Periscope 1939, Vol. 8 No. 10

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JUNIOR ISSUE
The Periscope
Volume XIII
Northfield, Minn., March 28, 1939
Number 10   nC/^%3
Music Contest to Be Held in NHS
Nine Schools to Try For A Ratings in District Festival
On April 22 Northfield will be host to the district music contest. The Northfield entries in the contest will be the a capella choir, girls' glee club, madrigal singers, girls' sextet, boys' octet, band, clarinet quartet, and the brass quartet.
The schools already registered in the contest are Northfield, Rich¬ land, Owatonna, Minnesota School for the Blind, Waterville, Bloom¬ ing Prairie, Goodhue, Lyle, and Morristown.
Judges of the competition will be Alvin R. Edgar, band leader at Iowa State College, and George Krueger, band director at West High.
At the festival in the evening Mr. Edgar will direct the massed band and Mr. Krueger will lead the massed choir.
ANNUAL BANQUET IS VERY SUCCESSFUL
Another successful banquet was scored up for the GAA girls Mon¬ day evening, March 20. Baseball was used as the theme. The man¬ ager, Lyla Kimble, opened by greeting the members; the pitcher, lone Sargeant, expressed her pleasure in belonging to the GAA and her regret in having to leave it soon; catcher Ruth Campbell fa¬ vored her audience with two trom¬ bone solo s—"Forgotten" and "Traumerei"; batter Barbara Ben¬ son gave a reading, "The Chewing Gum Man." Sidelines were taken care of very well by Mrs. L. M. Stavig in her talk. She gave her idea of what the typical GAA girl is like and what GAA can mean to girls. The fielders, Connie Quin- nell, Helen Arveson, and Edna Tufte contributed by singing "Two Little Stars"; shortstop Joan Watts expressed her delight in being a member of the GAA for the first year; Violet Edwardson pinch- hitted with a reading, "A Baseball Game"; umpire Miss Wein gave out awards. Three girls, Bette Knutson, lone Sargeant, and Mar¬ ion Lysne received the highest award, an N. Cheer leaders for the banquet were Miss Magner and Lenore Klemme, who led the girls m singing.
English X Group Gives Senior High Program
An assembly program was pre¬ sented Thursday, March 25, by members of an English X class who  attended the speech  festival
Seniors to Take Bow in Mignonette
Hanscom Players Will Act Here
The Bob Hanscom players shown here in costume, will present an assembly program April 17, based on the famous novel "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.    The Hap-
scom players are well known at Northfield High School having pre¬ sented here previously such plays as "Abraham Lincoln" and "A Tale of Two Cities."
Compliments Are Extended to NHS
That Northfield's hospitality at the district tournament was appreci¬ ated by the out-of-town guests is evidenced in several favorable com¬ ments received by authorities who were in charge. The following is an excerpt from a letter received by Mr. Wichman from a superin¬ tendent of one of the schools tak¬ ing part in the district tourna¬ ment.
"Although this is somewhat be¬ lated, permit me to extend to you congratulations for a very efficient¬ ly managed tournament. I think it is the best tournament that we have attended so far as to facili¬ ties, management, and courteous treatment. Your stafi' and you de¬ serve a lot of praise."
The Faribault Echo also ex¬ pressed its school's appreciation of the fine sportsmanship predomi¬ nating in the tournament.
Northfield feels that this credit is due to the hearty cooperation shown by the visiting schools and wishes to thank them for it.
March 11, at Albert Lea. This group consisting of Margaret Mohn, Lillebil Woll, Robert Drake, Leonard Amodt, and Frederick Blodgett, dramatized a portion of "The Tale of Two Cities," for a class project. When Miss Ras- mussen, their instructor, received an invitation to take a group to the speech festival she accepted heart¬ ily and took this group with her.
AH! SWEET SPRING
When the birds are twittering in the trees and spring, ah me, beau¬ tiful spring—is in the air, how cruel is the editor who can stroll in and calmly say "I want a feature story on spring."
To a spring fever saddened re¬ porter gazing soulfully out of the window, the request is beneath notice. When the twenty-first of March has arrived one has other and more important (well at least more interesting) things to occupy one's mind.
Now if it had been poetry that he had asked for, or a song. That is what everyone excells in at this time of year. Now let me see what rhymes with spring? But here comes the editor! He looks angry. Where's my pencil—and some pa¬ per? What am I going to do? Well I'm going to write a feature story on  spring!
SCHOOL   CALENDAR
March 29—Basketball Ban¬ quet
March 30—S e n 1 o r class play
March 31—SPRING VACA¬ TION BEGINS
April 10—Schools reopen
April 12 — Hi-Y assembly program
April 14—Phys. ed. demon¬ stration
April 17—Assembly—Huck¬ leberry Finn
April 20—Music department program
April 22—District music contest—Here
Play to be Presented in Authenf'ic Costumes to Provide Atmosphere
"Mignonette," that lovely, whimsi¬ cal romance chosen by the seniors for their class play is an unusual story that has all the elements of romance, comedy, pathos, a touch of mystery, and even the quaint customs of another day and age. It is really two plays in one, for the first and last acts are entirely modern, while the second act flashes bad: in time to before the Civil War. It has the lovely at¬ mosphere of the old South. Au¬ thentic costumes and scenery have been rented to help produce the necessary atmosphere. Thwarted love, romance of the old and new South, the laughter and gayety of a Hallowe'en part" the longing of an old man for n 1 "^ that has been dead many year -^'1 these are just a fev/ of f" situations you will experience when you see "Mignonette," Thursday, March 30, at 8 o'clock in the high school audi¬ torium. The entire cast are tre¬ mendously enthusiastic over their respective parts, and the perform¬ ance is anticipated with keen de¬ light.
The following committees have been announced. Business—lone Sargeant,   Burton   Peterson,   Miss
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Ordell Olson Loses By Slim Margin In Regional Contest
After winning a tough district declamation contest at West Con¬ cord, Ordell Olson went to the re¬ gional at Chatfield and lost by one sixth of a point, percentage. The judges gave her one first and two seconds, while the winning girl re¬ ceived two firsts and one second. Virginia Potter, of Chatfield, the girl who won, was in the state con¬ test last year alpo.
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American Democracy Is Theme oF Junior
High Program
The 7A activity class under the su¬ pervision of Mrs. Wulfsberg gave for a Junior High School as¬ sembly program a short play in four scenes entitled "The Rise of American Democracy." In this play Columbia, Florence Cleland, shows the boy from a foreign coun¬ try what true American democracy is by taking him on a trip showing the different scenes in American history, from the time of the Con¬ stitutional Convention to the life in a  modern city of  today.