Hammond High School - Dunes Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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Humorous Bus Lecturer By John Vapensky nm Cappas ns a rather small and squat but jovnal man Hns double chnn and round mndsectnon gnve hnm a chubby ap pearance Oddly enough he bears a remarkable facnal resem bnance to the SOVl6t Unnon s head man Malenkov When ques tnoned about thns resemblance Jnm sand Yeah but Im from Brooklyn nm ns a lecturer on a sxghtseenng bus nn New York Cnty On a recent trnp through New York made by a large group of students from the Hammond hngh schools Jnm and Bnll the bus drnver gunded forty three of us through the cnty Of all the students and busses that toured the cnty I had to pnck .1 bus wnth a comednan as the lecturer 1ms humor had all of us laughnng throughout the trnp In a Jackne Gleason manner Jnm told jokes trncked us and acted out many of hns jokes A shnnnng example of hns humor was the tnme when he told B111 to be sure to hnt hns quota of pedestrnans for the day At one rea lnght he saw a -nan about to cross nn front of the bus and shouted to Bnll Easy now Bnll' Just a lnttle closer Bnll' A lnttle more to the rnght now' There you got hnm-Oh you mnssed hnm' At other ponnts along the tour jnm would exclanm unck look to the rnght' We would all swnvel our necks around to the rnght and he would say m a boynsh vonce There s a bunld nng Isn t nt mee? Moments later he would shout Qunck look up' And after everybody looked up he would qunp Theres the sky Isn t nt pretty? nms humor had me laughnng so much when I watched hns aCtn0nS that I mnssed several places we were told to look at When we passed a manhole and loose manhole cover wnth steam comnng out of nt Jnm qunckly qunpped Look Bnll our house ns on fnre Thns was a tnmely joke because he had just fnnnshed tellnng us about the crowded lnvnng condntnons nn New York Nearnng Chnnatown whnle drnvnng through a slum area the bus was stopped at a red lnght Here Jnm showed that he had two sldes as he pulled a mean joke on a poor old man m glared at us wnth hns bng black eyes flashed hns shnny whnte teeth and as he combed hn long black hanr he shoved open the bus door I wondered what he was up to now I soon found out as Jnm stepped down nnto the street The shabbnlv Jressed unshaven old man was pncknng dead flowers from a garbage can Wnth a pntnful expressnon on hns baby face m stared brnght eyed at the old man and asked nn a gnrlnsh vonce Are those flowers for me' Then he added Oh thank you thank you kmd man We fanled to see any humor nn thls joke and the majornty of us groaned The ragged old man saw no humor enther and pand no attentnon to us as he nonchalantly walked away wrth hns new possessnon the dead flowers nm acted qunckly and cleverly to cover up and to regann t e student s respect He ransed hns hands nn bandleader fashnon 311 l C Bn fain dnrected our groan nn musncal unnson so that nt sounded Ohhhhhhhhhhh Agann hns humor had made hnm a hnt the nncndent was forgotten Later nn the day we all got soaknng wet from the heavy whnch covered New York Cnty all Saturday afternoon were soaked durnng our ferry boat rnde to and from Bed loe s Island where the Statue of Lnberty ns located When we left the boat on reachmg shore we dashed through a heavy downpour to get back to our busses When all forty three students xt ere :ngann seated on the bus Jnm came nn wearnng hns khakn green unnform and he too was drenched to the sknn Here the thnrty flve gnrls all wanted to go back to the hotel rlther than wnsnt the Empnre State Bunldnng The gnrls polled the students and gave Jnm the re sults jnm stood erect hns head more or less drooped dovnn ward to the rnght and looknng up and down the aisle at us shouted Oh you re all wet' Hns humor hadn t left hnm We dnd stop at the worlds tallest bunldnng but only to pnck up tnckets so that we mnght be able to vnsnt there later on our own tnme Most of us dnd get to go back that nnght whnch was a free nnght for all the students nm gestured wnth hns hands and crossed them over hx heart as he pretended to weep when we got out of the bus and sand goodbye to hnm at the hotel As I was one of the last students off the bus I shook hands and Qdld goodbye to jnm one of the most mterestnng men that I have ever had the good fortune to meet Oddly enough he told me that he acts that way on all hns lecture tours Dave By Merrnll Hubbell The day was cool for the usual end of July weather but Dave felt hot and stncky as he bent over the staggernng pnle of papers and books that covered hns desk In spnte of the long sunny days of the summer Daves usually golden brown sknn was stnll wmter pale Thns summer hns unruly sandy colored hanr had not been bleached almost Whlte by the sun Hns fingers strong and smooth had not grown rough and calloused from the customary summer chores and actnvntnes The muscles of hns shoulders and arms dndn t have the achnng but satnsfynng feelnng that comes from harvestnng the summer s crop or row nng across the lake to meet some frnends and see a movle nn th tnny county town Dave mnssed the long busy summer days spent on hns grandmother and grandfathers farm For all the summers he could remember he had left hns own home nn the steamnng cnty to stay nn the comfortable nnformalnty of the farm Dave seemed perfectly surtcd to the lnfe of a hard worknng farmer Ever snnce he had spent the fnrst vacatnons on the farm every one had thought that someday he would carry on after hns grandfather As he grew older Dave came to look more and more lnke hns grandfather Now at nnneteen he stood snx feet two nnches and he had already acqunred the slnght stoop of a man who had worked long hours at back breaklng jobs Work nng nn the fnelds under the blaznng sun had made crnnkles at the corners of hns eyes where he had squnnted to protect them from the glare For snx years Dave had worn large horn rnmmed glasses that gave hnm a scholarly appearance whnch seemed out of place wnth hns athletnc bunld He had acqunred the habnt of looknng qunzzncally over the top of hns glasses when anyone was trynng to dnscuss a sernous matter wnth hnm Dave could never resnst pullnng d vnlnsh trncks often and when people least expected them An excellent barometer of hns devnlnshness was the expressnon of hns mouth and eyes Hns mouth had a way of grnnnnng at only one corner gnvnng hnm a decenvnngly nnnocent look But hns eyes betrayed the real lack of nnnocence They sparked and shone nn the delnghted antncnpatnon of some devnlment whnle hns mouth turned up nn that lopsnded grnn at the snght of hns handnwork But Dave was not all fun and knddnng That summer he surprnsed everyone by announcnng that he was gomg to study to be a doctor He gave up hns summer vacatnon nn the coun try to stay rn the cnty and begnn hns studynng Although hn famnly had been a lnttle surprnsed and dnsapponnted at fnrst thev soon were proud of the snncernty wnth whnch Dave attacked hns new goal The ummer on the farm that he loved so much was lost but now Dave was vsell on hns way to reach nng the goal that would make hns lnfe complete Page Twenty seven a 1 li Q ll ' l ' a 9 - - . , . . 7 J , - . . . 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My Father and Education A Good Frrend By Ed Vennon I have been extremely fortunate rn my young lrfe to meet and talk wrth many people rn the freld of educatron If I were to choose one person however who has motrvated my desrre for hrgher educatron that person would be my father Dad never had a chance to go to college He was workmg even whrle attendrng hrgh school Mv grandfather dred when Dad was fourteen Srnce Dad was the oldest of three brothers he went to work to help the famrly Because he was wrllrng to grve up hrs own chances my uncles recerved therr educa tronal opportunrtres All through my lrfe ever smce I have been old enough to understand Dad and Mom have urged and even rnsrsted that I attend college Dad has often told me how a college de gr e would mean so much to hrs advancement rn hrs work Through hard work and experrence he has achreved all the practrcal understandrng he needs rn the freld of engrneerrng He has told me that all he needs rs the theory to back hrs practrcal experrence Theory on a subject can only be grven rn college Dad has the same general appearrnce as mo t mrddle aged men He has a baldrng forehead a growrng expanse around the warst and a few gray harrs at the temples After a hard day crrcles appear beneath hrs eyes and a frown encompasses hrs brow Dad rs prrmarrly a famrly man He enjoys an evenrng out but he gets just as much pleasure out of relaxrng at home Dad enjoys home cookrng a great deal but he often relreves Mom of her krtchen chores wrth a dmner and show rn Chrcago People have told me that upon meetrng Dad they are struck wrth hrs neatness hrs wrllrngness to undertake a task and the uthorrty wrth whrch he speaks about hrs job Dad enjoys workmg around the home Hrs abrlrty at car pentry was shown when he burlt my room onto our present home Dad used to be an archrtect and strll draws a lrttle rn hrs spare trme Wrth all hrs background people wonder why Dad strll appears to be searchrng for somethmg I thmk that lack of the opportunrty to go to college explarns a lot The one goal that Dad has never reached rs a college degree It alone has eluded hrm True hes not a mrllronarre but who rs' Dad can earn a comfortable lrvrng for hrs famrly He provrdes us wrth all the necessrtres and many of the comforts of lrfe The only desrre my father has left rs the chance to go to a unrversrty Dad has never trred to make rt seem that a college sheep skrn would smooth all the bumps He marntarns that everyone should grve of hrs best at all trmes Dad only argues that a degree supports hard work makmg advancement come qurcker Part of Dads educatronal rnterest stems from the fact that he has done a great deal of offrcratmg rn athletrc con tests He became acquarnted wrth many men rn the educa tronal rnstrtutrons rn Ohro and Indrana He realrzed that these people ould help hrs son Upon realrzrng that I would soon be ready for college Dad became actrvt as an athletrc scout for a promrnent mrd western unrversrty Hrs many frrends rn the athletrc depart ment have repard Dad by ardrng my entrance to thrs unrver srt I know that the one goal that my Dad farled to reach rn hrs lrfetrme wrll become real for hrm when I recerye my college degree I haye no doubt that Ill make rt Im not sure of the freld but Ill make rt Dads too wonderful a person to let down My father may not be the most hrghly educated man rn the world but hrs respect for educatron gots deeper than that of any body I haye eyer known Page T enty srx By Karen Schuler ueen our dog had just krlled a long fat strrped garter snake I rnched away as she shook rt agarn to make sure rt was dead As I looked at the snake from that drstance Paul rushed forward prcked up the dead body and ran towards me as he held ch snake rn front of hrm Som how I beat hrm rnto the house and managed to lock the door before he threw the snake at me That rnc dent took place ten years ago In these ten years I have watched Paul change from that prankrsh chrld to the young man he now rs At the age of eleven Paul played many trrcks on hrs frrends lrke chasmg people wrth snakes Berng of a currous nature one day I asked Johnny hrs close buddy why he per srsted rn playrng wrth Paul johnnys reply was srmple Oh hes a lot of fun Well I asked hrm rf he drdn t get sore at Paul for play rng all those trrcks Very serrously ohnny retorted Those trrcks never hurt anyone Paul wouldn t do that Besrdes rts fun to watch hrm thmk up all that stuff I wrsh I were that clever Shocked as I was to hear all of that thought come from johnny I trred very aard to see rt the way ohnny saw rt Its true that Paul got some hearty laughter from hrs frrends That must have been why ohnny thought that he was fun It rs also true that Paul never rntentronally hurt anyone Oh he caused a few brursed elbows and knees on some frrends when he would run hrs brcycle rnto therrs accrdentally but he be came very srlent for perhaps two hours after the rncrdent He would stare rnto space and not even the farntest srgn of emotron would appear rf somethmg unusual happened Once he told me that he used to thrnk about the many ways rn whrch he could have prevented the accrdent He sard that he would see the scene over and over agarn rn hrs mmd durrng these srlences Now Paul rs twenty one years old Instead of lookmg lrke looks well proportroned for hrs age as hrs mother has sard Hrs characterrstrc brtten down frngernarls wrth no moons on them and hrs large shrny forehead are strll a part of hrm Neatness has also stayed these ten years the only change berng that now he keeps hrs shoes mstead of hrs brcycle polrshed and hrs face mstead of hrs dog clean He has lost all the prankrshness that was eyer rn hrm He strll enjoys good laughs and at trmes good trrcks but the trrcks that he pulls make the recerver of the trrck laugh also Paul also laughs heartrly usrng the same thrustrng out of hands that he used to use to show hrs joy He has not lost any of hrs cleyerness whrch used to be used rn playrng trrcks He now uses cleverness when puttrng words together and for thrs reason he can be just about any type of lrkable or drs lrkable person dependrng upon the srtu atron The srtuatron though docs not alter some of hrs old habrts as perhaps rt should Hrs legs and feet are sprawled out when ever possrble He forgets about respec able table manners some trmes and when he does remember the redness slowly creeps way up to hrs forehead He rs not bothered by these trry ral matters as he puts rt He once sard As long as Im happy and am not hurtrng anyone else rn berng so I am contented Iltryen IS the brggtst cloud rn the sky Xlden ILL C rtts ' . . 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My Aunt Hands The Most Remarkable Tools of Man By Shrrley Renaud One day I decrded to drop ln on my aunt and see how she was getting along as she had just had her left kldney re moved m an operatnon only a month before and I thought maybe I could gnve her a hand Come on nn she sald when I knocked I d1d so and much to my amazement there she sat In the mlddle of the kltchen floor wrth three of her gxrls aged two four and sxx playmg jacks H she greeted me I needed someone to help eat those three pres I baked thms mornlng For goodness sakes Auntle get off the floor you re llable to have a relapse' I exclaimed Oh frddlestncks she sald you people are trymg to make an old woman out of me and then she added wxth a wma rn my dlrectlon Okay gang games over run out and pl y before I knock your heads together' The gang Sklpp d out Auntle and I continued talkmg unt1l her sxx months old baoy Betty Jean started crymg Pardon me a mmute whxle I go get Number Four she sald and While Im gone why dont you sneak another p1ece of p1e In a short txme she was back baby m arms We contmued talklng only to be mterrupted agaxn th1s t1me by a wall ln the dnrectron of the backyard and a chxldrsh volce that crned Momma Mary Jo hxt me' Well h1t her back and shut up before I come out there my aunt answered wlth a twmkle 1n her eye And so nt went durmg the rest of my v1s1t She changed a three peanut butter sandwnches heated a bottle peeled pota toes answered the doorbell rescued Number Three from Num bers One and Two drred Number Threes tears changed a dxaper and t1ed a knot rn a broken shoelace All the whlle she kept talkmg to me and sm1l1ng I left her house wlth an mvrta tlon to come back Sunday for some chocolate cake to help her celebrate her forty flfth blrthdayl The Ommscuent By Margne Drexler There IS an 1nd1v1dual of my acquamtance who has a very complex personallty He would make a marvelous actor He can shed crocodlle tears at the sllghtest provocatnon he can portray agony such as the world has never seen when he stubs h1s toe he can pro duce an angellc smlle at a moment s notnce He would also be an admlrable gourmet He has tested every food known to man although he prefers bread and jelly He IS a wonderful athlete Hrs ma1n sports are marbles and k1te flylng H1s musxcal talent IS lmnted to VSl'llStllI1g but he lmproves every day He IS fun h1s OPIDIOYIJ the vsorlds greatest authornty on everythmg Here he comes now Would you llke me to lntroduce you to hmm? Meet my nme year old brother Mlke Page Twenty eeght By Tom Lucas Hands are very mterestmg p1eces of human tnssue and cartrlage They are used for many professlons and jobs A doc tor uses h1s hands to brmg life 1ntO the world and to keep lnfe m the world A potter shapes a drab dnscolored pnece of clay mto a sparklmg pnece of art A mach1n1st uses h1s hands to form the strength of our natnon tools to shape cars boats t1n cans and baby carts A mother fondles a baby and ex presses her love wlth these pneces of Godly art A father wrth out these could never have the fatherly companxonshlp wlth h1s son that he strnves for A lnttle boy wouldnt be able to wlpe his dlrty hands on a towel and a llttle glrl Couldn t sklp rope rock her doll or play house The hands do much to brmg peace happmess dxscontent mtellngence feellng and destruc tlon They have declded history mdrrectly for example Napoleon expressed some of h1s most expllcnt v1ews 1n h1s letters to Josephme Hands have def1n1te xmportance 1n shapmg our lives and futures My Gramps By Stanley Kammskx Of all my relat1ves I thmk my Grandfather was the most v1v1d He used to take me for walks through the park 1n the summertnme when I was small he used to tell me the myths and stones of old L1thuan1a where he was born and where he spent the happlest moments of h1s rxch l1fe He would smg me the beautnful folk songs the damos whnch tell of a peace ful happy llfe rn the flelds by the shores of the Baltlc and the Rlver Neumas but he wa a good Amerlcan through and through He was that happy med1um a person who combmes a lov1ng memory of the old world and a loyalty to the new Th1s February 16 1954 was celebrated by the L1thuan1an Amencans as the thlrty sxxth anmversary of Lxthuaman mde pendence and ln our famlly clrcle there was an a1r of cele bratron as the txme approached Poor Gramps' Everyone was seen wlth a smnle on has face but Gramps was s1ck rn bed and and was told he shouldn t go to hear the speakers and see the dancers of the celebratxon Gramps had been 1n bed for a few days wxth a cold and was over the worst of lt by the Sunday of the celebratxon As we were about to leave he came out of h1s bedroom dressed m h1s grey su1t pullmg at h1s st1ff wh1te collar and h1s t1e He looked very handsome and h1s graylsh wh1te haxr and moustache matched h1s surt perfectly We stared Why you shouldn t be gomg out the way you feel we told hnm H1s feelmgs seemed hurt If th1s kllls me Ill know I dled not flat on my back but remembermg and celebratmg vuth the people of my fatherland Im gomg It was more than gratrfymg to sec the tears streammg down h1s smnlxng face as he stood and sang wlth the large gathermg the National Anthem of L1thuan1a Lletuva Tevyne musu CL1thuan1a our fatherlandj From Lletuyos Hy mnas Vmco Kudlrkos , , - . , - , - . . 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