Hobart Senior High School - Memories Yearbook (Hobart, IN)

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7 c rf Y otf ' S of 9f The class of 1941 Is slightly fewer in number than the class of 1940. This may or may not be a significant fact for the school authorities, but it is significant to you. This decrease in the num- ber of graduates since last year would seem to indicate that the pull of industry for some has been stronger than the desire to complete high school. As a result of the speed-up in the steel industries which so powerful- ly affect our well-being the outlook for you of the class of 1941 is much brighter. The faculty would like to believe that it has done a better job in preparing you for a place in our social order than it did the clsss before yours. Certainly progress has been made in our school pro- gram, our counselling, our offerings, our instructional procedure. You are the fin- al judges on that question and we should like for you to tell us after you have been out of school for a year or two just how good a job we did for you and your classmates . The institution which you know as the high school is a very new institution. It has sprung up almost too late for the par- ents of most of you to have had the oppor- tunity which they have given you to comp- lete four years of study beyond ■the eighth grade. In the past decade the high school of our country has changed very greatly. More changes are to come. What direction those changes will take will depend very much upon the demands of the people who have graduated from high school in these past few years. How much schooling must be offered in the secondary schools, four years, or five, or six? What courses shall be discarded and what added? Shall Latin and algebra be thrown out? Shall there be more trade training and less his- tory? How much of the tax money shall be expended on schooling? These are ques- tions which you, my dear class of 1941, must help to answer. This gangling, rap- idly growing infant of the educational system which we call the high school has made many foolish blunders , no doubt, but it has also done many things right. As you look back upon your four years spent at Hobart High School, you will re- call most vividly your extremely pleasant and your extremely unpleasant experiences. We hope the former have out weighed and out numbered the latter. But pleasant or unpleasant we hope those experiences have contributed to the moulding of your char- acter. If you take from here a mastery of the tools of learning, you can contime your own education. If you have become a right thinking, industrious person inter- ested in the welfare of your community and its citizens; if you have a passionate de- votion to those liberties and privileges our beloved country guarantees, then Hob- art High School has done its job well in- deed . The faculty joins me in wishing you, the class of 1941, every success and every happiness. We wish not to say farewell at all for we expect to see you many times a- gain. We want to keep in touch with you and you with us. You are always welcome .t H 0 b.rt High. J£ At ORcS History has decreed that about once in a gen- eration youth be required to bear the brunt of the sacrifice and misery that accompanies a war or soc- ial upheaval. This seems to be your heritage, for even as this is written our country see s inexor- ably drifting into the world conflict. It is a struggle to decide whether men shall be governed by one man or at best by a small circle of tyrants, or by free men reserv- ing for themselves the blessings of liber- ty and self-determination. It is a ques- tion of whether we shall think for our- selves on the basis of facts as we find them, or think as we are told because we are denied access to the facts. It is contended by the enemies of democracy that our form of government is too slow, too cumbersome to make the prompt decisions required of modern com- plex civilization that only those nat- ions having absolute unity of purpose and action can survive. But no single pro- gressive act has been accomplished by the di ctators that could not have been done in a democracy, but without the ever-present cruelty and hatred. If democracy has failed it Is be- cause we as citizens have failed to make it work. History has demonstrated that men who govern themselves successfully are able to do so because of a high degree of intelligence, education and civic con- sciousness spread through the mass of the people. (continued on page )

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6 Kenneth Rieck John Ronska Joseph Ronska Jarvis Roper John Routes Alice Mae Stevens Bernice Trager Alice Vincent Jean Walker Gertrude Wellman Robert Sohn Lillian Wesley Robert Wilson Mary Za jec Paul Zander

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Do you as tyro citizens in this re- public have what it takes to make true participants in a democracy? Are you willing to undergo sacrifices of social position, economic gain and personal pleasure in order to hold the ramparts of freedom against the forces of tyranny? If so, and I have every faith that you are, then we have no fear for the future. Our fate is in your hands. THANK You—frotott c rs Ytoftf Superintendent Garver...for your im- provements in Ho-Hi. Principal Nuzum. . .for your tips for the future . Juanita Horne... for your helpful sponsor- ship during our final year. Dorthea Friedrich. .. for your guidance instruction. Helen Holman.. .for directing Gabriel, Blow Your Horn. Edgar Williams ... for your philosophies on life. Howard Yunker...for your sponsorship of the Hi-Y. Mildred McKenna. . .for snonsoring the Girls’ Club. Claudia McMurtry . . . for your instructions on how to be a housewife. Velma Cook... for your sponsorship of the Librarians ' Club. Ruth Martindale . . . for your friendly att- itude . Frank Kurth...for providing an inter- esting’ sports season. ' Tommy Moore... for your encouraging smiles, jokes and timely remarks. Virginia Carnefix. . .for the publications of Ho-Hi Life. Donald Pound... for your construction in- structions. Kenneth Martin... for the new machine in the locker room. Frederick Ebbs... for direction of the school band. Wendell Elpers...for the Traffic Squad. Two college Juniors yawned and one said, What shall we do tonight? Let ' s toss up a coin. If it ' s heads we ' ll go to the movies; if it ' s tails we ' ll call on Rosie and Susie; and if it stands on end, we ' ll study. FACULTY COM Ccf Harlie Garver Barney Google Richard Nuzum Corky Wendell Elpers Snuffy Smith Maureen Warner Tillie the Toiler Virginia Carnefix Brenda Starr Donald Pound Jiggs Tommy Moore Superman Juanita Horne Toots Kenneth Martin The Lone Ranger Dorothea Friedrich. . .Little Annie Rooney Ruth Martindale Winnie Winkle Howard Yunker Skippy William Miller Donald Duck Nelson Golden Baby Dumpling Edgar Williams Smilin ' Jack Mildred McKenna Gertie O ' Grady Frank Kurth The Phantom Brooks Bell Casper Fredrick Ebbs Harold Teen Wouldn ' t Ho-Hi Be Proud If; Jimmy Shaw could play his clarinet just like Artie? Norman Johnson became a great pres- ident, following in the foot- steps of Arthur? Robert Davis became a great leader like Jefferson? Alice Mae Stevens founded many hotels all over the world? Jean Walker became a famous mayor, just like Jimmy? Robert Wilson founded another large meat packing business? Jarvis Roper became an influential member of the presidential cabinet? Richard became a famous military figure like Lord Nelson? Jackie became a great art patron like John Quinn, the New York lawyer and former secretary of the Treasury? Harold became famous like Hard Rock Harrigan, and some one wrote a song about him? Charles became a marine and landscape painter like Cecil King? John became a great lover and people forgot about Annie Laurie and sang about him? Lyall became a great figure in the affairs of the state just like the famous parliamentarian, Sir John Lamb? Wilma became a great journalist and author, following in the foot- steps of Angela Morgan? 0000000 I ' m surprised at you! Do you know what they do with hoys who tell lies? Yes, sir. When they get old enough the firm sends them out as salesmen.