St John Township High School - Echo Yearbook (Dyer, IN)

Text from Pages 1 - 96 of the 1947 volume:

f Dear Old Dyer High T I o some a prison - To some a pleasure - To all an opportunity. Foreword The students, faculty, administration, and parents of our school have, by their fine co-operation, made St. John Township High the grand school it is today. The friendly manner and respect of the groups, one for the other, and their persistent and united desires to get ahead have been rewarded with much success. The students and faculty are a great deal like the soil and plants; plants thrive in favorable soil, and soil, likewise, is improved because of the plant life that it nourishes. The genuine interest of our teachers has helped us in many ways, and we. in return, offer them our utmost respect and sincere gratitude. Together we can get ahead. We. the students of the Senior Class, at the end of our four years, are proud to put out this book showing to others the activities and friendships that exist in St. John Township High School. Page T uo Thanks for the Memories Thanks for the memories Of Mr. Protsman’s classes. Of Eberly and his passes. Of ticket lines, and library fines. And chocolate malt in glasses. How lovely it was. Thanks for the memories Of basketball at nights. Of Junior-Senior fights. Of saddle shoes and Senior dues And dances Friday nights. How lovely it was. Thanks for the memories Of high school affairs. Of innocent stares. Of plaid sport shirts and pleated skirt-. The semester's final scares! How lucky we were. Thanks for the memories Of white and purple strings, Our flashy Senior rings. Lo, at the start, we were not smart. Still from our flings We learned some things. How lucky we were. Thanks for the memories Of cafeteria smells. The jokes our Charlie tells. The Variety Show, the steady beau. The tournaments and yells. How lovely it was. Thanks for the memories The Dyer-Merrilville game, Danny Voich’s fame. The team and Swander’s name. How lovely it was. Many the boner we made. Many penalties paid, Oh. well, it was swell While we stayed; It was such fun. And no harm done. So . . . Thanks for the memories. 0 St. John Township’s D. H. S.. We loved your high school ways. And we shall treasure in full measure Our lovely high school days. Thanks for the memories. Our Sponsor . . We, in appreciation, are dedicating this Echo of 1947 to our sponsor. Miss Ruth Pierce. We look up to her not only as a head or a leader, but. also, as one of us, working together with us to make our class one of the best. She has shown her love for us in many ways, and we, in return, are trying to show our love for her. We know that without her we would not have been able to stay together, nor would we have been able to put out this book. Everything we have done has been done with her help. Dedication Page Four CECIL A. GRAYSON Superintendent ROY C. HILBRICH T rustcc MICHAEL J. ROLLING Ex.'Trustce Page Six f RUTH PIERCE LILLIAN SACKETOS English Science Latin VIRGIL DE ALBANI Music VIVIAN VOREACOS Social Studies Library BEULAH HUSTED Commercial Subjects WILLIAM SMALLWOOD Mathmatics ROSCOE PROTSMAN BEATRICE HRUSKOVICH English Commercial Subjects Dramatics RUTH HOFFMAN Home Economics Health Physical Education FRANCIS SWANDER Coach Commercial Subjects Geography Page Seven To the Graduates on re passing from our sheltering roof; We would not keep you. o! The fledging birds must try their wings,— It has been ever so. When youth is young, ambition’s high; I he world has outstreched arms: Ah. may you taste full—many joys But leave untouched its harms. Weve tried our best to make you wise. To keep you good and true; our school has been so proud of you— °ur dear old gold and blue. Weve loved you. each and evervone, nd. Seniors, let me say Fhat I shall know a sense of loss W hen you go on your way. ou ve been so honest and so sweet, So earnest and sincere. It s been a real joy to have been Wir sponsor year by year. And in the years that are to come hope each day shall bring Its share of pleasure and success And good in everything. —Ruth Pierce Class Officers BETTY WEAVERLING Bets “Love that man’’ “I’ll never tell” Page Ten Seniors ARLENE BICKHAM RAMONA BOOTH ELIZABETH BRYS MOMCE_BURGE Podunk Mona .... E]“ .. „ ‘•OM.rnuf’ “Arc you kiddin” That's for sure No ktddm Holy DOROTHY CRAWORD MARGARET DARNELL VIRGINIA DEWES PAULINE DREISCHERF Dotlie Maggie Ginny Dreisch “Goody-goody-gum balC’ “I’ll betcha” ‘ Oh, you kill me “That’s good, too” BEVERLY EAST Bev “Holy cow” MARY GENARDO Genronimo “My aching back” PAULA GETTLER Skipps “Oh, sugar beets” SHIRLEY GORDON Shirl “Oh, I lore that man” Page Eleven Seniors MARY ANN HORTON Butch Don't get excited BETTY JAMES Rusty Oh, criminie99 VIRGINIA KEILMAN Gina “You know it WILMA MANTER Willie . Oh. brother ' Page Twelve DOROTHY MARSHALL ROSEMARY MILLER Dot Rosie Oh, nuts “0A. shush PATRICIA HILBRICH T rish Jumping Jupiters MARY ELLEN KUHN Kuhnie Ah, fooey I ROBERTA PHILLIPS Bobby Oh. jer Pete's sake Seniors PEARL POPA Pearl I'll never lei!” ARVELA RUSSNOGLE Billy Yeah, hoy” JEANETTE SCHMAL Jeanette “Oh, my gosh” MABEL STOLZENBACH Mabel “You can say thut again” SALLY UPCHURCH Sal Oh. your father’s mustache” GERALD AUSTGEN Gerry “Search me” ALLIE BAKER Baker “Shut up” EUGENE BEASLEY Gene “I’ll be dog-goned” CHARLES BELL Chuck Co shave off” HAROLD BOYLL Harry “Vos is los?” JAMES CARR Jim “I don’t know” DON CHAMBERS Don Oh, nuts” Page Thirteen Seniors DONALD COOK Cook That's rough DALE HEACOCK Dale -Oh Rosie JAMES HEACOCK Jim “Look at that cute thing” EDWARD HIGGINS Ed “Gee whiz” WILLIAM HILBRICK Bill “Hi, babe ' (Sally) GEORGE HILL Les about enough of that99 HARVEY JOHNSON Butch That's stinko ' JOSEPH MAGINOT Joe “0A. 6ile me” HOWARD MILLER Mickey ‘Tm « livin' Page Fourteen EUGENE NEYHART Gene “OA 5ay r EUGENE NONDORF Shorty I'm awfully sorry ' CHESTER QUAIFE Chet “Fes, my love Seniors RICHARD RASH ETA Rich “Mo kid din 9 JACK RALH Jack “If hatcha say WILLIAM REED Bill “Hi ho Silver JOHN SCHIESSER Johnny “Its for sure99 EUGENE SCHMIDT Barrel “Tough blow VERNON SCHULTE T rigger If hat the N? o do you care’ JOSEPH SPECHT Speckv “Oh, baloney99 DANIEL SZYMBORSKI Zoos “I'll never know99 DAN VOICH I). V. Let's be reasonable'9 RAYMOND WACHTER Ray “If hat9s that—hey99 ILUS WOOD Fea rises Grab your hat, come with' Page Fifteen To Our G. I.'s Sixteen G. I.’s will receive their graduation diplomas with our class in May. Six of the hoys have been with us ail year: the other ten have successfully taken the General Education Development Tests and will he awarded diplomas with us. I he four whose pictures are aliove are: Albert Sabo, Gilbert Kaiser, Ernest Neill, and Robert McGuire. The other hoys are: Theodore Donahour. Alphonse heitman, Lester Hitzeman, Cornelius Dykstra. Andrew Kerekes. and Robert Martin. Charles Bell, Dale Heacock, James Heacock. Wm. Hilbrich, George Hill, and Howard Miller are the six who have been with us all year. We feel honored to have these boys graduate with us. Hail to all sixteen. The Seniors l une Sixteen Senior History As we were looking through the History Book of Dyer High School, we ran across an interesting feature, the class of 1947, and, as the story goes, in September 1943. seventy-nine green freshies enrolled. After a week of wandering in the halls and getting acquainted with new friends and new teachers, we gathered together and chose Miss Pierce for sponsor and decided to follow the motto, Don't try dying, die trying.” The colors that appealed to us most were purple and white, and the flower the white camellia. Officers had to be elected to help Miss Pierce in guiding the class, so Dan Voich was chosen as president, Jack Rauh as vice-president. Bob Parker as treasurer, and Sally Upchurch as secretary. Paula was picked to cheer for the team, while Rosie was chosen as queen of the class. As most classes do, we. too. had class parties. . . . both of them a success. Of course, since we were so young. Miss Pierce sent us all home at ten o’clock. This completes the first year of the class, but just sit back and we’ll turn the next page in the History Book to see what happened in 44. Everyone knows that last year’s officers were tops. but. to change things just a little. Bob Parker took honors as president. Glen Eberlv as vice-president. Bill Howard as treasurer, and Betty Weaverling as secretary. In the beginning of the year, another class party was held, but in the fall came our first guest party. This was the finest of them all, but, then, aren’t all guest parties! Arlene was elected queen and Jack Rauh, growing up very handsome, was crowned king. The boys really made us feel quite important by walking off with the inter-class soft ball tournaments. When our flashy class sweaters arrived, we then knew w'e were in and counted as a class. We soon thought we could try anything once, but Mr. Hunt straightened us out in this regard. (In one way or another). The third year was one of work. The officers were so outstanding that they held office for another term. Money was raised by selling candy, pop corn, having dances, helping to sponsor a carnival, and giving the Plum Creek Revue. Around Christmas time, the class rings arrived, being very pretty and catching every one’s eye. Again the boys were victorious in the class tournaments, and Arlene and Glenn ably supported the titles of king and queen. Arlene was not only queen of the Junior Class but of the whole school. Then came the time to spend all of this hard earned money, and the class spent it well. The bartguet was held at Lake Hills Country Club on March 7, and the Prom at Lincolnshire on May 10. This year, after a little persuasion with M iss Pierce, both parties were guest parties. Finally, very sadly, we must tell you of our last year at school. It started very well when we welcomed back six veterans, this making our class more like it used to be when we were Freshies. Like President Roosevelt, our officers again remained in for their 3rd term. Pauline, Betty, and Paula cheered for the team. In October we began plans for our Echo. After many hours and days of continuous work in our Echo room, we finally finished our pictures and sent the last ones off on March 26. This year the class decided to be really funny, and so Miss Pierce consented to a Halloween Class Party. We were honored to welcome so many teachers in costume. Mr. Protsman ably helped us in selecting our Senior play, “Once in a Blue Moon,” and really produced some fine actors for a grand play. Although it took four years, the class finally produced two winning teams for the inter-class tournaments. This year, both boys and girls took honors as basketball champions. The volleyball tournaments weren’t quite as important as basketball, but, anyway, we must mention our victories by both girls and boys. We are now looking forward to the wonderful Prom and Banquet the Juniors are having for us; these expectations give us many happy thoughts, although we knowT that soon graduation will be here and we will have to leave. This makes us sad, because we love Dyer, our high school Alma Mater. Page Seventeen JIM and MARY ANN Romantic HOB and PAT Easy Going Page Mine teen Senior Will Vi e, the Senior Class of 1947. of the St. John Township School. City of Dyer. State of Indiana, who are about to leave these memorable halls and enter the threshold of life, being sound both physically and mentally, do draw up this, our last will and testament, in the following form and manner. Individually, we will leave the following worthwhile possessions, to these subsequent, and, most-likely, ungrateful receivers: I. Pauline Dreischerf. being in a flirtatious state of mind, do leave my ability to flirt with all boys in the halls to Rose Schelfo. I, Don Chambers, with a broken heart, do leave my ever lovin’ textbooks to Bob Carroll. I. Pat Hagge, sadly leave Jim Thompson to carry on alone. I, Ilus Wood, leave to Kathleen Young my patience and endurance at being at the very end of the alphabet. May she rise to a higher level in the future. I. Arvela Russnogle, do bequeath to Pat Smith, my name, as a word never spelled or pronounced correctly. I know that I, John Schiesser, just leave Dyer as the scene of my scholastic triumph where my grades went over like a submarine. I, Mary Ellen Kuhn, a Cub fan. leave my sympathies to Yorma Stark, a sorrowful Sox fan w'ho can never see her team on top. I, Dan Voich, will to Kenny Darnell, all my beautiful gal friends. In doing this, I sincerely hope he can take care of all of them as well as I did. I. Allie Baker, leave my excuse of a car (Blue Flame) to Eugene “Creeper” Little . . . provided the returns from his income tax allow him to keep its gas tank from dying of thirst. I. Dorothy Marshall, leave to Jackie Hauer and Betty Dumbsky the following flunking formula: sleeping, talking, chewing, giggling, and staring. page Twenty In hopes that Dwaine Bell and Rav Schoenbeck will break mv five year endurance at Dyer. I. George Hill, leave them a twentv-five year calendar. I, Ramona Booth. losing another pound last week, will to Phyllis Schinnick my ability to grow tall and thin. Speaking from experience as Radio Announcer. 1. Glen Eberly, will all my screwball ideas io anybody who needs a screwball idea provided he is a screwball. Sounds screwy to me. I, Sally Upchurch, in a jovial state of mind, do will my personality, plus all that goes with it. to Velma McClellan. There’s nothing I, Edward Higgins, can leave but Gloria Loehmer to the wolves that may infest her locker. Feeling very energetic, I. Rosemary Miller, do leave my position as number one clown, along with all my old creme rouge and lipstick, to Donna Ludders and Latitia Butler. Next year’s Dyer golf chumps are to have the proverbial daylights knocked out of them hy the brassie, I. Bill Howard, leave to Marco Voich. I, Mary Ann Horton, in an argumentive mood do will my ability to disagree with the coach . . . and get away with it, to Jill Patterson. I, Charles Carr, do will my beloved mustache to Joe Koshnick, in hopes that he can handle it as well as I did. I, Paula Gettler, feeling very generous indeed, do will my ability to get along with the faculty at Dyer to Evelyn Britton. I. Gerald Austgen, feeling in a generous state of mind, leave to Tom Haas and Herhie “Four Point” Oleson to look after Coach Swander and keep him on the straight and narrow'. I. Shirley Gordon, being in the usual humorous state of mind, do will my ability to make a joke out of everything to Tommy Boecker. I. Howard Miller, willingly bequeath to Bill McClellan 10 extra seconds, because he isn't quite as adept as myself at getting here on time in the a.m. I. Pat Hilbrich. in a very “solid mood, do will my ability to play “Boogie on the piano to Richard Laudeman. providing he gets some help from a certain pianist. I. Robert Parker, in an ambiguous state of mind, do will my position as a certain teacher's pet to- John Metro. We. Marie Hanft. Margaret Darnell, and Pearl Popa. bequeath to Pat Love. Mary Alice Fox. and Mona Sandefur. our years of perfect friendship. I. Harvey Johnson, in a very carefree state of mind and feeling sane enough to write my last will and testament, do bequeath to anvone who doesn't have it. and can’t have it. but would like to have it. the good old Dyer High School. I. Beverly F.ast. do will my ability to control my temper at all times to Carol Smith. I. Vernon Schulte, feeling as though I were flying through space, leave my skill on a typewriter to F.verett Burke and Paul Bohney. 1. Betty W eaverling. feeling in a dreamy state of mind, do will my ability to stay with one man to Phyllis Hanft. I, Elizabeth Brys, leave my sister. Julia Brvs. to carry on alone without my bossing. W'e. Chester Quaife, Richard Rashela. and Eugene Schmidt, leave our ability for making so much noise and annoying the teachers to Frank Paulauski. Glenn Ross, and James Grur.e-wald. I. Virginia Dewes. being in the usual bashful mood, will my amazing ability to speak only when spoken to to erna Mae Dinges and Opal Mullins. 1. Eugene ondorf. being in a rather generous state of mind, will my beloved nickname “Shorty” to James Kupver. I. Virginia keilman. leave to Rosalee Stevenson the honor of trying to get through school doing the least possible work. We. Bill Hilbrich. Charles Bell, and Jim Heacock. bequeath 3 cents (a penny from each), to any student who can out talk Mr. Hunt on any current topic of the day. I. Mary Genardo. being in a moronic state of mind, do will and bequeath my geir erally crazy habits to Mildred Craven. We. Dale Heacock. Jack Rauh, and Joe Maginot, in a very generous mood indeed, leave to James Turpin, Bob Miller, and Albert Ramsey our position as head operators of the mimeograph machine. We. Monice Burge, Betty James, and Wilma Manter. in very sentimental states of mind, do will to Winona Elliott and Dorothy Hill, all our fond memories of the happy years we have spent at Dyer High. I. Eugene Beasley, do will my faithful cheering for Notre Dame to Ralph Miller and Gerald Schaafsma. I. Mabel Stolzenbach. leave my seat in Miss Husted's Shorthand class to Joan Schrei-ber. hoping it will bring her as much luck as it has brought to me. W’e, Harold Boyll and Joe Specht. do leave our ability to argue with teachers to Eugene Quaife and Art Putrus. 1. Dorothy Crawford, leave that last mile to home room to Rita Govert, knowing that she can run it as quickly as I have for the last four years. I. Eugene Neyhart. leave Miss Pierce in a nervous state of collapse; my last wish is that Andy Mika and Johnny Rosinko will console her after I've gone. 1, Daniel Szymborski, feeling in my usual ambitious state of mind do leave my record of perfect attendance at home to Howard Chambers. W'e. Don Cook. Bill Reed, and Ray W achter leave to Vernon Sweitzer. Ronald Dewes. and Bill James, the offices in the official “Wolf Club of Dyer.-’ (Take it easy—boys. I 1. Roberta Phillips, leave my past and future ditching days to Louise Wallace and Pat Schiessle. Having nothing, we. Jeanette Schmal and Delores Held, shall will nothing so that no one will be disappointed for not getting something we haven't got. Signed Kilroy Witnessed by: Oh. just scads of people. Page Tuenly-ont 1. J. Schiesser 7. A. Baker 13. P. Getller 19. K. Rasheta 25. M. Hanft 2m M. Darnell 8. H. Johnson 14. J. Maginot 20. M. A. Horton 26. R. Booth 3. E. Beasley 9. P. Dreischerf 15. 1). Crawford 21. B. Weaverling 27. P. Hilbrich 4. S. Upchurch 10. V. Keilman 16. B. East 22. G. Eberly 5. B. Hilbrich 11. P. Hagge 17. M. Stolzenbach 23. A. Russnogle 6. M. E. Kuhn 12. 1). Voich 18. M. Genardo 24. V. Dewes Page Twenty-two Juniors . . . BELL, DWAINE BOECKER, TOM BOHNEY, PAl l BRITTON, EVELYN BRYS. JULIA BURKE. EVERETT CARROLL, ROBERT CRAVEN, MILDRED DARNELL, KENNETH DEWES, RONALD DINGES, VERNA DUMBSKY, BETTY ELLIOTT, WINONA FOX, MARY COVERT, RITA GRUNEWALD, JAMES HAAS, THOMAS HANFT, PHYLLIS HAUER, JACQULINE HILL, DOROTHY JAMES, BILLY KOSHNICK, JOE KUYPER, JAMES LAUDEMAN, RICHARD LITTLE, EUGENE LOEHMER, GLORIA LOVE, PATRICIA LUDDERS, DONNA McClellan, velma McClellan, william METRO. JOHN MIKA, ANDREW Juniors . . . III.LF.R. RALPH MILLER. ROBERT MULLINS. OPAL OLESEN, HERBERT PATTERSON, JILL PAULAUSKI, FRANK PUTRUS. ARTHUR OUAIFE, EUGENE RAMSEY. ALBERT ROSINKO. JOHN ROSS. GLENN SANDEFUR. MONA . SCHAAFSMA, GERALD SCHELFO, ROSE SCHIESSLE, PATRICIA SCHOENBECK. RAYMOND SCHRE1BER. JOAN SCHWEITZER, VERNON SHINNICK. PHYLLIS SMITH CAROL SMITH. PATRICIA STARK, NORMA STEVENSON. ROSALEE THOMPSON. JAMES TURPIN. JAMES VOICH. MARCO WALLACE, VELMA YOUNG, KATHLEEN Page Twenty-Kie Junior Officers . . . Mar o Voich. President: Hetty Dumbsky, Treasurer: James Turpin. Vice-President: Paul Bohney. Secretary. On September 7, 191-4. Dyer greeted our new class of 84 freshmen. Being quite shy, and unaware of the present happenings, we pleaded with Miss Hruskovich to please help us “get acquainted”. She did. and about a week later our class was organized and the following officers were elected: Billy James, president; Eugene Little, vice-president; Norma Stark, secretary; and Robert Miller, treasurer. The white carnation was chosen to be the class flower, and “Dim. but growing brighter”, our motto. In accordance with that familiar phrase, “Green Freshmen”, Kelley green and white were chosen to be the class colors. Evelyn Britton and Eugene Little reigned as king and queen of the year. Amid all the fun, there were also those rugged days as any freshie will find out, such as: initiation, those first dancing lessons, and the “unwanted” trips to the office. We closed the glorious freshie year by having a class party. More fun!!! I’ll never tell!!!??? After a three month hibernation, we find the class back at school At a class meeting these people were chosen to lead the class: Albert Ramsey, president; Marco Voich. vice-president; Jacqueline Hauer, secretary; and Jim Turpin, treasurer; Our first project was to get our sweaters and when they came . . . OH, BOY! We must not forget that our sophomore boys won the inter-class softball tourna- Page Twenty-six ments and that Carol Smih and Albert Ramsey nobly won the honor of being king and queen of our class. Then, preparing for our Junior year, we ordered our rings. Will September ever come? ? ? Now. feeling quite capable of accepting the responsibilities of a good Junior class, we decided again, as usual, to elect new officers. They are: Marco Voich. presiding as Big Chief; Jim Turpin, his able assistant; while Paul Bohney was chosen to be the Pencil Pusher, and Betty Dumbsky as Money Stacker . . . sure, we have so much of it. A month later a kind mailman brought our class rings! And they’re really nifty! W’e just can’t overlook the work done by the boys’ and girls’ softball teams. They made it a dual victory by winning both inter-class tournaments. The Junior-Senior banquet was held at Lake Hills Country Club on March 27. The money for this and the prom, which is '.o be held at the Knights of Columbus Hall. Gary, May 2, was obtained through candv sales, sock hops, and pennant sales. All in all. the Junior Class had a very successful year, and, upon returning as Seniors we shall try to do as well with the Echo and other activities. Until then . . . Bye! Sophomores . .. . AINSLEY, DARIEN VNDERSON, BETT1E AUSTGEN, ( LAREN I BAKER, IRENE BEASLEY. JAMES BORMAN, ALBERT BOSTON, ARNOLD BRACKETT. MARY A BUDACK, JUNE CARAHOFF. M RILYN CARROLL. BETTY CHAMBERS, HOWARD CHAPMAN, DOROTHY COLE. JAMES COOKE. BILL CRAVEN. LaVERNE CRONER, FLOSSIE DAHLKE, LaVERNF. DAVIS, LYNDON DAVIS, RICHARD DELINCK. MARY DEWES. DELORES DUGGER. DONALD DUMBSKY. ALFRED FACEN. MAUREEN FERRELL, BETTY FRANCO. MARGUARITE HIGGINS. JEAN HOERNIG. THOMAS JOHNSON. ELAINE KEILMAN, RALPH KENDALL, OLIVER KUHN, DENNIS Kl HN, EUGENE LEMIEUX. JEANETTE LIMING, BEVERLY LUDDERS, MARJORIE MAGER, JAMES M AGI NOT, LORR AINE M INTER, GLORI Page Tuen ty-eigh t Sophomores . . . McDonald, joan MARGRAF, EARL MIKA, JOHN MITERKO. GEORGIAN NEAL, JOSEPH NIELSEN. BETTY NEYHART. JOHN NOLAN. MARJORIE OLSON. LEE PAULAUSKI, JANET PELACHIK, MARY PFEIFFER, MARILYN PFEIFFER, ROSE MARIE PHILLIPS. THELMA POPA. ROSE POZEZANAC, WILLIAM RAAB, CLARENCE RASHETA, MARIAN REED. JOHN ROBBINS. JOANN IOSINKO, RICHARD RUSSELL. RICHARD SCHALLER, MICHAEL SCHIESSER, EULA MAE LV'iiircci v vr� nM SCHREIBER, NORMA STARK, DON SWEET, OVELLA THORNBURG. ROBERTA II D I PC WACHTER, ROSEMARY WALDEN, JEAN WE1N, HELEN WIGLEY, ROBERT WINTERS, JANICE WINTERS, WILLIAM MULLINS, RUBY Page Twenty-nine Eugene Kuhn, treasurer: Alfred Dumbskv, vice-president: Jean Higgins, secretary; Don Stark, president Sophomore History Sophomore Officers . . . The Sophomores entered Dyer High on September 5. 1945, with an enrollment of 77 and with as much confidence, arrogance, and timidity as did any other class of Freshmen. Under the guidance of our sponsor. Mr. Jack, we elected our first class officers as follows: Lyndon Davis, president; Mike Schaller. vice-president; Eula Mae Schiesser, secretary; and Eugene Kuhn, treasurer. We chose the American Beauty Rose for our class flower and royal blue and white for our class colors. Our motto is “The elevator to success is not working, use the stairs.” One of our members. Alfred Dumbsky, was crowned King of the Basketball tournament. an honor of which we were very proud and will always remember. Mr. Jack left our school during the summer and we lost a capable sponsor. Presto! Before we realized it. we were Sophomores. Mrs. Hoffman was our sponsor and we had elected class officers. Donald Stark is our president; Alfred Dumbsky. vice-president; Jean Higgins, secretary; and Eugene Kuhn, treasurer. Vie had our first party at the beginning of the year; later, a Christmas party in the Home Economics room. The ring salesman visited us in March. Our ring selection is really a super-duper”. The Sophomore girls defeated the Senior girls in the soft ball tournaments, but we bowed to the Juniors in the finals. Our boys lost to the Seniors in the first round. Our King and Queen candidates for the tournament this year are Betty Ferrel. and Earl Margraf. Rosemary Wachter and Alfred Dumbsky are our members on the Student Council, and Betty Ferrel is secretary of the Teen Age Club. The Sophomore girls are proud of their membership in the Sunshine Society and their participation in the Operetta. Page Thirty ) Freshmen . . . AINSLEY, ALLEGE A ALSIP, IRENE ASHCRAFT. LORENE BOSTON, BARBARA BRITTON, ROBERT BROCKMAN, RALPH CONGER, THOMAS CRAIG, MELVIN CRIDER. JEAN DELINCK, JOAN DEMSHAR, MIKE DeYOUNG, BERNARD DOCTOR. ELMER DOCTOR, ROY DUMBSKY, JACQUELINE ELLIOTT, JIMMIE FRANZLE, IRENE GALL, BARBARA GASS, PAUL HALFMAN. JOAN HOERNIG, JAMES HOGAN. NELLIE HALSEN. BETTY HOMAN. MARTH JAMES, TOM JARYSZAK, RICHARD JEWETT. ARTHUR KEILMAN, JAMES KLEMME. M RJORIE KOEPLE, JEANETTE KRISTIN AT, AUGUST KUHN, PEGGY KWIATKOWSKI. DENNIS LAWRENCE. PAT LITTLE. LEO LOEHMER, COLLEEN LOEHMER. COLLETTE LOTSHAW, JOHN MAGER, LOIS Page Thirty-tuo Freshmen . . . MARSHALL. ROY McMILLEN, GLORIA Mr CLELLAN, JEANETTE METRO, HELEN MILLER. HELEN RAF MILLER, HOWARD MORRISON. JACKIE MULLINS, DOROTHA NEAL, ROSE NELSON, DONALD OEDING, MARY PATTERSON, CHARLES PIEPHO. NORMA PILSITZ. CHARLOTTE POPA, JOHN PUTRUS, NORA RUDISEL, BEVERLY ROSINKO, CAROL ROSS. MARTINA SARBON, ELENA SCHMAL. BONNIE SCHMAL, MARY ANN SCHNECK, MARLENE SCHWEITZER. RICHARD SING, ROBERT SMALLWOOD, HELEN SMALLWOOD. KEITH STOLZENBACH. RUBY SYMMES, EUGENE THIEL. DOLORES THIEL, LOIS THORNBURG, ROBERT UPCHURCH. CHARLES VOYAK, ROBERT WACHTER, RALPH WEIN, JOSEPH WIGLEY, DARLENE WOLFE. JOHN WOOLEN, KAY Page Thirty-three Freshmen Off i icers ... lommy James. President; Carol Kosinko. Secretary; nohael Demshar, Vice-President; Helen Kae Miller, Treasurer Freshmen History At the beginning of the year we elected Mike Demshar as president. Tom James as vice president, Carol Rosinko as secretary, and Helen Rae Mi Her as treasurer. Miss Husted was our class sponsor. Our class colors wert red and gray, and the red rose was our class flower. Our class motto is. “Success comes in cans: I can, you can, we can . Soon after school began, the class had a get acquainted picnic in the Dyer Park. Remember that especially exciting night ir, October, when we Freshmen had our guest party? We danced, had delicious refreshments, and played games; a good time was had by all! The boys’ soft ball team distinguished itself by earning a place in the Inter-Class contest. The Christmas party and gift exchange were highlights for the class. Tim girls’ basketball team won the honor of playing the Senior team in the girls’ finals after the Freshies” defeated the Juniors. The girls played wonderful ball and made a marvelous showing in new sweaters. Betty Halsen had the honor to be queen of the basketball tournament. Just before school closed, we Freshies enjoyed our last party of the year. Page Thirty-four Echo Staff . . . Standing: — G. Hill. H. Miller. J. Schmal. D. Marshall, J. Schiesser, R. Phillips, E. Brys, J. Carr, D. Held, V. Keilnian. W. Howard. E. Neyhart. H. Boyll. Miss Ruth Pierre, E. Nondorf Sitting — P. Dreischerf. M. A. Horton, R. Miller, S. Gordon, S. Upchurch. G. Eberly, D. Crawford. P. Gettler. B. Weaverling. P. Hilbrich, M. Genardo Echo A lovely ‘Echo’' has long been the annual tradition of Dyer High School. And now comes our “brain-child’’. We have all worked very hard and have tried to give you an inside picture of what goes on in our High School. We are very proud of our success. Editor-in-Chief Sallv Upchurch Sales .Manager Eugene Neyhart Assistant Editor Shirley Gordon Glass Salesmen Business Manager ... Glen Eberly Freshmen Virginia Keilman Pictures Betty Weaverling Dolores Held Dorothy Crawford Paula Gettler Sophomores Chester Quaife llus Wood Pat Hilbrick Pauline Dreischerf Juniors Harold Bovll Eugene Nondorf Artists Richard Rasheta Eugene Beasley Senior Dorothy Marshall Jeanette Schmal Literary Editor Rosemary Miller Staff Typists .. Mary Genardo Assistant ... Mary Ann Horton Wilma Manter Athletic Editor Howard Miller Roberta Phillips Assistant George Hill Mabel Stolzenbach Advertising Manager .... Bill Howard Sponsor Miss Ruth Pierce Page Thirty-six Echo Staff . . . Left to Right S. Gordon. S. Lpc-huroh, Miss Ruth Pierce. G. Eherly Left to Right Standing P. Dreischerf. R. Weaverling Sitting P. Gettler. P. Hillbrich. I). Crawford Left to Right Standing G. Hill. B. Howard Sitting J. Schiesser, M. . Horton. H. Miller, K. Miller. J. Carr Left to Right Standing J. Schmal, H. Boyll. E. Nondorf, E. Neyhart. . keilman Sitting R. Phillips. D. Marshall. E. Byrs, D. Held. M. Genardo Page Thirty-seven Comet Staff Left to Right R. Parker. J. Sperht, J. Maginot, G. Schmidt, J. Kanh, P. Hagge. M. Hanft, J. Schiesser, H. Johnson, M. Parnell, P. Popa, Miss Lillian Sacketos Sitting R. Rasheta. A. Birkham, G. Beasley, M. Burge, A. Russnogle, R. Booth, V. Dewes, B. Last Comet The Comet is a Dyer publication that is put out by the Seniors. Miss Sacketos supervised the work while the poor kids busied themselves cutting stencils, writing F.ditor-in-Chief ................ Bob Parker Asst. Editor........................ Pearl Popa Business Manager .................. H. Johnson Assistants ...................... John Schiesser Joe Specht Jim Heacock gossip, and keeping up on the latest news. Pupils can hardly wait to see what nice things are said about themselves — and their friends. H. School Beporer .......... Mary E. Kuhn Grade News ........................... Patti Hagge Exchange Editor ............ Virginia Dewes Exchange Editor ........... Virginia Dewse Gossip Editor ................. Beverly East Mimeograph ..................... Joe Maginot Dale Heacock Jack Rauh Miss Sacketos Bamona Booth Joan Schreiber .... D. Ainsley R. Stolzenbach Artist ................................ Eugene Beasley Arlene Bickham Richard Rasheta Proof Readers .............. Margaret Darnell Marie Hanft Stencilist ..................... Monice Burge Arvela Russnogle Sponsor ........... Senior Reporter ... Junior Reporter ... Sophomore Reporter Freshman Reporter .. Page Thirty-eight Left to Right Standing M. Hanft. M. Darnell, J. Maginot. J. Rauh Sitting A. Russnogle. M. Burge, D. Heacock Left to Right Standing G. Schmidt. J. Specht, J. Schiesser S lJ. n Schreiher, D. Ainsley, R. Stolzenbach, R. Booth Comet Staff . . . Left to Right H. Johnson. B. Parker. Miss Lillian Sacketos. P. Popa Left to Right B. East. R. V. Dewes. Rasheta. A. Bickham. P. Hagge. G. Beasley, Page Thirty-nine Commercial Club Left to Right Row I B. Parker, J. Maginot, J. Ranh, G. Eherlv. D. Voich, E. Higgins, E. Nevhart, B. Howard Row II S. Upchurch. P. Hilhrich, D. Held. R. Miller. P. Gettler, B. East. S. Gordon, R. Booth. A. Russnogle, M. Burge, M. A. Horton. P. Dreischerf. B. Weaverling, Miss Beulah Husted, P. Hagge Row III E. Brvs. M. Hanft, M. Darnell, V. Dewes. B. James, M. Genardo. A. Bickham, D. Crawford. R. Phillips, J. Sehmal, D. Marshall, V. Keilman, P. Popa The Commercial Club is an organization honoring students who have won awards in typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping. Along with their hard studying, they managed to have some fun. They will never forget their trip to Chicago to see “Oklahoma or their wonderful trip to Indianapolis to visit the legislature. Miss Beulah Hus'.ed is sponsor. AWARD PRESENTED Left to Right Miss Beulah Husted. Dolores Held. Mr. Charles Hunt Dolores Held being presented with the first prize award that she won in the “World’s Monthly Bookkeeping Contest”. Six thousand persons competed in the contest. Page Forty Once in a Blue Moon ONCE IN A BLUE MOON, a farce in three acts, was presented by the Senior Class of St. John Twp. School. Mr. Hoscoe Protsman. Director. Miss Ruth Pierce. Sponsor, and Dean Stilwell ......� .......... Chester Quaife Stella Stilwell ................... Pat Hilbrich Pearline ...................... Shirley Gordon Basil Laird ...................... Glen Eberlv Nelson Haring .................. Robert Parker Emily Dunning ................ Rosemary Miller Mrs. Veronica Dunning ....... Betty W eaverling Crystal Austin .................. Paula Gettler Nora Smith ................................ Sally Upchurch Kittens Dolan ...............Dorothy Crawford Boris Androff ............................... Dan Notch Margo Wade .................. Virginia Dewes Claudia Haring ............... Mary Ann Horton STAGE CREW Left to Right: Joe Maginot, Eddie Higgins, Allie Baker, Jack Ranh Page forty- • • 4 Sunshine Society The Sunshine Society offers membership to all Sohomore, Junior, and Senior girls. Funds for activities were raised by a Rose Dance and the operetta. “A Big Day”. A trip to Ambia was taken for the District meeting. Several girls attended the annual Girls’ Conference at Roosevelt High School in East Chicago on April 19. Left to right — P. Dreischerf, B. Neilsen, D. Chapman. E. Scheisser, R. Booth, S. Gordon, B. East, A. Russnogle, M. Burge, P. Hanft, J. Sehmal, L. Maginot. H. Wein, E. Britton. J. Schreiber, Miss Beulah Hlisted - Sponsor. J. Winters, B. Weaverling, P. Hilbrich. B. Dumbsky, R. Wachter, L. Da hike, I). Held. M. Hanft, M. Darnell. R. James, D. Marshall. W. Manter, J. McDonald. M. Nolan. V. Dewes, S. Upchurch, M. Brackett. M. Delinck. V. McClellan, E. Johnson, J. Brys, R. Schelfo, V. Keilman, R. Stevenson, R. Phillips, J. Patterson, J. Hauer, P. Popa, R. Miller, P. Gettler, M. Rasheta, P. Love, M. Sandefur, T. Phillips, V. Dinges, M. Franco, E. Brys, B. Ferrel, F. Croner, N. Schreiber, G. Manter, G. Loehmer. N. Stark, M. A. Horton. P. Smith,, I). Crawford, A. Bickham. M. Genardo, M. Pfeiffer, M. Pelachik. R. Thornburg, R. Pfeifer Page Forty-two Rose Dance The Rose Dance was sponsored by the Sunshine Society at the Dyer Gymnasium in October. The music was conducted by Joe Horn and his orchestra. Refreshments were served and a wonderful time was had by all. Wishing may make it so. All’s well at the wishing well. Crowning the Rose Queens. Page Forty-three Glee Club Left to right. Back How — I). Chaml� ers, G. Beasley, A. Mika, R. Rasheta Middle Row — P. Gettler. D. Ainsley, B. East, P. Dreischerf. B. Weaverling, R. Miller, R. Booth, J. Robbins, k. Young, H. Smallwood, . Dinges, D. Held Front Row — P. Hilbrich, A. Ainsley. M. A. Horton. D. Crawford, E. Brys, A. Bickham, J. Morrison. M. A. Pelachik, P. Schiessle, D. Hill, Virgil De Albani. music director Band . . . Left to right. Back Row — Wilson, Back. Gass. McDonald. Blascovich. Mika. Winters, Sohl. Smallwood, Bowles, Birchall, Roll, Fryar, Virgil De Albani Front Row — Croner, Temple, Brachter, Sutherlin. Wood, Harris. Quaife, Johnson, Rasheta, Fagen Baton Twirlers . . . Left to right — D. Ainsley, S. MacKinnon. W'. Gergley. H. Smallwood. T. Karsten. J. Thompson, J. Higgins Pnfte Forty-file Senior Prophecy It is the eventful evening of April 24, 1947, in the town of Dver. Tonight in the High School gymnasium, the annual carnival, sponsored by the Junior and Senior classes, is being held. We have now arrived at the shindig and it appears on its way to becoming a huge success. There are really so many side shows and entertainment that it is hard to decide where to start. Usually every carnival or circus has a fortune teller, and this one is no exception. It seems like a pleasant way to begin an evening, so come, let us venture in and see what the future has in store for us. As we enter the tent, seated before her crystal ball is — Madame ltell All, ready and willing to foretell the destiny of the graduating class of “47”. The room becomes dark and everyone is quiet so that Madame ltell All can make that mystic contact with her crystal ball. A few minutes pass by and Madame is able to see a vision of what is to come in 15 years: ’Tis 12:02 A.M. in the city room of the daily newspaper. Believe It Or Not Or Don t If You Don’t Want To. and news flashes are coming in by teletype for the morning edition. Editor Delores Held and her copy boy, John Scheisser, are frantically working over the news items so that they can go to press. These bulletins are now coming in: FLASH! Notorious gangsters. Charles “The Trigger” Bell, and Dan “The Brain Symborski have just escaped from the state prison Song Sing and everyone is warned to be on the lookout for them. Three of our most prominent citizens are now working at the new candy factory just out-side of town. They are Dale Heacock. Edward Higgins, and Elizabeth Brys. Dale is employed as a mechanic (he tightens the nuts in the almond bars), Eddie puts the stripes in the candy canes, and Elizabeth puts the flavor in the candy kisses. The world famous diver. Eugene Beasley, has just proved to the world that his new pen really does write under water. Yesterday the national Hop-Scotch tournament was hopped and none other than our old Bob Parker was crowned “King of the Hop-Scotchers”. As a remembrance of this game, he was presented with a beautiful gold plated lagger. because he had such stiff competition. Speaking of games, tomorrow night the women’s light-weight championship wrestling, match will be held at Madison Round Gardens. The star wrestler will be Miss Mary Ellen Kuhn. Miss Kuhn is sure of a victory, due to the fact that she received training in Dyer High School halls and that the referee will be her old school-mate. Virginia Keilman. Three new radio programs for the kiddies have now been added to the NUT network. At 5:30 P.M. we have Joe Maginot portraying “The Wheaties Champion”, Jack Armweak. His program is followed by Major Eight O’clock formerly of the Captain Mid-night Show, starring Ray Wachter; and last but not least is the tiny tots favorite, “Unkie Don” better known as Don Cook. He has all the little kiddies so charmed that they must hear his fairy stories before they toddle off to dream land. You would hardly expect a woman to be in this profession, but it is sometimes said that women have more tact than men. Such is the case of Arlene Bickbam and her Bugs-Begone Company—best exterminators in town. Her two able bodied helpers are Dorothy Marshall and Wilma Manter. who figure out ways to out-smart the bugs. A one-fourth partner in the Binkham exterminating Company is James Heacock. M.D. (Mouse Decreaser) who has just invented a new atomic mouse trap. Last week the famous movie actress, Rita Haystack (whom we know as Mary Genardo) arrived on the “B.O. and P.U.” railroad line, owned and operated by James Carr. She would like to thank the conductor, Mr. Howard Miller, for the polite consideration he gave her at all times. At the station to meet Miss Genardo was the town's all girl orchestra directed by Chester Quaife. They played her favorite song, “Loafer. Come Back To Me”, with Hot Lips Horton at the tuba, and Baby Face Booth doing the vocals. On the list of entertainment for this week is the Russian Ballet with Gene Schmidt, an up and coming young dancer in the second line of the chorus. Next is the circus. It’s A Bird! It’s A Plane! no—no— it’s Harold Boyll swinging from one trapeze to another and catching Page Forty-six his beautiful partner, Pat Hagge, in a triple somersault. An unusual animal act at the circus is performed by Bill Howard and Harvey Johnson; they act the part of a dancing horse, and Bill is in the front end. One of the newest professions today is held by Mabel Stolzenbach; she keeps the transportation going by feeding the Grey Hounds. The sudden death of John D. Stonefaller has been very profitable for Madame Betty James who has the finishing off school for girls. He contributes his millions to the school because his niece, Arvella Hussnogle. had become so charming through the leadership of Betty’s counselor. Jeanette Schmal. A new discovery in the field of cosmetics is a wonder-working vanishing cream, put on the market by Monice Burge (she is now experimenting in camel’s humps); and a perfume by Margaret Darnell. Its name is “Ketchum em All” and is guaranteed to do the same. Residents of the community, keep your children at home because it is said that the Boogie Man”, alias Don Chambers, is lurking around to scare them. For the best haircut in town go to Baugh's barber shop, where the proprietor s better known as Jack The Snipper”. This ■veek he has invited to his shop the famous ■Riche” Rasheta. a French woman’s hair stvlist to bring in more business. Something has happened that has never happened before ... a woman candidate for Presidency. Who should it be but Betty Weaver-ling running on the Rough Deal Ticket. A taxi line has just been started in our fair city and Dottie ‘‘The Clutch” Crawford is the chief driver. Her hack is kept in perfect order by grease monkey, Paula Cettler. Vie have just added a new post, Glen F.berly, to our list of great composers. He gained his fame through this short verse: Spring is sprung. The grass is riz. I wonder where the flowers iz”. Guest speaker of the Women’s Community Sewing Club will be the Rev. Oliver Baker, who will speak on the subject of ‘‘Correct Care for Little Children”. No more has “Inner Sanctum” got a squeaking door, since George Hill, sound effects man, got busy and oiled it. The new grade school is now completed and they have employed two pretty young ladies, Marie Hanft and Roberta Phillips, for school marms. In addition to the grade school, another place of education has been started by Gene Neyhart. Its main purpose is to teach people how to tell which way the new Studebakers are going. A circus also has on its staff a veterinarian, Bill Reed, who takes care of the merry-go-round horses. It must be an epidemic in town, or could it be the new “Swoon Goon”, Vernon Schulte? Way up in the North Woods there is a terrible blizzard, but lumberjack. Joe Specht, keeps right on working in all weather. The camp’s cook keeps the “huskies” fed so well that w-e must tell you her name. Shirley Gordon. The Gooey Fork, a Chinese restaurant, was recently opened by Rosemary Miller, and she has as her two hash slingers. Pearl Popa and Virginia Dewes. An added attraction is the pretty cigaret girl. Beverly East. The restaurant’s sanitation problem is well taken care of by the city’s garbage collector. Bill Hilbrich. who does the shoveling, and Sally Upchurch, who is the official driver. Notorious Bell and Symborski have just been reported captured by the plain clothes detective. Eugene Nondorf. Speaking of cars, a new one has just been invented by Dan Voich. His model has an homogenized brake and a pasteurized differential. square wheels, and cast iron fenders. If one of your loved ones should depart, see Gerald Austgen for funeral services. His associate is Ilus Vt ood who digs the graves. The only member of the class who is married at the present is Pauline Dreicherf, who married a wealthy Irishman. Pauline has all her work done, including the discipline of Junior, by Pat Hilbrich. her combination maid and governess. Now Madame has finished her preview of the future, so we shall all leave the tent and go to the spook house. M iss Pierce who was the sponsor of this class is now sitting back, very proud of the pupils she led through High School and content in knowing that they will succeed in the world. Page Forty-seven 1. Inseparable Chums 8. Betty and Pat 15. Little Glen 22. When Mickey Vvore 2. Tug of ????? 9. Ix oks Natural 16. Junior 23. The Old Gang 3. Miss Oomph 10. Sweethearts 17. Small Fry 24. Pals 4. Jack 11. Censor 18. Mutt and Jeff 25. Teacher??? 5. Paula 12. Fluff 19. Swing Your Partner 26. When Day Is Done 6. Dan 13. Cute Dog 20. Toughies 27. Right At Home 7. Marie 14. Sal??? 21. Ilus Had Teeth 28. Hi Ho Billv Page Forty-eight Cheerleaders . . . Left to right—Pauline Dreischerf, Betty Weaverling, Paula Gettler Fight ’em team Fight ’em team fight em, fight em, Shoot ’em high and low And High and low And High and low And fight ’em team. Fight ’em. SCHOOL SONG We’ll fight for the old gold and blue, The sons of our school who are true, Well cheer till the last loud report of our guns And we know you have won. Dyer High, rah, rah. So win once again, Dyer High, And add to your fame. Dyer High. W hile we sit and cheer together Beat them and leave a better memory of dear Dyer High. Hey bob a re ba, our team is hep. So come on, kids, lets get in step. Swing me. sugar, with a boogie beat, ’Cause Dyer High is all reet. Page Fifty Timekeepers • • • Left to right — Vessy Redar, Bill Weaverling. Eugene Kuhn AFTER THF. “BALL W AS OVER DATE TEAM WF. THEY Name Points Nov. 8 Alumni 36 23 Paulauski 180 Nov. 15 Beecher 57 15 D. Voich 157 Nov. 2? Portage 25 36 Eberly 143 Nov. 26 Kouts 25 31 M. Voich 87 Dec. 6 Hobart 24 36 Haas 33 Dec. 13 East Gary 35 37 Turpin 32 Dec. 17 Central 43 53 Grunewald 20 Jan. 7 Crete 41 38 Ross 10 Jan. 17 Merrillville 36 33 Ramsey 7 Jan. 22 Wirt 44 57 Austgen 6 Jan. 24 Edison 49 48 Jan. 28 Lowell 48 50 Feb. 5 Wirt 45 27 Feb. 7 Beecher 58 16 Feb. 11 Crete 46 33 Feb. 14 Wheeler 42 21 Feb. 19 Griffith 18 48 Single overtime Double overtime Page Fifty-one First Team Left to right, Bark Row Ri hard I.audeman. Albert Ramsey, Glen Ross, Tom Haas, Gerald Austgen, Paul Bohney Front Row — Jim Turpin. Frank Paulaski, Marco Voich, Dan Voich, Jim Grunewald, Glen Eberly. Francis Swander, Coach Second Team Left to right — Don Stark, A1 Borman. Charles Turpin, Vernon Schweitzer, John Rosinko, Don Dugger, Lee Oleson, Jim Cole, Lyndon Davis, Paul Bohney, Manager Page Fifty-four Freshman Team Left to right: J. Elliott, R. Thornburg, .1. Wolfe, M. Demshar. k. Smallwood, J. Hoernig. I). Kwiatkowski, C. Upchurch, R. Sing, C. Patterson, K. Woolen Jr.-Hi Team Center: Coach Swander Clockwise: B. Smith. C. Ashcraft. D. Clark, D. Paulauski, R. Howell. J. Cook. fi. Burke, J. Dtnges D. Jones, H. Hall, G. Pfieffer Page Fifty-five B. J a$ Out Field F. Paul ausKi Pit cher E. .Kuhn Short sto B. CooKe C atelier J. Turpin Out Field V T)ft ■ J %jf K. Derhell Out FieLd L. Dav’is Out Field Golf Team Left to Right: G. Austgen, B. Howard. F„ Neyhart, D. Voich Sweafermen Left to Right; B. Howard, J. Magi not, G. Austgen, K. Neyhart. G. Eberly, E. Schmidt, J. Schiesser, D. Voich Page Fifty-eight Senior Champs . . . Basketball - Girls Left to Right: G. Eberly - Manager, M. A. Horton, S. Upchurch, I . Gettler, I . Hilbrich, M. E. Kuhn. B. Weaverling, P. Dreischerf, I). Voich - Manager Basketball - Boys Lejt to Right: B. Howard. J. Maginot, J. Kauh, D. Cook. H. Boyll. G. Eberly, E. Neyhart, C. Qnaife. E. Higgins. A. Baker. D. Voieh Page Sixty Junior Victors Softball - Girls Left to Right Bark How: J. Turpin, T. Becker, G. Boss, T. aas, H. Olesen, J. Rosinko Front Row: J. Metro, J. Koshnirk, A. Putrus, R. Miller Page Sixty one Left to Ri: Front Row :ht Bark : I). Hill. Row: T. Haa . G. Loehmer. P. Hanft, P. Smith. I . Schiessle. R. Govert J. Srhreiher, E. Britton, J. Turpin Softball - Boys King and Queen and Court At right reading left to right. Bark Row — E. Marpraf. J. Rosinko Middle Row — B. Ferrell. C. Smith, M. Dame M. Demshar front Row — A. Dumbsky. B. Halsen (queen G. Eherly (kingI. A. Bickham Belou reading left to right Bark Row — J. Wolf. A. Dumbsky, C. Hun Prineipal. T. Haas. J. Rauli Front Row — G. McMillan. R. Watchei P. Love. R. Miller Student Council Page Sixty-two Dennis at work Jean Jr. and Sr. Helen Nice swing Dyer beach Hear View 8. One summer day 9. Dorothy, Mona, and Phylis 10. Whitey 11. Going swimming— 1 guess 12. 1 knew there were more 13. Dyer had a team 14. Big Boss 15. Continued next issue 16. Your guess is as good as mine 17. Annual Teibels waitress 18. Seniors 19. Dreisch's feet 20. Now and—Forever 21. Who's b.’ing funnv 22. Joe 23. When “Mugs” was cute 24. Softball tournaments 25. Is it or isn't it??? Page Sixty-three Operetta . . . I'lie king and Queen and their attendents. The Operetta ‘'Big Day’’ was really a success. The musical talent of the Sunshine girls was very pleasingly displayed under the direction of Miss Beulah Husted. sponsor, and Virgil De Albani, music director. The whole cast including the clowns who are seated on the floor. Paula and Pat. alias Columbine and Harlequin, take the center with a colorful ballet. Page Sixty-four Junior Chorus girls, one of the many attractions of the Greasy Spoon . Plum Creek Review . . . The Plum Creek Revue was sponsored by the Seniors (when we were Juniors). Each class put on its own skit. Most of the skits, as you can probably see from the pictures, were original. Peanut vendors to budding musicians and track to Sioux City Sue . Page Sixty-five A group of carefully chosen Sophomore beauties??? who tripped the light fantastic. Teen-Age Club Officers Left to Right Bark Row: Tom Hass. Glen Eberly, Richard Howell Front Row: Jackie Dumbsky, Betty Ferrel, Donna Jean Fagen Grade School Teachers Left to Right Back Row: Bernice Wilkening, Irene Temple, Alma Gettler, Clara Hofman, Dorothy Schaller, Florence Hunt, Chas. G. Hunt, Principal. Front Row: Margaret Gibbs, Ruby Smallwood, Agnes Kahler, Sylvia Schulz. Page Sixty-six Bus Drivers Left to Right Bark How: George Maginot. John Kolling. Ben Klein. Joe Hoffman. Pete Herman Front Row: Ray Thielen, Boh Reiplinger. Custodians Left to Right Art Hoffman. Francis Austgen Page Sixty-seven School Calendar SEPTEMBER 3 First Day of School Virgil DeAlbani and Miss Lillian Sacketos. new teachers 9 Class Officers elected 24 Freshies Initiated (Happy Seniors) 27 Inter-Class Baseball Tourneys 29 Lettermen’s Dance 30 Individual Pictures OCTOBER 2 Commercial Trip to Chicago 9 First Report Cards (Oh-Oh) 11 Surprise Birthday Parly on Miss Sacketos 11 Freshman Guest Party 18 Junior Dance 23 Rose Dance — Sponsored by Sunshine Society 24 25 Teachers’ Convention (Free) 25 -------------------------- 26 Sunshine Trip to Ambia 27 Senior Guest Party 28 Junior Class Rings Arrive 31 Fiist Comet Came Out 31 Annual Halloween Party (Lions’ Club) NOVEMBER 8 Alumni Basketball Game 8 Lettermen’s Dance 112 Graduation Pictures Taken 15 Beecher Game 17 Teen Age Club Organized 22 Portage Game 26 Kouts Game 28 Thanksgiving (Poor Tummies) DECEMBER 6 Hobart Game 11 Tryouts for Senior Play 13 East Gary Edison Game 16 Gifts to Brooks House — Sunshine Society 16 Teachers' Party for Michael Kolling, out- going Trustee, and Roy Hilbrich, Trustee—elect. 17 Noll Central Game 20 Christmas Parties 20 Christmas Play 25 Merry Christmas JANUARY 1 Happy New Year 3 4 Holiday Tourneys 6 Snow delayed School One Day 7 Crete Game 7 Sophomore Class Sweaters Arrived 11 Alumni Dance 14 Exams lOh-h my head) 15 Basketball Banquet for Players 17 Merrillville Game 20 New Semester 17 Junior Sock Hop 20 Mrs. Hoffman’s Modeling Show 20 Posture King and Queen Elected 22 Wirt Game 24 Gary Edison Game 27 I. Q. Tests (Oh IXell! They would have found out anyway.) 28 Lowell Game 28 The Patricia Stevens Modeling Show 30 Ice (Yea, no school) 31 Senior Play (Once in a Blue Moon) Puff Sixty-eight School Calendar FEBRUAR) 5 Wirt Game 7 Beecher Game—Junior Dance 10 Lettermen's Sweaters Arrive I Whistle ! 11 Echo Pictures Taken 11 Crete Game 12 Senior Heading Test 26 27 Basketball Sectionals MARCH 1 Basketball Finals 1 Commercial Trip to Indianapolis 12 Inter-Class Basketball Tourneys (Oh-h those Seniors) 14 Junior Dance 14 Crowning of King and Queen 20 Operatta Big Day” by Sunshine Society 25 Snow Storm I no school) 26 Mr. Hunt’s Birthday Party 27 Junior-Senior Banquet APRIL ' 9 Volley Ball Tourneys (Senior Boys) 10 Swimming Party 11 Senior Name Cards 11 Dedication of Plaque for the boys making the Supreme Sacrifice in W orld W ar II 12 Teen Age Dance 16 Dyer Goes Hollywood—Seniors natch! Movies made of play of January 31 17 Sophomore Class Party 18 Baseball Game at Crown Point 19 Girls' Club Conference at East Chicago 22 Baseball Game at Merrillville 24 Baseball Game at Washington 21 Pre-School Roundup 24 Carnival (Juniors and Seniors) 28 Senior movies shown to school. Ah-h-h 29 Freshman Class Party MAY 1 Sunshine Officers go to Brook. Indiana 2 Junior-Senior Prom 2 Baseball Game at Wheeler 8 Senior Trip to Ford Plant 10 Senior Trip to Tribune Tower 15 Senior Trip to Illinois-Carnegie Steel Plant 18 Baccalaureate 21 Graduation Day (So-long, Seniors) Page Sixty-nine GRUNEWALD'S NEWS AGENCY School Supplies — Magazines — Pottery Candy — Pop — Ice Cream SCHWAB'S CLOVER FARM GROCERY Dyer. Indiana Phone 2214 If here True Value Is Received HOFFMAN'S HANK'S RECREATION PARLOR I. G. A. Groceries and Swift's Meats — Pool — Candy — Cigarettes — “A Hard Combination To Beat’ A Good Place To Have A Good Time Phone 3231 Dyer. Indiana 2114 Hart Street Dyer. 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