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

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J. R. C. Made Blood Drive Main Project of Year The Blood Drive was the main project of the 1300 member Tech Junior Red Cross which secured fifty pints of blood from adult donors. The Tech chapter sponsored a broadcast over WJOB and an assembly program with Lieuten- ant Erickson, Mr. L. L. Caldwell, and Miss Merle Gray as guest speakers to aid city Junior Red Cross Blood Drive. The Junior Red Cross made contributions of $155.00 to the National Children ' s Fund, the Local Children ' s Fund, the Junior Red Cross Camp Fund, and the Junior Red Sross Confer- ence Fund for the year 1952-53. The Tech Chapter sponsored a spring dance, Tulip Time , to raise money for the Local Children ' s Fund. ADVISORY BOARD AND OFFICERS The Tech J. R. C. sponsored and con- structed the United for Peace float in the Christmas play, filled 152 Christmas gift boxes for children overseas, made nut cups and col- lected merchandise for the Parramore and Nor- man Beatty Hospital, and contributed maga- zines to St. Margaret ' s Hospital book carts. Gift chests, constructed by the Tech woodshop, were contributed to the City Junior Red Cross to pack gifts to schools overseas. Tech officers and sponsors attended the first Tri-City Conference at East Chicago in the fall of 1952. Tech had charge of the Tri-City gift chest display. Assisting Miss Marian McCort, the faculty sponsor, were Miss Margaret Hanlon, Miss Anne Evanoff, Mr. A. T. Schell, and Mr. T. M. Flack. Back Row: Bolling, City J. R. C. treasurer and delegate lor 1953-54 to Miami U.; Gonsiorowski; Pearman. Front Row: Week, second vice-presi- dent; Klein, secretary; Haager, treas- urer. Standing: Cieszkiewicz, president; Per- ry, first vice-president. JR. RED CROSS Front Row: Klaubo, Sabinske, Holland, Hammond, Witvliet, Wann, Koch, Janus, Montgomery, Dernulc, Ciesz- kiewicz. Second Row: Bolling, Koch, Jusko, Den- son, Kingery, Bach, Winkler, Falusi. Comer, Leets, Smith. Third Row: Cole, Kennedy, Kubisz, Col- lins, Archambeault, Martin, Bolling. Krownland, Piniak, Livovich, Luce. Fourth Row: Muehlman, Pigg, Johnston. Burbridge, Dernulc, Trimble, McWil- liams, Horn, Purkey, Hardesty, Bunch. Back Row: Adams, Snow, Cummins, Koch, Fischer, Weak, Thompson, Haager, Corbin, Waugh.

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Monitors Organized To Promote Fair Play Front Row: Hardesty, Jarczyk, Mauder. Second Row: Mosca, Klein, Horvath. Third Row: Fary, Musser, Brussly. Fourth Row: Hladek, Cieskiewicz. Bac k Row: Maloney, Gonsiorowski, Blake, Stocker. The Monitor Club was an honorary club organized to promote fair play. Only junior girls who had good scholarship, were depend- able and had a sense of responsibility, were eligible for membership in the club. Duties of Monitors were to help keep the cafeteria lines moving smoothly, to aid the flow of traffic through halls, and to guide visitors around the school. While on duty the girls wore brown and gold arm bands. The officers were captain, Cecilia Cieskie- wicz; co-captain, Joan Jarczyk; and secretary, Maxine Horvath. The faculty sponsor was Miss Ruth Clency. leannine Maloney on duty supervising the rush at the candy counter. 11

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The train is pictured as symbolic of the drive put on by the Tech Junior Red Cross to collect Christmas gifts for people in the foreign countries represented by the girls in the back- ground. This was J. R. C. ' s contribution to the Christmas parade and program. Members of the J. R. C. council are pictured here as they worked to re- pack gifts from Tech stu- dents for people over- seas. From Je f to light are: Yvonne Long, Mari- lyn Plaskett, Jean Livo- lich, Dorothy Klein. Pa- tricia Sabinske, Carol Montgomery, Joann Dan- cho, Nancy Mesyssne, Betty Kingery, and Mar- garet Perry. Wanda Horn, Ann Sajkyk, Ronald Millies, and Joanne Dye select drawings of Tech stu- dents to be sent to the International Student Art Exchange, a project of the international Jun- ior Red Cross to help students of many coun- tries to have a better un- derstanding of foreign friends. Nordyke and James Haworth. Junior Red Cross members and wood shop students, are pictured making crates in which to ship the gift boxes of all Hammond schools. A close-up of the engi- neers of the gift train. Chuck Hulsey and Har- old Maier, students from Welding Shop who helped make the train.