Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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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

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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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Mr. Sellemeyer Mr. Smith Miss Worthman FACULTY a jeweled cro vn, and a royal litter in which he is borne by human slaves hither and yen. He also teaches manual training and biology. He purchased a new home on Stevenson Street which he leaves promptly at two minutes of eight every morning and arrives at school three m.inutes of eight. Brother, that ' s speed. Explanation — clocks at school run five minutes slow. Miss Eleanor Pumphrey blows whistles to start them and to stop them. She sees that her girls get their much needed (if unwanted) exercise. They grunt- and groan, but to all this she turns a deaf ear. She teaches physical ed., and physical ed. is what they ' re going to get. If they ' re going to be Waves and Wacs, they ' ll start from scratch — no sloppy be- ginning for them. She also shakes a mean salt shaker over a sack of popcorn as one of the head canteen keepers. If she happens to be at home, you ' ll find her at 337 South Third Street. Mr. Sellemeyer doesn ' t exactly blow his own horn, but he sees that his band members do. He takes his Girls ' Band here and there on various missions. Everyone seems to want music. Mr. Sellemeyer ' s all-consuming ambition is to see that his band mem- bers get new uniforms. And why not? Good musi- cians need good accouterments. But his life isn ' t all band music. Just try being absent and you ' ll under- stand. Mr. Sellemeyer is also truant officer. At home at 329 North Fourth Street. Mr. Smith, small but mighty, teaches social stud- ies and history, works at a hardware store, and has charge of all sound equipment and movie-tak- ing around school. He rushes here and there to get a preview of the incoming and outgoing service men and women home on leave. Seems to be also the dark-haired bey that collects funds from other reluctant faculty members, and that is quite a job. When he finds time he spends a little of it at home which is a block or two down the way at 515 West Jefferson Street. Last, but not least, we come to Miss Worthman, lady dean, general housekeeper, getter-upper of banquets, head of canteen workers, senior mother, ad infinitum. She sends business managers out to collect ads, provides costumes for dramatic pro- ductions, and hauls people to out-of-to-wm basket- ball games, etc. That ' s what this home economics teacher does in addition to supervising a flock of Four-H Club members in the summer time. Con- sultations held at 227 North Sixth Street. Seventeen