Mishawaka High School - Miskodeed Yearbook (Mishawaka, IN)

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O I-' 'I' HIIQ 'I' Y-'I' ll R11 L 1, NATIQNAL IXIOTABLES By JEAN BORDEN The happier! people are Ihose who think the mort l'77ft'l't'iII'I1g thoughts. Interesting thoughts nm live only in cultivated minds. -William Lyon Phelps. O promote scholarship, leadership, character, and service is the four-fold purpose of the National Honor Society, and any student who possesses these four is a learned person. Students are invited into this society twice a year. ln December the first group is named, and in April the second group of students is selected. These persons must be of junior or senior rank, and they must be in the upper fifteen per cent of the junior A's or the upper fifteen per cent of the seniors. V Those who were members when school be- gan last fall were: Charles Baldwin, Anne Di- Fiori, Mary Hess, Ruth Ann Iernegan, Margaret O'Dell, lsadore Rosenwasser, Ruth Teichman, and Ray Winey. The following were named in December: lilinore Dillavou, Dorothy Mae Foerster, Frances Gardner, Muriel lacobson, Mary Frances Mc- Donough, lane Myers, Eunice Palmer, Pearl Press, Iulia Versceg, Marian Wurz, and Robert Zimmerman. V011 Ianuary 4, before all the students of Mishawaka High Shool, these eleven persons were formally taken into this nationally known honor society at an induction ceremony. The olhcers of the society for this year were: Charles Baldwin, president, Mary Hess, vice- presidentg Ruth Teichman, secretary, Muriel Iacobson, Board of Control member, F. W. Chapman, treasurer and sponsor. ll This spring the committee which chose the juniors for membership decided to keep the names of the candidates secret. The members of the junior class and their friends were kept in suspense for more than a week. Some of the students made some guesses. Some of the guesses were very good, but some were wild. On May 3 during the general assembly ten from the junior class were called to the stage and formally inducted into the society. As each new member's name was called his pleasure and surprise were gratifying. W Dorothy Born, Charles Calvert, Phyllis Dun- don, Margaret Hambright, Henry Heintzberger, Robert Kemp, Norman Smith, Charles Stine, Harley Spencer, and Iacob Swartz were the ten juniors who received that pleasant surprise. The members of this organization with the members of the Quill and Scroll and the Hon- orary Scholastic Society and their guests enjoyed an evening of dancing and merry-making on Friday, May 19. Ioe Graves and his Terrace Garden orchestra furnished the music for the dancers. . l1The committee for this party consisted of two persons from each of the societies. Claudine Culp and Elizebeth Deal were appointed from the Quill and Scroll, Marie Graveel and Henry Heintzberger, from the H. S. S., and lane Myers and Mary Hess, from the N. H. S.

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24 THE JIISKOIJEED Tl-IE CLIMAX CDF FCDUI2 YEARS By MARIAN WURZ OMETHING which represents four years ol consistently good work is the honor roll. There are 24 seniors who have earned places on its exclusive roster. Many of these students have been mentioned 'before as being prominent in other activities, but all of them have enviable reputations as respected seniors. The feminine contingent is very predominant, as there are but two boys on the list-which proves something- you guess what! - The climax of four years, the honor of being valedictorian of her class was conferred on Mary Hess, who had an average of 96.41. Mary has the friendship and respect of all who know her wellg and besides her outstanding scholastic work, she has enjoyed the positions of editor of the Alltold and associate editor of the Misko- deed during the last year, both of which mean a great deal of Work. VSeconcl in the list is the name of Frances Gardner, salutatorian, whose average was 95.7. Although not the Hash- ing, outstanding type of person, Frances has, nev- ertheless, quietly done her work so well that it shows up by its own ex- cellence, w i th 0 u t a n y need of her doing any- thing to call attention to lt. Ruth Teichman is third with an average of 94.31. Ruth is president of the Commercial club this year and has several times distinguished her- ' self at the state commer- cial meets held at Muncie. V Mary Frances McDon- ough has 94.15, and Eve- lyn Miller, 93.8. Margaret O'Dell, president of Quill and Scroll, is among the highest with an average of 93.35. Elizabeth Deal and Anne DiFiori, both valued commercial stu- dents, have 93.25 and 92.85, respectively. Eunice Palmer, who has 92.61, Ieanette VanHuFfel, 92.43 Ruth Ann jer- negan, 92.43 and Maxine Hitch, 92.78, Mar- jory Moore, who plays the piano beautifully, 92.27, and Doro-thy Mae Foerster, 92.12, com- plete the list of those above 92. Pearl Press, who took first place in the state ty-ping competition this year has 91.91, Esther Hawkins has 91.43 Claudine Culp, who entered this year from S. B. Central, has sustained her record there with 91.18, Ray Winey, who has 38 credits, more than any other graduate, who was president of the Hi-Y, and was twice presi- dent of his class, has an average of 91.81. llThe remainder of the list includes Marian Wurz, 90.93, Iulia Versceg, who has lovely curly black hair, 90.78, Milo McClure, the run- ner, 90.58, Genevieve Long, 90.54, Muriel Iacob- son, 90.36, and the popular lane Myers, 90.22.

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1 -6 Till? .VISKUIJITISII Tl-HEY CAME-Tl-IEV SAW- THEY comoutara N February 25, twelve victors of a decisive battle stood upon a raised platform before many a spectator. Their hearts throbbed with the anticipation of the award they were about to receive, ln unison they spoke the Words of a pledgeg then upon their throbbing bosoms a medal was placed. This medal of gold was a scroll with a quill diagonally across it. lt was a token of their outstanding work in the late contest. lIThe contest was the striving of every stu- dent who was on either the fllltola' or the Mis- lqodeed stalf to become one of the best journal- ists of the group- 'lihe raised platform was the Mishawaka High school stage, and the spectators were the members of the junior and senior classes. V The medal of gold was the Quill and Scroll pin, the award of the International Honor So- ciety of High School journalists for the people who had contributed superior work to the All- zold, the school weekly, or the Mzixlqodced, the school annual. These persons also had to 'be outstanding in character and in scholarship. These were the victors: Lois Bent, Elizabeth Deal, Dorothy Mae Foerster, Mary Hess, Iane Myers, Margaret O'Dell, Eunice Palmer, lsadore Rosenwasser, Iacob Swartz, Marian Wurz, and Robert Zimmerman. l1This group of popular young journalists chose Margaret O'Dell for their president, Isa- dore Rosenwasser, secretary. Miss Ileimbach is faculty advisor. These journalism students who qualified for mem-bership in this society received the L'Quill and Scroll for one year. This is the magazine published by the organization. Contests are sponsored during the school year to encourage a better style of journalistic writing. WAll the journalism students were required to write editorials, feature stories and advertise- ments, which were sent in to these contests. Margaret O'Dell, who did outstanding work in journalism this year, and who was president of the Mishawaka High School Quill and Scroll, contributed an editorial on world peace. She received honorable mention on this interesting editorial. Later she wrote a feature story, The Dress of High School Studentsng for this she also received honorable mention. If Robert Zimmerman wrote an unusually good advertisement for the second group contest, and it was sent to be judged- He was awarded fourth place in this district. This year members were chosen twice. The second group of journalism students to receive the honor of being invited into this society was composed of Claudine Culp, Mary Grimes, Maxine Hitch and lean Borden. VThe induction ceremony for these four members was in the first week in May. Only members ol' the Quill and Mroll were present.