Waveland High School - Hornets Nest Yearbook (Waveland, IN)

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 The most potent of all indirect influences in the development of our citizenry is the influence of a good teacher”—Armand J. Gcrson. A (Tribute As we began preparing the pages of this yearbook to commemorate our last year in Wavcland School, certain things stood out distinctly from the routine of day-by-day learning. Events had occurred that made deep impressions; classmates and teachers had created lasting impressions upon our personalities. For eight years we had had music and art and for four years most of us have had chorus and band—twelve years of instruction in art. music, in manners, in morals—twelve years of devoted service from a man who came into the community thirty years ago as a stranger and remained to be- come a vital force in the lives of the hundreds of boys and girls who have been students in the Waveland School. While acknowledging with gratitude the many services rendered us by other memlxTS of the faculty, because of his many years of faithful service to our school and community, his devotion to his profession, his love for children, and ability as a musician, we. the Class of 1957, pay tribute to X. R. Walker. In the fall of 1927, Mr. Walker came to Waveland as the music and art teacher. For the next several years lu1 coached many vocal groups in addition to his regular classroom work, as well as staging operettas and cantatas in both the grades and high school. In 1939 the community expressed a desire for instrument tl music, and Mr. Walker organized instrumental classes in the school that fall for the purpose of assembling a band. In January, 1940, the hand was organized under Mr. Walker’s direction, and played its first concert in the school gym on April 5, 1940. In 1942, the hand entered the district contest and won a first place. Since that time many Waveland students have ! een entered in instrumental and vocal contests for which they have received numerous awards. Mr. Walker gave up the hand work in 1953, but continues to teach grade music and art and directs the high school glee clubs. During the many years Mr. Walker has served the Waveland Sclux l he has sponsored all the different classes, coached plavs, sponsored Junior-Senior receptions and class parties, and for several years was school treasurer. He is a member of the NEA and the Indiana State Teacliers Association; a life m ■mber of the alumni of Indiana State Teachers College of Terre Haute, and is listed in the 1957 edition of Who Is Who In Music. Mr. Walker is quite active in the community. He has served the Waveland Christian Church as organist for twenty-five vears; is a charter member of the Lions Club of Waveland, of which organization lie is now secretary-treasurer; is a mem lx r of the Masonic bodies and has served a number of years as organist for Crawfordsville Commander) 25. Mr. and Mrs. Walker own their home in Waveland. They are the parents of three children, all of whom graduated from Waveland High School. Mrs. Don Cabbage (Martha Jo) is a stenographer at Donnelley’s, William is a student in engineer- ing at Purdue, anti John is a junior in business accounting at Indiana State Teachers College in Terre Haute. We extend our l»est wishes to Mr. Walker as we leave Waveland High School. Page Eight

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SCHOOL FACULTY I Florence Servies Commerce Victor L. Pence Principal Government ADVISORY BOARD Clarence Milligan Gerald Robinson, Trustee Lee Evans Oscar Moody Page Seven

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SENIORS First How: Victor L. Pence, Sponsor; Alma Brewer; Patty Patterson; Gerald Fry; Don Gentry; Walter Metzger; Charles Felkner; Daniel Sewell; Delores Thomas. Second How: Mrs. Servies, Sponsor; Jack Mitchell; Jack Howell; Jim Wheeler; Alan Milligan; Bill Collins; Walter Overstreet; Norma Atkison. SEMI! I! CUSS III ST Oil V On April 28, 1957, we will take the semi-final step in our high school careers—baccalaureate. Then the long awaited, but dreaded, day will arrive . May 3, when we march down the long aisle to receive our diplomas and take the final step out into the world. But as we look back on the past twelve years we see some very vivid headlines of our most memorable vears. “Backward, turn backward Oh, time, in your flight. The brightest headlines of all are those of this Last year: SENIOR ENROLLMENT IS THIRTEEN, SEN- IORS INITIATE FRESHMEN, CHRISTMAS BALL IS Ill' l l) I SCHOOL. RES I SSl RED” Is PRE SENTED BY SENIOR, JUNIORS HOLD RECEPTION FOR SENIORS. The month of September, 1956, brought us into our final year of high school. The class membership dropped from sixteen to fourteen when Mar)' Umberger and Patty Patterson left us to get married. Gerald Frye, a new member this fall, left us, leaving the following thirteen: Nonna Atkinson, Alma Brewer, Bill Collins, Charles Felkner, Don Gentry, Jack Howell, Walter Metzger. Alan Milligan, Jack Mitchell. Walter Overstreet, Daniel Sewell, Delores Thomas, and Jim Wheeler. Our first memor)’ of this vear is of the day we so cruelly initiated the freshmen. Then came the Christmas Ball, our largest dance of the year. On April 5. we presented our play, “Rest Assured,” and last, hut not least, the Prom, given in our honor by the Class of 1958, with its fine food, dancing, decorations, and memories. On page eleven we see: RECEPTION PLANS ARE COMPLETED, JUNIORS PRESENT COMEDY. HAPPY DAZE,” JUNIORS LOSE SEVEN CLASS MEMBERS. The reception. Stork Club theme, was finally ready after weeks of planning anti a long day of decorating. The most outstanding event of the evening to us will probably be when the awning fell and the frightful work required to get it up before the guests arrived. In October, 1955, we appeared on stage for the first time when we presented our comedy, “Happy Daze. In Septemlx r of that same year seven- teen students enrolled to ! egin the eleventh year. How- ever, that was five short of the enrollment the year before. Those who left us during the summer of ’55 were: Sandra Murray, Melvin and Marvin McDonald. Joan Allen, and James Lowery. Pete Stewart and Ellen Short dropped from the ranks the first semester to make thc total number fifteen. Page Nine