Hammond High School - Dunes Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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Parent groups join offspring in boosting efforts Parent - Teacher Assn., Adult Booster Club and Band Parents helped to boost Hammond High. Adult Boosters netted $1497 by sponsoring three summer dances at Munster Lanes. The last dance in August drew a record 798 teens. Profits from these dances financed sports banquets at Teibel’s after fall, winter and spring seasons. They also provided vests and flasher cards for the cheering bloc. After cancellation of a theater party in January, PTA staged a get- together starting with a chili and hot dog supper in the cafeteria Feb. 28. Next came a bake sale, soc hop in the lower north hall and card games in the girls’ gym. Scholarship fund and post-prom party benefitted from this event. Band Parents Assn, gave a post- game soc hop Jan. 31. Mothers helped to outfit bandsmen with new uniforms that arrived in November. Recording merger remarks, Hammond Times reporter Marilyn Hehr and WJOB ' s Cosmo Currier Coing for seconds, Roy Lee McPipe enjoys interview PTA building committeeman Mr. Steve Kicho at the Nov. 26 school board discussion, fare typical of Adult Booster banquets. 24

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Senior class enacts comedy , The Family Man’ Expounding on the importance of the money, Vincent Blair (David Quick) urges his sister, Ellen Cahill (Peggy Carlson), to accept her husband’s prize for homemaker of the year. Members of the senior class en- acted the comedy The Family Man” in the HHS auditorium March 28. Because of inadequate response from seniors, two freshmen and seven sophomores appeared in play. Comedy, authored by B. B. Zavin and Carl Leo, concerned the Cahill family’s problems when Mr. Cahill (Dennis Shoup) broke his leg while playing ball. Ordered to a six-month rest, Mr. Cahill tended to the do- mestic chores while Mrs. Cahill (Peggy Carlson) went to work. Complications arose when Mr. Ca- hill became homemaker of the year. Miss Oza Cunningham directed the production. The stage crew constructed settings and handled the lighting, while, costume, prop- erty, publicity and ticket commit- tees lent their efforts. Dramatics Club members applied makeup. CAST OF CHARACTERS Ellen Cahill Peggy Carlson Dr. Hartnett Ray Wagner Bill Cahill Dennis Shoup Mrs. Beeman Joanna Harvey Vincent Blair ... David Quick Roger Cahill Stuart Lorenz Nancy Cahill Sue Weaver Mrs. Conch Roberta Williams Mrs. Guilford Marjorie Berry Mrs. Tash Virginia Keller TV actress Marianne Lamm TV mother Carolyn Jenkins Announcer Frank Cursansky Bertha Fortune Judy Bainer Mr. Gates Cary Osborne Weather reporter... .Marvin Reynolds C. V. Brockton Nancy Brauer Western Union operator Teresa Johnsen Walter Stuart Bill McHie Jerry Trevor Sterling Taylor Miss Lucille Ford Rita Lambros Planning a barbecue, PTA members Mrs. Beeman (Joanna Harvey), Mrs. Conch (Ro- berta Williams), Mrs. Guilford (Marjorie Berry) and Mrs. Tash (Virginia Keller) run through the minutes of their last meeting.

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West Lafayette, HHS exchange school leaders Exchange program, movie turn- about, semi-formal and school picnic led Association’s student activities. HHS participated in a student ex- change program with West Lafay- ette High School in February. Wild- cats hosted four WLHS’ers who ob- served HHS’s system and activities. Next four HHS’ers visited WLHS. Girls asked their favorite boys to a movie turnabout March 7, fea- turing “Two Tars,” a Laurel and Hardy comedy; and “The Raven.” “Autumn Adagio” themed Associa- tion-sponsored semi-formal Nov. 9. For the first time, Association sponsored an all-school picnic. Stu- dents aggregated at the Dunes State Park in May for the event. Promoting purple spirit, Joe Rogers ped- dles Association license plates to Connie Tramm and Joyce Kontol during halftime of a Civic Center basketball game. Costuming mannequin in semi-formal attire, Diana Rubright publicizes “Autumn Adagio.” 25