Elwood Community High School - Crescent Yearbook (Elwood, IN)

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Qylmtfvfb EB ex 3 5 iv' First Row, Left to Right Keith L. Maxwell Chemistry Physics Mary M. Barnes Health Safety History Helen Louise Thomas Commercial Cynthia Demaree Latin English Mary Records Spanish English Harry L. House Shop FAEULTY ERUUP Second Row, Left to Right Clara J. Nuzum Latin English Martha Nash Commercial L. Rush Hughes City Director of Music Palmer J. Davis Agriculture Harry M. Bridges Sociology Civics Ed Johnson Physical Fitness Blanche Digel English

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IN MEMURIAM When we met here together yesterday there was one among us who, very real and alive then, is today only a memory. In the presence of that shocking realization we have been humbled. Any tribute in words we may try to pay to William F. Smith must seem all too trivial and inadequate. The least we can do, however, in his honor is to recall but a few of his many contribu- tions to our schools, to our community, and to the whole cause of education. For twenty-five vears he has been a real and significant part of the Elwood Public Schools. ln whatever capacity he has served our schools he has worked hard and conscienti- ously and, always, with the welfare of the student as his first interest. In his civic life, in his church, and in every movement or enterprise in which he has taken part he has given his best. He was a man of ready wit, keen wis- dom, and deep insight: a man of kindness, tolerance and understanding. Mothers and fathers of many of you here this morning knew Mr. Smith when they were students in high school. They will tell you he was then kind and understanding just as you saw him yesterday. Writing in the 1934 high school annual, and his subject was Sportsmanship, Mr. Smith said, lf carried out into life after school and given a fair chance, the spirit of good sportsmanship will bring less ot exploitation and cruelty and more of Justice and well being. There is the essence of his philosophy less exploita- tion and cruelty and more of justice and well-being. Long a victim of recurring physical dis- tress, he did not complain. And what, to me. was most remarkable about the man, and I know that teachers who knew him well can appreciate this most, when he became the victim of mental, of psychological distress, he did not cringe, or alibi, or revolt, but met the situation bravely, with disarming humil- ity and a quiet, smiling tolerance. Thereby he grew in spiritual stature to a height that few of us can ever hope to reach. If anyone should ask ot' you, Did you ever meet a true gentleman, you can say, Yes, I knew William F. Smith. If anyone should ask you, And what did that gentleman leave as his legacy? you can reply, He left us his good works, they were his great riches, and he gave them abundantly. -Donald Brown. William F. Smith left us April 8, 1943. School Board: Left to right C. G. Norris, Treasurerg Thomas McCarty, Secretary, Raymond Nuding, President.

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CX '1 FACULTY ERUUP N- First Row, Left to Right Gladys McCammon Physical Fitness Regina Grosswege Mathematics Mary M. Allen Library Helen Benedict Art Mechanical Drawing Eleanor Kidwell Home Economics Esther Koons Home Economics Second Row: Left W. F. Smith English Harley L. Ashton History George Smith Mathematics T. B. Lindley English History J. Ray Waymire Biology Health Earl B. Forney Mathematics General Business Donald Brown English Public Speaking Mathematics to Right