East High spotlight: vol 29 no 24

              East to Cooperate in National Victory Corps Drive
Boys To Collect Scrap;
Education To
Y Campaign
Vol. XXIX. No. 4
DENVER, COLORADO. NOVEMBER 25, 1942
PRICE TEN CENTS
Eight Boys Are Victors
In Speaking Competition
Shafroth Prelims Scheduled for December 10;
Subjects Concern Local, National Interest;
Final Set for January 18 at Manual
EIGHT BOYS have been chosen as contestants in the Woodbury Oratorical Contest through preliminaries held November 16.
Those who will compete for the prize medal are: Dick Titus,
Irwin Weinstein, Herman Richman, Bill Winter, Howard Cohan,
Mike Hall, Bob Riger, Bill Sobol, and alternates Jim Shaddock
and Gordon Partridge. These boys will compete in the contest
December 4, at 8 p. m., in East's Auditorium.
Cuttings  from   orations   or   essays
East Teacher
To Capita
HAVING BEEN chosen as one of
12 persons to serve on the newly instituted health committee of the National Victory Corps program, Mrs.
Katherine Crisp, East High biology
instructor and author of the widely
used textbook "Be Healthy," has just
returned from Washington, D. C,
where the problem of "building
health, stamina and endurance in the
youth of today," was discussed.
Called to the nation's capital on
October 18, Mrs. Crisp, with the
other committee members, began immediate discussion under the direction
of Dr. John W. Studebaker, U. S.
Commissioner of Education, and Dr.
Ruth Grout, health consultant of the
educational department.
Representatives of the army, navy,
Civil Aeronautics Administration and
Wartime Commission also met with
this committee in an effort to prepare a health manual to guide high
school students through all emergencies, both present and future.
Speaking on behalf of the U. S.
Air Force, Commander Eyers made
the following statement: "The youth
of today are soft, soft to the extent
that 75-80% of those selected for air
service lack the endurance of our
enemies."
Among the points emphasized was
the fact that of the first two million
men called by selective service, one
million were rejected, chiefly because
of health defects. Of these physical
deficiencies, bad teeth, poor eyesight,
defects of the heart and circulatory
system, muscular and skeletal impediments were most prevalent.
Upon her return, Mrs. Crisp, who
was one of the two members of this
committee to be chosen from West of
the Mississippi River, made mention
of the serious-mindedness of the people in the nation's capital.
New Band  Leader
Replaces Roberts
EUGENE V. SCHAEFER arrived
Friday from Ottawa Hills High
School, Toledo, Ohio, to instruct
East's band and orchestra in place of
Roland S. Roberts, who has left for
the navy.
Graduated from the Eastman
School of Music in Rochester, New
York, Mr. Schaefer has a Master of
Arts degree from the University of
Iowa, where he studied all band and
orchestra instruments.
Mr. Schaefer was born in Belleville, Illinois, and has been teaching
nine years. Last year he instructed
at the Ottawa Hills High School,
where the two-year-old school building has a sound-proof music room.
He directed the Shrine Band in
Toledo, Ohio, played the saxophone
in the Des Moines Shrine Band, and
now is in the first violin section of
the Denver Civic Symphony orchestra.
"East has a very fine band and
orchestra, and it is a pleasure to step
into an organization built up by Mr.
Roberts," Mr. Schaefer stated.
He also stated that he likes it at
East "because you have such splendid j to have various speakers confer with
orations or
were the basis of the two-minute
talks judged by Mrs. Alice O'Sullivan,
Robert McComas, and Milton Molien.
Co-sponsors of these contestants are
Mrs. Genevieve Kreiner and Melvin
Payne.
Entrants in the final competition
will be judged 65 per cent on interpretation and 35 per cent on the poise
and diction exhibited.
• Shafroth January 18
Entrants in the Shafroth Extemporaneous Speaking Contest preliminaries to be held December 10 will
choose subjects of local, national and
international interest, according to
Mrs. Kreiner, who also sponsors this
contest.
All students are eligible to enter.
Of these, a boy and a girl will be
chosen to represent East in the final
contest which will be held at Manual,
January 18.
"East has an enviable record to
maintain," said Mrs. Kreiner, "since
East has won this contest more times
than any other high school. I hope,"
she concluded, "that those students
who are interested in public affairs,
who read weir and constantly, and
have the ability to organize their
thoughts and speak clearly and earnestly, will try out."
• Entrants See Mrs. Kreiner
Those who wish to enter Shafroth
may give their names to Mrs. Kreiner
in room 307, periods one to six inclusive, on, or before, Friday, December 4.
Last year's winners were Kay
Spoentgen and George Creamer, both
of whom have graduated.
Mrs. Kreiner stated that she feared
the audience wouldn't be as large as
in former years because of the gas
rationing.
"But," she laughingly added, "I
believe East students will let the Denver Tramway Company take care of
their transportation problems."
Council Starts
Victory Activity
"A VICTORY PROGRAM is being
started by the Inter-School Council
which meets on Thursdays at West
High School," stated Cynthia Anderson, representative from East.
At the meeting last Thursday, Stuart Cochran from West was elected
president of the Inter-School Council; the vice president is George
Lewis of East, and Jackie Blanche of
South was elected secretary. The
council has asked that each school
paper send a representative to every
meeting. Dorothy Herrick has been
chosen to represent the Spotlight. The
representatives from East are Barbara Young, head girl; George Lewis,
head boy; Cynthia Anderson and Dave
Shwayder.
The Inter-School Council reported
at the last meeting that Halloween
this year was a great success, better
than any former Halloween in Denver. In a letter received from Chief
of Police August Hanebuth, he stated
that in the East Denver district, last
year by 11 o'clock in the evening, the
police had received more than 200
telephone calls from residents, and at
the same time this year, 11 o'clock,
no one had telephoned the police.
Now the East Student Council is
discussing the issue, "What is the
Place of the Student Council in the
School." The council has made plans
Salvage and Rationing...
Genera
Assist in
The nine points of the National
Victory Corps are being stressed in
the Denver schools, under the direction of a committee of six administrative assistants.
Dr. R. A. Kirkpatrick, personal representative of Rubber Administrator
William Jeffers, spoke in East's as-
school spirit."
' them concerning this question.
Need for Citizenship Training, Physical Fitness,
Competence in Skills Is Stressed by Leaders;
Community Service Named As Opportunity
EVERY TUESDAY of the school year six boys from East
will collect scrap in East Denver in cooperation with the Community Service phase of the National Victory Corps Program,
according to Jerry Miller, chairman of the student committee
managing this drive.
Enthusiastic Angelettes are
pictured gathering scrap for
East's school-wide salvage campaign, and getting their gas ration cards.
Girls shown salvaging are
Senior Alice Grills, Sophomore
Marian Deter and Junior Lila
Works. Mrs. Ruth Eggleston,
East commercial teacher, is giving Mary Grills and Kay Deter
their "A" ration stickers in the
lower picture.
These girls, and all other East
pupils, say that they are willing
to give up some "joyrides" or
go scrap-collecting if it will
help that brother in the Solomon's or dad in Africa.
Photo by Bill SoboI.
Annual Christmas Pageant to Be December 21, 22
Several Casts for Speaking Parts Chosen,
Chief Characters Are Soldiers in Africa;
Music to Be Supplied by a Cappella Choir
Club Says Sales
Poor for Bonds
"THE GENERAL attitude of the
students of East toward the buying
of Defense Stamps and Bonds is
greatly lacking the patriotic spirit
and at times it is even disrespectful
this year," said Russell Dunbar, president of the Euclidian Club and head
of the Bond drive here.
"Last year the daily average for
the sale of stamps was $50. This year,
it is only $1 to $5 and sometimes the
sale drops as low as 50 cent a day.
Most of the stamps are bought by
the same people and a few students
like Barbara Bromfield buy a dime
stamp everyday," Russell announced.
Marjorie Leaf, a member of the
Bond drive committee, urged the students to get behind this drive again
with an all out effort. A few students
are steady buyers and some have
bought bonds, but this is not enough,
say club members.
DECEMBER 21 AND 22 usher in the Christmas season at
East High with the annual presentation of the Christmas Pageant. Peace and the Sword, especially written in part, arranged,
and produced by Mrs. Genevieve Kreiner, is the title of the play.
"Several casts, consisting of students in the speech and
drama classes, are being used in order to give more students an
opportunity to participate, to create a better performance through
competition, and to safeguard the production in times of emergency. A different narrator and Mary
will  be  used  for  each  of the three
performances; also, two casts, one for
the assemblies, and another for the
evening performance will be used.
"The shepherds, angels and Joseph
will be the same for all showings,"
stated Mrs. Kreiner.
Members of the cast are: narrators,
Joan McElin, Jane Bresnahan, Janet
Brazile; Mary, Ann Downing, Patricia Pedersen, Mary Louise Shriver;
soldiers, Phil Danielson, Bob Riger,
Howard Cohan, Jim Shaddock, Dick
Titus, Gordon Partridge; angels, Kay
Reeves, Connie Engle, Dorothy Gorton, Nancy Allen; shepherds, George
Lewis, Al McMurria, Mike Hall;
Joseph, Bob Hudson.
The a cappella choir will give
selections appropriate to the scenes
and general theme, under the direction
of Miss Fareeda Moorhead. Stage ef
fects will be executed by Roliffe
Wright and his stage crew with assistance of R. L. Sare.
The theme of the play will tie in
closely with the North African scene
as three soldiers, temporarily isolated
in the Egyptian desert, are the chief
characters. One will witness their
attitude toward the World War and
will watch the strengthening of their
faith in the justice and nobility of
their cause as they kneel at the foot
of the Infant Savior at Bethlehem.
The production will follow the same
pattern as of the previous years with
the narrator giving the character of
the scenes and introducing the mood
of the play.
Performances will be given on
Monday and Tuesday mornings, December 21 and 22, at 10:30 and Tuesday evening, December 22, at 8 p. m.
sembly recently on the question of
salvage materials.
He- urged pupils to collect all the
scrap they could possibly obtain because "over 50 per cent of all high-
grade steel is scrap metal."
Dr. Kirkpatrick started "the ball
rolling" on the salvage campaign,
thus making it the first event of the
Victory Corps program.
• Not New in Education
"Most of the points in 'the program
are not new in education but are
merely being stressed in connection
with the war," said Miss Margaret
McNally, coordinator of general education at East.
The necessity of planning for war
service by individuals, and the increased demand for competence in
skills, for citizenship training on a
broad basis, and for physical fitness
are included in the guidance field of
the program, which is directed by
Maurice Ahrens, a member of the
committee.
• General Education to Assist
"General education is suggested as
a means of giving citizenship training. This division of the Victory
Corps will aid the growth of youth
in the democratic way of life, inspire
youth with loyalty to American ideals,
and teach students to concern themselves with both the problems that relate to winning the war and those
which relate to an orderly and intelligent readjustment when peace comes,"
said Miss McNally.
Mechanical and clerical competence,
study of nutrition and child care, and
training in higher mathematics and
specialized science for boys c-oing jnto
the armed services are included in the
area of the program called Competence which is also under the direction of Mr. Ahrens.
• Miss Bostwick in Charge
Miss Prudence Bostwick, formerly
general education coordinator at
East, has charge of the section called
Community Service. "Some of the
community services that high school
students can engage in are: buying
war savings stamps and bonds, assisting air-raid wardens, assisting fire
watchers, bringing in salvage materials, taking training in first aid,
taking training in home nursing,
making favors and decorations for
entertainment connected with war
programs, working in health service,
caring for young children whose
mothers are employed in defense industries, working in war gardens,
building model planes, working part-
time on farms, collecting lamps for
beds at army hospitals, and collecting
clothes hangers for soldiers in
camps," she said.
• Special Classes
Special classes at Opportunity
School, which are offered to East
students who agreed to spend part of
each school day in their work at East,
have been organized in connection
with the Preinduction Training area
of the corps under the direction of
Jack Boyd, one of the administrative
assistants. This phase of the Victory
Corps is designed to prepare high
school youth for effective service in
war industries or for more rapid
promotion in the armed forces, according to Mr. Boyd.
Publicity for the program is being
managed by Miss Helen Anderson, director of publications in the Denver
Public Schools.
New Teachers, Housing Conditions, and Turkeys Fill Angels' Interests
New Teachers
Two new teachers have recently
been added to East's rapidly shrinking faculty, Miss Margaret Aylard
and Miss Virginia Hammel.
Miss Aylard, replacing Courtland
Washburn, who is in army training,
came to East early in November from
Manual High School, where she
taught three years. She has taught in
Denver for 23 years, and during that
time was at Grant Junior High, at
West and North high schools. Miss
Aylard received her A.B. Degree from
Oberlin College, and her M.A. from
Denver University.
Replacing Mrs. Helen Arnold, who
is on a leave of absence for the remainder of the semester, is Miss Hammel, hailing from Grant Junior High.
Before teaching at Grant, Miss Hammel taught in Adams City, Colorado,
and at Grant she was sponsor of the
school newspaper. She received her
A.B. degree from the University of
Colorado, and is a member of Kappa
Delta Pi, honorary educational fraternity.
# Former Student
Editor-in-chief of the "D" Book,
Denver University's student directory,
is the official designation of Arthur
E. Holch, Jr., East grad and former
business   manager   of  the   Spotlight.
"The actual directory is one of the
most accurate ever to appear. Faculty
lists were compiled and proof-read in
the chancellor's office, and the editors spent nearly forty hours in
checking and revising proofs of the
student lists," the Denver University
Clarion stated concerning this year's
"D" Book.
• Housing Problems
A study of housing conditions has
recently been the topic of discussion
in the General Education 4 classes of
Miss Margaret McNally and Edgar
Olander, according to Miss McNally.
Winfield Niblo, former East teacher, was a speaker on this subject.
Angels of the Week
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