Whiting High School - Reflector Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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Today, in 1948, a modern Whiting High graduates over one hundred students a year. A staff of teachers, ten times that of ’98, gives the students of this generation the education they need to meet the complex problems of this scientific age. Students can now receive training of vocational, cultural, or even domestic value in classrooms and laboratories equipped with modern educational devices and machines.

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Whiting High’s first graduating class in 1900 consisted of five students. This honored quintet had transferred in 1898 from East Chicago High to the brick building on Oliver Street that housed Whiting’s first high school. The faculty of three strove to give their students the education they desired, even with the limited amount of courses to choose from. Readin’, ’ritin’, and ’rithmctic were the basis of every education.

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Senior-sponsored Sock Hop Keeping in touch with the started the year’s social fes- Senior bulletin board, tivities. SENIOR HISTORY Everybody had fun at the I unior-Senior Dance. The Reflector picture staff, trying hard to make up their minds. Goodbye. That word can make one either happy or sad. In our case it’s both: sad because we are leaving our high school days behind forever, parting with friends and classmates whom we’ve been with since we can remember, and even our teachers, whom we forgive for all the work they’ve caused us; happy because we are starting on a new path, which holds many surprises and adventures in store, and because we’ve finally reached the goal we’ve been striving toward for four long, but wonderful years. Our freshman year brings us back to 1944-45, our picnic at Sheridan beach when we just about froze to death, those ‘’after school” parties, and the assembly we gave for the sophomores. We elected Delores Miller as president of our class with Dan Lynch as vice president, Monica Bodnar as secretary, and Bob Krauel as treasurer. We closed our freshman year with the Freshman Prom. Our prom! Oh, we didn’t wear formals, but we did have corsages. After all, we had three more years to go and had plenty of time for formals and tuxedos. We were just bc- Mi» Marie Grccnwald, Senior class sponsor ginning!! After surviving our first year of high school, we came back for another try at our second, holding the title of Sopho- mores. This year we had our picnic in Whiting Park along with juniors and seniors. Deciding on blue jeans and sloppy shirts we held a Hallowe’en party, where we all had a swell time in an informal way. We mustn’t forget our Sophomore prom, “Fantasy in Blue”, nor our officers for that year: presi- dent, Bob Strisko; vice president, Beth Spurrier; secretary, Bob Harr; and treasurer, Marcella Portman. GREEN AND POWERS Attorneys