Western Reserve Academy - Hardscrabble Yearbook (Hudson, OH)

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Page 23 RESERVE R E C 0 R D November 2, 1944 The Election . . . ITH just a little less than a week remaining before the national election, it is important that we watch the progress of the political fight. It is hard to keep up with the developments of the campaign and the world at war when study hours conflict with tempting radio pro- grams on current issues. However, everyone can watch the news in the daily papers and should, when the news is of such importance to us. Although all of ns are unable to vote, this election is bound to be of utmost consequence to our generation. It is obvious that the outcome of the voting will not change the outcome of the war. It most certainly will have a gigantic bearing on the outcome of the peace. We must live by the peace that is being made now and after the war's end, for we cannot afford to fight another war the magnitude of which we can but vainly comprehend. We have to watch the making of this peace, for it will re- veal our ability to live together without war, and the peace to follow will be determined in great measure by what happens next week on November seventh. The campaign is being waged bitterly by both sides and is said by some to be undermining our national secur- ity and the stability of all the nations of the world. But' our freedom is based on the fact that we are able to have a campaign and a national election in the midst of in- ternational strife. It is because we can still have a political struggle that we are a democracy, and we are a true demcoracy because at a time like this we have the power to change administrations. It is impossible to predict the outcome of the elec- tion. It will be close. Deciding factors will probably be the independent vote and the soldier vote. There are going to be a great many youths return- ing to civilian life from the armed forces after the war. There is no kidding ourselves about that. The outcome of this election may decide whether or not they will be able to find jobs when they do return. Many of us may be among them. If for this reason only, it is important that we watch the struggle closely and know what is going on. Al- though we cannot vote, we can at least have a prefer- ence and support it with sound reasoning. Sports Editor... I Q, QP ff' 1' VXWJJLH ,,,: 5 l' -3? In the fall of 1942 Robert T. Morse left Reserve to attend the Columbia Midship- man's school. In December of that year he received his commsision of Ensign in the United States Na- val Reserve. Duetoweak eyes he was not grant- ed his re- quest for active sea duty but w a s a S - s i g n e d to W a s h ing- ton, D. C., where he worked in the Navy Bureau of Personnel. In the spring of 1943 he spent several weeks assigning students in the V-12 to pre-medical, pre-dental and Lt. M orse pre-engineering schools. During this time he came in close contact with requests from Reservites who had joined the Navy under this program. This spring Mr. Morse received the com- mission of Lt. fj.g.j and was assigned to active duty in the Pacific war area. When Lt. Morse visited Reserve several weeks ago he was on his way to the Pacific coast. The cruiser to which he has been assigned is supposed to be the same ship on which President Roosevelt and Churchill were quartered when they signed the Atlantic Charter. THE RESERVE RECORD Joel B. Hayden, D. D., Headmaster ' WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY Hudson, Ohio will Sfllgbu Q53 SX Q Est l92I Editor ................................ Associate Editor .... . .. Editorials ........ . . . Feature Editor... Without Reserve Photography Editor ........... . Assistant Photography Editor. ...... .John Prescott . .Eric I-Ieckett .. .Jim Howard .Harry Milligan George Vauglit . John Atkinson ..Jack Roberts ..Stuart Silver Assistant Sports Editor .............. Davld Hollinger Cartoonists ..... Phil Norris, Jack Carter, Steve Newell Don Kramer, Roger Brady, Dan Collister, Dick Kaylor, .lnmesf Newell, Bill Kelly, Herb Gleason, George Behner, .lohn McCombe. Business Manager... ................ James Moomaw Faculty Adviser ................. Franklyn S. Reardon Whites Elect Jim Gardner And By Spooner Leaders Mr. Pfiaum, the faculty adviser of the Whites, called a meeting last Sunday night in order that the elections for president and athletic manager could be held. Jim Gard- ner, right guard on the football team, wrestler and trackman, was chosen presi- dent. Jim, a Cleveland man, is also a pre- fect. Looks as if there ought to be some excitement on the third floor of Cutler since Jim's roommate, Doc Kramer, is president of the Greens. . Byron Spooner was the White's choice for athletic manager, an honor well deserved. By made his letter in soccer in his sopho- more and junior year, but this year he hasn't been in action because of a broken leg. He was high point man on last year's basketball team and played second base on the baseball team. By hails from Rocky River. Sopliomores Elect Rogers, Howard and Williams Officers On Wednesday of last week the Sopho- mores held elections for their class officers in which the following were chosen for the various offices: Dick Rogers, presidentg Nat Howard, vice president, and Brad Williams, secretary-treasurer. Dick Rogers has been very active in the field of sports. In the fall of his fresh- man year Dick played quarterback on the lightweights. In the winter term Dick missed his letter as a diver on the swim- ming team by a margin of few points. He, however, received numerals for his excel- lent performances. In the spring of his freshman year he played second base on B squad baseball. This year Dick got off to a good start by making the varsity foot- ball squad. In the course of the season, however, Dick was unfortunate, breaking his collarbone in scrimmage. The new presi- dent is a member of the Whites. For the office of vice president the Sopho- mores chose Nat Howard. Nat, also, is one of the school's most promising athletes. He was one of two members of his class to make varsity football in his freshman year. In the winter term Nat was a forward on the freshman lightweight basketball team. Returning in the spring term, he received his letter as a discus thrower on the track team. This year he has been playing second string fullback and has made some im- portant yardage in the few games in which he has participated. Brad Williams, also a Green, resumes the office he held last year, that of secretary- treasurer. Starting OH in his freshman year, Brad played guard on the lightweight football team. In the winter term he played forward on the freshman lightweight basketball team. And in the spring term Brad was a good third baseman on B squad baseball. This year Brad was moved up to league football.

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RES E RVIE ii RIECQ RD VOLUME XXI-No. 8 HUDSON, DHIO, NOVEMBER 2, I944 Successful War Chest Drive Surpasses Goal MacDonelI, Allchin, linlortlr, And Mr. Culver Head Drive Topping last year's high by more than one hundred dollars, the 1944 War Chest drive came to a successful close last week. The amount collected, 31965, exceeded all previous records for the Community Fund. As was the case last year, every boy and every master in school contributed gener- ously. The S641 collected from the student body fell 550 short of last year's sum. How- ever, the school enrollment is somewhat smaller, and, as there were no work pledges accepted, many were unable to equal their last year's donation. The average amount from each boy was exactly three dollars. With a contribution in excess of thirteen hundred dollars from the masters and Board of Trustees the drive was success- ful in going over the top. The War Chest drives of Akron and Cleveland will receive S1150 from the total sum. The remainder will be appropriated to various needy causes, including a small mountain school which remains open by our donation and the War Prisoners' Aid. Traecy Strong, who visited Reserve last year, was connected with the latter organization, which oversees treatment of war prisoners, both American and foreign. The drive was headed by Mr. Culver and by a student committee consisting of Sandy MacDonell, Tom Allchin, and Bill Linforth. Forty-five Reservites Attend laurel Dance The Laurel dorm dance was altogether too short decided the forty-five Reservites who attended the affair. In other words, the dance, which was held from eight to twelve last Saturday night, lived up to al- most all expectations falthough some felt that Miss Lake, Laurel's headmistress, was too vigilantl. Music both hot and sweet was served on platters by Jerry Moore and Company. In one corner Bill Boogie Laub and his sis- ter, Mary, who was chairman of the dance, took all honors for their carpet shearing. In the other corner Jack Carter and his date went to the other extreme and were noticed to dance standing still during most of the evening. The long and short of the even- ing's entertainment were that crackerjack couple Nancy Wilson with a height of five feet and John Prescott at six feet four. All in all the party was a great success. New Trailer to Aid Reserve Sailing Club In preparation for a season of sailing next spring, Mr. Louis Tepper has been working the past few weeks on a new trailer for the school boat, Pioneer . The trailer is all-metal and is equipped with a bumper, tail-light, and an adjustable hoist. The boat will be easier to load and unload, and the all-metal body is safer and sturdier than the rented one the school used in former years. F Pioneers new trailer Mr. Scibby will be in charge of a sail- ing club which will take the boat on trips to neighboring lakes next spring, since there is little time left this fall for any sailing. In the club the boys interested will learn considerable about small boats and will have a lot of fun learning to sail. Mr. Scibby has already interested several boys in the idea. The adviser plans to take the boat to such neighboring small lakes as Star Lake, and, if there is an increase in gas allowance, an extended trip may be taken on Lake Erie. Unlike Mr. Worthen's seamanship class last year, there will be no navigation taught in the club, but with training and actual experience the boys Will acquire proficiency in the skill of sailing a small boat such as the Pioneer. The club will be open to all who are interested and who want to try their hand at sailing. Glee Club Elects Ollicers On Tuesday evening the Glee Club elected ofiicers for the year. The presi- dency went to Holsey Handysideg Bill Kelly was chosen vice president, and Dave Nicholson was elected secretary- treasurer. For the important position of date manager the club chose Dan Collister. Under the able direction of these officers the club looks forward to a successful season. Council Dance to Be Held Saturday Evening Sixty Couples Will Dance to Music Ol Country's leading Bands This Saturday, November 4, there is to be a Council Dance in the Common Room of Cutler Hall. As in the previous dance, the bounds will be from Dr. Hayden's house to the Fine Arts Building on College Street, the walk from the Fine Arts to Teb's house, and the street in front of Teb's house down to College Street. The time will also be the same-the dance to last from 6:30 until 10. The music will be partly from the school's new popular record collection and partly from private collections. The school will continue to buy new records for each dance. Cleveland leads the list of girls coming to the dance with twenty-nine, Akron is second with seventeen, elsewhere, supris- ingly enough, equals Hudson with seven, making a total of sixty dates. ccontinued on Page 29, Column 23 ' -.. Thespians Form Newest Reserve Activity At last the group of boys and masters who advocated a Dramatic Club have suc- ceeded. They have won consent from both the Executive and the Activity committees. Beginning next term, the Dramatic Club will count as an activity, although it has been stressed that boys are not to drop from Glee Club and other activities in fa- vor of Dramatics. Mr. Cleary, who is heading the Club and acting as adviser, plans to be able to have either two or three one-act plays ready by Christmas and a three-act play in the spring term. Possibly there will be another in the winter term. The would-be-actors will devote several sixth and seventh periods each week to practice and will meet perhaps on other occasions. All Seniors, Juniors and Sophomores are eligible, and a great number of them turned out at the first meeting held last Monday night. Mr. Cleary stated that he hoped the boys could use the Public Auditorium of the Hudson High School for some of the rehear- sals and perhaps use their stage for the production of the plays. Much credit for the organization of the Dramatic Club is due to the tireless eH'orts of Jack Naylor. After campaigning for a long time, he was successful in getting a petition signed by many prominent students and masters.

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November 2, 1944 RESERVE RECORD Page 29 LUITHDUT I' I rl I r I Ii r. EJ 3. rl V r. Something revolutionary has happened over in Cutler. The old yo-yo spinning group has been replaced by the smarter ping-pong, or top-cut, crowd, as they call themselves. At the end of every meal there is a reckless rush for a place in line, early in the morning alarm clocks that never so much as tinkled for studies clang for ping- pong. According to the addicts, there has been quite some trouble securing the right kind of balls this year. All the old Argon Dou- ble-Aged, Top-Flite balls have been scotch- taped, plugged up, or glued together for re-use. This, it was admitted by some, causes their bounce to be a trifle irregular. As one of the top-cut crowd remarked to me the other day, One may intend to play a perfectly good glop-sided, hugalanamious downspin, and, due to the ball, be able to do nothing but lob over a poorly-balanced, arithopatic slipshotf' I said, 'f0h! and as- serted that the ball situation must cer- tainly be bad when you can't even put over a glop-sided, hugalanamious downspin when you wanted to. He agreed and saun- tered off to grumble with a few of his colleagues. There was quite a crowd over at the ta- ble, so I decided to watch the play. Push- ing my way through the crowd, I found a vantage point and surveyed the scene. The contestants faced each other fiercely from opposite ends of the playing surface. The hard light glared on the table. The match had been going on for a long time, and both were worn out. Perspiration glowed on their facesg their eyes were glazed. Automatically they hit, returned, hit, returned. The challenger's head was swollen where he had hit it against the radiator retrieving a trick shot. The champ attempted to speak, but his tongue was parched. At length his three-day training schedule of skipping rope won outg the challenger faltered. That was all the champ needed He broke the 52nd deuce to his add and with a well-placed shot Won the tournament. The' announcer excitedly made the observation that it was the most perfectly executed sagilofistic goglifithon that he had ever seen! As I was leaving, I heard some say that he would have sworn it was a mageretigal, but I didn't stay to hear the discussion. Five Soccermen Advance to Varsity On Monday it was announced by Mr. Mickel that five boys would be brought up to the varsity squad. These new soccer men are: Garver, Hartsock, Sheldon, McCombe and A. Fletcher. All of them played league soccer formerly. With one more game to play the soccer team can look back on a pretty good sea- son. They tied the first game with Univer- sity School and won the second. The first game with Oberlin was lost, but since then the squad has improved and developed. Varsity Football With Help Swamps Soccer 2-l A truck driver on the highway outside of the confinement area of Reserve had good reason to sit there for two hours Mon- day. Any half awake Reservite might re- member that memorable occasion when the varsity football team with a little help from Spooner, the Syrian star, Sikorsky Beck, and a few other varsity soccer men took over the second string varsity soccer team 2 to 1. A memorable day' it was in soccer annals, as Dennett developed three or four new tripping devices, all of which were very effective according to Where's my Cadillac McCombe, who was helped from the field towards the end of the slaughter. Pablo , the beast, filled out the halfback spot, as only Brett can fill out anything, while Congressman MacDonell spent the afternoon getting his pins knocked out from underneath him. The first score came somewhere along about the middle of the game when a fall- ing ball hit Spooner, as he attempted to kick his opponent's shins, and Went from By's skull into those much pounded nets. Goalie Ed Collins picked up the Manglers' second goal with a penalty kick from the box around goal. The only other goal, that made by Trinidad Kennedy, the bare- foot boy, followed closely after Ed's kick, when the Congressman, slightly exhausted by his recent week-end, understandably enough, slipped up for a minute and was quickly steam-rolled out of the way. With the end fast approaching and con- ceit written all over the football team's faces because of their abilities, Coach Roundy put in seventeen extra men for the soccer team, but all to no avail. Den- nett immediately eliminated a few, and the whistle blew shortly thereafter. fcontinued From First Page, Column 33 From Cleveland there are twenty-nine girls. They are: Clare Zimmerman-Brett: Grace Grassewlli-Gen hauser: Alice Ann Bain-Ayers, Zoanne Little-John Millerg Mary Jo Read-Hyde: Judy Miller-Dawson. llnry ,To Stuart-A. MacDonell: Ginny Struver- Clcminshawg Dorothy Warner-Doullg Diane Fryberg-- Ryan' Peggy Spring-Tanner: linna. deConingh- Schultz. Mary defioningli- Shepard: Sally Church-- Prescott: Janet Cowan-W. Cleminshawg Emily Frum --Martong Sue Secly-Frosty Anne Phillips-Tarr: Mary Marshall-H. Ollverg Joan Smith-Hobart: llnenelle Rubin-Gardnerg Alice Day-Taylor, Sally Rounds-R. Rogers, Jocelyn FrancedBeck' Polly Parker-Arnoldg Dorothea Walker-Doolittle: Carol Tietjen -Grussleg Arlene Troxell--Booneg Robin Balch -J. Howard: Connie Williams-Laub, From Akron there are coming: Julia Enyart-Jan hoe: Charlotte Enyart-J. Kramer: Margie Saalffeld- McCombe: Mary Lou Harwick-Nobllg Anne Sieber- ling-Rabe, Anne Gundaker-Draffcn: Jeanne Mlcheil --Llnforthg Lois Sewel-Pr-dlerg Jean Ruhlin-Sam dr-rsong Joan Greis-Russellg Judy Dech-Andersong Shirley Way-Kcitzerg Janet Hilo-Parke: Susan Thomas-Mamcr: Jeanne Lehman-pRo. Ballinger: .lane Dnnner-Hagedorng Carol Jean Jackson-James Roberts. From Hudson there are: Lois Hiedenreich-Mom mawg Priscilla Plum-Brad Williams: Mary Jo Swanson-James Millerg Katherine Gray-Hutchison: Ann Conners--Kalkerg Ariel Seelye-Rlviereg Molly Izant-Grleslngcr. Coming from Elsewhere are: Anne Leonard-Gab rigan fCantor1lg Adele Gillespie-Collister 1Cantonl: Marilyn Pryor-T. Moore 4Bay Villagelp Janet Mc- Donough-Stolzfus fB:1y Villagelg Mary Lee Mac- Callum---Wallace fCuyahog:1 Fallslg Rebecca Poston -Ro. Evans fCuyahoga. Fallsl: Nancy Owings- Walker lYoungs1ownJg Elizabeth Hamilton-Star1s- bury Cleaver Falls Pa.l. ,wj e X - fig- 1 Zim' flfiae ferr - Alnv-M f-vnrfw exsnfzrnr 771: swan fs wamfve Foe H sfrea, SMOOTH SAILING in sartorial seas' , Just another way of saying that these ties and socks have met every requirement for quality and style and are the furnishings that top the list for casual wear this win erl KN ITTED TIES in stripes or pla1n colors 51 50 CABLE STITCH SOCKS heavy weight 1n two tone blue Sizes 10 to 12 c BOYS CLOHHIVK SECOND FLOOR HLRON PROSPLCL' t. . . . - t combinations ,ofl brown or . ' ...... 55 tithe italic Bras. 6111.1 PHEVIELUS Thursday, November 2-Dr. Hayden speaks in Chapel. Friday, November 3-Mr. Dodge speaks in Chapel. Soccer game here with Oberlin, 4:00. Saturday, November 4-Football game with Akron Ellet here at 2:30. Dance here at 6:00-10:00. Movie in Gym at 7:0'0g Round the World with Kay Ifyser. Sunday, November 5-Church in the Vil- lage. No Vespers. Tuesday, November 7-Dr. Hayden speaks in Chapel. Wednesday, November 8-Mr. Waring speaks in Civil Assembly.