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

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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

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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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Crowning of royalty at Brown Highlighting the HILLTOPPER assembly was the presentation of Brown and Gold candidates Steve Hooper, Kathie Wright, Jim Hannah, Janet Campbell, Doug Timmons, Linda Gibbs, Jim Thomas and Linda Thompson. The music of the Debonau-s in a scene from the Arabian Nights set the mood for Howe ' s biggest fall dance, the Brown and Gold. The many Howe- ites and their guests who attended tliis year ' s dance found themselves among palm ti ees, a desert oasis, and silhouetted Arabian figures. The glittering crystal ball gave tlie effect of the desert sky at night as couples danced away the evening at the HILLTOPPER-sponsored dance. After a moment of suspense, Principal Thomas Stirling announced that senior Jim Hannah and junior Linda Thompson would reign as this year ' s Brown Boy and Golden Girl. Again this year the tables were turned at the HILLTOPPER ' s annual spring dance, the Tiu-n- about Twirl. For this dance the girls provide transportation and pay the expenses while the boys relax and enjoy the novelty of the situation. This year ' s Twirl was way out, taking Satellite Swirl as its theme. In a silver and black world of space ships and satellites, Howeites danced to everything from waltz rhythms to rock and roll. The girls made corsages for the boys, and prizes were awai ' ded in various categories. Page 20 Climaxing the evening, Mr. Stirling crowned Jim Hannah Brown Boy and Linda Thompson Golden Girl.