Liberty Township High School - Moraine Yearbook (Chesterton, IN)

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THE 1931 LIBERTY ECHO OF LIBERTY TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL FRED H. COLE Fred H. Cole was born in Liberty Township and attended the rural schools there and the high school at Chesterton. His college training was received at De Pauw University. After one year of teaching at Liberty Center, and four years experi- ence in the schools of Porter, Mr. Cole served as Deputy County Auditor for two years. Since that time, twenty-two years to be exact, he has been our County Superintendent of Schools. He has seen an almost magical transformation in Porter County in the schools and in the type of training offered the pupils. It is largely through his guidance and as a result of his tireless planning that the schools of the county have been kept abreast of the best educational thought. The county is now dotted by splendid new buildings housing high schools, all recognized by the State Department as doing standard work. But Mr. Cole’s interest in the educational field has not been confined to Porter County. In 1915, under U. S. Commissioner of Education, G. O’Brien, Mr. Cole prepared, with the assistance of government physicians, a “Survey of Rural School Sanita- tion” that has been recognized by educational experts as some of the best work done in community studies. As a result he has had many assignments as special lecturer for the Bureau of Education of the U. S. Department of the Interior and has had flattering offers to educational work in broader fields. But Mr. Cole prefers to remain in Porter County, pouring out his en- ergies for the school life of his home county. The reward of his patient genius and tireless activity is the present high standing of the Porter County schools among those of the State of Indi- ana. HAZEL BROAD BOCKELMANN Hazel Broad Bockelmann is a graduate of the high school in Momence, Illinois. She received the degree of B. A. from Northwestern University and was further honored there by election to Phi Beta Kappa. After a year teaching at the Crisman High School she be- came principal of the Averyville High School in Peoria, Illinois, where she taught German, Latin and English for three years. She spent the year 1916-17 as a graduate student at the Univer- sity of Chicago where she took further work in English and Education. The following four years she was the head of the English department at the Whiting High School. In 1922 Mrs. Bockelmann came to Liberty Center as a teacher. She returned to us in 1925 as principal and has since that time carried the double burden of teacher of language and of executive. She has also assumed the responsibilities of di- recting the making of our annuals and many of our school plays. Mrs. Bockelmann has now spent seven years at Liberty. The seniors of 1931 are the sixth class which she has helped thru the joys and trials of school days. We juniors hope that she will be with us next year to give us the final push that will transform us from seniors into alumni. —Hazel Rosenquist. PAGE SEVEN

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—HE 1931 LIBERTY ECHO OF LIBERTY TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHO 0 L OUR TEACHERS FLOYD O. GLASS Mr. Glass received his college training at North Manchester College. For two years he taught the upper grades at Mount Etna. Huntington County. Then he held similar positions at Lincolnville, Wabash County, for five years, and at Rich Valley for two years. In 1928 he came from the Wabash valley to Porter County, taking a position in the High School at Liberty Center. The past two years he has taught Civics and has or- ganized and directed the work of our Commercial Department. He has made this a most popular group of studies, but has held us all to a high standard of attainment in his classes. Mr. Glass is naturally quiet, but has won many friends outside of his classes by active interest in all school activities. For two years he coached and trained the grade boys’ basketball teams. He has kept the score at all our high school games and contests, and directed our “pep” sessions. He was the chief instigator of the “Leather Lungs” a spirited body of rooters who led the cheering in the later games. To us all he gives the finest of examples—unselfish service to one another and to our school. —Wallace Brainerd. GEORGE K. LOWRY Mr Lowry was born at Vandale, Arkansas where he attended public school from which he graduated in 1919. In the fall of 1925 he entered the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Jonesboro, Arkansas. In the spring of 1926 he entered Valparaiso University from which he graduated June 11, 1921 with a B. S. degree. He came from La Crosse to Libertv Center in the fall of 1929. Since then he has been teaching Mathematics, Manual 1 raining, Physical Education, and Physics. He expects to go to Iowa I niversity this summer, where he has been studying in 1928 and 1930 for a master’s degree in Physical Education and Education. He has been athletic director and coach since he came here. His ability as a coach is shown in the fine athletic record the school has at- tained in the past two years, for he has developed two championship base- ball teams. The basketball team are the Porter County Basketball Cham- pions for 1931. Liberty also won the basketball trophv in the Lake-Porter Conference in 1931. —Elestor McGolerick. PAGE EIGHT