Clinton High School - Clintonian Yearbook (Clinton, IA)

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was also elected sophomore Homecoming attendant, junior Gateway Classic attendant, and Prom queen during her high school career. She received the D.f'5x.R. citizenship award in her senior year. As sophomores, we elected a girl class president, Kathryn fixbshire, along with Dale Ventres, Ruth Kinkaid, and Frank Dippo, other class leaders. By then we were beginning to feel at home in Clinton High, and we looked down our noses at the fresh- men who were still green as grass according to our standards. There were to be no more freshman initiations, homecoming bon-fires or snake dances, or Junior- Senior Days after that year, We were reminded that there was a war going on. Qur high school life went on, very much as it had in peace time, except for war bond drives, first aid classes, and the growing list of CHS service people on the honor roll by the library door. ln our third year, athletes popped into the school spotlight. Therol Petersen, Harold Lutz, Dean Burridge, Richard Price, LeRoy Watts, and Lenny Vogel burned up the basketball floor. Harlen Bartels, Gerald Buck Stamp, and Wally Metzger proved expert matmen. Ed Howes, Richard Lake, and Ray Qbermiller began to work for a champion- ship swimming team. ln another field of activity, Betty Munson and Brenton Baugh received American history awards. George Hensel, Walter McMahon, Elaine Reisler, and Jeanne Hayes organized one of the most successful carnivals ever given in CHS. Harold Lutz reigned as king at both Carnival and prom, while Patricia Farley was Carnival queen and Homecoming attendant that year. Lela Hoffman, who was sophomore Gateway attendant, became Homecoming queen as a senior, and Norma Walsh served as senior attendant in the Homecoming ceremony. The junior class elected four boys and four girls as Prom attendants. They were Richard Tingleff, James Tolson, Dean Burridge, Richard Twenty-fou r Price, Elaine Reisler, Natalie Nason, Lela Hoffman, and Patricia Farley, During our last year, George Hensel was student body president. Qther cabinet officers were Marian Work, Charles Foster, James Kiilean, Dean Burridge, and Walter McMahon, class president. Natalie Nason was class secretary, and Kathryn Abshire, treasurer. Senior swimmers led the team to the state champi- onship, and they were honored, along with basket- ball boys, by the town at a banquet in the Modern- istic ballroom. Clinton came close to the top in the state basketball tournament, too, and had one of the finest seasons of football in the school's history. Frances Briggs and Lloyd Strohm went places in oratorical contests, and Billie .lean l-louser was our actress deluxe. Robert Claus reached the state finals in the radio-speaking division of the speech league, Don't ever forget the fun we've had as a class in high school. Remember Glen Jackson and his jalopy, USarah,', and Frank Dippo and Jack Gardner, the funny boys, who left for the armed forces and Robert Porter and Robert Warner, the class crooners who used Hto sendu the girls in the audi- ence every time theyid utter a note. Remember how Don Brondyke established himself as doorman at the Carnival kissing booth and how Leonard Mohr could make with the footworkn on a dance floor. Donlt forget all the assemblies in which Elizabeth Van Epps played the piano and Gloria Justis sang. Remember, too, the nights at the Milk Bar when we should have been home spraining our brains for an exam the next day. Well, Classmates, them days is gone forever. We're on our way to new and different parts of our lives, and while we're regretfully leaving our high school days behind, we're looking forward with anticipation. Never daunted, the class of '46 shall not falter. 'flonight we cast off. Where shall we anchor?

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Leroy Watts Football 4vMaior letter 4. Basketball 'l,9,3,4-Major letter 3,4. iraclc 2,3,4. Homeroom president SZ,3,4. Band 'l,Q,3,4-president Q- letter Q. Orchestra 4---vice president 4. Glee Club 4. Shirley Wiebers Student Club 3. Shirley Westbrook Student Club 3. Glee Club 4. Fort Dodge High School, Fort Dodge, iowa 'l,9,3. Joan Wiedman Pollywogs 'l,Q,3,4. Latin Club 3,4-pledge Q. Student Club 1,4. Pep Club 23,4-letter 3, Yell Leader 23,4-letter 3. GJNA. 'lf hockey, volleyball, Homeroom treasurer 3. Clintonian reporter 4. Gwemella Willce Student Club 'l,3,4. David Wilson Bachelors' Club 4. Science Club 4. Donald Wilson Monitor 2. Pan American League 4. Little Theater Q--pledge if Onesfxct play 9. Barbara Winter Patricia Wolfe Student Club 3,4. Princeton High School, Princeton, lowa 'l,9, Marian Work Senate 'l,Q,3,4fcabinet 9,4-treasurer Q-secretary 4. Latin Club pledge 1. Student Club 'l,9,3,4. Science Club 3-secretary. Honor Society 3,4. GJNA. 'l,Q. Homeroom vice president 2. Freshman Choir 'iffx Capella Choir 9,3,4fsecretary 9,4--letter 3-chevron 4' music festival 4. Yearbook 3. Bertha Yopst Student Club 4. Albany High School, Albany, Illinois 'l,9. Ernestine Zirbes Not Graduating. Class of 1946 We think we're pretty big now, but we were the greenest of all freshmen one September morning. We shoolc lilce lemon jello when we laced those Hancienti' upperclassmen who were armed with lipsticlcs and other articles oi torture, but we bowed, scraped, and lilced it, lcnowing this .was all part oi becoming a citizen of CHS. For little twerpsn we put on a good freshman dance and ieit mighty proud ol it, too. Dean Burridge, class president that year, turned out to be a top-notch athlete, besides. Dale Ventres, Harold Lutz, and Ray Qbermiller were the other class officers, Joyce Petersen, attendant lor both Homecoming and the Gateway Classic that year, Twenty-three

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Best personality - Best dancer - Most dramatic - Most liltely to succeed Most atliletic Most musical - Best all-round Smartest Most tallcative - Most baslwlul - Best line - Cutest couple Wittiest Best-natured - Peppiest - Most drag witlw faculty Most popular l.aziest - Most quiet - Most courteous Cutest Most modest - Senior Poll l-larlen Bartels - Harold Lutz - Rielrard Lalee George l-lensel Dean Burridge - Robert Porter - l-larold Lutz Bernie Oyaas - Joseph Haley - Riehard Price - Ronald Kramer - Dean Burridge Robert Fullerton - Leroy Watts - Harold Lutz Walter lvlelylalwon l-larold Lutz Edward l-lowes Rietrard Price Paul Netf James Tolson Harlen Bartels - Qiclward Price - Lela Hotlman Gloria Justis Billie Houser Joyce Petersen Joanne Bennett Gloria Justis Joyce Petersen Jeanne Hayes Donna Paysen Marian Petersen Joan Anderson l.ela Hollman Elaine Peisler Natalie Nason Beverly Wagoner Joan Anderson Patricia Farley Donna Paysen Jeanne Hayes l.ela Hotlman Norma Walsh Jeanne Hayes Twenty- Five