sjîthoLOQY DIVISION CLEVELAND PUR DÜC AT JON feECHTON n i : r 9 Regular Size' fi) otlight next week Vol. XIV. No 1 Collin wood High School Cleveland, Ohio Sept. 14, 1931 Put Johnny on the Spot and 84t 30356 Make That Spot the School Bank Fast Workers-These COUNCIL VOTES TO SUPPORT Pep and school spirit! That de- 'A SPOTLIGHT, A PUPIL, A WEEK' scribes the 10B-ll's, Mr. E. G. Gudi- kunst's new group of senior high boys.' Prices To Be Same as Last Year: 35 Cents for Senior High; On the first day of school they 25 Cents for Ninth; 20 Cents for Eighth found time, among the million things and Seventh Graders that must be done on that day, to re^ member that the Spotlight drive was, The headline isn't announcing the latest gang war slogan, but opening today and subscription the opening today of the second drive for "A Spotlight, A Pupil, money would be needed. j A Week." Subscription prices will be thé same as last -jre&iw could not S^Shave theiri mone&Stlfty in by toE- senior high, BO cents; ninth grades, 25 cents ; seventh and eighth day. How's that for speed ? " ~ grades, 20 cents. Pupils will hand their subscription money to their homeroom business managers, who will deposit it in the school bank each "GREENIES," 9B'S day of the drive. It is hoped that the majority of the money will be in hy OFFER OPINIONS A Letter To You Wednesday. V- The opening of the drive today fol- School Bigger Than They Thought, | lowed the decision of the Student but They're Glad^V Council to work with the Spotlight To Start ' staff in making the campaign a suc- A CHATTERING, laughing, appre- I cess. A special meeting of the Coun- hensive group represented Brett, I til was called for this purpose the East Clark, Memorial, Nottingham, I opening day of school. and Longfellow schools as the 7B's | The pledge drive last year showed > that Coljinwood pupils wanted a gathered in the auditorium Tuesday ! Weekly paper. The editors for this afternoon, Sept. 8. There were ap- J semester have planned for a weekly proximately 267. pupils, the greatest paper. By careful budgeting and number coming from Brett. planning there was enough money "I like the auditorium, but the left at the close of last term to pub- school is much larger than what I ! lish this issue and one next week. have been Used to," said Milena Bene- j It has been proved possible to pub- bosky, 7B. lish sixteen issues each semester for "That's just what I like about it," ' about $1200. Last term $1000 was spoke up John Joca, another member turned in in subscription money, in- of the "younger generation." cluding the $100 from the Student Another group, just as anxious to Council, and $200 was received from know "when dp we come" and "when 1 advertising. Careful planning on the do we eat" were the lOB's. There part of the editors kept the 16 issues were about 400 freshies from Patrick Mr. Frank P. Whitney within this budget. Henry, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Kirk, Again, as in last semester's drive, and St. Joseph's. PRINCIPAL'S LETTER the homeroom business manager and "I can't wait to get started," said Student Councillor will work side by Betty Speer, formerly of Patrick SHOWS COLLINWOOD side. Their fine work last year, the Henry, "but only twenty minutes for WEDS SPOTLIGHT interest and help of Mr. Frank P. lunch—" Whitney, principal, and the coopera- The beginning of a term brings . Th. e >Spotligh » . t is~ s..o. muc. h, an ,im - tion of the entire faculty and student three new grade advisers: Mrs. Edna portan• t factor m Colhnwood, and or I bodl. jy„ were th¿we« reasons fo* r_ makin„ , . g Stickney, 8A; Mr. A. G. Schaud, 7A; so much interest to every member of that drive the most successful in the and Miss Alice Nigh, 10B. the school, that Mr. Frank P. Whit- history of the school. ney, principal, sends the following WHAT? NO LIDS? message to the school: when the students through the Stu- "That's a nifty idea of blocking the "Nothing in my opinion can take dent Council last year said, 'Let's inkwells, isn't it?" the place of the school newspaper. It have a paper for every pupil,' we said, "Yes, and the desks can't be op- is so much a part of the school that 'That is a splendid idea.' And when ened, either." almost anything can be given up be- they put it over even in the face of The new method of keeping waste fore we give up the paper. It is so hard times we said, 'That is a splen- paper out of the desks was greeted much needed that I have always did achievement.' by remarks such as these. wished very much that every pupil "Now we are all asking, 'Can it be This process cost the school $225. might have it and read it every week. done again?' The answer is up to the Large screws were put in each side "We depend on the paper to bind students. Under the leadership of of the desk and if any are found miss-; the school together, to tell us the Student Council and Spotlight Staff— ing teachers will be questioned as pu- things we all want to know, and to A paper for every pupil. May it be- pils cannot remove them without be- help to rouse in us the spirit of 'all come a habit in Collinwood High ing seen. for one and one for all'. Therefore School." Page 2 THE SPOTLIGHT Sept 14, 19 1 #4> So it is that we think of the Spotlight, as a Collinwood Spotlight medium through which we are united with the rest of the school. The Spotlight brings to our FOUNDED 1918 attention what our classmates are doing, what * IN Published weekly by newswritinn classes and printed in the •school print «.'hop of Collinwood High School, St. Clair Ave. at. is being planned, and what is happening. East 132nd St., Cleveland, Ohio. Tel. Glenville 8732, 8731. TERM SUBSCRIPTION RATES The second Spotlight drive well deserves the Seventh and eighth' grades .$ .20 Ninth grade ............«>............— .25 loyal support of every Collinwood pupil, and to Tenth, eleventh, twelfth Brades.;. ._... .30 repeat the first success of the fine project we Alumni, postpaid .50 .. EDITORIAL have undertaken will be a compliment worth EDITORS- - Mildred Wolf, Watson Osenbaugh, Kath- paying our school. • A* 9 erine Chenoweth, Edna Schmidt, Pauline r- Ebersole, Helen Fletcher. Reporters- William Haggerty, Mildred Hawersaat, Helen Keiciel, Maxine Kelly, Jean Matchett, Eleanor Newman, Lenore Patterson, Eleanor Rubin. Sophie .SpieReiman, Ruth Wilkihs. Junior Spot Junior News,writing Class. Reporters- - There is anybody in the audience who has not been BUSINESS asked, "Did you ever see the summer fly around so FACULTY ADVISERS— Evelyn Conkle, Hil da fast ?'' Will he please raise his hand? Wood. * .' * ' * ' HEAD OF PRINT SHOP—H. T. Olds. AND HOW MANY OTHERS HAD KIND, THOUGHTFUL PARENTS, WHO POINTED OUT y'i;f»,': ALL THE SCHOOL HOUSES WHEN DRIVING IN Member/ THE COUNTRY ? • • .. • Some people certainly have the wind taken out of > I V VOL. XIV, NO. 1 MONDAY, SEPT. 14, 1931. their sails when, after strutting through the halls they can't tell a greenie where room 415 was. Repeat the Record . .. .' * * .r . 3(e . V ... ' , " * 1 • V f V Has somebody a sure cure for freckles ? If so, more fOLLINWOOD may well feel proud of the than one fair damsel will appreciate it. ** Spotlight's record of last term. We doubt I * if any other high school of this size in the - I imagine more than one parent is glad the busi- 4 country has ever been so successful in an at- tempt to publish a paper for every pupil every ness of writing "I'd. thank the crook that stole this book" or ''Bored of Education" in various texts is week. It was a goal worth attaining and is one J» .« worth keeping. out of date, if merely for the looks of things. The success of last semester's drive not only was a great achievement of the moment, but Some of us have a swell time in newswriting, be- will live always in the history of the school, no* cause we are «supposed to revert to big, babyish hand- k just as the first success of its kind, but as the writing. * 4C * introduction of a new tradition in Collinwood life—every pupil subscribing to the Spotlight The furniture department at Higbee's new store al- most brought tears to the eyes of some Collinwood just as he buys his paper and books on the first students, after they had dragged their weary selves day of school. over the seven spacious floors. * "#."•• * It used to be that a school paper was just an V \ w- auxiliary to the daily routine. To be able to They sampled the davenports, chaise lounges, and take the school paper was almost a privilege rocking chairs, but noticed that somebody had also and certainly a luxury. But today it has be- sampled an ash stand. Oh, well, it added atmosphere. .P."' •*.' *' come a necessary factor in school life. Through ••• f. • ! • it comes school spirit, which, without a paper, Just to show how different we can be, there isn't would be lost in a high school as large as our going to be a single poem, about forlorn, grecnies ' I.