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

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WJe i3e ln to duertise “And don ' t forget, hand your articles to Mrs. Schiess before noon on Tuesday, Editor-in-Chief, Dorothy Freeh, warns her eager staff of rejwrters. Then begins a search for news of athletics, social functions, activities, of various organizations, class elections and plays, or anything else that will make interesting reading. The reporter who hesitates is lost, for it is amazing how quickly the list of news-tips jx)sted in Room 312 is completely signed. Tf any reixjrter allows three weeks to slip by without produc¬ ing an article, he is minus a position on the staff. When Tuesday afternoon rolls around, news articles, written on paper of all sizes and colors, are examined and revised by Editor Freeh and Mrs. Schiess. Then they are typed on white paper by the technical members of the staff and are sent to our local newspaper office, where again they are revised and cut. Surviving articles appear on the School Page of the Gary Post-Tribune on Saturday night, and reporters lucky enough to have ““made the line ’ rejoice. dJe l decord the (dduents tLe l ear ' The school was empty except for the weary Annual Staff. Amid such questions as “Where’s my folder? — I know I put it here yesterday.” “Shirley, when will you have the calendar finished?” “Lorraine, are the Senior write-ups done?” “Paul, why don’t you take a picture of - ?” “Keck, have you got the books up-to-date?” “Saxton, what are you doing now?” the 1938 annuals were nearing completion. Now, since we’re afraid you’ll have a nervous breakdown as we almost did, we’ll take you back to the drowsy afternoons in the fall at 3: IS. Then room 309 wore a leisurely air. Those were the good old days when the staff was working on identifications of pictures and making brilliant plans, when candy sales were bringing pennies into the till. In October we invited the Annual Staffs from Emerson and Lew Wallace to a buffet supper and press conference. We gleaned many different ideas for the year-book from round table discussions with our guests and from our guest speaker, :Mr. Nelson of the Scholastic Editor. On December 10, we made merry in honor of Mary Henry, Shirley Bornstein, and Eileen Kaplan whose birthdays arrived on the same day. Along in January, the industrious Business Staff met to map out a campaign for selling the annuals. Remember the signs “Buy your annual before prices go up on March IS”? What a rush ' .here was the final day! Finally came that frantic Saturday before we went to press. With a lot of prodding, the write-ups were laboriously re-written, and pictures fitted together. Our masterpiece was assembled and sent to the printer. We breathed a sigh of relief as we crawled away to catch up on our sleep. As a last fling after annuals had been distributed, we had a beach party with plenty of food and plenty of fun.

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Student Council. 1927-1938 We Be become — jelj ouernm Sweeping into [X)wer on a wave of popularity last spring, the Studentocracy Council has enacted many noteworthy measures. Nominating committees are now elected by register classes: a school paper has been established; social clubs have agreed to con¬ tribute annually a definite sum to the Pickard Memorial Fund; matinee dances have been rescued from the pit of oblivion, and revived with the aid of the Preps’ Orchestra. March: After hours of sorting and tabulatirlg, and assigning, the Council managed to send almost everyone where he belonged’on V ' ocational Uay. April: Elections for the new Council. May: Citywide Council Convention at Horace Mann. The Council of ' 38 has left office with a creditable

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