Jefferson Center High School - Annual Yearbook (Columbia City, IN)

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ROBERT TEUSCH Hi-Y C1-21, Softball Cl-2-3-M15 Track C193 Basketball C1-2-3-AJ. GERALD THOMAS Class President ill, Student Council C225 Hi-Y Kl-2-35, Chaplain KZJ, Vice- President C335 F. F. A. i315 Chorus C2- 393 Movie Projector Operator Q3-MP5 Basketball C2-35g Jeffogram lulg Jaycee Staff CMJ3 Senior Play. RALPH WHITE Hi-Y C1-235 F. F. A. 43-Lbg chorus Cl-2-335 Softball 1123 Basketball Cl-2Dg Track f1'2'3'L,: Senior Play. MARY ALICE DICK Senior Class Sponsor. B. S. Music, Manchester College. CLASS MOTTO Success Awaits At Labor's Gates CLASS FLOWER American Beauty Rose CLASS COLORS Black and Gold A44'!ARg ' F- ' X M '-a Qi'. . xg Q' g'1'-,Ss . A S , W 5.132 if W,gfl4 ef DV. we 1 , 4 ,I sc il! 1. V' 'W Q 0 in s 1 X 1 1 , 'IZ' uw el 3' lib Q, ss., f x . Y f 4 gs 5? M: 4 , X f at ff. , P 'f .,,. W iefi .fl ' inf 1 , R' - K . 0' lllllllllllIllllllllllllllllliililiilIIliiiiiililIiiiiln-iiiiiiiiiliiiiEi--iiEiiii--iaiiiiiiai...-min

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Sip! 1 E V I C, SUCCESS AWAITS AT LABOR'S GATES OO YOU REMEMBER THE STORY OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS ENCHANTED CASTLE AT CAHELOT? TENNYSON PICTURES CAMELOT AS A CITY SET ON A HIGH HILL AT THE END OF A LONG ROAD ALONG WHICH THE WOULO-SE KNIGHTS ANO OTHER PERSONS OF THE DDMINION NEEDED TO TRAVEL IN ORDER TO REACH THEIR CAPITAL CITY, LET US PAINT A SIMILAR PICTURE FOR YOU. OUR LONG, DUSTY TRAIL, HOWEvER, LEADS ONLY TO GATES--GATES BEYOND WHICH YOU CANNOT SEE. A SIGN ABOVE THE FRONT ENTRANCE IOENTIFIES THE EN- CLOSED CITY AS SUCCESS, ?OUR YEARS AGO TWENTY-SIX BOYS AND GIRLS BANDED THEMSELVES TOGETHER TO FOLLOW THOSE AL- READY AHEAD ON THE MUCH-TRAVELED ROAD. OUR GUIDE WAS JOHN WALTERS, THEN THE COACH AT JEFFERSON CENTER HIGH SOHOOL. GERALD THONAS, UELORSS GROSS, DON MCWIRTER, AND.GENE LEFEVER ASSISTEO HIM IN KEEPING OUR LITTLE COMPANY TOGETHER. ONLY SIX WEEKS AFTER WE STARTED OUR JOURNEY, WE MET OUR FIRST STUMBLING'BLOCK, THE GROUP IM- MEOIATELY AHEAD OF US, THINKING THAT IT MIGHT DISCOURAGE US, HAD PLANTED OSSTAOLES IN OUR PATH THEY CALLED IT INITIATIONS NEVERTHELESS, WE PLODDED ON, RESTING ONLY OCCASIONALLY. THE MOST NOTABLE OF OUR STOPS WERE A CHRISTMAS PARTY AT DELORIS GROSS'S HOME AND A WEINER BAKE AT THE COLUMBIA CITY PARK. AT BASKETBALL GAMES WE SOLO CANDY TO HELP PAY THE BILLS ENGOUNTEREO IN OUR PILGRIHAGE. BY THE NEXT YEAR WE WEREN'T ON THE TAlL'END OF THE PROCESSIONS WE COULD LOOK BACK AND SEE ANOTHER GROUP FOLLOWING. GENE LEFEVER, AS PRES- IOENT OF THE CLASS, TOOK PARTIAL CHARGE OF US. ASSISTWG HIM WERE DON MCWHIRTER, VICE-PRESIDENT: ARTHUR SCOTT, SECRETARY? CLEATUS AKER, TREASUR- ER? AND CERALO THOHAS, STUDENT COUNCIL REPRESEN- TATIVE. DURING THIS SOPHOMORE YEAR, WE DECIDED SUGGESS COULDN'T BE GAINED BY SERIOUSNESS ALONE? THEREFORE, WE ADOPTED A SPIRIT OF PLAYFULNESS AND FUN, WHICH HAS BEEN A OISTINGUISHING FEATURE OF OUR GROUP EvER SINCE, FUN-MAKERS LOVE PAR- TIES, SO WE HAD THREE: A GET-TOGETHER AT CLARA JEAN SCHRADER'S HOME, A NEW YEAR'S EVE JAMBOREE x 'ei K I I I ' I I L . X xs- I ,S Xxx! KX 3' A X :XM , f I 5 A , , A if X ,-f X Qt, 8 N