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VOLUME 3 — NUMBER .51 THUBSDAY, MARCH 21, 1963
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Athletic Banquet Speaker
Coach William Barry announced today that the annual Athletic Banquet will be held on Thursday April 4, at 7:00 pjp and tickets are now available^fcn the Hunt¬ ley Lion.s Club rnHauers, and at the High School office.
The guest speaker for this affair will be Jesse Owens who is con¬ sidered by many sports experts to be the greatest tract and field star of the half century.
Mr. Owens' athletic career began in 1928 at Cleveland, Ohio where he .set new world records for junior high schools by jumping 6 feet oven in the high jump and 22 feet 11 3/4 inches in the broad jump.
During his high school days in Cleveland, Owens won all of the major track events, including tho State championship for three con¬ secutive years. At the National Interscholasfic School meet in Chi¬ cago during his senior year, he set a new world record for high schools by running the 100 yard dash in 9.4 seconds to tie the ac¬ cepted world's record. He created a new world record for the 220- yard dash, running it in 20.7 sec.
After his graduation from high school Mr. Owens went to Ohio State University where in hLs freshman j'ear he set a world rec¬ ord in the 60 meters. ;it 6.2 seconds and created a now record of 6.1 sccond.s in the 60-yard dash.
During the rest of his college career Mr. Owens ran tho lOOyard dash at 9.4 seconds, to tic the world's record, and set the world's record for the 220 at 21.2 .seconds, the 220 low hurdles at 22.6 seconds and the broad jump at 26 feet 8 % inches.
In 1936 Owens went to tho Olympic games in Berlin, Germany where he gained international dis¬ tinction with a dramatic victory that set new world records by win¬ ning individual titles in the 100- meeter, 20O-meter, and the broad jump. He also ran on the victorious relay team.
At this time Adolph Hitler was in power in Gedmany and was ex¬ ploiting the superiority of the "Ayrian German" race. Hitler an¬ ticipated a glorious victory for his Third Reich and in the beginning of the games personally congrat¬ ulated all of the winners on the
Olympic teams. As Owens, a negro kept on winning titles Hitler got madder and madder and toward the end of the meet he left early, no longer congratulating the Olm- pic team winners.
Today more than 2.'5 years later after Owen's accomplishments in the 1936 Olympics, he is still in the front ranks of athletes and was acclaimed in 1960 "The (ZTiampion of the Century."
Owens has devoted much of his work to youth organizations in Chicago, Illinois, where he gives much of his time to underprivileg¬ ed youth as a member and former director of the Chicago Boys Club.
It is hoped by the Huntley High School that Mr. Owens' appear¬ ance at the Huntley Athletic Ban¬ quet on April 4, will be an inspira¬ tion to the >()Ung athletes in this community.
Music Contest
Five entries were made by the Huntley High School Music De¬ partment in tho recent Area I State Class D, Colo and Ensemble Contest held at DeKalb, Illinois, at Northern Illinois University, on Saturday, March 16, 1963.
Edward Ketchmark sang a vo¬ cal solo, "Romance", and was rated 'Good'; Phyllis Schulz presented a flute solo fr'Thmo'euN flute solo from "The Nutcracker Suite", and was rated 'Good'; Phyllis Schullz and Faye Marlowe played a flute duet, "Shepherd's Pipes," and receved a "Good'; Marjorie Jensen performed a piano solo entitled "May Light" (plus a sight reading requirement), and was awarded an 'Excellent'; and i:)onald Olson, fluegelhorn, played "Wonderland By Night," and was awarded an -Excellent.' All of the presentations were accompanied by Marjorie Jensen.
Approximately ten additional high school music students, thirty- five grade school band students, & three chaperones were taken to Ihc contest by Mr. Priffitt, Bus Supervisor.
The students left the school at 7 45 a.m. and returned shortly be¬ fore 5:00 pjn. by Roger A. Perely
School Board
The School Board of Huntloy Consolidated School met Friday, March 15, 1963 at 7 p.m. for its regular monthly meeting. All mem¬ bers were present. Tho minutes of the Itist meeting wero road and ap{)roved. Necessary fund trans¬ fers were made and approved.
We havo had requests for chil¬ dren of outside districts to attend our kindergarten. II was decided thai due to tho already large en¬ rollments in our kindergarten, we are only able to accept students from   our  own schoo!  district.
The new .school bus has arrived and will officially be put to use (in Monday. March  18th.
The .School Hoard discussed the many rumors and calls which were received and heard concerning stu¬ dents using narcotics. The situation had progressed so far as to the using of names. (~)ther schools in other areas have been faced with tho same problem. In order to settle Ihe rumors and lo clear the names of those accu.sed. the chil¬ dren of Junior High and High School age w^^t^xamined by the school. There^Wo evidence at this lime to justify any accusations.
It was decided to purchase two hundr^ folding chairs and four caddies to " contain ' them. These have been needed desperately for some time. A chair collapsed with .School boardidpt{£s
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Jr. Class Play
The Junior Class Play "Cheaper By Th<' Dozen" has been changed to March 30. It will be held in the gymnasium and will begin at 8:00 p.m. Our sponsors who are help¬ ing us [)Ut on this play are Mr. Glen Delaney and Mr. Thomas Kelly.
Charucteis who have been chos¬ en to participate in this play arc as follows: Dennis Akerberg as Mr. Gilbreth, Diana Swanson as Mrs. Giebreth, Pat Hemmer as Ernestine, I^rry Johnson as Frank .Tim Ketchmark as Jackie, Dean Marlowe as Dan, Gary Borhart as Bill, Richard Selmarten as Fred, Janet Evans as Anne, Marjorie Jen.sen as Lillian, Mary Palmer as Martha, Penny Garry as Mrs. Fitzgerald, Bill Feller as Dr. Bur¬ ton, Douglas Swanson as Joe Scales, Barbara Britton as Miss Brell, and Bob Kahl as Larry,
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbreth's children CONTINUED ON  PAGE FIVE
Easter Contata In Rehearsal
The Huntley High School Chorus is making j)reparations for their Annual Inter denonltnational Sac¬ red Music Concert.. The Cantata, "The Story of Easter," by Frederic Fay Swift, will be held at the Trinit.v Lutheran (Thurch, Huntley Illinois, on March 31, 1963 at 8:00 p.m. Tho work is based on scrip¬ ture and song requiring narrator and chorus: in addition, projected pictures will accompany the pro¬ gram.
The chorus will sing the cantata from the balcony, with the narra¬ tor being located in the front of the church. The final number is "Christ The Lord Is Risen Today" which has been arranged for or¬ gan, high school chorus, grade 7 & 8 chorus, four trumpets, tym¬ pani, and audience, by Roger A. Perley
We Need Help
This community has a problem — a partially solved problem. Time alone has done practically nothing for it. It isn't likely that time alone will ever help the situation, but on the contrary, ma\ see us floundering more and more.
A few years ago the most urgent need of this community was a Doctor. There was a great deal of conversation about it vvhich event¬ ually ripened into action, and it wasn't long before the work horses began getting results, E\erybody was enthusiastic and funds were pledged to build a medical building and soon steps were taken to at¬ tract a Doctor. The result, as you know, is a very fine medical build¬ ing, built on the strength of the funds collected and those pledged. The committee was so optimistic that the building was completed although all funds were not collec¬ ted and all the funds pledged were never collected. It became neces- sa)\ lo encumber tho building, and it is now necessary, if we want to retain it for the purpose for which it was intended, to pay the encum- bcrance, which  is   $12,00.00.
Who should pay for it? Most folks who subscrit)ed and paid for itheir stQck will feel, I, am, sure, that they have done their part. That, perhaps, as a purely business venture is true. Sometimes, how¬ ever, it becomes desirable to bail out a sinking boat, if the timbers are .sound, rather than let it sink and maybe reclaimed by others.
Whether anyone shouid subscribe further towards the completion of th<> project is a personal choice. Hovvever, I feel that the people who gave their word to purchase stock will do so. Perhaps they were not approached again after making the pledge to pay the subscribed amount. The committee was very bsuy and, as you know, there were many chores to be done and only a few i)eople to do them. In a mat¬ ter of this kind, it is so easy to heap extra burdens on the pro¬ verbial George.
It also appears that there are many jxjople in this community who were not asked to help and there are others who did not live CONTINUED ON  PAGE SEVEN
March P.T.A.
The meeting opened at 8:15 p.m. with President Perkins presiding. The secretary's report was pre¬ sented zy Mr. Perley; accepted. The treasurer's report was entered b\- Mrs. Hernandez: accepted.
No committee reports were a- w'ilable nt this time.
The nominating committee was formed. Mrs. H. Eggers accepted the nomination by the Executive Committee. Mrs. G. Delaney and Mrs. L. Hennig were nominated from the floor.
The next meeting of the Huntley P T..\. will occur in April on Wed¬ nesday evening April 17, 1963.
A letter was read from the Hunt¬ ley Schools Music Department re¬ garding a request for $25.00 for a Music Camp Scholarship for a school student. Mr. Burmeister so moved; seconded by Mrs. D. Bar¬ rett; carried.
President Perkins gave some in¬ formation regarding the Illinois Congress of Parent Teachers (Con¬ vention that is to be held in CJhica- go during t^ latter part of April. If any HiijMpjy P.T.A. member is interested ^Wttending the conven¬ tion as the Huntley P.T.A. repre¬ sentative, ptease contact President Perkins.
Nominations were made from the Bake Sale activity that is to occur on Amjil 13, a Saturday. The committee^ius formed through nominatiofm.npas: Mrs. Kelly, chair¬ man; Mrs. Britton; and Mrs. Bur¬ meister.
Mr. Burmeister moved that the proceeds from the Bake Sale be deposited in the Scholarship Fund of the Huntley P.T.A.; second by Mr. Korwin; carried.
The program was then turned over to Mr. Johnson, Huntley High School Science teacher. He said that there wtre 60 entries in the Science Fair that was on exhibit that evening, and that all science students were required to enter a project. The ten winners of the students' science fair were read. Each of the ten projects was ex¬ hibited and explained to the peo¬ ple present.
The meeting was adjourned with refreshments being served in the cafeteria.  Approvimately 40 were
New Huntley School Bus
Pictured above is the new Ran¬ ger Bluebird 66-passenger school bus recently delivered to Huntley Consolidated Schools. The bus body was purchased from Bailey & Sons of Pontiac, Illinois. Ben Hansford of Hansford (Chevrolet supplied the Chevrolet motor and low chassis onto which the bus body was built.
Wayne Proffitt. bus superinten¬ dent for Huntley Schools will be driving the bus untU the end of
the current school year.
This is the first new bus for Huntley schools purchased since 1959. According to Superintendent of Schools Thomas Kelly normally a school distriet ptiRHases one new hm each year. At the iwesent time, several of the busses in use are undersized and should be r^laced. A 1953 ntodel Ford 40-pusenger bus Used as an extra was traded in on the pundtase of the new mw.