Huntington North High School - Modulus Yearbook (Huntington, IN)

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Administration BurRTON STEPHAN This year’s graduating class will remember Mr, Stephan, not as the superintendent of schools, as the classes following it will remember, but as the principal of and teacher in Huntington High, whom they all respected and admired for his re- served manner and a grand sense of humor, In 1916 Mr, Stephan not only graduated from Huntington High but also began the career he was to follow, that of educating youth, He has taught in four Huntington county schools, and at Horace Mann and the high school in Huntington, Throughout these years his favorite teaching subjects have been civics, American history, and English grammar, In 1936, when he became prin- cipal of Huntington High, he left the principalship of Horace Mann Grade School to fill the vacancy left by the promotion of Emory Byers. Having served five success- ful years in that capacity, Mr. Stephan will again succeed Mr, By- ers, when he takes up his duties as superintendent of the Huntington city schools, Mrs. GRACE GRASS This year the president of the School Board is Mrs, Grace Grass, who in May will have completed two terms of service on the board, Not only has she devoted a great amount of her time to the edu- cational interests of Huntington youth, but she also takes an active part in the interests of politics, welfare work, and the Charity Guild, K, F, TRiaces. The treasurer of the board was once a student in Huntington High, too, Mr, Triggs finds all sports in- teresting, but most of all he enjoys fishing, especially with a dry fly. These flies he makes himself, and we understand that the catch is generally a large one, Within the last two years he has developed a new hobby; that of photography. FRANK HELVIE Mr. Frank Helvie was appointed to the school board on April 9, 1941, to fill the vacancy left by the death of Mr, Homer Buzzard, former sec- retary of the board. One of his sons, De Verle, will graduate this year; the other, Charles, is only about six years old, He has no hob- by in particular but spends his va- cation in Michigan and Wisconsin fishing, Top Row: Frank Helvie, Kenneth Triggs, Mrs. Grace Grass. Bottom row: Mrs. Marjorie Michel, Miss Fredith Langley, Mrs. Bernice Hillegas. Burton Stephan, Principal. Mrs, BERNICE HILLEGAS Mrs, Hillegas finds time to council the junior class, sponsor the French Club, work with the Mary White Guild, as well as to teach Latin, French, and algebra. She is also a member of the administration staff of the school, holding the po- sition of the Dean of Women, Miss FREDITHO LANGLEY Notwithstanding the fact that she is a native of Huntington County, Miss Langley came to us from Boul- der, Colorado, In January, 1939, she was made clerk to the super- intendent and has been capably filling that position for the last two years, after serving the principal’s office several years, Miss Langley lives on a farm; and, needless to say, many of her interests lie there- in, You've heard of her painting pictures; but did you know that she has painted some of the farm buildings, and that last summer she repainted the entire fence? Mrs, MarsorreE MICHEL She laughed when we wrote about her the first time; nevertheless, she didn’t let us in on her secret, though she knew it was going to happen, On February 22, Marj Bur- ris married Philip Michel, a teacher of Social studies and Physical Education, at Bippus, Indiana, Pre- vious Moduli have asserted that Marj is “out doorsy”, but this year found her interests lying in far different fields; for early in the fall she began practicing cooking quite seriously

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Goodye, Mr. In the year 1898, when teachers still could gain a license to teach by merely passing a test given by a county superintendent, Mr, Byers walked out of a Blair County, Penn- sylvania, superintendent’s office with said license and began six years of teaching in one of those proverb- ial “little red school houses,”’ Dur- ing those summers, he attended a six-week summer schoo] for teach- ers and renewed his license, The not spent in the customary forms of vacations, but in for coal rest of his summers were hard work; mining, cutting timber in the forests, firing on the Penn- sylvania Railroad, and quarrying Byers! limestone are first-hand experiences to him as well as work in rubber, steel range, and stock food fact- ories; but he feels that all of this gave him more real education than that he has received at all the col- leges and universities he has at- tended, for there he learned to read men and their motives and to un- derstand them, and to appreciate and interpret nature, In he fall of 1911, just thirty years ago, Mr, Byers came to Hunt- ington to take up a position on the high school faculty, One of his duties he regards as a joke, for that first year found him coaching the school baseball team, He says he didn’t know a thing about it, but records show that the team won more than half of its games. In 1915 Mr, Byers succeeded as principal of Huntington High, and twenty-one years later was pro- moted to the office of superinten- dent of Huntington city schools, this time succeeding J, M, Scudder, Now after rendering thirty years of successful service in the-educa- tional advancement of the Hunt- ington schools, Mr. Byers has re- signed; but he will continue his work as an educator, In regard to his retirement, Mr. Byers wished to leave this message to the students of Huntington High: “T am leaving the school system, but my heart will be with the boys and girls of the Huntington schools all of my life, Huntington has been good to me, and I carry with me memories of joyous associations while teacher, principal, and super- intendent of schools, I leave with many regrets that I will not be able to see and talk to the boys and girls of Huntington, I leave the work of civic organization with much regret as well, It has been a pleasure to work with such organ- izations as the Central Christian Church, the Kiwanis Club, the Y, M,C. A,, the Salvation Army, and many others, I have given the schools of Huntington thirty years of service, and I hope it has keen both worth-while and valuable.” At the present time, Mr, Byers is expected to spend the first year of his retirement at his home in northern Michigan, near McMillen, in the Upper Penninsula of that state, For twenty years his sum- mers have been spent in this region, and his home there represents the fruits of his own labor, While other plans are rather in- definite, Mr, Byers hopes to have time now to carry out some cherish- ed plans for writing, With Mr. Byers will go the hear- ty good wishes, not only of the present student body of Hunting- ton High School, but those hordes of pupils of his of the past, in whose minds Huntington High School and Mr, Byers have been in- separably associated through three decades, While Mr, Byers may no longer be a permanent citizen of the community, the ideals which he helped to implant in the school pupils of the city will continue to reside in the persons of his form- er pupils,

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GUIDANCE GROUP Russell Perrigo, Jennie B. Wilson, Bernice Hillegas, Bruce Emma Kline, Gerdes. Faculty Mrs HazeLt BECHTOLD Instead of the “‘truant officer” of years ago, we have an attendance officer who is well liked by all of the students who know her, Do you play hooky a lot? She may be found in room 110 taking care of atten- dance records, Mrs, VIVIAN BRANYAN Mrs, Branyan, supervisor of mu- sic in the Huntington public schools, waves a baton at the chorus, Glee Club and A Capella Choir, Those who attended the Twelfth Annual Revue will not soon forget the fine rendition of the “Ballad for Am- ericans” by her singers, HucH H, Brown If he isn’t found teaching the boys the ancient craft of wood- work, it may be because at that particular time he’s teaching his class of girls in home mechanics. This is the first year for the girls class in Huntington High, but we feel sure that some day it will really be appreciated by hus- bands whose wives can fix the sweeper or put in fuses, LOWELL SHERMAN BuzzaARD He returned to his alma mater to teach math, and holds the position of supervisor of math of the city public schools, This year ‘‘Sherm” is acting in the capacity of junior Hi-Y sponsor, freshman basketball coach, and the all important (to the seniors) junior class sponsor, Miss HazeL CAGE She’s the new head of the Eng- lish department; consequently, her sophomore and senior English class- es understand that they are being “experimented” with this year, Al- though the duties of State Treasur- er of the 8.8, Riley Fund, sponsor of the Needlework Guild, and the Rifle and Sharpshooters’ clubs de- mand a great part of her time, she now and then takes time for her favorite diversion, the theatre, JAMES CROWE He teaches physical education and health, but that’s of minor import- ance to most of us; for “Jim” is director of athletics, and this year has given us one of the most prom- inent teams in the state. He’s also “H” club sponsor, M, McCaBe Day Into room 310 come many people every day asking, ‘“‘Where’s Pop?”, a question to which there are many possible answers: he might be any- where taking care of his business as head of the audio-visual depart- ment, adviser of the operator’s club, adviser to the Modulus staff, and maker of Revues; or he might, just might, be teaching his newscast or English classes, Until we met “Pop,” we thought there were only twenty-four hours in a day. Miss MABEL ELLIS It's a long way from popes to pupils, but Miss Ellis’s Huropean history students enjoy hearing her tell of present day Rome and the Vatican City as she has seen them, Guidance The idea of a centralized gui- dance system ceased to be an idea and became a fact last fall when students began receiving slips to 208-A to be “‘counseled’”’, Last year the four counselors, Mr, Perrigo, Mrs, Hillegas, Mr. Gerdes, and Miss Emma Kline, and Miss Wilson, head of the department, visited the high schools of Muncie, Logansport, La- fayette, and South Bend to observe their guidance departments, Out of this study, our system was formed, Remember that day in library when some unknown person pushed a pass slip under your nose that said “To 208-A’? And then how your footsteps followed you hollow- ly down unusually empty halls, and hesitated for just a minute outside the door while you tried to figure out exactly what was going to hap- pen? Then a very familiar voice said, “Hello,” and suddenly you were perfectly at ease in a dark red leather chair, its chromium trim feeling cool to your hands, You noticed the other light leather and chrome chairs, the desk and filing cabinets; and for a moment you thought of the class of 1940, which had given them to the school, Then you became interested in the conversation which, incidentally, was all about yourself, When it was all over, you felt a little more im- portant and decided the whole thing a good idea, Coinciding with her study of his- tory is her interest in antiques, “Anything a hundred years old,” BrRucE E, GERDES He teaches bookkeeping, account- ing, and shorthand to our commer- cially minded students, and is coun- cilor of the sophomore class, His classes are accustomed to hearing him say, “I heard a good one the other day,” LESTER GORDON Mr, Gordon was not unknown to many of the students when he took his place on the H.H.S, faculty last fall, for some had been taught by him in Riley grade school, and many of the fellows had been call- ing him “Dad’’ Gordon for quite awhile, the title conferred upon him as adviser of the local Order of De- Molay, ‘il