Portland High School - Tifoon Yearbook (Portland, IN)

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ACTIVITIES REVIEW Busy Year for Clubs Boys and girls do not learn from books alone. Practical lessons in how to conduct business-like meetings, how to plan a working program, how to launch a drive for funds, and above all how to get along with one another are painless by-products of extra- curricular activities. Old tried-and-true organizations flourished side by side with new upstart clubs this year, and a full activity calendar was the result. Probably the most active of all clubs is the Girl Reserves, membership in which is open to all high school girls. The cabinet, made up of the officers, sponsors, and the chairmen of the seven standing committees plan in advance the program for the year, and each month brings forth its quota of business meetings, inspirational programs, in- formal get-togethers, and social service projects. Most of the work is done through committees, every member of the club having an opportunity to vol- unteer for the particular kind of work in which she is interested. Besides the seven standing committees, there are QUEEN SQRAH and KING KEITH . . . reigned over the ball various special ones appointed as the need arises. Training is thus provided in effective leadership as well as in intelligent following. Cooperation - Deeds, not words - and Learn to do by doing have been the foundation stones on which the Vo-Ag Club has been building for the past nine years. Evidence of the sound- ness of this program is the fact that the department has doubled its enrollment during that time. Realizing that the success of any democratic community depends upon its members, recognition of the necessity of working together for the common good and accepting in- dividual responsibility the club has cooperated with many other organiza- tions with similar aims as well as carrying on various cooperative enter- prises of its own. Each individual is given personal responsibilities, and members of his own group urge him on to carry out his job and commend him for accomplishment. For two years, Pep Sessions instead of just happening have been carefully planned. The committee responsible for these programs is composed of both students and faculty members and is appointed by the principal at the open- ing of school in the fall. The value of planned programs cannot be doubted by anyone who has thoughtfully com- pared pep sessions as they were this year with those of several years ago. Perhaps from the success of this com- mittee will develop a system of having other types of assemblies in addition to pep sessions worked out by a student- faculty committee. Brother organization of the Girl Re- serves is the Hi-Y Club. Members are elected by balloting and humorous as well as serious initiation services are held. Meetings featuring talks by prom- inent local men are held. Often bas- ketball provides the entertainment after the meetings. Among the newer clubs, I. T. T., a discussion group, satisfies every girl's desire to talk over with her friends such problems as ettiquete, dating, dancing, clothes and the numerous other subjects of interest to all high school girls. Meetings are held every two

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Row l: Edna Ashley, Mary Glassford, Jeanne Young, Madonna Bickel, Gracie Boyd, Melba Grady, Virginia Aper, Betty Friddle, Gloria Ann Brown, Jean Bisel, Kelly Dixon. Row 2: Winifred Braun, Betty Aker, Naida Fenton, Arthur Garringer, Robert Brumbaugh, Lucille Clear, June Atha, Audrey Brewster, Jennings Bickel, Martha Brumm. Row 3: Jean Callahan, Kathryn Fry, Richard Haviland, Kenneth Davis, Bernadean Dyson, Martha Brown, Emily Finch, Wayne Foltz. Joe Browne. Martha I-laxshman, Genevieve Fischer. Row 4: Raymond Fetters, Gilbert Boozier, Dorothy Kearns, Ruth Evelyn Bickel, Nellie Bailey, Robert Burk, Dorsey Boise, Jack Derringer, William Brown, John Barrett. Row l: Jane I-Iershberger, Marjorie Griesinger, Robert Freed, Juanita Hathaway, Lois Ramsey, Pauline Huey, Donald Harmon, Myrtle Kelly. Row 2: Jean Hoskins, Betty Lingo, Betty Lewis, Thelma Loper, Marie Kummel, Mary Garrison, Howard Hartley, Richard Hummer. Row 3: Martha Nell Lare. Harriet Herhst. Jay King, Mary Helen Green, Edwin Friend, Margery Hisey, Thomas Ankrom, Cecil Imel, Calvin Loy. Row 4: Sarah Helen Leonhart, Ileen Gierhart, Edna Loy, Ernest Funk, William Love, Carl Funk, Nur Lykins, Kenneth Hall, John J uillerat. Row l: Homer Money, Bud Stipp, William Morgan, Marie Seymour, Mary Ann Stafford, Georgia Rivers, Betty Rudrow, Anna Mae Orr, Esther Smith, Jack Moody. Row 2: Eva Swartz, Opal Smith, Rachel Martin, Betty McKiney, Marlyn Marsh, Virginia Noll, Pat Richer, Lelia Sutton, Francis Stults. Row 3: Marian Pensinger, Mildred Spade, Sally Sue Smith, Lenora Schmidt, Ruby Spillman, Lucy Schubert, Wilma Stults, Dale Noble, Eldon Sanders. Row 4: Elsie Sanders, Helen Nichols, Robert Reedy, David Smithson, Robert Owens, Harry Matchet, Lowell Smith, Carl Nelson, Jimmy Sipe, Harvey Peden. Row 1: Junior Martin, Harold Leon Sutton, Mary Esther Trobridge, Kathryn Whitacre, Wanda Whitacre, Madonna Whitacre, Jimmie Valentine, Meredith Wol- ford. Row 2: Helen Stults, Jean Platt, Wanda Whipple, Betty Jo McNutt, Louise Relchard, Crystal Wilson, Lowell McLaughlin, Lloyd McLaughlin. Row 3: Leslie Ludy, Richard Sanders, Robert Limbert, Robert Mayo, Max McCroy, Virgil Shreeves, Gerald Thompson, Virgil Valentine. Row 4: Joe Powell. Shirley Walmer, James Peterson, Ethel Richard, Robert Teeters, Jack Study, Earl Shauver, Robert Wherry. Row 1: John Scott, Duane Pensinger, Madonna Bright, Dickie Badders, Roeberta Myers, Joe Fox, Elizabeth Myers, Robert Hall, Irene Parrish. Row 2: Donald Fifer, Freridie Watkins, Barbara Woods, Vern Walters, Jackie Arn, Georgia Pope, Perry Frakes, Helen Litzenberger, Jay Markley. Row 3: Ralph Pogue, Eugene Pettibone, Paul Graham, Beverly McCrory, Howard Bibler, Katherine Bentz, Joan Hardy, Harry Valentine. Row 4: Harold. Walters, Jack LcLaughlin, Martha Smith, Robert Gamer, Martha Henry, Betty Myers. THE CLASS of 1944 The Frosh are Many and Mighty It was like a deluge when the one hundred and seventy-five Freshman students in September and the twenty- five mid-year students in Janaury en- tered Portland High as members of the class of '44. After the first few days of adjustment, good grades were the most important goals for most of the class. Wanda Whipple, Opal Smith and Mary Garrison were all A students, Richard Hummer received three A's, and Jean Hoskins, Marlyn Marsh, Pat Richer, Mabel Jean Platt, and Elsie Sanders had two A's each. In addition to scholastic interests, many members of the class found time for extra-curricular activities-chorus, band, orchestra, clubs and athletics. The dating of Freshmen girls with up- per-classman boys almost reached extra- curricular activity proprtions. As the year draws to a close, each Freshman is looking forward to next fall and a second year at P. H. S. As We See Them Richard Hummer, in Christmas play . . . Jackie Arn, most popular mid-year Freshman . . . John Juillerat, class Romeo . . . Virginia Noll, from Florida . . . Pat Richer, busiest Freshman member of G. R. social committee . . . Gloria Ann Brown, that way about Bob . . . Ed Friend, chorus class nuisance . . . Sally Sue Smith, seen with a Senior boy . . . Jay Markley, Boy Scout of Troop 201 . . . Kathryn and Wanda Whitacre, cousins and pals . . . Lowell and Lloyd McLaughlin, which is which . . . Esther Smith, class poet . . . Jimmie Valen- tine, carrying on the family business . . . Ruth Evelyn Bickel, from Madison . . . Kathryn Fry, from Fort Wayne . . . Harold Leon Sutton, bicycle rider . . . Shirley Walmer, drum beater . . . How- ard Hartley, admiring the upper class- men . . . Marie Seymour, time out for an appendectomy . . . Howard Bibler, brown eyed and shy. if Pk if Mr. Brubaker: Well Mary Ann, how do you like school?,' Mary Ann: Closed

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ACTIVITIES REVIEW weeks at which time a round table dis- cussion takes place and the free ex- change of opinions is encouraged. A department club is the Junior Clas- sical League, open to all second year Latin students who are interested in learning more about Roman manners and customs. Regular classroom reci- tation and study is enlivened by such a class club, hum-drum work is moti- vated, and otherwise commonplace as- signments are made to have a meaning and a purpose. The Girls' Athletic Association fills the need of play in the high school girl's life. One night each week the gymnasium is entirely for girls, and organized teams in various sports com- pete for the pure joy of play. Physical habits as well as mental habits are formed in school, and the gym provides a splendid training field in which to develop good habits of leisure. Music is a universal language, and students in Portland High School have an opportunity to express their feelings by taking part in the various activities of the music department-band, or- chestra, chorus, and music appreciation. Biggest Senior project has always been the publication of the Typhoon. Published continuously for seventeen years, the year book has since 1936 been under the sponsorship of Mrs. Steven- son. An Editor and a Business Man- ager are selected by the faculty. They, together with the sponsor, select the other members of the Staff, choosing them from the slips which all Seniors are asked to turn in stating their prefer- ence for work which they feel qualified to do. Training in gathering and or- ganizing school news, in written com- position, in salesmanship, in shouldering responsibility, and in planning and carrying through to a successful con- clusion a complete project are the chief results which students who work on the Staff may expect. Besides the dividends of personal pleasure and profit which extra-curricu- lar activities pay, participation in one of these fields gives one a sense of be- longing, of contributing his share to that vague something called school spirit, and of being part of the color and glamour that is in the final analysis, a very definite part of one's high school experience. Hi-Y Initiation Junior officers G. R. Sponsors and Fri end