Emerson High School - Emersonian Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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WE SURVEY THE STARS OF FIRST MAGNITUDE TO US-THE FACULTY Under whatever sign of the zodiac we students come, each with his own talents, Emerson teachers have made these talents of ours greater. After all, in a democracy finding one’s star means growing up to all one has within and developing our initial human equipment. Our heads are not always in the stars; neither are they in the sand. In our own slanguage, we get around. Surveys seem to be in the air this season. Maybe our technique is not so hot, but we made our own survey of the Emerson faculty, a group of men and women who have done much to influence our lives whether Mercury was in conjunction with Mars, or Saturn dominated Venus. Just as we can only take a guess at star distances and the amount of truth in a horoscope because we have no W adequate measures, so also do we find ourselves painful flops trying to evaluate such intangibles as friendship, in¬ spiration, and general guidance, gifts to us from the faculty. True also that although we can never appreciate the real magnitude of that great star, the Sun, we do have some idea of the fact that our teachers have always been in our school environment, quietly and efficiently ready to give our planetary combinations a shove in the right direction. As seniors, our ideas about teachers begin to set (maybe our horoscoping and crystal balling this year has helped). Getting ready to leave we take some backward glances. A backward glance helps perspective. Talking things over we find that many of us included mention of teachers in our biographies written in our sophomore year as people who definitely influenced our lives. Our memories go back to our days in the Primary Building, the Main Building, and many of us have spent many happy and useful hours in the Shop Building .... all of these were important because these teachers were vital human beings, who did that greatest of all things a teacher can do, helped us to help ourselves. It is significant that when the sophomore and junior registers were interviewed about what they liked especially at Emerson, all registers mentioned in some way or another the friendliness and cooperation existing between students and faculty. We seniors think that covers our survey very adequately. Townley, primary academic; Miss Phillips, arith¬ metic and spelling; Miss Paul, auditorium; Miss Sherman, art; Mrs. Mantz, primary academics. Lower Picture: Top row: Mr. Harrison, drawing and handiwork; Mr. Flinn physics; Mr. Chance, commerce; Mr. Carriott, auto shop; Mr. Connor, social studies; Colonel Hayden, R.O.T.C.; Miss Allen, kindergarten; Mrs. Greenwald, English; Miss Boal, nature study; Miss Ade, sewing; Miss Doyle, junior librarian. Second row: Mr. Carlberg, social studies; Miss Berscoter, English; Miss Harrison, auditorium; Miss Cromer, music; Mrs. Daley, auditorium; Miss Applegate, music; Mrs. La Deaux, English; Mrs. Hayes, cooking; Miss Hoover, primary academic; Mrs. Knoell, English and social studies; Mrs. Goldman, auditorium; Mr. Connerley, mathematics. First row: Miss File, physical education; Miss Hiemberg, physical education; Miss Ban, social studies; Miss Crieger, social studies; Miss jones, mathematics; Miss Kotora, orchestra; Mrs. Grif¬ fith, nurse.

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Top Picture: Top row: Mr. Rogers, foundry; Mr. Yeager, mechanical drawing; Sergeant Souders, R.O.T.C.; Mr. Wirt, machine shop. Fourth row: Mrs. Tolle, kindergarten; Mrs. Wake, technical; Miss Tucker, art; Miss De Maiffe, primary academic; Mrs. Palmer, audi¬ torium; Mrs. Pierce, English; Mrs. Reyher, French and Spanish; Miss Nilsson, sewing; Mrs. Stratford, cooking. Third row: Miss Wolbrandt, social studies; Miss Talbot, mathematics; Mrs. Stoner, senior librarian; Miss Smith, Latin; Miss Portmess, social studies; Mrs. Whiteman, English; Mrs. Zaldivar, nature study; Miss Rowe, commerce; Miss Tins- man, biology; Miss Moon, sight saving class; Mr. Shirk, English; Miss Sipavich, mathematics. Second row: Mr. Mowbray, wood shop; Miss Philley, animal husbandry; Mr. Wise, social studies; Miss Elizabeth Leeds, assistant principal; Mr. E. A. Spaulding, principal; Mr. Warrum, chemistry; Miss Tappan, English; Miss Sayers, music; Miss Newton, social studies. First row: Miss Vogt, physical education; Miss Page Eight

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THEY CHART A COURSE TOO The planetary com¬ binations were very obliging in giving us our office staff whose members are a great factor in the smooth running of our school. Mrs. Jones who had been in the main build¬ ing for seventeen years, only visits us now. We miss her. Gardening is her favorite form of fun. Miss Chuba, pa¬ triotic and practical, collects Jefferson nick¬ els and abhors getting the last piece on the dish. NELLE JONES January 7 MILDRED THOMAE July 21 NELLE DILLON April 24 JOAN JENKINS September 17 GRETA BEVERIDGE May 30 Miss Link is sure that if you sing before breakfast, you will cry before night. She collects hankies. If the color is purple, deep or not, it is right. Miss Dillon left us at the beginning of the second semester, and we miss her too. Like Mrs. Jones, gardening is her hobby. She thinks swing should be swung on the sour apple tree, and that classical music should be king. Miss Beveridge is one of those courageous souls who al¬ ways walks under ladders, likes green, draws (we don’t mean checks), and Begin the Beguine.” Mrs. Jenkins’ hobby is collecting snapshots. A black cat crossing your path is her pet superstition. She could not think of her favorite song, but we know Doug’s must be “You’re the One.”