Broad Ripple High School - Riparian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Typical teenagers. Here ' s the scene that always results when a group of Ripplites get to- gether. Gathered around the record player are Mary Fackler, Jim Crosbie, and Bev Trudgen. The jitterbugging couple is Nancy Nixon and Ron Schaefner. Exchanging the latest gossip in the background are Barney Pippcnger and Jo Spivey. 1953 fads ranged from pony tails or burr hair cuts on our heads to Capezios or white bucks on our feet. set Ripple ' s fashions ♦ ♦ ♦ 15

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Military Maidens. ROTC sponsors (left to right) Rita Purcell, Bev Trudgen, Susan Babcock, Janet Bechtold, Nancy Bugg, and Sondra Bisesi primp for the annual Military Ball held on November 22. Our styles in clothes, our choices of food, and our forms of amusement are the fads and fancies that help make this year different. Cinch belts, white bucks, and turtle-neck sweaters mark us as teen-agers. We have revived the Charleston but still love to jitterbug. All aboard. Ripplites scramble to be first to board one of the last Ripple streetcars, which were finally re- placed by buses on January 10. Thus ended the street- car era in Indianapolis. Our fads 14

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Speedy service. Trying out one of the two new lunch counters in the cafeteria are Ann Snyder, Eleanor Bull, and Jim Brown. The counters provide sandwiches, milk, ice cream, cupcakes, potato chips, and fresh fruit. Because we are proud of our school, we are constantly working to improve it. We express our ideas through the Student Council suggestion box in the cafeteria. Our recom- mendations have brought about such improvements as a bus- loading platform and snack lunch counters. k ' ■•■ ' ■ ... $ I ill u j i , ' ' 4 ' T Afe In Suggestion box. Student Council officers, Marlyn Grebe, Frank Walker, Bill Alltop, and Jolin Mutz read the ideas students have put in the box. We cooperate ib-