Roosevelt High School - Roundup Yearbook (East Chicago, IN)

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THE BOARD OF EDUCATION Mr. Earl H. McKenzie Treasurer Mrs. B. E. McQuaid President Mr. Joseph W. Dunsing Secretary ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS Mr. John G. Rossman Miss Aileen Owen Superintendent of Schools Dean of Girls Mr. S. R. Wells, Principal Mr. Fred S. Havnes Dean of Boys Twenty

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Two years ago, when Mr. Asbury resigned, the Board of Education of East Chicago consisting of Mrs. Bertha McQuaid, Mr. Grover C. Hansen, and Mr. Edwin Carlson elected Mr. John G. Rossman, who was at that time, the assistant superintendent of schools in our neighboring city, Gary, to become our new superintendent of schools. Since the fall of 1929, Mr. Rossman has labored success- fully to raise the standards and to increase the usefulness of Mr. Rossman our city schools. At the request of this Round-Up staff he has kindly written this message which he calls Theodore Roosevelt ' s Round-Up. Asthmatic. Suffering from defective vision. Blinded during his later years in one eye. Weak physically as a child. Vigorous and most energetic as a man. Determined. Self-controlled. Ambitious. Honest. Courageous. Aggressive. Self-confident. Possessing a sense of humor. A product of aristocracy. Born to wealth and social posi- tion. A friend of warriors, cardinals, cowboys, prize fighters, savants, farmers, engineers, big and little business men, common folk and high brow. The idol of millions. Pro- gressive. Gargantuan in his capacity for work. Magnanimous. And withal unselfish and democratic. Theodore Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt made the harvest of his years ring true. He did not permit his early ill health to defeat him. He was not satisfied to abide leisurely in the station his wealth and social position placed him. He did not turn back in the face of numerous defeats. He writes of ' Interminable, grimy drudgery; painful months of marching and skirmishing, most indecisive; victories never taking place unless there is plenty of this disagreeable preliminary work ' . Theodore Roosevelt desired his harvest to be honesty and efficiency in government. He sowed such seeds in all of his words and actions. When he took up his ' big suck ' the ' malefactors of great wealth ' were ' whipped to a frazzle. ' When he said ' My hat is in the ring ' or ' I feel like a bull moose, his enemies trembled. They knew that ' Armaged- don ' was before them. He reaped a bounteous harvest in achievement for his fellow men and his government. The Foreword of this year ' s Round-Up mentions ' The Harvest of the Year. ' May that harvest for each Roosevelt student be ' Rooseveltian ' . John G. Rossman Superintendent of Schools Page Nineteen

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ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY S. R. WELLS . Principal WILMA KENNEDY ... Head Clerk BESSIE FUSEK .....Clerk English Isabelle Swatts Agnes Hawkins Charles Tullis Ruth Larson Louise Cotter Mathematics George Murphy Mrs. Emma Henry Daisy Shields Margaret Darragh Music Robert J. White Luther Boroughs H. M. Preston Mary Lois Clark Industrial Charles Miller Walter Bunker Clarence A. Maury E. Stanley Brown Homer Rohm F. Kell Ferguson Hobart Lidster William Matthews Physical Education Cecil Austin Frances Overpeck Benham Williams Alice L. Bonham Natural Science Harry Apostle Winifred West Lillian Cohen Foreign Language Mrs. Lenora Clark Grendaline Marshall Maurine Murphy Hon 1CONOMICS Alice Williams Ann Brazzill Social Scienc George Anderson Aileen Owen Fred Haynes Jane Reifel Annette Specter John Fox Sara Mann Commercial Esther Carlos Martha Blumenthal Wayne Dennis Art William T. Poage Mabel J. Fifield Mrs. Alice McMahon Dr. Hugh A. Vore Page Twenty-