George Washington High School - Post Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Music Robert Shepard Maude Delbridge Etta Scherf Charlotte Crist, Accompanist Physical Training Henry B. Bogue Carl Klafs Sergeant Wolff Elizabeth Hatfield Mabel Loehr Sara Ann Hartley, Accompanist Librarians Gilberta Heid Pauline Vonnegut Marjorie Walls, Secretary Margaret Hannan, Attendance Clerk Carolyn O'Neal, Clerk i Geraldine Eggers, Clerk Edith Young, Home Visitor

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Commercial Russell McClurg Paul Carmichael Gladys Ewbank Mary E. Laatz Agnes C. Meehan Samuella H. Shearer Art Ferd Brumblay Frances Failing' La Von Whitmire Practical Arts Harold Harding Burton Knight Ira Melvin Ocal Muterspaugh J. W. Schell Dean Smith James Smith Roger Weaver Home Economics Mary Cammack Gretchen Mueller Elizabeth Randolph Velma Schaaf Lucille Taylor Catherine Thalman Helen Wallick

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A DECADE OF PROGRESS Under the leadership of Reverend Baker, former editor of the West Side Messen- ger, plans for a West Side high school were forwarded. The new high school was to be called George Washington High School, the site was to be on Washington Street, the old Cumberland Road, and was to cover twelve acres. The final location, as decided upon, extended south from Washington Street in the twenty-two hundred block to the Big Four Railroad property. The plans for the school met with approval of the City School Com- missioners. Actual construction began in 1924, and the school opened in 1927 under the supervision of Walter G. Gingery, Enrollment Increases The greater number of the new pupils and teachers transferred from Manual Training High Schoolg however, pupils of all the city high schools were given the oppor- tunity to signify their desire of enrolling in Washington High School. The members of the faculty coming to Washington from Shortridge were: Mr. Gingery, as principal, Miss Dorsey, as head of the English departmentg Mr. Bruce Morrisong and Miss Marie Sang- ernebo, who is now Mrs. Wilcox. From Manual came: Miss Amy Keene and Miss Bess Sanders Know Mrs. Wrightj as members of the English department, Mrs. Browning and Mr. Jones, math departmentg Mr. Money, head of the history department, Mr. Bock, head of the language department, Mr. Van Dorn, science departmentg Miss Elizabeth DeHass Know Mrs. Randolphj, home economics departmentg and Miss Loehr, physical education department. From the city grade schools came: Mrs. Ethel Hightower and Miss Myrtle Johnson, English departmentg Mrs. Head, language departmentg Miss Moder, history departmentg Mr. Harding and Mr. Muterspaugh, industrial arts depart- mentg and Miss Mary Cammack, home economics department. The following appointments brought the total number of the faculty to thirty-five: Mrs. Ina Gaul, as Dean, Misses Clarice Hedrick, Margaret Quinzoni, Alice Treat Know Mrs. Shultzj, Kathryn Smith Know Mrs. Schakelj, Alice Koehne, Ruth Hasely, Mary Laatz, and LaVon Whitmireg and Messrs. Knight, Schell, Shepard, and Bogue. Miss Walls was appointed secretary with Miss Forsch as her assistant. Twenty-eight of the original thirty-five charter members, to whom this book is dedicated, still retain posi- tions on the faculty-loyal stand-bys to the Washington cause. Nine-hundred and eighty-three students enrolled the first semester in a building designed to house one-thousand. By February, 1937, the number on the faculty was in- creased to seventy-two and the munber of the students to twenty-two hundred. The only increase in housing facilities has been the twelve portable rooms, used to house the overiiow of twelve-hundred students. We owe our success and progress to the splen- did cooperation of Mr. Gingery, the faculty, and the community leaders. School Ranks High George Washington High School has been the means of solidifying the West Side into one great community. The school has been granted a first class continuous com- mission from the Indiana State Department of public instruction and ranks high on the accredited list of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Both ratings are of the highest awarded by these standardizing agencies. Gifts The school has been the recipient of many gifts from prominent and noteworthy or- ganizations and individuals. The Major Harold C. Megrew, Auxiliary No. 3 of the United States Spanish War Veterans presented thirty-six U. S. fiags which are now placed in the various classrooms. J. K. Lily was the donor of the valuable painting of George Washington on the Field of Trenton, which hangs in an honored placed on the west wall of the auditorium, an inspiration to every student in our school. A silk flag was pre-