The Challenge 1960

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St. Joseph High School
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01. 2, 1959-1960

l(enosha, Wisconsin

Reverend Leslie Darnieder, Principal,
St. Joseph High School.

Standing in Future's portal,
l look back and say to you
Hello again.
\Ve've met before, you and I;
But mv
. future was in .vour hands then
And yours " ·as in mine.
You developed my mind and nourished m !' soul;
I ga\'e you life and started a lasting tradition.
\Ve Ii ved together, enduring and en joying,
And now upon parting we both realize,
That we 'll go right on living
My heart in you and you in my heart.
So I say' not farewell,
But hello again
To you, my Alma Mater.
Marilyn Chapman '60

Sister Mary, O.S.F., Vice-Principal.

Reverend Edmund Olley, Guidance Director and Athletic Director, Reverend James Clark, So·
dality Director, and Reverend James Hebein, Student Council Moderator.

Sodalists Set
Season Plans
St. Joseph sodalists are looking
forward to an action-filled vear.
Under their spiritual dire.ctor,
Father James Clark, and their coordinator, Sister Jarlath, the ten
sodality groups are planning both
apostolic and social programs.
Number one project on the senior agenda is recruiting. Susan
Zeyen and Carol Crossin head the
committee for recruiting. A program will be presented to introduce the sodality way of life to the
freshmen. The juniors' project
number one is a panel discussion
on steady dating and a dance to
promote "social dancing."
An outstanding event for a few
sodalists will be the Rocky Mountain Youth Congress in Colorado
oSprings, October 30, 31, and
vember 1. Patricia Radigan, Kathy
Bydalek, and Joanne McCarthv
will accompany Sister Jarlath and
Sister Mary.
"Living Your Catholic Life ow"
is the con,·ention theme. Such
noted speakers as Father Eugene
Jurashek and Father John McQuade, S.J., will address delegates
from every region of the United
States. A talent show and a Halloween dance are also scheduled.
Twelve St. Joseph sodalists had
the privilege of attending the Summer School of Catholic Action
(S.S.C.A.) August 24-29 at the
Conrad Hilton in Chicago. Many
noted people spoke on Catholic
Action and the sodalitv way of
life.
.
.
School was held from 8 a.m. to
3: 15 p.m. At noon Missa Recitata
was offered bv the students. At
night there \\'~re dances, a talent
sho•v and other social events. One
of the sodalists said, "It was terrific, magnificent!"

~CHALLENGE
Voe. 11, Nov. I

ST. JosEPH HIGH ScHooL, KEi-.os11A, W1sco:-.-s1"

Queen, Floats to Mark
Homecoming Festivities
Homecoming is on its way to
St. Joseph's High School. ~ew ly­
elected student council memb~rs
decided that the Homecoming
Dance would be held in the school
gym, October 16, 7 to 11 p.m. This
is the Friday preceding the Lancer's game with Memorial at Lake
Front Stadium. Admission to the
dance is 50 cents.
Reigning over the three-day affair will be some lucky (and undoubtedly beautiful) senior girl.
She will be elected from the five
candidates who were selected solely by the senior boys. The five
candidates were presented to the
entire student body at an all-school
assembly, held O~tober 8.
Election of the queen, in which
the whole school will vote, will be
held October 12. The queen's identity will be kept secret until she is
crowned at the dance.
Beginning at approximate!;• 12 :45
on Sunday, October 18, the Homecoming Parade will start from the
school and make its way to Lakefront Stadium. The par;de will be
composed of a color guard, a band,
the queen and her court, floats and
student cars.
Floats entered in the parade will
be sponsored as follows: two from
the senior class, three from the junior class, three from the sophomore
class, three from the freshman class

and one from the Sodalitv. Prizes
in the float competition will be 25,
$15, and $10 respectively.
Since this will be St. Joseph's
first homecoming, students are
working for a real success. The
student council hopes to see evervone at the dance Friday, but ev~n
more, to have every student at the
game on Sunday.

John Lundberg

Seniors Receive Rings
Senior ring day took place October I. All seniors assisted at 7:20
Mass and Communion in the temporary student chapel.
Rings were blessed and distributed to owners after the Mass.
A special program, planned by
senior student council members,
entertained the class in the little
theatre during homeroom period.
A get-together party, in the gym
from 8 to I 0 p.m., climaxed the
day.

Retreat, Iowa Tests

Coming Nov. 2 - 5
Father Robert McCormick, M.
A., will conduct this vear's retreat
to be held ' ovemb~r 2-5 at St.
Joseph 's High School.
Father McCormick, former principal of Dominican High School
in Whitefish Bay and now pastor
of St. Mary's parish in Kansasville,
\Visconsin, received his Master of
Arts in Education at the Catholic
University of America. Guidance
is Father's specialty. Fourteen of
his 17 years as a priest, Father i\ lcCormick has spent educating high
school students.
Spiritual acti,·ities b\· the students, such as prayer, se~ious thinking and spiritual reading, spurred
on by thought-provoking talks by
Father McCormick, will constitute
the retreat. Young people, their
interests, spiritual problems, and
ambitions will be motifs for Father's talks.
Juniors and seniors will make
their retreat on
ovember 2 and
3, while the freshmen and sophomores take Iowa tests. This schedule will be reversed on November
4 and 5.
Most of the student bod\' 1s ac-

Enrollment Soars

Father Darnieder distributes Holy Communion during the High Mass offi.
cially opening the school year, on Friday, September 11.

Oc-roBER, 1959

Enrollment at St. Joseph 's soared
to 1032 as 309 freshmen replaced
the 87 graduates. The juniors surpass both the seniors and the sophomores with 259 students. The
soph's number 238 while the senior
remain the smallest with 181. Bovs
continue to be at a disadvantage
(?) this year as last, being outnumbered by the girls in every grade.

quainted with the Iowa tests since
they are an annual check-up. Published b~· the Science Research
Associates, these tests help teachers
and administrators recognize students' abilities, achievements and
potentialities. Numerous tests are
given to show students' progress
and promise. All four days will
be devoted to learning something
about oneself-the retreat spiritually, the Iowa tests scholastically.

Actors Perform
Shakespeare
St. Joseph's student bod,· was
treated to a unique glimpse .of the
"orld of Shakespeare, October 7.
i\1r. Bob Leonard and J\1r. Bil
Pfuderer, veterans of stage and
telc,·ision, \\'ere the center of attraction in this "different" ,·iev. of
Shakespeare's \\'Orks, entitled "Contrasts in Shakespeare."
blend of comed,·, drama, music, song and dance,' "Contrasts in
Shakespeare" utilized scenes from
some of the great author's most
popular pla;,·s. Among these "ere
''Julius Caesar," '·Romeo and Juliet," "Taming of the Slue'',"
"Hamlet" and "Kiss i\ lc, h:ate." Included in the program presented
were insights into the modern
"Shakespeare."
.\lanning those anom·mous but
essential posts backstag~ were Bill
Dorsey, Jerry Hartung and George
Schroeder. .\lembers of St. Joseph's drama club, this trio gained
useful experience in behind-thescenes acti\'ities accompanying a
professional performance.

Knowledge is the consequence of time and multitudes of days are fittest
to teach wisdom.
Collier

Setting Scope
Summer's sultry haze of happenings
is but a memory now, a lazy day's semireality of nothing much to do. Or was
it? Nothing much to do unless you
wanted to do it. And did you? If you
do have accomplishments from the preceding summer, of any kind, of any type,
you may look at them with pride as
products of your own initiative.
For summer was a time of comparative freedom for you. There was no constant harping on spiritual needs, social
development, or the enlargement of
mental scope and grasp. And, to look
at it from a minority viewpoint, there
was also little encouragement in these
fields.
The season that was such a proving
ground for your initiative, your selfdetermination, has by now slipped by
into the inevitable past. The russet crispness of a new, autumnal season provides
the backdrop for an even greater scope
of action based on self-initiated purposefulness.
What can this fresh start do for you?
How can you best utilize it? You yourself have the potentia Iity of bringing
about perfection through the self-imposition of control. The improvement of
spirituality, mentality, and the development of the cultured personality are all
brought to their highest fulfillment in the
self-ordered discipline of the individual.
And you, can you, will you, do you have
the courage to order and control your
own actions, your life?

Principal Presents a Challenge
The beginning of a new school year
presents a challenge to faculty and students. Like a road through the desert,
the school year seems to lie endlessly
ahead. But unlike the monotonous
stretches of the desert, the school year
is marked by many events and activities that serve to brighten the trip ahead .
It is the entire school year with its activities in classroom and outside of classroom that presents the challenge to the
family of the school.
To the faculty is given the challen ge
to lead the students toward the goals of
Catholic education. Ever mindful of the

Father Darnieder

Letter to Our Leaders
Dear Leaders,
The '59-'60 school year has sprung
open with all the excitement 1100 energetic youths can generate. Amid all the
gaiety and fun, though, a note of seriousness has appeared-student council
elections. We choose a group of you to
help and guide us. Can you do this?
All of us, seniors right on th ro ugh
freshmen, wish this year to be the most
wonderful St. Joe's has seen yet. We
hope to see the stands overflowing at
every game, friends on every floor . Most
of all, we want our classes to be those
in which we ourselves participate, classes
which will prove interesting and even
fascinating. We, the student body, need
someone to set up competition and rivalry in gaining honor roll status.
There is our problem . This year will
be the best-if someone goes to each
game and invites us to go along, if someone starts a lively discussion in class and
really wants to hear our opinion.
Can you be that someone? We feel
you can because that is the reason we
elected you as our representatives . With
you before us and with us we'll show all
Kenosha the grandest school it has.

Diane Keane

The Rest of Us

Our Fall Datebook
oct. 2
st. fronds program
oct. 9
principal's convention
oct. 18
homecoming
oct. 23
home & school fish-fry

student as a child of God whose first responsibility is to save his soul, teachers
model their lives on the great Teacher,
Christ, who taught that man might know
the truth and live by the truth .
To the students is offered the challenge of accepting the guidance and direction of the teachers. Education cannot
be forced on a student. It can be presented to the student, but the student
must accept it and use what has been
offered .
The challenge of a new school year
can be accepted and borne successfully
through the cooperation of all concerned.

nov. 2-3
senior-iunior retreat
nov. 4-S
soph-freshman retreat
football games oct. 11
Oct. 18
oct. 25
*nov. 1
2

The Challen ge
Published by the students
of St. Joseph High School

EDITOR
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
News ........ .
Editorial .... .
Jo-pinions
Prisms
Pictures
Features ....
Sports
EXCHANGE EDITORS
PHOTOGRAPHERS

. . . . Rita Petretti
Laurin LeTart
Leslie Thelen
Judy Conrad
Diane Keane
Lucille Moretti
. . . Patricia Gaffney
Mary Wientjes
Mary Kae Hawkins
Dennis Rutkowski
Carol Smith
Carolyn Warner
George Kasparek
John Lundberg
Don Sershon

To Earn a Name
Hmmmm! So this is St. Joseph's High
School. I bet everyone here will be awful glad to see me. After all, I was president of my eighth grade class. I'll most
likely be one of the most popular people
here.
Ya know, they do some pretty odd
things in this school. I went down to
the office to ask for an elevator pass . Instead I was handed a little blue slip and
told something about a going away party
when I got thirty-five of them. I wonder
where I'm going.
My schedule for today is algebra,
special assembly, Latin and lunch. Say,
when do we have recess? We always
had recess before.
There's the bell. Let's see. My schedule says algebra in l 05 next. I'll just
walk to the right-or is it to the left?
Then up a flight of stairs, or was it
down? O.K. I'll just follow this crowd.
Here I am. It was a very nice class
except that it was a little hard to follow.
The teacher spoke Spanish. (I think I
fol lowed the wrong crowd.)
End of the day-I resolved when
came to break a ll records. As I sit in detention hall I see I did. Do you think my
English teacher was right when she said,
"This high schoo l building doesn't ma ke
you a high schoo l student? That name
you must earn."
Bill Dorsey

Catholic Principals
Hold Meeting Here
Annual Fall Conferenc e of the
\Visconsin Association of Catholic
School Principals convened here at
St. Joseph 's on October 8 and 9.
This organization assists principals
in adopting uniform policies in the
Catholic high schools and imparts
information in legi sla ti ve and
educational aspects of secondary
schools.
Program highlights of the recent
conference included an address b\'
Archbishop William E. Cousins of
Milwaukee at the noon luncheon
on Fridav. An afternoon session
discussed "The High School of the
Future."

Science Education
Gets New Emphasis
In Traveling Library
Science education will be given
additional emphasis this year at St.
Joseph's. Father Leslie Darnieder's
application for participation in the
Traveling High School Science Library Program has been considered
and accepted by the American Association for the Advancement of
Science.
Two hundred outstanding, evaluated, up-to-date books in the science and math divisions will circulate in our own school library. All
branches of science education will
be covered. Reading lc\'cl will
range from books that brilliant
junior high school students will
find interesting to some that will
give the outstanding high school
seniors a taste of advanced work.
Such books as Around th e World
i11 90 Minut es, Cells rtnd So cieties
and Astronomer's Univ ers e arc
now on display in their traveling
cases in the library. The principle
behind this experimental program
is to interest more high school students in science and technical careers.

George Kasparek

Coming in from the parishes each day to teach religion ~ecms to agree with these priests. Maybe the students
have changed. From left to right: Fr. Boehlen, Fr. Halmo, Fr. Stoll, Fr. Witteman, Fr. Daleke, Fr. Novotny
and Fr. Reinhardt.

New Faces Appear
On Faculty Row
Students returning to St. Joe's in
September found many new faces
and missed a few favorite ones
am ong the facult y .
Sisters Karen, Adolphu s and
Robertylle are new teachers in St.
Joe's math department. Sisters Gerion and Plwllis arc additions to the
science department. Sisters Emelin, Maria Cordis, Marie Catherine
and Theodore 1arie are ne\v. Additional teachers in the secretarial
course arc Sisters Felicia and l rene.
Other new faculty members are
Sister Jarlath, debate and American History, and Sister Marilita,
sociology.
A change has also been made in
the physical education department.
\I iss Sally Serio is replacing Miss
Marianne Konsinowski, ·who is attending Marquette for her i\ LA.,

Senior Religion Classes
Conduct Group Experiment
Guinea pigs! That's what seniors
at St. Joe's are this year.
As the only school in the Archdiocese to attempt this, St. Joseph's
has developed a new type of senior
religion class. lt's known as the
more-the-merrier class. Father Edmund Olley, guidance director, is
conducting the experiment.
Classes arc taught in the little
theater which makes possible
teaching all seniors in two classes :
one of 103 girls, the other of 77
boys.
Two days a week Father Olley
gives lectures on the topic being
discussed. Assistant teachers from
the class take over on the other
three days with panel discussions,

group questions or buzz sessions.
Student teachers from the bovs'
class arc: Chuck Hall, Buzz~ · Heller, Dick Adamson, Dick Engstrom, Laurin LcTart, Jcrr~ · Fetzer, Bob Karabctsos and Dick DclFratc.
Girls assisting Father Oil y arc:
:\ larilynnc Fredrick, ' anc~· Rufflo, Diane Keane, Jeannine La\1·rcncc, Jean Cann1·cll, Lucille
J\lorctti, Rita Petretti, i\ lar~· Kae
Hawkins, Judy Conrad and Karen
Knight.
The \I hole class takes part in
these discussions, and C\' Cf\ one is
required to take notes- and pass
tests!

and \lr. Robert Carbone is replacing Johnny Lattner. Mr. Carbone
also teaches Modern History, salesmanship and phy. ed.
Other added members in the athletic department are 1r. Frank
i\1atrisc, who teaches American,
ancient and medieval history, and
i\lr. Richard Johnson, who teaches
mechanical drawing and general
science.
Besides the full -time priest-teachers here at St. Joe's- Fr. Edmund
Ollcy, Fr. James Clark and Fr.
James Hebein- a number of other
priests from Kenosha parishes
co111c to St. Joe's to teach religion
classes: Fr. LcRo\' Boehlcn from
St. George's, Fr. Reinhardt Burckhart from Ho!~· Rosary, Fr. Donald Dalekc fro111 St. i\1ary's, Fr. Edward Halmo from St. Anthony's,
Fr. Gerald ~o\· otny from St.
James', Fr. Jerome Stoll from St.
i\ lark's and Fr. Paul \ \ ' ittcmann
fro111 i\lount Carmel.
Though many new members of
the facult)' ha\·c been added, fc\1
members ha\·c left us within the
past year. Sister .\ladclcinc ophie,
\\ ho formcrh headed the math dcpa rtm en t here, has gone to the
Uni\·ersit\' of lllinois for her Ph.D.
in mathematics. Sister Pcrpcrua,
\1·ho taught chemistry here last
\car, is now at St. Benedict's High
School in Chicago. Sister Terence
is now the Superior of St. xregor) 's l-1 igh School at St. ~ azianz,
\\ ' isconsin. Sister J oanettc also is
at St. Gregory's. i\liss Patricia
Burke, who \\·as in the speech department, has forsaken her teaching career for the married life.
Returning from ~ ebraska, Sister
Colman is \\ ith us again in the
Fnglish department.

Home and School
Maps Activities
"The Role of Parents in Education," is the theme of the National Committee of the Home and
School Association for the 1959-60
school year. Using this as a background, members of the St. Joseph
Home and School have begun
another term of working toward
their aims.
Stanley Seianas, president; Robert Dobson, first vice-president;
Mrs. Peter Fischback, second vicepresident; Mrs. Edward Crossin,
secretary; Chester Thelen, treasurer, with Father Leslie Darnieder
as moderator and Sister 1ary as
honorary president, are this year's
officers t o lead in the achievement
of these aims.
Promoting cooperation between
all organizations working for the
adYancement of Christian education is the basic goal of the association. Program and projects on this
year's agenda are planned to finance and achie\·c this goal.

Badger Boys
Tell Experience
"Real organized " is the way Buzzy
Heller describes the Badger Boys'
State.
Held in Ripon, \\'isconsin, from
J unc I 3-20, its purpose was to build
up high school boys interest, understanding and leadership in matters of goYcrnment.
Acting out the parts of public
officials was part of the boys' daily
schedule, while the rest of their
time was devoted to school or
sport acti1·itics.
Since participants were of the
same age and interests, Buzzr Heller, Gene Gelsone and Rich Lang,
St. J oscph reprcsentati\·es, agree
that the\' had a terrific time.

Under the Patronage
of St. Joseph • • •

1!I

George Kasparek

No, Robert Heller is not poking a finger in Mary Glembocki's eye. He's pointing
the way for Freshmen Alice Anderson, Dorothy Russo and Kay Belongia.

John Lundberg

Saint Joseph, Patron of our school, protect our
students.

George &:>sparek

School days, School days ... Carefree freshmen Carol Kejewski, Jean Zimmerman, Georgine Ludwig, James Barrett,
Charles Judecka, and Mary Doherty enter SJH portals.

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George Kasparek

Busy freshmen purchase books, folders, and SJHS covers in preparation for their first year at

310 Freshmen
Began • • • •

aint Joseph's.

George Kasparek

Angelic looking Kathy Carpenter doesn't seem
too sure she wants all those books to carry.
However Mary Kay Jacyna seems a bit happier
that she has not quite so many.

George Kasparek
George Kasparek

Senior vice-presid ent Mary Glembocki apparently has brought these fledgling
freshmen back to their own wing.

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Congratulations Freshmen Dominik l\fascaretti, Connie Biernat, Marie Herbert, Thomas Bakula, Orlando
Gallo and Donna Sevey! You've learned to "keep to
the right."

Educational • • •

G eor ge K as pare k

John Doetsch receives special instructions from
new mechanical drawing instructor, Mr. Richard Johnson , as Al Cairo (left ) and William
Hartman watch interestedly.

This year's juniors purchase books. Receiving attention at the tables are Cecelia Mazurciewicz, Sylvia
Stec, Diane Glerum, Mary Pobar, Marianne Henderle iter, Marilyn Cipolla, Sonya Zalubowski and Kathy
Zanio.
·

George Kasparek

Seniors Rita Petretti, Gerald Williams, Mitzi
Cox, Tom Wisniewski and Laurin LeTart look
enthu iastic as they go about the task of purchasing books for their final year at SJHS.

Social . •
Don Sershon

That music in the cafeteria, girls, isn't for
dancing! Juniors Mary Smith and Jinnine
Ramacchi see-n to have forgotten the layout
of St. Jo ~ eph's since last year.

Don Sersho n

And why did the chaperone stop the stroll, Mary Corr?

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and Sports Activities
"My little brother could play better football than you!" Coach Carbone
seems to be telling these now famous words to Joseph Mattiazzi.

George Kasparek

George Kasparek

Look out, coach, he's bigger than you! Coach Matrise
sizes up Richard Szusko.

Oof! Lynn Fredrickson seems to have discovered that that blocker is solid.

Everybody ready? Let's go!
Mary Pobar, are those your
feet that never left the
ground? Mary DeFurio, Sue
Pezdir, and Sylvia Stec make
it.

John Lundberg

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An Ode to Frustration
Down the road someone is
stuck in the mudHow lugubrious!
The engine roars and one by one
the pistons pop from their cagesHow lugubrious!
Slowly the car sinks
into the mud .
Glub, glub- how lugubrious!
Laurin LeTart 214

Ballad tif a Slave
Feet
There are th ings feet know
That hands never willThe exciting , pounding feel
O f running down a hill ;
The soft, cool prickliness
When feet are bare
Walking in the summer grass
To almost anywhere .
Aldonna Molinaro 103

Princess and the Pea?
Well, Cats, as the squares put it, once
upon a time there was this prince. Man!
He was a cat! This cat (I mean prince)
was looking for a real cool dish, but, of
course, she had to be a real princess.
Really, th is jazz wasn't up his alley, because he couldn't figure out which was
and which wasn't. (If you dig me.)
Now, one night there was a crazy
storm. All at once there was a knock at
the door, and this real ancient king hobbled over to open it.
Well , man! You never saw such a
mess in your life! There was this real
gone princess, drenched to the skin,
standing in the wind and rain . Man! She
was so wet, that there were fountains
spurting from her shoes .
"Well, Daddy-a, are you gonna ask me
in this shack or are you gonna let me
freeze to death? After all, most cats
don 't leave princesses out to freeze in the
rain," said the princess .
" Listen, Kiddo, are you trying to tell
me you're a princess," said the king.
"Get serious, Jack, and let me in," the
princess courteously replied .
So the king let the princess in, and
he briefed the queen. Well, this queen
was the swing'n'st. She went to the bedroom and put a pea under the bed for
the princess . Then she put twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds on top
of the same crazy bed .
The next morning they asked her
how she slept. She replied "Man! that
was wildest night I ever spent . There
must have been a rock in that bed."
"Sugar! you are a princess," said the
prince . And they lived happily ever
after.
Carol Guttormsen 108

John Brown was a man , a mighty man was he
as tall and as wide as a chestnut tree.
His muscles, bands of iron , his fists like steel.
One blow from his fist could make any man reel.
But John was a slave , he had always been one
ever since his dad married and had his first son .
For his dad was a slave; and so was his mother,
His two sisters, too, and even his brother.
A slave has no rights , so they say;
Because his color is different, he must pay .
But pay for what? What crime did he commit
except being born? And I doubt if that's it.
His sin is his color because it is black.
Ignorant men scorn and turn their backs.
Oh, how cruel the world can be!
If men would open their eyes, then they would see.
John knew all this without being told ,
But he had to face the truth - he was getting old .
Too old was he to stand up for what's right,
for younger men than he have lost the fight .
John used to be strong and tall and straight;
but John 's years grew short, that was his fate .
He grew old much too fast .
The best of his years had already passed .
Old had he grown from the beatings he took .
He was now bent and with every word, shook .
But deep inside, was he bitter? No.
He just felt pity for the ignorant men who scorned him so.
Richard Rhey 111

Emptiness

The Earth

A lone cactus occupied the crest of
the hill . For miles around the only other
matter to be seen was the gray shifting
sand. Every now and then a stray gust
of wind whipped up a sand funnel. No
living thing, except for an especially
hardy cactus, could survive in this barren wasteland.
Marilynne Fredrick 212

I am worn, I am tattered,
But to you that doesn't matter .
I feed you, I clothe you,
Even though I do not know you .
You scar me with bombs;
You stain me with blood .
Someday, someday, you'll see,
I won't be.
Cass Chinske 104

Depression
The lifeless air clung to the earth and
held the clouds as still as death in the
black sky . A slumped figure stumbled
down the dark path lined with tired trees
which devoured the only light that could
show him the way.
Mary Ellen Fish 211
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Possibility
Many people think they should ;
And maybe sometimes they could;
But I wonder if they really ·would .
Paul Defazio 102

Andy Applauds America
When I left my sunny Sicily, I
was prepared to come across a different way of life here in the U.S.,
but when I reached Kenosha, there
were so many differences that I
was astonished. Every day I find
new and different customs.
One of the major differences is
our educational plan. W c begin
with kindergarten and five years
of obligatory elementary school.
About half of the students that
have an elementary school diploma
want to attend what we call middle school and primary industrial
school which lasts three years.
Then those who want to go on
studying and have a middle school
diploma can attend five years of
classical, scientific or technical
school. Those who went to primary can continue with secondary
industrial school.
A pupil who goes to the first
year of middle school has to study

George Kasparek

"Howdy, pardner," seems to be what our new foreign exchange student,
Andea (Andy) Mantineo, is saying to his American host, Dave DeSimone.

SJHS Welcomes Foreign Exchange Student
"America is great!" That's what
Andrea Mantineo, our new foreign
exchange student from Italy says.
Andrea, better known as Andy,
is spending his senior year in the
U. S. under the sponsorship of the
National Catholic Welfare Conference. Subj cc ts for his senior
year include English, sociology, religion, typing, American histor~· ,
and journalism. He says he is really
looking forward to this last class
since he plans to make journafam
his career.
Andy likes track and tennis. He
is especially fascinated by golf,
which he has never seen before.
Comparing Italy with America,
Andy finds our country strange
and exciting. "The most noticeable difference that impresses me,"
says And~', is that in America there

seems to be no obvious class difference, while in Italy, there arc
three definite groups: professional,
commercial, and laboring. Dating
is forbidden in ltalv until one is at
least sixteen; however, eighteen
is considered more acceptable.
Scooping is real! y something new
to Andy because only the wealthier
class of people in Italy have cars,
and teenagers must be eighteen to
secure a license. "Food is another
contrast," Andy says. "\Ve cat lots
of fish and bread, and lots of spaghetti and macaroni."
Dave DcSimonc, who is Andy's
host, seems to enjoy having And~·
as guest. Both boys agree that the
lJ. S. is a very appealing country
to any teenager, but Italy has one
feature that would attract most U.
S. A. tccns-half-da) s of school.

JOTS FROM JOE'S • • • • •
Jerry I ellcr may still be singing
"Herc Comes Summer," but I'm
afraid we all know better. As all
good things must come to an end,
sum111cr has bowed out, but it left
behind some memorable and humorous e\·ents.
A case of nen·es is bound to
accompany most of us when the
day arrives for our first road test,
but with PAT RADIGAN thcv
lasted e\·en after the test because
she got into someone else's car and
tried to drive it home.
Throwing stones into Lake
J\lichigan may be one way of passing time, but when a large rock
gets dropped on one's foot, and one
has to spend time in the hospital,
BOB HUGHES concludes that 1r
was all a waste of time.

::Do - Re -mi -:la - New 'Equipment
So - olanceflej
A pretty girl is like a melody,
and in the Lanccttcs, ten prctt~·
girls make beautiful music. These
girls, Pat 1atranga, Sharon Pascucci, Sue Kancian, Christine
Schwenn, Kay Stanley, Kathy Brdalck, Joanne Navoicz~ · k and Margaret 1cicr arc this year's members
of the SJ HS Voice Club.
Any girl with singing talent and
a sincere desire to work may contact Sister Rosc111arie, but membership is limited.
The Lanccttcs appear in most
~chool functions, sing for special
programs and just this summer appeared on TV.

Confucius Say ...
just think, onlv 228 d:n s umil
next summer ,·acation.

Italian, Latin, history, math, geography, religion, drawing, athletics
and music.
Jn classical or scientific schools
pupils study most of the same subjects plus sciences, t~·ping and mechanical subjects.
Because of all these subjects an
Italian pupil has an encyclopedic
knowledge, but an American has a
deeper understanding of what he
studies.
[ am SUrC you will find it VCf\'
strange if I tell you that in our
universities we don't have to be
present every day. If we care to,
'-\'e can go every six months and
do examinations. Jn other words
we are self-taught.
Each month I will try to tell you
a little more about the Italian teenager's life in comparison with the
American teenager and his way of
life.
Andrea lantineo

\Norricd that she was running

Enlivens Classes

out of oil, .\!ARY S.\tlTH pulled
into a gas station and asked for oil.
After trying unsuccessful!~· to open
the car hood, the attendant final! y
gave up and prycd it open-only
to find the oil tube was full. Mary
felt sorry for the poor man and
purchased a quarter's worth of gas.
Unforgettable incidents occur
even in school and ·with freshmen
being the new students in school
one might expect them to have the
difficulties, but they held their own
while two seniors and old pros in
school really got muddled.
i'v1ARK \VHITESIDE, tr~· ing
hard to get to the right classes, did
fine until he got to fourth period
-after it '-\'as O\'Cr.
It's easy for people to misplace
books, pencils, etc., but only PATTY BOBCSCH could lose her
locker.

Old Alumni Never Die - They Just Pass

Optical disks, telephone transmitters, illuminators, and a nc\.V set
of biological specimens highlight
this year's addition to the science
department.
Ph:·sics and biology students rcspccti\·cly will use the abo,·c equip111cnt. The physicists will also make
use of photometers and new convection apparatus according to Sister Stanisia, head of the science
department. In chemisn:·, because
of the great!:· enlarged number of
students, chemicals poured in in
greater quantity.
i\ lcchanical drawing 111atcrial and
students arc under the direction of
1\l r. Richard Johnson. All this
equipment, as "ell as the course,
is ne\1, and both arc being cnjo: cd
ll\ the class.

School ha,·ing started, many of St.
Joe's grads have decided to attend
colleges and universities.
Who else but PA L YUTKA
would go S\\ i111111ing on his first
day at college. He left for the
Uni\'ersity of \Visconsin, September 7.
BARB COX, editor of the Cballenge last year, is furthering her
education at the Uni,·ersity of
\Visconsin-Kenosha Extension.
llKE Pl Sis attending Creighton Universitv in Nebraska.
AUDREY 1\IURA, BARB OBLEN and IARY KAE IADURA ha\·e been accepted at t.
i\larr's Hospital in ,\ lihrnukee
\\here they will begin training a.
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future nurses.
ROl\T DORAU and JOH '
BEG;:ER, along with RON RIZZO, former Cbal/enge sports editor, arc attending St. , ' orbert's
College in DePerc, \ \'isconsin.
BO?\', TIE A?\'"DERSO~ is the
only SJHS graduate attending
.\larquctte.
Can ~· ou picture JOF SCHAL'' R and CLIFF CA, 'T\\'ELL at
an all boys' college? BelieYc it or
not, Loras in Dubuque, Iowa, is
their new alma mater.
Fl~·ing is one '-\·a:· of getting up
in the world, and it' al o the wa~ ·
] , A~~E D FCRIO got to r.
\larv's of the "'ood in Terre
Haute, Indiana.

Was this summer an extension or an interruption
of your education ?

I think this summer was an extension
and an interruption of my education. It
was an extension because I went to Colorado Roundup. There I met girls from all
over the world. It was an interruption
because with all the summer activities, I
couldn't get myself to look in a book.

Leontine Milas 108

This summer was a very great extension of my education. The reason is because my summer was filled with the
excitement of the county and state fairs.
The education I gained working with animals will be of benefit since I intend to
major in science.
Kathy Bydalek 104

Senator John Kennedy gets my vote.
He would not get very far with just my
one vote, but with votes from the mill ions of other citizens of this country who
feel about him the way I do he could be
our next president.
Kennedy is well qualified for the job
and responsibility of president in spite
of his young age. He has been in the
Senate for a number of years and has
proven the extent of his intelligence and
experience. Being part of our government now, he knows the national problems and issues .
There is one more factor which must
not be neglected. John Kennedy is a
Catholic. This does not make him any
better than other possible candidates; it
most likely will be a great hindrance to
him.
Mary Conrad 102

An extension. This summer I read
more and finally began to realize that
since this is my last year and I hope to
go to college, I must utilize my spare
time with study.
Fred Werve 214

It was an extension because it taught
me a great deal about general housekeeping. I cooked the meals and cleaned
the house for our family.

Frances Peterson 213

This summer was an extension of my
education because I worked in an office.
This was a great experience because I
plan to do this type of work after graduation.
Kathy Griffin 206

Tom Pechura 316

Who's running?

I think that my summer was an extension of my education because of the
new people I met, and I think one learns
something new from everyone one
meets.
I was given a chance to attend the
Summer School of Catholic Action where
I learned things that I will be able to use
the rest of my life.
Lastly I think I learned by just living
and getting to know myself and the people and· things around me better.
Susan Peterson 103

Which of the potential candidates for the presidency
in 1960 are you supporting?
I am supporting Johnson because of
his work on the Senate Rackets Committee which is exposing the truth about the
unions.
Bill Kauffmann 109

I am supporting Democratic Sen. H.
Humphrey. I heard him speak at a dinner
this summer and thought he was very
good. He has many good ideas and I
think he would make a good president.

Judy Getschman 206
I do not have an opinion on which
candidate I will support in 1960. Before
I could express an opinion I would have
to know as much as possible about each
candidate, and then I would support the
man I felt best suited for the presidency.
Mary Schlater 212

I would select Stuart Symington, the
Senator of Missouri because he is chairman of the subcommitte on space and
supports the common people.

This summer has been an extension
of my education because I have learned
many things for my future in nursing . I
really enjoyed my vacation. I am amazed
at the sense of satisfaction one gets when
one sees very sick people coming to the
hospital and later sees them walk out so
much improved . To see somebody die,
and then to observe the delivery of a
baby into the world are two powerful
experiences . It's a wonderful way to get
an education .
Carolyn Warner 213

Nelson Rockefeller. He is a very capable person. Nelson has a very good
background. I think with a little study
about the problems of our country he can
and will become a very capable president. Nelson is a very popular and influential person.
Dick Hensgen 211

Richard Nixon. I would support him
because I think he is the best qualified.
He has been Vice President for two
terms and should be acquainted with the
President's duties. I also think he's going
to win because many many people are
thinking the same way.

Senator Kennedy . He is a Catholic
and should have the right ideas about
such important things as segregation.
Also he is young and healthy and will be
able to take the strain.

Bob Agazzi 109

Mary Anderson 105

Carol Gastaldi 310
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Class Officers
Set High Goals

George Kasparek

Don't frown, kids, the year has just begun. The class officers, from left to right, are: Robert Agazzi, Helen
Benuska and Sylvia Stec. In the second row are Orlyn Faraca, Nancy Rufflo, Pat Cipolla, Mary Glembocki,
Ron Filippelli and Chuck Hall. Robert Heller and Jim Costigan occupy the top row.

Club Aims, Advantages Outlined
To foster sportsmanship among
the members and the student body
is the purpose of the J-Club. Ralph
DiChristopher heads the club as
president and working with him
are Dick Suszko, vice-president;
Tony Cravatta, secretary; and
Ronnie Spitzer, sergeant-at-arms.
All boys awarded letters automatically become members and will
assist as ushers at all sport functions.

So you want to be a teacher ...
well, then, the FT A is the club for
you. Open only to juniors and seniors, this club is under the direction of Sister Adolphus, and its
purpose is to interest others in becoming teachers and to give its
members experience in teaching.

lf you're interested in books and
think you might enjoy working in
the library, then the Library Club
is for you. Sister Mary Francis is
the club moderator, and at present
there are twenty-two members in
the club. Anyone from the four
classes is welcome to join.

First hand experience at '>Vorking
in an office is given to all members
of the Office Club. Under the supervision of Sister Irene, senior
girls receive instructions in managing an office.
The office they arc put in charge
of may be the main office or any
one of the priests' offices. Once in
charge of the office the girls are
on their own and arc required to
fulfill the obligations of any secretary.

To maintain the spirit of good
sportsmanship throughout the student body is the main objective of
the eight students "'ho lead the
cheers for the "varsity". At St.
Joseph High the cheerleaders help
to provide the school with an organized method of leading the
spectators in cheering in an orderly
fashion. Miss Sally Serio, the moderator, says, "Our aim this year is
a big one- perfection." The girls
thcmseh·es have often said they
just want to be better than last
year.
The main qualifications arc leadership and desire, as well as ability
and coordination.

Have you aspirations to the
stage? Is your dream in life to be
a great actor or actress? A Hollywood director? great make-up a~t­
ist? costume or scene designer?
Then open the door to Drama
Club, because now opportunity
knocks.
If you'd rather participate in
speech tournaments, then vour
club is Forensics. Both groups.help
develop ease and effectiveness in
speech. \Varning: these clubs are
not for lazy people! Concentration, intensity, industry, self-discipline and the abilit\' to take criticism are essential qualities to all
club members. lf you have these
qualities, why not join one, or
both, clubs?

Junior Red Cross gives teenagers a chance to show Christian
charit)' to their neighbors through
scn·ice to others, both at home and
abroad.
This club will continue the program of former years, sending gift
boxes overseas as well as providing
what it can bv \Va\' of entertainment and gifts for local charitable
organizations.

ca11eman' '1

feade r<f h ip
hi<f club

a/warp carried lhe 110/e.

Want to Argue ?
Arc you one of the better students in your class, and so appreciate the opportunity to add to your
education? Have you a real desire to understand more about the
problems of our world today?
Have ) ' OU thought of the fun of
trips, the thrill of public acclaim,
the pleasure of winning, the pride
in representing the school in a
form of competition which depends upon brain?
Good for you! The debate club
of St. Joseph 's High welcomes
you! Open to freshmen, sophomore, juniors, and seniors. Anyone
interested may sec Sister Jarlath,
club moderator.

The entire school is enrolled in
the Junior Red Cross, and it hopes
to find many who will be interested in joining the JRC school
council, thereb:' gi\·ing their time
and talents occasional]\· to the scn'icc of others.

It's a snap to join the Photo Club
if you're interested in photograph)', and if you arc, join in a flash.
"Club members will learn the art
of dc\·eloping pictures and may get
an opportunit)' to work on the
school paper," Sa)'S Sister Francis
x ~l\'icr, club moderator.
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Already in full swing, the SJHS
Student Council is underway with
plans and ideas to make the year
'59-'60 a success.
Rev. James Hebein, new Student
Council moderator, already held
two summer meetings. Main purposes of this organization are to
foster a definite school spirit, increase student government, promote helpful as well as educational
ideas, and encourage co-operation
along with enthusiasm in school
functions.
Plans now in action include
homecoming scheduled for Oct.
18th and a school monitoring system, which will soon go into effect.
On Sept. 11th, Student Council
sponsored a get acquainted dance
for the school.
Representing the senior class this
year are Chuck Hall, president;
Mary Glembocki, vice-president;
Robert Heller, treasurer; and
Nancy Ruffalo, secretary.
Ronald Filippelli is the junior
class president and working with
him will be Helen Benuska, vicepresident; Jim Costigan, treasurer;
and Sylvia Stec, secretary.
Elected for the sophomore class
are Robert Agazzi, president; Orlyn Faraca, vice-president; and Pat
Cipolla, secretary. An election will
be held to decide on a new treasurer to replace Rick Podgorny,
who recently moYed to Chicago.
Freshman class members will
elect their officers within the next
few weeks.

Help Your Halo Shine
Certainly one of the most important organizations in our school is
Sodalitv. Socialists desire to be
extraordinary Catholics. The rewards of Sociality are many, for
through the following of its rules,
a person becomes closer to God
and the Church, and a better neighbor to his fellowman. The senior
officers of Sociality are: Prefect,
Judy Conrad; Vice Prefect, Gail
Becker; Secretary, Beth White;
and Treasurer, Rita Tyson. All
those interested in joining Sociality,
may contact Sister Jarlath.

Acolyte Club provides our school
with servers for all religious occasions. Sister Quintillus, the club
moderator, welcomes any boy who
has served in his parish. Although
there are upper classmen in the
club at present, no officers have
been elected yet. Come on boys,
this is your opportunity to show
your leadership. If you join, others
will follow, and remember this is
strictly a boy's club.
After all, who ever heard of altar
girls?

Lancers Have Potential
Despite Initial Losses
Lancer gridders encountered a
surprisingly foster and stronger
team than expected in the season's
opener, September I 3. The J\1essmcr squad showed good form and
alertness defeating the Lancers
31-0.

Dominican's \\ 'hitc Knights pro,·idcd the next opposition in the
conference opener. Again the opposing team proved strong defeating the squad 33-13. Fullback Pat
1\1cAleer and halfback Bill Perozzi
scored the touchdowns. J\ lcAlccr
also ran the extra point.
' evertheless, this year's team
could be as good as last year's.
Sure, ,,.e lost three-fourths of our
backfield but we still have most of
the line returning-the same line
that one year ago did such a fine
job in its first year of Catholic
Conference competition.
Our line is probabl:· as big as
any that :·ou would find in the
conference.
\\'e have four letter-winning
tackles, "ho '' cigh o\·cr 200
pounds: Tackles, Brian Guilliam,
Ralph DiChristophcr, John Regner
and Larr:· Gaydos. The guards
arc the same ;:s they were last \'ear:
Guards, Tony C1:avotta and- Bud
;\'avin. \\'c lost our center through
graduation but his understudy,
Dick Suszko, \vho saw considerab le
action last year, will be returning
along with Neil Pietrangeli.
The end positions are not as
strong due both to graduation and
the switching of Pat 1cAlccr to

fullback. But '' c\·c added some
excellent sophomores in 1\ 1ikc Stella and Richard Chiappetta.
In the backfield, Ron Fillipclli,
a returning letterman, calls the
plays. His undcrstud:', sophomore
Dan Ruffalo, has done an excellent job and is battling with Ron
for the first string job.
Behind them at fullback is hardrunning, 190 pound Pat J\1cAlccr.
Bill Perozzi, who saw enough action to win a letter last year, is
returning at one of the halfback
slots. The other halfback position
poses a problem since senior Jerry
Krajnak fractured his forearm.
Tony· Gomez, Al Corradini or Ken
Skendzicl seem to be top candidates for this open position.
As I said, this year's team could
be as good last last :·ear's team.

George Kasparek

Coach Robert Carbone, Captain Tony Cravotta and Coach Frank Matrise
make final strategic plans for the big game against St. Catherine's. We
hope that king-size handshake brings good luck.

Freshman Team Appears Strong
Forty-six hopeful candidates attended the session when initial
practice for the new freshman
football squad was held August 31.
This number is considerably
greater than last year's turnout.
The size of the team, considering
weight and height, is also a little
larger than the preceding team.
Mr. Robert Radigan will act as
head coach of the team. He will
be assisted b,- 1r. Richard John~
son, new science and mechanical

Dick Suszko

JO-POJ(ES
Leslie Thelen, senior cheerleader,
was practically in tears when Steve
Seliga told her she was ineligible
for Vic Tanny's Gym. The instance occurred when Leslie complained about a weight problem,
but this reporter finds no fault with
Leslie's avoirdupois.

Who's Tough?
The Team's Tough

1\likc Stella, stellar and stalwart
sophomore guard, constantly calls
Tony ("Chico") Gomez a Mexican Jumping Bean. Need I ask
wlw?

Coach Matrise is the head line
coach. His primary duty is to make
the linemen "tough''. So the key
word among the line at St. Joe's is
"tough''. J\1r. Matrise cnjo:·s vcn·
much watching his linemen perform under the dun11n\'.
B:· this 1 mean there arc four
lines and the first man in each line
is required or rather indoctrinated
to do push-ups with a 50 lb. dum111:· on his back to the glorious
chant of Coach Matrise, "Up,
Down, C p, Down."
Frequently or perhaps all the
time, Coach latrisc asks this question when a player is in agony
from being kicked in the mouth or
nose, "I thought you were 'tough'!"
The player who is sufferi ng from
loss of blood and shock usually
sa:·s, "Coach, I'm tough."
\ Vo rds of Encouragement From
The Coach:
I) Up, Down, Up Down!
2) You're tough!
3) My little brother can play better than any one of you!
4) There arc only two smart men
on this who le field-Coach Carbone and myself. (Coach Matrisc l ? ? ? ~??

George Kasparek

Jim Werwie and Ken Wedeikes, SJHS seniors, made headlines this summer with their triumphs in the bike races at Washington Bowl and other
tracks in this area.

Steve Seliga

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dra\~ ing teacher, who will coach
the line.
All home games are played at
Lakefront Stadium and begin at
10 a.m. on Saturday. Following is
the '59-'60 schedule. The St. Catherine's contest is the only nonconfcrcncc game.

FRESHMAN SCHEDULE
September 26 Pius
October 3
Don Bosco
October 10
Marquette
October 14
St. Catherine
October 17
Jordan
October H
Cathedral

(H)
(H)

(A)
(A)
(A)
(H)

Senior Athletes Vie
For Optimist Trophy
Kenosha Optimist Club awarded
a trophy to the sportsman of the
year at Saint Joseph High School
last spring. Frank Sheats, who
competed in footba ll, basketball
and baseball was the deserving
wmner.
Father Ollcy has specified that
qualifications an athelete must fulfill for this award arc senior rank,
average achievement in studies,
athletic ability and last ly, congeniality with coaches and other
members of the team throughout
the year.
Mr. Robert Carbone, head coach
of the Saint Joseph football team,
expressed these feelings about
sportsmanship, "A good athlete is
always aggressive, tries his best and
accepts losses."
Anthony Cravatta, team captain,
had this to say about sportsmanship. "The student body can sho\\
sportsmanship by attending as
many games as possible and by
cheering whether the team is ahead
or behind."

This lively addition to the student
body is named "Turkey". Originally intended to decorate one of the
Sodality's Thanksgiving baskets for
needy families, Turkey is here under careful observation from Sister
Jarlath, Ken Wedeikes, Don Sershon and Rich Lang. Bill Von Wald,
Ron Sabby, Bill Green and Tom
Joerndt, however, seem more interested in the camera.

John Lundberg

Sophomore Sue White is intent upon getting
her point across to Mary Jo Parisea in this
scene from "Early Frost', one of the seven
one-act plays.
Robert Fanning

These debaters look mighty proud of
their achievement as indeed they should
be! From left to right they are Joan
Hammond, Kathy Ruffalo, Joan Pietrangeli and Linda Moddes, winners of a firstplace debate trophy.

Seems as if Jay Schultz goes in for "pure com·
fort". He showed this trait clearly when he
dozed off in one of the lobby chairs during rehearsals for the variety show.

Sister, that tidbit could only
seem tasty to little Rollo. Biology instructor Sister Francis
Xavier is seen feeding one of
her pets.

Terry Phannenstill

John Lundberg

AUTOGRAPHS

~CHALLENGE
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Sr. JosEPll H1c;11 Sc1100L, KE'-OSllA, \V1sco'-SI'-

~OVEMBER,

1959

Sodalists Set
Mixer Dance

Second SJHS Variety Show
To Travel Around the World

As a result of discussion on
steady :ind social dating, the Junior
Sodality of St. Joseph's will sponsor a dance t·> be held in the school
gy·m on \Vcdncsday, NO\·ember

"Around the World in 80 Minutes" is the theme for the secm1d annual variety show to be presented
NoYembcr 13 in St. Joseph's auditorium.
The acts will represent various countries of the '' orld. A choric drama and dance, The Congo, ''ill
represent Africa. From Spain will come a comic bull fight and from Poland a folk dance. Linda Reno, Jim
Johnson, and Phil Klein will be headliners in a one act play, T/Je Boor, a Russian satire. A mock opera,
written by George Schroeder, will be the Italian entry. India will be represented by an interpretation of an
Indi an legend through dance and pantomime.
Acts typifying America will highlight the program. Barry Zoromsky is set to pb)· "Rhapsody in
Blue" on the piano, accompanied by Alan Kelps on the clarinet. ,\1ary Anderson will perform an Interpreta tion of Jazz in dance.
Randy Gullo, Bob Fanning, and
S:c\ c Bobusch arc members of a
barber shop quartet. Other American acts are a minstrel shO\\, mock
western, and selections from So11t/J
Pacific , Oklahoma, King and!, Carousel, :i nd My Fair Lady.
Pat Petretti ''ill narrate the entire show.

The main purpose of the affair
will be to proYc that students can
have as much fun in a group as in
couples.

25.

P;;t Petretti, entertainment committee chairman, has an unusual
\·ariety of group dances planned.
Her goal is to sec that C\'Cry·one
present joins in the fun. The Lanccttes, G i r Is' Chorus, and soloist
Sue Kancian will perform during
intermission.
The junior committee chairmen
arc: decorations, .\ 1ary Sieger;
publicity, Sandy· Kelsey; refreshments, Carol Smith; records, Phyllis \\'ojt1k; tickets, Judyann Hackbarth; and chaperones, K;;thy By·dalek.

First Honiecoming Termed Success
~lary l(ae Hawkins Named Queen

George Kasparek

Jn rehearsal for Friday's upcoming variety show, featured players sing
their hearts out. In scene from the mock opera, George Schroeder sere·
nades Christine Schwenn and Carol Gonnering while dancers Judy Keach
and Mary DeFurio limber up.

Career Night To Feature
College Representatives
Realizing the junior and senior
students' need for concrete information on which to base their
search for careers, the administration of St. Joseph High School is
again sponsoring a career night to
be held Tuesday, No,·embcr 2f,
at 8 p.m.
Career night will co111mencc
with all participants assembling in
the auditorium, where Dr. i\.' ick
Topctzos of J\larqucttc Uni,·ersin·
will give the introductor)· speech.
Following hi111 to the rostrum will
I c representatives from industr)'
.-; nd college ranks. The:· \\ill speak
on the choice of careers t 11c seni irs
must make as thcv finish their final
:·car of high school.
After recei,·ing an insight into
the motivation '' hich should earn
them through the c,·ening, th.e
juniors and seniors ''ill break up
into smaller groups. rl1e: \\ill
then proceed to a se ries of three

sessions with reprcscntati,·cs from
different careers and colleges. In
these sessions thcr will receive information particular to the careers
or colleges they arc interested in.

St. Joseph's first [ lomecoming is
no\\ a thing of the past, but c\·e r)·onc concerned \\ill be a long time
forgetting it. Tlic students and
faculn· alike concluded it was one
of SJHS's most successful "firsts."
Father James Hebein, moderz.tor
of Student Council, which planned
the weekend of c\·cnts, said, '·All
the students of SJ HS have something to be proud of. Our first
Homecoming was a fine example
of the enthusiasm and spirit of the
student bodv."
i\ lan· Kae Ha\\ kins was chosen
b: the student bod)· to reign as
queen o,·cr the fcsti,·ities. Her
court included Judy Conrad, i\lar)·

Glembocki, J\1ary Lou ,\ tars, and
Arlene Quinn.
A cow with the caption "This
Is "o Bull" captured first prize.
1\lcmbcrs of senior homerooms
2 H, 213, and half of 212 worked
on this fbat under the direction of
Dick Engstrom, Pat Bobusch, and
,\larilynne Fredrick. Second place
went to the senior float entitled
"Sure Bet." Doll;• La'>vrence, Pat
Radigan, and Rita Petretti were
chairmen from 206, 211, and the
other half of 212. Sophomores Pat
Cipolla, Randy Gullo, Mar)' Sue
Brownlee, and Dan \Vhitesidc, of
rooms 107, 108, and 111 planned
the third prize float, carrying the
slogans "Stick 'Em Good", "Do or
Die", and "Defect of ,\lemorial".

Juniors To Register
Fo r Merit Tests
All juniors intending to take the
::: tional Merit Scholarship Qualif~·ing Tests must register in the
general office before No,·cmber 15.
The tests will be administered
1\larch 8, 1960. The $1 fee must
be pa id b)· the time of the test.
Diane Keane, senior who took
the test last )'Car, was the onl:· student from St. J oscph 's to enter the
finals. She \\ill take her final test,
the College Boards, on December 5.
Juniors planning to attend college ;1rc strongl~ urged to take
t hcsc tests.
1

John Lundberg

Living up to their logan, sophomores Jim Johnson and Ron Viola take
care of that Memorial Crusader. This float placed third in float competition during Homecoming festivitie .

Culture Can Cultivate
NOV./9
What connotation do you derive
from the word culture? Some see a bejeweled lorgnette perched on a powdered, pointed nose, while its owner
stares importantly at a most intellectual
opera. Others see the crumbling ruins
of an empire, ancient and long gone, its
destiny fulfilled . To many it is a crooked
finger and an affected holding of a cup
of tea. A few call to mind a dim, musty
library with tier upon tier of heavy, ponderous volumes stolidly enduring the
gradual assualt of dust.
These varied examples serve to illustrate the confused, contradictory attitudes which are presently held toward
culture by large segments of our society.
Basically, culture is the enlightenment
and refinement of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training.
Supposedly cultured social affectations and misuses of the term culture
should not lead us to believe then that
this quality does not have a definite
place in our own lives. Enlightenment is
a process that constantly takes place
within an individual. The only degree
of perception this requires on the part
of the individual is consciousness. The
application of this enlightenment in
regard to culture, however, is in refinement, the refinement of taste. The
acquirement of this so-called enlightenment and refinement of taste does present a problem for it is obtained through
intellectual and aesthetic training. The
training in these two fields forms a large
basis of the educational foundation that
this institution seeks to build upon. This
training, however, is valueless unless
applied to your own life.
The element of culture then, depends
on the individual. Any person who comprehends fully the true values of life will
come to a realization of the desirability
of culture and consequently desire it. He
will realize that the cultivation of culture
contains for him refined maturity .
Diane Keane

What Is St. Joseph's?
I am St. Joseph's High School.
A part of a city,
The youth of a country.
Many young seek me;
They turn to me for knowledge
and friendships tooThese children of my creator .

I am St. Joseph's High School
Each day I hear youth
Laughing, singing, crying too.
"Hi" is the password of my halls,
Although sullen faces sometimes enter,
Marring the beauty of
These children of my creator.

EDITOR . ... . ..... . .. . ......... Rita Petretti
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
News ........... .. ....... Laurin LeTart
Leslie Thelen
Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judy Conrad
Diane Keane
Jo-pinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lucille Moretti
Prisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patricia Gaffney
Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mary Wientjes
Features ....... - . _.. Mary Kae Hawkins
Sports
. . . . . . . . . . Dennis Rutkowski
EXCHANGE EDITORS . . . . . . . Carol Smith
Carolyn Warner
PHOTOGRAPHERS ... . .... George Kasparek
John Lundberg
Don Sershon
ARTISTS ..... . ... . ..... . . . .... Mike Hyland
Bob Bosco
Joan Giovanelli
TYPISTS
Julie Morrissey
Karen Knight
Kathy Zuffa

I am St. Joseph's High School
For my own, I am the PRESENT .
Friends and friendship are my gifts.
Wisdcm and knowledge are my wares.
As my source of life I ask
Time and love, just those, from
These children of my creator.
Judy Conrad

So This Is Thanksgiving ?

The Challenge
Published by the students
of t. Joseph High School

I am St. Joseph's High School,
A symbol of this world 's opportunity .
Therefore I hold the key to happiness,
The key to despair and misery too.
Which way will it be turned?
Their choice can sadden me,
These children of my creator.

Now comes the time of year when
sticky hands and greasy faces reach for
the proverbial turkey or ham. This is the
Thanksgiving season in which everyone
gives thanks for his blessings.
Let us look into an average American
home and listen in on the customary
meditation and silence before the big
meal. "Hey, Joe, have another beer. It'll
be a couple more minutes before the old
lady gets the bird on the table."
Next we will go into the kitchen
where the modern woman is slaving
over the hot stove, just like her ancestors used to do. "Jane, will you please
open the can of instant turkey and those
little cans of instant coffee? Oh, yes,
don't forget the instant potatoes, silver2

ware and .. . EEK! Doris, what's this
Volkswagen doing in here?"
And in front of the fireplace lies the
champion of the home, the protector of
all-Lassie . "I wish they'd get started. I
hear that these birds sure have juicy
bones!"
Out of earshot but not out of eyeshot
lies the biggest blessing a home could
have, 1he baby. "Man, it's like these
fossils are going ape. Gets a little cold
out and they run around like they never
seen food before. I open my mouth, and
they stick a crummy baby bottle in it.
Personally I'd prefer a bottle of-!"
That's Thanksgiving ~ind life, 1959
style. Who should know better than we,
the ones living in it.
Bill Shulski

Can a pupil who dislikes
reading be a good student?
A pupil can't be a good student if
he doesn't like to read and isn't able to
read . Every subject in school has reading
connected with it in some form or another; and if the pup il doesn't like to
read, it's going to be a lot harder for
him to understand what he's trying to
learn . Everything that he reads he learns
from, no matter if it's biographies or adventure stories.
A pupil who likes to read isn't necessarily a good student. The type of
reading that he does determines what
he gets out of it. For example, a person
who will read only romance stories and
other such trash is surely not increasing
his knowledge.
The person who can read and know
what he's reading has the best advantage of all.
Trudy Deom 113

A pupil who dislikes reading will not
be a very good student. Reading forms
the basis of knowledge. There are two
ways in which knowledge is obtained:
reading and listening. Reading is a kind
of self-teaching method. What is read
remains in the memory for future use.
Listening has many drawbacks. It does
not stay in the mind all the time. Usually
it travels in one ear and out the other
without stopping for the brain to pick
up some of the passing information.
Thus valuable statements are lost forever.
Nick Mischler 201

A pupil who dislikes reading cannot
be a good student. He can be excellent
in other subjects but not in English which
is the backbone of all subjects. He will
not know words if he does not read. To
be a good student a pupil must be able
to speak well and to know what other
people are saying. He might not know
what some words are in a chemistry
book and won't be able to understand
the part with those words. Of course,
in high school this rule will not apply in
all cases, but it surely will in college.
Jera Id Fetzer 206
No. I don't believe anyone who dislikes reading can be a good student. To
be a good student involves more than
just doing the required or the minimum.
A good student is an interested and
inquisitive person . He will go out and
search for material concerning a particular topic. He tries to familiarize himself
with his subjects so that he will benefit
himself, and so that his contributions to
the class will be of more value.

Pat Gaffney 211

What is the greatest obstacle to the student as a reader?
The greatest obstacle to the student
as a reader is himself. The explanation
of this is that the student must want to
learn new words and what they mean.
He must continually study the English
language in order to find this out.
Joe Tennessen 308

The greatest obstacle to a student as
a reader is lack of comprehension. The
student doesn't understand the vocabulary used. The words are vague; he
doesn't understand their meaning. He
becomes disinterested in reading. He
becomes a poor reader.
Helen Volpentesta 112
The greatest obstacle to the student
as a reader, I think, is the fine print in
some books and also the big unexplainable words. I don't believe, of course,
that we should keep reading the same
type of words day after day, but we
should read books with a little more advanced words in them. If you do stumble over some hard words look them up
in a dictionary.
Roxanne Recker 308

I think that the material to be read is
the greatest obstacle. After all, if you
don't like what you're reading, you
won't get much out of it. I know that
if I don't like the book that I'm reading,
I'll go over it rather haphazardly and not
get too much out of it.
Quantity is a great factor in how much
a student will read or get out of his
reading. If someone has to read a lot
of books in a short time, he will get
nothing out of it. I think teachers should
strive in their assignments for quality,
not quantity.
Richard Suszko 211

I think the greatest obstacle to a
student as a reader is noise. How can
anyone concentrate on his reading if the
television is on, or the radio is blaring,
or even if there is a party downstairs?
He can't! If there is all this noise around,
a student will not understand what he is
reading. I think the best way to read
and understand what is being read is to
be in a quiet room alone and stay there
until the reading is finished.
Bonnie Hansen 107

I think that a student who dislikes
reading can be a good student because
I myself dislike reading. I do read, of
course, but not much more than I have
to. Something has to be interesting for
me to read it. I think that I can be and
am a good student.
Gloria Thomas 301

Yes. If the pupil is rich enough he
can have someone read to him. But under ordinary conditions the answer is,
of course, NO. Why? Well, first of all
he would be bored when he reads and
would not understand. Secondly, he
would try not to read what is assigned
because he dislikes it. Proof: Latin is a
subject where the majority of the time
is spent reading. If a pupil dislikes reading and does not read, he could not pass
at all.
Paul Wallig 309
In my own reading, I find that my
greatest obstacle in reading is comprehension . In order to understand what I
have read, especially if it concerns history, I have to re-read a paragraph at
least three times. I have been told that
the only way to overcome this is by practice. But, being the lazy person that I
am, I never take time to read something
over and over because it is just pure
torture, and besides, it's easier not to do
it.
Cindy Maegaard 213

In my opinion the greatest obstacle
to the student as a reader is the subject
matter. After all, if a person doesn't like
what he is reading, he won't be very
interested in reading it. But, when one
gets, you might say, drawn to a book, it
is a great pleasure to read. There are
obstacles of lesser importance, but this
I feel is the greatest.
Dave De Simone 101
Lack of speed is the greatest obstacle
to a student as a reader. If it takes a
student an hour to read 30 pages in a
book, and there are 270 pages, no wonder he doesn't read. Who has 12 hours
of spare time in which to read a book?
Can you see now how lack of speed
could be the greatest obstacle to a
reader?
Carol Smith 105

As
WE
Interpretive dancers in the St. Francis Day assembly are Claire Fredricksen, Nancy Rufflo,
Judy Keach, Diane Borski, Marilyn Schauer,
Natalie Cuccarie, Tina Ritacca, Louise Mueller,
Sharon Pascucci , Linda Beine, Donna Ruffalo ,
Mary DeFurio, Barb Ramsby, Mary Anderson
and Sue Miholic.
George Kasparek

Richard Belleau

Mark Korb and Jim Robak of Marquette University High in Milwaukee take
a rest from their panel discussion at a recent Sodality meetinj!". Father James
Clark acted as moderator, and Brian Guilliom introduced the panel.

George Kasparek

Pat Petretti presents her original oratory on the modern St.
Francis at the St. Francis Day
assembly.

Bill Pfuderer, Shakespeare
actor, as Hamlet in the recent
program "Contrasts in Shakespeare."
George Kasparek

The Elogan plainly states that
"This Is No Bull'', but we doubt
the truth of that statement. It
LOOKS like a bull. Seniors are
pretty proud of this prize-winning float, which took first place
among all the homecoming
floats.

Jerry Kra.inak stands
guard over the "Sure-Bet
Saloon". Seniors also captured second-place in the
competition with this float.
Bill Lyons

John Lundberg

4

Mary Kae Hawkins, first SJHS homecominl\"
queen, looks as though she still can't believe the
honor. She holds her breath as she holds onto the
proud king, football captain Tony Cravotta.

Dennis Rutkowski, CHALLENGE sports editor, explains the why 's and how 's of the
first issue's sports page to the rest of the
Journalism class, Michaeline Seianas, Jinine
Ramacchi, Mary Lynn Kulesh, Jim O 'Neill,
Marilyn Cipolla, Sonya Zalubowski, Mary
Wientjes and Andrea Mantineo.
John Lundberg

Like It. • • •

Don Sershon

Sister, stop talking while I'm interrupting! Apparently, staff moderator, Sister
Columcille, is challenging Sister Colman. Sister Anne, used to these arguments,
smiles and tends to her own business.

George Kasparek

Father Darnieder distributes long-awaited rings to seniors
on October 15, at a special Mass for the occasion. Walter
Simons receives his ring as Nancy Toniolo and John Weiss
look on.

George Kasparek
George Kasparel<

Archbishop Cousins is in a jovial mood upon his visit to St. Joseph's for the
recent principals' meeting. Enjoying his humor are Rev. Richard Rossiter, Rev.
George Feldman, and Rev. Leslie Darnieder.

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Sisters, what's in that mysterious folder? Here for the principals' meeting, Sister Terence, last year's CHALLENGE moderator, looks over the unknown documents with two of the
other principals.

Philosophy of a Snob

Butterflies in Sand

The Morale Playe

No hope there is
for butterflies in sand.
I brush away the muddy clumps
softly with my hand.
Hopeful, tender,
I free the trembling things,
and fragile beauty beats itself to death
with cruelly barren wings.

of Kookie-Man

Jeanine Lawrence 211

Rain
Rain puts a veil in front of us.
It makes leaves and grass heavier,
changes the color of all it touches,
gives life to nature,
puts dark clouds in the sky,
beats rhythm on windows and roofs,
chases people indoors,
shines up streets and sidewalks,
softens the earth,
settles the city's dust,
pours down the eaves,
makes electric lights shiver,
cools the hot, still air.
Bill Green 212

Messenger: This be an shorte morale
playe writ in the year 1959, October,
withe but one (1) thoughte in minde.
This be the thought: Death doth taketh
alle. And here oure playe beginneth.

God: Where art thou, Deathe, thou
mighty messengere?

Deathe: Almighty God, I am here at your
wille, Your commandment to fulfllle.

God: Go thou to Kookie, and show him
in my name, a pilgrimage he must on
him take and the reparation due he
make.
Deathe: Verily, I shalle. Yonder is Kookie, he yet combinge his haire. Full little
he thinketh on my cominge for his minde
is on womane, his hande on combe.

(Enter Kookie, whistling "Kookie, Kookie,
Lend Me Your Combe".) Kookie, stande
stille! Wither art thou going thus gaily?

Lasagoriphious
The lifous gid solded the bap
and papous fllapous polded hap.
The bilidious pilaposous spaded
while the pogorious astip floded.
Polopous spife boded pife.
Silofous hife boded bife.
Sam Fasulo 212
(Ed. note: Th is is not written for the
masses.)

.???????
.. . . . .
In a pause I think
that sometimes we could do without
their loving arms around
our precious necks and
our sociable hearts; but
then I know I'm insanegirls.
Michael Meeter 206

Kookie: Eh? Oh, come off it, man. You're
on cloud nine. Like what's this crazy new
Kookie-talk?

Deathe: From God, out of His majestye,
I am sent to thee. He thinketh on thee
in the heavenly sphere, for thy reckoning, the houre be neare.

Kookie: Like wow, dad! I'm not beamin'
you. Dig this, a cat straight from Nervousville. Cool off, man. Don't spiel me
no lyrics. Relax and get on the line to
upsville.

Deathe: Thou with me muste come, and
tarry ye not in any ville. Thy houre be
at hande; against heaven do ye stand.
Journey onto highe, thou must make to
the sea of piety which leaveth no wake.
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I am unselfish as can be;
I am never thinking of me.
I am kind to people, animals and my
bird,
I think being selfish is simply absurd.
I couldn't be cuter when it comes to
looks,
I am marvelous at cracking the books.
I can cook; I am really quite good.
I can do anything-even carve wood.
And so if I don't speak to Susie or Sam,
It's because they're not quite as good as
I am.
Barbara Sieger 212

Kookie: Cool, dad! Like as if this were
waiting a drag. My wheels are on rolling, a doll's in my front seat, and here I
stand makin' Kookie-talk to you.

Deathe: Thou angry me get! Thy sinful
pleasures be no more! Thou from them
shall I snatche-Dost thou know not my
significance?

Kookie: Like you're not Elvis or Pat,
Rickie or Sal, or Tab or Frankie or Paul!
Like what significance at all?

Deathe: I be Deathe.

Kookie: Like what's with this bit? Now
I'm hung up with a crazy off-cat. Like,
see you later, alligator.

Deathe: Thou canst not stave off thy
doom, 0 coward-Hark, wither thinkest
thou goeth now?

(Kookie leaps in his car and fishtails out
from curb, his tires madly screeching.)
Come thou back, foolish man! Oh (frustrated) to hell with you.
(Kookie's car swerves out of control and
at 110 m.p.h. into an oncoming car.)

God: lte, maledicti, in ignem aeternum.

Thus endeth the morale playe of KookieMan.

larrye Gaydos 113

Staff Enjoys It All ...
Far <lown the second hall corridor is a small, quaint room known
as the "news room," where long
after school and over week-ends
the "news crew" can be found
slaving away. But don't think it's
all work an<l no play. These students whose efforts go into putting out the Challenge enjoy their
work, every nerve-wracking minute of it.
Rita Petretti, \\ho is the cditorin-chicf, has a full time rcsponsi-

Jots From Joe's . ..
It's always playing it safe to lock
your car when leaving it in the
school parking lot for the day, but
take JOA ' NE DEBERGE'S advice, and don 't play it too safe ...
take the keys out of the ignition
before you lock the car!
PHYLLlS WOJTAK \\as determined Father Feeny had been
exterminated b:· the church, but
to the amusement of the class, FATHER CLARK assured her that
he was excommunicated.
After her fourth period history
class, SISTER JARLATH always
looks slightly seasick. Could her
illness possibly be caused by BOB
KOLMOS' rocking desk?

bility, and is getting an ulcer for
her merits.
Starting with the front page, editors are Laurin LeTart and Leslie
Thelen. Judy Conrad and Diane
Keane take credit for the editorial
page. Pat Gaffney is in charge of
the prism page, and Lucille Moretti is responsible for the work
put into the Jo-Pinions.
One of the most demanding jobs
is organized by Mary Wicntjcs,
editor of the picture pages.
Feature page is next in line and
J\1ary Kae Hawkins takes care of
its production.

John Lundberg

Busy little bees? Well, it remains to be seen. Although Dennis Rutkowski
and Laurin LeTart seem to look pretty serious, Rita Petretti seems to
think something's funny. Mary Kae Hawkins (we think it's she), Pat
Gaffney, Lucille Moretti, Judy Conrad, Mary Wientjes and Leslie Thelen
seem too intent to notice the merrymaking in the far corner.

The guy who really has to know
his stuff is our sports editor, and
the only senior with a gray hair,
Dennis Rutkowski.

Andy Compares Teen-age Life

People who have to be Johnnyon-the-spot are the photographers.
This crew consists of George Kasparek, John Lundberg and Don
Sershon.

Although in Italy teen-agers
have not so much freedom as here
in the lJ nited States, their amusements arc \' Cf\' similar to the
American's.

Every paper must ha\·c a moderator, and we believe in the more
the merrier so we have three to
share the responsibilities and headaches. Sister Columcille is the head
moderator, but she is assisted by
Sister Anne and Sister Colman,
who each ha\'C separate pages to
worry over.

Jn Italy we do not find an\'
teen-ager who owns a car, because
we must be 18 for ha\·ing a driving license and also because they
cost a lot of money· and generally
students don't have a part-time job
(it is hard to find a full-time one).
Many boys ha\'C motorcycles and
motor-scooters and use them to
make many trips in summer time.

Larry Roscioli to Co-Star
in Diary of Anne Frank
Larry Roscioli is the man in the
spotlight. This young teen auditioned with the Kenosha Little
Theatre group earlr in October
for a part in lJiary of Anne Frank.
His ability has won him a lead-

The principle amusement is the
show. Television is popular too,
but not everybody has it. Many
like to attend dances, but these
generall:· take place at the house

ing role, that of Peter, the young
friend of Anne Frank.

Strolling Players Stroll Our Way

Larry is only a sophomore this
y·car, but already last year he
played the stage manager in SJ HS's
presentation of Our Tov;11.

"St. Joseph's audience has been
tremendous, one of the best so
far." This was the mutual statement made by Mr. Bob Leonard
and Mr. Bill Pfuderer, guest celebrities, after presenting Commsts i11
Shakespeare on \\'cdnesda)', October 7, to St. Joseph's upperclassmen.

The Kenosha Little Theatre is
the group to which Larry now belongs. Founded twenty years ago,
this local group has presented some
excellent plays. Mr. Tito OaYidson is the president, and Mr. Daniel Recd directs. Three plays arc
on the program for this year. They
include Diary of Amie Frank
which will be presented November 19-20-21, also T/Je King and I,
and T/Je G rent Sebastia11.

Naturally, such a \\ ell-deli\·ered
and well-recei\·ed program has a
taleful beginning. Bob and Bill met
while touring for the Uni\'ersity
of \Visconsin in "Two Tests on
Tuesdav.''
\\' hen asked b\·
.
. the
Bureau of Lectures and Concerts,
which arranges these tours, if they
cou ld produce a program that ''as
both entertaining and educational,
they collaborated and created Con-

Since this organization is a community' theatrical group, an:·one in
our city', who is interested, mav
cry out.

George Kasparek

Larry Roscioli

of one of the boys because dating
is unknown, and we do not have
Catholic parties as our Church
frowns upon dances.
i\1usic is another thing teen-agers
arc interested in; about two years
ago the American fashion of Jukeboxes began to be followed. Now
a great man:• youngsters like
American songs although most do
not understand their meaning.
Sports alwa:•s hold teen 's interest, an<l so c\·ery Sunday the
soccer stadiums arc crowded with
thousands of young people. Another popular sport in Italy is cy·cling, but basketball, boxing, track,
and tennis have their place. But of
sports I will tell y·ou some other
time.
Andrea 1antineo

trasts in

\Vonderful experience 1s obtained through belonging, and it
may' prove invaluable to Larry,
who is considering a full time acting career after high school.

/Jakespeare.

Bob, a nati\·e of Buffalo, , ' cw
York, got started at the age of
seYen in drama. He toured with
the International Ballet and Reper-

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tory Company of Pittsburgh PennsylYania, and also appeared at the
Pittsburgh Play·house. He is a
graduate of the Goodman Memorial Theatre in Chicago, and after
touring for the l.Jni\·ersity of \\'isconsin last year, did summer work
in the Court The2tre in Beloit.
He would somedav like to be coowncr of a drama theatre.
Like\\ isc, Bill has had much dramatic experience. He was born
in Ri\·ersdale, lllinois, and tarted
acting at six.
mong his many
achie,·ements, is his role of Henty·
Higgins in Pygma/io11 and Iago in
Othello. He appeared with the
Belfr~· Pla:·ers in \\'illiams Bay,
\Visconsin, and graduated from
the State Uni\·ersit)' of Iowa. His
tour with the Uni\'ersity' of \Visconsin last year was followed this
summer by his appearance in the
premier of Step/Jeu Foster. His
greatest ambition is to become a
drama teacher.

Lancers Push Hard
But Lose Homecoming

John Lundberg

Looks like Captain Tony Cravotta (63) finally is taking a rest during the
strenuous Homecoming game against Waukesha Memorial. Tony·s team·
mates, Larry Gaydos (78) and Bill Perozzi (23), rush to the side of their
comrade.

Father 0 lley Explains
New Conference Split
State Catholic High School Athletic Conference will be di,·ided
into two di\·isions, white and ~·cl­
low. This was decided <.t the recent principals' meeting, held at
St. Joseph's.
\Vhitc di\'ision will comi~t of all
schools with a male enrollment of
o\·cr 500 student' , whi!c the yellow
di\·ision will include schools of under 500 male enrollment.
In actua l effect, this will result
in the following line-up of schools.
\\'HITE : St. Catherine, Don
Bosco, St. Joseph, .\larquctte,
i\lcssmcr, and Pius.
\"ELLO\\': St. Denedict, St.
Bona\·enture, Cathedral, D .Jminican, ,\ 1emorial, and 1': orrc Dame.
Each school \\·ill play the members in their conference on a
home-home basis. There will be
a five-game conference schedule
for football with three additional

Football Managers

Lead Hectic Life
Dave Limbach, Joe Lorenzi, and
Augie Co\·clli ha\·c a really hard
life as managers for the football
team this \'Car. Da vc Limbach is
returning from last year while the
other two arc new to the team.
Among their many duties, the
managers have to attend ever~ ·
practice session and meet the needs
of t'.1c pla ycrs. Outside, on the
pr~ctice field, they keep track of
cquii . n~ent such as footballs, dummies, and colored shirts. They also
a· c in cl'argc of the medicine box
?ml the administration of minor
fir~t zid. After a hard day's practice, they :-ire among the last to
leave.
,\s one can plainly sec, the man~ gcrs are the unsung heroes of the
f >otball field.

non-conference games. The basketball schedule will consist of ten
games with an as yet undetermined number of non-conference
g:mes. This plan will go into effect
during the 60-61 season.
This di\'isional separation \\' :JS
set up on an experimental basis,
but Father Edmund Ollcv, newlv
elected diocesan high scl~ool atl~­
lctic co-ordinator, commented, " I
rather suspect that this will bcc., mc a permanent thing."

Lancer's Homecoming game,
October 18, sta rtcd off pretty well
;:s coach Bob Carbone's boys rcco\'cred their kick-off and marched
for a touchdown in eight plays
with Bill Pcrozzi carrying and Pat
i\1acAlecr kicking for the extra
point.
The lead 7-0 at the end of the
first quarter ch2ngcd to a 7-13,
and, after St. J oc's tied 13-13, fell
behind again 13-19 at the half. The
rest of the game was more or less
a sta lemate except for two long
runs l)\' i\'lcmorial backfield which
brought the final score to 33-13.
'·The team did not play up to expectations and this accounted for
<'Ur loss," said coach Carbone after
t'1c game. He, most of all, expected
a victon·.
Since September 2 7's game
against Pius, it looked as if a \·ictory might be possible. The Pius
game was the turning point in this
s::ason's grind session for the Lancers. As Bob Carbone said, '·Consideri ng the rough opponent~, even
though we lost 39-0, the Pius game
was b:'" far the best game \\'C h?d
played ~ · ct this season."
In October J's game against Cathedral, the Lancers improved on
their offensive punch with halfback Bill Pcrozzi leading the squad

Miss Serio, St. Joe's
Look at Eaeh Other
'\\'lw isn't she in uniform?" This
was the question asked b>' man:'
students concerning the new girls'
physical education teacher, i\1iss
Sallv Serio. 1iss Serio also teaches
health and has sophomore Homeroom 111.
Miss Serio is a graduate of La
Crosse State College where she
majored in physical education and
recreation.
Although i\liss Serio excels in
many sports, her fa\'oritcs arc badminton, swimming, and tennis. For
two years she and her twin sister,
who is a nurse, held state ratings
in tennis.
St. Joe's girls, under the guidance of Miss Serio, arc progressing
satisfactorily in the fie lds of tumbling, calisthenics, soccer, and
physical fitness tests. The students
seem to be enjoying themselves
but also arc realizing that gym is
not only a recreation period.
Tentative plans arc shaping up
for a volleyball or basketball
tournament to be held later in the
year. This, of course, depends
upon the interest and enthusiasm
shown by the girls. If this is successful, perhaps it will be possible

ta initiate some type of girls ath-

letic association.
\,Yhen asked her opinion of St.
Joe's, Miss Serio replied "[ enjoy
being here and the way in which
you do things \\'hen you want to
do them and how you want to do
them. 1 enjo~ ' working in this new,
nice, well-kept school."

carrying the ball 127 yards. The
final score, 25-13, was due to bad
pass defense.
St. Catherine's was faced by the
Lancers with the same spirited ball
playing they used against Pius two
weeks before. Thcv held the ad\·crsary scoreless for most of the
first half. St. Catherine's scored
their points on a few crucial n11stakcs made by the Lancers. The
final score was 26-0.

JO-POKES
Gene Gclsonc, talented second
baseman, recently asked me the
definition of Romance. I replied I
didn't knO\\·. Gene promptly called
me stupid, and said, "Ants that live
in Rome, of course!"
vVhcn Sister Marilita asked her
class whv Lenin visited several
European countries during World
vVar I, the whole class was
stumped-except for that local
football star and bike racer, Ken
Weidckis. He promptly replied,
"To sec the bike races, what else?"
Sister Francis Xavier reports the
appearance of a perturbed freshman running down the hall exclaiming at the sight of a dog in
the lower corridor. ls our beloved
Caesar the culprit? Warning to all
freshmen-any stray dog in the
building is probably a friend of
Caesar's.
Dick DelFratc, who knows all
about the long arm of the law, recently told me the difference between something that is illegal and
something that's unlawful. Something unlawful is an offense against
the law, and an illegal is a sick
bird.
Mike Marifjeren

George Kasparek

How ca n the varsity football managers smile after a hard day on the
field? Dave Limbach , Augie Covelli and Joe Lorenzi take time out from
their duties to po e for our picture.

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~CHALLENGE
Vo1.. 2,

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Sr. JosEPH H1c11 Sc11001., Ki-:l'ios11A, W1sco-.;s1'<

Di:cr .'\1Hl .R, 1959

N.F.L. District Student Congress
Convenes Here December 11-12
St. Joseph High School will host
the annual session of the
. F. L.
District Student Congress on Friday, December 11 and Saturday,

Sodalists Model
Holiday Fashions
Latest winter and holiday fashions were presented by Hollcb's,
Sixth A venue, in the Formal Fashion Show sponsored by St. Joseph's
Sodality. The st;.·lc shcrn was held
on December 2 in the auditorium.
Miss Kay of Hollcb's was the consultant and organizer. 1arv Kac
Hawkins was the narrator.
Eight Sodalists from each class
who fit certain qualifications were
introduced to the student body at
the Sodality assemb ly on November 23. Those models chosen in
the vote which followed the assembly were seniors Patricia Bobusch,
Cail Becker, Kathy Griffin, Michaelene Seianas, Barbara \Vilson;
juniors Judy Curtiss, 1ary Conrad,
Judyannc Hackbarth, Diane Plutas; sophomores 1ary Sue Brownlee, Dorothy Dorcce, Viola Paura,
Carol;.•n Reeder; freshmen Diane
Borski, Claire Fredericksen, Michel
Huett!, and 1ary Peltier.

December 12. The Congress has
been very instrumental in acquainting present-day high school students with the ,.,,orkings of the
Congress of the U. S.
Students who act as Senators
and Representatives from their respective schools receive a congressional appointment from Ripon,
\Visconsin. The delegates from
each of the schools compose two
bills. After composition, the bills
from each school are sent to the
seat of the Congress. Herc, officials pick out the bills most appropriate for discussion.
\Vhen the Congress com·cncs, it
carries on business just as the Congress of the . S. docs. Bills which
were accepted for discussion are
referred to any one of the four
congressional committees: Foreign
Aid, Public W cl fare, Economic
Policy, and State and Local Cm·crnment. Some of the bills which
will be discussed arc (I) a bill to
amend the bill known as the Governor's Scholarship Program; ( 2) a
federal excise tax of 10 per cent on
passenger fares be rewritten, excluding railroad passenger fares;
( 3) a bill to enact a system of state
withholding tax for the state of
\ Visconsin.
Students attending this congress
will come from Brookfield, Bur-

Sister Robert, Former SJHS Teacher,
Succumbs to Illness November 18
" It is inevitable that all must pass
awav and this is so forcibly
brou'ght home when it is one wh~
just a short time ago walked in our
midsts."
These words, which so aptly express the feeling held b;.· all who
knew Sister Mar;.· Robert, were

Sister Robert, O.S.F.

spoken by Fr. James Hcbcin at a
J\Iass November 21 for Sister.
Sister Robert, "\Vidcl;.· known for
her debating and debate coaching
acti vi tics, succu 111 bed N m·cm bcr 18
to the cancer ,,·hich had caused her
eight-month illness.
" \Ve can picture Sister Robert
walking down the hall ; we can recapture her determination in c,·cry
ncp. ' " c can recall the words of
kindness, s;.·m path~" and courage
which she ga \ "C to others in moments of difficu ln-.
SJH S students did indeed recall
these qualities of Sister Robert.
\Vithin two da:·s the;.· had collected mone;.· for 12 i\ lasses. These
lasses were presented to Sister i\ I.
Regina, sister of Sister Robert, at
the funera l J\ Iass Saturda)'.
A special High J\Iass for Sister
Robert was held in SJ HS auditorium, \ Vcdncsday, No,·cmbcr 25.

lington- St. J\1ary, MilwaukccDivinc Sa,·iour and J\1arquettc
Univcrsit:·, Janesville, Kaukauna,
Kenosha \1ary D. Bradford and
St. Joseph High, Racine- St. Catherine, Sheboygan Central and Sheboygan rorth.

Sophs Rank High
On First Honor Roll
Sophomores \\ ith 13 students
head the SJ HS first honor list.
Juniors receiving first honors arc
Jeanne Kalllicniccki, Susan Petersen, \1ar\ Conrad, Syh ia Stec,
Theresa Tillman, and Paul Zohlen.
Sophomores on the first honor
roll arc John Tures, Judith Hansen, Barbara Kukla, James Vidas,
Kathleen Etter, Joyce Frederick,
J\laria Callo, ?\' icholas \1ischlcr,
Sandra Reiter, Christine Sch,,cnn,
Judith Smith, and C loria Tho Illas.
Frcshlllcn meriting first honors
arc J\larcia Adamson, George Balinsk:, Robert Engstrom, Claire
Fredericksen, Johanna Gallo, Sandra Be;. crs, J\lary Cox, \1ary Jacyna, and Linda \1oddcs.

John Lundberg

Members of Select Mixed Chorus are working diligentl y, preparing for
their second annual Christmas program. Here they are shown in one of
their daily practice sessions.

Second Annual Christmas Program
To Feature 'Halleluiah Chorus'
Since this is the two hundredth
anni,·crsar;.· of the death of George
Frederick Handel, the Christmas
portion of his "The \lcssiah", sui1g
by the Select Chorus will highlight
this year's
hristmas Program at
St. J oscph 's. The program will be
presented December 20 at 2: 30 and
8: 15 p.m.
The "Hallelujah Chorus" is the
triumphal clima\. of Handel's oratorio and "ill be included in St.
Joseph's program.
The many arias ''ill be sung by
the follm' ing soloists: Robert Fulmer, tenor; Ccnc Gclsonc, bass;

Sisters Sponsor
Holiday Bake Sale
The annual Holida\· Bake Sale
sponsored b;.· the Sisters for the
bcncfi t of St. Joseph's begins on
December 18 from -+ to 9 p.m. It
will continue all da\· December
19 and 20 from 8 a.m. to 9 p.111.
The sale ''ill be held in the school
cafeteria.

J\lichacl '\'cnning, bass; Sue Kancian, soprano; i\largaret ,\ Ieier, soprano; Sue Harrison, alto. Also,
Joanne Xan>iczyk, Christine
Schwcnn, Jeannine Lawrence, and
Sharon Pascucci \\ill sing recitati,·cs.
Other parts of the program "ill
include the girls' chorus, boys'
chorus and the band.

SJ HS Math Students
Participate in Tourney
Larry Ga: dos, John Tures, and
Jim \'id as of Sr. J oscph 's placed in
the top l 0 per cent of the 6,000
students participating in the regional Future Fnginecrs of • mcrica Tou rnamenr.
This ranking allo\\Td them to
participate in the second round, an
all-da\
' ational Tournament in
Chicago '\m ember 2~.
In this, Larr;. Ga)·dos placed
second in the nation in .\lath pcrn·cr among the pri,·atc school contestants.

It's in the Air

Let's Look at Cliques 'n Clubs
There has a Iways been much comroversy on the subject of closed clubs. Now
is the time to come to a showdown on
th is very touchy subject .
As they say in all good English
classes, let's begin by defining our terms .
The closed club, as it is familiar to us in
Kenosha, is an organization founded for
the purpose of unifying a group of wellchosen girls . The very nature of a closed
club is select and exclusive, and its members tend to reflect these same qualities.
Is the principle of high-keyed selectivity
in these clubs conducive to promoting a
spirit of Christianity or of democracy
among the members and in the high
school they attend? Having so many
common interests and being in such
close contact with each other often tends
to segregate the club "sisters" from the
rest of their classmates. Membership in
a club definitely minimizes a members'
chance of making friends and keeping
friendships and interests in a wide
range. The member fails to see past anything save her dozen "sister" members
and their interests.
Probably the main reason why clubs
seem to flourish is that among the lowerclassmen there is a great need for security. Bewildered by high school life,
freshmen seek a certain sense of belonging, and it seems to them that only
membership in a club can remedy this
insecurity.

The uninitiated freshman has been
told a closed club does not exist solely
for the purpose of giving parties and
tearing members apart at those revealing "truth sessions," round table discussions. She sees some closed club undertake fund-raising projects for worthy
purposes that help school and community.
But no matter how great the community service, the damage to one's personality must be considered, and this is
wide and deep in scope. Membership in
a club tends to a narrow outlook on life
and the limited development of a limited
personality. All this external activityfor causes better or worse - is not as
essentia I to the formation of a fu 11 persona Iity as social contacts balanced according to Christian values.
The difference between a club and a
clique is that the clique is not specifically
organized. The cliques are usually much
more prevalent among the male population. Just the boys who scorn dear old
"Alpha Beta Lambda Delta Sigma Chi
Gamma Epsilon" are those who run
around in their little rat-packs. To limit
one's social, educational, and spiritual
ties to a small group of select friends is
a form of king-size snobbery even if
equally based on a sense of insecurity
and inferiority .

"Gift wrap it please."
"Just take the tree out of the box, no
decoration needed, no extra work ."
Christmas of the American people,
the democratic mass culture . What is
Christmas to them? Prefabricated, artificial, gaudy?- flashy, tincoated, trinkets
heaped in scratchy piles, stuffy aisles,
muddy puddles of melted snow, hot
breath, whirling stripes of orangey-red
and green, the smell of dimestore peanut
brittle, clashy ribbon and paper, frosted
Santa Clauses .
"But not everyone is like that," you
say, "to some Christmas has a much
deeper meaning, something sentimental
and deep, a time of security and peace,
a time of family togetherness, and a specia I closeness to friends. To them Christmas is the special plum-pudding atmosphere that fills the air about now, light
hearted crowds scurrying about with
glittering packages, hot gingerbread
cookies cooling in a friendly kitchen, or
perhaps the magic legends told a wideeyed child, and the shadowy enchantment of a silent candle on whispering
snow."

"Now that's what Christmas should
be," you say. Nothing artificial or tinsely about it, just sincere, meaningful,
and peaceful. Yet something seems to
be missing . I mean something-what
ever it is- that makes Christmas, Christmas . Haven't you ever met anyone who
seems to be bubbling ovet with an inner
understanding of it all. To them Christmas is a gift given to man. The meaning
of Christmas is in moons, whispering of
miraculous wonders to a far-flung star
afraid to break the pure silence, a special
holiness we can see and feel and walk
in. Eternally deep greens, and living reds
that echo joyfulness, a time of God and
man as one. Christmas is something different to different people. They have
taken the idea of rejoicing and celebrating; and that of seeing Christmas as true
and beautiful, and unselfish; they combined them in a spirit of love for God
and man. They rejoice because they are
loved and because they give love. To
them love is the reason for Christmas, it
is the meaning of Christmas, the whole
of Christmas."
Sue Peterson

Rita Petretti

""Life is to be fortified by many friendships-to love
and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence."
Sidney Smith
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The Challenge
Published monthly by the students
of St. Joseph High School

EDITOR

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rita Petretti

I think closed clubs have a good effect on student life because if you get
into a club your social standing increases.
You will be better known to people you
want to know. It shows that you have a
good character and will be able to get
along in later life. But it could be bad,
if a person is not admitted she or he
might feel rejected or left out.
John Grno 309

How many times in one year do we
hear comments on this touchy subject?
Very many, I assure you . Let me add
mine to the list. Closed clubs are for
closed-minded people, and cliques are
for those who live in a closed world of
their own . The effects they have on the
students can be good-for those who belong- and bad- for those who deserve
to belong but are not accepted.

Connie Greco 109

The closed clubs have a bad effed on
SJHS in that just certain people go together, and they never try to be friendly
toward others. There may be a bad influence in the club that will turn its ideals
backwards. It is very bad not to try to
associate with fellow students because
this is the period when we should learn
how to make friends. Students will find
real happiness if they are themselves
and are friendly toward those who seem
neglected. There is no need of closed
clubs at SJHS.
Bill O'Neill 309

If one is asked to be in an exclusive
club and he is accepted into it, I feel that
the person accepted feels that he or she
is better than the rest of the students
because all cannot be accepted. I feel
that the closed clubs are both good and
bad . The effect on the student's life depends on the student himself.

Bob Engstrom 309

As we learned in sociology, this type
of group is called the in-group. I think
most closed clubs are for the most part
cliques. It's like going steady only on a
large scale. It limits one's social contacts. This limits the members' opinions,
and sometimes their likes and dislikes.
They tend to be the "elite" and make all
those outside feel, in a sense, not good
enough. I think it is natural to have close
friends, but to make "one and only's" is
harmful to character, personality, and
social development. I know what it's
like from experience-I never profited
from it.
Jeannine Lawrence 211

What effects - good or
bad
do closed clubs
and cliques have on student life at SJ HS?
The effects closed clubs and cliques
have on students at SJHS are many . They
tend to form individual groups in school
rather than everyone working together.
Some groups go so far as to tell their
members with whom to associate . They
are formed mostly for moral support so
that they will always have someone with
whom to go around . They choose their
own type of boy or girl group with
which each group should associate.
These are usually formed by snobbish
characters who pick only snobbish or
elite people for their special club . Clubs
formed for even the best reasons can
be gossip centers or "tearing-down-ofcharacter" centers . I have not said much
of anything good about clubs or cliques
maybe because there isn't much good in
them.
Dianna Du Charme 112

Speaking as a senior, I would say
that clubs and cliques have caused a lack
of spirit in the senior class. There are just
too many closed clubs, and those kids
who do not belong to them form cliques.
This is only natural because everyone
wants to feel secure. I think there could
be much more class and school spirit if
the clubs would disintegrate.

Closed clubs present a n a ir of snobbishness . This means that if a group is
unknown and you chum around with
them , you're a nobody in the school.
This is not true in all cases, but I have
noticed something of this sort around
SJHS. The kids in clubs and cliques are
better known , naturally, and certa inly
more popular. There are plenty of nice
kids besides those in these clubs . People
don't notice them because they aren't so
outspoken as members of cliques are .
I don't th ink these clubs are all bad .
They contribute money to var ious organizations. Clubs contribute different things
to the school also.
Diane Getschman 109

The purpose or actions of these clubs
and cliques have a lot to do with the
kind of effect they have. Here at St.
Joseph, I believe, the closed clubs and
cliques are not having a bad effect, but
it is also debatable whether they have a
good effect. A closed club has never
been truly respected by the majority.
Members of closed clubs and cliques are
lacking in the personality factor. Any
club which has its majority of members
going to the same school should be doing things to better that school especially
the spirit. I conclude by saying that this
school is lucky since: there are very few
closed clubs and cliques, and the ones
that are here have thus far caused very
little trouble. Overall, I think, it has mattered little whether the closed clubs at\d
cliques operate in SJHS.
Rich Hensgen 211

Closed clubs aren 't fair to people
who would like to join. Their meetings
usually end up talking about other people . Some people may be left out of
activities merely because they don't belong to a club. At dances they stick together and don't seem to want anyone
else but their own club members with
them. Some closed clubs aren't as bad as
others. Some seem pretty nice except
for their being closed to others .

Closed clubs and cliques can be detrimental to a school in that they create a
feeling of exclusiveness and make the
non-members feel as if they don 't belong . They also tend to make their members cling to the same group all the time
and thus, they have the same ideas, the
same habits and the same mannerisms
as their group. The member isn't as
much of an individual as he could be
because he only associates with a certain select group.
Their one good effect is getting people to back certain projects . With the
whole group working together they can
influence more people .

Pat Rizzo 112

Mary Ellen Fish 211

Marilyn Chapman 211

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From
Beanie
John Lundberg

Seems as if beanies
have the vote of these
boys! These freshmen
are members in good
standing of the beanie
brigade. Main requirement of the club-a SJ
HS beanie.
Volunteer workers, mothers of students, prepare fish for the hungry
crowd that attended the Home and
School Fish Fry October 23.

Iowa tests came to SJH again during the week of November 4. Students in sophomore homeroom 301
are seen working industriously over
these tests designed to measure
their mental achievement. Ronnie
Hoff exemplifies the studious spirit
of all students during the difficult
tests.

Fastest typist meets
fastest typist! Kathy
Zuffa,
JHS's keyboard whiz, meets
the world's faste t
typist, Mr. Cortez
Peters, who was here
to present a special
demonstration on
use of the manual
typewriter.

John Lundberg

John Lundberg

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The farmer and the cowboy should be
neighbors . .. the farmer and the cowboy should be friends . . . Looks as
if Bill Dorsey has finally gotten this
point across and broken up the feud
between cowboy Mike Wenning and
farmer Gene Gelsone.

John Lundberg

To
Bali Hai

Mr. o ·Malley should see this picture! These little
nuns certainly look like they're up to some mischief. Actually, drama moderators ister Petrina
and Sister Marie Catherine are checking the stage
lights to make sure they're in good working order.

Louise Mueller and Bob Mitchell rehearse
their dance contribution to the Variety show
-a creative interpretation of "Bali Hai"
from the musical "South Pacific".

Seen busily preparing
props and equipment
for the Variety show
arc the all-important
stage hands. From 1. to
r. these boys are: Richard Rhey, Gerald Hartung, August Borski,
Rodney Johnson, Joe
DiCello, and the "boss"
-stage manager Bill
Dorsey.

John Lundberg

John Lundberg

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The Gui.ding Star
Behold the bright, alluring light
Of 1his holy, selected star,
Chosen by God, from heaven on high
To guide these three men from afar ,
To lead them to this cold, dark stable,
Where in a bed of hay,
The Little Christ Child, the light of the
world,
In a deep, dark slumber lay .
And then , the angel choirs gathered
Around your brilliant light,
And sang glory, glory, glory,
To God on this holiest night.
We do not know, 0 chosen star,
If we ever will see you again,
But we always will remember you
As the guide of the three wise men .
August Gnorski 304

Snow

Cinquain in French

Snowflakes

L' Enfant
Est l'etoile de Noel
Qui opporte la lumiere
Au coeur de tout le monde qui souffrit
En nuit.
Irene Rakauskas 201

Snowflakes fall ,
Children call
Hurrah! for God,
He sent them a 11.

Winter-The Silencer

The soft hush of the winter snow
So like a baby's breathing-slow .
It blankets all the sleeping earth
With white in brightness
Glistening.
And thru the windows peer the children
Sitting quietly, watching
Listening .
Kathy Zuff a 211

Recipe for Christmas
Take a little understanding, peace, and
joy.
Take the ~mile from a tired boy .
Take the wag of a puppy dog's tail.
Take the bright stamps from the
Christmas mail.
Take the sparkle of peppermint and pine.
Take the color of rare old wine.
Take the tree so regal, yet bright.
Mix wi1h the wonder of that first
Christmas night.
Add the warmth of a gift when given.
Wrap wel I with yards of bright, red
ribbon.
Sift well with dashes of mistletoe .
Then softly blend with new-fallen snow .
Take some love and line the pan.
Give to all, God and man.

Winter is coldness, and peace.
It brings the cold that takes away
leaves from the trees ,
birds from the air,
the farmer from his field,
the children from their play;
Yet it brings a sort of quietness in it.
Blanket of fluffy snow
Which covers up the ground
And drowns out sounds wherever it
goes .
Jim O'Neill 103

Christmas Shopping
I he ar popping
while Christmas shopping
of "What to get?"
and "Will it flt?"
"What can we choose
that someone can use?"
But "Where (oh groan!)
can I get a loan?"
Peter Braun 112

Rita Kenney 102

A Thing of AuJesome
Beauty
A thing of awesome beauty,
outside the frosted panes,
Whirlwinds twist unceasingly,
across vast whiteness,
heaping their powder-snow,
on sculptured ice cliffs,
hewing magnificent valleys.
With brittle brancheslifelesschilled in icy sepulchers.
The coma is feltdormancy, uselessness;
Awesome, but transparent, beauty.
Mike Hyland 112

Depressed Timothy

The earth is slowly growing colder,
Rough winds have stripped the forests,
Leaving boney skeletons to endure the
winter.
Life's gaudy cloak lies strewn at their
feet.
Nature slowly settles down to a period
of
dormancyA cold peace to be spent in anticipation,
Awaiting spring's reincarnating warmth.

Winter is a moody lady
who makes her entrances and exits
in swirls and swishes,
Her flowing robes sweep in the icy
winds
of the season,
and the sharp sleet and numbing rains .
Her symbol is the soft gentle snow
which falls and blankets the naked,
shivering trees and bleak earth
with a covering of pure white
until all is one expanse of whiteness,
glistening and glimmering under the
moonlight.
Her prodigy is Christmas- the awesome
season of holiness
which fills hearts with joy and gladness.
Christmas-a season of shining tinsel,
and joy
and expression of love.

I am depressed because I have just
seen my washed out, beaten, lowered,
and recorded English mark; therefore,
winter is depressing because I am depressed . I am usually not depressed, but
when I see winter it depresses me because it reminds me of those disheartening Eng I ish marks which make me so
depressed.
Winter reminds me of girls because
they are also depressing because we
have so many of those creatures in a
depressed English class which gives de"
pressing marks.
Winter depresses me further because
my mother saw my English mark, which
depressed her, which in turn depressed
the depressed girls because I have no
"wheels" and they do not wish to walk
outside in a depressingly cold winter
when the other "fellas" who are not depressed have some to take them out.
I am sure, however, that after winter
is over and our next report card comes
out I will no longer be depressed because my English teacher will have "undepressed" me and I will have some new
"wheels" to "undepress' the girls that
were in the depressed Eng.lish class.

Tom Green 113

Mary Wientjes 211

Tim Propsom 113

Sande Kelsey 102

Seasonal Senility

White Lady

6

Father l(nows Best
"One might say that I'm at St.
Joseph to get an education in education," smilingly related Father
James Hcbcin, his friendly eyes
twinkling as he spoke. This was
his answer to one of the many
questions presented to him in a
special interview by the fourth
period Journalism class. Father, a
native of Iron Mountain, Michigan, was sent here by his Bishop
to get experience in teaching High
School students.
Father is prepared for this position in many ways. An alumnus
of the Catholic University of
America, entered in 1951 and graduated in l 954, this man received a
Master of Arts in philosophy.
After studying for four years
and being ordained in Rome at
the Gregorian Uni\•ersity, Father
earned a Licentiate in Sacred Theology there. " 1\1y early ambition,
ideal and desire has been fulfilled
in the priesthood," says Father.
Previous to corning to St. Joseph's,
Father taught at St. Thomas Apostle Parish and Holy Name High
School in Escanaba. Presently, he
is taking courses at Marquette
Uni,·ersin· in the ad111inistration
and organization of high school
education.
Father is getting experience at
St. Joseph's b;,· teaching fi\'c religion classes and also by sen·ing
as the moderator of the Student
Council. "I sec the Student Coun-

Jots From Joe's ...
Jingle bells, jingle bells, Christmas is on its way, and for these
111erry Lancers it will always be an
unforgettable day.
It's doubtful that JOH
REGNER will ever forger the seventh
grade Christmas Eve when he anxiously ·waited to serve his first 1idnight Mass. Unfortunately, JOHN
didn't scr\'C this Mass because another first occurred, and he found
himself in the hospital having an
emergency appendectomy.
Everybody's got to get into the
act on Christmas, and sixteen years
ago the stork made his debut as he
T

Rockies Lure
Soda lists
Colorado Springs, Colorado, had
the honor of being a week-end
host to two Saint Joseph-ires last
October 29 to ovember 3. The
two sodalisrs who represented St.
Joseph at the Rocky Mountain
Youth Congress were Kathy Bydalek and Patricia Radigan.
The girls were accompanied b:·
Sister Mary and Sister Jarlath to
the nation-wide Sociality-sponsored
congress. Their rem porary residence during their stay in the
Rocky /\lountain area was the
beautiful Albert Pick Motel.
Rockv Mountain Youth Congress might be compared to the
annua l \ Visconsin School of Catholic Action convention. Dai ly 1ass,
as we ll as numerous talks, lectures,
and symposiums kept t he foursome
well occupied. Some of the topics
under discussion were teenager
problems, juvenile de linquenc;.·,
your part in the parish, and the
Socia lity.

flew over the VENSKUS ho111e
and dropped off MARY JA ' £.
If you want to know how Santa's
lap feels, ask CAROL AL THO FF
and DIA rE MARES. They claim
that they weren't sitting there to
plead for his generosity, but only
a piece of bubble gum that he was
giving a\\'ay.
Santa Claus sure doesn't forger
JERRY CARDINALI. He 111ade
a special trip to visit him last year
and listen to his desires. Jr's juse
a shame that he didn't get the doll
he wanted, but then not many people want a real one!
Around Ch rist111as rime all
boys and girls become extra good
and do kind little things. TOM
JOERNDT, JOH
WEIS , and
BILL VO WALD thought educating a du111b bird would be a
real act of charity, and so the:·
brought a li\'c turkc;.· to school.
It's doubtfu l if our fine feathered
friend became smarter, but it
racked up brO\rnic points with
Santa.

cil as a mediator \\ hich tries to
bring about mutual understanding
between students and faculty, " was
Father's definition. He went on to
say that presently our student
council is serving the school by installing hall monitors and handling
preparations for Homecoming.
The reason he is out of his diocese is because "I'm getting a
chance to sec how school policies
arc initiated in a nC\\ school and
also because there is nothing comparable to St. Joseph 's in i\lichigan." Father thinks that "St. Joseph's is one of the finest schools
in the country" and is grateful that
he has the chance to be a member
of its facult\. "I seem to get the
breaks," he concluded.

Andy Describes Italian Christmas
Christmas in Italy, as in e\·ery
other Christian counrr:•, is the
111ost beautiful feast of the year.
Its traditional customs show the
great devotion and joy of the Italians for the coming of the i\lessiah.
The oldest tradition is the Crib,
\\'hich is about 700 years old. St.
Francis of Assisi b~ilr it for the
first time. Since a few years ago, a
Christmas tree stands in 111al1\'
homes near the Manger, and Santa

We've Got Our Eye On the A lumni
Saleswork has caught the eye of
SIL \TIO BALSANO, who \\ orks
at Barker's shoe store, and ST AN
LlJLE\VlCZ, who can be found
lso \I orking
at Vet's Emporium.
di ligently is KEN SN IATYNSK I,
who is working at the A & P.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to work
we go. This melody became the
new theme song of many of our
SJ HS grads, who have been busil:·
working in their respective jobs.
Those working in offices are
ROXANNE CORRADI 1 £,
Snap-On-Tools, TERESA DZE IKA r, Heck and Paltow Claim
Ser\'ice, CHARLOTTE DZIEDZIC, \ Valker Manufacturer in Raci ne, CA R OLYN VENSKUS,
1-: enosha, R ambler, and PA L
BRO\\ 'N, Gas & Electric Compan;,.
M I KE \V I TKAUSK I S and
TOM HALL are swinging lunch
boxes and rolling out of bed at 6
a.m. \\'ith other A,\ lC workers.

Our alumni awa)' at school seem
to find life a ga;,· song too. Congratulations go to Kach:· Rhey,
who has been elected president of
her freshman class at Ah·crno.
\ \'ith Christmas ,·acarion close at
hand, man;,· of the '59 seniors will
be seeing each other for the first
time since September. There \\ill
be quire a few get-togethers, lots
of fun, and i\lerry Christmases.
7

Claus is rather popular, too. His
Italian name, ho\\'e\'cr, "Babbo
l\'aralc", means Father Christmas
and sen·cs better to personif;,·
Christmas Spirit.
On Christmas E\·c \\ c generally
eat snails or clams, and the next
<la: \\ e ha\'C a big 111cal \\ ith
turkev
. and many
. kinds of fruits
and nuts.
During Christmas no,·cna, . ' e"
Year's Day, and Epiphan:·, the
bagpipers come do\\'n from the
country and pla:·, in front of C\ er)
house, the melodious Ch ri rm as
songs.
On Christmas night it is tradition to go to .\lidnight .\las and
to follow the babe, carried in procession through the town. N cw
Ycar's Day is celebrated "ith gifts,
flowers, and mistletoe. It is customar:· also to ha\·e a big dinner,
while waiting for the ne\\ year to
come.
On Epiphany c\·e children hang
their socks at the fireplace because,
during the night, Jesus is supposed
to send an old \\·oman called "Befana ". Thi old \\·oman flies on a
broom and brings, through rhc
chimne:·. gifts to good people, and
coal to bad ones. Andrea J\.fantineo

Lancers Tip Bonnies 54- 50;
Await Game with Don Bosco
St. Joseph's Lancers edged past their
first opponents of the '59-'60 basketball
season downing the St. Bonaventure
Bonnies 54-50, November 23.
Good team play enabled the Lancers
to dominate the floor throughout most
of the game, but the team ran into difficulty during the fourth quarter. The alert
shooting of the Bonnies coupled with
the Lancer difficulty of holding onto the
ball resulted in a 46-46 tie at the end of
the regulation time.
Ron Spitzer's timely shooting during
the fourth quarter kept Lancer hopes
alive and enabled the team to enter into
the three minute overtime. Notable
offensive contributions were made by
Bob Heller and Bob Bierdz, while Tony
Cravotta and Pat McAleer starred on
defense.
High scorer for the Lancers was Ron
Spitzer with 21 points while Joe Kaskey
was high man for St. Bonaventure with
15 points.
This year's varsity carries only four
seniors: forwards, Bob Heller and Dick
Hensgen; guards, Ron Spitzer and Tony
Cravotta.
Heller and Spitzer along with junior
center Pat McAleer are the only returning lettermen.
New faces on the varsity team are
forwards Bruce Anderson, Pete Dorff,
Vince Fox, along with center Jim Wojtak
and guards Bob Agazzi, Bob Bierdz, Ron
Filipelli and Gene Boyle.
In the preliminary game the junior
varsity lost a heartbreaker to St. Bonaventure 35-33. It was a tight game

JO-POl(ES
During the football banquet, MIKE
STELLA (Porky) sat with upper classmen
TONY CRAVOTTA, BUD· NAVIN, PAT
McALEER, and others. Mike stated that
next year he'l I eat with freshmen. He
was requested to eat cranberries every
time they were passed and our estimate
is he ate about two cans.
BILL PEROZZI and JERRY CARDINALI,
besides being tough, tried to show their
ability in the art of dancing. This is one
of the things they lacked on the football
field.
RALPH DiCHRISTOPHER, mis ta ken
for a football during the last football
game of the season, was sent to the hospita I. Ralph has now decided to become
a doctor instead of a pro football player
because he likes the coaching staff at the
hospital.
Mr. Carbone declares that the funniest thing that hap"Jened during the football season was letting the team play.

Steve Seliga

throughout and in the final minutes St.
Bonaventure scored the decisive points.
Top scorer for the Lancers was Dan Ruffalo with 14 points.
Coach Carbone's Junior Varsity team
members are Rudy Becker, Tom Bonnell,
Dick Davis, Jim Eaton, Fritz Frank, Joe
Goetluck, Ronnie Hoff, Bob Hughes, Bill
Kaufman, Joe Lackovich, Larry Roscioli,
and Dan Ruffalo.

Memorial To Host Lancers
In First Wrestling Contest
Catholic Memorial will provide the
Lancer's wrestling squad with its first
opposition when the two teams meet
December 18 at Catholic Memorial.
In order that all participants will have
an equal chance, the wrestlers are divided into eleven different weight catagories.
Twenty-four boys are carried on this
year's team. They are Al Corradini, Tim
Greco, Phil Klein, Lee VanLanduyt, Jeff
Hahn, John Sturycz, Dennis Hulen, Dick
DelFrate, Bernard Drasler, Bob Karabetsos, Gary Gonyea, Bob Zohlen, Vern ·
Bucholz, Bob Mitchell, Larry Hall, Dick
Perry, Randy Gullo, Charles Zarletti,
Larry Gaydos, Ralph DiChristopher, Pete
Sorrentino, and Neil Pietrangeli.
A unique distinction that the wrestling team shares with the golf team is
th;:it freshmen are allowed to earn letters
in these sports.
In explaining the schedule, wrestling coach Frank Matrise said, "We are
not in a conference as yet for the one
reason that there is no conference, but
we have lined up matches with most of
the conference schools that have wrestling as a varsity sport."

John Lundberg

Bob Bierdz looks as if he is trying to free Ken
Wedeikes who is snared in the net. The shocked
onlooker is Mike Meeter.

Students To Act As Judges
The Milwaukee Catholic Conference
Contest is again being
conducted this year during the basketball season. Schools are judged on the
basis of actions of team, cheerleaders,
and spectators.
Students are chosen as judges. At
a recent meeting at Don Bosco High
School, representatives from each high
school were initiated into the judging
program. Two of these are to attend
every game and score the opposing team
on the points stated above.
Judges from St. Joe's are Mitzi Cox,
Marilynne Frederick, Rita Petretti, and
Dick Engstrom.
At the end of the basketball season,
points for the schools are totaled, and
the winner receives a trophy.
Sport~manship

St. Joseph Ties Favored Notre Dame;
Cravotta Na1ned Most Valuable Player
St. Joe's Lancers ended the season
with a 7-7 tie with Notre Dame and a
27-6 loss to Don Bosco. The six points
in the Don Bosco game came when Captain Tony Cravotta, playing linebacker
on defense, intercepted a Don Bosco pass
and ran 50 yards for the touchdown. The
Lancers played a good game against
Notre Came the week before, managing
to tie the Notre Dame team, which was
favored by six points.

*

*

*

Tony Cravotta was awarded the Reverend Raymond C. Bell athletic trophy at
the annual St. Joseph football ban:::iuet
on November 8. He received this as a
8

result of being named "Most Valuable
Player".
Also, at the ceremonies held in the
school cafeteria and auditorium, Pat Mc
Aleer was named football captain for
next year.
* * *
Tony Cravotta, senior guard, was
elected to the All-Catholic Conference
team by the conference players. Cravotta was singled out for his defensive
work a> he made most of the St. Joseph
tackles.
Pat McAleer was elected to the second team. McAleer was also outstanding in his defensive play.

AUTOGRAl'HS

AUTOGRA,NS

~CHALLENGE
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Sr.

Russian Mass
Celebrated Here
Students of St. Joseph's High
School will \Jc treated to an unusual and informative insight into
the differences in rites in the Roman Catholic Church when Father
Austin Mohrbacher, S.J., celebrates
Mass in the Russian rite here Tuesday, January 12.
Father Mohrbacher will explain
to students beforehand the significance of the Russian rite, its origin,
and practice. The 1ass is being
celebrated in connection with the
Church Unity Octa,·c, January 1825, to help Roman Catholics understand more about the Eastern rites.
Of special interest to SJ HS students will be the opportunit~> for
them to recei vc Holy Eucharist in
the form of both host and wine.

Home and School
Sponsors Card Party
"\\' c had a tremendous success
last year and certainly· hope to sec
an C\'cn more successful card party
this year. We have more parents
in our Home and School and hope
to see them present," encouraged
1r. John Althoff, co-chairman of
the St. J oscph H omc and School
card party.
The card party \\"ill be held on
J anuary 20 and 21 in the cafeteria
and lobby. It \\"i ll begin at 8 p.m.
P roceeds will go for the benefit of
St. Joseph Hig h. A lunc heon wi ll
be scn·cd. Tab le prizes wi ll adorn
the tables and door prizes \\"ill be
raffled.

JosEPll H 1c;11 Sc1100L, Kr . 'OSHA, \V rsCO'-S"

ARY,

Council Stages
Yu le Festivity
1960

School Receives Device
for Language Instruction
The I Jome and School Association has recently enabled St. Joseph's to purchase the MT-5. This
is one of SC\"cral different models
of the nC\\ " 1obilc Tronics"
teaching aids. It consist of a ta pc
recorder and a record pla:.·cr
"' hich arc both contained in a
cabinet on wheels. The MT-5 was
purchased so that language students could learn the languages
more accuratclv and with some
variety.

those on the record and thus be
able to tell hem good or bad he is
doing.

The Student Council of St. Joseph sponsored "Ciao Ciao '59,"
the Christmas dance, held Tuesday,
December 29, from 8:00 to 11 :00
p.m. in the school gym.
Italian for good bye '59, "Ciao
Ciao '59" was a dress-up affair for
all SJHS students. Those attending could refresh themselves in the
cafeteria '' ith punch and cookies.
Committee heads appointed from
the Student Council were Sue Petersen, clean-up; Buzzy Heller, refreshments; Ann Bschcrcr, decorations; \litzi Cox, chaperones; and
Pat Cipolla, programs.

The particular model which was
purchased has six earphones. The
earphones enable the students using the machine to do so '' ithout
disturbing the rest of the class. The
machine mav also be used for the
\\"hole class by turning on a hi-fi
speaker which can easily fill the
classroom with sound.
John Lundberg

\\'hen the earphones arc in use,
the machine may be used in rwo
\\"avs-( I) the students mav listen
to .a record or tape of a l~nguagc
and (2) the students may recite
along with a record and tape both
the record and their \'Oicc at the
same time. " ' hen the tape is
played back, the student can make
comparisons of his recitations \\"ith

Tryin g ou t t h eir new "Mobile Tron ics" equipment are panish stud en ts
Mar y W avro, Tom O lda n i, F r an k D elfie ld, R ich H en sgen, Ju dy Getschmann, and Mar y J an e I sermann.

SJHS Music Students Attend
Wisconsin Music Clinic at Madison
Sue Harrison, Robert Fulmer,
and Allan Kelps arc representing
St. Joseph's at the annual lJni,·cr-

Soda lists To Speak At Parishes
A census taken b\· the Senior
Sodalir:· in :\'o,·cmb~r ga,·c proof
to the fact that fc,\ parents arc

a\\ arc of the 1110,·ics their children
attend. As a folio\\ -up to this census, a group of senior girls \\"ill \"isit
local Home and School Associations t > speak on the Legion of
Dccenc\·.
These sodalists '' ith their ne\1 h
acquired kncmlcdgc of the Legion
hope to bring parents to a realization of the duties and obligations
"hich arc theirs.

Rodney Johnson

F r eshmen office r s r ecently ch osen ar e Bob E n gstrom, president; Joha nna
Ga llo, v ice-president; A u g u st G norski , t r easurer ; a nd Donna Polanin, secr eta r y . They a r e shown exemplify ing the cooper a tion th ey hope to achi ev e
in the fr eshmen class th is year.

\ \'ith the aid of the Legion of
Dccenc\ office in the i'\ l ilwaukcc
archdiocese,
laril:·n Chapman,
\ tar:· Fllcn Fish, Jud:.· Seiberlich,
Par T:·unaitis, K arh:.· Griffin, i\ l ichaclinc Scianas, Sue Zc:·cn, Jean
Cantwell, and Jud: Conrad ha,·c
studied the hisror:, offices, and
functions of this organization since
it began in 1933. The serious effects "hich offcnsi,·c mo,·ics ha\'C
on a child's gnl\\ th, mental and
spiritual, ''ill be a part of these
talks.

sin· of \\'isconsin J\lid-\Vintcr
.\ lusic Clinic held o\·cr this '' cekcnd, January 8-10, on the campus
at .\1adison.
Highlighting the program is the
appearance of the United tares
ir Force Band, S:·mphony Orchestra, and the "Singing Sergeants". Besides scn·ing in a clinical capacity, members arc gi,·ing
concerts, open to All-State delegates on!:·, in the Uni,·crsir:·'s
\ l cmorial Cnion Theater on Friday- and Saturday c,·cnings.

SJHS To Participate
In Teens Against Polio
:'\ anc\· RutTio has been named
chairman of the St. Joseph Teens
gainst Polio campaign. Assisting
her ,,·ill be Lou isc .\ I ucllcr and
.\Ian·
. Anderson. They
. will work
'' irh rcprcscnrati,·cs from Kenosha
High in sponsoring fund raising
projects for Teens Against Polio.
Planned arc an inrcrschool dance
for students from both Kenosha
High and St. Joseph and a sr~· lc
show to be presented here January
13.

~
Hairless Harry Hulk- All Aboard - Examinationsville
W ell-Rounded Wreck
Th is , my friends, is the story of Harry
Hulky . (Or Hairless Hulk, as some folk
call him .) You've seen him , haven 't you?
That hulking, bulking, wheaties-eating
he-man (sometimes seen with his sister,
that white-teeth flashing, " hi" strewing,
Miss "wholesome popularity" candidate),
madly rushing from one unknown destination to another.
Take a closer look at him . (You'd
be tter be right quick about it for his kind
of animal is here today, gone tomorrow
from overwork , low grades, and his
nasty habit of doing everything, but doing nothing well.)
Hairless belongs to student council.
("Fine boy, Hairless, learning leadership .") He also monitors stairways. Hairless is a wrestler too . Three hours a day
is spent beating heck out of that old mat
- also out of his buddies.
Sociality is of primary importance to
Hairless, not only as a school organization, but as a way of life, when he isn't
taking care of his buddies on that old
mat. Therefore, Hairless industriously
aided our recent doll-clothes drive. Debater Harry, (or Senator Hulk as he was
known at our most recent student congress) is also a staunch member of our
drama corps when his doctor permits
him to go to the nightly rehearsals .
His employer will never understand
how a well-rounded nervous wreck such
as Hairless can manage his drugstore job
along with the six subjects he is taking.
"Hairless is a boy that's going places,"
he says. I imagine he is. Where?
As you see Hairless Hulk and his "hi"hoarse sister flash unsteadily by us once
more, you mentally "tch, tch, tch," such
foolish children. "Why, thank heavens
I'm not like that," you murmur.
And so, self-satisfied, we go our separate ways. This editorial couldn't concern you?
From the pen of one
Who watches you .

Now, like Exam inationsville is a b ig
burgh . Everybody- even cubes- knows
that you can't go into a big place unless
you got the right type of clothes . Like
man, there's only one Little Ville to get
clothes for the aforesaid city . This city is
Studysburg. In Studysburg lives three
kinds of cats.
First kind are the hip ones. They
come round to Studysburg pretty much
regularly . They spend about two or three
slides of the little hand every day here
working so they'll be able to buy their
clothes . Th e y plan ahead so they won 't
miss that train.
The next kind of cats in that place
are only part-time cats . They come just
about two days- at the most- before that
old train pulls out. When they arrive
on the scene, th e y've got to really like
hustle before the train leaves . They have
to stay there many sever a I turns of the
clock. But they usually get their clothes
but their clothes aren 't too strong .
Now this next group are the slum-

type . They live down where all the
town's garbage is tossed. There's two
type of hipsters down here . First we
have the Fakers and then there's the "I
don 't give a d .... m" group .
The Faker Capers try to make their
suit and beret out of paper . Now they
think they' re the most. Now, it's like
these clothes will get them there and
sure like it might "get 'em" back, but,
like what if it rains? They fool only
themselves.
Now we swing our built-in viewer
down to the bottom of the swingin' ladder. These guys are also fractured into
. two little swingin' sessions. Session A.
These boys board the train without let
us say, wearing-apparel. Session B. These
cats don't go at a II .
Like, 0 great white daddy-o, like
what are your plans? Which group will
behold your royal presence? To all cases
but one; see you on the train .
Robert Dobson

Letters, We Want Letters
"Hey, staff, the paper just came . Let's
get it to the kids before they leave
school."
"Oh, wait 'til tomorrow . They don 't
read it anyhow. I'm beginning to think
this whole business is just a waste of
time ."
"Maybe so . You know what we need ,
a letters to the editor column . If the kids
let us know just what they want, we
would have something to work on besides the faculty's suggestions ."
"You've got something there . It's their
paper, written to interest them, not just
the staff and moderators."
Although the Challenge will celebrate its first birthday this spring, we
feel that it is a Iready a paper of which
the school can be proud . Since these
monthly editions are put out primarily
for you, it is necessary that we know just
what your interests are . Do you read
each month's edition? Do the majority
of pictures, articles, and stories interest
you?

We welcome a 11 requests, criticisms,
and comments which you may care to
make. There is a small mailbox outside
the journalism room (224) . Drop your
letters and requests in it between classes
or after school. Any letter which interests and concerns the student body will
be printed on this page.
Judy Conrad

The Challenge
Published monthly by the students
of St. Joseph High School

EDITOR
.... ........ ... Rita Petretti
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
News .................. . . Laurin LeTart
Leslie Thelen
Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judy Conrad
Diane Keane
Jo.pinions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lucille Moretti
Prisms
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patricia Gaffney
Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mary Wientjes
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Kae Hawkins
Sports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dennis Rutkowski
Reporters . . . . .

Marilyn Cipolla, Bob Dobson ,
Jim O'Neill, Michaelene Seianas, Dick Engstrom , Andrea
Mantineo, Dick Suszko

Do you think extracurricular activities are
crowding out education
in our high schools?
~·

I believe extra-curricular activities are
an extension of high school education,
and it is not a "crowding out" of a student's learning. A truly educated person
is one who can adapt himself in any situation. Therefore, while one may know
only academic fundamentals, he may
find difficulty in adjusting to social patterns of life, which extra-curricular activities help him to attain .
Beth White 212

Heavens, No! Vice versa.
Jim Burns 212

No. I think that extra-curricular activities make a well-balanced student
life. Besides that, most students know
when to study and when to engage in
outside activities.
Brian Guilliom 102

In our high schools extra-curricular
activities are crowding out the importance of education. I really don't think
it is as apparent in SJHS as it is in other
high schools. I do believe, however,
that activities should not be excluded
altogether but only limited for the sake
of the high school students.

No. I think extra-curricular activities
help you to put the things you learn in
the classroom into action.

Michael Cass 304

In some cases extra-curricular activities do crowd out education, but in most
cases they don't. I believe that those
people who take part in too many activities are hampering their education because they can't do justice to their school
work. I think it is good to participate
in these activities but I think that you
should only take on as many as you are
able to handle. Otherwise you are just
asking for trouble.
Sherry Reindl 102

No, at least not at SJHS. I think
a few more extra-curricular activities
would provide better unity among the
students. Some schools do go overboard,
not this one though.

Marilynne Fredrick 212

No! I like activities, and I don't think
they are crowding out education in our
high school. I seem to have plenty of
time to do homework. I think some activities are good for entertainment.

No. Because these activities give a
person a chance to explore the field or
fields which interest him the most. He
is able to work with students who wish
to obtain the same goal as himself. These
activities also help him to keep himself
occupied on something of interest and
great importance to him.

June Bafetti 303

Stephen Delany 303

No. Because activities are helpful to
us. However, I only join activities that
I know will not interfere with school
work.
Robert Bode 302

No! You can't have all work and no
play.
Ron Spitzer 212

Diane Mares 212

No. I don't think they are crowding
out our education, because one does not
have to belong to any extra-curricular
activity unless he wants to. We still receive the same amount of education, but
we may join some extra activities if we
desire. I think we receive enough education now.
Augie Ridolfi 105

I think that it depends on the individual student. If he has the time and
ability to do his studying and engage in
extra-curricular activities, he should do
so. If he has difficulty with his studies,
he should devote most of his time to
them.
Kathy Mc Govern 302

Nay! Nay! Nay! I think extra-curricular activities broaden your interest.
I mean like no cat wants to do algebra
or English all the time . It would be
droopsville and rut-town.

Bruce Barman 305

The extra activities have in some way
helped us and in another way harmed
us. These activities may bring about a
better school spirit and even help us
to better our marks because we sometimes gain more of a liking for a subject.
In another way the activities can be
indulged in too much and may harm us.
One should be moderate about them
because many times marks suffer for a
sport. I think that just a few extracurricular activities are good for education.
Jim Fonk 102
No. I think the activities help to keep
boys and girls out of trouble. These activities in later years may help the person in his or her career.
Ray Scuglik 305

Yes, too many clubs can take up too
much time. One or two clubs would be
all right even three, but not more. Too
many clubs can be troublesome with
your school work and your housework.
Judy Thomsen 303

No. Because on the whole not many
people participate in extra-curricular activities. Those that do, really get something out of them, and I feel that these
activities add to their education. But I
do think that too much emphasis is put
on sports. The football player will get
more recognition than the good student
doing something outstanding.
Sonya Zalubowski 102
3

I don't believe extra-curricular activities are crowding out education because
it has been proven that those students
who do participate in extra-curricular activities are the better students. I think
that right now there is a well-balanced
medium between the two. Each activity
when used properly a ids the student to
better himself.
Dick Del Frate 212

Judging from this picture, everybody at the
Sodality dance had a mighty good time.
Suave Jim Werwie and his partner take this
business of dancing pretty seriously, while
Joan Penza and Alice Bruch are more casual
about it.

Behind
Williams Lyons

John Lundberg

Select Chorus soloists Gene Gelsone, Margaret Meier, Bob Fulmer, Sue Harrison, Sue
Kancian and Richard Lang seem to have caught the spirit of the Messiah Christmas
Concert held December 20.

Williams Lyons

My, Tom, what big feet you have! Everybody knows
that little men footprints had to be presented along
with activity pasrns so students could be admitted to
the sodality dance, but Tom Pechura seems to have
found some king-size little men! Gary Gonyea is still
in a dazed state from seeing the monstrous tracks.

Don·t get panicky, Sisters, the bake goods
will be finished in plenty of time! Sisters
Annelda, Speranda, Moyse, Juelle, and Irita,
aided by Mrs. Viola, busily prepare cookies
'n cakes for the Christmas Bake Sale De·
cember 18-19-20.

John Lundberg

4

Our own mayor, Mr. Hammond, addressed the student congress.

John Lundberg

Everybody quiet, Congress in session! The enate branch of the Stu·
dent Congress which convened at JH December 11-12 is seen in busy
conference, while debators await their turn at defending their bills.

Sister Jarlath seems very happy with the agenda Tim Tully
has mapped out for the Students Congress December 11-12.
However, Kathy Bydalek looks a bit puzzled by the proposed format.

John Lundberg

The
Glass Curtain
Rodney Johnson

The Language teachers, Sisters Zoe, Leonelle, and Marie Francis are enjoying Sister
Orata's display accumulated by our students from their French Pen Pals.

Rodney Johnson

Enthusiastic sodality workers are seen preparing· Thanksgiving baskets. Allan Eppers, Marilyn Chapman, and Kathy Pias seem pretty sure
of completing the demanding task. Judy Conrad looks very doubtful and perplexed by the
whole business.

Rodney Johnson

Sodality Study Day, December 8, was seriously attended. The school are here represented by
Kathy Zablocki, Notre Dame, Kathy O'Brien, Divine Savior, Margie chneider, St. Mary's Burlington, Robert Paulus, Pius XI, Bona Lee Techner, Sacred Heart, Judy Conrad, our prefect,
Father MacQuode, Queen's Work, Anne Angel, t. Catherine' , Joanne Kornitz, Me smer, Brian
Guilliom, Chairman, and Mark Korb, uma Prefect.

5

The Singing Idol

And Just What Is Green?
Green is the long wet grass you're supposed to be cutting .
Green is the not-quite-ripe-enough wild
raspberries growing beside the
wooded path .
Green is the tummy ache you get from
eating them .
Green is St. Patrick's Day.
Green is the tall cool mint julip on a 90°
day.
Green is the sweet, but somehow abom inable pet snake your little brother
brings home.
Green is the soft wet moss on your
favorite rock .
Green is Spring all over with its buds and
and leaves and blossoms.
Green is that tie he loves that you simply
can't bear.
Green is the mountain lake that means
summer love and winter longing .
Green is the sky in baby sister's first
picture .
Green is that two foot moon -man on
Shockeroo Theater.
Green is the crisp salad topped with
French dressing.
Green is the jealousy and sorrow and
discouragement when that one-in-amillion " he" finds a new one-in-amillion "she."
Sue Harrison 110

Caught
The disheartened little girl was
caught, not in a net like a fiy meeting
death on a treacherous piece of fiy paper, but like the five-year old she was
entangled in a juicy pink string of bubble gum . As always, mother came to the
rescue vigorously unwinding the pink
cocoon, just the opposite of a caterpillar
winding his. Soon the butterfiy was unraveled, but then came the death sentence, no more bubble-gum for the rest
of the month .
Laurel Hervat 316

Night
Lonely
Bone-chilling, darkThe spell of night is cast
No twinkling stars-just empty space
So black .
Carol Guttormsen 108

Fern
Lone fern
Royal and rare
Deep in the vast forest
No one to wonder your dainty
beauty .
Judy Przybylski 302

To Know
I often have thought, and marveled
as well,
At things we can know, but never can
tell .
We know many friends, and acquaintances , too,
For whom we do things, without much
ado.
We know, first of all, the right from
the wrong,
Or how to distinguish a bell from a gong .
We know how to learn, but not to
forget.
We may be confused, somtimes as to
fret .
We know of the countries, the cities
and towns,
Their mosaics of colors, the reds and the
browns.
We also know sunshine, its warmth
and its light.
It helps, when we' re sad, to make the
world bright.
All nature is wondrous, an intricate
plan,
A perfect precision, not found in man .
The beauty of sunset, night's curtain
being drawn,
Can be surpassed only by the breathtaking dawn .

Last week the wonderful Am e rica n
teenagers voted Conway Twinkle as
America 's most popular singing idol. It
was a long hard road for Twinkle, but
he finally made it. Here is his story. "This
is your life, Conway Twinkle ."
Like 99 percent of all singers, Twinkle lives in Philadelphia (on the east
side) . He is 20 years old , and a freshman in high school. Twinkle's singing
career was longer than usual , but after
he had been at it for two weeks, his big
break finally came. Strangely, the reason for Twinkle's big smash hit, "Ah Uh
Luff A Ma Baby's Ugh", is his excellent
eyesight. Last month as Twinkle was
being examined at his eye doctor, he
started to read out the letters on the
chart to the tune being played on his
pocket transistor radio . The eye doctor,
Dr. Jeckle, saw at once the unlimited
horizons for this "great" talent. Dr.
Jeckle saw money . Soon Dr. Jeckle was
Conway Twinkle's manager and a new ,
future smash hit was cut.
Within three days, Twinkle was invited to appear on American Bandstand.
After being introduced by Dick Clark
(and hearing all the Bandstand "regulars" scream for ten minutes), he really
let loose to the music of his record . Before it was half over, he had kicked his
wooden leg (east side gang fight, '56)
into the audience and broke four strings
of his guitar. His hair kept getting
tangled in the mobile cameras . This
spoiled those "dandy" close-up shots
that the Bandstand camera men are so
noted for .
The kids went wild. After 27 encores
of the same record, Twinkle was so exhausted that his hair was in place. Dick
Clark ran up to him and cried for joy,
embracing the new star, Conway Twinkle. The "regulars" were screeching and
screaming so loud that Tony Mammarella
called the east side riot squad. Frankie
Avalon and Fabian made the scene, too,
but just stood there, para I yzed and
dumbfounded. Then Fabian broke into
a hysterica I cry.
Oh, glorious day! Rejoice, dear
brethren! A new Singing Idol has made
the scene to take his place in the hall of
fame with such immortally talented artists as Fabian, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Little
Richard. They are cool and god-like with
the stars for their goals. One thing is
common to all of them. They can't sing .
Bill Green 212

often have thought, and marveled
as well,
At things we can know, but never can
tell
But the more that I learn, the more it
is so,
Of the things which exist, that I never
will know.
Barbara Kluka 108
6

Morning
Morning
Comes tip-toeing
On the dew-decked feet .of dawn
To conquer the black night with light,
Sun-bright.
Jayne Arentz 111

Caroling Proves Profitable
To Varsity Basl{_etball Stars
On the wcekl1 Sunday bulletin
of a small parish in Milwaukee
were printed these \vords: Mass
for the special intention of the lady
across the street requested by the
SJ HS Varsity basketball team.
The story behind these few significant ~ o.rds started two days before on a Friday afternoon. After
arriving at Don Bosco with a spare
hour and a half, the players decided to go out and find something
to do. They all wandered into a
shoe store, had their feet measured,
smiled innocently at the clerk, and
informed him they didn't want
shoes; thev onlv wanted to see
who had die big.gest feet. Further
'' anderings led them to a beatnik
drug store, where everyone was
reading poetry, a bowling alley
where they tried to get hired as
pin boys, and finally they found
themselves walking past se,·cral
houses thoroughly bored but still
thinking. Gene Gelsonc came up
with the best idea yet-they could
go Christmas caroling.

I
John Lundberg

Gail Becker

John Lundberg

Dick Del Frate

Spotlight On the Seniors
All day at school wasn't enough
for DICK DEL FRATE. Two
years ago his brother and he enrolled in night school and increased their educational time.
This might sound as if Dick is a
true intellectual '' ith a real passion
for school, but there was a purpose
behind his madness. He was very
interested in electronics and radio
work, and he was out to fulfill his
interest.
Now, two vears later, Dick and
his brother have taken over the
corner of a stockroom and converted it into their own workshop.
Thev have built their own test
equipment and arc enjoying a productive hobby working with radios
and phonographs.
Dick, besides furthering his
hobbv, is a senior at SJHS and is
carr);ing five subjects.
After high school and on weekends, he can be found working at
the family su permarkct.
£\'en '' ith all these acti vi tics
Dick still finds a few spare minutes in his day, and he spends them
eating. His favorite on the food
list is homemade ravioli, but when
he is hungry any kind of food
tastes good.
Future plans for Dick include
attending Den)· Technical Institute and later securing a position
with the J. B. M. Compan!··
i\1inerrn, Jupiter, Juno ! These
bubbling little personalities are
new students at SJHS. They don't
wear blue uniforms or tics, and
thcv don't collect pink slips; but
the;-'vc taken up residence in our
Ii bran'.
CAIL 131<'.CKER is responsible
for their arri \'al because the)' arc
her fourth generation of guppies.
Gail is a senior at SJHS, and
besides collecting tropical fish she
has an endless list of hobbies including all sports, reading, art, and
painting.

Changing the school uniforms to
green would please Gail because
it's her favorite color. She will try
almost anything once (providing
it isn't fattening), and one of her
main accomplishments is lasting
through four years of Latin.
Like most teenagers, she enjoys
music with a good beat, could
manage to survive with less homework, and Jo,·es food of all kinds.
Many clubs and activities keep
Gail's life quite busy, and among
these is Sodality, of which she is
,·ice-president.
\Vith all due respect to Minerva,
Juno, and Jupiter, she plans to forsake them after graduating and become a registered nurse.

Strains of "Silent 'ight" could
be heard O\'Cr and o,·er again as
the bovs went from house to
house. in less than 40 minutes they
had recei\'cd 6.50 and had just
arri,·cd at the last house when a

Band Members Form
Dixieland Jazz Combo
Go, man, go! This swingin' set
is the new SJHS Dixieland band,
and it can really play some hot
music. The boys became interested in forming this group in the
early part of the year. Their first
a ppearancc was at our Yaricty
show, and if applause measures
success, they arc on their wa\·.

sions. Undoubtedly, practice is
making perfect because C\'Cr!·onc
agrees, " 1an, they 're the greatest!"

woman came to the door. Tragedy
was '' ritten on her face, and she
stopped cr!·ing just long enough
to ask the boys to pray for her.
They finished their song, walked
slo,,·h' across the street into a small
Polis!; church, and gave their earnings . . . . for a special intention.
Mary Kae Hawkins

Jots from Joe's
\\'hen KEi'. \\'EDI EKES visited the Army representative at the
recent career night he was pleased
to find out that among other activities, bicycle racing is offered to
interested applicants.
i\lARY LY ' N" KULESH was
so engrossed in material that was
being taught in her journalism class
that she literalh fell out of her scat.
SONJA ZALABO\\'SKI laughed
about this all the way to the bus
stop on 22nd.
rO\\ 0 TJA can
be seen '' alking around school
with bandaged knees due to her
falling on the bus steps. She's not
laughing an! more.
LOST-a green worm- a grubby green " ·orm. Please return it
to Sister _\laric Francis \\ ith the
apple that it was staying in.
DICK Hf"-'SGEN beJic,·es in
rising in class but wants to know if
there isn't an easier way than sitting on a thumbtack.
Jli\l HILL says his parents rcccnth took out a ten thousand
dolla~ life insurance policy on him,
and since then thcv\·c been feeding him nothing but cranberries.

Allan Kelps, who plays clarinet,
is also a member of the Kenosha
S!·mphony Orchestra. \Vith the
orchestra, he played under Jose
lturbi during Mr. lturbi's recent
concert in Kenosha. He has received man\· awards of excellence
for perfon,"iance on both clarinet
and saxaphonc.
John Buss plays trombone; Tom
Pau lson, trumpet; and Tim Greco,
drums. These four fledgling musicians began working together under the direction of Mr. Elmer
Aiello in our own SJHS band.

Terry Pfannenstill

Dixieland band plus one? The plus one is the little drummer boy, Tim
Greco, hiding behind his fellow band members. Tom Paulson is on t~e
hot trumpet; Allan Kelps on the cool clarinet, and John Buss on the torrid
trombone.

The bO)'S enjoy playing, and
they let loose during practice ses-

7

Lack of Height Proves
Disadvantage to Lancers
Disath-antagc of height proved
to be the Lancers downfall in their

John Lundberg

This is the SJHS varsity basketball team for the '59-'60 season. Front row
left to right are: Tony Cravotta, Bob Bierdz, Ron Spitzer, Chester Agazzi,
and Rich Hensgen. In the back are: Coach Bob Radigan, Vince Fox, Buzzy
Heller, P at McAleer, Jim Wojtak, Pete Dorff, and Ron Fillipelli. Bruce
Anderson was not present when the picture was taken.

Out of the Rut
by Dennis Rutkowski
\Vi th the year 19 59 gone along
with those first six basketball games
and the football season, the first
half of 1960 s~ems to have more
favorable things in store for the
Lancers than the last half of '59.
The basketball team, after ha\'ing a difficult start, should find the
remainder of the schedule a little
easier due to the greater experience
gained in play with conference
powerhouses like St. Catherine's
and .\1arquctte.
\ Nith baseball to balance the
sports agenda, the first half of 1960
seems to hold a favorable picture
for St. Joseph.
Miss Marian Pchowski, freelance '' ritcr and Fulbright scholar,
on her recent visit to St. Joe's,
commented on the lack of space
for book storage in the study hall.
Buzzy Heller, basketball co-captain, cagily remarked that here at

Catholic Golf Meet
To Be Held Here
St. Joseph's High School "ill
host the annual State Catholic Golf
i\1eet on J\1ay 26, 1960. This 'I.Vas
decided at the December 1-t meeting of the State Board of Control
of which Father Edmund Olley is
.\1 ilwaukce archdiocesan represcntati \'C.
The location of the meet, \\ hich
be held from 9: 30 a.m. to
about I: 30 p.m. has not yet been
decided. Father Olley is making
contacts at the present time to secure a course for the meet.
'~ill

About 15 schools from the entire
~t~ te participate in the meet which

has the appro,·al of the \Visconsin
Catholic I ntersc ho! as tic Athletic
Association.

St. Joe's \\'e memorize our text
books.
Brian Guilliom, \\'hen asked
about the humor of Charles Lamb,
said he felt that Lamb lacked humor and \\'as sarcastic; in fact, he
insisted he was downright prcj udiccd and bigoted against pigs, possibl\' because his name "'as J\1r.
L ~ mb and not i\1r. Pig.
Congratulations to .\Ir. Dick
Johnson on his recent marriage!
Please feel free to use the suggestion box outside room 2H.

bids at the first five conference
games. Coach Bob Radigan, in
hopes to remedy this, has changed
his starting fi,·c, adding Jim \Vojtak, six foot, one-inch forward and
Bob Agazzi, fi,·c foot, ten-inch
guard.
Prc,·ious to the change, Buzzy
Heller and Pat McAlccr were the
onl\' starters over six feet. Altho.ugh the Lancers were edged
75-71 h\' Dominican in the last
minutes .of the game, Coach Radigan " ·as pleased with the performance of his two new starters.
Pat ,\le A leer was high scorer for
St. J oc 's with 30 points, most of
them coming from driving layups
and rebound shots. Co-Captain
Buzzy Heller again captured rebound honors for the Lancers by
picking off 18. McAlcer got 13
and \\ 'ojtak got 11.
In the five previous games, the
Lancers lost to Catholic i\1cmorial
77-61 with Co-Captain Buzz Heller
starring on offense and defense,
scoring 12 points and hauling in
15 rebounds.
Bierdz and ,\ lcAlccr shared scoring honors for St. Joe's when thcr
played St. Catherine 's, each scoring t I points. McAleer had the
most rebounds with 17. Against

Girls Volleyball Tournament
Scheduled Through February

St. Benedict's, Pat McAlccr was
high scorer again with 18 points
and Buzz Heller took rebound
honors by grabbing 18.
In the Don Bosco defeat, 50-46,
Co-Captain Ron Spitzer was high
scorer with 12 points, and Buzz
Heller was high in rebounds with
ten.
Marquette dcrn ncd St. Joe's 4371 even though Buzz Heller was
high for rebounds with 22. McAlecr was a close second with 17.
Pat was also high scorer for the
Lancers with 14 points.
James O'Neill

J-Club Holds First
Organizational Meeting
At a recent meeting of the
]-Club, members decided that blue
letter sweaters \\'ith white shirts
and black ties would be worn
c\·cry Friday. The team captains
\\'ill \\'Car white sweaters. l t was
also decided that a .25 fine would
be charged for a \'iolation of this
rule.
Officers of the club arc Ralph
DiChristophcr, president; Tony
Cravotta, vice-president; Buzzy
Heller, secretary; Dick Suszko,
treasurer; and Ron Spitzer. sergeant-at-arms.
The organization acts as an athletic sen·icc club, ushering at all
athletic events.
Members are Jim O'Neill, Ken
\\ 'cdcikcs, Gene Gclsonc, Tim
Propsom, Rick Ryczek, Bill Perozzi, Dick Adamson, Steve Seliga,
Bud 'avin, /\like Marifjcrin, Ron
Fillipclli, Pat McAleer,
eil Pietrangcli, Larry Ga:·dos, John Regner, Eddie Kertz, Brian Guilliom,
i\1ikc Stella, Dan Ruffalo, Dick
Chiappetta, Tim Tully, Ronald
Sabby, Tom Oldani, J erry Krajnak, Da,·c Limbach, Joe Lorenzi,
and Jim Costigan.

Monda\' and Frida\' afternoons
from 3: 30 to 4: 30, approximately
90 St. Joe girls can be found enthusiastically practicing rnllcyball,
under the supcn·ision of Miss Sally
Serio. Bcca use of the response
there arc enough girls to complete
eight teams-three freshmen, three
sophomore, one junior, and one
se111or.

mcnt and good sportsmanship
among the coeds. An opportunity
like this is ncccssar\' because of the
limited sports activities offered for
girls."
Two games per night, usually
four nights a "'eek, "'ill be pla:·ed.
All the girls arc invited to attend
the games. Sorry boys!

These teams ::?re no\\ engaged
in St. Joe's second volleyball tourm mcnr "hich will extend until
the end of Fcbruarr.

Matrise's Matmen Defeated
In Debut at Waukesha

Folio\\ ing last : car's plan, each
tcalll \\ill play c\·ery other tcamthc round robin tournament. The
team \\'inning the most games will
be awarded a troph:• which will
be placed in the first floor shcmcasc.

The SJ HS "rcstling team tra\·clcd to \Vaukcsha for its first
match of the '59-'60 season on December 18. The team, coached by
Frank Marrisc, lost the match to
Catholic 1\lcmorial, 37-15.
Two of the wrestlers, Paul Zohlcn and Ken \Vcdcikcs, pinned
their opponents. The onl;.· other
Lancer to score a victon' was Neil
Pietrangcli. He outpointed his opponent to win by decision. Dennis H ulcn managed a tic in his
match.

Carolyn Warner

Cames "ill be refereed by students \\ho will be coached in special sessions.
Tcalll names and
captains ha\'e not as yet been selected.
"\lain objects of this tournament," said Miss Serio, " arc cnjo: -

The final score might have

8

looked a little brighter if the Lancers had been able to enter in all
of the weight classes. Because of
this, they lost ten points on forfeit.
vY restling action will continue
again after the Christmas vacation.
This is the first year that St. Joseph's has had a wrestling team.
\\'ith a little more experience, the
team should do better.
Remaining matches:
V\!atcrford
January 15
Don Bosco
Januar_v 21
\Vatcrford
Fcbru::?ry l
Catholic 1cmorial
February 12

AUTOGRAPHS

~UTOG'RA'PHS

SUMA Sponsors
WCAC March 4- 6
High school, college, and nursing students will attend the Wisconsin Catholic Action Convention
sponsored by the Sodality Union
of the Milwaukee Archdiocese
(SUMA) and held at the Milwau kee Auditorium- Arena March 4,
5, and 6.
"Keep In Step With Mary" is the
theme for this fourteenth annual
conference which is held to encourage and foster Catholic Action
and leadership among Wisconsin's
vouth.
More than 30 sessions "viii be
offered presenting outstanding,
noted priest and lay speakers on
subjects of interest to students.
Friday and Saturday sessions will
end with Benediction. The convention will close on Sundav with
the Family Holy Hour spo'nsored
by the Archdiocesan Family Life
Program.
All SJHS Sodalists-and other
students interested in Catholic formation-arc urged to plan attendance at WCAC.

Chorus To Sing
In City Concert
St. Joseph High School Select
Choir, along with the All City
Boys' Choir and Kenosha Church
Choirs will present Verdi's T e
/)eum and the prologue to Mefistofeles by Boito. This all-city program will be accompanied by the
Kenosha Symphony Orchestra, directed by Dr. Lucien Caillier, and
in co-operation with the Kenosha
Choral Society.
One of the outstanding highlights of the Society's 1960 season,
this concert will be given in Mary
D. Bradford High School Auditorium, \Vedncsday, February 24
at 8: 15 p.m.

~CHALLENGE
Vm.. 2, No. 5

ST. JosEPH H1GH SCHOOL, KENOSHA, W1sc0Ns1N

"Why do one play when we
could do seven?" This seems to
be the motto of the SJHS drama
club for the month. Under the direction of Sister Petrina and Sister
Marie Catherine, the drama club
will present a series of one-act
plays which will be presented at
an assembly in February.

Happy Journey, a domestic
comedy with a great amount of
pantomime. Cast: Pat Petretti, Joe
Tennyson, Terry Moriarty, Jane
Henderlciter, Brian Guilliom, Dina
Pinnola, and Linda Reno.
Pink and Patches, a folk play
concernng the dream world we
imagine to compensate for defi-

c1enc1es of our real world. Cast:
Jeannine Lawrence, George
Schroeder, i\lariannc Henderleiter,
and Louise i\1ueller.
Hello , Out There , the story of
a prisoner and his struggle with
loneliness. Cast: Larry Roscioli,
Christine Schwenn, and Ray
Umari.

Plays to be presented and their
casts are: Early Frost, a fantasymystery with an all girl cast, a
psychological study of the effect
of guilt on a person. Cast: Sue
White, Judie Smith, Mary Jo Parisea, Pat Cipolla, Cecilia Mazurkiewicz, and Pat Bode.
If Men Played Cards as Women
Do, a satire on the whimsy of
women. Cast: Bob Dobson, Rich
DiCello, Dave DeSimonc, and
Mike Wenning.
No Count Boy, a
cgro folk
play portraying the struggle between the real world and the
dream world. Cast: Dave Anderson, Carolyn Reeder, Tim Tully,
and Pat Radigan.
Anastasia, the portrayal of an old
woman's struggle to conquer prejudice and accept the young, pleading girl who claims to be her
granddaughter. Cast: Sharon Pascucci and Sue Peterson.

ancv Ruffio will recei\'e the
1960 SJHS Bausch and Lomb Hon-

Nancy Rufflo

1960

Drama Club Members Prepare
One-Act Plays for Assembly

Nancy Ruffto Cited for Scientific Achievement;
To Receive Bausch and Lomb Award in May

Robert Fanning

FEBRLARY,

orary Science Award. Sister i\ 1ar)'
Stanisia, head of the science department, rated 1 ancy outstanding in scientific ability during her
four years of high school. 1 ancy
will receive the medal at graduation ceremonies in May.
As the SJHS winner, ancy will
qualify for competition in the annual science scholarship contest
sponsored by Bausch and Lomb
Optical Company with the ni\'crsity of Rochester. The Rochester
scholarship committee selects 30 of
the most promising candidates.
These finalists will visit Rochester,
r ew York, for three days, during
which they will take compctitiYc
tests and be interviewed.

Bill Lyons

Members of the drama club, Pat Radigan, Sharon Pascucci, Jeannine
Lawrence, Terry Moriarty, and Bob Dobson, are shown during preliminary rehearsals for the series of one-act plays that the club will present.

Science Department Sets
Program for Annual Fair
SJHS annual Science and Math
Fair will be held March 21 to 23
in the gym. Sister Stanisia said,
"SeYenty-five to 100 entries will
be made by February 8. Exhibitors are encouraged to submit laboratory notes or charts with their
exhibits."
Judging will be on the point
system: Creative ability and originality will merit 20 points. Scientific thought including classification and acurate observation will
earn 40 points. Thoroughness will
score 10 points; skill and workmanship, 10 points, and clarity and
dramatic value, 10 points. The
SJHS exhibit with the highest
point honors will be entered into
the regional fair.

First, second, and third prize
ribbons will be awarded to indi,·idual winners in the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, general
science, and mathematics. Honorable mention and certificates in
each field will also be awarded.
Physics displays already begun
will deal with solar energy, rockets, pumps, the volcano, color and
light, and energy change. Crystal
of blue, yellow, green, and white,
analysis of hair shampoo, vitamin
content in fruit, and atom models
will be displayed by chemistry students. Biology projects being submitted include the respiratory and
circulatory systems, and experiments on plant growth, light, and
fertilizer.

Someone Should Drop
A Bomb On Our Lives

Idealism Is the Best Policy
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the
fariest of all?"
"What's in it for me?"
"Don't wise off; just cut the smart
stuff, and give it to me straight."
"Man, like you asked for it."
"Let's see, I would say you rank about
.. um ... down here."
"What, how do you know that?"
"Could you stop what you're doing
now and picture someone you go to
school with whom you really respect and
admire? Someone you really think a lot
of for character or personality and whom
you would love to be like, if you only
could.
"Well, think of someone?
"You can't. Oh, I see. You think
they're nice, but you really don't admire
them or want to be like them, because
they're not really so much better than
you are; after all, they're just a kid in
school like you are. But stop and think
a minute, is it really that you don't admire them or is it way deep down a sort
of personal envy?
"Really and truly now, don't you think
a lot of that one kid who comes bounding into homeroom every morning as
though he were the sun itself, and how
about the guy next to you who is mature
enough to get up and erase the boards
and isn't afraid of being laughed at, or
the girl behind you in the corridors who
makes a special effort to say something
pleasant to everyone she meets whether
they are popular or not?
"Well, you sort of can think of someone you admire, but why bother. You
could never be like them even if you
wanted to. I mean, you could never talk
with people the way he does, or have
the nerve to get up on stage or even in
class the way she does. After all, they
were born that way, and they never
have to push themselves or even try to
be that way.
"Might as well just stay the way you
are; you'll get by. Those other kids will
keep the school going anyway. Then
again you could have those special char-

The Challenge
Published monthly by the students
of St. Joseph High School

EDITOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

acter qualities if you wanted to, I mean
if you really, really wanted to . Go ahead,
look around and see all the things you
could be doing.
"Find one?
"Well, don't just sit, go do it!!!!!!!!!"
Sue Peterson

You Can Be
Another George
Do you love your own America? Is
your citizenship a sacred birthright to be
defended by blood, if necessary? Do
you take pride in the verdant beauty of
our fifty states and feel a special spirit
of brotherhood with all others who call
themselves American? If you feel in this
way, if you possess these attitudes, then
you are what is known as a patriot. For
a patriot is one who loves his country,
and even more, a patriot supports his
country's authority and interests with
love .
You, in a sense, are as much of a patriot as George Washington, depleting
his coffers for the ca use of the continent a I army when you pay your taxes
and buy bonds to contribute to America's economic support. You follow in
the footsteps of the unknown soldiers
when you become a member of the armies of valiant men and women who
comprise our armed forces. You become
one with the mind and heart of Abraham
Lincoln when you stand firm against the
turbulent forces of bigotry, prejudice,
and racial hatred. You assimilate the
good neighbor policy of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt when you yourself become a
good neighbor and a citizen of action .
February is the month of patriots. It
is that time when the yearly cycle of
remembrances can best inspire us to
transform our quiet appreciation of the
freedoms our America has insured for
us to an active defense and strengthening of these freedoms. In this February,
1960, when the call to the defense of
freedom sounds ever louder, you have
the privilege to say, "I, too, am a patriot."
Dia ne Keane

. . . . . . Rita Petretti
2

"Hey, see that red star up there by the
moon?"
"Yah ."
"Know what it is?"
"Just another star, man, what else?"
"Wise up. That's a hydrogen bomb
the Russians have put in orbit, right over
our heads."
"Like wow! You mean they can drop
that thing on us anytime they want?"
"You're in ."
"Boy, they've really hung the axe over
our heads this time ."
The A-Bomb, H-Bomb, and the endless progress in nuclear warfare have so
accustomed Americans to scares that
there is hardly any new fear aroused in
the new H-Bomb-in-orbit threat. Many
threats have proved true, but experience
has never seen one which actually exploded in America's midst; as a result,
these scares have immunized rather than
altered . They have failed as warning
signals for they haven't led to action.
Problem after problem has presented itself, is picked apart, and temporarily
solved, but its effects still weigh heavily.
Seg reg a ti on and other socia I problems
are ignored after they leave the headlines. These and threats of other natures
are all being pushed into the back of the
mind with action as a last resource .
What has led to this static attitude in
the face of possible disaster? Because
adults decide to let the coming generation find solutions; and because youth
takes the adults-can-fix-it-up attitude,
nothing is really being solved.
Solutions lie deeper than removal of
symptoms; they demand intense and
dedicated interest. When youth gets off
the merry-go-round of its aimless search
for meaning in life, it will jar adults out
of their indifference. In joint action, constructive thinking and effective planning
will begin to form.
Peace and security are in the hands
of the one who cares.
The one who cares shows interest in
the world, the nation and communityyes, even the school-of which he is a
part.
The one who cares is an individual
thinker who can't accept the conventional ways of salving over symptoms
and ignoring causes.
The one w ho cares sets his sense of
values straight in high school and strugg les to keep them that way.
The one w ho cares knows that his
effect on the world, his world, his nation,
his community- yes, and _e ven his school
- is not only lasting but immediate.

Chuck Ha ll

Eddie Mathews . Because he's a great
ball player and I like baseball very much .
I hope someday to get a chance to play
baseball and I will try to be as good as
he is .
Robert Schaubert 111

After much consideration, I pick Senator Kennedy. He is waging an effective battle for the pol itica I power of the
Democratic party. To the many questions about birth control which are asked
of him, he gives excellent answers .
These questions are probably intended to
"trap" him, but he gives answers even
without consultation with a priest.

Jerry Henderleiter 206
Dick Clark. Because he helps many
teen-agers in their minor problems,
which seem major to them at the time.
He has a way with adolescents, and a
nice personality. I read his article in the
Milwaukee Journal and even parents
ask questions.
Phil Klein 110
I admire our vice-president, Richard
Nixon . I think that besides being a good
politician, he is also a good family man.
In my opinion a man, no matter what
his position is, should stay with his family, and not just go back to them when
he is no longer in a prominent position.
Richard Nixon lives up to this.

Marianne Majchrowicz 305
In my estimation, Senator John Kennedy is worthy of great admiration. He
is worthy of this esteem because he displays a great sense of responsibility and
courage in the world of today. Being a
Catholic and running for the presidency
alone shows his courage, because being
a Catholic may hinder his chances. His
great responsibility is shown by his effort in the labor problem. No man is as
qualified to hold the office of president
as he. I feel that if he is elected these
labor disputes will be more easily settled, and the economy of our nation
would sky-rocket.
Linda Moddes 303
I admire Johnny Mathis very much
because although he is constantly in the
public eye, he doesn't show it as some
people do. He also shows no trace of
being harmed by the prejudices between
the white and colored race .

Judy Hasslinger 214

What person currently in
the public eye do you admire most?
Mrs. Richard Nixon is doing a marvelous piece of work in promoting our
relations with various countries of the
world. She is showing the people of
these countries that the American woman is more than just a glamour girl. She
willingly gives time to our country and
still does a wonderful job of raising her
two daughters.
Claire Fredericksen 307
Loretta Young would be my choice.
The reason I hold her in th is esteem is
because she has consistently produced
TV shows of high standards and many
fine qualities . In these productions she
displays much talent in acting and also
adaptability in playing many roles. Always feminine Miss Young is my ideal
of an admirable and great lady.

Judy Przybylski 302
I admire Barbara Eisenhower for her
courage in acting as first lady on the
"Good Will" Tour. It shows the bravery
of the younger generation.
Johanna Gallo 316
The person currently in the public
eye whom I admire most is Bishop
Sheen . He has shown the public a great
deal about the Catholic religion and I
think every Catholic should be proud of
him .
Judith Hewitt 104

I admire the President of the United
States the most. He is a wonderful and
marvelous man. He has done a great
deal of good for America and other countries. He has solved many world problems and has been able to cope with
many other things. I think he is a wise
and an intelligent man. I doubt very
much if anybody could take his place
and fulfill some of the wonderful things
the President has done.
Vera Ruffalo 108
3

The person I admire most is Governor Gaylord Nelson. He is the first Democratic governor in Wisconsin in twentyfive years. He is attempting to revise the
tax structure of Wisconsin, and is receiving much opposition from various groups
around the state. This tax revision is
badly needed in Wisconsin because as
Governor Nelson said, "I believe our
patchwork tax structure must be revised
to release regressive property taxes, to
add jobs through economic growth, and
to make our system fair to all, in terms
of collective distribution."
Mary Ann Gumbinger 110

I do and always will admire Pope
John XXlll. For after Pope Pius XII died,
he had such a great task before him . So
many things were left up in the air, but
Pope John has fulfilled all his duties and
surged ahead to blaze many trails for
the Roman Catholic Church .

John Moseley 308

I admire Queen Elizabeth the most
because of her gracious dignity and her
high position in society. I admire her
not only because she is Queen, but because of the desirable qualities which
make her a good leader of her people.
Tina Ritacca 110

Dr. Tom Dooley who has done so
much to make the fabled "Ugly American" false and the "Splendid American"
true.
Bill Swift 109

I admire the seven men (Carpenter,
Cooper, Glenn, Grissom, Schirra , Shephard, and Slayton) one of whom is going
to be picked to go into outer-space in
order to tell us if we will be able to go
further into space. Some of the planets
could be and might be the future homes
of our children . These planets will be a
vacation spot, a place in which to spend
a Sunday afternoon . These men will tell
us if we need much more air, or fuel, or
what ever we may need. The Astronauts
have sent up a monkey named Sam .
Sam has returned and has given us some
information about body control and
different reactions in space. A camera
brought down pictures for us to study .

Mary Doherty 303

FRESHMAN ROOM 303
ROW 1 Mike Zeyen, Mike Johnson,
D aniel McGuire, Stanley Pawlowicz,
S teve Dela n y, Peter deBartelo, Eddie
M a rcoe , Rick Chromcik
ROW 2 Tom Herrmann, Jim Lampada,
Bob Watring, Marily n Schauer, Marian Thomsen, Frank Woynilko, Bernard F a pso, Tom Brehm
ROW 3 Barbara Bafetti, Donna Polanin, Mary Doherty, Judy Welsch, Beverly Hannes, Nancy Grant, Kay Rogan, Joyce o ·connor, Kay Bernacchi
ROW 4 Nancy Selear, Ann Reindl,
Maureen McCarthy, Judy Lippert, JoAnn G a llo, Barbara Katz , Joanne Strifling, Helen Ketchum, Linda Moddes
MISSING: Kathleen Wade

FRESHMAN ROOM 304
ROW 1 Bruno Rizzo, August Gnorski,
Douglas Niles, Thoma~ Regner, Michael Schardt, Michael Cass
ROW 2 Mary Elizabeth Koos, Joan
Hammond, Constance Babich, Emily
Maraccini, Claudia Dible, Janice Herr,
Judith DeAngelis, Marie Mattioli, usan Lamont
ROW 3 Michael Seiberlich , Robert
Ball, David Nowell, Timothy Fanning,
Dean Patterson, Michael Thome, Gary
Vranak, Timothy Weidner
ROW 4 Linda Bernacchi , Karen Zastrow, Judith Lindemann, Ann Fordham, Mary Mitchell, Kathleen Gaffney, Rae Ann Wood, Joan Pietrangeli
MISSING: Chalrei Kehl, Dawn Toth,
David Braun, John Martin

FRESHMAN ROOM 311
ROW 1 Joseph Zalatoris, Terrence
Nighbert, James Kleist, Ronald Buss,
Ronald Gray, Lawrence Deinhammer
ROW 2 Richard Endian, James Hessifort, Robert Moehrke, Thomas O'Day,
Thomas Bakula, William Feldt, Orlando Gallo, Richard Reuther
ROW 3 Jean Zimmerman, Mary Peltier, Mary Ann Marshall, Alice Whiteford , Mary Dugan, Geneva Heabler,
Carol Fonk, Kathleen Lucas
ROW 4 Kathleen Sturm, Elizabeth
Michaud, Corine Acerbi, Sandra Beyers, Mary Corr, Donna Schlosser, Donna Sevey, Suzanne Waite, Lorraine
Lasky
MISSING: James Preston, Albert Ruffalo , David Willems

FRESHMAN ROOM 308
ROW 1 Joe Miksis, John Zalubowski,
Jay Schultz, Joe Tennessen, Dominic
Forgianni, Tom DeMarsh , James
Bausano
ROW 2 Edward Ward, John Wingate,
Robert Hoyt, Edward Lusignan, Dennis Koehler , John Moseley, William
Heibl, James Juliani
ROW 3 Alice Anderson, Mary Pat
Blazek, Patricia Gentes, Sandra Sorensen, Sherilyn Pfarr, Mary Crossin,
Jeanne Orgish
ROW 4 Roberta Massari, Frances Haebig, Catherine Kuzmich , Roxanne
Ricker, Patricia Gentes, Ellen Carlsen,
Jane Vandereverff, Diane Pullen, Bonnie Bobusch
MISSING: Tim Ernst, August Ganzer

4

FRESHMAN ROOM 309
ROW 1 Kenneth Van Kamen, Terry
Moriarty, Robert Peterson, Charles
Judeika, Walter Gedgaudas, Henry
Richie, Larry Williams, John Grno
ROW 2 Dominic Mascarette, William
O'Neill, Larry Rugg, Timothy Clark,
Timothy Fonk, James Barrett, Paul
Wallig, John Cantwell
ROW 3 Brigitta Krueger, Irene Zalewski, Charlene Lawrence, Julie Ambroglo, Karen Kluka, Cheryl Smolik, Robbert Engstrom
ROW 4 Dorothy Russo, Sharon De
Loria, Mary Jane Cox, Susan Principe,
Marie Hebert, Georgene Ludwiir, Susan Miholic, Carol Suszko, Donna
Biernat
MISSING: Diane Schroeder, Sharon
Horne, Susan Krempely, Patrick Frye

FRESHMAN ROOM 310
ROW 1 James Herbert, Cletus Willems, John Schmitt, John Mauser,
Ray Principe, Robert Marshall, Robert Oldani, Charles O'Connor, Robert
Deinhammer
ROW 2 George Balinsky, Stanley Zaleski, August Covelli, James Walker,
Marie Reweda, Marcia Adamson, John
Fischbach, Timothy Greco, Dennis
Krempely
ROW 3 Georgette Luckas, Janet Holly,
Lucy Uribe, Margaret Jorgenson, Carol Gastaldi, Kathleen Ruffalo, Annita
Cairo, Sharon Kloet, Virginia Peterson
ROW 4 Kathleen Mico, Joan Sturycz,
Mary Paura, Marilyn Falduto, Carol
Eisenhauer, Judith Moeller, Linda Bianchi, Ellen Lawler

FRESHMAN ROOM 305
ROW 1 Michael Carelli, George Kolar,
Barry Wojtak, Leonard Hensgen, Roger Casey, Raymond Bscherer, Felix
Rosinski
ROW 2 John Desnoyers, James Hamilton, Frederick Thielen, Peter Lichter,
Raymond Scuglik, James Boyer, Michael Gabron, Robert Rasch
ROW 3 Sam Salerno, Kendall Pierson,
Kendall Davis, Josepha Milass, Marianne Majchrowicz, Margaret Riley,
Mark Matera, Gerald Steele
ROW 4 Mary Beth Norville, Ann Ludwig, Mary Kay Jacyna, Catherine
Belongia, Constance Volpentesta,
Barbara Zastrow, Patricia LaMacchia,
Michelle Asta, Darlene Girard
MISSING: Bruce Barmen, Mary Skender, Robert Wawiorka

FRESHMAN ROOM 316
ROW 1 John Rosko, James Renick,
Ronald Karaway, Louis Torresin, Jim
Wutzen, Bill Wagner, Frank Gray,
John Bakken, Craig Murawski
ROW 2 Gary Hawkins, Chuck Werve,
Dan Kexel, Tom Pechura, Tom Duban, Tom Fedyzkowski, Fred Schlater,
Tim Betchel, Jim Easton
ROW 3 Louis Modory, Louis Sentieri,
Mary Ann Livingston, Sharon Posselt,
Bernadette McEvoy, Sue Brickley,
Bob Fish, Paul Stripe
ROW 4 Kathy Kuemin, Pat Jones,
Jane Schultz, Lou Ellen Degen, Laurel
Hervat, Mary Cisler, Johanna Gallo,
Carol O'Day, Doreen Larson, Kathy
Zielsdorf
Homeroom pictures taken by John
Lundberg.

5

Struggle of Spirits
The old house has an air of foreboding
with its boarded windows and the great
sobbing trees. The leafless vines seem
to hold the old place in a tight clutch
fearing that the structure will grow
weary and desert them.
The wind cries impatiently as it
rushes through the building searching
for an answer. The shutters
which remain, open their ams to the
wind and then in frantic noises beat off
the noisy spirit.

Study Hall

Two Points of View

confusion

Ugh, thought the plump little man,
as he sorted the uneaten food from the
dishes in the nightclub kitchen . The
T-bones thick with unwanted meat
around the hard bone, the half-eaten
salads, and half-filled soup bowls turned
his well-fed face into an expression
connoting disgust. He dumped the
unfinished drinks down the drain and
watched while the waiters removed
dessert. After he had packed the garbage into a clean, brown, crisp paper
bag, he decided to wash his pudgy
white hands . Then the small man proceeded to and opened the near door and
dumped the bag into the shiny can for
removal in the morning. He gagged
slightly as the wind suddenly changed.
The gaunt, shrunken man felt the
cold wind against his protruding ribs
covered by a worn thin jacket and shivered again. He looked up and down
the alley, but all was quiet. He walked
soundlessly in the shadows of the dark
buildings and just as quietly lifted the
cover of one of the shiny, zinc-coated
cans. The smell that drifted up toward
him was the welcome scent of cooked
meat mingled with that of wilted lettuce
and salad dre5sing. Thank God, he
thought to himself as he clutched the
brown, grease-stained paper bag and
fled to the musty shelter of the docks to
eat his prize.
Timothy Lawler 101

rrrrr-r-ing.
silence

Another gust of wind loses its way and
rushes
through the house knocking everything
about
climbs the stairs and bursts through a
tiny
window in a remote corner of the attic.
Returning in a fury of revenge the wind
attacks the
shutters again and again. Then in a final
burst of energy, the wind tears a shutter
from
the house and smashes it to the ground
in one
tremendous crash.
Frances Peterson 213

Demerits and
Brownie Points
Many years ago when the horrid
idea of school was thought of, there
were two gods. Square was the god of
good, and Hood was the god of bad.
There were also all sorts of other little
demons called beatniks.
Well, it seemed that these two gods
were a Iways trying to influence the
school children. This was all fine and
dandy ti 11 they decided to have standings . Everytime Square influenced someone, a poor pea pickling peasant of
Petrax picked a pea and pickled it; and
everytime Hood influenced someone, a
one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater lost one of its teeth.
This system was fine until there were
so many pickled peas and one-eyed, onehorned, flying purple people eaters'
teeth around that the beatniks couldn't
get around to help Hood.
Pretty soon Square and Hood got
together and decided that now instead
of having pickled peas and people eaters' teeth they were going to use demerits and brownie points. And so the
system has remained to this day.

shuffling paper
tick-tock-tick-tick-tick-tock
dropped pencil
page turns
tick-tock-tick-tick-tick-tock
chair squeaks
pencils writing
click-click-click of pen
shuffling paper
stacking books
rrrrr-r-ing
confusion .
Terry Sturycz 105

The Ballad of Blue
and Gray
Two boys rode off to war that day
One in blue and one in gray
Two girls cried as they went away
But one boy never came back.
Two boys fought hard for their own
ideals
One boy fell at the other's heels
One girl found out how sorrow feels
For one boy never came back.
Two boys left their homes to fight
Both boys thought their reasons right
One was rich and one knew blight
And one boy never came back.
Two boys engaged in mortal strife
One of the two boys lost his life
One girl wore black, the other, white
For one boy never came back.
Two boys rode off, but one returned
To find his home remained unburned
One girl smiled, but one girl learned
That her boy never came back.
He fell out there on the field one day
His blood soon covered his coat of gray
One boy may leave, but one must stay
One boy never came back.
Death was busy on both of the sides
More than one boy fell, and died
There were many girls who cried
Because one boy never came back.
Judie Smith 107

John Mikulsky 307
6

Teen's Wastebasket
My contents are scrappy
But I'm very happy
Because I'm fulfilling my purpose.
What a revelation it would be
If your mother could see
The treasure of my minor service.
Many uses have I
And at times I'm piled high
But my payload ends up in a furnace.
Gloria Petersen 214

Couplet To Be Recited
Upon Awakening
Hi,
Sky!
Gene Gelsone 213

Jots From Joe's • • •
Poor DIANE GLERUM must
have very bad eyesight. She continuously mistakes her purse for
a garbage can, and she promptly

disposes all her leftovers from
lunch into her purse. Her friends
(?) seem to think that if these
cafeteria capers don't cease, it rnav
lead to the disposal of Diane.
·

Grads ~leet During
Christmas Holiday s

Dreams, sweet dreams, and nobody has sweeter dreams than
TIM 10RIARTY. Rcccntlv during second period religion class he
fell asleep, and dreamt that he was
swimming on the Wisconsin team.
It must have been a whale of a
dream because it lasted clear into
third period.

Alumni put away their hats and
horns on January 2 and came to
sec their alma mater. An informal
get-together was the scene, and
each alumnus starred in his own
act. Everyone was so glad to sec
everyone else that half the evening was spent in saying "hi" and
"hello."
Among the grads present were
JOHNNY BECKER and RO
DORAU. These two athletes from
last year have forgone sports at
college and devoted themselves to
t he books.
In PAUL YUTKA'S case, it
was a different story; sports gave
him up. Early in football season
he received an injured leg, and
t his dampened his plans for an active season, but nothing can keep
t his boy down for long.
The female gender seems to cnjoy co llege life also. HELE
FI KLER fi nds Mount Mary a
b eautiful college with a great
bunch of kids, and JEAN DEFURIO claims college has helped
her gain weight.
J UDY OGLESBY will be going
into practical nursing in a few
months, and J UDY DISOTELL is
now the special telephone operator
in charge of corn plaints.
Mr. and Mrs. John Bucko were
the married couple in attendance.
Mrs. Bucko is th e former LOUISE
CO VELLI.

John Lundberg
John Lundberg

He ate it-Yulp, that beautiful
chicken that MARY SELEAR
gave MR. RADIGA for Christmas, and wh ich he passed on to
MR. MATR ISE, was eaten bv
MR. MA T RISE for his holiday
dinner.

Chuck H all

Sand y Sin ger

Spotlight On the Seniors
" nclc Chuck" ... This familiar
ca ll is freque ntly heard by Chuck
Hall, ·w ho has been an uncle 22
times. He comes from a family of
six boys and three girls, and he is
the youngest. With all these nieces

During a discussion in sociology
on what causes men to drink,
MARK WHlTESIDE gave this
answer-their wives.

News an' Views Around Town
ed!·, serious, and historical moYies
for the coming months. If you
don't mind a few bumps and
bruises, they try tobogganing at
Pets. R ecently, such snow coYered
figures as BETH WH ITE, SUE
ZEYEN, T IM MORIARTY, SAM
FASULO , A DY MA T INEO ,
R I TA PET R ETT I , MA R Y
FRE D
] A E I SE R MAN
WE R VE, BUZZ HELL R ,
LAU RIN" LETART, K ·
WEIJEIKES, SUE PEZDIR, MARY
DEFURIO, JIM WER VE, PAT
BOBUSCH, and many others have
been seen there flying over the
bu mps.

" \ Vhat is t here to do in t his
town?" This is the battle cry of
many a student at SJHS. Come
3: J 5 t here are some fortunate ones
"\\ ho have nothing to do till the
fo ll owing day. So as an 8 a.m. resu lt one can hear the complaints
of nothing to do in Kenosha.
J ust what can teen-agers do in
t hose few inbctwecn hours?
\ Vintcr itself gives us ma ny possibilities for fun. If you like indoor
entertainment, the Kenosha, Orpheum, and R ooscvel t theaters
have promised many good com-

If you think Kenosha is still too
dull a "pad" for you to have fun,
and you like to travel, try an excursion to 1\ l ilwaukee, Ben H ur is
worth the money, and w hile there,
notice the chariot race. T his scene
makes our dragsters look like tortoises.

You like music? How about attending t he Kenosha Symphony's
presentation of Verdi's Te Dewn.
T he SJ H J\ Iixed Chorus is joining the Symphon!' Choir in presenting this and several other selections on February 24 in the
1arv D. Bradford Auditorium.
FRESHMAN ROOM 307
ROW 1 Sam Gerolmo, James Limbach, Richard Bollendorf, Charles Zarletti, Richa rd Euting, Charles Schwenn, John Mikulsky, Gilbert Deming ;
ROW 2 Donald Matera, Richard Zukowski, Linda Beine, Dana Pfeiffer,
Lynn Karabetsos, Kathleen Heller, Allan Kohlmeier, John Navin; ROW 3
Evelyn Madura, Michel Sue Huettl, Sharon Hamblen, Nancy Rieschl,
Penny Sadorf, Kathleen Carpenter, Claire Fredericksen, Margaret Lichter; ROW 4 Dianne Borski, Ba rbara Ramsby , Pamela LaMacchia, Mary
Kay Anderson , Natalie Cucciare, Anita Wisocki, Judy Vidas, Sharon
Sprissler
MISSING: Thomas Thelen

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and nephews, Chuck is qualified as
an A-1 babysitter.
Chuck finds his senior year filled
with many exciting events, but it
seems to be slipping past too rapidly. Among his activities is the job
of senior class president, and he
recognizes this as one of his greatest honors and responsibilities.
With a platter of chicken and
potatoes, Chuck can be happy any
place. These two foods have always satisfied his manly appetite.
Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald rank high as Chuck's favorite artists, and "vVhen and Where"
by Deon and the Belmonts is his
favorite song.
Besides an active schedule, Chuck
holds a part-time job, and carries
five senior subjects including
chemistry and senior math.
The future holds plans of college
for Chuck where he would like to
major in science and prepare to
become a chemist.
Cheaper by the dozen! That's
the price tag that comes along with
the Singer family.
Brown haired and green eyed
Sandy is the oldest of the tweh'e
childre n. There are seYen boys and
five girls, ranging in age from six
months to I years, and Sandy says
that in their family, there is neYer
a dull moment.
Besides helpi ng at home and
working as a nurse's aid at St.
Catherine's Hospital, Sandy al o
manages to attend school. Her
subjects for this year inc lude
chemistry, English, religion, sociology, and typing.

If science is your "bug" then be
su re to stop in at t he SJ H S library
and get one or two of the books
from t he Traveling Science Book
Program.

In the winter Sandy can be een
at t he ice pond enjoying her fa\"oritc winter sport skating. \\' hen
sum mer arriYes, Sandy heads for
the beaches and the wimmi n g
pool.

lf after all this you can't fi nd
something to do, there' always
homework.
Kath y Bydalek

ursing is t he goal in Sandy's
futu re, and her secret ambition is
to get her de nti t as a patient so
she can gi,·e him a shot.

Freshmen Post Early Wins;
Sophs Gain Experience
St. Joe's freshman basketball
team has started out the season by
posting a 2-3 record against conference teams. Leading scorers for
the team are like Cass, Dick Euting, and Dom Forgianni \\'ith 42,
36, and 36 points respectively. Euting is leading the team in rebounds,
hauling down 45 in four games.
A 37-28 victory over Catholic
1\lemorial was a good start for the
fledgling hoopsters, but the)' lost

Girls' Gym Teach er
Returns to College
Answering a question which has
set many SJHS students guessing,
1iss Serio, herself, has finally answered this. "I am leaving St. Joe's
so I can go back to school again.
You see, the courses I want are
offered only during the second
semester." Laughing she added,
"No, I wasn't fired or anything
like that."
Miss Serio will attend La Crosse
College. The courses that she will
take are organization administration, physical education, and individual child, a course similar to
child psychology. Glancing at
some of her sophomore cheerleaders Miss Serio joked, '·I think
I can use some of you as examples."
When asked if she would miss
anything when she returns to La
Crosse, Miss Serio stated, "I know
I will miss the wonderful facilities
and also being my own boss. I
don't know if I'll like being on the
other side of the desk again."

their next game to hea\·il)' favored
St. Catherine's. \Vith a close 38-35
win over Don Bosco, the Lancers
were again in the win column.
Although the freshmen racked
up their highest total of the season
against a powerful Marquette team,
the\' were downed 64-41. \Vith a
39-33 score, Jordan High School
was victorious in a later contest.
i\1ore experience could make the
freshmen team the nucleus of a
\\·inning 1963 team.
Junior varsity this )'ear is not
doing so well. 1t has posted a 1-6
conference record and are 2-8
overall.
Sophomore basketball players
have won only one conference
game this year, beating Don Bosco
29-19. The only other win was a
35-32 victory over Burlington St.
i\ 1arv.
H.igh scorer for the junior varsitv is Larry Roscioli with 46
po.ints. He is followed by Joe
Goetluck, Jim Eaton, and Dan
Ruffalo, all with 42 points.
Ruffalo is now doing fine for
Coach Radigan's varsit)' as a substitute forward.
Goetluck is the team's leading
rebounder with 73, a 10.4 average.
The future looks dim for Coach
Carbone's charges, especially since
they have lost their leading scorer.

Robert Bode

Junior varsity members have a more optimistic outlook on life than the
wrestlers if appearances aren't deceiving. Standing left to right are Joe
Goetluck, Rudy Becker, Joe Lackovich, Coach Bob Carbone, Bob Hughes,
Fritz Frank, and Ron Hoff. Kneeling are Dick Davis, Jim Eaton, Larry
Roscioli, Tom Bonnell, and Bill Kaufman.

Lancer Hopes Pinned
On February Victories
SJHS basketball team needs a
string of February victories to pull
it but of the conference basement.
The experience garnered through
the season just might do the trick.
Lancers scored their second nonconference victory of the season
over St. Mary's of Burlington on
January 3. Bob Bierdz was high

OUT OF THE RUT
by Dennis Rutkowski

Bonaventure, St. Mary's of Burlington, and Beloit Catholic.
After a series of elimination contests,
the winner will then travel
Details of J\1iss Serio's replaceto the Milwaukee Arena for the
ment, Miss Catherine Lawton, will
state championship.
appear on this page in the 1arch
Previous to 1960, the state chamissue.
pionship was decided at St. NorJudy Conrad
bert's College. Financial difficulties
and want of a better location
necessitated the transfer to the
Arena.
St. Catherine's is a favorite to
repeat its last year's performance.
In view of recent Lancer wrestling victories, Coach Frank Matrise commented: "The team is in
good shape physically, and the
morale is high. Home matches are
being scheduled for 7 p.m. so more
students can attend them."
The last match of the season is
set for February 13 and will be
held in the school gym.
Tryouts for next year's junior
varsity cheerleaders will begin in
March with practice being held
twice weekly. Entrants will be
judged on coordination and enthuRodney Johnson
siasm. Captain Sue Pezdir requests
This is t. Joseph's vicious wrestling team. Ever see such a rugged group?
Standing left to right are Larry Gaydos, Neil Pietrangeli, Ken Wedeikes,
that all interested freshmen apply
and Bob Mitchell. Kneeling are Paul Zohlen, Bob Karabetsos, John
early.
Sturcyz, and Dennis Hulen.
St. Joseph High School will host
the annual Catholic regional basketball tournament Februarv 2328.
One of the teams playing here
will be St. Catherine's of Racine,
the defending state champion.
Other entrants are St. Joseph, St.

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scorer for St. Joe's with 15 points,
and Pat McAleer got rebound honors by snagging nine in the 50-45
victory over St. Mary's.
St. Bonaventure downed the
Lancers 45-43 in a close game with
Pat McAlcer taking the scoring
honors "\·ith 18 points and 16 rebounds.
Against Pius XI on January 10,
Buzz Heller was high for St. Joe's
with 16 points and 12 rebounds.
However, his efforts were not
enough to stop the powerful drive
of the Pius team which outscored
the Lancers 66-4 3.
Coach Bob Radigan has moved
Dan Ruffalo from the sophomore
team to fill the varsity lineup. Ruffalo, who was center on the junior varsity, is now playing forward.
He is not in the starting five but
has height to his advantage and
does a fine job on rebounds when
he is in the game.
Jim O'Neill

SJHS Wrestlers
Rack Don Bosco
SJHS matmen are doing fair!)
well in their first season. They
beat Don Bosco 28-2 3 despite a 15
point handicap resulting from a
lack of men to fill all the weight
classes.
John Sturycz, Bob Karabetsos,
Paul Zohlen, Bob Mitchell, and
Ken Wedeikes all pinned their opponents, and Neil Pietrangeli won
his match by decision.
In the return match, the Lancers
were outpointed 34-13, including
the 10 point handicap, again resulting from the lack of men to fill the
weight class. ,Ken Wedeikes and
Paul Zohlen again pinned their
opponents, and Neil Pietrangeli
won by decision.

Spanish Club
Formed Here
"Los Companeros Alegres," the
ne\1 ly formed Spanish club, signed
its constitution Fcbruarv 19. l\1embcrship is open to all· third and
fourth year Spanish students.
Entitled "The Happy Companions'', the club was organized to
further knowledge of Spanish
countries, promote better understanding, improve speaking abilities, and pro\'idc different and
relaxed situations for using the
langu age.
Officers are president, David
Heyden; 1·icc-prcsidcnt, Svlvia
Stec; sccretarv, Trudv Deom;
treasurer, Cail .Schmitz.. Meetings
arc held on the first and third Fridays of each month.

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HALLENGE
Sr. JosEPll H1c11 Sc1100L, KE:-.os11A, W1sco:-.s1r-.

VoL. 2, No. 6

Freshmen Win Trophy;
To Sponsor Tournament
The frosh debate team is sponsoring a Freshman Debate T rophy Tournament here, Saturday,
\1arch 12. Twcnt1· teams arc expected to participate.
On the same day, Paul \\'allig,
John Fischback, John Mikulsk\',
and Roger Casey will travel ~o

John Lundberg

On Februa r y 12, the "weak er sex" could b e seen r acking their brain s ove r
t h e Nati on a l Math em a ti cs Associa tion contes t. In th e fo r egr ound, P a m
Ho ly l oo k s awfully busy. Y ou can 't see them , but cr edit must b e give n
to t h e b oys fo r being t here-in the corn er.

Semester Honor Students Named;
Juniors and Seniors Rank Highest
\Vith each hal'i ng 50.1 percent
of the ir student body on t he hono r
roll for the second quarter, t he
junior and the senior classes of
SJHS ha1·e tied in the percent of
students attaini n g honor status.
Trai ling the uppcr-classmcn arc
the freshmen ll'ith 38.3 percent and
the sophomores with 36.1 percent.
Seniors recei\' ing fi rst honors arc
Gai l Becker, Mar\' C lcmboc ki ,
Cha rl es H all , Lau ri1~ LeTart, R ita
Petretti, and Nancy R uffio.
Attai ning first honors in t he junior class arc 1ary Conrad, Gertrude Dcom, Lawrence Gaydos,
Carol Gonnering, J udyannc H ackbarth, Jean Kamicniccki, Sand ra
Kelscv, Tim Lawler, J udith Sc haaf,
Sy l vi~ Stec, T heresa Ti ll man, and
Son \'a Zal u bowski.
c·cra ldinc Alteri, Joyce Frederick, J\ l aria Ga llo, Jud ith Hansen,
Pa mela H o l ~· , Barbara Kl uka, T heresa R ynders, J udi th Smith, James
Tappa, John Tures, and James Vidas rccci1·cd first honors among
the so phomo res.

Freshmen on the first honor roll
arc J\1arcia Adamson, George Balinsky, Timoth~· Bctchel, 1\l ary
Cox, Robert Engstrom, Claire
Fredericksen, Johanna Gallo, Carol
Casta ldi, l ane~ ' Grant, John ,\ l ikulsky, Li nda loddcs.

.\1ARCH,

1960

'Mrs. McThing' Set
For April 22-23-24

"Mrs. 1cThing" is this year's
school play. Presentation is scheduled for April 22-23-H, in the
school
auditorium.
Chicago's St. Patrick high school
Mary
Chase wrote this two-act
to participate in a junior student
comic
fantasy
in 1949, and it was
Congress.
At Aurora's Madonna high presented for the first time by the
school Fcbruan· 20, the freshman American "\ ational Theater and
debate team won the first place Acadcnw Series in 1952 at the
cw
trophy, competing with twelve Martin Beck Theater in
York.
other schools from \Visconsin and
The stor;;, a satire about a Ycry
Illinois. Representing SJHS were
Joan Hammond, Linda Moddcs, rich woman and her son and a
Joan Pictrangeli, and Kathy Ruf- gang of second rate gangsters,
takes place in an atmosphere of
falo.
\\'inning the first place trophy fain· tale.
Tryouts for the parts "ere held
with fi1·c wins and one defeat, the
during
the last week of February
team scored a total of 243 points.
Best speakers' awards went to Joan and the cast has al read\' started
Hammond and Linda 1oddes who practicing. They will intensify
tied for first place and to Kathy practice after ,\larch 15, "hen the
Ruffalo who won third place. The one act pla ~·s wi II be performed at
freshmen as a whole have a credit- an asscmbl~· · Complete casts will
able debate record, achic1·ing a appear in the next issue of the
Challenge .
.700 percentage.

Senior Music Students
Present Piano Recitals
Senior Mary Ellen Fish will present piano selections in a recital
Sunda1', i\1arch 20, at 2: 30 p.m. in
the Little T heater. She will play
well-known pieces by Chopin,
Bach, Rachmaninoff, and South
American, Octavio Pinto.
Another senior, L\'nnc Pfeiffer,
ga1·c a piano recital s"unday, J\'larch
6, in the Little Theater. Some of
L1·nnc 's selections included "After
a Dream," " H idden \ Vatcrfall,"
and "Traumcrai."

John

Lund berg

The seniors of the fir st honor roll sta nd r eady to receive their honor certificates from F a th er D a rni ed er . They are Nan cy Rufflo , Laurin L eTart,
Rita P e tr etti, Ch a rles H a ll, Ga il Beck er , and M a r y Gl embo cki. Gail seems
to b e eyeing th e cam eraman with a n er v ous smile .

Her sister, Dana, joined Lynne
in a duet, "Libeisfreud," by Kreisler. ,'\ largaret i\lcier, a Yoicc student, assisted Lynne in offering
vocal interpretations of some selections.
Lvnnc has 11 on an 80 scholarship to Alverno College "here she
hopes to minor in music.

Sister M. Stanisia
Gets Physics Grant
Sister Stanisia, SJ HS physics
teacher, has rcccil'ed a -:\'ational
Science Foundation grant and an
invitation to Fordham Cni1·crsit\''s
summer Institute. Sister 11 ill be in
Nc11· York from J ul~· 5 to August
12, along 11 ith 49 other outstanding high schoo l ph~·sics teachers,
learning "the latest" in the field.
",\ lay 1 offer m1· sincere congratulations for t he tribute which the
committee has paid you for your
industry and competence a~ a high
school teacher. I express the hop
that vou \\'ill find the summer
spent at Ford ham both pleasant
and profitable," wrote R cY. F. L.
Canann, .J. director of the Institute.
The faculn· and students echo
t hat hope. Congratulations, Sister!

Aim High in Lenten Approach;
Positive Sacrifice Pays Off
"Let's see ... By the time Lent is over,
I should be able to lose 20 pounds."
"Now if I don't take any girls out during Lent, I'll have enough saved up for
that new car."
Lent is ours once again. Must these
typically immature attitudes, evidence of
misplaced objectives, contrary to the
very spirit of Lent, the spirit of penance,
self-sacrifice, and atonement, be ours,
too?
Let's face it. Lent is definitely not
what it should be, especially in many
teenage minds. Just what are you giving up that really matters? Are you giving up cokes and chocolate to preserve
a beautiful complexion? Do you boast of
these "great" sacrifices and feel that you
are right in there in the spirit of Lent?
Perhaps the trouble lies in facing
Lent with a negative approach. Positive
action is usually better. Attending daily
Mass, reading good spiritual literature,
saying Rosaries, making the Stations of
the Cross, making novenas-these are all
positive observances of Lent that should
increase our appreciation of and participation in Christ's death on the cross and

Bean or Being?
Human being or social bean? The
guidance book says-Human Being . A
being with certain privileges and obligations toward the members of society . A
being with a responsibility to be a living,
acting part of his community. Many go
through school and life acting as if they
were nothing but kidney-shaped blobs
of starch soaked in tomato juice. What
about other people? Are they regarded
as other "little blobs" who happened to
be thrown in the same pan? How often
is the "other guy" thought of or is the
"other guy" useful only when it is time
to volunteer for an unpleasant task?
Beans lack a certain quality which all
beings possess, the quality of "awareness." Beans seem to ally themselves
with the property of "I don't careness."
However, don't misinterpret me,
Beans aren't really the "no good, lowdown, ornery critter" type. Oh no, most
of them are quite nice, once you break
their coating of indifferentism.
Over a thousand years ago, Christ
had another word for this "social awareness" of beings which still applies to our
society of today . He called it Charity.
To listen to a problem, to volunteer a
service, to appreciate another point of
view may squash a few beans, but it
will make a better community of beings.
Sande Kelsey
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spur us on to an even more zealous Catholic life .
Christ died for us. He certainly didn 't
hang on the cross for His health or carry
that cross for the exercise . He suffered
and died for us. How can we ever suffer
enough for Him?
Rita Petretti

Tomorrow

Is Inevitable
Someday you will be a somethinga business man, factory worker, or hobo.
It's inevitable. Look around. See the advertisements saying, "We want you," trying to induce you, Miss and Mister
Public, into this profession or that. And
you think about them for a little while
and then forget because you are still
only in high school and you're too young
to think about those things ..
Then comes the day for serious thinking, and some decision must be made.
Thinking back to grade school days we
remember that we are here on earth to
live for God and serve Him. This does
not mean that we must go to the seminary or enroll with the nuns, but it does
mean that the vocation with which we
spend our life must be bent toward God
and walked like a road to Him.
Not only does God need us, but His
world hangs out its shingle, too. It needs
strong men and women to combat the
pressure of what is confronting them. It
needs people who rise up in their vocation to Iive fully in their own calling
from God.
All of us are destined to become
something. God knows this, and we
know it. It is inevitable.
Pat Petretti

The Challenge
Published by the students
of St. Joseph High School
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
News . ... . . . . . . ........... Laurin LeTart
Leslie Thelen
Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judy Conrad
Diane Keane
Jo-pinions ...... . . . . . .... Lucille Moretti
Prisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Patricia Gaffney
Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mary Wientjes
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Kae Hawkins
Sports . . . . . . .
. ..... Dennis Rutkowski
EXCHANGE EDITORS ...... Carolyn Warner
Carol Smith
PHOTOGRAPHER .......... John Lundberg
ARTISTS . . . . . ... . . ............ Mike Hyland
Bob Bosco
REPORTERS . . Joan Giovanelli, Julie Mor·
rissey, Karen Knight, Kathy
Zuffa.
TYPISTS . . . . . . Dick Engstrom, Michaelene
Seianas , Andrea Mantineo,
Jim O'Neill, Jinine Ramacci,
Marilyn Cipolla, Sonya Zalubowski, Mary Lynn Kulesh.

Willia m L yo n s

Sophomore cheerleaders, Kathy White, Orlyn Faraca, Joanne Ruffolo, and Mary Massie,
look a s if they're a ll set for a winning streak as they practice SJHS cheers. But maybe
Joanne has her doubts?
John Lund berg

Come on, Augie, sink it! Augie Cove lli has found the
way to overcome his height as far a s b ask e tball is
concerned, but we have a hunch that this m ethod
may be considered unethical. Joe Tennessen and Tom
Herrmann steady the ladder a s Augie makes his unusual shot at the February 5 pep rally.

Homeroom pictures taken by John Lundberg, Bob Fanning, and Bob Bode.

SOPHOMORE ROOM 301
TOP ROW James antarelli, Richard Fischenich, Raymond tukel, James Hasslinger, Joseph Goetluck, Richard Sieger, D ennis Kohloff, John Gallo.
SECOND ROW William Zielsdorf, Kurt VanKammen, Alan Kehl, Donald Holzemer, Michael Propsom, Ronald Hoff, Frank Delfield, Eug ene H ac k barth.
THIRD ROW Nancy Willems, Jeanine Jaras, Patricia Bode, Joanne Navoiczyk, Jane Heller, Jeanne Fellier, Susan Manson, Nancy Burns.
BOTTOM ROW JoAnn Ruffolo, Gloria Thomas, Kathleen Bernacchi, Carole Lichter, Catherine Miller, Viola Paura, Geraldine McAleer, Judith ta ebell, Jean Perkins.
M IS S ING: Keith Dumesic, Frances Werve.

SOPHOMORE ROOM 107
TOP ROW Ron Viola, Robert Batwinski, Ryan Higgins, Rob Hughes, Ronald Russo, Charles Rowan , Tony Adamski, Frank Trecroci.
SECOND ROW Ronald Gericke, Michael Brehm, Ronald Kelly , Gary Gonyea, John Tures, Leon Mich, Richard Chiapetta, Tom Lonie, Richard Wilson.
THIRD ROW Florence Bryant, Carolyn Reeder , Judy Smith, Dorothy LaCombe, Catherine Pias, Marilyn Nierenburger, Joyce Frederick , Marilyn
Perry, Betty Curi.
BOTTOM ROW Mary England, Paula Mitchell, Christine Schwenn, Kathy White, Bonny Hanson, Dorothy Dorece, Lois Blankly , Helen Marion, Mary
MISSING: Frances Karabetsos.
Jo Parisea.

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Who could wait for Christmas after seeing this tempting display of attractive
gift wraps? Home economic students admire their work as they apply the finishing touches to their fancy packages. The
girls are Mary Kay Jacyna, Sue White,
Barbara Zimmerman, Sharon Reindl, Sue
Miholic, Kay Bernacchi, and Marilyn
Cipolla.

John Lundberg

Ummmmm-these goodies look delectable! Home economic students, Dorothy
Volpentesta, Donna Ruffalo, Kay Zuehls·
dorf, Donna Kehrer, Ruth Geb, and Geraldine McAleer, admire their baking
achievements, but we doubt that these
Valentine tarts lasted very long-they
look too good!

SOPHOMORE ROOM 201
TOP ROW John Bjork, Bryant Kelleher, Nick Mischler, Edward Kwicinski, Frederick Frank, Jeffrey Hahn, Frank Nickl, John Sturycz.
SECOND ROW James Vidas, Lawrence Marinelli, Michael Huetten, Timothy Cuminsky, Thomas Bonnell, John Eggers, Anthony Gomez, Al Abbott.
THIRD ROW Michael Krempley, Helen Bartol, Carole Capelli, Patricia Parchem, Terri Phannenstill, Rosemary Rossa, Janet Turco, James Doherty.
BOTTOM ROW andra Willhomm, Karen chuck, Ruth Geb, Irene Rakauskis, Carol Russo, Susan Lippert, Kathleen Kamin, Judith Whitcomb, Jane
MISSING: Margaret Meier.
Henderleiter.
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SOPHOMORE ROOM 302
TOP ROW Lee VanLanduyt, Donald Paradise, David Limbach, Randy Miller, Larry Roscioli, Charles Dunn, Roger Thomas, Fred Gust, Peter Covelli,
Rodney Johnson.
SECOND ROW Robert Bode, Elizabeth Willkomm, Bonnie Barca, Jean Werwie, Judy Przybylski, Jean Golen, Darlene Peterson, Maryanne Ruffolo,
Mary Beth Schend, Kathleen McGovern, Jean Sturycz, Joe DiCello
BOTTOM ROW Maria Gallo, berry Kraemer, Jennie Hellstern, Kay Zeuhlsdorf, Diane Maranger, Carolyn Fonk, Rochelle Bezotte, Loretta Haebig,
Donna Kehrer, Carrie Calkins, Mary Lou inger.
MISSING: Kathleen Etter, Eileen Newberry, tanley Truelsen.
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'Soph Special' Attempts
To Promote School Spirit
Members of the sophomore class
have recently begun as a class
project a news bulletin, the "Soph
Special," for distribution to their
classmates.
Undertaken primarily to help
the sophomores keep up with recent and coming activities and
achievements of other classmates,
the "Soph Special's " goal is to
know their fellow-students better
and to promote class spirit.
Sophs who work on the bulletin
arc Kathy White, Jim Johnson,
Cathy Martino, Chip Mitchell, Phil
Klein, Jim Tappa, Dick Conrad,
Judy Hansen, Karen Schuck, Vi
Paura, Mike Propsom, and Betty
\Villkomm. They have received
valuable assistance from the rest
of the sophomore class.
Some of the main features of the
paper are a sports column, the
Special Soph-fcaturing some outstanding sophomore, and the
Happy Helper-a problem column. These have all been well received. For the rest of the vear
the plan 1s to continue these . and
also add a space devoted to the

Rodney Johnson

What is that little bulletin going around school? It could be the new
"Soph Special" put out by the sophomores just this year. In the first row
Judith Hansen, editor in chief, is seen directing her able staff of Viola
Paura, Kathleen Martino, James Johnson, Kathy White and Karen
Schuck. Second row: Richard Conrad, Michael Propsom, Robert Mitchell,
Philip Klein, James Tappa.

Carnival Atmosphere
Prevails at Dance
St. Joseph's gym was the scene,
March 1, as SJHS students enjoyed
their last fling before Lent. Sponsored by the Student Council, the
Mardi Gras consisted of dancing,
booths, and an unusual program.
Carnival atmosphere prevailed as
the student's creativity and ingeunity resulted in entertainment for
Attention :
All juniors and seniors who
plan to take the WashingtonNew York trip must pay the
full amount of the trip by
Ap ril 1.

all. Highlighting the third annual
event were the class booths and
the traditional jail. George Schroeder, Randy Hansis, Dave Limbarh,
and John Fischback were responsible for this "isle of confinement."

Reporters Travel
To St. Thomas
"To impro\'e school ne\\'spapers"
was the hope of Father Thomas
\Vhalen, head of the journalism
department of St. Thomas College
of St. Paul, Minnesota, in the presentation of their first journa lism
workshop held on February 6.
The workshop was gi~· en for
student reporters and facultv advisors of high school papers .. Representing the SJHS Challenge were
Sister Anne, Sister Colman, ] im
O'Neill, and Tony Adamski. The
workshop was conducted on campus and consisted of two two-hour
sessions, one in the morning, one
in the afternoon. Sessions in editing, newswriting, proofreading,
and photography were among the
few of the workshops available.

The program pre entcd was the
work of Bob Heller, Chuck Hall,
Andy Mantineo, Judy Conrad, Jim
Werwie, Marv Glembocki, and
Nancy Rufflo .. The colorful decorations were by Pat Bode, 1ary
Sue Brownlee, Mary Ann Ruffalo,
and Mary Jo Parisea.
In charge of refreshments were
Sylvia Stec, Linda Reno, and
Helen Benuska while Ron Fillipelli
and Randy Hansis provided the
music. Publicizing the affair were
Pat Cipolla and Orlyn Faracca.
Sandy Wilkomm and Sue Novak
measured waistlines, charging admission to match the measurement
of those out of costume.

views of the sophomores on current issues.
Continuing the "Soph Special"
next year will be entirely up to the
future sophomores, but the "Special 's" staff hopes they \\ill continue the project.

NOMA Spellers
Win Certificates
Sixteen juniors and seniors will
receive special certificates from the
1ational Office Management Association at an honors assembly in
May. These students attained perfect scores on both ;-\0,\1A spelling tests administered.
The winning spellers are Dick
Adamson, Gail Becker, Judy Conrad, JoAnne DeBerge, Trudy
Deom, Deanna DuCharme, Judy
Getschman, Jerry Henderleiter,
Marianne Henderleiter, Judy
Kamin, Rita Petretti, Pat Prester!,
Jinine Ramacci, 1\lary Lee Ruffalo,
Nancy Rufflo, and Judy Schaaf.

Early Lent Recalled
Lent-"a season of fasting and
penitence in preparation for Easter"-and this season is upon us
once more. Haven't we all, at some
time, been curious as to how Lent
originated and was observed in the
ancient Church?
The word "Lent" comes from
the ancient Teutonic language, and
means "Spring Season", but the
Lenten season isn't ancient in the
sense that it stretches back to
about the year 50! In actuality',
ancient Catholics were confused
as to how they should celebrate
the glorious Easter season and
show sorro\\' before Hoh· \\'eek.
After all, preparation f~r these
times, one symbolic of the Passion,
the other of the Resurrection, demanded something pretty special.
Finally in 331, St. Athanasius decided that this confusion had to
stop, so he set aside a period of 40
days before Holy \Veek for fasting. This idea spread throughout
Egypt, and soon it was regularly
accepted.
Now, after the Lenten season
had been established, the infant
Church began to make rules gO\·erning the penances. She forbade
eggs and milk, and it i from this
rule that the custom of blessing
and giving Easter eggs came. The
Church made Lent a time of preparation for the baptism of prospec-

Science Exhibits
To Be Displayed
The annual SJHS Science and
i\1ath Fair will display 125 exhibits
and demonstrations in the main
lobby March 21 to 2 3 for students
and public view.
Freshman students working on
electronic experiments are Roger
Case~-, Larry Deinhammer, Tom
Fedyzkowski, and James Juliani.
Three math entries bv Richard
Conrad, Tom lngalz, ·and Tom
Paulson ha\·e been submitted on
computers and flexagons.
Neutralization by Charles Hall
and cr~ · stal growths by Patricia
Tyunaitis and Mary Ellen Fish arc
among the ten chemistrv entries.
Fifty-eight entries ca;11e from
the three biology classes. The ner\ ' OUS system by Judy Hansen, and
color blindness by Bryant Kelleher
are examples.
Among the 46 physics exhibits
are the organ by John Doherty,
and "The Birth of a Piano Key"
by Jane towe and Kathy Riley.
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tivc Catholics. Investigations were
made to insure the relinquishing
of all sinful habits by these catechumens.
In Europe, the people began the
custom of ha,·ing a fcsti\·e carni,·al
the days before the strict penances
of Lent began-complete \\ ith gay
parades and costumes. i'\ O'.\' the
carni,·al begins on the Thursday
before Ash \\'ednesday and ends
on the Tuesday before, called
"i\ 1ardi Gras" (fat Tuesday ) !

John Lundberg

Judging by the pleased looks on the faces of these math teachers, SJHS math students must have
done pretty well on the Wisconsin math test February 12. Correcting the tests are Sisters Robertylle, Luke, Adolphus, and Quintillus.

Stamps, stamps, and more stamps! Dennis Kohloff seems to be "snowed under" by the thousands of stamps collected during the recent
Sodality stamp drive.

Robert Fanning

William Lyons

The sophomores don't lack for school spirit. We call them
probably the peppiest class in the school. With a cheerleader like Joanne Ruffolo, who wouldn't be ready to
cheer?

February was Catholic Press month, and these sophomore English teachers are taking
advantage of every minute of it as they visit the school library. Librarian Sister Mary
Francis watches cheerfully as the others, Sisters Theodore Marie, Maria Cordis, and
Emelin, made good use of the information magazine.

SOPHOMORE ROOM 110
TOP ROW Alfred Giovanelli, John Anderson, William Jacobs, Paul Brotcke, Richard Conrad, Donald Kisieleski, Thomas Paulson, Michael Stella.
SECOND ROW John Ward, Thomas Oldani, James Tappa, Gaynell Wade, Barbara Bobusch, Carole Wiberg, Richard Davis, Lee Ryshkus, Philip Klein.
THIRD ROW Mary Fulmer, Tina Ritacca, Joyce Drndak, Mary Massie, Mary Tyson, Maureen Keane, Rosalie Beine, Joyce Sepanski, Sharon Holmgren, Donna Ruffalo.
BOTTOM ROW Orlyn Faraea, Patricia Jaeyna, Susan Mader, Mary Gumbinger, Jerrilyn Deardorf, Mary Ann Zdenek, Kathleen Latham, Susan Harrison, Hedwig Milass.

SOPHOMORE ROOM 108
TOP ROW Ray Sepanski, Edward Willems, Ray Jankowski, Jim Johnson, Charles Anderson, Steve Bobusch, Dan Ferkln, Daniel Peltier.
SECOND ROW James Keckeisen, Allen Eppers, Dennis Orth, Steve Glowacki, Thomas Johnson, James Eaton, David Nacol, Bob Lento, Mike Gaffney.
THIRD ROW Leontine Milass, Janet Benuska, Barbara Kluka, Diane Atkin, Pamela Holy, Mary Ann Wavro, Mary Sue Brownlee, Vera Ruffalo,
Claudia DeLabio.
BOTTOM ROW Rosemary Ziccarelli, Gail Suriano, Carol Guttormsen, Marianne Madsen, Sue Tyson, Marianne Hartnell, Carol Robbilard, Karen
Sadorf.
MISSING: Karon Zelen, Sue Ann Mattner.

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Spotlight on the Seniors

Tim Moriarty

Jots from Joe's
SAM FASULO sccllls to have a
knack for getting nicked. First
PAT KUENY bumped into his
little green bomb, and then a nastv
olc train demolished a bit of his
fender. Sam is rcall y a terrific
sport about the whole thing,
though, because while the train
was rapidly blasting the front of
his car, he stood with DlCK
ADAi\1SO ' and quietly sang
"Teen Angel."
Now that SISTER PHYLLIS'
desk is back on its feet again, let's
hope that JOHN BROTCKE
leaves it that wav.
When SlSTER COLlJi\lClLLE
recently asked who had the most
famous love affair in history PAT
TYUNAITlS quickly replied,
"Adam and Eve."

Mary Wientjes

Green Gremlin Invades
In Search of the Green
A small, nearsighted lllan in a
startling green v\ eskit, pointed hat,
and kell;· green pants was seen recently scalllpcring around the halls
of SJ HS. Sc\'cral students, nalllcly
Pat i\1cAlccr, Kathy Riley, and
Arlene Quinn, reported seeing hilll.
They said that he had mumbled
something about green and continued on his wav.
He then stopped Ralph DiChristopher and Ton;· Cra\'Otta as they
were walking do\\ n the hall.
"Pardon me, lads, but do you
know where I can find a bit of
green?"

SJHS Represented In Religious Vocations
Two 1959 graduates and four
undergraduates ha vc been spending the past school year in convents and seminaries near and far
in preparation for the religious life.
Donna Fredericksen and Josette
Lencioni, members of the first
graduating class, chose the religious state. Donna is now in Milwaukee at St. Joseph Com·ent
where she is preparing to become
a teaching sister in the Order of
St. Francis. Josette and Antoinette
Valeri, a sopholllorc of last year,
arc studying at the St. Joan Antida
convent in Milwaukee. Josette is
preparing for the no\·itiatc \\ hile
Antoinette is completing her high
school education. Both girls plan
to teach.
1ary Accrbi, one of last year's
freshmen, is also preparing for the
religious life at the Franciscan
motherhouse in 1ilwaukee.
As for the priesthood, two of
last year's sophomores have decided to make this their vocation.
Arthur Heinze is at St. Francis
Minor Seminary in lih\aukec
studying to become a diocesan

Dreams reallv do collle true, and
for ,\lary \\'ie~tjes, her dream was
going to Europe. Jn the sulllmcr of
I')58 her drealll calllc true.
During the three lllonths that
she was gone, J\1ary spent one and
a half lllonths in Bagni di Lucca,
a slllall lllOuntain village in northern ltah·. The rest of the time she
tra\·eled \\ ith her aunt and grandmother \·isiting more of Italy
(Rome, Florence, Ven ice, Pisa, and
,\ 1ilan) S\\ itzerland, F ranee (Paris
and '\:ice, i\lonaco, and Ccrmany.
Just living in Bagni was quite an
experience for ,\ 1ary. There was

priest, and Eben Hansmirc is preparing for work in the foreign
missions at i\1aryknoll scmman· m
Pcnnsyh-ania.

Diane Keane Named
National Merit Finalist
Diane Keane has been named as
a finalist in the 'ational \1crit
Scholarship Progralll.
She qualified for semi-final status
when she achieYcd a high score on
the qualif~ ing test administered
last spring to all juniors. Diane
pcrsc\·cred through further elimination b;· attaining a comparable
score on the College Boards \\ hich
she took last December. This qualified her as a finalist. Diane is no\\'
eligible to recci\·c scholarships
[ram business organizations, fraternal groups, and colleges and
uni\·ersitics.
Diane is the onlv senior ro rank
in rn;· of the eliminations. Rita
Petretti rccei\'cd a Certificate of
Excellence a\\'ardcd for high scores
just bclO\\ the cutoff point.

" ,\ lan, I don ' t dig you, cat!
\\'hat's \\ ith this green bit?"
"\V ell no\\, the king sent me to
find a bit of green to decorate the
Blarney Stone."
"Gee, man, like wh;· don't you
sec somcbod; like Rita .\lcCarthy,
Daniel i\IcGuirc, or .\larv Dobert~· ? The~· sound like the:,: know
something about green."
Both Rita and i\lan· to!d their
friends about a little man who
came up to them "ith a quizzical
look on his face. He said, "But
; ou 'rc \\caring blue, " and scurried awa \'.
He then was reported to haYe
stopped Tim Lawler outside his
home room.
"i':O\\ sure!), lad, \\ ith a name
like La\\' !er you could tell me
\\here I can find a bit of green."
"Sure," said Tim, "look inside 101.
It's as green as they come."
"Hora Begorra, no, lad, that's not
\\hat T mean. It must be St. Patrick's Da;· green."
"Oh, l knO\\ ," said Tim; \\ h\
don't ;·ou go to home room 21:2.
Just ask for Bill Green. He should
knO\\"."
\\' hen the little lllan asked Bill
\\ here to find a bit of green, Bill
suggested he go to the office.
"The;· keep it locked up in a safe.
An;·" a~·, the; kncrn \\here to find
C\ er; thing."
"Pardon me, Sister, ''piped a
squeak~ · \·oicc. "Could you tell me
\\ here I could find a hit of green?"
"That's cas~ ," said Sister Edna
\larie. Just \\·air until !\larch 17.
F \·cr~ · onc from senior to freshman,
Polish to Italian, \\cars a bit of
green on that <la\."
"Thank ~· ou, Sister."
nd with that he disappeared
foster than \'OU can say happy St.
Patrick's Da\·!
ande Kelsey

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no running water, and she murdered the Italian language trying
to communicate.
People who misinterpret wha.t
she says is 1ar:. 's pet peeve, and
during her three month trip, Mary
had all she could do to interpret
other people.
In all, the things that thrilled
i\1ary most on her trip were the
gendarmes in Paris, the Alps, the
Carabinicri in Rome, and St. Peter's
Basilica. The lllost fantastic of all
was the World's Fair in Brussels.
It's obvious i\1ary enjoys traveling because her secret ambition is
to visit India and Egypt. Her future plans include college and a
career in chemistry.

"
Six foot two \\ ith eyes of blue,
s2ndy colored hair, a handful of
freckles, a great ense of humor,
and a ven for de\·ilishment-this is
Timothy Moriarty.
Tim "ill never forget his trip to
Europe, and neither will the people
in • uropc.
He left e\\' York \\ ith his parents in August. In London, England, they picked up a car ·which
the\ had ordered and toured the
continent in it.
Imagine yourself S\\ imming in
the Italian ri\·iera, \'isiting the Pope
in Rome, taking a boat ride to the
Isle of Capri, and dri\'ing through
the "\"ether lands. Tim was able to
experience all these wonderful
things, and also meet many exciting people.
Ireland and witzerland were
two of the most beautiful countries
that Tim Yisited. He enjoyed
meeting the Irish people and he
found them to be Yery happy and
fun-lo\'ing.
Excitement, gaiety, charm, and
romance-this was Paris, and Tim
lo\'cd e\"cry minute of it except for
the t\\·o days he spent sick in bed.
During his ''cc k's stay in this
beautiful cit.\', Tim saw many
breathtaking sights and sampled
several exotic dishes, including
fried snails.
Le Havre, France, \.\as the last
cir~· Tim Yisited, and from here
he boarded the Queen .\1ary for
his return trip home.
To be a beatnik artist in Paris is
Tim's secret ambition while people
who make plans and neYer carry
them out constitute his pct peeYc.
Business administration and art
arc Tim's career interc ts, and he
plans to pursue them in college.
This "tall bomb" of energy ha
planned an exciting and full life
for himself, including plans to return someday to Paris and Rome
and to reli\·e the memories of his
\\ onderful trip.

What difference-if anycan you see between students who are products of
Catholic school teaching
and guidance and their
friends who have not had
this type of education?
Usually, the Catholic student has had
more training in disc ipline and therefore
is perhaps better prepared to meet the
demands incurred at college or in earning a living . On the other hand , the public school educated student is prone to
individualism which can bring out either
good or bad results .
Jennie Booth 101

The difference-if there is to be any
-must come chiefly from what the student puts into the school. If he goes to
a Catholic school and uses the benefits
which are made available to him, he
should be much better off than his friend
who does not have the benefit of a Catholic school. He should be closer to his
religion, better disciplined, and probably better educated since more time in
the classroom can be spent for education
and less for matters of discipline. But if
there are to be any extra benefits from
a Catholic education, it is definitely up to
the student to derive them for himself.

John Tures 107
I feel that there are no major differences .
Pat McAleer 103

I don 't think there is really too great
a differe nce when it comes to education.
But in any type of school there are go ing
to be some on whom education has no
effect. Students who go to Cathol ic
school are certainly going to have a better knowledge of their faith than the ir
friends who go to public schools, and
they'll also have a better knowledge of
obedience .
Joyce Drndak 110

I don't believe there is much difference between students who have had a
Catholic education and students who
have attended a public school. I do
think, though, that students of a Catholic high school receive more discipline
than a student attending a public high
school.
Kathy Cahill 105

I can not see any difference, for if a
student studies well in either school his
education will turn out mainly the same.
Also, a good or bad person in either kind
of school will come out the same in each
case. A student is influenced in the same
way in both schools.
Thomas Duban 316

If there is any d ifference, it depends
wholly on the ind ividuals involved .
Many students who have not had a Catholic school training are superior or equal
to the student of a Catholic school in
their personalities, standards, manners,
and the like . However, this student without Cathol ic training must be a superior
individual with a good set of values .

Kathy Riley 212

I would think that the main difference is in the attitude toward Catholics
and their faith. Students who are Catholics and are attending public high school
usually have an indifferent attitude toward their faith. There are some special
reasons why Catholics attend public
high schools, but most of these students
don't care whether they remain good
Catholics or not. After graduation, they
care less and less about their faith.
John Bjork 201

I think a student from a Catholic
school has a better rea Iization of Iife. He
receives a broader education and learns
how to study . His outlook on life is quite
different from other students receiving
another type of education. The interest
given him by his teachers and guidance
director is almost omitted completely in
public school education .
Chuck Hall 211

As I have talked to many Catholics
that go to public schools, I feel that they
do not have as good a background in
their religion as we do. I feel that in
some cases, their character training is
not quite as good; but they do manage
to be as smart or even smarter in their
studies.
Pat Cipolla 111

Being a product, partially, of public
school education, I feel that there is a
difference in some areas . I know that
I've learned to study more here, to appreciate school to a greater degree, and
to Iive more fu Ily the student vocation
of which I'd previously been unaware .
I notice this difference- the lack of realization on the part of a public school
student to live his student vocation.

There is neither a great mora I nor a
mental distinction among these students .
I do, however, think that we are lucky
that we have more opportunities for academic advancement. I think that in a
Catholic school ihere is less emphasis
placed on extra-curricular activities
which add nothing to our minds in the
way of challenge.
Kathleen Fox 101

Gail Becker 213

The differences most noticeable between the Catholic students and public
school students, I think, can be summed
up in two points. First, the Catholic student has better study habits; and secondly, when he graduates from high
school, I think, he is better prepared
to go out into the world because of
the personal attention and guidance
received.
John Regner 112

In my opinion, "All men are created
equal." I think the true factor lies in the
training received at home. I agree, a
Catholic school makes it easier to behave, and to be good Christians; but
some public school students can and do
act just as good as we do.

Those who have attended a Catholic
school, I think, graduate with higher
ideals and standards . They place religion in a higher regard. This, of course,
doesn't apply in all cases, for even a
Catholic education can be deficient if
student and teacher don'f cooperate.

Bonnie Zierk 103

Mary Glembocki 213

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Robert Fanning

Sophomore students who attained first honors are John Tures, James Tappa, Joyce Frederick,
Judy Smith, James Vidas, Geraldine Alteri, Barbara Kluka, Pamela Holy, and Judy Hansen.

Robert Fanning

Freshmen first honor roll students are: top row
-Tim Betchel, Johanna Gallo, John Mikulsky,
Marcia Adamson, and Bob Engstrom ; middle
row-Linda Moddes, Carol Gastaldi , and
George Balinsky; bottom row-Nancy Grant,
Claire Fredericksen, and Mary Cox.

Barry Wojtak takes over modeling duties as
industrious members of Sister Ritarose's art
class develop their artistic talents. Those
sharp shirts are first endeavors.

SOPHOMORE ROOM 111
TOP ROW Robert Giese, Charles Fries, Daniel Ruffalo, John A. Holden, Thomas Ingalz, Larry Mashuda, Peter Sorrentino, Ronald Pataska.
SECOND ROW William Lyons, Clarence Mielke, Daniel Whiteside, Daniel Drasler, Rudolph Becker, Randall Gullo, Robert Fanning, Ronald Barr,
Robert Broesch.
THIRD ROW Patricia Cipolla, Rita Kausalik, Theresa Rynders, Janet Szarfinski, Ellen Jacoby, Diane Blank, Mary Pitsch, Jayne Arentz.
BOTTOM ROW Rosemary Seiberlich, Bernice Tyson, Joan Moeller, Carla Boardman, Geraldine Alteri, Nancy Kieliszewski, Mary Ann Walauskis,
Diane Ladousa, Judith Hansen.
MISSING: Richard Rhey.

SOPHOMORE ROOM 109
TOP ROW Joseph Lutzen, Robert Agazzi, James Hinds, Joseph Lackovich, Rodney Pias, Robert Mitchell, William Kaufmann.
SECOND ROW Thomas Sczkgielski, Orlando Infusino, Stanley Dorff, Donald Brevitz, James Wood, Jerome Becker, Raymond Tutlewski, John Cina,
David Rudd.
THIRD ROW Jo Ann Dase, Susan Novak, Sharon Pascucci, Diane Getschman, baron Frederick, Annette Michaud, Catherine Martino, Arlene
Rutkowski.
BOTTOM ROW Patricia Kenney, Sandra Reiter, Suzanne White, Dena Pinnola, Constance Greco, Jane Hansen, Sharon Evans, Dorothy Volpentesta.
MISSING: Frank Blasi, Sandra Smolik, William Swift, Leon Rack.

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The Big Trap
I regained consciousness to find myself sprawled on my back, half buried
in a deep snow drift. My head was
against the side of a fallen tree, and
when a tried to move it, it felt as if it
were going to explode. I slipped one
mitten off and touched the back of my
head with my fingers. I felt a patch of
clotted frozen blood and a bump the
size of an egg. I knew then I must have
struck the log when I fell.

Boredom

Non-Sense

The pointless clicking of the cheap
orange ballpoint had occupied her attention for the last half-hour. There were
now only ten long minutes to drag themselves slowly around till noon. The sonorous mumblings from the front of the
room were still persistently trying to
soothe her to sleep, but the discomfort
of the ha rd-bottomed chair prevented
even that release. The clicking was
something to do though; it didn't require
thought, yet it staved off the heaviness
of the moments. The tired-out pusher
on the top went in, then out, for the last
time. The worn metal twisted off under
the pressure of her thumb, and her final
diversion was gone.
Restlessly shifting, she tucked her
left leg underneath her. Glancing up at
the clock again she watched the second
hand, trying to push it ahead by looking
just a few marks ahead of its tip, glancing around the rim just a little faster
than the dull red arm. Patience. Just a
few more moments now. She gazed intently while the black hands drew into
one another and snipped off morning.
Diane Keane 214

Automobiles
Some people think Henry Ford
invented the automobile, but this is how
it really happened.
Auto, the god of chariots, was late
again for the council of gods. He came
puffing in, complaining about his horses'
power.
The other gods were getting tired of
his delaying the meeting all the time, so
they called on Whoa, the god of horses,
and Whoa said, "Ask Chevy, He just invented a steel chariot and steel horses
in a compact form."
Auto went to Chevy and asked about
his steel horses and chariot.
Chevy said that no one had tested
it yet and that it was run by a liquid
called gas. He had just enough gas to
reach the planet Earth where he could
get some more.
So Auto went to earth, but he didn't
know where to get the gas. So he took
the next chariot home and left his automobile on earth.
And that is how we got our automobiles.
Ann Ludwig 305

Once upon a story time,
I heard my grandpop say,
"Green elves come into the house at
night,
To dance and sing and play."
He said, "My dear," he said,
"I know that this is true,
My grandma told it to me,
While as a youngster such as you.
"She let me stay up late one night,
But her eyes were getting dreary,
I almost fell asleep myself,
Suddenly I saw them clearly!"
"They pranced and chuckled,
All over the floor,
Strode high steps,
And laughed some more."
"Then the smallest glanced my way,
And gave a warning without delay.
Quick as a wink and fast as a fly,
They left me standing without a
good-bye."
"I left my place from behind the curtain,
Wondering, 'were they here for
certain?'
But then a small shoe I spied near the
door,
Should I believe it?
They were there once more!"
Jane Henderleiter 201

Deafness of Nature
The sweet sounds of life,
The humming of birds,
The whistling of wind,
My mother's sweet words.

When did I fall? I wondered. How
long have I been here like this?
There was a pounding in my brain,
and when I tried to open my eyes, the
branches of a tree directly overhead
seemed to dip toward me and sway in
a weird sort of way. I closed my eyes
and waited for the dizziness to pass.
My left leg was pinned down. It
felt completely dead, except for a terrible pain in my ankle. I was aware of a
terrible pressure there, too, as if the foot
was being crushed underneath a heavy
weight. I tried to lift my head to see
what was wrong; but everything went
round and round, and I had to give it up.
I stayed that way for a while. Suddenly I realized that if I didn't get moving I'd freeze to death.
I opened my eyes, and this time the
branches overhead stayed in their proper
place. I was lying in a shallow narrow
part of a ravine. I seemed to be on the
doorstep of a bear's den. Gradually my
memory came back to me.
Broken bones in my leg grated together until a blinding sheet of pain exploded inside me. The pain was enough
to make me scream. I felt like a beaten
animal. I was afraid that another savage
attack of pain would come at the slightest moment.
Yet I knew I would have to face it
again. I would have either to move or
to die like a wounded animal. At that
moment I realized that I was, just as an
animal, caught in a steel trap.
Dave DeSimone 101

The "chirup" of crickets,
The crackling of streams,
The rushing of waves,
And children-their laughter and
screams.
The roars of buses,
The toots of horns,
The soft winds blowing
Through the tall, tall corn.
Through motion and vision
I know with deaf ears.
Yes, that is correct,
I can not hear.
Mary Peltier 311
8

The Door
A door is the border line
Between hello and good bye.
When closed it is the seal
of privacy.
Open it is the warmth
of hospita Iity.
Left ajar it hints intrigue.
Closed with force it tells of
fury or fear.
Mary Ellen Smolinski 213

Andy Notes Differences
In American Schools
People often ask me what part
of the education that I am getting
at St. Joseph's would I like to
transfer to Italian schools. My first
answer is "this beautiful building."
All the facilities a school like this
offers- homerooms, gym, little
theater, Auditorium-would
greatly help to make Italian schools
more attracti,·e.
l have been attending St. Joseph's for six months and, although
I do not kn<m any other American
school, I think I have enough experience to compare the American
and Italian systems and point out
the good or less good qualities of
each one.
' ot many are the things 1 would
like to bring here from an ltalian
school. The most important is the
seriousness with which we study in
ltah·. 1 do not mean that American
students are superficial but I think
we put more time and energy into
studying. I think this is because
Italian teenagers have more time to
spend on books. Almost no student works after school, chiefly because there are no jobs.
I would like also to bring here
the different kinds of schools (we
can choose among classical, scientific, technical, or trade schools),
and the required subjects that, once
a school is chosen, we must take.
I understand that it is impossible
to require the study of Latin since
your language docs not have so
close ties with it as ours does. ln

Italy \\C feel the ncccssitv to study
a f;Jreign language. M<;st choo;c
English because we arc always in
contact with tourists, and English
is the universal business language.
Americans do not have this need
because their country is very large
and if they arc abroad, they arc
understood easih·.
I think, however, that the knowledge of a foreign language would
hcl p Americans understand other
people's ideas and customs; besides,
it would enormously increase the
student's vocabulary.
On the other hand I \\'Ould like
to take back '' ith me to ltalv the
"spirit" of American high schools.
By this I mean the friendly atmospheer I found at St. Joe's-the cordial student-student, faculty-student, and student-faculty relationships.
The importance of extracurricular activities, such as clubs, plays,
assemblies, and the emphasis that is
put in athletic events make school
life in the U.S. more interesting
and help to build a greater attachment to one's school and greater
school spirit.
I don't bclic,·c that all these extracurricular activities and friendliness are always all good-"in media stat \'irtus." I think (1 know
man:> of ~ · ou are not of my opinion) American teachers should be
a little stricter, and Italian ones a
little more lenient.

Orchids to ..

Mr. Ben DeDecker New Face at SJHS

FATHER CLARK for his generous and accommodationg sen·icc
in taking the Sodalists to Milwaukee every two weeks.
The BYDALEK FA 11LY for
complete use of the family car for
the debate trips.
MARY ELLE
SMOLI SKI
who did a \\'Ondcrful job as supcrYisor of the coupon drive and also
for her time and energy spent in
caring for the choral robes.
i\1 RS. MAD SEN and MRS.
AMO for taking care of the snack
bar and milk at lunch hour.
MR. JAM ES JOHl\'SON for
initiating the donation of a tape recorder for our sc hool.
i\1RS. JANE ARNESO~ "ho
\\'as instrumental in the donation
of 300 books for our schoo l librar~ · ·
HOME & SCHOOL for the
" 1obilc Tronics Cnit" and the
screen for the little theater.
The STUDE T BODY for
their gift money which made it
possible to purchase much needed
church vestments for the Sisters'
chapel.

Andrea Mantineo

John Lundberg

It's hard to believe that these dresses are all made from the same pattern,
but these girls say it's true, and they should know-each made the dress
she's wearing. From left the girls, who are sewing students, are Kay
Zuehlsdorf, Kathy Olson, Joanne Dase, and Pat Kenney.

SJHS Band Grows Up
"\Vithin the near future our band
should be able to compete with the
other major high school bands in
the area." These encouraging
words were spoken by SJHS band
director, Elmer Aiello.
i\1r. Aiello studied ·w ith seYcral
private tutors prc,·ious to teaching
students himself. Prior to conducting at SJHS, he was associated
with the G. Leblanc J\lusic Company where he tested musical in-

part of Januar~ - to take Sister Karen's place. "Teaching is a ,·cry
interesting field, and there isn't
any profession'' hich I \\Ould prefer" he stated.
Although \\ 'isconsin is the home
state of 1\Ir. DcDccker, this is the
first time he has been in l\:cnosha.
He ''as born in Appleton, and he
attended college at i\1arqucttc Uni,·crsitv. ;..;o\1- that he has reached
Kenosha and settled do\\'n, he likes
it 1·cr~ · much. He is quite impressed '' ith St. Joe's and finds it
one of the most beautiful schools
he has e\'Cr been in.

"I really enjoy teaching mathematics because it has al\\'ays been
my favorite subject," stated our
new math teacher, i\1r. DcDcckcr.
i\J r. DcDcckcr arri\·ed the last

;\Ir. DcDcckcr feels that the
satisfaction of being a teacher is
being able to instruct and help his
students.
At this point, a student ob,·i,·cry much confused, strolled
up to his desk inquiring, " bout
this problem, i\ tr. DcDcckcr .... "
ousl~

Mr. Ben DeDecker

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strumencs and ·was a member of
the music education staff. Present!~· , besides instructing students
pri,·ately and shaping up St. Joe's
band, ~1r. Aiello is conducting an
instructional musical program for
the Catholic grade schools of the
cit~· · For the past two years the rcsu lts of i\lr. icllo's cndeaYors at
SJHS ha\·c been heard echoing
through the corridors during the
three practice sessions a week or
reverberating in the gym or auditorium at rnrious pep rallies and
assemblies.
There arc now 35 players in the
budding band, and i\lr. Aiello anticipates a total of 50 members for
next rear's blooming future.
!ready recognized for some
praisc\\'orth y performances, the
band \\'ill continue filling a full
schedule: April 2-Rcgional '\1usic
Association. The band will compete against some 20 other bands
in \\'isconsin.
pril 9-Solo and
ensemble contest.
t this time the
members \\'ill perform perfected
solo pieces and be up against some
500 pupils. i\ la~· 18-,\ lih,·aukec
Archdiocese Bi-Annual '\lusic Fcsti\•al sponsored by the i\lih\·aukec
Archdiocese Band ;\ lastcrs Association. \la y 20-Spring concert combined efforts of Band and ,\ lixcd
Chorus.
1t looks like a bus\· year for the
members. This shouldn't disillusion
future enthusiasts though.
s i\ Ir.
iello sa~ ·s, "Band practice and
participation is an inccnti,·c to selfcxprcssion and self-discipline\\ hich
offers a challenge to interested students."
Marilyn Cipolla

Baseball, Golf, Track
Highlight Spring Sports
Baseball, golf, and track will
highlight the spring sports scene.
In contrast with the fall and winter sports, freshmen are eligible
for these ,·arsity sports and letters.
The Lancer baseball team, last
\'ear's conference champions, hope
to retain their title again this season. Chances look good for them
\\'ith four lettermen returning.
They are Ed Kertz, Ton~· Crav<>t-

Managers Exhibit
Varied Talents
P ictured are the jovia l junior Varsity and freshman basketball managers.
Back r ow left to right are: Chuck Fries, Augu st Gnorski, Don Matera,
Dick Chiapetta, and, of cou rse, Augie Covelli.

Lancers Stymied
In Conferenee Play
Lancers ended a rough season of
play losing all but two non-conference games in the first half of
the season.
\.Vhen thC)' met l\ larquette for
the last game on the home floor,
the team controlled all but the
third quarter, but then i\ [arquette
pulled out in front.
Ron Spitzer scored 2 1 points and
Pat J\lcAleer grabbed 22 rebounds.
The final score was M-58.
At Dominican, the Lancers tried
to better their record for the last
time this season as Buzzy Heller
hit 22 points and grabbed 17 rebounds. £\'en though the Lancers
dominated the boards during most
of the game, they finally lost in the
O\'ertime 83-79.
In earlier games, the Lancers
were downed by l\1essmer 57-45
and by Memorial 71-61.
In the St. Catherine game, the
Lancers were swamped by the fine

Athletic Club
Varies Activity
One of the acti,·e clubs at St.
Joseph is the athletic or J-Club.
Under the direction of Father Edmund Olley, the club has been
making various contributions to
the athletic program.
At the recent regional basketball tournament, the club assisted
by selling ads for programs and
by ushering at the games.
Previous to this, members participated in the annual "Teens
Against Polio" campaign by selling blue crutches to the public.
Members also usher at school
athletic events.

shooting of the Angels 9'+-56.
At St. Benedicts, the Lancers
bowed 73-6.+ despite Buzzy Heller's 22 points.
Don Bosco repeated its performance of ear!\' in the season and
outscored the Lancers 74-55. Buzzv
Heller again scored 20 points and
also snagged 17 rebounds.
Cathedral subdued the Lancers
in the contest that was postponed
twice because of weather. The
final score was 76-50.

"Pick up those towels".
' Fetch those balls."
These words, no doubt, sound
familiar to the basketball managers,
the bus\· bees of the basketball
game.
Seniors Ralph ])i Christopher,
Gene Gclsone, and Jerry Krajnak
are Varsity managers while sophomores Chuck Fries and Dick Chiapetta are junior Varsity managers.
Augie Co,·elli, Augie Gnorski, aod
Don l\latera serve as freshman
team managers.
Du ring a game, the managers'
duties consist of keeping count of
baskets, fouls, and rebounds. At
practice sessions, the~· take care of
basketballs, towels, and other necessar~ · equipment.
At season's end managers are
eligible for letters for their sen·ices.

Wrestlers Defeat Waukesha
Despite 10 Point Handicap
I lave you seen an)' big, bruising
Lancers telling C\'eryone "we beat
the state champs" in a rather loud
manner? If ;.·ou have, don 't look
at them in dismay. They're just
proud of their recent ,·icrory O\'Cr
\Vaukesha l\lemorial, last year's
Catholic state wrestling champs.
\Vaukesha was fa\'ored, especiall )' since the~· got I 0 points on
forfeit to start with. But the Lancers surprised them, coming from a
22-10 deficit to win 25-22, with
three big pins b)· Ken \ \' edeikes,
~eil Pietrangelli, and Pete Zarletti
in the last three matches. Other
vital pins were scored by John
Stun·cz and Bob Karabetsos.
The same 10 point forfeit forced
the Lancers to bow to \.\'aterford
29-20 in the fo llowing contest.
\Vinners were Ken \Vedeikes, "\'eil
Pietrangelli, John Sturycz, and
Richard Perri.
Wedeikes and Pietrangelli are
undefeated this season and Paul
Zohlen lost one close decision in
the ,\1emorial victory this \·ear.

\Vith a 3-3 record, Coach Matrise and the bO)'S are awaiting the
Catholic State Tournament at Don
Bosco, J\1arch 19, where they hope
to become 1960's Catholic State
champions.
Robe r t Hu gh es

ta, Ron Spitzer, and Cene Gelsone.
Along with these players, Coach
Bob Radigan has many substitutes
returning from last year's club.
Coach Frank Matrise is building
the golf team around six returning
lettermen; Dick Adamson, l\1ike
l\1arifjeren, Tim Propsom, Dick
Ryczek, Ron Filippelli, and Jim
Costigan.
" \Ve are looking for\\'ard to a
successful season because of the
experienced golfers we have returning," commented Coach Matrise.
Track will enter its first season
under the coaching of Bob Carbone and Dick Johnson.
"Practice ''ill begin early in
March and will be conducted in
the gym until the weather warms
up. But we still do not ha\'e a definite location for outdoor practice,"
explained Coach Carbone.
Jim O'Neill

Miss Lawton
Fills Vacancy
t\ liss Catherine Lawton has filled
the ,·acancy left by the departure
of Miss Serio. A graduate of La
Crosse State College, she moderates homeroom 111, and teaches
Phvsical Education and Health.
Skiing is her favorite winter
sport, while baseball occupies most
of her leisure time during the summer months.
\Vhen asked her opinion of SJ
HS,.. she commented, "Jt is a \'cry
nice school and the students are
\'cry polite. I feel that the activity
area here is ideal."
Due to the numerous obstacles,
the \'Olleyball tournament is progressing rather slowly, however,
it will continue through March. It
is being played on a homeroom
basis.

Stu den t an d teach er . As M iss Sally erio r e turn s to t h e stu dent desk,
M iss Cath erine Lawton ass um es h er p osition as gir ls' gym instru ctor.

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Dramatic Department
Reveals Play Cast

Bob Bode

Eddie Ward seems to have been caught in the act by Tim Tully, Rich
DiCello, Gene Gelsone, and Larry Gaydos as practices for "Mrs. McThing"
open. Pat Cipolla and John Mosely are also busy rehearsing.

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VoL. 2, No. 7

St. Joseph's second annual allschool play, "Mrs. McThing" by
i\1ary Chase, will be presented
April 22, 23, and 24. Two casts
\\ill alternate at the four perfonnances.
A large mansion sets the scene
for the play's opening. Mrs. Howard V. Larue lll, a wealthy widow
(Sue Peterson, Linda Reno), the
owner of the home, is entertaining
her guests, the Lewis girls. These
three old maids are typical "cluckcluck" gossips (Pat Petretti, Pat
Radigan, Sharon Pascucci, Christine Schwcnn, Mary Pitch, Mary
Conrad).

HALLENGE
ST. JosEPll H1c11 ScuooL, KE:sos11A, W1sco:ss1:s

APRIL, 1960

Sister M. Adolphus
Receives Math Grant

Announcement of Winners
Climaxes Science Fair

Sister M. Adolphus has been
named recipient of a National Science Foundation grant in the Summer Institute for teachers of high
school mathematics. St. Louis
University sponsors the six-week
course from June 17 to July 29.

Climaxing the annual SJHS Science and Math Fair was the announcement of winners, March 22.
The following recei,·cd awards
for their efforts. First Place in biology experimental, :Nick Mischler
and James Tappa, Effects of Acid
on Bean Plants; first place biology
exhibit, Richard \\Tilson and Barbara \Nilson, The Heart; second
place experimental, Janet Turco
and Joanne ravoiczyk, Effects of
Acid on Plants; second place exhibit, Nancy Burns and Sue Manson, Development of the Chick;
third place experimental, James
Hasslingcr and 1ichacl Propsom,
Effect of J\1incral Deficicncv on
Plants; third place exhibit, Sherry
Kraemer, Characteristics of Soil
Types.
Students awarded for Mathematic achievements: first place, Richard Conrad, Hexagons, What arc
Thev? Second place, Dennis Chiapp~tta, Probability.
In the General Science fields:

Dr. Francis Reagan, Director of
the Institute, outlines the aims of
the course: l) provide depth of
math background 2) present modern math concepts for high school
classes 3) promote exchange of
ideas among successful high school
math teachers. In addition to the
classes a series of eight lectures
will be given on topics of interest
to high school math teachers.
" I'm looking forward to an enjoyable and profitable summer
even if it's hot in St. Louis," said
Sister Adolphus.

first place went to Dennis Kocler,
Light Ball; second place, Thomas
Pcchura, The 1oon. Those recognized in Physics were Thomas
Anderson and \Villiam Lattos, first
place, Transmission; second place,
Paul De Fazio, Humidity and Our
Life; third place, Susan Petersen
and i\1ary Conrad, \Vhat J\lakes
Light?
Senior first place ·winners in
Chcmistr~· were Pat Tyunaitis and
lary Ellen Fish, Crystallization;
second place, Tom \Visniewski,
Effects of Gas on Cupric Oxide;
third place, Sue Zeycn, Beth
\\'hitc, and J\1ary \Vicntjcs, pH of
Common Food.
Judging the projects were Sister
\1. Hermine and Sister l. De La
Salle of Ah·erno College; Sister i\l.
Lucv 0.P. of St. Catherine's of
Racine; and J\1essrs. Davey, Schulz
and Charlton of Kenosha.

,\1rs. Larue's only child, spoiled,
pampered Howay, enters and displays perfectly polished manners.
(John Moseley, Eddie Ward).
Howay has undergone a complete
change in his behavior and has reverted from the wildness of youth
to a perfect gentleman. Bewildered
,\ 1rs. Larue docs not know that
her son has been replaced by a
stick person, looking just like
him. Howay's bodyguard, Nelson
(Mike \Venning), has no particular affection for his little charge.
Other domestics of the Larue
household include Sybil (Viola
Paura) and Carrie (Jean Golen).
On the other side of the tracks,
Shantyland Pool Hall holds the
other extreme of the plot. Poison
Eddie Schellenbach (Bob Dobson,
Tim Tully) the owner, is a "big
time'', "real rough" gangster, who
leads around his small mob: Dirty
Joe McGinnis (George Schroeder,
Gene Gelsone) and Stinker (Brian
Guilliom, Larry Gaydos). Shamyland is also an eating place. Its
chef (Dave DiSimone, Rich Di
Cello) has the illusion that he plays
the piano. Actually, he is just
pounding on a table. The waiter,
Virgil (Andy 1antineo), plays
along with this gag.
Enter the lo,·elife for the for1orned Howay who has been
forced to run away and join the
mob by a stick person. 1imi, the
adopted daughter of i\1rs. Mc
Thing, likes Howay. Because 1rs.
Larue wouldn't let Mimi (Pat Cipolla, Mary Jo Parisea) play with
her son, he was replaced by a stick.
i\ limi is a dreamy and somewhat
queer person. Mrs. McThing herself takes two forms: Beautiful
\Vitch (Kathy Bydalek), ugly
witch (] udy Smith). La t, but not
least, what would life be without
a policeman? (Bill Dorsey).
Sisters Petrina and Marie Catherine will direct the play, and
scenery will come from the art
department.
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Junior Officers Make Plans
To Fete Seniors May 25
May 25 is the date set for the second annual junior-senior dinnerdance at St. Joe's. The dance will be themed "Memory Lane" and the
Srardusters, a local combo, will provide the music. Roast turkev will
head the menu.
Entertainment for the evening break is being planned by the
Drama Club. Junior artists will center their decorations around the
theme.

Bob Fanning

Junior homeroom representatives listen attentively as Sue Petersen proposes an entertainment plan for the junior-senior dinner-dance.

Psst, Here I Am !

Ever met the Juniors? Yes, I realize
that you know a lot of them, but have
you ever met them as a class, as a
whole? Let me introduce them, then.
When they first came they were, for
the most part, frightened and confused.
Then again they had the right to be. St.
Joe's was a new school, without tradition, without experience, without almost
everything. There were prospective football players, future class officers, some
who would make themselves known as
ambitious, as smiling or moody, and yet
each was an individual with his own contribution for this new world that was his
to make and create.
And so it all started. The juniors can
probably remember the drilling and banging, their first acquaintance with class
changes, the first attempts to start a
chorus, establish the student council. Oh
there were so many things to be done,
and they all had to be done as a class
with everyone pitching in, or otherwise
the whole works would be a flop. But it
wasn't a flop. It seemed there was nothing these kids wou Id not try at least
once.
And so on into second year; and with
it a new problem. Extra-curriculars were
wel I established, but how about study?
That was by far the most important. It
took a lot of pushing and helping from
the faculty, a few ambitious students
who were not afraid to admit they realized the importance of hard work and
studying, and that problem was behind
us.

The Challenge
This April Issue
published by the Juniors
of St. Joseph High School
Vol. 2, No. 7

April, 1960

EDITORS . . Sande Kelsey, Dennis Chiappetta
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
News
... . . . .. Robert Dobson
Editorial .... Sue Petersen, Mary Conrad
Jo-pinions ... . ... ... . Mary Lynn Kulesh
Sonya Zalubowski
Prisms . .
. . . . . . . Jinine Ramacci
Pictures Bob Bosco, Judyanne Hackbarth
Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marilyn Cipolla
Sports ....... . . . . .. . . . ....... Jim O'Neill
PHOTOGRAPHERS . . . . . . .. John Lundberg
William Lyons, Robert Bode,
Robert Fanning, Jane Arentz,
Rodney Johnson
ARTIST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Diane Ruffalo
TYPISTS ...... Kathy Fortino, Mary Sieger,
Rit~ Habeig

So now they're juniors and looking
forward to senior year, and most of them
are still working to keep the junior class
on top . Scholastically they've kept the
highest number of students on the first
honor roll, as a class they got a 99 percentile on the Iowa Tests.
Outside school juniors play a major
part in the mixed chorus, the school play,
football, basketball, wrestling, and have
worked with other classes in making a
success of Mardi Gras, the Variety Show,
homecoming, debate and sodality. You
name it, and most likely the juniors are
in it.
I suppose you could call the juniors
successfu I as a class. Someone once said
however that success produces confidence, confidence relaxes industry, and
negligence ruins.
What is negligence in this case? One
or two people deciding we've gotten by
this far, someone will see to it that we
get through the rest of the way, or maybe someone forgetting he is part of a
class.
There is still a year and a long way
to goThere's no standing pat: any living
thing gets better or deteriorates.
Well, juniors-How's it going to end?
Susan Petersen

Hee, hee, hee. I'm Spring-fever.
Every year around the end of March
sneak out of my little hole under the
ground and go bounding off into the
world. I have magic powers (hee, hee)
and I just love to use them on unsuspecting students. Just watch that boy over
there in Algebra class.
Spring: Psst, boy!
Boy: Who's there?
Spring: Didn't Helen look nice today
with all those curls gathered in a little
pink bow?
Boy: Yea, boy she sure ... Hey, wait
a minute! Get lost, will you? How can
I concentrate with you jibbering?
Spring: What a hardnose! Boy, was
he a grouch! Just for that I'll try a girl,
they're usu a Ily big suckers when it
comes to day-dreaming. There's one in
English.
Girl: Mother and (I, me) are going ...
Spring: That sure was a creamy dress
in Monnig's window, you know the
white one with the appliqued red . . .
Girl: Who's that talking? Where are
you?
Spring: Did you tell Linda about the
dreamy date you have Friday night?
You better write her a note.
Girl: Oh, I did forget to tell her. Well,
I'll see her at lunch. Now, you scram,
I've got to learn this grammar.
Spring: Holy Cow! Another one!
Maybe I'm slipping! That's the second
one in a row who didn't listen. Gosh,
what's wrong, won't anyone listen? Hey,
it's me-Spring-fever! Listen to me, it's
Spring-fever!! No one answers! Gosh,
you don't think it's my fault, do you? It
must be the school. So I'll go to another
school. I can take a hint. What have I
got to lose anyway? Sure is strange
though
Ma ry Sieger 102

Privileges That Prepare Citizen
Tremendous advances mark our era.
Daily, newspapers report new discoveries and further progress. To some, consciousness of these sudden advances
comes with a shock, but these advances
are not unnoticed.
Citizenship, too, arrives unexpectedly. We are shocked at the suddenness
with which we come of age, but the
prelude to citizenship occurs in high
school, where opportunities to act as citizen frequently arise. The privilege of
citizenship demands good, true and valuable citizens who recognize citizenship
as a right and responsibility.
This privilege is sometimes misused
or not used at all. The disloyal citizen
refuses to acknowledge that the welfare
of the group as a who le should be considered. Rights and promises of others
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are ignored by the undependable citizen
who drifts slowly from day to day and
from day to day disrupts the order of
the group. The indifferent attitude of
those who insist that this privilege is
minor defeats the purpose of a democracy. The disloyal, undependable, indifferent citizen hinders himself and the
group.
The citizen prepared for citizenship
furthers the well being of all. The good
citizen lives by his promises and according to his rights convinced that whatever must be done now, must be done
well. The valuable citizen uses the rights
of citizenship cautiously. Citizenship is a
right and a responsibility. The good,
loyal and valuable citizen realizes this
and when the chance comes, acts wisely.
Th erese Tillman

Life's rolling, rolling on; seven
months ago we converged upon
the school. We came to take up
the burden once more, after three
months of doing what we wanted.
\Ve figured, with resignation,
"There's a long hard grind ahead
of me."
All through the fall months we
breezed. School hadn't had a
chance to get boring, yet. The
weather was cool and clear. We
went to football games on Sunday.
We had the Homecoming Dance.
The Homecoming Game saw
many of our hard-worked-on
floats parading around the stadium.
Then came the game (The outcome of which we need not mention).
Finally to end the festivities was
the memorable float burning. The
sun was starting to set early. The
warm fire held the interest of the
slightly chilled group until something much more sporting was
called for like throwing people
into Lake Michigan's icy waters.
About that time school became
a drudgery. Although it stayed
warm quite late, snow came in
November. Getting up in the cold
and dark, digging out: these are
just a few of the miseries that
made us feel we were a long way
from summer.
As the mercury dipped and
the wind whipped our faces, we
strained to remember those days
last summer when it was almost
too hot to move.
Then a miracle happened.
School closed on account of the
weather. Several times mother

nature's sloppy white blanket
reached the "school closed" mark.
(We appreciate this dearly, Faculty).
We started to dig out. Our
basketball had just ended.
ced I
say more, here? Nevertheless we
trudged on through the left-over
snow. Our teams for spring were
organized.
It is staying light longer. Easter
is coming. This means we're turning into the home stretch. As we
enter this, let's think back. Did
we keep those resolutions we made
at the outset of this year? If we
didn't "C'est La Guerre."
These are the echoes that are
resounding around the school.
Even though long gone, listen
carefully; you'll hear them.

John Lundberg

Juniors attaining First Honors: Lawrence Gaydos, Timothy Lawler, Theresa Tillman, Judyann Hackbarth, Sandra Kelsey, Mary Conrad, Jean
Kamieniecki, Gertrude Deom, Sylvia Stec, Carol Gonnering, Judith
Schaaf, and Sonya Zalubowski.

Irish Student Contrasts Education
When one thinks of the Irish
perhaps the first thing that springs
to mind is their eloquence of expression as manifested in the writings of such men as Joyce, Shaw,
and Yeats. However, even if this
piece does not follow in the tradition, you may perhaps gain a little
knowledge of "the Irish student at
home."
The wearing of uniforms by the
girls at St. Joseph's brought back
many memories of "home" where
the students (both boys and girls)
have to wear uniforms. One of
the more pleasant features of the
American school system is the
very friendly faculty-student re-

lationship which is evident-especially at St. Joe's.
In North Ireland the government subsidizes the schools and in
return we are plagued eYery few
years by huge government examinations which tend to frustrate
both the examiners and the examined. It is on these that your
education depends.
With the successful completion
of such an examination at sixteen
comes the decision whether to
specialize in the sciences or in the
humanities. By specialization a
higher degree of proficiency in a
chosen field is obtained than would
otherwise be possible.
Rugby (similar to American
football), cricket, tennis, and track

News 'n Views
French classes have also been invited to participate in the French
Poetry Reading Contest of Wisconsin. Chosen to compete in the
Semi-finals to be held in Racine
on April 2, are French I, Marianne
Hcnderleiter and French II, Tina
Ritacca.

Judy Conrad, senior Sodality
prefect, conducted a panel March
14 in the Little Theater to discuss
SUMA Convention. Panel members were: Pat McAleer, Ron Filippelli, Michaelene Seianas, Sande
Kelsey, Phyllis Wojtak, Bob Engstrom, Johanna Gallo, Pamela
Holy, Barbara Kluka, and Kathlene Miller.

The following typing students won medals recently in the Facit
Speed Typing Contest held in the business department. Judy Kamin,
Joy Johnson, Barbara Zimmermann, Linda DcAngelis, Dick Engstrom
and Mary Lee Anderson, Karen Knight, Kathy Zuffa, Joan Giovanelli,
Nancy Toniolo, and Veronica Zalubowski won certificates of accomplishment in alphabetic filing.
SJHS students of French I and
II classes will participate in the
National French Contest sponsored
by the American Association of
Teachers of French. The test will
be administered here during the
second week of April.

Thank you to all the server of
the acolyte club moderated by
Sister Quintilus. These boys get
up faithfully of a morning to serve
Mass at 6: 15 for the Sisters and at
7: 15 for the stud en cs who wish to
attend Mass here.

are all held on an inter-school
competition basis which is comparable to your own, although
there is a very regrettable lack of
cheerleaders. These I had never
seen before I came to the United
States and I feel thev could be introduced in Irish schools with as
much success as they have here.
Social life for the teenager is not
at a very fast tempo during the
week but this period of quiescence
is balanced by a good time over
the week-ends. The dating system
is similar and starts at the same
time as it does here.
To sum up: in the .S. education is a right; in Ireland it is a
right until you are 15, then it is a
privilege-a privilege which one
must constantly strive to retain.
Alan Cleland

Faculty and 5tudents
express sincere sympathy to Sister Mary on
the death of her father.

Alan Cleland, an 18 year old
Irish Exchange Student, visited St.
Joe's March 22-25.

Sodality Sponsors 'Dooley' Soap Drive
Since 1'larch 14 a new drive has
swept the school. Posters planted
here and there, in full view of all
interested parties, clarify the fact
that any kind, color, form, and
fragrance of soap will be appreciatively accepted by Dr. Thomas A.
Dooley. The junior girls Sodality
is sponsoring this drive. They are
hoping to get enough soap to suds
up the entire Atlantic Ocean.
Beginning on March 14, the juniors led off for a week stretch ending March 21. Freshmen took over
then till April 4, and the seniors
marched along with them from

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March 2 till April 11. The sophs
will fill the gap between April 4
and April 17.
This drive has a double purpose:
first being to promote Lenten penance and the other to help Dr.
Dooley in his cndeaYors.
Dr. Thomas A. Dooley has
opened his heart and those of
many others to the unfortunate of
the Oriental lands and islands. He
has given his life to help give the e
people a healthy, more useful life
- t. Joe' students can urely give
a little of self, through soap.

JUNIOR ROOM 102
ROW 1 Paul DeFazio, Ronald Roberts, James Fonk, Francis Dunnebacke, Robert Petrin, William Lattos, Brian Gulliom, William Blasi, John Holland,
Richard Gust, \Villiam Dorsey ROW 2 Mary Conrad, Patricia Presterel, Mary Sieger, Sonya Zalubowski, Kathleen Murphy, Keith Kosloske, David
Willems, Kathryn Madsen, Sandra Kelsey , Sharon Gaudio, Barbara Zimmermann, Judy Safago ROW 3 Carol Matera, Angela Cecchini, Sharon
Riendl, Judy Altoff, Mary Anne Wade, Sylvia Stec, Joyce Brever, Dolores McGrath, Diane Costabile MISSING George Schroeder, Ray Uimari

John Lundberg

Robert Bode

This cluster of creators, including Margaret Hoar, Maryann Swetish, Carole Bernacchi, Al Tenuta, Pat Kueny,
Theresa turycz, Gary Sentieri, Willowdean Albert, and Diane Ruffalo productively go about their tasks while
Sister Adelma looks on with satisfaction.

Zealously speaking
here is Ted Kennedy
who addresses the seniors and debators concerning the labor situation.

JUNIOR ROOM 104
ROW 1 Jack Zerovec, George Kolar, Donald Evans, Thomas Lea, Bob Kriederman, Neil Pietrangeli, Donald Wawiorka, Michael Repp ROW 2 Janice
Wilson, Karen Buchman, Marlene Mauser, Julianne Rack, Helen Benuska, Judith Curtiss, Kathy Bydalek, Janet Sturm ROW 3 Vincent Fox, Cassius
Chinske, Bernard Drasler, Robert Bosco, Robert Hannan, Richard DiCello, Michael Mitchell, Francis Tyson ROW 4 Jean-Marie Smith, Nancy Schmidt,
Carole Bernacchi, Kathleen Anderson, Mary Adamson, Judy Kamin, Mary Smith BOTTOM ROW Susan Glerum, Martin Marchek, William Perozzi,
Paul Roppuld, Robert Fulmer, Judith Hewitt

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Jayne Arentz

For evidence of a good
time had or missed, simply glance at these candids which fully capture
the fun and mirth characteristic of the Mardi
Gras.

It looks like St. Joe's students are looking ahead to fu-

ture careers. Four girls found collecting information at
W.C.A.C. are Mary Lou Singer, Rosemary Siberlick, Sue
Harrison, and Carrie Calkins.

JUNIOR ROOM 103
ROW 1 Al Cairo, John Doherty, Gene Raymond, Pat McAleer, Joe Werwie, Ed Deardorf, Ron Filippelli ROW 2 Al Tenuta,
Bob Bierdz, Barry Zoromsky, Jim O'Neill, Wayne Sucharda, Gene Boyle, Glen Gosselin ROW 3 Bonnie Zierk, Sue Petersen, Bob Smith, Bob Anderson, Dennis Hulen, Marion Lesko, Carolyn Furtman ROW 4 Eileen Drissel, Mary Pobar, Mary
Jane Venskus, Judy Keach, Kathy Kolowski, Carol Aiello, Elaine Hildebrandt BOTTOM ROW Sandra Smith, Gloria
Harms, Jean Schultz, Diane Ruffalo, Aldonna Molinaro, Mary Lynn Kulesh, Judy Conforti MI SING Kathy Riley, Gail
chmitz, Arlene Wolfe

JUNIOR ROOM 112
ROW 1 Ronald LaFond, Gerald Cardinelli, Daniel Galley, Ronald Greb, Peter Dorff, James Schmitz, James Zierk, Peter Braun, John Regner, :Richard
Bitautis, William Hartman, Allen Kelps, Thomas Anderson ROW 2 Helen Volpentesta, Virginia Hammel, Rita McCarthy, Barbara Fonk, Barbara
Connelly, Judith Schaaf, Nora Wieland, Kay Stanley, Patricia Rizzo, Pat Petretti, Dianne DuCharme, Maryann Swedish ROW 3 Ronald R\Jthe,
Michael Hyland, Sandra Pohlman, Willowdean Albert, Mary Ellen Lichter, Jacqueline Yutka, Marilyn Mashuda, Margaret Hoar, Joan Moretti, Edward
Koos, Michael Hanrahan

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This industrious group of juniors could only be
applying their earnest labors to one cause-the
publication of the school newspaper. The workers
include Bob Dobson, Bob Bosco, Dennis Chiappetta, Jim O'Neill, Sande Kelsey, Mary Lynn Kulesh, Sonya Zalubowski, Judyann Hackbarth, Sue
Peterson, Mary Conrad, and Marilyn Cipolla not
counting Jinine Ramacci who obviously is in a
state of meditation.

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Robert Fanning

There were more than just fish at the fish fry, as we can see by these
diligent workers Jim Wojtak, Ron Filippelli, Bob Fanning, Tony Adamski and Larry Gaydos.

John Lundberg

William Lyons

These two inclined plane operators David De Simone and David Anderson, go about their physics project with some amount of serenity. Kathy
Riley managed to enter the scene while completing an experiment behind
their backs.

Freshmen do it again! On March 12, the boys team won first place trophy.
The happy four are Joseph Tennyson, August Gnorski, Terry Moriarty,
and Dominic Forgianni. August took superior speaker and Marcia Adamson took the excellent speaker trophy.
William Lyons

JUNIOR ROOM 113
ROW l Alan Corradini, Michael chroeder, Thomas Walkush, Gene Willems, Ralph Eckert, Joseph Pias, Gene Dosemagen, Bruce Anderson, Tim
Prop.;om, Thomas Green, Larry Gaydos, Edward Kertz, Leon Johnson ROW 2 Joseph Laurenzi, Patricia Bryant, Sherry Becker, Jean Robillard,
Par.1ela Stella, Ann St. Louis, Patricia Murray, Trudy Deom, Loretta Forgianni, Linda Reno, Janet Cerminara, Margaret Mico, Bonnie Boostedt, Patti
Matranga ROW 3 Walter Ebner, Francis Singer, Theresa Tillman, Judyann Hackbarth, Karen Holland, Kathleen Zanio, Paul Zohlen, John Helf,
Dennis Robbins

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JUNIOR ROOM 101
ROW 1 Vernon Bucholz, Kenneth Skendziel, Andy Przlomski, James Costigan, Joe Mattiazzi, James Wojtak, Larry Hall, William Shulski, David
Anderson, David DeSimone, John Dosemagen, Timothy Tully, John Kohlmeier ROW 2 Kathleen Fox, John Maloney, Frederick Ernst, Robert Acerbi,
Peter Zeihen, Gerhard Willems, Charles Stoner, Timothy Lawler, Dennis Chiappetta, Richard Ryczek, Birute Milass, Mary Simon ROW 3 Marianne
Henderleiter, Jeanne Kamieniecke, Diane Glerum, Mary Ward, Jennie Booth, Linette Picknell, Mary Hornacek, Marie Organist, Mary Schulte, Ann
Bscherer, Angela Romano

Mixing together a few stray toots,
squeaks, and bangs, Mr. Aiello and
Mr. Hemkes have come up with a
fine band consisting of-Back row
(standing) L to R--Tim Greco,
Robert Moeheke, Raymond epanski; Back row (seated) Frank Mo·
ennsen, Mary Ward, Margaret Mico,
Joseph Miksis, Dan Whiteside, Joseph Pias, Ronald Grey, Barbara
Zeyen, Katherine Mico, William
Zielsdorf, Mike Krempley, Dean
Patterson, Ronald Buss; Front Row
-Allan Kelps, Sandra Beyers, Paul
Zohlen, Helen Bartol, Robert Fish,
Bill Wagner, Tom Walkush, and
Tom Paulson.

Who says we don't like
history? Panel members
John Doherty, Peter
Braun, David Anderson,
Tim Tully, and Brian
Guilliom all seem to be
delving for an answer to
chairman Bob Fulmer's
question.

JUNIOR ROOM 105
ROW 1 Gary Sentieri, Dennis Bianchi, Lynn Fredericksen, Richard Falk, Robert Kolmos, Therese Sturycz, Phyllis Wojtak,
Patricia Kueny, Carol Schmitt ROW 2 Robert Dobson, Edward Wendel, Fred Kappus, Randy Hansis, Diane Plutas, Cecilia
Mazurkiewicz, Mary Anderson, Jinine Ramacci ROW 3 David Heyden, Larry Harrer, Jame Marescalco, Francis Moenssen,
Carol Gonnering, Catherine Agazzi, Marie Rosko, Mary Selear BOTTOM ROW Ronald Paradise, Richard Perri, Augie
Ridolfi, Rudy Drexler, Marilyn Cipolla, Frances Boyer, Kathleen Cahill, Barbara Zeyen
MISSING: Linda Leitzen

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Of Blushing
What other natural reflex plagues
one more than the sk illess art of blushing? My hat goes off to all my companions in gloom but shall remain firmly
on my head when I consider the lucky
people who escape the red shine.
If it chose to appear occasionally
wouldn't mind . But every time something happens certainly isn't occasionally.
Where would Cleopatra have been
if every t ime she was called on to meet
a v isiting Roman official , such as Caesar,
she had blushed into consternation? Certainly she would not have been the belle
of the Nile . Or take General Grant- suppose he blushed so much that he just
couldn't meet Lee to discuss surrendering . We might have warred until Grant
himself had died.
Some may argue that blushing certainly must have a purpose . But what?
It isn't protection . The only reason I can
see is that mother nature felt like playing
a joke at our expense.
I've been assured by many people
that with the passing of adolescence so
passes embarrassment at little things and
thus passes blushing . But I've noticed
quite a few red faces when I look at my
teachers .
Sonya Zalubowski 102

Quiet Things
A soft summer evening
a baby's room
the dawn
gentle lacy flakes of snow
a child in mischief
a sun-speckled lake
a closed book
an empty classroom
the ruins of an old home.
Mary Anderson 105

Tomorrow
If the end were tomorrow,
What treasure would you hold?
What blanks in life would you fill?
What sorrow would remain untold?
Grasp you memories till they,
without breath,
Speak silent words of love to loved ones .
Run . .. gather every kindness and joy.
Bundle the black;
Trample the gold
With thought, "I'm not coming back."
Fool, indeed!
Powerless memories and a packet
of blackness!
And what of your sorrow?
This I will tell ...
Fools have fear,
And only fools cheat death .
Sylvia Stec 102

These I Have Loved

Frustration

My thumb ,
my tricycle,
my red cowboy boots.
I was a tomboy- no dolls for me.
My camping days,
my first nylons,
my frrst lipstick.
I am no longer such a tomboy .
My frrst date,
my frrst corsage,
my frrst formal.
At last I am glad I am a girl.

time is ticking
pens are clicking ;
a student frghts
to see the Iight:
an Idea springs
but the bell rings .
shall his frght
be in blight?
always, always the bells ring
stopping an Idea which should spring.
shall it be that when all have rung
the Idea still shall not have sprung?

Gail Schmitz 103

Jim O'Neill 103

Imagery
The winding mountain road looked like
a black, white, and green barber pole as
it spiraled the mountain .

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Her conscience was a heavy dust-laden
book with crackly pages never looked
upon.
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She drooped like last night's egg salad
sandwich.
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She frxed her hair with the precision of
a spider building his web.
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She is like a duck: she has pride, voice,
and .. . flat feet.
He was Agamemnon; too bad she was
Clytemnestra.
His love for her, like to a pencil, grows
less with each sharp cutting she gives
him .
Her love for him was like pain-constant,
fervent, unwanted .
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A harebrained person is like a heliumfrlled baloon-the more leeway you give
it, the higher it flits.
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Velvet is like a woman's temper: when
brushed the wrong way, it turns a different color and is rough .
Creative Writing Class

Loneliness
These be
Three lonely things:
A desolate orphan,
A full moon on a cloudless night,
Boredom .
Marion Lesko 103
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TV Shopper
Did you ever see someone go into a
store to buy something but not know
the name? They remember it from a TV
commercial-you know the scene.
"Good afternoon, Madam. What can
I do for you?"
"Well, I'd like a pound of coffee. I
don't know what kind it is, but I saw it
on TV and it perculates in time to the
music . I thought it would be pleasant
to have around the house."
"Mmmmm. Does it perculate in 3 / 4
or in 4 / 4 time?"
"Oh, I don't know . It sounds like this."
(hums a tune.)
"Well, we'll come back to that later.
What else can I do for you?"
''I'd like some of that cerea I that
dances-makes the children want to eat.
Then I'd like some of that green mouth
wash. Even my daughter's best friend
won't tell her. Throw in some of those
cigarettes that make it like springtimeit's been a long winter. Also, a box of
tissues-not the strong kind that won't
tear when wet and when holding frve
bracelets . They're too expensive; besides, we all just use them to blow our
noses."
"Is that all?"
"Yes, I think so. You may put that on
my bill."
And as the customer walks out the
door we see the clerk slipping a pill into
his mouth. Seems the little hammers in
his head are overworked .
Marilyn Cipolla 105

St. Joe's Janitors Contribute
To Its ~Homey' Atmosphere
"Gum! lt's too sticky!" were the
words of Mr. Phil Limbach as he
and 1r. Bill Hubert were discussing the major problems confronting a janitor. He added, though,
"On the whole, the student body
is very co-operative."
When Mr. Limbach talks of the
student body, he includes three of
his own five children. David is a
sophomore, and Jim a freshman,
and seven year old Philip is a piano student. When not trying to

and SJ HS keep me young."
Cold shower? Blame i\1r. Charles
Blankley, first-class engineer and
janitor at St. Joe's. His sophomore
daughter Lois thinks he's one of
the "hottest" dads anyone could
have; she has reason to-her father
has charge of the heating and ventilating at SJHS (Don't worry
about the cold showers . . . Mr.
Blankley knows how to control
that. Before working here, he
worked 32 years in the same capacity for the public school svstem) .

put the 96 dust mops into operation, J\1r. Limbach enjoys working
in Boy Scout and C.Y.O. activities.
Working the night shift, or
rather helping out at after school
activities, is part of Mr. Hubert's
job here at SJ HS Mr. Hu bcrt
agrees that gum presents quite a
problem, but feels that breakage,
too, could be curbed. He doesn't
want to "curb" time from hunting,
fishing, or any other sports, for
that matter because, he says, "these

"All-around man" in this department is ,\ fr. Johnson. Jim, as his
fellow janitors call him, is a real
asset to ha,·c around. He is a carpenter by trade, and he helped to
build St. Joe's. Not only docs he
know e\·en· nook and corner of
the building, but also has the pri\ ilcge of exploring the "out world"
with the SJHS jeep. Jn his spare
time J\1r. Johnson is willing to help
students make necessary articles,
such as play props. He must be
told in ad\·ance, howe\·er, or he'll
revert to his favorite sports of
archery and hunting rather than
help. As Mr. Limbach says, "He's
the boss."

Bill Lyons

This deep snow gave our energetic janitors a chance to show their
strength. Looking amused from the truck is Mr. Jim Johnson, while Mr.
Phil Limbach, Mr. Charles Blankley, and Mr. Willy Hubert shovel.

Jots From Joe's . ..
While doing terms in fifth period history class recently, SYLVIA
STEC came across
nion Pacific
Railroad . Next to this she put
"built westward from Sacramento,
California."
SISTER JARLATH recently
asked if FRED KAPP S would
keep time for a debate. He was a
HOLbit dubious, but JOH
LAND wasn't. From the back of
the room John chirped, "He'll
make time even if he doesn't keep
it."
After the sopranos had been
corrected in mixed chorus class,
MIKE WENNlNC told them:
"Don't be such amateurs-be like
CELSO E!"
Having studied long on the term
"universal truth"-onc of which
we find in C\'Cr~ · good storyDICK DELFRA TE felt he could
refer with confidence to the "international truth" in 'Gift of the
J\lagi. "
Students arc alerted to the false
credentials of an anonymous collector, known in private life as
STEVE SELIGA, who is taking
up an unauthorized collection to
send all senior teachers on the tour
to \,\' ashington.

JJ"lhy Not Take
A Look in 215?
"Sister, could you please tell me
where l can find the reader's periodical?" This is one of the typical
guestions directed to Sister Mary
Francis, our school librarian. Sister
calm! y helps the students find the
books the\' desire from 7:40 in the
morning .until 4: 30 in the afternoon. Although a limited number
of books are available at present,
students have quite a time locating
the ones we do have.
Donations to the library fund
this year are not as great as last
year. To be accredited, a school's
librarv must contain five to ten
book; for each student. This quota
has not as yet been reached.
"The library is not used as much
as it should be. Fiction and biographies are hardly touched.
Students who plan on attending
college would profit from skills
acguired in the library if they used
it. Through reading they could
gain speed-certainly an asset for
the college student. One could get
a college education in the library
itself," sa~ s Sister J\lary Francis.
Sister ,\ lary Francis faithfully
keeps the library alive with various
displays. \Yhy not stop in and have
a look?-and a book.

Not What~s Cooking? ...
But Who ~s Cooking?
A certain smell spreads its way
through this room. It could be
donuts or barbecue. \Vhat is it
that draws everyone there? \Vho
is responsible for this smell of good
food? Let's go behind and into the
kitchen to find out.
The first person we see is J\lrs.
J\1ary Cardinali. She is seen serving the food. You say she looks
familiar? \Veil, maybe it's that her
son Jcrr)', a junior, looks somewhat like her.
\\!hat's that line o\·cr there? It
seems C\'cryonc is waiting to bu~·
milk from Mrs. Christine Amo.
Besides sen·ing milk at St. Joe's she
c:in be seen at home serving milk
to her grandchildren for ,,·hom she
is A- I babysitter.
Don't drop it! That is what J\ !rs.
Edward \'an \\'ie thinks as she
carries the trays. She, like all the
help, has worked at St. Joe 's for
two years. \\' hen not trying to
keep St. Joe's students healthy, she
likes to play cards and knit.
"I shouldn't. I know I'm gaining
weight." That is what everyone
sa~· s before they gi,·c in and sink
their teeth into the calories i\1rs.

1arian ladsen sells. Because of
the popularity of the baked goods
counter, lrs. Madsen secs almost
every student at St. Joe's. \Vhat
does she think of us? \Veil, her
answer was that we are typical
teenagers. \\'hat's t~ · pical? You
will ha\'C to ask her\\ hen you give
in to her smi le the next time you
spend your nickels.
"Can I ha,·e just a little more?"

Cheerful!\· i\lrs. Clarence Reiter
serves the hungry students. Although she is from Paddock Lake,
her daughter Sandra attends St.
Joe's. \\ 'hile swimming at Paddock Lake this summer, maybe
vou will see Mrs. Reiter.
Tomorrow when you go to get
your lunch which one of these
~,·omen ,,·ill help you? Take a
good look; recognize her?

John Lundberg

These ladies play an important role in the period most loved by SJH
students: lunch period. From left to right: Mrs. Christine Amo, Mrs. Laura
Van Wie, Mrs. Clarence Reiter, Mrs. Mary Cardinali, and fr . Marion
Madsen.

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How do you think SJHS as
a school has been affected
by the class of '61'?
The attitude of the class of "61" as a
whole, toward school spirit and the like
is about ftfty-ftfty. Half of the kids will
come to just the things that are free and
never join in anything that requires
work. However, we also have those that
are football players, cheerleaders, homeroom representatives, etc., who will join
in and give a hand to just about everything that comes along-the things that
require work as well as those that are
just for fun.
Gene Dosemagen 113

The class of "61 " has added good
and bad points. The spirit of the class
on the whole isn't too good, but I th ink
some of the best leaders have come from
this class.
Jani ce Wilson 104

The students of this school will not
long remember us, as individuals, but
the school and its future students will
not forget the things we have accomplished here and the traditions we have
set here. It has been put to us and we
have done what we cou Id. But is it
enough? Could we have done just a
little more?
Tim Tully 101

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Since I' m a member of the pioneer
class of SJHS, I feel like a true part in
the history of the school. Entering high
school as a freshman was something
new and different for me, just as SJHS ,
at the same time, was something new
and different in the city of Kenosha .
We've grown up together and it is truly
an honor to be a member of the class
which will be the first to complete their
four years of education here.
Peggy Hoar 112

It has been the responsibility of the
class of 196 l at SJHS to set the standards
for future classes. In many different
fields-dramatic, debate, sodality, sports,
etc.-we have done the foundation work.
To a certain extent we of our enthusiasm
and ability to accept responsibility these
programs are well started. I think our
Junior Class has done an exceptionally
fine job. Now it is up to the future
classes to carry on what we have started.

Ga il Schmitz 103
This class is the one that is making
SJHS the way it w ill go down in history.
We were given the chance to form the
first Catholic high school in Kenosha , and
we are all proud. We are the class who
is going through the first four years;
which is really the school. We should
and will be ready to receive the respect
we w ill be given by future students of
SJHS .
Arleen Wolfe 103

Augie Ridolfi 105
There would be 258 more places if
we wouldn't be here, more food for the
sophomores and freshmen, no need for
so many parking lots, a few "holes" in
the athletic department and quite a bit
of difficulty in getting this issue of the
paper out.
Neglecting these trivial points, however, the class of "61" has definitely affected SJHS. Thru its school spirit, its
loyalty in activities, and the willingness
of each student to make SJHS the "best"
the Junior Class has written a lasting
page in the history of SJ HS.

Kathy Bydalek 104
They haven't given much spirit-wise,
but scholastically they have done a great
deal.
Mary Poba r 103

How has SJHS as a school affected the students of the
class of '61 ' ?
This being my first year here, although I am a junior, I was dee p ly impressed with this school and its faculty.
I have had conferences with some of the
faculty, and I've reall y learned what it
is to be a st udent and acqu ire the education that we are getting. As I get older
I finally rea lize what an educatio n is. I
realize that without an education one
cannot even be a ditch-digger nowadays.
I know tha t I want an ed uca t ion. I a lso
know that my futur e occu pa tion w ill require a g re at a mount of education.

Bob Fulmer 104
The class of '61' are gaining a greater
sense of responsibility and much more
respect, not only for ourselves, but for
our fellow students and facul ty . I feel
that I and students of my class a re not
having as much troub le with the d emerit
system as we did in the first and second
years. This means that we are beginning
to mature as we strive forward.

I don't think the school has gained
much besides another graduating class.

The class of "61" has been affected
individually. It all depends upon the
persons attitude toward the school. If
the person has a wrong, dingy attitude
toward his school and fellow students,
he will not be affected by any one or
anything; on the other hand, if the person has a glorious attitude toward SJHS
he will be greatly affected.

Gene Willems 113

Mary Selear 105
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The class of '61 ' has grown w ith the
school not only scholastically but extracu rricu la rly forming the backbone of
most school activities. The students feel
pride in the fact that the corridors are
now cluttered with new students rather
than wires and planks. The juniors, as
charter class, prove the excellence not
only of the school but of the staff.
Tom Walkush 113

I take the 5th Amendment.

John Kohlmeier 101

. . . by teaching them cooperation
and friendliness. Both will do greatly
to help them after high school and now.
The class of '61' is growing closer to one
another as the years pass. I think they
have improved greatly.
Marie Rosko 105

Seniors Disagree
On "Experimental'
Religion Classes

Alumni News
... in about 1965
Let's focus our thoughts on
th e future and visualize what our
alumni news might look like in
1965 ...
Congratulations go to l\1lTZl
COX who has made her first million. She has been planting rubber
bands and growing them into tubeless tires.
KEN \VEDEIKES has been
held up in S"vitzerland on his trip
around the world. He left in 1960,
but has had a lot of bike trouble.
BUZZ HELLER never did become a dentist, but he puts in a lot
of fillings-he makes bismarks.
RITA PETRETTI always
wanted to work undercover, and
recently she made it. She fell into
a manhole.
DAROU) FREDRICK has done
remarkably well in the butter business. It seems he sells it to the Better Ball Point Pen Co. who use it
in testing their pens.
Great News! After five years,
SUE LI TDE 1A
and JULIE
i\10RRISSEY ha\·e been found in
the Empire State Building. They
got lost in 1ay, 1960, when they
took their senior trip.
SUE ZEYEN is sick in bed, recovering from a recurrence of
some childhood disease, chicken
pox, l belicYe it's called.
The 1960 alumni certainly left us
a lot: many memories; an excellent
cook for our cafeteria, SAM FASULO; and FRED \VER VE-still
in the detention room.

Attention, Tourists!
A 35 mm camera, two transistor
radios, and a pair of binoculars.
Sound attracti\·e?
Attention one-hundred-twelve
tourists to \\'ashington D.C. and
Xew York! The prize you liked
may be yours. Challenge, in cooperation \\'ith the United Photo
Service Shop Incorporated, 5729
6th Avenue, is sponsoring a tour
photo contest. Photographs
snapped on the trip are eligible
for entry in one of four categories: scenic, historical, person-ality,
or miscellaneous.
Photographic skill and content
will be the basis for judgment.
Judges will be selected by United
Photo's chairman, Mr. James Priddis.
Mr. Priddis has also offered discounts on film and other photographic equipment purchases made
at the United Photo shop by SJHS
students making the \Vashington?\' cw York trip. Winners' entries
will be printed (perhaps in the Kenosha Evening News) and the attracti\'c a\\ ards named abo\·c will
be gi\·cn for the top pictures in
each group.

During the course of this school
year the seniors have participated
in a so-called "experiment", that of
separating the girls and boys into
two large religion classes. The idea
originated from J. Lloyd Trump
and its purpose was to show that a
large group of people can be educated just as effecti\·cly as a group
of 30. Large group instruction was
also seen as a preparation for
college.

Bob Fanning

Jim O'Neill, was it what you said that made Mr. Vern Dietel, B. & O.
agent, look that way; or could it be the thought of a trip with SJHS students that perplexes him?

Washington - New York Tourists
Get Tips from B & 0 Agent
will accompany the group.
Travel tips such as where to reset watches, bringing a minimum
of $10 for spending money, and
limiting luggage to one piece were
offered to insure an enjoyable trip.

"All aboard for \Vashington,
e'.\ York, and all points East!"
This will be the call ringing
through the ears of 112 seniors and
juniors of St. Joe's as they board
the Baltimore and Ohio, May 3,
for the Washington-New York
tour!
Students taking this trip were
gi\'en a short talk March 10 and
shown a brief travelog by Mr.
Vern Dietel, travel agent from the
B. & 0. Students received a sheet
of typed instructions and information regarding the trip. Afterwards, Mr. Dietel was interviewed
by the journalism class.
"Getting people to patronize the
B & 0 is our main objective in
offering these tours," \\'as Ir. Dietel's explanation.
St. Joe's tourists will stay at the
Annapolis Hotel during the twoday stay in \Nashington and at the
Edison Hotel in New York for a
day and a half. A railroad representative and ten faculty members

B & 0 railroad has sponsored
these "package tours" for the last
25 years. In one year more than
150,000 people take advantage of
these excursions. A group of 20 or
more is sufficient and other organizations such as Boy and Girl Scouts
have made use of the opportunity.
1aturally the students are expected to follow all the rules set
forth in the student instruction
sheets. An assembly concerning
school polic~ · regarding the trip
will be held shortly before the
date of departure. As i\ 1r. Dietel
pointed out-"\Vhether or not this
trip will be offered to SJHS sn1dents again next year depends, I
suppose, on the behaYior of this
year's participants."

Fathers savs that it is hard to
conduct a la;ge class but discipline
is no problem. Some complications
resulted from the use of the little
theater so the cafeteria was
equipped with microphone and
found to be more suitable. Problems in the teaching of such a large
class are eye contact, the possibility of students doing homework,
inattention and day-dreaming.
This type of experiment has
been used at St. Catherine's for the
sciences and Divine Savior for religion. It is Fr. Olley's opinion
that the reason the students ha\'e
not responded or liked it is because
they are used to smaller classes.
ext ~·ear the experiment will be
continued in the study hall taught
by Fr. Olley.
MARK WHITESIDE'S opinion was that it was "a perfect idea
-Fr. Ollev's no doubt." SUE
ZEYE T thi;1ks "It's a good idea."
MITZI COX thinks it's not a good
idea because the full attention of
the class cannot be obtained.
PAT RADIGA T feels there 1s
not enough personal contact; quite
like the education of the massesand DOLLY LA\VRENCE says,
"Because of the large class, the
temptation to fool around is too
great; then discipline has to be given on a large scale." All in all the
students of next :·ear can look forward to an "opinion raising" class.

Roving Reporter Quizzes Tourists
Have you been wondering what
our ro\'ing reporter was asking of
those students going on the trip?
The question:
\Vhat are you looking forward
to most on your trip to \Vashington and cw York?
The ans\\'ers:
Dave Heyden : E\·cn though I
10\·e her very much, getting away
from Sister Adolphus.
Eddie Kertz: Climbing down the
fire escape of the hotel and taking
a walk down Broadwa~".
John Regner: Climbing up the
\i\Tashington Monument.

Tom Lea : Getting away from
"hazardous experiences" at school
and at home.
Carol Crossin : Seeing the United
ations Building.
Mary Ellen Fish : Seeing the National Shrine of the Immaculate
Conception.
Pat Gaffney: Seeing Annapolis if
\\'e can take a detour.
Pat Tyunaitis: Seeing all the skyscrapers.
Gail Schmitz: 1 o demerits!
Dennis Chiappetta : rothing. l
want my ten dollars back.
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Ann St. Louis: Getting
from .\1r. 1atrise.

away

Judy Ann Hackbarth : Climbing
all the stairs in the Empire State
Building.
Sandy Pohlman : l'll ne\'er tell.
Paul Defazio: I always dreamed
of jumping off the Empire State
Building.
Janice Wilson : Coming home.
Julianne Rack : Greenwich Village.
Pam Stella: o history panels.
Mary Smith : Shopping at aks
Fifth venue.

Lancer Baseball Squad
Strives To Break Jinx
\Nill the Lancer "Nine" break
the "sophomore jinx" that has
plagued SJ HS (football and basketball) teams in this year's conference play?
"\V c want to return to l\1enasha
to win the state tournament this
vcar," commented Coach Bob
Radigan at a recent organizational
meeting held for the baseball team.

John Lundberg

Not to be kept indoors by the weather, anxious baseball lettermen,
Eddie Kertz, Gene Gelsone, Ron Spitzer, and Tony Cravotta venture
outdoors for a little spring(?) monkey business.

Matmen Place Third
In State Tourney
SJHS wrestling team took third
place in the \Visconsin Catholic
\\' restling Tournament March 19,
missing second place by only three
points.
Catholic Memorial captured first
for the second straight year and
Don Bosco finished second. Both
of these teams were defeated b;.·
St. Joseph during the regular season. The Lancers scored the most
pins, 23, of the seven entrants.
Lancer wrestlers placing second
in their weight classes were Bob
Karabetsos, Ken W edeikes, and
Paul Zohlcn. 1embers taking third
were Ralph DiChristophcr, Bob
Mitchell, Neil Pietrangelli, John
Sturycz, and Clete Willems.
"There's something we can be
proud of," commented Coach

Ron Spitzer Named
Most Valuable Player
SJHS cafeteria was the scene
\Vcdnesday, larch 23, as the C'ptown Businessmen's Association
honored the players of this year's
basketball and wrestling teams.
The main speaker was Father
John Holbrook, chairman of the
Board of Athletics at Marquette
C'nivcrsity.
After dinner the banquet moved
to the auditorium where Ron Spitzer received the "Most Valuable
basketball player" trophy.

Frank Matrise. "This fine team is
dominated bv underclassmen. The
onlv senior~ are Wedeikes, DiCh;istopher, Karabetsos, and Rich
Lang. Yet they competed with and
bent all but two of Wisconsin's top
rated teams."

Practice has been delayed by the
abundant snowfall this year and no
games have been scheduled as yet.
Although the team has suffered the
loss of many of last year's starters,
the team stands a good chance to
keep its conference title.
At the moment most positions
will be well manned with returning lettermen: Tony Cravotta
(team captain) at first base, Ron
Spitzer at second, and Gene Gelsone at third. Shortstop and the
outfield will be filled by some of
last year's substitutes. The only
apparent weak spot on the team
is the pitching staff, with Eddie
Kertz the only returning letterman

64 Traci{. Team Members
Prepare for Full Schedule
Hurdlers, high jumpers, pole vaulters, broad jumpers, shot putters,
discus throwers-these are only a
few of the positions that will make
up the Lancers' first track team
when they take to Lakefront stadium this spring to battle surrounding high schools.
Sixty-four members of the team
under Coaches Bob Carbone and
Dick Johnson will participate in
both track and field events. Field
events consist of pole vault, high
jump, broad jump, shot put, and
discus.
Track events arc the 100 and 220
yard dash, the 440 vard (quarter
;11ilc), 880 yard (haif mile) runs,

the mile run, high hurdles, and the
180 \'ard low hurdles.
These individuals compete to receive points for their teams according to placement in the event.
The 880 yard relay and the one
mile medley are the only events
in which a team of four men run,
each taking up a position on the
track.
J.O.

TRACK SCHEDULE
A
April 3 Marquette (indoor )
H
April 27 Waukesha Memorial
H
April 30 St. Catherine
May 4
Sa~m Cenk~
A
Dominican
H
May 7
A
May 28 Waukesha Memorial
(Marquette)
May 22 State Meet

in that department and a fc>v
prospects from last year. It is apparent that Kertz will sec a lot of
action this \'Car.
Last yea; predictions were that
the Lancers would win the conference title and they did. Again
predictions arc that the Lancers
will win and we hope they are
repetitious.
J.O.

Lancer Cagers

End With Win
Lancer cagers wound up their
'59-60 season with a win by post-

ing a 2- l record in the regional
tournament.
St. Mary's of Burlington provided the first opposition and the
Lancers defeated them 59-50. Pat
McAieer contributed 20 points to
grab St. Joseph scoring honors and
Dick Kelly of St. Mary's hit 23
points for the Hilltoppers.
In the semi-final game St. Catherine's of Racine, the defending
state champions, dumped the Lancers 89-3 I.
Completely overpowering St.
Joseph's, the Angels were successful on 53 per cent of their shots.
Center Tom Cramer was high
scorer for St. Catherine's with 16
points, while McAlccr was high
for the Lancers with 12 baskets.
Bv beating St. Bonaventure
60-5.5 in the consolation game, the
Lancers secured third place in the
i:ournament. St. Joseph's dominated
the game throughout and it was
only in the later minutes that the
Bonnies caught fire.
Bob Heller was high man for the
Lancers with I 6 points and McAlccr followed with 15. Bob Gicnko scored 21 points for the Bonmes.
D.R.

Letters ""ere presented to 26
basketball and wrestling atheletes.
Sophomores and Freshmen also rccei\'ed monograms.
amed as next year's captains
for the basketball and wrestling
teams were Pat McAlccr and Paul
Zohlen respectively.

Bob Bode and Bob Fanning

Pictured is a little of the practice and preparation being made by the track team .. Allan Eppers c:in .do
little but hope as he stretches over the hurdle, as Coach Johnson gives a few pomters to Ray Prmc1pe
and Steve Glowacki.

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Sister Francis Xavier
Receives Biology Grant
Sister Francis Xavier has recently received a ' ational Science
Foundation grant in the field of
Biology. The four-week course in
Laboratory training will be held
at St. Mary's College in \Vinona,
Minnesota, from July 5 to August
2. Sister is the third SJHS teacher
to receive a science grant this year.
Brother Charles, director of the
Summer Institute, has each week
set aside for a special field of biology. Main topics for the course
will be Cells and Tissues, Physiological Process in Plants, Live
Plants and Animals for the classroom, and Limnological Methods
in Plants. For each topic a special
lecture will be given.
Sister's comment on this honor
was, "Knowing Brother Charles, I
know even· minute will be used to
its utmost, and l 'm especially looking forward to being under his instruction."

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HALLENGE

Vo1.. 2, No. 8

ST. JosEPH H1GH SCHOOL, KE1'0SIIA, \V1sco....-s1"

Music Department Presents
Successful Spring Concert
SJHS's select mixed chorus and
brnd presented their second annual
Spring Concert, Sunday, May 15,
at 8 p.m. in the auditorium.
The program included a variety
of classical and popular songs.
Select Mixed Chorus presented
among other selections, the Hallelujah from "Mou nt of Olives," by
Beethoven. The Girls' Chorus featured "Ave Maria", by Kodaly.
Lancettes sang "Black is the Color
of My True Love's Hair", and "Be
Kind to Your Parents."

The Boys Chorus entertained
with song excerpts from popular
Broadway musicals.
The band presented many old
and new favorites. The comparatively new extension of the concert band, organized for the purpose of performing at SJHS
dances, played such mood pieces
as "Tuxedo Junction" and "Autumn Leaves".
The concert band presented
"Chorale and Prelude", "Sarabande", a modern arrangement of
"Praeludium", and a "Little Suite
for Band".

Graduation Highlights Week;
Seniors Feted at Dinner-Dance
Climaxing its last year at St. Joseph, the senior class will participate in one last, hectic, but happy
week, May 22-29. Highlighting the
week will be the graduation ceremonies, a dinner-dance, senior trip,
and honors convocation.
So the seniors can relax and pick
up a few memories here and there,
the junior class is putting on a
dinner-dance, entitled Memor_\'
Lane, in their honor. This will
be held on fav 25 in the main
lobbv of the school. The seniors
are preparing for this by working
up a good appetite for turkey and
fun.
One day, May 23, has been set

aside for the senior trip. The final
choice was picked from a conglomeration of ideas. 1f nothing
unforseen happens, the seniors will
go to Milwaukee for the viewing
of "Ben Hur." As an alternate
choice, they voted to attend a stage
play in Chicago.
The actual graduation ceremonies will be held on Sunday, J\la_\'
29. Speaker for the afternoon will
be the Most Reverend Roman Atkielski, auxiliary bishop in the
1ilwaukee Archdiocese. The seniors will file into the auditorium
at approximately 3 p.m. Bishop
Atkielski will then address the students. The diplomas will be gi,·en

Juniors Attain Highest Percentage
On Third Quarter Honor Roll
Topping the other classes with
44.4 percent of their student bod~·
on the honor roll, the juniors
nosed out the freshmen, who had
a 41.4 percent. Seniors placed 39
percent on the honor roll while
the sophomores had a 35.2 percentage.
Seniors attaining first honors
''ere: Nancv Ruffio, Charles Hall,
and J can C;ntwell.
Qualif)·ing juniors with a 93 or
abo ,·e a,·erage were: Larry Gaydos, Tim Lawler, Gertrude Deom,
Jud van n Hackbarth, Jeanne Kamicn i ~cki, Jud ith Schaaf, Sandra Kelsev, Susan Peterson, 1arv Conrad,
Ja-mes Fonk, Theresa .Tillman,

Sonya Zalubowski, and
l ary
Anne \ Vade.
Rating first honors in the sophomore class were : Geraldine A lteri,
Pamela Hol)·, Nicholas Michlcr,
James Vidas, Barbara Kluka, James
Tappa, Ju dith Hansen, Joyce
Frederick, Bonita Hansen, Judith
Smith, John Bjork, Sandra Reitter,
rnd C loria T homas.
In the freshman class, first honors went to: George Balinsky,
Claire Fredericksen, Linda 1oddes, Timothy Betchel, Carol Castaldi, John J\1ikulsky, J\larcia
Adamson, Johanna Gall o, i\lary
Cox, Stephen Delany, and Joan
Pietrangeli.

out and honors and scholarships
will be presented, followed by the
recessional.
Jn appreciation of the many
wonderful things gi,·en to them,
the seniors are giving an electronic
copymaker to the school. The machine makes an exact copy of everything from letters to blueprints
and photographs in an_\' color desired.

MAY, 1960

Art Students
Exhibit Work
SJHS's third annual Art Fair
will be held Ma\' 15 - 22 in the
school fover. All students from
the Art I, II, and lll classes, and
the Art Craft classes ·will participate in this event.
Tentative plan is to ha,·e each
student exhibit two or three pieces
of work. There will be no prizes
or com petition because it is held
that everv one is an artist in his
own right.
J\1an_\' types of art work will be
exhibited : paper scu lpture, oil, "''ater color, tempera, graphic arts,
ceramics, charcoal, sculpture, and
other media.
An open house is planned for
parents, friends, and neighboring
schools. All students are im·ited
to ,·ie\v the work of their fellow
students.
Thanks from the "Challenge"
The editor of the "Challenge" would like to thank
all those who helped in any
way in putting out this year's
paper. Both faculty and students have been wonderfully
cooperative. On behalf of the
entire staff, she expresses her
appreciation to the Brothers
of the Franciscan Marytown
Press, whose patience and
help have been invaluable.

Seniors Honored at Awards Assembly;
Student Achievements Recognized
Crowning the hard work and
achievements of this year will be
an awards assembl~· , J\1ay 27.
' anc~· Ruffio is the recipient of
the Bausch and Lomb Science
Award.
1\'lichaeline Seianas was awarded
third place and 60 in the Elk Club
,\ lost Valuable Student Contest.
Judy Conrad recei,·ed honorable
mention in the Elks Club Youth
Leadership Contest.
Kiwanis Club presented certificate of excellence to SJHS seniors
in the following fields: English,
Rita Petretti; Foreign Language,
Jud_\· Conrad; Science, TanC_\' Rufflo; i\ lath, Charles Hall; Social
Science, Laurin Le Tart; Art, Jean
Cantwell; and Business, Joan Gio,·anelli.
wards gi,·en to all classes will
be pins for those on first honor roll
for three quarters; math awards
for the highest math student in
each class and winners of the
'ational i\lath Contest. Science
awards will go ro the highest in

chemistry, physics, biology, and
general science, and to winners in
the science fair.
English awards include the highest a,·erage in each class, the N04'1A spelling a\\·ards, and the Tational English Grammar a'' ards.
wards " ill be gi\'en for the highest a\·erage in Latin I, 11, III and
lV, Spanish, and French, and for
the national language contests;
business awards for the highest
percentage in bookkeeping, shorthand, and t_\·ping; and, a Home
Economics award.
"ards for outstanding achie\'emcnts in other fields will be medals
and trophies for indi,·idual placing from the National Forensics
League; 1\ I usic a\\·ards from District and State \\ 'isconsin :\I usic
Associations, select chorus a\\ ards
and band awards. Scn·ice awards
will recognize outstanding fidelit)'
in performing long-term responsibilities, perfect attendance, and
ath lctic prcl\\·ess.

Our Spirit Speaks
I am a spirit, the spirit of St. Joseph
High School, vague and hazy to you. Yet,
I have much to say. For three years you
have been with me. I have experienced
with you the usual but unique joys and
sorrows of adolescence . I was here as
you grew from yesterday's g igg Iing
ninth grader to the young adult of today.
Each past day has molded you into what
you are and what you will be.
You have met with defeat and loss
in these years . Life itself has revealed
her powers to you. Failure and discouragement are now familiar to you. Although by no means hardened and
calloused to the world, you are ready to
challenge her, to stand by your convictions against her "logical" arguments.
For three years you have lashed out
at the stiff discipline and schooling you
received. Many times you felt that you
were being treated unjustly. How much
you've grown in knowledge and self-discipline, though . You must come to realize
that the world is not a playpen where
stomping your feet accomplishes great
aims .
Yes, I am the spirit of St . Joseph's.
Out of the past I came to step with you
into the future . I will be with you for all
the tomorrows in which you attend colleges and universities, with you as your
mind is challenged beyoud what it was
here. I will be with you as you raise families bonded by love or separated by
hate, in huge factories, small stores, in
convents, monasteries, wherever you
take me, I will be. I will be with you in
all of your greatness, in your mediocrity,
too. Your future and mine, too, lie here
in your hands.
Judy Conrad

DINNfR

A MAY-25
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Does Lazy Fun or Daily Duty
Becl~on You This Summer?
Crowd at the beach lies soaking up
the sun, feeling the cool spray of an occasional wave, and a portable radio
blares ballad and beat.
Meanwhile, back at the office, harried typists and clerks work frantically
under the monotonous drone of an inefficient fan.
These are two sides of the summer
picture. Which one do you or will you
fit into?
Many students face the prospect of
a long, empty summer. They shrug off
any suggestion of a job simply because
they have no immediate need for any
extra cash. But the value of a summer
job is not merely monetary . As a member of the working force, a student gains
experience in dealing with others, in
working under pressure, in accepting responsibility, and in managing his earnings .
For the high school boy or girl who

But one member is not a group.
What does real participation mean for
h :m?
It is not that state of "monkey-business" where many of the students give
half of their efforts a little of the time,
and a few of the students give all of
their efforts all of the time.
Real participation has four qualities

Published by the students
of St. Joseph High School
Vol. 2, No. 8

that mark it off from its counterfeit. It
is generous: it gives from a sincere desire
to give. It is constant: it is not "here
today and gone tomorrow." It is free:
no return is expected. Finally, it is consistent: those who rely on it know it is
a steady enthusiasm .
Participation is never measured by
the noise made, the dust stirred, the
prizes won . Participation lies in the freedcm, generosity, constancy, and consistency of each small sound, each small
grain of dust, each member of the group
moving as one with the whole body .
Robert Heller
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Rita Petretti

The Challenge

More to Participation
Than Meets the Eye
Things need doing for the group,
and somehow they get done. The group
achieves. One member did nothing, but
things got done . One member did a
great deal, and things got done. Participation gets things done in a group.

is not needed at home , the part-time
summer job is ideal. He can hold a job,
has time for minor household duties, and
can still enjoy at least a minimum of
summer fun . And there's no telling to
what good use he can put his earnings.
But let's move from the summer to
the school year. Here , perhaps, lies the
greatest problem concerning student employment. Buoyed by the feeling of independence gained during a summer of
working, the student continues to hold
a job, regardless of his need , sometimes
at the expense of health, grades, and
other school activities . He must come to
the realization that first things come first,
and that his work as a student is more
important now than anything else he
might venture to undertake.
Where will you be this summer, at
the beach or in the office?

May, 1960

Rita Petretti
EDITOR .. . .
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
News . . . . . . . . . . . .
Laurin LeTart
Editorial. .................. Judy Conrad
Lucille Moretti
Jo-pinions
Michaelene Seianas
Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Wientjes
Kathy Riley
Features . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Kae Hawkins
Sports
Dennis Rutkowski
EXCHANGE EDITORS
Carolyn Warner
Carol Smith
John Lundberg
PHOTOGRAPHER
ARTISTS ............... . .. . . Jean Cantwell
Barbara Sieger
REPORTETIS . . Dick Engstrom , Sonya Zalubowski , Jim O'Neill, Andrea
Mantineo, Carol Crossin, Marilyn Cipolla, Mary Lynn
Kulesh.
TYPISTS ... Joan Giovanelli, Mary Wientjes

Faculty Thanks Helpful Seniors

Resolution on Civil Rights and Segregation

May 29 will be a <lay when the
seniors will close the door of high
school and open the door to the
world. Behind them, as they descend the last few steps, arc. their
accomplishments-the good which
they did. These deeds rate a special thanks, and so the facultv
\vould like to express its appreci;tion to the following seniors for
the things the:· did, "above and beyond the call of duty."
Thank \ ' OU:
KATHY ZUFFA, MITZI COX,
and DOLLY LA WRE CE for
aiding in the priest's offices
throughout the year.
MIKE MADURA for vour assistance in Father Ollcv's ;>fficc, and
BILL LAMACCH.IA for your
"messenger service."
A CY TONIOLO and VERO ' ICA ZALUBO\VSKl for
giving up Saturdays to come and
correct tests.
PAT TYUNAITIS for your
ever faithful messenger and deli\'er:· service, class participation,
and never-failing courteous offerings of assistance.
GAIL BECKER and l\IARY
ELLEN FISH for keeping the 206
bulletin board well-dressed, and
also, for your outstanding Sodality
work.
JUDY SEIBERLICH for :·our
dail:· assistance in helping our foreign student "ith her sociology.
DICK ENGSTROJ\1 and LAURI
LET ART for :·our willingness to do extra work and for
helping AI\'DY decipher our
American ways.
JUDY CONRAD for the endless hours of devotion to Sodality,
and to all the other unselfish things
:·ou strove to accomplish.
BETH \NH !TE for \·our accurate minutes, and effective participation in all Se>dality meetings.
GERRY HENDERLITER for
your willingness to help in an:·
capacity, and for helping other
students with their studies.

l\1ARY KAY SMITH for assuming many unpleasant responsibilities, backing all worthwhile acti vitics, and taking care of the
homeroom bulletin board.
MARY ELLEN SMOLINSKI
for showing outstanding reliabilit\'
and responsibilitv in the care ~f
the gowns, both for graduation
and choir.
SANDRA HANSE T and Sl.JE
ZEYEN for collecting attendance
charts and distributing absentee
slips.
JOY JOH 'SON for gi\·ing an
hour every day to typing catalogue cards for the school library.
CENE GELSONE for promoting school spirit and showing genuine cooperation in school activities.
And, of course, these little words
can scarccl:• state the faculty's and
seniors' appreciation to their "leaders".
BOB HELLER, student council
president; RITA PETRETTI, editor of the school paper; and class
officers, CHUCK HALL, BUZZ
HELLER, NANCY RUFFLO,
and ,\IAR Y GLEMBOCKI.
To all of you, and to those
whose deeds were so secret c\·en
the faculty didn't notice them, a
heart\' "Mav God Reward You!"

Challenge Picks
Staff For '60

Last year's juniors are shown ra1smg money for the Junior-Senior dinner-dance. Working hard to give the
class of '59 a good time are Marilyn Fredrick, Chuck Hall, Rita Petretti, Dolly Lawrence, Ralph DiChristopher,
Pat Bobusch, and Sue Pezdir.

l\1arilyn Cipolla will be striving to take O\'Cr Rita Pctrctti's efficient management of the CHALLE ' GE when the fall issues arc
in the making. "She has the journalism know-how and the qualities
of leadership which the job demands," said Sister 1\1. Colu mcillc,
paper moderator, in announcing
the new staff.
Page editors will be Sande Kclsc:·, news; Son)'a Zalubowski, features; Sue Peterson and i\ lary Conrad, editorials; lary L:·nn Kulesh,
jo-pinions; Janine Ramacci, prisms;
Judyanne Hackbarth, pictures; and
Jim O'Neill, sports.

The Young Christian Students, an international social action
movement of Catholic college students, held a regional study weekend
at Alvcrno College in Milwaukee on Saturday and Sunday, March 26 and
27. Their discussions centered on ci\·il rights and segregation problems.
' incty-two students from the following colleges drC\\ up a resolution
embodying their conclusions: Alverno and 1\lount \1ary Colleges in
Milwaukee; Saint Xavier and Mundelein Colleges in Chicago; College of
Saint Teresa in \Vinona, ,\1inncsota; Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa;
and the Cnivcrsit)' of '\.'otre Dame. The students did not speak as rcprescntati\'cs of their respective colleges, but as 111cmbcrs of the Young
Christian Students. The resolution is as folio\\ s:
\Ve, the Young Christian Students, recognizing that racial discrimination
exists in both the North and S:>Uth, condemn an:· such \·iolations
of human dignity.
\Ve believe that such discrimination is incompatible with the basic Christian doctrine of lo\'C.
vV c urge State and national legislators to initiate strong 111casurcs \\ hich
will lead to racial justice; and we pledge our support of these
mcasu res.
\\'c as students especially· condemn discriminator:· practices in the area
of education, such as biased admission and housing policies and
expulsion of students \\ho C'\hibit support of integration.
\\"c sympathi7.c deeply· with students who arc being persecuted for attempting to exercise their rights as human beings through protest
marches, lunch counter sit-ins, and picketing.
We particularly endorse the principles of peaceful resistance.
\V c commit oursch-cs, as students from all areas of the nation, to attack
discrimination and to work towards establishing social justice.
THE YOL''\.'C CHRISTIAN STCDE. ·rs
J\larch 26, 1960

Photography Club Ends Active Year
"Get a littl e closer please, and the
girl at the end, switch places with
this one in front." These instructions are ones that we might hear
fro111 a Photograph:· Club member
as he pictures an important school
affair. The club, now in its second
year, has eighteen 111embcrs. John
Lundberg the president, is the on!:·
senior, and the others arc frcsh111cn
and sop hom ores. Filling these
ranks are: Pam Ho!:-, Robert
Bode, Bob Fanning, Orlando lnfusino, Anthony Adamski, i\ lary
Pitsch, Terri Phan nestill, ,\ laurccn

Keane, \\' illiam L:·ons, Sue Ann
i\ lattncr, Sherr) Pfarr, Jay·nc Arentz, Penn:· Sadorf.
Taking and dc\·cloping pictures
for the CHALLFNCE is the
club's main purpose. Howc,·cr, it
is not the onl\' one. ,\lcmbcrs also
do pri\'atc work, besides learning
how to use the press camera, and
print and enlarge pictures. ,\ lcctings arc held once a \\eek in room
320. This room is equipped \\·ith
the latest photo equipment, thus
offering access to the 111cmbcrs
3

who don't own their O\\ n equipment.
Sister Francis .Xa\·icr, the director of the club, is proud of the
punctuality and accuracy the
members ha\·c maintained in their
assignments. She say·s, "l wish to
express Ill)' gratitude for the aftcrschool time that the member spent
on the paper. l hope the present
members continue nc-..:t y car, and
an\·onc with true interest and extra
time is encouraged to join the club
next September."

Senior Lynne Pfeiffer, assisted by
her sister Dana, presented an original piano recital March 6. Mary
Ellen Fish, also a senior, is seen rehearsing for her recital, which she
presented in the Little The ater
March 20.

William Lyons

REMEMBRANCES

Judging by this picture, the entire DeFazio
family is very interested in " Humidity and
Their Lives". And no wonder-this exhibit
won rncond place for Paul DeFazio in the
physics division of the SJHS Science Fair.

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ister Stanisia, physics instructor, checks over her
charts and graphs in preparation for the knowledgehungry physics students.
John Lundberg

These girls might well be called the
"seven lone survivors of Latin" as
they are the only ones who persevered
in the difficult course for four years.
Instructed by Sister Zoe, these seniors
are, from I. to r. Diane Keane, Lucille
Moretti, Gail Becker, Mary Ellen Fish ,
Jean Cantwell, Judy Seiberlich and
Judy Conrad.

William Lyons

4

And you call this a kissing booth?
Buzzy H eller and Pat Bobusch appear
awfu ll y anxious to catch the expression on this victim·s face, while Louise
Mueller, Judy Conrad and Judy
Getschman are amused by it. However, Mary Lee Ruffolo is a bit apprehensive.

John Lundberg

OF A FULL YEAR ...
Tony Adamski

John Lundberg works busily developing pictures for the final issue of the
CHALLENGE. John, president of the SJHS Photography C lub, has contributed much during the year to the success of the paper's picture pages.

Tony Adamski

Now what were you saying, Orlyn? Cheerleader Orlyn Faraca seems eager to express her views
on the Basketball Banquet to ue Zeyen, Joanne Ruffolo, and Kathy White. However, Mary
Massie seems more interested in the camera.

John Lundberg

Sister, what·s that you're brewing up?
Be careful-it could be dangerous!
Sister Phyllis, senior chemistry instructor, is seen preparing a new experiment.

Sue Zeyen and Rita Tyson, what is the
chemistry class up to now?
am Fasulo doesn 't seem too sure either as he
momentarily deserts his bunsen burner to obtain help from Bob Hoey and
Dick Adamson.
John Lundberg

5

John Fishbach and John Milkowski consult
their instruction booklets as they prepare
the sound equipment for "Mrs. McThing."

These art students, obviously certain how to
go about pain ting the stage scenery for
"Mrs. McThing", work diligently at the task.
The only one who seems a bit undecided as
to "what comes first" is Pat Kueny.

William Dorsey

Robert Fanning

Could this possibly be the creature from beyond and his sidekicks? Hmmm-no.
Guess it's only Mark Whiteside, Rich Lang and Tom Wisniewski, whom we hear
have been boosting the play patron drive by impersonating African exchange
students. Any resemblance to actual Africans, living or dead , is purely coincidental.

In this scene from "Mrs. McThing", Tim Tully (as Poison Eddie Schellenbach), George Schroe·
der, and Gene Gelsone (double-cast as Dirty Joe McGinnis) interrogate Mimi (Mary Jo Parisea)
as Linda Reno (Mrs. Larue) watches.

6

Sister, what are you peeping at? Sister Benedicta tests the music department's new organ
as Sister Rosemarie watches intently.

Sisters Laurette and Felicia oversee
the office practice work of Jannifer
Jelier, Linda DeAngelis, Sandy Witkauskis, Kathy Fortino, Gloria Peterson, and Arlene Quinn.

William Lyons

John Lundberg

Sister Marilita, sociology instructor, and Sister Clement Mary, head of SJHS's home economics
department, are at their happiest when surrounded by the wealth of material found in the school
library.
William Lyons

Is so-and-so in school? Is Father Darnieder free
now? These and similar questions are answered
daily by the efficient office force. The two indispensable members of this group, Sister Edna
Marie and Mrs. Ruberg, are pictured here.

"Portrait of Cheerleaders".
From left to right these peppy girls are: (top row) Helen
Benuska, Sylvia Stec, Mary
Pobar, Maryanne Wade; (bottom row) Sue Zeyen,
ue
Pezdir and Mary DeFurio.

William Lyons

Mark Whiteside, seemingly an up-and-coming
teen-age singing star, sang a popular ballad,
"Take a Message to Mary", at Ia t year's banquet.

King Tony Cravotta escorted the lovely Queen
-Mary Kae Hawkins.

7

'Ihe decorating committee worked diligently on
fresh flower decorations the entire afternoon
just before the dinner dance. Here a small section of the committee- 'lary Wientjes, haron
Sartor and Kathy Riley-are een wiring iris
to the trellis.

J\larv Ann Abbott

Richard Adamson

Carol Althoff

Le Roy Anderson

Gail Becker

Richard Belleau

GRADUATES
James Burnett

James Burns

Annette Blasi

Judith Bobusch

Patricia Bobusch

largaret Bollendorf

John Brotcke

Alice Bruch

Jean Cant\\ ell

,\larilvn Chapman

Carol Chiappetta

Robert Clark

Judith Conrad

Mildred Cox

Anthony Cravotta

Carol Crossin

James Curtiss

i\1arion Dainko

Linda De Angelis

Joanne De Berge

8

Mary De Furio

Richard Del Frate

Ralph Di Christopher

John Doetsch

Richard Engstrom

Lawrence Ernst

Sam Fasulo

Jerald Fetzer

OF 1960

,\Ian· Ellen Fish

Kathleen Fortino

Darold Fredrick

1\ larilynne Fredrick

Judith Fu mo

Patricia Gaffne\'

Thomas Ga\\ loski

Eugene Gelsone

Joyce Gengembre

Judith Getschman

Thomas Getschman

Joan Gio,·anelli

,\ 1arv Glembocki

Patricia Glcrum

" 'illiam Green

Kathleen Griffin

Keith Guminger

Rita Haebig

9

Charles Hall

Sandra H anscn

Gerald l lartung

Judith Hasslinger

Mar)' C. llawkins

Robert Heller

Gerald Henderleiter

Robert Hoey

\ 1ary Jane lsermann

Jannifcr Jelier

Thomas Joerndt

Joy Johnson

Susan Kancian

Victoria Junas

Robert Karabetsos

Diane Keane

Karen Knight

Gerald Krajnak

\Villiam La i\lacchia

Sandra Lanctot

Richard Lang

] unc Laskv

Brian Law !er

Elizabeth Lawrence

Jeannine La\Hence

Laurin Le Tart

Bernard Lichter

Susan Lindemann

John Lundberg

Bonnie Lusignan

JO

Andrea /\lantineo

Joanne /\le Carthy

i\ lichael /\ladura

Cynthia

laegaard

Diane /\1ares

,\lichacl ,\ larifjeren

/\lar\' Lou \lars

i\ larjorie ,\Jauser

/\ 1ichael .\ lceter

Ronald 1\logensen

John \1ollman

Lucille \loretti

Timoth .\' 1\ 1oriartv
.

Julia /\ lorrissev

Louise /\lueller

Bernard ~avin

John O'Day·

Kathleen Olson

Joan Penza

Gloria Petersen

Rita Petretti

' ancy Petr\'

Susan Pezdir

Al\'lrne Pfeiffer

Ceorgeann Pinzger

Arlene Quinn

Patricia Radigan

Gerald Rauen

Kathleen Rile\·

Hett\ Roemer

II

\ lan Rosenbaum

.\lary Lee Ruffolo

0:ancy Ruffio

Dennis Rutkowski

Ronald Sablw

Anthon\' Salerno

Sandra Sandholm

,\Jary Lynn Schlater

Judith Seiberlich

J\lichaelene Seianas

Geraldine Selear

Stephen Seliga

Richard Sepanski

Donald Sershon

Carol Sherfinski

Darlene Shown

Adeline Sicilia

Barbara Sieger

Sandra Singer

Carol Smith

.\Ian· Catherine Smith

,\1:H\' Ellen Smolinski

Jane Stowe

Richard Suszko

Eveh·n Szurovecz

Donna Thomas

'-.: ancy Toniolo

Rita Tyson

Patricia Tyunaitis

Louann \' r.n Zilc

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\Villiam Von \\ 'aid

Virginia \Vadc

Carolyn \Varner

Kenneth \V cdcikcs

John \Vciss

,\ 1ichacl \Venning

Frederick \Vcl"\'c

James \Vcrwic

Elizabeth \\'hitc

,\ lark \\' hitcsidc

J\1ary Carol \Vicntjcs

Joyce \\'illkomm

Barbara \\ ' ilson

Thomas \ Visnicwski

Sandra \Vitkauskis

Patricia \\'ood

Veronica Zalubowski

Susan Zeyen

Senior pictures taken through
the courtesy of Marshall Studio.

Robert Zuchlsdorf

Kathleen Zuffa

Ronald Spitzer

Seniors not pictured Chester Gulan

Richard Hcnsgcn

James Hill

\ Villia111 1\ lerallo

Lonnie , ' cu

Dennis Porcaro

13

Gerald Beine

John Bruzas

George Kasparek

John .\ l artin

Jcan i\ le Do\\·cll

\\'alter

Leslie Thelen

Gerald \\'illiams

1111ons

What are your plans
after graduating from
St. Joseph?
Ater graduation I am going to Alverno College in Milwaukee. At present
I want to major in home economics and
minor in music. I choose Alverno because it is small, and friendly, and close
to home.
Lynne Pfeiffer 214

I will work for a while as assistant
librarian on the new book trailer.
Richard Belleau 206
Next September I plan to go to college to study interior decoration. Loretto
Heights College in Colorado has a good
art department and a new beautiful location.
Carol Crossin 214

I would like to see the United States
and then go into construction or some
other type of job.
Don Sherson 206
I plan to work for a year in an office.
Then I hope to be an airline reservationist.
Mitzi Cox 206

I plan on joining the United States
Army, and on going to a school there .
I'm not sure which one of these schools
I am going to there . I might also apply
for the O .C.S. depending on how I make
out the first couple months .
(0 .C.S.-Officers Candidate School)
Richard Lang 214
I want to attend technical school, but
first I am going to take a vacation. I have
been working too hard.
Richard Hensgen 211

After graduating from Saint Joe's,
plan to go on to school, either to a
school of music or to a technical school
or to a college . P.S. I'm thoroughly confused .
Gene Gelsone 213
Loaf for a couple of weeks and then
start working.
John Mollman 214

intend to move up north and live
with my boyfriend for a year or so and
then if I decide I like it, I will go to
school and take forestry or some work
which keeps me outside.
John Brotcke 206
My plans after graduation: to work
for one month; and then to enter a watch
repairman and jewelry repairman course.

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Senior Survey Shows 99 College Bound
A survey concerning the future of
this senior class shows that 99 (56 per
cent) will be attending colleges in all
parts of the United States in September.
Twenty-seven intend to continue their
education in technical schools , learning
trade s from beauty culture to business
work to electronics. Ten boys will join
the Armed Services . Thirty-nine (22 per
cent) plan to get work requiring no further technical education .
Twenty-four of the college bound
seniors-21 girls, three boys- will be toting child psychology and philosophy
books in preparation for teaching careers . Thirty-two ( l 8 per cent) of the
1960 graduates will start medical training as Registered Nurses, dental hy-

gienists, dieticians, doctors, or dent ists .
Th irty-five (20 per cent) are setting their
sights on business positions ranging
from business administrators to office
clerks .
One senior girl has her heart set on
pol itics . Other feminine careers are social workers, beauticians, and an air-line
stewardess . Seven girls have not decided
upon a particular field - other than home
making , that is .
Barbers , artists , engineers, farmers,
and a manufacturer are what some of
the SJHS senior boys will be in a few
years if dreams come true. Ten did not
know exactly what they will be doing .
Here are the answers to some of the
questions asked in the survey.

If you intend to enter college, which one do you plan
to attend and why?
I plan to go to Marquette University
because they have an excellent dental
hygienist program . Marquette is also one
of the few Catholic colleges that have
this course .
Joanne McCarthy 212

intend to go to Marque1te in Michigan or some small college out West that
teaches forestry and wildlife management.
Larry Ernst 213

I am going to Prospect Hall, which
would be my first cho ice . If I couldn't get
in there, I would go to Spencerian. They
are both business colleges.
Joan Giovanelli 214

I would like to attend Notre Dame .
Since it a Catholic university, the people
whom I will associate with will be good
Catholics. The university also offers the
course which I am interested in- predentistry .
On campus, Notre Dame also has a
golf course that I would enjoy playing
on. The university has an excellent golf
team, and my ambition is to make the
team.

Jerry Henderleiter 206

Dick Adamson 206
14

University of Wisconsin is my choice.
plan to go to this college because it is
in Kenosha. I could not afford to spend
all four years at a college out of town .
My last two years of college will be
spent at the University of Wisconsin ,
Madison . For work involving social problems, I have been told to attend a Catholic college. I would like to attend one if
I can swing it. At the moment, however,
a Catholic college (because of the high
expenses) is out of the question.
Carol Sherfinski 211

I wish to attend the College of Saint
Theresa because it has a high scholastic
accreditation. It offers many courses for
different fields of life . It isn't a large college; so it has a friendlier atmosphere.
I have visited Saint Theresa's, and it
seems to have everything I would want.
Mary Jane lsermann 212

I'll probably attend the Minneapolis
School of Art. Upon graduation from this
school, it places you with a major corporation or firm with a well-paying job. You
only attend two years for a degree.
Michael Marifjern 206

\Ve asked the freshmen:

What Is Your Opinion Of The Senior Class?
LYN
KARABETSOS
My opinion of the senior class is
that seeing how we didn't pick
them and we can't get rid of them,
we might as well look up to them
as the leaders because they're always celling us what to do anyway.

Tom Ruelle, one of our top basketball players from last year is now
a star for the Cardinal Extension
team.

Alumni Discover
Vast Differences
College life seems to agree with
Sc. Joseph Alumni. Se\'eral members of the 1959 graduating class
left chis impression with their anS\\ ers to questions concerning their
academic status.
TOM RUELLE, C'W Kenosha
Extension student admits that "He
reall)' likes college." Besides maintaining a full classroom schedule,
Tom managed to play quite a
game of basketball for the Extension Cardinals. On the basis of his
high scoring and his dcfensi\'e abilit)', Tom was \'oted the most valuable pla)'Cr b)' his team-mates.
Another Extension student,
RON LlA, cited "the tremendous
difference between college and
high school." Included in Ron's
schedule are his "fa,·orite subject,
geography", and English, his most
difficult subject.
JACK GU~ MBO KI manages
to "enjoy college" e\'cn though he
carries a hea\'\' scholastic load
\\'hich includes ~hcmistr)', ca lculus,
political science, and Eng lish.
Contrasting college life "' ich
high school davs, THERESA
JOH 1SON has this to say about
it, "College is a job; high s~hool is,
well , . . . . just going to school."

LAUREL HERVAT
Good things come in small packages, and I think chat they arc a
great class; and hope that we turn
out like them.
TERRY MORIARTY
Nice guys! A good percentage
of them even humble themselves
to the extent of saying "hi". I've
got one for a brother, and I have
seen both the good and bad points;
and they're really good eggs.

KATHY STURM
1t is a common statement made
that seniors look down upon ch~
freshmen. Ie's true!

MARY DOHERTY
I think the Senior class is an
adult acting class, and they arc
friendly to talk to. They als~ give
information whenc\·er we ask.
JOHA ·,' A CALLO
In my opinion, the Seniors arc
o\·ergrown freshmen.

MARY AN MARSHALL
\Vonderful! I chink this is a
class of ·which we can be justly
proud.

Arriving: Super Sensational Summer
HERE COMES SUMMER, and
with it, all the wonderful and exciting things that only that warm,
carefree, and lazy season can bring.
Many of our SJHS students ha\'e
their summers planned and eagerly
check off the days on the calendar
until thev will be able to carrv out
these high hopes.
·

JOHN REGNER will rcallv be
on top chis summer- he'll be fixing
roof tops.
BILL SCHULSKI is going to
combine all the car parts he has,
and if he comes out with a car, he
is going to take a trip.
A

1 DY

i\1A ' TINEO is going

to have an exciting time, he is go-

BARRY WOJTAK and TOM
REG ER plan to resume their
summer jobs as Senior Explorers
at Camp Pottowatomin Hills (all
girls camp.) Elected as Nature
Boys, they wi ll supposedly be
watching the wildlife around the
camp.

JOE PIAS plans on going to
Canada to wrestle bears whi le
RICH HURST is going there to
do a littl e fishing-with worms, we
presume.

ing to attend the Summer Olvmpics in Rome.
·
The land of grass skirts and coconuts will be calling FRED KAPPC'S; he is going to Hawaii-just
to learn the hula.
American l\1otors will be the
summer homestead of BETH
\\ .HITE. She won't be swinging
a lunch bucket though and wearing CO\' Cralls because she will
spend six da)'S out of e\·en· week
as an office girl.

GEORGI~E

LUDWIG
The senior class seems to be one
of exceptionally friendly people.
J\1E-303
I chink chev are nice, but some
of them shou.ld scav at SJ HS and
cry cc> imrrove che;nselvcs.

CATHY KUZ 1ICH
Are they the snobs we think
they are? I don 'c chink so. Those
chat I have met are really nice.

CHARUE KEHL
The seniors aren 't bad eggs, especially the boys. There is a bright
side to e\'ery thing though, and
that is they are graduating.

THE SE ' IORS
The senior class is one of especially ambitious people. £,·ery
member of it is really outstanding
in one wa\' or another. Friendliness is the pass word, and after
graduation chis class will long be
remembered as one of the grcatcst1 (ummm)

We Couldn't Have
Done It Without You
\\' hen a person such as RITA
PETRETTI, editor of our school
paper, has unselfishly helped the
staff members whenever thev
asked, de,·oted endless hours of
her time, alwa)'S managed to smile
when the going got rough, and
succeeded in coming up with a solution to all press problems-the
staff can only say thank you; and
mean it with the truest appreciation.

Andy Says: Fare Well, America
T he da)' comes near when I will
Sa)' good-b)'C to faculcv, students,
and building of Sc. Jo~cph's High
School w h ere l ha,·c spent the
10\·eliest school )'Car of Ill)' young
life.
Then, a little more than a month
later, l '11 ha \'C to lea ,.e Kenosha
and the U.S. Perhaps I will ne\·cr
sec these places again.
But 1 will never forget what I
ha,·e gotten from Ill\' \'Car in Kenosha. This expcri e1~c~ taught me
that people are good and American people are the best. I ha\'e
experienced their hospitality and
sincerit)'. 1 was ab le to sec what
prosperity is and I understand the
reason of its existence in the U.S.

Besides this there are manv other
things on a more sentimenta l side.
Time will pass but as long as I li\'e,
1 will ha\'e in Ill\' heart nw \'Cf\ '
generous host familv, m~· 18ci1
birthday, all the mcn~bcrs .of the
faculty, fellow students, nw first
date, ~nd all the the loveh.' hours
I spent in St. J oc 's in lea~ning as
well as in extra-curricular acti\·ines.
I will nc\·er be able co thank
e,·er)·one of you enough. I can
onlv wish the U.S. . an always
gre~ter future, full of blessings ~f
God.
I hope I see these places again .
Is Tim Tulley laughing along with our other two zany actors or is that
green expression on his face caused by that big cigar he is 'holding?

ANDREA 1\l NTL EO
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Lancer 9 Gets First Win;
Crushes Wilmot 12-6
Ten runs in the bottom of the
sixth and brilliant relief pitching
b:· Rand:· Gullo pushed Lancers to
their first victon· of the season
Frida:', April 22 ..Triumphing 12-6
O\'Cr \Vil mot, Lancers made their
third game of the season memorable.
Gullo relic\·cd Ton:· Cra\'otta in
trc second inning with Lancers
five runs behind. He pitched the
remainder of the game, giving up
on!:· one run and two hits. St. Joe's
shcl\\ cd its offcnsi\'C class by driving in ten runs in the sixth to win
the game.
In earlier game Salem Central
tipped the Lancers 5--t April 20.
\\ 'alks followed by errors proved
the downfall of the Lancers. St.
J oc 's did threaten in the last half
of the Se\·cnth with a man on third
and no outs, but Salem pitcher,
Jim \\ 'cstman, got out of the jam
and sa\·cd Salem's win. The losing
pitcher was Gullo.

Baseball tryouts at Lincoln Park find Ed Kertz ready to fire while Randy
Gullo, Allen Kehl, and Tom Dubin calmly await the outcome.

Tee Men Victorious
In Season Opener
Lancer tccmcn opened the '59
'60 golf season
beating St.
1\lar:·'s of Burlington 2+6- 227 at
the \\'atcrford Ri\·crmoor Course.
Senior Dick Adamson co\·crcd
the 18 hole c ourse in the non-conference opener with a 39, followed
by Junior Ron Filippelli with a 41.
Tim Propsom followed '' ith a -t5
and Ronald Ruthe and Jim Costigan scored 51 's.
\\' ith six returning lettermen the
16 member team should pro\'c
strong in Conference competition.
Last year, under Coach Robert
Carbone, the almost identical ream
posted a 15-7 Catholic Conference record, placed second in the
Racine Pri\·are Jm·itational Tournament, and '' ound up fourth in
the .\lilwaukce Catholic Confercncc.

b:·

Spring Schedule
Ci\'cn bclcl\\ is the Lancer baseball and golf schedule for this
spnng.
Baseball home games arc pla:·cd
at Simmons Field; begin at -t:OO.
Home golf matches \\ill be
played at the \Vashington P:Hk
and .\laplecrest courses.
BASEBALL:
St. Catherine
<H>
Cathedral
CA>
(H)
Don Bosco
Waukesha Memorial CAl
Pius XI
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St. Bonaventure
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Notre Dame
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Messmer
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April 18 St. Mary's of
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April 26 Dominican
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April 28 St. Catherine
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May
Jordan
3
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May
5 St. Mary's of
Burlington <Al
May 11 St. Catherine
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May 13 Racine Private School
Invitational Tour
May 16 Marquette
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May 20 Milwaukee Catholic
Conference Tournament
May 23 Don Bosco
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May 21 Notre Dame
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May 23 State Catholic Tour.Kenosha Country Club

April 26
April 28
May
3
May
5
May 10
May 12
May 17
May 19

Golfers ha\·c been practtcmg
daily at the J\lunicipal and .\1aplccrcst courses under the direction
of nc\\ coach Frank 1\1atrisc. \1r.
,\ 1:itrisc looks forward to a succcssfu 11 season because of the
many boys returning from last
\'Car.
Climaxing the St. J oscph golf
sc:.;son ,,·ill be the State Catholic
Conference Tournament at the
Kenosha Countn·
. Club on J\ 1a\'
. 26.

Crav 'a,lb-p
Gullo,lf-p
Fox,p
Kertz,p-lf-lb
DiChris'cr,rf
x-Dorff
Boncll,cf
Da\·is,c
v-Barr

2 I
0 0
0 0
2 1
0 0
0 0
0 2
0 0
0 0
Totals
25 4 5
Marquette snatched the conference opener from the Lancers
Thursday, April 21, with a score
of 9-4. St. Joe's got only one hit,
a single by Eddie Kertz in the
first. With the bases loaded,
Kcrtz's hit brought in three runs.
Walks and errors were again St.
Joe's weak points. Kertz held Marquette hitless for four innings but
loaded the bases with walks and
then Jim Doherty of Marquette
hit a double and the trouble began. Vince Fox relieved Kertz.

St. Joseph (4)

St. Joseph (4)
Agazzi,ss
Spitzcr,2b
Gclsonc,3b

ab r h
3 0 0
4
3

0
0

I

0

Traci{_, Field Teams Debut
At Marquette University Gym
The last dual meet will take
place on \\'cdncsda:-, Ma:· 18 at
\Vaukesha J\ lcmorial.
Other team members arc; Doug
;\;i!cs, Tony Comcz, Bob \Vatring,
Ryan Higgins, Tom Johnson, Fred
Fr:mk, Bill Pcrozzi, Dick Singer,
Pat McA!ccr, John Regner, Dick
Chiappetta, i\likc Stella, Charles
Fries, Tom Regner, Chuck Zarletti, Ronnie Hoff, Ed K wicinski,
.\like Cass and Tim Lawler.

St. Joseph's Track and Field
tc:;m made its debut this vcar with
the lm·itational Indoor i\ 1cet at
.\ 1arqucttc Cni\·crsity G:·m April
3. Although lacking experience,
Coach Bob Carbone's boys put into C\'Cry C\"Cnt e\·erything the:·
had, showing possession of good
potential qualities. They placed
fifth among nine schools.
Of the 35 nhlctcs onh· thrccBob Heller, J..:cn \Vcdcikcs, and
Andy .\lantinco-are seniors. The
others nc mosth· freshmen and
sophomores. This is \·cry- promising and means th:;t in a couple of
~ · cars, "hen clements like Bob
.\litchcll, Ton)' Gomez, Jim Vidas,
and Stc\·c Glowacki "ill reach the
r.pcx of their physical possibilities,
St. J(Jc's team \\·ill be able t 'l compct-.: with and be feared b\· the
strongest track reams of the Conference.

A ndr ea Mantineo

Hcl!cr, who clc:ired 5 feet IO
inches on April 3rd to \\in the
high jump C\'Cnt in front of a lineup of good jumpers, is Bob Carbones' best hope for the State
Catholic \lcet, scheduled in ,\ lilwaukec for J\1av 22.
Others, howc\ er, like \Vcdcikcs,
.\litchcll, Hughes, and Paul Zohlen, could do \·cry \\ell and come
close to the title.

Ron S pitze r gladly accepts gleaming· "Most Valuable Player " trophy
pre ented to him at the recent basketball banquet.

16

2
3
0
3
2
0
3

gazzi,ss
Spitzer,2b
Gelsone,3b
Cra votta, I b
Gullo, lf
Fox,p
Kertz,p.lf
DiChri'cr,rf
Bonncll,cf
Davis,c
Totals

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I

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0
0
0
0
0
0
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0
0
0

4 0
3
0 I
3 0
I 0
4 0
I 0
2 l
3 0
24 4

Jim O 'Neill

Freshmen Try Out
For Cheerleading
Recently a meeting was held in
the gymnasium for all freshmen
girls interested in cheerlcading to
inform them of the constitution of
the organization and also of the
tryout times.
During the last week in April
tryouts and workshops were held
under the direction of Miss Lawton and the present cheerleaders.
Between 80 and I 00 girls signed
up. Of those, only four girls arc
to be chosen for next year's c hccrlcading. At press time, these girls
had not yet been chosen, howc\·cr,
the captain of next year's varsity
squad has been selected. Mary
Anne \Vadc will replace Sue Pezdir.
Due to the lack of interest
shown on the part of the girls,
the \'ollcyball tournament was
dropped.
The girls of Miss Lawton's phy
ed classes have been enjoying the
spring weather as they renew their
interest in softball, in spite of t he
poor condition of the playing area,
due to t he inclement weather.