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

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THEME With the years. as our industries Spread outward over the dunelands These same workmen. men of vision, Built schoolhomes for their children. And with the growth of many factories. Foundries. refineries. and the steel mills Came children in greater numbers To the shelter of the schoolrooms. These expanding industries Have aided our city, East Chicago, To give efficient training To the children in their school days. We. the Senior workmen, From one of the younger schoolhomes Have chosen the Industries of our city For the theme of our yearbook To honor these industries And the men who strive and labor, As a tribute to the gigantic power Of our Industrial City, East Chicago. Q

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FCREWORD Long ago. the Pottowatomies Kneeling low in birch canoes Skimmed across the sparkling waters. Hunted on the sandy dunelands With bows and arrows as their weapons. And against the blue horizon Tcpees etched a ragged skyline By the waters of Lake Michigan. Then clear-visioned workmen Built a city on this duneland. And now, in the evening shadows Tongues of flame from open hearth tires Burn against the eastern skyline. And silhouetted against them Stand the smokestacks of the steel mills Somber against a glowing background. Around these growing steel mills Other industries have gathered As with the progress of the century Marches our city-East Chicago.

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DEPARTMENT MANAGERS Eileen Lamb .Editor-in-chief Burt Clippinger , .Business Manager Spencer Davis Art Editor SUPERINTENDENTS lane A. Reifel , General Sponsor Clarence Maury . Business Advisor William Poage .Art Advisor