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

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Mr. Erwin and Mr. Lindley seem to be in a very happy mood. Will you tell us what makes you so gay ? Oh, you’re happy over the way the students have accepted the new program and are trying to help win the war? Well, so is every¬ one else. Besides his administrative duties, Mr. Erwin teaches two Latin classes. Page Sixteen

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PRACTICALITY COMPLETES THE PERSONALITY Miss Dorothy Wright is displaying and ex¬ plaining to her bookkeeping class the correct way to do their bookkeeping exercises. Other classes taught by Miss Wright are beginning and advanced shorthand, typing, and a secre¬ tarial course. In the secretarial class, taken by advanced shorthand students, the students learn from actual experience the things they will need to know when working in an office. Miss Wright is another of our newcomers. Miss Lorene Foulk has a most strenuous job. With the new Victory courses comes Commando for girls. It is Miss Foulk’s job to keep an active interest in her classes. She also teaches health to the girls. A graduate of Indiana State Teachers College, she is teaching here for her first year. Besides teaching at the high school, she has art classes in the grades. Herb, you shouldn’t tell those stories when you’re taking pictures! It wasn’t an easy matter for Mr. Henry Orner to find time to teach extra classes, but this was necessary due to boys’ Commando. As head football and basketball coach, he has a full schedule. He also teaches health and safety to the boys. This is Mr. Orner’s third year of teaching in Crown Point. One of our new teachers, Miss Dorothy Eggebrecht, is shown here instructing Eleanor Trepanier, Phyllis Phillips, Farrol Compton, and Norma Lee Fields in the fine art of typing. In her typing class Miss Eggebrecht has strived for a “business office” attitude among the students. Miss Eggebrecht also teaches sopho¬ more English and first year shorthand. It is through her hard work that defense bonds and stamps are being sold. She came to Crown Point last fall from Hammond. Page Fifteen

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Plotting the Strategy and Directing Operations In setting up a new war program for our school Mr. Cecil Erwin and Mr. A. T. Lindley worked long, hard hours trying to please everyone and work out a satisfactory schedule. This new schedule was started the second semester. Victory courses, physical fitness, and all other classes that would help the war effort were considered and arranged. Night school was also started. To our school hoard gees much credit for our school and every¬ thing that we have in the school. The hoard sets up a budget, hires teachers, and makes all necessary contracts. To help with the transportation problems the hoard bought a school car. This car is used by football, basketball, track and speech groups. To our shop was added many machines—vital now to the war effort and valuable after the war. Those added are a 24-inch shaper, a milling machine, a drill press, five lathes given to the school by the federal government, and around $400 worth of small tools. Another class vital now and after the war is an auto mechanics class provided by the board. Under the direction of the board, our modernistic home economics cottage has gained national recognition. The cottage was completed last spring and was furnished this fall. The Community Building was re-decorated this winter. Dressing rooms were painted, rooms cleaned out, and the back of the stage was repainted. A program for ground improvements was also started. Dr. Claude R. Pettibone is presi¬ dent of the school board, succeeding in that office the late Mr. William Kobelin, who died last spring. Seated next to him is Mr. Fred Young, treas¬ urer. Mr. Walter McLean was nam¬ ed to the board last spring to fill the vacancy created by the death of Mr. Kobelin.