Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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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

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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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Mr. Ketchum Miss Lewlon Mr. Millikan Mr. Mumma Mr. Perry FACULTY Mr. Ketchum used to be an instructor of manual training and mechanical drawing. Now his duties seem more or less along the lines of a general mathematician since that is what he mainly teaches. His real love is that of big boss cr ticket controller at gatherings where people have to be seated. No ticket, no seat is his motto as he goes from door to door or gate to gate checking up on all dcor and gate keepers. If the government doesn ' t get its share of the taxes on tickets, it isn ' t his fault. Mr. Ketchum resides on a large ranch out at 949 Mercer Avenue. Miss Lewton instills, pounds, coaxes and persu- ades English into the minds, bodies, and souls cf practically ctU seniors, juniors, and sophomores. She uses a profuse display of maps, illustrations, and museum, relics to make the students English con; scious. She has even taken to streamlining her subjects. How it ' s done is a mystery, but we sus- pect that some of Shakespeare ' s characters have abandoned their togas for zoot-suits. For further in- formation consult Miss Lewton at 630 North Second Street. Mr. Millikan teaches bookkeeping, business law. arithmetic, and science. He still is the gentleman that represents the faculty when something new in rationing comes up. Occasionally he disappears from his classes only to turn up at the rationing board to help untangle the preliminary snarls al- ways attendant upon the latest government restric- tion. Aside from school duties he works at Berne in off hours. He is also somewhat of a collector — col- lects hens ' eggs which he sells to the egg-needy. He lives at 330 South Third Street . Mr. Mumma paves the way for all students of English into the higher realms of learning by teach- ing the same subject to those in the second year down through junior high. Mr. Mumma is indeed a versatile man. He helps to run a lumber mill on the side, fools around with musical attachments, moving pictures, etc. He is so adept at construction that he has even manufactured a basket under which he hides most of his talents. We ' d like to look around his home at 808 West Adams Street and unearth his additional hobbies. Daniel Perry, the coach, is something out of the world this year. His basketball team took both the sectional and the regional. Results: new hat sizes. Sixteen