Decatur High School - Ravelings Yearbook (Decatur, IN)

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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

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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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The empty halls of D. H. S. Officers of the freshman class. Officers of the junior class. Officers of the senior class. Officers of the sophomore class. Mr. Brown ' s studious civics class. Nineteen