The Whittier Greenleaf Number 7 Volume 20 Janua ry 15, 1943 Lincoln, Nebra ska
LOOKING BACK Looking back over this seme ter we find that many changes have come about. In the first place we return ed in the fall to find that we were short two teach ers and had gained fiftyfour pupil s. In fact, durin g the seme ster Mr. Culler repor ts that half of the pupils were new to Whit tier w .it h the large st amou nt of shifti ng ever known here. The next thing that claimed out atten tion was the scrap drive. Pupils coming down the stree t looked like the city junk yard on parad e. Our chests bulged when Whit tier came out first with twenty-nine tons. We all joined the Junio r Red Cross and worked on thing s to make the soldiers at the Air Base happier, such as scrap books, tray favors, ping-pong paddles, and menu cards for Than ksgiv ing and Chris tmas dinners. We've all been wearing out the soles of our shoes since gas ration ing but there was a good point to it-w e got to have a little vacation while the teachers worked. But speak ing of vacations, our Chris tmas holiday was cut down three days. Graduatio n at the end of the semester will be held at Whit tier instead of at Lincoln High as it used to be. Anot her change is that there will be no new 7B's coming in. All in all the first seme ster was a bang-up semester.
CALENDAR
ELECTION RETURNS
Janua ry 26 Janua ry 27, 2:30 (School closes at 2:10) Vacation for pupils Janua ry 28, 29 Janua ry 29 Semester ends Second Semester starts Febru ary 1 (Reports given out)
General election winners on Janua ry 11 were: Girls -Pres ident, Virginia Loos; Vice-President, Vera Schwindt; Secretary, Dorothy Keller. Boys - Presi dent, Bob Hubbell; Vice-President, Randall Renken· ., Secretary, Ronald Gallagher. Prima ry election winners on December 21 were: Girls- President, Virginia Loos and Shirley Maser; Vice President, Vera Schwindt and Virginia Seiler; Secre tary, Dorothy Keller and Barba ra Haning. Boys - President, Raym ond Aguir re and Bob Hubbell; Vice Presi dent, Don Hays and Randall Renk en: Secr etar y, Ronald Gallagher and Edwa rd Wessel.
Class day Promotion
Blackout Messengers Whitt ier is certainly doing her part in civilian defense. Over half of the home rooms have pupils who served in some way durin g blackouts. These were especially selected and traine d for messengers: .Don Myer 308, Lloyd Garner 318, Betty Gartn er . 320, Herb ert Griener 302, Jack Douglas 103, Earl Pierce 112, Ruth Griener 316, Betty Roper 318, Patric ia Venard 203, Cecil Metzer 314, and Millard Woods 308. Other pupils assisting wardens in some capacity on these occasions are: Perry Lewis and Marvin Thurb er 112, Maynard Cheuvront 103, Harry Rotthaus 105, Eugene Graham 112, Bob Lueh r 212, Richard Stein inger and Richard Greer 203, Ord Jones and Hobert Bradly 208, Jame s Geist 220, Michael Lawton 308, Jack Miles 310, Miles Diehl 312, Wayne Bills and Kenn eth Lebsack 312, Fletc her Bell and Guy Shore 304, Richard Shonerd 110, John Montgomery 307, Sanford Dow ns and Donna Bartl ett 307, and Rich ard McWilliams 222. PUPI LS LEA VE These pupils have recently left Whittier. Joy and Iras Hill have gone t o No rt h e a s t. Betty Johnson, Gerald Steckly, Anna Kildaw, and Joe Demenus have also left. Josephine Passafiume has left for a convent. Billy Ruth e r ford and R i c h a r d Stein inger have gone to California. Leslie Peter s has enter ed Evere tt.
PUPI LS ENTE R These are the pupils that have entered Whittier since our last issue. Thera Page has transf erred from Northeast. Betty Allen, Kenneth Stanley, Alber ta Freeze, and Mary Freeze have transf erred from Evere tt. Glenna Wondra and Myrtle Bundy have moved from Scottsbluff. Betty Alley has mov ed here from Tohias, Nebraska, and Bett y Lou Scheuneman has enter ed school here from Ithaca. Marvin Page has trans ferred from Northeast. Roland a n d Wayne Beck have come from Kearney. Don Wilson and Harold Wiltshire have reentered. Jerry Walls has enter ed school from Ohiowa, Nebraska. Franc is Brick has been trans ferred from Cathedral. Loren Ellrich has moved to Lincoln from Beatrice and Billy Orth has moved here from California. SENT TO AUSTRALIA Mr. Millard C. Woods, formerly administrative officer of the Urban League, is being sent to Australia to be in charg e of housing the Red Cross workers there. He will also look after some of the boys there in ~amp.