Washington High School - Anvil Yearbook (East Chicago, IN)

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WWNX WW I One of the cardinal aims of education is to train the growing boy and girl so that they will grow to be good and useful citizens of their country. Possibly the greatest agency in training and developing high school youth along these lines is student government, where the students are given opportunities to make and enforce their own laws, just as it they were citizens taking part in actual govern- ment. School authorities, reasoning along the lines that a good citizen in school will continue to be a good citizen after he is graduated, and that a bad citizen in school may be corrected before he is turned loose on society, have en- couraged student government to such an ex- tent that it has become a necessary and integral part of every major high school. Pictured above is the judicial branch of Washington High School's student government, in the person of Judge George Karas. 0 I l 11

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4 ay O Mr. Guy A. Pratt-Average height, rather inclined to be plumpish .... Mild eyes and a kindly smile .... Greying hair, now thinning -out on top, but still carefully groomed .... Proud possessor of a new Oldsmobile which he drives only with the utmost of care .... Youth- fully proud of his proficiency in bo.th lettering and bookbinding .... Likes to take out his pencil and figure .... Loves to sit in the Anvil office and throw darts at the Anvil bulletin board .... Never hurries, either in thought or in motion .... A bit absent-minded .... Rather leans toward grey as a favorite color . . . .When nothing to do, given to just sitting and looking off into space .... Buys his own Anvil every year .... Fond o.f reciting jokes and riddles. GUY A. PRATT ' Faculty - Sponsor 10

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fm ge R. W. FEI K Superintendent C JOHN ZARZA R. F. ROBINSON Principal 12 A. A. FORSZT President O H. W. YANT y ,.., ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS 0 The system under which the school city of Wash- ington High School is operated is at once both sim- ple and efficient. Smoothness of operation and the continuity of an established po.licy goes far towards keeping that system as simple and effective as it is. At the very top of the system is the Board of Education. The board consists of three members, each of whom secured his position as a result of an appointment. ln general, the board is the repre- sentative of the public and tax-payers. lt handles, spends their money, and passes on all questions relating to the primary and high school education of their children. The superintendent acts as the correlating factor between the schools and Board of Education. He transmits the needs and desires of the former to the latter. ln addition, he recom- mends the faculty of the schools, To the lot of our principal, R. F. Robinson, falls the position of run- ning Washington High School in a manner that is efficient, under healthy comfortable conditions, and in an atmosphere conducive to learning, Aiding him, with respect to this end, are A. T. Elliot, ex- ecutive vice-principal and treasurer, H. E. Walley, vice-principal in charge of administration, Miss Emma Gansinger, chief clerk and registrar, Miss Mary Muir, general clerk, and Miss Emma Bloom- quist, Dean of Girls.