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

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The Need For COOKS, left to right: Carry Pope, Lois Oman, Rozella Johnson, Mickey Small, Hannahbelle Cole, Clarice Feece, Cecelia Stewart, Martha Adams. CUSTODIANS, left to right: Norman Keammerer, James Branham, James Brewer. BUS DRIVERS: BELOW, STANDING, left to right: Elmer Siewert, Wallace Hanrahan, EarlHanrahan, Norman Keammerer, Roy Rhoda, Fred Esserman. KNEELING: William Kibble, Mort Fitch, Edward Esserman. 4

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A Year Of Change In 1966 Mr. Harold A. Esserman, Liberty Township trustee, supervised the completion of a half-million dollar high school addition. Ear- lier he had overseen the construction of a quar- ter-million dollar third addition to the elemen- tary school. In 1959 he employed thirty-six people for the school system, twenty -four of them teachers. By 1966 the number was sixty- two, thirty-seven of them teachers. Students, administrators and faculty were sorry to see Mr. Esserman complete his eight year term of office in 1966, for he had been not only a com- petent manager, but an interested and gracious friend. In 1966 Liberty ' s principals began the task of preparing an evaluation of the entire school program with the objective of meeting accreditation requirements of the North Cen- tral Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges. Liberty already held a first class commission granted by the Indiana Department of Public Instruction. Mr. Siege smund, with the assistance of Mr. Harmon, continued to guide and improve the academic program, supervise high school faculty and finances, and administer an increasingly complicated extra-curricular program with a sure hand. ROY J. HARMON, Assistant Principal Oakland City College, B. S. Indiana State University, M. A. HARLAN A. SIEGESMUND, Principal Indiana State University, B. S. Indiana University, M. S. Valparaiso and Purdue Universities University of Wisconsin

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Services Increased In 1966 the school secretaries were re- sponsible for all school records, activity funds, bookstore orders, duplicating and the intercom as well as regular corre spondence and reception of in-coming business. The school bookkeeper was in charge of book rental, a $38, 000 lunch program, the school milk program, all school salaries and all bills paid from the school township fund. The custodians had added to their work- load quantities of white walls, windows and white tile floor s and, with the increased space, additional extra-curricular use. ..the NISBOVA contest, Prom and an elaborate musical pro- duction. All but two of the school ' s eight buses made four trips a day to transport 7 86 students in the system. The cooks provided four hun- dred lunches daily, well-prepared at minimum cost, still meeting federal nutritional stan- dards. Mrs. Helen Wycoff, secretary in the office of the principal. Mrs. Lucille Hsserman, school bookkeeper. Mrs. Eleanor Nicholson, secretary in the office of the assistant principal. 5