South Side High School - Totem Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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0616 A view of last year's Recognition Day services at which many students were recognized for speech, athletics, drama, math, English, and publica- tions. Miss Mabel Thorne and her home room students serve tea to the faculty to celebrate the growing ivy and the beautification of the bicycle court out- side their home room. Here are a group of the guests and the girls who served. Left to right: Miss Gertrude Oppelt, Mrs. l,inna Chronister, Miss limma Shoup, Rosemary Waldeia, Ma1'y jo Stoffer, Miss Thorne, Bernice Ship- ley, Barbara Speigel, and Elaine Wcwcud- ruff. Another picture of an outstanding school event: last year,s Ivy Day pro- cession led by Mary Louise McNabb and her attendants, janet Rea, Lois Guysinger, Sally O'Rourlce, and Joyce Stump. Four of last yearis graduating seniors seem to be enjoying themselves as they look over their Totems, which despite wartime conditions came out well ahead of the close of school. 18

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endure aura .xdf -- liducational films on all subjects are shown by these capable visual education workers. They are from left to right: Dick Nlichaels, Keith Domer, Bill Hacker, Mr. Wilbtiril Wilson, head of the department, Dale Geiger, Ralph Neighbour, and Lois Bender. Representatives of all the city high schools meet to cooperate with the Safe Drivcr's League campaign to stimulate safe driving among high school stu- dents. Here with James Wliite, chair- man of the Lion's Club Safety Com- mittee, sponsor of this drive, is South Sideis representative, Barbara l lyman, the fifth from the left. Bob Haller receives the Quiz Kid Award from Mr. Snider at Recognition Day ceremonies for being chosen from city-wide competition to participate on the Quiz Kid radio program when it appeared here in Fort Wayiie to sell war bonds. Dale Geiger loolcs on. A group of So-Si-Y members draw- ing and cutting Christmas decorations for the Red Cross. These decorations will be sent overseas to decorate some Red Cross canteen where they will help cheer up our boys and bring a touch of home to them. Q 17

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In a beautiful candlelight service a large group of new Girl Reserves are initiated into USA. This scene fol- lowed devotional services. The ofhcers of the club are kneeling in front and the initiates are standing in the back. Witlm their hands over their hearts the students and the teachers make the Star Spangled Banner ring out while Qld Glory is raised at one of the music assemblies. This picture shows a small portion of the assembly. 19 6ll'lCQ5 A large crowd of Archers attended the first after-game dance of the foot- ball season. This is Philo's annual Touchdown Twirln, one of the big- gest and best of all school-sponsored dances. These men brought us the safety assembly, sponsored by the Fort Wayne Fire Department, in which they stressed the loss of lives and property by Fire. Smoky Rogers of Chicago fsecond from leftj was the main speaker.