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Homecoming Queen Nominees Await Votes

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Chris Hookanson

Susy Hannibal

Cindy White

Patti Magnuson

Chris Nagle

During the homeroom period on Friday, Oct. 10, one of the nine senior girls who have been nominated a s homecoming queen candidates for this year will be elected for the queen position and on Saturday, Oct. 11, will be announced during half time of the varsity game.

On Wednesday morning five finalists were selected to comprise the queens court. The five include Susy Hannibal, Chris Hookanson, Patti Magnuson, Chris Nagle, and Cindy White.

Donna Battaglia, who hopes to be in the V-show this year, has been a member of Pep Club for four years, and is in Ski Club. She plans to major in medicine but has not yet decided which college to attend.

Joyce Carlson, who had the lead in last year's musical "My Fair Lady' and was also in the musical "Music Man", is a member of the Thespian Society. She plans to major in either teaching or drama, but is still undecided on which college she will attend.

Presently serving on the executive board of Student Council, Bonnie De Valle has been a representative of Class Coimcil for three years. She is a member of Concert Choir and has been in V-show for two years. Planning to major in either psychology or special education. Bonnie has not yet chosen a college to attend.

Susy Hannibal, a cheerleader for the past three years, is the captain of the varsity cheerleading squad this year. She has been in Class Council for four years and was elected to the Brotherhood Society during her sophomore year.

Susy, a member of the Thespian Society and the Tri-M Society, has also participated in three spring musicals. She was also active in Student Council and V-show during her sophomore year. Susy, planning to attend the University of Illinois,

will take a general curriculum there.

Chris Hookanson, president of the Marlin Swim Club this year in which she has been a member for the past four years, has participated in two V-s h o w s , Student Council, and Class Council. She is also president of the Brotherhood Society and a member of the Maine South Concert Choir. Planning to attend the University of Illinois or Ohio University, Chris will major in physical education.

A member of Brotherhood Society for four years, Chris Nagel has been secretary of her sophomore class, president of her junior class, and is presently vice-president of the senior class this year. She was a member of Student Council her sophomore and junior years.

She has participated in V-show

for two years, as well as in the Concert Choir. Chris, also a member of the Thespian Society, hopes to become a lawyer after attending the University of Illinois.

Patty Magnuson, a member of Pep Club for four years, has been on Pep Council and on Class Council since last year.

She will study at the University of Illinois or Northern Illinois University to major in home economics or interior design.

A member of tlie Pom Pom squad and of the Thespian Society since her junior year, Jan Poyer has participated in the V-show for four years. She was also in last year's "My Fair Lady" dance chorus. Jan will attend Carroll College in Wisconsin and may study in the area of social work.

Cindy White has been a member of the Brotherhood Society and of Class Council for four years. As the secretary of this

year's senior class, she has participated in three V-shows and has been a member of Student Council for two years. Still undecided on which college to attend. Cindy will probably major in English.

Each of the girls felt very surprised for being nominated as candidates, and many stated they would be very honored to represent their senior class and school if they were elected queen.

Lounge Is Open Using the honor system, seniors are allowed to use the senior lounge first, second, third, and on a trial basis, eighth periods.

Juices, rolls, donuts, coffee and milk are available during .the first three periods. The loimge is not open seventh period to provide time for clean, up after the lunch periods.

The lounge was organized by Bill Alzos, president of the Senior Class, and includes Chair• men Bonney De valle and Joy Clark.

The lounge had some problems with underclassmen going through the snack-bar line, eating in the halls; and the seniors in the lounge neglecting to clean up after themselves.

Continuation of eighth period lounge has been jeopardized by students leaving early. If any senior cuts lounge, his lounge privileges are revoked for a period decided by the dean.

Eyrie Gets Early Start Though Eyrie won't come out until next spring, the salesmen and staff are already busy.

Salesmen will be in homerooms October 20 to 24 to sell Eyries. The price is $5 or $2.75 in two installments. This year students will receive receipts when they purchase a yearbook.

Because the final count is due at the printers November 1, students cannot purchase an Eyrie later than the sales campaign.

On Oct. 4, Pat Bak, Barb Brczinski, Donna Peak, and Beth Timme attended a press conference at Northern Illinois University. The conference included sessions in eopywriting and layout.

1969 Eyrie received two awards — a third place in layout and first place in theme.

Oct. 6 through Oct. 11 was spent setting up schedules for homeroom pictures which will be taken October 14, 15, and 16.

The following week will be devoted to retakes on senior pictures and the annual sales campaign.

Volume 6, No. 2

A traveling exhibition of 54 prints by William Hogarth, 18th century English graphic satirist, will be on display Oct. 13-24, 1969 at Maine South.

The prints will be in the Display cases by the Adminstrative office entrance.

The exhibition, arranged by the University of Illinois Krannert Art Museum and Division of University Extension, is sponsored by The Maine South Art Dept.

Hogarth, born in 1697 is noted for his extraordinary talent as

a pictoral commentator on the life and manner of his time.

Though his contemporaries did not express much regard for his abilities as a painter, he is respected today as a descriptive, satirical, dramatic chronicler who, in some of his paintings, showed himself to be an artist of distinction.

The prints are part of the collection of Krannert Art Museum on permanent loan from the Olsen Foundation, Inc. The exhibition is one of numerous traveling displays arranged by the museum.

Maine Township High School South, Park Ridge, III.

Oct. 10,1969

Space Antena Receires Radio Waves The relatively new science of radio-astronomy has made its Maine South debut this year in the form of a club whose sole project will be the workings of a seven-foot parabolic antenna.

The antenna's purpose is to pick-up and record radio waves given off by stars and some of the planets. Jeff Gallucci and John Cavaliere, both sophomores, thought of the idea last year and have been working on it since then.

The antenna started receiving early this week. The results are taken by a pen-recorder and

Tutoring Given By Honor Society As in the past, tutoring is being offered this year to aid the students of Maine South.

The National Honor Society, offering the traditional tutoring sessions, feels it is responsible for helping other students in bringing grades up because of the society members' "A" averages. Another reason for the sessions is that the tutors can earn money from tutoring students.

Courses covered in the tutoring program include mathematics, science, English, foreign languages, and some types of social sciences. Tutoring is difficult in some social science areas because the work is primarily reading and memorizing.

The student who desires to be tutored contacts his counselor who, in turn, gives general in-

Hogarth art on Display

formation on the student such as name, year in school, and study periods along with the subject the student is interested in to Vesna Neskow, the NHS tutoring chairman, or the pupil may contact Vesna himself.

The tutoring chairman assigns tutors to their students, but the tutors and students decide between themselves on the time, place, and number of sessions each week.

Each student pays a fee of $2 per hour to their tutor. Tutors instruct the students in the methods they find that follow their line of thought.

Students are eligible to be tutors if they are juniors or seniors and have a 3.0-or-above grade average.

Hank Warchall N.H.S. President

tape recorder, and the waves can be seen on an oscilliscope.

"Our first objective," said John, "is to receive waves from the sun." The antenna will be the project of the club all year, and members will go up to the Science Department during their study halls to record the data received.

The antenna is only a modified television antenna donated

by Channel-Master. The other equipment used was either donated, or is owned by the boys ihcmselves.

This will really be a four year project, with the boys donating their equipment to the school when they graduate.

Mr. C. Lane Anderson, sponsor of the RadioAstronomy Club, has been the boys great-

John Caviliere participated in organizing the plans to erect the new radioantenna.

est help, along with the rest of the science department. "And the custodial staff has been a great aid to our project."

The club is still open to all interested students and welcomes new members.

Juniors Get Early Leave Early dismissal has been extended to include some seniors eighth period and some juniors ninth period.

Senior students with eighth and ninth period study halls may request dismissal for these periods if the have job. Jimiors with ninth period study and a job or other valid reason for leaving school early may also request the privilege.

Early dismissal was started as a special senior priviledge last year. Seniors were allowed to leave school after eighth period if they were already scheduled for a ninth period study.

It was hoped that allowing students to leave early would allow them to get to jobs earlier.

This policy has been continued this year and has been extended. To arrange for early dismissal for eighth period for seniors and ninth period for juniors, the students must have notes from their parents stating why early dismissal is requested. They must also fill out a card from their counselor.

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SOUTHWORDS

October 10, 1969

Students Discuss Dress Code A t Maine

by Donna Tumbarello The dress code here at Maine South has, for some time, been a focal point of interest.

It is a fact that every school has some set of rules which regulates the type of attire students wear. But the trend is becoming more liberal. These rules usually specify the long and short of hair and hemlines.

These same rules also restrict students from wearing clothes which are labeled as inappropriate or distracting.

However, to the student, the importance of the issue is not what is ruled in or out, but why.

In a recent group discussion composed of Maine South students, it was established that the clothes themselves were irrelevant. While it is true that some students would find it more comfortable to wear slacks or sandals without socks, the main idea is still the reason and rationalization for such garments being prohibited.

One principal of a neighboring school recently said, "I believe the way students dress affects the way they behave. And dress affects the school's image in the community."

Yet, Lnspite of this stand, a student feels that there is something more important.

In the process of discussing the subject, Dennis Dillion '70, raised two essential questions.

1. Does it infringe on your rights if somebody comes to school looking as he wants, and 2. Is it morally right that he (the student J should have to come to school dressed as somebody else tells him?

In response to the first question, the members of the discussion group unanimously agreed that, no, the way a student looks docs not infringe on the rights of others.

Said one individual, when someone chooses to dress dif-

ferently than normal, or as he sees fit, it affects no one but the individual himself. The disagreement came, however, in the reason for dressing differently.

"Everybody wants a bit of notoriety or recognition for something" said John Welzenbach '70.

And for this reason, some kids choose to wear clothes which may vary from the designated rules of the code. If a student could not gain his recognition through the school functions and activities, one alternative is to do so through his appearance."

Opposing this view, one student expressed his opinion this way; "There is no reason why any one dressed in one particular manner. A person does not choose his clothes specifically to become one type of person or to be identified as being wierd. A person dressed to suit his own personal tastes."

During the course of this discussion, a division in trend of thought was clearly seen. For some students, the rules of Maine South's cede limit their freedom of dress. But for others whose tastes are less conservative, the code is a matter which causes more concern.

"There is nothing that is drastically wrong with the dress code," stated Scott Tetlow '70.

Other students share this belief.

The students in the group accepted the fact that the reason Maine South's dress code is in its present form is that parents and taxpayers of the community wish it to be so. And the administration is here to carry out their wishes.

John explained, the whole thing is elective. The administrators are elected by the parents and they mu.st respond to the wishes of the parents. It's just basic politics; it's only practical."

Of the two questions brought up by Dennis, the latter con-

cerning the right of others to designate the dress of students was then discussed in more detail.

"It's not the place for other parents to tell you what to wear," said Mary Robandt '70.

"As ifar as I'm concerned, two parents are enough to order me around and I don't want four or a hundred other parents telling me what to do."

"The majority of parents are wrong in imposing the dress code on me, because I'm not their child. Why can't we feel free to come however we want without being hassled," added Dennis.

South's group of students fully realized that rules are an essential part of school or any organized institution, but they felt that two ideas were being confused. This confusion lies in the different circumstances imder which rules are made, and the purpose which rules serve.

"Rules which guide and maintain order are one thing, but rules which control personal taste and opinion are another matter completely," said Roberta Smith.

The words exchanged between these students did not seek to, nor did become successful in solving the dress code problem, but suggestions were made. One step toward a solution is an opinion poll which will reveal what students really think.

However, for any measurable amount of success, the student body must take the time to care and answer honestly.

They must also realize that the administration is only doing its job in fulfilling the wishes of the parents. But also the administration must be willing to understand the position of the student and to value the opinions which the students express. For if the opinion of the student has no worth, any attempt to compromise shall also be worthless.

Future Teachers Announce Plans For Busy School Year Ahead The Maine South Future Teachers' Club (F.T.A.) has announced their activity schedule for the '69-'70 school year.

President Barb Nelson '70 remarked, "This year we want to strive for an even better and stronger club than we have had in the past, with many opportunities and activities for members of the club.

This spring, Maine South's F.T.A. has accepted the invitation to host the I.A.F.T.A. convention, where candidates for

the office of I.A.F.T.A. for the following year conduct t h e i r campaigns. Delegates from var ious chapters of I.A.F.T.A. from all over Illinois will be at Maine South for the convention.

Last year, three delegates from Maine South attended the convention at Quincy. Illinois and found it to be both a "rewarding and enjoyable experience " This year every club member will be involved in planning and organizing the convention's activities.

Afterwords

Opportunity for Students In the recent primary election for delegates to the Constitutional Convention, only about 18 per cent of the voting public exercised their right. This slight turnout indicates a feeling of indifference to the drafting of a new state constitution among the adults.

The new constitution, if passed, may perhaps serve Illinois another 99 years as has the present one. This means that the students presently enrolled in Maine South will have to live with the new constitution as the basis for their government when they are adults.

Students, so often labeled as ceaseless critics with no alternative solutions or suggestions, now have the chance to do something positive which will have a lasting effect on their future.

Southwords urges the students of Maine South to act on this opportunity.

This can be done in two ways, individual action and collective action. Once the delegates are elected, students can write to them expressing their ideas and making suggestions on various topics such as tax reform, roles of state and local governments, and reapportionment; or they can discuss the problems with others and urge adults to vote.

Again this year, F.T.A. hopes to organize a successful student teacher program.

Each student that participated in the program reported that the experience was one of the best opportunities to teach that had been offered to him. This year F.T.A. hopes to expand the program to include more than one elementary school so more students will be able to teach.

Last year F.T.A. established an experimental program for students to act as teacher-aides in their free time. Most teachers and students were satisfied with the results, and again F.T.A will sponsor the program, which is designed to show students the behind-the-scenes aspects of teaching. Teacher-aides assist the teacher by doing such tasks as correcting objective quizes and tests, and designing bulletin boards.

Already this year. F.T.A. has sent four members on the Penndyer School three-day field trip. Two volunteers, S c ot t FauUi '71 and Greg Gann '71, and two members, Rita Hollerbach '71, and Marlene MacDonald '70, acted as counselors and student supervisors to fifth grade students.

At an F.T.A. meeting Mr. Beauprez remarked. "A student does not have to become a teacher if he joins the club because our purpose is to help a student decide whether or not to become a teacher. We want to give each member the opportunity to make that decision by providing real esperiences."

euT \ ™CH \^E^E I Beards Suddenly Popular On Faculty at Maine South Are beards suddenly everywhere, or do they just seem to be? Actually, only three Maine South teacher? have them.

Mr. Daniel Silkowski, English teacher, was the first of the bearded trio to experiment with the fashion. On June 26, 1968, Mr. Silkowski attended a convention for Advanced Placement English teachers in San Francisco. About half the male teachers there, he said, had beards.

When he returned home, he decided to grow a beard himself.

"I think it enhances my personal appearance," Mr. Si'kowski remarked. Also, he feels it establishes a "certain social distance" between himself and his students.

Mr. Leo Skinner, also of the English department, returned to South with a beard this September. "I really don't know why I grew it At the time I thought more lumberjack than hippie. " he commented. Mr. Skinner explained that he feels he "looks good with it," but at the same time, has "mixed feelings."

Third of the trio is Mr. William Lange, biology teacher.

Mr. Lange grew his beard during the summer, while living in Chicago. He felt that the atmosphere of the neighborhood encouraged him to experiment with a beard. He stated that the beard is "no reflection of any internal beliefs or attitudes."

Each of the teachers remarked that he encountered some "goodnatured ribbing" upon first returning with his beard. All commented that they would probably keep their beards, for a while, at least.

"Some people think it's unprofessional, " noted Mr. Lange.

No one from the school has suggested to any of these teachers that they shave their beards off.

Mr. Elbert Smith, dean of students, commented that he does not feel that a beard improves a person's appearance.

"That's just my personal opinion," he said.

Concerning the right of students to wear beards because

of a need to express themselves, Mr. Silkowski said, "I think' that's hogwash." He said that although students have a right to express themselves, the ways, in which they do it is limited because "they're still students."

Mr. Skinner, on the same issue, commented, "You can approach it from so many ways," such as school philosophy, style, and grooming. "Cleanliness," he remarked, in regard to hair as well as beards, "is more important than length."

Mr. Lange felt that a student "should • grow a beard if he really wants to, but only if it complements his appearance.

Students have expressed vari-* ous opinions: "Some kids say 'Teachers do it so we can, too', that's wrong." One student said, that students should be allowed to grow beards because teachers do it.

Said Mr. Lange, "Judgment of a person should not be from external appearances. A person is a person no matter how beautiful or ugly he is."

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Student Councirs Purpose and Goals Defined

by John Barzditis Certainly the largest, most important student organization at Maine South is the Student Council. Student Council actively involves more tiian 80 students who represent a cross section of classes, interests, and abilities unknown in any other organization.

Student Council is the only organization at Maine South that involves every student: through actual participation on the student's part and through the activities Student Council sponsors and duties it performs.

Student Council is also unique because of the position it occupies as organizer of events for all students and as the sole organized body through which students can influence the school administration.

From this position comes Student Council's importance. If a Student Council lacks direction or resolve it causes a void unable to be filled by any group, either student or faculty. Stu dent Council is the mainspring from which student leadership at Maine South comes; Student Council is undoubtedly necessary and vital to the student body at Maine SouUi. Because Student Council involves and exists for every student at Maine South, Student Council's success is to a large extent a reflection of student interest shown in it. An interested student body supplies capable candidates for election to Student Council and by presf.ure maintained because of their interest forces the members of Student Council to perform thciv job to their fullest capacity.

Yet interest is not spontaneous. A large portion of interest if anything is the result of knowledge about it. Such 's true for Student Council. Many students at Maine South have no

information about Student Council or are badly misinformed about the varied activities Student Council sponsors. Clarification of Council's activities will be a start in informing *he uninformed and hence promoting an even more active, progressive Student Council.

Nearly all Student Council activities are discussed, organized, and executed by one or more of nine Student Council committees. These nine committees are the AFS, Assembly, Organizations, Public Relations, Service Corps, Social, Sportsmanship, Traffic Court, and V-Show committees.

AFS (American Field Service) committee, chaired this year by Pat Bak '71. works with tlie adult chapter of the AFS in planning a memorable year for our AFS students and in insuring that Maine South will have .AFS students in future years.

An important function the AFS committee performs in doing this is the sponsoring of fund raising activities.

The AFS committee will sponsor AFS week Jan. 19-23 as the high point of AFS committees activity this year. Peter Bloomfield and Kazuini Sekino are this year's AFS students.

AFS committee, along with the adult chapter also sponsors the Americana Abroad program by which students are sent

What- Interests Semi-finalist?

Though Vesna Neskow, Norman Ellstrand, and Hank Warchall all followed the same path in becoming National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists, their respective interests vary widely.

As juniors last spring, they voluntarily took the NMSQTâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Testâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;covering math, general science, and English, as

Olympic Skier To Speak At Ski Club's Program Maine South Ski Club, along with Maine West and East's clubs, will present a special ski program featuring Pepi Sicglie, Olympic Skier.

Pepi, who was born in Tirol, Austria, has been skiing since the age of six and participated in his first race at nine. At twenty he placed fourth in the Aoeburg Kandahar in Chamonnix, France and won an inter national downhill. This led him to the National Team of which he was a member for six years.

abroad to live with a foreign family for a summer or year.

This year a record 29 students have applied for Americans Abroad. Barbara Hoffman '70 is spending her school year in Germany as an American Abroad Student.

The Assembly committee, chaired by Dick Eastman '71 organizes, with the approval of Uie administration, many assemblies for the student body.

This involves obtaining speakers, contacting coaches and other administration members who are to give speeches, and organizing all activities of the assembly into a logical sequence which giving it shape and meaning. The assembly chairman also introduces speakers at regular assemblies and gives pep talks at pep assemblies. This year the assembly committee will have organized the homecoming, winter sports. Student Council election. Brotherhood, and AFS assembles; in addition to several pep assemblies.

The organization committee, chaired this year by Bill Barmeier "71, is concerned primarily with running Student Council elections. This involves making petitions available to candidates, publicizing the election, printing ballots, and counting ballots.

The organization committee is currently studying the possibil-

In the 1960 and 1964 Olympics.

Pepi won gold, silver, and bronze medals for his country, all in slolam events.

After these numerous performances. Pepi was offered the directorship of Jackson Hale Ski School in Wyoming in 1965. He has coached there since the winter months.

All interested students, faculty, and parents are invited to attend the program which will be presented on Oct. 16, at 7:30 in the cafeteria.

did South's other semifinalists.

Students who received the highest scores in the nation became semifinalists. Of the 15 thousand semifinalists, 97 per cent will become finalists on the basis of an essay each contestant wrote on himself, and 30 per cent of these will win prizes What do the participants think of this program? Vesna urges "everyone who is interested in getting a scholarship" to take the NMSQT. Hank noted that "it's nice to be recognized" and called his experience "worthwhile."

Whether or not they are among the 30 per cent that will win prizes, Vesna, Norman, and Hank all plan to continue their education.

Vesna wants to pursue the field of law at Radcliffe or Yale.

Norman's interests are cen tered in science, particularly biology, which he plans to teach on either the high school or college level.

Hank will attend either Cornell university or Rice university, and plans to major in physics.

Junior, Senior Mathematics Students Participate in New Computer Program Thirty-five students are now taking a more active part in the computer age through the computer program presently offered at South.

The Math Department invited participants in the honors junior math and science programs as well as senior math and science students to be a part of this program and accepted all the applicants.

Mr. Elliott, Math Department Chairman, explained that the computer program is a strictly voluntary activity and that no credit is given.

He outlined the objectives of the program as 1. To allow interested students to learn programming language and experience the advantages of communicating with the computer; and 2. The enrichment of the classroom experience with the results for problems whose solution requires a prohibitive amount of computation.

The programming language which the thirty-five participants are learning is the "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code," or BASIC. The students meet after school for training sessions which are taught by a representative of the firm supplying the computer. Two such sessions have been held, and there will be two to three more.

Once they have mastered the language of the computer, the students will be able to communicate with it via teletype and obtain solutions to problems.

Hank Warchall, who participated in the program last year, and who is active again this year said that BASIC is not difficult to learn, but must be studied sertously. In total, Hank estimated spending 10 hours studying it. Now he is learning FORTRAN, another computer language, and finds his know-

ledge of BASIC helpful.

Hank has solved some of the problems from his classes with the computer, and has found most teachers fairly receptive to the idea.

ity of substituting the student election of Student Council vicepresident for that of secretary.

Changing the date of the election is also being studied by the organizations committee.

The Public Relations Committee, chaired by Dave Littel '71, is concerned with the relations between Student Council and the student body and community.

Currently the Public Relations Committee has been working at the school telephone directory, "Busy Signal". Their other major activity is the publicity of Student Council activities. This year the Public Relations Committee is also working on a revision of the Council by-laws and is organizing the Hull House tutoring program.

The Service Corps, chaired by Ted Berg '71, suggests and promotes change in Maine South that would benefit the students.

Projects currently proposed by the Service Corps include a broader system of student monitoring and the obtaining of an ice machine for the athletic teams. The Service Corps also operates the suggestion boxes soon to be found in all the homerooms.

The Social Committee, chaired

by Bonnie DaValle '70, organizes all Student Council dances and other social functions. On Sept. 3 a Teachers Appreciation Day was sponsored by the Social Committee to welcome back all teachers to Maine South. A Student Council picnic Sept. 21

was also sponsored by the Social Committee. Student Council and all school dances are also sponsored by the Social Committee. The Social Committee hopes to sponsor a dance with a big name group or have a Mardis Gras in either January or February.

The Sportsmanship Committee, chaired by Therese Brady '71, tries to promote school spirit and support for athletic teams. Homecoming is currently t h e project occupying the Sportsmanship Committee's time. Their major duty of the year is to organize nearly every aspect of homecoming.

The Traffic Court chairman, Ted Johnson '72, assists in checking the student parking lot for parking slickers and moving and parking violations. Currently Ted is attempting to obtain usage of students of a parking lot other than the South lot currently used by students.

The V-S h o w Committee, chaired by Marcy Barnard '71, worked with Mr. Chastain and the music and drama departments in dealing with the practical end of V-Show. The VShow Committee designs program covers and prints programs, takes care of all publicity, organizes the selling of tickets, and provide refreshments for the cast after performances and late rehearsals.

V-Show provides the major source of Student Council income.

Sophomores show spirit at Float-Building.

New Lab Format Helps Students You will be glad to know that everybody else has been hearing bells in middle of first, third, and seventh periods and not only you. It's all because of the new- format to the organization of the language lab this year.

F'irst year students hear tapes twice a week for twenty minutes during half-study periods on Tuesdays and Thursdays or Mondays and Wednesdays.

Miss Marion Fisher, chairman of the language department says that this program gives the extra practice needed

in the oral, hearing and speaking aspects of language.

Mrs. Alice Brumke is the lab technician in charge of the 930 students that pass through the door to the lab room. She monitors and encourages the students during lab and says that a good attitude points to the success of the project.

Repeat, listen, and remember is the job of the language students. Students of other levels use the lab once a week during class.

4 4 New Teachers Added To Faculty Forty-four new faculty members are employed at Maine South in '69-'70, ranging from Mrs. Grana, the new nurse, to two new teachers in boy's P.E. Like many of the new teachers, Mr. Ralph W. Wagoner, a speech and drama teacher, has been favorably impressed by Maine South students.

Mr. Wagoner, who will be technical director for three of Soutli's four dramatic productions and is sponsor of WMTH, said that he was pleased witli "student interest and enthusiasm at Maine South."

Miss Linda Gladstone, who previously taught at McHenry High School, teaches Spanish at Maine South. Miss Gladstone says that she is going to place more stress on speaking Spanish than on reading and writing in her classes.

She said that she "likes Maine South students â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they're sophisticated, good students with a lot of school spirit." Miss Gladstone is sponsor of the horseback riding club.

Juniors and seniors may have encountered Mr. James Keating in their government and history

classes. Mr. Keating is employing different techniques so that his classes will "teach one another."

He is employing audio-visual aids and having t he classes participate in various skits and games. Mr. Keating has been impressed by Maine South and said, "Park Ridge is the kind of conirp'unity I'd like to live in."

He also said that students here have u great deal more liberty and responsibility than they are given at other schools where he has taught.

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October 10, 1969

Harriers Set Showdown

Hawk end John Manning (62) prepares to pull in a pass w i t h i n a ring of Titan defensive players.

The Maine South varsity harrier squad will be hosting in the forest preserve across from the school today, and the team has expressed the hope that a good crowd will be on hand to cheer for the last home meet of the season.

Going into the final stages of the season, the Hawk harriers are still competing for a first place finish in the Central Suburban Conference. There is a good chance that the two Maine schools will be fighting each other for the crown at the final conference meet.

The great potential of this year's team was shown most impressively against Glcnbrook South and Nilos West, the latter meet being run last Tuesday. In both cases tlie Hawks ran up perfect scores against

Hawks Battle Vikings Next The Hawk football team will start the second half of their season tomorrow afternoon in their Homecoming game against the Vikings of Niles North, knowing that they cannot afford to lose another game this season in order to stay in the CSL race. The game promises to be a hard-fought contest since the Vikings came very close to defeating unbeaten Glenbrook North last week.

Maine South proved to be a serious contender last week at Deerfield as the Hawks defeated the preseason favorites, 14-0.

Maine showed a running attack to be reckoned with in that contest as they rushed with the ball all but 3 times, gaining almost 200 yards. The defense also put on an impressive performance, allowing only 48 yards on the ground.

Maine South suffered a major setback two weeks ago against Glenbrook South when the Hawks lost, 14-8. in what Coach Schmidt still called one of the team's best performances of the season to this point. Behind 14-0 at the half to one of the better teams of the conference, the injury-riddled team was able to come back following an intercepted pass by lineman Tony Colleto. A 28-yard drive then took place with halfback Malloy taking it in the final yard.

The defense remained excellent.

Injuries have been a major detrimental factor in the first half of the season. Beside the irreplaceable loss of John Garcea for the season with a broken ankle, fullback Greg Abezetian has to play with bruised ribs and a cracked thumb from the Deerfield game. Minor injuries have kept about five other players out for parts of games, but the situation is not nearly as

bad as at Holy Cross College.

Halfback Denny Malloy has shown great running in leading the CSL in scoring, which also indicates a good offensive line.

Junior quarterback Joe Zdeb has gained much yardage on pass-option plays. 'I'he defense has been great throughout the year. Tony Colleto was selected along with Zdeb for captains in tomorrow's game, and will receive help from Jeschke, Shemechko, Mosena, and Benson on the line.

Niles North will be fielding the best team in the school's history, according to Coach

CENTRAL SUBURSAN GRID STANDINGS Glenbrook .North Glenbrook South Maine South Maine West Deerfield Niles West Niles North New Trier West

W 3 2 1 1 1 1 I 1

L U 1 1 1 2 2 2 2

MAINE SOUTH CSL CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS LOW SCORE WINS

MS MS MS MS MS

22 15 29 19 15

Maine West Glenbrook South Deerfield Niles North Niles West

37 50 26 46 50

Maine South and Park Ridge have contributed some good football players to colleges from the last few years. Most recently Ty Sigmund and Dave Butz entered Georgia Tech and Purdue, respectively, on scholarships. Ty hopes to break the starting lineup within the next two years at the .Atlanta school to play for the Yellow Jackets.

Dave, rated by one Boilermaker coach last year as the best line prospect in the country, will probably be eligible to play next year.

The two quarterbacks of the '67 undefeated squad are both out for football. Gary Lange has

game with quarterback Russ Hylen offsetting it with timely passing.

The running has been carried out fcr the most part by halfback Dan Mojica and fullback Bill Green. The offense moved especially well against Deerfield, picking up about 5 yards every attempt that afternoon.

Most of the scoring in that game came in the second half, it being 8-6 in favor of Maine at the half.

The last two victories have left the Hawks within striking distance of the conference title, especially since Maine West has lost to Glenbrook South. The title is sometimer not definitely decided since some teams cannot field a junior varsity squad.

Nevertheless, the Hawks show every sign of continuing their excellent season.

Overshadowing the defeat to Deerfield w-as the Hawk performance at the Ridgewood Invitational last Saturday. From the large field of 21 schools, the varsity harriers were able to bring back the first-place trophy.

In that meet, Jim Cole turned in an excellent performance by taking second place. Sophomore Ken Huffman followed with tenth, Murzyn eleventh. Bill Reilly took twentieth, Jim Walley twenty-first, and Jay Lajone finished with a twenty-eighth.

These runners gave the Hawks enough points to beat the second place team by 4 points, and Deerfield by over 100 points.

Following the recent overwhelming victories, the harriers are now concentrating on the CSL Conference Meet. Because of the unusual closeness of the conference, the Hawk runners will have to be in top form a week from today to bring home the first-place trophy.

Senior harriers Cole and Murzyn again l e a d an outstanding cross-country squad to an easy victory against Niles North. Murzyn (hat) recently set a home-course record t i m e of 12:24.2

Soph Harriers Dominate Invitational The Maine South Sophomore harriers will host the Glenbrook North Titans today after school in what will be the most crucial meet for both teams so far this season. Each team has suffered

one loss to conference leading Maine West and w^ould like to avenge the defeat ver>" much by winning the conference meet.

A loss this afternoon is going to put one of the teams out of

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Juniors Go For Fourth Grid Win The junior varsity football team will be going after their fourth win of the season when they go to Niles North Monday afternoon. The Hawks will be hoping to roll up another big score, as they have done in three of their first four games.

The little Hawks, under Coach Hopkins, began the season with a 30-14 win over Wheeling.

Their worst game of the season then followed against a good Maine West team, ending up on the short end of a 14-6 score.

The usual second half surge which the team has become noted for never materialized in that one loss.

The last two weeks have found the J.V.'s winning impressively against Glenbrook South and Deerfield. The scores were 28-6 and 22-6. respectively. Like the varsity, they have concentrated primarily on the numiiig

Schmidt. They are a very fast team, especially their halfback Klein, who they run often. The Viking quarterback, McKay, is capable of leading a good passing attack to offset the running game.

The Hawks will have a greater incentive going into the game since, besides being their homecoming, they have a better shot at the CSL championship than do the Vikings.

Glenbrook North, although undefeated, has yet to play the tougher half of their schedule. By winning the remainder of their games, coupled with a Glenbrook South loss, the Hawks would obtain at least a share of the title.

their opponents (15-50).

The perfect score against the Titans of Glenbrook South was achieved by placing 7 men ahead of the Titans first finisher. Mike Murzyn led the Hawks in this victory with a course record time of 12:42, Jim Cole registered a 12:25, while Jim Walley took third at 12:50 for the two mile run. Bob Cesario.

Kelly Murphy, Kevin Huffman, and Jay Lajone rounded off the victory by placing within 5 seconds of each other after a 13 minute run. Against Niles West, the Hawks were represented in the first 14 places.

The harriers were caught completely off guard on Wednesday of last week when they were victims of a surprising defeat at the hands of Deerfield.

As Coach Connor pointed out during the Homecoming assembly, the Hawks were not at full strength for the meet. Mike Murzyn was ill for that meet, and his absensc helped the Warriors to grab a close 2C-29 victory.

Maine's loss to Deerfield threw the Central Suburban race into a three-way tie between Maine South, Maine West, and Deerfield. If, however, the Hawks can take the Conference meet which will be held one week from today, Maine South would be the sole possessor of the CSL tiUe.

been sharing the quarterback duties at Illinois while Iluey Rodham is out for (he excdienv Penn State team. 1 ^ange, in his first appearance against Missouri, threw a long touchdown pass of about 70 yards. Last week-end, Gary hit his high point as the Illini stumbled 1o their lowest level of the season.

He threw for T.D. passes of 22.

54, and 15 yards to account for all the points in a 48-20 loss to Iowa State.

Other members of that s.ninc team include Jim Kaiser, who was the Hawk captain, at Iowa and M.V.P. Tom Spotts at

Brown. Mike Plessner is presently playing at Bradley, witli Mike Barret and John Holdon at Ivy League schools.

Steve Smith, the "Dave BuU" of Maine East who graduated in 1962. w-ould have attended South had it been built. He is now playing on the Minnesota Vikings after a career at Michigan. Steve plays on the line, substitutes offensively, and plays on the special teams.

This last fact was unfortunate for Bear fans last season, as he put their punter, Bobby Joe Green, out for the season with a knee injury.

^''P''' "^^ '^"'^^ 째 " ^''"^ ^""""P* Tomorrow morning. Coach er Niles North tomorrow should Lou Gartner's sophomore gridders will face Niles North, who join the Hawks in a three way lie for second place in the C.S.L. The Hawks lost their first place standing last Saturday w h e n Deerfield handed them a 22-8 defeat. Niles poses a dangerous threat to Uie Hawk's hopes of regaining conference laurels.

The Vikings took conference last year as freshmen. Their offense is sufficiently jMlent, as illustrated by last week's 40-0 plundering of New Trier West.

Coach Gartner feels that his defense is solid enough to hold the Vikings offense, while his offense runs up a winning score.

At present, Niles West is on top of the conference. But they have had an exceptionally easy schedule thus far, and will probably step aside as the competition comes. A Maine victory ov-

put the Hawks on top, and in excellent contention to end the season on top.

The following Saturday at Deerfield, the sophomores ran into a little competition and tough luck. The defense was somewhat late in waking up in the first half as they let the Warriors run 14 points past them. The offense also had some trouble as they couldn't seem to get the ball over the goal line. They put together some impressive drives, but didn't come through on some crucial third and fourth down plays.

The only score,for the Hawks came in the second half when they recovered a Deerfield fumble and drove it in. Deerfield also scored in the second half, making the final score 22-8. All in all, it turned out to be one of those unfortunate days for the Maine South sophomores.

conference contention. Therefore both teams will go into the meet knowing that a victory is necessary.

Both teams entered the Maine West Centers Meet earlier this season and ran about evenly.

Since then the sophomores have lost their top runner Bill Reilly to the varsity. But Coach Tom Mahon is still confident of a victory. In the one month since the Centers Meet the sophomores have improved tremendously.

Nothing better illustrates the Hawks winning surge than the excellent performance last Saturday when Maine South finished on top of 20 other schools in the Ridgewood Invitational.

Out of a field of 147 runners the Hawks placed three in the top twenty. Mike Wencel took second, Tom Starck p l a c e d tenth and Tom Bush came in eighteenth. Freshman Tom Strelka and Mike Bellart provided the needed depth as they grabbed 24th and 29th places. Maine South's 83 points took the meet by a margin over the 92 points Elk Grove used to take second.

In dual meet action the Hawks trounced Glenbrook South 17-46 on the home course, and handed Deerfield a 20-41 defeat the following Wednesday. Last Friday they soundly defeated N i l e s North 21-38. The grueling run at Ridgewood Saturday seemed to slow up a few Hawk runners last Tuesday at Niles West, but they still pulled out a healthy victory of 23-36.

At the beginning of the season Glenbrook North posed as a towering threat to the Maine South sophomore harriers. But looking back now. that would seem rather obvious since practically all of the top sophomore runners are out for their first year of cross country. The Hawks have shown before that they have the will and ability to win and they will most likely show it again tonight.