Whiting High School - Reflector Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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Whiting Junior-Senior High School, center of education. Whiting High School Campus: Center of Academic, Whiting Public Library supplies the students with up-to-date information and references for study. It also provides a pleasant atmosphere for leisure read- ing or further study for adults. Hail Sturdy Oilers peels throughout the gym- nasium on game nights. Students and adult boosters come to see the Oilers strive for victory and fight for the green and white. As well as being the home of WHS basketball games, the gymnasium also is used as the site of monthly activity nights, post-game dances, and graduation ceremonies. Whiting High School campus is a teenage world built within a block. Students bustle in and out of the library in search of information and enjoyment.

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PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY 1917-1963 ‘And, Then, in a Moment It Was No More’ The fundamental call to greatness is com- ing not from any party or any person but from history and the hard logic of events. Little did John Kennedy know how history and the hard logic of events would pay his call to great- ness when he made this statement. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts. In 1940, he graduated Cum Laude from Harvard Univer- sity. D- ing World War II, he served in the United States Navy. From 1953-61 he was a United States Senator from Massachusetts. On November 8, I960, he was elected Pres- ident. On January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy was sworn in as 35th President of the United States. Thirty-four months and two days later, on November 22, 1963, he was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. In a message ro the United Nations, his suc- cessor, President Lyndon B. Johnson, said this of John F. Kennedy: My nation has lost a great leader, this organization has lost a great friend, world peace has lost a great champion. 5

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”!! id Athletic and Social Activities During Year Academic, athletic, and social activities center about the Whiting High School campus. Located at 1800 New York Avenue, it consists of the junior-sen- ior high school, public library, and gymnasium. Foot- ball and baseball fields, situated near Whiting Park, are the scenes of all Oiler home games. The junior-senior high school building, the mam part of the campus, consists of 22 classrooms. In these rooms 30 teachers put the mental abilities of the students to a challenge. They are taught, to compete with classmates and to set their goals high. Apart from classrooms the building inc.udes a regu- lation size swimming pool, girls ' gym, library, audi- torium, and lunch room. From the first freshman basketball game to commence- ment evening, Whiting ' s Memorial Gymnasium remains the center of student life.