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

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Spanish Club, 1937-1938 We Wc u Lf ' e tile panisL ipanish ■La Cucaracha-I-a Cucaracha — The lusty singing of many voices in a strange tongue — clear liquid voices. The Spanish Club is in session. After school on the first Monday of every month, the members tune and stretch their vocal chords. President Wiggers calls the meeting to order and then off they go —singing in their adopted language the rhythmical Spanish tune—“La Cucaracha-La Cucaracha.” In spite of being a comparatively new group, the club has shown remarkable energy and capability in its activities. Quite an interesting feature was added this year to the regular meetings in the form of talks and subjects related to Spanish culture. Several students gave especially prepared reports and one of the faculty members. Miss Greensfelder, talked on Mexico. Having a yen for spicy Spanish dishes, the club treated itself to a native supper. With the suggestion of its sponsor. Miss Wheeler, it also held a co-party with the Emerson organization, and later a combination initiation-celebration in the gymnasium. Mann-U-Script, 1937-1938

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Click! Click! Another camera is busy taking pictures for another camera fiend. We have about twenty .such addicts in our midst, brought together through the Camera C(iib for the purpose of fostering a deeper interest in photography. Inspired by its enthusiastic faculty )nsor, Miss Julia Brown, the Camera Club has really gone places and done things. This year the members have concentrated on learn¬ ing dark room procedure. Closeted in P resident Fletcher Thompson ' s dark room the development, printing, and enlarging of pictures have been demonstrated. A trip to Chicago and an interview with a commercial photographer completed another successful year. We€Jo.etLWoMofCo. If anyone wonders what accounted for the crowd of interested listeners in Room 210 on the third Wednesday of each month during the past year, we want him to know that it was the monthly meeting of the Business Club. Who could help being intere.sted when Mr. Jonnasch was demonstrating the Bur¬ roughs Bookkeeping Machine; when Miss Wise was explaining the various positions available in the Gary State Bank; when Mr. Edwards was telling about the telephone business and the use of the tele¬ phone: when Mr. Ball was giving details of the legal profession and r uirements for secretaries in that field; when Miss Klinedorf was talking on opportunities for students in the Civil Service field; or when Mis s Brown was showing movies of her last summer s trip to Europe. The club had some extra-special affairs, too. With the aid of ice cream and cookies, the cheer of the Christmas season |)ervaded its December meeting. Then later in the year, it departed for Chicago to visit the Board of Tradef the Quaker Oats Company, the Merchandise Mart, the National Broadcast¬ ing Station and Henrici ' s Restaurant—the club as a whole guarantees Henrici’s to anyone who wants a good meal in a pleasant, old-fashioned atmosphere. As a clima.x to their activities, these energetic souls donned their beach togs and rushed out to the lake for a spring picnic.

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WJe into Print As usual, everybody said, It ' s bound to be a flop. It ' s a dopey idea. You’ll never be able to do it!” But a few aspiring Juniors retorted Don’t worry, it’ll be a huge success: it’s a swell idea! We’ll do it!” — And so they did! They pushed and haggled, they petitioned and argued until the Student Council granted them what they wanted—an official charter for the organization of a school newspafwr. With Mr. Masters elected as the faculty sponsor, the newly ap|X)inted staff set to work. Ideas ix)p[)ed and .sputtered, pens dipped, ink flew, the mimeograph rattled on, and the Mann-U-Script sprung into being. Under the able editorship of James Burtle and Georgeanne Taylor, the hard-working staff has .suc¬ ceeded in bringing into being a pa|)er which comes out every other Wednesday at the |X)pular and eco¬ nomical price of three pennies. To climax a worthwhile year the Staff entertained its friends at a gay jx)t-luck supjier jiarty. And now the Mann-U-Script is one year old, celebrating its first birthday as one of the most prominent and successful activities in the .school curriculum. une in on eiiow .. 4mateiir The Horace Mann Radio Club has its headquarters in a small room to one side of the electric shop. Here amidst great piles of equipment, the members happily spend their time making and breaking things—with a purpose. This club, as its name implies, is interested in radio. Its constitution states, The object of this club shall be the encouragement and promotion of activities in amateur radio.” It has certainly lived up to this aim through the able sponsorship of Mr. Buck. The club has entered into advanced fields of practical electricity. The amplifying system rigged up by the boys illustrates this. They have had it working to good purpose at the football games and the Sectionals. Over it they blared forth inducing advertisements to the Mann-E-Acts and Freshman Flay. With it they brought life and sparkle to the matinee dances. You can expect to see them with their apparatus in all forthcoming affairs of importance. Besides the combined efforts displayed by the club, each member is interested in some special phase of electricity, connected with radio. So far only one of the boys, Reed Brainerd W 900b, has become a licensed amateur. However, many are striving for a license. Should they continue their efforts with as much industry as they have displayed this year—who knows how many amateurs Gary will have on the air in the future.