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

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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.

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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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45 44 S E I 1943-1944-S-S-Sen. I-I-lor, Sen-Ior, Seniors! and we had the right to proclaim it for 180 schools days . . . We started things off with a picnic at Lake Shawnee and everyone is turned over . . . Harold Stover tears away . . . Miss Vesta Walker and Mr. Byron Crowell were chosen class sponsors . . . Cops mistake Mary Ellen for teacher and' focus spot on tree as it's dragged to bonfire . . . Scots bury Seaman in assembly . . . Annual watermelon feeds-one sponsored by G.R.-Hi-Y, the other by a friend t?l . . . band plays at Washburn U's Homecoming . . . Dean Horton enters Navy. sur- prised friends, when he hitches up . . . Teen-Canteen opened as night-club for teen-agers . . . Students go formal December 17. and dance to Del Weidners' band . . . girl's anxiously await midnight, and Leap Year shuffles in . . . Scotties wipe up Emporia 48-26 . . . Leg-art latest competition between Cuddle Cuties in the Bond Street Follies . . . basketball team hits high, sinking Vikings 43-37 . . . McCarter finds Mohler oiled up . . . boys receive Greetings from the President of the U.S. . . . classmates swoon to Sinatra . . . You'll Never Know and Paper Doll are favorites . . . ioumal- ists feud, and adopt Stupid as Mascot of 1944 Highlander . . . Senior class lives up to its play, Going P1aces and as the curtain falls we sigh, as we close four eventful years . . . another epic in our life is complete.-THE CLASS OF 1944. '