Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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WE SALUTE YOU! In. cur school, as is the case in thousands of other scliools in the country at ihis time, we have had the misfortune of losing several of our highly com- petent instructors to the armed services. Thus another and perhcrps the greatest phase in the school ' s all out war effort is exhibited in the sacrifices of these three men. But in time of war, things of this sort are to be reckoned with, and all go to hasten the final victory and ensuing peace that is bound to befall us. Sixteen

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Mr. Millikon our head rationist; Mr. Sellemeyer instructs a WAAC to tootle; Miss Lewton saves vegetables; Miss Worthman end Miss Pumphrey take first aid; Mr. Mumma makes his gas last to the last inch; Mr. Smith saves all scrap; Mr. Ketchum is block warden. ON THE HOME FRONT Miss Pumphrey, who is physical education instructor, is now also in charge of the girl commando class- es. She graduated from Decatur High School and Brenau College. She holds an A.B. degree. Mr. Sellemeyer, director of the school band, gives lessons in instrumental music. He is a gradaute of Decatur High School and attended Indiana University. Mr. Smith instructs classes in social studies and history. He is the seventh grade class sponsor and a graduate of Decatur High School. He attended Indiana University for two years and graduated from Depouw University with an A.B. degree. Miss Worthman, who is the sponsor of the Home Ec. Qub and an advisor for the Ravelings Staff, is the home economics teacher. She graduated from Indiana State Teachers ' College and holds a special Home Economics Vocational License as well as a B.S. degree. Fifteen

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WILLIAM T. IVES William Ives, who passed his mental tests several months earlier, was not called into service until the first part of this year. Mr. Ives had taught classes in agriculture and was as- sistant coach of football and basketball. Under his supervision those futur e farmers learned how they could raise the biggest ears of corn and feed the fattest beef cattle. Mr. Ives en- listed as an air cadet and has now nearly com- pleted the preliminary training which precedes the actual flying instruction. Mrs. Ives joined him recently in San Antonio, Texas, where he is receiving his training. k HUGH ANDREWS The first member of our faculty to enlist his services was Hugh Andrews, who left in ■ugust of 1942 to join the ranks of instructors in the Army Air Forces Technical Training Command. Mr. Andrews had ably served as football and basketball coach for D. H. S. for several years. Both sports showed the influ- ence of his guidance by displaying some very successful years in the history of the school. Aside from his duties as athletic director, he taught classes in mathematics. Mr. Andrews is now stationed at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he is instructing classes in the Radio University located there. Now he is one of those hundreds of thousands of coaches whose instructions will insure inevitable victory over the toughest opponents yet encountered. HARRY DAILEY On December 4, 1942, Harry Dailey enlisted and successfully passed the entrcmce examina- tions necessary for service in the United States Navy. Previous to his induction he con- ducted classes in physics and those ext emely complicated equations encountered in the mathematics book assumed reasonable propor- tions and new logic under his direction and explanation. Now stationed at Great Lakes, Illinois, he instructs sailors in the same sub- jects in the Service School at the United States Naval Training Station located there. Seventeen