Rensselaer High School - Chaos Yearbook (Rensselaer, IN)

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■- THE CHAOS CLASS PROPHECY (Heard over the radio on May 27, 1942. Are you listenin’?) Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience. This is station R. H. S. broadcasting on a frequency of 1932 kilocycles by per- mission of the Federal Radio Commission. During the next half hour your announcer, Ed Loy, will give you the features of this evening’s broadcast from this station. Promptly at 5:30 P. M. Mable Stewart, the Lullaby Lady, will be on the air with her stories for the kiddies. She will tell the story “Dotty Doormouse and the Dragon” written especially for this program by the noted authoress, Margaret Newcome. Elizabeth Griest will accompany Mary Ketchum at the piano while Miss Ketchum sings some delightful songs of her own composition for the children. Six o’clock brings us Louis Haas, the news reporter, a pupil of Floyd Gibbons, who will give the news of the hour. At 6:15 there will be a brief interval of dance music by Daryl Ford and his Red and Black Aces, after which you will return to the studio for the latest live stock reports by Grant Ziegler. At 7:00 the Kentucky Coal and Cotton Company presents a program of old-fashioned melodies played by the symphony orchestra under the direction of Albert Lockard. From 7:30 till 8:00 you will be entertained by the R. H. S. Minstrel Show, featuring William Robinson and Louis Ramp. At 8:30 the Hon. Ralph Ware, candidate for President of the United States on the Democratic ticket, will address the people of this country over a nation-wide hookup. The Harmony Trio, composed of Evelyn Hoshaw, Dorothy Jane Mills, and Velzora Overton, will entertain you from 9:00 till 9:30 with their charming rendition of the latest song hits. During the course of their program Miss Overton will play a solo “When You and I Were Young, Maggie” on a musical saw. Be sure to listen in. Page twenty 1 9 3 2 ---■

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THE CHAOS SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Evelyn Hoshaw Ed Loy Maurice Courtright Miss Sprague and Mr. Holt Colors Motto President Vice-President Secretary-Treasurer — — Sponsors — Green and White Labor Omnia Vincit On September 7, 1928, ninety-six Freshmen entered Rensselaer High School. As is usual, there was a greenish tinge to them that was very much in evidence, but as time passed this .color gradually faded until only the most critical observer was able to detect it. At the first meeting Bob Sigo was elected president, and this choice proved to be a good one. Sev- eral Freshmen were on the athletic teams, the Chaos and Rensselaerien staffs, in tht band and orchestra, and one member won the County Latin Contest. The Sophomore year proved that the Class of ’32 was an outstanding one. Ed Loy was chosen president this year, which was marked by the winning of the County Oratorical Contest by a Sophomore, the selection of several members for the Masque and Wig and Hi-Y, and two members for the debate team. The Chaos and Rensselaerien staffs included many Sophomores, and there was an unusual number of boys on the athletic teams. Howard Randle led the class to many honors during our Junior year — important positions on both the Chaos and Rensselaerien staffs, many places on the football, basketball, and track teams, the presidency of the Masque and Wig, the girls’ basketball championship, places on the debate team, and in the oratorical contests. However, our class would have fallen short of the ideal set for it if we had failed to put on the “best ever” Prom. This went over in great style, and all declared it was the best yet. And now we come to this, the final year, which we have reason to believe has been the best of all. Our class has always been noted for its orators and this year has been no exception. Our debate team won from the state champs, M. J. Myers won the County, District, and Zone ora- torical contests, E. J. Strickler won the County, and District essay con- tests. Both these girls went to the state contests. The Chaos staff con- sisted almost entirely of Seniors and the other organizations were composed mainly of Seniors. Our class also won the class basketball championship, a fitting climax to four years of leadership in athletics. The Senior play was declared to have been one of the best ever presented by a graduation class. Our class roll includes seventy-one names, the largest class ever to graduate from Rensselaer High School. (Twenty-one of these people have been together from the first grade, an unusual item worth noticing.) We believe that we have left a record worthy of such a class in scholarship, athletics, and social activities, and that succeeding classes will have to go far to better that record. 1 9 3 2 --- Page nineteen

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•- THE CHAOS The National Barn Dance will be on the air from 9:30 till 10:00 with Walter Todd and Tom Parkinson, masters of ceremony. During this pro- gram Professor Robert Parkinson, head of the Agricultural Department of Purdue University, will give a short talk. At 10:00 P. M. the P. Lorillard Company presents the Old Gold pro- gram. This program will be in charge of Mr. Gerald Rishling, publicity manager for the P. Lorillard Company, who won this enviable position by virtue of having been a habitual Old Gold smoker for the last eighteen years. Warner Brothers moving picture company will come on the air at 10:30 with Robert Sigo, president of the company, who will talk to his millions of admirers over the country on “How I Wave My Hair and Why”. From 11:00 till 11:15 Marion Sumner, the Redheaded Music Master, will entertain you. From 11:15 till 11:30 Miss Emily Post will present her protegee, Irene Zea, who will discuss the subject “The Correct Way to Converse With the Faculty (in time of war)”. Promptly at 11:30 we will bring you an address by the Hon. Keith Robinson, United States ambassador to the Court of King James. He will speak at a banquet given in his honor at Buckingham Palace. Florenze Ziegfeld will come on the air at midnight with part of the cast from his stage success of ten years ago, “Hot Cha”. He will present the Misses Margaret Burgin, Rose Donnely, Elizabeth J. Long, and Eleanor Jane Strickler. This program will conclude the broadcast from this station and we will leave the air then till 6:00 A. M., when we will bring you the setting up exercises under the direction of Robert Young. This is Ed Loy announcing for station R. H. S. Please stand by for the next program. 1932 -------------------------------------------------- Page twenty-one