Flora High School - Florian Yearbook (Flora, IN)

Page 16 text:

The 1932 Debating Team who competed in the State Finals are (from left to right) Minnie Lou Chittick, Virginia Hawkins, Madonna Barnes, Coach; Mabel Ridenour, and Marjorie Niccum. trophy for their efforts. They also won the right to compete in the state contest at South Bend that year. With such an auspicious beginning, the future will surely find new laurels being added to the F.H.S. record from this department. Flora has really been on the ball—we mean baseball. For three consecutive years they have taken the county championship and we are mighty proud of that record. In recent years baseball seems to be playing a bigger part in the sports world at Flora. Since School Daze, our school paper, was started in 1938, it has been entered many times in national scholastic press competitions and has consistently been rated in the first-place group. One rating of All-American was achieved, and All-Columbian ratings for art and typography have been claimed at various times. We hope that last year's first-place rating for the Florian was the beginning of an outstanding record as well. Flora High School received a certificate for a new commission from the State Department of Public Instruction in 1955. Grades one to six remain on a Continuous Commission, while grades seven to twelve now operate on a First-Class Commission. We are very proud of this achievement and hope to maintain in the future the high standards which made this possible.

Page 15 text:

Flora High School orchestra in the fall of 1929. Front row: Ruth Burns, Ruth Cook, Mabel Ridenour, Freida Cook, Betty Jane Voorhees, Dorotha Chapman, C. R. Young, Director and Principal; Dale Welty, Tom Riggle, Leon Viney, Jimmy Niccum, Jack Voorhees, Kenneth Knapp, Meredith Butcher. Second row: Kathryn McCain, Carl Steinman, Lois McCain, Helen Young, Evelyn Hamilton, Marjorie Niccum, Virginia McCloskey, Charles David McCain, Marjorie Voorhees, Lois Cripe, Mary Moss, Charlene Bell, Donald Hoffman, George McCain, Superintendent. Third row: Buthene Sharp, Jean Cripe, Virginia Hawkins, Celia Cook, Delores Sink, Alice Pullen, Minnie Lou Chittick, Velma Berkey, Mamie Smith, Don Good, Isabelle Kuns, Josephine Bell, Richard Landis. Fourth row: Price Ferguson, Esther Pullen, Margaret Holmes, Richard Beard. Back row: Virjean Coleman, Charles Colvin, Donald Myer, Lloyd Dekker, Dean Colvin, Tom Peter, Marion Thomas, Wilbur Wilson, Evelyn Knapp, Lee Eckerle high at the Indiana State Fair. Competing with twenty-six teams, the team from Flora placed first and was awarded the title of Junior World's Livestock Judging Champions. Fritz Schnepf, Jr. placed first individually, and Tom Allen placed second. tests, a good number of entrants have won the right to compete in the state contests at Indiana University. Bob McLaughlin won second place in First Year Latin in 1952 and returned the next year to claim first place in the state in Second Year Latin. The 1955 Livestock Judging Team was invited to compete in the annual Eastern National Livestock Show at Timonium, Maryland. The Flora team placed first in the contest. Mary Jo Thompson placed first individually and Pat Meade, second; Martha Schnepf, who placed third, is the sister of Fritz Schnepf, Jr., who placed first at the International in 1947. Flora girls have always shown great interest in the Sunshine Society. On October 14, 1951, the local chapter was hostess to the annual fall district convention. As nearly five hundred girls attended the convention which was held in the Community Building, this was an undertaking which called for thorough organization and complete cooperation. Flora students for many years have been participating in the achievement contests held each spring in the fields of English, Latin, and mathematics. By high placings in the regional con- While speech is not a new course at Flora, competition with other schools was first attempted in the spring of 1955 at the Delphi Invitational Speech Festival. Surprising even themselves, the contestants proudly returned with a third-place II

Page 17 text:

Eastern National Livestock Judging Team of 1955 are (from left to right) Martha Schnepf, Harold Thompson, Coach; Pat Meade, Harold Craft, Mary Jo Thompson. World's Champion Junior Livestock Judging Team of 1947 are (from left to right) Tom Allen, Harold Thompson, Coach; Fritz Schnepf, Jr., Kenneth Sharp, Bertis Berkshire. But more important than the past are the plans and prospects for the future. For one thing, we hope to see the complete redecoration of the interior of the school building as soon as possible. Plans and adjustments will also have to be made for the increasing enrollment sure to come. The next logical step in the progress of our school is to gain admittance to the North Central Association. To do this we would have to meet certain requirements toward which we are constantly working. So goes our story—a record of accomplishments which constitutes the tradition which is Flora High School. 13 9