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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1933
Page
5
Preliminaries of the 1933 Suburban league meet take place today at New Trier High starting 4 pm. Finals are Saturday at 8 pm in the New Trier natatorium with New Trier juniors and seniors favored. Evanston and Oak Park pose stiff competition.
Kenilworth New York high school senior Jim Weckler won the Central AAU 150 yard backstroke for junior men at Medinah Athletic Club Chicago. The meet on North Michigan Avenue featured four additional AAU swimming and diving titles decided the same night.
New Trier High School recorded rising absences after a heavy snowstorm week. February 8 saw 407 students absent, with Thursday's bitter cold pushing totals to 490, about a quarter of the enrollment, and Friday’s absences near 250.
A Big Ten program resumed over WIBO last Thursday at 7:30 PM from the Lake Shore Athletic club under William Ross. A chorus of Ten universities provides music directed by Barrett Spach. Major John Griffith of the Big Ten heads athletic activities and National Intercollegiate Association presides, introducing notable guests. Coaches, business men, and athletes will take part in these Thursday half hour programs.
Dorrance Nygaard of Wilmette Grinnell college sophomore was named a charter member of Grinnell Players, a junior organization of National Collegiate players. He is son of E I Nygaard, superintendent of Joseph Sears school in Kenilworth. He reentered Grinnell after attending the University of Illinois in the first semester of the year.
Christian Science services in Wilmette will feature Mind as the Sunday topic at 11 o clock in the church building at 1003 Central avenue. Sunday school meets earlier at 9 45 o'clock.
Chicago listeners hear a Catholic Hour on WIBO at 4 PM each Sunday under Bishop Bernard J. Shiel founder of the Catholic Youth Organization. A well known speaker and a chorus will be presented weekly under CY0 auspices, with CY0 claiming over 200000 Chicago members.
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