Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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In Mtmarmm HELEN ROWLAND MR. AUGUST BUCCI Shortly before the close of school in the spring of 1935, the students of Valparaiso were shocked to learn that death had deprived them of two dear friends. A tragic grade-crossing accident cost the lives of Mr. August Bucci, instructor of instrumental music, and Helen Rowland, one of the most promising of his pupils. Mr. Bucci, only 37 years of age, led the Valparaiso High School Band to district and state championships and to favorable showing in the Na- tional Contest. He was well trained, having had practical experience as player, director, and composer. Previously he had been first district chair- man and secretary-treasurer of the Indiana High School Band and Or- chestra Association . He had just been elected president of that group. Helen Rowland would have graduated with our class, had fate not intervened. She was a happy girl, with a warm and vital smile. She was talented as a pianist. She had just been awarded first division in the Dis- trict Contest at LaPorte and second division in the State Contest at Evans- ville. She was active in sports. As a member of the Girl Reserves and as treasurer of the G. A. A. she made many friends. Thus it is to two vibrant personalities no longer with us, one a friend who pointed the way to appreciation of art, the other a girl who smiled and sang, yet had an insight of life, that we dedicate this page. Fourteen

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Mary Hollars Dessa M. Hudson William Kendall Ralph E. Schenck Vera L. Sieb Dorothy V. Smith Glenn L. Tom John M. Koch Edith Weems Irene McCoy Olie Welty VALPARAISO HIGH SCHOOL Clare McGillicuddy — Mathemat- ics; Valparaiso University, A. B.; University of Chicago; Columbia University. Strict on matters of etiquette, especially toothpicks and gum chewing, sponsors freshman- sophomore Girl Reserves. Mary Stevens Myers — Music; Indiana State Teachers ' College, B. S. ; Metropolitan Conservatory of Music; Columbia University; Chi- cago Conservatory of Music. Like- able, the glee clubs and octette claim all of her attention, every morning before 9 she is occupied with her music. Claude O. Pauley — Physics, Chem- istry, Mathematics; Indiana State Teachers ' College; Indiana Univer- sity; University of Chicago, B. S. Hard worker, shoots the gun and punches score buttons at basket- ball games. Leathe C. Ponader — Art; Ball State Teachers ' College, B. S. ; Art Institute of Chicago; Booth Bay Harbor Studios. Dauber in oils, beauty of Brown County appeals to her artistic nature. Ralph Powell — History, Physical Education; Hanover College, A. B.; Franklin College; University of Iowa; Indiana University. Builder of basketball and football teams, a master of organization and dis- cipline. Frank G. Reid — Social Science; Indiana University; Purdue Uni- versity, B. S.; Butler University. Good disposition, seen wearing red sweater on Saturdays, knows gov- ernment and politics, detailed il- lustrator. Ralph E. Schenck — Commercial, History; State Teachers ' College, A. B. ; Valparaiso University, A. B.; University of Chicago, M. A. Commuter from Forest Park, keeps Hi-Y on its toes, all that ' s intense and vital. Vera L. Sieb — English; University of Wisconsin, A. B. ; Valparaiso University; University of Chicago; University of California; Columbia University. Librarian, gets the most unique Christmas gifts from her home room, congenial, has a way all of her own. Dorothy Smith — School Nurse; Methodist Episcopal Hospital of Indianapolis; George Peabody Teachers ' College; Iowa Univer- sity; Indiana Univei-sity. Blue streak of efficiency, diagnoses aches and pains, she of the tender smile. Glenn L. Tom — Music, Comvicr- cial; Indiana State Teachers ' Col- lege, B. S. ; graduate work. New to our school, well liked, musician, plays everything from violin to tom-tom. Edith We:ems — Home Economics; Valparaiso University, B. S. ; Uni- versity of Chicago. Sits in cashier ' s booth while others watch basket- ball games, nine year ' s perfect rec- ord as ticket seller. Olie W. Welty — Latin ; Valparaiso University; University of Chicago. Here it comes, there it goes (senior money) — and she knows where. Resurrector of Caesar, Vergil, and Cicero. Thirte

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