Kendallville High School - Kay Aitch Ess Yearbook (Kendallville, IN)

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Blast will mth Eframmvnt ARTICLE I We, the class of nineteen hundred forty-four, being of sound mind and memory, despite all actions to the contrary, do hereby make, publish, and declare this our last will and testament, hereby revoking all former wills by us at any time made. We first direct that all our lawful debts be paid, including our doctor bill for our last mental and final examinations. ARTICLE II We give and bequeath our abilities, qualities, and private acessories as follows: Phil Appleman: my last year's crew-cut to anyone who is sucker enough to have one, Betty Arnold: my A's in Shorthand to Alice Thomas, Alice Berry: my pleasing personality and sweet temper to Elsie Slentz, Mary Brady: my nickname Iimmy to Hermonia Kreuger, Norma Burwell' my good natured disposition to anyone who could use it, Lilly Brickley: my colorful plaid shirt to Naomi Bauman, Dick Mason and Ioan Butler: our beautiful romance to Zona Burger and Sis Reade, Edith Cripe: my place on the duo piano team to lack Duve, Margaret Diehm: my bass viol to my siter, Elfrieda, Evelyn Dobbin: my correspondence with soldiers to Evelyn Gehring, Carol Faux and Lois Iohnson: our nightly walks to Miss Carroll and Miss Vardaman, Gloria Fiandt: my ability to blush easily to Delorse Haviland, Annabelle Gillespie: my interest in the Navy to Barbara Pant, Paul Glass: my bashfulness to Freddy Haskins, Doris Graham: my faithfulness to my friends to Becky McKellar, Mary Alice Greeni my ability to change men to Bonnie Hile, Lawrence Groh: my artistic ability to whoever drew the girl on the fourth desk in second row in Room E, Eleanor Grym1 my quietness to Barbara DeBelius, lean Haines and Iean Stiver: our jobs at Morris's to anyone who could stand it, Ioanna Hall: my long hair to Becky Kimmel, Don Hass: my short name to William Wambsganss, Bob Hile: my sailor uniform to Charles Knight, Beverly Hinkley: my ability to jitter! bug to Helen Kimpel, Iamie-boy Hinkley: my foolhardy actions to Dave Lieb, Mary Iane Hof- felder: my job at the Grill to Virginia Messer, Patsy Hosleri my long walk to school to Mary Ann Burger, Donald Iordan: my ability as a super-salesman to Bill Smith, Connie Kimmel: my position as Editor-in-chief of the Annual to Bob Ivey, Iecrnne Koon: my diamond to Betty Harshbarger, Ian- ice Kreischer: my natural curly blond hair to Pauline Smith, Dick Liebi my little girl, Larry, to Harold Uhl, Emmett Lovett: my R gas stamps to Wayne Mefferd, Kathleen Mabus: my first chair in orchestra to Bobbie Nelson, Helen Marshall: my bashfulness to Marylin Kelly, Iean Miller: my congenial disposition and ready smile to Imogene Smith, Virginia Miller: my worship for Frank Sinatra to all oncoming Iunior girls, Gene Mory: my immediate interest in matrimony to Dick De- Camp, Bob Muesing: my height to Dean Barker, Hugh Mullen: my Ford to Iim Wambsganss, Ian- ice McCally and Iean Schmuck: our houses to Barbara Appleman and Lauren Atz, Mary McWhin- ney: my faithfulness to one sailor to Virginia Cunningham, Vivian McGriffin: my l45 lbs, to Agnes Dickerson, Betty Niswander: my neat appearance to girls who persist in wearing plaid shirts, Eu- gene Nodine: my atrocious crewfcut to Tony Mulholland, Beulah Rose: my hair to Maxine Lash, Iune Phillips: my quiet manner to Nadine Young, Ann Shoneri my sparkling smile to Phyllis Rutan, Marilyn Skiles: my long fingernails to my 'isisf' Phyllis, Iack Slater: my position at the 'XA and P to Bud Delp, Donna Smith: my A in Physical Ed. to Audrey Vlilks, Betty Stout: my big brown eyes to Mary Louise Parker, Sally Teders: my 'lsloppiness' to Thelma Seng, Thelma Veit: my good hu- mor to all pessimists, Clyde Whitson: my ability as a hurdler on the track team to Fred Brumbaugh. ARTICLE III We hereby constitute and appoint Miss Mae Stephens as executrix of this, our last will and testament. I In testimony whereof we have set our hands and seal this 30th day of February, Nineteen Hun- dred Forty-four. CLASS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED FORTY-FOUR Signed by the testator, Class of Nineteen Hundred Forty-four, as and for their last will and testament in our presence, who at their request in the presence of each other, have hereunto sub- scribed our names as witnesses. V H H V H , , President : ,,,, .:::,,.:.,...... Secretary Subscribe and sworn to before me as Notary Public in and for said State and County this 30th day of February, Nineteen Hundred Forty-four. Notary Public. y commission expires at the close of the year 1944. Page Seventeen

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SENIOR CLASS PRCPHECY Marilynl How are you? Hello, Sally, haven't seen you in agesl And so our story begins, with two old school friends meeting on the train which was carrying them both back home to Kendallville for their vacation. Marilyn, a famous chemist, has invented lipstick and nail polish that positively Will not come off by itself. Sally has invented a milking machine which brings the cows into the barn, milks them, separates the milk, and cleans the cans, therefore eliminating manual labor, After much discussion, they were interrupted by the conductor of the train, whom they recognized to be Donald lordan. Since the two girls stopped in Chicago, they de- cided to stay and go to the circus. Here they were sur- prised to discover that they were sitting beside Mary McWhinney, W.A.C., Donna Smith, S.P.A.R.g and Iean Miller, W.A.V.E. Before long the girls were intrigued by the crazy antics of a clown who seemed strangely familiar. Their curiosity got the best of them and, upon inquiring, they found him to be Billy Hinkley, of coursel Next, they went to the fortune teller. The fortune teller gestured them to a chair and said, What is it you wish to know? Sally said, We wish to know where all our old school friends are. Could we look in your crystall ball? The first person they saw was a fortune teller and then they knew who she was. They looked up and exclaimed, Virginia Miller! After the excitement they returned to the crystal ball. Why, there's lean Stiverf' cried Marilyn. She's playing the piano in Morris's 5 G IO. And there's Ianice Kreischer. Why, she is tap dancing with Gene Mory in the Follies of l953. The Crystal Ball was mysteriously black for a second. Then the girls saw the Kendallville library loom up before them. Margaret Diehm, the new li- brarian, seemed to be listening very intently to a person standing in front of her desk. The fortune teller told the girls that the saleslady was Gloria Piandt. lncidentally, she is selling the Helen Marshall Ency- clopediasf' Now the scene in the crystal ball shifted to a busy office of the Muesing Fertilizer Co, founded by Rob- ert Muesing. Looking again into the ball we see Clyde Whitson, manager, and his private secretary, Alice Berry, both in the firm of the Muesing Co, The next scene was a building on the M.G.M. movie lot, where they are shooting a love scene. Why, there's Phil Appleman making love to Thelma Veit.l We were then told that Don Hass had taken over Max Factors business, and was using his Hass Pan- cake Makeup with the greatest success. Carol Faux is modeling clothes in Hollywood. Ieanne Koon and Bud Rose have monopolized the hairdressing business in Hollywood. While they were looking at Hollywood, she showed them Iune Phillips' stunning dress Emporium. The two girls were running low on money, so they decided to leave the fortune teller while they still had the will power. When they reached their hotel, Marilyn sat down and picked up the evening paper. After reading an article on Mr. Richard Lieb, who is adviser to President Roosevelt, she came across a copy of a beautiful painting and an article telling about it. It was painted by Lawrence Groh. Sally was listening to a news report on the radio. The reporter spoke of the great line of victories that Admiral Robert Hile was making in the South Pacific. In the evening the girls went to concert given by their old school chum, Edith Cripe. The next day the girls boarded a train bound for Kendallville. When they reached home the first people they saw were Evelyn Dobbin and Lois Iohnson, who were unloading the mail from the train. Lois and Evelyn told the girls where they could find the rest of the old class. Connie Kimmel is an army nurse stationed in the Marshall Islands, Hugh Mullen is now proprietor of Georges Pool Palace, Emmett Lovett owns the Rex- all Drug Store with Mary A. Green as his pharmacist. Eleanor Grym and Ioanna Hall have turned the old Riley School Building into a young ladies seminary, lean Haines is now principal of Kendallville High School. Paul Glass is now the County Agent and is really a big shot. lean Schmuck has opened a summer resort on Bixler Lake, Mary lane Hoffelder is super- vising the cooking for which the place is famous. Speaking of cooking, Ann Shoner has taken on Miss Vardaman's place at K.H.S. Betty Stout is now the physical fitness teacher and does a beautiful job of torturing the students. Vivian McGiffin is now Student Adviser in K.H.S. and keeps peace among the students. One of the greatest changes in Kendallville is that there is a woman Mayor, and it is Pat Hosler. Kathleen Mabus is doing an excellent job of cleaning the streets. Beverly Hinkley sees that the merchants adhere to the rule that store hours be from lU a.m. to 4 p.m. Eugene Nodine enforces a 6 o'clock curfew for all youths under 35 years of age so that he can drive his car evenings. He is working in co-operation with Doris Graham who is the Child Delinquency Officer. While the girls Were home, marvelous news came that General Mason had scored the final victory end- ing the war. His wife, loan Butler, is leaving this country to join General Mason immediately. Betty Arnold and Norma Burwell, gambling kings, have installed pinball machines in the Library of K.H.S. Betty Niswander is retiring from public life after having been active at the Peace Conference which was led by Lilly Brickley. lack Slater and Iimmie Brady are still living a happy married life in K'ville. Iack is the Manager of the A. CS P. store. Annabel Gillespie and lanice McCally have de- signed a plane that flies under the Water and in the sky. Well, Marilyn, l'm convinced that the Class of '44' is really tops! Sally, we've really got something to be proud of. Page Sixteen

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THE CLASS CE M Do you remember September, l939'? Well, maybe not all of you do, but we, the class of 44, remember it as the date we started one of the grandest experiences of our lives. Sure, the upperclassmen thought we were short-stuff, but oh, if they could only see us now. We, the class of 44, are proud of that name and justly so, because it's taken us more than four years to get it. Yes, it started that wonderful September, l939, when we were enrolled in the high school building, much to the disappointment of the big kids' 'and after coming out of our daze we got to elect class officers. Sally Teders was president, Phil Appleman, vice presidentg and Bib Hile, secretary-treasurer. And then, before we knew it, we were freshmen, not just in the high school building, but in high school and really liking it. Our class was increased to eighty-nine by students from the Lutheran school and the Wayne, Mil- ford and jefferson Township schools. We held a class meeting and elected Phil Appleman president, Alice Berry vice president and How- ard Treesh secretary-treasurer. We also chose the sweet pea as class flowerg old rose and gray as class colors and Speech is Silver, Si- lence is Golden for our motto. Mr. Penrod was our class sponsor. For our first class party we had a hayride. We all dressed in old clothes, piled onto the wagons, tractor drawn, and then we really let this old town know that there was a freshman class. Afterward we went to the little gym, which was decorated with real corn stalks, and learned to dance, thanks to Trent Knepper and Wanda Engle and their barn dance fiddle and piano. ln the spring we held a swell skat- ing party at Hamilton Lake. As sophomores we were led by Bob l-lile as president, Gordon Sauer, vice president, Dick Mason, secretary-treasurer, and Miss Goodwin, class sponsor. Our first party was a scavenger hunt. We met in the little gym, di- vided into groups, and started looking for things that anyone but silly sophomores would have known were out of this world. One group returned with all the articles they needed and received the grand prize, a sucker apiece. Our spring party was again a skating party, this time at Silver Moon and with everyone having more fun than they had had since the last party. Our junior year was very interesting. Al- though we had to work hard, we also found time for fun and class accomplisments. We had as president, Clyde Whitsong vice president, Hugh Mullen, and secretary-treasurer, Phil Ap- pleman. Our class sponsor was Miss Page. At a class meeting we decided to change our class colors to blue and white and our motto to Labor omnia vincit iWork conquers alll. We chose beautiful class rings and later decided to put on a Gay Nineties Revue under the direction of Sally Teders and Vivian McGiffin. This was a success, showing the dramatic abil- ity and the go-get-it in the class of '44. Our fall party was a dance in the little gym after a ball game, and in February we held a Valen- tine Dance. The biggest event during our junior year was, of course, our junior-Senior banquet, Holiday lnn. After a delicious dinner we en- joyed a delightful program consisting of a tour through the schoolhouse, where a very cleverly arranged skit and dances brought back mem- ories of all major holidays of the years. We were all very happy and had a wonderful time, although we juniors were all a little wor- ried about how We were going to get along the next year without the swell class of 43. Now it's here. That Senior year you can h-ardly wait for and then decide you didn't want it to come. But there was nothing we could do about it as most of us had outgrown our seats in the little assembly, so we made the best of it and succeeded in electing class officers, Dick Mason, president, Richard Lieb, vice president, Kathleen Mabus, secretary and treasurer. And a million thanks to our won- derful sponsor, Miss Stephens. Our first party was a treasure hunt held at the Country Club. ln january we held a farewell party for several members of our class, Bob l-lile and Dick Crothers home on leave from boot training, Dick Lieb, who was entering college, and mid- semester students who had fulfilled their grad- uation requirements. Meanwhile, we have been busy ordering cmd receiving and display- ing class pictures and name cards, and We're now Waiting on our blue and white class sweaters and our graduation announcements. We have fifty-eight candidates for graduation. We realize now what a swell place Ken- dallville High School is and so to all you under- classmen the class of '44 says Work hard but have fun and your years in K.H.S. will be years you will, never forget. -Ianice Kreischer. Page Eighteen