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

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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

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1 if 3 3 E W C AT THE SCHOOL HOUSES AND A FISH FRY AT BIG LAKE. WHILE WE WERE SOPHOMJRES, MAX HOLLENBAUGH LEFT OUR RANKS, ANOTHER YEAR ROLLED BY, AND SOME ONE NAMED OUR BAND JUNIORS. WOMEN, IT SEEMS, ARE BECOMING AS INFLUENTIAL AS MEN EN THIS CITY OF SUCCESS, SO THEY SENT US A NEW GUIDE, MRS, DICK, AS FUR- THER EVIDENCE OF WOMENIS GRADUAL RISE IN RANK AND POSITION, ELAINE CROWELL BECAME OUR NEW VICE- 1-I'-JU'U r I-2r'I7O -:4 -IITI r IrfI-I:-cn II ISD- Om-fo I' -Im 2-mm Z 23,0 -I U-I-4-Iv CUJI Urn -mb - 2 o 1100 X113- 1 9:4110 mo-r' i,,IJJJOb o 'r'I:D 2 If bb O CDZETI mcJO C. ' IJ'Ul 1 -1922031 I--m2 r'IZm Z3 of- Oo DCO cn-Emo r'1xI--23: Fr'-4-IIC I mI'0 If lb O EO F1 PIIIZU CIAIJ-O-0 IIITIFIE Jr 1I 'l 4 4 FICJ mo CDF! DC - Zmw :O FIX CU P1 in -I-OEM FPICJ-0 Fl Iwi 'll 'l UD C DAVIS, AND DELORIS GROSS DESERT D US, BUT JACK O'ROURKE FROM CENTRAL CATHOLIC, ORT WAYNE, AND RITA MAAS FROM ELMHURST OOINED U THIS YEAR WE BOUGHT THE SCHOOL STORE AND SET UP BUSINESS A- LONG THE ROAD TO SELL SUPPLIES AND REFRESHMENTS TO PASSING WAYFARERSI DON MCWIRTER MANAGED THE STORE WHILE TQE FOUR GIRLS IN OUR CLASS--MARY AGNES CLARK, lLAINE CROWELL, WILLODENE SMITH AND CLARA JEAN SCHRADER--CLERKED AND RALPH WHITE AND DICK MGNABB DID THE JANITOR WORK. THIS YEAR WE STOPPED IN AT THE PALACE THEATER IN FORT WAYNE ONE NIGHT TO SEE, UTHE FARMER'S DAUGHTER,n A MOVIE ON POLITICS PRODUCED BY THE CITY OF SUC- CESS. ONCE IN MID'WINTER WE SPENT AN EVENING OF FUN IN THE SCHJOL HOUSES THEN IN THE SPRING WE ALL WENT OUT TO JACK O'ROURKE'S HOME FOR AN EVENING OF BINGO AND BALLOONS. IN APRIL WE EN- TERTAINED THE COMPANY AHEAD OF US AT THE JUNIOR- SENIOR RECEPTION HELD IN THE HUNTINGTON COUNTRY CLUBS LAST SEPTEMBER FOUND US QUITE A LONG WAY UP THE ROAD. RONALD SHEETS AND RITA MAAS WERE MISS- ING, BUT NINETEEN OF US HAD REMAINED FAITHFUL GENE LEFEVER WON THE 1948 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WITH NORMAN SHROYER ON THE SAJE TICKET AS VICE- PRESIDENT. DICK MCNABB WAS ELECTED SECRETARY? CLEATUS AKER, TREASURER? JACK O'ROURKE, STUDENT COUNDIL. SHORTLY AFTER SCHOOL SEGAN, WE PRESENT- ED NATTA BOY, WALTU TO OUR SCHOOLMATES, FRIENDS, AND NEIGHSORS. SENIOR PICTURES WERE TAKEN AT ROBERTS' STUDIO IN OCTOBER DURING TEACHERS' gf T fl ' I I XX IN- . YQWN XO' xx S. U' I 2, x 7 ,G XI W I A X :g 355- -1 A 5 A A N lllllllllllllllllliliii-uiiiiiiiii-n-ii-1-iiliiiiii-iii-iiiaaiiii.... ' A