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Open House at Highcrest, Hlighcrest school. held an, annualI open house May '24. The school- bouse ý asÎ brightly lighted -and the. walls o»f'the roomns and halls,.Were gaily decorated with the posters and booklets the children had made. dur-. ing the. year. At thé, north end. of the hall was a long table displaying the articles the boys made at manual training., There were book trotighs, cornershelves, storks, pe wter and copper -dishes, and ash trays. Miss O'Connell's room or the' kindergarten, was displaying a "Mr. Brown's Grocery Store.". Miss Kurz 's room or the first and second grade roorn was sbowing a library.. Miss Greens room or theî third and fourthi and fifth grade room was exhibiting, some history slides that the pu pil s had made themselves. Mr. Murphy's, room or the 6th and 7th grade rooin was displaying practically everything.. At 7:30 o'clock in the evenin,. all the pupils and parents gathercili at the different classes for 30 min- Utes of recitation. At ý8:30-o'clock the pupils and parents assembled i the auditorium for a business meet- ing of the student council and the awarding of the basketball letters. After that, flolores Schwall did a tap dance and an acrobatic dance. Lenora Giambastian crooned "Over Somebody Else's Shoulder" and "You Ought to Be ini Pictures." Mfr. Kus -, mertz san.g "Home on* the Range" wlrile Mrs. Schwall yodeled. .Then to top off a perfect prograiu, Mrs. Regan, president of the P.T.A., told about a nice picnic the P.T.A. is going to sponsor for the pleasure of the children, on june 15. The program ended:at 9:15 oclock.-Dý-' vid B. Calvin, Highcrest, 7th grade. Howard Bighth Graders Awaiting Annual Picnic Saturday, May 19, Howard and Stolp schools competed against six other schools for the silver cnp which Wilmette won, through the excellent performances of Kiml>all Brown, Bill Roberts, Dick Moreau. Robert, DeVinny, Harry Seifer, Milan May, Robert Lonergan, Ber- nard Reagen, Eric.Samuelson, Dong Huck,,Tom Carney, Gordon Nevins,. Ted Riley and. Jarvis. Lingel. T'nî sure Howard and Stolp are very proud of these boys, and many others Who were very good.-Elizabeth Eldredge, Howard 8A. T elles Stolp Pupils About Liquid, Air Tuesday, May .22, the Stolp Asser.î- bly club held iis. weekly meeting in the auditorium.. We had with ui ' very. interesting and enteitalning person, Mr. James. Hie talked and gave experiments oi> liquid air. 1île hold us how it was made andr shvuwed us the power it had. WeC also learned the colors and names of the gases found in air. This is one of the best programns we've ever had. I'm sure it was enjoyed by ail. and we hope Mr. Jamres. will come to see us again soon.-Ray Halleti, Stolp. 8th grade. Brother, Sister Eoajoy Waitohing Bird Brawl Recently I was upstairs in thre house when suddenly my brother called me. I went dowft and he told' me to be quiet and look under the car. 1 looked and I saw about five or six birds. They were fighting. We watched themn chirping -ind jumping. Then most of thern flew away except 'two. They kept op' then; one flew from one side anrd the other fiew.«from the other ýside., We enjoyed it very much.-Kil<i Lillias, ,Howard 5B. S Sat urday at B5each Last Saturday my girl friend and 1 wCflt to the beach with the girl's father. For a littie while we stayed in the park and played with nur doils. Late.rwe went down to the beach and went wvading.. We had ShirlIcyis dog along. We, Were digging h(-)!es .when a man with a camera camne along and asked if fie could take <'ut picture. We -let bim and thett..,W"e went on. playing. .We. waded along the shore until, we came; to the. pier. Then we climbed up andwatched a saiboat race. We th en ran back along the shore and went .to get >a banana out of the car. Aiso we went to a fountaàin for. a drinik. We. had a. very good timeý and we arce going, nekt week, too.-Jean Lindstrom, .%oward Sehools For 1m Teams for Basebilt Clashes The season for basehali is on and having played mnany, intranrural and roomn gamnes, we are now organizing heavyweigbt, lightweiglit and peeN-ee teamns. The teamns are to be separate at each school and are to play each other. We groan to think that after weeks; of track we have te get iii early on Saturday mornings and go out and play baseball. However, if we make the teams there wilI be less groaning, as for some it mneans a Rotary award, and for1 others a letter.-Ted Riley. Stolp scbool. Attends Big Ten Meet; Visits WiSCOnsin Room Iwent to. the' Big Ten track mneeý recently. About fifteen mninutes b)e- fore they started, Mr. Petaja, the man who took me, showed me the Wisconsin locker room. In there. 1 met the coach..'I think his namne was jones. He was a very nice. mari. Illinois took the meet. Indiana was second, Michigan third, and North- western fourth.-John Hughes, How.- Glass Learnlng to Ride Horses The girls of Howard SA and' 8B. went, for a. horseback ride Satuday afternoon. There were fifteen of us counting Mrs. Fanckboner, the gy teacher, and her two children. I.Ve went to the Oki Hi Stables near Nôrthbrook. The fée. was 75,cents a person. When we had our finances ,settled they brought out the horses'and we mounted. I had a, good horse named major.- There was aý large square fenced arena. which we rode around in single flule. One of the horsemen from the stable gave us a lesson. He told us how to make the horse 'stop, how to hold the reins, how to keep our feet in, the stirrups-and several other things. After we had ridden around tIhe arena several times we went on a trail tlrrough thre Woods. Thre stable master led us along the trail in single file. It was .a lovely trail that led through a forest. We rode quite a while and then returned to the stable. Then we aIl went to Mrs. Fanck boner's house for punch. After that we went home. We ail enjoyed it very much.-Florence Whiittrq- ton, Howard 8B. Pupils Are Practicing Commencement Songe The eighth grades from Howard school have been practicing comi- mencement songs. This year's school song was written by David Geppert but as yet we, have flot studied it. The girls have compromised on grad- uation dresses and have decided on semi-formais. The boys are to wear duck or flannel trousers and blue coats. We hope this yçar to make our -graduation more beautiful thani ever.-Louise Meyer, Howard 8B.. TO SING AT WORLD'S FAIR On Monday, june 4, thre Wilmette grammar School gee clubs will sing at thre World's Fair. They wijl pre- sent smre of the song they gave at tIe spring concert.-Richard Taylor, Helvard SB.. started at the pect to have good prospect Roberts, Dudi and Jack 1 Howard SA. YoeMan,1 -vey.-Bert ju4sL gainesO *i5 anuu '4 A4ierest~in LUAings. the street."-Julia Stachel, Howard cex- -Palma Waldal, Howard school. __ __ __ __ __ __7B. Bill GEOGRAPHY PROJECT Hall 1 have started a project about bave'made them, but only five boys ,nons, geography-and I think it is funr. There in our rooc have finished.ter. are aboutt vn gils.n1 or rom1.wo Patricia Syrmons, Howard 4th grade. 4