Hammond Technical Vocational High School - Chart Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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Mis Rogers: — Can you serve company?” Estoria May: — “Yes’m. Either way.” Miss Rogers: — “Either way?” Estoria May: — “Yes’m. So’s they’ll come again, or so’s they won’t.” Russell White: — “I heard a new one yesterday. I wonder if I told it to you?” Helen Natkin: — “Is it funny?” Russell White:— “Yes.” Helen Natkin: — “Then you haven’t.” Gerty H.: — “Why, in my town, the people are so rich the horses have checks.” Helen: — “That’s nothing, in my town the people are so wealthy they wash their dishes in Gold Dust.” “I hear she only has hair on one side of her head.” “No foolin!” Yeah, on the outside.” Hilton Benninghoff: — “What are you doing with your socks on wrong side out?” Manford Worley: — “My feet got hot and I turned the hose on them.” Roadside Gipsy: — “I am a seer. I can see far ahead.” Mr. Holloway: — “Do you see any parking space?” Eleanor: — “I hear your boy friend wants to settle down and get a home.” Gerty: — “Well, he’s got a good start; I gave him the gate last night.” Bob Moseley (At 11 P. M.) :— Did you know I could imitate any bird you can name?” Hazel Blair: — “No, I didn’t. Can you imitate a homing pigeon.” Mr. Cooper: — “Remember the lazy bully who, when he felt tired would order the timid soul to punch him- self in the nose?” Mr. Fuller: — “That’s nothing. I read of a mother today who, when her little boy wouldn’t be good, lifted her head from her couch and said: Willie, go to the vibrator and give yourself a good shaking.” Mr. Hovey’s favorite wisecrack to the band: — “Well, I’m going to let you out early the rest of this week. And a ” Miss Eastwood asked the girls in Business Ethics to keep track of the sleep they got each nigh t for a week. The last day we added it up and after school Helen Jabaay said: “Hey, Gerty, how many hours of sleep did you get in Business Ethics this week?” Hilton Benninghoff: — “May I hold your hand?” Ruth Fess: — “It isn’t heavy; I can manage, thank you.” Mr. Cromwell: — “Johnny, you may tell us how many are two and two.” Johnny G.: — Two and two are four.” Mr. Cromwell: — “That ' s very good, Johnny.” Johnny G.: — “Good! That’s perfect!” Words of Wisdom: — • Many a boy would make an excellent dancer if he would learn to stand on his own feet. Thelma: — “I’m afraid you can’t wait very well, Bill.” Bill : — “No, darling but I surely can intermission.” Never tell an Englishman a joke on Saturday night because he’s liable to laugh out loud in church Sunday morning. Miss Richman: — “What sort of people do you have in your advisory?” Walter Schmal: — “Scotch.” (Trying to sell Annuals.) Mrs. Benson: — “My husband went to church this morning.” Mrs. Upson: — “My husband’s Sunday paper didn’t come either.” Prospective Employer: — “What can you do, boy? John McGroarty : — “Anything, Sir.” Prospective Employer: — Can you wheel a barrow full of smoke?” John McGroarty: — Certainly, sir, if you will fill it.” Alma Midget, on her first visit to a ranch: — “What is that coil of rope for?” Cowboy: — “That rope, lady, is used for catching cattle and horses.” Alma: — “O-oh! and what do you use for bait?” President Tact’s great bulk — he weighed more than three hundred pounds — provoked much good- natured jesting among his friends which he enjoyed to the fullest extent. While he was President he often went horse-back riding in RockCreek Park. Returning one morning after an invigorating canter he sent this message to his friend, Elihu Root, “Just returned from horseback ride and am feeling fine.” Back came the answer, “How is the horse?” On another occasion when President Taft was in swimming at Oyster Bay, the small son of a dear friend asked if he might also go in bath- ing. “Not just now,” replied his father. “President Taft is using the ocean.” Twenty Five

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SENIOR BAND With the issuing of this year’s “Chart”, the Tech High School Band will have completed its most successful year from a standpoint of honors won, engagements played, and actual improvement made thru hours of hard practice. Those who believe that playing in the Tech band is a matter of taking up an instrument and attending band rehearsal a 50 minute period each day, are badly mistaken. Many days around contest time the band rehearsed three times a day averaging over an hour at each rehearsal and still some most energetic pupils were getting in some individual practice at home! This spirit it was that boosted the Tech organization above all but one at the sectional contest at Valparaiso on April 25th. Tech won its first Class A trophy at this contest— the second best “A” band in Northern Indiana. Advance newspaper dope listed Hammond High School as a first place band and Elkhart as a sure second or perhaps even a winner over Hammond. Elkhart and other bands marched on the stage with 1 he finest and newest instruments, and a band numbering from 85 to 100. But expensive instruments and a stage full of band members can’t down 54 of the Tech gang full of fight as they were at this time. A week later the same bunch proved themselves to be the third best “A” band in the state of Indiana and Tech had won its first place in a State Contest. Not that a second or third prize in a state event is such a remarkable achievment. This has been done before— many times— by other bands; but not by bands which three years before had competed in Class D w T ith 31 members, and which four years before had never even existed. As many as fifty outside engagements have been played by the Tech organization this year including everything from sacred concerts in local churches to an appearance at Soldiers Field in Chicago before 75,000 to 100,000 people. These appearances have many benefits for our band. They help “sell” the band to the community of Hammond and in fact the whole district, they give band members a feeling of confidence and assurance when playing in public, they give band members a chance to take trips that are otherwise not usually obtained without charge. Such engagements are rated of more value to an organization, in one sense, than contests such as the band competed in this year. Future bands of the school may do well to follow the example set by the band of ’31. If next years organization goes after their problems with the enthusiasm and sincere effort that this year’s band did, it will undoubtedly go far in district competition as well as make a name for itself as one of the best concert and march bands in the state. Twenty-sevtn