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

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As Indiana and the Crossroads of America took the literary spotlight in such best sellers as Ross Lock- ridge Jr. ' s Raintree County and Philip D. Jordan ' s The National Road, events at EMTHS paralleled those of the state and nation. Even before Congress started debating military training and civil rights, Manualites aired their views on UMT and brotherhood in Booster interviews and editorials. Politics claimed no little attention in an election year as the Class of ' 48 twice went to the polls and ' 49ers went on record as the first junior class to organize at Manual. Alum- nus Al Feeney was elected mayor of Indianapolis and a Redskin was named to the same post at Girls State. Principal E. H. Kemper McComb That Bicycle Built for Two, which vanished with the wartime gasoline shortage, found a counterpart in a dual control car and two trains, which rode in on currents of ' 48. A nationwide safety campaign reached down into EMTHS and Redskins took up the study of driving, all the while looking forward to a ride behind the wheel of a car that was built for two drivers. Though that highly-touted Freedom Train will not arrive in Indianapolis until this program is off the air for the summer, Manualites saw that their envoys of peace and good will got off on the Friendship Train ere they opened their own Christmas packages. Among the currents which took Bo McMillin away from Indiana University was one which brought Manual a new assistant football coach, Mr. Boris Cha- leff, who also fills the vacancy in the science staff left by the resignation of Mr. Carroll O. Skaar. Two others returned to work on our board of directors after serv- ice elsewhere. Miss Wilhelmina Schaufler assists in the commercial training department, and Mrs. Thelma Morgan, on the home economics staff. Sgt. Leland Anderson and Sgt. Leo Laier direct the ROTC. Vice Principal W. S. Barnhart

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J4, ELLO, EVERYONE, this is your disc jockey, Eddy Cur- rent, broadcasting over Station EMTHS at 501 kilocycles on your dial. Originating just five blocks south of the Cross- roads of America, this program goes on the air from the heart of Indianapolis into the hearts of more than 10,000 loyal listeners who have had a part in its making over a pe- riod of 53 years. ' Twas in September of ' 47 that the Class of I 948 called me back to school to help put Currents of ' 48 on record. We ' ve had a busy year and by the time we ' ve played our first transcriptions back to you — sans sanction of Petrillo — we shall have our last ones completed, a full album of 56 records, television and all! What a year! The flying discs of ' 47, the new look, Leap Year — they ' ve all found their mark in our ilbu aiDum. And now for our theme song: Training of mind and hand and heart Has been thy goal. On Manual! As some 1 ,500 students poured into our studio of education in September, they assumed the task of carrying on a program which began on Feb. 18, 1895, when 526 students under the leadership of Prin- cipal Charles E. Emmerich opened the first free industrial training school in the Middle West. People from all over the country came to see that trail blazer in education, and so famous did the school be- come under the direction of Mr. Emmerich, that the first of our call letters, EMTHS, stands for his name. Mr. Milo H. Stuart succeeded Mr. Emmerich and in 1916 Skipper E. H. Kemper McComb took over. The Skipper, with the aid of Vice Principal W. S. Barnhart and a faculty board of 80, has directed Cur- rents of ' 48. While Redskin braves and maidens succumbed to lower hemlines, they mourned the high cost of liv- ing that kept the new look for Manual a matter of white lines on blue paper. And they feared that the Class of ' 47 ' s little Pokey, who left last spring for the new site at Madison Avenue and Pleasant Run Boulevard, would be quite grown up before the Tribe could join him.

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Sgt. Leland Anderson, ROTC Mrs. Ada M. Bing, English Mrs. Edith R. Binkley, Music Mrs. Coral T. Black, History Mr. Harold G. Boese, Science Mrs. Florence S. Boots, Home Economics Miss Josephine E. Boyd, Home Economies ' 1 Mr. James H. Brayton, Science Mr. William Breedlove, Music Mr. Oral Bridgford, Physical Education Mr. E. L. Brittan, Music Mr. Boris C. Chaleff, Science Miss Ada M. Coleman, Mathematics Miss lone Colligan, English, Language Mr. Paul M. Collins, Mathematics Miss Elizabeth L. Davis, Language, Director of Visual Education Mr. Oran M. Davis, Art Miss Gladys A. Denney, Art Miss Dorothy M. Ellis, Home Economics, Dean of Girls Mr. Lewis Finch, Art Mr. Walter Floyd, History