Peru High School - Narcissus Yearbook (Peru, IN)

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Staff Narcissus Editors . . . SEATED-Miss Ann Arnold, sponsor Patricia Lininger, Ioan Harrison Iudy Summers, Lois Wildman. STANDING-Iohn Harris, Iohn Waltz. Editorial Staff . . . ROW l-Walsh, Mawbey, Bittel, Harris, Smock, Easter. ROW 2-Wells, Wright, Shafer, Bes- signcmo. Although some schools dispensed with their annuals this year, our school and school officials felt an even greater need for one. We felt that this was a year which must be recorded. The war will undoubtedly make changes. We will all lose friends, whom we want to remember, and few of us will think to keep any other record of our war years in high school. However repeat- edly we hear from various organizations, 'lYes, certainly we keep and file away copies of the Annual. The best records we could ever keep. Thus, the '43 Narcissus went to press as usual. However, despite our difficulties in ob- taining materials and service, we didn't feel half so proud of ourselves after reading an account of the difficulties Maryknoll School in Honolulu had in going ahead and getting out their annual. After the Pearl Harbor attack in December, 1941, their school was tempor- arily closed, and when it did reopen a great many of their students were engaged in de- fense work, thus cutting their annual staff considerably. To make things more difficult the U. S. Engineers took over part of the campus and classrooms, and the remaining portions were dug up into trenches and shelters, but that didn't stop those deter- mined students. The result-the Tribute of Maryknoll School received First Class Honor Rating.

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Masqzee and Gavel . . . ROW' l-Oury, Summers Dorsam, Wheeler, Tresch ROVV 2-Goodman, McCalla rick. National Forensic League . . . ROW l4Petty, Summers Dorsam, Mr. Lawson Vfheelcr, Tresch, McBride ROXV 2-Mast, Williams Boone, Comerford, Drechs ler, Mathis. Speech Work Popular This Year Masque and Gavel members regretted the loss of their president, Rod Bayless, and a member, Bob Keyes, to Uncle Sam. Every member found by cooperation that he could promote school and community citizenship. The club gave a play and was instrumental in the success of small debate meets. At no other time has the slogan, Speech in Use Nationally Recognized, been more appropriate than this year. When the mem- bers did research, they found other Masque and Gavel clubs suffered the same handi- caps. Speech rose to a new high in America and in Peru High School. This war year brought many changes to all of us, National Forensic League was con- fronted With the problem of being unable to do interscholastic work. Their solution was to put on programs in the community. The topics of some were Development of Speech, Panel Discussion, Speech Fol- lies, and High School Auditoriumsf' War also curtailed gccd times. Members of the National Forensic League met this situation like true patriots. They pooled their funds cind had parties at home. All speech Workers were very active in the stamp drive, everyone helped to make an afghan for the Red Cross. .23. Mr. Lawson, Young, Mav-

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Portrays P. H. S. at War Working on a yearbook affords the op- portunity for the study of good English, good writing, creative art, photography, and bus- iness practice. lt's a democratic project, too, for the yearbook is published for every student. No matter his color, race, or creed-or the side of the track from which he comes, that book is his. What an excellent example of democ- racy in action. No wonder it is that the high school yearbook is purely an American in- stitutionf' The problem of financing the Narcissus was capably handled by Miss Wood, who had charge of subscriptions and recordsg Miss Rupp, who had charge of advertisingg and their staffs. Both departments are to be complimented on their good work. Subscrip- tions hit a new high this year, due partly to the Narcissus auditorium in September, at which time pledge cards were distributed by members of the staffs and signed by the student body. Narcissus Business Staff . . . The advertising staff did a Wonderful job on ads. A contest was held among them to see who could sell the most. The reward, of course, was the job of advertising manager, which was won by Betty Zimmerman. The staff sold more ads this year than they have in the past seven years. This achievement is particularly noteworthy as the war affected the sale of ads, too. This is accountable to the fact that many businesses went out of business entirely, and many of them were limited as to the things they sold, and didn't think it worthwhile to advertise the few things they did have for sale. Due to our super-salesmen, however, many of these merchants were convinced that they should advertise again this year. Three Narcissus staff members attended the twenty-second annual ISHSPA conven- tion at Franklin this year. They were Lois Wildman, Pat Lininger, and Reah Iohnson. Narcissus Collectors . . . ROW 1-Teaboldt, Cotner, Patterson, Milroy, Matthews Pearcy, Callahan, Hunter, Miss Wood. ROW 2-Bayless, Keyes, Lewis, Fishback, Ramer, Hadsell Ahnet, Catanzaro, Bradley, Lawver, Alwine, Miss Rupp, Piper, Lillard, Fichtner. Vlheeler, Oury, and Zimmerman, business manager. ' ' ROW 3-Shqfey, Cqlfeel Bgrden, Cm-Son, Gqblgy . .,.,, ,. 1 .. . . -, .. , ., , ,,.... .,,,. . - Mmm., ,,,v.,,,,,. i,,.....,a -.M....,,,.WW,.m,.-W....i,.