Edison High School - Edisonian Yearbook (Lake Station, IN)

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DEDICATION T 1 O OUR PRINCIPAL, CLAUDE P. ROOS, THE EDISON l AN STAFF RESPECTFULLY DEDICATES THIS OUR YEARBOOK, THE EDISONIAN.

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FOREWORD M AY this, our Edisonian, bring back memories of your classmates, friends, and faculty as well as the many incidents both great and small which have occurred during the past year. As you sit in your comfortable chair and read the following pages, may the memories of the different school activities prove to be very- dear and a treasure never-to-be forgotten. We hope the readers of our 1951 Edisonian will derive both benefit and pleasure from its pages.

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How l clison Has Gro wn Plow time passes on as the hands of the clock tick away the story ! At the beginning of the school year, new clocks were discovered on the walls in various classrooms of our beloved Edison High School. The seniors watched the hands of those clocks move slowly past the minutes and hours toward the hour of after- school activities each day and finally the hour of graduation and the long awaited time of departure. Turning back the hands of the clock, time has afforded a number of changes since the seniors were freshmen : first, the ever-changing student body each year with the seniors passing on and the in-coming freshmen ; second, new faculty mem- bers replacing the former ones ; third, new courses added occasionally to the curriculum and a new club or extra-curricular activity added to the program. As freshmen, the members of the Class of ’51 had the privilege of watching Edison open its first football season ; as juniors, of entering our building with a new addi- tion of classrooms, an enlarged gymnasium, and a new portable for the band ; and last as seniors, we see the new football field being completed for Edison to play on her own home field next year. Really, time has passed rapidly when one stays the hands of the clock long enough to realize the accomplishments, growth, and progress our school has made during the high school life of the Class of ' 51. However, time does not permit the mentioning of all of Edison’s outstanding achievements. Moving the hands of the clock to the present, the seniors wish to thank the student body and merchants of East Gary for being so kind and cooperative in helping them to finance this yearbook. Words cannot express our gratitude to Miss Hartley, who has done more than her share of hard work in sponsoring this yearbook and to make the 1951 Edisonian a success. Also, we wish to express our appreciation to Clifton McChesney, a former graduate of Edison High School, for his services for the art work on the division pages of our 1951 Edisonian. Last, but not least, we wish to thank our administration for making our school one to which every one is proud to go and our faculty members who have guided us through these happy years. For four long years, but short, we have studied and played at Edison High ; and, at last, we do not stay the hands of the clock any longer and are ready for them to tick away the future as we venture into the world. As we leave dear old Edison, may we pause to think “What kind of world are we to venture into?” With the Korean situation, many of our classmates will be called to defend our country as well as the freedom of other peoples in the near future. Edison is our school from which we are proud to graduate. Wherever we go, at home or abroad, may each and every senior prove himself in the future to do his part in making our nation a country of which every one will be proud ! Editor. 4 The 1951 Edisonian