Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 22 Jun 1928, p. 45

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June 22. 1928 WILM~TTE LIFE YOUNG- AGAINST OLD Manuai Training School Youth Geta Razzed ·and Doean't Like It: Beata Old Timer.· in Race Has Flag Day £xerciaea The 32nd annual military drill and Flag Day exercises of Glenwood Man_ ual 'training school, Chicago's largest charity and educational enterprise caring for Illinois boys from needy, broken homes, took place Saturday afternoon.," ] une 16, _ at the school at Glenwood, Ill., twenty-five miles south of Chicago. The exhibition drill by cadet companies was reviewed by Col. Earl S . Pearsall, and Capt. ] ames Rood, officers .of the R. 0. 'I.'. C., and the prizes for first, second, third and fourth places were awan:Jed by N. C. Mather, president of the school. A feature of the military program was a review of · the thirty-two prize flags which have been awarded on thirty-two consecutive _ Flag Day exercises. Nothing but a staff remains of the oldest fl~gs, the colors having been worn to shreds. During the past years a number of boys _ f rom this county have been cared for by Glenwood Manual Training school. This i~ a story, the moral which is "Dqn't razz the youngsters." In the cas~ which ·prompts the story there was the razzing " and the . result as usual, · . was-well, go and ' read ' the story. · A few ." 'Yeeks · ago ..in Wilmette, a former New Trier High school athlete playfully chided one of the athletes of the present New Trier regime, stressing the point that the athl etes - of a few years ago were superior to those of the present. He was getting along nobly with the razzing until the younger athlete got warmed up and came back with a_threat, which in this case meant a challeQg~ "to get out there on the cinders" and make your argument good or "take it on the chin." So much of the story we learn from a reliable source; the rest · is "actual news" for the razzing developed a relay race between the "old timers" and the "youngsters" which was held on the Village Green last Wednesday Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Burrill, 812 evening. The race arranged was for Greenwood, have had as their house three men teams, and the distanCJ! was guest, Mrs. Burrill's father, Dan 600 yards. In order to complete the Youngs of Grand Rapids, Mich. Da-Rteams it was necessary for each to Burrill, their son, returned from the pick up an additional runner, which University of Michigan witt-: Mr. wasn't hard to do on the Village Youngs to spend his acation. Green. It was just as easy to find a -ostarter, for "Hap" Gathercoal was · M iss Marjorie Stewart, instructor in quickly on the job and the teams lined chemistry at New Trier High school, up as follows : will visit her home in Pittsburgh for "Oldtimers"-Eppy Hoffman, Hod the summer. Schildgen, Nutch Hoffman. "Youngsters"-Norm Smith, Jimmy four yards when Jimmy Hoffman Hoffman, Milt Guy. · picked him up. Jimmy held this marThe starters were Eppy Hoffman gin o~er Schildgen at the end of the and Norm Smith and to these two was second relay and then Milt Guy startdelegated the job of running the first ed stepping as they step in present ath200 yards. letics at New Trier. He finished the Gathercoal sent them off and Smith race twenty yards in fro~t of Nutch who.. is a former New Trier athlete Hoffman. Whether there will be any more but now of St. John's Military academy of Delafield, which school he recently razzing now depends on .how the represented to finish second in the young~r athletes feel about it. 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