Western Reserve Academy - Hardscrabble Yearbook (Hudson, OH)

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Page 14 RESERVE RECORD October 4, 1945 THE RESERVE RECORD Published every Thursday during the school year by the students ol' Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio Joel B. Hayden. D. D., Headmaster mm 'Weasel' Editors .......... ...... S pud Milligan, Dan Colllster Assoclate Editors.. ,...... Herb Gleason, Dlck Howell Sports Editor ............ ........... D ave Holllnler Assistant Sports Editor ................... Dick Rogers Photography ............ George Behner, John McCombe George Vauzht Brad Williams Stall-Ronald Bacon, Ted Jones, Angus Fletcher, Leon- ard Gordon, Blll Wallace With out Reserve . ........ Nat Howard, Just for the Record ................... Faculty Adviser ............. . . . .Franklyn S. Reardon The Time ls Now Last Saturday Reserve officially opened its fall competitive sports season. Though we bowed to our opponents in this first contest, we found we had the kind of spirit winning football requires. School spirit has been the topic. of many an editorial published in this paper in the past. We feel, however, owing to the im- portance of the subject, that it cannot be brought to mind too often. The outcome of last Saturday's game is well known. Our team needed experience. It- needed con- fidence. That is why we urge you to GET BE- HIND THE TEAM! Our rooters showed a gratifying display of enthusiasm last week, especially considering the fact that the game was played off campus, thus mak- ing it didicult for many to attend. If a few can do so well, what can we do as a whole? We want and need the kind of pep and vigor displayed last fall at the University School game. Let's not wait 'til the end of the season to give the team our best. Learn the school cheers. Attend the games. 'Let our rivals know that we mean business. To quote a well-known phrase-Come on, Reserve, LET'S FIGHT! , I-leldinilewzve Friday, October 5-Mr. Parker speaks in chapel, 8:05. Saturday, October 6--Football game with Parma, here, 2:30. Soccer at Oberlin C01- lege. Movie in the gym at 7:30- Hail the Conquering Hero, starring Eddie Bracken and Ella Raines. ' Sunday, October 7-Church in the village, 11:00. Tuesday, October 9--Dr. Hayden speaks in chapel, 8:05. Wednesday, October 10-Mr. Waring speaks in chapel, 8:05. Thursday, October 11-Mr. Kitzmiller speaks in chapel, 8:05. . Vespers In the dictionary one finds that the word vespers refers to a religious service held late on the Sabbath day. It is most natural, therefore, for us to' have our ves- per service in the evening instead of in the afternoon. There are indeed many reasons which speak for having it at the new time instead of the old, first and most obvious among them being that it is now held at the hour when most vesper services are conducted. It may also be. said that the vesper service now comes at the beginning of the new week, instead of at the lowest ebb of the -old. Sunday tea marks the end of the old week, and it is then that the student's mind seems to turn to the tasks of the week ahead. The time itself is preferable be- cause then the service does symbolize a beginning instead of an ending. There was another complaint which was held rather generally against the old time, that it cut Sunday afternoon far too short. Many were the times that games had to be called off prematurely, or the downtown movie left at the crucial point, in order that one might be on time fort vespers. Moreover, the service prepares one for study, a difficult task on Sunday night, particularly after an especially good week- end. No one will deny that there are objec- tions to the change, among them one which is very sound. It is the fact that the change brings boys back from week ends earlier, particularly upper classmen. How- ever, now that more gas is available, the situation is not as bad as it might have been last year. Nor is it nearly as bad as it might have been had the decision been to bring the whole school back for a five o'clock vesper service. So there are con- solations. gust ton the CRacondl From my perch atop the tottering brick one and all as the an excellent view of the feature of which attempted dunking by structure' known to Athenaeum, I had last week's events, was, of course, the the sophomores of a member in bad stand- As this column went ing of their class. to press the same person was seen leaving town with a full laundry case-shades of Meet Me in St. Augustine! Magic in large quantities has been mys- tifying the brethren of Cutler Hall. Led by Ten little fingers and ten little toes Howard, who can make anything except the guys in his closet disappear, they have con- jured up many right good tricks. Even Scotch is baffled, which is definitely some- thing new. The football team got a good start on a crop of beards with their first loss of the season last Saturday. A few men have signed an agreement not to shave till we win a game. Shepard wants to know if WITHOUT RESERVE Waiting Can Be Fun! As I take pencil in hand in readiness to 3 ,, make all you new boys howl with laughter, my ' mind wanders back to I I a time earlier today f K fwhat a memoryj A when we had our week- 14 QI' ! ly drop-day throw 7 Pi E' , for waiter at our table. ff Of course it was purely Q fate lending a hand ,A when the count hap- ' ' pened to land on one ' of our innocent freshmen. Because my heart bleeds so for these young men I shall do my best to expose those awful tricks we upperclassmen pull on them. One of my favorites is the odd man racket. Although L do use this method with some skill, probably the best known artist along this line is Blueshins Gordon. I have heard several of his victims remark, He blinded me with footwork! Another little number that is often employed is the Start with Weick and go around rou- tine. No matter how much one argues, the counting always starts with Weick. Of course it isn't that the throw is fixed or anything of that nature. After all, this is Reserve! Builder of men! Well, on second thought, maybe it was fixed. Probably the farthest extreme to which anyone has carried this throwing busi- ness as yet was the occasion when Jim Rodman stumbled on a theory for making any chosen person or persons throw any number desired. The result was a compact machine capable of controlling 5000 volts. However, the machine was never used here and it was frowned upon by the dining room committee. You might hurt Some- body with it, they said. Instead, Jim pat- ented it, and made a small fortune selling it to small-town jails, thus eliminating the necessity of taking all killers to the state prison to be electrocuted. So let me warn the new boys. Whenever an upperclassman wants you to throw for waiter-refuse him point blank. If it gets to the point where you have to carry bricks for talking back to seniors about throw- ing, don't relent. After all, it's not so hard carrying them. Ask those who know. N. H. they have to shave when we do win! Following in a noble tradition of many years' standing, the prefects have mass confiscations of the choicest able viands-yes, I know it's a Word Wealth word. The sophomores who fly low over Cutler are the chief losers. Be- fore Muscles Jarboe hits me, I'll leave. begun avail- B. H. W.

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RESERVE use 'life's Intrinsic Values' ls Theme at Sunday Vespers Life's Intrinsic Values was the theme around which was built a most impressive and thought provoking talk given Sunday evening at Vespers by Dr. Harold Cooke Phillips, pastor of First Baptist Church, Cleveland. Dr. Phillips pointed out three types of evaluations that people place upon things in general: the comme1'cial value, or how much something means to us by its worth in money alone-the utilitarian value, or how much actual use a thing is going to be to us-and third, the intrinsic value, or how much something is worth to us just in the permanent lasting enjoyment we will receive from it. This last type of value, Dr. Phillips sta- ted, is increasingly difficult to appreciate in our timesg we must not allow commer- cial and utilitarian values to crowd out the values of culture. Our Christian religion sends us to explore the truly woith-while things of life-the lasting things, which will never pass, while lesser issues fade away. Our speaker, Dr. Phillips. was born on the island of Jamaica in the Wcst Indies. After graduating from Denison University. Granville, Ohio, he continued his education at Columbia University and at Union Theo- logcial Seminary, both in New York City. Dr. Phillips' inspiring messages and sin- cerity of manner have made him in the past few years a speaker to whom the whole school looks forward to hearing every year. Dr. Harold Cooke Plzillips Answer Comes from War-Torn Wester Souliurg, Thanking Reserve for Proposed Aid Scenes of devastctfion in Wester Soulmry When Western Reserve Academy realized the connection between its new bell in the chapel tower and the war-devastated, flooded village of Wester Souburg in Holland, the school council hit upon the idea of sending a Christmas present to the people of the village. During the Christmas season of 1944 a campign raised S2125 for this pur- pose. At that time the council sent a letter to the burgomaster of Wester Souburg. By graduation time much more informa- tion about the bell's origin had been found out by alumni in Holland, the principal facts obtained by Carl Hess, '33. This information was sent to the alumni in the commencement invitations. Recently both Dr. Hayden and Mrs. Kitz- miller received answers to the letters sent to the burgomaster. Mrs. Kitzmiller has been active in both the investigation of the history of the bell and the campaign for money, and almost all the work of research and literature about the bell has been turned over to her. In the letters, A. H. S. Stemerding, Voorzitter of Oost-en West- Souburg, expressed his thanks for Re- serve's thoughtfulness in collecting the An Apology . THE RECORD regrets that in the issue of last week in the story con- cerning the Anniversary and Memor- ial Campaign appearing on the front page, the name of Pearce F. Boyer was inadvertently omitted as chair- man of the Cleveland organization. This is particularly regrettable in view of the fact that the Cleveland unit is the largest of the 19 areas comprising the campaign's organiza- tion and Mr. Boyer and his commit- tee have already done a great deal of work for the success of the pro- gram. After the copy for the last REC- ORD had gone to press word was re- ceived that Dr. C. H. Hamilton of Oberlin had accepted the campaign chairmanship for that area. money for the village. He said, however, that money was of little value in devastated Holland and hoped that future gifts might be in material things. Since the tide Hoods the village twice a day, the ground has been ruined for planting. He therefor suggested that instead of seeds the academy buy clothing, shoes and rubber boots. and bicycles to send to Holland. Of the 6000 people who once lived in the vil- lage, only about 2300 remain, living in sec- ond-stories of the Hooded buildings. Mrs. Kitzmiller is working now on methods to collect, buy and send these necessary goods to the residents. The money already col- lected is in the Hudson bank, and it is hoped that another campaign this year will raise the amount to possibly 3300. The Student Council met on Wednesday with Mrs. Kitz- miller and Dr. Hayden to formulate plans for a Christmas shipment of goods for the stricken village. To Reserve, the bell, which was cast in 1611 by Jan Burgerhuys of Wester Sou- burg, is one of the strongest links between the school and war-torn Europe. Murray Goddard, another alumnus, acquainted him- self with two citizens ol Rotterdam, and from this and various sources we are still receiving information about the bell. As Mr. Stemerding says in his letter: Please tell your students that they must appreciate their bell .... They must remember that thousands of inhabitants of towns and vil- lages in Holland miss the tone of their beloved bells, for the oppressor took them all. Daily Elected Council Member Saturday, after luncheon, the sophomore class held a meeting to determine a second council representative for their class. Daily, who was elected by a plurality vote, will take the place of Cal Beal who did not re- turn to Reserve this year. Dick received 19 of the 44 ballots cast. At this meeting it was also announced that Bob Barnard will advance to the posi- tion of president and there will be no vicc president unless an emergency should arise.

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October 4, 1945 RESERVE -RECORD Page 15 Social Committee Plans At Reserve, as is the case in almost all prep schools, a good social program is a key factor in the morale of the student body. Dances, formal and informal, offer pleasant diversion from the work and rou- tine of daily school life. The school's social policy in the past has been a very satis- factory one, offering numerous dances and other events throughout the year. This year, the first one of peace since 1941, offers many possibilities for social events now that so few wartime restrictions remain. The time of dances, which in the past was made inconvenient by train sched- ules, has been put back on a normal bal- ance again, hours being from '7:30' to 11 with a half-hour intermission. Other changes and additions will be presented to the student body at class meetings. About two weeks ago the new Student Social Committee held its first meeting un- der the direction of Mr. Cleminshaw, Social Committee Chairman. The meeting was held in the Infirmary as Dave Nicholson, Peace- Time Schedule Council representative, was confined there temporarily. At the meeting, dates for fall term dances were discussed and tentatively decided upon. Two of the three dances for the term will be sponsored by the Coun- cil. One of these dances has been sched- uled for October 13, the second date is November 3. The other event is to be an R Club dance, planned for November 17. At this meeting a printed set of regula- tions and rules of conduct for dances was presented and thoroughly discussed. This printed material, which is simply the ac- cepted and time-proven policies of Reserve, was drawn up by the head of'the Social Committee and proved to be very adequate and complete. The members at the meet- ing felt that it would make the job of explaining dance regulations to the students much easier and more thorough. Before the first dance each class in the school will hold a meeting at which a repre- sentative from the Student Social Commit- tee will outline the dance regulations and answer any questions that arise. Samuel F. Husat New at Reserve, but experienced in the profession of teaching, is Samuel F. Hu- sat ipronounced Hewsut, for the benefit of all those who call him Mr, Whoosit.'l For the last year he has been recuperating from a wound sustained in the Normandy i n - vasion. Before he was knocked out by artillery fire two weeks after the land- i n g, h e h a d served fourteen nronths with the G-2 D iv i s ion H e a d q uarters , 1, where he read Mr. Samuel F. Husat and i n t e r r o- gated enemy prisoners. Nearing recovery in October of 1944, he received a medical discharge from the army, but he is still not the man he once was, he says. A Rumanian by birth, Mr. Husat was brought to Alliance, Ohio, when he was only two years old. He has lived there ever since. .At Mt. Union College in Al- liance he received his A. B. He did gradu- ate work in the Latin and Greek depart- ment at Harvard University and received his masters degree at the University of Michigan, where he had a fellowship. His work to obtain a Ph. D. from the Univer- sity of Michigan was interrupted by the war, but he is now working to complete it. Before the war Mr. Husat was head of captured letters' Record Sponsors Cartoon And Photography Contests This year the RECORD plans to run three photography and cartoon con- tests: one during each term. The first of these will begin immediately and will terminate on November 29- four days after the return from the Thanksgiving recess. All pictures for the contest must be printed on glossy paper and cartoons must be drawn with black ink on white paper. Subjects for cartoons and pictures must concern campus life. All material submitted, which should be left at the RECORD office, may be used in any way in which the staff deems wise. The judges this year will be the Reverend Raymond Burns, pastor of the Hudson Congregational Church, who was formerly in charge of pho- tography at the school, and Mr. Wil- liam Moos, instructor in Industrial Arts. Two first prizes of 37.50 each, one for photography and one for car- tooning, will be given, two second prizes of 35.00 each and two third prizes of 82.50 each. the modern language department at Al- liance high school and returned there for the winter and spring terms last year. At Reserve he teaches Spanish and Latin. With his wife he resides in the Slaughter 'House on Hudson Street. Modest about his military experience and studious life, Mr. Husat is at the same time cordial and interesting to be with. It is to be hoped that he will find Reserve a congenial place for his teaching in the years to come. in fiiiiii ill THE SPEAKER TALKED so Lou., on wunr ug wggt some ro rim. Amour , isa Nevin Founo Qin' wiqr Hg my DGING vo rAl.K ABOUT 1 Nuptial Ceremonies l-lelcl In Chapel Saturday Last Saturday afternoon 'Miss Jacquelyn Staats was married to Mr. William Cobble- dick in the Academy Chapel. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Cobble- dick of Cleveland and has served for 18 months with the Seabees in Hawaii. He was graduated from Reserve in 1943. The ceremony was performed by Dr. Hayden before a large group of friends of the bride and groom. i-.--,--.,-..-. .... -l -M M-.. l its lining comes out! l , 'PILOT' i JACKET 513.65 . Sheepskin lined gabardine jacket with zipper closing and , two slot pockets, but that's Q only half the story! When the weather's warmer, the lin- ing comes out and you have a ! lighter weight, plaid lined ' l j a c k e t. Detachable hood. Taupe shade, sizes 12 to 22. I BOYS' CLOTHING- r SECOND FLOOR. HURON-PROSPECT I Ellis ilinlle Bros. Gln. I