Elwood Community High School - Crescent Yearbook (Elwood, IN)

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THE COMET Sh ips in Our Lives What has my school life meant to me? Have you ever asked yourself that question during your four years of high school? When I was a freshman, I looked around me in amazement at the huge building which stood before me, not realizing what was it to mean to me in the future. Our school is the place where we build the foundation for our later life. Just what does this foundation contain? First of all, it contains Friendship. Isn’t it a pleasant feeling to know you have a pal in this world ? How carefree you feel when Joe comes up, pats you on the back, and says “How’s everything today, Pat?” Don’t you have a funny feeling when you see Bill walking down the hall with Millie, and don’t you wonder if this is really love ? Then you begin to wonder if Mr. Lindley got hold of the note from Kate that fell out of your book this morning. Gee! isn’t school life fun? I wouldn’t miss it for anything. Sportmanship is another part of this foundation. Are you really being a sport if you cheat just a little bit? You may say, “Well, what harm is there in copying a line or two?” It is better to help yourself than to get help from someone else. A true sport boosts his team. A team feels more like doing its best if it is backed by its fellow-students. “Yell and yell hard for your team, and it will be sure to win.” Scholarship is another important layer of this foundation. School is not all work; neither is it all play. Don’t come to school with the idea that you are trying to get by “by the skin of your teeth”, but put forth a little effort. There is an old saying that says that we get out of a thing just what we put into it. If you come to school to get an education, learn all you can while you have the chance. Build your road to success on this foundation, and in later life you will not regret having built a firm foundation. —Helen Purtee Senior Memories 7 We started as freshmen some ten years ago To learn the few things we thought we should know. With each year of toil our achievements grew less, And now all we know is easy to guess. As ‘Sophies’ we did what we thought was the ‘nerts’, As pests in the class-room there were no worse; But the grades on our cards showed this would not do, So we vowed to behave, for the next year or two. Our junior year came with much added fame To kindle ambition and hope. We battled it through with hearts brave and true For with years there was one more to cope. Seniors at last, we were burdened with tasks But we stayed on and finally won out; And now that we’re through, to be honest with you We’d much rather sniffle than shout. We leave our school, with heavy hearts To wander far, to drift apart. For after graduation day We walk a dim, untrodden way, While memories linger in our minds Of old school-mates and happy times, But best of all we’ll love to tell Tales of our school we loved so well. —Kelton Goodwin Treasures in Waiting I am going to take the students of Elwood High School on a tour. Perhaps you will all be surprised when I tell you we are going to tour our own high school. We are going to explore our own domain, because too few of us know the extent of our own possessions. In sculpturing you will find replicas of many noted pieces of work, in our library and halls, such as the Gi’eek goddess Hebe, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, Boys with Book, Boys with Scroll, Alexander’s Triumphal Entry into Babylon, and busts of Goethe, Daniel Webster, and others. In the rooms and halls you will find walls adorned with facsimiles of fine paintings. Some of these are: The Capture of Andromache, A Reading from Homer, Ruins of Roman Forum, William Shakespeare, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. We are proud indeed of the beautiful painting, the work of Leona Williams Roop, a former Elwood High School student, and presented by her to the school. We also have attractive photographic reproductions of the Lincoln Memorial and the Poet’s Corner at Westminster Abbey. You probably have noticed our walls are not empty, but have you been observing enough to realize the value of what they hold ? If not, here is a challenge to powers of observation. See more of what is at your elbow and you will be doubly repaid. You will gain both cultural values and school spirit. —Elwanda Phillips Page fourteen

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the comet By Their Initials You Shall K now Them James Adams.....................Jolly, Attentive Dwight Alley................Daring, Aggravating Harold Athan ...............Handsome, Adorable Annalois Babb.............-.....Always Behaves Willis Beaty...............................Wins Beauties Alberta Becker....................Always Busy Gerald Beckley..............•••■-Gay Boy Martha J. Benedict...........Merry, Jolly, Busy Marv Ellen Blubaugh.Modest, Earnest, Beautiful Maxine Bohannon...... Must Behave Karl Brisco ......................Efficient Boy Doris Chance.................Desires to be Cute Edward Coiner..........................Earnest, Considerate Ruth Cole................................Really Considerate Zola Mae Cook Ziegfeld Marks her Cuteness Richard Cooley R ise?. Ca!n Alberta Cone.............................Always Considerate Dorothea Culp...............Desires to be Cute Carl Danner.....................Cute but Daring Bill DeHority................... Blondes Deceive Charles DeHority.......................Cunning, Darling Charlotte Dellinger.............. Can’t Deceive Delores Dellinger...............Does her Duty Martha Dennis...................Modern Diana Belva Dimick............................Behaves Decently Mary Drake......................Modest, Dutiful Mary K. Dunn..................Merits Kind Deeds Mary Ellis....................... Modern Eve Betty Englerth.....Believes in doing Everything Robert Evans................Really in Earnest Sylvester Faulstiek.......Satisfies his Friends Robert Foster.....................Really Funny William Gardiner................Wants his Girl Eileen Gavin...............................Easy Going Mildred Gee.......................Modern Girl Edward Geis.......................Easily Guided Mildred Goins...................Modern Goddess Dorine Goodman...............Desires to be Good Kelton Goodwin....................Kids the Girls Kathleen Gray...................Kind and Good Max Haskett.....................Modest. Honest Maxine Haskett..............Merry, Humorous Genevieve Heflin............Generous, Honest Robert Hershey....................Really Honest Florence Hickner............Fame and Honor Wayne Hoeffer...............-.....Wins Hearts Esther Hoeffer..............Easily Humorous Elizabeth Johnson..........................Ever Jolly Lois Johnson....................Loves to Joke Alvey Jones..............................Always Jolly Rose Mary Keller.... Donald Kincaid...... Thelma King......... Deloris Knotts...... Wilma Kurtz........ Frances Leisure..... Catherine Loer...... Letta McCarty...... Pansy McDermitt.... Paul Magers......... William Magers.. Frances Marley..... Woodrow Meyer...... Mildred Miller Alston Millspaugh Thomas Mock........ Vivian Mock....... Ruth Montgomery. Bill Mosiman...... Robert Nagel....... Donald Orbaugh..... Martha Osboi-ne.... Mary Jo Palmer..... Alice Phipps........ Frank Preston...... Ruth Spahr........' Ray Downham....... Luthera Springer Saba Startzman Mary Stevens...... Emma Todd........ Clara Belle Tompkins Jean Waymire....... Fred Welcher....... Jane Ann Wilhoit... Paul Wilson....... Gerald Woods....... Marcella Woodsides ... Mildred Woodyard Mary Lou Wright Harold Yates....... Dorothy Avery...... Margaret Bambrough Harry Brobst....... Mildred Hurd....... Corrine Johnson.... Mary Kleinhub..... Dorothy Layton..... . Rose Made for Kindness .......Delights in Kissing .............Tender, Kind ...........Desires a Kiss ..............What Kisses ........Fondness for Love .........Capable, Likeable ........Loves her Man Pal to Men Polite and Mannerly ..............What a Man .............Flatters Men .............Woman’s Man .............Merely Milly ...... Always Melancholy .......Thoughtful. Modest .............Very Modest ...........Really Modern ......Beware of this Man ..............Reallv Nice ........Darling, Obliging ...........Merry, Obliging ......Meet a Jolly Person Adores Pleasure Famous as a Personality ......Regular Sweetheart Real Dancer .....Lovely, Sincere ....Sympathetic, Sincere '..Modest, Sincere ...........Earnest, Timid ....Charming But Tiny ............Jolly Woman Fond of Women Just Another Woman Poison to Women .............Gone Wild ...........Merry. Witty ......Many are her Wiles Modern Little Woman ............Honest Youth Delightful. Adorable Merry, Busy Handsome but Bothersome Modest. Honest .........Curious but Jollv ...........Marvelous Kid ..........Dutiful to Love (Continued on page 15) Edward Geis Page thirteen

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the comet By Their Initials You Shall Know Them (Continued from page 13) Dot Lee..........................Deceived Love Mary McCarel.....................Merry Maiden Edward Maley....................Eager to Marry Floma Moore..................Fondness for Men Roy Naylor..........................Really Nice Leroy Pace....................... Let’s be Pals Ralph Robison.................. Real Runabout Charles Tyner..................Cute Little Tyke Betty HobbC............Believes in being Happy Alliene Reveal..........................Always Ready Miriam Reynolds....... .........Merry, Reserved Bob Richards..............Beware he is Reserved DUD ivitllrtivio John Redmond Jealous Rascal Francis Renner Fond of Redheads Honest, Serious Robert Schuyler Really Sincere Jolly, never Serious Violet Shaw John Skinner Very Sophisticated Just another Sample Eleanoir Smith Gerald Smith Earnest, Sincere Generally Sincere HISTORY: REVISED EDITION Mary E. Wright (in history class)—Yes, Napoleon was a great man. He would probably have captured America but it wasn’t discovered yet. BROUGHT TO LIGHT Freshie—Don’t they have “pep sessions” up here? Bill D.—No, little boy, they interfere with athletics. AMBITION H. Etchison—I’m not going to use a comb or brush on my hair anymore. Willard Me.—Why not? H. Etchison—’Cause I wanna grow up and look like Mr. Lindley. I pulled out my hair And wrinkled up my face But it didn’t help a bit When I tried to fill this space. —Editor DEAR OLD SCHOOL I leave thee, dear old school. But with regret. It is most cruel For we’ve just met. The happy hours I’ve spent with thee I’ll cherish them sacredly. Why does it have to be At this time I must leave thee? —Ruth Spahr Not An Uncommon Feeling When I’m summoned to the office, My heart starts sinking fast. “I’ve been acting fine,” 1 think, “But I knew it couldn’t last.” I think of all the little things That I have done this week, And wonder what it is they want As I walk up so meek. The principal is busy, And I have to wait awhile; So I sit down and try to think As I thumb my mental file. Then I wonder to myself: Has Mr. Hillis found That I, instead of being sick, Was really out of town? Or has he seen me chewing gum, Or marking on the walls, Or heard me yelling to someone While running down the halls? The suspense is almost killing Till he shows up at the door; Then I walk in beside him And he quickly “takes the floor”. “Son,” he says as he looks down, And sees my quaking knees, “As you go by the post-office Will you mail this card for me?” —Alvy Havens HE KNEW HIS OIL Ashton—Jim, name a large oil city in the South. Jim G.—Mobile. MARIE Marie, Marie—it seems to me That name is better than the rest. Of all the girls I’ve ever known I like this one the best. She’s dear to me as she can be, Her thoughts are keen and true; She always has a smile for me— No matter if she’s blue. She is to me, as good a girl As one could ever find. She is my thoughts, my one ideal, She’s always on my mind. And if from me she is taken Some bright and sunny day, My skies that once seemed bright and blue Would then be dull and grey. —Kelton Goodwin (Editor’s Note: “And it hath come to pass.”) Page fifteen