Evening star., 1946-02-17
Just Between
Ourselves
BY Philip Fl. Lone

S@AS AANW oOd0CllUO dJ WUOu.
row Wilson High School is a IA
year-old girl who came all the way
from Calcutta, India.
kalindi Kowshik is her name.
and she's the daughter of D. N.
koWshik, who is connected with the
Indian Ministry. She arrived In
this country several weeks ago,
after an ocean voyage of about
month.
With her flashing brown. eyes,
braided long dark hair and colorful
clothing, Kalindi is a distinctive
figure among the Nebraska avenue
bobby-soxers. AS the Woodrow Will
son Beacon puts it, THE beautiful
materials and brilliant colors of her
native costume, especially the sari,
have been the subject of many ad-
miring and longing glances of the
feminine population of the school,"
In Calcutta, Kalindi attended st.
Johns Diocesan Girls High School,
where the course was pretty much
the same as at Wilson. She is
studying the same subjects as other
girls and boys her age, including
English, French, European History
and Algebra. And she speaks Eng
llsh as f1uently as any other mem
Der Of her sophomore class.
y y
-Four Wilson boys, under the di-
rection of their woodshop instruc-
tor, E. F. Davis, recently completed
work on an order" for furniture,
canes and checkers to be used in
Army hospitals Materials for the
project were furnished by the Red
Cross, along with these quotas-10
bedside tables, IL smoking tables, 10
table lamps, so canes and 20 sets of
checkers. The boys who did the
work are Glen Parenteau, Tom
Stewart, Jack Transue and Albert
Van Dorm.
Henry Fankhouser, Is, one of The
Junior Stars correspondents at
Coolidge High School, reports that
he has become "a regular monthly
writer for small sports magazine
In youngstown, Ohio" He does a
column entitled Diamond Tales"
and, in addition, answers readers
queries on. sports. Though Henry's
work for Trading Post, as the maya
zine is called, is keeping him pretty
busy, he has found time to write a
good story for the j. S. It's sched-
uled for publication within the next
few weeks.
The J. S. has lost one of its Nc
Kinley High School correspondents
through graduation. She's Pat Pur-
cell, until recently on the staff of
Tech Life, and she's beginning a
two-year course at George Washing
ton University. She plans to COM
plete her college course in her native
State, at Minnesota University, and
then to enter the newspaper businessi
with her brother. He's in Manila
now, but Pat figures that, by the
time she has finished her schooling.
ne II be ready to settle down in Min
nesota.
Junior Jottings: Mary Jane VIM
chester, first lieutenant colonel of the |
new Washington Girl Cadet Corps.
has what her friends at Anacostia |
High School describe as "a very
special liking" for stuffed animals,
American beauty roses, little hats, |
basket ball, operettas. Andre Kos
telanetz's music, Night and Day."
and peppermint patties. The first
word she learned to spell, fellow
AnacostlanS say. was c-a-n-d-y. I'M
addition to commanding the cadets,
she's secretary Of the student coun-
Gil and the leaders cabinet, and a
member of the Officers Club, Rifle |
Club, Leaders Club, Allied Youth
and the Junior Board. A very busy
LADY, in other words. A recent |
poll of Wilson students showed that
81 per cent of the girls and 50 per
cent of the boys want to go to COL
lege. The current issue of the
Stuart Junior High School maga-
zine, the Observer, is dedicated to |
Dick Mansfield, director of The Stars
school safety program. Symbolic
of safety in Washington" says the
publication, is the name of a man
who has done more to promote
safety education than any other
Inspector Richard Mansfield. u
He visits all District of Columbia and
nearby Maryland and Virginia
schools. Last year, he discussed
safety with $4,000 children" The
feature editor of Tech Life has a |
name that's suggestive of my
favorite time of year, vacation. It's
Doris Sommerkamp.