Hammond High School - Dunes Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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Mardl Gras By Max Anderson Hurry hurry hurry Step right up folks and see the greatest show on earth So went the 1953 Hammond High Mardi Gras vshich packed tht schools halls with thousands of jubilant carnival goers Bigger better and more colorful than ever before the mam event chmaxed an entire meek of furious preparatnon and promo non including a parxde hrough Hammonds mam business district The big top of the midway was the audltorium where the Hammond High Association staged a talent show pitting the four classes against one another The freshman portion of the program featured acrobat Margot Kr1eger and Mary Lou Kutak and Katle Crumpacker pantomime artnsts The sopho more class was ably represented by vocalist Mary Janet Kaska and guitarist Del Kacher while the juniors boasted a program starring vocalist Mary Zudock and pianist Carol Anderson The sole senior entry was dancer Dorothy Soja After leaving the audltorlum carnival goers could round ut. the evening with food and fun perhaps stopping at the H1 Y s soda pop stand the Spanish Clubs candy booth or tht Affie Tapple shop sponsored by the Y Teens For the brave there was the Speech Arts Clubs spools house for the fmned there was the H Mens Aquatic Ex position and for the energ tic dancing in the clfeterla spon sored by the choir The Calumet Herald s Kozy Kove the first Mardi Gras concesslon sponsored by the paper m years was so jammed that two extra performances were scheduled and mobs were turned away The popular Kove offered a troplcal atmosphere south sea refreshments hula dan ers and a host of other talented performers Other popular attractlons were the JCL s Cake Walk the Expanded Arts Clubs gift booth ffree sketches of the customers were drawnj the German Clubs coffee shop and the plant booth sponsored by the members of the Plant Club During the evening one could keep in touch with his friends via tel grams which were delivered by the members of the Pre nursm club The Hammond Magic Club By Paul Barton The work of the Hammond Magic Club is one example of what teen agers can do constructively Our group of SIX boys ranging from sixteen to eighteen years of age entertain for orphanages charity groups and other worthwhile causes Dur mg club meetings new shows are planned crxticnsms are ex changed and a discussion on magic in general 15 given Each member has a varying degree of interest in magic Some hop to be professionals others lust want an interesting hobby All are magicians constantly trung to improve themselves and their acts Whenex er possxbl a professional is invited to our meetings This club not only illustrates what teen age bovs can do to better themselves but also what they can do to help others Etiquette By Dan Barrett In society there are certain rules and regulations that one must follow to make his way of hfe more pleasant Imagine what this scene would be like if all of the ladies and girls were shoving and elbowmg their way to the table Visualize several girls trying to fill their punch glasses at once Imagine the mess and confusion which would result At Hammond High we learn how to get along with other people We learn how to conduct ourselves at an occasion such as the one in the picture above Basic rules of etiquette are taught to us in classes Opportunity is given us to practice and exercise what we have learned at teas banquets and formal dances Etiquette which can either open the door of success or violently slam it in our face IS a daily thing It is not some th1ng which 15 to be placed in the top dresser drawer to be item for all occasions Election Day at Hammond Hugh By Dan Barrett Th sun was brightly shining The a1r was warm and humid It was a balmy beaut1ful spring day The blrds were chirpmg and whistlmg Spring had come to Hammond While spring had come to Hammond election day had come to Hammond High It was the day of the primary All of the whistling was not done by the blrds Many of the candidates went about whistling and hummmg gay little tunes Many candidates faces were beaming as brightly as the sun Each felt that he was the candidate that was gomg to be nominated for the finals At two oclock the sky grew blacker The clouds began to pile up The sun was blotted out The birds headed for their nests There was an ominous feeling in tht air The sky con tlnued to darken Meanwhll the candidates gay smiles turned to looks of grave concern The worries began to pile up Now was the crucial hour By tht end of school the sky was black It began to hghten and thunder Then the sky hurled down buckets of water The beautlful shining day was gone and m its place had come an ugly dark thunderstorm Inside during the twenty minutes after school the candidates anxiously awaited the moment the officials would annouce results The smiling happy faces were gone The cheerful hummmg had ceased Silence and fear had taken their place Then as the results were read the thunderstorm ended Some spots of the sky once agam emerged a beautiful blue Other spots remained however black and forgotten until the next morning So also was the case in school Six of twenty two hopefuls became the shnnmg whistling students that they had been before school The other sixteen vsent out disappointed and forgotten until the next morning Page Twenty nme v v ' y a , Y . 2 . , , , , Y K t. , . . 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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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The lump Foreshadowrng By Bob Krudup I was twenty one years old and just another prrvate rn the paratrooper drvrsron at Fort Bennrng Vrrgrnra I had been rn the Army for four months and durrng that trme rt was tough Our Paratrooper Company about 115 men had been trammg four months to get rnto condrtron to be frrst class paratroopers They toughened us up wrth a lot of roadwork for our leg pushups and pullups for our shoulders and arms They taught us jump commands on a dummy plane exrt We had suspended agony hat rs we were suspended on a statronary far above the ground nd we learned how to control and gurde our supportrng lrnes rm and I drd many thrngs together We had met each other the frrst week we came to Fort Bennrng It seemed as though Jrm was always the better rn anythrng we drd to gether At trmes I got so mad at hrm that I would have lrked to do hrm rn In the last weeks I had grown more and more jealous of hrm and had even begun to hate hrm more than be or Our basrc trammg was almost over but the part every new paratrooper had come to dread just lrke a taste of surcrde 'Vere the three brg jumps The three jumps were made from planes flyrng at drfferent herghts and under drfferent flyrng condrtrons Thrs was the frrst jump There were two planes wrth about forty frve men rn each plane rm and I were srttrng srde by srde rn the second plane to take off I'he day before Jrm had played a drrty trrck on me Frrst he put lrttle stones rn my boots before we went on a hrke then he messed up my paratrooper pack whrch must be rn per fect order before one can pass hrs weekly rnspectron The Frrst Sergeant took away my next weekend pass and put me on krt chen duty for the next week rm was drrvrng me crazy and I looked anxrously for a chance to really frx hrm good As vac were srttrng rn the plane I thought of somethrng whrch would frx hrm He was talkrng to one of the other men so I reached my arm around rn back of hrm and opened hrs parachute pack I qurckly released the rrp cord and closed up the parachute pack I knew that he would be terrrbly frrghtened when hrs chute drd not open after he had yanked several trmes on rt just as a church bell rrnger pulls on the rope whrch rrngs the bells rn the belfry He could always use hrs auxrlrary chute I thought But what rf rt drdn t vrork' Oh well rt was too late then because we were standmg up and gettrng ready to barl out All the whrle I was standmg there the thought of hrs crashrng to hrs death worked on nee It gnawed on me just as a rat gnaws on a rotten floor I started to tell somethrng but the commandrng sergeant out vorced me wrth our famrlrar orders Jump hard count to ten pull the rrp cord I jumped and my chute opened I floated dowrward as the seeds from a cottonwood tree float around on a vrrndy summer day My one thought was what I could do to save jrm I realrzed what a fool I had been and I also knew there was a slrm chance of my savrng hrm Then I remembered that he had jumped after me and that there was just a slrm chance that he mrght come speedrng down besrde me There rt was hrs sprawlrng body clutchrng thrn arr I reached out qurckly rn a desperate grasp I felt the rough cord from hrs suspensron lrnes and began to pull as hard and fast as I cou'd It seemed as though a mrracle had happened and thats just what drd happen We both landed safely on my parachute and all I remem bered then vrere handshakes pats on the back and congratula trons on my herorc rescue Sure I was a hero all rrght a hero who was almost made rnto a murderer by jealousy Page Th my By Ted Shatkovsskr People murmur machrnes hum Motors run bombs whrstle Shall ue attack? the attacker asks Shall we defend? the defender says Should we run? the coward whrspers Should we frght? the hero yells Wrll we wma the chrld sobs Wrll we lose? the man stammers What wrll we do? the people shout Men are torn between War and Peace People argue-Men are torn between War and Peace Countrres quarrel Men are torn between War and Peace Natrons frght Men are torn between War and Peace Is rt War? Is rt Peace? Remembermg By Barbara Collrngwood Some thrngs happen rn a chrld s lrfe whrch he wrll never forget Sometrmes rt rs a horrrble punrshment or maybe an ex tremelv excrtrng rnrrdent as was one of mrne The followrng rs an account of an rncrdent whrch I wrll remember forever Most grrls dont know what rt rs lrke to see therr father for the frrst trme rn frve years l am one of the unfortunate ones though When I was about three years old my father was called rnto the army to frght for those he loved Mother was unable to keep me because she had to work We decrded rt would be best for me to go to my grandmothers home casronally and then I was the happrest chrld rn the world to know that they strll loved me Grandmother often told me stones of what krnd of work Dad was do ng and those storres were always somethrng to look forward for On the evenrng of August 14 1945 we were eatmg drn ner and as usual lrstenrng to Gabrrel Heatter All of sudden he shouted Ladres and gentlemen the war wrth apan rs offr crally over' My uncle jumped up ran to the bedroom got hrs rrfle dashed outsrde and began shootrng at the sky Immedrately all the men rn the nerghborhood were dorng the same My aunt grandmother and I could do nothmg but cry for joy because my three uncles and my father would be comrng home soon Frnally the day came when we were to meet Daddy at the statron That was a wonderful day rn my lrfe because I hadn t seen hrm for frve whole years and I drdn t even remem ber how he looked nor how he acted There I was standmg wrth our lrttle group at the statron I was wearrng a new blue taf feta dress and new black shoes We heard the trarn comrng wrth the whrstle blowrng loud and the men shoutrng for happrness Then the trarn stopped wrth a jerk and men came runnrng out callrng for therr famrlres Then I saw hrm' I ran to embrace hrm and began krssrng hrm I was so happy I could have screamed All of a sudden my grandmother serzed me and scolded me I had mrstaken a strange man for my father We apologrzed and embarrassed walked back to our crowd I vras near tears wrth drsappornt ment Then a handsome young man walked toward us I was sure he was my father but for assurance I glanced at my grandmother She nodded My heart beat hard wrth excrtement and delrght I flung myself rnto hrs open arms and krssed hrm Thrs trme rt was my father I vrrll never forget that moment of perfect happrness Y ' 1 n ' ' ' ' u V an .. r, ' ll Q, ' 9 i , . . 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