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

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in d J h Cook like to get to- Steve Cox, Joyce Burris, Becky Fahrbach an o n gether to reminisce about their experiences at Hoosier Boys' State and Girls' State. Missing from the group is Ken VVOIFF, who like his four friends, was sponsored by an American Legion Post. Top award winners in their class are Dana Kovac, Jim Pettee and Liz Smith. Dana is Altrusa Merit Award winner, and Jim and Liz are American Legion Good Citizens. Missing is Linda Elder, who won the award of DAR Good Citizen. S t m mbers CBACK ROWD Bar Displaying some of their dramatic talents are National Thespian ociey e - bara Dalton, Joann Graves, Terry Lull, .lon-Roger Miranda, Jane Fine, Jan Pirtle. CFRONT ROWJ Suzi Applegate, Susan Campbell, Jennie Bradley and Dano Kovac. 13

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.. me Lf.k V. . J frm ss.. . Each spring, the school recognizes those students who have been out- standing in citizenship and scholarship. The ceremony is called Honors Day. Principal Thomas Stirling congratulated each nominee for an award. WP At Howe, outstanding students are honored throughout the year, and are respected as much as queens or Iettermen, for they are royalty of a very important species. Five seniors last summer attended the Hoosier Girls' and Boys' State Institutes at Indiana University. Becky Fahrbach and Joyce Burris went to IU in June, and Steve Cox, John Cook and Ken WoIFf attended Boys' State. All were spon- sored by American Legion Posts, and all studied government and low. Both institutes had mock elections similar to that of the Indiana State Government. Membership in Quill and Scroll, an international honor so- ciety for high school iournalists, is the goal of members of the TOWER and HILLTOPPER staffs and the News Bureau. In ad- dition to the members taken into the society during the past school year, in December, sixteen new initiates were inducted in pre-Christmas ceremonies. They are Joyce Burris, Terri Cat- ron, Barbara Clark, Rose Cooney, Sylvia Fischbach, Lloyd Shaffer, Sharon Frech, Alice French, Bonnie Graham, Melitta Hanske, Carolyn Keetary, Christine Knecht, Betsy Krinhop, Sheila McBurnie, Jan Pirtle and Penny Prince. At the Honors Day ceremonies in May, l963, two then- iuniors were selected to represent the school as American Legion Good Citizens. Elizabeth Smith and Jim Pettee, the good citizens, led the I963 graduating class at Vespers. Dana Kovac, a senior, was chosen by the Altrusa service club as Altrusa Good Citizen, while Linda Elder, also a sen- ior, is The DAR Good Citizen. The American Legion sopho- more award went to Craig Carey, for outstanding scholarship and service. By virtue of various honors programs, the entire school rec- ognized its outstanding students. lw 'WMM Members of the Howe chapter of Quill and Scroll are CBACK ROWD Jennie Bradley, Martha Ellis, Ellen Bundchu, Jodi Dobbs, Bob Vicars, Eric Briggs, Steve Graham, Don Rennard, Dick Smith, Jean Tilford, Susan Hahn, Liz Smith, Christine Whitmore, John Stevenson, Moira Sugioka, Susie Campbell, Becky Fahrbach, Sally Slater, Carole Fields, Roberta Sammis, and Becky Zander. SEATED are TOWER advisor Mr. Stephen Carlson, Jimmy Billups, Margaret Surface, RuthAnn Tedrowe, RuthAnn McClure, and former HILLTOPPER advisor Mrs. Ellen Jenkins. Susan is president, Jean, vice-president, Susie, secretary, and Steve serves as treasurer for the chapter.

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I-lewis spwalzfalemts and At Howe, students reap the rewards of special talents and hard work every day. In various fields of endeavor, awards and prizes are given. Journalism students work to become editors of their publica- tions. TOWER and HILLTOPPER staFfers brought home awards from scholastic press associations. The iournalism section also had part in publishing and editing PEN POINTS, the first student-edited literary magazine in Howe's history. The editor was Jean Tilford, English teachers served as advisors. ln art, several students received scholarships to John Herron Art Institute classes or lecture series. Phyllis Jones won the Indianapolis Post Office poster contest with a mail early for Christmas theme. Two seniors, one vocalist and an instrumen- talist, were chosen to receive the Irvington Music Study Club awards which were given at the spring concerts. The Betty Crocker Scholarship was given to the girl who showed the most promise in the tield of home economics. Three seniors and a iunior, Eric Briggs, John Cook, Jean Tilford and Don Coffin were quizzed in competition with teams from other schools an the WLW-I television program Expedition to Knowledge. The team's coach was Miss Ellen O'Drain, and captain was Eric Briggs. The biggest honor for dramatics students is membership in the National Thespian Society. Accumulation of ten points, one hundred hours of work, makes a student eligible to become a Thespian. Actors, stage workers, writers and production work- ers may belong to the society, sponsored by Mr. Bruce Beck. abwtiesaw I I Jean Tilford, student editor of PEN POINTS, Howe's literary magazine, glances over a copy of the latest issue. English teachers are the faculty advisors for the publication, which publishes work by students of English composition. QUIZ TEAM-KSTANDINGJ Dave CoFfin and Lee VanCamp, alternates, KSEATEDD Eric Briggs, Jean Tilford, John Cook and Don Coffin. National Merit Scholarship semi-finalists Jean Tilford and Greg Henderson scored high on the qualifying test. When iuniors, Jean and Greg were notified of their high ranking and began to study for competition for finalist ratings.