Shields High School - Patriot Yearbook (Seymour, IN)

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th, PATRIOT 1935 Published by the Senior Class of Shields High School, Seymour, Ind. SPECIAL FEATURES Community Highlights Seymour in Step with Educational Progress The Patriot From 1898 to Present Date Shields High School Alumni TABLE OF CONTENTS INTERESTING FACTS Seymour, the Progressive City Community Highlights — Through Unity We Create and Maintain Three Centuries of Educational Progress, Shields in Step with the Times. II. SCHOLASTIC Faculty Administration Baccalaureate Commencement Seniors Senior Honor Roil Classes In Memoriam III. ACTIVITIES Clubs IV. ATHLETICS Girls ' Athletic Association Football Basketball Tumbling Baseball Track Summary of Season V. CALENDAR VI. ALUMNI VII. OUR PATRONS Josephine Parker Lewis Hutchens Amy Douglass Margaret Rapp Evelyn Burbrink STAFF Clarence Stuckwisch Ruth Evelyn White June Hinkle Charles Mayfield Pauline Johnson Ermil Cox Richard Stewart Thomas Hall Harriet Roeger Faculty Literary Editor — Mina McHenry Faculty Business Manager — Arthur L Glaze Eva Jane Fox Bettye Hoadley Evelyn Ahlbrand John Hirtzel John Osterman

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SEYMOUR THE PROGRESSIVE CITV Seymour derived its name from the chief contractor and civil engineer, Mr. Seymour, who superintended the construction of the Ohio and M ' ssissippi Railway from North Vernon, Indiana, to St. Louis, Missouri. The ground on which Seymour is located was acquired through a series of purchases and grants from the government by James Shields, Joshua Moore, and Charles Butler. James Shields, father of M. W. Shields, founder of the town, was granted by the Government 1,200 acres of land about 1812, and placed in charge of the block house , a rude fortress erected and maintained for several years on the ground lying just north of the city area now occu- pied by the Catholic cemetery. This ground included all land lying north of Seventh Street in the present city plot. The town was laid out April 27, 1852, by Meedy W. and Eliza P. Shields. The original plot embraced that part of the present city lying north of Cincin- nati Avenue, south of Fifth Street, east of Indianapolis Avenue, and west of Broadway. The plot included ten blocks and one hundred lots, and was duly registered at Brownstown, the countyseat. The city charter was procured June 24, 1864. The O. M. Railroad, now the Baltimore and Ohio, laid its tracks thr ough Seymour on June 29, 1854, and Captain Shields at the next session of Legislature, of which he was a member, secured the passage of a bill compelling trains to stop at all railroad crossings. Thus the plans of Seymour ' s rival, ' x Rockford, to keep the Pennsylvania trains ■ from stopping at Mule Crossing , as Sey- ••., mour was derisively called, were frustrated. ' ■ Seymour became the proud possessor of two railways. This marked the beginning of Sey- mour ' s rapid growth. Since its founding, Seymour has shown a steady growth and development. It has always kept abreast of the times educationally, indus- trially, commercially, professionally, religiously, and socially. From a small village surrounded by dense forests, it has changed into a city of beauty and importance. The hub of a rich agri- cultural community and equally prominent as a leading industrial center, Seymour merits its slogan, The City of Beautiful Homes.

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THE 1935 Community Highlights Through Unity We Create and Maintain The churches and clubs of Sey- mour have long been considered highlights of the city. Through their cooperation, Seymour has developed into a beautiful and progressive city. Rotary Club: The Rotary Club is a civic organization composed of one man from each of the various pro- fessions in Seymour, Its objective is service, not only to its members but to the community. It strives to se- cure higher ethical principles in business practices. One of its chief lines of activity is boys ' work in which it encourages the youth of the community to live up to higher ideals. The club gives a cup annual- ly to the most outstanding Senior boy. the qualifications for which are scholarship, activities, character, and citizenship in the school and com- munity. The Boys ' Work Committee, working through members of the club and not as a unit, helps boys through college. They aid these boys greatly through financial assistance, encouragement to continue educa- tion, and through personal advice as to conduct or vocation. One of the main ideals of the club is the advancement of good-will and understanding, locally, nationally, and internationally. The whole field of Rotary service is covered under the three commit- tees — Vocational Service, Club Ser- vice, and Community Service, They express themselves in boys ' work, better business methods, and indi- vidual participation in all worthy community activities. The fact that Rotary is free from all political and religious aspects makes it peculiarly fitted for such participation. The Lions Club: The Lions Club is an international service club whose purpose is to band together business men for fellowship and in- auguration of civic enterprises for the upbuilding and improvement of the community. Some of their major projects have been sponsoring of the first jersey Parish show, furnishing of material and actual construction of one of the cabins at Camp Louis Ernest, holding the annual good-will banquet for the boys of Jackson County who par- ticipate in athletics, introducing the annual Easter egg hunt for children and the bean supper for all Seymour boys under fourteen years of age, and organizing a Scout Troop for leaderless boys, many of whom have completed their education and are successfully launched in life, due to this encouragement. The club has joined with the Hi-Y in sponsoring the annual father and son banquet, and inaugurated the good-will bags, the contents of which are annually donated to the Seymour Welfare Assocation. This year the club has undertaken the placing of a moral code for youth in every room of every school in Sey- mour. The aim of th s movement is to develop happier and more useful citizens. They have also held an oratorical contest among Shields High School students, the winner of which had the best written and de- livered essay. This type of contest incites creative and original thinking and develops ability to speak in public. Page Four