Highland Park High School - Highlander Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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HELEN TROTTER Commercial LOUISE 0'BRIEN Commercial DOROTHY BLACK English ELIZABETH GLATT English, Latin ESTHER TAGGART English, lournalism FACULTY PICNIC IOE LYNCH Social Science PAULINE MATOUSH Social Studies IOI-IN CROFT Social Science MARY KESSLER Home Economics EILENE BUCK Home Economics FRANCIS CARPENTER Vocational Agriculture JESSIE NIC!-IOL Mathematics BYRON CROWELL Manual Training WILLIAM KIRK Band, Orchestra RUTH HOLMEN Music DALE RIDGWAY Physical Education FRANCES HOUSEHOLDER Physical Education LYNDON I-IERRMAN Science VESTA WALKER Librarian HELEN MARR ' Secretary CHRISTMAS PARTY FACULTY Picnic FACULTY The purpose of the Faculty Club, organized during the 1943-44 school year, was to improve the teaching staff through co-operation and discussion of educational problems. The teacher receiving the honor of being first president was Miss Jessie Nichol. A school is only as fine as its leaders, and we are justly proud of our faculty who has supported the activities and sponsored its organizations, making the i943-44 a year not to be forgotten. ll

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SCHOOL BOARD Ben H Abels C M Mlller I I Gles The progress achieved this year can be easily credited to the able direction ot the school board and W. W. Wright. Representing the ideals ot the community they should merit admiration for their guidance in the attain- ment ot these goals. w. w. wmci-Ir Classes were brought together as they worked toward one purpose, that of a democratic student government which resulted in a co-operative acceptance ot responsibility. The Student Council are fortunate to have had as their sponsors, W. W. Wright and I. M. Lynch, and as student president, Duane McCarter. The Student Council has served as a social organizer for the stu- dent body, sponsoring the outstanding event ot the year, the Winter Formal. DUANE MCCARTER P 'd From lei! to right-D. McCarter, D. I. Hunt, E. Btumbauqh F651 ent M. Seal, P. Swan, M. A. Barnette, I. Weekes D Irwin I. Friend, C Cusic B Umh lt . , . o z, L. Murray, H. Whillow, Bl Friend, Mr. Wright, I. Kramer.

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IR FRESHMEN 1940-1941-We were freshman then, and life began . . . held our trosh picnic at Lake Shawee, where we turned greener when trying forbidden stuntf El Ropoes . . . Cowboy Carnival made lively when girls chanted, to the tribal Indian war dance . . . at the all-school party, kids were arrayed as their childhood fancies fashioned them in years to come . . . St. C. turned upside down over bandana fight . . . Rainbow Palace popular coking and jiving hangout . . . Saddle shoes were lugged about by every guy ad gob . . . Coach Christensin left, 'member? . . . lassies eyes were moist, when Dick Lampman traded Highland for K. C .... Hi-Y'ers choked down pie for G.R, . . . Iune Mad gives curtain call to Stapleton, Barnette and Smith . . . Home EC students travel in bus to Manhattan for peek into future . . , and school closed for the summer. SOPHOMORES 1941-1942-we were lull fledged high school students that year . . . bowed legs were an asset at the Cowboy Party . . . contetti shook from clothes tor days a-tteg Navy Carnival, with its bull tights, Senoritas and Gay Rancheros . . . Pearl Harbor . . . and the sophs presented a patriotic assembly . . . students thrilled to Ruhinoif and his violin . . . and Seamon football game ended 12-0, our favor . . . Sloppy Ioes and long beads were the craze . . . juke boxes swallowed nickles to the tune ot Chatanooga Choo Choo, Elmer's Tune. Tangerine, Leanin' On the Old Top Rail, We Three, and Tonight We Love . . . Hunt and Siemen missed a curve . . . Wanda Roach ate mothballs for candy at Manhattan . . . Wiederman's popular rendezvous tor music contestants . . . orchestra and vocal groups rated 1 . . . Watch Party huge success . . . study hall students tricked into digging dandelions . . . tirst safety pin handed to Shorty for good luck in Alma game . . . Shorty and Gloria, King and Queen candidates tor Sports Dance . . . Then Barbara Mason passed away causing a note ot sadness. IUNIORS 1942-1943-Now a part ot it all, we as iuniors, sacrificed the novelty of the beginning ot a school year . . . Dellinger lett the picnic-party well perfumed . . . Miss Glatt and Mr. Dellinger were co-sponsors ot our class . . . Miss Black exercised sleepy English students . . . Girls won slack feud and boys even the score in paint- covered overalls . . . Hobo Day and no one recognized anyone else . . . De Rubertis and V'eld are guest conductors at Music Festival . . . Class presented Every Family Has One . . . and back stage hamburgers, cokes and ice cream were plentious . . . G. R.-Hi-Y compared tunnotes at party . . . Watch night party . . . H-Club initiated new members but we don't talk about that . . . Iohn Friend tells sister oH in the Spot-light Play One Wild Night . . . Autographed trench coats, beanies. plaid skirts, hair bows, combs and ilowers were the fad . . . and the Ends of the Rainbow dipped into pots oi gold, and the Iunior-Senior Prom ascended into a gala occasion.