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

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the comet Freshmen Column One — Margaret Russel, Kathleen Heflin, Cora By us, Katherine Ward, Esther Goins, Mildred Coe, Lucille Thomas, Robert Montgomery, LuCynthia Kightlinger, Everett Singer. Column Two—Lillian Rich ardson, Robert Robbins, Delores Jefferies, Audrey Powers, Be-vonda Goodrich, Louise Skinner, Eileen Balser, John Brown, Ruby Love, William Groover. Column Three—Allen Will-hoite, Jay Peters, Dorothy Sparks, Irene Hurd, Jeanette Bissias, Freddy Frazier, Wilna Hankley, Sue Wilson, Billy Thumma, Herbert Dickey. Column Four—Reba Ward, Fred Stant, Charles Phillip, Patricia Conwell, Martha Laude-man, Gwendolyn Stone, Dewey Clapper, Elsie Wainscott, Madge Watters, Kenneth Johns. Column Five—Martha Murray, Robert Brillhart, Mary M. Coston, Mary Cooley, Phyllis Henderson, Rosalind Klumpp, Harold Devall, Wilma Stevens, Margaret Jaco, Martha Bam-brough. Column Six—lone Hocker-smith, James Bell, Mary Williams, Louise Tucker, David Hartzler, Nathan Robbins, Virginia Grimme, Earl Powell, Floyd Yates, Lucille Fern. Column Seven — Martha Kratz, Florence Itockafellar, Dora Benedict, Esther Faye Updegraff, Jean DeHority, Marian Foster, Helen Mesalam, Lillian Wyatt, Robert Hertle, Maxine Bunnel. Page twenty-seven

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THE COMET Freshmen Column One—Philip Mc-Knight, Irma Edwards, Olive Davis, Richard Wright, Mary Alice Tyner, Ruth Simmons, Betty Kahler, Mary Hurd, Ai-leen Courtney, Maurice Ewing. Column Two—Helen Ricks, Dallas Gordon, Joan Robbins, Hilda Havens, James C. Drake, Fred Stant, Kathryn Knotts, Florence Phillips, Catherine Scholl, Agnes Phillips. Column Three — Maurice Hurst, Charleen Tompkins, Merrill Bryan, Paul Scott, Anna-belle Tucker, Howard Hastings, Marcia Reynolds, Mary Rachel Brunson, Marian Foster, Lucille Willhoite. Column Four—Lucille Yo-he, Donovan Robinson, Ernest Clingenpeel, Leo Kurtz, Russell Harrell, Harold Etchison, Marguerite Ryall, John C. Hershey, Delberta York, Eunice Gardner, Edgar Uetz. Column Five—Betty Dunn, Rosemary Linsmeyer, Charles Coburn, Deloris Lineberry, Della K. Wardwell, Melvin Wentz, Morris Moody, Robert Colson, Ruth Roberdson, Robert Meyer. Column Six—James Courtney, Virgil Richwine, Lucile Lindley, Jack Jeffries, John King, Ruth Murray, Elizabeth Hackett, Robert Bohlander, Pauline Bohannon, Betty Klumpp. Column Seven — Leota Brown, Ruth White, Martha Heath, Charles Van Briggle, Wilma Starr, Vivian Mitroff, Donald Chance, Richard Mullin, Donald Hershey. Page twenty-six

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COMETORIALS THE COMET THE WITNESS PUZZLES Congratulations! After reading the first copy of “The Witness”, we are very glad to acknowledge the splendid work done by the editor, Robert Johnson, and his assistants, under the direction of Mr. Renner. Through the co-operation of your students, we, the Elwood High School, feel that it will be met with praise and acclamation. We shall be proud to assist and support you in any way that we can. We are sure that the experience you get in publishing “The Witness” will prove to be a great asset to our school, and are sure that it will improve our own annual, “The Comet”. WHAT'S TOMORROW? What opportunity does the high school graduate of today have? This question is discussed time and again. It comes up wherever a group of people, young or old, are gathered together. We hear it discussed over the radio and across the bridge table. Though the question is thoroughly commented upon it is never debated, because the majority prefer the side of pessimism. When asked the question people merely shake their heads and say, “None whatsoever”. Public opinion expresses itself so strongly in the negative direction that certain individuals have gone so far as to write poetry about the matter. Such a poem appears within this book. We are not criticizing the poet, because he has a right to his own opinion; but such verse, in our belief, should not be published in a book of this nature. Such writings will all the more discourage the high school students of today. Have they not enough to worry about with everybody predicting a dark and stormy future for them? If a person would only gather his thoughts together and use them, he would find that we are living in one of the greatest periods in world history. The United States is experiencing the most trying time since she gained her independence. Russia under the control of a new government is changing the plans of every nation of the world. Every country with its eyes turned to Russia asks, “Will she succeed?” Whether she succeeds or not, she will leave a mark on the destiny of the world. Then with the world undergoing such a revolution and with the United States calling for men and women capable of leadership, does no hope exist for the graduate of today ? This year jig-saw puzzles are quite the craze. All that can be heard is, “Have you solved the new jig-saw puzzle yet?” The fellows are using the jig-saw puzzle as an excuse for spending a nice quiet evening with the date. Such practice is undoubtedly saving the youths of our school many dollars. Though jig-saws may be popular because they are difficult, there are other puzzles that would prove to be as trying if they were undertaken. One great puzzle that is making our school very unpopular with the general public is that of booing the referees at our ball games. Mr. Hillis, our principal, has undertaken time and again the solution of this problem. His efforts have yielded some results, but still the practice continues. Working alone, Mr. Hillis cannot solve this problem. It will take the cooperation of every student in high school. Unless the members of the school who are good sports and are willing to take the word of the official, get together and object as a group to this continued booing, our school will always have this blot upon it. Another puzzle which only the student body can solve concerns the cheering at the ball games. At the football games, especially, the rooters are scattered throughout the crowd. When the cheer leaders call for a yell, the rooters from the high school are so mingled with other spectators that the effect of the yell is lost. Students from other schools have a section of their bleachers reserved for the members of the school. When a yell is given and the voices all come from one section, the volume and force of the yell is increased. Perhaps this is why our school is named as one that does not back its teams. We know that every student is eager to and does yell for the teams, but because of the lack of unity his voice goes unheard. Another problem, which has confronted our school for years, will probably be the most difficult to solve. Are the students fair to themselves and to their schoolmates? Do they respect the rights and privileges of one another? In the classroom, are they fair to all concerned? We find that some students in a certain sense act as tutors for others. If this practice is carried out in the proper manner, no harm can surely result. But in many instances of this kind, the tutoring student acts as a master mind for the other. Eventually the tutored student neglects his work and depends entirely upon the knowledge and ability of the other. Page twenty-eight