Shortridge High School - Annual Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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MATH CLUB Under the sponsorship of Miss Ellen Ocker, the Math Club featured the study of mathema- tics in aviation during the fall and spring semesters. Speakers on the club's programs were Enoch Burton, Mrs. Mabel Metz. H. H. Seimers, Gordon Johnson, and Walter Geisler. who spoke on cut crystals for radio sets. Frank Wade also talked, and M. H. Ahrendt and Colin Lett ad- dressed the group on the use of linkages and the slide rule, re- spectively. Meetings were enlivened by mathematical puzzles through- out the year. During the spring semester a party was given at a regular scheduled meeting. Officers are Charlene Weddle and Jean Redwine. presidents: Joan Schmidt and Elizabeth Finley, vice-presidentsg Phoebe Good and Ellen Jacobsen, secre- taries: and Joan Sherwood and Louis Belden, treasurers. Other members include Don Ap- ple, Ila Belle Barnes, Sally Bicknell, Maryann Compton, Richard Deitch, Bill Haldeman, James Hoover, Eliza- beth Jennings, Alan Boyd, Bertha Coughlin, Dick Freeman, Bob Fish- back. Ruth Goodlet, Georgia Giana- kos, Betty Mansfield, Nancy Mor- row, Jane Osborn, Dolma Overley, Marjorie Schatz, David Sherk, Mae Ola Smith, Helen Snellenberger, Mar- jorie Turk, Carl Weinhardt, and Mary Williamson. Mk RADIO WORKSHOP The Radio Workshop, sponsor- ed by Mrs. Wilma Hudson, was disbanded at the beginning of the fall semester but has re- cently been reorganized. The membership is composed of per- sons who are interested in script Writing and radio production. The script group and the pro- duction group hold meetings on alternate weeks. The organiza- tion -gives special emphasis to interpretation and voice tech- niques, while some students sub- mit original broadcasting scripts as individual projects. Ofiicers are John Glossbren- ner, presidentg Jacquie Losche secretaryg and Anne Lindstaedt, treasurer. Other members are Harriet Wein- stein, Lazure Frisch, Irving Prince, Louise Kaplan, Caroline Haught, Alan Parrish, Norma Klepfer, Mar- ian Kubrun, Ruth McGaw. Carolyn Costin, Diana Harvey, Herschel Stroyman, Nancy Sutton, Dale Young, Mary Jo DeVatz, Tom MacConnell, Mary Underhill, and Debbie Mac- Dougal.

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TRUE BLUE For girls interested in doing a very worthwhile service for Shortridge, the True Blue Club has always offered many oppor- tunities. The club, under the sponsorship of Mrs. Della Thompson, Dean of Girls, contributes much to the friendly atmosphere of the school. The largest department of the club is that of the Big Sisters, headed by Peggy Yockeyg they undertake the task of acquainting the freshman girls with Shortridge. Every new girl student is greeted in her home room and escorted through the building by a Big Sister. HI-TRI The Hi-Tri Club is sponsored by Miss Dale Waterbury, with entire membership made up of girls. Since many of the girls are occupied in outside employ- ment this year, the club was not formally organized. How- ever, there are more than twen- ty-five girls in the -group. Dur- ing the Christmas season, the girls held a pencil drive for Socks for Servicemen. They were able to collect over nine hundred pencils. Betty Hubble was chairman of the drive.

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JUNIOR RED CROSS This year the Shortridge chapter of the Junior Red Cross, sponsored by Opal G. Conrad, carried on its reputation for doing many interest- ing and useful thin-gs, all of use in achieving victory. The services per- formed by the group this year in- cluded salvage work, making bed jackets and slippers for Wounded servicemen, making utility bags, sup- plying the U.S.O. with cookies and fudge, and collecting books, maga- zines and games for soldiers. The Junior Red Cross enlisted thirty-one blood donors, sent four hundred table favors to Billings Hospital, and solicited Shortridge contributions in the 1944 Red Cross War Fund drive. There is a Junior Red Cross repre- sentative in each home room. PRESS The Press Club, under the sponsorship of Al J. Kettler, is comprised of all Echo staff members, Echo home room agents, and all journalism stu- dents. It was organized and is continued for the purpose of promoting student interest in the field of journalism. In order to further this pur- pose, -guest speakers are frequently features of Press Club meetings. Mrs. Margaret Stevenson Moore, director of journalism at Franklin Col- lege, was an outstanding feature of an early spring meeting. Nick Ricos is president of the club.