Thomas Carr Howe Community High School - Hilltopper Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Wearing one ' s steady ring can be difficult for girls with small hands, but these Howe girls have solved the problem by filling extra space with adhesive tape or angora. During the year Howeites enjoy various fads From September to June, this year has been a special one for Howeites. Clothes, entertainment, weather, and ev en politics were slightly different from those of other years. It was an election year, and it was a season for planning, dreaming, and being ourselves. Howeites will remember this school year as the one when girls wore kilts during football season and boys sported vests for nearly every occasion. When J.F.K. entered the White House, the Jackie Kennedy-look entered the realm of hair styles. Pixie-cuts, pony-tails, page-boys, and French poufs, provided variations for female topnots, while the trend among males was to wearing hats. If chapeaux or bangs brushed our glasses ' rims, we changed to peering out through new contact lenses. Skirt hems moved to knee tickler length, and coats were wide and full. Shoes had pointed toes, and purses began to re- semble burlap bags. Drab colors, ranging from olive green to dull brown and mauve covered the fashion displays. Eye cosmetics were modi- fied from the 1959 phases, and the rumor was started that in ten years men will be wearing as much make-up as do their female counterparts. Cinerama came to Indianapolis in the fall of 1960, and Howeites enjoyed a variety of trips and tluills on the tlu-ee-section screen. Our neigh- borhood theaties featured long-long movies, and we saw such films as Spartacus and Ben-Hur. The steel ribs for the new City-County Building rose above the skyline, while far below the tower- ing girders, scores of compact cars scurried through the streets. The heavy winter snows in February and March will long be remembered in Irvington as those that broke the trees on old Brown ' s Hill and con- gested traffic throughout the state. Howe pupils weathered die Sectionals with chains and snow tires, pin-sti ' iped cars and Volkswagen busses, nightly slumber-less parties, and an unexpected day of vacation from school. Pizza was going out ; Metrecal was coming in. We feasted on liquid diets in vanilla, but- terscotch, or chocolate flavors, but we had Pea- nutbutter Cups for dessert. Dentyne varied its traditional taste by inti ' oducing spearmint gum, and the ninety-eight-cent spread claimed to taste best. We found new styles, food, friends, ideas and opportunities in tliis year of new frontiers. I ' age 18

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The service projects and social functions of Howe ' s active P.-T.A. provide the school with many benefits as well as enjoyment. P.-T.A. pro- grams give parents a chance to become ac- quainted with teachers and to learn about the school curriculum. One of the contributions of this year ' s P.-T.A. was a portrait of Mr. Stirling which they presented to the school. In the fall the 400 Club, an organization for Howe fathers, gave a spaghetti dinner which, be- sides raising funds, provided an enjoyable eve- ning for pupils and people of the community. The P.-T.A. ' s big project was its annual fun night held in April. The theme tliis year was Holi- days ' n Howe. A king and queen, nominated by the student body, were elected to reign over the festival. Other attractions of the evening included a fashion show, a style show, and a sock hop. There were also booths which sold gifts, games and food. Activities such as these make the P.-T.A. an important part of Howe. Parents and teachers listen closely as the Howe Choir sings a patriotic selection, opening a P.-T.A. program. Howeites enjoy spaghetti dinner, fun night Hard at work in one of their many services to Howe, these P.-T.A. women spend a morning stuffing envelopes. Both young and not-so-young enjoy a good meal at the annual Spaghetti Dinner sponsored by Howe ' s 400-Club. Page 1 '

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Seeing double? No, Margie Steinmetz and Steve Rasmus- sen are just wearing their look-alike steady sweaters. Pat Myers holds Bob Espich ' s fractured arm as she and Bill Aronis admire the artwork on the plaster cast. and new fashions Bonnie Jo Burk spreads election-year enthusiasm during the November, 1960, Nixon-Kennedy campaigns. Page 19