Lew Wallace High School - Quill and Blade Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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r± Versatility is an outstanding quality of our principal, Miss Verna M. Hoke. Her first duty, to keep our school running smoothly and efficiently, is in itself a challenging job fur anyone, but Miss Hoke considers her job finished only when she has shown interest and appreciation of every activity that takes place within our school walls. So during school hours we are accustomed to find her visiting our classes, suggesting better methods of study, or perhaps getting new ideas herself. And when she turns the key in her office door in the late afternoon she carries her interests to the football field and basketball fioor, to extra curricular activity meetings, and occasionally to a dance, always in the full spirit of the occasion. On state occasions we find her magnificently diplomatic and correct or when there is fun and excitement she is as fun loving and excitable as any of us. How she can accomplish all she does in a twenty-four hour day continues to perplex us, and yet we have seen her stop when she was busiest to consider some student’s trivial grievance. To be able to be so sedate and undemonstrative or so benevolent and forbear¬ ing at correspondingly correct times—what more can we ask for in any principal ? Louise Quinn Page twelve

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To the world, another prominent educator but to us he is more: he is the creator, the founder, the very essence of our internationally known school system. After years of research and intensive study, Dr. Wirt concluded that study alone doesn’t result in education. It must be combined with the practical application of the studied material. And all this must be judic¬ iously mixed with play, for just work and study, besides being a strenuous program, would be lacking in interest to the active boy or girl. We have under Dr. Wirt’s supervision the Board of Education and under them the direc¬ tors of various departments who have charge of about five hundred specialized teachers who in turn offer what they have gained through years of training and experience to the twenty thousand school children of Gary. He has created, organized and now operates a school that strives to meet the needs of the chil¬ dren of the great industrial city of Gary. Louise Quinn Page eleven

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Those of us who lose locker keys, hats, gy m shoes, and various other para¬ phernalia are apt to think of Mr. Asher as the “Good Samaritan” who keeps our valuables until we call for them, and those of us whose goods and chattels remain lost may think his department incompetent. If we are late, he says we must come to his eighth hour class to contemplate and cogitate the matter of personal responsibility for being on time. The unex¬ cused absentees find themselves urgently invited to the eighth hour period to make up all time lost for insufficient reasons. His job calls for many of these unpleasant contacts and you may be sure he enjoys them even less than we, but he does succeed in selling us the idea that an efficient school operates with a minimum of confusion and the maximum of co-operation from the individual students. The Mr. Asher we come to know is a person of rare understanding, of unfail¬ ing humor in the face of multiple difficulties, and tireless devotion to The Lew Wallace School. Louise Quinn Page thirteen