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

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and Educational Assemblies for Student Body THE DRESS-RIGHT AS¬ SEMBLY featured students modeling both the correct and incorrect attire for sports, school, and church. Proper dress for Morton’s formal and semi-formal events was shown to the stu¬ dents in the auditorium. SINGING AT THE EASTER ASSEMBLY is the Morton choir. The entire music department participated in many of the musical assemblies during the school year. POSING AS KIM CHUN YUNG, Larry Les- sie arriv es from Korea to join the fun at the assembly held to raise money for his support. Escorting him on stage is his “nurse,” Tom Hopman, who “takes care” of Kim. 15

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Governors Work Together to Present Entertaining PERFORMING WITH THEIR MELODIOUS BELLS in assembly are the Spartan Bell Ring¬ ers from Michigan State University. The group played a number of classical, folk, and popular tunes with their 49 handbells, each member controlling up to 13 bells at one time. Water pistols, bell-ringers, debaters, and choral groups all had parts in Morton’s 1964 assembly schedule. Fall pep assemblies, fea¬ turing cheers, skits and a pep band, loudly proclaimed Morton’s loyalty to its team. The annual Dress-Right Assembly, held in Octo¬ ber, exemplified correct attire for high school students by contrasting proper dress with im¬ proper dress. The Kim Chun Yung assembly, sponsored by the Government Club, raised funds for Morton’s orphan. Students “forc¬ ibly” collected offerings from the audience, using verbal “lashings” and water pistols.. The Inaugural and the State of the Associa¬ tion Assemblies informed students of con¬ gressional affairs. For Thanksgiving, Christ¬ mas, and Easter, the music department pre¬ sented holiday programs. Not only for pur¬ poses of education and entertainment, assem¬ blies gave Governors an opportunity to work together for the construction and organization of programs for the student body. DEBATING whether the sale of cigarettes should be made illegal are varsity debaters Helen Holsclaw and Bob Mitchell. This as¬ sembly was a practice for the debate team’s appearance on the CBS show “Rebuttal.”

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THE CAPITOL building, home of our federal legislature, was an im¬ pressive sight for Governors. IWO JIMA MEMORIAL, honoring America’s soldiers, was visited by traveling Governors. LINCOLN MEMORIAL, world- famous for its statue of Lincoln, was one of many stops. Washington Trip Granted Fascinating Greenwich Village, turbulent Chinatown, and the world-famous Bowery were included in the sights visited by 365 Hammond students on this year’s New York- Washington Trip. Setting out on Tuesday night, October 22, students eagerly anticipated the seven-day tour. Wednesday evening the train arrived in New Jersey where excited teenagers disem¬ barked and piled into the waiting buses that would take them to their hotel near New York’s Times Square. Thursday and Friday, students visited the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall, and United Nations Building. Friday evening saw the end of the stay in New York as the “trippers” left by train for Washington, D.C. In Washington students got a first-hand view of the various government buildings and historical monuments. Tours of the White House, Capitol Building, and Arlington Na¬ tional Cemetery highlighted their stay in the capital city of the nation. During a busy Sunday students began to realize that their vacation was rapidly coming to an end. Returning home on the train that night, students slept or chatted, feeling almost exhausted after their seven hectic days. Governors A Recess From THE U.N. BUILDING, the center of international affairs and a symbol of world peace, was toured by Morton students in New York this fall during the annual Washington Trip. 16