Horace Mann High School - Horace Manual Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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SENIORS! WE’VE GOT SOMETHING HERE! FRESHMAN ’33-’34 Japan was knocking at Manchuria’s door. . . . The wonders of the World’s Fair startled us. . . . The Hall of Science awed us, and we were still blushing at the Streets of Paris—so we entered high school with a thin veneer of sophistication. ... In class meetings we giggled at President Geisert’s eyebrows and planned our Freshman Frolic. . . . We begged and borrowed umbrellas for this collosal event which was a great success. . . . The Hoosier Melodians provided the syncopation, and we hummed Stardust” for weeks after. . . . Some of our little boys dated” great big” Juniors. SOPHOMORES ’34-’35 The University of Chicago raised the ruins of King Sargon’s great Palace in Iraq, and the United States raised taxes. . . . Roosevelt O. K.’d the New Philippine constitution and we all O. K.’d The Scotch Twins,” our Sophomore Play in which Charles Miller let himself go.” . . . We thought we were different when we gave a Bunny Hop” with Ted Nering’s band, but the treasury remained the same—mournfully low! . . . Dwyer was our president, and Lucas and Parry gave presentations of Frankenstein” at every oppor¬ tunity. . . . Ralph Piazza rose upon the horizon as our pugilistic star. JUNIORS ’3S-’36 In the midst of the rah-rahing for the Olympics and the beating the Cubs took from Detroit, we presented Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.” . . . The distant rumblings in Ethiopia were so potent that the scenery kept falling down during the play. . . . Again Geisert was our president, and we made the Junior-Senior Prom a walloping success. . . . It was this year that Walsh, Starr and Dwyer became conference threats in swimming; Herbert, Lucas, and Piazza showed some of the older boys how to play football. Lorig, Peyovich, Uzelac, and Von Bereghy were tossing baskets, and Harmon was taking berths in both sports. . . . Bunny-B” was Lytta’s property then and a lot of our lassies were going places with Seniors. . . . This was the winter when there was toboggoning, skating, and skiing nearly every night. . . . O’Donnell strolled around swathed in bandages for days because of indulging too freely in these winter sports. Page twentytix

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The National Senior Honor Society at Horace Mann is far more than an honor roll system for recognizing outstanding students; it is, as its name implies, a nation-wide institution. At present the organization embraces 1,653 chapters in the United States and sixteen in the dependencies. The society was organized in February, 1921. The Horace Mann Senior chapter was chartered as Number 901 in 1929, with fifteen charter members. To date, 22 5 members have met the requirements of Scholarship, Character, Leadership, and Service set by the national council. Of these, 143 students have attended college. The Junior Honor Society is also allied with a national organization, which functions under the same officers and regulations as the senior society. There are-now 206 such chapters in the United States. Fifty members were selected when the Horace Mann chapter received its charter in February, 1931, as Number 46. 298 Junior High School students have been elected to membership since its inception. New members are honored annually by the Junior Society at a spring party. The Senior group holds two yearly meetings with the other chapters in the city. The first of these is a forum, at which high school problems of general interest are discussed and suggestions interchanged. The other meeting is a banquet, at which the members do their best to prove to each other that their humor is as fully evident as their dignity. STUDENT COUNCIL Top row: Webster Cash, Eileen Kaplan, Betty Condit, Jean Barnhizer, Edith Martin. Sccontl row: James Burtle, Wesley Jones, William Bachman, Winnie Sprowls, Vernon Landcck, Beth Ludberg, Jane Ringer. Bottom rou : Bob Von Bereghy, Robert Lucas, Mr. Fowble (sponsor), Ted Lorig, Billy Gcisert, Peggy Webb, Alice Huber. In the absence of the president, Ted Lorig, the meeting was called to order by the vice-president, namely. Bill Geisert, and then, following the usual order, the secretary, Winifred Sprowls, read the minutes and the treasurer, Vernon Landeck, the treasurer’s report. In the course of many meetings the Horace Mann Student Council decided to visit another school in quest of new ideas; to sponsor a memorial for Mrs. Pickard; to revise the hall-order system by making two council members captains for each hour; to adopt a new system of electing council officers and to allow mid-year classes to have their own class officers. Having put through such numerous measures of noble account, the Student Council then adjourned for the year ’36-’37.

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SENIORS ’J6-’J7 A King Emperor abdicated. . . . Russia got a new constitution and executed another batch of men. . . . Roosevelt was reelected. ... A record breaking flood swept down the Ohio. . . . Sit-Down-Strikes and Swing Music were America’s innovations. . . . Everybody read Gone With the Wind ” and the girls day-dreamed about Rhett Butler while the boys got those looks on their faces from Scarlett. . . . Maybe that was the reason Butch” fell in a manhole and lost a handful of teeth. . . . Lorig was president of both the Senior class and Student Council. . . . We were thrilled when we gave Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being, Earnest ” and we will never forget the state champion football and swimming teams. . . . Father Lach chose some of our band boys to accompany him on a concert tour of Europe. ... A struggling Scandal Sheet was edited by Gamier and Konrady. ... A flock of new clubs was organized. . . . Welter, Kinsey, and Sill improved their social outlook. . . . The House of Representatives had Dorman and France as pages. . . . Helen Ridgely fixed” the family car at the Hobart Cemetery. . . . Scalpers” had a night of glory at the W.V.C. skating party. . . . The straggling hair of gal swimmers. . . . Lew Wallace had some of us as guests at their dances. . . . The galloping about to snag scholarships. . . . The disliked night shifts. . . . The matter-of-fact man who measured us for our caps and gowns. . . . Matrimony was the object of some of our lads and lassies. . . . The hope that tickled the insides of all of us—we wouldn’t have to go straight home after Commence¬ ment! . . . The Prom that wasn’t going to be crowded—and all the fun afterwards! . . . The pins and rings that exchanged hands. ... All our fun! SENIOR OFFICERS Ted Lorig, President Naomi Bates, Secretary Blaz Lucas, Vice-President Dave McDowell, Treasurer