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Latest School News Published weekly by the school children of "' ilmette under supervision of Wilmette Playground and Recreation Board JUNIOR LIFE WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY 21, 1930 Tu esday~ after having our usual spelling test, instead of having our writin~ test, Mrs. Mason surprised us by saying she was going to make some in vestigations among the class. At first we didn't know what Rhe meant but we soon found out. She first asked all the people who had blond hair and blue eyes to stand up. Half the kids didn't know whether they had green eyes or blue. We held a grand debate on the subject, whether or not so and so had blue eyes. The matter was soon settled. She then asked what nationality they were descended from. Of course there were many foolish an§wers running from eskim.,s down to nothing. When we really got down to business some bright person announced he was an American which was greeted by applause. We all hoped Mrs. Mason would continue investigation~ next period but no such luck. Mary Louise Moreau, SA Howard. Told b:v the Pupils - VOL 2 NO 48 Margrette Tells of Ancient People Who Studied Stars Since the Norshore theater has stopped giving away tickets the JUNIOR LIFE Going back before history was recorded writers thought that as long as they had we find the star worshipera, the moon no~h.ing to work for they would stop worshipers, and sun worshipers. We have wntmg articles. . .. history that the Babylonians kept records. In the last class meetmg o~ SA Howa. d and counted the stars before 300 B. c. this was brought up f?r discussion by The Babylonians were people of whom our class ~eporter, Regmald Green.. He we read in the Bible. They lived in Asia said that at was poor sports~anshrp t_o Minor and bunt observatories in all their fall down on the job Jl;lst beca~se the 1 e cities. Thales was the founder of astron- were to be no more ticket~ given. c;>Ut. omy in Greece He also urged us to keep on wnhng. In Rome Hipparchus was the father of Mrs. ~on~s said that she thou.g ht it wa!!l ' Th · li b a thnll JUSt to see your artlCle in the astronomy. ese astronomers ved e- WILMETTE LIFE, which is r ead by most of fore Christ. Ptolemy was a ruler. His the Wilmette people. hobby was astronomy and he appointed That same day' Mr. Stone came over royal astronomers ~o make a catalo~ e for JuNIOR LIFE articles a.nd he anof tl)e stars. H~ himself ~rote t~e hls- nounced that from the next week on, we tory of star~ wh~ch Coperntcus satd was would receive ticket:s to the Teatro del wrong. Ptolemy s belief was that the Lago if our articles were aecepted. There earth wa~ ~he cen~er of the solar system wa~ much cheering and applauding after and Copet mcus satd that the sun was the this . I suppose there will be hot eomcenter of the solar system. The o~tcome petition from now on and only the best as we know was that the sun Is th<' will get in. center of the solar system. -Frank May, Howard SA. I took down this story as Miss Steven: gave it to us. It may be used for astronomy books, she says. -Mat',.f~Tette _Reynolds, Howard 8B. Pupils Find New Incentive "Investigation" Proves Eight-A Howard Very Interesting Study for Writing News Articles Stages Lincoln - Program Feb. 12 On the morning of February 12, SA Howard had a program for Lincoln . W f· started with a song, "America," playt.! d by Janet Wright on the piano. Th l·Jl Harrison Storms led the Pledge to tiJt · Fla.K:,. Then everybody gave a littlt· :speech about Lincoln. They were all vt n · interesting. Janet Wright brought t~ 1 :-;chool a pen made from a tree near Li JJcoln's home. In the afternoon we had an as~embly. The Boy Scouts gave a program . lt opened with "'l'aps" played by Mark Simonds. Then everybody pledged t!H·ir allegiance to the Flag. The next on tlJt· pro ~Tam was a song played by .F'red eril'k Aschbacker. Alfred Brown gave a spel'l'll on the Life of Lincoln. He did very well. Ted Hoskins read "The Gettysburg Address." The Scouts showed h ow lhey bring back life to man after b!"ing overcome by ga~. They gave an(1lh ~.:r demonstration. After that we sang "Th .. Star Spangled · Banner." The close wa !-: Verna Brow playing the Taps. - Fred Aschbacker, 8A H oward. First Basketball Squad Challenges Second Team Th e first team of boys' basketball of SA Howard has challenged the second team for a game with them. We are quite Bob Mathews Visits U. S. Battleship California Eighth Grade Girls at Howard Serve Rotarians The eighth grade girls of Howard are serving the Rotary club Wedne~day, Februar_y 19. All of the girls have been looking forward to serving as it is very much fun. We will all be in uniforms, white s kirts and middies, white stockings and dark shoes, also orange ties. ·w e shall get out of school for a couple of period!:i, at least, in which we will practice. Some of the other grades will pet·form the entertainment for them. W e hope that no accidents will happen, aH last year .o ne of the girls served gravy instead of ~ · ,up. -Ruth Pa velicek, 8B How a r ll. enthusiastic over the grudge game we are going to have with them. All season botl1 teams have at·gued about who is superior. The lineup for the second team is as follows: Chri!'lty, right forward ; Hoelz, right guard; Str·ueuing, center; Chamher·s, left guard; Green, left forward. The first team lineup is as follows: Horn, right forward ; Hermanson, right guard ; Hoffmeyer, center; Thorned, left guard; Maxwell, left forward. We hope this game wlll be as exciting as we think it is going to be. - Reginald Green, Howard SA. 'Ve went to San Pedro on Feunwry 1 and took our lunch and we nt to Freemont Point to eat. The ocean was cairn. Then after luncheon Carl Burns' brother of Burn:-;' Toggery took m e in a speed boat, and then got on the battleship California. Say ! What I didn't see on there is not worth seeing. I found out all about the rules and life and so on, and also sailor life. I never saw so many sailors as on dock and deck of the battleship. There were a good many more battleships out in the water. When I get back to school I sure will have something· to tell my ~chool mate:s and · Miss Brichy my teacher. I sure asked plenty of questions about the ships.- Bob Mathews. Seventh Grade Girls of St. Joseph's Play Howard On Tuesday, February 11, the sevellt 11 g-rade girls of Howard and St. Joseph's ~chools played the first real basketball game. St. Joseph seventh grade played Howard ~ve_nth grade. Tt was a vNy exciting gam~ The first half Rose Tos cani made two baskets and so did Franc e~ Schmitz. The second half Rose made one basket. Frances made two. At last the game endt' d and Howard had ma rle one bq.sket. The score was · 14-2. The players are as follows: forward, · Doris Stance and Frances Schmitz; center, Hose Toscani; guard, Lorraine Walke y, Mary \Vhite and Loretta Steffens. I hope we will do as good in the next game a:-; we did in this one.-Frances Schmitz, St. Joseph's school. New Trier Orchestra in Program at Stolp School \Vednesday, February 12, the New Trier High school orchestra gave a concert for th e Stolp grades. Mrs. Marian Cotton directed. The program was as follows: Overture to Egmont .......... . Beethoven. Country Gardens .. . ...... . Percy Graing·er Country Dance No. 1 . . ............ . ..... . ....... . . . ... . .... .. Nelle Gwyn-German F:inzugsmarsch der Bojaren .. . . Halvorsen The program was enjoyed by all. -Marjorie Weiller, 7C Stolp. Pupils Making Frieze on Fifth Grade Blackboard Misi' McPartlin's room of the fifth grade is making a frieze on the black bon rd in the back of the room. This frieze is pertaining to our history. It isn't quite finished yet but I think we can manage to finish it in a few days now. The ones who are makin£ this frieze are Ruth Wetz 1, l.A>rene Buzan, Doris 1\layhercy, Telsa Hosaeus, Ashton Taylor, Philip RogerR, George Lamb, Charles Ripley, Lowell Snnrf and Barbara Ross. - Doris Mayhercy, 5B Central. ---------------- What's All the Shooting . About, Inquires Teacher Miss Chase, our social science teacher, started passing paper out for us. Now we all were very sad as we thought we were going to have a test but instead sh e asked us to write why we celebrated th~ I·'ourth of July. Many queer answers were handed in, si.1ch as "World war beg-an," "Armistice was signed," "Revolutionary war ended," and many other queer ones 1\fi~s Chase thought it pretty queer· that some had been shooting fireworks for ten or twel\'e ye~r:-; and not even known what they were !'hoting for. -Phyllis Carleton, 8C Stolp. A LONG, LONG TRAIL .one day Paul was going to the show w1th his Kister. Paul was slow and his ~iFter was all dressed when he was not half dressed. His sister told Paul to hurry and he hurried as fast as he could. At last he got dressed and went to the show. When the cashier asked for his rnoney he did not have &ny, His chauffeur was gone and it was five miles to his home. In Paul's hurry he had forgotten his money and he had to walk all the way home again. -Bobby M.a cMorran, 6A Howard. THE BEST NOTEBOOK Mrs. Julian is our history teacher. We h:LVe made history notebooks on Egypt Greece, and other Mediterranean coun~ tries. Last week Mrs. Julian said we should hand in our notebooks and she would pick out the best six. She then choMe a committee to pick out th~ best notebook of the six. The committee consisted of Sue Spinney, Ruth Durham, Donald Roberts, and Jack Dietrich. Jean Cutler's notebook was chosen th~ best. -Ellen Torrey, SA Central. TELLS ABOUT TOTEM POLE Marjorie Kratt, a girl in our room brought in the history of the Kwa-Ma~ Rolos totem pole in Lincoln park. It Is a pole of one of the oldest tribes in North America. The pole was rescued from the Queen Charlotte islands of Alaska and presented to Lincoln park by J. L. Kraft. If you go down town on Sheridan .road you will probably see ft. -J?hlllp Rogers, Miss McPartlin's room. Jessie Looks Forward to an Interesting Semester Yesterday Mrs. Groves gave us our new social science books. We have two books this year, one for the first half and one for the second half of the school year. I am sure we are going to enjoy this book because it shows us how our civilization has changed. It has many lovely maps and pictures to help make the book interesting for us. My mother said she liked the book so much she was going to put it in our bookcase with our other reference books, - when I had finished it. -Jessie Murdison, 7A Howard . Howard Eighth Grades Start Second Pamphlet Th e Howard eighth grades on Friday, February 7, started the test for the second Roeial science pamphlet and started on the test. The pamphlet was "The 1\lerhanical Conquest of America." :rhe next pamphlet we will take up is 'Ameri<'a's March Toward Democracy," Part I. We all hope to have good grades. -David Boozer, 8B Howard. HAVE PROJECT CHART In our room we have a project chart. We have all our subjects at the top. 'Ve put a ·cross after our name when we are going to do something extra. 'Ve call it our Yolunteer project rhart. We have a lot of names on Jt already. James Lamb, l~iss McPartlin's room. SPRING HAS COMJ~ Spring is here. At least it is for the boys. The marble season has started again. The familiar cries of "knuckle down tight" and "no hunching" are now heard. Pretty soon we will be playing baseball if this weather keeps up. -Reginald Green, Howard SA. BON VOYAGE lUs. · Larson, the 6A and 6B teacher, is going to her home to see her mother, and Mrs. Mason, the 6B's real teacher, Is goIng W!th her. They are going In Mrs. Mason a car. Xhey wlll leave Friday after ~p~l _ We all hope they enjoy their trip. ...:_June Sorsen, 6B Howard. . CLEAN AQUAJUU~I · The fifth grade of Miss McPartlin's room has an aquarium which has four fish, two big and two little ones. The first of the year a new nature committee ~as elected. Doris Lechler is the chairman and Lucy Lake the assistant. The first thing we did was to clean the bowl. We took so long at it Miss McPartlin said it would have to be put off so we hurried up and got it done. Miss Brown sent down some sea weed which made the aquarium complete. It looked pretty A SUDDEN HALT good when we got done. One ' day I was watching some fancy -Lucy Lake, Miss McPartlin's room. sh·aters doing all sorts of things on the ice. WHERE ARE TliEY! I watched for a long time and then deIn Howard 8B there is some trouble cided that I would do the same. They thinking up articles for the JUNIOR LIFE. had been doing quite a lot of twirling, First we would mention something a bout dancing and figure eights. Of course the plays to write up and someone would sc.me of them took lots of practice but my pipe up and say, "I have that" ahd so it friend told me I didn't dare. That made went till I got disgusted and so did not me want to so I started out and was think I would write one. going pretty good on the twirling and -David Boozer, 8B Howard. tcld my friend to look. Just as she looked I took a big floP-. MIS QUE Let me tell y-ou that ended the fancy One night while I was having supper skating for quite a while. my dad dropped some food on his tie -Frances Collins, 6B Howard. and I said, "Dad, look, you have.tdropped snme food .~n your tie, I'm going to buy THE NIGHT PAINTER you a pig. But I really meant to say Jack Frost got in last night, "I am . going to buy you a bib." Theri But the doors were all shut tight. my mother started to laugh at me. The windows were shut1 too-Billy Anhalt, 6A Howard. On them he traced pretty things for you. PROTEST RECORDED Besides being Lincoln's birthday February 12, has also the distinctio~ ot being Grete and Else von Reinsperg's and my birthday. I wish to express the feeling of three of us In that lt Is an outrage that while Lincoln Is mentioned and talked of no one thinks of us except to spank us. T~ . least they could do Is let us have a holiday. -Vivian Grigsby, SC Stolp· Pretty trees with leaves of green, Princesses, princes~ kings and queens, Knights In armor riding by, With flags of satin waVing high. -Ruth Wetzel. HAVE GOOD SEASON The Howard 8B boys have had a tine basketball season, winning from 8B Howard, Stolp 8B and 8D first teams. We lost one game to 8C Stolp first team. St. Francis Is our l8.$t game and we hope for a victory, winning four games in a row. · -David ·Booter, 8B Howard.