Whiting High School - Reflector Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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Become a Necessary Part of Whiting High School With shop talk and 8 a.in. enthusiasm. Rich Chmielek. Frank Stofko. Joe Holieky, Frank Eberic, and Ted Dan prepare for another tlay of learning. Located on Oliver Street, Whiting High School, which has student-teacher ratio of 16-1, has had many improvements, modernization of classrooms and addition of more faculty members since its doors first opened in 1898. The sound of a trumpet playing “To the Colors drifts through the school and with the “Pledge of Allegiance,” another day of learning begins. Homeroom period—spent studying, ordering Reflectors, paying class dues, or working for club activities—is followed by six 55-minute classes. The three laboratories—physics, chemistry, and biology—get their share of traffic through the course of the day. Although Whiting is a small school, students have the facilities of 5,147 books in the school library, a health center, a modern gymnasium, a swimming pool, a football field, a baseball diamond, and an auditorium. The bell at 3:25 marks the end of another school day. Students stop to talk, make plans, or run off to a meeting, and soon the halls are empty again. •1

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We Keep Pace With the Changing Times While Mrs. Hester Butler shows third grader Tommy Butkovich the new Airborne television set. Participating in the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction, Whiting purchased the special set and is trying it on an experimental basis. Students receive specialized instruction in music, science, art. and a foreign language from programs transmitted from an airplane over Montpelier, Indiana. The National Honor Society officers initiate new members with the traditional candle light ceremony. Along with millions of othei teens, we set the fashion pace for 1961. Heading the list of favorites with the girls are the raccoon collar coat, worn by Carol Buehring, and the two-piece outfit, worn by Jayne Kupcha and Maggie Kompier. The collegiate look rates high with the boys. Don Perhach sports a stylish blazer, vest and slacks ensemble, and Bill Trovinger the shawl collar sweater. We put our best foot forward in the latest fashions in footwear—pointed-toe flats, colored tennis shoes, sejuare-toed oxfords, and pixie boots.