Valparaiso High School - Valenian Yearbook (Valparaiso, IN)

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-A-eww CONCERNING THE I946 VALENIAN Modern Vikings Tind a picTorial review oT The year's evenTs To Their liking. Abandoning The oral TradiTion, The senior 'class elecTs, in The spring oT iTs junior year, The ediTor and The business mana- ger, and early in The Tollowing Tall, The Tive oTher members necessary To compleTe The sTaTT. These seven, wiTh Their sponsor, make every aTTempT To give The sTudenT body a book long To be cherished. While almosT everyone is acquainTed wiTh The Valenian, many do noT sense The signiTicance oT iTs TiTle. The work iTselT is based on The LaTin va- lere which means To Tare well . Our yearbook Then becomes a Tinal saluTe To T945-I946. VALENIAN Upper picTure: STaTT planning T946 Valenian Lower picfure, row I: Gwendolyn Kinne, girls sporTs ediTorg Ralph Heavilin, boys' sporTs edi- Tor: Joan SmiTh, acTiviTies ediTor, Miss SToner, sponsor. Row 2: MarTha Sandkamp, liTerary ediTor: Dolores ChrisTensen, arT ediTorg LoveTTe Ywa- now, ediTor-in-chief, MarTha Shirk, business manager. I 945 VALENIAN EXCELS NoTiTicaTion Trorn The NaTional Scho- lasTic Press AssociaTion arrived lasT Tall To The eTTecT ThaT The I945 Valenian meriTed The All-American Award. This award is reserved Tor Those yearbooks raTed superior wiThin Their own group. Our own annual belongs To a classiTica- Tion which includes schools of an en- rollmenT approximaTing Tive hundred y sTudenTs. This is The second Time wiTh- , in our hisTory ThaT a sTaTT has received 1 The coveTed award. T Piaiinaal Bthnlamir Erma Aasnriatinu 1945 ALI.-AMERICAN YEAILBJZIOK CRITICAL SER VICE .Wk U A,.,'fy1f ?X H 3 . M f'seeMYf1xf.:s 4 To i- ,sk 1 ,.....-. 'ffm .... .U ,, T MT Yagi f if In mvggxriffon qf if: mfriw Q aumrrlrd T ' Qllngntzricau haunt Rating in rLfTw1i:yNf,Ikls Nanbnul Ymrfbavk Criziml Smige af vhf N.m'wm1 SLL01.mif Frm flmwiariore are :Alu Ulnia-efsity af Mifnrirsvriw. .S.'A...,l -if ,I i '1'1'if'h. ILA Hn! Jay gf lqovcmllcf, 1915. A.v,...si. me-nu. as Q . 231: - uw .Ma rfmaw num A an . - ,,,.,,,...w mum - nan-1 fi., f. mmm.. .IM Q..- . -.. , ,, ,- ALL-AMERICAN AWARD

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VIKING ACTIVITIES Social graces - unnecessary, per- haps in Leif Eric:sson's cla Io mocl I YT '- ern Vikings are an invaluable assel. Prevenlinq Ihe Iragedy of The socia I misfil is a major obieclive al V. I-I. S. Parlicipalion in a variely of aclivi- lies helps sludenls Io Iorgel Iheir self-consciousness and Io develop qualilies of posilive leadership.

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VALPGST ResponsibiliTy Tor The ValposT resTs squarely on The shoulders of The iournalism classes and of Their insTrucTor, Mrs. Foor. The sTudenTs Themselves gaTher The news and The laTesT gossip, hold in- Terviews, and wriTe The arTicles and ediTorials. They help Tinance Their proiecT by soliciTing adver- TisernenTs Trom local ciTizens. Only The acTual prinTing goes beyond The confines of The school. ThaT This Tour-page publicaTion is popular is shown by The eagerness wiTh which The subscribers awaiT iTs arrival in Their homerooms every oTher Friday aTTernoon. So moderaTe is The price of 5Oc Tor a whole year ThaT almosT no one is deprived of The pleasure OT reading his own copy. FsTablished in I929, The ValposT has consisTenTly received TirsT-class honor raTings from boTh The NaTional ScholasTic Press Associalrion and The lnTernaTional Quill and Scroll. lTs name is The resulT of a conTesT held among The sTudenTs in school aT ThaT Time. To George Balmer, alumnus of l932, goes The honor oT having conTribuTed The prize-winning suggesTion. George received a year's Tree sube scripTion. AcTually a producT oT Journalism ll, The ValposT neverTheless draws heavily upon Journalism l, which is The basic course Tor TuTure aspiranTs in The publicaTions Tield. l-lere iT is ThaT The Theory of newspaper wriTing is masTered. Qnce sTudenTs have advanced To The second semesTer's worlc, They are allowed To express Their choice as To such sTaTl posiTions as They wish To fill. Final assignmenTs depend upon The muTual agreemenT of The oTher class members and of The sponsor. Upper left, Jour- nalism ll: Marie Buclc, foreground? Jeanne Guslalson, June Dunlap, Mrs, Foor, sponsor, Phyl- lis Snyder, David Siddall. Upper right Jour- nalism II: Marie Buclc, Phyllis Snyder, Jeanne Gusfalrson, June Dunlap. Lower picfure, Journalism l and ll, row I: Mrs. Foor, sponsor, Helen May- er, PaTricia PlaTTs, Jeanne Guslafson, Marie Buclr, June Dunlap, Phyllis Sny- der, Mary Lee Klein. Row 2: Donna Zel- ler, Loveile Ywanow, Irene LudingTon, Phyllis Fraser, Wal! Ter Gessler.