West Lafayette High School - Scarlet and Gray Yearbook (West Lafayette, IN)

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HEALTHIER, HAPPIER, SAFER PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH CLASSES Lacking a gymnasium makes little difference to the physical education classes. Many fine days in the fall and spring, our urge to gambol on the green is satisfied by the meeting of the gym classes on the football field. With the boys at one end and the girls at the other, the field fairly buzzes with the activity of baseball, football, soccer, and other games which serve to teach sportsmanship as well as to de- velop sound bodies. The winter months are taken up with learning why we tick, or what makes our wheels go around. These health and physical education classes, which are required subjects, are instructed by Miss Fites and Mr. Straley. lt is amazing to realize what a healthy, sports-minded group we are.

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COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT The click, click of the seventeen typewriters in the commercial classes lend a business atmosphere to the sec- ond floor. In '42, fifty-two typing, six- teen shorthand, and fifteen bookkeep- ing students studied under Mr. Rep- logle. Everyone who has secretarial am- bitions or who possesses cherished dreams of typing those college themes finds in the commercial department op- portunity to strive for flawless results. Typing classes were organized for after school hours to accommodate seniors and others who desired to prepare for defense work. MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT The national demand for engineers places a new importance on the study of logarithms, square roots, sines and cosines, l-lowever, in order to meet graduation requirements or those for college entrance, most of us take only two years of math. Having mastered freshman algebra at junior High come into the classes of Mr. l-lammer or Miss Fites, and would-be engineers find that four years of learning the x s and y's to the p's and q's of tangents and secants result in satisfactory prep aration.

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Back Row: Eloise Bushnell, julia Ann Reed, Barbara Sanders, Ruth Lee, Loraine Stigers, Louise Rubenkoenig, Carol Elward, Dorothy Heckard, Eleanor Slopsema, Elizabeth Young, Frances George, Shirley Wileman, Clara Boz- worth Mary Kepner, Peggy Bradley, Margaret Mann, Patricia Patrick, Ruth Ann Barnes, Lois Sanford, Susan Mayer, jane Wilson, Betty Freeland. Second Row: Keith Steckel, Gene Caldwell, Robert Gray, john Phillip Pierce, Harris jackson, Frank LeBart, William Wallace joline Marsh, Georgianna Britt, Venetta Heath, Martha Cromer, Lois Rae johnson, joan Woods, Mary Eva Thompson, Barbara jenkins, Harriett Thompson, Donald Cooley, Donald Alexander, james Gaylord, Thomas Hass, joseph Mealka, james Bowman, Mrs. Ruth Hamlin, Sponsor. WE COME TO The thirty-two little boys and girls who so timidly started to Morton School that memorable September day in l93O have more than tripled in number to become the graduating class from W.L.H.S. in '42, Although we were the first class to spend three years in the new high school, we shall not forget the year we started as freshmen in the building on Fowler Avenue. Here it was that we first gazed upon the interior of a grasshopper, and here also that we learned how to hustle down a fire escape, issue forth like a shot, and be half way up the stairs for a second trip, all in the space of 23V2 seconds. Afraid even to approach the library window, we were also deeply impressed with the huge seniors. Now we wonder why. During this year we all felt deep sorrow in the loss of our algebra teacher and Dean of Girls in Miss Frances McMahon. The best part of our sophomore year was the first half when we had school only in the mornings because the new building was not yet completed. After- noons at the malt shoppe were soon interrupted, however, as in November we started to trudge up the hill to spend the entire day at geometry, English, and such, with perhaps the novelty of a cafeteria lunch at noon. Puffed up with the importance of organizing, we elected Ann Newton, President. Blue sweaters decorated with 42's became the distinguishing garb in our junior year. With Bill Wallace as president, we began our dreams of a fabulous trip to Washington, D. C., to replace all Gala Week activities. Suddenly pos- A