Anderson High School - Indian Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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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.

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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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Y book Editors P + d P f l:irst peace-Time Armistice Day Celebrated One ot the main teatures ot the pro- gram was the Ft. Harrison Band which really set the students teet a tapping . It was enioyed so much that the students requested several encores. Speaking on the program were two graduates. War- ren Stidham '42 ot the Army and Hugh Harrison '43 ot the Navy. Warren, who has tought in Europe, was president ot his graduating class and editor ot the '42 lndian . Hugh, who was in action in the South Pacitic was also president ot his class and editor ot the '43 lndian . Lois June Fuller, art student and mem- ber ot the class ot I946. was highly hon- ored when Robert St. John, noted author, news analyst and toreign commentator, upon speaking here noticed a painting in the tront hall case drawn by June. He requested the painting and in exchange gave June an autographed copy ot his latest book. Thanksgiving Program Given For the tirst time in three years, AHS observed a peace-time Thanksgiving. The annual Thanksgiving convo was presented by tour AHS students, instead ot a visit- ing minister. Mary Lee Lewellen intro- duced the tour speakers. Mary Prokos spoke on My Home , Joan Williams on My School , Bill Ogden on My Church and Charles Condon on My Country . Representing the American Youth Foundation, Miss Marie E. Shaver and Dr. O. W. Warmingham, commonly known to the students otAHS as Horace and Kodaya . presented one ot the year's most enioyed convocations. They spoke brietly and led in group singing.