Anderson High School - Indian Yearbook (Anderson, IN)

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American Youth Foundation Staii Visits fAxl lS Horace and Kodaya were in Al-IS Tor Three days and Those sTudenTs who had Tilled ouT a Personal DevelopmenT Ques- Tionnaire had The opporTuniTy oT personal inTerview and counciling wiTh Them. AnoTher convocaTion which will long be remembered by high school sTudenTs was one which TeaTured Miss Bernice CliTTon. blind lecTurer wiTh her seeing eye dog. Karla. Miss CliTTon has been blind by ill- ness Tor seven years. She masTered braille in her TirsT year and acquired Karla, her seeing eye German shepherd dog. She now Travels exTensively Tor The Seeing Eye OrganizaTion and gives book reviews. Recorded chimes and organ selecTions were played as an inTroducTion To The ChrisTmas convocaTion which was in charge oT Miss Lois Ann Wells. The pro- gram was divided inTo Three parTs-- ChrisTmas ls Fun, ChrisTmas ls Music, and ChrisTmas ls ChrisT. Included in The pro- gram was a brass quarTeT composed oT Don l-lughel, Marvin l-lull, Ted King, and Louis FonTaine. Adding much To The were The decoraTions prepared by The arT deparTmenT. Choral Club Carols As in previous years Choral Club car- oled Through The halls and added much To The spirT oT ChrisTmas. Ramona Ward, worThy Senior girl, won The highly-coveTed DAR award, which is based on ciTizenship, personaliTy. scholas- Tic abiliTy and paTrioTism. Coming baclc Trom a much-needed va- caTion iT was Tound ThaT plans Tor The Tall semesTer were rapidly drawing To a close, and ThaT The spring semesTer was underway. LeT Us Th

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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.

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Holidays Scene ol -I-raditional Decorations, Carols Senior Week commiTTees were appoinT- ed and The annual Hi-Y dance was held in The audiTorium aTTer The IvIuncie-Ander- son game. SevenTeen 4A's compIeTed Their high school work and meT wiTh Mn PorTer To Take care oT The Tinishing oT all deTaiIs concerning mid-Term graduaTion. 52 On Special MenTion During The Tall semesTer TiTTy-Two sTu- denTs obTained The honor oT being on The Special IvIenTion Honor Roll. OT This num- ber sevenTeen were boys and ThirTy-Tive were girls. In order To achieve This honor. Perseverance sTudenTs musT be enrolled in aT leasT Three Tull crediT subiecTs and make A averages in Them plus any haIT crediT subiecTs which They carry. AT The beginning oT The new semesTer one hundred sevenTy-one Treshman enTer- ed The porTaIs oT AHS. Lowell Lee and Charles Denny, boTh Tormer AHS TacuITy members, were dis- charged Trom The Army and again resum- ed Their duTies aT AHS. Mr. Lee Teaches in The Physical Sciences DeparTmenT and Mr. Denny in The Social STudies. As has been The cusTom Tor several years The high school band presenTed iTs annual concerT using music by VicTor Her- berT as The main Theme oT The program. As has been said beTore, Uncle Sam had no Teelings and iT was proved when he Took Norman PeTers, Indian mascoT, Toward The close oT The season's games His moccasins were ably Tilled, however. by Gus Pancol, who wenT wiTh The Indians clear To The STaTe. Honor came To Hope BixensTine, a sen- ior girl and acTive member oT Choral Club and Madrigal Club, when she was chosen as one oT The nine youThs Trom all over The sTaTe To audiTion aT Indianapolis. Hope appeared beTore conducTor Fabien SeviTzky oT The Indianapolis Symphony OrchesTra and ranked in Third place. Speech Winner Named Winner oT The local and counTy Amor- ican Legion speech conTesT was Marvin Clanin, Junior boy. His subiecT was The HisTory oT The ConsTiTuTion. TwenTy-one sTudenTs apolied Tor schol- arshios To sTaTe colleges. ln a poll Taken among The seniors concerning college oreTerences iT was Tound ThaT Indiana lIniversiTy ranked TirsT wiTh Purdue and Fall STaTe ranking nexT in line.