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

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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

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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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CHARLES WELTER ' S membership in the Senior Honor Society and his editorship of the Annual prove that he is not only one of our most brilliant Seniors, but that he is capable of great responsibilities. He is vice-president of the W.V.C., a member of the Chemistry Club and the golf team-The other editor, MARY JANE CORNS, is thor¬ oughly modern and progressive. She was secretary of the Junior Honor Society, a member of the S.U.S. and the Senior Honor Society, and chairman of the Art Club Ad¬ vertising Board. . . . CLARA JEAN THIEL, one of the few who will not forsake her work for pleasure, has been a member of both Honor Societies, the Commercial and Chemistry Clubs, and the S.A.H. . . . We all agree that JACK KINSEY is far above par. He presided over the Senior Honor Society during the first semester, and held membership in the W.V.C. and Student Council. He moved fast on the tennis courts, but the staff failed to note the same speed at 3:15. . . . BLAZ LUCAS made a good begin¬ ning and a better end.” He is president of the Senior Honor Society and the D.U.X., vice-president of the Student Council and the Senior class. He has been on the football team for four years. . . . With a hand to do and a head to plan, ELINOR TANNEHILL has attained prominence in every activity she has entered. She was president of the Junior Honor Society, vice-president of the G.A.A., secre¬ tary of the Senior Honor Society, and treasurer of the T.J.C. ... A woman nobly planned to comfort and command is JOAN LE BOEUF, treasurer of the S.A.H., a member of the Senior Honor Society, G.A.A., Annual Staff and Mixed Chorus. . . . Whatever ERNEST LEISER said we could be sure was right. Although he left Horace Mann in the latter part of the school year, we have not forgotten that he was a Senior Honor Society member and on the Student Council, besides being basketball manager. . . . The president and former secretary of the G.A.A., RUTH GROSS, is a S.U.S. member and was on the inter-club council. Always chic, spic, and span; she docs whatever she possibly can. . . . DICK FRANCE, past president of the W.V.C. and the Camera Club, snaps up every opportunity. He has been in the Junior Honor Society and the Art Club. . . . The Annual Staff’s Art Editor, ETHYL GERGELY, belongs to the Biology Club and G.A.A. and used to be in the Orchestra and Mixed Chorus. We all agree that, sans knocks, highly efficient Ethyl” always makes the grade. . . . Reserve is one of the first qualifications of our lady, EULALIA TERWILLIGER. She is in both the Junior and Senior Honor Societies, in the S.A.H. and G.A.A. and the Com¬ mercial Club. ... A lover of books but too friendly to be a book-worm, VICTORIA HACK took time to join the G.A.A., the Commercial, Biology and Chemistry Clubs. She was also in Showdown” and in two operas, Bohemian Girl and Erminie.”