Emerson High School - Emersonian Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Our school color of gray was chosen to represent the steel mills, an industry synonomous with Gary. Table of Contents Academics 4 Organizations . 18 People 42 Sports 88 School Life . 108 Index 120 Welcome Inside EHS Towering elms, terraced lawns, and stately architecture are emblematic of Emerson High School. As Gary’s first high school, built in 1908, it was orginally called Gary School. It took its school colors from , sites that would be synonymous with Gary. Gray was chosen for the steel mills and gold for the sand dunes. EHS put Gary on the map by becoming the first school in the United States to have (1) an indoor swimming pool, (2) an art gallery in its corridors which is now valued at twenty thousand dollars, (3) a sc hool auditorium stage equipped like that in a legitimate theatre, and (4) the William A. Wirt Work-Study-Play System . . . kindergarten through twelfth grade in one building. In addition, Emerson was tbe first school in Gary to have a chapter of the National Honor Society (1930). However, physical beauty and past accomplishments are not sufficient to run a school. A school is first of all an institute of learning. Emerson takes pride in both her teachers and her curriculum. It is rated by the State of Indiana as a first-class commissioned high school and is a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Students obviously are the remaining factor to be mentioned, and Emerson has an enrollment of 800. The youth of EHS like rock n’ roll, go for new fads, go steady, and are even known to study occasionally. Con¬ tinual care is being taken to improve the methods of their education. The new language laboratory is an example of this. The names of Emerson’s students, their curriculum, special interests, and social school life are recorded in this yearbook. These things, however, must be examined through further study. Therefore the yearbook staff of Emerson High School says . . . Welcome Inside EHS. 3