La Porte High School - El Pe Yearbook (La Porte, IN)

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Mr. Lewis is a good example of a person who utilizes all of his extra time for a specific end. If we couldn t catch him at home perfecting another of his ventures into the realm of the written page, chances are he would be out supervising work on his new home. For a moment as we lean on Mr. Ault's doorbell, we hear sounds coming from the radio. He assures us that the program is one of the concerts of classical music that he en- joys. The next victim of our invasion is Miss Essex. She is handy at many types of work and would probably be engaged in such handwork as sewing. Mr. Doty, on the other hand, might be busy with chess. It has been said of him that he grew a beard of two inches before making a certain move in a crucial contest. Upon visiting the home of Miss Walk, we are surprised to find that she is not living up to her name as far as physical action as a hobby is concerned. Instead we find that we in- terrupt her reading. Living up to her reputation, however, she entertains us graciously showing us her fine collection of post cards and photos. Not stopping, we go on to Mrs. Hotchkiss's home where the sign Out for the Day greets us. From this we can surmize that she is out obtaining a goodly number of freckles while baking in the sun by the lake. An interesting afternoon or even a whole day could be spent with Miss Jones going over her many collections. If during our stay we got itchy feet, she would be only too glad to go for a spin on a bicycle with us. While out in the wide open spaces, we might meet Miss Olson engaged in target prac- tice with bow and arrow. During this interlude, it would not be surprising for us to run across (maybe its more fitting to put it the other way around) Miss Hile galloping around on a horse. Miss Barrcs might also be found out enjoying the wonders of nature on one of her hikes. We might also happen upon Miss Dunlap amid a maze of paints and canvas. A likely theme would be a barnyard scene. Talking about barnyards, if we stumbled upon Mr. Hobbs, he would likely be engaged in his pastime of farming. Mr. Schulze and Mr. Ahrendt, the two unexcelled photographers, would be out shoot- ing in their off moments. The latest dope is that these two in order to get double benefit from their pastime have incorporated riflery and photography into one. The way they do this is to save all their used flash bulbs, and when a goodly number are accumulated, they take them outside somewhere and use them as targets. Miss Dick, acting in her role as amature photographer, is likely to shoot anyone who intrudes upon her solitude. The weapon in this case would prove to be a candid camera. When we reached the homes of Mrs. Vawter and Miss Young we would find them busy exercising their musical talents. We begin to wonder what would happen if we could get the two together. The versatile voice of the former and the skill at the ivories of the latter should make a good combination. A good place »o stop our delightful house-to-house investigation is Mrs. Russell's home. Once we attained admission she could rustle us up some of those delightful victuals of hers to put us back to normal, and perhaps entertain us with a round of bridge. After this thoroughly marvelous survey of faculty activities, we cannot help but draw one conclusion—teachers must be human like the rest of us at heart. It is too bad we don't get more informal companionship from them. Thsre's no doubt that a little more of this would help many students during their school careers. (13)

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Language Sitting: Agnes V. Anderson, Dean of Girls Mrs. Muriel H. Russell Dorothy Dick Physical Educa- tion and Safety Sitting: Mi3. Anna N. Bright, Nurse Edith Olson Standing: Ray DeCook Walter Blanda O. D. Edmonds. Direc- tor of Health and Physical Education Secretaries and Attendance Sitting: Mrs. Frances Burden Deris Uhlemann Mrs. Elizabeth Stroud Mrs. Virginia Morse Standing: Sadio A. Barnes, At- tendance Officer Faye Davidson

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Senior A The day dawned at last! We were starting out on our first day as high school students. How many years we had waited for this chance. With mingled feelings of an- ticipation and trepidation we began our high school careers. Our first week was one of the most hectic of our experience. Hounded and hunted from class to class by fun-loving upperclassmen, we got acquainted with our rooms and teachers and became familiar with this new, exciting, and infinitely different high school life. However, before long everyone became engrossed in his own school activities and we became the forgotten men. so for- gotten in fact as practically to be ignored. After standing the indifference of the others as long as we could, we finally blossomed out with a freshman frolic to make the school at least know we were here. This event went down on the books under the heading of ’ success. SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS Harry Lenard, Moris Drake. Charles Yasl, lack Cockshott Our sophomore year wasn't much different from what any other class gees through. We joined the Girl Reserves and Hi-Y and were put through the last public all-day initiation the school has seen. Things went so far that year that public initiations were discontinued. The seniors tried to teach us how to dance by inviting us down to the gym and showing us what they knew by dancing with us. but our ineptitude must have dampened their en- thusiasm for the attempt wasn't much of a success. As the year drew to a close, we began to anticipate our next two years to be spent as upperclassmen. Two years of our high school life were over! With our third year came real responsibilities at last. Our first major problem was the election of our officers. Of course we had had them other years, but this was the first year they had any significance. Eugene Chalik was made our president. We plunged immediately into preparations for the Thanksgiving Dance. And did we plunge! In fact we landed on the bottom. But here at last was our first chance to show the school what we really could do, and we didn't want to belittle our opportunity. An Indian tepee with a ''burning' campfire was the main attraction of the dance. It should have been, considering the work it was to construct it. After is was all over we didn't have much else to do until our junior play, Come out of the Kitchen.'' went into production. Long will we remember painting and cutting out those colored Mammies given with each ticket purchased. Vera (14)