Merrillville High School - Merrillvue Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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CLASS HISTORY We, started out on our maiden flight in the good air- ship, 1933, with 32 passengers aboard and Mr. Houchin as the ptlot. Under the able leadership of our ihstructors, . we soared through tho clouds of Algebra, English, and Biology We began the second lap of our long journey with only 30 passengers aboard, having left some behing at the last air- , pprt. For this journey we again were fortunate in securing . Mr. Houchin as pilot. We flew over Mt. Latin and battled against the stfong tail winds of Ancient History. Then Alasl we began to lose altitude as we circled Geometry, but the w.inds shifted- in our favor and we pulled out of the forboding tail-spin, ahd landed safely on the field at. Junior Airport.. We encountered many difficulties but also many new and . wonderful experiences- on the third lap of our flight. This . time Mr. Rumbaugh took over the controls and proved himself . a resourceful and competent pilot. Edith Swanson of Crown . Point joined the ranks of the Jolly Junior Air Corps on this, third lap. On the 16th of May, we took, the seniors on board- and entertained them at a banquet in their honor. We have every reason to believe that it was much of a success as . the Junior Dance given sometinc previous. Oh, yes, our ranks were again lessened by two, first, when Geneva Burge decided, to take up matrimony and .second, when Thomas Peauignot was called away to an Everlasting Sleep. A joyous day it was indeed, when after refueling our . trust}- old airship with the oil of knowledge and the grease .

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» . • Scrapbook staff Editor- in- chief- — Andrew Schoppel Class History — Dorothy Piske Calendar — Barbara Schmidt Prophecy — Melvin Fraikin Class-Will — Edward Nelson Clubs — Rita Krietcr Athleticd: ! Boys — Edward Gebhardt Girls — Ej la Demnon • i Typists: Helen Heilman : John Hecinovich Cora Roberts Dora Roberts Ruth Struebig Sponsor — Miss Dawson

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of experience, we boarded it for the last time and once ' more % left our homo port to soar Into the realm of knowledge. On and ever onward, wo riiif or o a way through the sullen Clouds of Bookoopin: , over the vast Ocean of English, and doirn throw ph the pencivo. nr.se of govern .crt . Some of t ' e class even rent so far as to soar over f ' c eels of Public Speak- ing. (Vr flight is nearly completed when --what ’ 2 this? — we’re dropping. Oh, I see, t’ e pilot’s levelling off and two of our hoys arc preparing to take a par a chi’ te jump. Happy landings, hoys, and we v ope yon contact Tether Educat- ion next --ear a,nd try the flight againl ' Jell, we not? have only 15 of t’e ripinal 32 who be r un t c journey. Fasten your safety -holts, everybody, we’re going to land I !Tow that we have landed, let us consider some of the things vie have rained during our journey. Somewhere along the route we have accumulated a few ideas v Perhaps these are not important in thems elves, hut we must remember that ideas beget ideas,. Then there are some ideas or notions .that we have discarded, believing it is sometimes as import ant to unlearn things as to learn them. YJo know that we arive at sound conclusions through investigation and logical thinking. Y’c know that unbound notions are accumulated vrttb out effort., t ' e knew that it is the qua l Icy of scarcity that gives sense its value, Y.’e, no doubt, believe many things 1 • simply because they arc comforting to us. Y e hope we can distinguish between uncommon sense and c oration nonsense t If we are -accused of being impractical, wo answer our critics