Whiting High School - Reflector Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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ADMINISTRATION LAMAR C GRUBB Superintendent Whiting Public Schools BOARD OF EDUCATION Left to Right: Charles J. O'Drobinak, treasurer; Philip L. Krauel, president; David J. Paskwietz, secretary. LEWIN AND WOLF 1317 119th Street

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After-school hours in ’98 saw no football, basketball, or baseball practice as sports were not included in the school’s activities. Instead, active students engaged in bicycling, with the stylish Gay Nineties girl cyclists wearing large, colorful bloomers. This sport usually took in a route from Oliver through Center Street out to woodland-surrounded Berry Lake, located between Whiting and what is now Markstown. Most of Whiting’s three thousand plus population was located in or around the business dis- trict, then Front Street. Standard Oil Company houses were situated on Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York Avenues, while small farms occupied the area around what is now Fred and John Streets, near Indianapolis Boulevard. Cow pastures abounded out in the Robertsdale district. The territory between Oliver Street and Cleveland Avenue was an area of marshes and woods. Near what is now Lever Brothers was, in the Gay Nineties, an outlet for Lake George into Lake Michi- gan. During these early years, grad- uation exercises were held in Goebel’s Opera House on John Street, as the school had no auditorium, and the Community Center, site of present graduation ceremonies, was not destined to be constructed until 1923. A person walking barefoot along the city’s streets, which were really cinder roads, was in danger of picking up splinters, as the walks of ’98 were not of cement but boards. These board- walks were of different levels along the street, according to the likes or dislikes of the property owners, who built their own walks. A gentleman of the Gay Nineties would have to watch his step when out walking downtown at night as there was but one kerosene lamp in that area. GEORGE SPIES INDUSTRIES, INC. Best Class Rings Made.”

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EMMETT L. RIORDAN Principal Whiting Junior-Senior £Iigh School JOSEPH McADAM Assistant Principal Whiting Junior-Senior High School OFFICE STAFF Left to Right: D. Pivovareik, Junior high school secretary; M. Palikan, clerk of the Book Store; H. Moore, secretary of the Board of Education; D. Williams, secretary to superintendent; I). Vidovich, Senior high school secretary. VOGELS, INC. 1250 Indianapolis Blvd.