James Whitcomb Riley High School - Hoosier Poet Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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i What a studious group! Ot course, the work they're doing takes a lot of concentration. They have taken down material in Shorthand, and now they're hard at work transcribing it back into longhand on the typewriter. Classes ' Why didn't they have these add- ing machines at grade school'? Sue Spitler wonders. Then maybe I could have passed arithmetic! Bookkeeping class seems to be keeping these students busy. Throw an extra line. Indent five spaces. We're off for a five minute drill! Our future men and women of the business world are learning the art of typing. If you don't think it's an art, iust ask some of them.

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MR. OSCAR OLSON listens to good music . . . conducts the only after school classes in the building , . . has a large collection of parents signatures. MISS VIOLET ROHRER teaches Junior High Math when not advising the Senior Y-Teens. MISS MARIA SHIVELY has only one hobby . . . teaching algebra. MR. CHARLES STEWART is head basketball coach . . . will never forget the day his high school coach told him he was to have a chance to attend Purdue. MR. HARLEY STECH is the envy of every golfer on the faculty . . . is custodian of the school's funds. MUSIC MISS LAURA MAY BRIGGS went safely through a tornado in Southern Indiana . . . directs our orchestra . . . member of South Bend Symphony . . . at one time concert mistress. MISS RUBY GUILLIAMS directs our Glee Club . . . helps direct all our musical productions. MR. LEWIS HABEGGER directs our band . . . will never forget his wedding day . . . is proud of his lawn . . . likes to fish. MR. DRAKE OLMSTEAD left the Air Force and came to us this year . . . can't get memory of his first solo flight out of his mind . . . is an ardent model railroader . . . directs MR. WILBUR CAMPBELL likes to remember moving to South Bend . . . has fun fishing and hunting . . . teaches Economics and Global Geography. MR. ROBERT FORBES reads in his spare time . . . has traveled across country and into Canada and Mexico . . . pretty fair fisherman. MR. PAUL KELLY is varsity football and baseball coach . . . likes to fish and hunt . . . greatest thrill, the night RiIey's Blackie Motts ran 3rd and winning touchdown against Central. MR. JOSEPH KODBA played pro football with the Buffalo Bills and the Colts . . . expert on visual aids for sports . . . end coach in football. MR. H. H. OGDEN is Assistant Principal and Department Head . . . likes to take long walks . . . New York City thrills him . . . handles discipline matters . . . is everybody's friend. MR. ROBERT OSBORN once spent a year surveying in Arizona . . . toured the Pacific at government expense from T943 to '45 . . . has 2 kids for a hobby . . . plays golf. MISS EDITHE SNOKE keeps herself busy teaching 5 hours of 7th grade history a day . . . too busy for anything else. MR. CLAUDE WOLFRAM is faculty director of the Student Council . . . spends summer in his garden . . . teaches Sociology. aff PHYSICAL EDUCATION MISS PATRICIA BULLIAU finds happiness in recalling her Riley Glee Club days . . . music, reading, crossword puzzles fill her spare time. MR. STEVE HORVATH likes to farm . . . helps coach football . . . head man in wrestling . . . says Statue of Liberty really looked good. MISS MARY LAUER taught her first gym class here . . . 80 senior girls . . . unforgettable, she says . . . likes sports, reading, and travel. MR. CLEMENS RZCSZEWSKI is the first Hoosier placed in the Little Hall of Fame in Basketball . . . likes all sports . . . assistant varsity coach. SCIENCE MR. DONALD BARNBROOK has traveled to all but two. of the states. . . likes to read . . . is Junior High basketball coach. MR. FORREST MARSH once got lost in a woods . . . traveled widely . . . has a fine garden . . . hunts and fishes. MR. CARL SCHUBERT spends a lot of time in his basement workshop . . . reads a lot on scientific progress. MR. ROBERT SMITH was captain of N.D. track team . . . coaches track, and championship cross country here . . . likes fishing. MR. FELIX WIATROWSKI has a fine collection of long playing classical records . . . experiments in electronics . . . is Depart- ment Head . . . teaches chemistry. SOCIAL STUDIES MR. BERT ANSON spends his free time studying . . . is inter- ested in all sports . . . travels only to his lake cottage in summertime. Mr. Campbell selects coffee, but Mr. Habegger can't decide about the cake. Mr. Smith apparently has his mind on the approaching track season. THE OFFICES MISS BERNICE FEIDLER manages the bookstore . . . does a thousand things a day - efficiently . . . keeps the schooI's books . . . good bowler. MISS ELIZABETH TURNER is the school registrar . . . thrills to good music . . . her first view of Mt. Hood reminded her of a huge dish of ice cream . . . travels widely. MISS PATRICIA ZALAS is Mr. Beyer's secretary . . . does a lot of ice skating . . . was thrilled when her Washington Panthers won State Title in '53.

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Sh . . . Boom, Sh . . . Boom this might be appropriate if it were not for the fact that this crew of chem- ists from Mr. Wiatrowski's class rae competent in their endeavor. The oxygen resulting after this process will be used to make further exper- imentation. Razor . . . Now make the incision . . . Biology students in Mr. Marsh'5 class gather around to assist in an 0PefG1i0n Upon a patient, this time a white rat. Future doctors, in 5U 99fy for the first time reaped benefits, and no doubt a stomach or two was turned in this class be- fore lunch time. Peek. . a . . boo . . . I spy you! This is no place for a nervous amoeba,, a neurotic paramecium, or a stage frightened bacillus, as these girls, a portion of the 9th grade biology class, invade the privacy of the scientific world. The microscopes, which enable the girls to become peeping toms upon our friends of the invisible world may be instruments of annoy- ment to the little creatures, but from the solitude they must not have their dancler up. jf .t .4s ui Z' f. M'-U S. ' QI.-.