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

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Oliver Perry Morton isn’t the only Indiana governor with whom Morton School has any connection. It has been visited by the last three consecutive governors — Henry F. Schricker, George N. Craig, and Harold W. Handley — during their administrations. Gov. Handley visited the school in May when he was in the area to speak at a banquet. The governor’s visit was arranged by Vernon C. Anderson, former Hammond mayor who is now adminis- trative assistant to the governor. Mortonites were especially happy to welcome Gov. Handley not only because he appointed a Hammondite to be his assistant, but also because he himself is a Northwest Indianian, comm;, from LaPorte. ELEMENTARY PUPILS lined up outdoors to greet Gov. Handley on his arrival here with Recorder Betty Feldt, President Tony DeRosa, and Jack Reich, an Indiana State Chamber of Commerce official. Governors Welcome Governor to Morton ' r png fill til IN THE AUDITORIUM the governor tells the Morton High School Governors about the many opportunities in the Great Hoosier State. Also present were several local dignitaries. GOV. HANDLEY is made an honorary Morton Governor in the gym, where junior high students assembled, by Vice-President Glenn Schram. Watching are Junior High Council officers Dennis Brant and John Bailor, council sponsor Phil Robaska, and Principal A. W. Clark. WITH THE governor when he signed this autograph for the Top Hat in the office were Mr. Clark and Mrs. Isabel Payne. 4 ACCOMPANIED BY Glenn Schram, Gov. Handley leaves Morton amid the cheers of high school students, who gathered on the front lawn after he addressed them in the auditorium.

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BILL HENDERSON and Donna Fitzwater display reproductions of famous United States historical documents presented to Morton as part of The Freedom Shrine” by local Exchange Club members in an assembly. MHS Assemblies Are Enjoyable, Inspiring Morton High School students had a well-rounded assembly schedule during the 1956-57 school year. Programs were planned to entertain, educate, and in- spire. They included such things as pep sessions, a Christmas program put on by vocal music students, a band concert, a program of instrumental solos and ensembles, a preview of the Friars’ Follies,” a hypnotism show, and an awards assembly. MEMBERS OF the French horn quartet — Pat Garson, Pat Miles, George Hand, and Lorna Clark — await their opportunity to demonstrate their playing ability to MHS students in an assembly. BILL MAGAN and Don Ritchey hold Phil Jackson aloft to show how stiff he has become under Julian Rasmussen’s hypnotic powers in a Morton High School convocation. PHIL ROBASKA, job-and-trade information told MHS boys of opportunities in his teacher, chats with representa tives of the branch, four armed services branches, each of whom BILL MAGAN, member of the Friars ' Follies” cast, parades down the aisle in an assembly which gave Mortonites a pre- view of the following week ' s evening Follies performance.

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Page 28 Morton ites Could Have Danced All SOMETHING SEEMS to be amusing these prom goers at Lynne Fitzwater ' s pre-prom coke party. THE GIRLS in their formals and the boys in their tuxes added something to the prom. THE JUNIOR and senior class officers and their dates lead the grand march at the prom. THE AFTER-PROM party at Vogel’s Restaurant in Robertsdale is a huge success, agree this group. THE HI-LITES, along with Milo Hamilton of Chicago station WIND and other entertainers, did a commendable job at the post-prom party, which lasted from midnight until 3:00 a.m.