Merrillville High School - Merrillvue Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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STUDENT COUNCIL Seated — Dick Henderson, Reporter; Nancy Kleinschmidt, Secretary; Richard Clark, Presi- dent; Glenna Lauer, Vice-President; Lois Foust, Treasurer. Standing — Marjorie Reed, Euana Bencake, Fred Titley, Mr. York, Shirley Stockwell, Mary McKnight, Eleanor Fossey, and Evelyn Maihofer. We have seen the United States of America become united almost overnight in the struggle for Victory. We have witnessed previous to Pearl Harbor just how a group of people, no matter how good their intentions, could become lax and careless even with the potentialities of a great nation. Good intentions never won a war! Just so in high school, without unity, without some definite group to assume the various tasks that are to be completed at a specified time, without someone to bring up, discuss and dissolve the current issues, no student body can progress. After a week of campaigning Richard Clark beat Glenna Lauer in the student election held in September. The other officers assisting were Glenna Lauer, Vice President; Nancy Kleinschmidt, Secretary; and Louis Faust, Treasurer. The class presidents, the presidents of each organized club in school along with the editors of the “Mirror” and the “Merrillvue” staffs are members of the council. Mr. York is present to give constructive advice and guidance representative of the teachers. We met every Tuesday morning, regardless of the many interruptions that hap- pen every day when dealing with hundreds of human beings all working eight hour shift, many with overtime. These sessions were brought to order and then the de- bating became hot. luke warm, or cool, depending on the importance of the issue at stake. These problems concerned everything from buying megaphones for the cheer- leaders, getting a magician, and buying juke box records to dedicating our beautiful servicemen’s plaque, putting our $3000 War Bond Drive over the top and helping to organize the $1500 Magazine Drive. The council is a purely democratic organ- ization which we are proud to have at the top of the list of our many activities. Twenty-Eight

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Merrillville High School is noted for its wide and varied activity program. Some organizations provide entertainment and relexation; others actually train the students in war time fields; all provide wholesome participation, student fellow- ship, and opportunities for developing specific tal- ents. Each morning a forty-minute extra-curricular period is included in the schedule to accommodate the needs of the various clubs and organizations. On the next few pages is our review of reviews. Twenty-Seven

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THE MIRROR Seated — Nancy Kleinschmidt, Marjorie Reed, Glenna Lauer, Carol Smith. Standing — Marian Lennertz, Cecelia Krieter, Donna Mae Bush, Joyce Hockett, Rita Franz, Andrew Sokol, Corinnc Hoppe, Frank Thomas, Miss Knoche, Richard Lentz, Dorothy Keilman, Mary Jo Komasinski, Mary Ruth Taylor, Eleanor Fossey, Jack Woodland, and Evelyn Maihofer. “Freedom of Speech” is exercised by this organization for the purpose of uniting the students in thought, word, and deed. It has been the plan of the “Mirror’s” pub- lications to portray life at Merrillville by keeping up with the activities and social events during the school year. In the process of going to press bi-monthly the following people could be seen hurrying about collecting interesting bits of news: Glenna Lauer was our very capable editor, and Carol Smith was her assistant; Marjorie Reed had the task of writing an editorial column; Joyce Hockett was Society Editor; Mary Ruth Taylor and Evelyn Maihofer, Feature Editors; Jack Woodland, Art Editor; Business Mana- ger, Marian Lennertz; Editors of Sports, Andy Sokol and Frank Thomas; Jokes, Dorothy Keilman; Gossip, Nancy Kleinschmidt; Typists, Richard Lentz, Cecelia Krieter, Eleanor Fossey, and Corinne Hoppe; Mimeographers, Donna Mae Bush and Rita Franz; Proofreader, Mary Jo Komasinski. We correspond with other schools, and copies of the “Mirror” are sent regularly to students now in the Service. Our rating as a newspaper is “A” as was last year’s and as a whole the year was very successful. Twenty-Nine