Ames High School - Spirit Yearbook (Ames, IA)

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enior Senate Front How: Forsyth. Fitch. Mr. Ivistrr, Dietz. Wilson Mirdi.k Row: «;r«-.-n. B. McFarlnml, Kgeino. Molleston. N. Brown Back Row: Bill Martin. Don McNeil. T. Schulz. Klwell, Howard Jenson. J. Taylor The typical Ames High senior of '47 looks hack to when he was a shy sophomore and then a gay .junior and thinks how glad he was when he became an almighty senior.” Sponsor for the Senior Senate was Mr. Ronald Easter assisted by Mr. Kenneth Page and Miss Florence Adolph. An all school election chose seniors Ned Vit' qua in and Mary lee Rushing as king and queen of the mid-year dance ‘Half-Time Holiday.” Elected Spirit sweetheart was Phyllis Eschbaeh with Marilyn Townsend and Bobby Honsinger as her attendants. Eleanor Johns and Bob McFarland were honored by being chosen among the twelve finalists in Iowa in the Pepgi-Cola scholarship tests. Eleanor was elected as winner of a certi- ficate of merit and $50. The conference basketball championship won by Ames High this year was due largely to the ability and effort of the senior members of the squad. Chosen as the senior class play was Little Women, adapted from the novel by Louisa Alcott. This costumed play of the L860’s was directed by Omar Lett. The all-senior east was as follows: Mr. March Bob Wai.kf.r Mrs. March. Alice Ferguson Meg...................... Margaret Fowler Jo Patt Forsyth » Phyllis Eschbach Amy Bobbi Gross Aunt March Gloria Gould Mr. Laurence Tf.i Schulz Laurie................................ Frank Hai.dkn Professor Frederick Bhacr Norman Jackson John Brooke............................ Bill Allbaugh Hannah Millicit . Esther Breckenridge Twenty

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ALDINGER, KARL: Hi-Y 1.2.3: Band 1.2.3: Class treasurer 2: Junior Executive council: Fire squad 1.2.3. ALLBAl’GH. BILL: Hi-Y 1.2,3: Homeroom president 1: Band 1.2.3: Orchestra 1.2.3: Dramatics 1.2.3: Tennis 2.3: Varsity Club 2.3: Fire squad 1.2,3; Senior class play: Youth center council 2: Spirit staff 3. ARKAS.M1TH. DICK: Hi-Y 1.2.3. BARBER. BILL: Hi-Y 2.3: Foot- ball 3: Moved from Monroe 2. BECHTEL. DAVID: Hi-Y 1.2,3: cabinet 2,3: Homeroom president 1.2; Choir 2.3: Student body pres- ident 3: Football 3; Varsity club 3: Fire squad 1.2.3. secretary 3. BLANCHARD, ALICE: Girl Re- serve 1.2.3. representative 3. cab- inet 3: Mixed chorus 1.2. secretary 2; Homeroom vice president 2; Cheer squad 2.3; Pep club 3: Lib- rary club 3: Junior Red Cross coun- cil 1. BOURNE. ALVIN: Hi-Y 1.2.3: Track 2.3: Varsity club 2.3: Fire squad 1.2.3. Seniors ALEXANDER. COLLEEN: Girl Re- serve 1.2.3. representative 2; Home- room activity director 3; Drum majorette 2.3. ALLBERT. MURIEL: Girl Re- serve 2.3, representative 3: Moved from Minneapolis 2. BALLARD, VELMA: Girl Reserve 1.2.3: Library club 1,2,3, secretary 3. BEARD. ELIZABETH: Girl Re- serve 1.2.3. representative 3: Cubs’ club 3. BELL. DARLENE: Girl Reserve 1.2.3. representative 2: Homeroom vice president 1. BORGMEYER. ROBERT: Hi-Y 1. 2.3; Homeroom vice president 1.2. president 2: Band 1.2.3. president 3: Junior executive council: Bas- ketball 3: Varsity club 3: Fire squad 1.2.3 Cubs’ club 1. BRECKENRIDGE. ELFJANOR: Girl Reserve 1.2.3, cabinet 3; Homeroom vice president 1. secretary 1; Mixed chorus; Choir 2; Dramatics 1,2.3, Palm 3: Pep club 3; Cubs’ club 1.2. Twenty-one