Evening star., 1944-04-16
lust Between
Ourselves
By Philip II. Love,
Editor The Junior star.

An editorial In the Eastern High
school student newspaper, the East
'rner. won first place in the Wash.
ngton phase of a national contest
Iponsored by the Treasury Depart-
nent, In cooperation with the CO.
umbia Scholastic Press Association
1t was written by Mildred Bailey.
associate editor Of the publication.
ana. In my opinion, Is very good. In
deed. =. The national winner was
Barbara Brown, 15-year-old member
|of the editorial staff of the Olnev
High School paper, Philadelphia.
Her editorial was published recently
In This Week. the magazine supple-
ment OF The Star. Montgomery
Blair is very proud of Capt. James
F. Kelley, Army Air Forces, Accord
Ing to Kathleen Faulconer. The
Junior Stars correspondent at the
Silver Spring high school. Not so
long ago he was president of the
student council and star of its basket
ball team. Now he holds the Air
Medal, Silver Star, Purple Heart
and Distinguished Flying Cross with
three Bronze Clusters. Silver Snrinu
has presented two parades for him
and his parents" Kathleen writes
And when he came home recently
the town put on two-hour program
In his honor.
\
Pupils Of Janney Schools ga and
4B-"Mrs. Kennedys room" thew
call it-used a Pilgrim breakfast
to get better understanding of the
hardships endured by Americas
early settlers. A Pilgrim village was
set up on table the length of the
room, its authentic details worked
out by the students. There were
prayers, songs and a speech. and a
meal OF wild plums" (prunes). nor
ridge with apple and honey. crack
ers with butter churned bv tbe
pupils, and sassafras tea with maple
sirup: Marjorie Hall, Margaret
Duvall and Anne Torbett arranged
the program, and the. speech was
made by Mary Attention.
Alan Strout Woodrow Wilson r5ioh
Scnool, performs well on the con-
lcertlna. Other talented en-
tertainers at Wilson, my spies tell
me, are Virginia Perez, Rosemarie
Egger, Phyllis Steece, Godfrey Nun
ter, Richard Parran, Ralph Rodgers
walter Hartley, Tom Carter. Heller
Jane Harmon, Julia Curtis. Dick
Anern, Scott Taylor, Dennis Lam
bert and Fred Pelzman. And ali of
them are helping the USO.
Though shorthand is the favorite
subject of Peggy Mcconnell, Nc
k1nley High School cheer-leader
she doesn't want to be a secretary
She prefers modelling. Four
alumni of Dunbar High School have
lost their lives in the war. So far
l7l9 Dunbarites have gone into the
armed services. Bonita Single
terry and Jean Pugh, both on the
staff OF the fastener, interviewed
DIR. I. O." when he was In WASH
lington. The quizmaster's real name
Is Jim McClaine and until three
years ago he was an announcer for
OauaS llex) radio station.
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Karen Gerber, whose contributions
to The j. s. have won several prizes.
has been appointed to the editorial
staff OF the Swing Sheet, the Jewish
Community Center's newspaper for
girls and boys. Selma Stone, the
center's club director, is editor of
the four-page mimeographed pub
ltcation. The Junior Red Cross
has a pig, gift from the Future
Farmers of America. Bernard
Tutson is drawing some good car
toons for the Dunbar News Reel.
And Robert Raymond is doing
as well for Tech Life. Betty
Otto, forward on the Mckinley girls
basket ball team, has won several
prizes with her amateur photog-
lraphy,