JOHN ADA.MS HIGH S9HOOL.1 L~iJlR:i-:Rl Yearbook Ready May27 ., ORDERNOW Volume II. No. 19 JOHN ADAMS ~IGH SCHOOL, SOUTH BEND, INDIANA April 29, 1942 YEARBOOK SOON ON SAL _E ADAMSMATHEMATICIANS THEADAMS ALBUM TO IN STATE CONTEST BEPUBLISHED MAY 27 CRAWLEY. TOTH. SCHUBERT, MOON, YEARBOOK NEARS COMPLETION AND SANDOCK ARE ENTRANT~. UNDER GUIDANCE OF McNA­ MARA AND EDITOR BEAL · Adams High School was repre­ :- sented by five of her students at the The editing of the Yearhook was a st(Ite mathematics tests at Indiana big and - difficult project. The fact University on April 25. This group, that it is the first project of its kind accompanied by Mr. Weir, left South undertaken by students of Adams Bend Friday afternoon and returned made it doubly hard. The staffs un­ Saturday evening after the test. der the close supe rvision of Mr . Mc­ Lodgings were provided in fraternity Namara have done a great deal of and sorority houses. work and are to be commended. Leslie Moon, Jules Sandock, and The editorial staff, headed by Katherine Crawley were Adams sur- . Marilyn Beal, editor -in-chief. decided vivors of the recent elimination tests on the contents of the book, then col­ at Notre Dame. Katherine took part lected and wrote up the material. .,. in the algebra contest and Sandock They saw to it that the book included and Moon were entered in the plane Marilyn Beal, Lynn Dibble, and Charlotte Whiting ; edito r , adv erti sin g ma n ag er , a n d cir culation man­ articles on everythjng of importance ager of THE ADAMS ALBtJl,'I look on as Mr. Cha rl es Betz of the In di ana En grav in g Company takes geometry division. the firat proof of the pla1e from which the frontispiece of th e ALBUM will be p ri nted. throughout the school. This staff in­ Lillian . Toth and Justin Schubert cludes Dorothy Bickel, Dean Robert­ took the comprehensive mathematics son, Joan Smith, Bob Horenn , Lillian exam, open to high school seniors. CLASS OF '42 PLANS Toth, Bette Ann Malcolm, and Bon­ Adams, with an enrollment of less ADAMS GIRLS TROUNCE NEAR COMPLETIONnie McCullough. than 1000, was eligible -to send two -NOTRE DAME FRESHMEN The Layout Committee designed entrants. · DORAN APPOINTS COMMITTEES the dummy of the year book, decided Results of these contests will be on the cover, the size, and the ar­ published in a few weeks. Four Adams quiz ' kids flexed their Many programs are being arrang­ rangement of the book. Pat Hudson mental muscles Saturday, April 18, ed for the Seni ors that will take up was the chairman of this group and and showed their superiority to most of Senior We ek. Senior Assem­ helping her were Lillian Toth, Tom ADAMS ALBUMTO Notre Dame freshmen. Dot Bickel, bly , Graduat ion Exerc ise , Baccalau­ Matthews, Winnie Jaqua, and Jack .. BE DELUXEJOB Lillian Toth, Carol Kline, and Mary reate Serviaes , Sen ior Prom , are a Conklin . .,... Monahan were the intellects who up­ few of the many activities that are The individual senior pictures were The printing of the first yearbook held Adams prestige on the quiz pro­ being planned . To date there are · made by The Priddy-Tompsett Stu­ in Adams history will be done by gram broadcast by the campus stu­ five comm ittees , composed of a rep­ dio. Underclass men's portraits were the Peterson Printing Co. which has dios of Notre Dame. resentative from each Senior home made by the Student Miniature Com­ established a reputation, both local­ On previous programs two groups room , that have been appointed and pany of Grand Rapids . Group pic­ ly and nationally, as a printer of all of Adams boys, on separate occa­ are at work. tures which entailed much work in types of commercial and advertising sions, have downed their respective GRADUATION: Dorothy Bickel, getting groups together, arranging material. Our yearbook will be Notre Dame opponents. Betty Kindig, Robert Murphy, Joseph and making pictures, were taken by printed on heavy enameled paper Wamsley . Mr. McNamara. and the staff is considering the use ASSEMBLY: Lynn Dibble, Winnie The Advertising Staff under Caro­ of buff papers with parts in sepia Jaqua, Mary Monahan, Fred Watson. lyn Dibble called on local merchants (brown) . color ink. Heavy leather SENIOR GIRLS WILL PROM: Camille De Kegelaer, Car­ and solicited ads for the book. Work­ grained paper will compose the VISIT HOSPITALS roll Hyde, Anna Lazzara, Eileen ing on this staff were Marjorie Par­ cover with the white-lettered title Walsh. rish, Phyllis Reed, June McDaniel, standing out against a background PLAY: Vasil Evanoff, Pat Hudson, Suzanne Martell , Roma Grebe, and of Adam's blue. The book will be On April 28, Miss Cheek, Director Dean Robertson , Yvonne Wass. Tom Matthews. bound, not with the usual wire of Nurses training at Epworth Hos­ GIFFT: Lorraine Akre, Art Krone­ The Circulation Staff consists of staples, but with red plastic celluloid. pital, will speak to Senior girJs con­ witter, Bill Peck, Paul Smeltzer. Charlotte Whiting who will supervise Thus carrying out the patriotic motif cerning the great need and oppor­ The Graduation and Assembly sales and collections, the members of the good 'ole red, white, and blue. tunities for girls in the field of nurs­ Committees will act as directors. of the Adams Student Council, who The typ~ ~ called Futura, (yes, even ing . It is estimated tb,_at between They are to stage the setting, arrange have volunteered to act as home­ types are named) is in keeping with 65,000 and 80,000 nurses will be for speakers, and arrange for the room agents, and a group of seniors the modernistic design of the whole needed the next two years and near­ issuing of awards. under the directipn of senior class book . This type is like nothing you've ly all of the nurses graduating this The Prom Committee has arranged president John Doran, who will pub­ ever seen, since it's new and unique year from our South Bend hospital for the dance to be held at the licize and ·encourage the sale of the in yearbook publication. will be used in army work and there­ Progress Club. There are possibilities book. The plates from which the art work fore replacements in the hospital are of obtaining a leading band from ... ctnd photographs were printed were essential. From this group of girls, this Northern Indiana section. The made by the Indiana Engraving any who are interested are invited dance will be a Senior A and B af­ HEALTH-CLASSES Company according to a contract to visit either St. Joseph ·or Epworth fair. which called for the use of the finest at a date which will be announced The Play Committee is under the TO AGAIN HEAR DRS. £ materials and workmanship avail­ later. supervision of Mrs . McClure. They FRITHAND CARTER able. This firm does many of the ad­ Another -trip of interest to Senior will select the type of play to be pre- · vertisements used in national publi­ girls is the one to St. Mary's College sented at the Senior Assembly and Tuesday morning, May 5th, four cations by Studebaker, South Bend on May 5 which is South Bend Col­ also help in the production. Adams health classes will be pre­ Lathe, South Bend Bait, and the Kel­ lege Day. They will be entertainetl The most recently organized com­ sented with speeches given by Dr. logg Company. The Adams plates by students and will have the oppor­ mittee has the duty of selecting a Carter and Dr. Frith. Dr. Carter will are what is known to any engraver tunity to talk with faculty heads of proper gift to leave with the school. speak to the boys and Dr. Frith to as 133 line copper, but to you and various departments. The selection will be in accrodance the girls. They speak every semester me they are simply super, super. These trips should prove to be in­ with the suggestions of the Senior to the health pupils. Their second (Continu,d 011 Pac, ThrH) · teresting and worthwhile. A's, speech will be May 7th. THE TOWE .R TOWER TOWER TOWER TALK THEAL BUMIS ABOUT YOU THE STAff Vacations are the times for sports­ "W ondez: what they're going to put PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF THE JOHN ADAMS IDGH SCHOOL. SOUTH BEND, IND. For every differen t kind and sort, in the yecirpook?" You, of course! EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ........................................................................................................................Lillian Toth But of the kind I'm thinking now, After all, what more interesting and FEATURE EDITORS ............................................................................................Carol Kline, Bill Currise Dear boys and girls-you sure popular subject connected with John !~~::~fsI~N:2JfGER.....·.·.·.:·.·.· .·. ·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·-·.·.·.·.·.·_-.-.·.·.·.·.·.·.-.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·-~.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.·.-.·.·.·.·.·.·.·_-.-.·.·.-.·.·.R~~:~t ~:r~{; know how. Adams could they- possibly find? SPORTS EDITORS ......................................................................................Rodger Buck, Mary Monahan Our Slats is really quite a lad, Yes, every single student in school, CIRCULATION MANAGER ....................................................................................................Marilyn Beal Conside ring all he has and had, or a reas onable facsimile thereof. is PRINCIPAL ........................................................................-............ ...........................Mr . Galen B. Sargent But Barbara is his special dish FACULTY ADVISER ......................, .... .... ,.................................................. ..................Miss Florence Roell in the "cl ass" section of the yearbook .. Who makes .