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

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HO-HI LIFE Page Six ADAMS AD LIBS There are a lot of new faces at Ho-Hi this year. We hope you en- joy being here as much as we en- joy having you. . . . The weather- man predicts a mild winter, and we thank him. . . . Russia seems to have a remarkable endurance, and where does Britain get her inex- haustible supply of money? .... Don’t our new cheer leaders look grand? .... Did you lose any bets on the World Series? .... We soon can recover that lost hour’s sleep, at last, when we go back to Cen- tral Standard Time on the twenty- eighth of this month. . . . Quite a number of students, have been read- ing furiously for book reports or cramming for six weeks’ tests. Won’t we ever learn? . . The onion belongs to the lily family. Who’d ‘a thunk it! ... . Three years ago it wouldn’t have sounded possible, but I’ll wager that some of the sen- iors would eagerly exchange places with a poor, heckled freshman. You big babies! .... Better start saving your stray pennies, kids, for Christ- mas is slowly but surely creeping up on us. . . . Miss Friedrich is proving herself to be quite versa- tile, judging by the apparent effic- iency of the new library system. . . Will these gloomy days ever cease? Although I’ve known Elsie Mat- ovich since the third grade, I still marvel at her efficiency. . . There is no better setting for getting caught up on your thoughts than a walk in the rain. . . . The surface of Arkansas is more irregular than that of any other state in the Miss- issippi Vailey. . . . The most recent fad which has hit Ho-Hi is pigtails. Girls wear them now as a novelty, but oh, how they used to hate ‘em! .... ‘Bye now, and don’t forget to Boost the Brickies! — Rose Lee Adams Indiana Construction Material Co. Inc. GEORGE W. BOND Builder Play Safe Order Your Coal NOW! Summer Prices Pocahontas Mine Run — $8.50 ton Pocahontas Small Nut - 8.50 ton Pocahontas Egg 9.75 ton Pocahontas Lump 9.75 ton Red Comet • low ash — 9.00 ton Sheaier Son Phone 5 Alumni Notes In case you’re wondering what to do after you have been gradua- ted, here are some examples set by the seniors of last year. Bernice Traeger is working at Schultz Bros, in Hobart. Bennie Hasza and Louis Popp are employed in the steel mills. Jarvis Roper and Marion Krull have enrolled in Indiana and Pur- due Universities, respectively. Doris Carlson and Esther Ram- sey are working at Woolworth’s in Gary. The E. J. E. Railroad Company has acquired the services of Harold Maple. Ruth Jolliff has promised to be Mrs. William Bencye. Bill is from Glen Park. Margie Louks and Thomas Howard, both graduates of Hobart High, are to be married on Sunday, October 19. COME IN! Students and Teachers Get a Shine at CECIL’S SHOE SHINE SHACK The Station That Gives Complete Service A1 Verplank Center Main Art Theatre Tues. Wed. William Powell Myrna Loy in Love Crazy Thurs. Fri. She Knew All The Answer and San Antonio Rose Saturday Tight Shoes and They Dare Not Love Sun. Mon. Clark Gable in They Met in Bombay Al’s Restaurant MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT AL ' S Compliments of Neal and Marie Hobart Flower Shop Phone 140 Make It A Happy Birthday With a Cake From FRED’S BAKERY We Specialize In Quick Lunches -Eat- Have Time To Spare At Noon. Dyche Drug. Co. The Store On The Corner. For Distinctive Beauty Service come to Maureen ' s Phone 580-J Diamonds Watches MARTIN BINDER IEWELER Elgin Waltham Parker Watches 216 Main St.

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HO-HI LIFE Page Five HOBART HARRIER HARRY GARY PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS NEARING COMPLETION MEETING DATES SET FOR CLUBS, CLASSES Brickie cross-country runners successfully opened their second season of competition in the sport by copping victories over Emerson of Gary “B” harriers, 23 to 34, and Edison’s of Gary strong squad, 25 to 30. . Cross-country running, organized last year for the first time in the school’s history by Coach Kurth, track mentor, is proving a popular falltime sport on the athletic cal- endar, with a large number of can- didates out for the “A” and “B” squads. Coach Kurth, athletic director, stated that the Ho Hi harrier squad this year would be under the sup- ervision of genial Mr. Prather, for- merly a coach of athletics i n south- ern Indiana. Brickie runners Alfred “Ace” Ritter and Robert McDonald, have been holding the spotlight so far this season, capturing first and sec- ond places respectively in both meets. Leszczynski, Luellman, Wel- ton and Hamilton also have been in on the team scoring. Willmoth and Price, both fresh- men, appear as best in the “B’ group at present. Coaches Prather and Kurth are optimistic as to the team’s chances to make a good showing in its re- maining meets with Horace Mann, Lew Wallace, Hammond Clark and Wirt High Schools. The school physician, Dr. R. W. Kraft, and the school nurse, Mrs. E. Vinzant, announce that the an- nual physical examinations of boys and girls participating in physical education in the Hobart schools are nearing completion. These examinations are conduct- ed for the purpose of appraismg the status of the individual as far as physical examination alone can det ermine; the purpose is not to try to find something wrong with the child. Efforts are being made in health education to establish desir- able attitudes on the part of the child and of his parents in regard to health and sanitation and to pro- vide a motivating force for health- ful living. They say that a chigger Ain’t much bigger Than the very fine point of a pin; But the bump that he raises Itches like blazes — And that’s where the rub comes in! — The Calumet Herald Clerk: This book will do half of your work for you. “Boob” Shearer: Fine! I’ll take two of them. Blanche Wilson tells us that a tack is a thing that you get off of more quickly than you sit down on. Reorganization plans for the high school clubs and classes are under way and are expected to be com- pleted within the week. Sponsors and meeting dates already decided upon are as follows: EVEN WEEKS MONDAY H. H. S. Club Miss McKenna Industrial Club Mr. Martin TUESDAY Glee Club Miss Warner Dramatics Club Miss Winn Art Club Miss Haspel THURSDAY “H”-Men’s Club Mr. Moore G. A. A. Miss Risk Traffic Squad Mr. McClelland FRIDAY Home Economics 4-H Club Miss McMurtry ODD WEEKS MONDAY Librarians’ Club Miss Friedrich Octette Miss Warner TUESDAY Glee Club Miss Warner Hi-Y Club Mr. Morland THURSDAY Cinema-Radio Club. Miss Anderson Octette Miss Warner FRIDAY Home Economics 4-H Club Miss McMurtry Debate Club Mr. Miller Wednesday will be set aside each week for guidance programs in the home rooms and for special convo- cations.

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VOL. VII HOBART, INOIANA, OCTOBER 21. 1941 NO! HO-HI PUTS INTO EFFECT NEW HONOR ROLL RULES Changed honor roll requirements now are in effect in the Hobart schools, together with a change in the failure grade from E to F. This To qualify for the honor roll, a student must have an average grade of B in citizenship, together with eight grade points. Grade points will be awarded on the following basis: As a guest speaker at the convo- cation held Thursday morning, Oct- ober 9, in the Roosevelt Gymnas- ium, Mr. Fred Hardenbrook, young nomad who claims Roch ester, N. Y., as his home, described many excit- ing experiences which he has con- fronted in his travels. His traveling career began im- mediately after his graduation from the University of Pennsylvania, when he accepted the invitation of a Japanese classmate to visit the latter’s homeland. Since that time he has visited thirty-seven differ- ent countries within the continents of Europe. South America, and the dark, mysterious depths of Asia and Africa. Incidentally, while Hardenbrook managed to meet several of the “famous four hundred million,” he declares that he must have net most of the “still more famous four hundred billion” in China fleas! No one can escape them, he says, so everyone scratches to- gether. One of the most effective methods yet discovered for getting rid of fleas that insist upon getting on and in one’s clothing is to tie the clothes to a horse and drive the animal out of the village into the snow. As the clothing becomes cold, the fleas automatically move into the warm hair of tne horse. Now here’s the sixty-four dollar question: How does the horse get rid of them? Chinese bandits and cotnmunists still terrorize the towns, seeking to CAUGHT IN THE DRAFT! It seems that Mr. Kastner has re- ceived a cordial invitation from Uncle Sam to serve in the U. S. Army. In reply to the invitation, Mr. Kastner will go to Fort Benjamin Harrison on Friday, October 24, to receive his physical examination. If he doesn’t pass the examination, he’ll be back to good old H. H. S.; and if he does pass. ... he will be known thereafter as “Private Kast- ner!” widen the empire, Mr. Harden- brook said. The people look for- ward to an execution as a great ev- ent. The executioner is always a most thoughtful gentleman, for he takes especial care not to injure the victims’ pigtails during the head-cutting process. Mr. Hardenbrook at this poinj: in his talk wielded a ferocious-look- ing knife of the type used by an executioner. In order that the ex- planation might be quite clear, Floyd Trumbo generously offered his personal services for purposes of demonstration. The perform- ance was convincing. . . . but Floyd still has his head, unscathed. After draping the garb of the Tibetan on Bob Sizemore, Mr. Har- denbrook explained Buddhism, the most prevalent religion in Tibet. Tibetans worship four principal gods, and according to their belief a person after death goes first to a hot hell, from which he is promo- ted to a cold one, followed by a post-graduate course in several thousand other varieties. Finally his soul is reincarnated and comes back to earth for a fresh start. For five weeks Mr. Hardenbrook went through the ordeals required of one desiring to become a Llama priest. With the assistance of Floyd Demmon, the speaker dem- onstrated parts of the ritual. Mr. Hardenbrook is a member of the National Georgraphical So- ciety, and of the Rochester Museum j of Arts and Sciences. HO-HI BAND TO PLAY CLINIC ENGAGEMENT NATIONAL CHAMPIONS GET INVITATION TO GO TO MICHIGAN CITY Additional honors have been re- cently awarded Hobart’s National Championship High School Band in the form of an invitation to be the official clinic band for the Nor- thern Indiana School Band and Or- chestra Clinic to be held in Mich- igan City on November 21 during Thanksgiving vacation. The clinic conductor will be Russell Harvey, nationally known director and com- poser from De LaSalle High School in Chicago. Several of the mem- bers of the Hobart band have work- ed under Mr. Harvey at summer camps. In order to play this clinic, the organization will have to perform twenty different compositions or five numbers each from the Class A. B, C and D contest lists. This is a difficult task, since very few high school bands are capable of playing all of these numbers so early in the school year. Some of the numbers include the difficult “Queen of Hearts” Overture, Fin- ale to Dvorak’s “New World Sym- phony,” and Thomas’ “Raymond” Overture. The band will leave Hobart early Friday morning (say — you musi- cians had better not eat too much Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday) so that they will be ready to play at Michigan City at 9 o’clock. There will be a three hour morning ses- sion featuring Class A and B music and a three hour afternoon session for the C and D list. Owing to the detailed prepara- tion necessary for this clmic, the band will probably be unable to march and play at the last few home football games. This will be a big disappointment to band mem- bers, since they had planned to dis- play their new uniforms, which very likely will be here by the end of this month. Results of the triangular cross- country meet held at Gleason Field Friday, October 17, are as follows: Hammond Clark 33 Hobart 34 Lew Wallace — 65 A 3 points B 2 points C 1 point D 0 points F -1 point “Cum Laude” rating will be given for straight A grades. NOTICE Because of the school recess from October 23 until October 27, Ho-Hi Life will not be pub- lished next week. The next issue will be distributed on Monday November 2. FRED HARDENBROOK LAUNCHES CONVOCATION SERIES