Columbia City High School - Columbian Yearbook (Columbia City, IN)

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AND MODEL ADMINISTRATORS Superintendent Working behind a door labeled super- intendent, Mr. Arley G. Kerr capably and conscientiously oversees the stu- dents and their interests at CCHS. Fur- thermore he awes learnees with his frank theories of sociology. Assistant Principal Having returned from her year's absence due to an auto accident, Miss Bertha Thorn- burgh tries to keep Latin stu- dents from writing translations in their books and worries along with the debaters about compul- sory military training. Principal A-Call system. Ever ready to offer advice and counsel to questioning students, CCHS's superin- tendent, principal, and assistant principal personify the traits a good school teacher should possess. They are constantly alert and on the lookout for new ideas on how to make the school a better place in which to learn. ll In a newly-redecorated and very busi ness-like looking office, Principal Orla R Smiley chiefly delights in writing on the new multi-colored excuse blanks and making announcements over the Flash

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TAXPAYERS REPRESENTATIVES Board of Education Representatives of the citizens of Columbia City, the School Board collaborates with the fac- ulty in deciding vital issues of the school. Mr. Paul Morsches presides over the meetings, while Mr. Lee Daniel makes records of the happenings and Mr. Fred Yontz balances the books. The board convenes every two weeks. The pleasant voice who answers over the phone, Superintendent's office is none other than Miss Marty Langohr, attendee emeritus of CCHS. Kept busy with Mr. Kerr's stenographic work, she nevertheless takes pride in managing the secondhand bookstore. With two of them graduates of CCHS the School Board feels quite at home at their bi- weekly meetings. At these sessions, they discuss with Superintendent Kerr the various problems that have most recently arisen and decide the course of action to be followed. Mr. Fred Yontz, the board member of longest standing, has served for fourteen years. Next is Mr. Lee Daniel who was re-elected this year after having served from 1931 to 1936. Com- pleting the board is Mr. Paul Morsches, who started worrying about the school's aiairs at the beginning of the 1939-1940 school year. 10

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CCHS'S FACULTY METAMORPHOSIS The history teachers collect in Wil- son's second floor abode to get the latest low-down on who owns what. War-weary, Miss Berniece Carver tries to change the subject, but Mr. Wilfred Wilson and Miss Martha Baker, who also writes ex- cuses for Columbian Staff members, re- fuse to be diverted. Mr. Galen Wenger, having endured one more harassing seventh period rush, and Miss Marguerite Stultz, completely exhausted from keeping her senior lit class in hand, strike an easy pose and wonder how their sophomore lit classes will misinterpret Gareth and Lynette to- morrow. Miss Lois Paxson, looking very starchy in her freshly-laundered home ec uni- form, amazes the vocational agriculture teacher, Mr. Leon Alter, by telling him she has just read in a book that people once thought tomatoes, his favorite vege- table, were poison. After a grueling day of school, Mr. joseph Shull, science instructor, seeks the counsel of his wife, Mrs. Irene W. Shull, mathematics teacher, on a prob- lem with which an ardent physics stu- dent, delving into the mysteries of pul- leys and mechanical advantages, has stumped him.