Montpelier High School - Spartan Yearbook (Montpelier, IN)

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Need for music increases under stress of this world crisis: music to console, entertain, arouse patriotic fervor, and encourage Mankind's consecration to a better life. This our Music Department is striving to do through instrumental and vocal groups, contributing to individuals through participation, to group through appreciation, and to the community through varied activities. Morale of the world depends mightily upon music. We accept the challengel leanette Groff Art students are in urgent demand in our war program. Art appreciation strengthens morale. Art gives students an opportunity to express patri- otic excitement constructively, helps them to express their ideas more forcefully, and assists them in doing better many things they must do. Fields in which the art department is con- tributing or will furnish a background for the future are : diagrams and illustrations, to teach military tactics to soldiers and air raid and first aid procedure to civilians, camouflage: decor- ations for soldiers' recreation centers: color schemes which increase production, and de- crease fatigue in factories, posters to stimulate enlistments, to increase the sale of defense stamps and bonds, to remind a nation at war to do or not to do many things, cartoons which simplify the dramatize important issues: map making, insignia: and photography. Kathleen Anderson History is being made so rapidly today that our classes would have enough material to keep them going if we used only the radio, newspaper, and current magazines. These events have all come about as a result of events which happened in the past. Student have little say in shaping our war aims or in proposing methods for their accomplishment. We hope that by studying the problems which our democracy has faced and is now facing, our students will be better able to solve the problemsfof the world of tomorrow. Harold M. Dick Some contributions the Home Economics Department has made to the war effort are as follows: It has taught the preservation of food and the conservation of food and clothing. It has taught new principles about the value of food to health, the correct attitudes toward ra- tioning, and units of recreation for the family. It has taught first aid and home nursing to girls at school and to adults in evening classes. It has salvaged tin and has managed hot lunches for better nutrition. Martha Shadday The English Department aims to train students in reading, writing, speaking, and listen- ing. Good reading is a morale builder for civilians and service men, driving away the loneliness when reading is the chief form of entertainment. Students are taught to read and interpret directions, an invaluable aid in home, factory, or at the front. Letter writing is taught, for more and better letters aid the morale of the men in service. Correct writing prepares students for secretarial work by training them in correct spelling, punctuation, use of words, and sentence and paragraph construction. Training in listening aids students to grasp the meaning of oral directions more easily and to listen more thoughtfully to newscasts and announcements over the radio. The class in speech is training so that the members may appear before various civic or- ganizations to explain plans for citizen cooperation in the war effort. Lillie Albertson Now that world conflict has again settled upon us and the world is interested in synthetic material, chemistry has come to the front. The constant call for chemists shows there are jobs waiting for those who wish to work. That our country has synthetic rubber for many uses, plastics, antiseptics, dyes, vitamins, and food is due to chemistry. Bonita Collins The library in these times is a very vital institution, the center of war information. Backgrounds of the important war centers, points of battle, economic and political conflicts can be found in your library. Information which is straight and factual is necessary for a true understanding of the world conflict. Your library is the only place where this material is se- lected and offered you for your own benefit-be it maps, illustrations, comparisons, books, or biography. The least the civilian population can do is to understand and to form justifiable opinions. Consult the center of war information-the library. Helen Noffsinger. Vocational agriculture is aiding our present drive for victory by helping supply the food basket of the world with meat, dairy products, eggs, fruits, and vegetables. Most vocational students are not only working on farms but are helping to manage them in an effort to pro- duce more food and other vital raw materials such as hemp, tobacco, flax, cotton, wool, lum- ber, hides, and furs. These boys know that to be efficient farmers in this battle of the food front they must keep accurate farm records, feed balanced rations to livestock, maintain sanitary conditions, control soil erosion, follow a good crop rotation, select good breeding ani- mals of cr desirable type, keep machinery and equipment in good repair, maintain soil fer- fContinued on Page 23.7

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The Struggle of the Class of '43 For the last four years we have been engaged in strenuous warfare, in which we have met and conquered many enemies. Among these enemies were the battle for good and pas- sing grades, the loss of our fellow soldiers, and the struggle to obtain funds to promote var- ious worthwhile projects. However, we have emerged at last as victors and graduates, ready for a backward glance over our four years of war. We began our history in 1939, as sixty-two recruits under the leadership of Miss Shadday and Mr. Craig. We chose Gaynel Inman for general, Dave Cook for major, Ioanne Holcroft for captain, and Mildred Morgan and Dick Bedwell for lieutenants. The withdrawal of Betty Coons in December was our first casualty. We held two get-togethers, the first being on Ianu- ary 18, in the Home Economics Room, and the second in May at Lake Blue Water. Our first public review was in November, when we presented a Thanksgiving play, When Elmer Played Iohn Alden. After our summer campaign we returned to battle with a slight decrease in our number. However the fifty-seven remaining comrades under Advisers Morton and Cantwell, selected Pat Cary, general: Dave Cook, major: Dick Bedwell, captain: and Helen Berry and Roger Clements, lieutenants. We gathered recruits Louise Browne, Stanley Ieffries, lane Raney, and Luther VanGordon into our ranks, but Grace Hendershot, lane Raney, and Maxine Love were captured as prisoners by the enemy. We held our get to-gethers in December and May and our public review in March. We were all granted furloughs during Iune, Iuly, and August in order that we might begin the last half of our campaign with heightened interest and energy. At last, fifty-six enthusi- astic soldiers began the remaining half of our campaign under Sponsors Nelson and Wil- son. We elected Amos Sandoe, general: Dave Cook, major: Ioanne Holcroft, captain: and Mildred Morgan and Roger Clements, lieutenants. Louise Browne, Mary Royal, and Eugene Fear fell as victims of the enemy. Our party was held in the gym on December 3. After two minor skirmishes in the form of the selection of class rings in October and a convocation in Ianuary, we fought the major battle of the year, the financing of the Iunior-Senior banquet. This banquet was held in the basement of the Methodist Church. The scene was laid out in gypsy style, and a group of attractive gypsy girls served the banquet. Again after three months retirement from actual warfare for strategic reasons, we re- turned to the front refreshed and ready for our last big campaign, under Commanders Al- bertson and Morgan. Our chosen officers were: Iames Pownall, general: Iohn McCammon, major: Dick Bedwell, captain, and Margaret Anne Francis and Dick Weaver, lieutenants. The first engagement of this campaign was the presentation of a convocation, December 4. This consisted of two skits: The Royal Order of Ham and Eggs, and Borrowing Neighbors. Following this was a box social held in Ianuary for the purpose of boosting the Annual fund. Our biggest battles of this phase of our war were the publication of our yearbook and the presentation of our class play. Another high spot of this campaign came when we were very royally entertained by our younger comrades at the annual Iunior-Senior banquet. Our next-to-the-last engagement was on May 16, at Baccalaureate service. Then, at a final dress parade, fifty serious young soldiers received their honorary discharges from this division of the army into the battle of life. So, the struggle we began four years ago as mere recruits, we leave now as alumni, with added knowledge, many friends, and memories of many golden hours of comradeship and good times.