Merrillville High School - Merrillvue Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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MERRILLVILLE CLUB IS HOST TO ANNUAL F. H. A. CONVENTION The annual spring meeting of the Future Homemakers of America of the Northwest Dis- trict was held at Merrillville High School. Mrs. Ping, the new sponsor, Mrs. Nesbitt, and the club’s officers; President, Paula Pickford; Vice- President, Martha Lee Matthews; Secretary, Sue Krieter; Treasurer, Carmelle De Gaetano; and Reporter, Shirley Essick, helped to make the meeting a huge success. The motto of our club is “Toward New Horizons” our emblem is a Rose, and our club colors are Red and White. We invited our mothers to the formal can- dlelight initiation that took place on October 11, in the school library. A large crowd attended the Hallowe’en Dance that our club sponsored after a football game. We also sponsored several bake sales in the hall at noon hour. The members of this fast-growing club are: Bonnie Buhr, Peggy Bogan, Mary Brek, Helen Calhoun, Betty Ann Dick, Jerrie Johnson, Mary Jesko, Barbara Kwasny, Pat Laskosky, Gerrie MacLaverty, Laura Novak, Jackie Richards, Betty Schlessinger, Victoria Van Meerten, Jo Ann Yaros and Elaine Young. MRS. HARRIETT PING AND MRS. HELEN NESBITT HOMEMAKERS AT EASE 1 7

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S UNSHINERS CELEBRATE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY Crawfordsville, where Sunshine originated., in Indiana, was chosen as the appropriate place to hold our State Convention, which was held in celebration of our fiftieth Anniversary. This year we spread our Sunshine by pre- paring food baskets for the needy on Thanks- giving, dressing dolls for the poor at Christmas time, and singing some of the favorite Christ- mas Carols at the Parramore Hospital. We also contributed money to the Riley Fund, which helps finance the James Whitcomb Riley Hos- pital. In May we honored our mothers and the ladies, whom we chose as our ideals, at the Mothers’ and Ideal Ladies’ Tea. Similar to the other Sunshine Clubs we have the rising sun as our emblem, “My Sun- shine Girl”, our song; “Others” is our motto; the yellow rose, our flower, and our colors are yellow and white. Our officers who serve under our able sponsors, Miss Ganmong and Mrs. Collins, are OUR SUNSHINE GIRLS Pearl Shrout, President; Bonnie Lindborg, Vice- President; Betty Hickman, Corresponding Sec- retary; Mary Ingles, Recording Secretary; and Grace Bodamer, Treasurer. MISS GRACE GARMONG AND MRS. IRENE COLLINS 16

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THE MIRROR STAFF MERRILLVILLE ' S REFLECTION PROVES VERY GOOD Boy! I’d hate to be that reporter. You see, it’s this way, he didn’t get his news in on time and the Editor, Elaine Green, is bawling him out. That reporter could have been Ralph White, covering sports; Bob Chapman, making illustrations; or Bob Fieler and Larry Lahaie with their jokes. It was through the work of these and many other ambitious reporters, staff members, and the sponsorship of Mr. Weldy and Mr. Bough, gave a clear picture of life at our school. The Mirror of 1949-50 was published every three weeks’ period by the Senior Class with the faithful help of the reporters of the various clubs and classes. They did a good job of cov- ering all events, plus many other interesting features. MR. GILBERT WELDY AND MR. MAX BOUGH