Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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me f ast We present here some of the Decatur school leaders in the life of Ravelings. For two of these pictures we had to fall back on old year books. Mr. E. E. Rice was Supt. of Schools from 1909 to 1913. His picture was taken from the 1912 High School Booster, Commencement number. Mr. C. E. Spaulding followed Mr. Rice and was here from 1913-1916. His picture was taken from The Colum- bian, high school yearbook of Columbia City, to which place he went after leav- ing Decatur. Mr. M. F. Woi-thman stepped up from high school principal to the Superin- tendency in 1916 and served until his death in 1934. Mr. Walter J. Krick had been high school principal here and went to Van Wert as principal there. In 1934 Mr. Krick moved back to Deca- tur as School Superintendent and served until 1951 when he too died in office. He was succeeded by Mr. W. Guy Brown, our present Superintendent. Mr. Brown had served as Central grade principal, and high school principal before his election to the superintend- ency. Miss Wemhoff is the only woman prin- cipal we have had in our high school, acting in that capacity from 1918 to 1920. She had been a teacher in the high school before becoming principal. C. E. SPAULDING FRIEDA WEHMHOFF 13

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chool =fL eadi ers MARTIN F. WORTHMAN WALTER J. KRICK E. E. RICE 9 H| qb i» Hi |f- « ■ fe ■ . i -

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When speaking of fads and fashions, just compare, or rather contrast, the dress of the Sophomores of 1914 with the other styles of dress shown here. In their long skirts and coats, the girls look more like middle aged ladies than high school sophomores. And how would our young men of today, with their low, soft, and often open collars, like to wear the high, stiff collars of that day. Compare the dress of Kay Stoppenhagen and Diane Rhodes in their trench coats and sneakers. Compare also one of the most out- standing and characteristic of present day fashions, the crinoline underskirt. Monica Badenhop and Candy Johnson pose to give us a typical crinoline skirt picture. In the upper right hand pictures, some of our Union townsliip pupils and their bus driver posed for a picture. You will note that several of the girls, dressed in their norm.al school clothes, are wearing the fa- mous fad of present day fashion, crinoline underskirts.