Bishop Noll High School - Marquette Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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BISHOP NOLL HIGH SCHOOL Every good thing has a humble begin¬ ning, and Bishop Noll High School, the main topic of OUR STORY is no exception. It began in 1921 in the temporary quarters of two class rooms at St. Mary ' s grade school in East Chicago. In 1922 the school moved to the present campus and into the famous barracks a five-room building covered with tar paper. In 1923 a building program was begun which has resulted in the present buildings on the campus. Bishop Noll High School began with a total enroll¬ ment of 40 students in 1921, and has grown to the present enrollment of 1341 students. With such modest beginnings and with such leaps and bounds, our school has con¬ tinued to the present day. The original faculty members of Catholic Central High School, as it was then called, were the Poor Handmaid Sisters of Jesus Christ, whose Motherhouse is located at Donaldson, Indiana. Today Noll High is staffed by seven priests, twenty-two Sisters of the Holy Cross, and ten lay men and women. Rev. P. J. Schmid was appointed Director of the school in 1923. Fr. Schmid is now acting as chaplain at St. Margaret ' s Hos¬ pital, Hammond. In 1934 he was succeeded by Father Conway, present pastor of St. Mary of the Lake, Miller. The present Prin¬ cipal, Rev. A. J. Junk, made his first appear¬ ance at Noll High as teacher and athletic director in 1933. In 1939 he began his career as Principal and has been serving the cause of Christian education during the twenty years of his priesthood. The subjects taught at Noll High are based on Catholic principles and are pre¬ sented from a Catholic point of view. They are imparted with an eye towards the future life and needs of each one of the students. The school sponsors a complete athletic program and a wide variety of activities of an extra-curricular nature. 6

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School to those students yet unknown who will one day sit at these very desks, it is OUR STORY. The founders have begun the story; we have added this most recent chap¬ ter; those of the future will read it, profit by it, and write their own story. Each and everyone of us who is part and parcel of life here at Noll High will leave his mark, not only here in the school, but also in the world and in eternity, for we FACULTY Someone once said, Youth needs a guiding hand. We at Noll High are no exception. One of the most helpful chapters of OUR STORY is found within the bonds of our Faculty who have labored to make us true Christian Americans.page 10 are the Christian Americans of tomorrow. What has done much to shape our lives into what they will be is important to our¬ selves, to the world, and to God. Thus it is that OUR STORY cannot be trite. As these pages unfold, the personae dramatis will move through the memories of the 1953-54 scholastic year and will dramatize OUR STORY. CLASSES The many hours of careful study, the pleasant hours of interesting activities, the thrill of a job well done -— these are the thoughts uppermost in our minds as we reminisce about the classmates who have played so important a part in OUR STORY .page 20 ACTIVITIES OUR STORY continues through the leaves of a book and unfolds the many activities which have taught us to cooperate with others and have given us opportunities for leadership. Our Activities bring to light many pleasant memories of school life and provide some of the highlights of OUR STORY .page 70 ATHLETICS Participation in high school athletics brings to the fore the real sportsmanship and school spirit in high school students. These pages contain our sports, our teams, and our spirit. They form another chapter in OUR STORY.page 92 5

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Upon matriculation at Noll High, pros¬ pective students are given a battery of tests, the results of which prove helpful in de¬ termining the choice of a curriculum and in placing the student in classes which will satisfy his needs and talents. Noll High offers to its students four curriculas: the Classical, the Commercial, the Scientific, and the General. Bishop Noll High School has thus vastly expanded and improved since its inauspi¬ cious launching in the early Roaring Twenties. However, those modest begin¬ nings were the necessary nucleus out of which has grown and developed the present institution.