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Vol. 22, No. 3 - HI GH SCHOOL, SOUTH BEND, INDIANA Friday, September 29, 1961 SEMI-FINALISTS NEWS IN NAMEDBYMERIT SENIOR CARNIVAL' TODAY Eight J ohn Adams seniors have been named semi-fina lists in the ,.__.. __ N ______BRIEF EVENINGOFFUN National Merit Scholarship Con ­ test. Joann e Schultz , Claire Car­ Business , Industrial Education penter , Ted Tetzlaff , Dave Little , PROMISEDTOALL Day is October 3 this year. While Bob Bu ck, Bill Kunz, Doug May, Take the raccoon coats out of teachers visit Studebaker, Bendix, · and Dick Elliott were told of their the mothballs and warm up the old Associates, and other South Bend selection last Fr iday. Eli zabeth Model "T", for the · seniors are and Mishawaka businesses and in­ Hode s, a former Adams st udent, going to take us back to the wild dustries, students will have the has also been named tn semi­ and wooly Roaring Twenties. It is entire day to do nothing! finalists stature. the time of year when those crea­ Basketball practice begins Oc­ The seventh annual National tures called senio rs stage their an­ tober 2. Now is. a good time for Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test nual Senior Carnival. This year everyone to make a mental note to was administered at Adams last the theme (as you might have stay off the gym floor unless he is March 7. From all students who noti ced) will be the Roaring wearing proper shoes. We can't ex­ took the test, approximately ten Twenti es. The Carnival is tonight, pect to have a good earn with a thousand were named semi -final ­ at the school, and will be held poor floor. ists . In each state, the number of from 7:30 until 9:30 . The PTA Faculty Tea is October semi -finalists is slightly less than Many of the booths will reflect 19. Teachers will sip tea and cof­ one per cent of the grad uating the era of bat htub gin. The center fee and munch cookies as the high school seniors in that state. of attract ion wi ll be the speak­ Parent-Teacher Association hon­ The eight Ad ams semi -finalists easy in the cafeteria. Here refresh­ ors them for their fine job. must now take a second examina­ ments (soft) wiff be served, and The pep .assembly on October 6 tion. Students who score sufficient ­ the seniors themselves will pre­ will be sponsored by the Booster ly high on the second test will be sent two floor shows. John Clark Club. named National Merit Finalists. is in charge of this booth. Don't forget the Senior Carnival From the list of Finalists, this Another booth to look for is an -come, come, come! year's Merit Scholars will be de­ old -time movie. Set in the '\twen­ termin ed. ties", the movie was produced, directed, and cast by the seniors themselves. All the critics at the Parentsof Fr~sh SeasonTicket Sale sneak rev iew agree that it is an A-1 movie , considering the cast , WelcomedbyP. T.A. Results Announced "YOU'LL HA VE A BALL AT THE SENIOR CARNIVAL " of course . Lynn Ehlers has charge The annual Ninth Grade Wel - of this booth. come was held in the auditorium At the Mishawaka pep assembly Still another booth not to be last Tuesday evening from 7:15 on October 6, home room 108 will Hi-Y Plans Year, missed is the baby pictures booth. until 9:30. The purpose of the be honored for having a higher "Joanof Lorraine"This year, the booth will be unique event was to introduce the parents percentage of football season tick­ Elects Officers in that the pictures will be of fac­ of Adams freshmen to school pol­ ets than any other home room in ToBe Fall Play ulty members. Pictures such as icy and procedure. the school. 72% of the students in Do you remember the tootsie when Mr . Schurr was little may The parents registered in the the winning home room purchased roll pops at Adams Eve? And the Mr. William Brady, Drama Club take us back further than the fr eshman home rooms at 7:15 so season tickets . City Championship of the Hi-Y sponsor, has announced that the "twenties." that they might become acquainted The season ticket sale this year Hot Shots? Once again the Adams club will present its annual fall General chairman of the Carni­ with the teachers . Twenty-five was sponsore d by the Booster Club Hi- Y is in action with the familiar play on November 9, 10, and 11. val is Ozzie Morgan. Assisting him minutes were spent learning about and the Monogram Club . Th e sell ­ fa ce of Mr. Stan Mutti ba cking the The play this year is to be "J oan are Frank Mock, publicity; Jerry home rooms, changing classes, and ing of _ tickets in home rooms crew. New personalities, however, of Lorraine", by Maxwell Ander­ Philip , tickets; Jill Paulk, decora­ fr eshmen programs. eliminated the long lines that adorn the list of officers: Howard son. Anderson, one of the foremost tions. The Senior Class sponsors , At 7:50, the parents met in the formerly gathered at Ticket Booth Wallace, president; Dan Janicki, modern playwrights, tells the story, Miss Helen Law and Mr. Stan auditorium where Mrs. Bruce "A". 50% of the student body vice-president; Gregg Magrane, of with an unusual Mutti, are acting in an advisory Hostrawser, president of the P.T.A. purchased season tickets. A total secretary; Terry Smith, treasurer; twist. capacity . welcomed them. Taking the stand of 1053 tickets were sold. Larry McKinney, sergeant - at - The play will be given in the to give a talk on courses of study, arms; Chuck Litweiler, chaplain. Little Theater this year. Mr. Brady graduation requirements, and col­ extra-curricular activities avail ­ P.T.A . Meeting The club plans to further their said that the Little Theater puts lege requirements was Mr. Steven able at Adams. P.T.A. members the audience closer to the play it ­ To Be Oct. 3 Kosana, freshman counselor. ser.ved as hostesses, and the Ushers traditional activities again this self and gives the actors the bene­ The John Adams Parent-Teach­ Mr. Rothermel, who acted as Club guided the parents on a tour year. These ac~ivities in clude th e fit of better acoustics than are ers Association will hold its first master of ceremonies, spoke on the of the building. distributing of food baskets to found in the auditorium. meeting of the 1961- 62 school year needy families at Thanksgivi ng, Try-outs began last Monday, on October 3 at 7:30 p.m. in the Adams Eve , Swingheart Sway, the September 25, in Room 22. Stu­ Little Theater . SCHOLARSHIPFOUNDATION THANKSA.H.S. Adams-Riley Coronation Ball, and dents need not be members of Mr. Harold V. Maurer will pre­ In a letter sent to Mr. Rother­ appropriated $290.80 to the Schol­ the Hi -Y Easter Assembly. Drama Club to try out for parts. sent a European travelogue as the mel, the Scholarship Foundation arship Foundation. main feature of the program. The of St. Joseph County extended its This ·year through its program, The platform of the Hi-Y is Chairmen for "Joan of Lorraine" John Adams Glee Club, unde,r the the Scholarship Foundati on has thanks to the students of John Ad­ "clean living, clean speech, clean are Candy Szabo, make -up ; Char­ directi on of Mrs. Lawrence T. aided seven St. J oseph County stu­ la ne C o 1 i p, pr ogra ms; De nny ams who participated in the sportsmanship, clean scholarship." Pate, will sing "Salutation to the dents. Judy Hughes, of the 1959 Fischgrund, publici ty; Car ol Geb ­ "Teen - o - Scope" program last Its purp ose is to crea t e, m ain tain, Dawn," a me dl ey from "The Adams grad uating class, is now in hardt, properties; Sallyi Lumm and Sound of Music," and "My Bonnie spring. The program stage d by and extend through out the hom e, _ her third year at P urdue Un iver ­ Lin da Nelso n, costumes; Doug May Lies Over the Oce an." students from Adams and the oth ­ sity through the help of the school, and comm unity, h i g h and Dan Da lberg, tickets. Bill Devotions will be given by Mrs. er three South Bend high schools Scholarship Foundation. standards of Chris tian characte r . Kunz is the stage manag er. Robert Plant. Page Two JOHN ADAMS TOWER Friday, September 29, 1961 RussianProposed Troika Leila Harjanne CounciI President ·Tells Sends Greetings DebatedIn UnitedNations Sophomores, juniors, and seniors AboutSummer Workshop Troika is a Russian word meaning a carriage pulled by three need no help in ,remembering Leila During August of this summer, Linda Cobb and Ted Tetzlaff, repre­ horses abreast. Within the last year, however, it has gained Harjanne, but to the freshman­ senting John Adams' Student Council, joined about 200 other delegates a new and completely different meaning. Troika is the word Leila was our beautiful blond ex­ at Indiana University for the first Student Council Workshop to be held Soviet Premier Khrushchev has coined for a three~man head change student from Helsinki, Fin­ in Indiana. of the United Nations. land, last year, and in case you At the first session of the workshop all .students were arbitrarily find you need to pronounce her In October of last year, Khrushchev made a speech in which established in one of five student councils representing five different size last name, it's Lay-la Har-yan-ie. he lashed out at former United Nations Secretary-General Dag schools and dealing with . the problems of each. All students attended Many of us re­ Hammarskjold and suggested replacing him with the troika . morning lectures on leadership , call especially Since Hammarskjold's death nearly two weeks ago, the Rus­ projects and constitutions , before the touching sians have repeatedly suggested this move instead of appoint­ going into council meetings and speech she made for BoysOnly ing a new Secretary-General. discussions on the lectures. last year be­ By SANDY DIETL Each of the three heads would be from one of the major and DENNY FISCHGRUND blocks of the world-one from Communist or E'astern, one from f ore leaving Councils Worked

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The Bears and Eagles 25 by downing the Maroons of dium, last Saturday night. The fought to a scoreless first half . By DAN JANICKI game s off the pace, Cincinnati Mishawaka 19-0. It was the -Ea­ fiel d which w as a quagm ir e for emerged the champions of the Central scored the game 's only As the fa ll athletic program con ­ gles' fourth victory in four outings mo st of the game, was almost im­ tinu es, it is important that eac h of Na t ional Le agu e. touchdown in the third quarter and ties them with Washington for possible to play on . us recognizes and supports all of the Conference lead. and held the Eagles the re st of the The Yankee s under their new Ad am s m ade their deepest pene­ our athletic teams. This me ans way . that th e cro ss country and . te nnis manager Ralph Houk have won Joe Fleming led the scoring at­ tration into Redskin territory, just teams should receive solid sup port The Eagles lost their second as the first half ended . They were 106 of their last 158 ball games . tack with two touchdowns; one and backing just as the foot ball game of the year 7-0 to the Mish­ stopped on the Fort Wayne 21- The Redlegs have won 92 of their from sixty yards out and the other, team does. yard line . In the second half , Ad­ last 151 contests under their skip­ an 80-yard jaunt . Fred Mais tal­ awaka Maroons . It was the second While the footballers ar e out on lied for the other touchdown on a straight loss by one touchdown af­ ams did not even get close to scor­ the field practicing in orde r to p er Fred Hutchinson. ing position as they . only proceed­ 1-yard plunge. ter dropping the first 6-0 to Cen­ w in the next game, the tenni s and _New York boasts one of the most ed to the opponent 's forty-yard cross country teams are also work ­ The team will host the Michigan tq i.l. Again the Eagles played line . powerful and talented teams ever ing to win athetic honors for J ohn City Red Devils October 2 and scoreless first half ball. The Ma­ Ad ams. Fort Wayne made deep ad­ to take the field in the World Ser­ will be striving for a possible Con­ roons , like Central, tallied in the The tenni s team , coache d by vances in the first quarter and ies. As far as hitting is concerned ference bid . third quarter and made it stick to :ErJ¥e Kaeppler, has lost three didn't score . Their nearest plunge the Yankees are in fine shape. w in 7- 0. ID;atches thus far and has won carried them to the Eagle four­ While a few of the players are none. Last year at this time th e The Freshman team came back teen. netters were in much the same consistent long-ball hitters, any­ Cross-CountryWins in the third game to romp over situation . Losing three in a row one in the Yankee lineup is capa­ Coach Jerry Planutis went along at the beginning of last year , th e Goshen 48-13 . The team tallied ble of lifting a pitch into the with Marc Golden and John Hos­ netters staged a comeback and seven times in the triumph over stands at any time. Roger Maris FourthOver Niles trawser, at ends, Bill Helkie and won half their matches. This ye a r the Goshen Redskins at Goshen . Don Martens, at tackles , Bill Hos­ the boys are working just as ba rd and Mickey Mantle are both very The Adams cross-country squad , The game was highlighted by Ray­ trawser and Tom Frame, at guards , and have the same spirit and de­ good long-ball hitters. In addition improving with each meet, whip­ termination. We , the student body, mond Williams ' 50-yard inter­ Hile, at center, and Johnson, Vea­ to t1:1ese two fine players the Yan­ ped Niles 23-34 on Tuesday for its can do our part by giving the Ad­ cepted pass which was one of the sey, Lou Fleming , and Nicks , in kees have veteran stars such as fourth victory in the last five out­ ams tennis team more recogni tion many touchdowns scored that the backfield. and support for the rest of the Yogi Berra, Elston Howard, Gil ings. Jim Nidiffer paced all run­ season . • ners with a 10:49 time, while Bob af ternoon. Adams actually had their best McDougald , "Moose" Skowron, etc . Coach Dale Gibson 's cross coun ­ Johnson came in fourth , Clarence night for the statistics , they have The efforts of men like these, com­ try team has also had to face the Patterson fifth, Dennis Drake had this year. One of the most bined with the pitching of men problem of minor support from the sixth , and Glen Thistlewaite sev­ noticeable was the increase in student body. Perhap s there are like Whitey Ford are the reasons TennisTearn Bows enth for the Eagles . Johnson fin­ rushing yardage . Adams ran for not many us that are awar e of for the success of the Yankees this ished in 11 :28 and Patterson in 153 yards on the ground in the what the term "practice" actu ally year . 11:31. ToMichigan City - rainy and muddy weather . They involves for the runners . Most of also gained eight first downs the runners run two miles every It is interesting to notice that On Thursday , September 21, The Adams tennis team lost its night, while a few run twice that which is one of the best nights for last year's world champions , the Adams placed second in a quad­ third in a row by losing to Mich­ distance . The cross country me ets Adams this year. Pittsburgh Pirates, having won 72 rangular meet at Mishawaka in­ igan City on September 21. The are usually held on Thurs days. of their 149 ball games thus far volving conference teams . The netters lost by a score of 4-1. Bill will conceivably finish in sixth Eagle runners were beaten by the Fischer won his singles match, but place this year · behind Cincinnati, host Maroons 20-35, but came out the second, third , fourth , and fifth SchifferDrug Store , San Francisco , Mil ­ victorious over Washington 26-29 men were beaten. The double s PRESCRIPTIONS SODA - SCHOOL SUPPLIES and Goshen 22-34 . Nidiffer grab ­ competition was dominated by the ' ( waukee , and St . Louis . 609 E. Jefferson Ph. AT 8-0300 bed third place among the 40 ath­ Red Devils, for the Eagles weren't Contributing a great deal to the letes participating . able to take any victories in dou­ excitement of this year 's ·series is Overall, the thinlies now own a bles play . The results of the match Roger Maris' quest for his 61st 4-3 record, but their 2-1 confer ­ with Mishawaka were not avail­ Ktntuck&ffr.ied C~l~~tn home run , etc . of the sea~on. Al­ !Vorlhanwrf/11' llof'/71//llr'llj 7)1N1.. ence mark is good for a second able, because the match was not though Babe Ruth 's all-time rec­ Steve Schock place tie in the ENIHSC . completed on Tuesday , September Adams Representative ord of sixty is safe through the 26. ruling of Commissioner Ford Frick 1 Perfect for Pa 1·ties because Mari s failed to tie or bre ak FOSTERS 1 it in 154 games, Maris will be try­ 5 & 10 STORES 2312 MISHAWAKA AVE. Lamont s Drugs · ing to better his pre sent mark for 2114 MIAMI ST. #1 -3015 Mishawaka. Avenue Bucketo' Chickendon Keen's the 162-game schedule . South Bend, Indiana #2-1117 Mishawaka Avenue Kenneth B. Lamont, R. Ph. MEN'S SHOP (?Oc:::>oc==>oc:::,oc:::,oc:::,oc::::::::, oc:::,'u 15 pieces of chicken

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