Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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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

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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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QloMjei. We find cmother interesting bit of information that tends to solidify the school classes for the United States and those of the Latin American countries into a firmer understanding of justice. High schools and colleges in our country have had the ideals of democracy imbued into them for many decades now. In the schools and universities of many of the Latin-American republics the students have had to fight in order to protect that same democracy for which they so fiercely stand. In Argentina, es- pecially, students have rioted in their schools for the democraiic way of life. V e, who claim democracy as cur natural right, will surely feel a closer kinship for all those classes of the Latin- American countries who strive for the ideal we have already at- tained. It may be that we can lend them a helping hand in striving for the same goal. Demccracy is the American way of life — be it in North or South America! hteen i