Portland High School - Tifoon Yearbook (Portland, IN)

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M1 Donald Hammltt Plcsldent M1 W1ll1am Parks Secretarv Mrs Emmett Saxman Treasurer 310 nc mcmbcxs f the Poxtland Bo'ucl f Edutatlon 0' in Betty Lmgo Sarah Helen Leonhard U SK Betty about It or Maybe Sarah Helen can help you were common remarks among all the students and teachers also showlng the lmportant posltlons that both g1rls hold 1n our school Betty Llngo Secretary to the Supermtendent IS h1s r1ght hand man Bes1des makmg out the payroll for school employees and paylng all CIHIIHS she ISSUES work permlts and does the bookkeepmg and general office vxork whlch IS requlred 1n such a posxtlon Sarah Helen Leonard Secretaxy to the Prmclpal checks the attendance records recelxes all 8Ct1V1ty card pay ments conducts a regular lost and found de partment dellvers mall to the teachers turns the cor rldor llghts on and off and does a thousand and one other odd Jobs around the office

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Supermtendent D S Weller ALONG wlth the fine records made dur1ng thlS year of 1945 46 came also lncreased problems for many Although the war was over fuel lumber ma chlnery and man power were st1ll scarce and keeplng the Cxty Schools of Portland runnlng up to then usual hlgh standards was perhaps more dlffi cult than ever before One fortunate clrcumstance however was the glft of many tools to the schools from the war surplus propertv agency of the government Among the useful 1tems recelved were a m1ll1ng machlne a grlnder a dr1ll press an electrlc Welder a tapplng machlne and a translt level Csurveylng mstrumentj Such a1rp1ane lnstruments as an astro com pass an octant and a sextant are use ful 1n the aeronautlcs class and the Pr1nc1pal H S Brubaker shop out 1n the Annex now has an alrplane motor valued at S25 000 00 whlch the school bought for S10 More educatlonal films were avallable this 5ear for 1ncreased vlsual and audltory teachmg W1th the close of the war It was notlceable that there was less and less demand for student and teacher help on outs1de act1v1t1es And so under the admlnlstratlon of Super1ntendent D S Weller Pr1nc1pal H S Brubaker and the Board of Educa t1on Portland H1gh School cont1nued to functlon and to serve the youth of our communlty jk g fA8 l 0COI 5

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FACULTY Clyde R Balr Harold S Brubaker Crystal Cheek Loulse Current Kenneth A Farris Mathematlcs Pr1nc1pal Soe1alStud1es Hxstory Enghsh SOC131 Buslness Manager Mathematlcs Arxthmetlc P r o b 1 e m Gum for Plays Problem Tourney Problem Keep1ng Ch6XV1I'lg Problem Ind1v1du tlckets' those Senlors work ahty IH studylng mg' Wallace C Fields Bermce Glbble Garnet Gunn Ruth Allce Harvey Engllsh SOCIB1 Commercial Home Economxcs Latm L1brary Stud1es Treasurer of Act1v Jun1or Red Cross SGFVICG Blble H1 Y Sponsor 1t16S Fund Sponsor Lat1n Club Sponsor Problem Answer Problem Boy typ Problem G1rls vs Problem Over 1n mg quest1ons lsts clumsy fingers' Sr boys as home dustrlous students' Bxble class' makers' WO new teachers were added to our staff th1s year Mrs Crystal Cheek teacher of SOCIQI Stud1es and ar1thmet1c came to Portland from Dunklrk to replace Mr Thomas Starr who went to Goshen Indlana Hold mg an A B degree from Ball State Teachers College Mrs Cheek has almost completed work on a Masters Our musxc supervxsor was Mrs Mar1anne Moore, a graduate of the Oberl1n College Conservatory of MUSIC wxth a B S 'VI degree She replaced M1ss Jean ette Groff who returned to Northwestern Un1vers1ty for further study 12 Stud1es Jun1or Class Sponsor Problem F1ght1ng the hlgh cost of l1v 1n Florence Jones Commerclal P r o b 1 e m Love blmd typ1sts' I!! X, f W -4075 ' - . ' , . . . , ' , . '- - . . . . ' , v 1 , - . ' ' in ' ' . . - ' . ' 1 1 . , , . ' . . , . .L . . ' ' , f' .1 ' ff f : :if ,. ' ,I 'f ..,:' aff 4 -' qfflffccj'