Elkhart High School - Pennant Yearbook (Elkhart, IN)

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And why were you absent? asks Miss Sharp. Marge confers with Miss Busche on Honor Society Mr. Foster puts Gilbert on the level Miss Cole advises on an art display.

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N y ust take a few cc's, ys Mr. Gill. Mr. Organ looks the s ea, ieaclzera are people Many students, especially seniors, think of teachers as friends. These friendships are made in class- rooms or labs, in Working and plan- ning together, and in informal mo- ments. Although it is characteristic of us to gossip about the faculty and their little Ways, at heart, We really re- spect these solid citizens of your town and mine. Director Hughes signals for u crescendo.

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rom Soplm Sen ior .History We of the class of '44 have not always been smooth seniors. Once we were young and unsophisticated sopho- mores just discovering our way around E. H. S. We kept our eyes open watching the upperclassmen: we watched what those upperclassmen did and copied what they said. We sophomore girls learned from the senior girls that simple clothes and a pleasing personality were the best way to become one of the gang. The sophomore boys learned from the older fellows that being smcoth was having manners, and at the same time having fun. We learned that one did not merely hurry down the hall: one barreled . Things were not termed swell , but keen . Chattanooga Choo-Choo and EImer's Tune were THE songs to hum. We made mental notes of the upperclassmen-what they wore, what they did, what they said, how they looked, how they danced-and used them as models. ln every soph:more's mind, the prcrninent seniors were catalogued. We knew that the president of the Stu- dent Council was also captain of the football team, and that the editor of the Pennant Annual was a class officer. As we catalogued the seniors, we wondered if our own class officers might fill such important positions in the future. Those officers were: Iohn Longfellow, Ir., presi- dent: Robert Pickering, vice-president: Mary K. Stemm, secretary, Carrol Simmons, treasurer: Barbara Shelley and Thomas Iuday, social chairmen. Mrs. Ada Sickels and Mr. Boyle were chosen as sponsors. Planning the sophomore class party, The Ioy-Iuice Iarnboree , and publishing the Sophomore Pennant, we found kids in our class who had talent. We discovered the kids who could decorate for a party, those who could put on a floor-show, and those who could write cute P sde ts 1-:be sol a d 1 day :clk wth th othe off Page TWef1fY'fW0