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

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Hill, two-time winner f t ames Hill, math depart- M M ment chairman, was chosen LW teacher of the year by the Gary- V Merrillville Lions Club. At the awards luncheon held on May 13, Hill commented, I feel honored being singled out from the many other qualified teach¬ ers at LW. Hill was also feted as a semi¬ finalist in the Indiana Mathemat¬ ics Teacher of the Year contest. The state honor was based pri¬ marily on an application he him¬ self had sent to Indianapolis earli¬ er in the spring. Said Hill, If all of us do the very best we can in all our en¬ deavors, we can make real pro¬ gress. Later, he noted, “Every¬ one can then have more suc¬ cess, tranquility and happiness in his life. Congrats, Ingram and Business Dept. ongrats to business teacher Karen In- m gram and to her stu- dents for winning third place in the first Gary High School Business Competition hold at Roosevelt. Senior Annette Brown won first place in office interviews. Junior Stacy Rogers won a sec¬ ond place for extemporaneous speaking David Hollis, sopho¬ more, took a second in extem¬ poraneous speaking too. Ingram who helped to orga¬ nize the competition said, The scores were often very close. All in all, our LW students did a good job. □ written by Regina Garner ‘Our students did a good job.’ Ingram □ written by Eric Johnson ACADEMICS-27

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r Ve V- V SENIOR HOPE SHERMAN gets to practice the computer keyboard at two schools. New faces liven science scene Rookies run gauntlet new faces have M l ivened up the science scene: Mike Com- S mons, Chemistry I; Ronald Phelps, Anna Grabows- ki, and Marilyn Bielefield, biolo- Asked to capsulize their first year at LW, their consensus was that it was, by-in-large, a good experience. The inner city back¬ grounds of many of the students had been the big challenge for most of them. “I wish, however, that my class sizes were smaller, sighed a weary Phelps, because stu¬ dent disciplinary problems were a real headache and required much time and energy. Commons related, It was difficult, yet rewarding too. The students I had were great. Bielefield added, Teaching at LW has been a learning experi¬ ence for me. I ' ve enjoyed work¬ ing with both the teachers and the students. □ written by Eric Johnson ROOKIE RONALD PHELPS, biology teacher, explains a point to Dominick P aladino, sophomore, and Alonzo Johnson, freshman. ATHLETICS AND ACADEMICS work to¬ gether Juniors Terrilyn Johnson and To- mal Johnson collaborate on an experi¬ ment in Stanley Keller ' s Chem I class. 26 ACADEMICS

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Mesich Sends Xmas Over There Cards illar of the school for over twenty years and security guard, too, Charlotte Mes¬ ich, unofficial LW P-R person and longtime supporter of the Ameri¬ can Legion, had volunteered for the second year in a row to head the Christmas Drive to send cards to our military men and women over there. This was the second time that M esich had gotten LW per¬ sonnel interested and involved in one of her many humanitarian projects. Both she and her LW suppor¬ ters had labored unselfishly to send more than two thousand Christmas cards to our military personnel overseas, some in re¬ mote areas of the world, others on board ships, and still others at U.S. Embassies in places like Ger¬ many, China, Ecuador, Liberia, Oklahoma, Alaska, and the Phil¬ ippines. LW teachers and friends, like Tersa Cecil, Maxine Ciminillo, Jul¬ ia Colby, Glorya Cotten, Karen Danko, Pauline Gerbick, Karen Ingram, Dorothy Johson, Dorthy Kouvelas, Madeline Lovette, Caorl Puchowski, Nancy Walls, Clara Williams, Mary Bradford, Nancy Piazza all had become keen over Mesich ' s Christmas Project. They, too, had seen the great need and had offered their helping hands. When the immense job of mailing two thousand greeting cards overseas was completed, return mail from all over began to flow in letters from Americans who were grateful that someone here had taken the time to re¬ member them. In the end, it really was a small world after all as proven by a letter from one Capt. Don¬ ald Bullard whose father had once taught at Lew Wallace. Holding Bullard ' s letter in her hands, a weary Charlotte Mesich slowly looked up and smiled. It was worth it, she said. □ reported Preston Lewis and Angela Thorton NUMBER ONE BOOSTER Charlotte Mesich, security person, hobnobs with Michelle Benton, senior, on Black and Gold Day, Unofficial LW p-r person and long time pil¬ lar of the school. Mesich passed away in 1988. Her passing left an empty place where once her cheer and warmth had been. ‘Her passing left an empty place where once her cheer had been’