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CARNIVAL TIME COMES TONIGHT
FUN FOR ALL AT THE CARNIVAL 500-Driver Shows All Aclamsites To Car Safety Exhibit �N.£ � ii Attencl Gala Affair unusual and interesting exhibit willAn be on display in the auditorium today. It is an all-day program on Finally!! The opportunity many of automobile safety sponsored by the us have been eagerly anticipating is Champion Spark Plug Company. Mr. here. Surely there are many of you Jimmy Reese, who placed seventh in who have always wanted a chance to his first attempt at the 500-mile Me throw a pie at Larry Thompson! And morial Day Racing Classic at Indi where do you get this golden oppor anap0lis, will be program director. tunity? Why at the Senior Carnival, All students of driver education of course! will have access to this program as Tonight, from 7 to 9:30, any Adams well as those students who have student cannot only throw pies at study hall during the day. If at all either Larry Thompson or Ron Co possible, students should try to view hen, but they can play miniature goli this program because Mr. Reese, on the stage, throw basketballs in the holder of the third fastest time for gym, or send telegrams to any place the 500-mile track-145.513 m.p.h. in the carnival. Students with ro, should have a fast moving and sti Pie-throwing! Basketball! Get married! These are only samples he mantic inclinations can be married of t mulating program for all drivers. activities can find at tonight's Senior Carnival. Everyone is invited! (in fun, of course) by Rickie Wet- you more, who has secret ambitions to become a justice of the peace. Those who love to be challenged can try their hands at matching baby pic tures to senior pictures. Ingalls Heads Carnival
Many novelty prizes will be award ed to winners in all the booths and refreshments, including cotton candy, will be available. There is no admis sion charge to the carnival, but all tickets will cost 10 cents. Bob Ingalls is general chairman of the affair and he has been assisted by Jo Dobecki on food, Barry Quiinby on tickets, and Judy Kelley and Linda Hammes on publicity. So everyone be sure and remember to be here tonight at the one, the only Vol. 19, No. 2 JOHN ADAMS HIGH SCHOOL - SOUTH BEND, INDIANA September 19, 1958 Senior Carnival!!!! Straight-A Students AHS. Changes With The Times; Attend Breakfast 98's Shown the Ropes The Honor Breakfast for all those New Faculty, Classes Aclclecl By Council Veterans students who earned straight A's last It not unusual for Adams1:20 students to return to school for another year semester was held on Thursday, Sep and is the school greatly changed. This year was no exception for not only The Student Council's traditional tember 11, in the school cafeteria at the physicalfir.d appearance of the srhool changed but also the student body and Sho-Ya-Roun', held on September 2 eight o'clock. This breakfast, insti faculty. this year, was a freshman orientation tuted by the Student Council and Probably the most important change about the school has to do with en program. Beginning with home room' period, the freshmen were given a taken over by the National Honor rollment whirh has now passed 1400 - a new high for Adams. This figure whole day devoted to becoming bet Society, is fast becoming one of tends to indicate that the new addition to Adams cannot come too soon. The advent of 7:20 classes is probably the most startling change from last ter acquainted with Adams, its facili Adam s' more rewarding traditions. year. All scheduling for these classes was done on a voluntary basis and the ties, students, and teachers. Mr. Paul Shore was the featured idea was so well accepted that many students who volunteered were refused. Between the hours of nine and ten speaker who talked to the honored Most of the students who participate in this program are either dismissed at in the morning, while the 256 new g u e s t s concerning achievement of 2:15 or have the entire fourth hour free. frosh were still in their home rooms, success and happiness. He was in Mr. Nelson Has Private Office Dorothy Nichols took a large scale troduced by Rod Robison, president locker combination to each of the six · The nurse's office has now been moved so that the entrance is to the left of the National Honor Society. home rooms and gave demonstrations in the attendance office. Mr. Gordon Nelson, assistant principal, has been Fruit juice, scrambled eggs, sweet of how to open locker combinations. given his own office in part ofJ. the nurse's old quarters. This move gives both rolls, and milk comprised the menu Then between 10 and 10:20 members Mrs. Dorothy Chamberlain, nurse, and l\ll r. Nelson more privacy and reduces whlle the table decorations were fall of the student council helped new much of the congestion in the attendar.ce office. flowers. Place cards resembled the Because of the need for counseling and guidance, Mrs. Elizabeth Schmidt frosh to open their actual lockers. slates which our grandparents car is now a full-time counselor. Mrs. Paul Winkelman is also assisting Miss Frosh Meet Faculty ried to school. Agnes Burns, head counselor, at the 11th grade level. In the afternoon, an assembly was Hono Students Attend 42 r held to introduce the freshmen to Judy Hughes was chairman of the 'Our Town' To Be TOWER SUBSCRIPTIONS their teachers and the Adams staff. affair and was assisted by Joyce Res P1·esented October 9-10 NOW AVAILABLE Some of the guests were Mr. Russell ler and Eileen Schultz. Rothermel, Mr. J. Gordon Nelson, All Adamsites mark these dates on Subscribe now! Get them while Miss Agnes Burns, Miss Myrtle Mo Students invited were Barbara Al your calendar for future use: October they'.re hot! The time is now to buy berg, Mrs. Elizabeth Schmidt, Mrs. Jison Tony Evans, Barry Liss, Ann 9 and 10. Those are the evenings your Tower subscription. Only $2 per ; · Dorothy Chamberlain, and Mr. Clair MacLean, Dave Mickelsen, Sidney when the John Adams Drama Club year paid on the installment plan at Schreve. Representatives from the Polk, Carolyn Bird, Jane Bolenbaugh, and Thespians will be presenting the rate of 50 cents per month during band, orchestra, glee club, booster Frank Brush, Jim Bunyan, Judy Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer prize win the months from September to De Carlson, Sherry Clarke, Lynn Ehlers, ning play "Our Town." Mr. William cember. This is a saving of $1 a year club, and drama club spoke about the Judy"Enyart, Cathy Fischgrund, Alan Brady is directing, assisted by stu over single issue price. And you sen advantages of their different organ-· Hurwick, Cynthia Heritage, Judy dent director Beth Ryon and stage iors, you won't get the Senior Issue izations.
(Cont'd on page 4, col. 4) manager Dave Mickelsen. � without a subscription! (Cont'd on page 3, col. 3) i September 19, 1958 Page Two JOHN ADAMS TOWER From France at the Happy New Year! We Have ... This is indeed a New Year - the beginning of another school year. Al The following shaggy-dog stories though it is not January 1, there have been all the attendant "back-to-school" were written by our foreign exchange parties. student, Michelle Engel: New Year's resolutions usually pop up at the beginning of each calendar A madman is fishing in the yard of year. Perhaps we need to take a minute from our busy schedules to make a four few about the coming school year. the asylum. Another madman ar 1. I resolve to get an education that goes beneath the surface of facts, rives. He asks the other, "How many --corners one that I can apply to my life and the lives of those about me. fish have you caught?" No answer. As students our primary responsibility in school is to obtain an education, Then a second, "How is your fish not to play football or edit the Tow�r. T00 many of us think we are receiving ing?" No answer. Third, fourth, and Welcome, welcome, welcome-back an education when we memorize facts such as "The Supreme Court handed fifth inquiries have no answer. A few to another wonderful year of football down the Dred Scott decision in 1857" and "The whole of a quantity is equal minutes later arrives the dil"ector of games, parties, dances, basketball to the sum of all its parts." We often forget these points of information five the asylum and he sees him: "Hi. games, and lo and behold-studying. minutes after the test. Good fishing?" The madman shrugs Many congrads are in order for our The test of genuine educci.tion is its application to our daily lives and to his shoulders: "You're the sixth one fine coaches, all "The Boys," cheer current affairs. We can better understand the situation in Little Rock by I've caught this morning," he says. leaders, and loyal supporters for our drawing on our U. S. history, as the Dred Scott case involved a similar issue Napoleon, You've Changed! unanimous victories over Gary Lew of states' rights. The study of geometry develops logical thought that can be Wallace and LaPorte. That's the way There is a madman who thinks that applied to problems we confront every day. The study of literature gives us to start off another tremendous foot he is Napoleon. The director of the a broader understanding of our fellow human beings by revealing why people ball season. Thanks also go to those· asylum closes him in a room and says behave as they do. who arranged and sponsored the fan to him: "You will be able to come out We often mG\ke the mistake of expecting education to be handed to us on buses. Speaking of fan buses, many when you will know that you are not a silver platter. As we gain in maturity, we begin to see the truth of the observers t h i n k it worthwhile to Napoleon." Usuall at the entering statement, "No one can learn for you." In our education we should be pre mention that Mr. Mutti should be of the director, they madman shouts: paring ourselves to make decisions and assume life's responsibilities. come a veryi capable authority on "I'm Napoleon! I'm Napoleon!" But 2. I resolve to become a participating member of a few clubs that truly the "hula" with such a capable in one morning he is just smiling and interest me. structor as Miss Wampler. the director asks him: "Who are you?" Although extra-curricular activities are not of primary importance, they Glad to see all the new faces "Oh! I know," he answers grinning, have a definite place in high school life. which did not fill our halls and class "I'm not Napoleon. I'm Josephine." We go from one extreme to another. Some of us have no use for any clubs rooms last spring, including our or activ"ities, thereby missing out on the opportunities to learn co-operation, One of the madmen at the asylum extra-special ex-.:hange students, to use creative ability, and to be rewarded by the satisfaction of accomplish thinks that he is not mad anymore. Michelle Engel from France and Jan ment. Others of us join nearly every club at Adams and are so busy attending So he goes and sees the doctor who Robbe from the Netherlands . We meetings tha.t we don't have a chance to become active in the one or two says to him: "I shall tell you a story. certainly hope that we make as fine groups that really interest us. When you think it's stupid you stop an impression on them as they al 3. I resolve to support s c h o o l me." And he goes ahead: "On a Sun ready have on us. day afternoon a cyclist is run over drives and projects in the interest of No, there's not a plague circulat RONA SENDS by a car. His bicycle is in pieces and helping others and myself. ing around Adams. the circles his head is cut off. So he takes his All "Give to the Red Cross!" "Give you see under everyone's eyes are GREETINGS head in his hands, rides his bicycle to the Korean Orphan drive!" Give! the results of 7:20 classes. Give! Give! until it comes out of oux Istanbul, Turkey to the next town, enters the BULLETIN: Because of the tem ears as well as our pockets. Maybe chemist's shop he finds ..." "There,"first is "help." It's a won Dear Student Council, porary breakdown of the elevator the correct word the madman bursts out in laughter, derful thing to see that we have given which formerly transported us to the I want to write to all of Adams' "what's the matter with you? It's more than ever before, but it's much third floor pool. a dumb-waiter has we kids one by one, but that is impos real stupid. Everyone knows that more rewarding to know that been installed off the stage for those have been able to help another per sible. So I decided to write to the chemist's shops are not open on Sun who still wish to make use of the son and increase understandings be Student Council, and let them tell day." pool during theil" lunch hour. As an tween people. The financial results kindly my best wishes to all Adams' are usually increased in the end any What Goes Up Must Come Down introductory offer all the freshmen kids. way when we know the meaning of Two men are living at the top of a will be granted the privilege of pay where our money is going. I arrived home after a real long New York skyscraper. One day, the ing only half-admission. There are other aims and resolu trip. The first day I talked all day elevator doesn't work and they have Gene Phillips, why do you always tions we can set up for ourselves. long, trying to explain to my parents try to get away from the rest of These come from self-evaluation and to walk upstairs. They tell jokes all and friends the things that I have the guys knowledge of our shortcomings. If the way up and are just laughing and on the football field? Are we set our resolutions before us and seen in the U. S. A. But there are you an introvert or something? laughing. When they reach the thil" make every effort to keep them, our so many things that I could not tell For all of the curious: No, a wal tieth floor, one says to the other: . high school years will not be a waste "I all at one time. let has not been lost in the vicinity of our time and of the taxpayers' have a real good joke, but I will wait of the grounds between the north money. Each contributes to the at All my friends asked me lots of to tell you until we reach the top." about the teenagers in fence and the track; 'tis the biology tainment of a well-rounded high questions They walk up and up, and at last school education. In the final analy students of making va America. Now they all know how reach the fifty-fifth floor. "By the Mr Litweiler sis the benefits we derive from John nice and friendly are the American ri ous studies . on tridecem lineatus Adams depend on each of us indivi way, what was your joke?" asks the teenagers. (thirteen-striped ground squirrels). dually. Golden opportunities lie all ether. "It's a short one," he replies, While on the subject, should you see around us - it's up to us to make the When I went to downtown Istan- "you forgot your key downstairs." most of them. a bespectacled tridecem 1 i n e a t u s bul, I saw sc many women are wear Happy New Year! There is a man who thinks that he roaming the premises while speaking ing sack and balloon dresses. My is a grain of wheat. So he is very fluent French, it's only the result friends told me that these type of afraid of chickens and whenever he of Carolyn Bird losing her pen while dresses are running out of style now. sees one, he runs away. At last he exploring the depth of one of the JOHN ADAMS I noticed most of my friends have goes to a psychiatrist and explains burrows, thus giving one privileged heard the popular American songs. his case to him. "Listen," the doctor inhabitant a chance to become liter TOWER listened on the radio to some of theI says, "You're a man, not a grain of ate. STAFF newest rock 'n' roll records. That wheat. You are a man! A man! What How do you like the new policy SUE WELBER helps me to miss the U. S. A. less. are you?" "I'm not a grain of wheat, Editor-in-Chief of John Adams tcward our new Next week I will send my appli I'm a man!" affirms the man. And freshmen! Cookies to keep them oc News Editor______Beth Ryon he goes out. But two hours later he Feature Editor ______Linda Ebeling cation paper to the University of cupied while learning their way
Sports Editor______Phil Mikesell Istanbul and study English Litera sees a group of chickens and can't around our belcved halls. I never! Art Editor ______Gene Steven� Circulation Manager ------Dixie Davis ture. I will write you later about help shouting and running away. He Best of the month: Advertising Manager______.Janet Rawles keeps going back to the psychiatrist Exchange Editor ______Mary Reber my activities in University. Please Film: Indiscreet and at their ninth interview, there Song: "It's All in the Game" Faculty tell hi! to all Adams' kids and teach finally is a change. Before the psy Senior: Rod Robison Principa!______Russell Rot hermel ers for me. How are your new Jun ior: Betty Hubart Assistant PrincipaL ______.J. Goi·don Nelson chiatrist says a word, the man says: Adviser ------Mary Walsh foreign friends coming along? I am Sophomore: Sandy Bry leski "I know I'm not grain of wheat, but Freshman: Doug l\'J.ay Published every Friday from September sure they will love Adams as much to .June except during holiday seascn by the chickens don't know it." Teacher: Mr. Schurr as I did. I wish them best of luck Fad: Pony Tails the students of .John Adams High School. Two deaf men meet in a little vil 808 South Twyckenham Drive. South Bend Habit: Filling out multi-colored 15. Indiana. Publications office. room 205, in this year. lage: "Hi! Are you going fishing?" telephone AT 8 -%35. Price: 0 cents per cards in Home Room. Sincerely yours, "No, I'm going fishing!" "Oh! I copy, $2.-00 per year. l · Class: Mr Roop's first hour U. S. RONA BELEK. thought you were going fishing." History. . September 19, 1958 JOHN ADAMS TOWER Page Three Additions to Adams 'Family ' Wouldn't It Be SENIOR SNITCHES Strange If . Greetings and salutations to all Jim Hartke had wavy blac;k hair? you big big SENIORS, and likewise Receive Hearty Welcome Gene Phillips weighed 99 pounds? to you others. Once again this re Mr. Reber taught Chemistry? porter remain anonymous. Any guesseswill you may make as to my With the advent of another school year, many new and scared faces are Barb Helkie didn't a lways talk id-entity will probably be wrong so visible on the Adams scene. Strangely enough, these frightened looks belong about Ken Marvel? don't waste your precious study time. not only to freshmen but also to new teachers. So in order to make our Everyone spent Friday and Satur teachers feel more at home, the TOWER would like to take this opportunity day nights studying? I kept pretty close tabs on the seniors this past summer, and have dis to introduce them to the student body. Susie Nelson was 5' 10"? covered that some of them have de Mr. Robert Scannell, who is teaching biology and physical education at Mr. Goldsberry wasn't called "Ole cided that they should be able to Adams, is not new to South Bend for he graduated from Central High Pops"? play "any role" they want. School. If his name sounds familiar, it's because he was a varsity football Dick Bowyer was principal of For example, the "idiot role" was player last year at Notre Dame University. At N. D. he studied biology and Adams? played by the gang at physical education. When asked what prompted his choice of study, Mr. Nobody weasled in the lunch line? Sue Lawrence's slumber party. It seems that the Scannell said, "I made the choice in third grade for no particular reason, and The SENIORS were freshmen whole group went zooming into the my feeling was reinforced as I grew older." After his graduation from N. D .. again? Palace sporting bermuda shorts and Mr. Scannell became a graduate assistant at Penn State University befor Mr. Krider didn't stare at frighten- those neat, neat sweat shirts. A few coming to Adams. In addition to his teaching duties, he is new basketball� ed seniors? 3 even went so far as to leave their coach taking the place of Mr. Richard Hunter. The Eagles couldn't beat Central? shoes at home, wearing their sun Mr. N. L. Reese, sophomore English teacher, has lived in South Bend Mr. Mutti was 70 years old? glasses instead. Not to be outdone for several years and is familiar with the school since he had a daughter Nobody ever went steady? by anyone, these sophisticated womelli who once attended Adams. He a Notre Dame graduate with an M.A. in Patti Bolling had no pony tail? strode down the aisle to front row education and previously taught atis Warren Township school. He is very im We could walk from room 32 to center and proceeded to laugh hys pressed with the facilities and resources at Adams. 109 in five minutes? Everyone walked single file down terically at Brigitte Bardot through Welcome Back, Mr. Bates and Mrs. Talbot! the hall? out "La Parisienne." Mr. Devon Bates is a familiar face at A. H. S. due to the fact that he was Everyone had lots of school spirit Seen sitting on the top of a car Mr. James Roop's student teacher last year. He is teaching U. S history at all the games? gazing wide-eyed at the fireworks and community civics this year. At Indiana University, Mr. Bates majored on Labor Day was Carol Ensign. in political science which is of prime concern to him because he feels there Those Morris Park guys had quite is much work to be done in order to balance the field of social studies with FRESHMEN TO HEAR a blast during vacation. What was other fields. Adams is more than just an average school when it comes to a noted senior boy doing with an opportunities according to Mr. Bat�s. ABOUT ADAMS CLUBS (Cont'd from page 1, col. (perish the thought) underclassman Mrs. Sara Talbot also familiar to Eagles as she was Mr. Krider's stu 4) Port Laderer narrated a skit which in the rough by number ten green? dent teacher last year.is She now is teaching English and Spanish. Mrs. Tal was designed to instruct the frosh on bot graduated from Indiana University where she majored in English. When (The "older man" role.) proper wearing apparel at Adams. she has a minute of free time, which is not often, she enjoys sewing and Heard that Jim Fett likes to swipe Following this, the group attended a reading. "I want to thank the student body for the beautiful corsage!" seats in Glass Houses? punch in the little theater to which remarked Mrs. Talbot who has been impressed by the friendliness of the
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