The Daily Echo, 1963-01-03

              SHORTRIDGE
DAILY ECHO
Vol. 65, No. 73
Shortridge High School, Indianapolis, Thursday, January 3, 1962
3 Cents
Exchange Student
Sends Greetings
Recently the Bcho Office received a card from one of the
former Shortridge exchange
students from the Netherlands.
Elly Engelkes was a member of
the Honor Moore family during
. her stay in America.
Elly came to the United States
as a part of the American Field
Service program. She spent her
senior year of high school at
Shortridge. The letter was sent
from the Leeuwarden Station in
the Netherlands December 28
arid was received by the Echo
•office   yesterday. The   letter  is
•Repeated:
"Dear Shortridgers,
"It's been a long time ago
4tfice 'I wrote you and a lot has
happened to all of you as well
as to- me. I can hardly imagine
that a full year has already
passeo? since I left Indianapolis.
I just wish I would have seen
""last year's Vaudeville, basketball, football, senior play, etc.
Instead, I had a tough year
at a Dutch university, with a
lot oT extracurricular activities,
especially orchestra, and a lot
of fun, too, though.
"This Christmas I have been
thinking a lot of America and
of the way I celebrated Christmas in Indianapolis, so differently and yet so wonderful. A
lot of my friends sent me Christmas cards and I had a telephone call with my family. (I
met Honor Moore last summer!)
All this made me very homesick
for America sometimes. I often
think of what an American lady
here told me: 'Holland is O.K.,
but I wish America weren't so
far away!' I often wish I could
just come over to see you.
"The freshman exams of
Dutch Medical School are terribly hard since there are so
many students, and they have
to select. This year I did not
manage to do them all well, and
I am studying like mad now to
do better this year.
"To end with I wish all of
you a very Happy New Year.
Continue to be as good for the
exchange students to come as
you were to me. I hope AFS
will stay an important part of
Shortridge.
"Again, a Happy New Year to
all of you.
"Sincerely,
"Elly Engelkes."
Naturalists Combine
Sledding, Bird Count
An interesting note about the
Naturalist Club Bird Census
held December 27 is that many
of the members invented a new
method of observing birds.
Upon finding a convenient
hill, some members devised a
way of combining sledding with
bird counting. The results of
their  actions  are unknown.
Quill and Scroll
Has Holiday Party
The Al J. Kettler Chapter of
the Quill and Scroll Society held
their Christmas party December
28. Meeting at the home of Dick
Brewer, the club's girls took
over the kitchen to bake pizzas,
while the boys gathered around
the basement pool table.
Bobbie Baldwin, Nedra Johnson, and Martha McWilliams
played cooks. Bobbie brought
brownies, Nedra brought the
pizzas, and Martha made a
fruit salad. The boys brought
Cokes.
Music Department
Gives Holiday Program
The annual music department
Christmas program was presented to the school on the last
day of school before Christmas
vacation.
Playing from the balcony, the
Brass Ensemble began the program with various carols. As
they finished the curtain arose
on a quiet scene on the stage.
Seated at a piano, Tom Preble,
choir director, played a Christmas song in his homey surroundings reminiscent of the
Christmas play props. A knock
on the door admitted the Music
Men. As they were removing an
occasional scarf, another knock
found the Girls' Ensemble at
the door.
Upon the suggestion that
singing would be a nice thing
to do, the two groups each sang
then combined their groups to
sing together.
The Orchestra and Madrigal
followed the previous groups
with assorted carols. The orchestra's performance of "Sleigh
Ride" was excellent, with the
bells and authentic - sounding
whip popping.
Cheryl Boringer along with
the A Cappella Choir performed
several carols. Joined by the
Concert Choir, the two choirs
together ended the program.
CALENDAR
THURSDAY, JANUARY 3
Student Board, Auditorium,
fifth period.
Wrestling, at North Central,
6:30.
Vaudeville Act pictures,
stage, 3:20.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 4
Junior-Senior dinner, Cafeteria, 6:00 p.m.
Scecina basketball, gym.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 5
Cathedral basketball, gym.
MONDAY, JANUARY 7
Booster  Club,  Room  209,
3:20.
Tests, periods  .•»• and  7.
EDITOR, SPONSOR,
STAFF VACATION
WITH YEARBOOK
Vacation was certainly no holiday for Bobbie Baldwin, 1963
Annual editor—she worked every day including Christmas
day!
Some days included work
from 9:00 in the morning until
5:00 p.m. while others lasted
anywhere from noon until 1:00
in the morning. What it was
that was so pressing was a deadline for 56 pages of the Annual.
Late in December the copy
—identifications for pictures,
captions, headlines, paragraphs
—for the 56 pages arrived from
the printer. During vacation
Bobbie worked along with Bruce
Pearson, Annual sponsor; Dave
Bourke layout editor; Jean Conley, who made copies of all 56
pages so that the Annual office
would have a record of what
appeared on those pages; Cathy
Foutty, who "moused" or cleaned
the glue off the pictures; Harry
Gonyer, who helped with the
paste-ups; Sharon Moore, who
prepared 56 pages of copy for
the next deadline; Tom Russell,
who printed pictures at a moment's notice, plus performing
various odd jobs; and Marijane
Scott, who took several pictures.
The problem was matching the
returned copy with the pictures,
then pasting both on special
mounting boards. These boards
are to be sent to the printer
tomorrow, and they won't be
seen again until the Annual appears in May or June.
Wrestlers Go
to North Central
This Evening
Armed with more city wrestling trophies than he can carry,
Shortridge wrestling coach Paul
Dill takes his grapplers out to
North Central this evening for
a 6:30 varsity and reserve meet.
With four city champs and two
runners-up in Shortridge's favor, this meet will be one of
the toughest for the Panthers.
However, North Central is
looking forward with high
hopes to this meet. With good
team balance and many individual county title contenders,
the Panthers could give the
Blue Devils a good run for their
money.
The Shortridge lineup will
probably ramain the same in
nearly every division. Gerald
Johnson at 133, will remain as
a replacement for Steve Hopper,
who Is still recovering from a
knee ir.jury. Jim Blackwell, who
strained an arm muscle in the
final round of the city meet,
will wrestle.        .
This North Central meet will
be the first for the Devils since
the city.
TESTS START NEXT
WEEK, JANUARY 7
Final test time is here again.
These last grades are the ones
that really count on the semester records so buckle down and
bring up your average.
Test schedule for the final six
weeks is listed.
Monday, January 7, 3 and 7
Tuesday, January 8, 1 and 6
Wednesday, January 9, 2 and 9
Thursday, January 10, 5 and 8
Friday, January 11, 4
Bill Gaus, a Shortridger from
several years back, visited Shortridge yesterday. Mr. Gaus attended SHS in 1959-61 and at
present is at Belloit College.
Course Changes Listed
for Second Semester
Several changes will be made
in next semester's classes. A few
new courses will be offered and
a few will be dropped.
Subjects that will be offered
are English History, Mechanical
Drawing III-IV, and Machine
Calculation II. Others are Merchandising, Foods IV, and
Clothing IV.
Calculus I, Early World History, German I, III, V, Food-
Ill, Clothing III, and Machine
Calculation I will not be offered
for the upcoming semester.