Merrillville High School - Merrillvue Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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Jfacultp ROSEMARY BOYD Class Sponsor 19-M Faculty Advisor “MerrUlvue A MESSAGE TO OUR FACULTY We live in a changing world where time and tide wait for no man. The seniors of ’44 have witnessed the four most awakening changing years that this old world of ours has seen for a long, long time. From the day at Pearl Harbor when we were in our first year of high school until this spring of ’44 when we took the offensive in the fight for right with a lasting peace, our mode of living has changed. We could write about the freedoms we are fighting for and the beliefs that men are dying for. You have read them hundreds of times in black and white. You have seen them flashed before your eyes across the movie screens of a fighting nation. Did you ever stop to wonder just how these bits of paper and drops of ink have become the creed of every real American Boy and every true American Girl ? Our teachers are expected to ignite all the young inspiration s in the nation to an ever-burning torch of human progress, and are expected to keep it glowing even brighter through the blackouts of a war torn world. Have we taken them too much for granted, these silent soldiers to whom such little credit is given? That is why we take this page of our annual and write this simple message to you, our teachers at MHS. It is a poor exchange. You are part of the American Heritage that isn’t played up in war or peace. Yet without you we could not go on. You have taken the ink and paper and made them live within us. How this is done, nobody can understand or write about unless he has been an instructor. We, the class of ’44 will dedicate ourselves to the task of making the exchange more fair than it appears. Thanks so very much, you will never know how much we mean it. Seven

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✓ THE CHALLENGE OF THE FUTURE Students must continue to be students. They must analyze the ideas of the world. They must think them through so they will understand why they are wise or unwise. That is the democratic way and must be guided by pure motives if we are going to make democracy live. The economic and social problems of our own country must be attacked with sincere motives because governments of today are given much responsibility in helping the economic and social wel- fare of its people. This service must be the type which brings out the best effort on the part of each citizen. Plainly, students, we see the personal and international inter- dependence. We must work for an organization that will bring order and justice to all people and all nations. Six

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JflerriUbtlle GEORGE BOETTNER Carthage College A.B. Gi. ' duate Work Wisconsin U. Science ALINE CALLIS Whitworth Jr. College A.A. Hanover College B.A. Chicago University Gra .uate Work Government and Economics 8th Grade History DOROTHY CARLTON Greenville College A.B. English and Social Studies EDWARD ENGELHART Central Normal College B.S. Physical Education and Commerce HELEN KNOCKE Iowa State Teachers B.A. Commerce I 1 DOROTHY KNOOP Indiana University B.S. Home Economics CHARLOTTE McCLURE Ball State Teachers College AB. Lilwary and English Eight