Vol 11 issue 8

southwords Vol. 11, No. 8

Maine Township High School South, Park Ridge, III. 60068

Feb. 7,1975

Project Big' Plans Underway

New officers for this year's Brotherhood Society are: Cathy Flaherty, secretary; Pete Boesen, vice-president; and Nancy Steinhauser, president.

Brotherhood Society Elections Soon Brotherhood Society will be holding elections for their new members during the second, third, and fourth weeks in Feb» ' niary. Six new members will

Mag Turns Inside Out' This year's creative writing magazine published annually by the Writer's Workshop English course is now underway.

The title, which will be Inside Out, and staff have been chosen.

The foUowing seniors from the . class have been chosen as editors for this year's magazine: Maureen Buckley, Editod-inChief; Mary Pat LaRue, Chief * Judge; Marty Rulle and Jan Bleiceffer, Assistant Judges; Al Kaniasty, Business Manager; Jan Christie and Sue Vering, Copy Editors; Tammy Barbalace, Art Editor; and Lynne Malone, Assistant Art Editor.

Each year the magazine is put out to display students' literary works. Both prose and poetry pieces have been submitted already. Selections may be given to any English teacher • or placed in V-106.

A release form must be signed by the author certifying the - originality of each piece before it can be considered for judging.

- These forms may be picked up in V-106.

be elected from each year, three girls and three boys.

Elections are to be held in the homerooms where the students will nominate the i)eople who they think deserve the recognition. The names receiving the most nominations will be on the ballot and \x>ted upon. The new members will be announced at separate class assemblies.

Nancy Steinhauser '76 has been chosen by the other members as this year's president, with Pete Boesen '75 as vicepresident. Cathy Flaherty '75 serves as secretary.

National Brotherhood week will be in February, and during that week, members will be collecting mcwiey for their various projects.

The money that was collected last year helped fund a South American school mission. This year's project has not been decided upon but wiU be when the new members are chosen. It is hoped that it will be a local project.

Revising the society's constitution to include more specific rules pertaining to the elections and working toward an allschool assembly for next year's elections are also some of Brotherhood Society's goals for this year.

SITE Eyes Engineers

30 Students Visit MS-MW Feb. 20 An AFS international weekend will be co-spoasored by Maine South and Maine West Feb. 2023.

Approximately 30 foreign students will be shared by the two scho<ds and will arrive on Thursday evening to stay with their host family. The students will The University of Illinois at - attend classes Friday and see Champaign - Urbana is once "I Remember Mama" that night again sponsoring SITE, Student followed by a party.

Introduction To Engineering.

A tour of the city is planned SITE enables any interested • for Saturday morning, Saturday high school junior, senior, or afternoon is left open for free teacher to learn more about entime, and a pot luck dinner and gineering, physics, and computprogram will be held at Maine er science through this program.

West Ml Saturday night. The stu- The participating students will dents will spend time with their visit classes, meet with engihost families on Sunday. neering students, and stay in AFS Week is scheduled for the university dorms.

Feb. 18-21. Buttons promoting SITE will take place from 8 ethnic powers will be sold on a.m. on March 13 through noon Wednesday, Orchesis will pre- on March 14. The cost will be sent a dance program in the cafeteria during the lunch per- $5.00 at the time of degistration. iods on Thursday, and an as- Mr. Ken Reese, career counselsembly will be held on Friday. or, has registration cards for Applications will soon be avaU- SITE. The cards must be comahle for families who want to pleted and returned by Feb. 7.

More information will be sent have a foreign student live with • them from August to June. to those who apply. If there are Families have a choice of sex any questions, contact Mr. of student, but no specification Reese in the cadeer resource of nationality can be made. center.

The Maine Township High Schools' Annual Career Night, PROJECT BIG, will be held Wednesday evening, April 9, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Maine South.

Representatives of over 150 trade, technical, and business occu^ations will be present. Experienced in their field, these men and women will discuss and answer any questions about their occupations.

PROJECT BIG will be held in the spectator gym. A program listing the represented fields will be available. Situated at its own

table, each career will feature a display and related literature.

Students and their parents can thus browse and inquire at a more relaxed level.

Since the first PROJECT BIG, attendance has jumped from 1400 to 3300. The program enables students to obtain information which could determine their future plans.

The evening offe-s students the opportunity to talk directly with experts in a field and take note of any prerequisites.

Started as a venture of community leaders, PROJECT BIG has grown into a positive out-

Contest Names Mary Sue Future Betty Crocker Mary Sue Meersman '75 has been named Maine South's '74'75 Betty Crocker Family Leader of Tomorrow.

Mary won the honor by competing with 50 other seniors in the written knowledge and attitude examination, a test open to any senior, on Dec. 3.

She is now eligible for state and national honors and will receive a specially designed award from General Mills, Inc., sponsor of the annual educational scholarship program.

State Family Leaders of Tomorrow will receive a $1,500 college scholarship while state second-place winners will receive a grant of $500. The state winner also earns a 20-volume reference work, "The Annals of America" from Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation for her school. .

In the spring, state winners and their faculty advisors will be the guests of General Mills, Inc., on an expense-paid educational tour which will include visits to Washington, D.C., and Williamsburg, Va.

A special event of the tour is the announcement of the AUAmerican Family Leader of Tomorrow, who will receive an additional $4,500 scholarship.

Second, third and fourth place winners will receive scholarship increases to $4,00D, $3,000 and $2,000 respectively.

look to careers. Local business, industry, and service organizations financially support and participate in this program.

The advisory council consists of local merchants and mefbers of the school board. Such a combination strengthens the understanding and communication between the schools and the business industry.

PROJECT BIG's popularity is also recognized throughout the state. .According to Mr. Ken Reese, career counselor and this year's chai'-man of PROJECT BIG, the program has been featured in Impact Magazine and also commended by Michigan State University and the Illinois Career Education Journal. The State of Illinois Division of Vocational and Technical Education's Handbook for Career Guidance Counselors included PROJECT BIG as an "exemplary career education project."

Mr. Reese also commented on the importance of choosing a career. All students, parents and interested citizens are invited to attend on April 9.

HOME

The Hawkettes present their popular Hawaiian dance at a recent home basketball game. The group performed before a crowd of 8,000 people at DePaul University on Feb. 1. On Feb. 22, the Hawkettes will appear at Northwestern University. Bozo's Circus has again invited them to perform on the show, but Miss Bobrich is unsure as to whether they w i l l perform or not.

Graffiti-Fun to Write, Not to Clean As described by Laurie Freeman in the Nov. 15 issue, Graffiti, derived from the Italian word graffiare, meaning t o scratch, is found on walls and furniture everywhere.

Most of these scratchings are meant in fun, not malice. Graf-

CB Salutes Verdi Concert Band held its annual winter program which lasted from 8-9:15 p.m., last Friday in the auditorium.

Parents, students, m u s i c boosters, and community members came to see the presentation. The program featured Louise MorrcU '75, flute soloist, with Mr. Gordon E. McLean directing the band.

The Cadet-Intermediate Band began the program by playing the "Belmont Overture" by Ralph Hermann. Concert Band presented "Manzoni Requiem"

by Giuseppe Verdi, giving the piece a special effect by using eight herald trumpets.

Although reports had been that the band would participate in the First Annual National Madching Band competition, Mr. McLean stated the band would not be entering the contest.

fiti may be fun to write, but it is not fun to clean up. Maine South has a problem with malicious graffiti and other forms of vandalism.

During the last summer school session, an entire wall of the A wing had to be repainted because someone had scrawled profanity all over the wall. Every time the mirrors in the washrooms are s e v e r e l y scratched, they must be replaced because mirrors cannot be repaired.

The extensive wood panelling in the centers area and in the A-wing classrooms must be refinished often to remove the gougings and scrapings made by students. Broken windows are also very common.

Maine South spent a total of $7,000 cleaning up and repairing acts of N'andalism during the 1973-74 school year. A sum of $5,000 alone was spent to replace broken glass; the remaining $2,000 was spent to clean jand repair walls and washrooms and various other defacements of school property.

Repairing this vandalism is obviously very expensive. Because Maine South has only so much money to work with, paying for repairs must be taken from the existing budget. There-

fore, the more money spent on vandalism, the less can be spent on other programs.

Mr. Simonsen, assistant principal, summed up the situation, "Every dollar used to pay for repairs and clean-up is taken from school funds which could be better used in other ways to beneift the student body."

The custodians themselves do not like cleaning up the vandalism, and they work hard to keep breakage and defacement to a minimum. Mr. Mensching, a member of the custodial staff, stated, "We try to keep the school as clean as possible and to maintain it as well as possible. In general, Maine South is a well-run school."

In fact, Mr. Mensching was optimistic about the entire vandalism situation: "Ninety-five percent or more of the kids at Maine South are good. Actually, vandalism is very slight in this school compared to most schools."

Buy your ticket to the Senior class sock-hop. The Final Farewell, during lunch periods in the cafeteria next week. Our own Sha-Na-Na will be featured. The sock-hop starts after the basketball game Feb. 15.

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SOUTHWORDS

Edifori'al

SW Asks Patience While Financial Problems Exist Question: When you picked up your copy of Southwords, you: a. calmly showed your activity ticket and received your copy immediately.

B. Grunted and complainel about digging out your I.D., and thus, were delayed in obtaining the paper.

C. Paid 15 cents, were thanked for doing so, and were handed your copy with a smile.

D. Refused to cooperate, swore at the people selling the papers, and achieved nothing.

If vou answered either "A" or "C," the SW staff would like to thank you for your cooperation and understanding. If answer "B" was given, well, we may get a little sick of hearing your complaints, but we always expect some problems. If you answered "D," you must be reading a friend's paner since you were not given one, so you might as well give the paper back to your friend because vou won't listen to our reasoning anyway.

We don't like charging for the papers any more than you like paying. But nothing is free and somebody has to pay for the papers, so it might as well be the people who read them.

Showing your activity ticket tells us that you have paid the $6.00 fee, a percentage of which goes toward the publishing of Southwords. Additional papers and free papers can not be given out to anvone because that would be unfair to those who have paid for activity tickets.

The price increase is attributed to the fact that while our budget is the same as it was last year, printing costs have risen 12 per cent.

The cost of printing a 4-page issue is between $300 and $325.

The remaining number of pages will have to be cut in an effort to make the budget balance.

Specifically, the senior issue will be cut from eight to six pages and tvro other issues will have only two pages.

Ringo's 'Goodbye Vienna' Features Tasteful Music

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As an addition to the play "I Remember Mama," this friendly kitten w i l l make his acting debut as Uncle Lizzo. Being an official member of Maine South, the kitten w i l l show his I.D. card upon request of any faculty member.

Letter to the Editor

Varsity Runners Present Gripe Dear Editor, We wish to express our concern about the condition of the showers in the boys' locker room.

On a good day, and with a little luck, two of fourteen showers might work properly. The remaining twelve dribble ice cold water.

Currently, one has to take a number and wait in line — if

Margie To Sing for Scholarships Maine South Mothers Scholarship Club will present Margie Gibson in Command Performance! Saturday, March 8 at the Maine South auditorium, at 8 p.m.

Margie graduated from South in 1972. As a student here she starred in South Pacific and Hello Dolly. She is currently a junior at the University of Illinois wdiere she is working toward a drama degree.

Tickets, at $2.50, will be on sale Feb. 14 in the bookstore during all Itmch periods.

you get behind a swimmer, you will probably be there a considerable amount of time. Is it asking too much for a little hot water with some pressure?

Another concern, but of far less magnitude, is the soap situation. The soap dispensers are filled at the beginning of the year and then run out by Oct. 17 or thereabouts. From then on in, it's go without or bring your own.

We have conjectured about possible solutions to these problems but have not come up with a reasonable solution.

Under plan No. 1, we would fix the showers by this date, we would go on a shower strike where none of us would take showers. We dismissed this idea as being too barbaric.

Under plan No. 2, we would ban aU freshmen from the showers, or possibly by invitation only, because, in all honesty, who cares about freshmen? (We could probably tell them it is part of the school initiation, and they would, more likely than not, believe this.) This was not feasible because it would do

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very little to correct the situation.

We think we have the support of the male student t)ody here at South. We would appreciate some action.

Sincerely, The Varsity Distance Rimners

by Anna Daskolias Ringo Starr/Goodbye Vienna (Apple SW-3 17) — if you liked the hit single "Only You," then I suggest ycu buv this album.

In fact, if you didn't like the song, I stiU think you would enjoy Goodbye Vienna.

Every song on the album is tastefully different from the next. If for example, you prefer Ringo in h's more quiet and subdued moods, then the songs "Only You," "Call Me," "Husbands and Wives," ani "Easy For Me" would be the most appealing cuts of the album.

If, on the other hand, you orefer the upbeat songs that Ringo performs, then you also are in for a treat. In this case, the title song "Goodnight Vienna," "Occapella," "00-Wee," "Snookeroo." ".All By Myself," "No No Song," and "Goodnight Vienna,Reprise" would turn you on.

In all cases, however, Ringo is performing at his best and chances are that you will enjoy both styles of song.

This album is very snecial, not only because it is Ringo's best to date, but also because it incorporates the talents of many top people in the music field — a much more diverse selection than his last album.

His last album, ent-tled siranly Ringo, featured Harry Nilsson, Billy Preston, Nicky Hopkins, Klaus Voorman, John Lennon. Randy Newman, George Harrison, Vini Poneia, Paul and Linda McCartney and others.

Councilwords

Important Proposals Made in Council

by Carol Tomer Following SC's meeting with the Executive Committee, committees were formed to investigate and come up with proposals in the areas of lounge, library, and the cafeteria. Appointed by the SC officers, the following people will chair and co-chair, respectively, the newly-formed committees: Lounge Al Robandt and David Greising; Library — Anne Huedepohl and Steve Shaull; Cafeteria — Dayna Limperes and Vic Gauger. These committees have met and will be introducing their proposals at meetings next week.

Besides student rights, Council has dealt with other topics in these past few weeks. Money has been appropriated for the construction of a window to be put on the wall of the SC office. Besides making the office more functional and easier to work in, the new window may finally give students a clue as to where the SC office is located.

For those that don't make it a habit to check every wall in the school for secret panels, the office is persently located in the old Lost and Found by homeroom C-125.

Money was also appropriated to have the Campus Life group

Editorial

Who Ever Heard of a Pleasant School Bus Ride?

With all the concern for obtaining more rights in school remaining of prime interest, little time seems to be left to think about getting some rights for students travelling to and from school on the school bus.

Specifically, the right to a safe ride to school on time, the ri^t to a seat on the bus or at least ample room to stand without having someone's hair in your mouth or his elbow in your stomach, and the right to breathe comfortably are all being violated along some school bus routes.

The abilities to drive of some bus drivers are to be questioned. Many a student has cringed when a driver rips around an icy corner or pulls out in front of another car.

Even with some prevailing fear, most students would Uke to see the bus come on time. The times when the bus is only five or ten minutes late are easily excused, but on mornings when the bus is a half hour or more late and the face starts turning blue, justifiable reasons why the driver is late are sometimes hard to find.

And, of course, buses have been known to just not show up at all, leaving students without alternate rides stranded. Students who are clever enough to call in sick are given no hassle, but the honest ones who say the bus never came are told to walk (possibly a four-mile hike), call a cab (and who has the money for that?), or talk to the dean the next day about the unexcused absence. Under these conditions, most students would gladly see the bus come around the corner than stay home.

The students waiting on the first couple of bus stops have it made — they always get seats. After that, it's

In Goodnight Vienna, Elton Jchn, Bernie Taupin. Doctor John, The Blackberrys, and everybody from the Ringo album participated with the exception of George Harrison and Paul and Linda McCartney. This perhaps, is beneficial in that it helped Ringo break away from the oH "Beatles" form and allowed for more of Ringo himself to influence his singing.

Perhaps the best example of this is the song "Snookeroo" written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin. In writing the song, special care was taken in composing simple lyrics and simple melodies — the main characteristic of Ringo's work.

The best cuts from the album are p'-obablv "(Joodii?ht Vienna." "Snookeroo," "OO-Wee," and "(Joodnight Vienna - Reprise."

-Actually, the first and last songs are the same, the only difference being that the second version is incomplete and more spntaneous-sounding.

This is an album nobody should be without. All audiophiles should rush down to the nearest record shop and pick up a copy of Goodnight Vienna.

It should be noted that not only are the songs themselves executed beautifully, but that also the orchestration is both mLxed nad performed flawlessly. Ringo Starr has once again proven himself to be a great performer with the help of his producer, Richard Perry.

throw your books on someone's lap and squash up to the people around you.

The entire ride for those standing consists of a test of balance — the coordinated ones weave and whirl a lot, but remain standing; the clods end up on the floor. Not to mention the problems that would develop if the bus would have to be evacuated quickly, the bus ride is a very unpleasant way to start off the school day.

Now that we have potty patroUers in the bathrooms, some students find the need to get their highs before getting to school and immediately after their days are over. Though signs indicating that no smoking is allowed are posted, the odors continue to exist in the enclosed, crowded bus, making normal breathing of clean air impossible. If you ever want to get revenge on a person who has claustrophobia, throw him on a school bus, and t)elieve me, he won't survive a minute.

Additional buses would solve the problem of overcrowding, but since money seems to be in such short supply these days, it would probably never be allocated for this purpose.

However, a stricter form of enforcement of rules and punishment should be undertaken. Such an operation would be difficult to maintain, but perhaps with the cooperation of the bus drivers and some careful planning, bus rides to school could be made more bearable.

After all, some consideration should be given to those of us who are seriously trving to write our cheat sheets but can't because seme kid keeps falling in our laps.

"Under New Management" come to Maine South on March 8. The motion, which was originally proposed by Polly Hubbell, narrowly passed the upper house with a one vote margin.

Clar Keenan moved that SC be responsible for and supportive of a videotape homeroom guidance rpogram for seniors on voter registration. Responsibility and support will entail necessary research, arrangements, materials, and inlistment of people to coodinate the program for late March, so that seniors may be registered 30 days prior to School Board Elections. The administration approved Council's proposal, and Clar Keenan will chair the committee for this program.

Tim Kelly introduced a motion proposing the establishment of a Student Grievance Review Board. The purpose of this board will be to hear all grievances of students, procedural or regarding basic rights. This board will be composed of three student members and two faculty members and will be responsible to Dr. Watson. The motion passed and now awaits administrative action.

Last Friday, Ellen Bush moved that "Student Council appropriate $800 to Southwords for the continuation of the school newspaper." Sie pointed out that the financial situation of Southwords has reached a critical point, resulting in a cutback of 25 per cent of the budget, and the austerity program of District 207 and inflationary printing costs make it impossible for an increase in District funding to occur. Questions were raised as to whether or not Southwords had attempted to raise needed revenue on their own, in the fo-m of fund-raising projects. The motion passed.

Busy Signal sales in homeroom will be starting soon. Also, Student Council officer petitions will be available Monday.

February 7, 1975

SOUTHWORDS

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MS Girls Sports Rising Rapidly-Hang In There Gals!

by Nancy Deswik Years ago, athletes who happened to be girls were considered "odd" or "tomboys" or were completely ignored. Athletic scholarships for girls would probably have been the subject for a good laugh.

Not so today. Now that girls are accepted as athletes, more fans are being attracted by their skill, and more publicity is starting to show the results of the determination of the girls' teams.

Presently, Maine South girls compete in eight interscholastic

sports, each with a season of nine week.s. First quarter brings tennis and swimming: second quarter, gymnastics and volleyball: third quarter, basketball and badminton: and softbaU and track for the final quarter.

In the last five years, the program has expanded to include junior-varsity competition in tennis, volleyball, basketball, badminton and Softball. The other sports compete on only the varsity level.

"By the 76-77 school year, there will be competition for all sports on the state level," as-

serted Ms. Pierce, girls' physical education dept. chairman.

The Illinois High School Association sponsors tournaments in tennis, swimming, track and volleyball. Next year, softball will be adHed, to be followel by gynmastics and basketball the next year.

Some schools have dropped their intramural prog-ams to put more emphasis on interscholastic teams, but the prorgam here at South is still very active. "This is due to student interest and enthusiasm, and the sponsorship of Ms. Finneran and GRA," explained Ms. Pierce.

Almost all of the teams have met with considerable success.

In the swim team's three years of existence, it has remained undefeated. The team competes only on the varsity level, but has increased its number of meets each year. "We're the State Champions, and should be

successful for many years to come." Ms. Butler, swimming coach, observed.

The gymnastics icani originally sta'ted as a club, meeting only once a week, with one "get together" type meet at the end of the sea.";on. Next year, the team will have 12 meets, plus a league meet, and is in a conference of 11 schools.

"Increasing numbers of girls have been trying out for the team," remarlced Ms. GoU, gymnastics coach. "The schools in oui- conference have some of the best gymnastic programs in the state. I'd like to have more meets — the more competition, the better the team will be."

In the sport of Billie Jean King, things are also looking up.

The tennis team has expanded to a ten-meet schedule on varsity and JV levels, plus, since 1972. competition on a set schedule in the central suburban league and state and district

MS Hockey Team Rated State's Best Before you consider yourself "school spirited," answer one question. Do you know that Maine South's hockey team is number one in the state? Better yet, do you even know that

Students Describe Mr. and Mrs. Right

by Kim Kumiega What is your description of "Mr. or Mrs. Right?" Recently, a survey was taken of several students asking them what their ideas of the perfect marriage partners are.

The majority of the girls interviewed wanted to marry someone older than they are, whereas most of the boys wanted a girl the same age.

When the question of racial requirements was posed, many of the opinions conflicted. About half of the students felt that a mixed marriage would cause problems at home, among other places, or would in some way present unhappiness for them.

When one student was asked why she was against mixed marriages, she commented, "1 guess because it's something about the way we were brought up — our ideas," The other half felt love would conquer all and that color is only a physical aspect.

Most students agreed that personality was a major subject concerning marriage. Having a sense of humor, being friendly, fun, and sharing common interests, all seemed to be of key importance to the boys.

The girls felt strongly about their future husbands having a good sense of humor. Being considerate, sociable, and tolerant of others were the girls' major requirements.

Laurie Kupjack 75 felt that the most important thing was that her husband be "easy to talk to."

Becky Buford '75 hoped her husband would be "willing to accept other people's shortcomings."

Among many answers, girls would not want egotistical, conceited, possessive, closed-minded husbands. Bossy, women's lib, know-it-all girls were the boys' top three pet peeves.

Mocking boys was also viewed unfavorably. Both domineering and inattentative males and females were looked down upon.

Nationality and religion was regarded by the majority as having little or no influence on choosing a mate. Being "secure

in one's own beliefs" and having a "belief in a supreme being" were two students' responses.

The boys presented with the question, "Would you allow your wife to have a career?" all answered affirmatively. Some boys had exceptions on this question though. As long as it would not take up too much time, was one answer, Dan McGrath '75 would "prefer if we had a family that she would stay home and raise

the kids."

Physical appearance specifications received a wide variety of answers, "Looks don't matter" to "he can not wear Coke bottle glasses" were among the spread of replies.

Some girls answered, "anybody I could get;" some boys answered "decent."

One boy put it quite bluntly when he said, "As long as she doesn't look like she got hit by a truck."

Mystery Over-Word Search Answers Here

The following 49 last names of faculty members are circled in the word search above: Albrecht, Barr, Beatty, Bell, Bobrich, Braun, Brown, Cook, Craddock, Doherty, Dunn, Ehlen, Estes, Farmer, Feichter, Fisher, Francis, Gasche, Goll, Green, Hall, Heerman, Higgins, Hopkins, Hunt, Johnson, Kent, Kerr, Lowry, Madden, Miles, Nelson, Olson, Ori, Pietron, Ra-

kowsky, Rees, Rico, Romes, Ross, Sandelands, Sass, Sauerland, Singer, Tilley, Torp, Verber, Wright, and Wyatt.

The spelling of the names was taken from the index of last year's yearbook. Since Mr. Gasche's name was misspelled there, his name is spelled Gashe in the word search. A mistake was also made in Miss Fisher's name and is spelled Feshir.

Maine South has a hockey team?

The team, coached by Jerry Kanie and Al Marshall, has been in existence for four years.

According to captain Jim Venard '75, this year is really the first year the team has received any support at all by the students. Jim, though, would like to see more support for the team.

Recently, the Chicago Tribune Magazine published a story on the amateur hockey boom in the suburbs. Jim, one of the few high school players mentioned in the article, was described as "one of the best left wings and playmakers in the area," which might have something to do with the Hawks' success.

However, because of a knee injury which Jim received in a game against Deerfield in December, he has been sitting on the sidelines and observing rather than skating. Although he hates sitting out, Jim claims that the team is "doing a real good job."

The position of acting captain is being held by Jeff Roche '75, who has the job of getting the team's morale up before a game. Most players practice at Oakton two or three times a week during the season, Jim commented.

Jim has had previous experience on the ice other than his two years of playing with the Hawks. He has played with the Park Ridge All-Stars for three years, and his goal is to win a college hockey scholarship.

Presently, the Hawks' toughest opponents are New Trier West and Evanston.

The Hawks have two more games before the playoffs — Evanston on Feb. 9 at 4:30 and Glenbrook North on Feb. 16 at 9 p.m. Playoffs are scheduled for Feb. 23, March 2, 9 and 16.

Jim Venard '75

tournaments. .According to Ms. Albrccht. tennis coach, "There are usually about 80 girls trying out for the 21 spots on the team, but the level of skill is impraving every year."

The improvement is due partly to inc eased interest in tennis and the abundance of indoor clubs in which to play or take lessons at during the winter.

The park district and summer school also offer tennis programs.

Dstrict competition in volleyball sparked some enthusiasm this year when the team won the district championship and advanced to the sectionals. As Ms. Voelz, volleyball coach, commented, "The public is getting more educated — they're coming and seeing what power volleyball is really like," The girls' basketball season will soon be on its way. The teams' goals: to be number one in division, which is determined by win-loss record; to play well in the Barrington Invitational on March 15; and to win the conference championship.

The girls' sports program has been going very well and is getting better every year, agreed most of the coaches. According to them, success is due to a combination of administration support, "coaches that are knowledgeable, enthusiastic and dedicated, and athletes with spirit, skill, and dedication."

Though the Hawk Boosters are not presently giving the same kind of support to girls' sports as they do for boys, the outlook is hopeful that they will get together with the girls' sports programs by the end of the year.

Further expansion of the program may be somewhat limited, "I don't see Maine South adding more sports to the already busy year. We're doing as much as we can successfully with the staff we have (eight teachers)," r e m a r k e d Ms, Pierce.

Other improvements the coaches would like to see for the future are: more meets, more levels of competition, more interest and publicity, and equal time in the gyms, (The basketball team is forced to have 6:15 a,m, practices.)

One area of girls' sports that is just beginning is athletic scholarships. Three years ago they were non-existent. This year, more than 60 colleges are offering some type of aid to attract women athletes, and more girls are looking into them.

As Ms. Voelz says, "It's an exciting time in girls' sports — values and priorities are changing." Hopefully, they're changing for the benefit of both the teams and spectators.

Sout-hwords Th» official student newtpiptr of Maine Townthip Hi9h School Soutli, Park Ridge, Illinois, M0i8. Written and edited 15 timet each vear by students of the high school. Subscriptions included with activity ticket, purchased separately at S2 per year, or Individually for ISc. (Priced higher for issues of more than 4 pages.)

Editor-in-Chief Carrie Reckert News Editor Maureen Buckley Features Editor Ellen Bush In-Depth Editor Janet Franz Sports Editor Dan McGrath Assistant Editor Anna DaskoUas Photo Editor Dave Barklow Copy Editor Barb Brzozowaki Sports Photo Editor ... Dave Gibbons Reporters .. Sharon Beckman, Wendi Beile, Ruth Buckley. Sliaron Burke, Maria Chakos, Nancy Deswik, Laurie Freeman, Jim Hershey, Tom Holmes, Anne Huedepohl, Mike Keesey, Ken Krause. Margaret Kreppel, Kim Kumiega, Suzanne Kuntz, Beth Lee, Mark Meyer, Mary O'Kcefe, Ron Pankau.

Paul Ray. Debbie Schwleder, Karen Szymanski, Carol Tomer, Andrea Trigorea.

News Bureau Editor . Paula Piazeckl News Bureau Staff Gini Barklow, Beth Bower. Dave Downing.

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February 7, 1975

SOUTHWORDS

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Face Proviso Eost

Waukegan Defeats Netters

by Jim Hershey "If we play good ball, we can play with anyone in the state; nobody will ever dominate us.

We have always risen to the occasion," remarked net coach Quitman Sullins. The Hawks will have to do more than rise against Proviso East; they will have to soar.

Since swooping upon North Division leader New Trier West, the Hawk netters vanquished four CSL foes to run up a 10-0 conerfence record. In nonconference play. South lost to Waukegan.

At home tonight, the Hawks play Glenbrook South, 4-5 in conerfence. They face Deerfield and Maine West at home the next two Fridays. Proviso East of the Suburban League travels here a week from tomorrow.

The defending state champions, with the Hawks, are among the top five teams in the state. They return three of last year's first six players.

At Waukegan, the Hawks plunged to a 59-52 deefat. In the second quarter the Bulldogs sank 83 percent of their field goal attempts to give them a 37-28 halftime edge. The Hawks cut a 17 point deficit to a four point deifcit in the second half, but the Bulldogs always main-

tained a lead.

SuUins exlpained, "We lost to a nice baU club. They had a hot hand and we had one of our worst nights. Bocsen was cold ...

I don't think the press beat us; I think it was our shooting."

Kuntz had 13 points and 10 rebounds. Boesen totalled 12 points and 16 rebounds. Chrzan tallied 11 points. Sullins noted that, in the first half alone, the Hawks had 13 turnovers. Tliey finished with a total of 19 turnovers compared to 9 for the opposition. However, the Hawks outrebounded Waukegan 43-2'5.

The HawiÂŁ mentor said. "I think we learned some things from this loss that could be helpful during the state tournament."

Pete Boesen said, "We made some mistakes, but we knowhow to correct them. We played all out; it wasn't a matter of choking."

Sullins remarked, "The kind of kid we have, I think they'll bounce right back. We're not going to do anything different.

We'll just try to play loose and relax more."

Three weeks ago, ttie Hawks slinped away from Maine East with a 52-42 victory. Chrzan tallied 14 points and nine rebounds.

Boesen totalled 12 points, 11 re-

Tankers Close Season

by Ken Krause The varsity swimming team, suffering through a season of bad breaks, nevertheless evened their record to six wins and six losses. Last week, the Hawks defeated Niles West by a 97point margin, 134-37.

The Hawks placed first in almost every event, with highlights including wins by Dane Kozie in the 100-yard freestyle and Keith Thumell in the 500yard freestyle. Personal best times were turned in by several swimmers, showing that the work done in practice is now paying off in the end-of-season meets.

The Hawks will be shooting for a winning season record tomorrow afternoon when they take cm Niles North in their last

home meet of the year, and also the last meet of the season before the conference championship meet on February 14. Since the team is composed mostly of seniors this year, this will be the last chance for most of the varsity to perform in front of a home crowd, and Coach Art Johnson is hoping for a large turnout to cheer the team to a win.

The Hawks are also hoping to do well in the conference meet this year. Last year, they placed only seven points out of third place, and they have many of the same swimmers back, a year older and stronger. Coach Johnson must also look to the District meet, where several swimmers could qualify for the state preliminaries at the end of this month.

bounds as Pagone hit for 11 points and Sellergren had 10.

The Demons' deliberate offensive style slowed down the Hawks' running game.

The Glenbrook North Spartans served as prey for the Hawks in a 78-41 victory. Leading only 32-23 at halftime, the Hawks exploded in the second half.

Boesen scored a career high 34 points and grabbed 18 rebounds.

Henderson contributed 14 points Chrzan, 10. Besides performing his famous pre-game ball handling display, Jim Lee scored six points in the final stanza.

The next Hawk victim was

coach Tom Ziemek.

South improved its record to 9-6 with the season's most important victory last weekend over Maine West. "It was our best meet of the year, the kids were really up for it. I think our guys remembered last year when we were unbeaten and West knocked us off. We had a score to settle and 1 think we settled it pretty well," commented Ziemek.

"The crowd support we had was just tremendous, the place was overflowing. As we expected, it went right down to the final match. Our guys were keyed for the West meet for a

Brian Gill applies ttie winning pin in ttie wrestlers 22-20 win over Maine West.

Highland Pa^k, a 62-44 loser.

Chrzan led the scoring attack with 20 points. Boesen had 15

points and 10 rebounds. Kuntz snatcherl 18 rebounds and Pagone totalled nine assists.

Gymnasts Face Demons

by Mark Meyer With last weekend's 131-99 victory over New Trier West the varsity gymnasts clinched a leading position in the conference standings. Holders of an 8-4 overall record and a 5-4 conference mark, the Hawks will tangle with the Maine East Demons tonight in the final meet of the season.

Maine East rates as one of the league's strongest gymnastics teams. "They are performing with consistent excellence, they are now averaging well over 130 points per meet," commented coach Tom Higgins.

"They are a good team, but in our seven seasons of competition, a Maine East team has never beaten us. Tonight's meet will probably go down to the wire."

"East is a very strong parallel bar team like ourselves,"

remarked Higgins. "They have an edge on the tramp and the horse, we are bettc- in the freeexercise events and rate evenly on the high bar and rings."

"This is the meet where we are really going to have to put it all together," stated Higgins.

"If we don't, we wiU lose by seven. This is a great chance for us to prime for the conference meet. We are on the way up, East has more depth.

Our big guns will really have to come through."

At Niles West the Hawks dropped a 137-119 decision to one of the state's strongest teams. Martin was again the high scorer with an 8.2 on the high bar; his teammates yet unable to break the 120 barrier.

John Davis totalled another great ring score of 8.1.

South's gymnasts were handed another defeat, this time by

a team they should have beaten.

Niles North swamped the Hawks by eight points in a team effort marked by a few individual notables. Davis led the retinue with an outstanding 8.5 on the rings, Martin tallied an 8.0 on high bar and Rob Wright scored a 7.4 on still rings.

At New Trier West, the Hawks finally crossed the 130 point bar-ier with a 130.6-89.7 shelling of the Cowboys. The Hawks won every event but the tramp. Martin's scores of 7.8 in free exercise and 7.9 on the high bar were winners. LeMay turned in another great effort, winning the horse with an 8.2. Charlie Haapala got back into the sevens with a 7.5 mark on the tramp.

On the parallel bars, Craig Martin broke his own personal record with a fantastic score of

Trackmen Scalp Niles Indians

by Ron Pankau In the indoor season's first meet, the Hawk track team earned a brilliant victory over Niles West. The Hawks, second place finishers in the Central Suburban League South last year, will face their strongest competition from Maine West.

South rolled up 61 points to

Wrestlers To Battle Giants Reversing a December tailspin, the varsity wrestlers captured three of their past four meets to move into a third place tie in the Central Suburban. South dispatched Deerfield 26-18, but lost to the rising NUes East Trojans. Then, in the toughest back-to-back series of the year, South nudged surprising Niles West 26-24 and eked by arch-rival Maine West 22-20.

Tonight the Hawks travel to Highland Park where South will challenge the second place Giants, a 10-3 team. "This is one of the teams that beat Maine West, so we want to be able to beat them," commented

Lead'ng CSL scorer Pete Bossen in action against Waukegan.

month. We are really pleased about the win."

"Our strategy was to avoid pins in the lower weights," continued Ziemek. "We met that requirement, and played them evenly in the middle. With Gill's pin at 167 pounds, we turned it around and won the meet."

Kurt Fiech of the Hawks turned the meet around with an important 5-0 shutout at 126.

Bill Horn tied 2-2 at 155, stopping a key West wrestler. Brian Gill then won by a pin at 1:38, earning himself wrestler of the week honors. Jim Cox pulled the Hawks to within a point with a 4-0 victory and then heavyweight John Carroll capped the victory with a fine 11-6 win.

At Niles West, South had trouble with a supposedly weak team, winning by but two points.

"Niles West was closer thon it should have been," remarked Mr. Ziemek. "Bob Mikos was forced to default because of a head injury which helped Niles a lot. A couple of guys lost who had good chances to win. I think the kids were looking to Maine West and were not mentally ready."

Niles' 44.

"I am pretty well pleased with this first effort and the individual performances we had," commented coach Carl Magsamen. "We did fairly well and had no real surprises except for Kevin Durack's great effort in the high jump. It was above and beyond anything we could have hoped for."

Durack, a junior, set the home crowd on its heels with a fantastic leap of 6'2. This was a great jump for anyone, especially this early in the year.

Durack took third in that event, while teammate Lcn Nowicki took second in the broad jump.

Norb Lyle started things off on the track for South with a victory in the two-mile run, timing at 9:53.4, barely edging Wests' Tolan. Sophomore Steve Senf placed third. Mark Seller-

gren and Duke Vogel ended up racing themselves in the 50-yd. dash, both sprinting a 5.7, Sellergren was given the nod by the officials.

In pole vaulting, Maine South swept the top three spots with Vic Gauger, Ray Becker and Curt Jennings going one-twothree. Art Vander Hey den easily won the shotput with a toss of 48'6. Mark Straub won the 880-yd. run with a time of 2:05.3.

Tom Hermes placed second in high hurdles and third in low hurdles, covering for teammate Eric Anderson.

Larry Cass placed second in the mile run, clocking at 4.2 seconds better than his opponent, Mike Sandrock finishing third. The 880-yd. relay team of Sellergren, Hermes, Vogel and Eric Spreiser took first place with a time of 1:37.8.

Sportswords

M-Club Game Is Close; Winter Tourneys Coming

by Dan McGrath, Sports Editor Before a burgeoning crowd of partisan South fans, the Maine South faculty outlasted the West Warriors in the battle, 62-50. South's teachers clobbered West last year and at West earlier in the month, but didn't quite have enough offensive punch without coaches "Crazy George" Verber and "Bobo the Bomber" Schmidt. Of course, Coach Sullins had a tough time coaching, caUing four more timeouts than the team was allowed and instructing 18 defenses and 12 offenses from Dick Motta's "5 Easy Lessons of Basketball."

The Hackettes were good, thanks to good coaching from the pom-pon squad.

On the student level. South ralUed from behind to an overtime victory over West. Down by the unbelievable score of 9-2 at the end of the first period. South put in a fiill court press and turned the game around. Mike McNamara's jumpshot broke the 39-39 regulation deadlock.