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Show January 23, 1942. SOUTH HIGH SCRIBE Page Three Ex-Southern- er Says College Complicated Another Southerner who is accomplishing things is Charles Brubaker, who is attending Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, on a scholarship, declares that high school is com plicated compared to college. Charles, known as Chick, is majoring in Administrative Edu-- cation. While visiting here during the Christmas holidays, he was asked if he had much studying to do, he said that school was easy at South compared to that of Stan-ford. He also remarked that it was particularly hard to study in Palo Alto at the present time, because "lately, every time we sit down to study at night we invariably have a blackout, which usually lasts for three hours." Upon visiting the fifth pericd Latin class, he told the students that he was certainly thankful he had studied Latin in high school because it had given him such a wonderful foundation for his co-llege studies. This was encourag-- f ing to the Latin students, and to Mrs. G. A. Pearson, their teacher. While he attended South, Chick was the 1939-4- 0 Southerner editor, " reporter on Scribe, an outstanding debater, SAM representative, and member of the A'Cappella choir. Alumnus Still Alive; Casualty List Wrong Despite official reports confirming the death of Private Joseph D. Pyper, of the United States Marine Corps, an alumnus of South, who was supposedly "killed in action" during the first bombing of Pearl Harbor, a telegram from Major General Thomas Halcomb, Marine commandant at Washington, D. C, informed his parents that the young man was listed as "wounded in action" on corrected casualty lists just received. First indication that Private Py-per might be alive came when a letter written by him was received six days after his death was re-ported, assuring the couple that he "did get shot up a bit," but said he was feeling fine since his injur-ies were slight. The letter was dated September 8, day after his recorded death. Word received from Washington gave his family no indications of their son's condition, but his letter stated he was "up and walking around now." The young Marine was attached to a unit somewhere in the Pacific. When Mrs. Pyper received the letter from her son, she declared, "I knew he was alive all the time." Bachelor Club Broadcasts Saturday, February 14, at 10:40 a. m., ten members of the South high school Bachelors' club, spon-sored by Miss Ruth Rees, will be heard over KSL on the PTA hour. These ten aspirants of culinery art will conduct a fifteen minute discussion arranged in the form of a playlet. Written by the mem-bers of the club, assisted by Miss Rees, it will be styled to depict "An Ordinary School on an Ordi-nary Day," in which the boys will give their ideas of food and diet. In preparation for the coming event, the boys are asking each other questions about the subject, in order to decide which ten mem-bers are to participate in the play-let. Every other Tuesday in Room 103 these boys are found in their regular kitchen nooks preparing dishes which make the mouth water and the stomach turn over. South P. T. A. Plans Discussion February 11 the Parent - Teach-ers' Association members will hear a round table discussion featuring the subject, "The Effect This World War Will Have on the Edu-cational Systems in Utah," by a distinguished group of speakers. Those to participate in the discus-sion include Mr. Ray R. Adams, Executive Director of Employment Security; Dean William H. Leary of the University of Utah; Judge Clarence Baker of the Third Dis-trict Court, and Dr. H. A. Dixon, president of the Weber junior col-lege. Extensive plans have been made for this important event and the program promises to keep the members intensely interested from the time "the meeting is called to order" until the last person leaves his seat in the auditorium. Miss Ruth Rees presented an interesting illustrated lecture on January 12. Her topic, "Nutrition as a Help in National Defense," proved to be especially interesting and she received many complimen-tary remarks from enthusiastic lis-teners. Miss Rees stressed the fact that proper nutrition is invaluable as our first line of defense. Industry, Defense Effects Alumni With industry, defense, and mili-tary affairs in turmoil all over the world, alumni of South high have stepped out to launch their ca-reers. Now serving in the Royal Cana-dian air force is Stanley C. Car-ter, who graduated last year. He was very prominent last year in organizing the only Medical club of its kind in Salt Lake City. Many an assembly was made en-joyable for South students last year and this by the Cub come-dian Tommy Peirce. Tommy grad-uated at the end of the last sem-ester and is now seeking employ-ment at the Utah Ordinance plant. If you ever have your driver's license revoked or suspended you will wonder how Beverlee Tibbs. former business manager ox Scribe, and song composer, could have the heart to do such a thing. These are two of her many duties at the State capitol build-ing under the direction of her em-ployer, H. B. Layson. For his dancing, football and basketball playing, South will long remember Stanley Clawson, who graduated last semester. He is now employed at the First Na-tional bank. Lois Sterling, another songbird of South, now puts rhythm in her fingers at the L. D. S. Business College. Elaine Bennett, last year's peppy advertising manager of the Twirl-er- s' club, was home for the Christ-mas holidays from the U. A. C, where she is majoring in music. South Teachers Aid National Defense Recently, several teachers at South high school have discontin-ued teaching in order to work for National Defense. Now being trained at the Rem-ington Arms Company in Kansas City, Kansas, are Elmo Stewart and Farrin Mangelson. After com-pleting their courses there, they will be transferred to the plant in west Salt Lake. Former geometry teacher, Mr. Stewart, known as the "why" man of South, is being substituted for at present by Mrs. Jessie S. Wil-son. Replacing Mr. Mangelson, for-mer physics and chemistry teach-er, is Mr. W. W. Garrish. U. S. Navy Accepts Cubs Eleven boys of South high school have been accepted by the United States Navy, having withdrawn from school. Five of these boys have been ac-cepted since the outbreak of the war. They are: Clyde Thomas, Virgil Corbett, George Sorenson, Gene Mitchell, Fred Hoskins, Bill Andrus, LeRoy Sleater, Vaughn Bullough, and Bill Saul. Included with the eleven are Bill Christian-sen and Jack Roach who joined before the crisis arose. Because of the great need for mechanics at Pearl Harbor, Ken-neth Heathcote and Blaine Butch-er applied for jobs and will soon leave for the naval airbase to act as apprentice mechanics. Heath-cote played on the "A" football team in the fall. Also contributing his services to the defense is Bert Jarvis who joined the Marines. Stage Hands Are On Job A group of students at South who are always alert and on the job are the stage hands. Very few students know of these "cheerful fellows," but they are al-ways found behind the scenery of every assembly doing their best to x make the show a success. They also decorate the gym for the var-ious student body dances. Next big school job will be the Dance Drama presented in the spring. They aid various organizations who hold programs in South's au-ditorium. Members of the crew, under the direction of Mr. R. Olson, are: James Harwood, manager; Duane Wardle, assistant manager; Ray Brown, La Rocque Campbell, Max Cannon, Carl Copfer, Bill Crosby, Kay Davis, Melvin Hardman, Lorin Hess, Vernal Kressler, Sherman Paver, Robert Richardson, Lewis Robinson and Darrell Sorenson. Among these fellows are five commissioned R 0 T C officers. ROTC Notice Because of their outstanding work in preparing notebooks in the senior cadet notebook contest, Earl Rapp and La Mar Gulbransen were commissioned second lieuten-ants last week. Scribe Interviews Lombard Before Airplane Crash On January 13, four days before her death, Carole Lombard paused in Salt Lake City for five brief minutes between trains, during which time she was interviewed by a Scribe reporter. While stopping at the depot, a recording was made of her voice urging the purchase of defense bonds. Amid flashing camera, newspaper and radio interviews, Miss Lombard was alert, cheerful and gracious as she hurriedly answered many questions. Traveling all over the United States, Indianapolis, Indiana was her next destination. During the time she was there she sold more than $2,000,000 worth of Defense Bonds. Miss Lombard said, "I'm going to be a regular ed carni-val barker. You know, just go around saying, 'buy, buy, buy.'" She expected to tour America for a year. A very congenial and natural per-son, she talked with sincerity and ease. There was no "put on" or blase about her. As Miss Lombard, Mrs. Clark Gable in private life, finished her brief interview, she bade everyone on the platform a cheerful good-bye. The crowd parted for the two broad shoulders of mink and the golden head of Miss Lombard as she ran to catch her train which was just pulling out. Visiting her old home town, In-dianapolis, she made many per-sonal appearances before her fatal flight. Oddly enough, she was flying back to California for retakes on her new picture "To Be or Not to Be." But Walter Winchell declares, "Carole Lombard died playing her greatest role." Club Notes SKI CLUB: Members of the Ski Club have already gone on skiing trips to Alta this winter, and large numbers have attended each time. Sponsor of the club is Mr. George Hess. SOCIAL ARTS: "Up-To-Da- te for Girls," was the topic of dis-cussion given by Miss Virginia Tanner at Social Arts last meeting. Their next party, entitled, "Weatherman's Choice," will be held on the school campus, Janu-ary 28. SWIMMING CLUB: Over 45 members are now enrolled m Swimming Club, which meets ev-ery other Monday at the Municipal swimming pool. Mr. Paddy Davis is sponsor of the club. SKATING CLUB: Under the sponsorship of Mr. C. A. Smith, the South high Skating club meets every Tuesday, where they discuss points on ice and roller skating. This club has been ice and roller skating several times. Officers of the club are: Art Drage, president; Phil Stoddard, vice president; Ruth Hofmann, secretary, and Joyce Daughters, treasurer. New Semester Begins A new semester began January 19 with reregistration of classes for South high school students. Twenty students have en tered South from the other high schools. Seven students at South have 4 registered for vocational courses at the West Vocational Center. They are: Glen Fitzgerald, Arthur Jager, Mel Roy Morley, Robert Nuttal, David Weiner, Melvin Ed-mund and Lyman Shurtliff. Twenty - two South students graduated during the mid-yea- r, some of whom have gone out into the world to pursue higher educa-tion or gain employment. Group Clianaes Name To 'South Scribblers9 Acting upon the suggestion that Writers' Club was "too ordinary" i name for an organization of such high caliber, members at the club meeting of January 9 selected the title "South Scribblers." A case of mistaken identity brought about the change. An-nouncements concerning "Writers' Club" invariably tangled with mat-ters involving "Riders' Club." This action clears all such difficulty. Writers' Club is planning to publish a literary magazine, which they hope to issue by the end of the year. Miss Isabell Gagian is sponsor of the club with Fred Hill as presi-dent; Bryan Rogerson, vice presi-dent, and Barbara Bell, secretary. True to Form ;'cj n A Yankee was touring in Scotland. Snow T1? v had fallen and he was struggling along a nar- - v" row road when he met a Highlander. ySX "I guess, friend, I sure am lost!" he said, &Ck I V, plaintively. ) Scot: "Is there a reward oot for ye?" T W American: "Nope." I L Scot: "Weel, ye're still lost." DIAL 61 South State Street Auto Wreckage Company WE BUY AND SELL ALL KINDS OF AUTO PARTS AND USED CARS OF ANY MAKE 1624 South State St. Salt Lake City, Utah CHINA j TEA GARDEN I 115 South Main St. (upstairs) Specialist on J AMERICAN FOOD I CHINESE DISHES ! Good Food ! 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