Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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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,

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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: Jeanette Miller, Angeline Miller, Catherine Myers, Ruth Ostler, Rose Plummer, Bette May, Evelyn Jones, Martha Alice Pitkin, Mary Jane Lebo. ROW 2: William Pearson, Henry Richards, William Prather, Warren Rawlins, Lucille Kitchen, Betty Ratcliff, Lavonne Richardson, Susie Parker. ROW 3: Robert Rice, Loren Moran, Fred Robinson, Boyce Moulton, Junior O’Neal, Herchel Manley, Donald Richards, Fred Poff, Luther Pettit, Billy Martin. man. The second play which they put on was Yes and No” which concerns a business The sophomores taking part were: Robert Calvin, Victor Hammons, Joann Woolsey, Jack Woolsey, Donald Beck. The third play which was given by this class was a Christmas play. It was about a little boy who gave all that he had as an offering for the Christ child. Many other rich people gave their jewels and riches but their gifts were not a sacrifice like the little boy’s gift was and thus the chimes in the Tower of the Church rang for him. The sophomores taking part were: Bob Rund, Orajean Hickman, Betty May, Bob Hendrix, Wade Stewart, Lucille Brewer, Billy Martin, Barbara Anne Burns, Junior Cooksey. The sophomores have all during the years of 1939-1940 designed stages for different books on which they have been reading during the year. ROW 1: Viola Selch, Esther Whitaker, Merriam Westlake, Esther Spencer, Barbara Secrest, Freda Smith, Drinette Scott, Joan Woolsey. ROW 2: Boyd Knoy, Merrill St. John, Victor Sichting, Sarah Williams, Anna Mae Woods, Mary Young, Martha Scott, Leafy Stout. ROW 3: Bob Rund, Jack Woolsey, Wade Stewart, Roscoe Woods, Floyd Smith, Lawrence Stout, Raymond Stevens, John Wilhite, Loshel Scott.