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Maine South H.S., Park Ridge,

Feb. 24, 1978

Workshops to be offered

By Karen Maiorano Two junior students will be chosen in March to participate in the Washington Workshops to be held this summer The Washington Workshops Congressional Seminar is a nationally acclaimed citizenship education program for secondary school students in Washington D.C. The program is in cooperation with Marymount College of Virginia where the students live during the course of the seminar.

The Congressional Seminar gives knowledge of how .American politics operates in Washington and, in particular, the U.S. Congress.

Each student who participates in the seminars will have an opportunity to witness the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. government.

The program enables the student groups to meet with Congressmen, cabinet members, and other government officials every day. Discussions are formed where students exchange questions and answers with the officials.

The program provides a series of meetings with congressional staff aides and an opportunity for small, informal conferences with congressmen. Also, an official White House ceremony is held at

which students are guests of the President when visits from foreign heads of state are scheduled.

Last year, students from the U.S., England, Singapore, and Puerto Rico participated in the program. Tuition, and room and t)oard is paid by Kiwanis, who sponsors the seminars. Students must provide for their food and transportation to and from Washington D.C. Last year seniors Dave Greising and pete Omarzu participated in the Washington Workshops.

Dave and Pete boUi admit that their most memorable experience was talking to the late Hubert Humphrey.

Dave and Pete met with Sen. Robert Dole, an assistant to the Secretary of Defense, and other officials.

They also attended a banquet for the tenth celebration of Washington Workshops.

Pete commented, "It was an interesting and very enjoyable experience."

Juniors interested in this program must fill out an application from the Social Science Dept.

"Washington Workshops were a great experience," said Dave.

Students promote campaigns

By Jon Roma The Government Internship Program has again given over 80 government students the opportimity to experience the workings of politics.

The program, sponsored by government teacher Mrs. Barbara Heerman, allows selected students to campaign for one of seven congressional candidates.

Republicans John Porter, Eugene Salamon, and Daniel Hales, are miming against each other in the March 21 primary election.

The winner of the primary will then oppose incumbent Democrat Abner Mikva for the U.S. Congress seat from Illinois' Tenth District.

In addition, four other candidates are participating in the program. Democrats Samuel Berger and Earl Wilson, Republicans Thomas Rueckart and incumbent Republican John Nimrod are running for the Illinois Senate seat from the Fourth Legislative District.

Students also are participating in the Sixteenth District, but the students made their own contacts with the candidates.

The students will work for one of the candidates by distributing hterature door-to-door and conducting surveys of voters by telephone and in person. On election day, the students will remind

supporters to vote.

Each student involved in the program must work a minimum of two hours a week for five weeks and must write a paper based on his experiences. In these essays, students should include an analysis of the results of the campaign and explain what they learned.

Each of the participating candidates has talked to the students and made a videotape concerning his campaign. The tapes were played for the government classes last week.

"This program really helps students to gain an understanding of how our political process operates," concluded Mrs. Heerman.

Brothertiood officers Include Jean Walsh, secretary-treasurer, Bob Heidkamp, president, and Lynn Heidkamp, vice-president.

Students selected for AFS Maine South American's Abroad applicants have been notified of their acceptance.

Linda Keenan '79, and Ellen Smalls '78, are guaranteed placements, which means that they will definitely be travelling abroad this summer.

Festival scheduled

By Sue Rebedeau The Hal Chastain Memorial Drama Festival will be held on Sat., March 4 from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. Dramatic interpretation will be held in the auditorium, and in PA-109. Reader's Theatre events will be performed.

Seven schools participating in the festival will read cuttings from various plays. Each school will perform from 35 to 40 minutes on stage, and a cutting will be presented every hour on the hour.

Maine South will begin the festival with a condensed version of "Enter a Free Man." Three professors from Drake, Northeastern and Northern Universities will judge the events.

The plays will not be given numerical ranks. Instead, they will be judged as superior, excellent, good or fair.

Reader's Theatre, a small group of students involved in dramatic reading, will host 15 schools at the festival. Each team will perform three times, and two different judges will award first, second, and third places.

Visitors are welcome to watch both the dramatic interpretation and Reader's Theatre events.

'Miracle Worker' opens

By Carolyn Quinn "The Miracle Worker", a play by Willim Gibson, opened last night in the Maine South auditorium. The play will be presented both tonight and tomorrow night at 8 p.m. at a cost of $2 for adults and $1.50 for students. Tickets may be purchased today in the bookstore and at the door.

Based on the life of Helen Keller, "The Miracle Worker" tells of Helen's early

struggle to open her mind to the world and the frustrations that her teacher, Anne Sullivan had to overcome in helping Helen to attain that goal.

"The Miracle Worker" is a play with a lot of emotion. Even though the audience is uncomfortable with some scenes, they become very attached to the play and its characters," said Pat Hennessy '78.

Lynn Heidkamp '79, is a finalist. Her placement depends on the availability of a family.

The students will be notified of their destination between now and the first week of June and will depart the second week of June.

Money raised from the AFS Pizza Sale and a benefit concert scheduled for April will go towards scholarship assistance for American Field Service students.

"Going to Mexico as an AFS student was an experience I'll never forget. .AFS helps students to learn about themselves as well as the country and people they visit. Students should go abroad with open minds and be ready for the unexpected because anything can happen.

They shouldn't trj' to be americans in a foreign country. When I left last summer I told myself that 1 was going to be a Mexican for two and a half months. I learned that the American way is not the only way. 1 just hope that the students who travel abroad this summer will gel as much out of it as I did, " said Sandy Serio, an AFS student who spent last summer in Mexico.

Latin students to compete Five Latin students will take part in the District Latin Contest on March 4 at Buffalo Grove High School.

Sue Groziak, Latin IV; Maureen McCarthy, Latin III; Connie Jaremcznk, John Quinn and Donna Wallace, Latin II, will participate in the contest.

Sale aids retarded The Special Olympics for Retarded Children received $40 from a bake sale recently held after school by the Office Occupations class.

Maine Souths contribution to the Special Olympics was part of the $3,000 pledged by the Illinois Office Education Association.

Office Occupations class would like to thank all those who made baked goods and contributed to the sale.

Foreign students to visit Twelve American Field Service students representing almost every continent of the world will arrive in Park Ridge for a four-day stay beginning on Wed., March 1.

These high school students have been living in various towns in northwestern 111. since September, just as Rana Ataly from Turkey and Wolfgang Daum from Germany have been staying in Park Ridge.

The foreign students and their hosts will be introduced at the AFS Assembly

on Thurs., March 2 and a pot-luck dinner will be held that night at the South Park Fieldhouse. On Friday a tour of downtown Chicago will be taken and a party will be held at night. Other plans such as ice skating are tentative. The American Field Service International Week will end on Sunday when the guests will return to their communities.

Students interested in hosting a student should contact Mrs. Joan Ebner at 823-0739 as soon as possible.

'Friday Night Fever' sponsored

Studentsrehearsefor "Ttte Miracle Worker" which opened last nighl.

By Janet Shamlian "Friday Night Fever " will follow the Hawk's last home basketball game against Glenbrook North tonight.

Sponsored by the Sophomore class, the sock-hop will take place in the cafeteria and continue through ll:30 p.m. The featured band for the evening will be Sneaker. Sneaker is a seven piece band that played at the Spirit Hop earlier this year. They play rock, jazz and disco Class Council member Margaret Hikido '80, said, "The students on Class Council have really put a lot of time and

effort into this hop, and 1 think that there will be a big turnout."

The purpose of the sock hop is to raise money for next year's Junior Prom.

Jim McGlade, Sophomore VicePresident said, "A lot of people have heard that Sneaker is coming back. They were so good at the Spirit Hop that they're being brought back by popular demand" "Friday Night Fever" is a good way to show off a new disco dance and have a lot of fun. too. Tickets are still available in the bookstore for $1.25.

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Omarzu explains task forces

By Catherine Dever Pete Omarzu, Student Council President, recently commented on some newly organized "task forces" initiated in Student Council. The seven task forces, organized by Omarzu, are looking into various problems concerning Maine South at the present time.

One task force is an Alternative Lunch Program. This would provide a separate lunch room in a study hall for students who choose to litter the cafeteria. This way the majority of the students who do not litter will not have to suffer for the small minority who do.

Another task force is a Tardy System Analysis which would allow students more than three unexcused tardies, with extending excuses being excepted.

The next task force is an outdoor lounge program. Through this Pete has hopes of getting outdoor lounge back to the way it has been in previous years.

But at the present time it will be limited to the courtyard.

Included in Omarzu's task forces is a Saturday Work Program. This would allow students to work at Maine South by washing windows and cleaning the school. This would serve as an alternative to detentions and suspensions.

There are also two cafeteria programs among the task forces, one is a student moniter system and the other is an analysis.

Lastly Omarzu is trying to organize a traffic court here at Maine South. This would at least give students a chance to explain why they got the ticket.

Pete Omarzu was asked why these task forces are needed, he replied "I feel council interest is low and it seems to be doing nothing new. Also membership in student council is stagnent and 1 think this would stimulate council interest.

These are problems that we should be thinking atwut anyway. I hope we can see some changes and get a lot more

freedom for students while getting some publicity for council at the same time.

Next he was asked how effective he felt these task forces will be, Pete stated "I always seem to be optimistic, but realisticly we can only suggest changes.

If the administration thinks some of these task forces would be good for the school maybe they will bend. At least the administration is interested in some of these, but a few of them need work."

Pete also added, "If students have problems or questions about anything in this school, I wish they would come to council, that's what we are there for, and we are more than willing to help."

Magazine pick-up Students who subscribed to the Creative Writing Magazine and did not receive their copies this week may pick them up in V-106.

Tankers Victorious (continued from page 4)

Dave King finishing third. Mau then came back to grab first in the individual medley with Mark Elliot coming in third.

In the 100 yd. freestyle, Wayne Madsen finished first and Ken Van Spankeren ended up second. Then, in the 500 yd. freestyle. Bob Loll finished on top with Dave King pulling third.

The 100 yd. backstroke also proved to be tough with Jeff Ludwig ending up in second and Phil Winters coming in third.

But in the 100 yd. breaststroke, the team jumped back with a first place by Mike Doyle and third by Ken Van Spankeren.

When asked what he thought of the team so far. Coach John Doherty said.

"The team had so many great times against a tough competitor like Elk Grove, who we've never beaten l)efore, the outlook is extremely good if we keep on working hard."

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by John Peters, Commentary Editor The last two issues of Southwords contained articles which reflected upon the feelings of some individuals that Maine South has a problem with cliques. However, compared to environments elsewhere, a clique dominated atmosphere here at South hardly seems to be prevalent. In fact the absence of different racial and ethnic groups may be supporting a general ideology which is seldom evident in the "real world", the "real world" that many Maine South students have never seen.

However, this writer hardly claims that different interests and personalities do not have a tendacy to segregate students. Maine South offers a wide spectrum of activities where students may apply their varied talents and interests. Yet as a writer pointed out in the last issue, this means that the school is promoting cliques. How ridiculous. Are we not fortunate that everyone does not act and think the same way? This has been a natural tendacy since the beginning of time and a proud characteristic of democratic societies.

From a realistic viewpoint, we must realize the sad fact that a perfect Utopia of mutual love and understanding among the world's population will never exist. Forced integration of natural segregation has shown to cause more harm than good. In the "real world", although one must learn to cope with different ideals, one must also learn to avoid them for reasons that often deal with basic survival.

Still, even though slight implications at a clique oriented society may seem present at Maine South, problems concerning them, if any, are quite miniscule. How often do we see a Maine South student in fear of his life from a gang, homosexuals protesting for equal rights in locker rooms, or students running around screaming racial insults? As a matter of fact, many Maine South students do associate very well with others of different personalities and opinions. Perhaps the somewhat sheltered Maine South students even represent a large, general clique themselves.

Hockey team thanks students Dear Students, We, the Varsity Hockey Team members would like to thank you, the students, for the great support you have given us so far this season. We realize that the team is not promoted by the school and therefore schedules and information concerning the team are not readily available to the students.

However, you have overcome those obstacles due to your emest efforts to see an extremely competitive and exciting sport. This fact is evident in your outstanding attendance this season. All the meml)ers of the team are greatly appreciative of this.

Contrary to what some may think, we feel that we are a real Maine South team in the sense of spirit and pride. We are Maine South students playing for our school. This feeling is also being reflected by you, the students, through your spirited and proud support We have the support of our fellow students, and that is all we really care to have from Maine South. We could care less what someone may think sitting back in

some office somewhere. We are the Maine South Hawks. We are proud. We are winners.

We ask you, the students, to continue your outstanding support in our final stint of the season. Now that we have clinched the conference, we will be tested in the Metro League playoffs and in the State Championship playoffs. We believe that we have a very fine chance of capturing the State Championship this year Your continued support will greatly aid us in attaining this goal.

Every game we play for the remainder of the season will be extremely tough, so please continue to help us develop our pride and confidence, the greatest factors influencing ultimate victory in one of the most exciting, competitive, and talent-oriented sports in the world— the sport of ice hockey. .Again, all the members of the Varsity Hockey Team would like to thank you. the students, for your immeasurable support.

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Chess team ends season The Maine South Knighthawks, the chess team, closed out the season with a disappointing 3'2-l'2 loss to Maine West last Feb. 8.

The positions on all of the boards were in constant dispute, the advantage was shifting on every move. Tom Tryboski on board five scored his first win of the year. Greg Michuda, playing in his first meet, managed to draw.

The Knighthawks fared well in their first season, finishing sixth in an eight team division, with a win, a draw, and five losses. "The outlook for next year is good when such starters as Art McCann and Tom Tryboski return, along with Greg Michuda and Ken Camacho, two very solid players," said Herb Baumann, club president.

The Chess club has also made great strides this year. Over thirty members joined this year for the first time since

Seniors treated like freslimen

by Lisa Collin There are attitudes about Maine South that are not all positive or negative. It is a good school, but like any top rank school, it has its drawbacks. Some drawbacks are shared by many students.

They don't like the rules, but they do like the classes and friends. It is the same old idea, but why do the students feel this way?

MaryBeth Cregier '78, said, "I like the idea of a wide variety of classes. The teachers' attitudes are sincere and I find it easy to talk to them. I don't like the long day and the fact that I have to stay through ninth period as a senior. For the most part, my day is fun and not all work."

Cathy Dever '78, agreed, "I don't like the rules because so many of them are unfair, but the opportunities for physical and mental abilities can make up for it."

The question that is of interest is why so many people resent the rules. The seniors seem to have some answers and some strong feelings about the new rules.

Nancy Borman '78, complained, "They are just too strict especially for juniors and seniors. Freshmen need some rules, but seniors need more freedom so they can learn responsibility and independence for college. Independence has to come gradually so we should start now. At home you are given more freedom as you get older, but at school seniors are treated like freshman."

Jane Oberheide '78, agreed. "If we are given back our senior assembly it will prove all the rules weren't so bad.

Academically, this school prepares you well, but when it comes to learning responsibility, it doesn't."

the Fischer era. "Participation is still high with six to eight boards being played at the Wednesday meetings," said Mr, Kent, club sponsor.

Freshmen make up the majority of the club and the club president sees some potential stars. "Ed Baumann scored a win against Ridgewood. He is the first freshman to accomplish this."

Dan Defensor was also very strong at the beginning of this year finishing first in the freshmen tournament.

Three freshmen members who deserve recognition are Pete Riis, Paul Eifert, and Andy Kaspryk. While achieving average results during the year, these players show the potential to be starters with a little work over the summer.

The club has also become affiliated with the United States Chess Federation.

From this they receive a monthly chess magazine and a bimonthly rating supplement. The club is also allowed to run USCF rated tournaments for club members who have joined the federation. Club membership is now free to all students wishing to play.

Mathletes forge ahead

by Marianne Schmidt If you're an observant Maine South student, you may have heard some announcements in the bulletin pertaining to the Mathletes. Perhaps you've even wondered who or what they are. Well, wonder no more!

The Mathletes are a mathematics team under the direction of the Mathematics Department. At the present time, there are 32 Mathletes.

Their coaches are Mr. Mahon and Mr. LaFruit.

Now that you know who the Mathletes are, you may be wondering what they do.

Mr. Mahon explained, '"They have four meets with five to six teams present at each meet. They compete at four class levels: Freshmen, Sophomore, Junior and Senior. One student competes in an oral examination.

"Five students at each level take a 30 minute examination, and the top three scores at each level go towards the team score. Each student has a maximum of 15 points, and the oral student has 50 points."

When asked if there were any special qualifications needed to be a Mathlete, Mr. Mahon commented, "They must have an interest in math and are generally very good math students."

The three Seniors who have taken the oral examination are Lynda Pack, Daniel Bors and Richard Schennberg.

The other Seniors on the team include David Murray, Tom McClelland and Lisa Priest. Mr. Mahon added that Karen Dinney is the teams' m(»t consistent scorer.

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by Debbie Gann Maine South has a large number of clubs and honor organizations, two of which are the Thespians and Tri-M. The Drama Department's Thespian Troop 2554 whose president is Pat Hennessy, supports all of the Drama Department's productions. The proceeds from the first night's performance of Enter a Free Man went to the Hal Chastain Scholarship Fund, which is one of the three Drama funds.

Their other activities included fund raisers such as selling V-Show buttons and candy. The current drama production. The Miracle Worker, had a dinner play benefit opening night.

These proceeds also add to the various Drama scholarships. Pat Hennessy, also added that other Thespian-supported activities will include the Hal Chastain Tournament, (March 3 and 4), Thespian initiation and the end of the year picnic.

How does one become a Thespian? Pat explained that every ten hours that a person works on or off stage, one Thespian hour is awarded. After an

accumulation of 100 hours or 10 Thespian points, a student is initiated as a Thespian. To be a member of the Thespians is a great honor. The sponsors are Mr. Don Martello and Mr. Vincent Pinelli.

In the Music Department, there is the Tri-M or the Modern Music Masters whose president is Nancy Lyons. The Tri-M's activities include a Homecoming float (which won first place), a carnival booth, an initiation ceremony for new members, and the end of the year picnic.

The organization consists of 40 members until the new members are initiated in spring, when the total number will be approximately 60. The president explained that one of the purposes of Tri-M is to support the Music Department during their candy sale, whose proceeds go to purchase needs in the department.

It is also important to note that Tri-M is a chapter of the National Music Honor Society, Its members are selected on a merit basis. All members carry a Tri-M key, the membership emblem and the membership card. The sponsors are Mr. Walter Flechsig and Mr. Angelo Rico.

1700 jobs offered The Illinois Department of Consen'ation will offer 1700 jobs in 1978 to teenagers ages 15 to 18 years old.

The jobs are mainly working in State Parks and other public lands.

Development of hiking trails, renovation of picnicking and camping areas, forest management, fish management and research are included. The program is closely associated with environmental education so teenagers will learn as they

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With the residential type of participants live on the site of their work for four to eight weeks. Non-residents must commute everyday.

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Applicants must be 15 to 18 old, have no record of serious crime or other antisocial behavior, have social security number and be able to obtain a work permit.

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The Southwords staff will once again be posting UPI news stories on the wall in front of V-106.

UPI is a teletype service that mechanically types worldwide news stories. John Dano '78, coordinator of the program, will be posting the latest and most interesting news stories onto the wall in front of V-106.

These news stories will be posted before any newspaper can print them or any radio station broadcasts them.

Students are encouraged to stop by and read the latest news stories available.

This system of posting UPI stories was originated in 1975. But because of mechanical difficulties and lack of interest, it was discontinued. Mr. Ken Beatty, sponsor of the school newspaper, is hopeful that it will be more successful this year. Mr. Beatty is also investigating the possibilities of setting up television printout screens in the school and typing relevant news stories onto it.

The Southwords staff is investigating new printing methods that may be introduced this year.

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SOUTHWORDS

Feb. 24, 1978

B-Ball thrashes Warriors; win conference

By Dan White With the showdown between Maine South and Maine West last Friday night in the capacity filled Warrior gym, two things became evident. If South could manage a victory, they would clinch a Conference Championship in the Central League South Division, or if the Warriors came out on top. South would most likely have to settle sharing first with West.

Being hungry for sole possession of first place in the Conference, the Hawks didn't exactly eat up their Warrior opponents, but they did manage a 61-53 victory, boosting their Conference record to 11 and 0. This was also the tenth straight victory for the Hawk netmen.

Seeing Maine West's first half shooting percentages, it's a wonder how the West Warriors managed to go to their locker room with a halftime score of 24-24.

West managed to get 11 more shots than South in the first half. Their atrocious 28 per-cent shooting average compared to the Hawk mediocre 40 percent was the key reason that the Warriors weren't way ahead of the Hawks by

halftime.

"West got a lot more shots than we did because we kept turning over the ball," said Dave Areen.

West Senior Tim Logisz' fluky shots put up from just about everywhere weren't exactly tearing the net apart or helping Maine West. Logisz connected with two of 11 shots from the 20 to 30 foot range in the first half of the game.

Overall, he had 17 points and shot 7 for 28 from the field.

"Logisz did take a lot of crazy unbalanced shots. He threw the ball up with somebody guarding him, not working for the open shot. "This is a sign of an undisciplined ballclub," replied Areen, who netted 14 points on the game.

In third quarter action, the biggest lead either team had was only a mere 2 points.

However, in the fourth quarter, South began putting the pressure on. With two key jump balls by Jeff Baker, the Hawks opened up a five point lead at 5:30.

Sharpshooter Kirk Meyer's parking lot shot gave the Hawks a 50-42 lead with just over two minutes remaining.

Both teams continued to exchange baskets. With 33 seconds remaining.

South still kepi their eight point lead on a Dave Areen basket.

With two seconds remaining, Meyer popped in another basket giving the Hawks their 19th win of the season, and Meyer his 14th point of the game.

Providing the netmen with encouraging support has been the powerful Hawk rowdie section, which can be

heard every time South plays a game.

Among its mob members include: Bob Helin, Greg deters. -Larry Bobka, Ned Rasmussen, Tom Busch, Dave Slade, Dom Curcio, Gary Schwann, John Nicholas, Manny Mueller and the rest of the rowdie clan.

The next Hawk game will be tonight against Glenbrook North at 8 p.m. This is the last home game of the season.

Trackmen dash to win first

by Jim McGIade Last Saturday was the start of the first annual Maine South Hawk Invitational Track Meet. The eight teams invited were Loyola Academy, Hersey, Glenbrook South, Niles West, Ridgewood, Prospect, Fenton and Notre Dame.

Team trophies, medals and ribbons were awarded to the top six competitors by the four Maine South track queens.

The varsity and sophomore teams were both successful in winning first place.

On the varsity level, outstanding performances were by Tom Brown, first in triple jump and low hurdles, second in high hurdles and fourth in long jump. Bill final round Mikos won 3-1 as he gained Kroeshell was second in the 220 yard run the title of District Champion. Mikos' and also helped Bill Graser, Chris Mores overall record stands at a very im- and Russ Gunnel win the 880 relay with a time of 1:38.3. pressive 22-2-1.

The 50 yard dash was won by Gary One of the pleasant surprises for the Hawk wrestling team has been Mike Schwann with a record tying time of 5.5 Coletto. "Coletto has been the most im- seconds.

The shot put winner, Ned Rasmussen, proved wrestler on the team this year," putted a 51 foot 3 inch throw easily taking said Coach Tom Ziemek. the gold medal. Kirby Pascus putted a 44 He demonstrated his improvement foot throw taking fourth place. with a first round victory over Demon Bob Engh ran the 440 very well and Rich Krogstad 7-1. In the second round captured a first place. match, Coletto won 10-8. However, P. On the sophomore level, placing posiRodig of Forest View beat out Coletto 8-0 tions were by: John Baldoni, fourth in winning the championship match. the 220; John Lytle, fourth in the 440; a Colette's present record is 14-14-1. second place by Pelzl, Salemi, Voss and Baldoni in the 880 relay. First place in shot put was Jim McGlade and third place was Don Gieser. High jump was won by Tom Zobel with a jump of 5'6". In Robin Reichard, and Lisa Swanson. the long jump, Pelzl took first, and in Both coaches, Phyliss Goll and Linda both low and high hurdles, he took second Schlomer have high hopes for this year. place. Don Salemi placed fourth in low "I anticipate a good season," Coach Goll hurdles. reveals. "A lot of young talent, sprinkled Maine South Varsity and Sophomore with experience, mixes together to form teams both presently have 9-1 records, a great team. " which puts them in first place in their Faced with the pre-competition loss of conference. The Freshmen Track Team last year's all-around, Loy Shefflot, Miss is still undefeated with a 10-0 record, first Goll remarked, "It is always sad to see in their conference. someone get hurt. We miss her, but everyone will help to replace the loss,"

Hawk matmen finish season

By Dan white In sectional competition last weekend, Steve Mikos, 155, and Mike Coletto, 167, were both defeated in first round action.

However, both wrestlers were the only Hawks that made it through districts.

In the wrestling District Competition at Maine West High School, South's Steve Mikos, 155, finished in first place.

Junior Mike Coletto, 167, finished in second place for the Hawks.

Steve Mikos achieved his first place honor with three victories in Districts. In the first round Mikos knocked off Maine North's Shickerling, who was 10 and 12.

Mikos then proceeded to blank Maine East's Poulos, 18-3, by a 5-0 score. In the

Girls gymnists win opener

By Vickie Vander Werff Maine South's Girl's Gymnastics team won their first meet of the season against Rolling Meadows 84.8 - 79.2. The victory was aided by Roxanne Vogel's outstanding 9.05 vault and Janet Krueger's 7.45 floor-ex routine.

This year's team includes returning gymnasts: Robin Becker. Roxanne Vogel, Kim McGovem, Janet Kreuger, Sarah Ebner, Cindy Braun, Mary Michuda, Holly Mittlacher, Kate Nesbit, Charlene Numrych, Judy Wilkas, Julie Hultberg and Loy Shefflot. New to the team are: Teresa Rortvedt, Kathy Walsh, Ellen Fiech, Renee Bacci, Dina DiBrito, Lisa Benigno, Kris Bergeson, Colleen MacDonald, Kathy Nistler,

Girl's Gymnastics will be hosting Maine East in the girls' Gym at 5:15 on Friday, March 3. The competition will be heavy, since Maine East won the team title in the State Meet last year.

Girl tankers finish second

With a magnificant team effort, the Maine South girls' varsity swim team placed second in the seven team Central Suburban, South Division championship

Hockey demolislies Dons, start playoffs

by John Dane The Maine South Hockey Team concluded the regular season schedule last Sunday by mauling Notre Dame 11-3.

The icemen will now play a roundrobin tournament to determine who will represent the North Central Division in

the State Playoffs.

As a result the Hawks will take on Notre Dame this Sunday at Oakton Ice Arena at 8:20 p.m.

Eight Hawks were named to the coaches all-division team. The players named were goalie Dave Maloney,

Center Jeff Hultl>erg [right] gets the draw on face off In last Sundays game between the Hawks and Notre Dame. South whaled on the Oons 11-3 and will play them again this Sunday when the playoffs start.

Shotputter Ned Rasmussen gats the lead out for a long 51.7 feet at the Maine South Invitational last Saturday. Ned's throw was enough lor a first place medal.

defensemen Bob Berleth, John Peters and Mike Sifferman, and forwards Jeff Starzec, Bob Havlir, and Dan Sullivan in addition to Hawk Coach Jim DeRoche.

Against Notre Dame the Hawks took command of the game early when Jeff Hultberg scored on a rebound thirty seconds into the game.

Almeroth provided the next goal when he knocked the puck into the net while sprawled on the ice. Hank Smyth . assisted on the goal.

Hultberg made it 3-0 with his second goal midway through the period.

Towards the end of the period the Hawks scored two more goals when Havlir teamed up with Starzec and Sullivan. Then Sullivan teamed with Peters to give the Hawks a 5-1 lead.

At 7:35 of the second period Havlir scored his second goal on a breakaway when he stole the puck from a Notre Dame player.

Then at 2:20, Starzec scored on a slapshot on a passing play to give the Hawks a 7-3 lead going into the third period.

Starzec again scored on a deflected shot to begin the period. Then Keith Krippner scored a unassisted goal to make the score 9-3.

Winding up the scoring for the Hawks were Bob Berleth and Smyth with Steve Starzec, Jeff Starzec and Havlir accredited with the assists.

meet held last Saturday at the Maine East natatorium.

According to coach Dawn Butler, every girl on the team came through with their best performances all season to edge Glenbrook South by five points.

Highlights of the meet included Virginia DeYoung's first place finishes in both the 200 yd. freestyle and the 500 yd. freestyle, Rita Rortvedt's second place finish in diving and a second place for the medley relay team of Patty Pence, Barb Beckman, Julie Okamoto and Jessica Boxer.

Swimmers win

by Scott Erickson The Maine South varsity swim team destroyed Elk Grove last Friday in the Hawk's first meet of the season. This was the first time the Hawks had ever beaten Elk Grove. The final was Maine South 112.5 and Elk Grove 53.5.

In the medley relay, the team of Phil Winters, Mike Doyle, Eric Mau, and John Hall pulled in second place.

In the 400 yd. freestyle relay the team of Bob King, Ken Van Spankeren, Dave King, and Wayne Madsen finished first and Bob Loll, Brant Madsen, Mark Elliot, and Jeff Ludwig ended up in second.

On the individual competitions, the team came in first in all but two events.

In the 200 yd. freestyle, Wayne Madsen finished first and Bob Loll ended up in second.

John Hall finished first in the 50 yd. freestyle and Bob King came in third.

The 100 yd. butterfly proved tougher with Eric Mau coming in second and (continued on page 2)