Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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A Glimpse Into The Future (M. H. S. Grads five years after the war) ARTISTS Louise Evens . . famous interior decorator . . she ' s just opened her new shop on Fifth Avenue. Bill Hastings . . boogie-woogie artist . . now playing at the Stork Club. John (Sleepy) Knoy . . designing models for the latest Lockheed planes. Oren (Rip) Van Winkle . . connoisseur of French pastries for the 400 . . famous for his Rip Van Winkle Rolls . Harriett (Duck) Duckworth . . doing her bit along with Adrian in designing clothes for movie stars. BUDDING GENIUSES Frances Lou (Tance) Boyer . . although once rated as a lowly technician, now making the grade along with Einstein. Ruth Jean (Ruthie) Elliott . . turned out the year ' s best seller. Jack Naugle . . rated as the country ' s most out¬ standing commercial artist. Earlene Mills . . runs a day nursery. CARD SHARKS Frank Rose . . co-manager of Monte Carlo . . he runs the financial end while Don Baston relaxes. (P. S. They are both engaged to Patti Dillender!) DARE-DEVILS Charles (Muncie) Stierwalt . . taking the marriage leap for the eighth time . . (Bluebeard, II) Doris Bailey . . first woman test pilot for Curtis- Wright . . she runs a filling station, too. Keith Kelly . . star press correspondent for the New York Times. LeRoy Gooch . . winner of the 500 mile race at Speedway. EFFICIENCY PLUS Eileen and Elaine Bryant . . private secretaries to the President. (He thinks he ' s seeing double). Betty Rhorer . . stenographer at J. J. Newberry’s. Virginia (Teet) Burns . . tied with Bette (Goss) Max¬ well for the title of Most Efficient House-wife of the Year . Mary Jane Jackson . . personal secretary to the am¬ bassador to England . . (He ' s her husband, too.) Norma (Norm) See . . she has a civil service job . . (she s being married to a Navy man in June.) Mary Jane Bowden, Phyllis Carpenter, Betty Bolton, and Phyllis Cooley . . holding down secretarial iobs at Eli Lilly ' s. FARMERS AND GARDEN GRUBBERS Leslie (Les) Ralstin . . keeping radio comedians sup¬ plied with corn . Bob Barnard . . Country Gentleman . Harold Burns . . known for his scientific farming ideas. Russell Fluke . . runs a hog farm north of Martins¬ ville. Lloyd Sichting . . plain dirt farmer in Green Town¬ ship. Gilbert Edwards . . truck farming for Indianapolis markets. Gilbert Pennington . . he ' s raising cattle for Kingan ' s. HALL OF FAME Bill (Oz) Rooker . . made his mark for discovering a substitute for the tin in tin cans. Tom (George) Neidigh . . won his place by having the world ' s largest collection of cars . . they say this hobby started in high school. I-CATCHERS Pat Thomas . . mannikin at Saks, Fifth Avenue . . she ' s engaged to an officer in the Marines. Donna Schepp . . crooning those shoe-shine blues in a New York night club owned by Jimmy (Warshy) Thacker. Lois Minton . . Power ' s model . . she ' s often seen on the cover of Redbook, too. Maxine Bange . . hostess for a tea shop in St. Louis. JOB HUNTERS Merrill (Jr.) Baker . . pounding the pavement for a job that pays well with no work attached. Bob Watson . . trying to find a job as an expert taster in a candy factory. Verna Knoy . . she wants a job as a home ec. teach¬ er . . it’s rumored that she will accept the position at Shortridge High School. KITCHEN EXPERTS Superintendent Bill Bryum of M. H. S. just hired Inez Parker as the home economics teacher. Goldie Norman . . head cook at Waldorf-Astoria. Violet Warner . . best cook in Morgan County . . just ask her husband. Norma Jean Halfaker . . her cake took the prize at the State Fair. Anna Jean Gillaspy . . demonstration cook with General Electric displays. 19

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Seniors of 1943 RUTH IMOGENE WILLIAMS Action ii eloquence. Future Homemakers 4; Band 1-4 ROY LEE WINKLER Nothing endures but quality. Senior Class Vice-Pres. Basketball 3-4; Softball I-2-3-4; Victory Corps 4 GORDON GRAY A lady ' s man. 4-M I ; Latin Club I; Band 1-2; Junior Class Play NOT PHOTOGRAPHED SAMUEL JOSEPH DENNY The girls will miss him. Basketball I-2-3-4 EARLINE DORIS MILLS Cheerful, ever smiling. Sunshine 3; Girls ' League 3-4 RALPH E ROBINSON What a piece of work is man. Basketball I-2-3-4; Softball 2-3-4; Track 4 A Backward Glance At last we were Freshmen! Lt seemed to us that the day would never come! And now in almost no time we are seniors, 100 strong. That day so long looked forward to is upon us, and as we go on toward it we cast a backward look rather wistfully! If we could only be freshmen again, and have that green freshman look. With that frame of mind and station, we would play joyfully throughout the year, with never but one serious thought in our minds. What is that? Why, electing officers like the big folks. Well, who shall be our officers? Don Baston is very good-looking, and he ' d be a good one, too. Let ' s nominate him. In this manner, we name our officers. They are Don Baston, presi¬ dent; Charles Stierwalt, vice-president; Harriet Duckworth, secretary-treasurer. And now we think since we can ' t be Freshmen, how grand it would be if we could be Sophomores. We know everything, then. Don Baston is still rather handsome, so let ' s nominate him again. In this way, we elect our Sophomore officers. We think Charles Stierwalt is good-looking, too, because we change only our secretary-treasurer. This office falls to capable Dale Maxwell. This year we also have a party. Since it looks as if our wishes to be Sophomores again cannot be realized, we gladly change places with the Juniors. As Juniors we are becoming a little more serious, aided, perhaps, by the war. Al¬ though the unrest of the world disturbs us, we carry on as usual. In our elections we choose Bob Barnard for president; Bill Hasting for vice-president; Joan Wampler for secretary; Mary Jane Jackson for treasurer. This year we present our class play, which is New Fires . We also entertain the seniors at the annual prom. However, we must resign ourselves to being sen¬ iors, and as such we attack all problems with due thought. We elect officers. They are Don Baston another third term president; Roy Winkler, vice- president; Mary Jane Jackson, secretary; Barbara Bain, treasurer. As we go on through our last year, we carry out the activities of seniors. Each activity brings a new meaning in our lives, and we hope to leave our school a little better for our having been here. 18

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LAW MAKERS Barbara (Bain) Daily . . laying down the law to her school children . . she ' s a teacher. Roy (Handy Andy) Winkler . . judge of circuit court . . handling offenders of the curfew law, too. Charles Counts . . new Martinsville chief of police. Tom Allen . . practicing law in Martinsville. Robert Smith . . he just hung up his shingle for law, too. MEDICINE MIXERS AND QUACKS Martha Lou Adams . . superintendent of Metho¬ dist Hospital. Charles (Jr.) Hancock . . filling prescriptions for Dr. Gordon Gray . . that ' s Johnny Cook behind the soda fountain. Margaret (Marge) Loftin . . passing around the pills to the patients in a Chicago hospital. Rosemary Bowman and Camilla Bain . . taking the temperature of their patients. ODDS ’N ' ENDS Imogene Beecham . . now Mrs. Oren Bolin. Alice Jeanne Smith . . married to a wealthy N. Y. banker after making good in the interior decorat¬ ing world. Frances Jean Wilhite . . wife of a wealthy Morgan County farmer, Jack Kivett. Betty Moon . . married to an army man. Phyllis Lockhart . . living in California with her hus¬ band and children. Irene Lambert . . she ' s married, too, and her hus¬ band runs a department store in Martinsville. Joan Wampler . . still undecided as to whether the Navy or the Marines is best. Imogene Williams . . coaching an all-star girls ' bas¬ ketball team in Chicago. Luveda Lane . . she ' s running a candy kitchen from M. H. S. Harold Anderson . . one of the best machinists in the United States. POLITICAL BIG WIGS Tom (Harley) Costin . . new representative in Con¬ gress. Archie Hillman .. doing his job as mayor of Martins¬ ville . . red hair and all! RESTLESS Billy Rhorer . . recuperating after a long illness be¬ fore taking up the position as foreman on Dale Maxwell ' s cattle ranch in Oklahoma. Bernice (Birdie) Moore . . giving up her role as car¬ reer woman for a white cottage and a husband. Evelyn Smith . . head floor walker at Marshall Field. Pat McClay . . closing her beauty shop to marry Bill. SIGHT-SEERS Margaret Ann (Muggs) Scherer . . touring the U. S. as featured soloist with a swing band . . it ' s rumored that she’s engaged to a member of the band. Wallace O ' Dell . . beginning his second trip around the world . . he married a wealthy widow! Floyd Smith . . now on a lecture tour of South America . . relating his experiences in the war. Jeanne Pitkin . . spending her honeymoon at Niagara Falls. Ruth Neal . . she ' s going as a companion to Mary Grace Baker on a trip to Europe. THE UNEMPLOYED LaVerne Dalton . . why work? Hobart Fulford . . he made his million and is now retired. Marjorie Cramer . . giving up nursing to be married. Herman McKee . . he got tired and needed a rest. VICTORIOUS Virginia (Gin) Finney . . she finally found a man she wanted. Sam Denney . . won the South Central Conference with his excellent coaching ability. WXYZ Ralph Robinson . . professional basket-ball player. Irmalee Baker . . married to a Morgan County farmer. Albert Baughn . . one of the best draftsmen in the business. Vernon Bowman . . abandoned civilization for the life of a forester. Agnes Collins . . well-known in Brooklyn (not New York) society. Raymond Collins . . manager of the Circle Motor Inn . . Jr. Kirk is his assistant manager. 20