Shortridge High School - Annual Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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WE'LL REMEMBER . . . t,E.,.i.,S..t, The popular songs all tell us about those little things that make us remember. A Steamship ticket to romantic places, they say, or a ride through the park. However, after we leave Shortridge, it won't be a trip to a romantic place that we'll remember, or a ride through the park. No, it won't be that. When we were Freshmen . . . so very small and insignificant .. . but so very loyal . . . attending all the football games and then Watching, awed, as the gridiron heroes walked around the halls . . . hurrying . . . hurrying . . . hurrying . . . Was there ever a Freshman who didn't hurry? We'1l remember how we opened our Blue Books for information and studied the plan of the building so we could find our class rooms . . . and that awful day when we started to leave the cafeteria early without a pass . , . that loud guffaw and those cries of Freshie!'l still ring in our ears! And then that day when we were no longer Freshmen, but STALE Freshmen! And we could hoot at the others and feel oh, so superior! We'll never forget that first big Tech game and our victory in it . . . and that first time our names were on the third page . . . Our Sophomore year Went fairly slowly. We weren't Freshmen any more, and no one made fun of us. But we Weren't Juniors yet, either, we were just what we were-S0pho- mores . . . We found out that we didn't have to pay all our Echo installment at once, and that, really, the smaller the payments, the more fun it was Cexcept for the agentl . . . And We heard Salom Rizk, the Syrian, in auditorium that year. As he stood up there and made us laugh one minute, only the next we fought to hold back tears, We began to realize just what it is to becalled an American and to attend a school where we have the friends we Want and to say the things We think. Christmas carols were sung in the halls that year, beautifully, and the little trees in the cafeteria added to the festive spirit. The Christmas Echo came out and everyone wanted everyone else's signature, because that was the thing to want . . . Then suddenly, we were somebody! We were the Junior class with elections and meetings. We joined clubs that year and went to their initiations. We saw plays at the English Theatre, and we had pitch-in dinners and parties after school . . . we started going to all the big dances, and we knew the people who were candidates for Bluebelle and Uglyman. We spent a week-end in Terre Haute with the Drama League members, and We played bridge by fiashlight coming home on the bus. Shortridge Won the sectionals in 1940 and We cheered until we were hoarse . . . We started going to the Parkmoor after school, and we attended all the night games . . . Spring vacation we went on hikes and out of towng we danced till our feet moved Without directing . . . and when we got back to school, everyone laughed when everyone else said, I'm glad to get back to school to rest up! We had our Vaudeville that year, and, although we would admit that there had been other Vaudevilles, we would not say that there had been better Vaudevilles. It was OUR Vaudeville and it was good. The Press Club had a banquet, and everyone laughed till they suffered from that proverbial ache in the side at the mutual razz- ings by teachers and students of teachers and students . . . it was all friendly, and everyone felt better acquainted after that... Then came a summer vacation when we all lived in anticipation of the big year. And we'll remember that year long after other events and years have been forgotten. We-'ll remember it because we were seniors and we owned the school . . . at least we acted as if we did. We were excused the eighth and we sat at cafeteria tables and sang loudly . . . we knitted Cthat is, we girls didl while the boys sat by and watched. It was our class that starred at the football games, it was our class that did the loudest yelling in the bleachers-anyhow, we thought so. We walked around the halls with confidence and showed our passes nonchalantly. We spoke to everyone in the halls. We worried about our senior pictures. The Home Room representatives fought out weighty battles such as whether to have a six-item liner. The senior colors committee met and remet and, after mind-changing, decided upon blue and navy as the senior

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DEBATE During this season, we had forty-one de- cision debates, and I am sure that my de- baters will agree with me that no school in all those forty-one debates equalled the per- formance of Shortridgef' said Charles R. Parks, debate coach at Arsenal Technical High School, in a letter to Clarence C. Shoe- maker, Shortridge forensics' sponsor, after Tech had won the state championship. The season began this year for Shortridge at a tournament held at Wiley High School. Terre Haute, where a squad of eight Short- ridge debaters was successful in seven out of twelve debates. In the district competition in the Indiana State Debating League after initial losses were sustained with Washington High School and two with Technical, it was clear that the district title could no longer be Won. Thereupon, the lineup of the teams was changed frequently to let others have the experience. Further losses were met in de- bates with Crispus Attucks and Rushville. The following participated at various times on the teams: Cleft to rightl Row 1-Allen Moorman, Alan Levinson, C. C. Shoemaker, coach: Harvey Harris, Dick Kiser. Row 2- Ned Hendrickson, Elizabeth Josey, Ruth Ann Hamilton, Marilyn Mueller, and Pat Rudolph. Jon Henry Rouch, who does not appear in the picture, was on the varsity team. The question debated this season was - Resolved: That all able-bodied male citi- zens should have one year of full time mili- tary training befo1'e attaining the present draft age. SPECIAL SPEAKERS Shortridge again was very active this year in special speaking activities in the com- munity and state. One of the most impor- tant was the Community Fund Drive in which Ruth Ann Hamilton, Elizabeth Josey, Joan Dearmin, Bill Nordyke, and Jon Henry Rouch took part. In state contests Jon Henry Rouch was the Shortridge representative in the State Oratorical Contest held at Wabash College on February 21, and Elizabeth Josey and Allen Moorman were the Shortridge repre- sentatives in the State Extemporaneous Speaking Contest held at DePauw Univer- sity on Saturday, April 18. In the State Dis- cussion Contest held at Indiana University. April 10, two first place positions were won by Carolyn Jones and Calvin Hamilton. Pa- tricia Rudolph and Bill Lodwick also parti- cipated in this contest.

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colors. We went to the senior party and laughed at all the clever quips and gifts and drank deeply and ate heartily of cokes and potato chips . . . we danced and danced . . . We were proud of our class oflicers, and they had parts on a Shortridge radio pro- gram . . . We gathered together in groups, laughing, and read They've Got Me Covered, and then, on that fateful day, December 7, we gathered together with serious faces and listened to grim radio reports . . . and the Echo had a special edition with the Presi- dent's speech, and America was in the war, and we were seniors and knew that it will be our generation who will pay . . . and we were intensely patriotic . . . we bought de- fense stamps at the bookstore . . . some of us bought bonds . . . we gave pencils to the U.S.O. and we gave pennies to the Red Cross . . . we read through the papers carefully . . . and we started seeing the names of Shortridge graduates who gave their lives to their country . . . and we were proud. We made up slogans about our part being to stay in school now so we could be the trained men and women of tomorrow's world . . . and we began driving less and walking more because tires were rationed and cars were no longer sold . . . But even though the War was always there behind us, we could forget it some- times. We were young and we were seniors and the whole world awaited us . . . We had our senior play and it was fun to watch our friends on the stage. We saw the candy machines installed in the cafeteria, and we worked in the chemistry labs and walked casually through the halls even if we were late to class . . . We looked back on the year and remembered the funny Hallowe'en party, complete with witches and prophe- cies on the stage . . . and the beautiful Christmas auditorium of America's first year at War and our last year at Shortridge. We had a big senior week . . . we scrawled autographs in Annuals, we went to the Vesper services, and we worked in the Class Day fun . . . We laughed at the giftorian's gifts and reminisced with the historian . . . It Was our class that saw the departing of the old principal and the coming of the new . . .it was our class that was graduated first by this new principal . . . We'll re- member that hot June night when all dressed with such care and walked down the aisles to t'Pomp and Circumstancef' We'll remember the speeches and We'll remember the feeling of that sheepskin in our hands . . . we'll remember our graduation dance and the graduation breakfasts that followed. No, it won't be a trip to a romantic place that we'll remember, or a ride through the park. Instead, We'll remember the incessant clattering of the hall lockers . ,. the eversteady shuffle of feet . . . the appreciative sniffs of everyone as he passed by the home ec rooms . . . We'll remember when we really began thinking about Mil- ton's beautiful phrase, They also serve . . We'll remember our valiant struggles with Caesar and Virgil, and those seventy-five lines of French we did . . . We'll remember that geometry problem the whole class slaved over and the history discussion on the effects of World War I . . . We'll remember that person who sat across the aisle in reference and hummed Stardust, off-tune . . . and those notes we passed across a room, via six or seven people, so our friends could read such a vital message as Wait for me after class . . We'll remember the patient pause in most class room discus- sions on the south side of the building while the street car rattled by . . . and the con- stant din in the cafeteria that sometimes made us forget and start shouting at home during dinner . . . We'll remember the campus in its earliest and barest days and later on, when it was an attractive green place and oh, so inviting during those hot days! We'll re- member field trips our class took through The Indianapolis News and We'll remember working late over the Echo on the afternoon of a big game or a class election . . . We'll remember the window displays and the bulletin boards We'll never forget all those Form 2'3's we nlled out . . . we'll remember the joy of meeting friends in class- es on the first day of the new term . . . and the lines in the bookstore at the beginning and end of each term . . . and the study halls we cut . . . and the books we lost . . . and that Sonnet for English that we labored over . . . No, it won't be a romantic trip that we'll remember, or a ride through the park. It will be all these little things that made up our four years at Shortridge and that made Shortridge ours . . . It will be those things that We'll remember . . .