything? Collecting such souvenirs as salt and pepper shakers or spoons, is Alexa's hobby. Her pet peeve is being called Little Grieves., Basketball and football are tops! on her sports list and Till the End of Time on her song list. However, she enjoys all music. Alexa thinks any pastel color is appealing, as is a boy with a pleas- ing personality. She plans to attend college, but after that she is undecided. -4944,- NEWS IN A NUTSHELL An extension of the Selective Ser- vice Act may be necessary. The Navy seems to be the only branch of the three services that would be ready for an emergency. Eisenhower re- ported: It would take another year to establish the framework of an organization with an efficiency that ivcigld compare with what we had in 9 .57 According to General Marshall, the Chinese people, on the whole, favor a democracy. They feel they need help from the U. S. and that there would be no civil wars if the U. S. would help them get their govern- ment started. General Marshall has already attempted a union of the op- posing armies. If things were straightened out in China, relations between the U. S. and Russia might be on a more stable basis. Juan Peron, president elect of Ar- gentina, has made plans concerning starving Europe, and has started to carry them out. He is demanding more than money for his country's THE STAFF Editor ,,,,,,,, ,...r....,....... A lan Sheppard Associate editor... Glenn Burchfield Managing editor ......... Patricia Pinard Make-up editor ........ Mary Swanson Business manager .... ..... Clair Tiede Asst. business manager ...Dick Wade Special reporter .......... ...Zilpha Shoff Special columnist ...Herbert Wickre News columnist ............ Phyllis Wood Features .................... .. ..... ..Lois Hawley Beverly Knight Forensics ................... Class news ....... .......... M yron Kleppin Grade news Book review .............. Mary Lou Anton Alta Rogers Art editor.. .......................... Clair Tiede Assistant art editor ......... John Anton Sports reporter ....... Don Thompson Assistant sports reporter ........ ............................Rodney Flannery Ag. reporter ............... Kenneth Kieser Reporter ......... ............. A rlene Kraft Typist ........................... Ada Faulhaber Advisor .................. Miss Lorna Meyer Office News Lester Roush sent greetings to W.S.H.S. students from Sheppard Field, Texas. He was interested in finding out how many credits he needs to graduate. - E. 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