Elmhurst High School - Anlibrum Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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SiTTing: WebsTer Walker, Virginia Meyer, Sonia Ross. STanding: Mr. Young, Dick Logan, Max Fields, Bob RieTdOrT, Nora Maier, Miss Wimmer. PHI CHEM POPS UP WITH A RECORD An aTomic explosion hiT The Phi-Chem Clubl WiTh The guidance oT Their sponsors, Miss Wimmer and Mr. Young, They wenT places and did Things. Breaking Their record Tor The TirsT Time in Three years, The club Traveled To Indianapolis To aTTend a meeTing oT The Junior Academy oT Science. ExhibiTs and demonsTraTions were presenTed by science clubs Trom all over The sTaTe. The Phi-Chem members prepared exhibiTs on glass Tiber and rubber Trom The chemisTry deparTmenT and a diagram on aTomic energy Trom The physics class. Chic C'iTTin was elecTed presidenT oT The Junior Academy oT Science Tor The coming year, and Miss Wimmer was elecTed To a Tive-year Term on The Senior Advisory Council. The nexT Tour was To The l:orT Wayne I3ilTraTion l3lanT. One oT The chieT engineers explained The process oT TilTraTion. The oTTicers oT The club Tor The year were: Bob RieTdorT, Pres.g Web- sTer Walker, Vice-Pres.: Sonia Ross, Secyq Virginia Meyer, Treas. The oTTicers, wiTh The consenT oT The sponsors, appoinTed The com- miTTees Tor The year. D. Logan was chosen chairman Tor social acTiviTiesp D. RiTTer, P. Whi+e, and M. Parsons were chosen To assisT him. The pro- gram chairman was INI. Maier, aided by I.. FeuchTer, D. Fields, and B. An- derson. Those on The exhibiT commiTTee were M. Fields, J. LisT, M. Goss, G. JusTus, D. Lunz, B. Ploughe, and S. SlaTer. AT The ChrisTmas dance held December I5, a large decoraTed Tree and a snow scene on The sTage carried ouT The yuleTide Theme. The second semesTer provided an acTiviTy Tor almosT every monTh. Two seTs oT movies on physics and chemisTry were presenTed. Mr. Claude M. Summers, a speaker Trom The G. E., addressed The club on a currenT Topic. AnoTher social acTiviTy and a Trip To a local TacTory wound up The program Tor '46.

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AT The blackboard: DoroThy RiTTer, Joan Johnson. AT The Table: Rosalie WaTlrins, Marilyn Miller, Helen MuTTon, Sonia Ross, Miss Ed.-.argg Alfred May,-rr, WE TRANSCRIBE OUR RECORD 5horThand is only one oT The acTiviTies oT The commercial deparTmenT. TwenTy-seven sTudenTs Talce shorThand l, 8 girls shorThand ll, 50 Typing l, 28 Typing ll, and 4I Talce boolclceeping. LasT year ouTsTanding proTiciency awards were given To DoroThy RiTTer Tor shorThand, To l-Telen MuTTon and To Joan Johnson Tor Typing. Typing awards Tor 30, 40, 50, 5 I , 52, eTc., words per minuTe are published monThly on The board in room l7. Marilyn Miller presides over The 70 commerce sTudenTs who malce up The Commercial Club. Sonia Ross is vice-presidenT, Rosalie WaTlcins is secreTaryg AlTred Meyer is Treasurer. Miss Edwards is The sponsor. On January I7, The club puT aside ThoughTs oT exams, Ten minuTe speed TesTs, eTc., and heard Miss Irene Meyers oT The General ElecTric Company speak on The value oT commercial subiecTs in The business world. The club's Tour oT The Lincoln l.iTe gave Them glimpses oT The proper oTTice procedure and also glimpses oT The liTe oT Lincoln. The Commercial Club saved iTs social acTiviTies unTil The second semesTer. For The George WashingTon parTy, on February lo, Al Busse was enTerTainmenT chairman. R. GuTmann, J. Coleman, B. l-lanl4e, D. RiTTer, assisTed him. The Time and place was decided upon by l. M. l-loughTon, P. Adams, C. Schlemmer, J. LisT, and E. 5Toller. DecoraTions were made by M. Beeler, l.. MuTTon, D. 5uTorius, J. Waldrop, and N. Ken- nedy. D. Prince, P. Kummer, B. Bird, M. KumTer, and l. CasTle planned and served The reTreshmenTs. A spring bangueT honoring The new oTTicers and The various award winners wound up This year's record oT The Commercial Club.

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I '1' N Up: PaTTy Ferguson, Eleanor l:i3uihTer, lvIis1Sifn.in. Diff? Flirt' 55 fell la 1- C 'T'f-iii liimiir HOME EC CLUB REPORTS POINTS Records? Oh, yes, we guiT sewing and chaTTing long enough To lqeep records. You see we can win an E iT we have 360 poinTs. We earn I0 poinTs Tor aTTending each business and each social meeTing, I5 poinTs Tor aTTending The bangueT and I5 more Tor bringing our moThers, I0 Tor pay- ing dues I5 poinTs Tor paying in advancel, I0 Tor enrolling a new member, 30 Tor Talcing home ec a Tull year, 5 Tor puncTualiTy and 5 Tor bringing visiTors. EnergeTic members may earn addiTional poinTs: 25 Tor selling Ticl4eTs, 30 Tor being on commiTTees, I per period Tor puTTing announce- menTs on The board and l poinT per period Tor caTeTeria worls. An oTTicer geTs 50 poinTs Tor doing his duTy Tor a year. The E is awarded aTTer we have been a member Tor Two years. The TirsT Es will be given in IQ46. AlThough iT is noT necessary To Talce home ec To be a club member, The club draws mosT oT iTs 65 members Trom The home ec classes. l:iTTeen girls sTudy home managemenT, decoraTion, income planning, Turnishings, and Tamily relaTions. The TwenTy-Tive girls in home ec l sTudy cloThing The TirsT semesTer and coolcing The second. This year l3aTTy Ferguson holds The record Tor being a Tour year club member and will receive a silver Thimble. Miss Simon supervises This club. Eleanor 5Toller is chieT execuTiveg Deloris James assisTs her: OrTheda Brun- son keeps boolcs and checks our Tinances. Eleanor FeuchTer is our sTudenT adviser. We held our annual sl4aTe aT l3ell's on November I0. This evenT did noT seT a record Tor our Treasury. On December 7, we leT 5ainT Niclq enTerf Tain The members and Their guesTs. Dancing was The main TeaTure. We also senT ChrisTmas sTocl4ineTTes To veTerans' hospiTals. We closed our season by holding a spring bangueT honoring The new oITicers and The alumnae members.