Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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INKLINGS DEBATE SQUAD Top Row: Ray Bjorklund, Dick Joyce. Miss Richey, Jack Heide. Bottom Row: Mary Scull, Marjorie Frame, Georgia Carroll. Debate Squad Has Successful Year For the fix-st time in several years, under the leadership of our very efficient dramatics and speech teacher, Miss Evelyn Richey, Crown Point High School had a debate squad during 1935-36. Try-outs were open to all high school English students after which the following squad was chosen: Ray Bjorklund, who was elected captain, Jack Heide, Georgia Carroll, Marjorie Frame, Mary Scull, Dick Joyce, and Norman Kaper. In the final lineup the two teams were organized with Ray Bjorklund and Jack Heide as the negative team and Marjorie Frame and Georgia Carroll as the affirmative team. To win a place on the squad means that a student has shown superior ability and exhibited unusual intellectual ca¬ pacity, and if he is not already a leader in his school, he will find his debate experience a valuable method of developing his personal¬ ity. At the beginning of the season the debate squad joined the Indi¬ ana State Debating League; and after a triangular debate with Griffith and Merrillville, they won the district tourney. They tied with Clark of Hammond in the sec¬ tional tourney for the right to com¬ pete in the state tournament at North Manchester but lost to Clark in a second debate. This spring Crown Point High School was issued a charter in the National Forensic League, a nation¬ al fraternity for outstanding high school debaters and speakers. Five members are eligible for member¬ ship to the society as a result of their successful work in the debate squad this year. Ray Bjorklund won the third degree of member¬ ship, called the degree of excel¬ lence; Georgia Carroll, Marjorie Frame, and Jack Heide have won : the second or honorary degree; and Dick Joyce lacked only a few points : of winning the first or degree of merit. j Since this was the first year of experience for all of them, they are to be highly complimented on their unusual success which has made it possible to have debate as a curricu¬ lar subject next year with full credit. With this in mind we are looking forward to a more success¬ ful season next year; and, to quote Miss Richey, “We hope we can represent C. P. H. S. even in the state tournament.” Debate Schedule Neg. N. D. Merrillville Neg. Won Clark Aff. Lost Clark Aff. Lost Washington Neg. Won Washington Neg. N.D. Hammond High Aff. N.D. Hammond High Neg. Lost Lew Wallace Aff. Lost Lew Wallace Neg. Won Washington Aff. Won Washington Aff. Lost Knox Neg. Won Knox Aff. Won Nappanee Neg. Lost Nappanee Neg. Won Chesterton Aff. Won Chesterton Aff. Won Merrillville Neg. Won Griffith Aff. Lost Griffith Neg. Won Merrillville Neg. N.D. Rensselaer Aff. Won Rensselaer Aff. Won Griffith Neg. Won Griffith Neg. N.D. Mooseheart Neg. Won Rensselaer Aff. Last Rensselaer Neg. Won Clark Aff. Lost Clark Aff. Lost Clark Neg. Won Lew Wallace Aff. Won Lew Wallace Neg. Lost Clark Aff. Lost Clark

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INKLINGS 23 HI-Y Tod Row: Arnold Henderlong, Leslie Conquest. Row II: Bill Harper. Crowell Knight. Kenneth Hamilton, Jack Heide, Ray Bjorklund. Joel Davis, Sylvester Kors, Clyde Taylor. Row III: George Cooper, Dick Joyce, John Hargrove. Andres Tyler, Jack Ross, Merle Dille, William Howe, Fred Krull. Row IV: Warren Houk. Roland Lisius. John Baldwin, John Hershman, Mr. Jones, George Laben, Donald Pettit, Warren Pierce, William Ford. Hi-Y Club The Hi-Y club of Crown Point was organized on December 3, 1935. The purpose of this club is “to create, maintain, extend through¬ out the school and community high standards of Christian character.” Their slogan is “clean speech, clean iiving, clean sports, and clean scholarship”, and the Hi-Y club has attempted during the past year, to uphold their purpose and slogan by sponsoring various activities. To¬ gether with the Girl Reserves, they sponsored Courtesy Week, March 9 to 13. They have attended various older boys’ conferences at Valparai¬ so and East Chicago, and are plan¬ ning to send a delegate to the Na¬ tional Hi-Y Congress at Berea, Ken¬ tucky, in June of this year. They obtained money for their treasury by maintaining a check room at all school activities at the Commun¬ ity Building. The organization is sponsored by Ralph M. Jones and the officers for this year are as follows: Warren Houk, president; Kenneth Hamilton, vice-president; George Laben, treasurer; Crowell Knight, secretary. It has been quite some time since Crown Point has had a Hi-Y and we are certainly happy again to sponsor so fine an organization. In view of the good work done this year and the brilliant opportunity for raising of Christian standards in Crown Point in future years, we of the class of ’36 wish the Hi-Y the best of luck in carrying out its good work. Ethel Mae S.: Mother, you know that valuable old vase that you said had been handed down from generation to generation? Mother: Yes, dear. Ethel Mae: Well, this generation has dropped it. During an intense love scene in the movies, when the hero was do¬ ing his stuff Audrey nudged John and said, “Why it is you never make love to me like that?” Borchert: Say, you don’t know how much dough he gets for that. B. Steuer: That Kaper kid is the laziest kid I ever laid my brown eyes on. D. Robinson: Why is that? B. Steuer: Well, he puts his cow in a drafty barn so she’ll get the chills and churn her own butter.

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I N KL I N GIRL RESERVES Tod Row: Felicitas Burbulis, Marie Luebcke. Helen Howe. Betty Seberger. Mary Weber, Ruth Schlueter Elizabeth Steinman, Jane Smith, Anna Kasarski, Alys Mae Frame, Kathryn Dietrich. Ellen Roffman. Ella HofTerber, Marie Neises, Betty Griesel, Leona Newviski. Row II: Eva Meyers, Georgia Ammerman, Nellie 3eem, Eva Utpatel, Carolyn Johnson. Marian Ander¬ son, Thelma Pettit. Aimee Parry, Marjorie Clymer, Doris Kaldahl, Lola Tennant. Lucille Fox, Ruth Seberger. Marie Flathau. Row IIP Lillian Fritch, Lois Morton. Beatrice Pfaff, Anna Bochus, Ruth Klinefelter. Fern Pu rdy Becky Lamson, Mabel Buckley. Edith Schmidt, Johanna VanDerMolen. Carol Jean Martin. Dorothy Platt, Marjorie Letz. Row IV: Rose Dovichi. Elizabeth Rettig. Norma Carlson, Cecelia Carl. Wilma Trumo, Helen Patterson, Cora Mae Haniford. Dorothy Robinson, Miss Krueger, Georgia Hennin, Anna Kelsey, Dorothy Hollo¬ way, Lorraine Margison. Audrey Smith. Girl Reserves One of the first clubs to organize at the beginning of the year was Girl Reserves. This cnapter of the national organization elected Anna Kelsey, president; Fern Purdy, vice- president; Dorothy Platt, secretary; Aimee Parry, treasurer; and Re¬ becca Lamson, reporter. The offic¬ ers of the second semester were Aimee Parry, president; Rebecca Lamson, vice-president; Audrey Smith, secretary; Marjorie Letz, Mr. Jones: What is a good rule to remember for children playing by automobiles? H. Hartung: Don’t run in front of a car until it is gone. treasurer; and Thelma Pettit, re¬ porter. Among the activities of this club was a pot-luck supper for the women’s council, which is compos¬ ed of Mrs. Lindley, Mrs. Lamson, Mrs. J. Letz, Mrs. J. Griesel, Mrs. J. Horst, Mrs. Pruitt and Mrs. T. Adkins. Courtesy Week sponsored jointly with the Hi-Y was another of the club’s activities. This club, under the supervision H. Knesek: Was your brother home from college yesterday? Chuck Clark: I guess he musia been, my bank don’t rattle any¬ more. of Miss Hattie Krueger, has suc¬ ceeded in its purpose of uniting its members in a spirit of friendliness and service and of promoting the high ideals and standards of Christ¬ ian character. On May 5. a banquet for the sen¬ ior Girl Reserves and Hi-Y’s was given, after which there was an installation of officers for the com¬ ing year. Stife: I see they’ve put up some statues around the school since I left. Toomey: Them ain’t statues, them is WPA workers.