Vol. 1, Issue 9

Beat Miles West Vol. 1 No. 9

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Maine Township High School South, Park Ridge,

Beat Willowbrook January 29, 1965

Dr. Watson Tells of Extensive School Analysis Dr. Clyde K. Watson, principal, has announced that an exhaustive evaluation of Maine South is now under way with the purpose of improving the school.

The evaluation is part of the accrediting process.

"At present we are beginning an evaluation with North Central Association, a high school accrediting agency, to cover ev-

ery aspect of our educational program," Dr. Watson stated.

Among the areas to be considered are: school objectives, school's relation to the community, student activity program, library facilities, guidance services, health services, school plant, faculty, and administration.

North Central Association re-

'To Bathe or not To Bathe' Ponders Peavoy as Halibut A desolate expression in his eyes, John Peavoy, as Halibut, paces back and forth as he ponders the decisive issue of his life. FinaUy, lips pursed, he halts, outstretches his hand, rolls his eyes up to heaven, and intones: "To bathe, or not to bathe, that is the question. Whether 'tis healthier for the body to suffer the stings and pains of Fresh Arrid, or Ban, or to plunge one's arms into a sea of bubbles and remove all those things that flesh is heir to."

Halibut sighs reverently: "Oh! 'tis an immersion devoutly to be wished. To slosh: to steep; to steep, perchance to steam. And then perhaps a rubdown."

Third period today the senior advanced - placement English

class absented themselves from felicity and saw a performance of Halibut, a parody of Hamlet, by seven AP English students.

Besides John, the cast included: Sherry Heiden and Hillary R o d h a m , narrators: Ellen Press, Ophelia; Lena Salbcgo, Queen Gertrude: Andy Dyck, King Hamlet and Claudius; and Ray Hilgermann, Polonius.

Like Richard Burton. John shunned a costume, performing in street clothes. Like Burton, too, he spoke his "Get thee to a nunnery!" with authority and conviction.

Written for Mainspring "62 by Mrs. Ruth Given, counselor at South, and Mr. Roy Howarth.

AP English teacher at East.

Halibut contains three Heh, he he's.

W h a t is the significance . . .

quires a yearly report from each member school as well as from new schools applying for accreditation. So extensive a report as Maine South is undertaking is not required for accreditation but is being done voluntarily. . . . Takes Three Steps North Central is setting up machinery to evaluate each high school in its area with an exhaustive report once every seven years. However, as Dr. Watson pointed out, "Maine South is one of the first, if not the first, high school to undertake this exhaustive evaluation."

Three steps are involved: first, fihng of evaluations of the school by each teacher and by special committees; second, discussion of committee findings with each committee by an evaluation team; and third, official accreditation and a final report by North Central.

In step one, committees will be chosen by North Central and the town.ship. Dr. Watson observed, "The committees will include many experts and university people, all teachers and

The American Field Service will sponsor an after dance tonight. January 29. It will begin immediately following the game and will continue until 11 p.m. Tickets have been sold in the cafeteria on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, January 27 through 29. Tickets will not be sold at the door. Entertainment will be provided by the Du Tones.

The varsity debate team lost their round on WBBM-TV's Public Affairs Program, Rebuttal, to North Chicago Community High School, last Saturday on Channel 2 at 1:30 in a two to one decision.

Curio Sales Start Monday Curio, the Creative .Arts Mag azine, will go on sale Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the English classes and Thursday and Friday in the cafeterias.

Members of the Creative Writing classes will go in pairs to the English classes to solicit for the magazine, which will be published about May 1.

Curio will consist of original prose, poetry, artwork, and photography submitted by students.

Contributors may place their entries in the box provided in Room V-107. Cathy Lippert, Art Editor, emphasized, "Artwork must be in black and white only, on pure white paper, no larger than 11 inches by 14 inches.

Colors cannot be reproduced."

"Where else can you buy a hand-bound collection of art and literature for only 60 cents?" queries Linda Dillon, Business Manager, referring to the fact that the staff itself will bind the book in order to save money.

Under the supervision of Betsy Olson, Editorial Editor, 14 seniors from the Creative Writing classes and two freshmen, Nancy Petersen and Gary T.

Johnson, are evaluating the submissions.

Prizes are being offered in each of the four subject areas and in each of the four classes.

When the evaluation team has completed its work in May, all the findings are submitted to North Central. Then, in part three North Central will accredit Maine South probably before the end of the school year. Next fall they will send back a final report containing constructive criticisms to improve the school.

"To be accredited, there are three standards we must meet," noted Dr. Watson. "They relate to type of program, number, and quality of teachers, and courses of study. There is not the slightest doubt that we meet all of these standards."

Du Tones Play For Dance Tonite

NCC Vanquishes Debaters Jan. 23

Kicking their heels in the rehearsal of 'Halibut' are Sherry Heiden, Andy Dyck, Lena Salbego, John Peavoy, Ellen Press, Ray Hilgermann, and Hilary Rodham.

administrators from Maine South, as well as community members who have no specialized knowledge of education."

A folder will be given to each committee and each Maine South faculty member. Folders contain checklists for rating each area of the school program as good, fair, or poor.

After each committee and teacher completes a folder, part two begins; and a special evaluation team of fifteen men, not associated with the high school, meets with each committee and goes over the committee's findings.

freshman through senior.

Directors of Operations on the project include Mr. Ken Beatty, sponsor, and Co-editors Kathy Moore and Jim Casey.

Newly elected National Honor Society officers discuss plans for the coming year. Pictured above are: Art Curtis, president; Hillary Rodham, vice-president; Kathy Tongue, secretary; Susan Stybr, treasurer; and Mrs. Aida Farmer, club sponsor.

Honor Society Members Announce Officers, Plans The Maine South chapter of the National Honor Society recently held its first election. The newly chosen officers are Art Curtis, president; Hillary Rodham, vice-president; K a t h y Tongue, secretary; and Susan Stybr, treasurer.

The present organization has 25 members, all of whom are former Maine East students. On February 25 new members will be selected after their names have been submitted to the faculty for membership consideration. Students must be in the

Moms Hold Dance For Funds Feb. 5 Maine South Mothers' Club will sponsor a dance February 5, from 8 to 12 p.m., for the purpose of adding to funds for the Mothers' Club scholarship program.

The dance, planned around a Valentine's Day theme, will provide a variety of entertainment for both parents and students. Music for dancing will be provided by the Rhythm Club, and cards will be available for those who wish to play bridge or any other game.

Donations are $2 per couple.

Tickets are available at the door or through Mrs. Mell Parnell, chairman, 823-2330; or Mrs. Paul Gaudette, co-chairman, 823-1658.

Mrs. Pat Baumgart, president of Maine South's Mother's Club, is enthusiastic about the dance and its purpose. "An evening of real fun is planned for everyone," she stated.

upper quarter of their class to qualify; they are judged on the basis of leadership, service, and character.

Those students selected will attend a pre-initiation tea in March. The installation will be a formal-evening ceremony held on April 9.

Projects of the club for this year include a program to acquaint underclassmen with the requirements and opportunities for membership.

Mrs. Aida Farmer, club sponsor, commented, "I think that membership in the National Honor Society can be a goal for every student."

Elections Begin Society's Activities Chip Rollins was elected president of Brotherhood Society January 20 at the society's first organizational meeting.

Jeff Phillips was elected vice-president and Sukie Askew, secretary-treasurer.

February 8 marks the beginning of Brotherhood Week.

Scheduled during this week will be a Brotherhood Assembly where six members from each class will be presented with Brotherhood Awards. A Negro scholar will be the featured speaker at the assembly. Students are elected to the society by their classmates as those best typifying the spirit and practice of fair dealing, leadership, and helpful cooperation within the class.

Sponsor of the club is Mrs. Elizabeth Zentz.

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January 29, 1965

SOUTHWORDS

Keeping orderly records is an important function of a well-organized staff. Here Eyrie staff members Judy Fairbanks, Kristie Duyckinck, and Alan Harris file i n formation and pictures which w i l l go into the 1965 Eyrie.

Features Editor, John Venson and Sports Editor, Lee Kaufmann discuss picture possibilities for upcoming issues.

Afterwords

Fee Fie Fo Fum Finals...!

As the excrutiating agony of finals' week fades from our troubled souls, we on the newspaper staff heave a sigh of relief. Ever mindful, though, of the responsibility we bear as molders of public opinion, we wish to establish, in our usual slipshod manner, traditions for posterity.

Some practices we have seen regarding finals' week we do not term as fair play.

These practices must not be allowed to become hallowed traditions. Hence we respectfully recommend the following be nominated for oblivion: . . . teachers that talk through half the final . . . people who spend all semester sleep-

ing in class and then pull an A on the final. teachers that read over yoiu" shoulder as you are taking the final and laugh indulgently at your answers, remarking, "That's a good one. I'll have to remember that." parents who don't believe that it's how much you learn, not the grade, that counts people who finish their test 20 minutes early and proceed to gaze smugly at their retarded contemporaries a teacher who tells you his accelerated freshmen classes scored much higher than your senior class did teachers that give three-day finals finals' week . . .

Bruce Howie, Southwords artist, learning the other side of the illustrative arts, inserts a negative in the photo enlarger.

Publications Slave for Deadlines —Alanl Where's my copy?

—0 despair I I could just die!

—Who stole my Busy Signal?

—Grab that typewriter' The Place- Southwords or Eyrie. The time: day before a deadline "From the commotion it is clear that a lot of hard work goes into student publications," commented Miss Carol Singer, Eyrie sponsor. "What you may not realize is that it is also a lot Karl Franson June Kobayashi of fun."

The publicaUons area, localed at the west corner of the vocational area, includes journalism classroom, Soutbwords, Eyrie, news bureau, and photography.

Journalism class is a fullThe end of the first semester a free vacation. is a time when Mainites take Karl, having studied six lan- year course open to sophomores, stock of the damage done or guages, feels that his stay in juniors, and seniors. It gives victory achieved during the America will improve his Eng- one-half credit. first 20 weeks of school. lish and give him background According to Mr. Ken Beatty, It is a time when seniors for the work he hopes to do in the double purpose of his jourplan their spring gala and re- the Swedish diplomatic corps. nalism class is to introduce stusolve never to open another Karl finds Mainites very likable dents to techniques of writing book for the rest of the year. and interesting. feature, and sporU stor(But just wait! In three weeks June Kobayashi, who enjoys news, and to train them in such the most defiant seniors will the English language immense- ies be breaking their firm resolu- ly, sights definite advantages of technical aspects as copy and tion.)

American schools over Japa- proofreading, laying out pages, Maine South has two seniors nese schools. June first looks and writing headlines. who are not, as strange as it with pleasure on our five-day may sound, looking back with school week over the Japanese dismay on the last semester, six-day week. June is most immaking plans for a spring gala, pressed by the genuine concern or making resolutions. Such that American teachers have stalwart students are K a r l for their students. Help for the Franson, Swedish AFS student, student is more readily given and June Kobayashi, visitor in America than in Japan, acfrom Japan. They are rather cording to June. comparing Maine's system with In comparing the American the ones they have in their and Japanese school systems, native countries.

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Karl, June Give Opinions, Comparisons of Schools

M r . Kenneth Beatty

. . . Meet 8th Period In Southwords and Eyrie, which meet eighth period in V107 and V-108, students learn to ^PP^^ knowledge gained in jour"^"^"^ ,*"^ Enghsh class to practical problems.

Southwords staff gathers fea^^re. news, and sports stories, which are typed on copy paper, a"'' arranges for pictures. Next. editors lay out pages and assign headlines. When heads and captions are written and "^"Py «^o"ected, the editors go ^° ^^^ pnnters.

At the printers, editors paste up the galley proofs of their pages as they want their stories arranged. Then printers set the type as indicated on the pasted-up galley proofs and run off sample page proofs, which the editors proofread.

Editor-in-chief C o r r i n n e Schmid commented, "The largest problems the paper has encountereti at South have been learning to function with a much smaller staff than at East and establishing channels for news." , . . . Includes 7 SecUons Eyrie is divided into seven sections:

academics, activities.

.Another problem of Eyrie is where to shoot pictures. "There just aren't enough white walls!" says Nancy with a rueful smile.

The staff notes, however, that cooperation of administration, f ice workers fac^ty and stua^nts has been exceuent. . . . jjm Heads Bureau News bureau, headed by Jim Casey, handles school publicity for local newspapers. Students may be assigned to news staff any period when they have a study hall, School photographers George Case and Eric Carlson have the use of a darkroom and school cameras. They do their shooting for news bureau. Southwords, and occasionally for Eyrie. so if you are walking past the publications area some eighth period and hear strange noises — violent smashing of PJ^a rulers agamst a waU or moans of "Oh, despair!"—don't be alarmed: Eyrie and Southwords deadlines are drawing "ea'' ^"^^""•"^^^^^^^^•^^'"~ SouthwOrds The oindal student newspaper of

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SOUTHWORDS

Page 3

Spirit of '65

SC Starts General Ticket Sales Feb. 8 General ticket sales for "Americana '65" will begin February 8 at the ticket window across from the Spectator Gym and at Scharringhausen's in Park Ridge. All tickets will sell for SI.75. There will be no difference in price range since the auditorium is designed for sight and acoustics from all parts of the house.

Members of the show's cast and crew and all faculty members may purchase tickets on Thursday, February 4. and Friday, Februar>^ 5. The ticket window will be open before school, throughout the school day, and after school until 4 p.m.

Student Council, the show's sponsor, is busy working on the business aspects of "Spirit of

Students, Teachers Relate Perilous Times W i t h Mice "I was standing back apainst the wall when something plopped on my head. All I could feel were these sharp little claws—sort of like a spider," explained Mr. George Greene in regard to his harrowing experience of being a landing for mice.

NFL Encourages Speech Activifies National Forensic League is a national organization for the promotion of speech in high schools. To get Maine South recognized by this organization, Mr. William C. Hoag, Mr. Gerhard Rempel, and Miss Sandra McChesney have worked overtime to get their s t u d e n t s enough points to be admitte-' The points that are counted by the League and that arc important to the student are earned by the student in contests involving speech. These contests range from debates and oratorical declamation to prose and comedy readings.

At Maine new members arc being admitted and old members are adding to their total points.

Previous members of NFL that are continuing to participate in Speech Activities are: Chris Hoyt, Andy Dyck, Steve Karina, Frank Hoyt, Ray Hilgermann, and Bob Landeck.

New members include: Craig Anderson, Gregg Knell, Lee Mortenson, Don Anderson, Scott Bremer, Shannon Connlly, Bill Kremer, Dick Katschke, Jeff Kroon, John McCallum, Bruce McGuinn, Nicki Sieveke, Peter Schroeder, James Pederson, and Ronald Roeser.

"But the mouse calmly crawled down from my head to my sleeve and trousers, jumped to the floor, and walked around the comer back to the library."

When asked what his first thoughts were when the mouse landed, he remarked, "Well, 1 was naturally curious as to why mice were dropping on my head." Mr. Greene stated he wouldn't be surprised if a whole family was living in the library.

"I was doing pushups during third period when this mouse ran right in front of me. I started to chase it—had lunch next period—but it got away," remarked George Case, another person who has had an encounter with the visiting mice.

"Just as I started to get back to my exercising, it came again.

The mouse ran in to the girls' locker room and disappeared.

Mr. VanProyen wouldn't let me chase it any more. You can bet, though, I was ready and willing to go through the girls' locker room if at all necessary."

"Ahh, yes, the mice," Mr. Harry Lartowski, custodian, replied to the question. "We've had a number of them in the school. They seem to come in through the tiniest cracks. Matter of fact, the other day one custodian left his lunch for a minute to get some coffee, and when he came back, a mouse was eating his lunch.

"No, he didn't finish his lunch," he replied to the reporter's question. "I wouldn't think the student body would be too alarmed about the mice.

When the warmer w e a t h e r comes, they'll be gone."

And so it will be written that among the many new traditions set in the year 1965 at Maine South was the growing familiarity between mice and men.

Managing Editor Kathy Moore and Co-News Editor Andy Dyck of Southwords spend eighth period with pencil and eraser planning the layout, or appearance, of page three.

"65." Coordinating these efforts are Sharon Strothers, social chairman; Linda Boidy and Don Lossman, publicity heads; Carol Farley, ticket head; Pat Price, cast party; and Rick Van Mooy, box-office manager. Student Council monitors will supen'ise the care and cleanup of

the auditorium during rehearsals.

Of special interest this year in the show wiU be the sets used. Carol Mack, student art director, has stylized scenery

to create abstract suggestions of the mood, atmosphere, and locale. Several silhouette scenes will be used in addition to frozen tableau and shadow pictures.

Sigma Chi's Sell Candy Feb. 1-10 Sigma Chi Sigma will be conducting a fund-raising candy sale between February 1 and 10.

Fifty new freshmen members will join the old members in a sale that will finance the society's final projects of the year.

Fifty-cent chocolate almond bars and one dollar boxes of chocolate-covered almonds made

by World's Finest Chocolate, Inc., will go on sale to the student body.

Money raised in this campaign will be used to prepare a folio on Maine South and to buy equipment for Maine South's reading clinic, according to Ray Hilgermann, president of Sigma Chi Sigma.

"The folio of Maine South," stated Ray, "will contain pictures, articles, and tapes depicting life at Maine South. This folio will be sent to Karl Franson's school in Sweden. Karl will help Sigma Chi Sigma prepare the folio."

Sigma Chi Sigma has been able to take on projects for the first time in its existence for two reasons, according to Ray. "First of all." explained Ray, "Sigma Chi Sigma has a larger membership due to the fairer reading and comprehension test given to students applying for membership. Any good student can get in."

Sophs, Teachers Take 1st Places Sophomores and faculty members claimed first place in recent basketball tournaments sponsored by Girls' Athletic Association.

The sophomores were the victors in the class tournament held on Monday, January 18.

The team members, Betsy Bauer, Diane Broman, Sue Hume, Cathy Raimondi, R o x a n n e Schuessler, Nancy Tracy, Susan Turnstrom, Kay Watson, and Miss Dawn Butler, coach, were victors over second-place juniors, third-place seniors, a n d fourth-place freshmen.

Gwen Caldwell, Diane Drengberg, Janine Fentiman, Laurel Findlay, Gail Goodrich, Marlene Lukaszewski, Cathy Sciarra, and Miss Carol Finneran, coach, won second place with their only loss to the sophomores.

Planning, discussing, and preparing stage scenery for 'Americana' is the job of M r s . Saundra Trunick, Don Knapp, and Glen Swanson.

12 South Seniors Qualify For County Scholarships Eleven Maine South seniors are eligible for Cook County scholarships to the University of Illinois, and one senior is eligible for a Cook County scholarship to any Illinois State school.

Applications have been given to all the eligible students, and they must be returned to Nobel Puffer, County Superintendent of Schools, by February 1, 1965.

The applicants will be judged on the basis of their A.C.T. scores, their class rank, and their financial need.

The students selected from Maine are: Judith E. Fairbanks, Elizabeth J. Fiedler, Stephen J. Karina, Donna L. Korda, Robert V. Krause, John C. 'Lindquist, James E. Phillips, Pam L. Pullen, Penelope L. PuUen,

German Clubbers Hold Skating Fest German Club held a skating party at .South Park Sunday, January 17, from 2 to 5 p.m.

The party was supervised by Mr. Warren Borne, German Club sponsor.

Admission was free to all club members. After the skating, refreshments were served at Jeff Krauseman's house.

Officers of the club include Linda Gross, president; Linda Barth, vice-president; Jan Johnson, secretary; and Marsha Schimmel, treasurer.

Robert H. Sayers, and Michael D. Singelmann. Dave N. White was the only Maine student selected to take the examination for a scholarship to any Illinois State school.

The basic difference between the County scholarships and the State scholarships is that the students only compete with other students in the County rather than students throughout the state.

Sue Takes Third At Contest Jan. 23 Suzanne Tessaro took a third place in prose reading for Maine South at Wheeling High School last Saturday, January 23.

Other high scorers at the individual-events contest w e r e Anita Hosford, who placed second in two rounds and Lee Mortenson, who took a first in one round and a third in another.

Also, Carla Oleck took second and third and Penny and Pam Pullen each won thirds and fourths.

"At Niles North on February 6, the Maine team will go up against the toughest competition before they get to the NFL District competitions in March.

At NFL competition we will really find the going difficult," said Miss Sandra McChesney, individual-events coach.

Many minutes are spent at the printers' with glue pot and scissors on the past«-up.

Finally, all the type for one page is arranged in the 'chase,' or frame—and the paper is ready to be put to bed.

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SOUTHWORDS

January 29, 1965

Hawks, Indians Scrimmage In Torrid Tourney Tonight Tonight the varsity- basketball team will host the Niles West Indians as they start off the second round of Des Plaines Valley League action. T h e Hawks are currently tied for first place with Niles West and East Leyden.

Tonight's contest is guaranteed to be a torried one. Niles is looking for revenge against an earlier defeat by our Hawks, 74 to 68.

Maine South basketball fans will also be given another game to scream their heads off at this weekend as South meets Willowbrook on Saturday night at South.

South earned first place by remaining undefeated in their last three outings. They scored a thirteen-point win over West Leyden on January 15 on the home court.

Last weekend South cagers played two games, winning both by margins of five points.

Friday night's victim was Palatine by 61 to 56, and last Satur-

day they handed Proviso West a 61 to 59 setback. . . . Niles Six and One Niles also won its last three games to keep a six and one mark going into tonight's game, while Leyden, after turning' back our Hawks three weeks ago, suffered its first defeat at the hands of Niles last Saturday evening, 56 to 51.

South now owns a record of 13 wins against only 2 defeats.

Credit goes not only to the players but to the tremendous coaching that Mr. Bemie Brady has done this season.

There have been many individual stars for the Hawks in these last three games.

Hawk guard Bob Field was the high-point man for South against West Leyden with 13 points. Bill "Goose" DeBartolo hit for 11. while Larry Wiseburn netted 9. . . . Wisebum Leads Scorers Against Palatine last weekend Wisebum led the Hawk scorers with 16 as Mark Waters

Last Three Meets Prove Successful for Mermer^ The swimming team has been very active since Sonthwords' last publication. Three important meets took place in the last two weeks in which Maine South did a commendable job.

Coach John TiUey's expectations for the team have been, at this moment, very factual.

The first of these meets was swum two weeks ago tonight (Friday) at East Leyden. Maine South dunked Leyden by a onesided score of 79 to 16. That following Saturday, South traveled north to New Trier for the Indian Relays. The top teams of the state including New Trier, Evanston. and Hinsdale were there in full force. Even though South faced such teams as these, they managed to capture sixth place.

A week ago the squad hosted a very weak West Leyden swimming team. The mermen were using members of the squad

who usually do not swim in some of the meets. Even so, the swimmers chalked up a score of 80-15 with enthusiastic cheering coming from the South fans. . . . Tony Tops Butterfly Tony Halda. a newcomer to the team, has helped by getting firsts in the butterfly in the last two dual meets. He has also placed high in other previous meets. Tony, who came from \'irginia last summer, is mainly a butterflyer, but he has shown surprising strength in the freestyle.

A tough meet tonight against Niles, at NUes, will be an indication of how the remaining season will go. This Saturday at 2:30 p m. the Maine South mermen will clash with the perennially s t r o n g New Trier squad.

The meet will take place in tha South swimming pool.

Senior forward Bill DeBartolo fights for a rebound. The Hawks defeated Palatine 61 to 56 last Friday night at Maine South.

and Mike Andrews each totaled 12 points. Bob Field hit for nine in the Palatine clash.

Last Saturday night's game with Proviso West had three Hawks in double figures. Mark Waters led the Hawks with 20 points, Larry Wiseburn hit for 19, and Bill DeBartolo, 17. Bob Field and Mike Andrews each scored four markers.

Wiseburn has hit 285 points for the year while DeBartolo has popped in 255. Both boys are leading scorers in the Des Plaines Valley League and could be possible candidates for All-League honors.

The two games this weekend will be followed by two next weekend, both away games.

Next Friday evening S o u t h meets Morton West at Morton West, and next Saturday night the Hawks will travel to West Leyden.

TEAM won lost pet.

Maine South 6 1 .857 Niles West 6 1 .857 East Leyden 6 1 .857 Willowbrook 4 3 .571 Morton West 3 4 .429 West Leyden 2 5 .286 Palatine 1 6 .143 Provi-so West 0 7 .000

" I was fouled," Larry Wiseburn (44) seems to be saying as he blocks a Palatine Pirate in last Friday's game.

Hawk Tawk

Hawkman Hails Cagers

By Lee Kaufmann The old Maine South Hawk is back in its first-place perch.

Tonight's game will be a crucial one in deciding how long we will enjoy having a league leading team. A win tonight and another two weeks from tomorrow against East Leyden should pretty well cinch the conference title. A loss against either will

Gymnasts Win, Lose One Meet Maine South Varsity Gymnasts will travel to Niles West tomorrow, Saturday, for a threeway meet with Niles and Maine East. The squad split its last two meets, beating Palatine 68 to 64 and losing to West Leyden 72 to 60.

Against West Leyden on January 15, Hawks took three firsts, Gary Ryan on high bar, Steve Wronski on rings, Al Cook in tumbling. The best the team could do on the parallel bars was a third by Senior Dennis Osgood.

Junior Bob Lyons took a second on trampoline. Jack Carpenter placed fourth on the side horse.

In the Palatine meet January 23, Bob Lyons tied for first, with Doug Robertson taking fifth, and Dan Maginc, si.xth.

Senior Jack Carpenter won the side horse, while Doug Dypold placed fifth and Pete Karnov, sixth.

Gary Ryan streaked to his fifth first place on the high bar with Dick Hood placing second and Dave Schrader, fourth.

Dennis Osgood won the parallel bars. Tom Ebeling placed fifth and Dave Schrader, sixth.

Steve Wronski was first on the rings with Dick Hood second and Gary Ryan, sixth.

Al Cook and Dan Magine fin ished second and third in tumbling. Junior Carl S w a n s o n placed sixth.

The sophomore team lost to West Leyden 81 to 51 but bounced beck to whip Palatine 71 to 61. Soph star Jim Gorien totaled 23 points for the Hawks in the two meets.

be difficult to overcome but a double defeat would be the end.

The team has continued to play well on offense but has slipped a bit on defense. Teams like Palatine and. Proviso West shouldn't get within five points of us. It is, however, difficult for a team to get up for a game against such unformidable opponents. Tonight's grudge battle against Niles West should prove more stimulating for both team and fans. . . . Tonight's Game Exciting Tonight's game should be as exciting or more exciting than the screamer we lost against East Leyden. The team should be at its best emotionally and should play it most skillfully.

Star forward Larry Wisebum has predicted that "the winner of tonight's game will be the conference champ." He could very well be right.

Unfortunately the Cagers will have to play two games this weekend and then two games next week. East Leyden will

then play here the week after.

This could be a factor. Frotunately we play not-so-rough teams but such a schedule can't help but affect play. The team will have a week between the second double weekend and the Leyden game, so they should be in good shape. . . . WresUers Win And how about those grapplers? Well done. Let's hope their recent victories continue.

Its seemed to me all along that their record hasn't been a very good indication of their skill.

South should do fairly well in the state competition.

Latest news from Maine East: the Blue Demons won a game!

They defeated the Red Devils of Hinsdale In a recent WSC battle.

Talk about fabulous Maine South firsts.

Again 1 would like to urge everyone to come to tonight's game. This is the "big game" and the team. I'm sure, will appreciate the screaming and yelling of enthusiastic fans.

Mafmen Win Two Meets; Caine Stays Undefeated The varsity wrestling squad made a great improvement in its record the past two weeks as it won two meets and dropped only one. The Hawks scored victories over West Leyden, 24 to 20, and Wheeling, 29 to 16, and lost to Palatine 29 to 18.

The Hawks now have an overall record of two wins, six losses, and one tic for the season.

Six individual wrestlers starred for Maine South in the two victories.

Leading the way was 120-lb, Wes Caine who scored two pins to keep his undefeated record intact. Senior Ron Otto duplicated Caine's performance as he also won on two pins. Two other seniors took a heavy part in the Hawk scoring as Tom Kersten, 133 lbs., won on two decisions, and Steve Richards, 165 lbs., won on a pin and a decision.

Sophomore John Pirie, 95 lbs., and junior Terry Harmon, 138 lbs., were important factors

in the Hawk victories as each captured a pair of victories on decisions. Also contributing to the scoring in the Wheeling meet were 103-lb. Keith Clotfelter, who won on a pin, and 145Ib. Ed Walsh, who tied. . . . Winning Streak Halts Last Friday night, the Hawk's short winning streak came to an abrupt halt. However, Wes Cain^ won on a pin to extend his undefeated string to twelve straight wins. John Pirie defeated his Palatine opponent on a pin. Wiiming on decisions were Ron Otto and Ed Walsh.

Steve Richards dueled to even terms with his opponent and tied.

The grapplers will have a heavy schedule this weekend as they travel to Niles West tonight for a meet at 6 p.m., and journey tomorrow to Niles North for a dual meet beginning at 2 p.m.