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

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PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS or THE WESSINGTON srnmus CITY scnoors VOLUME SEVENTEEN THURSDAY APRIL 11, 1946 NUMBER TWENTYiEiC-Hr Seniors Attend Planning Day at Huron College The seniors attended Senior Plan- ning day at Huron College last Fri- day and report it interesting as well as educational. The program began at 9:30 with registration, and at 10:00 convoca- tion was held in the college chapel. Dr. William R. Ross of the State Teacher's College at Greeley, Colo- rado, gave the address, which was followed by individual classes. The afternoon entertainment consisted of a sunlight dance and floor show in the college auditorium. The girl'S trio from Wecssington Springs took part in the program. The evening performance, which highlighted the whole affair, was the presentation of the play Blithe Spirit by the New York Playeris Guild. Tickets could be obtained by paying the twenty cents federal tax in addition to the free card re- ceived at the time of registration. A Hickory Stick dinner was held in the Marvin Hughitt mezzannine dining hall in the evening. Howev- er, none of the teachers of Wessing- ton Spring attended. The seniors wish to extend their appreciation to all the Kiwanians who took cars and made the trip to Huron possible. NINE SCHOOLS TO BE IN FESTIVAL The Spring Music Festival will be held in the high school auditorium Friday, April 12. Four hundred students from nine schools will par- ticipate in the afternoon and even- ing performances. Letcher, Woonsocket, Forestburg, Alpena, Artesian, Plankinton, Lane, White Lake and Wessington Springs will be represented. Beginning at 1:30 the Boys' and Girls' glee clubs will perform. Bands will play at 3:30. In the evening, beginnig at 7:30, the mixed chorus from each school will sing, followed b mass groups. A mass band of 150 piece, a mass chorus of 170 voices and a mass Girl's glee club. Admission for adults will be 30C for the afternoon and 40c for the evening. Admission for students for the af- ternon will be 20c for the evening 300. OFFICE NEWS Mr. Wilbur Peterson acted as crit- ic-judge of the Fedora high school declam contest on Friday evening, April 5th. 1 I l I e I 1945-'46 FACULTY , l l I Miss Wilson Miss Wilson, who comes from Gann Valley, is teaching the second grade this year. Miss Wilson at- tended the Gann Valley High School for three years but was graduated 'in Brookin s attended Eastern State E , Normal in Madison. Also she has had six weeks in Spearfish. Although Miss Wilson has taught lfour years, her wish is to go back 'to school again. Her hobby is music and her main ambition is to sometime master the piano. Another hobby is the Col- lecting of Elephants , Her favorites are: in sports, bowl- ting, and in food, anything that Miss Knutson cooks. Profits From Carnival Distributed To Groups Profits from the 1946 carnival have been distributed among the various, high school organizations as follows: jMusic. S753 athletics, S503 F.F.A., S105 Home Ec Club, S102 and dormi-3 tory recreation, 330. The balance. of approximately 5370, goes to the general fund where it is used for a great variety of purposes, such as Ideclamation, assembly programs, u Spartonian',, school parties, upkeep of the projection and recording equipment, the purchase of library books and any worthy expenditure for which no funds are provided. FUTURE FARMERS VARY ACTIVITIES Activities of the local F.F.A. are centered around a program of work which consists of eight committees with the goals and accomplishments of each. With this program of work, the chapter has entered a National chapter contest. The chapter purchased two pure- bred boars with which they hoped to build up the herds of the agricul- tural boys and farmers of the com- munity. The officers of the chapter have presented an informative pro- gram for the Kiwanis and an as- sembly program for the student body. The local chapter has contributed a number of state farmers, at the present time the chapter has one state officer and one district officer. George Krog is state F.F.A treasur- er and Bernard Madden is district vice-president. Having been discontinued during the year, a state judging contest will be held again this year. The chapter hopes to send a number of boys to Brookings to participate. These boys will judge dairy cattle, poultry, eggs, cream, crops, meat. farm mechanics and all livestock. The chapter hopes to acquire a sweepstake award with a number of excellent and superior awards. This year the chapter's group pro- ject of twelve acres ,of oats netted about 3250. The chapter has op- erated a trading post bulletin where the boys who have products for sale or products which they wish to buy have them listed. Members in the armed forces are recognized by the chapter's service flag. It has a total of 78 stars, which includes four gold stars. This year the chapter has had the agency for the Sokota hybrid seed corn. The chapter has sold a total of 82 bushels. The chapter operated a lunch stand at the countv fair. from which a fair sum was netted. This vear the boys in the agricul- tural department have a total of 1428 acres of crops, 40 pork animals. 103 beef, 1200 chickens, 107 sheep and 23 turkeys. Last year the mem- bers made over S8000-net profit on their projects. It is the purpose of the F.F.A. to stimulate in its members leadership and those qualities which every cit- izen should possess. Through ,their activities they hope to give. aid to the farmers and better their com- munity in every way possible.

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I-.. .,,.,,........ . -'-- -,,, I, - 1-g-unusmninnlncnl SPRING FEVER Ah, spring!! Wherever you look you see spring in its awakening. Let's gaze around school and see how many have spring fever. Oh, oh, there are certainly a lot of absentees among the future farm- ers of our school. lVIust be out plow- ing the lower forty as Mr. Peter- son puts it. As we look around we notice that the hills have proved too great a lure for some of the town fellows. Ahem! Wonder why? Ylknow, I think this spring fever has affected our teachers as well. I saw Mr. Memmer flying to the dor- mitory this noon, using his coat tails for sails!! Do you suppose it's just spring fever, or are we just too much of a strain for him? H'm. I see so many sleepy looking people today. Must have been a pretty r r ruff week-end. Tsk, tsk. I even noticed Burch come strolling in at the end of first per- iod. His excuse was the Chevy , but I wonder! With spring comes love, or so they say, and I've noticed several bud- ding romances around. It wouldn't be so nice to mention names, so, pals, just keep your eyes open. You'll see! Hubba, hubba! --1.,-Q4....- u l WITTY-WITS I 1 By wickre 1 - u l I-li Ya Morons-it's me again. Herels an old one: Two guys were fighting with razors. One took a swing at the other one and the other guy said, Hal You missed. Oh Yeah, said the other, wait till you try to wiggle your ears. Yuk! Yuk! I hear Bob Hauge has been elected the joke of the year. Quite a shindig they had Saturday night, wasn't it? If you don't be- lieve me ask Wolting. The Town Team defeated three Yankton college boys plus Chief and Bradley after a hard struggle last Thursday. I don't know for sure but I think Kieser might have had something to do with those dedications by the D.W.U. choir to Haddorf and Mary and Junior and Virginia. To cover things up and to throw suspicion off he should have had one for himself and Gladys. ' Guess who just walked by--none other than Art Fenn fF.D. to you guysl and he was in civies too. I hear the seniors are going to Huron or some place Friday. We'll sure miss the dear souls Clike so much boiled onionsj 3 Well guess that's all for now. WL-- .....-.- Trigonometry class is studying tri- gonometric relations. ' g Business English classes are study- ing spelling. i OUR MIGHTY SENIORS , , By Zilpha Sheff 1 Pai Pinard Pat Pinard, of medium height dark hair and bluel' eyes, is another senior of WSHS. She states that her pet peeve is being called fat. Pat's hobbies are eatin and sleepin, In the future she would like to work a while then go to col- lege. Pat spends a little of her time studying for English IV, Typing II, and biology. She is also one of our Spartonian editors. Her favorite food is lettuce tshe keeps telling herself.J She likes the song Chicago'l or I'll be Walkin' With My Honey , as does she prefer a man who is tall and has dark wavy hair. With this he must have a good sense of humor and like to dance. Altho' Patches likes most all movies she especially enjoyed, A Song to Remember? it green, I think! .1- 'Y, f NEWS IN A NUTSHELL 5 ..--4' if? vs By Phyllis Wood Floridals senator and new dealer Claude Pepper made quite a stand for Russia. In his speech he sug- gested that every atom bomb be smashed, and every facility for making these bombs be destroyed. Pepper feels Russia is not being treated fair as she has no associa- tion with the atomic bomb, and she has no warm water outlet. Senator Ball, Republican from Minnesota, replied that if we followed Pepper's advice we would be stripping our- selves of our only real military pow- er and if we were to enter a con.. ference with Russia, we would not be able to make satisfactory con- cessions. Most of us at one time or another have heard or read of the inability of the U. S. to absorb the returning veterans of the first World War satisfactorily. The present situation is somewhat better, but the housing problem seems to be causing a lot of veterans considerable trouble. When Truman put Bradley at the head of the Veterans Administration every- thing seemd to run smoothly. Al- most everyone realizes that the re- turning veterans must be taken care of and it must be done right if we are to maintain our present position among the nations of the world. The UNO is no longer headed for the rocks. It seems evident that Rus- sia will play along for sometime as she is in no position to go to war, as yet. Dakota Wesleyan Choir Begin Ten Day Tour The Dakota A Wesleyan University A Cappella Choir composed of thirty- five carefully selected singers, who have been chosen for their serious- ness of purpose and personality as well as their outstanding musical talent, began their ten day tour on Friday, March 22, under the direc- tion of Lyle M. Gilbert, Dean of the School of Music. During the tour the choir will sing twenty-eight con- certs in high schools and churches throughout eastern and northeastern South Dakota. The program consists largely of numbers from the early pholyphonic composers, representative writings from the Russian school of composi- tion, negro spirituals and works of some contemporary composers. Personnel of the choir hail chiefly from South Dakota although there are representatives from four other states and two foreign countries. The group includes, Shirley Eakins, Aberdeen, Nelson Beck, Bolivia, South America, Bethly Bombeck, Bruce, Nancy Sugg, Chicago, Ill., Harold Cole, Denver, Colo., Dick Carpenter, DeSmet, Patrica Padgett, Evansville, Ind., Marvin Swan, Ft. Pierre, Marilyn Blair, Geddes, Dor- ene Staley, Howard, Doris Richard- son, Kimball, Katharine Hoggatt, Lead, Merna Anderson, Lemmon, Mary Kaye, Phyllis Trautman, Aud- rey Trautman and Warren Colberg all of Mitchell, Nancy Clark, Mo- bridge, Hannah Frank, Nashua, N. H., Miriam Smith, Panama City, Panama, Neal Luebke, Parkston, Jean Pearson and Leonard Powell, both of Pierre, Shirley Scott, Rapid City, Alice Johnson, Redfield, Jean Reynolds, Terraville, Shirley Cork, Wagner, Catherine Dulitz, Webster, Carrol Crouch and George Cooper, both of Wessington Springs, Delvin Welter, Woonsocket, and Ruth Phin- ney, Loomis. They appeared in the Springs Fri- day morning at ll o'clock to give a concert for the high school students. DORM DITTIES By Arlme Kraft Can you imagine seven hundred pancakes stacked up all at one time? According to reliable reports, stu- dents at the dormitory sat down to such a breakfast last Friday. It all started at 6:00 o'clock in the morning when several boys, still groggv and tired, were called by Mr. Wing. They soon woke up to the fact that they were helping the cooks with breakfast. I assure you that everyone enjoyed the pancakes. Bubble gum is back again! Al- though I was one of the unlucky ones Cnot having any myself! I saw the many results. You can blow bubbles with it, you can chew it, but best of all it is such a reliable substance that is can be used for self-defense. It can also be set as a trap by being strung across doors and windows! One learns some- thing new every day!

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l MUSIC FESTIVAL As the annual music festival draws near, we as students should realize a responsibility not .only in chorus, but as members of a student body who are acting as hosts or hostesses for the visiting schools. It is up to the entire student body to look out for the building and to make it a place that is clean and tidy in all re- spects at all times. Do you realize what it means to those visiting students or even how it appears to you to come into a school building that is cluttered or slightly untidy? With such condi- tions prevailing, We could expect visitors to condemn our school and not wish to return. With the full cooperation of each member of the student body it seems that this festival can definitely be a success. GSB ABSENCE OF SENIORS Friday, April 5, was a day of ex- treme pleasure to the lower class- men land womenb of W.S.H.S. for- CI can hardly wait to tell youb the entire senior class was gone! To- gether with Mr. Memmer and Mr. Gadda, these dear CD friends of ours and this yearls graduates journeyed to Huron for the Senior Planning Dayf' But, as I understsand it, some of the kids didn't go for this reason only! Ahem. Perhaps you've been wondering why those four girls have been wearing ear-rings since then. Well, it all adds up to the fact that they simply had their ears pierced while un there. I hear Zip nearly fainted during the process, or was it after- wards? Thanks to the seniors being gone, the faculty decided that we, too, needed a vacation so school was dis- missed at 3:30. Friday proved to be quite a day despite the absence of the seniors. P.S. I hear certain senior fellows went along only because they heard that Absence make the heart row fonder. CLASS NEWS Gladys Leischner, Darlene Peter- son, Ramona Koenig and Ada Faul- haber have passed the 100 word Gregg shorthand test and have been awarded the Gregg Certinficate of Proficiency. Mary Lou Beckman of the Shorthand I class passed the Gregg 60 word test. World history class is studying the countries in Eastern Europe Ag I class is studying dairy cat- tle. Advanced ' agriculture class is studying deisel engines, ignition sys- tems, lubrication and timing of en- gines. Freshman shop class is working on forging. A American history class is studying the life and culture of the United State in the late nineteenth century English II class is studying the use of verbals in grammar. District Declamation Held In Woonsocket The District Declamation contest was held April 6 at Woonsocket. There were two first place winners, one second place winner and two third winners from Wessington Springs. First place winners were Ronald Jensen, grade four, with the selection The Bride at the Grocery Store, and Norma Kludt, sixth grade speak- er, with the selection Joey's Friend. Darline Schmidt won a second place for the eighth grade with the poetry selection, The Erl Kingf' Benita Hume won a third place for the second grade with the selection, Disappointment, and Anne Bidle- man, eighth grade, won third place with the reading, The Incorrigiblef' T-Q-4-41 l I WITTY-Wlrs 4 I By Wickre ' I B l l Hello, gang! It's coming soon, what? The Music Festival. Of course it' going to be a high old time Friday in the fair city of Wessing- ton Springs. Bob Winegarden says that two of his girls are coming up here Friday. I wonder what will happen when they meet? I don't believe the juniors could have chosen a better program to put on than their program It pays not to be smart. The acting was so natural. We surely missed the seniors Fri- dayg they thought they were smart getting off school like that but the rest of us got out of school, too. CWell, anyway, thirty minutes! Virginia had a little quart Of cider, hard as steelg And everywhere she went, folks laughed- To see Virginia reel. CI hope this doesn't refer to any of the many Virgina's we have in this school.D Did anyone notice the earthquake the other day? Well, don't be alarm- ed Durnil just fell down in the hall. And, if you don't believe me, ask glurnil or the girl who contributed IS. Well, guess you know that's all for now. GRKISE NEWS First Grade: ' Tommv McWilliams returned to school Monday. Seven children have been absent this week due to chick- en pox, measles or pink eye. Judith Olson spoke in the District Declamatory contest at Woonsocket. There are four groups of readers in the first grade now because of the irregular attendance. Pattv Burg brought a birthday cake for the classy her birthday was April 4. I oun Mica-riiv si-:mons 'f I By Zilpha Shoff 5 n U n .- N n Kent Walker Of medium height with brown eyes is Kent Walker, another member of our graduating class. As a hobby Kent like dancing or listening to the radio. His school subjects consist of Eng- lish IV, government, chemistry and Ag IV. He is also a member of Chorus, Glee club and F.F.A. Kent dislikes surprise tests very much and wishes there never were such things. In the line of books he enjoys dog stories or stories of wild life. In the line of actors he prefers Abbot and Costello. His favorite color is red and his favorite songs are Some Sunday Morning and There's a Star Spang- led Banner Waving Somewhere. If not called by Uncle Sam, Kent plans to farm. George Krog Scooper or in case some don't know who I'm talking about, George Krog, is one of our agricultural minded seniors. George's time budget is pretty well taken up with Ag. IV, English IV, government, trigonometery and chemistry. Being an A-1 dancer he finds it a hobby-also skating or any other outdoor sport. , Scooper's', pet peeve is the crazy chicken languae and a certain few girls who use it or have used it. He likes al music in general, with the exception of deep classics, or sym- phonies. He likes war shows. In the future George plans to go to college if he isn't called to arms. 'rwo BOYSQAPPOINTED 'ro ATTEND Bows STATE Boys' State, an annual event, held on the Northern State Teacher's College campus at Aberdeen, will be held from May 30 to June 5. Those boys representing Wessington Springs are Donald Thomson ap- pointed by the Kiwanians and Dorin Wade selected by the American Le- gion. These boys are selected on six dif- ferent merits, scholarship, loyalty, leadership, cooperation, character and service. The 1946 Boys' State will be limit- ed to 272 boys for the regular cit- izenship-training and an additional ten boys for journalism work. - - -- -W ---+-1- Second Grade: Gary Bell has dropped from the second grade due to extended ill- ness and absence. Third Grade: Norma Hurley, Pasty Enger and Calvin Holland have been ill with chicken pox this week. Marvin Olson is a new pupil in the room. She is from Huron. Dorothy Christensen represented the third grade at Woonsocket on Saturday. ,