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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1931
Page
10
Hilene Weakly of Howard School notes that science projects engage students. Deadlines loom for January 20 with credit tied to completed work. Projects include bird houses, feeding stations, winter birds, chemistry sets, calendars, and researching scientists.
7A volleyball championship narrative describes Stolp’s 28 18 win over Howard after last Wednesday’s first round. The Stolp lineup included Jane Brandt Dorothy Holmes Helen Pearson Dorothy Massig Louise Jane Roberts Frances Collins Helen Schwall Jerrine Fromm Dorothy Bryan with two substitutes. A second game is planned Monday at their school with possible home advantage decided by straws if Howard wins.
John Speredes reports the Red Streaks beat Shooting Stars 14 to 6 in their first regular game. Key players were Gerald Spinner John Speredes Billy Wade Carl Frankell Lloyd Hillsbury and Alfred Anderson.
In 8A spelling class Tuesday January 13, Mrs Jones conducted a spelldown with girls on one side and boys on the other. Read words aloud, alternate speller each turn, and seating decisions followed wrong answers. At the end four boys remained and eight girls.
On Tuesday January 13 the eighth grade at Howard produced book reports. Charles Kleinofen notes many students worked hard and the reports will form a large portion of their grade.
A narrator recalls a Christmas vacation visit to a planetarium lecture. Visitors explored telescopes and displays before a round dome room projected Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Mercury, stars, and a fast moving year in rapid sequences on a large projection machine.
Stolp students vow to improve their school’s image by contributing more articles to the Junior Life page of Wilmette Life. The move follows criticism that Stolp relied too heavily on Howard school content.
Frank Randall visits a large aquarium noting seasourced water expected to last twenty years. He describes galleries with turtles frogs and many fish including sharks eels and stingrays, and mentions a loggerhead turtle and diverse species observed around the walls of the gallery. The tone emphasizes the wonder of the underwater world.
Howard school eighth graders meet in the auditorium to choose class rings over pins. Alice Dernehl reports prices 1.50 for pins and 2.00 for rings with three initials at five cents each. They opt for rings again and will order when money is collected through treasurer Jane MacMillan.
Josephine Russo from Central describes a Saturday outing with a girl. They struggled on rough ice and spent time in the attic before eating sandwiches and ovastine. Then they played upstairs and she went home.
Hilene Weakly of 7-B Howard school extols the honeybee in a lesson on its systematic hive life and historic role. She notes bees, unlike ants, build elaborate homes, and traces the bee’s spread from European colonists to North America and its ancient significance.
The Howard seventh grades plan a candy sale Friday the sixteenth to raise money for a subscription to the News Review. Students will have tables at both ends of the hall and urge all grades to participate to support social science work.
In a Symnasium class Monday morning Mrs Fanckboner lined girls by the wall for a posture test. The best postures moved to the front as lines split into seven groups for marching drills and exercises, with some students advancing or dropping. Shirley Leason 8B notes the first four TOWS passed.
Fourth grade pupils under Mrs. Joyce wrote history poems and set them to music. Melvin Nyland wrote one poem with tunes by Billy Davis and Rose Mary McKeighan. Tom Mac Morran authored the second poem with tunes by Winifred Hoffman, Jacqueline Willis, and Richard Walker.
The Stolp children watched films courtesy of Bowman Dairy on Monday January 12 about how milk is processed before breakfast. Josephine Earlywin and 2D Stolp praise the machinery and thank the dairy company for the event.
The Stolp School 8B girls beat Howard in a close match 32 to 31 after leading 19 to 16 at halftime. Players listed include Edith Gordon Mary Gordon Betty Kay Morgan Dorothy Robertson Hazel Ward Ruth Chatard Mildred Haugh Lucille Holm Hanson Mary Meaker and Catherine Reynolds.
Last Monday the eighth grade began a picture study requiring ten images per student. This year students diverged from a shared set, keeping nine common works but substituting three. Notable selections include Mona Lisa and The Fighting Temeraire.
Ruth Meusel of Stolp details the silkworm life cycle from eggs on mulberry leaves to full growth of about three inches. The worm spins a cocoon in three days, remains inside for twenty days, then breaks free. Cocoons are boiled in hot water to kill the moths for silk production.
Jerry Born notes 8A students at Howard School will study radio in manual training. Mr Ball offers the choice between radio or continuing wood and metal work. Many pupils will shift to radio and start by building short wave sets using parts from old sets.
A reviewer and sister visit the movies to see The Cat Creeps and enjoy the scare and laughter of a Slim Summerville comedy, noting the audience screamed and yelled during exciting moments. The piece invites others to see the double feature for a similar reaction.
1B defeated 1B team 28 to 22 to win the championship. The 1B room led 15 to 9 at halftime. The winner will play Howard, as Georgette Becket of 1B Stolp notes. We hope to play Howard Wednesday.
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