Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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CROWN POINT INKLINGS 7 Senior Reminiscences on the Faculty % Not all of us were privileged to know Mr. Grinstead but those who can dimly recall the class in Gen¬ eral Social Science offered for a semester for the mid-year class re¬ member him as an excellent teacher, one who knows students and their problems. He was principal during his term of service at C. P. H. S., which ended mid-term, 1927. Mr. Leinweber is well remembered by all who knew him, for his activities as assistant superintendent and principal kept him constantly before the student body. Mr. Schmitt’s smile greets us as we look back for not only was he our superintendent but he guided us through the per¬ ilous canyons of Algebra. Each of Miss Blind’s students know that his or her use of Euglish has been broadened by presence in her classes. Efficiency and deft management char- arterize for us Miss Holser, who in- iated the school cafeteria and started some of the senior girls on the road to domesticity. A cheery “good¬ morning” reminds us of Miss Inger- soll, the blond, smiling young woman who laid the foundations of our French department. Those who had Algebra III under Mr. Gocker re¬ member his quietness of manner and his thorough explanations. Mr. Crane’s manual training shop was a source of interest for the boys. Mr. Paton’s interests were mostly with the upper-classmen but his un¬ failing good humor helped start the day right. He was also sponsor of the Hi-Y Club. The excellent work dene by Miss Coffman in the speech department will not soon be forgot¬ ten; she also had charge of Latin. The year of ' 1928-29 brought several new faces. Remember all the field trips with Mr. Stephens, you biolo¬ gy students ? And the drawing— me of the sophs thought they had wandered into art class by mistake! Miss Haven came to replace Mr. Paton in the teaching of social studies, and did—methodically and well. Mrs. Schmitt, wife of the su¬ perintendent, took charge of the French classes. Miss Cultra gave us just a taste of her charming per¬ sonality before she undertook to practice all she had learned about household management on her new¬ ly acquired husband. Miss Roden- berger looked after the health of the students in her capacity as school nurse. Sept. 1 — Opening of school term. Sept. 18 — Joe Charri. Sept. 27 — Morocco (0) vs. Crown Point (26). Sept. 30 — Slide lecture on Amer¬ ican History. Oct. 2 — Mooseheart “B” (14) vs. Crown Point (0). Oct. 8 — Picture “The Puritans”. Oct. 10 — Lake County Teachers’ Association. Oct. 18 — Hammond Tech (18) vs. Crown Point (0). Oct. 21 — Night school. Oct. 24 — Hobart (27) vs. Crown Point (0). Oct. 28 — George Moriarity “Get¬ ting Home From Third”. Oct. 31—High school carnival. Nov. 1 — Lew Wallace (14) vs. Crown Point (0). Nov. 6—Junior play “The Wasp’s Nest”. Nov. 7 — Lowell (20) vs. Crown Point (20). Nov. 12—Robert M. Zimmerman, “On the Bottom of the Sea”. Nov. 19—Picture, “Peter Stuyves- ant”. Nov. 20 — Steely-Russian Theremin. Nov. 24 — Pussyfoot Johnson. Dec. 5 — Chesterton (21) vs. Crown Point (22). Dec. 6 — Morocco (7) vs. Crown Point (22). Dec. 8 — Football banquet: Jimmy Crowley, Ralph Young. CALENDAR 1930-31 Dec. 10 — Picture, “Wolfe and Montcalm”. Dec. 11 — High school operetta. Dec. 12 — Whiting (30) vs. Crown Point (12). Dec. 17 — George F. Morse, “Do Animals Talk”. Dec. 19 — Hobart (28) vs. Crown Point (20). Dec. 20 — Lowell (27) vs. Crown Point (22). Jan. 9 — Hobart (25) vs. Crown Point (27). Jan. 10 — Hammond Tech (20) vs. Crown Point (13). Jan. 16 — Lowell (19) vs. Crown Point (24) overtime. Jan. 17 — Chesterton (13) vs. Crown Point (23). Fred Mecklenburg “Oh, give us the man that sings at his work.” Jan. 23—Picture “The Eve of the Revolution.” Jan. 23 — Hammond Tech (28) vs. Crown Point (15). Jan. 24 — Moosehart (34) vs. Crown Point (18). Jan. 29 — Debate Hammond vs. Crown Point. Jan. 30 — Horace Mann “B” (10) vs. Crown Point (18). Jan. 31 — Bloom Twp. (24) vs. Crown Point (31). Feb. 5—Debate, Washington, East Chicago vs. Crown Point. Feb. 7 — Bloom Twp. (29) vs. Crown Point (27) overtime. Feb. 11 — Picture, “The Declara¬ tion of Independence”; Debate, Whiting vs. Crown Point. Feb. 18—George Elias, “The Re¬ volt in the Desert.” Feb. 19—Whiting (16) vs. Crown Point (36). Morocco (22) vs. Crown Point (23). Feb. 27—Horace Mann “B” (46) vs. Crown Point (16). Feb. 28— Lew Wallace (20) vs. Crown Point (38). March 4 — A. E. Partridge: “Alas¬ ka and the Pacific Northwest”. March 6-7 — Sectional tourney. Val¬ paraiso (31), Crown Point (29). March 11 — Picture “The Frontier Woman.” March 27 — Picture, “California in ‘49”. (Continued on Page 11)

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CROWN POINT INKLINGS MRS. FLORENCE THOMAS American Conservatory of Music. Music. “I do but sing because I must And pipe but as the linnets sing.” VICTOR W. POE Purdue, 1925. Central Normal, 1918. Oakland City College, 1921. Indiana State Teachers’ Col¬ lege, 1929. Biology, Agriculture. “Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their stature.” HAZEL SMITH Tri-State, 1923. Indiana University, 1926-29. Mathematics, Geography. “She walks the waters like a thing of life, And sems to dare the elements to strife.” EVA DUTTON Ypsilanti, 1916. Valparaiso University. Chicago University. History, English “Service is no heritage.” MRS. CHARITY WOLFF Valparaiso University, 1923-24. Purdue University, 1921-22. Bloomington Extension, 1926- 27. Physical Education, Home Economics. “Character is the finest essential in a woman.” W. J. BRITTAN Greer College. Attended school in England. “He alone has energy who can¬ not be deprived of it.” HARDY R. SONGER Central Normal, 1929 A. B. Wabash College, 1915-16-17. Indiana State Normal, 1921- 22-23. Indiana Extension. Manual Training, Physical Education. “A man isn’t poor if he can still laugh.” ANNA HOMEIER “Sow good services; sweet re¬ membrances will grow from them.” Victor W. Poe Eva Dutton W. J. Brlttan Anna Homeier

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8 CROWN POINT INKLINGS SENIOR CLASS 1931 Top Row, left-to-right: Helen McCaslin, Katherine Fisher, Mildred Letz, Marjorie Seramur, Evert Linton, Wayne Seramur, Alvin Bixeman, Robert Sherman, George Everetts, Harold Patz, David Jorbin, Harold Reider, Harold Hodges, Harold Heisterberg. Middle Row, left-to-right: Viola Schultz, Margaret Ross, Helen Gilbey, Maxine Norton, Mary Margaret Benjamin, Alice Burroughs, Miss M. Bollenbach, Mr. B. Pruitt Eleanor Letz, Alice Fisher, Ruth Letz, Margaret Heintz, Emma Sonnenberg, Laura Reigert. Bottom Row, left-to-right: Lester Heisterberg, Doris Enterline, Orville Truelly, Leona Nielsen, Charles Hough, Elsie Kabella, Harold Hershman, Virginia Kyle, Wilbert Luke, Virginia Simmons, Russell Gard, Charles Busenburg, Lucille Gard, Rose Batterman, David Weinberg. W Senior Class History W At midyear promotion time, 1927, a group of bewildered eighth grad¬ ers transformed by the magic wand of the report card into freshmen, wandered around the halls wonder¬ ing why everything looked so dif¬ ferent now that they were freshies. They settled down into the classes that were finally arranged for the bothersome little pests, and fondly imagined that they looked like real high school students. Next year emboldened by the ad¬ dition of more eighth graders as well as students from the parochial schools and the country, they elected their class officers: President, Janet Iddings; Vice-President, Harold Hershman; Secretary, Gretchen Had- don and Treasurer, Ruth Letz. Noth¬ ing very constructive, was accom¬ plished that year — there were a couple of class parties which were lots of fun. At the end of the year the freshmen — sophomore hunt turn¬ ed out to be a failure, for the fresh¬ ies, because they couldn’t locate the class of ‘30. It was in this year that the class was saddened by the loss of one of their members, Gerald Holloway, who died very suddenly in November. The officers during the sophomore year were President Marjorie Ser- NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY Class of 1930 — Elmer Blume Willis Schultz Lincoln Parry. Ervin Heisterberg Harriett Collins Mildred Margison Mary Margaret Benjamin (Junior) Katherine E. Fisher (Junior) Class of 1931— Mary Margaret Benjamin Katherine E. Fisher Mildred Letz Elwin Roy Brittan Florence Selkow Doris Enterline amur; Vice-President Charles Busen¬ burg; and Secretary-Treasurer, Mary Margaret Benjamin. The most im¬ port thing that the class did that year was to select their class rings, which were extremely good looking and apparently pleased the whole class. In the operetta “Tulip Time”, the class was represented by Janet Iddings as one of the cast, and several girls and boys in the choruses. In the junior year the class started with a sense of real responsibility and of big things to come. As of¬ ficers they choose: Mary Margaret Benjamin, president; George Ev¬ eretts, vice-president; Maxine Nor¬ ton, secretary: and Virginia Kyle, treasurer. The class play, “The Family Upstairs” proved a big suc¬ cess, for not only did the cast per¬ form with creditable ease but it netted the class a nice sum of money. The class was well repre¬ sented in the opertta “Sun Bonnet Girl” by Doris Enterline, Florence Selkow, Mary Jane Fritts, Alice