Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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Ml ' . Alger Mr. Adams Mr. Anderson Mr. Brown Mr. Dorwin FACULTY Mr. Alger, when not in school, may be seen some times driving a car or perhaps pedaling a bicycle between here and Bellmont Park where he has taken up residence this last year. He carries a brief case which, no doubt, is full of interesting scientific data that he passes on in the form of further knowledge to his aeronautics, mathematics, and physics classes. His address is Bellmont Park, R. R. 5. Mr. Adams, white-haired and dark-eyed, is the very epitome of dignity. He teaches chemistry, physics and mathematics, and he can place you in your mental category v ith one glance — and why not? For many years he has been giving aptitude tests, mental tests, and all sorts of tests. There has to be something aside and beyond that knowing look on your face to fool Mr. Adams. He has the dope on you all filed ov ay under Intelligence. Mr. Adams lives at 411 South First Street. Mr. Anderson continues tc teach typists, would- be typists, stenographers, and office workers in gen- eral. He feels he has pretty well filled the business world with some of his prodigies since he estimates that at least ninety-five per cent of the student body passes through his hands before emerging into the cold, cruel world. You can reach him at 134 North Fifth Street. Mr. Brown, our principal, faces the same old prob- lem ' s that fall the lot of every principal plus a few new ones eveiy year. In addition to two classes of civics, Mr. Brown heads the Purdue Extension work that is carried on at this schocl, and aided and abetted by Mr. Adams, conducts summer school in order that many of our young men (and women) might receive a full four-year course in high school education before entering the armed forces. Mr. Brown lives at 320 Line Street. Mr. Dorwin juggles history, English and intra- mural sports; he also does a little refereeing on the side and usually has charge of the summer recre- ational program held at Worthm.an Field. He was intensely interested in a new program this past win- ter whereby much needed recreation could be pro- vided for the Decatur youth that had been curtailed or cut down due to wartime conditions. Mr. Dorwin lives at 331 North First Street. Fourteen

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I Virginia Venus, Secretary W. Guy Brown, Principal PRINCIPAL AND SECRETARY Mr. Brown continues at his desk to direct the pulsing life of the student body into the proper chan- nels. The door closes on his inner office and we know there is a conference going on. Perhaps it is a talk with some teacher regarding an errant pupil, or perhaps it is the errant pupil, himself. It may be that some young man in service wants a tran- script of credits; it might be a little pow-wow with some organization on scm.e entanglement that has ccm.e up. Anywcr , there are a thousand and one problems that must be settled behind that closed door throughout the school year; and Mr. Brown, our principal, settles them in such a way that barely a ripple on the surface appears to denote that any major or minor disturbance has occurred in our school. In the outer office we have a new secretary this year. Miss Virginia Venis took over the duties of secretary to Mr. Brown at the beginning of the school year. Th© job was not exactly foreign to her inas- much as she served cm apprenticeship as office as- sistant while still in school. In addition to being ' keeper and guard of the outer office, she sells stamps and bonds, all sorts of tickets, keeps attend- ance records, writes letters and checks, and, Oh, a thousand and one things. But whether it is a thou- sand or one, she performs all of them capably. Thirteen

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Miss Elzey Mr. Everharl Miss Godirey Miss Houbold Miss Kaufiman FACULTY Miss Elzey, our librarian, rolled up her sleeves and plunged into more than a little war effort in an attempt to locate the graduates of this high school as to their whereabouts in the armed forces. This, plus the attempts to enshrine the photographed vis- ages of the Waves, Wacs, etc., kept her pretty busy. She also was instrumental in seeing that many of our servicemen were supplied with reading material by putting on a concentrated book drive. Residence, 321 N. Tenth Street. Mr. Sylvester Everhort is general all-around body builder fcr the younger fry of the Decatur public schools. He mixes a recipe of physical education, health and safety, commcmdo-training, and junior high basketball coaching into a stiff dose, shoves it down the throats of his students and makes them like it. On Saturdays he is usually perched on someone ' s truck supervising the Boy Scouts in their latest scrap collection. Away out at 921 North Fifth Street you ' ll find him. Miss Godfrey, the newcomer and baby of the faculty, fell right into line. She dispenses Latin and English (junior high variety). She also drew the job as co-sponser cf the Pep Champs and served as a guiding light to the Girl Scouts. Miss Godfrey is a graduate of Greenfield, Missouri, High School, and holds an A.B. from Ball State. She resides at 210 North Seventh Street, but her home address is Portland, Indiana. If you can ' t find Miss Haubold at the high school, you ' ll find her at the Lincoln School. If you can ' t find her at either building, she ' s very likely in the alley going from one school to the other to super- vise students — big, little, and medium size — in the art of singing. Practically any evening you ' ll find her with one of her choruses rendering musical num- bers to some civic organization around town. For convenience sake she lives just one house removed from the high school at 228 South Third Street. Miss Kauffman is another alley walker between school buildings. She develops (or tries) the aesthetic side of the Decatur student body by teaching them art. Her art students v ere evidently war-conscious this year if the profuse display of posters urging stamp and war bond buying is any indication. In order to get a true insight of Miss Kauffman ' s effort, one should visit the art room where everything from stage craft to modelling is taught. Miss Kauffman resides at 312 South First Street. Fifteen