Morton High School - Top Hat Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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Elementary Annexation Constructed SUPERINTENDENT OF Schools Lee L. Caldwell addresses the group gathered to witness the laying of the cornerstone of the new elementary annex. The elmentary annex under construction at the north end of the Morton campus is quickly nearing completion. The elementary children will move into the building next fall. Rooms in the main building which some elemen- tary classes occupied this spring will be high school classrooms in the fall; rooms in the portables, occupied by the rest of the elementary classes, will be used for a high school student lounge, a high school art room, an ungraded classroom, and an elementary playroom. The new annex of 13 rooms is being built by the Leo Reuth and Sons Construction Co. A GOOD framework is essential for a strong roof in any building, and the one in the elementary annex looks solid. THE EXTERIOR of the new elementary building takes on a look of readiness for the students that will occupy it in September.

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Page 20 CROWNING GRETA Simpson queen of Morton ' s 1956 Homecoming is senior President Ted Tarr, dressed as a governor. QUEEN GRETA and Tony DeRosa are shown with Ted Tarr and members of her court and their escorts: Mary Ann Kozubal and Bob Jeppeson, Gale Bradford and Frank Alexander, Kathryn Snyder and Dave Her- ring, Alice Hopman and Bob Henry, and Wanda Sams and Larry MacDonald. Mortonites Celebrate Homecoming Greta Simpson was crowned queen of Morton High School’s 1956 Homecoming, held Friday, Sept. 14. Greta’s court consisted of five girls representing their respec- tive senior homerooms. The festivities of the annual event compensated somewhat for the loss of the game to Tech, the final score of which was 19 to 13. The game, held at Hammond High Field, was followed by a dance in the Morton gym. On the Thursday before Home- coming a bonfire pep session was held on the blacktop behind the school. It was followed by a moonlight dance on the blacktop, with music provided by a loud- speaker system. STUDENTS DANCE on the blacktop after the bonfire rally on the Thursday before Homecoming. STUDENTS AND alumni gathered in the gym after the game to dance and pay homage to the queen.

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Page 22 Curtain Goes Up for First Time on Two firsts took place on the Morton High School theater scene this year: the first serious play in the high school’s four-year history was presented, and the senior play for the first time was an adult, name, Broadway hit, instead of a high school comedy. Both depar- tures from the usual were well- accepted. The Theater Guild presentation of Jane Eyre,” a play with a nine- teenth century setting, occurred Nov. 9- In the play, Jane Eyre, fresh out of an orphanage, is hired as the governess of Mr. Rochester’s daughter. At first Jane thinks that the aura of mystery about the Rochester home is just part of her imagination, but many strange happenings increase her suspicions. The sudden arrival of Mr. Mason, an old school friend of Mr. Roches- JANE EYRE (Nancy Massingille) happily anticipates her marriage to Mr. Rochester (Joe Wysong) in this scene from Jane Eyre,” the MHS fall play. ter’s, whom the latter receives very coldly, adds to the general con- fusion. When Jane learns that Mr. Rochester’s insane wife is being kept upstairs by the supposed seamstress, her marriage to Mr. Rochester is called off. However, all turns out happily in the end. Members of the class of 1957 overcame last-minute difficulties and gave very creditable perform- ances in Arsenic and Old Lace” May 2 and 3. Written by Joseph Kesselring, the play was first pre- sented in 1941 in New York by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Its plot revolves about the two sweet old Brewster sisters, who have 12 dead men buried in their cellar — one of whom died a natural death and 11 of whom they poison- ed — and their three nephews: Teddy, who imagines himself, to be Theodore Roosevelt; Jonathan, who has just escaped from the Indiana Hospital for Insane Criminals and is himself a mass murdurer, and Mortimer, the only sane Brewster. ZELDA, THE gypsy (Alexandra Gardner), reads the palm of Blanche Ingram ( Jan Taylor ) , while Blanche ' s mother, Lady In- gram (Connie Parsons), Mr. Mason (Phil Jackson), and the seam- stress (Joan Franks) look on with interest in a scene from the Morton production of Marjorie Carleton ' s dramatization of Jane Eyre. A TENSE moment occurs in Jane Eyre when Mr. Mason stops the marriage ceremony, which was being conducted by the Rev. Mr. Wood (David Wright). Looking on are (standing) Zelda; the seamstress, and Mrs. Fairfax, the housekeeper (Salome Bartos), and (seated ) Mrs. Ingram and Blanche.