Greensburg High School - Tower Tree Yearbook (Greensburg, IN)

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SUNSHINE SOCIETY OCTOBER . . . Sunshine was organizing and we ancients began to wonder if this year would be a let-down after '43's excitement. Maybe our conventioning was over, but we still had a full year if we were to make Sunshine work. Election returns showed Sunshine's fate would lie in the hands of five capables - Pat Smith, Sally McGee, Lois Carol Brown, Rosie Moeller and Pat Tatem. And then our Christmas Pa.1'ty for the underprivileged children was practically here, with the 65 of us feverishly planning and shopping for our guests. When the afternoon finally arrived, we came to the conclusion that THEY were making OUR Christmas something rather special, because Christmas is the happiness in children's eyes. April 22 found fourteen of us Indianapolis-bound, eager for our annual State Convention and wishing this were our year to entertain the expected 1500. It was fun hearing Miss Eward give the morning address and seeing Margie Sanders preside over the conclave as State President. Other memories come to us . . .Miss Mary Catherine Kirk laffectionately dubbed Kirkie r our adviser, and the understanding way she guided us . . . the Mother-Daughter Tea where each discovered new things in the other . . . meet- ings where we planned Tag Day and concocted money-making schemes . . . Honor Day and a proud feeling of achievement. Maybe last year WAS Sunshine's year of years but we privately thought that '44 had given us some moments to be treasured far into the future. Xu U! an Su ax fl ,gf -f X' . CI , . 5 ' kk x 2 5 V: I 'Mums 1 f A. I X l 1 1 1

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BARN THU S E Annum. STAFF PIETURES !! HI-Y . . . TRI HI-Y Hi-Y this year gained a successful, personable sister organization-Tri Hi-Y. Twenty girls, sponsored by Miss Myra Jean Hennon. banded together - adopted purposes and pledges such as those practiced by their equivalent club. Memorable were their joint meetingsg interested response to Kenneth Lancaster's able discussion of club organization proving said fact. Hi-Y itself viewed a second semester calendar filled with party and project-planning. Playing host to clubs from the district meant work- weeks of it. Under Ed Mead's capable Hpresidentshipf' registration iKathy Grubbs and Willadene Jackson officiatingb, mixing, and selection of next year's district officers were smoothly effected. Max Kelley, this year a G. H. S. junior, will serve as president. Here we remember Mr. Lancaster and energetic Y Secretary Joe Camp- bell circulating between convention sessions- Hi-Y and Tri Hi-Y principals attempting to look dignified for the picture-taking. and succeeding only in a rather obvious failure . . . meek candidates for Hi-Y membership trying to out-do each other in humility . . . banqueting and hearing Judge Rolfes. Yes, a year of planning, calendar-noting, accomplishing. A year of pledges not only taken but practiced, too . . . of membership in organizations that develop as well as inspire the best in youth.

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School is for the training and development of individual personalities and talents. Realizing this, a patient faculty succeeded in satisfying our particular needs and abilities. With the assistance of Mr. Oak and Miss Frost, one in shop, the other in art, unskilled hands became competent and sure in producing work both pleasing to the eye and well-done as to me- chanics. Research in the library, settlement of a geographical dispute by Mr. Davis, solving an in- tricate physics problem with Mr. Holmes' aid were 1llI'F'7 I A il I Ili! 1 L part of school's adventure. Individual talents and traits were rewarded as Alta K. Jones was chosen winner of the D. A. R. citizenship award and Ael- red Meyer received the Barker Trophy for being Indiana's outstanding swine-producer. Agile tingers were trained both in the intrica- cies of correct typing and sewing a fine seam in home economics. Four agriculture students proudly shared blue-ribbon honors as a Dairy Judging Team.