Merrillville High School - Merrillvue Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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after Dorothy had left the stage, that juggling of four balls. J between his hands looked like Dorothy Popp trying to watch her ex-husbands go by. Edward Nelson had also reached the heights. As a geologist, at Oxford, he had discovered the skeleton of Adam in an apple, orchard near the school. Ruth Luebcke had spent a great deal of -her time in China as. a missionary. After many years of tedious work she had fin- . • . • r ally convinced the children to take a bath at least ones a year. ’Melvin Fraikin is nov an automobile manufacturer in Detroit He ' drew the original clans for the new Zepher auto; 1 ffh’? S i Ut o • has eight wheels and an engine in the rear. Barbara Schmidt is the famed composer of the .late song hit,. Just a One Room Apartment and You. .She is at the ' present leading an orchestra made up entirely of wojpen. No, there are no presidents or presidents ' wives, no nation- al heroes or heroines, and no millionaires or millionaires ' - wives — all the members of this class being honest and upright. citizens. But the class is extremely wealthy, if you con- sider happiness, contentment, and service to their fellow- citizens as wealth. There are no saints among them; yet, « • yet there are no good-for-nothings. They are just fifteen good actors who know how to make the best of their sho ' rt time ’t j • • upon the. .stage of life.

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Luebcke. Always having advocated a hotter means of handling the nation ' s milk supply, he was now director of the Safe-from Bacteria Milk Association. But things had not all been running smoothly, for he was running competition with a oheap subs- titute for milk, made from gound cracker crumbs and sulpher water. It then became Ruth Struebig ' s turn at the wheel. She was a music teacher at the Skreech Music Academy for Young Women. She had set a record on the big trombone for playing the scale in sixty- one hundredths of a second. Helen Keilman had long been private secretary to Eddie Cantor. She made the astounding reoord of disoovering the un- derlying leap feeling expressed in his jokes. Rita Krieter was the famous woman lawyer whose name had so often filled the front pages of the newspapers. Her fame had . soared from the time she had defended the Merrillvill basket- • ball team in a suit against the German Leaguers. Cora and Dora Roberts may be heard over radio station WIND every evening at seven o ' clock. They are in such de- mand that most of the stations use recoioings by them.. John Heoimovich, often called the man of iron 11 by his friends, is president of the Gary Steel Mills. He has in.ro- • duced the four-hour day and raised the minimum wage to seven . dollars per day in order to encourage a higher standard of living. Dorothy Poop next took the spotlight. She had reached the. height of her ambition when she became famous as a torch sin- . crer. A newsboy once remarked while watching a juggler peri arm., ’. . • . . ... . . ...

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y Sept. Sept . Sept . Sept. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct. Nov. Nov. Nov. N o v . Nov. Nov. Nov , Nov. . Nov. Nov . Dec. Dec. ' Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. J an. Jan. Jan. Jan. Jan. Han. Jan. . Jan . 2 Feb. Feb. Feb. CALENDAR 15-Arthur Patz quit school. 21- Junior class sleeted rings. 35- Edward Gebhardt ! s birthday. 29- flafety meeting in the gym. 3-Martin Lueboke ' s birthday. l r Halloween Carnival. 18-Start ed batketba.il practice. 31-Senior assembly program. 6-Jlmicr assembly program. 10- Ruth S truebig s Birthday. 11- Armistice Day. 11- 3ohool entertained by Hoffman, the Magician. 13-Boye basketball game with East Gary. 30- Sophomore assembly .program. 2Q— Boys and girJ s baskefioa— 1 game with wheeler. 25-Boys basketball game with Gr-ffith. 2 7 -Thanksgiving vacation starred. 20- Everybody looks rather stuffed today. i-F eshmen assembly program. 4r-Bovs basketball game with Calumet iwp. 5— Boys basketball game with , Crown $oint. 9-Junior High boys clayed East Gary. , 11- Boys and girls basketball game with Portage. 12- Dora Roberts wa6 burned accidently. 15— Bovs game with East Cary. , - , 18-Boys and girls game rich Alumni, Tne 3 an a pla e 18- Seventh and Eight grade assembly program. 22- Boys game with Washington Twp. 3-Industrial Arte party. 23- Christmas vacation ,stafted. 25- Ohristmas Day. 30- Senior class party. Ei a Demmcn-s bir. day. 2-3 very one is back from Onnstmas vacation. 5- Musical entertain, ent for the senoo- by Menel} 4 Brown. 8-Boye and girls game with Wheeler. 11- Rita trie ter a birthday, 15— Bovs game with Gr ix 1 Mb. 15-. Junior High boys -played at nast Gary. 19- Senior Card and Bunco Party. 3?.-Pomeo found his Jul ' .-El iu. 32-EmVS game with Calumet Tv p. 26 - Jcet Uncle Sally 11 gJven by dramatic olab. 27- Game with Portage girls- 7438-Blind Tourney at Calumet iwp. l-S eshmen are as green as usual. -wia 3 yvr