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

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LEADING THE COMMUNITY CHEST DRIVE are-TOP ROW: Ed Skager, Randy Snyder. BOTTOM ROW: Andrea Bandura, Chris Czlonka, Cynthia Arvay. Promoting class rivalry in collecting money was their duty. REPRESENTING MORTON as the 1968 winner of the Bausch and Lomb Science Award is Tom Vanes. scholarship, leadership, service awards Many Morton students, active in both school and com¬ munity functions, brought honor to MHS. Hoosier Girls’ and Boys’ State Representatives, chosen on the basis of interest in government, spent one week at Indiana University last summer. Participating directly in mock elections, students vied for positions of local, county and state administrations. Social Studies teachers selected the DAR Good Citi¬ zenship Award Winner from girls possessing the quali¬ ties of dependability, service, leadership and patriotism. This year, for the first time, two girls, Cynthia Arvay and Lu Ann Schwandt tied for the award after the first vote. The vote of the teachers had to be taken twice before a winner could be announced. Recognition of outstanding scholastic standing in sci¬ ence subjects by a senior is the purpose of awarding the Bausch and Lomb Award. The winner of the honorary science award is eligible to compete for a Bausch and Lomb Science Scholarship at the University of Rochester. Tours of the Carmelite Home for Boys, Calumet Good¬ will Industries, YMCA, and Brook’s Home by the student committee launched the Community Chest Drive at Mor¬ ton. The committee encouraged the classes to compete with each other while collecting funds. EXPRESSING JOY after being announced as Morton ' s DAR award winner is senior Lu Ann Schwandt. 29

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host upperclassmen capital, new york OUR CAPITOL BUILDING, a symbol of freedom and leader¬ ship, reminds Morton students of the great U.S. heritage. Six days of traveling, sight-seeing, tired feet, and in¬ somnia comprised the upperclassmen’s annual tour to our nation’s capitol and New York City. On October 24, 70 juniors and seniors boarded the Erie-Lackawana train enroute to Washington, D.C. There they toured such famous places as the Capitol Building, the White House and the Library of Congress. Witness¬ ing the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Un¬ known Soldier and the activity at the Pentagon reminded students how much our country protects us in defense. New York City’s sights and sounds were also enjoyed. Planned tours to the Empire State Building, Lincoln Cen¬ ter, United Nations Building, and the Statue of Liberty showed the young tourists the famous highlights of New York City. Students visited Badio City Music Hall where they saw the famous dancers, “The Rockettes”, and a first-run movie, “Wait Until Dark.” Stops at small, in¬ timate coffee houses and shops and conversations with real protesting Hippies gave students a first-hand look into the core of “village life.” MOTHER ' S ADVICE on eating the right foods is forgotten as Stanley McCaw and Richard Mamrila enjoy the variety of meals served in their hotel dining-room. PLANNED TOURS through George Washington ' s home in Mt. Vernon showed students our first presi¬ dent ' s way of living.