Jasper High School - J Yearbook (Jasper, IN)

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Omaf EDITOR - - - - - JACK RUMBACH NEVVS EDITOR - - - - DOLORES ERNST FEATURE EDITOR - - - ANNA MAE KIEFER SPORTS EDITOR ----- - BOB GRAMELSPACHER CIRCULATION MANAGER - - - - ALMA KRODEL GENERAL STAFF ----r------ MILDRED SMITH MARGIE MILLER, LILA LEE GIESLER, MELBA MILLER SPONSOR ---------------- MR, MERDER Always fostering the best interests of J. H. S. was the slogan adopted to represent the aims of the COMET staff when it was organized shortly after the advent of the current school year. As the official organ of Jasper I-Iighg School, the COMET, published once a month, served to bring to the student body not only details of school activities, past, present, and future, but provided them with the inside on the popular aflairs of the heart as well as an interesting survey of the sports world. Aiding the staff in maintaining a vigorous freshness of news were the club and class reporters who kept them posted on the latest activity of their respective groups. ' In keeping with its slogan the COMET staff ventured from its journalistic capacities to carry out its aims. To add to the color of the debut of Hoosier Hysteria, the basketball sea- son, the staff supervised the election and crowning of a Basketball Queen who reigned su- preme at the opening tilt on November I. Seeing the need for assembly programs, the COMET also made it a policy to present monthly gatherings of the student body. The types of programs presented were very diversified, ranging from a very excellent speaker on char- acter building to musical interludes and motion pictures.

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U55 Cgisnioz acvz oo! After weeks of work and fun, the Annual Staff, with the guidance and welcome aid of the sponsor, Miss Sonderman, issued the I of 1941. The editor, Anna Mae Kiefer, with her assistant editors, Dolores Ernst and Bernard Vonderschmitt, first had the task of planning the books. There were questions-many of them: How large a book can we have? How much can we appropriate for the costs? How many copies will be needed? After these were discussed and decided upon, the staff began actual work on the book. But let's look in on some of the busy scenes. Ilere we see the editor and her assistants with measure and rules drawing up a dummy. Oh-oh, something went haywire! For the upteenth time they have to start over. I,et's turn our attention to the photography staff. There is Eddie Schaaf tactfully sooth- ing Robert Vogel fwho was so helpful with the picturesj and here Rosemary Fuhs and Mildred Smith bribing people for their favorite snaps and snipping the snaps to fit. After a while you'll see them all stuck up from mounting. llear that peckin' on those keys? The stenographic staff is getting the material ready to go to press. Anna Marie Shurig, Dorothy Mae Buechlein, and Ada Mae Miller can type as fast as a machine gun can chatter. They help with other odd jobs too. Of course. we Il1l1Sl1,t forget the circulation staff. VVithout them the J would not be in your hands. Betty Jean Krodel, Dennis Critchlow, and Frances Schwartzmiller can give that sales talk like troupers. Probably the biggest headache was Alma Krodel's and Alfred Kuper's, who not only worried over the financial situation but did something about it. Of course other seniors helped with the coke sales too, but it was these two who bearded the patron in their dens and otherwise balanced the budget. lVas it fun? VVell-maybe. But the staff is glad it's finished, thank you!

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Eigdfi CZLL5 The fall of 1940 found very interesting questions under discussion in Jasper High School and throughout the nation. Compulsory military service was being enacted, the quadren- nial classic of American history, the presidential election was under way, and the war ma- chines were booming in Europe. To add to this state of chaos, the Indiana Debating League adopted for debate the very political question, Resolved, That the power of the federal gov- ernment be increased. After having extended a call for members and by proceding along lines with a marked similiarity to that of the federal government, i.e. draft , the club finally embarked on their year's journey with eight members, one of them, Alfred Kuper, having been drafted. Other members included Jack Rumbach, Denzil Conolty, Bernard Vonderschmidt, Maurice Kuper, Frank Renneisen, Robert Gramelspacher, and Richard Kunkel. The club engaged in several inter-scholastic debates and presented a verbal combat for the Knights of Columbus. Clncidentally several democratic members of the negative teams almost were forced to switch political parties to argue the question effectivelyj. Debates were held with Bosse, Washington, Glendale, Salem, and the club also participated in the sec- tional tourney held at New Albany. Four members of the team will be lost by graduation, but the fall of '41 will find four seasoned veterans returning to the debating tactus who should prove an unconquerable- quartet. Awards received by members were emerald studded pins to sophomore members Maurice Kuper, Frank Renneisen, Richard Kunkel and Denzel Conolty. Jack Rumbach, Ber- nard Vonderschmidt, Alfred Kuper, and Robert Gramelspacher were the recipients of silver pins for one year's service with the club. The achievements of the team were to a large extent due to the persistent efforts of Mr. Merder who might well be called the nucleus of the club.