Anderson High School - Indian Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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Lessons From A Champ One oT The highIighTs oT The year's acT- iviTies was The holding oT a VisiTors' Day under The direcTion oT The STudenT Coun- cil. The purpose was To give The parenTs The opporTuniTy To see iusT whaT Takes place in The classroom. A regular day oT school was conducTed. Guides were placed in The TronT hall To direcT visiTors To The various classrooms and poinT ouT places oT inTeresT. The execuTive commiTTee oT The IQ46 graduaTing class chose gray Tor Their caps and gowns. This is diTTerenT Trom The Three previous years in which The caps and gowns have been blue. EducaTion Week Recognized EducaTion To promoTe The general wel- Tare, was The Theme Tor This year's ob- servance oT American EducaTion Week Trom November ll To I7 inclusive. Sev- eral programs were conducTed in accor- dance wiTh This. In observance oT NaTionaI Book Week, lvlrs. Jean Waggoner, well known Indiana auThor, spoke To sTudenTs in The audiTor- rum. Wanna subscribe Tor The annual? The Tall subscripTion drive Tor The Indian sTarTed soon aTTer Thanksgiving wiTh Ross Michel as circuIaTion manager. The eIecTion oT The class oT l949 was held wiTh lvlrs. EsTher Buchanan and Ker- miT Todd being chosen as TacuITy sponsors. A IeTTer was received Trom The War Finance CommiTTee congraTuIaTing The ,Real Indian! presents New War Dance sTudenTs and Teachers oT AHS Tor Their Tino parTicipaTion in buying sTarnps and bonds and Tor compIeTing seven cam- paigns Tor hospiTaI uniTs oT 83,000 each. Am Iseeing ghosTs? Who is ThaT gruesome looking creaTure? These mighT have been a Tew oT The excIamaTions heard The nighT oT The Halloween Tracas aT Club Tom Tom. Fun was had by all and one would never have guessed ThaT some oT Those wicked looking creaTures were really very harmless-aTTer removing Their masks. New LighTs in Rooms l8, 209 Ah'. The IighT dawns -mighT have an expression heard aTTer The insrallarion oT new TIuorescenT IighTing in Room 209, The publicaTions room, and Room I8 ,The bookkeeping room. Yippee-Row Bll, exclaimed one oT Those lucky seniors. I-Iowever, The sTudenT season TickeTs were a sell-ouT and Those sTudes on row Q could be heard iusT as much as Those siTTing clown on The TirsT Tew rows. Open I-louse was The curTain raiser Tor The baskeTbaII season The TirsT pep session was held and all sTud3:1los were permiTTed To aTTend. ,Q

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Football Season Ends, Teachers Attend Convention The I946 War Chest and Community Fund Drive was opened in Al-IS home- rooms. The drive took the place ot the stamp and bond sale. Anderson's quota was SI25,000.00. Final statistics revealed that 7395 ot the students participated. The sophomores were tirst in contributions which totaled S3l5.55. While most ot the students were relax- ing and taking lite easy during the three- day vacation. thirty-one members ot Choral Club took part in the State Chor- al Festival held during the annual State Teachers Convention at Indianapolis. Un- der the direction ot the guest conductor, Peter Tkach ot Minneapolis, I IOO public Press Delegates Thirst I I The Winnahs school students throughout Indiana par- ticipated in singing. Five ot Al-lS's taculty members were honored at the State Teachers Conven- tion. Mr. Porter was re-elected president ot the North Central Conterence. Frank S. Baker, English instructor, was chosen president ot the Adviser's Division ot the Indiana High School Press Association. B. B. I-lorton was selected chairman ot the Chemistry and Physics Section ot the Indiana State Teachers Association. Miss Katherine Brown was chosen as president ot the Business Education Section and John Finney was named vice-president ot Indiana Council ot Geography Teachers. Students Attend I.H.S.P.A. As in previous years tive iournalism students traveled to Franklin College to the Indiana I-Iigh School Press Association Convention. Delegates this year were Patty Ryan and Joycilie Pearson repre- senting the Indian and Doris Jean Sells, Mary Lee I.eweIIen and Mina Trick repre- senting the X-Ray . Oops'. Pardon me.' Well, why don't you watch where you are going? These were just a tew ot the mild exclamations heard when the one way stairs -student council's pet project-was begun. This rul- ing only applied to the southwest section with the annex stairs being used tor going down and the old stairs tor tavelling up. Soon atterwards, however, it was agreed by most ot the students that the plan was a success. ' Letters Awarded Coach Cummings awarded letters to twenty members ot the varsity tootball squad and gave monogram awards to other squad members at a pep session bringing the tootball season otticiallv to a close. Coach Bonge also awarded let- ters, monograms and numerals to his un- deteated cross country team. Erwin Wright and Wayne Maul were chosen honorary captains ot their respective teams.

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Hardvvood, Hallovveicn Seasons Take Qvcr School Uncle Sam gave The school 5138.000 worTh oT equipmenT Tor The chemisTry laboraTory. This gave AHS one oT The besT chemical labs in The sTaTe. ConTinuing To make plans Tor Senior Week, The class oT I946 conducTed an elecTion To deTermine which acTiviTies would Take place during ThaT Time. The execuTive commiTTee complied The lisT which The Seniors voTed upon. Box ConTesT Sponsored The STudenT Council sponsored a con- TesT Tor The naming oT a suggesTion box which was placed in The TronT hall Tor sTudenT use. Tid-BiT Box was The name de- cided upon Tor iT. WiTh The end oT The war and peace reigning once more, AHS disconTinued The selling oT sTamps and bonds which had been under The direcTion oT Mr. HalleTT and Mr. Bailey. STaTed These men. The sTudenTs oT AHS have roa y been TaiThTul and loyal in buying siamps and bonds. Sales began in l94?, The grand ToTal Tor The Tour years was 2'52?6.098. NOT bad aT all!! AHS wa? ably represenTed This year by a debaie Team made up oT Tour AHS sTudenTs. The Topic oT mosT oT These de- baTes was FullTime lv1iliTary ConscripTion. The Team consisTed oT Florence Porges. Clyde STeckel Taking The aTTirmaTive and Phyllis Vermillion and Don BancroTT Taking The negaTive. Jr. Red Cross Holds Drive AToTal oT SI I0.00 was collecTed by The Junior Red Cross Tor The lnTanTile Pa- ralysis Drive. The sophomores made The greaTesT conTribuTion. Hubba! Hubba! Hubba! Service Men! Army, Navy or Marines? WhaT does iT NexT! Rare Revclahons oT True BeauTy maTTer? For The ArmisTice Day Convo They were broughT in Trom all branches. The program which was in charge oT The VicTory CommiTTee was sTricTly a success. Oleda Mills was misTress oT ceremonies.