Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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ROW 1: Betty Rees, Daisy Piercefield, Anna Mae Mohler, Betty Miller, Juanita Moore, Betty Pearcy, Emmylou Powell, Louise Pope, Catherine Payton. ROW ' 2: Dick Rose, Jim Russell, Charles Peterson, Charles Reed, Ed Magee, Eileen Morey, Harriet Reynolds, Ruth McKee. ROW 3: David Richardson, Verle Maxwell, Billy Prather, J mes Newman, Bob Rowland, Robert McNeff, Jay Naugle, Kenneth McNeff. built on the line of a kid” party, and was a great success. We will leave it to next year’s seniors to describe the party more in detail. Let is suffice here to say that it was highly successful. On January 31, 1940, the class gave the annual Junior class play, Spring Fever”, a comedy. The cast was as follows: James Crook, Jim Bruce, Junior Savage, Eloise Greer, Harriet DeTurk, Ruth Shane, Juanita Clark, Paul Bolt, Phyllis Anderson, Harold Baldwin, John St. John, and Ruth H. Goss. The play netted about $150. On March 13, 1940, the class held a meeting, and decided to engage Chuck” Smith’s orchestra for the Junior-Senior Prom. A few days later he was under contract. On May 10, 1940, the class gave its Prom, the outstanding social event of the year. ROW 1: Olive Whitesell, Virginia Staley, Barbara Sandy, Winona Walker, Ruth Shane, Margaret Tackett, Barbara Tackett, Betty Stewart. ROW 2: Kendrick Wampler, Charles Sink, Nelson Strader, Catherine Sink, June Watson, Martha Wheeler, Rosemary Stout. ROW 3: Melvin Scroggins, Charles Thacker, Anderson Swope, Junior Savage, Charles Tackett, Beryl Stevens, Verlin Spurgeon, Max Stultz. ROW 4: Charles Stroh, Bob Williams, Delbert Williams, Ralph Shireman, John St. John, William Tumey, Melvin Wratten.

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ROW 1: Mabel Baker, Juanita Clark, Joyce Bales, Hazel Allen, Evelyn Coffin, Phyllis Anderson, Betty Baugh, Justine Collier, Geneiveve Ballinger. ROW 2: Ann Jo Crain, Cora Bicknell, Bernice Baker, Betty Champlain, Harold Cragen, Raymond Allen, Lester Castnor, Billy Buis, Paul Bolt. ROW 3: John Baughn, Dick Ayers, Jim Bruce, Harold Baldwin, Junior Ayers, Jack Burpo, James Crook, Maurice Curtis. The activities of the class of 1941 the past year have been few, but each one has been a notable success. The graduating class is happy to turn over the affairs of the school to the class of ’41. The Juniors held their election at the beginning of the year under the supervision of the Senior citizenship classes. The student committee formulated the rules for the election, the first closely guarded, systematically supervised general class election in many years. The class chose as president John St. John; vice-president, Junior Savage; secretary, Barbara Sandy; treasurer, Betty Pearcy. This was an important job, since she must handle close to $300. On Friday, November 3, 1939, the class threw their party of the year. It was ROW 1: Eloise Greer, Bette Lucas, Lois Greene, Harriet De Turk, Ruth Goss, Helen Herold, Annamae Hanna, Alberta Hammock, Martha David. ROW 2: John Lewis, Bob Forbes, Kenneth Lowe, Paul Lynn, Dorothy Kirk, Betty Hill, Eloise Land, Harriett Fluke, Lois Harris. ROW 3: Ritter Grounds, Charles Lewis, Wendell Dilley, Jack Forbes, ,Dorse Kitchen, Gerald Johnson, Charles Durham, Warren Grounds, Merrill Davee. ROW 4: Austin Gray, Forrest Decker, Jim Gardner, Jack Downey, Marvin Ferguson, Dayton Griffith, Max Leonard, Lester Castner.

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ROW 1: Nadine Carter, Rita Cantrell, Doris Dillon, Lucille Brewer, Helen Collins, Naida Dickinson, Rosalie Boswell, Helen Davis. ROW 2: Harry Dalton, Frances Dilley, Kathryn Carmen, Barbara Burns, Helen Crook, Emogene Bailey, Alberta Brummett, Naomi Asher. I! S O P H O M O R E S ROW 3: Melvin Coffin, Junior Cooksey, William Bennett, Carl Cramer, William Champlain, Thomas Allen, Russell Dawson, Bob Calvin. ROW 4: Eugene Collier, Burton De Zearn, William Brummett, James Applegate, Paul Day, Donald Beck, Bruce Bolin. The Sophomore class of Martinsville High School elected the officers for the years of 1939-1940 as follows: President, Bette May; Vice-President, Joann Woolsey; Secretary-Treasurer, Lucille Brewer. During this school year the sophomores have put on three plays under the direction of Miss Marion Ferguson, the sophomore class sponsor. The first play which was given was Neighbors.” This was a play concerning neighbors and what conversations neighbors have. The sophomores taking part in the play were as follows: Rita Cantrell, Rosemary Hilderbrand, Junior O’Neal, William Bennett, Nadine Carter, Inas Frye, Rosalee Boswell. ROW 1: Naomi Galbreath, Orajean Hickman, Shirley Hunt, Betty Hammons, Lois Ham¬ mons, Lois Hodges, Dorothy Edwards, Ethel Fultz, Mary Fishel. ROW 2: Dennis Grounds, Bob Hill, Bob Hendrix, Guy Fogleman, Raymond Fox, Clifford East, Rosemary Hilderbrand, Agnes Foster. ROW 3: Melvin Godsey, Bob Inman, Victor Hammons, Charles Carol Huett, Jack Griffin, Ted Houston. Elliott, Robert Hilderbrand,