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

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Administration The ECHO presents to you the first principal of Dyer High School (1908-09) and the present principal (1953-54). During the intervening years the enrollment has grown from nine students to 362, and the faculty has increased from one teacher (who was also the principal) to thirteen. At the right, Mr. George Hassel is shown with the entire high school student body LEFT TO RIGHT: Edna Peacock Schupp, Ora Piepho. Charles Brewer. Alma Keilman Gettler, Leonora Klemme, Mike Klassen, Louis Wolters. Bernard Baker, Henry Brink. SEATED: George Hassel. principal. Mr. Leo P. Hopkins, present principal, confers with Mr. Michael Kolling. township trustee. Miss Margaret Rolling, secretary, take ' time out durlrfg a busy day to smile for the camera. '

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Educators The church as a spiritual leader .. The school as a director of intellect.. They work together One through the other. The clergyman is concerned with the soul; The teacher primarily Imparts knowledge .. Advances reasoning .. And encourages all forms of expression. The little German church Pictured here Was a spiritual pioneer In this community And kindled the urge for learning That the teachers. Whose pictures appear on the following pages. Are striving to keep burning. 3

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THEMES. BOOK REPORTS, TERM PA)i ERSj TESTS .... the wonder is that these three English teachers have time to do anything else. MISS RUTH PIERCE (left) starts the freshmen on their difficult climb to higher English, teaches Latin and Spanish, and still finds time to sponsor the COMET. MR. ROSCOE PROTSMAN (center) keeps the sophomores and seniors a-wake long enough to learn about Shakespeare and Chaucer, is responsible for the visual education program, and supervises the arrival and departure of busses. MRS. DOROTHY AINSLEY (seated) acquaints the juniors with American literature, teaches two classes in speech, and is advisor to the ECHO staff. We Learn to Read, Write and Punctuate ' jCjuajU ' S JU uJU. r5 IF AUTOS AND PLANES IS THE SUBJECT AND ARE IS THE VERB .... Shelia Butler demonstrates to Audrey Blaskovich, Ida Austgen, and Lois DeLong how a sentence is actually constructed. In a world such as ours, the proper use of the English language is immeasurably important. In peace and in war, a democracy needs citizens who not only have skill in listening, reading, and thinking, but who can also express their ideas precisely and forcefully. In all of life's fields, we will be using some of the principles taught in the high school English classes. Go a-head, Shelia, we're listening! 5