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JlU NI1OR LIF'E Latest School Newsi Published u'eekIg bu the. achool childaun of Wilmette =vde rauperiajon of Wilmette Plaggtoand ani Recantion. Board VOL. 8, NO. 4 WILMIETTE, ILLINOIS, NOVEMBER 8, 1934 Special Tests Completed by Local Pupils IEveryone f rom third to eighth gradez in the Howard, Stolp, Lôigan and Cen- tral schools lias finished testing. The tests were to see where each individ- ual stands in compa rison witb his class the Wilmette schools and the United States standards. The seventh and eighth gràdes' tests consisted of arithmetic, reading, speli- ing, English.,. civics, history, vocabulary. literature. and geography. The tests ii, the Howard sevetith and eighth grades were practically continunus from Fn - day, October 19, to Tuesday, October 2,3, about fours days ini aIl. Now that the children are donc working, the teachers will proceed to sit up nights correcting hundreds of papers.. If parents wish to see where the children stand with respect to the three above listed standards, they may corne to the schools and see the charts. Tests will also be given in the spring to see any increase or decrease in the pupils' work..- Suzanne Lyon, How- ard 8B. Class 6C Heads List in Correlated Reading Miss Theman's reading classes- Howard 6C, 6B and 6A-are seeing who can do the most correlated read- ing ini everv unit in their reading books. So far 6C has succeeded ini reading the most. This class had twenty-five pluses, which means that those twenty-flve people read' more than one book and three stories or nine short stories. The class hail one minus; that means one person had read less than one book and three short stories. The 6B pupils had sixteen pluses and twelve min- uses; 6A had six pluses and twenty- one minuses-Marilyn Jane, Ho- ward 6C. Wilmette Pewees Have Perfect Football Record The pewee football ttain of How- ard and. Stolp has played thre e gaines. The first was at Highland Park. Wilmette woni 19 to O. The second gaine was played, at, Wash- ington Park against Raviînia. Wil- mette conquered, 21 to 0. 0Our third gaine was played at Washington Park and Wilmette won, 6 to 2. WC battled Highland Park. John Miller scored the touchdown.. Wlmette hopes to get more scheduled games 1. There is one more- scheduled gaine and that's against Ravinia, a retur.n gamne.-Bud.Bowen, Stolp school. FOURTEEN AND FOURTEEN In Miss Olthoff's room there is an even number of boys and girls. There arer fouteen boys and fourteen girls. 1 -Josephine Shoemaker, Howard 4th grade. Comic Olympie Meet Features Club Party The pupils in Stolp 1C celebrated Hallowe'en in school by having a party during the club meeting. It was given as entertainment by the first row, whose -turn it was to give a program. First there was a play telling the origin of Hallowe'en. Then came a ,ame, a comic OIvrn'ic meet. Fach rowv was represented as a college team. The flrst -event was the high jump to see who could jump up to the highest note in the scale. The l)roa(l jump, discus throw, shot put and forty-yard dash were other clever events. The winning- team was presenlted with a cup. which turned out to be a tin kitchen cup with the motto, "H-eroes Are Made, Not Born." Candy was served and a joyful pro- gram came to ail end.-Gertrude Weinstock, Stolp 1C. St olp Forme Ail-Star Tearn to Play Howard An aIl-star Stolp football teain is being formied f rom the outstanding players on the A, B, C, D, E, and F teams. The try-outs were held Thurs.- dav, November 1, after school at Wash- ington park. These teanis wil1 play against aIl-star teais. froni Howard school. The A's and B's were to have another practice Monday after school. -Bil.l Holmes, Stolp 2C. Citizenship Club of 5B Gives "Prickley Prince", November 2, the Citizenship club of Howard 5B gave a play, the «,Pnick- ley Prince." Buddy Heerenls was the Prickley Prince; Joan Benner, the Queen; Betty Heck, Miss Nagg; Peggy Ebbert, Nelly. jixumie May was Ned (Ned and Nelly were the children who introduced the Prickley Prince to Bookland). Peter Pan was Helen Sweeney. Jo March was Lor- raine Vodoz.-Helen Sweeney, HOwV- ward SB. MANY BREAK, RECORD The seventh and eighth grade boys had, their test in football at Howard school November 2. Mr. Davis super- vised the tests with Mr. Mackie' s assistance. Many boys broke the records of the preceding years. There were passing, drop kicking, and punt-i ing.-Robert Schenk, Howard8C START KICKBALL SERIES The girls of Stolp school were to start kickball. gaines with Howard girls Monday, November 5. These gaines will continue for two weeks. There will be two games at Howard and two at Stolp.-Arlene Clark, Stolp IC. STAGE DOUGHNUT SALE The girls of the Stolp school glee club had a doughnut sale Wednes-j day, October 31. The money is going for sheet music and instruments for the orchestra.-Harriet Sobel, Stolp 7A. Howard .D.1 Con quers Stolp to Win Grid Titie Howard. D-1 won its final football game recently at the Village Green by beating Stolp D-2, 12 to 0. Stolp D-2 was champion of the D class at * Stolp and Howard D-1 was champion of Howard D teams.. Now Howard D-1 is the champion D team ýof the Wilmette schools. The players on Howard D-1 were Junior May, Art Seddon. Sonny Benson, Jack Thist- leg, 'Marvin Harins, captain, Bob Fuessle, \Tergil Lewis, Bol) Colton, Jack Rockwood, Bob Hutchins and Charles McCandlish, Howard 7C. Class Waits to Learn Fate'of First Cookies Thursday, Novenid>er 1. thicC' grirls of Stolp school tried their luk1 at mnaking rolled cookies. Waiti!îg 1atiently ini thecooking room, aIl the girls were wondering how their.; were to turn out. XVhen they opene<l the ovens they found hot, crispy 1cookies xvhich tasted as good as theý looked. This wvas the 2C girls' first experience ini baking cookies.-Ruth Scheibel, Stolp 2C. November, It Seemsq Is Month of Meteors Stolp 2B has been discussing mete- ors in general. science. It is said November is the month of meteors. On the day of November 16, in the early seventeen hundreds, a shower of mieteors could be seen in the northeastern sky. Ever since then, cvery thirty-three years it is sup- posed that the earth goes through a mnass of meteors as it goes on its journey around the sun.-Marian El- lert, Stolp 2B. GIRLS HELP LIBRAR IAN Thursday, November 1, Miss Gay- ton, the Stolp school librarian, de- cided she would put some new pic- tures in the library and ini the hall. The girls of room lB and 2B who were in the library at this time were asked to help choose the pic- tures. The final decision was a beautiful castle for the library and several equally beautiful pictures for the hall.-Nancy Bercaw, StolplB. NEW LUNCH ROOM A new lunch room has been made ini Central school. It has a lunch counter and a new counter that bas tubs for ice cream and a stove for cooking the lunches. The new lunch- roomn is painted 'green, and creain. Green oilcloth bas been used for cov-" ering the. lunch counter-Martha Brown, Stolp 1B. TWO LIBRARY. PERIODS a week.. This is the flrst year 6C has had two library period a week. On Monday, 6C goes down to the library the. first period in the morn- ing. Miss Theman takes us down on Friday the last period in the afternoon.-Peggy Kirchner, Ho- ward 6C. Pumpkin Day B rings St.olp Big Program As the Stolp seventh and eightit grades entered the gym for our reg- ular Stolp Assembly meeting, Wed- nesday morning, October 31, there were two nicely carved pumpkins on l)oth sides of the stage. It gave a feeling of a very nice programn ahead. The meeting was called to order by oUr president, Bill Holmes. The busi- ness was postponed tilI the end of the meeting. Patty Dungan read ber Hallowe'eîi theme, "Clhan-Hoo-Tlhe-Witcli." It wvas very interesting and everybody enjoyed it. Bettv Jane E ricson introduced the speaker, 'Miss Marguerite Koilecny from the cshool of speech of North- western universitv. She told us a story,, "The Gold Bug." It was very interesting the way she told it and she lheld everybody intereste( all the vvav through. 1 1etv anc 1-*.rici-,)i then rea(l mi excellent Hallowc'en theme which Mfiss Perring. our Fntglisli teachier. hiad chosen as one of the hest themes froni the eighth grades. The name of it wasi "Is MI Name Rip Van Winkle ? "-Robert Mýfi zen er. Stolp 2C. School Orchestra Plans to Attend "La Traviata" The Wilmette Grammar school or- chestra is working on a very interest- ing piece, "Selections froin La Tra- viata." Mrs. Katherine Wagner, the conductor, holds rehearsals in the Howard school auditorium at 7 :4i o'clock in the morning. Monday, No- vemI)er 19,' Mrs. Wagner is taking al of the orchestra people who wish to go, down to the Civic Opera House to see "La Traviata." 0f course, the children will not go without the con- sent of Mr. Replogle and Mr. Todd. as it comes on a school night.-V\a- lerie Adamns, Stolp 2D. Lightweight Gridders Nip Ravinia Team, 7.0 The Wilmette lightweights defeateil Ravinia, 7 to 0, at Washington park Saturday. The lightweights had- beaten Ravinia before, 6 to O. The Wilmette line-up was: left end, Neal.; left tackle, Lingel; left guard, Hoe- fer; center, Seubold; right guard. Wilson; right tackle, Quick; nighit end, Kulp ;quarter back, Baron ;left haîf, Scheibel; right haîf, Moreau-, full back, Andrews.-Robert Scheibel, Stolp Sth grade. CORDTS' TEAM WINS, 1-0 The, 1B's and the 2B's of Stolp played speedball on the Stolp play- ground" November 1. The captains were Bob Cordts and Edward Park. Bob Cordts' team won, 1-O. Dick Andrews made the winning goal.- Richards Crossley, Stolp MB. MOVIE ABOUT GEOGRAPHY October 30, there was a movie in the auditorium. It was about geog- raphy. Miss Davidson told about it. Howard SA, 5B and 5C came to see the, movie.-Hugo Von Der Hoff, Howard 5B.