Evening star., 1943-11-28
Just Between
Ourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE,
Editor. The Junior Star

-By PHILIP H. LOVE-
Editor. The Junior Star
Souvenirs sent home from North
Africa by 1t. Gen. Mark Clark were
exhibited recently at Woodrow Will
SOL High School. Several silver dag
gers and pair Of spun gold slip
pers were taken to the school by
the generals daughter Ann, a for
mer student, and passed around
for close inspection. The daggers
were of intricate design and
wrought from solid silver. the blades
curved and very sharp. The slip
pers were trimmed in green and
pink, and every girl who saw them
wanted them. Now the Wilsonites
are waiting to see what Gen. Clark
will send from Italy.
South Americans prefer blonds,
and Wilson, 1t seems, has more than
its fair share. Anyway, a request
came to Wilson rect ltly from q
South American magazine for pic
lures Of typical United States stu
dents" on a sightseeing tour of
Mount Vernon, the National Gallery
of Art. the Lincoln Memorial and
other points of interest in and near
Washington. There was only one
string attached-the sight-seers had
to be blonds! The Wilsonites chosen
for the job were Caroline Thomas,
Robert Walker, Priscilla Wisch and
Alec Hedquist, and they were assist
ed by q group of elementary school
pupils.
Wilson has its own Betsy Ross,
But she doesn't make flags. She's
editorial editor of the Wilson Bea-
con.
More than $50 Roosevelt High
School students are holding down
part-time jobs. And, says Mrs. 10
Mace, 1O2 Roosevelt girls are being
trained by the post Office to work as
mail sorters during the Christmas
rush.
Classified advertisement in the
Roosevelt Reporter, inserted by the
editors, Ted Lerner, Mary Alice Co..
per, Joe Alice Lowrey, Faige Colds
man, Charlene Brill, Wesley Dodge,
Frank johnson and Randolph Carl
son:
MY typists' away on vacations
She lief me to do alz the typlzz 8s
W orien back by sypits to me-
Mo tiypizts' iIn; s., aw? py on vacationss
It's Cd how thees letirs get mixed up
brign bak my typr tot me =?
10 know just how they feel. My
typist has been away on vacation,
too!
Twenty-Five Mckinley High School
boys are working at spare-t time jobs.
Margaret Roberts, j. S. CORE
spondent at Mckinley, is assistant
news editor of Tech Life. Shirley
King and Betty Troeger, also J. S
correspondents at NICK, are report
ers for T. L. The three of them to-
gether ought to give the J. S. plenty
of news. Are you listenin', girls?
Students Of the Academy Of the
Holy Cross are hard at work on a
sort of "Noah's Ark" They are
making animal toys for the Red
Cross-red cats. green kangaroos
yellow monkeys and the like. Patri-
cia Moore, president of the Student
Council, is in charge of the-well
what's wrong with calling it me
nagerie program?
Junior jottings-Thirteen of last
years graduates Of Dunbar High
School are serving in the armed
forces. Nanette Swift, Is,
Western High School, likes to draw
sketches OF her pet Siamese cat,
General Macarthur. Mae
johnson reports that she and nine
other pupils of H. D. Cooke School
composed an original poem for Hal
loween. Her collaborators: Robert
Severe, Jacqueline Gramse, Mari
anne Cole, Paul Hammacher, Ca
mile Olson. Sara Garrett, Gwynne
Wood, Marjorie Gornbein and Jan
Wood. From Rosa England, 15
Surrattsville High School. Clinton,
Md: Il was SO delighted when l
read the j. S. and saw my poem. !
had no idea that it would be pub
lished.' Surprise! :. Twenty Silver
Spring (MdD boys have organized a
football team known as the Ramblers
and are doing quite well, says note
from Eddie Metcalfe. Is. Central
High School. Kathleen Faul-
coner, Is, Montgomery Blair High
School, reports that her sister has
joined the WACS. Pupils OF
Holy Name School sacrificed their
movie money one week end to con-
tribute to the Community War
Fund, says Aloysius Schwartz, 13.
Result: A contribution of 500,
largest in the history of the school.