Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL, DECATUR, INDIANA ?!LD DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL stands at the corner of Fifth and Adams Streets. Under normal conditions it houses fifteen classrooms, an auditorium, and a gymnasium. Its trophy cases contain valuable displays and relics of pioneer days. The vision of Abraham Lincoln ' s statue, which stands at the entrance to the main corridor, has become en- shrined in the minds and hearts of hundreds and hund- reds of students. The spirit of the school was carried forth onto the football fields, the basketball floor, to track meets, tennis matches, and baseball games. Decatur High School, we know, is proud of the sports- manship displayed by the athletes who carried her banner. Within her walls, we studied, laughed, played, and just had general good times. Yes, and sometimes we wept. These memories are now priceless to us. The song of the buzz saw, the clang of the bell, the sound of the all-too-soon buzzer, the banging of locker doors, and the meetings in the assembly were a part of our lives ; we shall miss them ! 1

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DEPHCATS© JE, THE STAFF, DEDICATE this volume of Ravelings to each and every grad that has gone forth from this high school building. Since we, the class of 1938, are the last of that host to be graduated from this, our present high school build- ing, we feel it fitting and proper to dedicate our book to all the graduates who made history within the walls of D. H. S. Nearly twenty years ago the first pictured faces of the class of ' 19 were hung in the corridors. Since that time, a long line of faces, happy and serious, have joined their ranks. They were the past; we are the present. In dedication to the past, we, the present, merge with them ; and may all our photographed faces lend, at least, some inspiration to the succeeding class- es — the future ! jWENTY YEARS AGO A NEW high school was erected to accommodate the growth of a jrapidly increasing student body that could no longer be accommodated in its old shell. Now, finding ourselves again in the same condition, we have liken- ed the growth of the student body and its needs for more spacious quarters to Oliver Wendell Holme ' s famous poem, The Chambered Nautilus. Still as the spiral grew. He left the past year ' s dwelling for the new — We hope that as we have grown in numbers, so have we advanced along educational lines as well. We have taken The Chambered Nautilus for our theme because we are leaving our old shell, in which we have spent many happy years, for the new.

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