Emmerich Manual High School - Ivian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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CLASS HISTORY By GLENN BAKER (Read during the Class dnt program, May 19) Let us make believe that we are years henee, reviewing our days in high school. What shall we recall? All the hopes and ambitions realized here, all the joys and sorrows experienced in these halls. Each of us will have different mem ories — recollections all our own. Freshman, sophomore, junior, senior years — and now when we look back, we sometimes wonder how we made it. All the different hap- penings seem unreal, dim in our memories, ex- cept the last year of our stay here at Manual. It was during this time that we made up for some of the fun we had missed as underclassmen when we had spent months and months of cram- ming — filling our heads with things we didn ' t like. But as we clicked off the credits, one by one, we found that the studies hadn ' t been so bad after all. Then one fine day we moved into the noisy, friendly, gossipy roll room 135 and became sen- iors. And then did we forget the taunts from older students which we had suffered as fresh- men. The sophomore haughtiness and junior absent-mindedness gave way to senior conceit. But we soon lost that when we realized thai teachers expected us to take, not privileges , but more difficult assignments. We forgave them; yes, we forgave our teachers for the work they made us do, and now we also ask them to forgive us for the extra work and worry we caused them. So much for looking ' back. Today, May 19, is our Class day. Here we do our last song and dance at Emmerich Manual. Last Friday was Ivy day, and our president on this occasion planted the traditional ivy vine to climb the wall, a living memory of the June 33 class. Last year the silver trowel was given to our president by the January ' 33 class president, and last Friday we in turn handed it on to the president of next semester ' s senior group as an incentive for them to carry on the tradition of Ivy day. There are memories of other events still fresh in our minds. Class play — Happy Go Lucky —with romantic John Bissell who something did the right thing at the wrong time, and the pretty leading lady, Helen O ' Neill. And we can ' t forget the fathers, Meyer and Click: for what would a romance be without fathers, espec- ially fathers that agree. Then there were the others in the families. The seniors in the play are fortunate to have this extra memory ; manv of those who comprised the audience, too, have pleasant recollections. These three. Ivy day, Class day and the class play, are the only memories that we have in common. Others, hundreds of others, are lock- ed up in our minds. Little get-to-gethers in the halls — who can count them? Football, basket- ball — the athletes will never run short of stories to tell about their high school days. Perhaps, even we spectators have a few to remember and tell also. Roll room 135 deserves a niche to itself. It was in there that we bestowed the highest honor possible on Raymond Meyer as president. Ray- mond Kleppe as vice-president, and on Sarah Miller and John Click, as secretary and treasurer respectively. It was in 135 that we chose cla- s colors, arm bands, banner, motto and ali the things that go with graduation. It was there that we didn ' t study. We not only had a president, but we also had a (|iieen — a May queen. Marthajane Zintel was given this place and reigned over the May day observance May 4. Royalty will have a few things to remember; her subjects surely will not forget her. And now looking into the future — a few more days of school, commencement, June 5. after that who knows? We shall go our various ways, but whatever happens we have had these years to- gether. These last few days will be happy, yet a little sad. even though we assure everybody who will listen that we are glad it is ail over. Well, the war is over, or should 1 say. the fight has just begun. Our motto tells us to First Weigh; Then Venture. It would he well for each of us to remember this not only now but in the vears to come. (Continual from page I ) ) mind reader, doctor, judge and parent, and have the ability to shift at the spur of the moment to whatever role is required. We owe them so much and have so little chance to repay them. Realizing this to be the last opportunity to show our appreciation of these teachers with whom we have had contact through personal interest in our class activities or by the standards they have given us in their classrooms, we seniors saw Thank you.

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Jirst Weich; I lien V en tn re THE BOOSTER Published by the June 10 3 3 Class or Manual Training High School EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Caroline Lockhart Associate Editor Iola Marsh Art Editors Karl Dean, Howard Hanna Athletics Theodore Wessel Class Play Myra Mooie Ivy Day Helen Hoop Chairman of Personals Jean Rearick Committee — Anna Bolotin, Dorothy Beanblossom, Pauline Moon, Marshall CTNeill, Emerson Whalen, Mildred Grow, Emmett Staggs, Harry Lockman, Lloyd Hannan and Robert Teague. Jokes Jack Westmeier Snapshot Page John Robeson Typists Elfreeda Stringer, Jean Stickney Sponsor Miss Elizabeth Hodges BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Paul Rasor In School Sales James Burks Bookkeepers — Sarah Miller, Katharine Schuster, Jean Stickney and Karl Dean. CLASS OFFICERS President Raymond Meyer Vice-president Raymond Kleppe Secretary Sarah Miller Treasurer John Click Historian Glenn Baker Prophet Dorothy Phillips Willmaker Irvin Caplin Giftorian Marthajane Zintel CLASS SPONSORS Miss Arda Knox Faculty Sponsor Mr. C. R. Clayton Roll Room Teacher Mr. Harry Painter Ivy Day Sponsor Mr. Ray Ankenbrock Class Day Sponsor Four years ago we entered Manual as eager, carefree freshmen, ready tn walk blindly into any situation which presented itself without hesitating for even a moment to consider the eon- sequences. As we grew older and our field of visio n was extended, we came to realize the folly of impulsively rushing into something and then to our sorrow discovering that we could not evade the often disastrous results. One of the most valuable lessons which we have learned in high school is the absolute neces- sity of thinking before we act. As a result we have selected a motto to symbolize our class, First Weigh; Then Venture. In a few days we shall graduate and then we shall enter into an almost new world — a world in which we must stand on our own feet and select our own paths without the aid of a kindly faculty. If in this later life we continue to hold to this motto and to the ideals which have been in- stilled in us here at Manual, then will success be more assured for all of us. A Debt We O we Graduation! How many of us owe that attainment to teachers who have stood in I he background, firmly yet surely pushing us stead- ily forward to that goal. Youth is carefree seems to be the slogan of many elders, and it is true that we are prone to laugh at that which more mature people find a serious problem. Perhaps that is why the con- stant prodding of our teachers makes us resent their interest and causes us to look on them as something not quite human. Still they are very much so, and each year they wave good-by to a group of adopted children with very little thanks and with scarcely a thought given to them. Then they turn to wel- come a new group for whom they will strive, work and plan with the same results. Yet how often will they think of us? More often, perhaps, than we imagine. Have you not seen old graduates return to high school on a visit to be greeted by name and even questions as to what they are doing? A teacher sees good in the worst pupils and knows the weaknesses of the best ones. How many times have they spoken a good word for us and saved us from many an unpleasant sit- uation? They are, in fact, a combination of (Continued on page 15)

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CLASS PLAY By MYRA MOORE One oi that nig] waited year was in eager )f Happy-G HAPPY GO LUCKY by I a 11 Hay the highlights of our senio] it, .March 24, when w anticipation for the opening Lucky, the three act comedy which was pre- sented by members of our class under the direc- tion of Miss Lola I. Perkins, assisted by Miss Vivian Webster. In the first act the curtain disclosed the living loom of the exclusive Mainwaring home, the Towers. Lady Marian, otherwise Lillian May, ruled over her entire household, including her poor husband, John Click. The snobbish Sylvia (Anna Bolotin) readily followed in her mother ' s footsteps. Into this peaceful scene the happy- go-lucky son. played by John Bissell, brought Tillie Welwyn, his fiancee (Helen O ' Neill), a member of a family which enjoyed no social prominence. Accompanying them was Tiilie ' s In-other, Percy, (Harry Lockman) the life of any party as well as the pride of the Welwyn family. The Welwyns, realizing the social and finan- cial gap between the two families, tried hard to appeal- wealthy and cultured when the Main- warings came to their house to tea in the second act. The broker ' s man, Maurice Passwater, al- most ruined the situation when he came for the furniture a few minutes before the Mainwar- ings arrived, but fortunately they were able to bribe him into playing the role of the old family butler for them. It was Grandma Banks, por- trayed by Beulah Zook who, to the horror of both families, drank tea from her saucer that helped strengthen the Mainwaring ' s displeasure. The two rough foreigners, Glenn Baker and Edward Lnngwell finally brought about the social down- fall when they revealed the fact that the Welwyn family kept boarders. Yet Mrs. Welwyn, Beat- rice Cohen, declared it was her fault because she couldn ' t pronounce her h ' s. Dick, however, had a sophisticated friend, Connie Darner, play- ed by Marthajane Zintel, who helped him make plans to regain his lost love and finally matters were righted. Other members of the cast were Alice Stallwood, who had the part of Tiilie ' s little sister, and Raymond Meyer, who portrayed the character of Mr. Welwyn. While Miss Lola Perkins directed the actors, many other members of the class and faculty were busy with the technical side of the play. Mr. Lewis Pinch and his committees pro- duced the stage settings, lights, and curtains. Miss Gladys Denny and her assistants made the costumes worn by the actors. Dora Melton took charge of the property committee, and Pauline Moon and Myra Moore, as student assistants, helped the director and committees. Miss Web- ster and Mr. Oran Davis had charge of the make- up. The CI laracters Abel Mainwaring, M. P John Click Milroy (butler to the Mainwarings) . .Edgar Hohlt Sylvia (Mainwaring ' s daughter) Anna Bolotin Lady Marian Mainwaring Lillian May Rev. Adrian Rylands Orval Moore Constance Darner Marthajane Zintel Richard (Mainwaring ' s son) John Bissell Tillie ( Welwyn ' s daughter) Helen O ' Neill Percy ( Welwyn ' s son ) Harry Lockman Amelia (Welwyn ' s youngest dughter) Alice Stallwood Grandma Banks (Mrs. Welwyn ' s mother) .... Beulah Zook Mr. Metha Ram (a law student) .Edward Longwell Mrs. Welwyn Beatrice Cohen Lucius Welwyn Raymond Meyer Mr. Samuel Stillbottle (A sheriff ' s officer) . . . Maurice Passwater Mr. John Pumperslon (another law student) Glenn Baker The Staff Director Miss Lola I. Perkins Assistant Director Miss Vivian L. Webster Student Assistants Pauline Moon, Myra Moore Technical Director and Stage Manager Mr. Lewis E. Finch Assistant Stage Manager Herbert Rugenstein Curtain and Call Man Marshall O ' Neill Electrician Herbert Rugenstein Assistant Electrician John Stofer Stage Carpenter Emmett Staggs Stage Hands — Roy Carney, George Lee, Oscar Mc- Afee, Leslie Ppdike, Theodore Wessel, Richard Poole. Shop Work Mr. A. L. Weigler Make Up Miss Webster and Mr. Oran Davis Properties — Dora Melton, Caroline Reithmuller, El- nor Coyle, Elfreeda Stringer and Harold Barkhau. Prompters Yettie Lieberman and Frances Cameron. Costumes Miss Gladys Denny Assistants — Margaret Stotler, Margaret Miller, Dorothy Dickover, Marguerite McClain and Sara Cohen. Business Miss Arda Knox Assistants — Harry Lockman. Edgar Hohlt, James Burks, Theodore Wessel, Henry Flaherty and Eugene Sprouse.