Merrillville High School - Merrillvue Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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ON WITH THE EXPERIMENTS THE science club working on a CRYSTAL SET if you happen to pass the science room MR. CLYDE MOTTS some Tuesday evening, and hear strange noises, it will probably be one of the Science Club’s radio experiments. Although this club is in its first year at Merrillville, it has already made much progress. Under Mr. Motts, their sponsor, they have worked with electrical equipment, seen movies, and made crystal receiving sets. The Science Club’s first officers are: Mike Price, President; John Snyder, Secretary-Treas- urer. The other members include Jack Hollar, Bob Mandly, Donald Maffitt, Ralph White, Ed- die Wolff, Ed Black, Charles Hoeppner, John Kuchta, Richard Newman, Vernon Saxton, John Ashton, Anthony Smederovac and Don Ellis. Merrillville High School hopes that the Science Club will successfully continue to grow. 25

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LEADING ATHLETES ORGANIZE CLUB The Letterman’s Club is the newest addi- tion to Merrillville’s extra curricular activities. Under the experienced guidance of Coach Ed Englehart they set down a definite pattern of standards. Their aims and purposes are to raise the athletic, sportsmanship and scholastic standards of athletes, to promote recognition of athletes for duties and feats performed, and to encourage more boys to participate in athletics. The first officers of the club were Jack Sims, President; Wayne Carpenter, Vice-Presi- dent; Bill McDonald, Secretary-Treasurer; No- lan Temple, Sgt.-at-Arms; Donald Carpenter, Reporter, and Eldon Powell and Jim Bailey, Historians. The remaining membership was composed of Tom Rastovski, Pat Sullivan, Danny Molch- an, Wharton Wietbrock, Bob Wilson, Richard Johnson and Bill Kimble. MEMBERS OF THE LETTERMEN ' S CLUB MR. EDWARD ENGLEHART 24

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THE MUSIC If you heard a loud noise coming from the band room, it was no cause for alarm. Someone had just hit a sour note and Mr. Lundgren was letting them know it. In case you didn’t know, Mr. Lundgren is our new band director, from Elgin, Illinois. Boy, don’t they look sharp! I’m talking a- bout the marching band that Merrillville is so proud of. They played and marched at five of our home football games and took a trip to the Crown Point football game. Hey! We can’t over look our high stepping majorettes, Sandra Fra- zure, Nancy Burke and Noreen Struble, or the new drum major, Dick Newman. In addition to a marching band we have a pep band for some of the basketball games. Several concerts were given during the year and they entered the District and State contests. Also quite a few of the band mem- bers entered the District and State Solo En- semble Contest. In appreciation for what the Band Boosters did for us the band played at an Ice Cream Social and several other engagements. The officers for the year were Patty Shear- er, President: Don Leake, Vice-President; Fred Smith, Secretary-Treasurer; Loma Geyer, Li- brarian, and Joe Titley, Sergeant-at-Arms. After a very successful year the band gave a send off to the graduation class at Baccalau- reate and Commencement exercises. 26